Thursday, August 08, 2013
Reflections on the 2016 GOP field
Chris Christie the apparent frontrunner - I'm not a fan as most conservatives are but there's a concern about his famous personality. It may work well in Jersey but I don't think he has the presidential temperament for the world stage. What is he gonna do tell foreign leaders off? Then there's the latest idea being bounced around of LI Rep. Peter King running. To me he has a touch of the opinionated loudmouth and imo he's not libertarian enough. He'll explain to you why we need the NSA looking through your tv screen into your living room let's say and if somebody leaks this much-needed gov't program they're a traitor and should have their balls deep-fried. Rand Paul the well-known KY libertarian - a longshot but the fave of one person around here. Isolationist foreign policy, would not try to stop most, make that all of the world's current genocides. Then there's the youngish and photogenic Sen. from FL Marco Rubio, would tap into the much-coveted Goya voting bloc but buena suerte in the primaries young man going up against all those GOP hardliners on immigration. Dunno, I'm not all that jazzed up about it all.
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I like Christie because I can appreciate that he calls it like he sees it. Unfortunately for him I think his own people are going to kick him to the curb for that exact same reason. Personally I'd love to see him VP for Hillary. He's fantastic VP material.
ReplyDeleteGOP has nobody of his stature yet. Interesting that Andrew Cuomo has seemed to cede the ground to Hillary.
DeleteI really think Bloomberg/John Tesh would be just the ticket. Get a federal bike-sharing program rocking, eat your brussels sprouts......
ReplyDeleteGingrich is still lurking...
ReplyDeleteI swear to you and I am not being at all funny: Newt Gingrich is bipolar and during the primary he was totally manic. Seriously... a colony on the moon by 2020?
ReplyDeleteYou know why they want a colony on the moon or Mars don't you? For when we finally blow ourselves up the important people, the elites, the Dick Cheneys get to board the shuttle while the rest of us turn into zombies.
DeleteI would call that a conspiracy theory except it totally makes perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteOnly the elites get to escape total annihilation on Earth and set up a far superior civilization on another planet. Now why didn't Alex Jones think this up?
ReplyDeleteI for one, would like to see Donald Trump's hair in zero gravity.
ReplyDeleteTed Koppel's hair ain't so great either, looks like one of the Rice Krispie kids. You'd think people with money...
DeleteMen's hair: runs the gamut from Yul Brynner to Fabio. Have you tried the Kim Jong Un look ?
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton’s miniseries starring Diane Lane.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they will show the part where Hillary and her Daughter DODGED the bullets in Bosnia?
They should, because that was one of her unique accomplishments!
BTW did you know that Glenn Beck now makes more money than Oprah? has a new novel out too.
ReplyDeleteA new Novel? ..like "Ayn Rand Does Dr. Oz?"
ReplyDeleteThe sexy and mysteriously titled "Eye of Moloch", sequel to the "Overton Window." BTW what happened to Oprah in Sweden?
DeleteJust consider how many ignorant and crazy people it represents, if Beck is making more than Oprah. Them's some scary numbers.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Beck looks like that kid in 'Christmas Story'.
ReplyDeleteI actually like Glenn Beck more than Rush Limbaugh, he's newer and fresher. He actually has a great sense of humor and he was on Imus once and they had some classic exchanges. I find his personal story compelling with his mother's suicide and all. I kinda miss him on the radio dial.
ReplyDeleteApparently Oprah was having some problems with a Swiss clerk in a boutique store who said the 60G handbag she wanted to look at was too expensive for her and now she's going on ET making a racial issue of it all this self-serving drama queen. Sure I've had my share of unjust shopping experiences but I don't go on ET to talk about it and needless to say her experiences globe-trekking and shopping are not the typical experiences of your average African-American. She's your typical do you know who I am? celebrity. Worked with a Jamaican chef once who said "I know she does alot of good with her book clubs and all but I just don't like her."
ReplyDeleteSome years ago, the corporation I worked for purchased Oprah's personal jet plane for the corporate jet. For $12 million, I heard the CEO got to sit between Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.
