Rick Perry, the GOP’s new BMOC; Mitt Romney, not so much
Mitt Romney is playing the long game in his bid for the GOP presidential nomination, which is pretty smart for a couple of reasons:
1.) His top two challengers, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, both have high probability of doing and saying stupid things that would cause their self-destruction.
2.) He really has no other choice. He knows he’s not the hot date that Republican primary voters dream about as their escort to the big dance. He just hopes to be the steady, nerdish, boring guy — the one who shows up driving his mother’s Audi — that they’ll settle for once other options are no longer available.
Two new polls demonstrate the wisdom and necessity of that approach. Gallup, for example, reports that 29 percent of Republicans now favor Perry as their party’s nominee. Romney, who drew 27 percent as recently as June, has fallen back to 17 percent. Ron Paul, at 13 percent, and Bachmann, at 10 percent, are the only other two in double digits. (Herman Cain, a previous flavor of the month, has declined to 4 percent.)
A poll by Public Policy Polling produces a parallel prognostication, putting Perry at 33 percent. Romney draws 20 percent and Bachmann 16 percent. You have to think that as Bachmann fades, most of her hard-core tea-party support will gravitate to the man from Texas, not the man from Massachusetts.
So patience, Mitt, patience. Be the Audi-driving tortoise, not the Texas jackrabbit.
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Granny Godzilla
August 24th, 2011
4:34 pm
Dusty
But nobody likes him!!!
Dusty got that from google
Has no appeal!!
Dusty got that from google
No military experience!
dusty got that from google
No executive experience
dusty got that from google
and Democrats just plain don’t like him.
dusty got that from google…
I’ll cut you a break, the fact is that all I said was he will flame out and my response to you went over your head.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 24th, 2011
4:35 pm
“Furthermore, take responsibility. You did everything but publish your own Social Security number here, and then you blame ME because you made your identity known?”
In a word, bull$hit, Jay.
And as was pointed out, if I had wanted my full name posted, I would have done so myself. And as was posted out so eloquently by one of the cyber-stalkers, they pointed out that they knew where I lived and had been against me in my previous profession. Since being the target of a death threat in my past profession, sent by someone who obviously had more time on their hands than needed for simple political discourse, I don’t really prefer to be investigated, researched and stalked by people with serious mental disorders as both of those posters have shown over the years.
So don’t give me any of your sanctimonious claptrap about having your name out there for all the world to see, as you have chosen it to be that way. My public days are over for good, and I have chosen THAT to be my way.
And the mere fact that you can sit and JUSTIFY their investigation and exposure of one of your bloggers is beneath contempt.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 24th, 2011
4:36 pm
For all the braying by the Senate’s top three hawks about how the U.S. wasn’t doing enough to oust Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Qaddafi from power, one might be surprised to learn that exactly two years ago, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were in Tripoli meeting with the erratic leader and giving him assurances that relations between the nations were on the mend.
Well with all the talk of Foghorn Leghorn, might as well be sure to mention the chickenhawks.
Jay
August 24th, 2011
4:36 pm
Yes, getalife, my mom and dad and a good portion of my family are on a cruise ship right now skedaddling north from Bermuda back to Boston. I’m sure they’re fine.
But I wouldn’t mind being MORE sure.
Joe the Plutocrat
August 24th, 2011
4:36 pm
Jm, no it’s Who is John Galt?
Thulsa Doom
August 24th, 2011
4:36 pm
Pogo,
15 yard personal foul on Michelle Obama. She’s been a decent first lady. The only major faux paus was when she wore $400 sneakers to a soup kitchen for the homeless. Otherwise she has performed very well as first lady.
Tommy Maddox
August 24th, 2011
4:37 pm
I think a fight needs to be taken outside…
williebkind
August 24th, 2011
4:37 pm
Your right Jay, Perry could be a recipient of a “gotcha” but Obama could say anything and you/leftist would continue to support and ADORE him. I know you dont want Obama to be the subject but is not Obama the subject. GOT JOBS??
josef
August 24th, 2011
4:39 pm
Jm
Reason I asked, the Minis are descended from the first European boy born in Georgia…
IMAM
“To close, if you can’t show respect, leave”
L-rd, Mate, have you been offered a UGA post, too…? That would close this blog down in a minute if enforced across the board…
pogo
August 24th, 2011
4:39 pm
Adam said; “But we did already have a swipe at Obama not using his name on this page.”
