Cocktail Party GOP
Ron Paul Won Nevada Caucus – And Nevada Voters Lost
Ron Paul speaks in Minnesota, H/T The Daily Beast
While you were busy enjoying your bread and circuses yesterday, operatives from the Nevada GOP–aided and abetted by all four cable “news” networks–were busily manipulating the results of the Nevada Caucuses, handing another undeserved victory to Mittens “It’s My Turn, Peasants” Romneycare.
You probably aren’t aware of this, because the TeeVee told you that Mitt Romney won, nothing to see here, move along now, after a mere 5% of the vote had been counted.
But what the TeeVee didn’t tell you–for about an entire day–is that the Nevada GOP refused to release the results from Clark County, Nevada’s most populous county and the home of 60% of Nevada’s registered voters. In fact, as of this writing, more than 30 hours after the last caucus closed, the Nevada Caucuses are still not decided. (Well, not in the “lawfully and transparently counting the votes to see who got the most” sense. They’ve already been decided in the “we count the votes, and we already decided in advance that Mittens was going to win” sense.)
Here’s some coverage of the “special caucus” that Newt’s billionaire casino magnate backer bought for him. It was the last caucus that took place, and is in Clark County, where 60% of all Nevada voters are located. Later that night, CNN also aired the live counting of the votes at that caucus. In the video below, CNN joins the event at the point where the candidates’ supporters were giving stump speeches. Over two dozen caucus voters spoke on Ron Paul’s behalf, in an audience that was expected to be largely Seventh-Day Adventists and Orthodox Jews. Romney, Gingrich and Santorum only inspired two or three supporters to speak on their behalf, according to one witness who voted at the caucus.
Here are the results, counted and announced live on CNN:
Ron Paul: 183
Mittens Romney: 61
Newt Gingrich: 57
Rick Santorum: 16
It’s remarkable that the total is so high, given the fact that the caucus organizers forced those who wanted to vote to sign a “religious declaration” affidavit before giving them a ballot, likely in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Even with religious discrimination the results favored Ron Paul, as the Paul campaign expected, based on their internal polling. (At some point in the past two weeks, I read that the Paul campaign had identified over 20,000 definite Ron Paul voters in advance of the caucuses. I’ll post a source if I can find it.)
Ron Paul’s vote totals have more than doubled in every primary or caucus so far over his 2008 totals, and since he has had a massive organization in Nevada for four years, and Nevada is a libertarian state, he was expected to either win or tie for first place. And in the ONE large Clark County caucus where the votes were counted in public, on live television, Ron Paul won by a landslide, as was expected.
Apparently, that was bad news for those in the Cocktail Party GOP in Nevada.
Miraculously, “irregularities” were quickly found that required the party operatives to sequester themselves in a smoke-filled room and “recount” the votes from Clark County (until they get the totals they had decided upon in advance?)
At 3:10 a.m. Monday, nearly 10% of the votes have still not been reported. At this point, Ron Paul is listed in third place with only 5,901 votes–fewer votes than he received in 2008, when he placed second to Mitt Romney in the Nevada caucuses.
And just as miraculously, the chairwoman of the GOP in Nevada resigned effective 12:01 Sunday morning, in a move she claimed was pre-planned and had nothing whatsoever to do with the voter fraud the Nevada GOP was apparently undertaking.
Here’s a shorter version of events of the caucus voting and counting.
Move along, peasants. Nothing to see here. Turn up the surround sound and pass the hot wings.
Great Merciful Zeus: What If Terry Tate Worked in the RNC’s Offices?
This “Terry Tate, Office Linebacker” commercial originally aired during the Super Bowl in 2003…introducing the world to a marvelous character that I’m sure many have fantasized about having work in their own offices.
I never picked up on this before now, but the men who get tackled by Terry remind me a lot of the highly-paid (to lose elections) idiot consultants and (terrible at their jobs) strategists the Cocktail Party GOP establishment relies so heavily upon. Watch the videos, and you’ll see their smugness, their nonstop desire to fit-in and be well-liked, and the clownishness with which they conduct themselves.
I’ve been to both DNC and RNC headquarters in DC and can tell you that both parties are full of these kinds of guys — all in their twenties and thirties, behaving like the clowns that Terry tackles for not having covers on their TPS reports.
Since Terry Tate can’t start work at Cocktail Party headquarters to clean that place out…how about channeling a little of his spirit, wherever you live, and start thinking of ways that you can be a sort of work-from-home “Establishment Linebacker” to start socking it to the people who are responsible for pushing another “It’s his turn to be the nominee!” destined-t0-lose candidate towards the Republican nomination this year?
It’s His Turn to Be the Nominee!
“But, it was our turn!”
Ladies and gentlemen — the Cocktail Party GOP establishment: pushing to nomination the precise candidate that Democrats most want to run against since 1996.
