Mitch Daniels the last, best hope for GOP sanity
Joe Klein speaks for many, I suspect:
This is my 10th presidential campaign, Lord help me. I have never before seen such a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers coagulated under a single party’s banner. They are the most compelling argument I’ve seen against American exceptionalism. Even Tim Pawlenty, a decent governor, can’t let a day go by without some bilious nonsense escaping his lizard brain. And, as Greg Sargent makes clear, Mitt Romney has wandered a long way from courage. There are those who say, cynically, if this is the dim-witted freak show the Republicans want to present in 2012, so be it. I disagree. One of them could get elected. You never know. Mick Huckabee, the front-runner if you can believe it, might have to negotiate a trade agreement, or a defense treaty, with the Indonesian president some day. Newt might have to discuss very delicate matters of national security with the president of Pakistan. And so I plead, as an unflinching American patriot — please Mitch Daniels, please Jeb Bush, please run. I may not agree with you on most things, but I respect you. And you seem to respect yourselves enough not to behave like public clowns.
Personally, I’d be shocked if Jeb Bush runs, because he’s smart enough to know that Bush fatigue is a major obstacle and because he has made no noises to date about a candidacy.
I also won’t be shocked if Mitch Daniels declines. The cast of characters that Klein describes as “a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers” hasn’t assembled itself accidentally. They have materialized because that’s what the GOP base demands at the moment. This is an electorate motivated for the most part by resentment, fear and paranoia, and it’s looking for candidates willing to tell them that their resentment, fear and paranoia are fully justified. At this point, whoever does that best will probably be the nominee.
I doubt Daniels can play that game very well. That’s not who he is, and unlike Mitt Romney, he doesn’t seem willing to pretend otherwise. In weighing whether to run, Daniels has to decide whether a very different, more sober message has a chance to be heard in this environment.
If he decides the answer is no, there’s no market for what he has to sell, it will say more about the state of the modern Republican Party than anything from Joe Klein or other pundits.
– Jay Bookman
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Jonas
March 30th, 2011
10:18 am
Decibels- the Pres doesn’t make it out of his own party’s convention- Ms. Hillary will be chosen
With some of the colorful characters being touted as potential opponents to Obama, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to see that kind of incumbent landslide repeating itself
Del
March 30th, 2011
10:18 am
“I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to see that kind of incumbent landslide repeating itself.”
I think he’s voter approval needs to be elevated and he doesn’t have a lot of time to accomplish it, while his policies keep his numbers heading South.
TaxPayer
March 30th, 2011
10:19 am
Cain! Give me a break. He’s just not able.
Lil' Barry Bailout
March 30th, 2011
10:20 am
I suspect Joe Klein supports the America-hating Marxist Obozo, so hisnopinion is worthless.
World B. Free
March 30th, 2011
10:20 am
WOW,
There’s a nuke planted betwixt your earlobes….
stands for decibels
March 30th, 2011
10:20 am
sadly that species seems to be teetering awfully close to the endangered list. And I mean that in a strictly unpartisan sense.
meh, ty, t’was ever thus. You think the white male landowning dipsticks who voted for electors who brought us the first Presidents really had all that much more on the ball, were that much better informed about national politics? I don’t. They probably voted for whoever looked better on the little handbills, or whoever’s surrogate made the best speech on their behalf, if they even bothered to make that much of an effort
I mean, I get how a guy can get discouraged by the dopey food-fights that pass for political rhetoric and the callow drive-bys that pass for punditry, but history shows that this is nothing new.
Murph
March 30th, 2011
10:21 am
Isn’t WOW over his post limit? I try to wait until he’s finished posting before I read but he seems to post ALL DAY LONG! I used to enjoy reading this blog when issues were really discussed. Now…it’s all about negativity and attack, who can come up with the most disrespectful vile thing to say to get attention. LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!!
Jefferson
March 30th, 2011
10:21 am
Too short.
