Archive for September, 2011
When have presidential candidates announced their campaigns for the White House?
Hat Tip to our friend Rose for making us aware of this great video by Shelly Dankert.
When have presidential candidates announced their campaigns for the White House?
Franklin Roosevelt: Announced January 1932 for November 1932 election.
Dwight Eisenhower: Announced March 1952 for November 1952 election.
John F. Kennedy: Announced January 1960 for November 1960 election.
Lyndon Johnson: Announced July 1960 for November 1960 election.
Barry Goldwater: Announced January 1964 for November 1964 election.
Richard Nixon: Announced February 1968 for November 1968 election.
Ronald Reagan: Announced November 1979 for November 1980 election.
George H.W. Bush: Announced October 1987 for November 1988 election.
Bill Clinton: Announced October 1991 for November 1992 election.
Bob Dole: Announced April 1995 for November 1996 election.
Al Gore: Announced June 1999 for November 2000 election.
George W. Bush: Announced June 1999 for November 2000 election.
John Kerry: Announced September 2003 for November 2004 election.
John McCain: Announced April 2007 for November 2008 election.
Barack Obama: Announced February 2007 for November 2008 election.
Hillary Clinton: Announced February 2007 for November 2008 election.
Deadlines for making a decision in 2012:
To be on the Florida ballot, Republican candidates must file by 5pm October 31st, 2011 (though Florida is being punished by the RNC by “going early” and only half the delegates will count, making it a state a candidate can miss the filing deadline for).
To be on the ballot in South Carolina — a state all candidates should indeed want to be on the ballot for — filing deadline is 5pm November 1st.
Something to keep in mind:
There is a GOP debate on October 18th, 2011…the same day Governor Palin is scheduled to be in South Korea giving a speech. It seems unlikely she would fly back and make it in time to attend this debate.
In all likelihood, she will not announce her candidacy until after this debate…so possibly sometime between October 19th and October 30th, since I doubt she would do it on Halloween…though, actually, she could miss the Florida deadline and announce as late as the morning or afternoon of November 1st and still be able to participate in the South Carolina primary.
Today in History: Democrats call Herman Cain a racist. Herman Cain officially becomes my second choice for President in 2012 since anyone the Left calls a racist is clearly doing something right.
Cornell Belcher — a man who sounds like the unofficial mascot of a fraternity-favorite bar in Ithaca, New York — has accused Herman Cain of being a RAAACIST.
Herman Cain is a black man.
Cornell Belcher is — BURP! — a black man. BURP!
Since the Left really has only one consistent weapon at its disposal — calling anyone who opposes the Left a RAAACIST — fools like Belcher launch into their practiced “He’s a RAAACIST!” routine sometimes without realizing the person being called a RAAACIST is black himself.
Whenever you hear anyone like Cornell “Burpy” Belcher call someone a racist in the future, first off, indulge the last remnants of the schoolyard you and laugh at his ridiculous, ridiculous name…and then think about all the people accused of being a WITCH! through the centuries because they either irked someone personally or opposed him or her politically.
Shouting RAAACIST! at a person in 2011 is the same as shouting WITCH! at an opponent in 1611.
It is an irrational, emotional, baseless attack wholly devoid of any reason or substance…meant solely to alienate the victim from public support, ostracize that person, and then leave the person vulnerable to further orchestrated attacks on his or her credibility, standing, or livelihood.
The Left has only one playbook — the Alinsky Rules Book — and it’s been recycling the same attacks for decades…which are based on the same divisive and inflammatory attacks used by similar evil doers for centuries.
The net result of Cornell “Burpy” Belcher’s attack on Herman Cain is this: I have always liked Cain, but I’ve been wary of supporting someone who has never held political office before in a bid for the presidency.
But, I have to say, that aside from Governor Sarah Palin and Congressman Allen West, Cain is the only Republican who has the courage to call the Left out on its garbage on a regular basis. All of the declared presidential candidates, besides Cain, seem afraid of the media to some degree.
I’m backing Governor Sarah Palin in 2012 because I believe she is running and will announce sometime between October 19th and Halloween.
