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?
March 10, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Mittens is a common name for a cat. Somehow combine the images?
March 10, 2010 at 2:08 pm
How about Sarah holding up her mittened hands, and she’s written something on the mittens like “Mitt – VP”?
March 11, 2010 at 12:24 am
Or she could wear mittens and on the inside of one, teleprompter style, write (“Mitt, VP”)
March 10, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I think they’d make a great team, in all seriousness. Romney is a smart guy, and could be a capable advisor-Veep, a la Dick Cheney. (It’s so refreshing when the Veep is an actual member of the team, rather than someone whose job is to “sit around and wait for the President to die,” as they used to say. It’s nice to know that a Vice-President could actually step into the job fully prepared in an emergency.
Naturally, none of that applies to the current administration, in which the Veep is one of the few people in the country who might be worse than the President himself.
March 11, 2010 at 12:08 pm
and thats going some lol
March 10, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Oh, and–speaking of the Cheneys, I’d prefer Liz Cheney to Romney as Veep for 2012. Though either one would be perfectly capable.
Liz told me personally that she’s not running for anything until her dad’s book is finished, so I hope that’s soon.
March 10, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Speaking of Sarah hands, have you boyz seen this site? http://handofsarah.com/
Hilarious!!
March 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm
What a pity that you cannot save the picture :)
I wrote in
Mitt Romney
for
VP
on her hands. ROFL
March 10, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Actually you can save the pic, just right-click on it when you are finished, and save it to your computer somewhere. Later you can load it to photobucket or whatever if you want to post it to the web.
I wrote: “Who is John Galt?”
March 10, 2010 at 4:17 pm
http://handofsarah.com/result.php?imageName=1&color=black&font=1"e=Romney%20~is%20a%20~big%20pussy.
March 11, 2010 at 2:49 am
ROFL – what can I say!!
March 10, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Who are the Romney guys?
March 10, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Allahpundit at HotAir.com
RedState.com
etc. etc. etc.
March 11, 2010 at 8:26 am
What about Ace of Spades? I think Dan Riehl is too.
March 10, 2010 at 2:36 pm
If I could have lived (puked)with Obama as VP,
with Hillary as Pres, I suppose I could
hold back regurgitation as Romny being VP
as long as Sarah is PREZ !!
March 10, 2010 at 2:36 pm
http://bit.ly/aYOJOH
March 10, 2010 at 2:42 pm
FORGET IT. Mitt isn’t qualified to be POTUS; so why would he be qualified for VP?
March 10, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Thank you. I have never understood the willingness to compromise the second slot to “make the ticket electable”. It seems to me that proces inherently says that whatever the criteria for the top of the ticket are–really aren’t taken seriously either….because if #1 dies or something, #2 (completely different in policies, opinions and temperament) takes #1 place.
March 10, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Romney might prevent Sarah from winning in a landslide like Biden did for Obama.
Everybody knows that if Hillary would have been picked as VP, the False Messiah would have won Texas and over 35 states.
Romney is not good for Sarah. She will lose the south and the Christian right winning by just a razor thin margin ala Bush/Gore.
Sarah needs to go for the kill. Romney won’t help her.
March 10, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I agree. Most of the Christian conservatives will not vote for a Mormon; that’s just how it is.
Sarah needs the whole south and Romney would lose it for her.
March 10, 2010 at 4:18 pm
His being Mormon isn’t the issue. The problems are: 1) he has a reputation of being a flipflopper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_nnLegPetA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdwjC2ZgG2w
I don’t care which he is.. but if he is going to change sides with whichever job he’s running for he doesn’t have any stability for himself.
2. He is the republican version of ObamaCare because of Massachusetts.
If he is on the ticket he will drag Palin down enough to probably cause her to lose- and it ISN’T because of his religion; but because the man is just as habitual liar as Obama and wants the same things (government healthcare).
March 10, 2010 at 4:48 pm
I’m Christian and I couldn’t care less that he is Mormon. A lot of people here in Michigan liked Mitt of all religions. Right now, my main concern with him is that he seems like a wimp and I believe he is part of the DC corruption, just gets on the bandwagon when convenient.
