Romney’s victories much-needed on several counts
Mitt Romney won Arizona easily and took his native Michigan by just three percentage points, but in the end he did take it. That’s good news for the Romney campaign, good news for the Republican Party and good news for the United States of America.
It helps no one to have one of our major political parties take a headlong plunge into fanaticism and willful ignorance. That’s what the nomination of either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum would represent. And while Romney’s pandering makes him a less than stalwart champion against those tendencies, under the circumstances he’ll have to do.
David Brooks described the GOP nominating process well the other day, writing:
” … we’ve had a primary campaign that isn’t really an argument about issues. It’s a series of heresy trials in which each of the candidates accuses the others of tribal impurity. Two kinds of candidates emerge from this process: first, those who are forceful but outside the mainstream; second, those who started out mainstream but look weak and unprincipled because they have spent so much time genuflecting before those who despise them.”
Romney is clearly the second type of candidate. And the sad thing is, should the former Massachusetts governor go on to win the nomination but lose the general election, his defeat will be cited by many as confirmation that the Republican Party loses when it chooses moderation. What ought to serve as a warning sign about the political perils of extremism will instead be interpreted as a validation of extremism.
Over at Redstate.com, conservatives are making that argument already, predicting a Romney loss this fall and taking solace that “at least we can be rid of him and, hopefully, his most ardent cheerleaders on November 7th.”
Yesterday, Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine announced her retirement, stripping the GOP and the country of one of the last remaining moderate voices in the party, a voice that in truth had already been all but silenced. Robert Bennett of Utah has already been purged. Another of the endangered, Republican icon Richard Lugar, is fighting for his political life in Indiana against a primary challenge. As John Danforth, a former senator and himself a symbol of a wiser, saner GOP, warned last fall:
“If Dick Lugar, having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person in the Senate and the leading authority on foreign policy, is seriously challenged by anybody in the Republican Party, we have gone so far overboard that we are beyond redemption.”
The forces within the party that feed on RINO meat have gotten so desperate for prey that they have turned on Orrin Hatch of Utah, a man whose conservative credentials were once considered impeccable. At this point, Hatch’s future rides on the outcome of party caucuses on March 15, and may have to survive a primary challenge after that.
It’s hard to know where all this leads, but the sense continues to grow that we’re building toward something noted in the history books as an important political turning point. I do know that when the circus comes to town on March 6, the Georgia primary, I’m picking up a Republican ballot and voting for MItt.
In your heart, you know that’s right.
– Jay Bookman
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Willydoit?
February 29th, 2012
8:40 am
“I a proud of the people in Mich who voted against Mitt, this goes to show the people in the north vote for their interest not like the southern poor whites in the south who vote on race, look at Georgia last in education, top 3 in poverty and the poor whites still run and vote for Rep who dont care if they live or die, go figure””’”
Unlike the black people that voted for and will vote again for Obama because he’s….I don’t know….Blackish???
Doggone/GA
February 29th, 2012
8:41 am
“will vote again for Obama because he’s….I don’t know….Blackish???”
Oh sure, just like they voted for all those previous candidates…because they were…I don’t know…whitish?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
February 29th, 2012
8:42 am
I understand that RINO tastes like chicken.
Or was that chicken hawk?
Joseph
February 29th, 2012
8:42 am
We’ve already tried fanaticism and willful ignorance with Obama. Now we need a real leader in the Whitehouse… Maybe you lefty fruitloops will get off the Santorum bashing now…
Willydoit?
February 29th, 2012
8:43 am
“Oh sure, just like they voted for all those previous candidates…because they were…I don’t know…whitish?”
Did they have another choice at the time???
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
8:43 am
Speaking of killing and letting God sort them out…. I am sure all those death penalty fanatics are proud that Alabama is about to put to death a man after refusing to test the DNA that is part of the evidence (at no cost to the state) to determine conclusively if he is truly guilty. Apparently it is better to kill the man and save the “process” than to permit DNA evidence to possibly show his innocence.
But hey, remember how life is sacred! That is why Alabama has also toyed with the vaginal probe rape of its women at the same time.
