Archive for March 10th, 2010
Photoshop Needed: Mittens for Veep
The Romney Guys are really at it today, and we had a thought: what if we on the bipartisan Team Sarah side really got at it today, too, and effectively took down Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign before it even began?
What if, from today forward, we campaign for Mitt Romney to be the 2012 Republican Vice Presidential pick?
Can we create some great Mittens for Veep images to get the ball rolling?
LEGAL QUESTION: Is there a procedure to demand proof a US Senator is still alive and maintains the ability to make informed decisions?
Calling all lawyers out there.
Can someone research the question of what happens when the public suspects a sitting US Senator is not able to make informed decisions and is instead being kept in hiding while agents of his party make all decisions for him?
This is, obviously, in regards to Robert Byrd, whose recent statements in support of not only Reconciliation but Cap & Trade are so polar opposite to the positions he’s maintained for the hundred years he’s been in the Senate that we do not believe he’s writing them.
Or even dictating them.
Or aware they are being written.
Or, quite possibly, even still alive.
When’s the last time anyone saw Robert Byrd?
Is there some mechanism of government whereby the people of the United States can demand to see whether or not a sitting Senator is still alive?
Does the public have any recourse in the event a brain-dead, comatose, or otherwise incapacitated Senator is being kept cloistered away so something like Healthcare Rationing can pass…whereby Democrat party representatives issues letters supposedly written by the unseen Senator, doing the opposite of what can reasonably be determined to be what the Senator has always done before?
Can we research this and make some noise with it today?
After all the tales of bribery, threatening, menacing, and “doing everything possible to pass” Healthcare Rationing, we truly do believe Senator Robert Byrd is so severely incapacitated at this point to not even know what day it is, or what his name is, let alone what’s being written in his name.
Wouldn’t it be a federal crime to operate in Byrd’s name when Byrd was in some other plane of mental state, unaware of what’s going on?
If not, what’s to stop Democrats from inducing comas in everyone they want to control, shutting them up somehwere dark and secret, then issuing “letters” from them saying whatever the DNC wants them to say?
Would you really put it passed these people?
Why Sarah Palin Will Win in 2012
Please read the latest Sarah Palin hit piece over at the sausagefest that is RedState — a place we like for most things, but have to call out on a regular basis for being such myopic Eeyores.
Now, when reading anything at sites like RedState, you need to realize how many “Romney guys” are entrenched practically everywhere in the Republican junior ranks. They are a very subversive lot, with a loyalty to Mitt as deep and strong as our own loyalty to Hillary. Here in Chicago, most of the young Republican guys we worked with during the McCain campaign were Romney guys who wanted to beat Dr. Utopia, for sure, but who weren’t all that terribly upset on election night because they planned to start Romney 2012 efforts the next day.
We comiserated that night in the hotel suite with them after McCain’s concession, brokenhearted we wouldn’t be starting Hillary 2012 that morning instead. So, we understand these guys. We know the love of a candidate and the lengths loyalists will go to for that person.
It is our firm belief Romney guys are working to stop a Sarah Palin 2012 campaign even harder than the MSM is working on Dr. Utopia’s behalf to stop Palin.
It is a similar situation to what we Hillary Dems faced in 2008, where the DNC elite and MSM worked together to stop a woman from being the Democrats’ nominee. We believe, to this day, it wasn’t so much about stopping a Clinton third term as it was stopping a WOMAN from being president.
The same thing is at work now, with the MSM and these Romney guys doing everything they can to halt Palin.
We implore Palin supporters to read the book “Game Change”, looking at the Clinton 2004 and 2008 anecdotes in particular.
Read the story of how the Kennedy Family talked Hillary Clinton out of running for president in 2004…using THE EXACT SAME THINGS the Romney guys are saying to Palin today. “We have a chance to beat this guy, and you’re divisive and not ready, so you should wait. If Kerry loses, then you can have it in 2008. We promise. Wink wink wink.”
Then read the story of how Chuck Schumer stabbed Hillary in the back and encouraged Dr. Utopia to run against her, joining the other men in the DNC to shunt her to the side.
This is EXACTLY what the Romney guys are trying to do to Palin.