F. Sinkwich
March 30th, 2011
10:22 am
“President Barack Obama’s approval rating and prospects for reelection have plunged to all-time lows in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Half of the registered voters surveyed for the poll think that the president does not deserve a second term in office, while 41 percent say he does.”
Things aren’t looking good for Mr. Hopey Changey.
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
10:22 am
stands, the one that cracked me up (in a bad way) was when George of the Bungle won 51% of the popular vote in 2004, and his mentally ill administration officials declared the results constituted a “mandate” for his second term.
Alas and quite predictably, they botched those four years even worse than their first four…
Billybob
March 30th, 2011
10:22 am
This a great example of the liberal false template/premise playbook……all you leftist media types try to portray republican candidates that you know can’t win the presidency(like mccain) as the frontrunners….I don’t need leftist telling me who I should vote for in 2012…..get a clue bookman, people are onto your tricks and shadyness…..joe klein has no bearing on 99.99 % of who conservatives will vote for in 2012……’vile, desperate to please, shameless, losers’ are the typical liberal name calling antics that make you and every leftist look quite foolish and petty……all you ‘left-ies’ try to sweep Nov 2010 under the rug, it’s quite comical and sad…..the fact is that as long as obama keeps ‘not leading’ and continues his socialist/marxist views in the white house like he has done since the day he was officially way in over his head(inauguration), he is done as president……it’s fun to watch denial bookman, and I’m not talking about the river in egypt…….all 30 of your daily leftist bloggers can have at it……..
getalife
March 30th, 2011
10:25 am
The only poll that matters is the 12 cycle.
If the American people want our economy to collapse again and lose wars, they will vote gop.
We Independents will not.
Mark T
March 30th, 2011
10:27 am
And in other news…GE(largley supported by Obama)paid $0 in taxes again and the media ignores it!
As the New Yorker’s former press critic, A.J. Liebling, famously said, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” Perhaps that quotation is framed somewhere in a boardroom at the General Electric Corp., which owns NBC News.
In spite of robust profits of $14.2 billion worldwide, GE has calculated a corporate tax bill for 2010 that adds up to zero, via a creative series of tax referrals and revenue shifts. (This was, indeed, the second year running that the company—which has an enormous, and famously nimble, 975-employee tax division, led by former Treasury official John Samuels—paid nothing in U.S. taxes; indeed by claiming a series of losses and deductions, GE came up with a negative tax of 10.5 percent in the admittedly dismal business year of 2009, and realized a $1.5 billion “tax benefit.”)….from yahoo news
stands for decibels
March 30th, 2011
10:28 am
I think he’s voter approval needs to be elevated and he doesn’t have a lot of time to accomplish it, while his policies keep his numbers heading South.
While I agree there isn’t all that much time to get things turned around economically (the factor that will play the biggest role in 11/2012), I will again patiently point out that the guy Kayaker 71 brought up, Ronald Reagan, was still sitting at 41% at this point in his first term (4/1983), and he didn’t get above 50% until about a year before the election (11/1983)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx
Jefferson
March 30th, 2011
10:28 am
In 04, W got 100% of the black vote. Clarance Thomas.
Left wing management
March 30th, 2011
10:30 am
Jonas: to my leftist friends- the tide is swiftly moving out and there is not much more than a european speedo on your emperors.
Aw, whassa matter. Your small town principles under threat?
As for Joe Klein, he’s a perfect example of objective journalism. He, like our friend Jay Bookman, is a high-minded, conscientious and objective practitioner of the journalistic profession and by unleashing frontal attacks on the Republican party he proves the truth that the opposite of right wing is not left, it’s reason, it’s center. More power to him – we need more like him.
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
10:30 am
More bad news for the cons:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In a sign of continued improvement in the job market, private sector employers added over 200,000 positions in March and the number of planned job cuts fell, according to two reports released Wednesday.
Payroll processing company ADP said private sector payrolls grew by 201,000 in March, after a revised 208,000 increase in February. Economists were expecting a gain of 210,000 private sector jobs, according to consensus estimates from Briefing.com.
