As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
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 ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
In case you missed the story, Pope Benedict made headlines this week by doing what it is popes do best - putting the irrational fear of God into his followers.
The ...
Romney was asked whether questions dealing with distribution of wealth and power were a matter of jealousy or fairness.
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class ...
If one could meld the Republican presidential candidates into a single person, what would emerge? I was thinking along the lines of Jekyll and Hyde and the result, as demonstrated ...
I owe you a good bit of my present career in radio. You leaving opened the door for me.
I still believe you can win the Republican nomination.
I still believe you can beat Barack Obama.
I still believe you can be one of the most inspiring Presidents since Ronald Reagan.
The Herman Cain I know would not and could not do what you are accused of. And I know it is incredibly unfair to ask you, in effect, to prove a negative. How the hell does one prove one did not do something?
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Sweet, if not totally embarrassing. If the above wasn’t posted on Erickson’s website, I’d swear it was written by a 10-year old girl who set aside her Barbie dolls long enough to pen a love note to her Teen Magazine idol. I wonder if Erick sleeps with a picture of Herman under his pillow.
Erickson believes Cain can be the “most inspiring President since Ronald Reagan”? Really? Did he not watch the debate last night? What part of that performance would Erickson call inspiring?
And that last line where Erickson expresses disbelief that the great and wonderful Herman Cain could possibly harass and assault women, is terribly pathetic. It brings to mind the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of eight Chicago White Sox players found guilty of throwing the 1919 World Series. Legend has it that as Shoeless Joe walked out of the Black Sox trial one day, a young boy ran up to him on the steps of the courthouse. Clutching Jackson’s coat sleeve, the boy looked up at his hero and cried out, “Say it ain’t so, Joe.”
Totally understandable that a young boy would choose to believe that his heroes could do no wrong. They also believe in Santa Claus and Tooth Fairies. The problem with Erickson here is that he’s 36 years old and a political pundit for CNN. What’s his excuse for crying out, “Say it ain’t so, Herman!”
President Obama’s chief adviser David Plouffe echoed the words of David Axelrod in describing Mitt Romney as such:
“He has no core. I can tell you as one thinking, working a few steps down from the president, what you need in that office is conviction. You need to have a true compass, and you have got to be willing to make tough calls. You get the sense with Mitt Romney that if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he’d say it.”
Romney has reversed his thinking on so many key issues, it’s hard to keep up. Abortion, climate change, gay rights, Iraq, Afghanistan, health care, stimulus, bailouts, cap and trade, campaign spending and gun control are just some of the issues Romney has found reason to change his mind on. In truth, the only core principal Romney has displayed with any degree of conviction is his obsession with getting elected president.
The end result of Mitt Romney’s flip-flops is that while he might win the Republican primary in a year when the field is so horribly weak (Herman Cain? Michele Bachmann?), he is making himself unelectable in a general election. When it comes down to an Obama/Romney contest, Dems will have no problem painting Romney as an empty, soulless politician willing to sell his principles for a vote. For the Obama campaign, the task will be no more difficult than directing independents to Rick Perry attack ads.
There’s been no escape from the wall to wall coverage of the latest Republican to throw his hat into the primary contest. Within moments of declaring his candidacy, Rick Perry became one of the front runners to challenge President Obama’s presidency next year. Perry’s claim to fame is that he has presided over the ‘Texas Miracle’ – not quite the same as Jesus walking on water, but pretty damn close to it (if you listen to his supporters).
Texas outpaces the country in job creation and growth and Perry is taking full credit for it. I’m sure that the fact that oil prices rose from $25/barrel to $147/barrel (in 2008) while Perry served as Governor had little to do with Texas’ economic stability.
On top of that, Rick Perry is one tough hombre and talks a tough game.
“If this guy [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke] prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, or treasonous, in my opinion.”
“Y’all” get that? Perry is implying that in Texas, they’d most probably beat the living daylights out of poor Ben. Lovely. Exactly the type of talk one wants from a president.
But here’s the question: Would Americans be happy with the Texas model applied to the country as a whole? Well, if minimum wage jobs, more Americans without health insurance, repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments, state’s right to drop out of Social Security and Medicaid, lower pollution standards, fewer child support programs, slashing of school funding, an integration of church and state ideology and great prisons (for all those uneducated folk, no doubt) is your cup of tea…then yes, the Texas model is for you. (ThinkProgress has more, as does Yglesias.)
Rick Perry’s America would become a Texas without the oil revenues, a place where the affluent prosper while the less fortunate live a life of relative misery, stuck in a rigged class system with few opportunities for advancement.
If you’ve got the bucks, Perry’s America is the place for you. For everyone else, not so much.
He unleashes the dimwit onto an unsuspecting world where she helps take down any possibility he might have had of winning the presidency, but somehow has no problem sucking up to and praising her still. If there was ever a politician deserving to be kicked out of office on his butt, it’s this creep.
“I couldn’t be more proud of her and the campaign she waged,” McCain told ABC News of Palin Monday night. “We went up in the polls after her magnificent speech at the convention. I couldn’t be more proud of her and of her performance and her continued performance. So, I think, you begin to think about legacy and I think that Sarah Palin will play a very big role in the American political scene for a long time.“
I had a little diatribe ready to go here but then came across the following from a HuffPo reader. It says it so much better and in much fewer words.
McCain has a disorder that is not unknown among politicians- he cannot cringe. Even when millions of people all round him are cringing and wishing the earth would swallow them whole, McCain remains completely cringe-free. Palin has the same condition, but hers is caused by the total absence of any brain activity. McCain’s is hormonal.
It would not be a mistake to unequivocally state that if you’re cringe prone, politics should not be high on your list of career choices.
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Nothing Glenn Becks says should be shocking these days…and it’s not. The man is a great self promoter and entertainer. Yet, he does need to be called out for his buffoonery from time to time if for no other reason than the fact that many of his intellectually-challenged audience actually believe this guy.
His latest lunacy was to show us all how President Obama is charting a course not unlike that of Venezuela’s dictator and resident crazy-man Hugo Chavez. Crooks and Liars had this to say…
No, really.
Because Obama’s history is just like Chavez’s:
– Chavez first attempted to come to power through a military coup.
– Shortly after his election, he called for a constitutional convention that rewrote the Venezuelan Constitution.
– He survived a short-lived coup in 2002.
– He has called for an end to presidential term limits.
– He has shut down opposition press organs.
Amazing similarities.
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