Ron Paul FTW

Ron Paul clearly won last night’s CNN Republican debate.

Watch this 28-second video to understand why. :D

YouTube Link => youtu.be/YZPexbzJUU4

If you didn’t/couldn’t see the video, here’s what’s said in it:

• John King: “Congressman Paul, you’ve questioned the Conservative.. Fiscal Conservative credentials of all these gentlemen, but particularly this week, senator Santorum. You have a new television ad that labels him a fake…. Why?”
• Ron Paul: “Because he’s a fake! :D HAHAHAHAHA”
• Crowd Cheers, Laughs, and Applauds.

The point being, instead of doing sucker moves like Romney and putting up all kinds of negative advertisements about other candidates and then playing it off IN PERSON like as if you didn’t have anything to do with it, Ron Paul not only took responsibility for his advertisement, but he backed it up, called Santorum a fake TO HIS FACE, since he was sitting right next to him, and then proceeded to explain *WHY* he’s a fake:

Ron Paul: “I find it really fascinating that, uh, when people are running for office, they’re really fiscally conservative. When they’re in office, they do something different, and then when they explain themselves, they say ‘Oh! I want to repeal that’.

So, the senator voted for “No Child Left Behind”, but, NOW, he VOTED FOR IT, but now he’s running on the effort to get rid of it.. So.. I think the record is SO BAD, for the politicians.”

My friend Charles always complains and cries when I say “Ron Paul isn’t electable.” :D

I would like to explain that what I mean is that Ron Paul is too REAL for the voters. Voters are used to politicians that lie to their faces and then do whatever they feel like doing once they get elected. Voters are used to representatives that vote AGAINST their being able to get jobs when they need jobs. Voters are used to politicians that don’t mind poisoning the water where you live so they can make money somewhere else. The problem is that they find out about these situations *AFTER* the politician is elected, not *BEFORE*. :D

So, when Ron Paul says we should bring the troops fighting unnecessary foreign wars back to the USA so they can patrol the Mexican border, That’s. What. He. Means. and people are shocked by it. Therefore, they’re more likely to vote for the candidate that lies to their face or avoids the question so that you NEVER know what he or she thinks about a topic until it’s too late.

So, when Ron Paul pays for an ad that calls Santorum a fake, that’s because That’s. What. He. Means., and he’s willing to say it to his face, and he has the evidence to back up his claims.

YouTube Link => youtu.be/cgNJBdTaKE8

Meanwhile, the other three dudes are sitting there smiling in each other’s faces like as if they haven’t made attack ads and ENTIRE FILMS trying to disrespect each other.

Ron Paul won last night’s CNN Republican debate because he demonstrated that he’s WYSIWYG.

What You See Is What You Get.

We have an authenticity problem with the other three candidates, Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney. This is why this prolonged Republican nomination process has been, and will continue to be the single most important factor leading to President Obama’s reelection…. The more the candidates speak, the more they contradict themselves, the more stupid statements they make when they go off of the script that their handlers trained them to follow, and the more they alienate just about every demographic you can think of.

Can I Get A Witness?

On top of that, they waste time “preaching to the choir”.

What I mean by that is that you have four dudes who are trying to get YOU to select THEM instead of the other three dudes on the stage, right? :D .. How come they like to say Obama’s name so much? o_O

If you’re on the stage at a REPUBLICAN DEBATE, against OTHER REPUBLICANS, you should already assume that everyone sitting there, as well as everyone that tuned in to the program (except the people that find it entertaining when you make asshats out of yourselves) is ALREADY DOWN WITH THE PROGRAM of attempting to make President Barack Obama a “One-Term President”.

Therefore, the time you spend mentioning his name… is *WASTED*, because it doesn’t cause anybody listening to you to dislike Obama, *AND* it doesn’t cause anyone who already dislikes Obama to have any more reason to nominate *YOU* than they did before you decided to hop on tha dilznick and talk about Obama some more.

In fact.. From now on, keep listening to a) the debates, and b) the candidates’ interviews on television, and c) their sound bites on the news, and you’ll notice that they say Obama’s name all the time, but they NEEEEEEEEEEEEVER mention Bush. o_O hehe What’s up with that? :D

Every time a Republican wants to mention a Republican President, they take it all the way back to Reagan. Don’t take my word for it. Just listen to them. See how many times they bring up Bush’s name… Like EITHER ONE OF THEM, because there were TWO Bush Presidents!!! :D

What’s worse is that by keeping mentioning Obama’s name, they keep reminding people that OBAMA EXISTS, which automatically calls up a direct comparison between them and him, which makes them look even worse than they already do.

Side Note: You’ll notice I didn’t say they’re pale by comparison. hehehe (boooooo, hisssssss, corny! :/) hehehe >:D

But seriously folks, :D The Republicans aren’t doing themselves any good by mentioning their opposition so much. Do you see that in commercials? Are there Hyundai commercials where they say “You shouldn’t buy a Porsche because…” No! haha They don’t want you to *REMEMBER* that Porsche EXISTS if they’re trying to get you to purchase a Hyundai.
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This 2012 Republican nomination process has gone from amusing to funny to stupid to embarrassing to pathetic.

When I first started watching this fiasco unfold, I figured the end result would be exactly what Ann Coulter said:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/vo6SOpOE788

If we replace Chris Christie’s name in her statement with “a viable Republican candidate”, we arrive at my statement at the time.. If the Republicans didn’t get a viable candidate to run, they were going to nominate Romney and they were going to lose, barely, to President Obama.

When none of the preferred Republicans were willing to run for PotUS.. Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels.. I felt that the inevitable conclusion was that Romney was going to be nominated, because as I said then and as I still maintain now, he’s the only REAL candidate that’s been involved in the process, and the rest of the guys and gals were all filler content to make it look like the Republicans ever had a choice.

The rest of the candidates were supposed to look SO BAD when compared to Romney that he was supposed to come through this process looking like someone people might take a chance on as being the leader of this entire country = the leader of the entire world.

That’s not how things went, and at this point, like I said two months ago, back in December, 2011 http://billcammack.com/2011/12/11/brokered-conventions/ the pundits are *NOW* talking about Brokered Conventions every day.

The short version of my December article that I linked is that if none of the current candidates secures the requisite number of delegates by the end of the process, the Republicans aren’t obliged to run ANY. OF. THEM! o_O

So, all this tomfoolery between Gingrich, Romney, Paul, and Santorum might get thrown out the window so the Republicans can decide at their National Convention to run Jeb Bush instead.

How interesting would that be, if all these so-called “candidates” have been tossed to the mass media to be made incessant fun of because of their own stupid statements, and then NONE OF THEM end up advancing to the general election? :D

Numbers Game

If you look at the numbers elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates, there are approximately 2,286 available delegates.

To definitely receive the nomination and not get jerked at the Convention, one of the “candidates” has to secure 1,144 delegates.

