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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2012/01/11/president-obama-reelection-roadmap/"></g:plusone></div><p>ok.. I&#8217;ve seen enough Republican tomfoolery to drop my overall prediction for how the 2012 Presidential election is going to go. >:D</p>
<p>As far as <a href="http://billcammack.com/2012/01/10/2012-new-hampshire-republican-primary-predictions/">my predictions for New Hampshire</a>, I was right that Romney was going to win (everybody knew that).  I had hoped that Huntsman would edge out Paul, but he didn&#8217;t.  I had thought that Santorum would be ahead of Gingrich, but he wasn&#8217;t.  Perry was at the bottom, where he should have been, since he didn&#8217;t even campaign in New Hampshire, and Bachmann got 343 votes, even though she already dropped out of the race.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I think is going to happen, going forward, which should result in the reelection of President Obama: <span id="more-10755"></span></p>
<h3>Gingrich</h3>
<p>Gingrich is upset because he thought he was going to get over with &#8220;Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican&#8221;, and Romney was like &#8220;**** That! >:D&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the pundits, Iowa television was inundated with negative ads about Gingrich, <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/12/31/2012-republican-iowa-predictions/">which I&#8217;ve spoken about, previously</a>.</p>
<p>If this had been 1975, their money would have been spent.  Since it isn&#8217;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&#8230; Forever.</p>
<p>Gingrich couldn&#8217;t do anything about this because he didn&#8217;t have any money in his campaign to match the Super PAC that&#8217;s backing Romney&#8217;s play&#8230; However&#8230; *NOW*, some dude gave Gingrich 5 million dollars to go berserk with ads in South Carolina. >:D</p>
<p>This money will be spent trashing Romney&#8217;s name and achievements by calling him a &#8220;Vulture Capitalist&#8221; (instead of Venture Capitalist, haha so funny! :D) because of how he&#8217;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.</p>
<p>This campaign will be extremely effective to make Romney look bad, because Romney won&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Similarly, Romney doesn&#8217;t want to reveal his tax data, which, of course, would indicate whether or not he&#8217;s still profiting from people losing their jobs.</p>
<p>So, Gingrich, himself, is finished.  Kaput.  Any time he makes a move, people are going to break out the YouTube videos that Romney&#8217;s Super PAC and Ron Paul&#8217;s team made about him, and then he&#8217;s going to stay with a very low percentage of votes in every single primary and caucus.</p>
<p>He already knows this, so he&#8217;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.</p>
<h3>Paul</h3>
<p>I have to give the Ron Paul supporters their props, because they&#8217;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&#8217;ll look like they don&#8217;t know what the **** they&#8217;re doing.</p>
<p>Last I checked, Paul didn&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Either way, he&#8217;s running a week-to-week operation, and he really shouldn&#8217;t be able to keep up with the war machine that Romney already has available, fully-oiled and properly running, so I can&#8217;t imagine Paul receiving the Republican nomination.</p>
<p>Paul&#8217;s role, going forward, will be a factual dismantling of Romney&#8217;s position, which, again, will add to the ammunition that the Democrats have for the general election.</p>
<h3>Santorum</h3>
<p><a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/12/31/2012-republican-iowa-predictions/">I kept telling you people that there WAS. NO. SANTORUM. SURGE!</a> >:D</p>
<p>Santorum received a religious endorsement in Iowa from a group that doesn&#8217;t have any props in New Hampshire.  Case Closed.</p>
<p>He was polling at 10% before he got that endorsement.  He &#8220;surged&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>The pundits don&#8217;t want to talk about this, because then they&#8217;d have to talk about the issue of Romney and Huntsman being Mormons, which obviously wasn&#8217;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&#8217;t even campaign in NH and ended up #6.</p>
<p>Santorum&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Other than that, he shouldn&#8217;t have much effect on the inevitable nominee, Romney, because he&#8217;s not spending money on negative television/YouTube advertisements about him.</p>
<p>Santorum has no money and no boots-on-the-ground infrastucture, so he shouldn&#8217;t be going very far past South Carolina.</p>
<h3>Perry</h3>
<p>Perry should have quit when he had the chance, after Iowa! :D haha</p>
<p>The *ONLY* reason Perry should stick around is that he has religious backing from the Bible Belt.  If that doesn&#8217;t create a situation-based &#8220;surge&#8221; like Santorum received, he needs to pack it up for real and go back to Texas and stay there.</p>
<p>If he doesn&#8217;t do well in South Carolina, Perry needs to just quit, because all he&#8217;s doing is splitting the religious vote with Santorum.  Nobody, Nobody, Nobody, Nobody, <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/09/23/republican-debate-president-barack-obama/">NOBODY wants to see him try to debate Barack Obama!</a> :D HAHAHA</p>
<p>Perry got basically no votes in Iowa, he got almost absolutely no votes in New Hampshire.. If he doesn&#8217;t receive a massive turnout in South Carolina, it&#8217;s going to be way too late to BEGIN getting votes / securing delagates at the FOURTH contest in the series.</p>
<h3>Huntsman</h3>
<p>Even though I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure that pulling 40,000 votes to Mitt Romney&#8217;s 95,000 votes makes the case.</p>
<p>Either way, Huntsman&#8217;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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Sr." rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Sr.</a> .. Dude *INVENTED*  the &#8220;clamshell&#8221; container for McDonald&#8217;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&#8217;s a drop in the bucket.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also not sure that pulling fewer votes than Ron Paul makes the case, either.</p>
<p>New Hampshire was Jon Huntsman&#8217;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&#8217;s 40%.</p>
<p>The Utah Primary doesn&#8217;t even happen until June <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/" rel="nofollow">www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/</a>, and Huntsman should be out of the race WAAAAAAAY before June! :D</p>
<p>The way I see it, if he doesn&#8217;t do extremely well in South Carolina, he needs to hang it up with Perry.</p>
<p>I&#8217;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</p>
<h3>Romney</h3>
<p>According to me, this sends Romney to the general election to attempt to defeat President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>At first, I saw this as slightly possible.  Now, I don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Through the first series of debates, the candidates didn&#8217;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 &#8220;Nahhhhh! :/&#8221;.</p>
<p>So Romney got to stand there looking Presidential, without actually saying anything.</p>
<p>Now that people have realized that he&#8217;s the only candidate that was ever fielded by the Republicans this cycle, they&#8217;ve been going at him in real-time, and he&#8217;s been folding.</p>
