Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
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 ...
‘Leaders before readers‘ is quickly becoming the new Republican mantra.
“I don’t read newspapers in the state of Ohio,” Kasich said Monday at a college in Columbus. “Very rarely do I read a newspaper. Because … reading newspapers does not give you an uplifting experience. … I have found my life is a lot better if I don’t get aggravated by what I read in the newspaper.”
Understandable. Why should someone like Kasich have to subject himself to ugly stories of how his bill which killed collective-bargaining rights for public workers was repealed by the citizens of his state…or how his job-approval ratings (low 30s) make him the most unpopular governor in the union, just ahead of Florida’s cartoon governor, Rick Scott.
When Republicans and conservatives seek bullshit…err, truth, and a soothing voice to comfort their frayed nerves from too much exposure to the MSM, who better to turn to than Mama Fox. She’s always good for an “uplifting experience” and a gentle insertion of that much needed over-sized suppository (brand ‘Delusion‘, naturally).
Pathetic but not surprising is how I would describe Herman Cain’s latest ‘oops’ moment. So blatantly ignorant was Cain’s inability to respond directly to a question on Libya – as current a major event as is out there – that if this doesn’t end his presidential run, I’m not sure what will.
Conservative media is turning against him (“Cain makes Rick Perry look like a Mensa president“), while diehard fans point fingers at the usual bogeymen and in the process prove once more that stupid is never pretty.
…this is more to do with the media, technology and media bias, than Cain’s lack of knowledge.
Today, almost everything is done under the eagle eye of camera and sound. When the MSM does the interviews, the MSM decides what the public will see or hear or read.
Cain’s error was in not knowing his limits, when to say yes to interviews and when to cancel and rest up. Two weeks of intense attacks and responses certainly would have put him off his game.
Fewer of those biased eagle eyes trained on Cain and the man would be doing great.
The man with “a lot of stuff twirling around in his head” is a moron. End of story. The Tea Party’s attempt to prove they’re not a racist bunch was slightly amusing and fun to watch for a while. Unfortunately for them, they chose an idiot and a creep who practices sexual harassment on women in his employ, to play the role of Black Republican. Failed. Time to move on.
It recently dawned on me that the more I hear Herman Cain speak, the more he reminds me of a Sarah Palin babbling slogans whenever challenged to express an opinion on real issues. Both are completely unaware of how ignorant and uninformed they really are. That lack of awareness has them being in no hurry to come up to speed on history, geography, world events, science or just about any other issue confronting them. They just don’t care which proves the maxim that ignorance is indeed bliss.
The two of them also have no problem in stringing and voicing whatever two thoughts pop into their head regardless of how incoherent or contradictory the thoughts might be. Here is Cain, for example, expressing his thoughts on whether abortion should be legal.
CAIN: I support life from conception. No people shouldn’t be free to abort because if we don’t protect the sanctity of life from conception, we will also start to play God relative to life at the end of life.
An understandably “confused” Stossel then asks Cain whether a rape victim should have the right to get an abortion. Cain then offers position 2:
CAIN: That’s her choice. That’s not government choice. I support life from conception.
STOSSEL: So abortion should be legal.
CAIN: No abortion should not be legal.
A now thoroughly perplexed Stossel asserts, “I’m not getting it, I’m not understanding it” and helps Cain understand the obvious flaw: “If it’s her choice, then that means it’s legal.” Cain replies with position 3:
CAIN: No! I don’t believe a woman should have an abortion. Does that help to clear it up?
STOSSEL: Even if she is raped.
CAIN: Even if she is raped or she is the victim of incest because there are other options. We must protect the sanctity of life and I have always believed that. Real clear.
Clearly, not only is the man an idiot but he’s also a heartless bastard if he truly believes that a rape victim should be forced to continue a pregnancy against her wishes.
But there is a better explanation as to why a Cain or Palin are able to spout the nonsense they do on a daily basis. The idea is expressed brilliantly in this comment from a Think Progress reader:
This is just a simple matter of Cain’s buzz-phrase dispenser being out of calibration. Both the “pro-life from conception” and the “the government shouldn’t get involved” buzz-phrases are staples in the GOP buzz-phrase library, but savvy politicians are careful to keep them separate.
