looks like a jackass on the back of a motorcycle.
Her "Hubris Tour" is off to an interesting start, one of her stops (before the inevitable finale in New Hampshire) is in Gettysburg PA.
To think she is gonna be grinning and snarking and camping it up before her tea partei apologists on the very ground where Abraham Lincoln summarized and celebrated the whole democratic experiment in two short paragraphs.
Makes ya think don't it?
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
I don't think Mitt Romney can withstand
much more praise from the front Page of the Boston Globe with respect to his health care reform legislation in Massachusetts.
I suspect, the Globe is trying it's old game of building Romney up as an unlikely Moderate GOP Man on Horseback, but all articles like this do is damage Mitt's wingnut credibility at a time when he is desperate to get in good with the Tea Partei.
If I didn't know better I'd say all this incessant praise for Romney's 2005 HCR is a machiavellian bid to undercut his candidacy in the New Hampshire primary.
You can see his dilemma, if he embraces fully his own health care reform in Massachusetts then he made a defacto endorsement of the President's Health Care Reform (a carbon copy of the Massachusetts plan )at the national level. Since no one can gain the current GOP nomination if they are aligned with the Obama White House in a policy sense, Romney has to expend precious time and resources endorsing something for the Commonwealth that he regards as bad for the Republic.
To do this he falls back on a pretty tattered version of "States Rights" that makes no sense from an insurance risk point of view. Frankly if he thought it would go over with his target audience Romney would fall back on Phrenology or divination by way of bird intestines.
Honestly, if he had access to H.G. Wells' time machine Mitt would go back to 2005 and talk himself out of signing the bill, that is how desperate he is to escape this thing.
I suspect, the Globe is trying it's old game of building Romney up as an unlikely Moderate GOP Man on Horseback, but all articles like this do is damage Mitt's wingnut credibility at a time when he is desperate to get in good with the Tea Partei.
If I didn't know better I'd say all this incessant praise for Romney's 2005 HCR is a machiavellian bid to undercut his candidacy in the New Hampshire primary.
You can see his dilemma, if he embraces fully his own health care reform in Massachusetts then he made a defacto endorsement of the President's Health Care Reform (a carbon copy of the Massachusetts plan )at the national level. Since no one can gain the current GOP nomination if they are aligned with the Obama White House in a policy sense, Romney has to expend precious time and resources endorsing something for the Commonwealth that he regards as bad for the Republic.
To do this he falls back on a pretty tattered version of "States Rights" that makes no sense from an insurance risk point of view. Frankly if he thought it would go over with his target audience Romney would fall back on Phrenology or divination by way of bird intestines.
Honestly, if he had access to H.G. Wells' time machine Mitt would go back to 2005 and talk himself out of signing the bill, that is how desperate he is to escape this thing.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
If Sarah Palin is running for President
then this cockamammie bus tour is not the way to do it.
It is, to quote our Amish Brethren, "Showy and immodest".
New Hampshire Primary voters are a proud, vain xenophobic bunch, pulling into town like a busted Rock Star on some "tour" reeks of hubris.
Former Governor Palin would be well advised to cut the ribbon on a nice roomy headquarters on Elm Street in Manchester NH and hustle off to kiss babies at the Carroll County Fried Dough Festival and forget this bus tour rubbish.
No doubt she'll get a crowd up there, people luv her low-content snarkage, but the locals also like their Presidential Candidates to rent space, spend money and work the room.
***
But of course, like Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump I'm not sure she is truly serious about running for President. Palin has been on lucrative conservative welfare for two years now, it's easy money for no work who wants to exchange a sure sugar teat for some tedious & insecure presidential candidate gig?
It is, to quote our Amish Brethren, "Showy and immodest".
New Hampshire Primary voters are a proud, vain xenophobic bunch, pulling into town like a busted Rock Star on some "tour" reeks of hubris.
Former Governor Palin would be well advised to cut the ribbon on a nice roomy headquarters on Elm Street in Manchester NH and hustle off to kiss babies at the Carroll County Fried Dough Festival and forget this bus tour rubbish.
No doubt she'll get a crowd up there, people luv her low-content snarkage, but the locals also like their Presidential Candidates to rent space, spend money and work the room.
***
But of course, like Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump I'm not sure she is truly serious about running for President. Palin has been on lucrative conservative welfare for two years now, it's easy money for no work who wants to exchange a sure sugar teat for some tedious & insecure presidential candidate gig?