If she does not run, more likely than not I’ll end up supporting whomever she endorses…but I have to say, right here, right now, in a race that doesn’t include Governor Palin I am all about Herman Cain.
Because at the end of the day, if someone in the political world is being called RAAACIST! by Leftists like Cornell “Burpy” Belcher, then he must be doing something right.
So maybe it’s worth looking past his previous lack of elected office and exploring whether I think a President Herman Cain would be willing to sock it to the Left every single day he’s working in the Oval Office.
Wow. Erik Erikson at Redstate is having a complete mental breakdown on his site today, consumed with his obsessive hatred of Sarah Palin
[ Click above to embiggen -- it's a screengrab of Redstate's Google feed from today]
[ Embiggen the above...it's Erik Erikson's running taunts of Palin supporters all day today, beginning at 6am and presumably going through midnight tonight if he keeps this up. The screengrab shows the taunts through 11am ]
Folks — check out what’s going on at Redstate.com today.
Please keep screengrabbing the site throughout the day and send the JPEGs to us at HillBuzz@gmail.com. I’m not on a computer that can screengrab right now, and I want to preserve the insanity at Redstate.com for posterity. Every hour, Redstate takes a punch at Palin supporters and I don’t want it disappeared down the memory hole.
Erik Erikson, Redstate’s Editor in Chief, has an obsessive hatred of Governor Sarah Palin. Erikson has become, essentially, the new mouthpiece of the Cocktail Party GOP establishment — what Governor Palin calls “the permanent political class” — and is truly obsessed with beating the drum that the Governor cannot enter the presidential race for 2012.
Meanwhile…Erikson and his fellow sexists at Redstate make no similar remarks about Chris Christie, Donald Trump, or other males who are currently strategizing on the sidelines awaiting the best opportunity to make political moves of their own.
Governor Palin has a plan. She’s had a plan for at least three years now. 2012 is her best chance at winning the presidency and she well knows it. Everything she’s done has been to run the most unconventional campaign in American political history because she knows she’s up against not just the Left, the media, the Obama White House, and villains like George Soros…but she’s up against the Cocktail Party GOP establishment and guys like Erik Erikson as well.
She will not play by their rules or adhere to their timetables. She will do things her way, AND SHE WILL WIN.
In 2008, Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, and Keith Olbermann teamed up to demoralize and berate Hillary Clinton’s supporters in the Democrat primaries to push Obama towards the presidency.
In 2011, Erik Erikson has either been assigned, or has presumed, this role in the 2012 Republican primaries…but this time the woman that’s targeted is Governor Sarah Palin and the objective is to demoralize and berate HER supporters.
I wonder if Erikson drives a red, flashy sports car. Traditionally, that’s how guys with small penises compensate; though, in Erikson’s case, he does have Redstate at his disposal, so chest-thumping like he’s doing today, in an aggressive and repetitive assault on Governor Palin’s supporters, must be how this man asserts “No, really, I have an at least average sized penis. Really. Don’t believe anything you’ve heard or assume anything from the way I behave myself. Really. It’s not microscopic at all, and it’s almost fully functioning”.
For some reason, I’m not surprised that a guy like Erik Erikson in the Cocktail Party GOP establishment sports a shriveled up Vienna sausage and feels the need to compensate for it in the most childish way imaginable.
Whatever respect I had left for Redstate since Erikson took his gig at CNN is now forever gone.
Every hour on the hour he’s, very brattily, excoriating Governor Palin’s supporters shouting “She’s not declared yet!”.
I have news for Erik “baby dick” Erikson: Governor Palin will indeed declare her candidacy, precisely on the day Governor Palin chooses to.
It will more likely than not be after the October 18th GOP debate…since every debate men like Rick Perry lose more steam and the Governor benefits from not being the sole center of attention she knows she will be the moment she declares.
The Governor learned volumes from what men like Erikson did to Hillary Clinton and her supporters in the 2008 race. She is not repeating any of Hillary’s mistakes, and is stalking the GOP race like the master huntress she is.
Erikson is beclowning himself today and having quite a tantrum. His shortcomings are bared for all to clearly see.
Can someone please document it, so we can all call him out on this sometime after October 18th and show what an abject fool he’s made of himself today?