March 11, 2010 at 12:31 am
Oh hell, I’m goth – Mormons are no worse than 1/2 the freaks I know.
March 11, 2010 at 7:41 am
I agree. I liked Mitt and actually voted for him in the primary, because he seemed like he knew the most about the budget. Now, everytime he’s on tv, he’s saying something different than the last thing he said.
I also think that the he will be connected to health care reform in MA, which seems to be out of control and linked to the national debate.
March 11, 2010 at 9:14 am
Dittos KarenWI. I didn’t like Romney in 2008 and I like him even less now. I’d hold my nose and vote for him in 2012, ~if he’s the only alternative~ but I’d have a hard time campaigning for him. His being Mormon has nothing to do with it.
March 11, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Karen,
remember that Kerry was a big flip flopper and even with that he won the Dem nomination…what really kills Romney is his religion. There is no snow ball chance in hell Romney wins Iowa and South Carolina.
BTW, SC looks like it will be a big blow out for Sarah.
After SC, it will be all over for Romney.
March 10, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Interesting. Notice that it’s Mitt that was welcomed to the campaigns in Virginia, NJ and Massachusetts, not Sarah.
I’m a right leaning voter but I’m not at all interested in sucking up to those who would reject Romney because of his faith. That twisted logic led us to Huckabee and McCain.
March 11, 2010 at 2:29 pm
And Mitt had next to NOTHING to do with those votes. He drew hardly anybody to his rallies.
And you’re apparently not reading that most people here are saying that Mormonism is not their problem with Mitt.
Go campaign FOR your guy, why don’tcha’?
You’re NOT winning any votes for him with this approach.
March 11, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Many people under estimate the power of the Christian Right.
These people WILL NOT vote or nominate a Mormon for president. These people were responsible for Gulliani’s big defeat in the 08 primaries. There folks were responsible for Kerry’s big loss against pro life Bush.
Get it already people: Mitt Romney will never be US president.
March 11, 2010 at 6:11 pm
I’m a staunch, conservative Roman Catholic. I don’t care about religion if the candidate is acceptable on the issues. I DID NOT vote for “Catholic” John Kerry, nor did Joe Biden’s supposed Catholicism sway me for even a moment to vote for him.
March 12, 2010 at 10:46 am
I’m Roman Catholic, too, and I’ve been little by little headed in a more conservative direction. I see that Catholic bishops have indicated that they will help promote Health Deform if certain criteria are met. Do you have any information on this? I understand, since the Catholic Church typically sides with the most downtrodden, but I was disappointed when I read this, especially since Obamacare is the farce that it is.
March 10, 2010 at 3:38 pm
How about some help for Mitt.
Some slogans such as…….
“A Vote for Mitt is as good as a Vote for Obama!”
“Vote for Mitt and support Obama!”
lol
March 10, 2010 at 3:38 pm
“Support Obama! Vote for Mitt!”
March 10, 2010 at 4:01 pm
claire bear is with Obama in missouri lol.
March 10, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Oh, Goody! A PhotoShop challenge!
March 10, 2010 at 5:34 pm
HillBuzz — did you see where that Ziegler just stabbed Sarah in the back? To force feed us Romeny through the media?! Does that asshat have a frickin clue how PISSED off people are?
March 10, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Is this the article you are talking about?
http://tinyurl.com/ykev6p2
March 10, 2010 at 7:13 pm
This article is very strange; some of the reasoning is bizarre. IMO
March 10, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Ziegler never liked the idea of Sarah as a Fox News shill. He often argues that she ruined her chances for 2012 by taking it. This is just another salvo. (I also think Ziegler’s feelings are hurt that he made that great documentary defending her but she does not answer when he calls.)
I think Palin has many more tricks up her sleeve between now and 2012 and it is too early to say what her Fox gig did to her chances. Everything she is doing right now is keeping her profile sky high and sucking all the oxygen out of the room, thus preventing the rise of a different GOP star. It will be hard for her to beat Mittens and possibly Haley Barbour in the primary, but she wins if she gets that far IMO
March 10, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Man, this is like one of those cliff hangers when movies were family affairs. This is space mountain on steroids peeps. I would crawl on fifteen miles of broken glass for Sarah, and I may end up having too if those LAME GOP old boys attempt to force feed us His Mittness, Haley’s Barber, or any of that other ilk that would just be four more years and a reset button in this country’s future — we don’t need another four years of of Carter in a GDub’ya suit. We need that refreshing, kick butt people’s politician from ALASKA baby!
