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Romney Is A Nice Guy

Bill Cammack — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:11:35 +0000

Mostly, what people ask me is how they can force the opposite sex to do what they want.

Women want to know how to get guys to take them to dinner instead of incessantly trying to screw them.

Men want to know how to get women to give it up, since taking them to dinner didn’t produce the desired outcome = sex.

You might be wondering what that has to do with Romney attempting to become the President of the United States of America…

Fakin’ Tha Funk

Probably because they watch a lot of movies, and because they see women throwing ***** at “bad boys”, guys tend to ask my opinion about whether they should act like jerks to get laid faster.

There are several reasons why this technique works, and, yes, nice guys get laid more slowly.. well, not meaning physical movement by the chick, I mean it takes chicks longer to hook up with nice guys than “bad boys”, because there’s nothing sexy about nice dudes.

The problem is that you actually HAVE TO FEEL what you’re saying or doing.. You have to be authentic.

If you’re not, you look like what you are.. which is a nice guy pretending to be a badboy so you can get laid faster = you don’t get laid at all.

So when a dude asks me if he should act like he doesn’t care about having sex with a chick in order to get her to give it up, my question to him is “DO you care? o_O”

If his answer is “yes”, then pretending like he doesn’t isn’t the way to go for him.

If his answer is “no”, then yeah, he should make it clear to her how little he cares about screwing her.

What this has to do with Romney is that it’s clear that he’s faking.

It’s clear that Mitt Romney is a nice guy. I guarantee you he is.

He’s so HORRIBLE at acting like a jerk that it’s obvious that he’s a nice guy.

Unfortunately for him, because Santorum and Gingrich are being supported by billionaire Sugar Daddies to stay in the Republican Presidential nomination race, Romney has to keep trying to act like a jerk to stay on par with his competitors.

As soon as Romney locks up the nomination, he’s going to turn into a different person, just like Romney Campaign Senior Advisor, Eric Fehrnstrom said on national television:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/5DmtPA02SNk

Fehrnstrom: “Well, I think you hit a reset button, uh, for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch.. You can kind of.. shake it up, and we start all over again.

This is what I’ve been saying this whole time. Romney is the only one that’s going to be able to reverse his position from these ridiculous things he’s been saying over the last 6 months. He’s the only one that offers any challenge whatsoever to President Obama, because he’s going to act like he never said all the stuff he said while he was campaigning.

We know this because he’s currently acting like he never said all the stuff he said in the past. There’s videotape of him saying the exactly opposite thing about A. LOT. OF. TOPICS, and he acts like those tapes don’t exist.

YouTube Link => youtu.be/D1QiB4m66zg

Either he’s deliberately lying, or he’s mentally unable to access his previous statements and states of mind, even when people show him videotape of himself saying what he said.

Hair On Fire

Most of the time, Romney looks like he’s trying to access information he was taught on 3×5 flash cards, like Perry and Bachmann tried unsuccessfully to pull off.

In this video clip, Romney appears to me to be speaking genuinely:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/VDuA1yuQo6E

Romney: Uh, you know, it’s, it’s very easy to excite the [Republican] base with incendiary comments, and we’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative and attacking of President Obama that you’re going to jump up in the polls.

You know, I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to get support. I am who I am. I’m a person with extensive experience in the private sector, in the economy. I understand job creation from a personal standpoint, and from a theoretical standpoint.

I want to use those skills to help the country, and if I get selected, great, and if I don’t, I can live with that too.

I’m putting myself out there because I think I can do a better job getting America back on track. I think this President’s taken this in a very dangerous direction and that we’ve gotta get him out of the White House, but I’m not willing to say anything to get that done.

I think that was a genuine and heartfelt statement.

If this had been the Mitt Romney we had been seeing day in and day out, I personally believe he would actually have a 50/50 chance at winning the 2012 election.

If he would have stuck to the game plan, which was supposed to be that he knows more about job creation and the economy than President Obama, so the American people should elect him in order to have a better chance at future prosperity, this upcoming general election would have been very close, in my opinion.

Instead.. Romney’s advisors told him to run with the big dogs.. Religious Fanatic Santorum and Just Plain Jerk Gingrich.

Mistake.

Here’s a tip for the fellaz… You can’t out badboy the REAL badboys.