ADP said the average monthly increase in employment over the last four months has been 211,000, which is “consistent with a gradual if uneven decline in the unemployment rate.”
Prakken noted that the ADP report showed “broad gains” across all sectors of the economy, including strong growth in manufacturing and improvement in the services sector. In addition, companies of all sizes added jobs in the March, he said.
This is unacceptable! You’re gonna have to get your Titans of Malfeasance and Criminal Negligence to do something about this, or it is really gonna hurt you in 2012.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/30/news/economy/adp_challenger_jobs_report/index.htm?hpt=T2
ty webb
March 30th, 2011
10:31 am
sfd,
point taken, However, I think the voters have always voted in their best interest. You know the ole “what can you do for ME”? And through history, as the government has grown, candidates have more things with which to promise if elected.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
March 30th, 2011
10:31 am
Hummmm ………….. this hasn’t been getting any play. So now it’s four wars.
Headline: “U.S. military fights terrorists in the Philippines While Iraq and Afghanistan garner most of the attention.
The U.S. military has been fighting terrorists in the Philippines for almost ten years.”
jm
March 30th, 2011
10:31 am
“I have never before seen such a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers coagulated under a single party’s banner.”
BTW, a guy like Obama will bring every aspiring candidate out of the woodwork. 2012 will be a cliff hanger I think.
WOW
March 30th, 2011
10:31 am
“Anyway, Reagan only snagged 50.7% his first time at bat, that 49/50 electoral sweep (with 58.8% of the popular vote, for the record) was the second time around.I figured I’d get that answer from you because your mind is closed and you don’t want to discuss…you just want to emote.”
Whenever Obama wins 49 of 50 states, talk to us all about a mandate. Mmmmmmkay?
“I figured I’d get that answer from you because your mind is closed and you don’t want to discuss…you just want to emote.”
Must be LSD day in liberal land. I always love it when left wingers call anyone who won’t listen to a female who dresses like a teenage boy “close minded.” I’d love to see what you’d write if I told you to listen to Glen Beck. Your answer: Glen Beck is a knuckle dragging con. LOL
“Isn’t WOW over his post limit? ”
Nope, not even close, Murph. You can cry and b!tch all you want.
“Now…it’s all about negativity and attack, who can come up with the most disrespectful vile thing to say to get attention. ”
Show me ONE attack or vile thing I’ve posted, Murph. I can show you several vile things getalife, Vet and others write on a minute by minute basis.
Oh, and this is number 10 of my 15, Murph..
Have a nice life.
“Things aren’t looking good for Mr. Hopey Changey.”
Like I wrote, he has NOTHING to run on in 2012. His slogans and teleprompter speeches have worn out their welcome.
Billybob
March 30th, 2011
10:31 am
getalife,
If the American people want our economy to collapse again they will vote for the ‘big gub’t party’(DEMOCRATS)…..and if they want to lose wars they will vote for Harry Reid and the ‘this war is lost party’(DEMOCRATS)…..The independents fled to republicans in Nov 2010……easy…next
Joe the Plumber Too
March 30th, 2011
10:32 am
getaclue: “We Independents will not”. What a joke, now you believe that you speak for all of us. Buddy, the independents that I know and have spoken to, will not go anywhere near the clown prince of idiocy in 2012. WE INDEPENDENTS will vote for anyone but the racebaiting, America hating, handout taking king of fools in 2012. Best you libs can hope for is that he steps aside for Hitlary or anyone else for that matter. Four and done.
jm
March 30th, 2011
10:33 am
AMVet 10:30 – look at the labor participation rate. That is the only metric that matters… and it does not look good at all. Bad news for libs.
jconservative
March 30th, 2011
10:33 am
Republicans need to be wary of what they wish for in 2012.
They only need to look at the Democrats in 2007 and 2008 who wanted a “no more wars” Democratic president. And that is what they help elect. So they thought.