We truly hope the Gov does to the RNC what she did to the Republican party in Alaska: she needs to stop listening to these idiots, do her own thing, root out the biggest fools and dispose of them, and run her own show for 2012.
We believe the TV show she’s producing with Mark Burnett on the wonders of Alaska will be Reaganesque in its reach of regular people. Conservatives will love it, but so will independents. Far leftists won’t watch it, the same way they don’t watch FOX, but claim they hate FOX anyway. So, without even seeing the series, leftists will hate it. But, there is no getting those people to do anything but hate every Republican blindly, no matter who it is.
Moderate and conservative Democrats, however, will watch the show too, to see what the fuss is about. If it’s informative, well-produced, and showcases Palin’s Alaska, we believe it will become a cultural phenomenon. We foresee Alaskan imagery everywhere in 2011. Which is a wonderful setup for the Palin brand in 2012.
Late 2010-early 2011 is also when Palin’s next book is due: a policy book on American Virtues. That will be coupled with a book tour that should end round about February 6th, 2011, the day we believe Palin will announce her presidential run.
Essentially, the tour bus she uses for the book will just be slightly rebranding as PALIN 2012, instead of AMERICAN VIRTUES.
Chances are, American Virtues will actually be her campaign motto.
We can see the branding and marketing already at work.
Palin’s playing 11th dimensional chess that RedState’s not seeing, because it’s so focused on Romney, or dazzled by his Mattel-produced hair.
She’s operating a fully-formed multimedia strategy designed to counter Dr. Utopia’s razzle dazzle and media darling status. She knows in her heart Americans will want a true conservative in office in 2012, one who is smart enough to focus on jobs, the economy, energy independence, and limited government instead of allowing the media to degenerate the debate into social issues. The media is going to do everything it can to control the debate in 2012, doing its level best to hand Dr. Utopia a second term on a silver platter.
The ONLY Republican we see on the field who can take charge of the debate is Palin.
She merely mentions something on Facebook and it derails the White House for three days.
She writes something she wants to talk about on her hand, and it drives the Left so nuts that’s all they talk about for weeks…tricking them into getting her message out there when they think they are making fun of her.
Mitt Romney could hold a dozen nuns hostage at knife point in the middle of a crowded shopping mall and hardly anyone would notice. MAYBE the media would report on it, if a semi-famous rapper happened to be nearby, like with Romney’s recent altercation on an airplane.
Romney could set himself on fire and perform nude Cirque du Soleit acrobatics on live television and most of the country would still not pay any attention to him.
In 2012, Palin would control what she wanted to talk about and would be a proactive campaigner dictating what the media was forced to cover.
Mitt Romney, or the rest of the stale, tired, losers RedState and other “Romney guy” sites keep pushing would just follow the standard GOP model of reacting to whatever the MSM is pushing…and since the MSM would be pushing whatever made Dr. Utopia look best, the campaign dynamic would be completely different.
Palin would be in charge by the very nature of who she is, and the massive response she gets to every little thing she does. Romney and the others would be at the mercy of fate and media whims, forever tilting the way the wind blew against them, never gaining traction, losing to Dr. Utopia’s re-election machine…of which the media is not just a part, but the core and engine.
We will endeavor for the next two years to make sure we do everything we can to help Sarah Palin. For those of you reading this in Alaska, you tell the Governor she’s got a bunch of Palinites here in Boystown who are on the ground for her already. We’re going to see her on April 17th, so we’re going to tell her all this ourselves…and most importantly we’re going to warn her not to listen to the things said to Hillary Clinton in 2004.
If Clinton had run back then, we think she would have beaten Bush and would be president today, at the close of her second term. But, she listened to people who were dead wrong, and who largely just didn’t want to see a female president.
We do not want Palin to make that same mistake.
Not if we can stop history from repeating itself.
Who's pushing Mitt Romney to lose to Obama in 2012 now?
This is part eleventy-three of the media’s nonstop push for a boring, water-soaked, milquetoast, cucumbers and mayonnaise sandwich of a dull, uninspiring white man to be the GOP’s 2012 nominee against Dr. Utopia and the razzle dazzle the media will muster for his re-election.
