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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Tonight’s debate should be the final stage appearance for several of the fake Republican candidates that we’ve had to suffer through hearing about over the recent months.

Unfortunately, every time a Republican pundit is asked whether so-and-so is going to quit the race, they keep saying that it depends on when they run out of money.

Of course, this sucks. They can’t be booted for saying and doing stupid things, and they can’t be booted for not answering questions that are obviously going to sink them in the general election.

The only three candidates that should be moving forward after tonight are Romney, Perry and Cain, because they’re the only ones that have enough financial backing.

Like I said probably months ago now, if the Republicans send any of these so-called candidates other than Romney, they’re going to lose pitifully in the general election.

Perry can’t even out-debate Romney with cue cards in his hand that tell him what he’s supposed to say about Romney. Obama will be able to out-debate him practically in his sleep. Obama probably snores better than Perry speaks.

Sending Perry is a mistake.

Then again, Sending Palin was a mistake last cycle, but they did it anyway.

Cain is an accident waiting to happen.

First of all, he obviously knows nothing about nothing, other than business. I’m too bored to recount all the non-Presidential statements he’s made recently.

He was never a candidate in the first place. He’s selling books and he’s going to be a reality television star like Donald Trump.

Second, it’s too easy to line up a bunch of fake chicks to claim he felt them up and then his reputation goes down the drain.

Sending Cain against Obama is an automatic loss. It’s like a forfeit.

On top of that, the Cain team sucks so badly at dealing with adversity that they’d be literally eaten for breakfast as soon as the Democrats start campaigning against him.

In fact, they don’t even care about Cain or Perry. The Democrats are already campaigning against Romney, because they know he’s the only SLIGHT chance that the Republicans have of winning in 2012:

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/in-a-web-video-democrats-criticize-romneys-opposition-to-the-auto-bailout

When Mitt Romney arrives in Michigan for the latest Republican debate on Wednesday, the Democrats will have a message waiting for him — “Hit the road, Mitt.”

On Tuesday, as Mr. Romney sparred with George Stephanopoulos over his opposition to the auto industry bailout in an interview for ABC News and Yahoo, the Democratic National Committee released a web video criticizing Mr. Romney’s stance on the issue.

“You wouldn’t know he was from around here,” says a narrator, before Mr. Romney’s own voice says: “Let Detroit go bankrupt.”

As images of a dilapidated downtown flash by, the narrator continues: “Now he’s coming back, asking for our votes. So what do you say to the man who would’ve put this city on cement blocks, kicking us when we were down? You say, ‘Hit the road, Mitt.’ ”

Too Late

The rest of them aren’t even worth mentioning, other than the fact that Ron Paul, who MOST DEFINITELY will not receive the Republican nomination, may very well run as a 3rd Party candidate and siphon his consistent 10% of the voters away from Romney, ensuring an already almost guaranteed Obama victory.

The time to turn the corner has come and gone.

It’s too late now.

It’s too late for Michele Bachmann to say what she’s going to do with 11.5 million illegal aliens.

It’s too late for her to explain to us *HOW* she’s going to wave a magic wand and create a situation where gas costs $2/gallon.

It’s too late for Rick Santorum to say anything that anybody cares about.

It’s too late for Newt Gingrich to not seem like some grumpy dude with a bunch of funny one-liners.

I don’t know why Jon Huntsman never got traction, but I would have liked to see a Huntsman vs. Obama contest.

There are another bunch of dudes on 2012.republican-candidates.org that you’ve never heard of and never will.

These so-called candidates wasted all their air-time mentioning Obama’s name and talking about how wack he is, and in the meantime, said nothing worthwhile about themselves that’s going to cause Independents or Democrats to vote for them, which is what they’re going to need to win the general election.

Now, they’re going to look like idiots on stage if they try to spin fantasies about what life’s going to be like if they are elected President of the United States of America.

They’re not going to do that, though, because they don’t dare. They’re going to keep spouting rhetoric and punchlines and they’re going to keep cheerleading instead of getting on the field and playing the game.