What they elected turned out to be just another George W Bush who wants to use the US military to build nations. Now those Democrats regret their decision.
It is easy to jump on the bandwagon of someone who is good at cute, 10 second sound bites.
But when Al Qaeda flies airliners into US skyscrapers cute 10 second sound bites somehow seem out of place.
Remember President Bush sitting in the elementary school classroom when he was told the Twin Towers had been hit by terrorist? Remember the stricken look on his face? The cute 10 second sound bite never escaped his lips. It was a time for grown ups. And grown up talk.
In my opinion Joe Klein nailed about 8 of the top 10 Republicans hopefuls.
If one of those 8 is what the Republicans offer, then I would probably vote to keep the devil I know rather than gamble on the devil I do not know.
Tennisman
March 30th, 2011
10:35 am
This story is truly hilarious!
We currently have as President the single greatest ‘pretender’ ever to occupy the White House.
He has pretended to be all the things which he IS NOT!
And as time goes by, more and more of America’s voting populace is tiring of this pretense. His approval ratings are in the LOW 40’s, and show no signs of improvement.
The moment of ‘feel good’ politics (hope and change) has passed, and Americans will look for serious minded and proven leadership in 2012.
In this environment, any number of republican governors would beat Obama, most especially the ‘best of the best’, Gov Mitch Daniels of Indiana.
I sure hope he answers the call!
World B. Free
March 30th, 2011
10:35 am
2012 GOP Platform: “Xenophobia Now, Xenophobia Forever”
George W
March 30th, 2011
10:36 am
Of course Jay your “hope” for the GOP is a candidate that slams the Repubs……great work!
@@
March 30th, 2011
10:37 am
AmVet:
Public perception is everything in politics.
Inflation worries push consumer confidence lower
getalife
March 30th, 2011
10:38 am
Billybob,
If the gop stole everything you had and gave it to corporate would you still vote for them?
Yes.
Debating somebody that would do that is like debating with my dog.
Well, my dog is smarter than that
Jefferson
March 30th, 2011
10:39 am
Its a petty person that will smile at bad news.
Mr_B
March 30th, 2011
10:42 am
Please note Rational’s post at 9:54. Conclusive proof that conservatives can speak without invective. My congratulations, sir: William Buckley would be proud of you.
“in a sense, he has done what he said he was going to do, but I don’t think the things he has done were for the betterment of the country.”
Within the limits inherent with office, I agree. Many Americans think that is a good thing; myself among them.
“I’m thinking more the right fiscal track, where I don’t go to my office every day and have nothing to do, because there is no work coming in. Where I’m not scared to have kids, because I don’t think it is fair to bring them into the world knowing that their kids are going to be paying for the debt that my parent’s generation and my generation is accruing in the US today.”
You sound like you are relatively young, which is a good thing.I’ve been around since Truman, and from my perspective the conditions that worry you are the result of two complimentary ideologies embraced by both political parties: any sosial system that embraces some degree of collective responsibility is ipso facto evil and must be opposed (see Vietnam), and that any restricition on the ability to amass as much wealth as possible is somehow unAmerican.
I frankly don’t care who the Republican party fields as a candidate in 2012. I suspect that Mr. Obama will come much closer to representing my values than any of the potential Republican candidates.
jasper
March 30th, 2011
10:42 am
Like Joe Klein is any kind of reputable source on Republican candidates. Why don’t you quote Huffington or Maher? They’re just as credible in regards to this topic, antipathy couched in callous humor, the progressive liberal calling card. But you guys certainly need a distraction from the massive collective dissapointment from Obama’s obvious lack of leadership. I read Joe Klein and overwhelmingly sense writhing and gnashing of teeth. Oh it is delicious.
@@
March 30th, 2011
10:43 am
A question for conservatives?
It’s not likely that Rubio will run sooo-o-o-o…
is Puerto Rico’s governor out of the question? I followed him on and off early on.
Luis Fortuño
I’m asking ’cause I don’t know.