March 11, 2010 at 8:28 am
Someone mentioned on HotAir that Ziegler is no expert in Presidential campaigns. So, take what he says with a grain a salt.
March 11, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Ziegler’s reasoning is good for MSMBC which are swear enemies of Sarah.
MSMBC wants Romney or any of these white male losers against Obama in 2012.
Obama won riding on historic momememtum. Sarah will ride the same historic bus in 2012 when she becomes the first woman ever to win Iowa and SC primaries.
What helped Obama in 2008 will help Sarah in 2012 but with 100 times more momemtum and historic repercusions.
Nobody cares about qualification polls. Obama was polling bad in those polls but this idiot won because he ran a good misleading campaign. O was appealing to just the 20% of hard core liberals and he won.
March 10, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Knowing Sarah she just might have someone totally off the radar as her pick for VEEP; in fact, she’s probably surreptiously working that detail out now particularly since she is well aware and so is her VP pick of the unrelentless scrutiny they will fact from the LSM.
I personally am tired of all the retreads that the LSM are trying to force down our throats as if these are the only people who could ever be considered for the position–whether it’s Prez or VP.
But if Mitt is one of the possibilities for Sarah, maybe something referring to a Sarah’s Hand and Mitt–what a perfect fit–work with it.
March 10, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Mitt Romney appears to be the David Cameron on this side of the Atlantic. David Cameron has shifted the Tories into a position that can best be described as the new left. He is also an Etonian stuffed shirt with zero personality. If anyone thinks that a right wing politician who wants to go left is a good idea, look at Dave’s numbers.
About a year ago, the Tories were leading the unpopular Labour party by 20%. After a string of scandals and bad policies (Lisbon Treaty U-Turn, pro-AGW stance, token minority shortlists, etc.), they hold the risk of a hung parliament, if not a 4th consecutive Labour government (Although the EU is the real center of power).
Don’t copy the Tories, as so many of them have such fond feelings for Obama as it is (Dan Hannan, Boris Johnson). Dave is using change as a part of his slogan right now and the only thing that has changed is the outlook for his party in May.
Republicans, take note: Don’t run another “David Cameron”.
March 10, 2010 at 7:23 pm
I am not on board with Mitt for VP. I cannot see Sarah picking him as her VP because of his flip-flopping and lack of consistency on conservative principles that she holds so dear. She saw the wisdom in stepping aside as Governor and letting her Lt. Governor, Sean Parnell, get a head start on the campaign for 2010. She believed her pet project, the Alaska Gas Pipeline, would continue on course in his hands. I don’t believe she would feel that America was safe economically in Romney’s hands, especially after Romneycare, should something happen to her and she not be able to lead our country.
If you are intent on taking him down, take him down all the way. A brief search on Mormons and women in leadership leads me to conclude that Mitt would not play second fiddle to a woman, so he has to be taken out completely. Perhaps highlighting that aspect of Mormonism, assuming my conclusion is correct, should help with the Democrat women’s vote.
I would like to see a clean take-out based on his policies and not a dirty one based on character assassination. I think that Sarah would prefer a clean fight based on policies and ideologies, too, and I think she would be highly amused watching him defend Romneycare.
March 11, 2010 at 2:12 pm
With all due respect, I would have to disagree with your conclusion. Women are respected and revered in the Mormon church.
Women are considered closer to God b/c of our ability to give birth, so men are given leadership roles (in the Church)on earth to help level the playing field.
Women are absolutley NOT considered second class citizens in the church and are completely cherished by their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons.
I seriously doubt Mitt would have any qualms serving as VP b/c Sarah is a woman.
Take him down over issues if you feel you must, but, let’s please keep religion out of it.
March 11, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Romney is not good for Sarah… this man might make her lose the elections. Minorities will go back with the false messiah when O starts his winning racial campaign against a white woman and a white Mormon rich man.
