President Obama at the SOTU.
“Higher education can’t be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” Obama said in his speech.
An obvious enough statement, right? Well, not for the buffoons performing in the Republican clown show.
“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go college,” Santorum said Wednesday in Florida, according to CBS News. “The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?”
It’s getting too stupid for words. It doesn’t matter what this President says, the wingnuts will find fault with it and turn it into an us-against-them issue. Only a paranoid group of psychopaths obsessed with turning their country into a land of God-fearing, Christian Luddites hoping to go back to a make-believe time when milk and honey flowed from the ground would find fault with a president seeking higher education for all.
But there is a method to their madness. Keeping ‘em stupid is just about the only way the right can cling on to a base who has been spoon fed lies and propaganda for the last four decades. If they could find a way to keep these people away from universities of supposed liberal propaganda and instead keep them focused on fair and balanced news sources like Fox, they might just be able to get a bigoted, delusional prick like Rick Santorum elected President some day.
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After the beating Gingrich took last night, it’s hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the momentum he had coming out of South Carolina would take a miracle or two. Last I heard, God wasn’t granting miracles to lying, hypocritical, influence-peddling, serial adulterers posing as Jesus-loving historians.
Mitt Romney was in top form last night, mock anger and all, standing up to the bully by effectively returning the lies and bullshit which Gingrich has been tossing for the last couple of months with an equal helping of lies and bullshit. After a day which saw the Republican establishment ripping Gingrich into shreds, it appeared that Newt had little in him to battle back.
My personal highlight was CNN’s Wolf Blitzer standing his ground and refusing to let Gingrich get away with his tiresome media-bashing shtick.
I fear it might be all over for the Newt.
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My pickings via Political Humor. With a bunch of the late night guys on vacation, we have a short list today.
“Actually, Rick Perry pulled out of the presidential race yesterday – which is bad news for the guys on death row in Texas. He’s coming home and he’s not in a good mood.” –Jay Leno
“Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.” –Conan O’Brien
“Rick Perry has dropped out of the race to spend more time getting leathery.” –Stephen Colbert
“Rick Perry dropped out. He said while it’s sad he won’t be president, he can always run again next year.” –Bill Maher
“Gingrich is lining up impressive endorsements. Todd Palin, Gary Busey, and now, Chuck Norris. I’ll tell you, his endorsements could beat up Mitt Romney’s endorsements.” –Jimmy Kimmel“Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife went on nightline and said that he wanted to have an open marriage. This is the second wife, talking about him when he was fooling around with what became the third wife. Newt wanted apparently to have his wife and his marriage and also women on the side giving him oral sex. This way he could be nice and relaxed when he went to work and accused blacks of feeling entitled.” –Bill Maher
“Newt was mad. He said ‘I am not a philanderer; I am a blow job creator.’” –Bill Maher
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Here are three reasons you can count on tonight’s Republican debate being a lively one.
a) The latest poll shows Romney retaking the lead over Gingrich. Newt is always more feisty in the underdog role.
b) Gingrich has the entire Republican establishment battling him. They understand that a Gingrich win in the primary, not only guarantees an Obama victory in November but just about rips open the Republican party. Gingrich needs to win Florida to keep the momentum going…and the cash flowing in.
c) They’re allowing the crazies in the audience to applaud and boo at tonight’s show and no one plays an audience better than Gingrich.
In the preshow war of words Romney got things rolling by questioning Newt’s mental state.
He’s gone from pillar to post almost like a pinball machine, from item to item in a way which is highly erratic…It does not suggest a stable, thoughtful course, which is normally associated with leadership.”
Moon-man Gingrich fired back.
“We are not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs who have foreclosed on Florida and is himself a stock holder in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together and understand what this is all about,” Gingrich declared in a preamble to a decidedly angry stump speech.
“In 1992, he gave money to Democrats for Congress,” he added at another point. “He voted in the Democratic primary for Paul Tsongas, the most liberal candidate. This is the man who stood up the other night and questioned my credentials as a Reaganite? This is the kind of gall they have, to think we are so stupid and we are so timid that we will let someone who voted for Paul Tsongas -– in 1994 he is running for the U.S. Senate to the left of Teddy Kennedy. Do you know how hard it is to run to the left of Teddy Kennedy? And he says, ‘You know, I don’t want to go back to the Reagan-Bush years, I was an independent then.’”
“He won’t tell you that now, because he is counting on us not having YouTube,” Gingrich said. “That’s how much he thinks we are stupid. And we are not stupid. The message we should give Mitt Romney is: we aren’t that stupid and you aren’t that clever.”
All of which has hardcore conservatives saying stuff like this:
I am a firm believer that primaries make stronger candidates. But at some point you just have to stand back, take a sip of bourbon, and sigh “Damn” under your breath as you behold the carnage being wrought within the Republican Party.
How pretty is that?
Very.
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