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
10:43 am
“His approval ratings are in the LOW 40’s…”
Not according to the latest Gallup poll – 48%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx
No matter, in either case, it is still TWICE that of the approval rating when Bush left office.
Had I not witnessed those final numbers personally and in real time in early 2009, it would be hard to fathom that any US President, Republican or Democrat, could be so utterly repudiated…
Some People are stupid
March 30th, 2011
10:45 am
I just like to point out how K71 said 52% wasn’t a mandate, but 2010 was. Just for statistical purposes, Republicans only control 51.6% of the house. But yet I have a feeling after the election you saw that as a mandate.
George W
March 30th, 2011
10:46 am
AmVet….there you go…..compare Obama’s failing numbers to Bush! good boy!
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
10:47 am
And one other observation about BHO’s approval rating.
It has remained in a very narrow range for the past 19 months.
More bad news for would-be contenders…
RW-(the original)
March 30th, 2011
10:48 am
Oh good, Klein and Bookman rushing out there to pick the GOP candidate.
Allow me a brief moment with my side of the aisle. We let these same
clownspundits pick our candidate in 2008. Do we really want to let them saddle us with another McCain?Let’s just go ahead and put Bolton on top with Rubio on the undercard and be done with it.
Thanks for your attention….and…..drive by.
jasper
March 30th, 2011
10:48 am
42% on the latest Quinnipiac poll, whatever that’s worth. In another poll, 43% don’t know his religion. That was taken inside CNN’s offices.
@@
March 30th, 2011
10:48 am
Jefferson:
Its a petty person that will smile at bad news.
Sho ’nuff?
Did you see the piece at Huffington Post where some guy was celebrating Japan’s devastation as an opportunity for green energy? Then today I read where the question is being put forth “Are stem cells the answer for workers at Fukushima?”
Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh?
jm
March 30th, 2011
10:49 am
Some People are Stupid – including you. The Republicans control 55.5% of the House.
Bosch
March 30th, 2011
10:52 am
The GOP put up a moderate in 2008 and the base wasn’t happy — McCain was a RINO — even when he started in with the crazy talk. What they simply can’t understand is that most people in this country don’t want all their rhetoric of Obama being the Kenyan Muslim Marxist. They want ideas of how to solve the countries problems.
George W
March 30th, 2011
10:52 am
WATCH THIS TOP SECRET VIDEO OF PELOSI AND REID DISCUSSING OUR COUNTRIES AFFAIRS!!! VERY INTERESTING>>>>>JUST RELEASED!!!!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a66_1301455184
USMC dawg
March 30th, 2011
10:54 am
“Mitch Daniels the last, best hope for GOP sanity”
SAYS JAY BOOKMAN….What a JOKE!
Joe Cool
March 30th, 2011
10:55 am
Enter your comments here
Some People are stupid
March 30th, 2011
10:55 am
jm-
I miskeyed a number. But the point remains the same. 56.3(house number) is a mandate but 52 isn’t.
Mr. Right
March 30th, 2011
10:56 am
If Obama could be elected anybody can be elected!
@@
March 30th, 2011
10:57 am
George W:
The liveleak video?
Too cute!!!!
Bosch
March 30th, 2011
10:57 am
“I doubt Daniels can play that game very well. That’s not who he is”
I thought that about McCain too, but yet he gave us Bible Spice who took over and ruined his campaign — and she just won’t go away. She can’t accept that her message is not welcome by a majority of Americans — just the crazy ones.
Tommy Maddox
March 30th, 2011
10:58 am
Joe Klein is no expert when it comes to picking candidates for the Right.
At the rate the President is going [and I still don't understand how some folks here think he's doing a terrific job], I’m of the belief that anyone could beat him in a general election.
I think Joe ought to be more worried about Hillary entering the fray after the end of this year.
DebbieDoRight
March 30th, 2011
10:58 am
Debbie For Herman Cain!!! Run Herman Run!!! Cain/Palin 2012!!!! The world needs to have a good laugh now and then, breaks the monotony.
