Posts Tagged ‘Bristol Palin
How did the candidates perform in the GOP Western Debate on CNN?
These are just my impressions of the candidates based on their performances at the GOP CNN “Western Debate” tonight from Las Vegas. Please offer your own takes below in comments. It’s interesting to hear your own opinions.
Herman Cain: The winner of this debate in my opinion, since the agenda for both the Cocktail Party GOP establishment and the media is to destroy Cain…but Cain weathered these attacks well and seemed very presidential tonight. Of the candidates on the stage tonight, Cain is the only person who I am excited about campaigning for. He is the only candidate that I am willing to make the long drive to Iowa for, and the only candidate who I will suffer through the cold for to go canvassing door to door in the lead up to the Caucus. I think Herman Cain is the recipient of a great deal of racially motivated condescension and scorn from both the media and Mittens Romneycare personally. It’s very clear when Romneycare addresses or refers to Cain that he thinks Cain does not belong sharing a stage with him…that Romneycare is better than Cain. It really disgusts me when Mittens Romneycare does this and really revs me up to do anything I can to help Cain’s campaign. Mittens is at his smarmiest when attacking Cain, and it’s just stomach-turning.
Mittens Romneycare: Back in the 2008 election, I admit I was stymied by all the Republicans who said they would not help to elect John McCain and that they intended to sit the election out once he became the nominee because they were just so disgusted by the establishment and media foisting McCain onto Republicans as the nominee. This didn’t make any sense to me, because I thought every conservative out there should have been mobilized and energized to defeat Obama…I thought that meant they needed to put aside whatever issues they had with McCain because surely McCain was better than Obama.
Well, tonight I have to say that I finally understand where these people were coming from…because I probably feel about Mittens Romneycare what these people felt about John McCain. The smarminess, entitlement, and condescension emanating from Mittens Romneycare disgusts me. It is so clear that the Left wants Mittens to be the GOP nominee, and so clear that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment wants the same thing. This is the exact same situation we had in 2008 with McCain, folks. REPUBLICANS NEED TO STOP ALLOWING THE MEDIA, THE LEFT, AND THE COCKTAIL PARTY TO DETERMINE THE GOP NOMINEE.
I do not believe Mittens Romneycare will attack and repeal Obamacare.
I do not believe Mittens Romneycare will make the tough calls and take the political hits needed to actually eliminate illegal invasion of this country at our borders.
I do not believe Mittens Romneycare will do anything to fix our economy or create jobs.
Mittens Romneycare, like Obama before him, wants to be president just to be president and fully intends to allow the permanent political class to do whatever it wants. I think Mittens is the poster child for everything that is wrong with the Republican Party…he is so concerned with his image, and with getting favorable press, that he cannot be trusted to take firm stands and make tough decisions that are unpopular.
Watching Mittens in a debate is like watching an episode of Mad Men…he is an establishment candidate from another time, in a bad retro way that just doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t like watching Mad Men on TV, and I don’t want a Mad Men casting reject to be the next president.
Newt Gingrich: I can’t believe I am saying this, but Gingrich’s performances in the debates this years has actually wiped away 99% of the bad things I used to think about this man. I have now completely let go of the animosity I held in my heart for him because of what he did to his wife when divorcing her and how he behaved when he was Speaker of the House (and came off as very smarmy and condescending himself). I actually like Gingrich now and plan on reading his book and taking a very serious look at him for the first time ever. He is by far the most interesting speaker in the debates and is someone who shows great intelligence and depth in his remarks. I still have a major problem with him sitting on the couch with Nancy Pelosi advocating Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming cult and think he’s too much a part of the permanent political class to ever be trusted with the presidency….but I sure wouldn’t mind seeing him as Vice President in Herman Cain’s presidency. Just imagine a Cain/Gingrich ticket…with Cain’s leadership and Gingrich’s knowledge of Washington serving as a sort of Cheney-esque role in the Naval Observatory. At the very least, I want Gingrich in the next Cabinet. I would have never thought, in a million years, that I would have ever felt this way.