Reasons Romney Will Lose to Obama: #2 He Says Things In Public That Even Thurston Howell III Wouldn’t Say Aloud
[ Click above to embiggen: Reason #2 of Why Willard "Mittens" Romney Will Lose to Barack Obama ]
Can you think of any more quotes attributable to Willard “Mittens” Romney that Democrats will use against him in a generation election to paint him as the quintessential embodiment of what the Occupy Wall Street astroturfed protests were created to rail against?
Remember: one of the things Democrats are exponentially better at than Republicans is using words to their maximum impact — and also slightly tweaking things someone said to the full advantage of The Tolerant Left. For example, in 2008 Governor Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house; the actual quote was that you can see Russia from Alaska because Alaskan Bering Sea islands are incredibly close to Siberian islands off the coast of Russia. Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live tweaked what she said and added the “from my house” part to caricature the Governor as stupid (a classic attack on Republicans, whom the Tolerant Left forever portrays as dim-witted, backwards, saurian, or needlessly cruel in order to alienate Independent voters from the GOP).
Romney gives Democrats more ammunition — on a rolling basis — than any Republican presidential candidate in memory because he feeds so directly into the caricature the Tolerant Left needs to create of him in order to secure Barack Obama’s re-election.
What else has he said that Democrats will lampoon?
Besides Thurston Howell III, what other callous, super-wealthy, out-of-touch characters from fiction will Democrats use to further alienate Independents from voting Republican in the fall if Romney is the nominee?
Addressing this stuff now means we will have nine months to come up with some creative way to mitigate this if indeed the Cocktail Party GOP establishment gets its way and Romney is installed as the “it’s his turn!” nominee that’s destined to lose the general election in Dole and McCain fashion.
Cocktail Party GOP Establishment’s Board of Directors
On the TV show The Simpsons, the Republican Party leadership is depicted as a board room full of various stock villains that assemble in a spooky castle atop a forest of thorns. At the table are Dracula, a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bob Dole, a crazed Texan, and other archetypes of what “The Tolerant Left” sees as the Legion of Doom-grade Republicans that supposedly control everything on the conservative side of the political aisle.
We all know this is bunk, because it’s sadly the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that has controlled the Republican Party for decades — consistently making the same mistakes while expecting different results and forever surrendering to Democrats on important issues in the spirit of being “bipartisan” (which itself is part of a bigger strategy these fools have of currying favor with an elite, agenda-driven media that will never, ever love them).
I coined the term “Cocktail Party GOP establishment” here on HillBuzz.org in 2010 after evolving the theme from a real-life incident that happened here in Chicago involving Willard “Mittens” Romney back in 2009 when he was beginning his fundraising push for this election cycle. Romney — like all Cocktail Party establishment types who roll through town — held meetings with donors in the cloistered, oak-paneled halls of the exclusive private clubs in the Loop. These places are massive, opulent, and as imposing as gothic cathedrals on the outside. In contrast, when Democrats come through Chicago to fundraise, they normally hold events in rented meeting rooms at the Marriott or Renaissance hotels. The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has never realized how much they reinforce the terrible image they’ve created for themselves in the minds of the public.
Romney, in particular, solidified all this for me when he repeatedly complained about the food he was served here in Chicago as being “too spicy”. Lunch was turkey sandwiches with water cress and shredded lettuce and lots of mayo — but Romney insisted it was all “too spicy” and provocative for him (one of my friends from Boystown was the waiter who had to take that complaint back to the kitchen, where the cooks laughed and laughed about a turkey sandwich being “too spicy” for Romney). He needed plenty of skim milk to wash his “spicy” lunch down. It’s just who he is, and he’s certainly not the only milquetoast patrician in the Cocktail Party GOP establishment ranks who is off-putting to the millions of Americans who respond to someone like Newt Gingrich, Allen West, or Sarah Palin because none of these people would be ordering skim milk chasers for their cucumber and mayonnaise soggy sandwiches.
I write about the Cocktail Party GOP establishment a lot but have never taken the time to specifically identify who these people are. In general terms, it’s always broken down to groups such as:
1. The consultants who have made lucrative careers in DC running losing campaigns where milquetoast moderate candidates lose to The Tolerant Left…but then these consultants get hired to run the next losing campaign.
2. The writers and talking heads who fill the required “Republican” seat on various panels…who then push for the milquetoast moderate candidates to be the face of the party, as if being conservative is something to be ashamed of.
3. The dynastic Republican families like the Bushes…who weigh in to make sure new generations of The Soggy Sandwich Society inherit their own invitations to the Cocktail Party elite in much the same way that wealthy families write recommendation letters for the children of other wealthy families who want to attend the most elite prep schools.
4. The big GOP donors who write checks to keep the Cocktail Party flush with cash so it maintains its influence for generations…with these people expecting permanent invitations to glittering cocktail parties in exchange for their continued financial loyalty.
5. Obviously, the men and women of the Cocktail Party who serve in the Senate and House for decades and who come to see themselves not as public servants but as aristocrats in their own imaginary House of Lords.
6. ?
7. ?
Who am I missing?