Today, oddly, it’s the Daily Telegraph in the UK doing the Mitt Romney cheerleading…with cheers designed to lead the GOP off a cliff that looks suspiciously like the face of Bob Dole that’s not carved on Mt. Rushmore…because Bob Dole was never elected president…because Bob Dole, as nice of a man as he is, and as much of a hero as he is, was a dull, boring, cucumbers and mayonnaise white male candidate put up against someone with real razzle dazzle.
Please feel free to chime in if you disagree with this next bit, but we’ve come to the conclusion that British journalists are EXCELLENT at reporting in the UK and are in fact the ONLY global news outlets covering the collapse of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming. But, the UK papers, when reporting on American politics, just parrot whatever they read in US papers. It doesn’t appear the UK political writers are even based in the US, but are reading feeds in London and then trying their best to make sense of what’s going on here, assuming the American media has professional journalists doing the heavy lifting for them.
But, we know that’s not the case. American journalism? What’s that? Besides a glaring oxymoron.
So, what happens is this: the MSM’s Herculean push to force a losing candidate like Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, or someone else from the usual sausage fest of boiled meat and tapioca candidates, is not seen by the British journalists for what it really is. Instead of disregarding these psy-ops missions from the Left as the election tampering they really are, the British, who don’t seem to do this sort of thing, treat the MSM’s lies as actual facts. They buy the lies completely, and then repeat them, not having the time or resources, apparently, to step back and look at things more objectively. The British are duped because they assume American journalists are professionals whose degrees from expensive journalism schools are worth more than toilet paper.
They’re not.
So, the Telegraph starts clamoring for Mitt Romney to take the GOP nomination, adding a “u” to their “clamour” to make it super-British. They dismiss and denigrate Sarah Palin, because that’s what their American counterparts do, too. It’s all very predictable.
The other night, we were talking to a friend of ours in Florida and he’s a very anti-Palin Republican who wants “a boring white businessman” to be the GOP’s 2012 nominee. This could be a with or without sausage pick for Republicans, he says, because he thinks Meg Whitman would make a great president. He wants her because she’s a business woman, which is the same reason he wants Mitt Romney (who, for the record, isn’t a business woman, technically, but close enough). Our friend doesn’t, however, want Pawlenty, Daniels, John Thune, Haley Barbour, or any of the other destined-losers the MSM is pushing for 2012.
Our friend believes that after four years of destructive razzle dazzle, the public will want a boring person who drones on and on but who “knows about business”.
We just don’t buy that.
In fact, we think the very last time a boring person won the presidency was in 1988, when George H. W. Bush beat the more-boring (and weird-looking) candidate he was up against: Snoopy. Democrats ran a strange little man who rode around in a tank like a cartoon dog with a helmet on his head, so they lost. No offense to George H. W. Bush, whom we have come to respect and appreciate as much as his son. But, Bush was not an exciting candidate.
The Clintons were in 1992 and 1996.
“Dubya” was in 2000…against a dull, wooden, pathological liar of a candidate in Gore.
In 2004, Democrats ran Herman Munster…who lost to “that reckless cowboy” the MSM kept insisting Bush was.
Well, as it turns out, Americans liked the razzle dazzle of a reckless cowboy more than they liked someone who was for things before they were against them and flip-flopped his way through one embarrassing, dull episode after another, with his gaffe-prone ketchup queen and sugga momma at his side.
2008 had the ultimate razzle dazzle artist, Dr. Utopia, who is actually nothing BUT razzle dazzle. There’s no substance there at all. It’s 100% artiface and image. All propaganda. All emotion. All forced excitement.
Do you really think that’s not going to be pumped out at eleventy in 2012? While it’s true the hopeychangey stuff won’t work again, and the smurf blood blue 2008 campaign posters won’t be recycled, since a new color scheme and font will be market tested by then, Axelrod et all will find some new hook to dazzle with.
While Americans will indeed want to dump Dr. Utopia by 2012, that doesn’t mean Republicans should default back to the “It’s Dole’s turn” and “It’s McCain’s turn” nonsense that’s plagued Republican candidates in the past.
How about making 2012 “America’s turn” and nominating someone the people actually want to be president: like Sarah Heath Palin.
