Posts Tagged ‘Mitt Romney
Who's on the Soggy Sandwich menu today? Why, it's Tim Pawlenty!
The top four choices the Media's putting forward for the GOP 2012 nomination (from the top): Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, John Thune
Are all of you seeing just how shameless the Leftist Media is in pushing cucumber-and-mayonnaise soggy sandwich Republicans like Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, John Thune, Mitch Daniels, and the rest on this country?
Here’s Jill Lawrence over at PoliticsDaily playing waitress duty, dishing up some Tim Pawlenty, extra mayo, double the cucumbers, hold any chance in Hell of winning in 2012.
Every once in a while AceofSpades takes a hit at us for getting a lot of our political information from conversations we have in the Boystown bars, things we overhear in restaurants, or what people tell us at events (or just randomly riding on trains here in Chicago, bumping into the politically connected). Another great source of information for us is the umpteen waiters and bartenders around town, who work at places like the Union League Club or wherever, and who have great ears for picking up bits of info and passing them onto us when we, oh, wouldn’t you know, run into them in the Boystown bars and they tell us stuff. See how that works? It’s called Six Degrees of Kevyn Aucoin, and you can pretty much get anything you need to know through the network of caterers, party planners, bartenders, go-go boys, hotel staff, stylists, and waiters in any big city.
We’ve been calling the cucumbers-and-mayonnaise-grade Republicans like Pawlenty pushed by Leftists like Jill Lawrence the “Soggy Sandwich Society” for about a year now, ever since a Mitt Romney event here in Chicago where Romney kept complaining about the sandwich he was eating. A waiter friend of ours, through the tele-gay network, recounted how Goldilocks Romney was about that sandwich, sending it back, tasting the new one, sending that one back, on and on.
“My sandwich is too spicy. I don’t like spicy sandwiches. Can I get a sandwich that is not spicy? I can’t have a spicy sandwich”.
The sandwich had no spices in it. It was on white bread, with mayo, and had processed turkey and little sprouts. But, it was too spicy for Romney.
We immediately pictured all of these guys (Romney, Pawlenty, Thune, Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich, Bobby Jindal, etc.) sitting around a big oak table in a gilt, wood-paneled, lavish private club conference room, munching on their soggy, mayo-heavy, bland sandwiches, complaining about how spicy they were.
“I like more cucumbers on my sandwich because then my sandwich tastes refreshing,” Pawlenty says, taking a big bite of sandwich with his ugly face. ”When I eat, I look like Droopy Dog from the cartoons, and I think that’s funny because he’s silly”.
“He is very silly, that dog. If he was eating my sandwich, he would say the sandwich is too spicy, and then I would say, ‘Hey dog, stop eating my sandwich, and you are silly because sandwiches are for people and dog food is for dogs’, that’s what I would tell that dog,” chimes in Thune, taking a big bite, before passing a giant tub of Helmanns to Jindal.
“Can you help me with my sandwich? I want to put more mayo on it, and I sent a request to Washington for permission to use this butter knife to spread lots of mayo on my sandwich so it would not be so spicy, but Washington is still waiting on that request and I don’t want to get in trouble by putting mayo on it until they say I can do it,” Jindal explained, sheepishly eyeing the Helmann’s, but too scared to proceed without federal approval.
“My Mommy cuts the crusts off my sandwich because the crust is too chewy, and I don’t like the crust. I call my wife Mommy because she is pretty and she makes good sandwiches that taste good and look nice in pictures,” offered Romney, wearing his mittens to the table because the sandwiches were so cold that he was afraid he was going to freeze his fingers off. ”She never makes spicy sandwiches like this, so I am having trouble eating my sandwich”.
“You should put more cucumbers on it,” Huntsman piped up.
“But be careful, cucumbers make me say burpy sounds, and that makes me uncomfortable,” Daniels warned.
“Slather more mayo on that sandwich to cool it down, but get permission first,” Jindal whispered.
“Dip it in skim milk and then the spices will wash off,” Gingrich advised.
People, this stuff just writes itself. Because the men at this luncheon, in their blazers, at that exclusive private club, are a bunch of wimps.
THESE are the guys the Left wants to run against in 2012. These are the guys CabaList, JournaList 2.0, or whatever new organizing tool the Left has up and running now is pushing as the Soggy Sandwich Society to take the Republican nomination…and then lose to Obama so The Lightbringer can have another four years to destroy the country. Hope! Change! Blandness!
If you don’t see this coming a mile away, then your sandwich might be too spicy too.
Best put some more mayo on it, but be sure you get permission first.