Obama doesn’t use his name on this page? Jay, you must have some very influential participants here we didn’t know about. Whodda thunkit? No wonder you know the Whitehouse talking points even before they are released out into the mainstream everyday! Yea, it all makes sense now. Though I do have to wonder what name he does use. Maybe, uh…naah, shouldn’t say it! Granny would have a “conniption”.
And Adam the “socialist thing” may be tired but the term “Keynesian” is still very much in play when referrring to Obama and his advisors.
Jefferson
August 24th, 2011
4:40 pm
Itchin’ for a switchin’.
Paul
August 24th, 2011
4:40 pm
Dusty
“You see Republicans as “cons”?”
No, that was extracted from pogo’s 4:15. I was questioning a statement by one I assume to be a Republican who referred to those who will pick the candidate as conservatives, not as Republicans.
Jay
August 24th, 2011
4:40 pm
As I recall, Dave R. you bragged about the office you once held and the jurisdiction in which you held it. Combined with your name and initial, I’m sure it took a regular Hercule Poirot to put it all together.
Just show more respect and cease the namecalling.
Thulsa Doom
August 24th, 2011
4:40 pm
John McCain is a chickenhawk? A man who flew combat missions over North Vietnam and spent 7 years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton is a chickenhawk? Sometimes the libs get so lost in their talking points that they don’t even realize when their mindless gobbledeegook makes absolutely zero sense. Its too funny. You can’t even make up this kind of stuff.
williebkind
August 24th, 2011
4:41 pm
GOT JOBS?? What am I talking about? All you liberals here have great jobs, living the life, and being as vile and disgusting as you want to be. You talk like progressvie liberals but live like your definition of a conservative.
n
August 24th, 2011
4:44 pm
Jon Huntsman doesn’t pander like Mitt, he’s handsome, well spoken, reasonable, doesn’t demean others to make himself look better, speaks Mandarin Chinese (very handy in our current geo-politcal situation) and is not a lunatic. These are old-fashioned virtues that serve the political process well. The rest of the R candidates scare me, as they appear willing to lead us over a cliff. Beware demagoguery!
A match between Obama and Huntsman could return us to civility and rationality.
josef
August 24th, 2011
4:45 pm
THULSA
D*mn! You and I need to coordinate better…I’m winding up agreeing with you on too much…! Yes, First Lady Obama has been a class act, and I’ll be the first to say I didn’t start out to like her, but she has won me over…
Tommy Maddox
August 24th, 2011
4:46 pm
A match between Obama and Huntsman will return us to four more years of buffoonery.
Truth
August 24th, 2011
4:46 pm
Anybody but Obama aka Jimmy Carter
Granny Godzilla
August 24th, 2011
4:46 pm
I love Hercule Poirot! Almost as much as Nero Wolfe!
josef
August 24th, 2011
4:46 pm
IMAM v DAVE
Cat fight! Cat fight!
Dusty
August 24th, 2011
4:47 pm
Well, I see back somewhere, there is wondering about what a “wimmin” wants in a man.
Well, RIGHT NOW, what most USA wimmin want is a leader. Spelled.l-e-a-d-e-r . And needed immediately for the USA. If Perry appears to be a stronger leader than others, then he fills the bill.
The attack mode is already in place by lefty propagandists. But the attack plan is so familiar! Too obvious!
Joe Mama
August 24th, 2011
4:47 pm
Dusty & md — replies for both of you downstairs.
Joe the Plutocrat
August 24th, 2011
4:47 pm
Keep Up, I gotta side with Thulsa on this.
