The GOP contest for the nomination fragments into denials and blame-shifting and nose-holding even as the general campaign is under way between POTUS Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. Spoke Josh Kraushaar, Hotline, re the tortured Electoral College map for the Obama re-elect campaign. In 2008, Obama won a landslide of 365 Electoral votes. Remarks by Jim Messina at Chicago suggest that the Obama camp will concede many of the big states it won in 2008, from IA, IN OH, and PA to FL. Instead, the Obama camp will fight to hold on to VA and NC as well as CO and NV. Also, the Obama camp will not fight for NH. In all, the Obama re-elect believes it cannot win the white working class that has been the rock bed of the romance of the Democrats since the New Deal. And what will the re-elect substitute to win NC and VA? Am told the idea is to attract the white-collar, educated upper classes around the big cities and universities. Am told that the Obama re-elect does not believe it needs the private union base. Am told that the POTUS Obama ventures into Pennsylvania are not a sincere effort, and that Joe Biden will be used to hold the fort to attract cash and enthusiasm in media markets in OH, PA and FL.
Cain Train at the Reassessment Station.
Spoke Salena Zito, PTR, and Lara Brown, author, re the Herman Cain troubles anew, and who is likely to gain in IA and NH from a possible Cain withdrawal? Salena Zito remarks that Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum will gain in IA; Lara Brown points to a gain for Michele Bachmann. The final arbiter will be NH. The Cain support in SC and FL looks abandoned without an easy choice. Another correspondent, a Reagan and Bush administration professional, believes that Gingrich's campaign is catching fire with conservatives on the issue of electability. My doubts on Gingrich start with the fact that he has no organization in IA, NH, SC, or FL to speak of and barely keeps a staff. Unusual form of national campaigning. There is also the possibility that Mitt Romney is the luckiest candidate since Bill Clinton, 1992.
A lady doesn't leave her escort
It isn't fair, it isn't nice
A lady doesn't wander all over the room
And blow on some other guy's dice.
So let's keep the party polite
Never get out of my sight
Stick with me baby, I'm the fellow you came in with
Luck be a lady
Luck be a lady
Luck be a lady NOV 2012
....above song from musical Guys and Dolls
1) Thank goodness our founding fathers created the electoral college
2) Thank goodness our politicians haven't yet figured out how to gerrymander state lines. The Dems in MD are busy pulling yet another fast one on the voters here. I live in a congressional district made "contiguous" by a 5 mile long structure called the Bay Bridge. Needless to say, the people who live on opposite ends of that bridge might as well live on different planets (and thank goodness for that).
Are you a Kent Islander?
I dreamed that I was on a boat to Heaven
And by some chance, I had my dice along ....
GOP needs to devise a "Death Penalty" for any candidate considering running as a third party candidate:
Post election they will be "persona non grata" on Capital Hill, no GOP'er will be permitted to welcome a turncoat into their office. No lobbying efforts permitted. The same is true for any lobbying firm you join.
Democrats and their media toadies are whispering in Huntsman's and Other's ears to run as a Third party Candidate, it will only benefit the Democrats. No Liberals are sticking their finger in the wind.
GOP needs to devise a "Death Penalty" for any candidate considering running as a third party candidate
That aggregation of warmongering Neocons, Open Borders schemers, and Looney Tunes Christian Zionists, and blow-dried sociopaths called the GOP will soon be a third party.
Corlyss. Are you reading this? LOL!
I thought that was how it was for every ex-party member that ran as a 3rd party candidate. Be that as it may, let's figure out how to extirpate every single lying stinking Democrat first. Then we can deal with the GOP turncoats.
"No Liberals are sticking their finger in the wind."
Pernaps not, but their Barking Mad Progressives are muttering darkly about the need to get rid of The Too Conservative One.
@ Paul.