When Gingrich says something demeaning, you know he means it.

When Santorum says something religious, you know he means it.

Romney can neither out-jerk Gingrich nor out-religion Santorum, so he should never have tried it from the giddyap. He should have stuck to whatever *HIS* personal feelings were, so people would find him authentic, even if they didn’t wholeheartedly agree with his political stances.

This is why I advise dudes *NOT* to try to act like badboys to get laid.

When you do that, you get compared to the real deal, and you’re found severely lacking.

As soon as Gingrich and Santorum are out of the picture, watch the change in Romney’s demeanor. He’s acting right now. He knows what people want to hear, so he’s saying it.

Just like his senior advisor said.. They’re going to start all over.

The Current Republican Problem

Bill Cammack — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:11:46 +0000

I started paying attention to American Presidential politics 6 months ago, which is 2 months longer than my second-longest relationship, but that’s neither here nor there… >:D

So far, everything’s gone exactly the way I said it would, except for a few things I didn’t know about when I started blogging about this stuff.

The only reason people were pumping Bachmann was because she was a protest vote against Romney.

As soon as Perry announced he was in the race, Bachmann was over, because they’re the same person, except he’s male and she’s female, which means he wins the votes.

Bachmann disappeared.

I wanted Jon Huntsman to be sent against President Obama, because that would have been an interesting contrast of ideas, AND Huntsman carries himself Presidentially, which makes sense, since he’s been an ambassador for the USA for ages, AND Huntsman was #1 in job creation when he was Governor of Utah, which is what the American people need right now.. Jobs.

Huntsman never gained traction and disappeared.

Buddy Roemer had a lot of good ideas, but never gained traction and is now running as an Independent.

They tried to pump Rick Perry up as Steve Austin, the 6 Milliion Dollar Man by posing him in commercials with American flags and soup-up music and narration, but as soon as he started speaking, it was clear he wasn’t ready for the national stage and needed to stay in Texas.

Perry bounced.

Cain was a joke from the beginning, but gained traction for being the only candidate to actually say what he planned to do.

While everyone else was just saying “boo, Obama”, Cain was pubbing his 999 plan, which Americans gravitated to, because SOMETHING is better than NOTHING, which is what the rest of the Republican candidates are offering.

Anyway.. Cain got sidetracked because he’s been paying some chick’s rent for 13 years behind his wife’s back, so either he’s a sucker or he was gettin’ some on the side this whole time.

In order to not have any MORE of his skeletons fall out of the closet, Cain bounced.

That left us with our final four:

Ron Paul isn’t a real candidate. He’s just hanging around collecting delegates so he’ll be able to request a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention and talk about liberty.

Newt Gingrich is a jerk, according to a bunch of people that have worked with him in the past.

Not that a jerk can’t get elected President, but there’s too much dirt on him and Romney’s team demolished him with videos that are still available on YouTube to this day.

In fact, Republicans are scared that if they run Gingrich, they’re going to lose seats in Congress as well as lose the general election, so they’re doing anything they can to prevent him from succeeding.

I had predicted Gingrich’s exit from the race way before now, but what I didn’t know was that a billionaire could (and did) singlehandedly back his play and give him millions of dollars to afford to keep running.

If I would have known at the beginning that a) nobody can be ejected from the race because it’s clear that they’re not going to win, or even for gross incompetence (in the case of Perry, Cain, and Bachmann), and b) all you need to run for President is money, so as long as you still have it, you don’t have to “suspend” your campaign, I would have said that Gingrich was going to stay in as long as he has money.

Rick Santorum is mostly known for getting kicked out of office by 18 points in 2006 => campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/why-did-santorum-lose-2006/376896

At this point, he’s known for being a religious fanatic that can’t stay on-message about jobs and the economy.

In fact.. Here’s what he had to say recently *ABOUT* jobs and the economy:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/bYH20Go9cgo

He said “I don’t care what the unemployment rate’s gonna be. Doesn’t matter to me. My campaign doesn’t hinge on employment rates and growth rates.”

So the people sitting at home watching this are going “Why the **** should I vote for THIS guy, when he’s not focused on getting ME a job?”

Santorum is another one that should have been out of the race by now, except he has a billionaire Sugar Daddy pumping funds into his Super PAC.