Please screengrab Redstate’s homepage from top to bottom so we get a complete record of today’s beclownment.
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UPDATE: At 6pm 9/30/11, Erikson started making jokes about suicide related to Palin supporters.
It’s 6pm. Still No Smoke on the Horizon for Palin 2012
I’m thinking we need to put out the suicide prevention hotline. There has been no announcement.
Again, to quote U.S. for Palin:
Sarah Palin however has said she will make an announcement before the deadline to declare by the end of September. It is now September 8th, 2011 and all the media and her supporters have to do is wait till September 30th, 2011.
That’s *US* for Palin as in AMERICA itself people!!!!!
Here’s something Erikson and the guys (and I’d wager it’s probably 90%+ male dominated over there) over at Redstate don’t understand: they are going to trigger a backlash against not only themselves but the Republican Party by engaging in behavior like this.
Speaking as someone who has been conservative his whole life — but who was a Democrat until 2008 — this type of behavior is PRECISELY why I never felt any affinity for the Republican Party.
This is the behavior of immature, privileged, frat boys who taunt and gloat and make needless enemies because they think they’ve “won” something in the moment.
This is the sort of behavior that could very easily make Governor Palin’s supporters sit the election out if she does not run, because they feel alienated by childish “men” like Erikson who spend an entire day taunting them while representing the Republican Party’s typical members.
THIS IS A VERY STUPID THING FOR ERIKSON AND REDSTATE TO DO.
I remember when I was in high school, and went to a private school outside of Cleveland that had a lot of guys like Erikson in it, and I was just starting to really think about politics and was listening to Republican arguments for the first time…and I can honestly say the nastiness, the conceit, and the petty bitterness of the young Republican guys in my class completely turned me off from anything having to do with Republicans.
And I stayed away from the party for the next 20 years because of it.
If Erikson and Redstate’s goal is really to defeat Obama, he should not be alienating and making enemies of Palin supporters.
I honestly don’t think this clown or those at Redstate who think like him realize what they are doing…but if it wasn’t for Governor Palin’s leadership in 2010, the Tea Party would have splintered off as a Third Party and would have allowed Democrats to hold the house in that election…and a Third Party Tea Party entity in 2012 would allow Obama a second term.
The only way this splintering happens is if guys like Erikson drive Palin supporters into Third Party advocacy.
I really wish someone with direct access to Erikson would tell this fool that.
About Dick Morris’ latest theory on Obama pulling an LBJ-meets-Grover Cleveland gambit
Dick Morris has been making the rounds with his latest theory that Barack Obama will pull an LBJ and not seek re-election next year (knowing he is certain to lose), so that he can actually come back to run for the presidency again in 2016 or 2020, Grover Cleveland-style.
I don’t have time to give this a lengthy treatment, but maybe it doesn’t even need one to express how ridiculous this concept is.
The jury’s still out on which part of Obama’s ego will prevail regarding 2012; will it be the side that’s horrified at the thought of losing the election (in which case he’ll just not run again) or the part of him that is so in love with the trappings of office that he can’t bear to step aside? If it’s the latter, he’ll no doubt wait until the last possible moment to pull out of the race, so the Democrats will be screwed royally and unable to put forward a candidate for 2012 (and stop fantasizing about Hillary Clinton being the 2012 nominee, because she knows a Democrat won’t win after the mess Obama has made and she will not allow herself to be used as a sacrifice so that Democrats immediately after her loss can say, “It’s all Hillary’s fault! We would have won if Obama was still on the ticket! Let’s run Obama again in 2016 and give him another chance!”).
The Democrat Party has a real come to Jesus moment ahead of it, which is amusing since so many on the Left hate Christianity with a passion and put all their faith in the false god-with-a-decidedly-small-g that is Obama. Either the party completely purges itself of Obama and his acolytes after the 2012 election and marginalizes the Left to a role of non-influence in the party, or Democrats are toast for the foreseeable future.
The Obama presidency has redefined what it means to be a Democrat, and MILLIONS of former Democrats — such as myself — want nothing to ever again do with the party because of the deliberate lurch to the Left the Democrat Party took in 2008 when it cast aside Hillary Clinton and all the moderate/conservative Democrats who supported her in favor of the Left’s darling Obama.