March 10, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Remember the title of Sarah’s book?
When she decides to run, I think she will pick as her running mate somebody who is NOT one of the ‘old boys club’.
Somebody like Ken Doll flipflopper Romney doesn’t stand a chance.
I’d love to see her go with somebody like Michelle Bachmann, but I don’t think she’d feel it wise to ‘push the envelope’ that much.
March 10, 2010 at 7:40 pm
guys — if you have 2 minutes tommorow, please call Indiana’s democrat Joe Donnelly, he is swithcing from a Yes vote to a No vote.
Phone: (202) 225-3915
Please call… we have 8 days to make sure this disgusting RAtionCare bill DOES NOT PASS!
March 10, 2010 at 9:41 pm
I really like Palin, but I also really like Romney. When the LSM thought he was going to be the nominee in 2008, they trashed him all they could to keep him down. The LSM and that weasel Huckster. I think Romney is a super decent man, so I won’t be bashing him.
May the best republican win the nomination. And that is my prayer!
March 10, 2010 at 9:44 pm
at this point I’ll take ANYONE who can unseat f-ckface. So if that is huck (who i actually don’t mind), i’ll take him. If it means Romney (who i am really not a fan of), i’ll take him. Sarah, who is not my fave, i’ll take her. ANYONE who can unseat the Oboob.
March 10, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Why isn’t Hottie McAwesome not qualified?
March 10, 2010 at 9:47 pm
I got no issue with Romeny, although don’t know why repubs would be silly rabbits enough to nominate the ultimate wall streeter.
and they will do to him just what they did to Mccain, after Mccain was the repub nominee.
prop him up and then tear him down, and romney will not be able to fend off the attacks, I remember Mccain in one of the debates ripped into Romney, and Romney was stone faced, and looked so out of place.
Sarah would have laughed it off.
March 10, 2010 at 10:42 pm
O/T- but this is on my mind tonight. Please don’t call me a troll for this. I don’t believe the D’s who say they’re not voting for the hcb. I also don’t believe those who say they are. Point is that I remember the end of last year in the senate AND the house hearing “I WILL NOT” vote for that- and they did. I’m talking about a real credibility issue I have with all the D’s in congress right now. Those websites who show columns of “strong yes, leaning yes, leaning no, strong no”… are going by the same kinds of things they said the end of the year. Didn’t we learn anything the end of the year? Just because a congressman (or Prez) SAYS something isn’t always the way they end up voting. It’s like someone once said about The One: Don’t pay any attention to what he says; watch what he does instead. I think the same is true about the D congressmen right now. Let’s face it- even Snowe and Collins on the R side. I’m not going to take ANY supposed “strong no” or “leaning no” as gospel truth anymore. I’m looking at each and every D house member as a potential “yes” vote before their Easter recess- because I DON’T TRUST A STINKIN’ ONE OF THEM ANYMORE.
March 11, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I agree 100%. Don’t trust ANY of them to do the right thing.
March 10, 2010 at 10:43 pm
I gotta say, I am from MA, and Romney is about as good as you will get from the North East, but I personally think if he belongs anywhere in the Executive Branch, it would be secretary of the treasury. He knows a thing or two about finances, being a CEO and all. That is really about all he is good for.
And on Sunday he claimed there was no public option in his Health care bill. My Mom is ON his public option, so quit the lying Mitt. His book is gonna debut at #1 on NYT Best Seller list though.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/10/mittmentum-romneys-book-to-debut-at-number-one-on-nyt-bestseller-list/
Won’t sell as many copies as Going Rogue did, though. That much I know. I will probably buy it at one point and read it, but I am not going to rush off to Borders right now to pick it up.
As far as Sarah’s VP, Jim DeMint would make an excellent choice, as far as I am concerned. The man is about as conservative as one gets, and I think would make a great person to have on a National ticket. Tom Coburn, or James Inhofe, or even someone like Barrasso from Wyoming, basically the most conservative of Senate Conservatives.
March 10, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Hey Guys, you are a part of the Quote of the Day at HotAir. Nice things being said about you in the comments.
March 11, 2010 at 7:18 am
Saw the comments as well. HillBuzz’s Mojo is getting the attention it deserves. Way to go guys!