That leaves Mitt Romney, whom I said from the beginning was the only real candidate this entire time.

There are two basic reasons I believed this.

The first one is that none of the rest of the candidates were viable. This is obvious to the most casual observer. It’s like sending an 8-year-old Little League pitcher to Major League Baseball and expecting him to strike out grown-ass men. These people were jokes from the beginning, and it’s embarrassing that they lasted so long.

The second one is that nothing that Romney says is believable, which is an asset, because he’s the only one that’s going to be able to turn around in the general election and say “hehe :D I didn’t actually mean any of that stuff I said during the Republican candidacy process. I was just saying that to get those yahoos to send me to the big dance.”

None of the rest of them can make it back to the center for the general election.

Santorum has entrenched himself as a zealot.

Gingrich has entrenched himself as a jerk.

Paul isn’t a factor.

Romney is the only one that has videotape of himself advocating for BOTH SIDES of a lot of important issues. Right now, he’s being attacked for that, but, in fact, it’s the only thing that gives him the slightest chance of defeating President Barack Obama in the upcoming election.

YouTube Link => youtu.be/cKtNYmsarUE

YouTube Link => youtu.be/X6NArPUFLRI

They’re making a big deal out of what’s supposedly a “gaffe” by Romney’s homeboy, but he’s telling the truth. Romney’s going to pivot away from the last several months of tomfoolery and present himself as a viable alternative to Barack Obama.

He’s going to do that by appealing to Independents and Moderates by telling them what they want to hear. Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul are too far gone to try that.

Another thing I didn’t realize until my fellow Facebook pundits, Sam & Rahsan pointed out to me, is that there’s a subset of Republicans called Conservatives.

I thought they were all on the same team, and that they had all agreed that what they wanted most out of life was to make Barack Obama a one-term President. That’s why I thought they were going to back Romney relatively quickly.

In fact, Conservatives know that Romney IS NOT a Conservative, and nominating him is a toss-up. There’s no telling if he’s going to do *ANYTHING* that Conservatives want done. That’s why they’ve been clamoring to elect ANYBODY but him.. I mean, besides religious issues.

So, the current Republican problem is that they can’t trust the only guy that could POSSIBLY defeat President Obama to do anything DIFFERENT than what Obama would do if he’s reelected to another 4-year term.

This is why some of them are backing Santorum, even though he was never viable in the first place, and digs his hole deeper every day, with his ridiculous, shoot-from-the-hip comments that he says in front of people that agree with him and then are publicized over the internet to millions of people that DON’T agree with him.

At this point, I feel like Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels refused to enter the Republican race because they knew that they would have been nominated.

If they would have been nominated and then *LOST* to Barack Obama after all this trash they’ve talked about him, they would have gone down in history as major losers.

By sending Romney, they win either way. If he wins, none of their names have been tarnished, and they can try to run for President in the future. If he loses, none of their names have been tarnished, and they can try to run for President in the future.

It will be interesting to see what happens… I think Ann Coulter called it from the giddyap:

“Game Change” Review [Part 01 of 02]

Bill Cammack — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:35:23 +0000

What It Is

“Game Change” is an HBO film about Sarah Palin that was based on a book that was written by the dude that called President Obama a dick on national television:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/449FGJwDQRY

According to the interviews I’ve seen, the book is actually about both the Democrat and Republican races in 2008, but since they had to condense it to a 2-hour movie, they elected to focus on the Palin angle.

Also according to video footage I’ve seen, both Palin and John McCain have denounced the film, even though neither had seen it at the time of their interviews, but that makes sense if they weren’t personally consulted about the script and the potential authenticity (or not) of the book it was based on.

Why I Watched It

I don’t give a flying **** about politics. The only reason I’ve been paying attention to the 2012 Presidential race, and blogging about it, is because I was entirely amazed that the Republicans (in my non-politics-following estimation) threw up a “Hail Mary” and forfeited the 2008 Presidential campaign by selecting Sarah Palin to run as Vice President with John McCain.

As soon as Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, my quest in life became to figure out WHY the Republicans made that choice. That’s why I’ve been closely monitoring the 2012 nomination process, and I’ve been learning, but “Game Change”, fictional or not, gives me the insight I’ve been craving, as to how this could possibly have happened.