Doggone/GA
February 29th, 2012
8:44 am
“Did they have another choice at the time???”
Maybe they felt the same this time too…no other choice.
ty webb
February 29th, 2012
8:44 am
Jay,
much better blog than the one you wrote yesterday. Romney had a good night. I believe he got more votes then he did in 2008 when he won MI.
Normal
February 29th, 2012
8:45 am
USinUK,
In all of my 65 years, I have never even been called…I wonder why that is? Heh, heh…
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
8:45 am
Keep: What case is that?
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
8:47 am
Keep – And it is stuff like that that causes me and others I know to not support the death penalty.
Normal
February 29th, 2012
8:48 am
Yep,
The death penalty is NOT pro life…just saying…
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
8:49 am
Fred, Thomas Arthur. Here is an older article from the Innocents Project
Execution schedule: http://www.thomasarthurfightforlife.com/
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
8:51 am
“You always have a choice.” – Lisa Murkowski
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
8:51 am
rational, I agree but the general conservative thought is anti-abortion, pro-death penalty.
carlosgvv
February 29th, 2012
8:51 am
Jay, if you want to do your civic duty and get on a jury, just say “I’m a 100% Rick Santorum man and he will be the best President in our history”. Attorneys love dirt dumb juriors and that should get you seated for sure.
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
8:52 am
The death penalty is NOT pro life…just saying…
The death penalty is pro-afterlife. You just gotta have faith.
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
8:53 am
carlos – Typically I don’t find your stuff amusing, but that was just down right funny.
Jay
February 29th, 2012
8:53 am
Yes Ty, he got more votes than in 2008, but his margin of victory was considerably smaller.
He beat McCain by 9 in ‘08; Santorum by 3 in 2012.
ty webb
February 29th, 2012
8:53 am
actually the death penalty is “pro-life”, 100% of the people who have been sentenced to die have not gone on to kill anyone after their sentence was carried out.
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
8:54 am
Now let’s hope Georiga will enter the modern age and go with Romney next Tuesday. There’s always hope.
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
8:56 am
“100% of the people who have been sentenced to die have not gone on to kill anyone after their sentence was carried out.”
of course, it’s also been proven that 100% of the people who have been killed by the state were INNOCENT …
but, hey, details, schmetails …
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
8:56 am
sorry – that should have read that not 100% of the people who were killed by the state were GUILTY
you know what I mean …
326 more days
February 29th, 2012
8:57 am
JM, keep the faith, hang in there, only 326 more days
Fire Eric Holder, the worst AG since Janet Reno. How can someone in his appointed position continue to lie, oops I forgot, he is a Democrat and a lawyer
larry
February 29th, 2012
8:57 am
anti-choice, pro war, pro death penalty . That sounds about right
kayaker 71
February 29th, 2012
8:57 am
You liberals are stuck on the fact that first…. you must ultimately pick our candidate and second…. that all conservatives are religions right wing fanatics. Wrong and wrong. Moderates compromise with liberals to increase our debt, make us more dependent on foreign sources of energy, keep government the same same or larger……. mostly just RINOS who are interested in keeping their job. Granted, we will vote for most anyone that the party puts up there, just to get rid of Bozo but are we happy? Decidedly no. And BTW, if you believe that I am the only one who feels this way, you might remember what happened in the midterms. Someone got “shellacked” as I recall. It ain’t over yet.
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
8:58 am
100% of the people who have been sentenced to die have not gone on to kill anyone after their sentence was carried out.
Well under that silly theory, gunning down people in a mall or school is apparently an act of pro-life.
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
8:58 am
Death penalty being discussed. How did the board get there. Have not read all the comments to find out.
Don’t see any reason Georgia should have the death penalty. Too many innocent people have be convicted and executed. We can keep people in prison and if they are found to be innocent they can be released. No excuse to do otherwise.
Other arguments are the total cost of trying a death case, and the facts that in comparing murder rates with states that don’t have the death penatly, their rates are no higher that the states that do.