<p>He offered a $10,000 bet to Rick Perry, knowing that he (Romney) is worth approximately 250 million dollars&#8230; Are you ******* KIDDING??? >:D</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-worth-up-to-264-million-earned-up-to-68000-per-speech-before-campaign-start/2011/08/12/gIQAj1fYBJ_story.html" rel="nofollow">Romney worth up to $264 million; earned up to $68,000 per speech before campaign</a></p>
<p>Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who made part of his fortune as co-founder of a private equity firm, and his wife have <strong>personal financial assets worth as much as $264 million</strong>, according to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/romney-disclosure/index.html" rel="nofollow">disclosure documents</a> filed Friday.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Since then, he&#8217;s said and done a bunch of other stuff that give away that fact that (rightfully so, because he&#8217;s always been rich) he&#8217;s not in touch with American workers AT. ALL.</p>
<p>Most importantly, he&#8217;s committed unforced errors as well as having been baited into errors by the likes of such debate geniuses as Rick Perry.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s become apparent that as long as Romney has memorized his flash cards, he can seem like he&#8217;s giving a spontaneous, intelligent presentation, but as soon as he tries to ad-lib, he ends up staying stupid-but-authentic things like &#8220;I like being able to fire people who provide services to me&#8221;:</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nBfWB64iHAs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
YouTube Link => <a href="http://youtu.be/nBfWB64iHAs" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/nBfWB64iHAs</a></p>
<p>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 &#8220;OH ****! :O&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>The short version of that video that only has him saying &#8220;I like being able to fire people who provide services to me&#8221; will be played over and over, whenever he attempts to run for *ANY* public office for the rest of his life.</p>
<p>This indicates to me that Romney will continue to commit these gaffes, to the ultimate delight of the people in charge of Obama&#8217;s reelection campaign, and also that when he finally has to debate Barack Obama, he&#8217;s going to get sorely embarrassed every time he&#8217;s forced outside of his cue-card comfort zone.</p>
<h3>Hail To The Chief</h3>
<p>So, No.. I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>The extraneous, unelectable &#8220;candidates&#8221; will continue to buzz around and create more anti-Romney media for the Democrats to use in the general election.</p>
<p>If they were smart / unselfish, they would decide on one of them to be nominated and all the rest of them would drop out.</p>
<p>In a two-person contest, you can&#8217;t win with 39.4% of the vote. :D</p>
<p>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&#8217;t be.</p>
<p>Perry should drop out because it&#8217;s clear that people don&#8217;t see him as smart enough to be able to defeat President Obama in the general election.</p>
<p>Santorum should drop out unless he has a string of religious endorsements coming up very soon.</p>
<p>Huntsman should drop out if his message doesn&#8217;t resonate in South Carolina, because that means his gambit didn&#8217;t work and probably won&#8217;t work during the rest of the nomination process.</p>
<p>Gingrich should drop out because he&#8217;s been statistically eliminated by Romney&#8217;s Super PAC&#8217;s onslaught of negative ads about him, and he&#8217;ll never recover from that.</p>
<p>Ron Paul *SHOULDN&#8217;T* drop out, because he&#8217;s having the time of his life! :D</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Da6irSCvnZY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
YouTube Link => <a href="http://youtu.be/Da6irSCvnZY" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/Da6irSCvnZY</a></p>
<p>Play On, Playah!!! >:D hahaha Get Yo&#8217; *CELEBRATE* On! :D hahaha</p>
<p>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&#8217;ll be a cakewalk for the Obama team to trounce him in the general election.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[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…]]></description>
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<p>I told you from the beginning that this cycle&#8217;s selection of Republican candidates is an absolute clown show, to put it kindly.</p>
<p>I also asked two main questions.  The first one was &#8220;Where are the broke (poor) Republicans?&#8221;.  The second was &#8220;How come none of the better Republicans (Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, etc) want to run, if they think it&#8217;s going to be so easy to defeat President Obama in 2012?&#8221;.</p>
<p>I was previously done talking about this tomfoolery, but the last few days, the pundits have been talking about something they hadn&#8217;t mentioned this entire time&#8230; <span id="more-10668"></span></p>
<h3>Beat The Clock</h3>
<p>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&#8217;t register for the first primary, etc.</p>
<p>When that date passed, the pundits INSISTED that this keystone-cops&#8217;esque group of candidates were the only ones that could POSSIBLY be nominated.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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 &#8220;The Right&#8221;, and they wouldn&#8217;t possibly get any votes from independents that would put them anywhere near to a victory in the general election.</p>
<p>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&#8217;Reilly finally asked her to her face, which was &#8220;How do you plan to do that? o_O&#8221;.  Her answer was &#8220;Enforce the laws that aren&#8217;t currently being enforced&#8221;.</p>
<p>Obviously, that doesn&#8217;t make ANY SENSE, because you can only enforce laws against people who BREAK. THE. LAW., so O&#8217;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&#8217;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).</p>
<p>Then, you have Santorum saying something ridiculous every week.  He&#8217;ll be off the stage soon.  I predict he&#8217;ll have enough after the first round of voting, which is coming up in 3-4 weeks.  SEEYA! >:D</p>
<p>Then, there was Cain, talking about electrified fences and drones to keep Mexicans in Mexico.  Haven&#8217;t heard jack-**** from him in a full week, ever since he &#8220;suspended&#8221; his campaign.  SEEYA! >:D</p>
<p>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 &#8220;Every man for himself&#8221;.  Get rid of federal this and that, and if your house floats down the river, it sucks to be you.  He won&#8217;t be nominated, and he MOST CERTAINLY will never be elected President.</p>
<p>Then, you have Perry, who was at the top of the statistics until the first time he opened his mouth&#8230; From then on, it&#8217;s been one glaring embarrassment after another, and even before all of his gaffes, President Obama was being kind to him&#8230; I should say, before AMERICA heard all of Perry&#8217;s blunders.  I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s an entire file full of them that Obama was already aware of by the time he made this statement:</p>
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<blockquote><p><a href="http://youtu.be/PYzmzzA9dTY">President Obama</a>: &#8220;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&#8217;t like running for Governor or running for Senator or running for Congress, and you&#8217;ve gotta be a little more careful about what you say.. But I&#8217;ll cut him some slack, he&#8217;s only been at it for a few days now&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And then it was just downhill, downhill, downhill, downhill&#8230;</p>
