what the Brian McGrory's of this world are saying, in the weary wicked end, this is the very same Mitt Romney who ran in 2008 with all his flaws, delusions and chiseling nature intact.
He is the first to run negative adverts, the first to decry negative adverts and when faced with pressure on the right, he toadies and truckles.
Same campaign tactics except this year the field is so weird and weak they are working....
Which is an object lesson to the Obama campaign, Mitt will go negative from the git-go and then cloud the air with smarmy insincere denials. Always remember, Romney makes all this smarm & passive aggression work for him.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Huntsman bails...
and gives a surly endorsement to the man he was calling a disengaged son-of-a-bitch not three days ago.
I wonder what Eric Fehnstrom had to promise Huntsman to get that endorsement? A cush ambassadorship, the Department of Transportation, a gig on Fox News as the In-House Moderate Straw MAn?
I doubt Huntsman has the stature to get Foggy Bottom and anyway Fehnstrom's promises are exactly like Romney's promises, worthless.
I wonder what Eric Fehnstrom had to promise Huntsman to get that endorsement? A cush ambassadorship, the Department of Transportation, a gig on Fox News as the In-House Moderate Straw MAn?
I doubt Huntsman has the stature to get Foggy Bottom and anyway Fehnstrom's promises are exactly like Romney's promises, worthless.
MLK Blogging...
On the late Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, I always try to cede this space to him however briefly. This quote seemed quite apropos of the year gone by all things considered:
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963
Friday, January 13, 2012
I'm no shocked that Haley Barbour
(Governor of Mississippi) has pardoned 208 convicted murderers and thieves and thugs on grounds that as prison Trusteee they did a bang up job of shining his shoes and mixed up his salad at the Magnolia State's Governor's Mansion.
Nope I'm appalled though that Mississippi has a Governor's Mansion, t'is intolerable extravagance & frippery!
What do these shitkickers think the public's money grows on trees??!!
Crude Toryism that is what it is!
Next up they'll be swearin' allegiance to the British Crown.
Say what you like about Massachusetts (and New Hampshire for that fact) but we are still strong in our republican simplicity....i.e. no "Executive Mansions" staffed by servants recruited out of the state's dungeons!
Nope I'm appalled though that Mississippi has a Governor's Mansion, t'is intolerable extravagance & frippery!
What do these shitkickers think the public's money grows on trees??!!
Crude Toryism that is what it is!
Next up they'll be swearin' allegiance to the British Crown.
Say what you like about Massachusetts (and New Hampshire for that fact) but we are still strong in our republican simplicity....i.e. no "Executive Mansions" staffed by servants recruited out of the state's dungeons!
USA Today's idea
of a front page below the fold soft news story is "2011, Deaths by Lightning Strike Decline".
Which I guess is an oblique way of reporting that we are all surviving lightning strikes with alacrity.
That or there is an epidemic of "Captain Marvels"out there.
Which I guess is an oblique way of reporting that we are all surviving lightning strikes with alacrity.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Joan Vennochi...
tracks Scott Brown's course back to the center in her Globe Column today. I'd link back to it, but it is protected by a pay wall as high as the Ramparts of Lost Troy.
But the gist is, "Scott is tracking back to the center, is he a real moderate or just faking it til election day? This is bad news for Elizabeth Warren!" yadda yadda yadda.
Nowhere in said column is the name Karl Rove mentioned who has parachuted bigtime into the Massachusetts Senatorial Election armed with money and campaign adverts and hell bent on re-elected Former State Senator Brown.
Now...to me, a mere amateur pundit, "a sarcastic rant driven chatterer" the real story is that so far, Karl's efforts have done nothing to dent Citizen Warren's numbers.
***
Now, I put up with a lot in Massachusetts, corrupt politicians, the malevolent lure of casino gambling, the lack of a policy to address deindustrialization/population drain, the Mass Turnpike and the awful roads in Belmont.
But I'll be good god damned if I'm gonna put up with some shitkicker punk like Karl Rove dictating to the descendents of John Adams and Charles Sumner and John F. Kennedy who will be our US Senator.
If Karl wants in on this Senate Race, let him move up here, register to vote and play the game Like A Man instead of all this maddening passive aggression from a distance.
***
Alas and alack, I am still hoping for a full and complete debate on the issues, if we don't get it from the democratic senatorial primary, then the matter must be addressed in the general election.
We don't get that if Karl Rove is muddying the waters...
Ah but that is the earnest liberal in me, ever hoping after patent impossibilities like free & fair debate.
But the gist is, "Scott is tracking back to the center, is he a real moderate or just faking it til election day? This is bad news for Elizabeth Warren!" yadda yadda yadda.
Nowhere in said column is the name Karl Rove mentioned who has parachuted bigtime into the Massachusetts Senatorial Election armed with money and campaign adverts and hell bent on re-elected Former State Senator Brown.