Time for it to be abolished in Georgia.
Brosephus - In Full Effect!!
February 29th, 2012
8:58 am
I kept making cut after cut for a death-penalty jury that was to be sequestered, from some 400 people down to 20 or so. On the final day I had to show up suitcase packed, ready for hotel confinement. Escaped, but barely.
Maybe those lawyers were conservatives and were secretly trying to keep you from spreading liberal propaganda.
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
8:58 am
“that all conservatives are religions right wing fanatics”
exactly WRONG.
we know that not all conservatives are right-wing lunatics … just the ones running your party.
larry
February 29th, 2012
8:59 am
anti-choice, pro war, pro death penalty . That sounds about right about a party that stopped making sense a long time ago.
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
8:59 am
ty webb – And what evidence do you have that 100% of the people that were put to death by the state deserved to die? Were guilty of the crime they were convicted of? Or had even committed a crime at all?
AmVet - “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means." ~Barry Goldwater
February 29th, 2012
9:00 am
Fanatics calling other people fanatics. Priceless.
Lemme guess, all of the neo-cons here who once fiercely labeled George of the Bungle as one of their own, i.e. a TRUE, REAL conservative of the highest caliber, now all mysteriously think he was a moderate.
You people are a total joke. You get that, don’t you? The world shakes it collective head at your vacillation and identity crisis. It is just a crying shame that you are so damn deadly with other people’s kids and the lives of innocent people.
Joseph McCarthy himself, brought back from the grave, would not even appease you rabid fake conservatives anymore. And the zombie Ronnie could come back and once again oversee the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, who are not our enemy, and you still wouldn’t be satisfied.
GFYs.
Somebody mentioned rocket launchers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w
Butch Cassidy
February 29th, 2012
9:00 am
Joseph – “Now we need a real leader in the Whitehouse”
I agree, I just wish the GOP would stop wasting time with the current batch of candidates and bring one forward.
Brosephus - In Full Effect!!
February 29th, 2012
9:01 am
Unlike the black people that voted for and will vote again for Obama because he’s….I don’t know….Blackish???
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ty webb
February 29th, 2012
9:01 am
Jay,
it’s funny to hear the talking heads of both sides kind of poo poo on Romney’s campaign. When he wins by a large margin, they compare his turnout to 2008 if it’s lower, in order to diminish it. All in attempt to drag this thing out longer.
larry
February 29th, 2012
9:02 am
make us more dependent on foreign sources of energy, and yet we are drilling more oil than ever before. Wonder where that oil is going to ?
China ? It is certainly not staying here.
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:03 am
“China ? It is certainly not staying here.”
and India.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:03 am
Keep: From your second article: Judy Wickers statements disappeared from the records along with much of the physical evidence including the rape kit.
What are they going to test? Either way, the case sounds fishy. She changes her initial testimony to get out of jail? Really?
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:05 am
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
8:51 am
“You always have a choice.” – Lisa Murkowski
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You mean the beauty queen?
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Lisa-Murkowski.jpg&imgrefurl=http://theothermccain.com/2011/12/02/lisa-murkowskis-endorsement-of-mitt-romney-may-not-pack-the-heat-of-charlie-sheens-but-its-still-winning/&h=364&w=485&sz=45&tbnid=rPu7A8eVKQL4bM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLisa%2BMurkowski%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=Lisa+Murkowski&docid=6uIic6eg1Km6mM&sa=X&ei=SjBOT7LkIMyctwfE88GkCA&ved=0CFgQ9QEwBw&dur=1013
Joseph
February 29th, 2012
9:07 am
43% approval…
St Simons - we're on Island time & we Voted
February 29th, 2012
9:09 am
-weather report from Your golden isles-
those winds out of the northwest are the collective sigh of millions
(thousands) of Republicans, who narrowly staved off a broken
convention for 7 more days.
and the sun comes up on yet another day where there are more
progressives and fewer neocons, tick tock tick tock
(see, we use that “demographics” codeword too)
traffic – there’s a backup on the causeway where a seaturtle crossing
caused two hoverounds to crash & one oldsmobile to slow down.