Chickenhawk” Quayle, Bush (W), Hannity, Limbaugh, Cheney, Leiberman (when it comes to waging war against Muslims, Arabs and Persians) and sometimes Clinton and Obama (but they pretend they’re “anti-war”)
Were I to characterize McCain as a bird I would use “Dodo” or “Loon” which would make him more in the Bachman, Palin family
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 24th, 2011
4:48 pm
“Just show more respect and cease the namecalling.”
Nah. I’ll just go over to Kyle’s place for a while where the intellectual integrity is higher and the double standards are lower.
And where the host doesn’t play enabler.
FrankLeeDarling
August 24th, 2011
4:48 pm
If republicans are so enamored of these politicians because of their christian creds,then why do they not choose one more like Jesus,you know,feed the hungry heal the sick.
Jefferson
August 24th, 2011
4:49 pm
The GOP sure has a way of showing their lack of credibility, when this is the best they can come up with to compete with the President of the United States of America.
Joe Mama
August 24th, 2011
4:49 pm
Dave R — “Respect is EARNED, Jay.”
“It is earned by using at least a modicum of objectivity when responding to posts. It is earned when not using preconceived notions when attempting to classify someone’s beliefs into one camp or another without knowing a damned thing about that person. It is earned by not wordsmithing, parsing or projecting someone’s thoughts in order to try to make an opposing argument.”
Physician, heal THYSELF.
Gunny Highway
August 24th, 2011
4:49 pm
The only good Muslim terrorist is a dead Muslim terrorist
Paul
August 24th, 2011
4:49 pm
n 4:44
Which is why he won’t make it out of the Republican primary.
Granny Godzilla
I’m with you on that. DVR’s set to record it whenever his name pops up.
Mr. Snarky
August 24th, 2011
4:49 pm
Jay, what kind of Audi did your mother have?
Don
August 24th, 2011
4:50 pm
Perry not only bothers the left but he bothers the right, middle, north and south. Perry was good at one thing, failing. Perry can even fail in classes with teachers that only give As. How does a guy get a C in P.E.? Tea Party apparently stands for the Party of Stupid.
Granny Godzilla
August 24th, 2011
4:50 pm
Hey….
I just flew in from Glenn Becks rally and boy are my arms tired!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 24th, 2011
4:50 pm
Doom…you’re right. Neither McCain or Graham are “chickenhawks”…. Foolish old men would have been a much better term along with chickenshytes for attacking the President on the issue
josef
August 24th, 2011
4:51 pm
PAUL
Did you find out who namjacked you last p.m.?
pogo
August 24th, 2011
4:51 pm
We need to have a review of your call on me Thulsa! You must admit it is startling that everytime they take a picture of Ms. Obama with people standing around of just how large she looks. Besides, she wants everyone (except herself and her husband) to give up some of the greater pleasures in life (cheesburgers and french fries) while she feasts on extremely fatty entries at every one of the numerous Whitehouse dinners she and her husband put on. Shouldn’t she lead by example? Of course, I don’t blame her. Her and husbands tenure at the Whitehouse is most probably going to be pretty short so she better eat well at the taxpayers expense while she can.
Thulsa Doom
August 24th, 2011
4:52 pm
josef,
I’ll be sure to send some hate your way if it’ll make you feel better.
Seriously, I have strong opinions but at the same time I do try to be fair on some things and not be crazy over the top. On Michelle Obama it does bother me some of the criticism of her from cons and especially on her healthy food initiative. What in the hell could be wrong with promoting healthy food? What in the Freak is wrong with that? I mean for Pete’s sake we’ve got more fat kids running around than anyone in the world, she makes healthy food her crusade( all first lady’s have a crusade of some sort) and she gets flak for encouraging healthy eating. Its kinda ridicerlous and frankly I just don’t understand that kind of unwarranted criticism. Like you I didn’t like her at first either but her actions have won me over and the sneakers at the soup kitchen she gets a mulligan.
@@
August 24th, 2011
4:53 pm
In math class, that’s called “canceling” or reduction…………….and that is why the independents usually make the difference………….swing vote if you will.
As it stands now, independents are GALLUPING over to Romney and/or Perry over Obama. Paul & Bachmann? Not so much.