March 11, 2010 at 2:57 am
Also off topic, but I thought this interesting:
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/03/10/elected-to-office-then-off-to-jail-the-chicago-way-of-barack-hussein-obama/
and does anybody have any feelings about the Governor of Idaho (I think that is the right one). He is a very quiet gentleman…..
March 11, 2010 at 5:43 am
I was just at the site of an economics professor from South Carolina. He has a post on Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico. It seems that Johnson is beginning to make a move to be a candidate in 2012. I cannot say that I felt impressed.
He makes the right noises about conservative economic values. However, he is weak on things like immigration and I suspect that he is just like Lindsay Graham in that regard. He also made the wrong kind of noises about American bases, indicating a total pullout from some bases. That is not good….
My take on his personality? He had very little in the way of personality. He was hesitant, and he ummed and ah’d a little too much. He was not self-confident even though he has been a governor.
He is putting himself forward as a libertarian candidate.
I wonder how long before the LSM discover this guy and start to push him. If they fail to get interest in Mitch Daniels, Pawlenty (who is awful too), and some of those others, then I dare say that they will fail with this one as well. He simply lacks any form of the necessary charisma.
March 11, 2010 at 4:47 am
I’m still a Romney supporter from 2008 when he was the last best option in the primaries (since Thompson decided the presidency wasn’t worth fighting for.) Romney has been behind much of the victories we’ve been lauding, including Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. To my knowledge he hasn’t even claimed credit for that one outside of the intro at Brown’s victory speech and even then it wasn’t All About Mitt.
Mitt has obvious talents and connections that are extremely useful, regardless of how “milquetoast” he happens to be. He’s certainly not a Dole clone, and by 2012 people are going to be tired of hearing from Dr. Razzle-Dazzle every waking hour of every day. The hell is utopia going to run on in 2012? Hope and Change redux? Will there really be enough Obot moonbats to imbibe that line again?
In either case he’s not been my first choice until such a time I’m sacked with televangelist Hucksters and the perennially suckered. Not that you ever know what McCain’s going to do. He’s the kind of guy you want for a wingman, and Sarah supporters shouldn’t just trash the guy for no reason.
But why would we miss a perfect chance to run Mitt for Treasury Secretary? Quit the “unqualified” BS about Romney, now is no time to be barking back Obot lines.
March 11, 2010 at 5:00 am
Mitt could be a good cabinet choice like Treasury Secretary. Mitt is hated by many real conservatives like the Free Republic crowd. Mitt is seen as a flip-flopping RINO so Sarah would lose many conservatives if he was her VP. Also Romneycare is too high a hurdle to overcome. Sarah will probably go rogue with an unconventional choice.
Maybe a photoshop of Romney as Treasury Secretary or HUD?
March 11, 2010 at 8:35 am
I have always thought Mitt would make a great Treasury Sec. The one area where he excelled was criticizing Obama on the govt takeover of the car companies. He does have that business expertise.
Palin is a better politican, she has base support, and appeal to Indies and Dems (yes, she does, Hillbuzz case in point). She can withstand the media and DNC onslaught, and is the real deal. Every candidate has their flaws, but her positives outweigh any perceived negatives. My question is does Palin really want it? What do you guys think?
March 11, 2010 at 8:37 am
OK, that last question may sound concern trollish, but its not.
March 11, 2010 at 8:35 am
I think we have a lot of good choices for filling Cabinet seats and for Secretary of whatever. Everyone doesn’t need to be chosen as a VP candidate just yet. I’m tired of the Dems & MSM folks picking our candidates anyway – that’s how we got McCain. Let’s get past 2010 and then it’s – Run Sarah Run!
March 11, 2010 at 10:07 am
Know how you can tell that Romney is Axelrod INC., DNC, and MSM pick for 2012 … He was on the View & “THEY” LOVED HIM!!!! … Especially Joy Behar … & Mitty bought into it … Oh… People this Pasty White Guy would LOOSE by a far wider margin than McCain… Let’s not forget that Romney has not be “Vetted” yet unlike Sarah … Just connect the DOTS if you get my drift … I am just saying
March 11, 2010 at 10:34 am
There needs to be a questionnaire for prospective primary voters.