George W
March 30th, 2011
10:58 am
@@…..I know right!
Mick
March 30th, 2011
11:01 am
Bible spice…..classic
TaxPayer
March 30th, 2011
11:02 am
If Obama could be elected anybody can be elected!
So, is that a vote for McCain/Palin in 2012.
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:03 am
This guy should run….AMEN MR> CHRISTIE
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=766_1301434905
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:04 am
Taxpayer….I would Take McCain in a heartbeat over Obama. Not even close.
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
11:04 am
Debbie,
Herman in the new Alan Keyes.
http://tinyurl.com/5tlhrpw
@@
March 30th, 2011
11:04 am
George W:
It’s the babies. How can someone…anyone…not love and appreciate ‘em? Cherish even?
It’s inconceivable to me.
=================================
Looks like I’m not gonna get a response on Fortuño and jay’s fear mongering hasn’t worked in his favor.
I’ve gotta transplant a Red Hot Poker. Now looks like as good a time as any.
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
11:04 am
is, not in…
Left wing management
March 30th, 2011
11:05 am
jasper: Like Joe Klein is any kind of reputable source on Republican candidates. Why don’t you quote Huffington or Maher? They’re just as credible in regards to this topic, antipathy couched in callous humor, the progressive liberal calling card
It doesn’t matter. All these people you mention are perfectly sane and rational centrist observers, they’re objective and neutral, which is just another way of saying they haven’t drunk GOP kool-aid.
jm
March 30th, 2011
11:05 am
Arriving as Pregnant Tourists, Leaving With American Babies
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/us/29babies.html
This is ridiculous and this is why the laws must be changed. When the constitution was written, there were not airplanes. Time for an amendment….
SAN GABRIEL, Calif. — The building inspectors and police officers walked into the small row of connected town houses here knowing something was amiss. Neighbors had complained about noise and a lot of pregnant women coming and going. And when they went into a kitchen they saw a row of clear bassinets holding several infants, with a woman acting as a nurse hovering over them.
For months, officials say, the house was home to “maternity tourists,” in this case, women from China who had paid tens of thousands of dollars to deliver their babies in the United States, making the infants automatic American citizens. Officials shut down the home, sending the 10 mothers who had been living there with their babies to nearby motels.
“These were not women living in squalor — it was a well taken care of place and clean, but there were a lot of women and babies,” said Clayton Anderson, a city inspector who shut down the house on March 9. “I have never seen anything like this before. We really couldn’t determine the exact number of people living there.”
For the last year, the debate over birthright citizenship has raged across the country, with some political leaders calling for an end to the 14th Amendment, which gives automatic citizenship to any baby born in the United States. Much of the debate has focused on immigrants entering illegally from poor countries in Latin America. But in this case the women were not only relatively wealthy, but also here legally on tourist visas. Most of them, officials say, have already returned to China with their American babies.
@@
March 30th, 2011
11:06 am
Oops! Allow me to clarify…I’m talkin’ horticulture…a Red Hot Poker PLANT!!!
IHB
jm
March 30th, 2011
11:06 am
i can estimate: a lot
-Immigration experts say it is impossible to know precisely how widespread “maternity tourism” is. Businesses in China, Mexico and South Korea advertise packages that arrange for doctors, insurance and postpartum care. And the Marmara, a Turkish-owned hotel on the Upper East Side in New York City, has advertised monthlong “baby stays” that come with a stroller.
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:07 am
@@…..I really dont know much about him. However if he brings positive ideas to the table and ways to turn this country around. I am for it. Can he run legally?
DebbieDoRight
March 30th, 2011
11:07 am
2012 GOP Platform: “Xenophobia Now, Xenophobia Forever”
I like that!! Reminded me of Alabama Governor George Wallace’s “Segregration today! Segregration Tomorrow! Segregration Forever!!!”