I’ve been saying it all along…Palin won’t enter the race. She’s warming up to several of the candidates. She carries influence and she’ll swing it. Her intention is to influence policy, not make it.
josef
August 24th, 2011
4:53 pm
Gunny
Well, ain’t you just the living embodienment of American tolerance… ?
Granny Godzilla
August 24th, 2011
4:54 pm
pogo
she does lead by example.
you can have burgers and fries….but you must keep moving.
you apparently are on a diet of sour grapes.
Jefferson
August 24th, 2011
4:54 pm
Its a tie now, better hope for bad times unamericans.
Jay
August 24th, 2011
4:55 pm
MY mom in an Audi?
She’s probably been in one or two. But I’d bet $50 she’s never driven anything that expensive.
Joe Mama
August 24th, 2011
4:55 pm
Doom — “John McCain is a chickenhawk? A man who flew combat missions over North Vietnam and spent 7 years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton is a chickenhawk?”
I don’t often agree with you, but I have to agree with this. John McCain is no chickenhawk. He hasn’t exactly been a friend to veterans (check his voting record), which is something I just can’t understand, but he’s no chickenhawk IMO.
AmVet
August 24th, 2011
4:55 pm
n, agreed. Huntsman seems much less rabid and much more reasonable and intelligent than the other candidates. He also seems open to compromise – the basis of effective governance.
Ergo, he is completely unelectable because the out of control GOP machinery tolerates no such characteristics…
Granny Godzilla
August 24th, 2011
4:55 pm
josef
mostly, but I do not nor am I required to tolerate fools.
(i am required to feed them when their hungry and that stuff…hungry?)
josef
August 24th, 2011
4:58 pm
Thulsa…
Well, you know $400 sneakers are de riguer for the homeless and welfare recipients…she just wanted to fit in!
And what gets me with those attacking her on her food crusade…she’s made it clear that good nutrition and occasional splurges into “the good stuff” are not mutually exclusive…the place she truly won me over was when she chose Huckabee’s show to make her announcement…one of those rare moments these last few years where a lady and a gentleman from opposite ends of the political spectrum could meet in common cause, and good one it is, the health and well being of our future…
Dusty
August 24th, 2011
4:59 pm
BOOKMAN,
Your partiality is showing so plainly. Name calling is rampant here and Dave R. is just one among many. He’s no worse than many others yet you watch him like a hawk.
You have suppressed a few nut case libs but you left too many behind.
Yeah, I know. It’s a tough job but somebody’s got to do it.
@@
August 24th, 2011
5:00 pm
I guess I’ll follow Dave over to Kyle’s. Cyber stalking, regardless of the circumstances is no fun. I know from personal experience.
Jay
August 24th, 2011
5:00 pm
Yes Dusty, I’m sure you are a totally impartial judge of my partiality….
josef
August 24th, 2011
5:00 pm
GRANNY
Knee jerk!
That was to the guy who signed off as “Gunny Highway!” But it DID look like Granny at first glance…
jconservative
August 24th, 2011
5:02 pm
Actually the “left” relishes the thought of Perry as the Republican nominee.
Everyone knows Perry will carry 46% of the electoral vote in the 2012 election if he is the nominee. No one on the left or right believes Perry will carry 51% of the electoral votes. Everyone on the left and right believes Romney can carry 51% of the electoral vote.
The White House started campaigning against Romney this past March. That is the man they fear.
Thulsa Doom
August 24th, 2011
5:02 pm
pogo,
She is a little chunky but sheesh. How many woman in their mid 40s aren’t a little wide in the butt or a little bit of thunder thighs. Hillary, Bush’s wife was lovely in the face but you could tell you had some buttage. I have seen some things where she has been seen I think picking up cheeseburgers and such while pushing her healthy food initiative. It doesn’t look great but how do you and I know that its not that one or 2 meals a week where they indulged. I stay active, work out every day, and am about to hit the gym shortly. And yes I love a damn big mac once every couple months. Love the damn things. But the rest of the time I try to eat pretty healthily.