Now...to me, a mere amateur pundit, "a sarcastic rant driven chatterer" the real story is that so far, Karl's efforts have done nothing to dent Citizen Warren's numbers.
***
Now, I put up with a lot in Massachusetts, corrupt politicians, the malevolent lure of casino gambling, the lack of a policy to address deindustrialization/population drain, the Mass Turnpike and the awful roads in Belmont.
But I'll be good god damned if I'm gonna put up with some shitkicker punk like Karl Rove dictating to the descendents of John Adams and Charles Sumner and John F. Kennedy who will be our US Senator.
If Karl wants in on this Senate Race, let him move up here, register to vote and play the game Like A Man instead of all this maddening passive aggression from a distance.
***
Alas and alack, I am still hoping for a full and complete debate on the issues, if we don't get it from the democratic senatorial primary, then the matter must be addressed in the general election.
We don't get that if Karl Rove is muddying the waters...
Ah but that is the earnest liberal in me, ever hoping after patent impossibilities like free & fair debate.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Empty Suit in the Clown Car...
Congrats to the former viceroy, he finally won one in New Hampshire. And for once, Humble Elias' predictions were broadly accurate although my "Huntsman scenario" did not quite come together at the last minute.
As for Mitt Romney having a crackpot like Ron Paul as his main rival going into South Carolina can't be a bad thing. Willard has a rhetorical talent for slaying straw men that matches pretty much the real straw men he has the good fortune to be running against this year.
Ghod to hear Romney tell it, he triumphed over a pack of ravenous velociraptors armed with nothing more than a broken broomstick. A lavish sense of self congratulation is a key Romney component, get used to it for now.
Nonetheless, I expect South Carolina to get pretty ugly pretty quickly, Newt Gingrich isn't going to expire quietly although he is waaa-ay out of position to be a serious candidate going forward. The Sun has Set on Rick "High Pitched Rich" Santorum would-be American Dictator even if he makes one last bid to solidify the evangelicals behind his candidacy. If he bailed now though, he could bid up his endorsement to a cabinet post I suspect, ah but Secretaries of Commerce never seize power do they?
Perry? That guy is so punch drunk he has no idea he is stretched out on the canvas with the Ref standing over him at number five. I'm not even sure his endorsement is worth anything at this point given the man's reputation for plain stupidity.
I don't know why Jon Huntsman is even down in South Carolina, if I was him I'd take my "sensible committed conservative" act to Maine and try to strike sparks there.
I doubt he will do any business whatsoever in South Carolina. That leaves Ron Paul who is just berserk enough to fight this thing thru to the convention...relentlessly and fruitlessly.
I must say, as burlesque's go, this year's NH Primary was tops, I enjoyed almost as much as I enjoyed the 1984 democratic primary up there. This time around it was nothing but wall to wall gaffes and rhetorical excess from the git-go, a madder tea partei cannot be imagined.
So...sigh it is Romney's race to lose at least for the moment, on the other hand never rule out the Former Viceroy's ability to bungle things completely at the last minute.
As for Mitt Romney having a crackpot like Ron Paul as his main rival going into South Carolina can't be a bad thing. Willard has a rhetorical talent for slaying straw men that matches pretty much the real straw men he has the good fortune to be running against this year.
Ghod to hear Romney tell it, he triumphed over a pack of ravenous velociraptors armed with nothing more than a broken broomstick. A lavish sense of self congratulation is a key Romney component, get used to it for now.
Nonetheless, I expect South Carolina to get pretty ugly pretty quickly, Newt Gingrich isn't going to expire quietly although he is waaa-ay out of position to be a serious candidate going forward. The Sun has Set on Rick "High Pitched Rich" Santorum would-be American Dictator even if he makes one last bid to solidify the evangelicals behind his candidacy. If he bailed now though, he could bid up his endorsement to a cabinet post I suspect, ah but Secretaries of Commerce never seize power do they?
Perry? That guy is so punch drunk he has no idea he is stretched out on the canvas with the Ref standing over him at number five. I'm not even sure his endorsement is worth anything at this point given the man's reputation for plain stupidity.
I don't know why Jon Huntsman is even down in South Carolina, if I was him I'd take my "sensible committed conservative" act to Maine and try to strike sparks there.
I doubt he will do any business whatsoever in South Carolina. That leaves Ron Paul who is just berserk enough to fight this thing thru to the convention...relentlessly and fruitlessly.
I must say, as burlesque's go, this year's NH Primary was tops, I enjoyed almost as much as I enjoyed the 1984 democratic primary up there. This time around it was nothing but wall to wall gaffes and rhetorical excess from the git-go, a madder tea partei cannot be imagined.
So...sigh it is Romney's race to lose at least for the moment, on the other hand never rule out the Former Viceroy's ability to bungle things completely at the last minute.
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