Margaritta at eleven. (frothy) surf’s up.
Willydoit?
February 29th, 2012
9:11 am
DEATH to the moderates!!
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
9:11 am
Fred, they apparently had DNA available in 2009 to prove that another man who “confessed” to the killing from prison was NOT the perp but yes it sounds like a case in which the “evidence” may not be what the state claims it is — and yet a man may die even though there is the DNA available to show another man did not commit the crime but the State will not permit that DNA to be used to determine if the man to be put to death for the crime actually may be innocent.
AmVet - “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means." ~Barry Goldwater
February 29th, 2012
9:13 am
Approval rating of Republicans in Congress: 21%
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
9:14 am
Republicans need to get behind someone more their speed. A more aged version of Santorum perhaps. Pat Buchanan sounds like their perfect candidate. There’s an old white guy that they could surely picture themselves sitting down and drinking a beer with.
Donovan
February 29th, 2012
9:15 am
The true translation of Jay Bookman’s essay is that you liberals are scared to death of Gingrich and Santorum. Call them extremists if you will, but they spell trouble for all of you if anyone of them get the nomination. Heaven forbid if anyone of them gets to be president. It will be the end of your Americanized looting of the system.
Romney and Snowe represent the moderate push-overs that you all feel comfortable with in your world of bully pulpit politics. Gingrich and Santorum represent the lightening rod of retribution that makes you libs uneasy.
No wonder Romney is your choice of red meat to try and beat.
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
9:15 am
St. Simons – Keep rubbing it in, and I’m going to figure out where you live and crash at your house for a while. I’ve got enough projects going on just across the bridge to justify me being down there for a day or two.
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
9:15 am
You mean the beauty queen?
Actually, I meant that you always have the choice to write in anyone you want.
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:15 am
Keep up – if there ever was a perfect illustration for why I am vehemently against the death penalty … welp … your 9:11 pretty much sums it up.
Joseph
February 29th, 2012
9:17 am
AmVet – “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means.” ~Barry Goldwater
Approval rating of Republicans in Congress: 21%
The overall rating is 11%.. Using your logic that must mean dems are even lower…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html
Joseph
February 29th, 2012
9:18 am
Voters still favor repubs over dems….
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/generic_congressional_vote-2170.html
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
9:18 am
Donovan – Everyone who has a rational brain in their head is scared of Santorum and Gingrich. Not because we think they could beat Obama in the general election, but because we’re worried that they might. Those two are loons. But hey, you keep thinking what you want, and the rest of us will realize the truth.
Butch Cassidy
February 29th, 2012
9:18 am
Donovan – “you liberals are scared to death of Gingrich and Santorum.”
What’s so surprising about that? People have always been nervous when dealing with idiots and retards.
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
9:19 am
I don’t know why some Republicans are of the impression that liberals help pick their candidates. The Koch crooks and Friess and Adelson are NOT liberals. Honest.
AmVet - “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means." ~Barry Goldwater
February 29th, 2012
9:19 am
…scared to death of Gingrich and Santorum.
For the one hundred and forty third time, outrageous laughter is not synonymous with fear.
Call them extremists if you will…
Because they are. And even you fake conservatives know it.
Heaven forbid if anyone of them gets to be president. It will be the end of your Americanized looting of the system.
Riiight. Because NONE of that happened from 2000 – 2008. Or from 1980 – 1992.
You boys can run but you can’t hide. Your ideology is going the way of the archeopteryx…
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:20 am
Georgia ALMOST passes an ethics bill…………… well kinda. We won’t really need an ethics bill because they are going to post the 10 commandments everywhere………..
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-bill-calls-for-1366416.html
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
9:21 am
Fred – Yeah, that’s not going to piss anyone off. This might be the South, but things have changed a bit.
Doggone/GA
February 29th, 2012
9:21 am
” you liberals are scared to death of Gingrich and Santorum. ”
We are indeed! Scared to death we’ll die laughing!
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:21 am
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
9:15 am
You mean the beauty queen?