<p>So the only person left that hasn&#8217;t completely, utterly, absolutely disqualified himself from the race is Gingrich.  He&#8217;s currently receiving all the Not-Romney or Anti-Romney or Anybody-But-Romney poll votes.</p>
<p>So, it would seem that since Romney can&#8217;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?&#8230;</p>
<p>WRONG! :D</p>
<h3>What?&#8230; Who?</h3>
<p>The last few days, I&#8217;ve been hearing about JEB BUSH, who was never a part of this process AT ALL, from the giddyap!</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>ALL OF A SUDDEN, what they&#8217;re talking about is a &#8220;Brokered Convention&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_convention" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_convention</a></p>
<p>A <strong>brokered convention</strong> is a situation in United States politics in which there are <strong>not enough delegates &#8216;won&#8217; during the presidential primary and caucus elections for a single candidate to have a pre-existing majority</strong>, during the first official vote for a political party&#8217;s presidential-candidate at its nominating convention.</p>
<p>Once the first ballot, or vote, has occurred, and no candidate has a majority of the delegates&#8217; votes, the convention is then considered brokered; <strong>thereafter, the nomination is decided through a process of alternating political horse-trading, and additional re-votes.</strong>[1][2][3][4] In this circumstance, <strong>all regular delegates (who, previously, were pledged to the candidate who had won their respective state&#8217;s primary or caucus election) are &#8220;released,&#8221; and are able to switch their allegiance to a different candidate before the next round of balloting.</strong> It is hoped that this &#8216;freedom&#8217; will result in a re-vote resulting in a clear majority of delegates for one candidate.</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you think the pundits might have mentioned this MONTHS AGO? :D ******* IDIOTS! :D</p>
<h3>Start From Scratch</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>How might this happen?</p>
<blockquote><p>http://www.salon.com/2011/11/23/the_gop_needs_a_brokered_convention/singleton/&#8221; rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221;>www.salon.com/2011/11/23/the_gop_needs_a_brokered_convention/singleton/</a></p>
<p>Less noticed, but no less important, is <strong>the new GOP voting system,</strong> 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 <strong>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.</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>But <strong>Not Mitt Romney won’t be on the ballot, right?</strong> Well, yes and no. Several candidates who aren’t Mitt Romney are likely to be on the ballot in all 50 states. <strong>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.</strong> 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. <strong>His only hope is that the other candidates have dropped out.</strong></p>
<p>And, if they do, why exactly would the party leaders step in to save Romney’s nomination? <strong>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.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>BOOYAH!!! :D HAHAHA Enter Jeb Bush!!! >:D</p>
<p>So the final joke might be on everybody watching these shenanigans.</p>
<p>If Romney splits all the delegates before April with Gingrich, Paul &#038; Perry (Bachmann &#038; Santorum will be out of the race looooong before then) and then loses pathetically in the South, because they don&#8217;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&#8217;t going to run.</p>
<h3>Thinkin&#8217; Of A Master Plan</h3>
<p>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&#8217;t matter who they send to lose to Obama.</p>
<p>If this workers&#8217; tax cut and extended unemployment benefits plan isn&#8217;t passed, the blame will be placed on Republicans, every single day, from now until election day.</p>
<p>If nobody gets a job, it will be blamed on the Republicans, every day.</p>
<p>If the troops that just returned home can&#8217;t find work, it will be blamed on the Republicans, every day.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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 &#038; brightest to challenge Barack Obama for the Presidency of the United States of America.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2011/11/24/done-with-politics/"></g:plusone></div><p>I know most of y&#8217;all tune in to <a href="http://billcammack.com/">BillCammack.com</a> to listen to me talk yang about <a href="http://billcammack.com/category/datinggenius/" title="DatingGenius">women &#038; dating</a>, but I&#8217;ve been preoccupied recently with the clown show known as United States Politics.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m over it now, so we&#8217;ll be returning to our regularly-scheduled programming.. joined in progress.</p>
<p>What had HAPPENED was&#8230;</p>
<h3>Why Did I Bother?</h3>
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<p>A little over 4 years ago, I had never heard of Barack Obama.  EvAr. <span id="more-10604"></span></p>
<p>At some point, I became aware that the first VIABLE black candidate was running for the Presidency of the United States of America.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s candidate, much, much, much, much, MUCH LESS having any inkling of an opportunity to come close to winning the general election.</p>
<p>None.</p>
<p>So then, I was like &#8220;Hmm&#8230; I might be witnessing history here, so let me pay attention.</p>
<p>So I found out he was going to be running against John McCain, and I was like &#8220;That figures&#8221;.  John McCain fit that mold that you expect from people that Republicans nominate to be President.</p>
<p>McCain got caught looking angry a couple of times, but I didn&#8217;t see any footage of him actually looking stupid, so it was a toss-up to me.. Let&#8217;s say that I felt like Obama had a 35% chance of winning the election and becoming the PotUS.</p>
<p>Next thing you know.. And, for me, this was like one of those &#8220;Where were you when Nixon resigned? o_O&#8221; or &#8220;Where were you when you found out about 911&#8243; situations.. I became aware from the television that the Republicans had selected a female to be the Vice President if McCain became President.</p>
<p>Without knowing anything at all about Sarah Palin, whom I had never heard of until that very news report, because I don&#8217;t give a flying **** about politics, I immediately thought that this was some sort of tactical error on the Republicans&#8217; part.</p>
<p>I felt like they had been planning on Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee, so they decided to split the &#8220;I want to vote for a female&#8221; vote by sending their own female to the big dance, negating the &#8220;You can be a part of history by electing the first female as President or Vice President&#8221; effect which would have occurred if they had selected another white male to run with McCain.</p>
<p>I figured that maybe they had made promises that they couldn&#8217;t back out of when Obama defeated Clinton.</p>
<p>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, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama" rel="nofollow">Barack Obama was going to be the 44th President of the United States of America</a>.</p>
<p>None.</p>
<p>No doubt, whatsoever.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I immediately became interested in the next election.  I&#8217;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&#8217;t be like &#8220;I guess the Republicans didn&#8217;t have anyone viable to send as VP, so they threw up a Hail Mary, sending Palin&#8221;.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;ve found out (albeit, through television punditry and internet research) is that the process doesn&#8217;t work the way I imagined it did.</p>
