...by a mile.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Favorite Moments of GOP Constipation, Jacksonville Debate
The Spreading Santorum Award goes to Rick Santorum, who railed and railed, like a half-vest-wearing timber mouse, against both Newton and Willard for being complicit in "top down, government-run healthcare", unlike St. Rick.
Then, Rick boasted about his ties to Peurto Rico and waxed proudly to have done all he could to pass things (legislation?) and boost medicaid reimbursement rates, to help people there.*
The Republican Ideological Invisibility Award gets split.
Republican Palestinian Americans are invisible, so long anyone is firing a missile (or gun?) at Israel.
The unemployed uninsured are invisible, because they can simply be redefined as re-employed and self-insured, by a swelling economy under abject deregulation of a GOP President, etc. or having them mythically buy their own insurance, somehow, with enough money from somewhere (or with lower health costs from before the 1960s).
*(No other candidate was even given a chance to respond to the PR
question, so swelled were the moderators by Rick's earnestness--what's up with that?)
Gingrich Bows Out, Admits Just a Sparring Candidate
The real truth of the Gingrich fake candidacy came out in tonight's Jacksonville debate.
He's got Willard Mitt Romeny fired up and ready-to-go.
Accordingly, he's back in friendly, quiet talk-circle mode.
It looked like he was ready to invite people to come sign his book, after the "debate". ["What (token?) hispanics would you have serve in your cabinet?" was actually a question allowed by CNN].
His biggest failure was looking down at the podium, as if reading from notes, while talking about Callista.
For the Record
Newton lies well under pressure.
At least everyone thought that 'Reagan Conservative' meant being so conducively aloof that lies came off as mere stupidity or as distractedly disinformed.
Now you know differently, about big-tent Reagan Conservatism...
/f Clinton-karma backlash
Latest, from the Most Reverend (and sinner) the Archbishop
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Stampede the Immigrants!
Finally, we have, from Mitt Romney, the GOP owning up to their strategy to make America hostile to immigrants.
The plan is to encourage their "self-deportation".
Longtime readers will recognize this strategy, called here "stampede the immigrants".
Destroying America, One Broadcast At a Time
The damage of FOX and its long subsidy of Beck lives on.
While his politics aren't common knowledge among many hockey fans, [Tim] Thomas hasn't hidden his political leanings. He's a fan of former Fox News channel host Glenn Beck, ... - storySome might not have wanted to shake the hand of President Bush, because of his dereliction of duty in planning the Iraq War and his embrace of torture.
But, to disrespect the Office of the President? The Republic for which it stands? For ANY Beckian reason? Nah.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Why Social Moderates Should Greatly Fear a Gingrich Presumptive
To compensate, he is going to have to talk bigger and act bolder, on the social issues and law-and-order issues.
Coupled with the remnants of the Tea-Party furor, his party's behavior is likely to get draconian.
You think no one would ever haul a gay-rights friendly judge or woman's-rights friendly judge before Congress? He will. He told you he would. He's not going to have the room to moderate once in office. To the contrary, the pressure is going to go the other way.
You think no one would dare grab U.S. citizens off the streets for indefinite detention, because it's outside our norms?
The list goes on.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
South Carolina Drinks the KoolAid From Highest Paid "Historian" in History
A MAN WITH A POISONOUS PAST
Even if you have a grudging respect for the rebel yell, last night's Gingrich win has to make you laugh.
Apparently, to the voters of South Carolina, "Freddie Mac" is a menu item at McDonald's that Gingrich ate a lot of.
Hate of the media is so important that moral character in a standard bearer for the party is a booed second.
This is how you choose leadership quality? #notaseriouscandidate
Question of the Day?
Should team Obama visibly be in South Carolina now? Florida?
The answer is yes. An unconventional campaign is called for. An attempt to expand and build the party is worthwhile. If his promise was transformative politics, he can't do that from inside the beltway so easily.
The fight is on and they are hanging back, instead of shaping the battlefield.
He should do 'the reverse Lincoln-Douglas'. In this move, Douglas chases Lincoln (and whoops him before the bullets even fly).
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Obama Tweets of the Day
Can't be a candidate of 'Ginormous Solutions' if you play the world's smallest (media) violin. -BO #NewtFastTalk #notaseriouscandidate
Friday, January 20, 2012
FOX, Where The News is a Blur
If the point was to poke fun at FOX, better copy would be "Braised and Biased". Just sayin'.
FastTalk Newtons
Newt's reply to John King last night was totally disingenuous nature, the one that is getting so much airplay, that Andrew Sullivan liveblogged as "perfect". (Even this is cute, but no cigar).
The fact of the matter is that Newt wanted that question, despite saying, "No, but I will."
King is not a highly-skilled interviewer, at least not at this level, not a power-player.
Imagine how different it would have been if he had immediately cut Gingrich off and said, "Okay, then, the question is withdrawn."
This would have left it the pink elephant in the room and Newt at the hands of the rumor mills, unaided by the power of CNN.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Truths and Perspectives I Don't Want to Deal With
THE MEDIA VIOLIN - THERE YOU GO AGAIN!
Isn't EVERYONE exhausted yet of GOP candidates who won't deal with questions, truths, or perspectives, and instead, just start playing their media violin?
Obama Tweet Of The Day
Would not want to run against feisty Ron Paul. Share many of his views of constitutional protections of liberty. -BO
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