Archive for February 1st, 2011
Welcome Back Carter: 1979 Redux During the Crisis in Egypt – by Mary Leverett
Welcome back Carter!
Another great article by Mary Leverett, this time drawing the obvious comparison between Carter and Obama.
If you lived through the nightmare that was 1979, can you chime in below with your reactions to Leverett’s article?
I was 2 when the Shah fell, but one of my favorite books is “Daughter of Persia” by Satterah Farman Farmaian, which honestly reads like an Iranian Gone With the Wind. There are sections in it describing the looting of Tehran and the destruction of so many priceless artifacts from Persian history at the hands of the Ayatollahs.
It is sickening to see this happening in Egypt as we speak.
Under Islamic fundamentalism the treasures of the pharaohs will be destroyed or locked off like the Persian relics and Persepolis.
It’s hear-breaking, as Leverett notes.
Why do Muslims have such influence in the world, and why do we collectively let them?
Why is Huckabee in Jerusalem ?
Seriously. I just turned on my TV for a little lunchtime news update and Megan Kelly is interviewing the Huck, who is in Jerusalem. He’s no doubt trying to look presidential….swooping in to diffuse the situation in the Middle East. Give me a break! Blah! Huckabee is a nice guy but NOT presidential material (IMHO). Good ole Megan called him out by asking him “What are you doing in Jerusalem ? Could you be gearing up for a 2012 bid?” to which he answered “uh…I’m just here to visit some friends and offer help. I’ve been coming here for years.”
Yeah…right.
White House and Cocktail Party establishment kabuki: Jon Huntsman edition
Seriously? This guy? The Media's really trying to sell THIS GUY as a new Cocktail Party favorite for 2012? Ridunkulous.
HotAir has this take on Jon Huntsman resigning as US Ambassador to China to run for the Republican 2012 nomination.
Strangely, they believe the White House made Huntsman Ambassador to China to prevent him from being a 2012 candidate. Because the Governor of Utah is such a compelling position from which to launch a presidential bid.
Do you remember what the White House said back in 2009 when they made Huntsman an Ambassador? Axelrod, Emanuel, and the rest went out of their way at the time to tell anyone who would listen how “formidable” Huntsman would be if he ran against Obama in 2012…and how they believed he’d be “the hardest candidate to beat”.
I hear the Republicans called “The Party of Stupid” a lot and most of the time I cringe, because stupid’s such an ugly word and I don’t think many people deserve that.
But if you can’t see what the White House did with Huntsman, then you really are stupid, even if you write for HotAir and are someone I normally like.
Huntsman has always been a failsafe the White House intended to push for the 2012 GOP nomination because his wealth is limitless and his ego is apparently considerable. Huntsman has been positioned by the Administration to play the Ross Perot spoiler role for the GOP.
If the Media-White House-Left axis does not succeed in nominating someone like Mittens Romney, Tim Pawlenty, or John Thune in 2012 and Governor Palin secures the nomination, the doomsday scenario for the White House has always been to encourage Huntsman to step up as a third party candidate to split the Republican vote with Palin, the way Perot did with Bush to squeak Bill Clinton to victory in 1992.
Huntsman, apparently, is too stupid to realize he is being played.
“Hear that? They done said I was formidable. Whooooo, doggies. Hear that? I am formidable. Rich, too. Oh, and so handsome, in a leathery creepy kind of way, but that being filthy stinking rich sure nuff makes up for that. AND, I went to China and was an Ambassador and the like, so now I got me some of that foreign policy credentials. Hell, if Ross Perot can do it, then I can get me some charts and some graphs and some Hell if I know and run as an Independent too. President Huntsman. Man alive, I sure nuff like the sound of that!”.
Idiot.
Sometimes, I still can’t believe Republicans can’t see that anyone who is praised by the Media is someone the GOP should not put forward as a candidate for office.
Reading comments at HotAir on this story is like dealing with people who’ve sustained head injuries recently — they have no short term memory and rarely learn from past mistakes.
A “centrist the media loves” did not win you the White House in 2008. Americans do not want a wimpy soggy sandwich “centrist”. They want an actual conservative to run on the Republican ticket. If you nominate her, she will win, and she will be greater than Reagan in all that she does.
I don’t know why, but Jon Hunstman for some reason reminds me of Jethro Bodine from the Beverly Hillbillies…more dollars than sense, handsome in a creepy way, and delusional.
I’m sure he’s a nice enough man. But so was Jethro.
Neither one ever will, or should, be president.
Interesting strategy being deployed against Mittens Romney: David Axelrod is praising him as being “instrumental to Obamacare”
This is very smart on David Axelrod’s part, if the goal is to guarantee Mittens Romney can never win a general election.
Axelrod has been PRAISING Mittens for being “instrumental to Obamacare”. If there had not been a Romneycare in Massachusetts, there would be no Obamacare nationally now.
Ouch.