<h3>Money Talks, But Bull**** Doesn&#8217;t Have To Walk</h3>
<p>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&#8217;t send Herbs to try to score.  You send your best players.</p>
<p>So I was prepared to see and hear from the best &#038; the brightest of the Republican party during their nomination process, and instead, I was treated to, to use my cousin Nigel&#8217;s term, and pardon my French for a second, but &#8220;an embarrassing shitshow&#8221;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m an Independent.  I vote for whomever I feel like voting for.  I&#8217;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&#8217;re going to have to turn to for votes in the general election.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m now aware of what had happened in 2007, and it&#8217;s happening again in 2011.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s nomination &#8217;till the cows come home.  You can&#8217;t get ejected for lunacy or idiocy.  Nobody from your party can stand up and say &#8220;This person is an idiot.  Remove them from the roster.&#8221;</p>
<p>To mention hockey again, it&#8217;s like you&#8217;re the captain of a team, but YOU don&#8217;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&#8217;t get to decide who plays and who doesn&#8217;t? o_O</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This is why I&#8217;ve maintained from the beginning that Mitt Romney is the only candidate that&#8217;s currently on the roster that has even a remote chance of defeating President Obama in the 2012 election.</p>
<p>Nobody trusts what Romney says, because there&#8217;s just as much footage of him saying THING as there is footage of him saying -THING.. Like two different things that can&#8217;t possibly BOTH be beliefs of the same person, there&#8217;s videotape of him swearing up and down that he believes in both, depending on the crowd he&#8217;s speaking to and what he&#8217;s trying to get them to do.</p>
<p>That might seem to be a liablity.  In the general election, it isn&#8217;t, because Romney can say he&#8217;ll do similar things to what Obama would do if we just replace Obama with him.</p>
<p>None of the rest of the Republican candidates can say that.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.jon2012.com/welcome/home.html" rel="nofollow">Jon Huntsman</a>, but he&#8217;s never been polling well, so we&#8217;ll see if he ever gains traction.</p>
<p>Actually, <a href="http://www.ronpaul2012.com/" rel="nofollow">Ron Paul</a> has sense too, except it&#8217;s not the kind of sense that&#8217;s going to prompt anyone to elect him PotUS.</p>
<p>In fact, even though Paul has been CONSISTENTLY hovering around #3 in every poll I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>So, His own party won&#8217;t back him, and it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what happens if he decides to run anyway, after not receiving the nomination.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;ve been having debates and otherwise running their mouths to the press.</p>
<h3>I Am Jack&#8217;s Complete Lack Of Interest</h3>
<p>However.. My sudden and complete lack of interest in this process isn&#8217;t even the fault of the horrific Republican candidates.  It&#8217;s actually Congress that has made me realize that none of this actually matters.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Imagine your wife tells you to take out the garbage, and you&#8217;re like &#8220;Nah&#8221;.</p>
<p>Imagine she keeps badgering and pestering you, and you&#8217;re like &#8220;Nope&#8221;.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you don&#8217;t take out the garbage for days, until the whole house smells and she&#8217;s about to take it out on her own, and then you go &#8220;Psych! :D HAHA I&#8217;ll take it out! :D&#8221;</p>
<p>You think you&#8217;re getting laid anytime soon? o_O</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Congress played that game and America&#8217;s credit rating got downgraded.</p>
<p>In fact, there were Republicans, including Bachmann, that are very happy and proud to say that they voted AGAINST the &#8220;Final debt deal&#8221; => <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/112/house/1/votes/690/">projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/112/house/1/votes/690/</a>.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2gM-1HbK4qU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
YouTube Link => <a href="http://youtu.be/2gM-1HbK4qU" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/2gM-1HbK4qU</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>So then, I watched as Romney couldn&#8217;t get past approximately 25% (1 out of every 4 people saying they&#8217;d vote for him) in the polls.</p>
<p>Upon researching the situation, I found out that Mitt Romney is a Mormon.</p>
<p>This is automatically a problem.  Listen to this dude that&#8217;s down with Rick Perry:</p>
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<p>In case you can&#8217;t see the video, here&#8217;s what dude said:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://youtu.be/7aF2Cnhr5jQ" rel="nofollow">Perry Supporter</a>: The decision for Conservative, Evangelical Christians right now, is going to be &#8220;Do we prefer somebody who is truly a believer in Jesus Christ, or somebody who is a good moral person, but he&#8217;s a part of a cult?&#8221;.  And it&#8217;s not politically correct to say, but it&#8217;s true, Mormonism is a cult.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you look at the states that Romney won in his 2008 campaign (marked in yellow):</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2008" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Romney_Yellow_States.png"></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2008" rel="nofollow">Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008</a></p>
<p>none of them are in the South (also known as The Bible Belt)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Since Romney&#8217;s rich, he gets to run for President again, because as long as you have money, you can be involved.</p>
<p>That, by the way, is what Herman Cain is still doing in this race also.  He&#8217;s backed by infinite funding from his &#8220;brothers from another mother&#8221;:</p>
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<p>Anyway.. Once I found this out, I was like &#8220;The Republicans are going to have to get over this Mormon thing if they&#8217;re going to back their only hope for a 2012 victory, since preferable people like Chris Christie and Paul Ryan refused to run.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this is where Congress comes in.</p>
<h3>All Your Decisions Are Belong To Us</h3>
<p>If you listen to &#8220;regular&#8221; Republicans talk about the Tea Party, they say that they&#8217;re just a minority and don&#8217;t make any decisions&#8230; However.. Every time you turn around, some Republican decision has been influenced by the Tea Party => <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/04/tea-party-gop-2012_n_948348.html" rel="nofollow">huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/04/tea-party-gop-2012_n_948348.html</a>.</p>
<p>To put it plainly.. Let&#8217;s say you have 20 team members and the other team has 15, so that every time you vote on something, you win.</p>
<p>Now.. Let&#8217;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 &#8220;minority&#8221; refuses to vote with you, whether they abstain or vote with the other team, you can&#8217;t defeat 15 with 13, so, suddenly, you&#8217;re beholding to this so-called &#8220;minority&#8221; for your voting success.</p>