On top of that, Obama already snitched on the Republicans in Congress for their obstructionist tactics, so by the time the election rolls around, nobody without a job is going to vote Republican anyway.

One Chance

The reason why Romney has a chance is that nobody believes what he says.

I know that doesn’t seem to make sense, :P but that’s the only chance Republicans have in the general election.. To send someone who MIGHT enact a bunch of Democratic policies.. or, if you want to split it differently, to send someone who’s been posing as a Conservative to receive the nomination, but is liable to enact a bunch of Liberal policies. o_O

That’s their only hope.

Hopefully for the rest of us, we won’t have to hear any more about Presidential aspirations from the extra peanut-gallery filler people after tonight.

Romney’s rich. Perry has major financial backing. Cain has friends in high places also.

They should be the only ones left standing after tonight’s debate, but I’m afraid that we’ll have to suffer through hearing about the rest of them until they actually run out of money.

As far as the Cain sexual harassment allegations, it’s like I tell people every day…. not tell them about sexual harassment, but tell them about life in general… If there’s no media of it, it didn’t happen.

Period.

Unless someone videotaped Cain in a car feeling up some chick, it’s “He Said, She Said” and it’s a stalemate.

The real problem he’s going to have is what some dude was talking about 4 or 5 days ago, which is some antics Cain was involved in at some kind of social event. The dude said he wasn’t going to talk about what happened, but that everybody saw it.

This is why Cain is an accident waiting to happen. Sooner or later, the tabloids will pay someone off to spill the beans, and then it’s going to be a big problem for him.

Of course.. The Democrats are probably begging TMZ *NOT* to air anything about Cain, because sending Cain against Obama is like sending a boxer into a gunfight.
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So I’m watching this MSNBC show, “Hardball”, and this dude, Chris Matthews is talking about Herman Cain and he uses this really great term.. “Rolling Disclosure”! :D hahahaha Oh Man, that perfectly describes what I’ve been wanting to write about.

Rolling Disclosure

Rolling Disclosure is when you only give up as much information as you think the person asking you the questions can actually prove.

Most of the time, this happens to me with women, and the discussion goes essentially exactly like this:

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I didn’t go out.

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I stayed home and had a glass of wine.

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I stayed home and drank a bottle of wine.

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I went out with my girlfriends.. Girls’ Night Out! :D

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I met a guy while I was out with the girls.

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I went home with the guy I met at the bar.

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: He tried to kiss me, but I was like “No”. :D

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: We made out, but he didn’t **** me.

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I arrived home at 7am, when I had left the bar at 3am.

Me: How’d Friday night go?

Her: I never came so much in my entire life!!! >:D

So you can see how annoying this is.. Waiting for chicks to tell you the actual truth about their evening, instead of trying to bullshit you and avoid getting caught up in the “She’s Easy” sexual double standard.

Meanwhile, your credibility is SHOT. Kaput. Finished.

From now on, when you say “I stayed at home and drank a glass of wine”, I assume you got reamed out by some dude, and that’s a good thing! :D I’m happy for you! More power to ya! haha Get In Where You Fit In!!! >:D

Sammi

This happened to Sammi from “Jersey Shore”.

I’m not going to go over the whole situation, because I already wrote about it in “Girls Don’t Have Friends That Are Guys”, but the main point is that she texted this dude to come meet her at a club, and Nicole confronted her and asked her who she texted.

Sammi insisted that she didn’t text any dudes until Nicole informed her that a) the dude was there in the club, and b) she had already seen the texts from Sammi on his Blackberry.

Sammi immediately changed her story from “I didn’t text any guys” to “I texted him, but he’s just a friend.”

She held the line with her rolling disclosure until she finally had to admit that she had messed with him before, because he was prepared to give the play-by-play of what he did with her, where, and when, to her current boyfriend, Ronnie.

The thing about Rolling Disclosure is that you have to wonder why people are asking you certain questions. You have to wonder why someone would ask you WHO you texted instead of asking you IF you texted anyone. o_O

Once this happens to you, it’s in your best interests to assume they know everything, and give up the ghost ASAP.