Initially, I felt like the 2008 election was going to be fascinating, yet typical. I thought the best thing that could possibly happen is that the Democrats were going to run Hillary Clinton and lose decisively in the general election, merely on the male vs. female President issue.

I had never in my life heard of Barack Obama as of February 09, 2007, when I posted the video “WHEN Hillary Is President” => http://billcammack.com/2007/02/09/reelsolidtv-episode-39-when-hillary-is-president/

YouTube Link => youtu.be/EZBf472OsnM

Eventually, I heard (probably because I walked by a television that was running somewhere, because I don’t watch the news) that a black guy was running, and he was actually a viable candidate this time, not just a symbolic “Non-whites can be President, too! :O” social token.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_candidates_for_President_of_the_United_States

In 1888 Frederick Douglass was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention. Afterward during the roll call vote, he received one vote, so was nominally a candidate for the presidency. In those years, the candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency were chosen by state representatives voting at the nominating convention. Many decisions were made by negotiations of state and party leaders “behind closed doors.” Douglass was not a serious candidate in contemporary terms.

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American major party candidate for president. She was a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination and participated in the Democratic primaries in numerous states.[1] She campaigned in 12 states and won 28 delegates.[2] In 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson was the first major party black candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns. He also ran as a Democratic Party candidate.[3]

In 1992 Alan Keyes was the first African-American candidate to run in the Republican presidential primaries.[citation needed] Keyes ran again, unsuccessfully, in 1996, 2000, and 2008. In 2004, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton ran as unsuccessful candidates in the Democratic primaries. “Tea Party” Republican Herman Cain has announced his candidacy for the presidency in 2012, though he has since suspended his campaign.

So I was fascinated by this concept and wanted to know how the American people were going to respond to a real candidate, as opposed to one of these “Run, Jesse, Run! :D” situations that was immensely historically significant while simultaneously logically ridiculous => en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson#1984_presidential_campaign.

I was totally like “It’s possible… It’s possible…. It’s possible…..” until I heard the Republicans selected Palin, at which point I immediately said to myself “Barack Obama is going to be President! :D” HAHAHAHA I mean, I had no doubt in my mind that the race was over when I heard about Palin.

President Palin

The reason I knew it was over was because the Republicans shifted the focus from disinterest in McCain to VIRULENT opposition to “President Palin”.

I see, from “Game Change”, why they selected her, and it may have been the best thing they could have done to try to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, but to someone like myself, who doesn’t care about politics at all, this became the entire focus:

“This dude McCain doesn’t look all that healthy. If he croaks in office, we will have unwittingly elected Sarah Palin President of the United States of America.”

That concept, Palin being the actual President, was enough to get *ANYBODY* off their asses and to the polls to prevent that.

Once I found out about that, I was like “people are going to vote like crazy *AGAINST* the Republican ticket, even if they weren’t already going to vote *FOR* the Democrats”.

This all happened immediately for me. There was no doubt in my mind AT ALL that the Republicans were extremely desperate and the race was over as soon as they announced Palin… This was *BEFORE* we found out all the extra stuff about her in the upcoming weeks.

It’s like when you’re going to select a team for sports. First, you want to pick a good quarterback. If you can’t throw the ball and you can’t scramble, you’re probably going to lose. SECOND.. You have to pick a good wide receiver. If the WR can’t get open, there’s nobody for the QB to throw to, and you still lose.

When Obama picked Biden, that was the 1-2 punch. I was like “McCain is going to have to pick a GOOD Vice President in order to..” then they announced Palin, and I was like “It’s over! :D”

I think one of the major miscalculations the Republicans made was thinking that all females are similar. They aren’t.

Just because lots of people were ready to support Hillary Clinton, that doesn’t mean you can pick any woman out of a hat and run her one 72-year-old’s heartbeat away from being President.

Anyway.. I wanted to give my personal background for watching “Game Change”.. In fact, if I had known they were making this movie, I could have saved myself the last six months of misery, watching the Republican nomination tomfoolery, trying to get a clue about how a Palin selection was even possible, *AND* whether the Republicans had any better selections, four years later…

Game Change

This film wasn’t created by asking Palin or McCain what actually happened, but the filmmakers claim that they researched the situations with a lot of people that were there and witnessed it, such as Nicolle Wallace, one of Sarah Palin’s top advisers, who was featured prominently in the film, and who said that “Game Change” was true enough to make her squirm.