<p>According to the pundits, we saw this play out during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Debt Ceiling Crisis&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p>Apparently, we saw it AGAIN, during the so-called <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/21/politics/super-committee/index.html" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Super Committee Failure&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Granted.. &#8220;Regular&#8221; Republicans who have pledged that their #1 political priority is removing Barack Obama from office can&#8217;t afford to do *ANYTHING* that causes the economy to improve before election time, so it&#8217;s most likely going to be another 12 months before most of y&#8217;all even catch a whiff of a job.</p>
<p>The point, however, is that the pattern I&#8217;ve seen over the last several months is of the Republican majority FOLDING beneath the will of the Republican minority.</p>
<p>This is the main reason I&#8217;ve lost interest in this process.  It&#8217;s a setup.</p>
<p>The Tea Party, AKA the &#8220;minority&#8221; that&#8217;s pulling the strings, bills itself as Conservative.</p>
<p>Romney is not a Conservative.  He&#8217;s an &#8220;I&#8217;ll say whatever you want to hear so maybe you&#8217;ll elect me&#8221;.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s also not going to get any light in the South, like he didn&#8217;t get any light in 2008.</p>
<p>The same game plan that makes you believe that you&#8217;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.</p>
<p>In other words, The Republicans may very well decide to LOSE BIG by running a definitely-Conservative nominee instead of untrustworthy Mitt Romney.</p>
<h3>Last Straws</h3>
<p>Speaking of untrustworthy, that reminds me of the last two elements that have totally removed my interest in this farce.</p>
<p>Romney just ran a clearly unethical television commercial where his team took something that President Obama reported John McCain&#8217;s campaign as saying and only played the part of the audio that makes it sound like Obama said the statement himself.</p>
<p>As an example, it would be like if someone said in an interview &#8220;Steve said <strong>I took the money</strong>, which I didn&#8217;t&#8221;, and the only part that made it to the commercial was &#8220;I took the money&#8221;.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s CLEARLY unethical and underhanded and desperate.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also a bad idea to set a precedent of misleading campaign commercials, because <a href="http://billcammack.com/billcammack/" rel="me">REAL VIDEO EDITORS</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This flies in the face of the unspoken Republican candidate stance that they&#8217;re totally scared to actually verbalize, because they know they&#8217;ll automatically lose the general election, which is that if they&#8217;re elected, they&#8217;ll deport 12 million illegal aliens, quick, fast, in a hurry, Flavor&#8217;s vision ain&#8217;t blurry.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/10/12/obama-vs-romney-2012/">Non-Romneys</a> have fallen off.</p>
<p>Also.. Gingrich&#8217;s statement occurred *after* all the candidates except the two Mormons attended the <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2011/11/video-watch-the-full-iowa-thanksgiving-family-forum/" rel="nofollow">Iowa Thanksgiving Family Forum</a>:</p>
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YouTube Link => <a href="http://youtu.be/aY8Zw5NzUXQ" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/aY8Zw5NzUXQ</a></p>
<p>It also occurred after this:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-evangelicals-iowa-pastors-secret-meeting-11-2012" rel="nofollow">businessinsider.com/ron-paul-evangelicals-iowa-pastors-secret-meeting-11-2012</a></p>
<p>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 <strong>a viable alternative to Mitt Romney</strong>, Business Insider has learned from sources with knowledge of the event.</p>
<p>According to a source, <strong>Newt Gingrich</strong>, Rick Perry, and Ron Paul all spoke at the event, which brought together some of Iowa&#8217;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&#8217;s Iowa caucus win in 2008.</p>
<p><strong>Last week&#8217;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.</strong> Both candidates lack organizational support in Iowa, sources say, so mobilizing churches is their last hope to win over the state&#8217;s Republican primary voters, 60% of whom identify as born-again Christians.</p>
<p>But a source at the conference told Business Insider that the meetings only confirmed that &#8220;evangelicals have lost their cohesion — they don&#8217;t trust their leaders.&#8221; Pastors who favor Michele Bachmann didn&#8217;t even attend the event, the source added, an affront that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.</p></blockquote>
<p>The importance of the combination of those three events is that it&#8217;s clear that the fix is in.  Gingrich is now campaigning for the general election, NOT the Republican nomination.</p>
<p>Without the South and without Conservatives, Romney can&#8217;t possibly be nominated.  If you exclude Romney from the pack, Gingrich doesn&#8217;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&#8217;t count.  Perry manages to say something stupid every. single. week., so he&#8217;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&#8217;t be nominated because he&#8217;s a loose cannon.. a Libertarian, not a Conservative.</p>
<p>Of course, Romney&#8217;s not aware of this, so he&#8217;s creating advertisements against President Obama instead of against Newt Gingrich. :/</p>
<h3>Done</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s really disgusting, how incompetent these people are, and I&#8217;d really, HONESTLY like to know why none of the viable Republicans wanted to run this cycle.</p>
<p>I mean, imagine that you know you&#8217;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&#8230; Talk about the wrong side of history. :/</p>
<p>I&#8217;m no longer interested in watching this stupid process where people say idiotic things and then their pundits defend them as if they&#8217;re viable candidates for the most important job on the planet.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m tired of watching partisan pundits refuse to say &#8220;Fill in the blank&#8221; is unelectable and should get off of the Republican nominee stage.</p>
<p>This whole situation is embarrassing, and now I see how they ended up selecting Palin in 2008.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what I wanted to learn.  That&#8217;s what I wanted to understand.  I&#8217;ve been waiting for this knowledge for four years, and now I have it.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>That sucks.  That&#8217;s not interesting.  That&#8217;s not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism" rel="nofollow">American Exceptionalism</a>.</p>
<p>Unless a good <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/08/10/political-sex-scandals/">political sex scandal</a> occurs, I&#8217;m done with blogging about politics.</p>
<p>Good Luck to the unemployed Americans that y&#8217;all get jobs before the year 2013 AD.</p>
<p>I would personally like to see <a href="http://www.jon2012.com/welcome/home.html" rel="nofollow">Jon Huntsman</a> get the Republican nod, because I think that would actually be an intelligent contest between him and President Obama.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>At least they can say they went down swinging. :/</p>