You’re totally better off fessin’ up, because you just keep digging the dirt out from under you in the hole you’re already standing in when you keep trying to limit the repercussions to the amount of information that you’re HOPING and PRAYING is all they have on you.

Andrew Weiner

This is how Andrew Weiner went out like a sucker.

If you don’t know who I’m talking about, go read “Weiner Fesses Up”.

Basically.. Dude was sexting or text-flirting or whatever with chicks via social media and tried to send a picture of tha dilznick to some chick on Twitter and accidentally sent it publicly instead of privately.

When he got busted, because you can’t actually delete Twitter posts because people are following you by RSS and receiving your media in their EMAIL instead of using a Twitter client, he went on television and told talk show hosts something to the effect of “We’re not sure that that’s me in the pictures.” :/

First of all.. Who is “We”? :D

Second, you know whether you own underwear that looks like that or you don’t.

Third, you know whether you took pictures of your underwear or you didn’t.

Fourth, you know whether you tried to send said picture to some chick and ****** up.

So, by the time people are not only TELLING YOU they have your picture in their possession, but it’s actually being shown on the television news in cities across the United States of America, it’s time to abandon Rolling Disclosure and admit what actually happened.

Instead.. Weiner decided that there must be some way out of this, and elected to lie on television, which made him look worse than his original offense, which wasn’t an offense at all, because the pic of that dilznick that he accidentally sent to the Twitter-viewing public, he had been trying to send to a grown-ass woman, in full compliance with the law.

Yes, Weiner happened also to be married, but it’s STILL not against the law to send pictures of tha dilznick to some other chick(s), and I’m rather sure it wasn’t in his marriage vows to begin with.. even though, after him and Tiger Woods and a couple of other dudes have been caught out there gettin’ their internet GROOVE on, I’m sure women are going to start demanding some kind of online fidelity vows in the near future! >:D

Herman Cain

This brings us to this week’s news.. Herman Cain.

If you’re reading this in the future.. Back in 2011 AD, Herman Cain was this dude that rich people gave a bunch of money so he could hang around the Republican Presidential Candidate race and sell books.

A couple of days ago, it was revealed that ~12 years ago, a couple of chicks (meaning more than one chick, not that the chicks were a couple, hehe) had some kind of issue with him which has been labeled as “Sexual Harassment”. I talked about the situation here.

I am personally the KING of “sexual harassment”, so let me give y’all dudes a few tips.

First of all, if a chick doesn’t like you, don’t flirt with her.

I mean, you *CAN*, and you can see what you can do, but it’s an uphill battle that usually yields no rewards whatsoever, or at least you have to put in so much work, time and energy to get the slightest bit of ANYTHING out of the chick that you would have been better off utilizing the time working on your startup or hiring a hooker.

Second, if you’re in a work situation, play it the **** OFF as if you’re not sexually attracted to her.

There’s getting chicks, and there’s getting money. If you’re a gigolo, you do both at the same time. If you’re not, save the chick stuff for after work, and limit it to women that you don’t have to see every day if you don’t end up getting on…… or women you don’t have to see every day if you *DO* get on, and end up being a 2-Minute Brotha, and then you have to endure her looking at you sideways every day like “PSSSSS… He Ain’t ****! :/”

Third, if your job description in the company is more important than hers, make sure you AVOID kickin’ it to her at all costs.

Even if you’re not directly above her in the company hierarchy, it will be alleged that you have influence over her boss, who has influence over her, so you indirectly have some kind of say over her job security and coerced her into messing with you.

Fourth, try your damnedest not to kick it with drunk chicks, even though they’re the ones that make themselves the most available to you.

The problem is that you don’t know how an individual’s brain processes alcohol and how it processes events that occur DURING the time that they’re inebriated.

You can be kickin’ it with, flirting with, and making out with a chick one minute, and then, like three minutes later, you go to hug her and she’s like “WHAT THE **** ARE YOU DOING??? :O”

It’s a real mess, looking into a chick’s eyes and realizing she has zero recollection of the past 10 minutes that you had been messing with her.