Gman
March 30th, 2011
11:07 am
Let’s be realistic here people. Herman Cain couldn’t win a statewide election much less a national one. Romney is a Mormon. Newt couldn’t get past the conservative “morality test”. Palin is a very shallow thinker. The list goes on and on…
Joe Cool
March 30th, 2011
11:07 am
The Cons have no real canidates that will tell the base what they want to hear…you know, Anti-Muslims, Anti-gay, Anti-Hispanics, Anti-Minorities.
Romney is such a chump that hes too scared to stand behind his own Romneycare.
Palin-She wont run. Too much $ in bashing Obama, and talking about guns and shooting reindeer.
Newt-His past will bury him.
Newt/Obama debate.
Newt: Our principles and family values of the Republican party etc, etc, etc….
Obama: Sorry Newt, for some reason I dont see myself taking family values lessons from you.
jm
March 30th, 2011
11:08 am
“These people aren’t doing anything in violation of our laws,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates tougher immigration controls. “But if anything, it is worse than illegal immigrants delivering a baby here. Those kids are socialized as Americans. This phenomenon of coming to the U.S. and then leaving with people who have unlimited access to come back is just ridiculous.”
Libertarian
March 30th, 2011
11:08 am
Wow…came out swinging today Jay. I guess you had to recover from you unprecedented quasi-bash of Obama yesterday.
Personally, I want a president with a backbone (which Obama doesn’t have) and one who is more qualified than Obama. Everyone knows he’s in over his head…even Hillary.
That said, Huckabee is too right-wing/Christian, Newt has too many skeletons, and I agree with you on Jeb and the Bush fatigue. I think Romney just says whatever he thinks people want to hear and most people won’t be able to get past the Mormon thing.
So basically, ALL politicians have become “a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers”…on both sides of the aisle. Too bad we don’t have a viable third party candidate…
carlosgvv
March 30th, 2011
11:09 am
Granny
This will be hard for to believe, but I completely agree with your 9:05 post. If the Republicans can ever get themselves out of their self-destruct mode, they might actually have a chance.
kayaker 71
March 30th, 2011
11:09 am
It isn’t how many seats the GOP holds in the House that is important or their percentage. The mid term elections were a solid repudiation of Bozo and his politics. The majority of the electorate rejected him and what he stands for. Can you spell D-E-N-I-A-L ???
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:09 am
Debbie…..And?
jm
March 30th, 2011
11:09 am
Love me some anchor babies. Wonder if they will drag us down, hold us still, or come unhooked.
El Jefe
March 30th, 2011
11:10 am
Personally, I would rather all the current crop of republicans thinking about running serve at least one term in the Senate. That way we would be able to see them at work and how they vote, for alliances and support the voters. Besides, the Senate is where the power is really at.
But then again, that would make too much sense.
Imagine, Sarah, Mitt, Newt, Mike, et.al. sitting in the Senate – that would make this administration shake nervously.
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:11 am
“Xenophobia” – the new word being used by the left to justify illegal behavior! Great work!
Libertarian
March 30th, 2011
11:13 am
Wait….”getalife” is claiming to be an independent?
Finn McCool
March 30th, 2011
11:13 am
the Donald is their best bet.
getalife
March 30th, 2011
11:14 am
Did RW just blame Jay for the gop picking McLoser? / Shakes fist at dang liberal media.
Bolton/Rubio?
Now that is hilarious.
DebbieDoRight
March 30th, 2011
11:14 am
AmVet are you trying to say Herman Cain is a fruitcake by comparing him to the looney toon Alan, I see my dead career, Keyes?!? How dare you say such a thing!! Why Herman Cain is a respected business leader and radio pundit!!! At one time, a long, long time ago, he once owned three, (count them THREE), pizza places!!! Sure they weren’t Chuckie Cheese’s but he did it by his own hand up his bootstraps all by himself, (with the help of family and friends to help qualify him for a franchise….but never mind reality though, gotta stick with the myth).