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Profiles in Discourage...
Newt Gingrich, initially opposed to the Medicare privatizing "Ryan Budget" has gone crawling on his knees before the outraged forces of wingnuttery.
I was once of the opinion that Palin, Santorum and Bachmann would likely be the first and best harlequins out of the the GOP Presidential Klown Kar...But honestly after one week of Gingrich on the hustings, I'm saying top honors belong to Newt.
This was a particularly cowardly performance given the vehemence of his initial opposition, but we've seen this before with Newt, he howls and threatens like a spoiled brat and collapses at the first pushback.
And like Mitt Romney he can't take a "right hook".
In contrast to Former State Senator Scott Brown who floated a pro-Ryan trial balloon in Newburyport before running for cover at the first sign of rain. Wisely Brown avoided any brutal Gingrichian rhetoric when he toyed with the idea of vouchering Grandma to death. So his subsequent performance is merely the usual backdown we've come to expect from Scott. It lacks Gingrich's forays into low comedy.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Yes on Monday means No by Friday" with Scott.
I give him credit though, he is fixated on re-election with a forensic intensity that puts Mitt Romney to shame.
I was once of the opinion that Palin, Santorum and Bachmann would likely be the first and best harlequins out of the the GOP Presidential Klown Kar...But honestly after one week of Gingrich on the hustings, I'm saying top honors belong to Newt.
This was a particularly cowardly performance given the vehemence of his initial opposition, but we've seen this before with Newt, he howls and threatens like a spoiled brat and collapses at the first pushback.
And like Mitt Romney he can't take a "right hook".
In contrast to Former State Senator Scott Brown who floated a pro-Ryan trial balloon in Newburyport before running for cover at the first sign of rain. Wisely Brown avoided any brutal Gingrichian rhetoric when he toyed with the idea of vouchering Grandma to death. So his subsequent performance is merely the usual backdown we've come to expect from Scott. It lacks Gingrich's forays into low comedy.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Yes on Monday means No by Friday" with Scott.
I give him credit though, he is fixated on re-election with a forensic intensity that puts Mitt Romney to shame.
Monday, May 23, 2011
On vacation...
Stand down all seven of you, posting will be arbitrary & capricious til next weekend.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Rapture of the Freep
Why do I have a feeling that Willard Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign apparat have two press releases proofed QC's and ready to go IF the rapture really does go down today and the book worshippers are beamed up to glory?
Press Release #1) Denounces President O'Bama for insulting millions of bible believing Americans by declining to dematerialize.
Press Release #2) Lambasts President O'Bama for "unconscionably dematerializing" and thus leaving the American People in the lurch amidst a world wide recession.
Press Release #1) Denounces President O'Bama for insulting millions of bible believing Americans by declining to dematerialize.
Press Release #2) Lambasts President O'Bama for "unconscionably dematerializing" and thus leaving the American People in the lurch amidst a world wide recession.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Newsflash...
Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently has the taste of a sailor.
Okay that was low and crude, but given the fact that Arnold seized power in California in what amounted to an Enron financed legally sanctioned coup, my seven or so readers will forgive if I wallow in Schaefenfreude.
And besides thanks to the complete collapse of Arnold Schwarzenegger's private life we will never have to see him giving a speech extolling rugged individualism in front of a Republican National Convention.
Ghod this jerk was a pill to watch, smug unctuous and eager to rub the democrats noses in it.
Oh well, chickens will come home to roost won't they?
On the other hand, Maria Shriver will likely enjoy a lifetime sinecure discussing "women's issues" from the podium and in prime time at all future Democratic National Conventions.
Schaedenfreude indeed.
Okay that was low and crude, but given the fact that Arnold seized power in California in what amounted to an Enron financed legally sanctioned coup, my seven or so readers will forgive if I wallow in Schaefenfreude.
And besides thanks to the complete collapse of Arnold Schwarzenegger's private life we will never have to see him giving a speech extolling rugged individualism in front of a Republican National Convention.
Ghod this jerk was a pill to watch, smug unctuous and eager to rub the democrats noses in it.
Oh well, chickens will come home to roost won't they?
On the other hand, Maria Shriver will likely enjoy a lifetime sinecure discussing "women's issues" from the podium and in prime time at all future Democratic National Conventions.
Schaedenfreude indeed.
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