Category: Republicans

Special Comment: Explaining my lack of writing

I do not know quite how to start this, so I will just write. People like me, who have Attention Deficit Disorder, tend to shun things that disinterest them. Right now politics is very high on that list. My friends, I am just going to be brutally honest. I am not impressed at all, with any of these candidates. They might have some honest intentions, but right now, the Republican Party looks like a silly freak show.

Honestly, does the Republican National Committee believe that any of these people have a snowballs chance in hell of beating the current President? Let me be blunt, No, none of them do, at all. I mean, look at what we have here; we have a wide-eyed girl from Minnesota, who looks like an escapee from a shrieking harpy PTA club. We have a flip-flopping Mormon Moron, who wrote the foundation for Obamacare. We have a one-man minstrel show, whom, on his good days; makes the entire black race look like the buffoons that people like David Duke say that they actually are. You have a serial philanderer, who, like the 43 President of the United States, wants to keep America at perpetual state of war. You have a Roman Catholic, who is an utter bigot and a terminal a-hole, which should not even be in politics, much less a Father to those children that he has. You also have a senile old isolationist, who also happens to be an anti-Semite and a racist bigot.

Oh, there are others too; but these are the ones, that anyone remotely gives a remote care about; and frankly, they all stink. Folks, if this is the best that the Republican Party can do, we as a nation are freaking screwed. What will happen is this; the GOP will select the most moderate candidate that they can pick; most likely Romney, and that person will run against Obama and lose, just as McCain did. The Republican Party and the Conservatives who vote for that party have been pining for a Ronald Reagan type and sorry; there just is not one in this fold at all.

Ronald Reagan is dead, his type of Conservatism that lead the GOP to victory in the 1980’s is dead and is now replaced with this idiot tripe that the Republican Party is now pimping out to its people as Conservatism. Ronald Reagan struck the right balance and set the right tone; and was able to win his own base and the moderates in the Democratic Party and much of the independents as well. Aside from the lone senile isolationist, the rest of these idiots who are running are running on a divisive platform that will do nothing to unite the Country, and are running on a “God Mandate” political agenda. I am a Christian and I am a Conservative, but these people who seem to believe that they are on a mission from their supposed gods to defeat the President of the United States in an election worry me very much so. Religion and politics just do not mix, and the very wrong-headed “God and Country” movement of the 1980’s was living proof of that.

Frankly, folks, I am just darned bored of it all; politics, especially on the right, has turned into a freak show anymore and I just really am not into it anymore.

By the way —-Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families, from mine.

Gingrich sails into lead

Via PPP:

Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in PPP’s national polling.  He’s at 28% to 25% for Herman Cain and 18% for Mitt Romney.  The rest of the Republican field is increasingly looking like a bunch of also rans: Rick Perry is at 6%, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5%, Jon Huntsman at 3%, and Gary Johnson and Rick Santorum each at 1%.

Compared to a month ago Gingrich is up 13 points, while Cain has dropped by 5 points and Romney has gone down by 4.  Although a fair amount of skepticism remains about the recent allegations against Cain there is no doubt they are taking a toll on his image- his net favorability is down 25 points over the last month from +51 (66/15) to only +26 (57/31). What is perhaps a little more surprising is that Romney’s favorability is at a 6 month low in our polling too with only 48% of voters seeing him favorably to 39% with a negative opinion.
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Gingrich’s lead caps an amazing comeback he’s made over the last 5 months.  In June his favorability nationally with Republican voters plummeted all the way to 36/49. Now he’s at 68/23, representing a 58 point improvement in his spread since then. As recently as August Gingrich was mired in single digits at 7%, and even in September he was at just 10%.  He’s climbed 18 points in less than 2 months.

There’s reason to think that if Cain continues to fade, Gingrich will continue to gain.  Among Cain’s supporters 73% have a favorable opinion of Gingrich to only 21% with a negative one. That compares to a 33/55 spread for Romney with Cain voters and a 32/53 one for Perry.  They like Gingrich a whole lot more than they do the other serious candidates in the race.

Which means, I will be voting libertarian. Sorry, I am not voting for that creep; period, end of story. 

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Herman Cain whiffs badly…

I’m with Pam here, this just looks bad.

Via JSonline:

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He just isn’t ready. He just does not have the mental ability to be a President.

Thanks for trying Herman; but we need someone who’s a bit more on the ball.

Others: Ace of Spades HQ, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, National Review, The PJ Tatler, The Page and The Right Scoop

Fifth woman now accusing Cain of bad behavior

Remember earlier, when I said this whole thing just went Kookie with Herman Cain?