That doesn’t make the movie authentic, but it’s different from just speculating about what someone was thinking. You have people that stood there and listened to her say what she said and watched her do what she did.

I wanted to say that up front, because this is a theatrical presentation, which shouldn’t be taken as “word is bond”, but more like an approximation of what probably happened behind the scenes.

YouTube Link => youtu.be/IPhh7mch5zo

I think the first important point is that they selected Ed Harris to play John McCain.

Ed Harris is a *BRILLIANT* actor. He plays people that you’re supposed to hate, but you root for them anyway, such as the super-evil badguy expert sniper in “Enemy At The Gates”. He picks somebody off, and you’re like “OOH!.. NICE SHOT! :D” instead of “DAMN HIM!!! :(”

Also, Ed Harris is currently in good shape. In 2008, John McCain was not. One thing that was missing from the film was the horrific concept that I mentioned above, which was “What if McCain keels over?”.. Pretty much, you feel in the movie that if McCain would have won, Palin would never have become PotUS (which history shows us at this point is true, because John McCain is currently still alive). That’s one of the feelings that I missed from the presentation. It didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the film, but I noticed that it felt different while I was rooting for Ed Harris to become President, even though I already knew the ending to the story.

Julianne Moore was *FANTASTIC* as Palin. Seriously. Excellent job, from the look to the facial expressions to the speech patterns to the accent. Great! :D

The only thing that broke my immersion of “Moore = Palin” is that they have slightly different body types, with Palin having more bounce to the ounce.

I’m not going to be able to explain to the ladies reading this what difference that makes, but it definitely makes a “That’s not actually Palin” difference. >:D

The other thing that broke my immersion (although I’m sure this was a deliberate scripting and acting decision and not a deficiency), is that when I’m listening to Palin speak, the real one, I can tell that she’s deliberately stacking up comments that bolster the point she’s trying to make, or the opinion she wants people listening to her to have, whether her statements are true or not.

I didn’t get that from Moore’s performance. She didn’t deliver that “I drank Jim Jones’ Flavor Aid” look that you can see ‘behind’ people’s eyes when they’re not honestly interacting with you, but they’re deliberately trying to influence you and they know it.

For the ladies out there, that’s the look you see when you already drove by your man’s car at the strip joint parking lot and then, when he gets home, he tries to sell you that he was working late tonight. It’s a look that’s derived from thinking in the background while you serve your agenda to people. It’s like they’re not really there, but following a script.

Anyway, I didn’t get that from Moore’s performance, which caused the Palin character to be way more endearing. “Game Change” was more of a “fish out of water” story than a “deliberate manipulation of the uneducated masses” story.

Woody Harrelson was really good as well. Really good. :) The only thing that broke my immersion with his performance is that I’ve seen that guy Steve Schmidt that he was playing on television a bunch of times, and Woody would have had to put on a BUNCH more pounds to physically resemble that guy, other than the baldie haircut, which was accurate.

Out of the three main actors, the one that skewed the story for me the most was Ed Harris, because he didn’t look anywhere near 72 years old, and he didn’t look like he was about to keel over any second.

Part of the whole problem in the actual 2008 campaign was that nobody was sure that McCain was going to live through his entire term, meaning that a vote for him was an inadvertent vote for Palin as President, which would have meant that *SHE* could have been the one in charge of our current foreign affairs situation.

YouTube Link => youtu.be/28z5aTiN4UI

So, in “Game Change”, I wasn’t concerned about Harris’ health, so I was able to relax and not feel paranoid about what could have happened if the Republicans had won. That was decidedly *NOT* the case during the real election.

Also, the way Moore portrayed her character, she made Palin seem like way less of a loose cannon than she appeared to be during the incessant “liberal media” coverage of her statements, decisions, and actions during the real election.

This combination allowed me to actually root for McCain and Palin to be elected while I was watching the film. :)

I knew the entire time that Jude Law was going to vanquish Ed Harris in “Enemy At The Gates”, but I was still rooting for Ed when Jude had already gotten the drop on him. There’s an integrity that Harris beings to his characters, where regardless of what you think about them as people, you still have to respect them.