Actually, I meant that you always have the choice to write in anyone you want.
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Actually you meant you didn’t click the link or you would have gotten the damn joke lol.
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 29th, 2012
9:21 am
USinUK…. absolutely
Fred – Only the rape kit disappeared which pertains to the witness and her lack of veracity
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:22 am
Joseph – 9:18 – you’re the only man I know who can read a tie as “WE WIN!!!”
Joseph
February 29th, 2012
9:23 am
The latest poll is +4… Don’t look like a tie to me..
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:23 am
Fred – 9:21 – very Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond … but without the charm … (you old poo)
Brosephus Lite™- All the sarcasm, Half the words
February 29th, 2012
9:23 am
Romney and Snowe represent the moderate push-overs that you all feel comfortable with in your world of bully pulpit politics. Gingrich and Santorum represent the lightening rod of retribution that makes you libs uneasy.
Funny that Liberals will work with Moderate Republicans but Republicans won’t work with Moderate Liberals. The Far Right wants to push their beliefs onto the entire population, yet one poster accuses liberals of practicing bully pulpit politics. Georgia had two Far Right GOP candidates speak at a Southern Baptist Church in the past few weeks, so anybody with common sense knows who’s really practicing the bully pulpit politics.
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:24 am
Joseph – what part of 43-43 are you just not getting
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:25 am
“one poster accuses liberals of practicing bully pulpit politics”
my £££ is on them not understanding the meaning of the word “bully” in that phrase.
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
9:25 am
No Joseph, ONE of the last polls was +4, the average of all the polls was +0.02. Overall though, even +4 is within the margin of error for most polls like that, so yeah, it is basically a tie. Guess statistics wasn’t your strong suit. Don’t worry, it wasn’t mine either, but I’ve been able to work at it and learn a little about it since I graduated.
Brosephus Lite™- All the sarcasm, Half the words
February 29th, 2012
9:26 am
USinner
Sometimes I wonder if they even understand plain old English.
Jay
February 29th, 2012
9:26 am
“Funny that Liberals will work with Moderate Republicans but Republicans won’t work with Moderate Liberals.”
Shoot, Bro, Republicans can’t even bring themselves to work with moderate Republicans, let alone moderate liberals.
St Simons - we're on Island time & we Voted
February 29th, 2012
9:27 am
ir(R) – come on down, dude! Everything opens back up for da season
after Daytona. I’ve got a mtg in Atlanta tomorrow, perfect timing.
what’ll ya havvve! i want a nekkid dog runnin’ & a FO
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:27 am
Sorry USinUK I never saw On Golden Pond. Jane Fonda was in it.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 29th, 2012
9:27 am
I’ve lived in the same county in the metro area for 20 years, but never got called until 8 or 9 years ago. Now I’ve been called twice, and sat on a case each time. The second time I got called, I *almost* had to sit on a second case in the same week, but it appeared that the plaintiff and defendant settled (collision/whiplash kind of a case, from what we could tell).
I think it’s a worthwhile bit of public service and I don’t mind doing it at all.
AmVet - “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means." ~Barry Goldwater
February 29th, 2012
9:28 am
Nope, they are at 26%.
Obviously you cannot correlate sets of similar but different numbers to different questions.
It is the GOP members of congress who pull the overall average down.
But feel free to show me where the Democratic approval rating is lower than the GOP’s.
Good luck.
Butch Cassidy
February 29th, 2012
9:29 am
I was curious if any of the candidates have indicated how much of a tax cut we’ll need in order to invade Iran, build a moonbase, build the Keystone XL and lower the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon?
Joe Hussein Mama
February 29th, 2012
9:29 am
Donovan — “you liberals are scared to death of Gingrich and Santorum.”
I’m afraid of rabid dogs and snapping turtles, but I feel pretty safe in saying that they’re not going to get elected President, either.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:29 am
St. Simon’s: Got my islands wrong. I guess we are going to Hilton Head not St. Simons. Maybe by next vacation I’ll find someone with a condo or house on St. Simon’s that will let us stay there for free…….