<p>I&#8217;m over it.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Debate Bloomberg Television and Charlie Rose made an interesting decision last night, by choosing to focus the entire Republican candidate debate on economic issues. [Disclosure: I've edited video for Bloomberg Television, Charlie Rose, ABC and Fox News. www.linkedin.com/in/billcammack] This was interesting because the candidates don&#8217;t have 90 minutes worth of things to say about [...]]]></description>
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<p>Bloomberg Television and Charlie Rose made an interesting decision last night, by choosing to focus the entire Republican candidate debate on economic issues.</p>
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<p>This was interesting because the candidates don&#8217;t have 90 minutes worth of things to say about the economy or jobs.</p>
<p>Of course, Herman Cain talked about his 999 plan, which Michele Bachmann snapped on him with something like &#8220;Turn those numbers over, and the devil is in the details&#8221;, indicating that if you flip it, it becomes 666: <span id="more-10419"></span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_(number)#The_Number_of_the_Beast" rel=nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_(number)#The_Number_of_the_Beast</a></p>
<p>In the New Testament, the Book of Revelation (13:17-18) cryptically asserts 666 to be &#8220;the number of a man,&#8221; associated with the beast, an antagonistic creature that appears briefly about two-thirds into the apocalyptic vision.</p>
<p><strong>In modern popular culture, 666 has become one of the most widely recognized symbols for the Antichrist or, alternatively, the Devil</strong>. Earnest references to the number occur both among apocalypticist Christian groups and in explicitly anti-Christian subcultures. References in contemporary Western art or literature are, more likely than not, an intentional references to the Beast symbolism. Such popular references are therefore too numerous to list.</p>
<p><strong>It is not uncommon to see the symbolic role of the integer 666 transferred to the digit sequence 6-6-6</strong>. Some people take the Satanic associations of 666 so seriously that they actively avoid things related to 666 or the digits 6-6-6. This is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.</p></blockquote>
<p>I had been wondering for a couple of months now when someone was going to bring that up, and I had a nice personal chuckle and virtual high-5 for Bachmann for finally getting the religion card on the table against Cain.</p>
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Speaking of which.. Religion is another highly likely reason why Bloomberg Television chose to ignore everything that&#8217;s happened since the last debate&#8230; They didn&#8217;t want to talk about this:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-11/romney-calls-on-perry-to-repudiate-pastor-s-mormon-cult-remark.html" rel="nofollow">Romney Calls on Perry to Repudiate Pastor’s Mormon ‘Cult’ Remark</a></p>
<p>Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called on rival Rick Perry to denounce comments made by a supporter who likened his Mormon religion to a “cult.”</p>
<p>“I would call upon Governor Perry to repudiate the sentiment and the remarks,” Romney said at a news conference in Lebanon, New Hampshire.</p>
<p><strong>The Reverend Robert Jeffress, a Baptist minister from Dallas, called Mormonism “a cult” and said Romney is “not a Christian”</strong> in remarks to reporters after introducing Texas Governor Perry to an Oct. 7 meeting of social conservatives.</p>
<p>“I just don’t believe that that kind of divisiveness based on religion has a place in this country,” Romney told reporters today.</p>
<p>The renewed attention to his Mormon faith has threatened to throw Romney off his economic message as he has worked to win over party leaders like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who appeared with Romney at today’s news conference to announce his endorsement.</p>
<p>Some evangelical voters, a critical part of the Republican base, don’t believe that Mormons are Christians because they use the Book of Mormon as a holy text along with the King James bible. <strong>Their opposition helped end Romney’s candidacy for the Republican nomination in 2008</strong>.</p>
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Christie’s Rebuttal</ul>
<p>Christie today dismissed those concerns as irrelevant to Romney’s qualifications for president.</p>
<p>“These types of religious matters have nothing to do with the quality of somebody’s ability to lead,” he said at the news conference with Romney. “Any campaign that associates itself with that type of conduct is beneath the office of president.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This brings us to something that&#8217;s more important than sitting a bunch of not-actually-candidates-for-the-Presidency-of-the-United-States-Of-America down at a table and having them say blah blah blah blah blah like they&#8217;ve been saying already for months&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/11/christie-to-endorse-romney-for-president/" rel="nofollow">Christie Endorses Romney Ahead of GOP Debate</a></p>
<p>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in 2012, endorsed Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon.</p>
<p>Christie, at a news conference in Hanover, N.H., described the endorsement as an &#8220;easy decision.&#8221; He cited Romney&#8217;s experience in the private and public sectors, saying he &#8220;brings the best of both&#8221; to the job.</p></blockquote>
<p>The point being that the guy that the Republicans ACTUALLY wanted to run for President against Barack Obama, Chris Christie, is suggesting that his fans support Mitt Romney.</p>
<p>This is the absolute last straw. :)</p>
<h3>Not-Romney</h3>
<p>I say that there is absolutely no way that the Republicans will be sending anyone but Romney to the big dance.</p>
<p>To be clear, Romney was always the only quasi-viable candidate that the Republicans fielded this cycle.</p>
<p>All these surges in the polls that you&#8217;ve seen (if you&#8217;ve been paying attention to this stuff at all) are not votes for individual candidates.. They&#8217;re votes *AGAINST* Romney.</p>
<p>There are only two choices here.. Romney and Not-Romney.</p>
<p>He tried this last cycle, but got waxed, buffed and simonized by John McCain, who promptly punted his chances by selecting Sarah Palin as his VP running mate.  If you feel like reading about it, here it is => <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_presidential_campaign,_2008" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_presidential_campaign,_2008</a></p>
<p>Originally, the only Not-Romney was Michele Bachmann, which is why the stupid-ass pundits kept playing her up as a viable Presidential candidate.</p>
<p>In fact, she was never viable and certainly still isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>As soon as the poll-takers had a different Not-Romney, when Rick Perry entered the Republican race the very next day, you never heard from Bachmann ever again, because nobody&#8217;s actually going to vote for her.</p>
<p>To be fair, and qualify my statements.. You can&#8217;t become the PotUS by not-answering questions.</p>