RESEARCH HELP: We need the names and contact information for the 168 RNC members and all Illinois GOP Committeemen
Yesterday, Cook County GOP Chairman Lee Roupas dispatched an email in which he lied about the date he learned of a complaint filed against a current Cook County GOP employee. Roupas stated that he did not “receive” this complaint until after June 11th, 2010 because Roupas hired the man named in this complaint (nicknamed in Chicago circles as “The Prophet”) as his subordinate in the Cook County GOP (and Roupas needed to say that to be able to justify that hire, of his personal friend and drinking buddy, without launching an investigation into the complaint to determine whether this man did the horrific things the complaint describes). The email Roupas dispatched on 7/16/10 was sent to all Cook County GOP Committeemen, quelling the growing fears in their ranks that Roupas and the other “Romney Guys” surrounding him were driving the GOP’s chances off a cliff for November with a fumbling, bumbling cover-up of this complaint.
Last night, we secured an affidavit from a prominent Chicago Republican of unimpeachable authority in which this attorney, no less, will swear under oath that he telephoned Lee Roupas in July/August 2009 to inform him of the complaint made against ‘The Prophet”. Roupas received the complaint verbally from this Chicago attorney at that time, a full year before he misrepresented the facts in his email of 7/16/10.
As acting Cook County GOP Chair, Lee Roupas deliberately structured his email around the word “received” — as in, he’s very lawyerly using the word “received” to somehow, outrageously, imply he had no knowledge of the complaint and didn’t know, word for word, what was in it because he didn’t “physically receive” the complaint until some time after June 11th, 2010.
A casual reader of Roupas’ email would come away with the belief that he had no idea what was going on; in reality, Roupas verbally received the complaint a full year before he is owning up to in that email yesterday. He is trying to obscure the fact that he hired “The Prophet” to a high-paid position in the GOP after verbally receiving the complaint against him, but never launching an investigation into the matter and determining whether or not this person was who should be representing the GOP to voters in Cook County.
We need the names and contact information for all 168 RNC members nationwide, and all GOP Committeemen in the state of Illinois.
We are preparing a timeline of events surrounding the complaint filed against “The Prophet”, and the steps Lee Roupas took to protect this personal friend and drinking buddy. Roupas initiated a cover-up of this complaint that included a declaration of open war upon truthteller Eloise Gerson, the Chicago GOP Chair who received the complaint against “The Prophet” on June 11th, 2010 — and immediately demanded a full and thorough investigation into what “The Prophet” was doing to young women in the politically-flavored social networking club known as the Chicago Young Republicans.
Roupas schemed with others in the GOP sausagefest to oust Gerson from her Chair in Chicago for daring to call for an investigation.
He has been caught in a clumsy and bold-faced lie, and the RNC members and the Illinois Committee members need to know all the facts…and each one of them needs to go on record and tell the public whether or not they believe Lee Roupas should remain the Cook County GOP Chair if he lies so blatantly in direct messages to his own Committeemen.
Roupas, “The Prophet”, and other “Romney Guys” surrounding him have circled the wagons to protect one of their own — and are jerking Committeemen around in their denials of wrongdoing, giving an incredibly bad name to Illinois Republicans in an election year.
This needs to be dealt with immediately.
We do not see a plausible scenario where Lee Roupas should be allowed to continue as Cook County GOP Chair after he lied in that email yesterday. His frat party in Chicago has been busted wide open…and the grownups of the GOP nationally need to swoop in, and sweep out the trash to clean things up before November if any of them have any hope at all of Bill Brady and Mark Kirk winning their statewide elections.
Please help us get the names and contact info for the people who need to know the whole story of what is going on here in Chicago. If we can get all of this before 5pm or so today, we’d still have enough time to get FedExes out to all of these people with the material we are working on, so they’ll have hard copies of everything in addition to any emails we’d be able to send them and links to the articles we’ve already run on the Chicago Young Republican sex scandal and Cook County GOP cover-up.
Republicans have to stop play the Lee Roupas lie-and-deny game. They need to man-up, deal with their mess, and show voters in Illinois what they think is acceptable behavior in a GOP county chair.
We have a very limited window of opportunity for the GOP to get in front of this scandal and make things right before Democrats play catchup and use all of this against Republicans to save the flailing Pat Quinn and Alexi Giannoulias campaigns.
Since all the men involved in this cover-up in Chicago are “Romney Guys”, maybe someone with connections to Mitt Romney himself can make sure he personally knows what Lee Roupas, “The Prophet”, and others have been up to in Illinois…since these are the men who would have presumably headed-up a Romney 2012 office in Chicago in the future. We doubt Romney would stand for such lying on the part of a county chair, and would not allow someone like ‘The Prophet” to remain on his staff.
So, if even Romney himself would not abide by any of this, then why is the GOP at large?