Even if it looks a little hypocritical here and there when she does have a big mac I see nothing wrong with the healthy food initiative. And last I have a good number of African American clients who suffer from hypertension and especially diabetes which are much more chronic in the black community. I think her message is especially important for the black community because of who she is given the stats on hypertension and diabetes.
Bottom line is that her message can’t hurt even if she looks hypocritical every once in awhile with a cheeseburger. It can only help us as a nation considering how many fat kids we got running around.
josef
August 24th, 2011
5:03 pm
JAY
D*mn, Chile, you been chewin’ on barbed wire today? You worse than I was last night…
Granny Godzilla
August 24th, 2011
5:05 pm
josef
my apologies….gunny not granny…
sometimes I am a putz
Jm
August 24th, 2011
5:05 pm
Josef 4:39 no kidding? Wow. Though it doesn’t come as a huge surprise
Tommy Maddox
August 24th, 2011
5:06 pm
The British Press is hammering the Mrs. and her spending habits.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029615/Michelle-Obama-accused-spending-10m-public-money-vacations.html
Logical Dude
August 24th, 2011
5:06 pm
josef “PAUL,Did you find out who namjacked you last p.m.?”
If nobody comes forward, I’ll guess it was a newbie named. . . “Paul”
It’s a fairly common name in this part of the world.
But only Jay (or his IT folks) can verify.
But I still would guess a newbie.
Jefferson
August 24th, 2011
5:06 pm
Roll up the pants at the cub scout’s place, its gonna be deep.
Joe the Plutocrat
August 24th, 2011
5:06 pm
oh no, not the British press!
Jay
August 24th, 2011
5:07 pm
It’s not the chewing on barbed wire, or even the swallowing of barbed wire, that gets you, Josef.
It’s what comes next.
Mighty Righty
August 24th, 2011
5:07 pm
You can add Bachmann’s and Paul’s numbers to Perry’s to get a feel for Perry’s strength. As far as Jay wishfully thinking Perry will do something stupid, it is far more likely Obama will out stupid Perry. An example was just this past weekend when Obama demonstrated is contempt for our laws with his amnesty for illegals. Also, I don’t expect Perry to visit 57 states like Obama may. You Dem’s will have plenty to hide just as you did in ‘08 with the gaffe in chief. Stupid is as stupid does.
Jay
August 24th, 2011
5:08 pm
Logical, from what I could tell, that “Paul” was a newbie. It was the only time he’s tried to post.
Thulsa Doom
August 24th, 2011
5:09 pm
josef,
I’ll be on a personal basis that Huckabee and Michelle Obama got along swimmingly well. Complete opposites of the ideological spectrum but a gentleman and a gentlelady nonetheless.
Joe Mama,
Well at least we agree on McCain not being a chickenhawk. On everything else I’m not a McCain fan though I suspect for wholly different reasons then yourself. I don’t think he has a lot of fans on either side but he does have admirers of his service on both sides.
Dusty
August 24th, 2011
5:09 pm
Frank Lee Darling,
I see your attack on Christians. Jesus did not tell the Roman government to feed the poor and hungry. He reminded each Christian of their personal duty to do all they can for those in need, That is what they do. That is also why you see the greatest charity work in the world being led by churches and charitable organizations.
pogo
August 24th, 2011
5:10 pm
No Granny, no sour grapes for me. Those need to be stockpiled for you progressives for next year. I don’t take any of this that seriously and I don’t live for politics. Judging from the contrite and vitriolic posts you display here everyday one does have to wonder if you yourself don’t feel a real “change” coming though. Not the “made for TV kind” we had in 2008. Can you feel it Granny?? You should.
Logical Dude
August 24th, 2011
5:11 pm
Jay says “from what I could tell, that “Paul” was a newbie”
well, there ya go!
Thulsa Doom
August 24th, 2011
5:13 pm
I’ll see you guys later. Josef, I’ll be back to tick you off in some sort of fashion- I can’t be agreeing with you too much. I got to keep my waning con street cred ya know.