<p>When someone asks you if you would deport 11.5 million illegal aliens that are currently living in the USA, the answer is &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221;.  The answer &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to talk about that until we secure our border with Mexico&#8221; will not get you elected.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re asked about specific policies that you would enact if you were elected, saying &#8220;I would repeal this and that that Obama and the Democrats have put in place&#8221; is all well &#038; good in a hypothetical sense, but it doesn&#8217;t build confidence with anybody that you can actually do *ANYTHING* that you&#8217;re saying.. such as waving your magic wand and returning gas prices to $2 USD per gallon.</p>
<p>In fact, you can see her concentrating SOOOO HARD on what she&#8217;s supposed to say in response to actual questions that it&#8217;s ridiculous.  Her robotic, planned, fake-ass responses to everything are going to get her a lot of book sales and lecture circuit bookings, but no, she was never viable and she hasn&#8217;t shown any signs of improvement at all.</p>
<p>The next Not-Romney was Perry.  He was shining for, like, three days, before he started making yahoo statements about what would happen to people if they came to Texas and all other kinds of local yokel nonsense that clearly demonstrates that he&#8217;s not prepared for the National stage, MUCH LESS the *INTERNATIONAL* STAGE!!!</p>
<p>He can barely read off of his index cards that he has on the podium or table during debates to try to snap on Romney.  It&#8217;s embarrassing.</p>
<p>Can you imagine what would happen to someone if they were supposed to verbally challenge you and they needed to read their thoughts off of cards?  They&#8217;d get laughed out of the state.</p>
<p>Imagine that you went for a job interview, and you had to read things off of cards to a potential employer.  You could forget it.</p>
<p>Anyway.. Perry was the Not-Romney for a hot minute, and that&#8217;s over now.  He&#8217;s verbally stumbled and bumbled too many times, and when the camera shows him during conversations about international issues, he looks dazed and confused, and that&#8217;s when they&#8217;re not even addressing him.</p>
<p>You can tell that he&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark" rel="nofollow">jumped the shark</a> because nobody confronted him during last night&#8217;s debate.  Nobody cares.  He&#8217;s a non-issue.  Everybody wanted to talk about Romney and Cain.</p>
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<p>After Bachmann fell off immediately, and Perry fell off as soon as people heard him actually speak, Herman Cain has risen to become the only Not-Romney left.</p>
<h3>Also-Rans</h3>
<p>Newt Gingrich is not an actual candidate.  Nobody&#8217;s going to vote for him.  Everybody knows this.</p>
<p>Rick Santorum, I have no idea how he&#8217;s still allowed to come to these debates.  They let Gary Johnson get on the stage for one debate, and he&#8217;s gone again, already.</p>
<p>If you look at the list <a href="http://2012.republican-candidates.org/" rel="nofollow">2012.republican-candidates.org/</a>, there are a bunch of dudes you&#8217;ve never heard of that are billed as candidates??? \o/</p>
<p>How does one become involved with this? o_O</p>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll get my <a href="http://facebook.com/billcammack" rel="me" title="Bill Cammack">3,000 Facebook Friends</a> to write me in as a Republican candidate too! :D</p>
<p>Like I&#8217;ve said <a href="http://billcammack.com/category/social-media/">before</a>, I&#8217;d like to see Jon Huntsman vs President Obama in 2012.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not likely to happen, as low as he&#8217;s polling, but my friend Sam tells me to stop listening to the liberal media and believing the hype, so I&#8217;m going to hold out hope that Huntsman can make something happen in the actual primaries.</p>
<p>Of course.. Huntsman has the same &#8220;Mormon Issues&#8221; that Romney has, so I realize that it&#8217;s a longshot.</p>
<p>Ron Paul is like that crazy, moonshine-drinking old-ass uncle that you have that lives WAY, WAY, WAY, FAAAAAR in the sticks and has all these wacko ideas that you know deep down are absolutely correct to a degree, but you simultaneously know that nobody would ever put him in a position to have actual power over your life.</p>
<p>Do I care that people got flooded in Vermont?  Yes.  Does it matter to me? No.  It makes no difference in my life, whatsoever.</p>
<p>Do I feel like people that got jerked by an act of nature should be helped by the Federal Government or whomever is in charge of helping people that need it? HELLZ YEAH!!!</p>
<p>The concept of &#8220;Sucks to be them.. Flooding in Vermont isn&#8217;t the problem of people in Texas, so let them sink or swim on their own&#8221; is straight retarded.</p>
<p>The concept of letting individual states determine safety standards for air traffic control is straight retarded.</p>
<p>I realize that Ron Paul owes Moses a quarter from the good ole&#8217; days, but this isn&#8217;t the Wild, Wild West or the Gold Rush Era.</p>
<p>This is not a bunch of free, wild, unsettled (well, you know&#8230; other than all the natives y&#8217;all wiped out) land in between Mexico and Canada.  This is a group.  They&#8217;re called UNITED. STATES.</p>
<p>Scream all you want about &#8220;liberty&#8221;.  Nobody&#8217;s going to back your play.</p>
<p>Herman Cain has risen to become the king of the Not-Romneys because he&#8217;s saying things that people understand.</p>
<p>In fact, last night, Rick Perry was asked about his economic plan, and he essentially said &#8220;I&#8217;m dropping it three days from now&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;.. ummmm&#8230;. WHAT? o_O</p>
<p>Are you crazy?</p>
<p>Herman Cain&#8217;s been yelling 9-9-9 all day, every day, even more than President Obama&#8217;s been yelling PASS THIS BILL, and you show up to yet another debate completely unprepared to articulate *YOUR* jobs plan?</p>
<p>C&#8217;MON, SUNN! :/</p>
<p>Perry folded because of his stance on education for the children of illegal immigrants in Texas and because people know damned well that if they send him to <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/09/23/republican-debate-president-barack-obama/">debate Barack Obama</a>, it&#8217;s not even going to be funny.. only strictly and entirely embarrassing.</p>
<h3>Beginning Of The End</h3>
<p>The two guys that the Republicans actually wanted, Paul Ryan and Chris Christie &#8220;don&#8217;t want none&#8221;.  Perry has a Pro-Christian/Anti-Mormon chance to receive the nomination, but everybody knows that if they send Perry, that means four more years for Obama.</p>
<p>This is why Cain is currently the Not-Romney.  There&#8217;s no one left.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Christie just endorsed Romney.  Trump will be getting on board, soon.  The rest of them will fall like dominoes.</p>
<p>There never was a Republican candidate other than Mitt Romney this cycle.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t realize this, you haven&#8217;t been paying attention.</p>
<p>If you disagree, feel free to <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/10/12/obama-vs-romney-2012/#comments">click here and leave a comment so we can debate this</a>.</p>
<p>The main problem that Romney has is that he&#8217;s gone on record in text and video as advocating diametrically opposed positions, depending on whom he&#8217;s speaking to.</p>
<p>People don&#8217;t trust him, because they know he&#8217;s going to say whatever he needs to say to try to get elected, and nobody actually knows where he stands on *ANY* of the issues.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for the Republicans, and I can&#8217;t believe this is happening, because they had four years to figure out, cultivate and field a viable candidate after tossing the previous election by adding Palin to their ticket, Romney was and still is their only shot AT ALL of defeating President Barack Obama in 2012.</p>