Up until now, the delegates have been assigned proportionally, meaning that if you win a state with the most votes, that doesn’t mean that you get all the delegates. It’s something to the effect of there are voting districts that award you delegates if you win them and voting districts that award you NOTHING if you win them. The important thing for these candidates to do is win the most districts that actually contain delegates.

Let’s not count everyone’s current delegates, because there are only two candidates in this race.. Romney, and Not-Romney.

Currently, according to the chart, Romney has 105 delegates, and the rest of the candidates combined have 120. This means that Romney has less than 50% of the delegates that have been awarded so far.

1,144 delegates to win is approximately 50% of the 2,286 delegates available…

You see where this is going, right? :D

If the trend continues the way it has been so far, Romney will fail to secure the nomination before the Republican Convention, and then all bets are off.

I’m not saying that anyone else will have enough delegates to win, but that they *DEFINITELY* have the potential, at this point in time, to block Romney from being nominated.

This entire time, Romney has been polling around 30%, which, again, is less than 50%. Way less.

What he’s been counting on is that eventually, we get to the winner-takes-all states, and he’s going to squeak by with a bunch of 30% wins and end up with the delegates he needs.

When I first started writing about this stuff, I agreed with that assessment. Now, I’m not so sure that’s going to work out just the way he planned it.

YouTube Link => youtu.be/sLRwdbg1xME

The reason why the different also-rans have been said to be “surging” is that Romney’s support has remained consistent, while the rest of them come from nowhere to somewhere, passing Romney in polling until we find out that they were paying women’s rent that weren’t their wives, or that they have historically, serially cheated on their wives until dumping the wife for the chick they were cheating with, or they sound like COMPLETE IDIOTS when they speak freely in debates, or whatever else has knocked off the other “candidates” so far.

The problem for Romney right now is that as the “surgers” have disappeared and eventually exited the race entirely, virtually NONE of their support has gone to Romney.. It’s all gone to the next potential Not-Romney, which is why Republicans are praying, wishing, and begging for a Brokered Convention.

The reason that’s a problem for him is that 30% will never be greater than not-30%, which is 70%.

Now, we know Ron Paul isn’t exiting the process. He’s amassing delegates so he gets to speak at the Convention and talk about liberty. He can’t be discouraged from continuing, because his goal isn’t to win, but rather to have decision-making power when the national spotlight is on Republicans.

Gingrich, on the other hand, after being *SMASHED* by Romney’s Super PAC by millions of dollars’ worth of negative ads that flooded television stations and caused his polling numbers to nosedive, could possibly exit the race… The only reason he isn’t is so that he can jerk Romney for dragging his name through the mud and try to get him back by ruining his chances to win, and that’s exactly what’s happening.

Race To The Bottom

The problem with Gingrich staying in the race is that he’s a way better speaker than Romney. Every time Romney goes off-script, and I mean AN ACTUAL SCRIPT THAT HE NEEDS TO READ, he commits some kind of political gaffe, which is actually a lack of ability to prevent his actual views about life from spilling out of his mouth.

The longer Gingrich stays in the race, the more times Romney has to freestyle. The more Romney freestyles, the worse he looks. Meanwhile, Santorum has been sitting on the sidelines, not getting dirtied by either Romney or Gingrich, but that’s about to change dramatically. Ron Paul isn’t involved because everybody knows he’s not going to be nominated, so there’s no sense in wasting money making negative attack ads about him.

The effect of this race dragging on has gone in a different direction than I predicted.

I thought that compared to all these non-candidates, Romney would eventually emerge as the guy that all Republicans need to back if they want even the slightest chance of a victory vs. President Obama.

What actually happened, though, is that because Romney couldn’t get them all to quit, because they know that Not-Romney is a way more desirable candidate than Romney, and they want to be the last Not-Romney standing.. Instead of turning the corner and being able to talk trash about Obama, Romney is *STILL* in a position where he has to talk trash about Gingrich and Santorum.

The problem with that is that in order to talk trash about Gingrich and Santorum, you have to portray yourself as even more of a jerk than they are.

This is not going to play out in Romney’s favor in the general election.

My original prediction of Romney being the only one that can win the general election for the Republicans was based on the fact that he’s the only one that’s well known for flip-flopping on issues… just about *ALL* issues.

In fact, what Republicans currently refer to as ObamaCare was originally RomneyCare, from when he was Governor of Massachusetts:

washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-romneycare-obamacare-connection/2011/10/11/gIQAv0PdcL_blog.html

The folks who worked on the Massachusetts law didn’t exactly fade into the background once the health reform law passed and implementation got underway. Instead, many former Romney officials are now working for both the Obama administration and state governments to ensure that that the Affordable Care Act gets set up.

I figured this would help Romney in the general, because he would be able to tell people that he wasn’t that far off from Obama’s thinking, so they should elect him as a change from how the economy’s been going.

Unfortunately, he can’t play that card until he gets past Gingrich and Santorum… Until then, he has to pretend to be a Conservative.

Everybody knows Romney isn’t a Conservative (or, anything, really.. he just wants to be elected), so the longer he has to pretend to be one, the more inauthentic he looks, saying freestyle garbage like “I was a Severely Conservative Republican Governor”:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/DI8PlTtM7DU

What the hell is a SEVERELY Conservative person? :D haha Imagine you asked your homeboy how his date went, and he replies “I severely had sex with her! :D”, you *KNOW* that dude is LYING!!! :D HAHAHAHA

Almost-Obama

So, the net effect of this situation dragging on is *NOT* that Romney looks better, but that he looks worse… Daily… Some days, HOURLY! :D

Meanwhile, Ron Paul’s reputation has remained perfectly intact, even in light of the “I don’t know who wrote all those racist comments in the newsletterS with my name on them” situationS.

Gingrich’s name is mud with women, because his current wife is actually the mistress that he cheated on his mistress that he cheated on his first wife with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Marriages_and_children, so women are constantly reminded of his ex wives that he dumped after announcing to them that he’s screwing some other chick now.

Guys, generally, don’t care about that. They’re like “Play on, Playah! ha-HAA :D Get In Where You FIT IN!!! >;D”.

Santorum is making himself more viable for the Republican nomination and less viable for the general election every day with his comments about women, contraception and a host of other ridiculous ideas of his that caused someone on television to say “Santorum has the finest mind of the 13th century”:

campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/the-first-principles-of-rick-santorum/

One dismissive reviewer of Santorum’s 2005 book, “It Takes a Family,” wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer that Santorum is “one of the finest minds of the thirteenth century.” (An opponent once said the same of that other provocative Catholic conservative, William F. Buckley, Jr.) This is no insult: it is the heart of Santorum’s appeal to conservative evangelicals.

So, the only way for Romney to look good to Conservatives is to attempt to appear to be more of a jerk than Santorum. Romney isn’t even good at THAT! :D haha He’s just not convincing as someone who has principled objections to things. Everything he says seems to be learned off of 3×5 cards that his handlers trained him with.

In fact, it’s tough to pretend to have a position on something when that particular thing doesn’t matter to you at all… In Romney’s case, he’s rich, his father was rich, his sons are rich..