Please use this thread to brainstorm who YOU think comprises the Cocktail Party GOP establishment.
These are the people who keep pushing the “it’s his turn!” garbage when it comes to political nominees. These are the people who forced Bob Dole on us in 1996…who then forced John McCain as the nominee in 2008…and who are doing their soggy sandwich best to force Willard “Mittens” Romney on us in 2012.
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
If you were creating an image like the one featured in The Simpsons, what 7 people would you put at the table?
You can be specific and identify an individual person (like George H.W. Bush or Colin Powell or Lindsey Graham) or generic like “Highly Paid GOP Consultant Based in Alexandria, Virginia”.
Let’s try to use our creativity and flesh out who, exactly, sits on the Cocktail Party GOP establishment’s Board of Directors.
The first step in permanently defeating these people is to know who the heck we’re actually dealing with in those dimly-light, expensively decorated, wood-paneled interiors.
Mitch Daniels Looks and Acts Like Actor Leslie Jordan (Beverly Leslie From Will & Grace and Brother Boy from Sordid Lives) Republican Reponse to State of the Union Address Tonight
Whenever Cocktail Party Republicans start talking about how wonderful Mitch Daniels supposedly is, before my mind conjures up an image of the actual Daniels, I first think of actor Leslie Jordan who played Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace and Brother Boy on Sordid Lives.
Daniels is 5’4″ tall, shops in the boys’ department at Sears, has the world’s most egregious comb-over, and speaks with a squeaky little voice that’s frequently been used in Indiana to discuss terms of surrender to The Tolerant Left on many issues important to conservatives and Tea Party Americans.
He is a wimp of the first order, which is what the Cocktail Party favors in its candidates — for reasons I will never understand.
Why was this man chosen to give the Republican State of the Union Address….when that honor should have gone to someone like Congressman Allen West, who would have absolutely clobbered Barack Obama in a memorable way.
Instead, the Cocktail Party serves up another wimpy, squeaky, milquetoast cucumber and mayonnaise darling.
WHY?
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UPDATE: MSNBC is really stoking the “Mitch Daniels will replace Romney” if Newt Gingrich wins Florida meme.
Chuck Todd was really pushing this in particular. MSBC was repeating over and over that “Newt can’t beat Obama” and that “only Romney can beat Obama”. If you can’t see for yourself that the media wants Romney to be the nominee so that he will in fact lose to Obama, then there is no help for you.
It is clear, however, that the media and Cocktail Party are now scared that Romney has imploded and that’s where this “we’ll just insert Mitch Daniels” into this instead.
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I’ll put Daniels’ speech up as soon as I see it on YouTube.
They’ve got him sitting on a phone book, stiffly reading off a TelePrompter. He is a good reader, but he has no emotion in his voice. He reminds me of my high school principal reading the morning’s announcements. He gives a long, running stream of information that I tune out. He’s trying hard not too blink too much, but blink just enough so that he doesn’t seem off-putting. That itself is unnatural and off-putting.
Mitch Daniels is creepy.
This is not as big a disaster as 2009 when Bobby Jindal delivered the Republican response to Obama — Daniels did not make a fool of himself, but he also did nothing to show me what the fuss is about this man.
Mitch Daniels needs to get someone to buzz his head and get rid of the comb-over. He also must learn how to speak so it doesn’t sound like he’s reading.
Allen West should have been picked to do this State of the Union Response. He would have knocked it out of the park.
Mitch Daniels reminded me of Kathleen Sebelius when she did the Democrats’ response in 2008:
She did that same, standing there, reading from a TelePrompTer, pretending to be the principal of a nice, moderately-priced, private school in the suburbs morning announcement routine.
Still waiting for the Response to hit YouTube, but I found this:
I will say that if Rachel Maddow doesn’t like Daniels and if he pissed off the unions by trying to strip their collective bargaining rights that earns him points in my book — but it still can’t overcome how much of a twerp he comes off as when he speaks or how nebbishly he behaves himself on camera.
This is not a man who can defeat Barack Obama…and the Cocktail Party has no ability to just waltz in and decide, “Screw you voters, we’re running that little guy from Indiana who sounds funny” instead of anyone people are voting on.
2008 Romney Campaign:Hey…let’s offer Global Romneycare.
(h/t Bare Naked Islam)
This video is from Romney’s 2008 campaign. The girl asking the question only wanted to know if Mittens would continue the good work that George W. Bush had done combatting AIDS in Africa but Romney had bigger plans for our tax dollars. You heard him correctly…he thinks America should provide free health care to the world….just like Hezbollah did in southern Lebanon. Doesn’t this smack of something a Democrat candidate would say? The phrase “Global Health Diplomacy” makes me very nervous. I think what President Bush did in Africa was wonderful but Romney is suggesting something along the lines of “free health care for all”.
Maybe if we give the world free health care…they’ll like us better.
Can you say Global Romneycare?
Should we start calling it RomneyHezbollahcare?
Holy Cow!