Yes. Kenneth does have a way with words, but we don't see eye to eye about a number of things. I love neocons. They are the philosophers who've given the party a social and defense credo since the 1960s. The Krystols and the Podhoretzes have done yeoman service to separate the GOP intellectually from the political hacks in both parties who just want to get elected to have power, among whose number I count McCain and about 90% of the Congressional Republicans who've been in office since before 1995, and all but one or two of the dozen clowns running now.
In 1950, the word “liberal” was a compliment. Conservatives warned that liberalism would lead to treason and policy disasters, but they were largely ignored. But by 1970, conservatives had been shown to be right, and nobody wanted to be called a liberal any more.
The real rats among the liberals could feel the water coming up around their bow-ties, and so they jumped ship by switching from “liberalism” to “neoconservatism.”
Many noted this, of course. "People talk about rats deserting the ship,” said William Buckley, who shared a number of behavioral traits with the creatures of which he spoke. “Well, why shouldn't they?"
“Respectable” conservatives then not only welcomed the neoconservative rats aboard their own ship, they gave them the helm.
As far as Neoconservatives were concerned, they were right to be liberals before 1970, and right not to be liberals after 1970. As a result, the Republican leadership now condemns anything that challenges liberal policies prior to January 1, 1970, especially those aimed at the eradication of whites, such as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
And now, as could have been predicted by anyone knowledgeable about the Competitive Exclusion Principle, conservatives have given their movement to the neocons, and now condemn anything that challenges liberal policies prior to January 1, 1970, especially those aimed at getting rid of white people, the core constituency of the Republican party. (Non-whites vote eighty percent Democratic.)
I find it emblematic of how far the Republicans have fallen that Open Borders enthusiast Mr. Batchelor bears a middle name derived from that of the 30th President of the United States, who signed the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, which not only slashed immigration into America, but explicitly sought to maintain this nation’s existing demographic balance.
PS. I will never forget Paul Gottfriend’s account of watching in horrified disbelief as John Podhoretz, son of Norman, picked his nose while seated directly across from Arnaud de Borchgrave in the latter’s Washington Times office. What a nasty bunch the Neocons are.
Imagine a world where there had been no Republican debates up until now, no vetting of the various candidates in the press and on the internet, no segments on the JB show about any of the candidates, no money spent, no mailers sent out, none of it. I think we'd be more or less where we are right now ... which is nowhere. This entire last year has been a zero sum game.
Imagine a world where there had been no Republican debates up until now, no vetting of the various candidates in the press and on the internet, no segments on the JB show about any of the candidates, no money spent, no mailers sent out, none of it. I think we'd be more or less where we are right now ... which is nowhere. This entire last year has been a zero sum game.
In fact, this entire last year has been a big waste of time.
Filliger's new theorem: "The amount of distress caused by the ultimate failure of the Euro will be directly proportional to the amount of time, effort and money spent trying to save it."
The Euro is like Norman Bates' mother. Somebody turn that rocking chair around and let's see its face.
I just read that Ron Paul will be barred from the Dec. 7 debate sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition due to his quote misguided and extreme views unquote. In other words, he is the only GOP candidate who values America's interest above Israel's, which these days makes him a Naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
Abe Foxman notes that with regard to Israel, there is little difference among the candidates, save for Ron Paul.
It is worth noting that Paul currently polls third in New Hampshire and second in Iowa. Clearly, the Neocons do not trust the Republican rank-and-file.
I am reminded of one of Mr. Batchelor's programs during the '08 Presidential primaries, when he said on-air that he often got emails criticizing his failure to mention Ron Paul. "Well," he said, "I just did," and then he moved on to some other topic that was no doubt of vital concern to ordinary Americans, such as Tibetan independence. It was not exactly his finest moment.
As for myself, I would rather be found dead of autoerotic asphyxiation, my bloated corpse clad in women's underclothing and surrounded by stacks of bestiality-themed pornography than vote for any of those other clowns such as Romney or Gingrich. I have my standards.