The Romney Kids’ $100 Million Trust Fund
money.cnn.com/2012/02/06/pf/romney_kids_trust/index.htm

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Mitt Romney’s five sons — Matt, Tagg, Craig, Ben and Josh — are sitting pretty with a trust fund worth $100 million.

There’s no reason that Romney should sound authentic in *anything* he says regarding middle class people, and ESPECIALLY not the American poor.

Similarly, I don’t sound authentic when I tell women I love them, because they’re trapped in the movie / fairy tale notion of what love is, and they know I’ve always had women, I have women now, I’m always GOING to have women, and the concept of only being physically attracted to one of them doesn’t register with me.. it isn’t my personal reality.

I *DO* love them if I tell them I do, but my detachment makes me appear inauthentic when I say it.

It also makes me appear inauthentic when I say it to more than one woman as we’re all standing together on a balcony at a party, but that’s neither here nor there. >:D

So.. Romney, who appears to believe in nothing, because he doesn’t have to believe in anything, because he’s rich already, and he’s never going to be not-rich, isn’t able to convince Conservatives that he loves them, so he has to keep making stupid statements to prove his fidelity.

Meanwhile.. Rick Santorum ACTUALLY. BELIEVES. WHAT. HE’S. SAYING!!! :D hahahaha oh man.. You can see that he actually believes it when he’s speaking.

This is why Conservatives are flocking to him.. Not because they think he can win, but because they’re not convinced that Romney would carry the Conservative flag (and neither am I) if he were nominated. They’d rather go down swinging, backing Santorum, than relegate themselves to the very choice that made me feel that Romney had a chance in the general, which is a decision between Obama and Almost-Obama.

Just Like I Told You

Meanwhile, we’ve seen an important shift occur.. A shift that I told people this entire time was going to happen.

President Obama’s favorability ratings were low a few months ago. They were so low that Republicans were telling me, and they really seemed to believe this, but then again, Jim Jones’ followers believed him too, that *ANYBODY* the Republicans ran would easily be able to defeat Obama in the 2012 election.

I told those people very simply, and directly to their faces “That’s because the people being polled don’t know what kind of candidates you’ve offered as an alternative.”

I told them that the more the American people understood about the Republican candidates, ESPECIALLY when Perry, Bachmann, and Cain were still involved, the better Obama’s going to look.

That’s exactly what’s happened, and what will continue to happen until Gingrich drops out. The Republicans are in a race to the bottom. The only selection to be made is which one of them is the least worst.

Meanwhile, Obama’s ratings have been steadily climbing. When the polls changed from “Obama vs. Any Republican” to “Obama vs. Romney” and “Obama vs. Santorum” and “Obama vs Gingrich” (since they refuse to give Ron Paul any light, whatsoever, in these polls), the numbers have been steadily rising for Obama and steadily declining for all three Republicans.

This is because they insist on ripping each other apart, like crabs in a barrel.

We never hear about why one of them is better than the other one. We only hear why one of them is worse than the other one, and they’re doing Obama’s campaigning job for him.

Another thing I told you four months ago, back in October billcammack.com/2011/10/28/scorched-earth-politics/ was that the Republicans needed to change their obstructionist tactics after Obama started telling the entire country what they were doing… As soon as The President started going from state to state, speaking to the actual people and on television, talking about “Pass This Bill” so that teachers and construction workers and Armed Forces veterans can get jobs, right now, and Republicans refused to do it, while simultaneously *NOT* offering an alternative plan to put those same people to work, they trapped themselves, and just like I said, every day since then, they’ve been taking a beating in the media for being AGAINST job creation for Americans.

Now.. Not only does everybody know that they’re doing anything they can to deny President Obama a second term,

YouTube Link => youtu.be/2gM-1HbK4qU

but the economy is getting better, *DESPITE* their objections and interference.

Instead of being able to take credit for the (albeit, slow) American economic recovery by claiming bipartisan cooperation, they currently look like a bunch of people that have tried and failed to make the current President look bad, while simultaneously failing to get any of their desired party members to run for PotUS and instead offering us this clown show that has many people believing the Republicans are deliberately throwing the race, because they can make more money bitching and moaning about Democrats for another four years than they would if they were actually in office.

Do You Know Any Women?

So the newest trend amongst Republicans is to attempt to get back on the wrong side of history with women’s reproductive rights. :D

I think the creepiest part of everything I’ve watched over the last several months is that these people either HAVE NO CLUE or DON’T GIVE A DAMN about the people that they flippantly disrespect.

They really seem to have forgotten that women can vote now.

They can also hold jobs, own property, ask men out on dates…

Here’s a tip for y’all.. There’s what women SAY, and what women DO.

This is why a lot of women (though I refuse to believe statistics that say things like 98% of any group does anything www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-claim-that-98-percent-of-catholic-women-use-contraception-a-media-foul/2012/02/16/gIQAkPeqIR_blog.html) use contraception and then TELL YOU THEY DON’T.

This is why, as pathetic as your candidates already are, you’re alienating Independents, which you’re going to *NEED* in the general election.

You’re also alienating Republican Women who don’t feel like returning to the dark ages.

So.. As Usual.. As has been the pattern throughout these proceedings, you’re pandering to the people that are already going to vote for you, while simultaneously alienating the people who were on the fence and MIGHT have voted for you.

The only hope the Republicans have at this point is a quick and decisive win by one of the final four that leads to the rest of them dropping out, so they can get back on-message, and the choice becomes Republicans vs. Democrats, instead of Republicans vs. Republicans and Republicans vs. The Poor, and Republicans vs. Women, and…

I still believe Romney is going to be nominated, because he has too much money to spend on negative ad campaigns, compared to Santorum and Gingrich, who are both still in the race only because they each have billionaire “sugar daddies” throwing money at them:

1. christianpost.com/news/gingrichs-casino-sugar-daddy-and-his-influence-on-the-gop-primary-68555/

2. dailykos.com/story/2012/02/16/1065501/-Rick-Santorum-s-sugar-daddy-In-my-day-girls-put-aspirin-between-their-knees-for-contraception

If he takes too long to get them to quit, though, his reputation as someone with passionate convictions about anything at all will be zero, nada, zilch.

If Santorum gets the nomination because Gingrich drops out, Paul pulls a consistent 20% of the vote, and Romney pulls a consistent 35% of the vote, leaving 45% winner-take-all victories for Santorum, he will have successfully painted himself into the corner of being the wacko “He-Man Woman Haters Club” founder and president, energizing American women from coast to coast to vote not necessarily FOR Obama, but definitely AGAINST Santorum.