For those of you who don’t live in big cities like Chicago and have weekly opportunities to see the Cocktail Party GOP establishment in action, I need to keep stressing how many careers were bet on Mittens Romney being the 2012 GOP nominee.
Here in Chicago, there is a whole generation of “Romney Guys” who have sunk everything into a Romney nomination. They remind me of girls in ugly dresses, with tragic hair and orthodontic head gear, who all chipped in everything they had for a ginormous stretch limo believing the handsome, Ken-dolled quarterback was going to take them to the prom. There they are, driving around town, excitedly asking each other who’s going to get to dance with Mitt first, who gets to put his corsage on him, and who’s going to give him the first kiss. Giggle, giggle, giggle.
Lee Roupas, the Cook County GOP Chair, is very much one of these gigglers. He, and all the twenty-something young Republicans he’s recruited for leadership positions in the Cook County organization, all believe they will get big time, high-paying, resume-building gigs with a Romney 2012 campaign. For Roupas, the stakes are even higher since his political career was ruined last summer when he and Illinois GOP state Chair Pat Brady declared war on Chicago GOP Chair Eloise Gerson, when Gerson exposed a sex scandal in Republican ranks that Roupas covered up for a buddy (who was, it should be noted, one of the previously mentioned “Romney Guys” metaphorically seated with Roupas in that limousine, giggling the night away).
So, not only do you have guys who have foregone other lucrative jobs because the Romney camp keeps assuring them they will be rich by this time next year, working for his campaign, but you have people like Roupas who are desperate for a political or career resurrection by way of a plum post on the Romney 2012 campaign.
Not a single one of these people believe Romney will win the national election. Even Roupas will admit that if asked directly.
But, they don’t have the connections with other candidates like Governor Palin, and frankly they know Governor Palin detests people like this and would never want these “Romney Guys” working for her campaign.
Mittens Romney is destined to become the next Secretary of the Treasury. He seems to be a very nice and polite man who was successful in business. He would be an excellent Cabinet member. But he is never going to be president.
One of the key problems with the Republican Party is that even though almost everyone in politics can see this, and people like David Axelrod on the Democrat side are already laying the foundations via Romneycare to destroy Mittens in a general election (just in case the GOP is stupid enough to nominate him), the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is pushing Romney because they as individuals believe Romney will benefit them most personally.
Either Romney will give them a title they can embroider on a sash to wear around town during a Fancy Duds Parade…or Romney will give their idiot no-good son a good job…or Romney will have his campaign hire their cousin’s firm as the printer or party planner or tee shirt manufacturer for his doomed presidential bid.
Something to that effect.
Those are the only people who are pushing Mittens Romney…but the sad truth is that these are actually the people who pretty much control the Cocktail Party GOP establishment. These are the people who pushed John McCain in 2008 and Bob Dole in 1996, because “it was his turn” and all of these people like Lee Roupas were all dolled up riding around in the back of a limo just waiting to pick this guy up.
If you want to defeat Obama in 2012, the first step is defeating the Cocktail Party’s efforts to push Mittens Romney and other Soggy Sandwich Society candidates to the nomination.
“It’s his turn” and “he’ll give me a job on the campaign” should just not be accepted as reasons for nominating someone next year.
Underaged Pimp Sex Sting Rocks Planned Parenthood
Horrible.
Sadly, not surprising in the least.
Just horrible.
GENIUS political theater: South Dakota bill being pushed for individual mandate for anyone over 21 to buy a gun “to maintain their own personal safety”
South Dakota engages in brilliant political theater
This is the sort of political theater Republicans need to engage in coast to coast, because it forces Democrats to reactively rail against it on camera, not realizing the words will be held against them when it comes to Obamacare.
Ridicule is the best weapon against the Left, and hypocrisy is the Democrats’ major Achilles heel.
South Dakota is pushing a bill for an individual mandate that would require all citizens over the age of 21 to purchase a fire arm to maintain their individual safety.
Other states should push for bills setting up individual mandates for people to purchase other things, as bizarre as possible, all guaranteed to make the Left howl.
Then, when the Left comes out against these bills, or challenges them in court, it’s then repeatedly affirmed that the federal government has no power to require citizens to purchase anything…and that power is not given to state governments either.
I guarantee you many of the dimmer bulbs in the Democrat constellation will hear “South Dakota to mandate purchase of guns” and they’ll run to the nearest MSNBC microphone bank to RANT AND RAVE about how unconstitutional this is, just as Democrats had absolutely no respect for religion until Muslims wanted to build the Ground Zero Victory Mosque as a conquest monument in Manhattan.
Democrat’s have no concept of how their own hypocrisy plays across the country, and consistently get themselves into major trouble when they wildly switch positions on something because either guns (which they hate) or Islam (which they love, because it too hates America) are involved.
The real genius in political theater like this in South Dakota is that it forces regular people to see just how unconstitutional Obamcare is, while simultaneously exposing Democrats as hypocrites and fools for ramming this legislation through without really considering its consequences.
BRILLIANT.
Need more of this.