ReplyDelete60G purse. Wonder what gives it that value? I had a car salesman tell me the vehicles I was looking were too expensive for me. So I bought one...must be a tricky reverse psychology sales technique.
ReplyDeleteOprah doesn't get it, it's not so much racism as the new marketing.
DeleteOprah and Beck...they know which strings to tug.
ReplyDeleteAny thoughts on the Obama/Putin feud? Does Obama write his own jokes?
ReplyDeleteTruman had his Stalin (and they both had nukes)
ReplyDeleteEisenhower had his Malenkov (remember Gary Powers?)
Kennedy had his Kruschev (Bay of Pigs)
Nixon had his Brezhnev (and Ehrlichman & Haldeman)
So, I'm thinking it goes with the territory..
Remember Boris Yeltsin the drunk guy? alot more fun.
DeleteIts that vodka, I tell ya.
ReplyDeleteI see that kidnapper
ReplyDeleteguy got tracked down and shot in Idaho's
River Of No Return Wilderness. Guess that's why they call it
'no return'...
Seems like you got your share of weird crime out there. I thought it was all tubers and potatoes and that sort of stuff.
DeleteSince Idaho leads in potato production far, our producers give the impression that the whole state is one potato patch. The crop is confined to the Snake River plain, good potato dirt lying on a huge bed of basalt. In my area it is timber. Log trucks and wood
ReplyDeletechip trucks tearing through the mountains. Some years back my dad was visiting. We drove from the airport and irritated at being passed in pouring rain by log and chip trucks spraying me, I uttered, "Damn chip trucks!" My Dad observed, "Gosh they really Do
have a lot of potatos in Idaho."
Not sure who you are referring to with respect to Rand Paul being the fav of one around here but it ain't me.
ReplyDeleteno???
DeleteNo.
DeleteThere are no political solutions. There are no political saviors.
That's not to say he and others don't at times advocate for what is just and moral.
I'm not interested in looking for a leader or someone to represent me. Not in 2016, not in 2020, not ever. I'm perfectly capable of facilitating both on my own.
The entire northwest is the remnant of a huge series of volcanic activities (thus basalt). Volcanic soil is generally very fertile which is why circumvulcan areas attract dangerously large amounts of civilization with potentially catastrophic results.
ReplyDeleteNorway chef Andreas Viestad once cooked a salmon in a volcanic hotspring.
DeleteAnd how cool is that? Iceland is the world's leader in geothermal energy. I would love to go there.. most geologic place on earth, only place where the Mid Atlantic Ridge comes to the surface. Half of Iceland is on the American side, half on the European side.
DeleteIn reviewing the current list of potential GOP candidates and the
ReplyDeletecurrent polls, it looks to be a recurrence of last time around. When the various flavors of conservatism can agree, perhaps they
will all be happy with their candidate. Like Hillary, Christie is
fairly popular, but carries a large negative. Jeb might be a good candidate,...but THREE Bushes? Given the demographics, IMO a socon
wouldn't win, nor a neocon. The Fi-cons are actually pretty weak if you study their positions. Dunno..maybe Ms. Palin?
Pat Sajak
DeleteSaty, you might like Craters Of The Moon .
ReplyDeleteI find wall-to-wall basaltic lava sort of dreary, but my oldest daughter loves the place.
The original Shoshones would load up skins of water and wrap their horses hooves in rawhide
before crossing to summer hunting in the mountains.
I can imagine they'd wrap the horses' hooves... basalt is one of the most unyielding of surfaces. If I understand it right, most of the entire Columbia/Snake river area was inundated in ONE single flow.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the Utes BB? I remember that one from my crossword puzzle days.
ReplyDeleteThe Utes were a little further south in the Great Basin, but may have had hunting/war parties as far north as the Snake River Basin.
ReplyDeleteThe Shoshones (enemies of the Utes, although they shared the same
Uto-Aztecan language) lived to the east of the lava fields (and still do (Ft. Hall Reservation), the Piutes to the west and the Goshutes to the southwest. The lava beds were uninhabitable, but
were crossed at certain times of the year in search of game. The Utes have not fared well, only about 5000 left. A tiny band of
Goshutes lives on the edge of Dugway Proving Ground, itself a barely livable habitat. There are only about 15-20 individuals on the Skull Valley Reservation, but
they sure give the US Army Chemical Corps a run for the money.