If Gingrich gets the nomination, he’s going to go BUCK WILD in debates against Obama and make Republicans seem like creeps, most likely leading to several seat losses to Democrats in the next set of elections. Congress’ approval rating is already down around 9% (meaning that 9 out of 100 people actually like how they’re carrying themselves in Washington), so Gingrich running around illin’ will most likely be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

If Paul gets the nomination, that would probably indicate that Republicans in Congress have irretrievably destroyed their brand, and need to rebuild their party from the ground up for the 2016 campaign.
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ok.. I’ve seen enough Republican tomfoolery to drop my overall prediction for how the 2012 Presidential election is going to go. >:D

As far as my predictions for New Hampshire, I was right that Romney was going to win (everybody knew that). I had hoped that Huntsman would edge out Paul, but he didn’t. I had thought that Santorum would be ahead of Gingrich, but he wasn’t. Perry was at the bottom, where he should have been, since he didn’t even campaign in New Hampshire, and Bachmann got 343 votes, even though she already dropped out of the race.

Here’s what I think is going to happen, going forward, which should result in the reelection of President Obama:

Gingrich

Gingrich is upset because he thought he was going to get over with “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican”, and Romney was like “**** That! >:D”

According to the pundits, Iowa television was inundated with negative ads about Gingrich, which I’ve spoken about, previously.

If this had been 1975, their money would have been spent. Since it isn’t, those videos will live on on YouTube ad infinitum. They were used in New Hampshire. They will be used in South Carolina. They will be used by Democrats. They will be used with Green Eggs And Ham… Forever.

Gingrich couldn’t do anything about this because he didn’t have any money in his campaign to match the Super PAC that’s backing Romney’s play… However… *NOW*, some dude gave Gingrich 5 million dollars to go berserk with ads in South Carolina. >:D

This money will be spent trashing Romney’s name and achievements by calling him a “Vulture Capitalist” (instead of Venture Capitalist, haha so funny! :D) because of how he’s made his money by taking over companies and making decisions for them that have resulted in LOTS of job losses, while also creating jobs.

This campaign will be extremely effective to make Romney look bad, because Romney won’t show people the documents that compare the number of people who LOST JOBS to the number of people who gained them because of his company.

Similarly, Romney doesn’t want to reveal his tax data, which, of course, would indicate whether or not he’s still profiting from people losing their jobs.

So, Gingrich, himself, is finished. Kaput. Any time he makes a move, people are going to break out the YouTube videos that Romney’s Super PAC and Ron Paul’s team made about him, and then he’s going to stay with a very low percentage of votes in every single primary and caucus.

He already knows this, so he’s on a kamikaze mission to take Romney down with him, which will result in even MORE useful material for the Democrats to use in the general election, since, like I said from the giddyap, Romney was the only actual candidate that the Republicans fielded this cycle, and was always going to be their nominee.

Paul

I have to give the Ron Paul supporters their props, because they’ve really sustained their candidate and kept him in good position, even though neither Democratic nor Republican pundits wanted to talk about him this entire time. They have to talk about Paul *NOW*, or else they’ll look like they don’t know what the **** they’re doing.

Last I checked, Paul didn’t have enough money for television ads in Florida, so he was skipping campaigning there, and going straight to the next state in the order. That might have changed after his strong 2nd place showing in New Hampshire, if he received an infusion of cash.

Either way, he’s running a week-to-week operation, and he really shouldn’t be able to keep up with the war machine that Romney already has available, fully-oiled and properly running, so I can’t imagine Paul receiving the Republican nomination.

Paul’s role, going forward, will be a factual dismantling of Romney’s position, which, again, will add to the ammunition that the Democrats have for the general election.

Santorum

I kept telling you people that there WAS. NO. SANTORUM. SURGE! >:D

Santorum received a religious endorsement in Iowa from a group that doesn’t have any props in New Hampshire. Case Closed.

He was polling at 10% before he got that endorsement. He “surged” because 57% of the people that voted in the Iowa caucus identified themselves as Evangelical Christians. He went to New Hampshire and received his requisite 10% of the vote, just like I said.

The pundits don’t want to talk about this, because then they’d have to talk about the issue of Romney and Huntsman being Mormons, which obviously wasn’t a problem in New Hampshire, as they ranked #1 and #3 out of the six remaining candidates, with Santorum ranking #5, because Perry didn’t even campaign in NH and ended up #6.

Santorum’s role going forward is going to be to split the religious vote with Perry, nullifying both of their opportunities to make any real waves.

His other role is going to be to keep spewing wrong-side-of-history statements that are going to make Republicans in general look bad to independents.

Other than that, he shouldn’t have much effect on the inevitable nominee, Romney, because he’s not spending money on negative television/YouTube advertisements about him.

Santorum has no money and no boots-on-the-ground infrastucture, so he shouldn’t be going very far past South Carolina.

Perry

Perry should have quit when he had the chance, after Iowa! :D haha

The *ONLY* reason Perry should stick around is that he has religious backing from the Bible Belt. If that doesn’t create a situation-based “surge” like Santorum received, he needs to pack it up for real and go back to Texas and stay there.

If he doesn’t do well in South Carolina, Perry needs to just quit, because all he’s doing is splitting the religious vote with Santorum. Nobody, Nobody, Nobody, Nobody, NOBODY wants to see him try to debate Barack Obama! :D HAHAHA

Perry got basically no votes in Iowa, he got almost absolutely no votes in New Hampshire.. If he doesn’t receive a massive turnout in South Carolina, it’s going to be way too late to BEGIN getting votes / securing delagates at the FOURTH contest in the series.

Huntsman

Even though I’ve known this whole time that they were going to send Romney to the big dance, I had been hoping against hope that Huntsman would be able to sway enough voters to be competitive for the nomination.

I’m not sure that pulling 40,000 votes to Mitt Romney’s 95,000 votes makes the case.

Either way, Huntsman’s heading to South Carolina to try it again. He may as well. He has infinite cash. His pops is like the original baller, shot caller! :D haha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Sr. .. Dude *INVENTED* the “clamshell” container for McDonald’s Big Mac that we still use to this very day, so Huntsman may as well spend a bunch more money campaigning in SC, since it’s a drop in the bucket.

I’m also not sure that pulling fewer votes than Ron Paul makes the case, either.

New Hampshire was Jon Huntsman’s high water mark. He skipped Iowa entirely to campaign there this entire time, and he came away with 17% of the votes, compared to Romney’s 40%.

The Utah Primary doesn’t even happen until June www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/, and Huntsman should be out of the race WAAAAAAAY before June! :D

The way I see it, if he doesn’t do extremely well in South Carolina, he needs to hang it up with Perry.

I’m a fan of what Huntsman is saying and the way he carries himself and that he took Utah to #1 in job creation during his terms as Governor, but business is business. >:D

Romney

According to me, this sends Romney to the general election to attempt to defeat President Barack Obama.

At first, I saw this as slightly possible. Now, I don’t.

Through the first series of debates, the candidates didn’t want to say anything to or about Romney. This is because he was never the frontrunner. All these non-candidates were having surges which lasted as long as it took for the press to find out the very slightest things about them, and then the public was like “Nahhhhh! :/”.

So Romney got to stand there looking Presidential, without actually saying anything.

Now that people have realized that he’s the only candidate that was ever fielded by the Republicans this cycle, they’ve been going at him in real-time, and he’s been folding.