It’s pretty pathetic, actually. I can laugh about it because it hasn’t actually affected my life, other than my getting slapped a few times. Lots of guys have taken INCREDIBLE SHORTS because chicks forgot what actually happened and misreported the facts.

Similarly, dudes have committed unspeakable crimes against women while the guys were under the influence of alcohol, so I’m not making this a one-sided issue. I’m just sayin’.

Anyway… Herman Cain got accused of some kind of sexual impropriety like 12 years ago, when his job description was more important than these two chicks. 10 days before they broke the story, the reporter informed people involved with Cain’s “candidacy” that they were going to drop this. Nobody on his team did anything about it.

When they dropped it, Cain seemed surprised. His natural reaction was Rolling Disclosure.

Keep On Rollin’

First, he didn’t know what they were talking about. Then, he wasn’t aware of any settlements. Then, he was asking for names of chicks that accused him… I mean, it went on and on.

Look. I know what I’m talking about… If a chick claims that you sexually harassed her, there are only two reasons that you’re going to not be aware of who she is and what the situation was.

The first reason is that you’ve never harassed anyone in your life, so anytime that this has come up, you didn’t give it any thought, handed it off to the lawyers, and forgot about it ASAP.

The second reason is that you harass people all the time, so there’s no way that you can pinpoint exactly who they’re talking about.

The latter is what I thought of when I heard Cain asking for the names of the chicks.

If someone asks me if I’ve been arrested for murder, the answer will be “Hells the fuck NO, and anyone that says so is a BULLSHIT-ASS LIAR! >:D”

If someone asks me about a chick’s ass I’ve grabbed, they’re going to have to provide me with what state they’re talking about, what college or party they’re talking about, the approximate year, and a description of the chick’s body, preferably including her hairstyle and the colors she was wearing, but not her name, because there is no way I could possibly pinpoint any one of probably thousands of asses I’ve grabbed in my dating career. >:D

This is why, when Cain was like “Who are you talking about?” I was like “C’MON, SUNN!! :/ You’re playing this the wrong way! :D”

If someone comes to you and says that *TWO* chicks made a big deal that you were harassing them and your company had to legally deal with the situation, you damned well know who they’re talking about, unless you harass chicks EVERY YEAR and you don’t want to cop out to the wrong offense.

The fact that they’re specifically asking you about TWO chicks means that they already have documentation about TWO CHICKS and they’re just seeing if you’re going to fess up or not.

They’re not actually asking you whether you did it. They already know you did it.

Everybody knew that Sammi texted the dude and told him to meet her at the club, because they saw the evidence.

Everybody knew that Weiner sent that pic of that dilznick to Twitter because he sent it to the public, and then lamely tried to imply that his account may have been hacked. :/

Everybody knows that there are two chicks that received a settlement from the company that Herman Cain was an executive in, because they’ve already seen the documents.

In fact.. While Cain was trying to slip and slide his way down the hill of admission, hoping to grab a hold of the mountain before he fell off the cliff, he finally said that he was aware that they gave one of the chicks a severance package that amounted to something like 3 months of her salary………… um.. Not quite, dude.

www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/us/politics/herman-cain-accuser-got-a-years-salary-in-severance-pay.html

WASHINGTON — The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year’s salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there, three people with direct knowledge of the payment said on Tuesday.

The woman was one of two whose accusations of sexual harassment by Mr. Cain, now a Republican candidate for president, led to paid severance agreements during his 1996-99 tenure at the association. Disclosure of the scale of the severance further challenged his initial description of the matter as a “witch hunt,” as did new descriptions from the woman’s friends and colleagues of her level of discomfort at work.

Adding to the pressure on Mr. Cain, a lawyer for the second woman called on the restaurant association to release her from a confidentiality agreement signed as part of her settlement, raising the prospect that she could publicly dispute Mr. Cain’s account of what happened. The lawyer said the confidentiality agreement had left her unable to respond to Mr. Cain’s denials of any inappropriate behavior toward the women.

A full year’s salary, huh?