Joseph
February 29th, 2012
9:30 am
AmVet – “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means.” ~Barry Goldwater
Here ya go…
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot
Joe Hussein Mama
February 29th, 2012
9:31 am
B. Cassidy — “I was curious if any of the candidates have indicated how much of a tax cut we’ll need in order to invade Iran, build a moonbase, build the Keystone XL and lower the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon?”
Why, none at all. I understand that Newt intends to sell corporate sponsorships and naming rights to fund the moonbase, and Santorum plans to ask jebus to miracle that there pipeline into existence and make gas free for everyone who lives in a red state.
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:31 am
“Sorry USinUK I never saw On Golden Pond. Jane Fonda was in it.”
as was her pop, Henry
Brosephus Lite™- All the sarcasm, Half the words
February 29th, 2012
9:32 am
Jay
True. That’s why it always amazes me that these uber-Righties try to label Demcrats as bullies.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:32 am
Butch Cassidy
February 29th, 2012
9:29 am
I was curious if any of the candidates have indicated how much of a tax cut we’ll need in order to invade Iran, build a moonbase, build the Keystone XL and lower the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon?
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Dude, freaking CLASSIC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw9AeZ6YKXs
Butch Cassidy
February 29th, 2012
9:32 am
JHM – “I understand that Newt intends to sell corporate sponsorships and naming rights to fund the moonbase, and Santorum plans to ask jebus to miracle that there pipeline into existence and make gas free for everyone who lives in a red state.”
LOL, oh good, now I feel much better about voting Republican again.
AmVet - “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means." ~Barry Goldwater
February 29th, 2012
9:32 am
Republicans’ war on common sense
(CNN) — In politics, we’re all used to seeing various “cards” being played to fire up voters and gain the upper hand.
The most popular is the “race card,” but there are others in the deck, such as the “Jesus card,” the “gender card” and the “immigration card.”
But Newt Gingrich took the card game to a whole new level this past weekend when he whipped out the hardly used, rarely seen “George Washington card.”
That’s the problem with Gingrich and the other GOP challengers. It seems they have mistaken their base’s fervor to defeat Obama for a fervor to hear them pander.
Remember Gingrich’s moon base speech while he was campaigning near NASA? Or Mitt Romney quoting “America the Beautiful” while in Iowa, saying: “If you count corn as an amber wave of grain, why, you have them right here. What a wonderful place this is.”
Seriously, who says that?
The GOP’s once credible attacks on the president’s record have morphed into an incredible attack on the country’s intelligence.
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
9:33 am
St. Simons – Coming up on 9 years in Atlanta, and I’ve never been to the Varsity. How sad is that?
TaxPayer
February 29th, 2012
9:33 am
Gee Fred, you know that old saying about if you have to explain the joke…
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
9:34 am
Served as an alternate juror a few years ago on an armed robbery case. Guy was obviously guilty but some of the juors would not convict or even discuss the facts of the case. Jurors differ greatly in their opinions as to how much proof is needed to convict. Not a perfect system by any means.
kayaker 71
February 29th, 2012
9:35 am
“Romney’s victories much-needed on several counts”….. much need by whom? Certainly not by anyone but the Republican establishment and the limousine liberals inside the beltway who are not all too happy with Romney. Santorum and Newt represent more of a threat to Liberalville but are feared by the Robert Doles and the John McCains of the system……. all of the limousine liberals out there just feel that Romney will be Bozo lite and doesn’t represent much of a threat to the status quo, that is, keeping your job appearing to represent your constituency….. you know, all of that Constitutional stuff. Most of them don’t ruffle many feathers….. that might look like they have an opinion about something. Meanwhile, the average voter is “happy” with the selection of anyone who can stop this freight train into disaster that Bozo represents. Happy and satisfied have several definitions…. depends on who you are talking to.
Jim163
February 29th, 2012
9:35 am
“Funny that Liberals will work with Moderate Republicans but Republicans won’t work with Moderate Liberals.”
So not true there has been tons of work, especially on the medicare front with Ron Wyden.