We need to ask that question of all 168 RNC members and all the Illinois Committeemen today…and we need your help to get all of their names and contact information to do it. With your help, we hopefully can get this entire scandal contained and remedied by the middle of next week.
The sooner the better for GOP prospects in Illinois in the fall.
CASE STUDY: Why the Chicago Young Republicans' sexual assault scandal and its cover-up by the Chicago GOP is yet another example of Republicans refusing to get in front of a problem before it metastasized.
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Over the last few days, a wholly preventable scandal has metastasized for the GOP in Illinois that could very well cost Republicans the Governor’s mansion and “president” Obama’s former Senate seat: both were winnable races, if Republicans had learned from mistakes of the past and gotten in front of a potential problem before it was allowed to yet again reveal the GOP in Illinois to be a myopic boys’ club that protects its own while covering-up anything that could potentially upset their cucumber-and-mayonnaise soggy sandwich cocktail parties. “Romney Republicans” have gotten conservatives into an untenable position yet again.
In July of 2009, a young woman came forward and identified herself to be the victim of a self-proclaimed “Prophet” in the Chicago GOP ranks, a man who abused his position in the social networking/political action club Chicago Young Republicans to lure women (and some men) back to his apartment, hotel suites, offices, and other venues for “private, high level political discussions”. Against the backdrop of a Democrat razzle-dazzler and snake oil salesman essentially doing the same thing to the American people at large in this “The Golden Age of Hope and Change” (and while Al Gore was practicing moves of his own on massage therapists, according to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated National Enquirer), the complaint filed by the young woman with the Chicago GOP and Young Republican National organization alleges “The Prophet” plied her with alcohol to the point of inebriation, continued to force drinks upon her after she’d told him she’d had enough, took her cell phone away from her when she tried to call for help, blocked her exit when she tried to flee, and then refused to assist her in finding a cab to drive her home, in the dead at night, after all those drinks he served her, when she was afraid of venturing out into crime-riddled Chicago on her own.
Other women and men have come forward with similar detailed accounts that paint a clear picture of a serious problem in the Chicago Young Republican organization, which had been seen as a growing and dynamic new political force on the Chicago scene — until it was rendered a laughingstock by “The Prophet”. It’s now widely considered kin to Animal House grade fraternities that would surely lose their charters if observant deans and mature adults stopped to realize how much damage the debauchery, skirt-chasing, and victimization of women was inflicting on the conservative cause in a corrupt, bankrupt, battered Midwestern state desperate for an alternative to endless Democrat scandals and abuse of power.
“The Prophet”, as nicknamed by members of the CYRs because of his endless womanizing and grand delusion of “being the Republican Party in Illinois”, as well as being “untouchable”, has been protected from discipline and scrutiny by Cook County Republican Chairman Lee Roupas, Fran Eaton (editor of the Illinois Review), wealthy Chicago donors such as Beth Christie, former GOP Illinois State Chair Andy McKenna, failed Lt. Governor candidate Matt Murphy, and other Republicans on the state and national levels who knew of the complaint filed by the young woman against “The Prophet” — but did their level best to quash it, and squash any truthteller out there who was determined to see an investigation launched into the frat house the Chicago Young Republicans had devolved into.
While the complaint filed against “The Prophet” was made in July of 2009, alleging an attempted rape/date rape at “The Prophet’s” apartment in the spring of 2009, this scandal didn’t break until June 11, 2010 when truthteller Eloise Gerson, Chairwoman of the Chicago Republican Party and Central Committee, attempted to launch a full-scale investigation into “The Prophet’s” conduct by sending a letter to Cook County Republican Chairman Lee Roupas demanding action be taken.
This demand was made because Roupas, a close personal friend and drinking buddy of “The Prophet’s”, had hired “The Prophet” to be his subordinate in the Cook County GOP, earning a high salary and gaining access to a set of offices in which allegations were surfacing the same sort of frat boy behavior detailed in the complaint was being carried out.
Gerson had been aware of the date rape complaint for some time, but had never actually seen a physical copy of it until early June of 2010. Roupas was presented with a copy of the complaint at the National Young Republican convention in Indianapolis in July of 2009; he read the complaint in front of witnesses in a hotel suite, smiled, tried to make a joke of it, then seemingly forgot about the whole thing. Roupas never launched an investigation into the matter, and instead saw to it that “The Prophet” was installed in a cushy position with the Cook County GOP at the first available opportunity.
After Gerson read the complaint, she was horrified, and immediately contacted the complainant to verify the accuracy of the charges. Believing the young woman, Gerson then launched her own investigation and determined this was not an isolated incident. Women, and some men, came forward and detailed scores more instances of sexual harassment and impropriety at the hands of “The Prophet”, many of which Roupas seemed to know about as well.