Joe Mama
August 24th, 2011
5:13 pm
Doom — “Well at least we agree on McCain not being a chickenhawk. On everything else I’m not a McCain fan though I suspect for wholly different reasons then yourself. I don’t think he has a lot of fans on either side but he does have admirers of his service on both sides.”
I try not to diss the service of any veteran, whether I like them or not. It irked me something fierce during the 2004 campaign when Bush supporters were dissing Gore’s Army service (he actually deployed to Vietnam).
Whether you like a man or not, if he served in the military, IMO you shouldn’t slag on his service. Find something else to diss him about.
Joe the Plutocrat
August 24th, 2011
5:16 pm
Mighty Righty, I think we need to come to agreement on “stupid”. Obama will certainly do things that are ill-advised within the scope of policy, but Perry’s gaffes are more of the intellect (lack thereof) variety. I think most would give Perry high marks as a smarmy, duplicitous, say one thing/do another thing politician.
Dusty
August 24th, 2011
5:16 pm
Well, Bookman, it takes one to know one. I guess that is what you mean. But you have me beat by several points on partiality.. In fact, you are way way ahead of me. .
Jefferson
August 24th, 2011
5:16 pm
McCain the Mav, I liked better than McCain the GOP nominee. Too much butt kissin’ messed him up. He’s no chickenhawk for sure.
Joe Mama
August 24th, 2011
5:17 pm
Correction to above — in the 2000 campaign; that’s when Gore’s service was slagged on. It was John Kerry whose service got dissed in 2004.
pogo
August 24th, 2011
5:17 pm
I wasn’t talking about chunky Thulsa. I think overweight people are demonized way too much in this country already and they have been relegated to that unfortunate label of being one of the few groups of people that it is still acceptable to make jokes about. Though it is hypocritical for her be talking about people cutting out fatty foods meanwhile eating them everytime she gets a chance. With Michelle it is bone structure and her overwhelming height. The pictures of her in England made all of England look like Hobbits!
Mighty Righty
August 24th, 2011
5:20 pm
Joe the Plutocrat
August 24th, 2011
5:16 pm
Obama is honest and always does what he says he will? You sir are dangerously out of touch with reality.
josef
August 24th, 2011
5:20 pm
JAY
That’s TOO good! Can I add it to my repretoire! Promise I’ll give you credit!!!
gRAnny…
Me, too! Unmentionable says it’s my jerking knee that let’s him know I’m alive…
Jm
If you ever get the chance, read up on the Minis family…Phillip was a Revolutionary War hero, but it’s his Mama, Abigail…
http://www.sip.armstrong.edu/warlick/minis.rtf.
Logical Dude
August 24th, 2011
5:21 pm
pogo: look like Hobbits
There people go making comments and comparisons to Hobbits!
Can’t wait for the movie to come out!
err.. movie(s)
Joe Mama
August 24th, 2011
5:23 pm
pogo — “The pictures of her in England made all of England look like Hobbits!”
Those hobbits burned down my friend’s shop in Croydon a couple of weeks ago.
Logical Dude
August 24th, 2011
5:26 pm
Anyone know what Perry’s wife looks like?
No?
Good! Because it doesn’t MATTER AT ALL. it’s about the candidate, their platforms, and their actions. The size, shape, color of the wife should not be in consideration at all. Now if there are actions by the wife that put the candidate in a questionable position, then maybe it’s important.
Otherwise, it’s just gossip. . and you KNOW how I hate gossip! (you don’t? oh. . . that’s right, I don’t post that much here)
pogo
August 24th, 2011
5:26 pm
Biden is a complete moron. And the person who selected him as vice-president (Obama) is going to suffer politically because of his selection of Biden (as well he should). Obama has to know that Biden is making him look very, very bad in the worlds and this nations eyes. One can only laugh off so much idiocy as “old Joe being old Joe” before the man starts to make the whole camp look stupid. And at this point, the whole camp, from the Press-Secretary right on up looks damned stupid.
Joe Mama
August 24th, 2011
5:27 pm
pogo — “And at this point, the whole camp, from the Press-Secretary right on up looks damned stupid.”