He offered a $10,000 bet to Rick Perry, knowing that he (Romney) is worth approximately 250 million dollars… Are you ******* KIDDING??? >:D

Romney worth up to $264 million; earned up to $68,000 per speech before campaign

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who made part of his fortune as co-founder of a private equity firm, and his wife have personal financial assets worth as much as $264 million, according to disclosure documents filed Friday.

The records suggest that Romney may have seen a small, but limited, drop in wealth during one of the nation’s worst economic downturns, with a maximum asset value about 8 percent lower than what he reported during his first White House bid in 2007.

The numbers underscore an issue that poses both a benefit and a challenge for the former Massachusetts governor, who points to his business experience as evidence of his ability to lead the country.

But Romney, who grew up in a wealthy family before expanding his fortunes at the Bain Capital equity firm, also has struggled to portray himself as a candidate in touch with the lives of regular voters.

Since then, he’s said and done a bunch of other stuff that give away that fact that (rightfully so, because he’s always been rich) he’s not in touch with American workers AT. ALL.

Most importantly, he’s committed unforced errors as well as having been baited into errors by the likes of such debate geniuses as Rick Perry.

It’s become apparent that as long as Romney has memorized his flash cards, he can seem like he’s giving a spontaneous, intelligent presentation, but as soon as he tries to ad-lib, he ends up staying stupid-but-authentic things like “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me”:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/nBfWB64iHAs

The link I posted has the entire context of what he was talking about, which was insurance providers, but the important part is that you can see and hear the change in his demeanor. :) He was running his mouth and as soon as he said that, people in the crowd started chuckling, and you see Romney go “OH ****! :O” and every word he says after that is like BUH-B, BUH-B, stumbling and bumbling all over the place, because he got nervous, realizing that he had tipped his hand.

The short version of that video that only has him saying “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me” will be played over and over, whenever he attempts to run for *ANY* public office for the rest of his life.

This indicates to me that Romney will continue to commit these gaffes, to the ultimate delight of the people in charge of Obama’s reelection campaign, and also that when he finally has to debate Barack Obama, he’s going to get sorely embarrassed every time he’s forced outside of his cue-card comfort zone.

Hail To The Chief

So, No.. I’m not seeing it anymore. I feel like the 2012 Republican nomination process has provided the blueprint / roadmap for the reelection of our current President, Barack Obama.

The extraneous, unelectable “candidates” will continue to buzz around and create more anti-Romney media for the Democrats to use in the general election.

If they were smart / unselfish, they would decide on one of them to be nominated and all the rest of them would drop out.

In a two-person contest, you can’t win with 39.4% of the vote. :D

In a three-person contest, you have very good odds of winning with those many votes. There are currently six people involved, and there shouldn’t be.

Perry should drop out because it’s clear that people don’t see him as smart enough to be able to defeat President Obama in the general election.

Santorum should drop out unless he has a string of religious endorsements coming up very soon.

Huntsman should drop out if his message doesn’t resonate in South Carolina, because that means his gambit didn’t work and probably won’t work during the rest of the nomination process.

Gingrich should drop out because he’s been statistically eliminated by Romney’s Super PAC’s onslaught of negative ads about him, and he’ll never recover from that.

Ron Paul *SHOULDN’T* drop out, because he’s having the time of his life! :D

YouTube Link => youtu.be/Da6irSCvnZY

Play On, Playah!!! >:D hahaha Get Yo’ *CELEBRATE* On! :D hahaha

But, Yeah.. When the dust settles, Romney is going to be the nominee, but his fellow Republicans will have researched and revealed so many flaws in his background, ideas, style and personality that it’ll be a cakewalk for the Obama team to trounce him in the general election.
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Send In The Clowns

I told you from the beginning that this cycle’s selection of Republican candidates is an absolute clown show, to put it kindly.

I also asked two main questions. The first one was “Where are the broke (poor) Republicans?”. The second was “How come none of the better Republicans (Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, etc) want to run, if they think it’s going to be so easy to defeat President Obama in 2012?”.

I was previously done talking about this tomfoolery, but the last few days, the pundits have been talking about something they hadn’t mentioned this entire time…

Beat The Clock

When the Republicans were crying for Chris Christie to run, ALLLLL the pundits were saying that he only had until X date, because after that, he couldn’t register for the first primary, etc.

When that date passed, the pundits INSISTED that this keystone-cops’esque group of candidates were the only ones that could POSSIBLY be nominated.

This remained in effect for a couple of months, I suppose. Meanwhile, it had become clear to me that the only Republican candidate that stood a chance of defeating Obama in 2012 was Romney. This was because Huntsman, who I think is a way better candidate, has been polling at less than 5% this entire time (being generous.. I’m actually not sure he was ever above 3%), and other than him, all the other candidates have offended just about everyone in the country, pandering to “The Right”, and they wouldn’t possibly get any votes from independents that would put them anywhere near to a victory in the general election.

For instance.. Michele Bachmann has been running around saying she wants to deport 12 million illegal aliens. This is because nobody had asked her what Bill O’Reilly finally asked her to her face, which was “How do you plan to do that? o_O”. Her answer was “Enforce the laws that aren’t currently being enforced”.

Obviously, that doesn’t make ANY SENSE, because you can only enforce laws against people who BREAK. THE. LAW., so O’Reilly asked her if she understood how costly it was going to be to go door-to-door, finding the 12 million aliens, arresting them, processing them, and flying them out of the country. Of course, she had no reply for that, because her plan was stupid to begin with. It’s just NONSENSE she was talking in order to try to be nominated, just like waving a magic wand and creating $2 gasoline in a free market economy (about which she has ALSO not offered a viable plan).

Then, you have Santorum saying something ridiculous every week. He’ll be off the stage soon. I predict he’ll have enough after the first round of voting, which is coming up in 3-4 weeks. SEEYA! >:D

Then, there was Cain, talking about electrified fences and drones to keep Mexicans in Mexico. Haven’t heard jack-**** from him in a full week, ever since he “suspended” his campaign. SEEYA! >:D

Then, you have Ron Paul, who has really, really good ideas, assuming you live in the gold-rush era of the United States Wild West. :) Basically, his idea for life is “Every man for himself”. Get rid of federal this and that, and if your house floats down the river, it sucks to be you. He won’t be nominated, and he MOST CERTAINLY will never be elected President.

Then, you have Perry, who was at the top of the statistics until the first time he opened his mouth… From then on, it’s been one glaring embarrassment after another, and even before all of his gaffes, President Obama was being kind to him… I should say, before AMERICA heard all of Perry’s blunders. I’m sure there’s an entire file full of them that Obama was already aware of by the time he made this statement:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/PYzmzzA9dTY

President Obama: “You know.. Mr. Perry just got in the Presidental race, and I think that everybody who runs for President, it probably takes them a little bit of time before they start realizing that this isn’t like running for Governor or running for Senator or running for Congress, and you’ve gotta be a little more careful about what you say.. But I’ll cut him some slack, he’s only been at it for a few days now”

And then it was just downhill, downhill, downhill, downhill…

So the only person left that hasn’t completely, utterly, absolutely disqualified himself from the race is Gingrich. He’s currently receiving all the Not-Romney or Anti-Romney or Anybody-But-Romney poll votes.