Rick Santorum: Ditto a lot of this for Santorum. He’s also someone I never liked in the past, but who has really redeemed himself in my eyes in the debates. I think he should be in the Senate again or should be a member of the next Cabinet, for sure. I want to see him in some sort of office so that he can be a candidate for president again in the future. I am actually starting to really like this man, despite my past feelings about him. He contributes a lot to the debates.
Rick Perry: I like Perry less and less with each debate. He comes off very amateurishly. Unlike a man like Cain who speaks so clearly and off the cuff, Perry just regurgitates canned lines he memorized during debate prep. This is as bad as Obama reading off his TelePrompTer. Perry was just not ready for the national stage. I also don’t trust him to do anything about illegal aliens since he hasn’t managed to do anything to curb illegal invasion across the Texas border. I don’t trust Perry, I don’t like his fumbling in the debates, and I don’t believe he will be able to turn this country around. I keep waiting for him to do something — ANYTHING — that would make me get excited about his campaign and make me believe in him, but every time he speaks it’s a let down. He reminds me of Mark Sanford a lot…another previously obscure Governor who a lot of conservative guys on the Internet claimed was going to be the next big thing…only to see him implode spectacularly.
Michele Bachmann: She will make an excellent Speaker of the House. That is the role I have always wanted for Bachmann. That is where I think her destiny lies. I want her focused on eliminating Obamacare and securing our borders as the next Speaker, replacing Boehner in 2013. I think she does very well in the debates but her failing is that she does not command the stage like she needs to and does not force the debate moderators to treat her like a first tier candidate. This is what’s hurting her.
Ron Paul: My good friend Kathleen is a Ron Paul supporter and I promised her I would keep an open mind to Paul and really listen to him in these debates, putting aside whatever bad impressions I had of Paul in the past. I have to say that Paul does himself an immense disservice by participating in these debates. He makes himself look incredibly crazy sometimes and actually hurts the other candidates on the stage as well, because he makes casual and Independent viewers believe the people sharing the stage with him are crazy too.
What comes to my mind when I see Ron Paul up on a stage is the sort of criticism I hear lobbed at the gay community for its Pride Parades, where eccentrics and oddities take to floats in June and give critics of the gay community ample ammunition for the whole next year because of all the outrageous drag queens, go-go boys, and other colorful types that draw attention to the extremes in the LGBTQAI community. Ron Paul is the Republican Party’s pride parade.
And he is a fool for not realizing this. If he really believed in the things he says and claims to support, then he’d put his ego aside, step down from the stage, and would shut up in public. Instead, he gives the Left endless sound bytes for the agenda-driven media to use when it wants to make conservatives seem crazy. I feel about Paul the way I feel about guys who climb up onto Pride Parade floats with their private parts hanging out of their shorts behaving so vulgar in public…I want to tell them all to climb down, wise up, and stop making the people around them look bad by behaving this way in front of the cameras.
I can see why people like Kathleen are attracted to the ideas behind Paul’s platform…but I wish Paul had someone in his inner circle with enough guts to tell him it’s time for him to get off the float, wise up, and find a new spokesperson for the things he believes in because every time he appears in public he not only hurts himself but also taints those around him as well.
Jon Huntsman: He was not at this debate, but yet remained as relevant as ever. Huntsman is not running for the Republican nomination but is instead on a vainglorious quest to become the 2012 version of Ross Perot and spoil the race by stealing just enough Republican votes to allow Obama to squeak to a second term. For this, Huntsman has been promised the Secretary of State position in Obama’s second term. If you don’t see this — or realize what Huntsman is doing — then I just don’t know what else I could say to make you appreciate what this man and the White House are up to.
What are your thoughts on the debate performances tonight?