1. Has the media thoroughly vetted your candidate, even for the most minor of faults?
2. At the moment, does your candidate have the constant praise and admiration by journalists, which can only be rivaled by that of Obama?
3. Does your candidate drone on and on about Man-Made Global Warming?
4. Does your candidate hardly, if ever, make statements on Facebook or Twitter about Obama’s policies?
5. Does your candidate have a clearly defined set of policies that can be distinguishable from that of Obama?
6. Does your candidate want to “reach across the aisle”?
7. Do a majority of bloggers on RedState support your candidate?
8. Does your candiate happen to be some irrelevant former congressman, member of an establishment political dynasty, southern governor or a US Senator from South Dakota?
9. Is your candidate best described as a generic white guy with no personality?
10. Has your candidate shown support for Obama’s economic policies at any point in time? (Healthcare, Auto Nationalization, Stimulus, idiotic CAFE Standards, etc.)
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then your candidate is going to be set up for a fall that is greater then that of Icarus or Bellerophon.
March 11, 2010 at 10:36 am
Correction:
1. Has the media avoided vetting your candidate?
March 11, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Adam R., congratulations on your excellent post.
I am particularly impressed with your ‘references’.
Cannot remember the last time (if ever) I’ve heard mention of Bellerophon in a blog.
Kudos, sir!
March 11, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Thank you. I know some random things about Greek mythology.
March 11, 2010 at 10:56 am
I could definitely see a Palin/Rubio ticket. Rubio is charismatic,gorgeous genuinely conservative, HISPANIC, he has it all. NO MORE RINO RETREADS like McCain or Romney! Hey Hillbuzzers –why don’t we challenge Stupak to keep his word by offering our support if he continues to stand by his principles and vote NO on Healthcare?
March 11, 2010 at 11:43 am
O/T again.. ok, you analytical minds. The new CBO estimate is out. Anybody care of put it in plain English for us?
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=488
March 11, 2010 at 11:45 am
correction: anybody care TO put it in plain English for us?
March 11, 2010 at 3:29 pm
That’s IT??? One crappy page???
This jumped out at me:
“As indicated in CBO’s earlier estimate, such costs would probably include an estimated $5 BILLION TO $10 BILLION OVER 10 YEARS for administrative costs of the Internal Revenue Service and at least a similar amount for expenses of the Department of Health and Human Services.”
So, they narrowed it down to a range of 200%?
Have any of these clowns ever worked in the private sector at ALL?
They wouldn’t last a day!
KarenWI, in plain English, it’s effed.
March 11, 2010 at 4:52 pm
The exact feeling I had, although not quite the same word.. LOL.
March 11, 2010 at 12:26 pm
This is off topic, but I’m am writing my comment here since there is no open thread for today. Anyway, did anyone see or read where Obama said that he was “tired of talking about it”, with the “it” being healthcare? Has he considered that we are “tired of listening to him”? He is repugnant.
March 11, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I think he said “the time for talking is over”.
Meantime, I just heard that obama will be going to Cleveland on Monday to give yet another talk on health care.
Doesn’t he even listen to himself?
March 11, 2010 at 5:15 pm
in typical narcissistic fashion, he loves the sound of his own voice…..
I truly hate his voice… I really do hate the sound of it….
I have no doubt that even if I was German, I would not have been taken in by Hitler…. and I am not taken in by the false messiah.
March 11, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Forget Mitt… Allen West for VP.. not that’s a ticket.
March 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Hillbuzz guys-thought you might get a kick out of this article, it is about Gore/Climagate.
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/junk-science-bombshell-nasa-media-knew-about-bogus-climate-data-3-years-ago/
March 11, 2010 at 3:04 pm
I don’t have any great images of mittens, but I can send you some nice hand-knitted mittens to photograph!
March 11, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Romney would be a very bad running mate. Too liberal, too rich.
No. Barbour, McDonnell, or Christie are her best bets. And don’t count Jeb Bush out of the mix.