Both Roupas and “The Prophet” are “Romney Guys”, a special brand of Republican we’ve identified and described for you on this site repeatedly. Here in Chicago, all of these guys seem to have been part of the Mitt Romney 2008 campaign, before Romney bowed out to John McCain. They’ve never stopped running Romney for president, and have taken over organizations like the CYRs to build them into Romney 2012 ground teams. This is similar to what Barack Obama did between 2004 and 2008 to usurp control of the Democrat Party from the Clintons. The “Romney Guys” are dangerous for a lot of reasons, not just because they are hellbent on pushing a losing 2012 candidate upon the GOP. They’re also a problem because of the entitlement they feel, and the frat boy environment they foster in their ranks, encouraged, we’ve been told, by Mitt Romney himself. For “Romney Guys”, women are to be seen and not heard, don’t deserve much consideration, and are disposable. The goal of each day is to enrich themselves as much as possible, chomp down on some good cigars, drink themselves silly in wood-paneled neighborhood bars, and protect each other to the hilt whenever any of their penises get them into trouble.
On June 15th 2010, Gerson received a phone call from Roupas telling her he had received her letter and that he was now taking the complaint seriously — despite spending a full eleven months doing just the opposite, while protecting his drinking buddy. Roupas told Gerson he’d “get back to her in a couple of weeks” about what “The Prophet” had been accused of. After he hung up the phone with Gerson, instead of following through with the promised investigation into his drinking buddy, Roupas launched a plan to eliminate Gerson from the Illinois GOP so that she would be forced to stop talking about this date rape complaint.
Roupas illegally convened a secret meeting of “The Executive Session” on June 15th after speaking with Gerson. He invited only his loyalists, and excluded Committeemen he had no power over. All of Gerson’s allies, and Gerson herself, were excluded from the meeting…the point of which was to plan an attack on Gerson that would discredit, malign, humiliate, and remove her from power so that she could not blow the lid off the sexual assault scandal Roupas realized would now take him down too.
Roupas’ cronies at “The Executive Session” engaged in classic “Romney Guy” behavior, setting up a scenario where Gerson and her allies were not present for the purpose of attacking Gerson on record without giving her ability to defend herself. It’s a tactic borrowed from the Left, as evidenced in Barack Obama’s repeatedly successful attempts to eliminate opponents on various ballots he ran on, so that he’d be the only one left standing in the room. In Chicago, Republicans like Roupas are indistinguishable from Democrats at times.
At the illegal “Executive Session”, Roupas and his henchmen drew up a resolution essentially saying Gerson was crazy, bad, and not doing her job as a Chairwoman of whatever it was she was chairing. Details of the procedural goings-on of Republicans can be mind-numbing, because as a rule these people are so obsessed with titles, power struggles, blazers, and cucumber sandwiches-t0-cocktails ratios at parties that it’s impossible for us to keep straight who’s the Grand Poobah and who’s just the Viceroy Spectacular or Sprinkles-Coated Rum Ripple Committeeman. We imagine these people assembled together, around large plates of soggy sandwiches, wearing horned water buffalo fur hats comparing each other’s titles on business cards.
On June 16 2010, Gerson caught wind of the retaliatory moves made against her the day before, in violation of the Rules of the Grand Poobah that these “Executive Committees” are supposed to be run by. Roupas had scheduled a new meeting to be held on June 29 2010 (ironically, unbeknownst to Roupas, EXACTLY, to the day, one year from the day the young woman first sought help in writing the complaint against “The Prophet”…when she attended the Chicago Young Republicans $25,000 “Membership Drive” party at the Cubby Bear in Wrigleyville and encountered several other young women at the event with similar stories to hers…convincing her to write the complaint when she saw “The Prophet” working the crowd goosing young women and plying them, too, with alcohol in attempts to get them to come upstairs to the “VIP Lounge” he had created for himself), which was also the last day in that “I’ll get back to you in a few weeks” period he had set to “get back with” Gerson about any investigation he was launching into “The Prophet”.
The next day, Gerson dispatched letters to all the GOP Ward Committeemen telling them that Roupas was abusing his power, acting illegally, and covering up a date rape complaint made against someone employed by the Cook County GOP.
On June 18 2010, Gerson had a delicious breakfast with Republican State Executive Director Curt Conrad, informing him that we at HillBuzz had a copy of the young woman’s complaint, and that she was a friend of ours. It’s unclear what the two ate for breakfast, but it’s been noted it was delicious. At length, it was speculated why we never published the complaint or wrote about it, since we were copied on it from the very beginning. The reason for this is that we’ve thought this was a police matter to begin with, and have always been surprised the GOP didn’t refer the matter to the CPD to let them investigate it on their end while the GOP in Illinois cleaned house in terms of whom it put in positions that enabled them to victimize women in this way.