<p>As a bonus tip, I&#8217;ll throw this in&#8230;</p>
<p>There are two reasons why the President&#8217;s approval ratings are currently as low as they are:</p>
<ol>
<li>He only recently started snitching on John Boehner and Eric Cantor for their obstructionist tactics in opposing jobs for the American people.</li>
<li>The Republicans haven&#8217;t selected their nominee yet.</li>
</ol>
<p>The common, everyday, stupid person doesn&#8217;t know that the President can&#8217;t just do whatever he feels like doing and the rest of the country has to follow.</p>
<p>Joe Public is learning that now, since &#8220;PASS THIS BILL&#8221; has been in the news every single day now for weeks and is not going to stop until the very day of the elections.</p>
<p>Every single day, Democrats are saying &#8220;We want to give the American people jobs, but the Republicans are blocking our efforts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whether that&#8217;s true or not is irrelevant.  By the time the election rolls around, the entire Republican party will have been vilified.</p>
<p>Vilified for not passing this bill.<br />
Vilified for yelling to let people without insurance die.<br />
Vilified for booing a homosexual soldier that&#8217;s risking his life for this country.<br />
Vilified for putting stipulations on allocating disaster relief funds for American victims.<br />
Vilified for not answering questions about deporting illegal aliens.<br />
Vilified for hijacking the debt ceiling talks until the USA&#8217;s credit rating was downgraded.<br />
Vilified for not producing any jobs or even proposing a plan.<br />
Vilified for hustling to add restrictions on early voting and voter identification.<br />
Vilified for always talking about corporations and never about jobless individuals</p>
<p>By the time the 2012 election rolls around, Republicans won&#8217;t have a decent reputation left amongst THE PEOPLE, who are the ones who actually have to VOTE for whomever&#8217;s going to be the President for the next 4 years.</p>
<p>This is when the polls will change from &#8220;Do you approve of Barack Obama&#8217;s accomplishments over the past 4 years&#8221; to &#8220;Would you rather live in a country where Barack Obama or Mitt Romney is your President?&#8221;</p>
<p>Suddenly.. There will be a major shift in the poll statistics! :D HAHAHAHA</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m tired of all this.  I&#8217;m not impressed.  This is basically a joke, like it was in the 2008 election.</p>
<p>If the Republicans decide to agree to parts of Obama&#8217;s jobs bill, they lose the election because he gets to say that he created jobs for the American people.</p>
<p>If the Republicans keep blocking opportunities for Americans to work, they lose the election because nobody&#8217;s going to want to give the people that have been denying them the opportunity to make money EVEN MORE POWER OVER THEIR LIVES.</p>
<p>I dont know why this isn&#8217;t obvious to them, but it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>What they need to do is stop playing these &#8220;candidate&#8221; games, clear these extra characters off the playing field, have them endorse one or two frontrunners (Romney and an alternate), and consolidate their efforts.</p>
<p>Of course, that won&#8217;t happen, because that&#8217;s not how the game is played.</p>
<p>Also, if Romney gets the nomination, as I&#8217;ve suspected he would all along, be prepared for a third-party candidate to be fielded by disgruntled Republicans, splitting the vote and ensuring a Barack Obama win in 2012.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[I still say the Republicans haven&#8217;t fielded their real Presidential Candidates yet, and they&#8217;re using the current set as bait, to see how the Democrats treat them and how their ideas are received by the American public. The names I mentioned a long time ago, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan are popping up more and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2011/09/23/republican-debate-president-barack-obama/"></g:plusone></div><p>I still say the Republicans haven&#8217;t fielded their real Presidential Candidates yet, and they&#8217;re using the current set as bait, to see how the Democrats treat them and how their ideas are received by the American public.</p>
<p>The names I mentioned a long time ago, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan are popping up more and more frequently on the talk shows, while the Republican pundits look and sound less and less confident of their chances to defeat President Obama in the upcoming election, as well they should.</p>
<p>I had wanted to talk about specifics about last night&#8217;s Google / Fox News debate, but the candidates&#8217; commentary and behavior was redundant, so I&#8217;m just going to keep this very simple, so simpletons can understand this.</p>
<p>Whomever the Republicans send to the big dance <strong>is GOING. TO. HAVE. TO. DEBATE. BARACK. OBAMA.</strong> <span id="more-10366"></span></p>
<p>The point, in ghetto-speak, is &#8220;You&#8217;re going to have to be MAD NICE WITH YOUR VERBAL SKILLZ or else The President&#8217;s going to CLOWN YOU, SUNN! >:D&#8221;</p>
<p>We all saw what happened to Trump:</p>
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<em>YouTube Link => <a href="http://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4</a></em></p>
<p>That was reading from a prepared script.</p>
<p>If Trump would have been allowed to speak and attempt to verbally battle President Obama, he would have gotten roasted even worse and embarrassed even more.</p>
<p>I bring this up because unless the Republicans send in some new, VIABLE candidates, the only two possibilities for them to send are Perry and Romney.</p>
<p>If they send Perry, I&#8217;m getting the popcorn and the DVR.</p>
<p>If they send Perry to debate one-on-one with Obama, pardon my French for a second, but the only term that can possibly adequately describe what&#8217;s going to happen is &#8220;Shit Show&#8221;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m almost crying laughing right now, thinking about how badly Perry is going to get SERVED if the Republicans are so stupid as to send him against Obama.</p>
<p>It was all well &#038; good when nobody had heard of Perry, and we were watching prepared sound bites that he was reading off of cue cards or watching him speak by himself, posing on a hay bale, but to see how verbally unpolished he is during direct confrontations with Romney and Santorum, neither of which are fantastic debaters either, it&#8217;s intuitively obvious that Perry&#8217;s going to sound really, really, REALLY BAD compared to Obama.</p>
<p>Listen to this ridiculousness: </p>
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<em>YouTube Link => <a href="http://youtu.be/gd6H-0rJ74Q" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/gd6H-0rJ74Q</a></em></p>
<p>You&#8217;re going to have to rewind it a few times, because his sentences don&#8217;t make any sense.  This isn&#8217;t even debating, though.. This is responding to a clear and obvious question from a moderator.</p>
<p>Can. You. Imagine. what&#8217;s going to happen if he has to debate BARACK OBAMA??? :D HAHAHAHAHA</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html</a></p>
<p>The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. <strong>The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School.</strong></p>
<p>The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago&#8217;s South Side before enrolling in law school.</p></blockquote>
<p>Don&#8217;t do it to yourselves, Republicans.  It is NOT going to be pretty.<br />
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