March 11, 2010 at 5:55 pm
McDonnell seems to make the most sense out of those three. He’s been endorsed by the president of BET, has a great 2nd amdt. record and would appeal to the Catholic vote. Christie should stay in NJ and clean up Corzine’s mess, of which he has been doing a good job as of lately.
Former congressman JC Watts would also be a great choice due to extensive business experience.
March 11, 2010 at 3:10 pm
How in the world with Romney’s background of
ties to Wall St. & Goldman Sachs, let alone RomneyCare.. government mandated healthcare.. and flip-flopping on several issues can he be considered a viable candidate against Obama? You can bet the Obama war room will be knee deep in research of his days at Bain Capital & we’ll hear their spin on how he really made his money… buying up companies & cashing out in a couple of years after laying off workers to beef up the bottom line.
I found the following 2007 article a while back. This is an example of what we have to look forward to.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16983679/mitt_romney_the_huckster
March 11, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Sarah is my girl for 2012, without a doubt. However, let’s not get complacent and underestimate Romney. If we sell him short, we are likely to fall doom to the same fate that took down Hillary.
March 11, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Couldn’t find an ‘open thread’ for today and
thought this was important, even if OT:
ACORN IS OUT OF OHIO’S ELECTIONS
In legal settlement, group agrees not to return to state!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
By James Nash
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
ACORN, the liberal group notorious for allegedly trying to inflate voter rolls through fraudulent practices, has seen its last election in Ohio.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now will permanently surrender its Ohio business license by June1 as part of a legal settlement with the conservative Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, both sides said yesterday.
ACORN was active in Ohio in the 2006 and 2008 elections, working to register thousands of low-income people to vote and get them to the polls. The group’s efforts were marred by irregularities, including one case in which ACORN workers allegedly induced a Cleveland man to register to vote 72 times, offering cigarettes as an incentive.
The Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law teamed with two Warren County residents to sue ACORN in Warren County Common Pleas Court just before the 2008 election. The residents alleged that their rights were abridged by thousands of fraudulent voter registrations, each representing “a potential illegal vote that has the capacity to dilute (legitimate) votes.”
The case was moved to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Yesterday’s settlement is mostly confidential, said Maurice A. Thompson, the conservative group’s attorney.
“They will surrender their business license by June 1 and cease to operate in Ohio and cease to support or enable other groups to do what they do,” Thompson said.
Alphonse A. Gerhardstein, the attorney for ACORN in Ohio, said the organization already has left Ohio “for reasons that are unrelated to this litigation.” After the 2008 election, in which some credited or blamed ACORN for the election of Barack Obama as president, ACORN has dialed back its political activity across the country.
ACORN continues to deny any wrongdoing in Ohio, Gerhardstein said.
The settlement doesn’t award court costs or attorney’s fees to either side, he said.
“They’ve already stopped (working in Ohio), and they’re going to formalize that by June 1, 2010,” Gerhardstein said.
jnash@dispatch.com
March 11, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Breeze, thanks for posting.
One state…I guess it’s a ‘start’.
“ACORN has dialed back its political activity across the country.”
“Dialed back”?? The whole outfit should be shut down and the principles locked up!
March 12, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Sigh. They’ll just regroup and come back under a different name.
March 11, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Boyz…Hope all is well. Didn’t see THIS ‘upthread’ so here is a linky to the ‘Slaughter Solution’ whereby, using the same magic fairie dust that SanFranNan uses for both facial blush and fiscal planning, the House can ‘deem’ ObamaCare ‘passed’ and ‘poof’ it magically appears (like a nose zit on your wedding day) on Barky’s desk.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/House-Democrats-looking-at-Slaughter-Solution-to-pass-Obamacare-without-a-vote-on-Senate-bill-87267402.html
And just a reminder, Louise Slaughter is the NY Rep who tells tales of ‘Dead Sister’s Dentures.’ She is a ‘BFF’ of Pelosi. Can’t we all just picture those two wacky gals together on Spa Day?
March 11, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Off theme (for want of a more current string) — this is a piece of good news:
http://cdn.rollcall.com/media/44110-1.html
The Senate parliamentarian doesn’t seem — if this is any indication — to have been suborned by the Democrats.
March 11, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Can’t the VP ~Plugs Biden~ over-rule the parliamentarian? In any case, it is good news indeed.