The Chicago Young Republicans was a wonderful organization when it was run by former CYR President Keely Drukala, one of the smartest, most honest, and hardest working people we’ve ever known. It was Drukala who embraced us, as Hillary Democrats turned Democrats for McCain back in the summer of 2008. We worked side by side with the CYRs through the 2008 election and its aftermath, hoping to forge a lasting alliance between moderate Dems and Independents and conservatives in the state of Illinois to battle the Leftists that control Chicagoland. That was all possible when Drukala was president, but after she was forced out of the organization by ‘The Prophet”, and the “Romney Guys” took over, we ultimately ended all ties with the CYRs…though we still maintain that 95% of them, the non-Romney crowd, are great people. Drukala now works for a conservative think tank and has lost her interest in active political involvement because of attacks made upon her by “The Prophet” as he climbed the ladder and seized power. Looking back on it all, the Alinksy Method playbook was very much used against Drukala by “The Prophet”, just as it was used against Gerson by Roupas and those Romney Guy committeemen. Apparently, things of this nature were also done to another woman in the GOP recently in Illinois, with Demetra DeMonte (whom we also know from the 2008 campaign) being forced out of her position for standing up to Romney Guys of her own.
The GOP in Illinois is sending a clear message to women: shut up, stay out of the way, and if you get out of line you will be smacked down so that Romney Guys get what they want.
On June 26 2010, three days before the meeting that Roupas scheduled, female CYR members alerted Gerson that “The Prophet” had declared that “Eloise will be eliminated soon”, emphasizing the great lengths Roupas was going to protect “The Prophet” by removing Gerson from the GOP so that she could not have access to resources to investigate Roupas or “The Prophet”.
A bizarre plot then unfolded to move up the June 29th meeting by a day, so that Roupas and his henchman could remove Gerson from her position before Roupas had to issue a response to her about the investigation of “The Prophet”. Roupas declared this to be an informal meeting to discuss “moving forward” and “doing good things”, and he deliberately maneuvered to keep as few of Gerson’s allies at this meeting as possible. Meanwhile, he prepped his own allies for the real purpose of the meeting: which was essentially an “Eloise Gerson needs to go before she uncovers the truth” meeting. People who were not attending the meeting sent “proxy votes” ahead with other Roupas allies…which defies logic if the meeting had no agenda and was just for “moving ahead”. How could these people know they’d be voting to boot Gerson from her position if that was not the expressed intent of the meeting? Barring psychic powers on their part, this is proof Roupas coordinated this meeting behind Gerson’s back to put in place a mechanism to remove her before she forced him to investigate ‘The Prophet”.
After Roupas lashed out at Gerson at this meeting and maligned her character and job performance, Gerson passed out copies of the victim’s complaint against ‘The Prophet” to everyone present. One of the people seeing this complaint for the first time was a Ward Committeeman who is also a Chicago Police Detective.
The police detective stated in no uncertain terms that what “The Prophet” is alleged to have done in the complaint filed with the GOP is indeed a criminal offense.
After the assembled Republicans gasped at what they read in the complaint, the plot to remove Gerson from her position collapsed. Gerson again called for an investigation of “The Prophet”, but was shouted down by Roupas and his henchmen. Failing to remove her by vote, the Romney Guys then ganged up on her and tried to intimidate her into quitting, using thuggish tactics we’d only experienced from the Obama campaign and ACORN here in Chicago.
After shouting at Gerson to “just shut up and go away”, Roupas then decided to create a new position in the Grand Poobah Republican Organizational Chart of Numerous and Varied Titles to supplant Gerson, render her redundant and irrelevant, and give her a new direct report who would eclipse her.
Roupas then revealed the person he wanted to supplant Gerson was a man named Andy Magliochetti, who you will know as “they idiot who used Republican donor money to take Young Eagles RNC members to a bondage strip club in Los Angeles, causing another scandal for the GOP”.
Do you see what Romney Guys have done here?
Magliochetti screws up royally at the RNC in Los Angeles, creates a scandal, and causes immense embarrassment because he cannot control his sexual fetishes. Instead of being cast out of the Republican Party, he’s given a promotion to a job in Chicago that would make him the boss of a “trouble-making” woman who needed to be shut up before she blew the lid off a major cover-up the Chicago GOP was engaged in.
This is the same thing that Roupas did to “The Prophet”. After the date rape complaint was released, instead of Romney Guys removing “The Prophet” from the fold, they dug trenches around him and promoted him to a high-paying position under Roupas in the Cook County GOP.
When a Republican male does something despicable, he is protected, promoted, and rewarded.
When a Republican woman speaks out and challenges what the party is doing, she is maligned, berated, dragged through the mud, and forced out.