This brings us to the next point, which I had already made in my previous article about this situation..

In order to get pIZaid, the chicks had to sign NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements) which prohibit them from talking about their allegations.

This would *APPEAR* to be carte blanche for Cain to deny the situation, but it isn’t. It really obviously and clearly isn’t, and Cain has now trapped himself by trying to explain away the report by saying that the gesture he made was holding his hand under his chin and the statement he made was that a chick was the same height as his wife.

He’s trapped, because NOW, the chick can publicly say that she’d LIKE TO tell THE REAL STORY, but she’s prohibited by law.

First of all, this indicates that Cain’s story isn’t the truth, according to her.

Second, it’s prompted television interviewers to ask Cain if he would be willing to wave the woman’s liability in the case so she could tell the truth of the situation and put this behind him so he could continue his “candidacy” for the Presidency of the United States of America.

Of course, Cain can’t do that, because when she says something different from what he says, it’s all over… So he did the smart thing and said that it’s not up to him, it’s up to the lawyers for the company that made the settlement… er.. AGREEMENT, as far as he understands the situation. ;)

This won’t really help him, though, because if he’s telling the truth, he’s actually going to publicly call for the lawyers to allow her to speak.

You’re Not Slick

This is one of the ultimate flaws of the Republican attempts at fielding a viable Presidential candidate this cycle. Nobody told them that shutting up isn’t a shield. You look just as guilty by NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION as you would have looked if you would have answered the question truthfully.

When someone asks Bachmann if she would deport 11.5 million illegal aliens, and she doesn’t answer the question, it’s clear that she would try to do that.

When someone asks Bachmann how she intends to create $2/gallon gasoline in a free-market economy, and she doesn’t answer the question, you know she’s just talking ****.

When someone asks Santorum whether he’d try to reinstate DADT and he flounders all over the place, you know damned well that he’d try to do it.

All I can say for them is that if you ask Ron Paul if he’d dismantle federal agencies, he very gladly and proudly screams “HELLS YEAH, I WOULD!!! >:D”, which is why the Republicans won’t give him any light. He’s putting all the cards on the table, which is valiant, but will never fly in a general Presidential election.

When you ask Romney just about ANYTHING, you can find videotape of him making diametrically opposed statements on this and that, from sneakers to hats. Everybody knows he’ll say anything he has to in order to try to get elected.

So they’re pretty much ALL living by Rolling Disclosure. They’re not going to say that they’ll deport anyone they can find unless they’re ultimately forced to. They’re not going to admit to anything at all, until they have no choice.

So Cain thinks that by playing it off as the domain of the lawyers to deal with, he’s covering himself in this situation. He isn’t. If his story was the same as the chick’s story, he should be publicly CLAMORING for them to allow her to speak, so she can corroborate his story and we can move forward with his so-called “candidacy”.

The problem for Sammi, Weiner and Cain is that Rolling Disclosure makes you look like an idiot and a liar.

The question becomes “Why are you covering up these minor-ass things? o_O”

If that’s not your underwear in the picture, all you have to do is say “That’s not a picture of me. I don’t know who it’s a picture of.”

If you didn’t text someone to come meet you at the club, all you have to say is “I didn’t text that person. There’s no way they have texts from me on their phone. Let’s go confront them right now, and I’ll tell that to their faces.”

If you didn’t sexually harass anyone, all you have to say is “I didn’t sexually harass anyone.”

However… Whether you did it or you didn’t.. If your company shelled out $35,000 USD to some chick who only makes $35,000 USD to give up 52 weeks of the one life she’s ever going to have to live, in order to get her to not talk to the press about what she’s claiming you did to her, you need to fess up about that post-haste.

And by “fess up”, I mean you need to say “This chick accused me of something I didn’t do, and my company’s lawyers decided to pay her off to leave the company and never speak about the situation again.”

Very simple. Just the facts. One basic disclosure, instead of a series of different stories over the course of 48 hours, when your team had 10 days to figure out a strategy to deal with it and you already had 12 years to think about what you’d say if this ever came up in conversation.
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