If Obama doesn’t seek a second term and instead tries to maintain control of the Democrat Party to preserve an opportunity to return in 2016 or 2020 as the standard-bearer again, then Democrats will never have an opportunity to correct the way Independents now see Democrats.
If the Party is to survive, it needs to de-Obamafy, and quickly…and ensure that everyone associated with Obama’s rise to power never again plays a visible role in the Democrat Party.
Personally, though I still don’t know whether Obama will run for a second term, I can’t imagine him WANTING another term.
I also can’t picture him ever attempting a run for the White House again, even if the Democrat Party was foolish enough to run him in 2016.
Obama never wanted to be President…he’s always wanted to be an ex-president, with all the trappings, wealth, and fame that come with that. He wanted a place in the history books and a life dedicated to giving speeches, holding book signings, and traveling the world in the lap of luxury. Running for President was a means to this end.
Why on Earth would he ever want to leave the plush retirement the post-presidency affords to once again be responsible for actually doing things on a daily basis in the White House?
Besides, it does not take much imagination to realize Obama’s breathlessly awaiting his chance to usurp Jimmy Carter as the former US President who travels the world criticizing America, hating Israel, and doing his very best to embarrass Americans and promote Islam. That’s been his goal all along, to achieve a lifetime appointment on the national stage as America’s loudest critic.
In 2013, after he leaves the White House, if he plans on running for anything ever again it will be UN Secretary General, where he’ll happily condemn the United States while speaking for this “world body”.
Dick Morris is a colorful and interesting man who must see this as well, but just wants the attention garnered from using LBJ and Grover Cleveland in the same sentence and causing a little stir the way he has been this week.
Toldja: Steven Chu proving to be the worst choice for Energy Secretary ever
My boyfriend Justin hates when I do this — and I readily admit it’s irritating — but I need to give the world a big TOLDJA SO, Nikke Finke-style, in regards to Energy Secretary Steven Chu…who today admits the Solyndra loans were his fault, because he didn’t know any better.
When the Obama Administration began, it was clear to me that Steven Chu was the worst choice made in the Cabinet. I realize that’s saying a lot, considering Tim Geithner’s record in the Treasury and the mess Janet Napolitano’s made at Homeland Security, but from Day One Steven Chu has had no clue in Hades what he’s doing.
I remember the first week in his new job, Chu was asked about the Energy Department’s role in setting energy prices and Chu had no idea what part as Secretary he played in this. He, in fact, couldn’t give a solid description of what, exactly, the Secretary of Energy did.
By all accounts, Steven Chu is a very nice man…and a Nobel Prize winner (though, considering the fact Obama himself has one of those, for not actually achieving anything, it’s kind of like winning a Grammy or a Daytime Emmy at this point)…but he’s never been a manager of anything and has no idea what to do in an executive position.
Give him a lab and a team of grad students, and I’m sure he could work wonders…or at the very least, invent Flubber.
Put him in a Cabinet position, and Steven Chu approves the Solyndra debacle.
It was obvious from the very beginning that something like this would happen, because Obama chose Chu for the position because he wanted to have a “historic and unprecedented first ever Asian Secretary of Energy”, who happened to have a Nobel Prize on his resume.
It’s no surprise that the “historic and unprecedented first ever black President”, who happens to have a Nobel Prize on his resume, set the stage for the Solyndra disaster by naming Chu to the Cabinet in the first place.
Putting people in executive decision making positions just because they have the right PC, aesthetic look never turns out well, does it?
WARNING: Never watch TV shows via the website TVDuck.com. You will get viruses that destroy your computer
About a week or so ago, I made the mistake of using the website www.TVDuck.com to watch episodes of True Blood online because I don’t have cable and would not be able to see the show until next year (when the DVDs are released) unless I found a site that streamed it.
I’m sure many of you out there know better than to use a site like TVDuck, but I honestly never thought my computer could be infected by viruses if I just watched streaming content and didn’t download anything. I am always very careful to never open attachments that strangers send me via email, and I never download anything from sites I don’t trust implicitly, but I didn’t think watching streaming content could ever cause me trouble.