This is why Republicans lose so many elections: they have too many Romney Guys protecting themselves, and are too afraid of Mamma Grizzlies like Gerson, Drukala, and DeMonte who don’t take their garbage and challenge them to put the needs of the state, their constituents, and conservatism above the Romney Guys’ personal enrichment, delusions of glory, and “it’s my turn” mentality.
After the June 28th meeting, the Romney Guys all declared this Magliochetti person to be Gerson’s replacement, which Gerson maintains is illegal because she was elected to her position and cannot be usurped like this. No investigation into “The Prophet” was launched by the Illinois GOP and Roupas did not give Gerson the report he promised by June 29th…the one year anniversary of when this complaint was first initiated.
On July 9th, the Chicago Young Republicans threw another lavish “Membership Drive” at the Cubby Bear, which Gerson attempted to attend as a paying member. She was humiliated at the door and refused entry by “The Prophet’s” private security and personal entourage, called vulgar and misogynistic names, and demeaned with taunts of “You lost, we won! You can’t touch him!”.
Witnessing this treatment of Gerson, a group of CYR members formed the “Roxy Vanilla” project to bring everything above to light and to call for an immediate investigation into the conduct and behavior of Roupas, “The Prophet”, and others up the chain of command in the Illinois GOP (such as former State Chair Andy McKenna, who received the complaint around the same time Roupas did back in 2009, but never did a thing about it).
“Roxy Vanilla” began emailing details of the complaint and other instances of victimization of women allegedly committed by “The Prophet”. Recipients of those emails included Carol Marin, Michael Sneed, John Kass, Laura Washington, other political reporters here in Chicago and several political sites, including HillBuzz. We were specifically asked to come forward with what we knew about all of this, and about what “The Prophet” had done to the CYRs and was doing to women…and some men, too.
“The Prophet” is equal-opportunity in his victimization and retaliations against both men and women alike. In some instances, he’s utilized Fran Eaton at Illinois Review as his personal goon, where she writes hit pieces on people “The Prophet” wants punished for some transgression against him. When we exposed a campaign “The Prophet” was running against gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft, when “The Prophet” believed this would help Matt Murphy win the nomination, “The Prophet” hit us back by ordering Fran Eaton to reveal one of our real names, post pictures, and out us on Illinois Review…knowing this would, for the first time, give Daily Kos and DemocraticUnderground a point of personal attack against HillBuzz. Prior to this outing by Fran Eaton at the urging of “The Prophet”, we had been an anonymous political blog because exposing our identities put us at risk of attack from the Left. Subsequent to Fran Eaton and Illinois Review’s actions, Daily Kos has regularly run hit pieces on us, using one of our real names, labeling him a racist, destroying his business, alienating friends, and ruining his livelihood.
That’s the fear many of “The Prophet’s” victims in Chicago have, of facing career-killing and life-destroying retaliation from “The Prophet” and his allies. Fran Eaton is always ready at Illinois Review to personally destroy anyone “The Prophet” tells her to take down. ”The Prophet” is well-funded by Chicago multi-millionaire cougar Beth Christie, who writes large checks to maintain “The Prophet’s” extravagance. The “Membership Drive” parties “The Prophet” throws once a year are Obamaesque in their opulence, with bands costing close to $10,000 rocking out the stage in a giant venue rented to proclaim “The Prophet’s” greatness. Christie’s lavish donations have saved the Chicago Young Republicans from insolvency on at least two occasions, when “The Prophet” spent tens of thousands of dollars more than the group had and authorities were closing in on them for collection. Without large donors like Beth Christie funding this debauched, Obamaian frat party, “The Prophet” would not be able to afford loyal minions like Fran Eaton.
And, without control of the CYRs, “The Prophet” would not have access to the attractive, discreet young men he introduces to Congressmen Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk, and other prominent Republican men who lend “The Prophet” credibility and support because “The Prophet” not only makes these introductions, but presumably threatens to go public with them should Schock, Kirk, and the other dandies cut him off.
It’s why we keep telling Republicans that Schock, Kirk, and the rest need to just come out of the closet. We spotted Schock with our own eyes in the Boystown gay bar MiniBar after the 2009 CYR Cubby Bear event, having a fabulous time with male CYR members in the VIP section of the bar…men he was presumably introduced to by “The Prophet”. We’ve seen “The Prophet” flirt with Schock, and other prominent closeted Republicans, in attempts to talk them into various shenanigans, but Schock seems to, up to this point, be playing things smart enough to only take home men who won’t speak out about their trysts. Some day, that will change, and will come back to bite Republicans like it always does.