Brosephus Lite™- All the sarcasm, Half the words
February 29th, 2012
9:36 am
Butch and Fred
They’re not gonna use any tax cuts. The new GOP thing is to make federal workes pay for it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/union-lists-gop-initiatives-to-make-federal-workers-pay/2012/02/28/gIQAX1Y4gR_story.html
AmVet - “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means." ~Barry Goldwater
February 29th, 2012
9:36 am
WRONG answer to the WRONG question, Joseph.
Think about it, you’ll figure it out.
(Giveaway hint, it has something to do with approval ratings. Duh.)
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
9:37 am
(ir)Rational
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Been going to the Varsity since 1955. Love the food. Where do you go to get your supple of grease. Known fact that you need some in your diet to keep your joints moving.
Butch Cassidy
February 29th, 2012
9:37 am
kayaker 71 -”limousine liberals ”
Okay, I have to write that one down. I’ll put it in my scrapbook next to Newts accusation that New Yorkers are elites that live in high rises and ride the subway.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
9:38 am
USinUK
February 29th, 2012
9:31 am
“Sorry USinUK I never saw On Golden Pond. Jane Fonda was in it.”
as was her pop, Henry
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yup. as well as Katherine and Dabney Coleman. Unfortunately Jane was in it so I won’t watch it. You could ask my old neighbor why, but he isn’t around anymore.
http://www.b66.info/bios/TomSterling.htm
Bill Orvis White
February 29th, 2012
9:38 am
Snowe and Lugar have despicable RINO records so WE THE PEOPLE say good riddance.
Now, with the honorable Willard “Mitt” Romney’s victories, it looks like He will most likely capture the GOP nomination. With that fact clearly laid out here on this lefty blog, it is without question that there WILL BE UNITY in Governor Romney’s quest towards the Oval Office.
Do not listen to the far left liberal media which is desperately trying to tell everyone that we are not getting along in the rightful Republican Party. WRONG! WE ARE UNITED! You will see how well orgazined WE are at the convention.
Amen,
Bill
Joseph
February 29th, 2012
9:39 am
AmVet – “A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means.” ~Barry Goldwater:
I dissapprove of the way Congress is doing its job… That certainly don’t mean I would be stupid enough to vote for a dem. Voters still trust Republicans more than dems to be in control of Congress… Its that simple…. You’ll figure it out…..
(ir)Rational
February 29th, 2012
9:41 am
Oscar – Typically, I go home to get my supply of grease. Or Fellini’s. It isn’t my joints that get greased when I eat at places like that though, which is why I don’t eat at places like that very often.
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
9:41 am
I got it. Instead of the death penalty by electric chair or injection, only feed them chili dogs and fries from the Varsity. Won’t last out the year.
Paul
February 29th, 2012
9:42 am
“It’s hard to know where all this leads, but the sense continues to grow that we’re building toward something noted in the history books as an important political turning point. ”
A turning point… as in an aircraft carrier making a 180-degree turn. Takes a long time and churns a lot of water along the way. I’m still betting the “cited by many as confirmation that the Republican Party loses when it chooses moderation. What ought to serve as a warning sign about the political perils of extremism will instead be interpreted as a validation of extremism” crowd will hold influence for the next while.
“Shoot, Bro, Republicans can’t even bring themselves to work with moderate Republicans”
Because in their minds, ‘moderate Republican’ is an oxymoron, a denigration of purity. Look at this blog. Bloggers who for a long, long time have taken relatively moderate positions are assailed by the Republican Right with the ultimate epithet: ‘you’re a Democrat!! You’re a liberal!!!! You…. love Obama!!!!”
When saner minds pick up the pieces of the Party, I’m guessing one of the first things they do is support legislation for voluntary end of life in extreme medical circumstances. Watching this slow, agonizing death wreaking havoc on everything around it is almost too much to bear.
Doggone/GA
February 29th, 2012
9:43 am
“Coming up on 9 years in Atlanta, and I’ve never been to the Varsity. How sad is that?”
I can easily beat that. I’ve been here close to 45 years and never been there.