That’s a novel idea.
Since the MSM, at home and abroad, keeps working overtime to force someone bland, unappealing, and boring to go up against Dr. Utopia and his Razzle Dazzle Machine, Palin supporters need to work overtime themselves to stop the media from getting its way and picking the GOP opponent for the “Lightbringer” they think will be most likely to lose to him.
If we keep calling these people out on this, every day, and raise awareness what is happening, maybe we can stop the media this time.
"The Byrd Rule" prevents Reconciliation from being used to legislate
Videos on Breitbart TV won’t upload here to WordPress, but please click on this link and watch an important piece dealing with Senator Robert Byrd single-handedly stopping the use of Reconciliation to legislate on Healthcare in 1993.
These arguments need to be used against the Left in 2010 too.
If Byrd said this could not be done 17 years ago, it can’t be done now, either.
Democrats’ words need to be used against them again and again.
Question: Just how utterly bizarre is Rahm Emanuel's psycho naked shower stalking?
Last night, the lot of us went to Roscoe’s for Drag Race, hosted by Teri Yaki, which is an American Idol-styled competition for junior queens (or, as they called them in Cleveland, “pretend ladies”) where several contestants compete for little cash prizes, with the audience deciding the winner. Roscoe’s is like a more cluttered, gayer, TGI Friday’s, with assorted junk on the walls and dusty shelves circling the rooms. There’s an oddball collection of old birdhouses, for some reason, an oil painting of one of the creepier popes from the 50s-70s, a chubby bust of Athena doing a Tippi Hedron impersonation with a giant raven on her head, and a back room with a fairly cool fireplace enclosed in solid glass, fire blazing. The crowd runs the gamut from wispy little twinks to “straight” frat boys, middle-aged guys trying to rock Hollister and Aberzombie, and old guys who look like serial killers. Which, frighteningly, some of them have been in the past, since both Jeffry Dahmer and Andrew Cunanan hunted Boystown…where the dangerous and unstable often blend in with everyone else, as best they can.
After Lauren Heathers got up onto the stage to perform as Gwen Stefani, triumphantly returning to Roscoe’s after a Great Recession-induced exile to the boondocks of central Ohio, our friend Althea asked all of us about the naked misadventures of another dangerous and unstable person: Rahm Emanuel (someone none of us have ever spotted in Boystown, but whom we would not be surprised to find stalking anyone…with a penis).
“So, tell me guys, what’s the deal with the naked shower time craziness Rahm got up to? Do guys do things like that in locker rooms normally?”, Althea asked, pouring more of the big $12 pitcher of hard lemonade we were sharing (one of the best deals in Boystown…where four or five people can drink for what it would cost for two beers elswhere).
We thought about it for a minute, and told Althea what we’ll tell you: that sort of behavior is just not normal. We’ve never encountered anything like it, in any locker room we’ve ever been to.
Living in Boystown, it’s required to have at least one gym membership, whether you actually ever go or not. When you sign up, they make you take a tour, so you have to at least see the inside of a lockerroom, and we’ve just never known anyone to report back seeing anything as bizarre as what Rahm Emanuel did to Congressman Eric Massa, naked in the Congressional shower.
It’s really unheard of. Like something you’d see in a Hitchcock movie.
Guys just don’t behave that way in a lockerroom. It’s not normal.
Even when using a big gang shower room at some of the older health clubs, there’s a zone of privacy where normal guys, gay or straight, just don’t go up to one another, stick their fingers in each others’ chests, and start screaming and yelling, threatening, and bullying.
They might do that on the basketball court, or in the weight room, where they might be roid-raging. But, not in the showers, not in the changing area. Especially not after a workout, when their muscles are tired and just the smell of the lockerroom makes a guy tired, relaxed, ready for that shower…or, post-shower, ready to get dressed and go home.
The only place any of us could think of where a guy would be as aggressive and crazy nude, like Rahm Emanuel was, would be at a bathhouse like Steamworks or Man’s Country. Or any of the bathhouses like the Ritz in New York in the 70s where Julliard ballet dancers would have been most likely to frequent.
Communicable diseases aren’t the only things you can pick up from bathhouses…it looks like bad habits can be acquired there, too.