Poor Herman — he’s learned the buzz-phrases, but hasn’t really learned what they mean, so he just spews them randomly.
Exactly. When forced to express a view on a subject to which they have given little or no thought, low-information politicians like Cain and Palin use that “buzz-phrase library” as an escape hatch. Does it work? To the low-information voter it surely does which helps to explain in part the existence of Fox News and conservative talk radio.
I know what I’m about to say is impolite, but Herman Cain strikes me as something of a jerk and an ignoramus. He has made absolutely outrageous statements about Muslims, immigrants and homosexuals; he takes the most extreme position imaginable on abortion. Indeed, I have never, ever seen him acknowledge the idea that complexity exists in the world…or that an ability to weed through complex issues might be a qualification for the presidency.
No, the guy is a marketer. He had other people handle administration and finance at Godfather’s; he was all about the pies. Hence, we have his 9-9-9 plan, a truly rancid scheme to benefit the rich at the expense of the rest of the country, a scheme that would tax a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread.
Would it be too much for the Weekly Standard–a journal of strong, and occasionally intemperate, opinions–to acknowledge that this guy is a snake oil salesman? That he’s an embarrassment to the Republican Party? That his momentary strength is a four-alarm cry of Republican desperation?
Exactly right. Thinking Republicans should be (and I suspect, are) embarrassed that at this stage of their primary, a simpleton with nothing more to offer than marketing slogans worthy of pizza joint flyers, is polling as well as he is. It says as much (or as little) about the intellect of the Republican base as it does about the reluctance of the party to throw their full support behind Mitt Romney. There is little doubt that Romney will end up being the Republican nominee but not before the GOP has exhausted every hope of finding a candidate who encompasses the entire package – solid conservative creds along with the intellect and ability to stand toe to toe with President Obama.
Cain has earned his conservative badge but is, as Klein put it, an ignoramus. Romney, on the other hand, has the desired smarts and experience but is sorely lacking in terms of convincing Republicans that he is a true conservative. Teabaggers have formed a PAC (The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama) which is so desperate to find a non-Romney candidate that they’ve put out a Romney attack ad.
Pretty damning stuff. You know Dems are going to be making use of that video next year.
At this point in the Republican primary, the front-runners are 1.) a pseudo-conservative flip-flopper who probably has a decent chance of defeating Barack Obama in 2012 should the economy continue to lag and 2.) a true conservative but moronic, snake oil salesman who has no chance of defeating the current president in a national election under any circumstances.
Meanwhile, the best qualified and most rational conservative among a field of dysfunctional clowns, Jon Huntsman, is polling at a measly 2% among Republicans. No further proof required to show that the Grand Old Party has become a decrepit joke.
You can now cast away any lingering doubts you might have had about Rick Perry.
What would America be like under a Rick Perry presidency? Well, if Rick Perry’s Texas is any indication, the country could look forward to 85 mph speed limits, hog hunting from helicopters and a security check “fast-lane” for concealed handgun carriers.
Any minor concerns you might have had about casting a vote for a man who…
drastically cut eduction funding as governor
is not quite sure about that evolution thing which know-nothing scientists keep talking about
believes climate scientists are in it for the money
prays for rain
thinks Medicare is unconstitutional
wants federal income tax scrapped
would work to make abortion illegal in all 50 states
would gives states the right to opt out of Social Security and Medicaid
prays for an end to EPA regulations
wants same-sex marriage made unconstitutional by redrafting the Constitution
…well, so what? The ‘pork chopper’ law comes into effect September 1 in Texas! That’s right, for $500 Texans can shoot an unlimited number of 400 pound hogs with semi-automatic rifles from low flying helicopters. Nice.
I think it’s a fair trade-off. You get a loud mouth, in your face religious, gay-hating, science-bashing, shit-for-brains president in exchange for the right to shoot animals from helicopters in all 50 states. It doesn’t get much better than that. And you can consider those security check fast-lanes for concealed handgun carriers as a bonus gift from President Perry.
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