Such a bleak existence. The ones in NYS run casinos.
DeletePat Sajak For Pres; hmmm-
ReplyDeleteTake the Whitehouse back-vote for Pat Sajak!
He could tap into the AARP bloc esp. when you consider so many of them go to bed after Wheel of Fortune.
DeleteI heard the AARP bloc is supporting Betty White.
ReplyDeleteYou know if you shrink her down to minisize she looks like a Christmas ornament.
DeleteChristmas- For a flaming liberal I am very traditional. Still get
ReplyDeletea fresh cut tree every year. But I don't have a Betty white ornament yet. The most popular cut tree out this way is the
Noble Fir , ordinarily a big timber thing, but
adapted by Christmas tree growers hereabouts.
Judge Judy being more suitable for Halloween.
ReplyDeleteAt this point, the GOP is still a bit fragmentized. We could see:
ReplyDeleteSantorum-Palin
Christie-Murkowski
Rand Paul-Paul Ryan
Rubio-Cruz
Bloomberg-Colin Powell
Condi Rice-Lindsay Graham
Jeb Bush-Tom Coburne
Scott Walker-Christine O'Donnell
Gingrich-Trump
....the list is endless-and mind-boggling
& yet it's all Hillary on the other side to the point where aspiring Democratic Governor of NY State Mr. Andrew Cuomo has put his own presidential ambitions on hold to clear the field for her. Two things, it's assumed she's gonna run and two is she that good?
ReplyDeleteCuomo, Biden, Booker...they don't have the following she does.
ReplyDeleteWeiner? Don't think so.
I don't think Putin would have dissed her like Obama who is missing a certain gravitas on the international scene.
ReplyDeletePalin = gravitas?
ReplyDeleteSome got it and some don't. Obama doesn't have it nor does Palin. Bachmann sure as hell doesn't have it and neither does Biden. I wouldn't want any of them on the world stage to be honest. Obama is all talk and intellectualism, Putin knows this and so does Bashar al-Assad. Obama doesn't have what it takes to go up against someone who used to be in the KGB and a veteran of the Cold War. Even Jay Carney doesn't have gravitas.
DeleteGravitas can be faked...look at Henry Kissinger.
ReplyDeleteSomeone told me once that's a false accent.
ReplyDeleteCharlton Heston as Moses. As much gravitas as a guy wearing a dress and sandals can have.
ReplyDeleteHow's that Filner guy doing?
ReplyDeleteUnderstand he had two weeks of therapy. Probably aversion therapy involving Judge Judy.
ReplyDeleteCould explain why he grab-assed that great-grandmother. Next thing you know he'll attack a nun.
ReplyDeleteHeard Filner and Kevin Trudeau are teaming up for a run in 2016.
ReplyDeleteI love these common male boasts like Filner made - "I can go 8 hours straight" - does that mean nonstop humping & grinding or breaks in between? Filner probably couldn't make it 20 min. on a treadmill.
DeleteLet me give you a womans perspective. 8 hours straight,eff that, I would be raw. Get the hell up offa me, I want a diet Dr Pepper. If you want 8 hours that better include dinner and a movie.
ReplyDelete8 hours straight reminds me of that little kid at the Pastor's Sermon For Youth. Now, boys and girls can anyone tell me about the Resurrection? Yes, ..Billy? "If you have one that lasts more than 4 hours, see your doctor"
ReplyDeleteNot to mention all the different shifts we work and all the other jobs, the grocery shopping, laundry, pet care, house maintenance, feuds with neighbors etc. so where does the 8 hours fit in? I'm thinking after about two hours you probably have done everything you could think of, let's add another 1/2 just to be generous what in blazes are you gonna do for the other 6?
ReplyDeleteNews is Filner will resign tomorrow. Which should free him up for
ReplyDelete8 hour sessions with time leftover for sleeptexting...
Maybe he can join the Weiner campaign.
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