Continued in “Game Change” Review [Part 02 of 02]
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Republican Candidates Play To Stall, Not To Win

Bill Cammack — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:30:26 +0000

Yawn

The pundits are going to bore me for the next few weeks, asking stupid questions about when Gingrich or Santorum are going to drop out of the race against Romney.

They don’t even want to talk about Ron Paul… As usual… In fact, Ron Paul took 40% of the vote in Virginia, with Romney taking 60% because they were the only two on the ballot:

In Virginia Romney Beats Paul In A Head To Head Contest

Romney only took 60% of the vote, against *ONLY* Ron Paul? o_O

Nobody’s getting out of the race. There’s no reason for them to. Ron Paul has already said he’s going all the way to the Convention. Gingrich and Santorum both have billionaire sugar daddies funding their campaigns. They’re running on someone else’s money. There is no reason for *ANY* of the candidates to suspend their campaigns.. AT ALL.

Obstructionist Tactics

By now, Republicans are famous for obstructionist tactics. Mostly in Congress, but they employ those techniques in lots of situations.

For instance, when you ask them why Romney wouldn’t denounce Limbaugh’s statements, they say that he’s not going to go off-message and talk about distracting things, yet, when he has the chance to speak, he talks about how tall the trees are, and all other sorts of nonsense, when he could plainly say that he disagrees with what Limbaugh said in the same amount of breath, but that never happens.

When you ask them why Santorum says the nonsense he says about contraception, they tell women to hold aspirin between their legs so they don’t get pregnant.

When Obama says “Pass This Bill, Right Now”, they say “No”, but they don’t offer anything at all that will get teachers, construction workers, and war veterans jobs.

I could go on and on, but we’re all used to their tomfoolery by now. It’s boring.

My point is that they apply the same techniques to themselves that they use against the Democrats.

This is why the pundits need to STFU and talk about something else BESIDES when these guys are going to drop out of the race.

Santorum and Gingrich are not campaigning to win. They’re campaigning to BLOCK. ROMNEY. FROM. WINNING.

Numbers Game

If you look at the current standings, Romney has 415 delegates:

projects.wsj.com/campaign2012/delegates

or

elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates

If he wins every single delegate from now on (which he most definitely will not), he can’t possibly clinch until April 03, 2012, in Wisconsin, where he would finally have 1,173 delegates.

It’s currently March 08, 2012, so that guarantees a full month of Republican tomfoolery and declines in favorability ratings before Romney even gets to stop fighting other Republicans and focus on President Obama.

His next chance after that is April 24, where there are 231 delegates up for grabs, and then he would have to wait until May 08, when 132 delegates come online, so we can probably look forward to not one, but TWO more months of Republican muckraking before they turn the corner to focus on the general election.

The waiting game isn’t even Romney’s main problem… The fact of the matter is that if he doesn’t secure the required 1,144 delegates before the Republican National Convention, he has *ZERO*, I repeat *ZERO* claim to the nomination, and the Republicans can decide to send someone else against Obama in what they call an Open, Contested, or Brokered Convention, which is what I said three months ago, back in December, 2011 => billcammack.com/2011/12/11/brokered-conventions/:

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.

This means that if Gingrich and Santorum can block Romney from making it to 1,144 delegates, all the millions of dollars he and his Super PAC spent were wasted, because they are not obliged to nominate ANY. ONE. OF. THEM.

This opens the door for Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, or even SARAH PALIN to be the 2012 Republican nominee for PotUS.

Eyes On The Prize

So the actual goal here is *NOT* for Gingrich, Paul, or Santorum to arrive at the convention with more delegates than Romney, it’s for Romney to arrive short of the delegates he needs to clinch, and for the other candidates to have bargaining power at the Convention.

On top of that, they’re not spending their own money… If it weren’t for the new Super PAC rules that allow infinite funding of candidates’ campaigns, neither Gingrich nor Santorum would even be running anymore. They would have gone broke and had to step to the left.

As it stands, both of them are funded all the way to the Convention. Ron Paul has no reason to exit the race either.

Having said all that.. I don’t actually BELIEVE that Romney’s team is going to fall short on securing the necessary delegates before the Convention, which is August 30th, in Tampa, Florida.

I believe Romney will make it, and he’ll be nominated, and he always was the only real Republican candidate in this race, but another two or three months of his own self-defeating sound bites and of Gingrich and Santorum talking trash about him, and Romney will arrive to the general election as a severely weakened and flawed candidate.