So, it would seem that since Romney can’t get past 25% EVAR in the polls, that now that Gingrich is pulling higher numbers, Republicans would be talking Gingrich, Gingrich, Gingrich now, right?…

WRONG! :D

What?… Who?

The last few days, I’ve been hearing about JEB BUSH, who was never a part of this process AT ALL, from the giddyap!

Of course, I wondered if maybe someone made a mistake, but a different pundit mentioned his name, and a different pundit on a different station, and I was like WTF is going on here? o_O

ALL OF A SUDDEN, what they’re talking about is a “Brokered Convention”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_convention

A brokered convention is a situation in United States politics in which there are not enough delegates ‘won’ during the presidential primary and caucus elections for a single candidate to have a pre-existing majority, during the first official vote for a political party’s presidential-candidate at its nominating convention.

Once the first ballot, or vote, has occurred, and no candidate has a majority of the delegates’ votes, the convention is then considered brokered; thereafter, the nomination is decided through a process of alternating political horse-trading, and additional re-votes.[1][2][3][4] In this circumstance, all regular delegates (who, previously, were pledged to the candidate who had won their respective state’s primary or caucus election) are “released,” and are able to switch their allegiance to a different candidate before the next round of balloting. It is hoped that this ‘freedom’ will result in a re-vote resulting in a clear majority of delegates for one candidate.

Do you think the pundits might have mentioned this MONTHS AGO? :D ******* IDIOTS! :D

Start From Scratch

If this circus act becomes a Brokered Convention, the Republicans can turn around and nominate anybody they want, so they can easily replace one of these clowns with a viable Republican candidate.

How might this happen?

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/23/the_gop_needs_a_brokered_convention/singleton/” rel=”nofollow”>www.salon.com/2011/11/23/the_gop_needs_a_brokered_convention/singleton/

Less noticed, but no less important, is the new GOP voting system, which is set up for early primary and caucus states to vote first, followed by all other proportionally allocated delegate states next. From April 1 on, the winner-take-all primary and caucus states will vote. That means a weak front-runner can earn victories in early states without taking a commanding share of that state’s delegates, while several challengers can lose, but still rack up a decent delegate total.

Ron Paul, for instance, is often overlooked by the media as a factor because his ceiling of support in the polls appears to be between 10 and 15 percent. But since his floor of support isn’t far below that, he will be able to pick up a chunk of delegates who won’t be available to Romney. The same will be true for Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry if they stay in the race — and the latter has plenty of cash still on hand.

But Not Mitt Romney won’t be on the ballot, right? Well, yes and no. Several candidates who aren’t Mitt Romney are likely to be on the ballot in all 50 states. If a majority of the party agrees on nothing more than Not Mitt Romney, the real Mitt Romey cannot enter April with a majority of delegates. If Romney is able to climb to even 30 percent nationally in the pre-April states — something he hasn’t done in a single national poll — and wins a corresponding percentage of the vote, he would still have only 349 delegates. That means he would need to capture 868 of the 1,217 winner-take-all delegates to capture the nomination through the primary process. His only hope is that the other candidates have dropped out.

And, if they do, why exactly would the party leaders step in to save Romney’s nomination? Rather than settle for a nominee incapable of generating enthusiasm, they could use the convention to find a candidate more in tune with the Republican voters.

BOOYAH!!! :D HAHAHA Enter Jeb Bush!!! >:D

So the final joke might be on everybody watching these shenanigans.

If Romney splits all the delegates before April with Gingrich, Paul & Perry (Bachmann & Santorum will be out of the race looooong before then) and then loses pathetically in the South, because they don’t feel like voting for a Mormon, all this may have been for nothing, as the Republicans nominate whomever they like for the general election, including Chris Christie, Paul Ryan or anybody else that formerly claimed they weren’t going to run.

Thinkin’ Of A Master Plan

Unfortunately for the Republicans, by the time that happens, their obstructionist tactics and blatant disregard for the poor will have fully backfired on them and it won’t matter who they send to lose to Obama.

If this workers’ tax cut and extended unemployment benefits plan isn’t passed, the blame will be placed on Republicans, every single day, from now until election day.

If nobody gets a job, it will be blamed on the Republicans, every day.

If the troops that just returned home can’t find work, it will be blamed on the Republicans, every day.

Oh.. I forgot Gingrich.. I fully expect him to self-destruct before he gains enough delegates to be nominated. He SHOULD, however, be able to block Romney enough to catalyze the Brokered Convention.

I’d like to believe that this is the actual Republican master plan.. That they have some super-nominee waiting in the wings, practicing INTELLIGENT answers about foreign policy, prepping debate skills, and practicing speeches.

Having seen them send Palin last cycle, I think that concept is highly unlikely, and I continue to be amazed and amused that the Republicans REFUSE to send their best & brightest to challenge Barack Obama for the Presidency of the United States of America.
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I know most of y’all tune in to BillCammack.com to listen to me talk yang about women & dating, but I’ve been preoccupied recently with the clown show known as United States Politics.

I’m over it now, so we’ll be returning to our regularly-scheduled programming.. joined in progress.

What had HAPPENED was…

Why Did I Bother?

A little over 4 years ago, I had never heard of Barack Obama. EvAr.

At some point, I became aware that the first VIABLE black candidate was running for the Presidency of the United States of America.

The rest of the people who ran were clearly merely symbolic. They had never had anywhere near resembling even the slightest, most minute, miniscule chance of coming anywhere close to being nominated as a party’s candidate, much, much, much, much, MUCH LESS having any inkling of an opportunity to come close to winning the general election.

None.

So then, I was like “Hmm… I might be witnessing history here, so let me pay attention.

So I found out he was going to be running against John McCain, and I was like “That figures”. John McCain fit that mold that you expect from people that Republicans nominate to be President.

McCain got caught looking angry a couple of times, but I didn’t see any footage of him actually looking stupid, so it was a toss-up to me.. Let’s say that I felt like Obama had a 35% chance of winning the election and becoming the PotUS.

Next thing you know.. And, for me, this was like one of those “Where were you when Nixon resigned? o_O” or “Where were you when you found out about 911″ situations.. I became aware from the television that the Republicans had selected a female to be the Vice President if McCain became President.

Without knowing anything at all about Sarah Palin, whom I had never heard of until that very news report, because I don’t give a flying **** about politics, I immediately thought that this was some sort of tactical error on the Republicans’ part.

I felt like they had been planning on Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee, so they decided to split the “I want to vote for a female” vote by sending their own female to the big dance, negating the “You can be a part of history by electing the first female as President or Vice President” effect which would have occurred if they had selected another white male to run with McCain.

I figured that maybe they had made promises that they couldn’t back out of when Obama defeated Clinton.