Ground Report: Calling Washington University out for canceling Bristol Palin appearance
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Kate Walsh’s attack on Bristol Palin and the perpetual wedge the Left drives between women voters using abortion as a divider
Dear HillBuzz,
Below are links to two Fox News items of possible interest.
One is about how Kate Walsh, the lead actress in “Private Practice,” urged students at St Louis’s Washington University to boycott Bristol Palin’s participation in the school’s “Sexual Responsibility Week,” where Bristol was slated to speak in her capacity as Teen Abstinence Ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation fighting teen pregnancy.
The article notes that Walsh posted to her Twitter followers:
“Welcome to the Idiocracy! RT @elliekirsh: @katewalsh please join students at Wash.U. to boycott Bristol Palin’s speech on abstinence. What does she know about college or abstaining?” Walsh tweeted.
Bristol and the school’s Student Health Advisory Center, which is sponsoring the event, mutually agreed that the controversy might overshadow the event’s message, and thus Bristol is bowing out.
Walsh is a member of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She also was one of the actresses in the video “Yes We Can” for candidate BO, and campaigned for him in 2008 in various states.
(Once again, the Obamacrats are mounting a concerted campaign to drive a wedge among women voters on the abortion issue. We need to do all we can to stop this. Women such as Walsh are being used as pawns in this Obamacrat game called divide and conquer in order to re-elect BO, himself a known sexist/misogynist whose overall record on women’s rights is abysmal. Maybe folks like Walsh would prefer seeing college-age women get knocked up and turn to abortion-as-birth control than do anything sensible and responsible such as, oh, maybe practice abstinence or have their partners use condoms.)
The other item is about Tommy Hanson, a Republican would-be mayoral candidate in Chicago. Hanson has a receipt from the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners confirming that he filed all nominating papers. But, the Board apparently lost his statement of economic interest and thus won’t allow his name on the ballot. The Board calls the receipt Hanson was sent a “clerical error.” (Sound familiar? Do we recall a rather well-known Illinois pol who started his political career by getting all other candidates kicked off the ballot?) Hanson is taking the matter to the Chicago Supreme Court seeking an injunction to stop the printing of the ballots unless his name is allowed on it. (As the article notes, that worked for Rahm.)
Best regards,
CJK in Springfield
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/01/28/ever-hear-one-about-chicago-republican
GREAT MERCIFUL ZEUS: Christine O'Donnell might be on Dancing with the Stars next season
I really like Christine O’Donnell.
The article above says Governor Palin suggested to ABC that she dance on DWTS next season…but SarahPAC denies this happened.
I really love the idea though, whether or not the Governor originated it.
We could have more fun driving the Left crazy by keeping a woman they hate on the show week after week and O’Donnell would build the sort of national brand name recognition she would need to run for office again or become a big time pundit on FOX (which is where I see her future).
Personally, I would love to see Track Palin on DWTS…mainly because I kind of really want to see Track in a tux being awesome.
If not him, let Willow dance.
There are enough Palins to keep this up for years.
You betcha!
Left losing control of gays: stupidity and hypocrisy openly questioned in Boystown
Nightspots is a weekly free publication in Boystown mostly known for its photos of who was where, and when, at all the local bars.
But, in edition to that, Nightspots runs little political catoons that have been turning more and more conservative.
They’ve hit the Left for being pro-Ground Zero Victory Mosque and they’ve lampooned gays for blindly voting Democrat again and again when Democrats really just use us as a gAyTM and then break all their myriad promises to the community.
Nightspots has now made fun of the Left’s bizarre outrage over Bristol Palin making it to a dancing show’s finale.
Every day, Democrats seem to lose a few more gays who dare to wander off the reservation, never to return.
Our Bristol brought ABC highest ratings in six years
Can Track, Willow, or Piper dance next season?
Express your thank yous to Bristol Palin for working so hard and giving it her all
Please use this thread to thank Bristol Palin for working so hard and standing up against the Left’s attacks with such grace.
“Dear Bristol,”
And then express yourself.