PLEASE don’t ever make the mistake I did.
The viruses have destroyed my computer’s ability to get onto the Internet, because the viruses are preventing Norton anti-virus from getting the downloads it needs to wipe the viruses out. There is something built into the viruses that made them attack the computer’s ability to recognize the Internet connection. I’ve spent the last week on the phone for many hours with Norton support, Microsoft support, and Comcast support trying to find a solution to this. I honestly have to just give up at this point and will need to junk this computer because the viruses won’t even allow Norton to be reinstalled on the machine (after the viruses somehow deleted Norton from the computer after a scan I ran detected them and tried to remove them).
It still amazes me that talented, bright, computer-savvy people in the world waste their lives creating viruses that destroy people’s machines like this.
I have to use my boyfriend Justin’s computer now whenever he’s sleeping or not using it, or try to get time on a PC at the library or something, until I can get a new computer for Buzzquarters. It’s a huge inconvenience and expense that is all because I couldn’t wait until next year to watch True Blood’s latest season and didn’t know the dangers of using a site like TVDuck.com to watch streaming content.
It’s an expensive lesson that’s brought new challenges to my life when I least needed them, so I want anyone reading this to make sure YOU are more careful and astute than I was and you do not make the same mistake.
And, if you happen to be reading this and you’re someone who knows anything about computers, I would love to hear from you in comments regarding what I could possibly do to fix my computer. As stated, the problem is that the viruses are preventing the computer from recognizing the Internet connection, so the computer thinks it is offline. The error message I get is: “failed to query TCP/IP”. The viruses will not allow Norton to be reinstalled, and even when I use Justin’s computer to download the “Norton Power Eraser”, like Norton support told me, and save it to a thumb drive to then walk over to my computer, my PC won’t allow the Power Eraser to install.
It looks like the viruses are protecting themselves and preventing the computer from either installing the Norton products the viruses destroyed or getting to the Internet where new virus-killers can be downloaded.
If you have any clue what to do that can save me from having to buy a new computer, I’d love to hear from you in comments below.
Some first impressions on Joe McGinniss’ poorly written documentation of mental illness that is “Searching for the Real Sarah Palin”
Please do not waste your money on Joe McGinniss’ book on Governor Sarah Palin, titled “Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” and released by Random House this month. I just finished reading it this morning and it’s honestly one of the worst books — if not the actual worst — that I’ve ever had the misfortune of reading. Thankfully, a friend of mine who works in a bookstore lent it to me and I am returning it today, so I didn’t have to buy the book (and neither did my friend). I certainly didn’t want to participate in any royalties that would have gone to McGinniss (not that many people are, since my friend says the book is not selling at all and is in fact marked down considerably already, being a real turkey in the publishing world from its launch).
Even if you find it in a bargain bin some day for $1.00, it’s really not worth it unless you are one of those crafters who take terrible books, hollow them out, and make decorative hidey-safes out of them (there’s always at least one of these tables at every craft fair in Chicago, and I’m forever left wondering what other people need to hide so badly that books have to be destroyed this way for the purpose…though if any book needed to be ripped apart by crafters and bedazzlers, it’s McGinniss).
I normally read a book every two or three days, but it took me 11 days to finish McGinniss’, because it’s just so poorly written and so clearly the documentation of the author’s clear and untreated mental illness.
The only thing I can compare it to is Stephen King’s “The Shining”, because over the course of the book McGinniss degenerates into a Jack Torrance-like figure, believing unseen forces are out to get him and something nefarious is continuously going on around him — complete with a majestic, forested, mountain setting.
The book is creepy. McGinniss’, not King’s.
There’s an entire chapter devoted to McGinniss’ bizarre speculation that Trig Palin is not in fact Governor Sarah Palin’s son, but the child of an unnamed, mystery woman (or, maybe a ghost) who — according to McGinniss — was horrified at the thought of having a Down Syndrome child so she agreed to hand the baby over to the Governor to raise. McGinniss claims Senator John McCain and Governor Palin met in February 2008 and concocted this plot together — because McCain knew conservative Christians would not support his candidacy unless his running mate was a female Republican Governor who had recently birthed a special needs baby.