So then, I started hearing news reports about Sarah Palin, and I suddenly had zero doubt in my mind that if the election occurred fairly, Barack Obama was going to be the 44th President of the United States of America.

None.

No doubt, whatsoever.

It was literally impossible that America was going to vote for a ticket that included Palin as VP with McCain being in (according to pundits) questionable health at his age.

This would have been tantamount to electing Palin President, which will never happen, so I was absolutely certain that barring ridiculousness, Obama was going to win, which, of course, he did.

I immediately became interested in the next election. I’ve never been interested in a Presidential election ever, before 2008, and I wanted to make sure I was aware of the scenario when 2012 rolled around, so I wouldn’t be like “I guess the Republicans didn’t have anyone viable to send as VP, so they threw up a Hail Mary, sending Palin”.

What I’ve found out (albeit, through television punditry and internet research) is that the process doesn’t work the way I imagined it did.

Money Talks, But Bull**** Doesn’t Have To Walk

My impression was that each team selected who they thought the best person was and then sent them to the general election. You know.. Like in hockey, when you have to decide the game by a shootout, you don’t send Herbs to try to score. You send your best players.

So I was prepared to see and hear from the best & the brightest of the Republican party during their nomination process, and instead, I was treated to, to use my cousin Nigel’s term, and pardon my French for a second, but “an embarrassing shitshow”.

I’m an Independent. I vote for whomever I feel like voting for. I’m not a Republican, yet their candidates suck so badly that *I* feel embarrassed when they say such stupid, uninformed, and generally assholeish things that week after week they alienate more and more of the American population that they’re going to have to turn to for votes in the general election.

I’m now aware of what had happened in 2007, and it’s happening again in 2011.

Basically, running for President costs money, for advertising, entry fees to places, travel, etc. If you have enough money, you can run for your party’s nomination ’till the cows come home. You can’t get ejected for lunacy or idiocy. Nobody from your party can stand up and say “This person is an idiot. Remove them from the roster.”

To mention hockey again, it’s like you’re the captain of a team, but YOU don’t get to choose the players on your team, and you get stuck with a bunch of Herbs. What was the point of your being captain, if you don’t get to decide who plays and who doesn’t? o_O

To make matters worse, the requirements are different for winning the Republican nomination than they are to win the general election. The things you have to say to get people to clap at Republican debates are the exact same things that you would NEVER SAY if you wanted anybody else to entrust their well-being and that of their families to you by voting for you to be the PotUS.

This is why I’ve maintained from the beginning that Mitt Romney is the only candidate that’s currently on the roster that has even a remote chance of defeating President Obama in the 2012 election.

Nobody trusts what Romney says, because there’s just as much footage of him saying THING as there is footage of him saying -THING.. Like two different things that can’t possibly BOTH be beliefs of the same person, there’s videotape of him swearing up and down that he believes in both, depending on the crowd he’s speaking to and what he’s trying to get them to do.

That might seem to be a liablity. In the general election, it isn’t, because Romney can say he’ll do similar things to what Obama would do if we just replace Obama with him.

None of the rest of the Republican candidates can say that.

The only one that sounds like he has any sense, and who definitely has the experience to be a decent President, in my opinion, is Jon Huntsman, but he’s never been polling well, so we’ll see if he ever gains traction.

Actually, Ron Paul has sense too, except it’s not the kind of sense that’s going to prompt anyone to elect him PotUS.

In fact, even though Paul has been CONSISTENTLY hovering around #3 in every poll I’ve seen since the Iowa Straw Poll, which he barely came in second to Michele Bachmann in, the Republicans consistently talk around him and never mention him, even as the other candidates surge and soon fall off.

So, His own party won’t back him, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens if he decides to run anyway, after not receiving the nomination.

All of the nominees other than Romney have painted themselves into corners that are going to cause them to get DEMOLISHED when the Democrats start running attack ads. They don’t even have to make things up. All they have to do is play back the tapes of what the candidates have said over the past several months that they’ve been having debates and otherwise running their mouths to the press.

I Am Jack’s Complete Lack Of Interest

However.. My sudden and complete lack of interest in this process isn’t even the fault of the horrific Republican candidates. It’s actually Congress that has made me realize that none of this actually matters.

I thought it would be obvious to everyone that allowing America to default on its debt was entirely unacceptable. Instead, they waited until the last day to decide what they were going to do, which they could have decided way before that.

Imagine your wife tells you to take out the garbage, and you’re like “Nah”.

Imagine she keeps badgering and pestering you, and you’re like “Nope”.

Let’s say you don’t take out the garbage for days, until the whole house smells and she’s about to take it out on her own, and then you go “Psych! :D HAHA I’ll take it out! :D”

You think you’re getting laid anytime soon? o_O

Since your ass KNEW you wanted to screw your wife, you should have known was was going to happen TO YOUR HAPPINESS if you played that situation down to the wire and done the right thing.

Congress played that game and America’s credit rating got downgraded.

In fact, there were Republicans, including Bachmann, that are very happy and proud to say that they voted AGAINST the “Final debt deal” => projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/112/house/1/votes/690/.

This made me relatively suspicious. Upon researching the situation, I found out that some Republicans have made it their top political priority to deny President Obama a second term:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/2gM-1HbK4qU

When I found out about this, I was sure they were going to send Romney, because sending anyone else from that cast of characters is an automatic LOSS for the Republican party.

If McConnell was serious (and, of course, he was) about denying President Obama a second term, it was imperative that the Republicans field viable candidates and then back the strongest one, with the best personality, most intelligence, best Presidential demeanor, and best handle on the things a Presidential nominee would need to know about WAY. BEFORE. HE (or she). BECAME. A. CANDIDATE.

So then, I watched as Romney couldn’t get past approximately 25% (1 out of every 4 people saying they’d vote for him) in the polls.

Upon researching the situation, I found out that Mitt Romney is a Mormon.

This is automatically a problem. Listen to this dude that’s down with Rick Perry:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/7aF2Cnhr5jQ

In case you can’t see the video, here’s what dude said:

Perry Supporter: The decision for Conservative, Evangelical Christians right now, is going to be “Do we prefer somebody who is truly a believer in Jesus Christ, or somebody who is a good moral person, but he’s a part of a cult?”. And it’s not politically correct to say, but it’s true, Mormonism is a cult.

If you look at the states that Romney won in his 2008 campaign (marked in yellow):

Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008

none of them are in the South (also known as The Bible Belt)

On top of that, he only got 11 states, vs 31 states that McCain won, who subsequently got SMIZASHED by Obama in the general election.

Since Romney’s rich, he gets to run for President again, because as long as you have money, you can be involved.

That, by the way, is what Herman Cain is still doing in this race also. He’s backed by infinite funding from his “brothers from another mother”:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/lv4GGbK60J8

Anyway.. Once I found this out, I was like “The Republicans are going to have to get over this Mormon thing if they’re going to back their only hope for a 2012 victory, since preferable people like Chris Christie and Paul Ryan refused to run.

Unfortunately, this is where Congress comes in.