Did your ice cream fall off the cone or something?
Paul
August 24th, 2011
5:30 pm
Jay
Thanks for the information. When it had happened in the past remarks were reasonable. This time it was short insults, but I was giving him the benefit of the doubt by asking if he was new. No response, just another insult, then nothing. But thank again for running down these things. They’re unfortunate.
Uncle Jed
August 24th, 2011
5:32 pm
So patience, Mitt, patience. Be the Audi-driving tortoise, not the Texas jackrabbit.
+++++++++++++++
Jay, why do you really give a hoot about the eventual Republican nominee?
While waiting to hear back from you I can only wonder and surmise that either you have lost hope and faith in Obama and feel Romney is the best choice for you, or, you feel that Perry has the better chance of beating Obama and prefer Romney as the nominee, or, you feel the advice will result in the most posts to the blog.
Hmmmmm.
Dusty
August 24th, 2011
5:32 pm
Well,, not much going on here at the boy’s club.. I’d better get busy. Don’t forget tonight at 8:05 the BRAVES are playing. Got to beat those Cubs AGAIN.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 24th, 2011
5:34 pm
I would have strongly considered voting for McCain the real maverick myself…too bad that man would be embarrassed by the current McCain.
Jay
August 24th, 2011
5:35 pm
Jed, can I have an Option D?
Because Romney would make a competent president, even if I wouldn’t vote for him against Obama, and the prospect of Perry as president frightens me as an American?
Bruno
August 24th, 2011
5:36 pm
josef–I’ve been working hard today to confirm whether RC is a true Redneck or not. Let’s see if he can answer these questions:
(1) Which of these cars will rust out first when placed on blocks in your front yard??
(a) ‘65 Ford Fairlane
(b) ‘69 Chevrolet Chevelle
(c) ‘64 Pontiac GTO
(2) Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10 lb possum.
(3) A woodcutter has a chain saw that operates at 2700 rpm. The density of the pine trees in the plot to harvested is 470 per acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. How many Budweisers will be drunk before the trees are cut down??
(4) If your uncle builds a still that produces 20 gallons of shine per hour, how many car radiators are required to condense the product??
Left wing management
August 24th, 2011
5:40 pm
So patience, Mitt, patience. Be the Audi-driving tortoise, not the Texas jackrabbit.
I completely agree, and wish him well. He’s just the scumbag we need. And there’s no question we need one, it’s just the one currently in there really is such a fraud and a swish. I have no patience for him.
Real American
August 24th, 2011
5:41 pm
Obama is going to beat either one of these clowns, wait till the idiots on the right get their man, Obama is going to expolit both of these hypocrites records.
National Security is a lock for President Obama, the hypocrites on the right do not want to give him credit for keeping us safe the last 3 years, the first 3 years under bush 3,000 Americans Ny dead.
President Obama took care of the Lib, maybe if Bush had took Obama play book and let our allies help with Irag we would not have that many dead soliders.
Do we really want another hypocrite acting redneck from Tex as the the President?
md
August 24th, 2011
5:41 pm
“and feel Romney is the best choice for you,”
That crossed my mind after reading that passage as well………….
Bruno
August 24th, 2011
5:42 pm
Because Romney would make a competent president, even if I wouldn’t vote for him against Obama, and the prospect of Perry as president frightens me as an American?
Putting your party loyalty aside, can you at least admit that the pickins are very slim on both sides of the political aisle for 2012, Jay?? I’d almost prefer Obama to win than Romney, only because their policies are likely going to be the same. I’d rather the Democrats get the black eye for the resulting failure.
Jm
August 24th, 2011
5:43 pm
Jay 5:35 Fair enough reason
Left wing management
August 24th, 2011
5:44 pm
By the way, in calling Obama a “swish” I mean to point out his utter cravenness and worse than worthlessness as a leader, not anything untoward about his sexuality of course.
There’s no question we need a scumbag in the highest office right now, but that’s because lacking a genuine alternative from a progressive or leftist front, we can do no better.