We know for a fact Democrats in Chicago have footage of Schock in Boystown bars carousing with men. We know this because after noting Schock’s appearance at MiniBar back in 2009 on this site, we were offered a paid assignment to secure such footage and deliver it to Democrats here in Chicago. We turned down that task because a good friend of ours in Republican circles made us promise to give Schock a chance to come out on his own — which he has promised to do before the 2010 election — and because Democrats are destroying this country and there’s nothing on Earth that would get us to help any of them at this point.
Which brings us to the importance of addressing this scandal in full, as a case study for Republicans nationwide.
The thinking in the Republican Party, with all things like this, seems to be: pretend nothing is happening, protect the Romney Guys at all costs, attack the victims and truthtellers with every weapon at your disposal, and maintain your seat at the cocktail party no matter what.
The Republican Party needs a come to Jesus moment.
It needs a dressing down of the highest order.
The reason you need to care about a sex scandal rocking the GOP in Chicago is because these sorts of cover-ups are happening wherever you live too.
If you don’t think Democrats know all about them, then you are insane. You’re as clueless and deliberately delusional as that busty-chested woman poolside with Aaron Schock, helping him prove how heterosexual he is. Democrats don’t buy any of this garbage. But they know about all of it. They might not talk about it, because they are waiting for the right moment to reveal everything they know, at a time that’s most opportune for them and most precarious for Republicans.
YOU HAVE TO START UNDERSTANDING THIS if conservatives are going to save this country from the Left.
YOU HAVE TO STOP COVERING-UP BAD THINGS and start addressing them NOW, so there is time to recover from this stuff by November.
It is crystal clear, time and again, that Republicans enter into a turtle’s shell of misguided hope that they can weather an election without whatever scandal they are hiding being revealed. The Left is incredibly strategic. It does not explode all the mines it has all at once. It know about Mark Kirk. It knows about Aaron Schock. It knows about Lee Roupas and “The Prophet”. It knows about things we don’t even know about. Some of them aren’t even gay scandals. Imagine that.
The Romney Guys out there, being all about themselves, just hold their breath and hope the Left explodes a scandal on the other guy this election cycle, letting their own bad behavior or lies go unnoticed this time around. That gives them another two years at the cocktail party, in the nice blazer, with all the cucumber-and-mayo sandwiches on white bread, washed down with skim milk, they can eat (unless Fran Eaton happens to sniff that particular buffet…then Oprah help them, there won’t be any sandwiches left for the khaki pants brigade).
This does conservative voters no good, because the Romney Guys are an entrenched aristocracy that protects their own at all costs…to the detriment of conservatism and the nation at large.
That’s why the Romney Guys are so damn scared of Governor Palin and the Tea Party Movement. That’s why these guys throw everything they have into attacking truthtellers like Eloise Gerson. These guys hate Mamma Grizzlies. They hate women with opinions and mouths that just won’t shut up when told to. They hate anyone who won’t enable their self-destructive, asinine operating procedure of allowing something like “The Prophet” and Lee Roupas’ mess in Chicago to metastasize into the national scandal this will more than likely become.
The GOP could have avoided this by removing “The Prophet” last July. Instead, the GOP in Chicago staked its credibility and public image on protecting a prophet while ignoring a criminal complaint from a female victim. Instead of listening to the female truthteller calling for an investigation, the GOP in Chicago decided to bully her into silence and try to force her out. Fran Eaton, donut in hand, is hard at work over at Illinois Review, no doubt, putting out whatever lies she dreams up today about Gerson. No doubt Fran Eaton will hit us some more too, as she did when she gave the Left the tools it needed to destroy one of us personally and professionally.
Why conservatives in this state tolerate Roupas, McKenna, Conrad, Fran Eaton, and wealthy donors like Beth Christie who fund all these frat parties, for whatever bizarre reason, is just beyond us.
But, we hope today you get more insight into why we are fighting so hard against the Romney Guys every day around here. It’s draining, because we’re also fighting against the Left in this country, so conservatives would make life so much easier by purging the Romney entitlement “it’s my turn” wing of aristocrats entirely so we can all focus on getting more people like Chris Christie, Jan Brewer, Michele Bachmann, and Governor Palin into office (all of whom, we’ll note, are hated by Romney Guys and GOP cocktail party establishment).
We’re sure the next week or so will be brutal in comments as this scandal explodes nationwide, but we wanted to tell you everything we knew because we want the Republican Party to learn from its mistakes, cut the crap, and stop repeating these disasters.
It is NOT okay to keep quiet about these things and just hope and pray Democrats decide not to make it an October surprise. STOP PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH THE LEFT!
Start taking conservatism’s destiny into your own hands, exposing your own scandals before the Left can, and nipping as much of these Romney Guys’ destructive shenanigans in the bud before it can metastasize into election-ruining cancers.