As we told Althea, this whole “psycho naked shower stalking” on Emanuel’s part is ridiculous, and the story will most likely be forgotten by 80% of the people out there after this week, but we think it says a lot about who Rahm Emanuel is…and how mentally unstable he must be.
We’ve heard stories for years about him sending opponents dead fish in the mail, or sitting at a table playing with knives and talking about murdering people he didn’t like, and screaming and yelling vile insults at anyone who crossed him. But, attacking a Congressman in the shower, totally nude, is a whole new level of crazy for Emanuel that we just didn’t even know was there.
We can’t imagine anyone in Boystown doing that, first of all, but being able to live it down if it really happened.
“Lookit, Brenden #2, there’s that old guy that went all psycho in the shower at LVAC the other day. Did you hear about it?”
“Of course I heard about it, Brenden #1, it’s all anyone is talking about. He was pointing and jabbing…with his finger…and screaming and yelling like a crazy person. It was like watching someone going nuts in Oz”.
“I don’t get it. The Tinman and Scarecrow never showered together, and the Lion’s an animal and wouldn’t be allowed in the shower, guys”.
“Not that Oz, Jeff. The OTHER Oz. The one on HBO with naked people, and then one of them got paroled and he’s on Law & Order: SUV with that lady from MSNBC, Mika Breshnewski”.
“Oh, yah, I totally knew that. Thanks Brenden #3″.
We don’t know how things work in the straight world, but in any gym we’ve been to, a guy doing what Emanuel did just wouldn’t be welcome back in the place ever again. Even if management didn’t ban him, the other guys working out there would never speak to him again, and would feel uncomfortable with him around. He’d be a psycho naked shower stalking pariah.
We’re wondering today just how many more of these bizarre episodes Rahm Emanuel will have before he’s put out to pasture.
We saw that Desiree Rogers was actually fired for her gross mishandling of the India State Dinner, but didn’t leave her post until months later, to try to save some face.
What she did was less egregious than the way Emanuel conducts himself on a daily basis. Obviously, his position is more important than hers, but we have a gut feeling Emanuel will be gone before the end of summer…and this psycho naked shower stalking episode might have been the last nude straw for him.
Wednesday Open Thread: March 10th, 2010
What’s on your mind this Wednesday?
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Great NY Post piece: Obama using mob’s tactics to force through Healthcare Rationing
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Did you notice Farrah Fawcett was deliberately not memorialized at the Oscars, with the other film industry notables who passed away in 2009-2010? We’re glad others have spoken out enough that the show’s producers were compelled to make a statement about the oversight, though the classless clowns refused to apologize.
Michael Jackson was part of the tribute, though he was only in “The Wiz”, “Captain Eo” (which only showed at Disney World), and made a cameo in “Men in Black 2″. His music was featured in “Willard” and “Free Willy”. So, that’s the excuse the Academy gave for including him.
But, Fawcett made Extremities, Logan’s Run, and Myra Breckinridge, amongst other films. But, she was passed over, while Jackson was wedged into the clips tribute.
The reason this irks us is because Fawcett died in the morning on June 25th, 2009. Later that same day, Jackson died, and the media dropped her coverage for his. Then, at the Oscars, it feels the Academy squeezed Fawcett — a movie actress — out for Jackson (whatever he was).
Are we reading too much into this to think the Academy was scared of leaving a black man off the list, but thought nothing of sticking it to a woman? Were they afraid of the old Al Sharpton-Henry Gates-Jesse Jackson race-baiting machine revving up if Jackson wasn’t honored for the 100th time, knowing women wouldn’t especially care that Fawcett wasn’t given her nod?
The Oscars are clearly a much bigger deal here in Boystown than they are wherever you live, we’re sure. And ultimately nothing Hollywood does matters. But, movies, and the movie industry, are a mirror into parts of our culture, even if they don’t get everything right.
We can’t help wondering if the PC police are the reason Jackson HAD to be honored, since offending the black community is a cardinal sin to Leftists…but disregarding, trampling upon, shunting to the side, and ignoring women is just another day at the office.
We saw that in 2008, clearly. And we’re reaping the hopeychangey fruits of that PC thought today.