Forget that, it’s well beyond that now; it’s serious. This guy should not be nowhere near any place that has any sort of a female staff.

The Washington Examiner reports: (H/T HotAir Headlines)

A former employee of the United States Agency for International Development says Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain asked her to help arrange a dinner date for him with a female audience member following a speech he delivered nine years ago.

Donna Donella, 40, of Arlington, said the USAID paid Cain to deliver a speech to businessmen and women in Egypt in 2002, during which an Egyptian businesswoman in her 30s asked Cain a question.

“And after the seminar was over,” Donella told The Washington Examiner, “Cain came over to me and a colleague and said, ‘Could you put me in touch with that lovely young lady who asked the question, so I can give her a more thorough answer over dinner?'”

Donella, who no longer works for USAID, said they were suspicious of Cain’s motives and declined to set up the date. Cain responded, “Then you and I can have dinner.” That’s when two female colleagues intervened and suggested they all go to dinner together, Donella said.

Cain exhibited no inappropriate sexual behavior during the dinner, though he did order two $400 bottles of wine and stuck the women with the bill, she said.

The next time the women heard from Cain was Christmas, when he sent them his gospel CD.

Donella said she felt it was important to describe her encounter with Cain after hearing more serious allegations of sexual harassment brought by other women.

“I couldn’t swear that he had some untoward intentions, but we all thought his tone was suspect and we didn’t feel comfortable putting him in touch with that woman,” Donella recalled.

I am beginning to believe that Mr. Cain needs to do something here and quick; or he simply needs to stop and go home. This not only looks bad for him; but it is really hurting the image of the Republican Party. I liked this man, when he first started; but I will be the first to tell you, I am having serious doubts about him now. I will also say this. I have seen Herman Cain’s reaction to these stories so far; and I am not sure I like his attitude about them.

I also happen to agree with Tim Carney, we should not play the race on Herman Cain at all; because that is what the left wants; if Herman Cain cannot defend himself or refuses to do so and gives the impression that he is being picked on, because he is black —- then he needs to get out of the race, period, end of story. —- that is what would happened to someone if they were white, so why should not Herman Cain be able to run by the rules? Herman Cain should not be treated any differently than anyone else, just because he is black and Conservative. Although, between you and me, Herman Cain’s Conservatism, especially along the social line, is in serious question.

Is there anymore proof needed that President Obama is NOT a Christian?

I mean, good grief; how much more plainer should he get about it?

From The Hill:

President Obama invoked God on Wednesday as he criticized Congress for voting on commemorative coins and a resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the national motto in all public buildings, public schools and other government institutions.

“That’s not putting people back to work,” Obama said. “I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people to work.” 

Obama called on Congress to approve his jobs package.

“There’s no excuse for 100 percent of Washington Republicans to say no,” Obama said. “That means Republicans in Washington are out of touch with Republican voters.”

Obama continued: “The American people are with me on this.”

The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a measure reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the national motto. The resolution was supported by all House Democratic leaders, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.). It attracted only nine “no” votes, eight from Democrats. The only Republican who opposed it was freshman Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.). Two Democrats, Reps. Keith Ellison (Minn.) and Mel Watt (N.C.), voted “present.”

Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), the sponsor of the measure, said the resolution is necessary to remind Obama and other public officials who forget the motto, whether intentionally or not.

“Unfortunately, there are a number of public officials who forget what the national motto is, whether intentionally or unintentionally,” Forbes said Tuesday. “There are those who become confused as to whether or not it can still be placed on our buildings, whether it can be placed in our school classrooms.”

Anyone who speaks of the Almighty God in this manner, has zero business being in the White House. Remember this come the 2012 election.

On Herman Cain

To tell you all the truth, I personally think Herman Cain is toast. The way he is blaming everyone else, and not owning up to the fact that some people might have been troubled by his behavior; is a bit concerning to me. What also gets me, is he is having a “MoneyBomb.” How convenient.

I also agree that it is not racism, we do deserve to know everything that there is to know about the man. It appears that I am not the only one who feels it is time to cut bait with the man either. At first, I believed it was just people who didn’t want a black man in the white house again. But it appears that it is much more than that.

I am just glad to see this came out in the primary and not in the general election.

Can't say that I disagree with that

[podcast]http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/100114%20Angle%20on%20Lars%20Larson%20-%20Second%20Amendment%20Remedies.mp3[/podcast]

Transcript:

You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.

I hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

(Via The Plum Line)