March 11, 2010 at 4:26 pm
They would have to drag him back from the Mid-east.
Wouldn’t that be something?
March 11, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Maybe the Israelis will do us a favor and detain him!
March 12, 2010 at 12:58 pm
He must live a really clean life – no dirt to blackmail him into siding with them.
March 11, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Anybody seen the boyz today? Hope everthing is OK, but I’d feel much better if one of them would check in and say HI.
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they AREN’T out to get you…”
March 11, 2010 at 4:41 pm
from big government today: the next O’keefe sting….HUD offices in Detroit and Chicago…
This time, there are no prostitutes involved, just a shady, and serious, tax-fraud scheme. The ploy involves the Obama administration’s 10 percent tax credit to first-time home buyers. The law says that the credit maxes out at $8,000 for an $80,000 home. But at the Detroit office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the rule seems open to interpretation. O’Keefe asks a staffer, What if I bought a place for $50,000, but the seller and I agreed to write down $80,000 as the purchase price?
“Flip it any way you want,” the staffer replies.
What if the place is worth much less — like only $6,000?
“Yup, you can do that.”
O’Keefe and fellow activist Joe Basel ran the same sting at HUD’s Chicago office and at several federally supported independent housing groups. Breitbart paces the parquet floor. The video is damning but not exactly Acorn-explosive.
Then O’Keefe stops the playback. “Oh yeah, I forgot,” he says. “We went to the Detroit Free Press, to the managing editor. We told her the whole thing. She said she wasn’t interested. Wanna see the tape?”
Breitbart starts to cackle. Of course he wants to see the tape. Sleazy HUD administrators are important, sure. But media covering up sleaze? That’s entertainment. “Dude, that’s the most important part!” he says. “I have seepage coming out of five parts of my body right now.”
O’Keefe hits Play. A world-weary Freep editor listens to O’Keefe’s kickback story and politely declines. There could be a thousand reasons why, but to O’Keefe and Breitbart, there’s only one explanation: liberal bias. Breitbart slaps the walls like they were congo drums, grinning. “OK,” he tells O’Keefe, “now I officially adore you.”
March 11, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Ya know, I came staight to the bottom of this thread to ask the same question. Maybe they took a much needed day off. C’mon, we all need a refresher. I’m thinking they’re coming up w/something really interesting. I’m not sure if this absence is unprecedented or not, maybe someone out there could let us know.
Thx
March 11, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Hillbuzz,
I saw an MO photo that is a must see. Pllleeeaase get your hands on the Feb. 22, 2010 issue of In Touch Weekly. Go to page 38. You will see MO in an amazing outfit from waist up. It’s a keeper.
March 11, 2010 at 5:48 pm
http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez/2010/03/2
Speaking about photoshop ideas. . .a day or so ago, we were discusssing ideas for Rahmbo in the shower with Massa. Did anyone else see this Townhall op-ed cartoon?
March 11, 2010 at 6:30 pm
that is exactly what I was envisioning – but he was naked from the waist up!!! ROFL
March 11, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Good op-ed from Michael Goodwin, finally people are getting Utopia’s number. More need to wake up:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/we_re_not_buying_it_Y3SdZ99rd5fHIxkSDWfliJ?listcomments=true#comments#ixzz0hueqEYVc
Funniest comment at bottom:
Oh we got trouble
right here in River City
It starts with an O and ends with A and stands for fool
March 11, 2010 at 6:35 pm
here is another idea for a song that can be used when we talk about Dr. Utopia and his gang.
The song is from the movie Chicago and it is very appropriate: Razzle Dazzle
There are two songs in the movie Chicago. The first one is the one where Roxie and her lawyer are talking to the press corps… and between the pair of them they are dazzling the minions with their story. It is a great scene because it shows how the press are like puppets on a string.
Now that gives me another song for the LSM:
“Puppet on a String” – it is a song from the late 1960s or early 1970s and it was a Eurovision winner. Very racy and appropriate….. because the press really do behave like puppets on a string. In fact the Obots behave like puppets on a string… but in that scene from Chicago you can see the puppet master as he is pulling their strings…. :)