What’s actually worse for him is that the only reason I considered him a viable candidate is because he’s flip-flopped on so many topics that there’s just as much video footage of him talking about one side of things as there is of him talking about the exact opposite side.

Romney’s the only one that could turn around to the American people and say “hehe I was just kidding about all that nonsense we were talking about during the nomination process! :D haha I never believed any of that. I just said it to appease the yahoos so they’d vote for me, and now, here’s what I’m REALLY going to do as President…” and he could have made it back to the center and gotten Independents to vote for him.

The longer he has to prove that he’s more radical than Santorum and Gingrich, the shorter the amount of time will be available for him to sprint back to the center, and the more video footage there will be of him saying ridiculous things with no factual foundation, which will be used against him incessantly in the general election.

So anyway, pundits.. Please stop speculating over when Gingrich or Santorum are going to exit the race. They aren’t. So long as their sugar daddies are paying the bills, they’re going to be right up in every single contest, hoping to block Romney from clinching, and hoping that *THEY* will be the one nominated at a Brokered Convention.
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Republicans’ 99 Problems

Bill Cammack — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:16:39 +0000

Reader “Paul” asked me why this Rush Limbaugh situation is a REPUBLICAN problem.

I will attempt to explain this.

The (most recent) Republican Problem

1. Rush Limbaugh cheerleads for Republicans all day and all night.
2. Rush Limbaugh said some stupid and unnecessary **** about women.
3. None of the Republican candidates for PRESIDENT. OF. THE. UNITED. STATES. were willing to disavow his comments AT ALL, much less take an active stance AGAINST what he said.
4. The current President of the United States, Barack Obama, CALLED THE WOMAN ON THE PHONE to offer her words of support.
5. Rush Limbaugh “apologized” by saying he used words he shouldn’t have, instead of saying that he should have STFU instead of verbally attacking some chick that isn’t even in the game, and reminds people in general and his sponsors in particular of their wives, daughters, and girlfriends.
6. The Republican candidates STILL have nothing to say, even though 12 of Rush’s sponsors dropped his show.
7. Republicans WHO ARE NOT RUNNING FOR PotUS have condemned what Rush said:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/yVuXJ7eIau4

8. So the only two options here, for the Republican candidates is that they’re too ***** to speak up for themselves and condemn what Rush said, *OR* they agree with what he said.
9. Women can vote now (and drive cars, and own land, and have jobs…)
10. Women make up more than 50% of the expected voters in the 2012 election.
11. The *only* way Republicans are going to win the election is if Independents side with them… um…. INCLUDING the females.

Therefore, this Rush Limbaugh situation is a REPUBLICAN. PROBLEM. and they reveal themselves to be asshats by cosigning what he said *BEFORE* the upcoming general election.

The N.O.C. List Is In The Open

Now.. Before y’all Kool-Aid Drinkers start crying, I’m not saying that Republicans have cornered the market on misogyny. :)

There are lots of examples of Democrats demeaning women as well.

The problem is that the Democrats are a) currently in power, and b) currently doing the right thing, and the Republicans are a) trying to get elected, and b) currently doing the wrong thing, every day.

This is no surprise to me, because look what they let Republicans say on television. They’re so amazingly arrogant that they give their own game away and double-dog-dare you to stop them.

They told you a couple of years in advance that they were going to do anything they can to make sure that Barack Obama is a one-term President. They said it. Several of them. Multiple times. Any chance they got. They told you what they were going to do, even though you had elected them to do something different… such as GET. YOU. A. JOB.

What we SHOULD be seeing is Republicans on television saying “Our first priority is to get our constituents back in the workforce so they can be gainfully employed and save their homes”, but that’s not what’s happening.

They’re so desperate to win this 2012 election that they don’t care who knows what their actual plans are.

They’re so oblivious to the fact that they live in the Social Media Age now that they’ll say Obama’s a snob for wanting people to go to college on one day, and then a few days later, they’ll mention that they’re sending THREE. OF. THEIR. OWN. KIDS. to college soon.

It’s like “We still have what you said on tape.”

Either you’re a snob too for sending your kids to college, or STFU.