How dare you talk about Cain like that AmVet. How. Dare. You. I’m so pizzed at you, I’m going to go into the nearest pizza place and have a slice for Herman!!! How. Dare. You. Amvet!!!
Granny Godzilla
March 30th, 2011
11:15 am
carlosgvv
March 30th, 2011
11:09 am
Granny
This will be hard for to believe, but I completely agree with your 9:05 post. If the Republicans can ever get themselves out of their self-destruct mode, they might actually have a chance.
Thanks, that’s kind.
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:15 am
getalife…..”McLoser”? Really, dude you have class. Win or not the man is a war hero and an American icon. Nice job.
getalife
March 30th, 2011
11:15 am
liebertarian,
I am a proud Independent with no party or ideology.
Got a problem with that?
Finn McCool
March 30th, 2011
11:15 am
Mitch just released a statement:
“If you elect me, I’ll cut $100 billion out of the federal budget! I will!”
Like children in a candy store.
getalife
March 30th, 2011
11:17 am
w,
Mcflipflop better?
Libertarian
March 30th, 2011
11:17 am
getalife,
Yesterday you advocated filling up a plane with “cons” and bombing Libya with it. That just doesn’t sound very “independent” to me…but potato-pototo.
Scooter (The Original)
March 30th, 2011
11:18 am
Wasn’t John McCain a last best hope when Bush 43 was in office?
Finn McCool
March 30th, 2011
11:18 am
War hero? You belittle the term. All McCain did was get shot down, got caught, and spent time in a prisoner of war camp.
Just like thousands of other guys. There is nothing heroic about that.
Maybe you read the stories of what real war heroes did in the thick of battle – saving the lives of those around them at the expense of their own, single-handily capturing a number of the enemy, etc.
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:19 am
Getalife….flip flop…..you MUST be talking about Obama.
jasper
March 30th, 2011
11:19 am
LWM – Klein, Huffington, and Maher are rational centrist observers. Apparently there’s more than one brand of koolaid on tap. Step away from the bar.
Libertarian
March 30th, 2011
11:19 am
I would rather elect someone who has owned a business (Pizza or whatever) than someone who has merely organized a community. What does that even mean? Like a homeowner’s association president??
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:20 am
FINN…….I see class is running high from the left today……keep up the good work!
Fletch
March 30th, 2011
11:22 am
WOW – “The only reason Jay mocks Palin etc is because he knows she packs the house and people flock to her.”
So does Bon Jovi, but I wouldn’t vote for him either.
George W
March 30th, 2011
11:22 am
Fletch….come on….Bon Jovi is the man! haha
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
11:23 am
Libertarian,
Other than McCain, Ron Paul was the only man on that GOP slate that wasn’t a Bush-lite clown. (BTW, to me he is a hero and has more courage in his little finger than virtually all of the GOP leadership of the past fifteen years COMBINED!)
I was personally thrilled to see those two outlast the armchair chest-pounders and utterly craven chickenhawks.
Yet, as vast an improvement as he is over your garden-variety neo-con, he still has some dramatically misplaced quasi-libertarian beliefs in my view.
Even so, I would still vote for him before any of the Republicans noted here…
DebbieDoRight
March 30th, 2011
11:23 am
@@: Oops! Allow me to clarify…I’m talkin’ horticulture…a Red Hot Poker PLANT!!!
That’s what my husband calls it too.
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
11:25 am
Make that “any of the other Republicans…”
godless heathen
March 30th, 2011
11:25 am
So Finn, you would also not consider Max Cleland (he blew himself up with his own grenade) a war hero?
getalife
March 30th, 2011
11:25 am
lie,
I responded to a con that wanted to bomb them with illegals.
AmVet
March 30th, 2011
11:27 am
Romney’s flip-flopping on health care and numerous other matters is a real embarrassment for him.
He’d be much wiser and would garner the support (even if tepid) of independents, etc if he didn’t feel compelled to pander to the GOP’s lunatic fringe like the rest of the fake conservatives.
In other words, he coulda been a contenda!