All Your Decisions Are Belong To Us

If you listen to “regular” Republicans talk about the Tea Party, they say that they’re just a minority and don’t make any decisions… However.. Every time you turn around, some Republican decision has been influenced by the Tea Party => huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/04/tea-party-gop-2012_n_948348.html.

To put it plainly.. Let’s say you have 20 team members and the other team has 15, so that every time you vote on something, you win.

Now.. Let’s say that 7 of your team members consider themselves a group. That still makes them a minority, as you still have 13 team members, but if that “minority” refuses to vote with you, whether they abstain or vote with the other team, you can’t defeat 15 with 13, so, suddenly, you’re beholding to this so-called “minority” for your voting success.

According to the pundits, we saw this play out during the “Debt Ceiling Crisis”.

Apparently, we saw it AGAIN, during the so-called “Super Committee Failure”

Granted.. “Regular” Republicans who have pledged that their #1 political priority is removing Barack Obama from office can’t afford to do *ANYTHING* that causes the economy to improve before election time, so it’s most likely going to be another 12 months before most of y’all even catch a whiff of a job.

The point, however, is that the pattern I’ve seen over the last several months is of the Republican majority FOLDING beneath the will of the Republican minority.

This is the main reason I’ve lost interest in this process. It’s a setup.

The Tea Party, AKA the “minority” that’s pulling the strings, bills itself as Conservative.

Romney is not a Conservative. He’s an “I’ll say whatever you want to hear so maybe you’ll elect me”.

He’s also not going to get any light in the South, like he didn’t get any light in 2008.

The same game plan that makes you believe that you’ll be ok if America defaults on its debt obligations also makes you believe that the best thing for your party is to nominate a generally unelectable candidate.

In other words, The Republicans may very well decide to LOSE BIG by running a definitely-Conservative nominee instead of untrustworthy Mitt Romney.

Last Straws

Speaking of untrustworthy, that reminds me of the last two elements that have totally removed my interest in this farce.

Romney just ran a clearly unethical television commercial where his team took something that President Obama reported John McCain’s campaign as saying and only played the part of the audio that makes it sound like Obama said the statement himself.

As an example, it would be like if someone said in an interview “Steve said I took the money, which I didn’t”, and the only part that made it to the commercial was “I took the money”.

That’s CLEARLY unethical and underhanded and desperate.

It’s also a bad idea to set a precedent of misleading campaign commercials, because REAL VIDEO EDITORS can and will make you look very, very, VERY STUPID if we feel like it, so your best bet is to run ethical ads before we quantize and autotune that azz and have you singing entire songs about things you never said.

The second element was that last night, Newt Gingrich said something to the effect of creating review committees to decide which illegal immigrants get deported.

This flies in the face of the unspoken Republican candidate stance that they’re totally scared to actually verbalize, because they know they’ll automatically lose the general election, which is that if they’re elected, they’ll deport 12 million illegal aliens, quick, fast, in a hurry, Flavor’s vision ain’t blurry.

The reason that statement was important is that Gingrich has recently enjoyed a surge in his poll numbers, now that all the rest of the Non-Romneys have fallen off.

Also.. Gingrich’s statement occurred *after* all the candidates except the two Mormons attended the Iowa Thanksgiving Family Forum:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/aY8Zw5NzUXQ

It also occurred after this:

businessinsider.com/ron-paul-evangelicals-iowa-pastors-secret-meeting-11-2012

Evangelical powerbrokers hosted a secret meeting in Iowa for conservative religious leaders last week to take a second look at some of the candidates who might be a viable alternative to Mitt Romney, Business Insider has learned from sources with knowledge of the event.

According to a source, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Ron Paul all spoke at the event, which brought together some of Iowa’s most influential evangelical pastors. Organized by the powerful Christian activist David Lane, the two-day conference was a feeble attempt to recapture some of the evangelical energy behind Mike Huckabee’s Iowa caucus win in 2008.

Last week’s meeting in Iowa should have been an opportunity for Perry and Gingrich to finally make real comebacks in the first-in-nation caucus state. Both candidates lack organizational support in Iowa, sources say, so mobilizing churches is their last hope to win over the state’s Republican primary voters, 60% of whom identify as born-again Christians.

But a source at the conference told Business Insider that the meetings only confirmed that “evangelicals have lost their cohesion — they don’t trust their leaders.” Pastors who favor Michele Bachmann didn’t even attend the event, the source added, an affront that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.

The importance of the combination of those three events is that it’s clear that the fix is in. Gingrich is now campaigning for the general election, NOT the Republican nomination.

Without the South and without Conservatives, Romney can’t possibly be nominated. If you exclude Romney from the pack, Gingrich doesn’t have to campaign against the rest of the Republicans. Huntsman is Mormon. Cain is selling books and amping up his lecture circuit fees, and while he knows a respectable amount about business, he knows nothing at all about some really important things that an actual President would need to know about. Bachmann was never honestly a frontrunner, but instead was the only non-Romney available until Perry entered the race the next day, after which she was finished. Santorum doesn’t count. Perry manages to say something stupid every. single. week., so he’s not going anywhere unless Gingrich implodes from all the historical baggage that he brought with him after YEARS of being in this game. Paul can’t be nominated because he’s a loose cannon.. a Libertarian, not a Conservative.

Of course, Romney’s not aware of this, so he’s creating advertisements against President Obama instead of against Newt Gingrich. :/

Done

It’s really disgusting, how incompetent these people are, and I’d really, HONESTLY like to know why none of the viable Republicans wanted to run this cycle.

I mean, imagine that you know you’re a great dodgeball player, but you refuse to join the game, and then sit on the sidelines and watch your team get SMASHED by opponents that you feel that YOU could have easily defeated… Talk about the wrong side of history. :/

I’m no longer interested in watching this stupid process where people say idiotic things and then their pundits defend them as if they’re viable candidates for the most important job on the planet.

I’m tired of watching partisan pundits refuse to say “Fill in the blank” is unelectable and should get off of the Republican nominee stage.

This whole situation is embarrassing, and now I see how they ended up selecting Palin in 2008.

That’s what I wanted to learn. That’s what I wanted to understand. I’ve been waiting for this knowledge for four years, and now I have it.

The point of the nomination process is *NOT* to send your best and brightest, but rather to send whomever is actually WILLING TO RUN, and whomever has enough money to stay in the race.

That sucks. That’s not interesting. That’s not American Exceptionalism.

Unless a good political sex scandal occurs, I’m done with blogging about politics.

Good Luck to the unemployed Americans that y’all get jobs before the year 2013 AD.

I would personally like to see Jon Huntsman get the Republican nod, because I think that would actually be an intelligent contest between him and President Obama.

Barring that improbability, the Republicans need to send Mr. Unreliable, Mitt Romney if they want to have any chance at all in the general election.

The way I see it now, Conservatives are going to rally behind Gingrich and take their chances, which I consider to be an automatic, forfeit win for Obama.

At least they can say they went down swinging. :/

I’m over it.
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