Talking Trash

What other people say and do isn’t your problem when you have your own personality that you’ve demonstrated to the people.. Some dude says something stupid, and you know that everybody knows you don’t agree with him, so you really don’t have to say anything about it.

Wolf Blitzer asked President Obama about Rick Perry’s reckless talking, when Perry was just entering the race:

YouTube Link => youtu.be/PYzmzzA9dTY

Blitzer: “Do you see a comment like that, that he makes referring to you, as disrespectful to the commander-in-chief?”

Obama: “You know, uh, Mr. Perry just got in the Presidential race.. I think that everybody who runs for President, it probably takes them a little bit of time before they realize that this isn’t like running for Governor or running for Senator or running for Congress, uh, and you’ve got to 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.”

That amounts to “Yeah, dude was talking reckless, but he doesn’t understand the game he’s playing yet, so I’m going to give him some time to get up to speed and figure out how someone needs to carry themselves if they want to be a viable candidate for a NATIONAL election, not just a local one where everybody agrees with the BS he’s talking and are liable to elect him regardless of what he says.”

Obviously, as recent history has shown us, Perry never learned his lesson and talked himself out of contention, proving that he was nowhere near being ready for prime time, just like Obama said.

Lack Of Personality

At this point, Romney’s problem is that a) everybody knows from watching readily-available videos of him saying completely opposite things on MANY topics that he’ll say anything he has to say to get elected, so b) they don’t believe that he has any core convictions about anything at all.

This means that when some asshat like Limbaugh runs his mouth about something, people are going to turn to Romney and ask him what he thinks about it… Because NOBODY. KNOWS. WHAT. HE. THINKS. because he’s always saying whatever the people he’s standing in front of want to hear.

Being that he hasn’t demonstrated any form of a concrete personality of his own, people want to know what he stands for and what he stands AGAINST if they’re going to elect him President in 2012 instead of Barack Obama.

If you’re first of all, a grown-ass man, and second of all, you want people (including women) to elect you LEADER. OF. EVERYBODY, you need to make it clear that you disagree with statements you actually disagree with, or else you’re an asshat for cosigning, and the people that don’t like what Limbaugh did won’t like *YOU* because you DIDN’T dislike what he did.

Neither scenario is a good look for Romney. If he’s scared of Rush Limbaugh, then Rush should be running for President instead of him. If he isn’t scared, then he didn’t speak up because he AGREES with what Limbaugh said, which means he probably won’t be elected when women throughout the country band together and bring everyone they can find to vote against him.

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Meanwhile.. As far as the Democrats.. President Obama called the offended woman, personally, to offer her words of encouragement and support.

Of course, this caused Republicans to CRYYYY that he did it for political reasons, but whether it was a ploy or not, the Democrats are on record as having done something POSITIVE in this situation, while the Republicans are on record as a) having done something NEGATIVE, and then b) the people who are looking to be voted for in this year’s election all refused to denounce the negativity = the cosigned.

This would be a Republican problem on its own, if you didn’t also have the Virginia Vaginal Ultrasound situation, as well as several other hot news topics that have recently come to light.

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/05/republican-party-declares-war-on-women?newsfeed=true

So, Yes.. This current “War on Women” is most definitely a Republican problem.

The strange thing is that instead of doing the right thing, EVER, the candidates just ignore the situations and shrug them off like it doesn’t matter and there’s no need to speak out against unnecessary negativity.

Actually, it’s not so strange, because they also create scathing attack ads against each other, and other than Ron Paul calling Santorum a fake to his face,

YouTube Link => youtu.be/YZPexbzJUU4

they all sit around smiling and joking with each other as if they never said negative things about each other “behind their backs”, meaning that are still sitting on YouTube to this very day.

It’s my opinion that their inability to make or maintain a stand on domestic issues renders their “I’m not in charge, but if I WERE!!!…” rhetoric entirely unbelievable.

It’s funny how they can speak so definitely and venomously about people that are outside of this country, but they have to keep their mouths shut when a radio personality is speaking… Someone whose shenanigans they attempt to dismiss as “Oh.. He’s an entertainer.”

My suggestion is that the Republicans start acting like they know women can vote now, unless they think they’ve figured out a way to repeal that right, leaving their candidates with only 99 problems.

YouTube Link => youtu.be/WwoM5fLITfk
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