Joe McGinniss actually alleges this in his book. It’s in Chapter Nineteen. If this was really “The Shining”, the blood would be getting off the elevator on the second floor, chasing little Danny Torrance on his tricycle at this point.
McGinniss is incredibly hostile to Christianity all throughout “Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” and refers to Barack Obama as if he’s really some “Lightbringer” that should never be questioned or criticized. Know this well, and you’ll have a solid idea of what’s woven throughout the 300-some odd (and often, VERY odd) pages.
Here and there, McGinniss talks about geese and squirrels living in the woods near him like they are people. They’re characters in the book, and often more credible than some of the kooks he “interviewed” for his “research”.
The book is plastered with more expletives than stalls in a truck stop restroom, but written with a fraction of the wit, class, or charm.
There’s also a strange amount of time devoted to things McGinniss was eating during the time he spent stalking the Palin family, all the while insisting to anyone who would listen, even the birds and the squirrels, that he wasn’t really stalking them. He was just “observing” them. Repeatedly, he’d invite interview subjects over to the house and make jokes about none of them wanting to peer over the Palin’s fence or look in the Palin children’s windows. I think it’s beyond creepy of McGinniss to even joke about doing things like this, or to make light of the situation he created where the parents next door had to concern themselves with what the stranger next door might be up to.
McGinniss spends an unnatural and inappropriate amount of time talking about Piper Palin. Though he doesn’t make any threats towards her, he lingers too much on Piper when detailing book signings or political events where Piper was amongst other Palin family members supporting the Governor. In these instances, McGinniss doesn’t take the time to describe what others in the Palin entourage are wearing or what they’re doing…only Piper. Always Piper. If another author, with a different obsession, wrote a similar book going on about Sasha Obama this way, I’m sure Secret Service would move in next door to him.
Creepy.
When not waxing at length about the Palin children, McGinniss spends the rest of the book quoting things he read on the various hate sites dedicated to attacking Governor Palin on a daily basis. He quotes from these blogs the way others might quote Scripture, which is interesting because of the decidedly anti-Christian bent of the book.
Most often, when sources are referenced, they’re described as “a local handyman”, “someone in town who used to work for Sarah Palin”, or “a person eating pie at a diner who told me that Sarah Palin is evil”.
Seriously.
And then McGinniss goes on for several pages about how much all of these people are so terrified of the Palins that they refused to give their names, fearing retribution.
This reminded me a lot of all the horrible books that have been written about Hillary Clinton through the years, where fetishists obsessed with her accused her of doing all sorts of voodoo on her political opponents, but then refused to give their names and go on record with their accusations claiming they were too afraid of her to do so.
THAT reminds me a lot of people who snipe at public figures on the Internet but refuse to give their real names, hiding behind ridiculous aliases and avatars since what they’re saying isn’t the least bit true. All of these people howl and wail when dragged out into the sunlight and their real agendas are exposed.
It’s weird to see the same things that were done to Hillary Clinton being done to Governor Palin, but not surprising because most of the garbage McGinnniss typed up is rooted in the same misogyny and sexism that fueled 80% of the Hillary Derangement Syndrome…which is now being eclipsed by rabid Palin Derangement Syndrome.
I actually think it’s worth my time and yours to sit down and do a write up of the Top Ten Worst Delusions in McGinniss’ book on Palin — because I have no doubt PDS sufferers coast to coast will parrot the attacks in McGinniss’ book so I might as well spend today refudiating them while the book is still fresh in my mind.
Before I do whatever I need to do to flush this thing out of my head once and for all.
If you have read the book yourself, please use this thread to post your own comments of what you though of it. Honestly, it’s chock so full of lies I’m sure Random House is going to pay a large settlement to the Palin family for just Chapter Nineteen alone, with it’s vile attacks on little Trig. There’s also the fact that McGinniss repeatedly calls Governor Palin a racist, at least once a chapter, which is patently untrue…and, coincidentally, the very thing Leftists do when they want to attack someone but have nothing substantive and reality-based to say in the form of criticism. So, they just call the person a RAAACIST!, as the Alinsky Rules playbook dictates.
Followed by McGinniss to the demented letter in his own “book”.