Better to give the people the naked face of raw cynical power and the black slime ooze of capitalist exploitation than an attempt to put a nice face on that same scum, as the pitiful Obama experiment in hope attempts to do. And we see where that’s getting us — the worst of both worlds.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 24th, 2011
5:44 pm
Former Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams is running for Congress on a staunchly anti-Obama, anti-government platform. He recently came out with a new video ad called “The Donkey Whisperer” that’s raising a lot of eyebrows for conflating Democrats with welfare recipients and comparing them to donkeys.
In the video, Williams is interacting with donkeys and chastises them with words like, “All these guys want is more shelter, more feed. [...] You want a handout.” At one point Williams says, “They keep thinking that Obama is going to take care of them, Obama is going to feed them.” “These donkeys don’t live in the United States of France,” he exclaims, “they live in the United States of America!”
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Wonder how much this “farmer/rancher” is getting in farm subsidies. Funny how these “donkeys” are working for him and he considers their “pay” in the form of food and shelter for domesticated working animals to be handouts.
Georgian livin' in Texas
August 24th, 2011
5:48 pm
If Rick Perry gets elected President, any sane person will pack up and leave the U.S. He is all style and no substance. He is completely controlled by big business, and has virtually, single-handedly, destroyed the Texas school system. He cares nothing about massive pollution as long as he, and his chronies are getting their donations, and this is just a few of his faults.
Uncle Jed
August 24th, 2011
5:49 pm
Jed, can I have an Option D?
Yep, of course, and that is fair enough.
Would I be correct in the assumption that you feel Obama is notably vulnerable at this point in the process?
Jm
August 24th, 2011
5:49 pm
Jay just out of curiosity why do u think Romney is competent?
I’m not saying u r wrong, just curious for your reasons
Jm
August 24th, 2011
5:51 pm
Bruno 5:36 that is awesome
Uncle Jed
August 24th, 2011
5:58 pm
(4) If your uncle builds a still that produces 20 gallons of shine per hour, how many car radiators are required to condense the product??
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I don’t know about his uncle, but this Uncle is envious of his distilling prowess. I actually have a very fine still; all copper; fairly large; and made over in Dawson County. The sucker has a double jacketed water-cooled condensation vessle. I haven’t had time to mess (or mash) with it yet, but I plan to set ‘er up down by the branch and see what I can produce. I will stick to small batches and not offer it for sale (in case that guvmit man is on here). Now bartering is a different story. Your corn for my rhumatism tonic
Any recipes or input would be welcome.
Jay
August 24th, 2011
6:00 pm
jm, i’ve interviewed him for an hour or so. Unlike a lot of candidates, he could talk about policy on the second, third or fourth levels. By that I mean you could ask about what he thought about an issue, and he’d tell you. Then you could ask him something about his response, and he could respond to that as well, and then respond to a question about the response.
It wasn’t talking points. He had educated himself and thought about things. On some issues, he ended up in a different place than I did, which is fine. I could at least trace the logical, factual path by which he arrived there.
My problem with him vs. Obama is that because he is reliant on his party for support, he has to pretend to believe and think things he doesn’t think or believe. And that won’t cease should he be elected.
Every politician has to do that to a degree. But I can’t recall a politician who has been forced to take it as far as Romney has.
Left wing management
August 24th, 2011
6:01 pm
Georgian:”Perry gets elected President, any sane person will pack up and leave the U.S. He is all style and no substance. He is completely controlled by big business, and has virtually, single-handedly, destroyed the Texas school system. He cares nothing about massive pollution as long as he, and his chronies are getting their donations …”
The only difference between Perry and Romney — and it’s a potentially gigantic difference — is that between the worst kind of cynical cronyism with a veneer of modesty (Romney) and that same cronyism without a shred of modesty (Perry). Perry all but concedes he’s a crook, like some sleazy country Bible thumping con artist.
Romney on the other hand has the potential to be a GOP version of Obama — utterly unsatisfying to the partisans on his side and utterly ineffective as a defender of capitalism (despite tactical successes). But he might be just the right caretaker for a crisis shaken US capitalism that has a depression on its hands.