Wednesday, January 18, 2012
GOP Has-Beens
The subject of has-beens interests me. One day Rocky and Blaine are one of the biggest things in the NYC radio market, the next day they're frying chicken at some Popeye's off the Interstate. These days the GOP has-beens are Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, that pizza godfather guy and maybe, make that probably Newt who can already feel the powerful vortex of the has-been hole sucking him in. IMO the architect of 1994's "Contract with America" deserves more respect than he's getting but that's just me. Michele Bachmann, too many brain farts and maybe the last straw was her mistaking Elvis' birthday for his deathday. I know it's not a big thing but taken as a whole you don't want her trying to reset Russian relations or pondering ending the embargo against Cuba. I want to devote the bulk of this blog though to Sarah Palin. Now when her star was early rising in the political sky (it didn't hurt that most men would've done her) early conservative commentary focused on such things as a family that hunts together stays together but the Gander Mountain voting bloc is only so big. Many many people have a mild distaste for the sport of hunting not through some elaborate theory of critter rights but Sarah and her family having a fine bowl of Moose Nose Stew on a snowy winter's night doesn't exactly impress them. Those be all-American values, heartland stuff to be sure but maybe not to a Manhattanite. So what makes a has-been or who has has-been potential? Could simply be just the inexorable Passage of Time, I mean Danny Bonaduce had to beat up a tranny to get back on the radar screen but in Palin's case and this is a biggie it was her overall Lack of Knowledge especially on the foreign affairs scene. You don't want this chick going up against Bashar al-Assad or negotatating some Arab/Israeli peace deal. I think the final nail in the coffin though, no it wasn't Tina Fey but Back in the Day some 8' giant black man who played the hoops plowed her. Sure it was back in the day but it's still a shock to the evangelical mind, yeah I know she's for the smaller gov't and pro-life and all so we can forgive her her youthful dalliances, her sex'chal 'perimentation but we kinda can't forget it either. Thanks Joe McGuiness! Oh yes Herman Cain and that's the really painful part of being a has-been nobody talks about you anymore. You know gimme someone who quietly has staying power through the years. Um I hate to say this but you can kinda say that about Romney. I hope to never become a blogging has-been btw, please lemme know:)
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"You don't want this chick going up against Bashar al-Assad or negotatating some Arab/Israeli peace deal."
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's any American president's business to be negotiating that.
Rmoney's no has-been here in Massachusetts. We remember his heartfelt vow to protect a women's right to choose. He promised that while running for office here in blue Mass.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we remember Rmoney's willingness to work with the late liberal senator, Ted Kennedy, and how he embraced him and thanked him for helping pass Mass. health care reform. The two of them were BFFs!
These are just a few of the wonderfully progressive ideas and programs Mr. Rmoney dedicated his political values to while running for the senate and while he was governor of Massachusetts.
Now don't go telling us that he didn't mean any of that. Afterall, he wasn't a mere lad when he held these bedrock values, was he? No. He was a mature, thoughtful guy who was appealing to Massachusetts voters for their votes.
And a guy as upstanding and honest as Willard wouldn't change his bedrock values to pander to conservatives so that he would get the GOP nomination, would he?
At first when you typed Rmoney I thought it was a typo. Seeing it a couple more times I'm guessing it is intentional.
ReplyDeleteRmoney, as you call him, has much the same Wall Street interests fueling his political campaign as does Obama.
I wouldn't vote for Rmoney any more than I'd for Obama.
I'm just curious though, given their thirst for Wall Street dollars, what cute pet name, if any, you'll come up with for Obama.
The rightwingers have come up with dozens of "cute" pet names for Mr. Obama.
ReplyDeleteMr. Romney, er, Rmoney (R-Money?), got that sobriquet not from me, but from somewhere in the intertubes, I just copied it and thought it was clever.
It has no bearing on his Wall Street backers, it rather has to do with his privileged background and his 15% tax rate, a rate that's lower than the janitors in the public schools, whom Mr. Gingrich wants to fire and replace with poor children.
If nothing else, this political season has give us plenty to laugh about.
Wall Street backers? It sucks to see them buy our country and do whatever the hell they want to with its financial instiutions.
How do we fight that? You think a President Paul could rid the political process of this scourge?
Getting rid of the Federal Reserve bank and fractional reserve banking is the only way and congressman Paul has led that charge. If it is at all possible now is the time to act.
ReplyDeleteOK one more GOP has-been, Rudy Giuliani.
ReplyDelete..heard Perry is pulling out...
ReplyDeleteYes he is. And he's is reportedly throwing his support behind Newt.
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ReplyDeleteYes he is. And he's is reportedly throwing his support behind Newt.
And thank God, better Newt than Paul
Yeah, I mean if ethics isn't your bag.
ReplyDeletePerry represents the old guard; a governor who has sold out the state of Texas to global interests vis a' vis the NAFTA super highway. It's only fitting he endorses the CFR globalist Gingrich.
ReplyDeleteNeither Gingrich or Santorum can statistically win the nomination.
ReplyDeleteVA, MO, and D.C. which comprises 101 lost for Gingrich, and 68 lost for Santorum.
http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/01/11/mitt-romney-spokespe...
What's more, at present it appears that Santorum and Gingrich only have partial slates of delegates in IL, OH, and TN, which together represent 193 delegates.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com
To infer that either Gingrich or Santorum are viable candidates dismisses the caucus states. If you understand how a caucus operates, it requires a significant organizational structure to push up delegates up through the conventions leading to the RNC. Neither Gingrich or Santorum have the organizational structure necessary to pull this off. They will need those delegate numbers to secure the nomination. I live in a caucus state (MN). I know how they work.
This is a two man race between the candidates that have the organizational structure (Romney and Paul).
I gots to be honest with you, I'd vote for Newt for President.
ReplyDeleteNo chance of that happening from this end. I'm looking for someone whose platform is above simply pointed comments about the president.
ReplyDeleteNow I don't get the Iowa Caucus. First Romney wins by 8 votes now Santorum won and it took 'em two whole weeks to count over and get it right. Who's workin' these things?
ReplyDeleteIt's even presumptious to say Santorum won given the skewed results of at least 8 precincts.
ReplyDeleteAnd while this whole photo ID thing being pushed by the Republicans is in some respects a worthwhile cause, the greater point is completely lost on the Republican electorate (not surprisingly).
That point is this:
It matters little who is voting. What matters is who is counting the votes.
And in that regard, the Iowa caucus results were counted at an undisclosed location, completely hidden from public scrutiny, the seemingly ‘new’ business as usual.
& it wasn't fair to Romney or to any candidate for that matter whom they mistakenly declare to be the winner of the moment. I'm talking basic math skills here but maybe it's the corruption you say. Makes you not trust anything these days. Maybe 2 weeks from now they'll say Gingrich didn't win in SC after all but somebody else.
ReplyDeleteIn truth it doesn't matter who "won" Iowa.
ReplyDeleteIowa is a caucus state. Delegates for the National Convention are not tied to the winner of the preference poll anyways. Could have been John Tesh for all we care.
He had an interesting program the other night about walking often boosts your brain power. Did you know you shouldn't send an e-mail right after a job interview?
ReplyDeleteIn last night's debate, Ron Paul stated exactly what I said regarding delegates and Iowa.
ReplyDeleteHe reminded Santorum that winning Iowa was in effect pointless because it was simply a straw vote. The presidential preference vote is not how delegates are selected in caucus states.
I caught that part in between my channel-surfing.
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