The cucumber-and-mayo frat parties need Mamma Grizzlies to clean house, crack skulls, and whip this party back into shape.
We hope and pray all of you reading this are such Big Mammas, regardless of gender, because the party of Romney and his acolytes may be adroit at using Alinsky Methods on fellow Republicans…but it’s not going to have what it takes to defeat Obama and his true Alinsky experts in 2012.
That’s what really matters, folks. Not what title this or that Poobah or Committeeman has.
IDEAS NEEDED: How best to track the Media's pushing of the Soggy Sandwich Club?
Please chime in with your thoughts on this project — it’s something we’ve been following piecemeal here on HillBuzz for some time, but we’d like to formalize it and create a page of its own where we can track the daily pushing of the Soggy Sandwich Club by the Media — the men we like to call cucumber-and-mayonnaise Republicans that the Media is trying so desperately to push towards the GOP’s 2012 nomination over Governor Sarah Palin, or, if not her, other strong take-no-prisoners battle-ready Republicans like Chris Christie, Jan Brewer, Jim DeMint, and Michele Bachmann.
If you have a pulse and don’t take any garbage, and have no fear of the Media or the Left, then the powers-that-be at the DNC will do everything they can to make sure you come nowhere near the GOP nomination. Instead, the Left wants to run Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, John Thune, Mike Huckabee, Jon Huntsman, Mitch Daniels, and other Republicans as limp, impotent, and boring as soggy, cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwiches at a bad wake.
Dead on arrival, these born losers all are when it comes to the 2012 general election…and that’s just how the Left wants Obama’s opponent served up.
How can we track the articles the Media is writing that push these guys towards the nomination, in a way that visually represents what’s going on?
No one else is tracking this stuff, especially not conservative sites like AceofSpades or RedState, which are generally hostile towards Governor Palin and are run largely by Romney Guys.
So, we don’t believe it’s a deliberate oversight on their part to pay no attention at all to what the Media is doing, as much as it’s the fact that as Romney Guys, especially, they can’t see the harm in the Media sending love notes to Romney and his soggy sandwich buddies because they’re sending those same love letters themselves. It’s like us writing a bad review of Prince of Persia, when we’re so keen on Jakey-G that he could read the phone book, shirtless, and we’d be more than happy to spend two hours of our lives in the dark with strangers listening to every magical word. That’s how Ace and Redstate feel about Romney — they go gay for him the way we’d do just about anything for Gyllenhaal. Have you ever heard a bad word about Jake on this site? What about Romney over at Ace or Redstate? Hmmmmmm.
Whether you share our belief in Governor Palin or not, and whether you join our opinion that she is uniquely positioned to take Obama down in ways only she can, you have to take a big step back and look passed your Romney-love to wonder WHY certain Republicans enjoy such fawning press from the Obama-loving Media while other Republicans, like Governors Palin, Brewer, and Christie, are eviscerated on a daily basis.
If the Left, who love Obama, love people like Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Thune, and others, then something must be seriously wrong with those guys. If you are a supporter of any of them, you need to ask yourself what about these men is driving the positive coverage in the Media…then do a little research into what sort of coverage John McCain received from 2000-2008. If you didn’t think McCain was a good candidate to run for president, then maybe you need to ask yourself how Mitt Romney, in particular, would be any sort of an improvement for the GOP’s odds of taking back the White House.
How can we compile a running dossier on the Media’s nomination-stacking plan, and how can we assemble this into a chart, graph, or illustration the general public could easily understand?
Ideas needed, please, because this is something that’s clearly happening — we see it, our regular readers see it, but it still seems to be a mystery to the conservative sites we read, who keep falling for the Media’s trickery in all of this.
Mitt Romney's main strategy in the GOP primaries of 2012 is to hammer Sarah Palin as "a quitter". Message to Mittens: it's not going to work
Yesterday, I was interviewed by a reporter for CBS, for a story on the diverse groups of people supporting Sarah Palin online. The reporter authored a book on Palin last year, after being embedded with her vice presidential campaign, following a stint covering Mittens Romney. I can’t imagine how many cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwiches this guy had to eat on the Romney Express (to nowhere), but I gave him the same kind of awed respect I grant anyone who’s ever spent more than half an hour with Tim Pawlenty — and didn’t succumb to T-Paw induced narcolepsy.
We (the reporter and I, not Tim Pawlenty or Mittens) met up at Nookie’s Tree in Boystown and talked about Sarah Palin over coffee. Doing enough of these interviews over the course of the last few years, and being interviewed by some great people like Andrea Shea King and Tammy Bruce, I can usually spot the story the reporter wants to tell by the way his questions unfold and what he keeps coming back to whenever I take the conversation on one of my tangents about how terrible the current administration is. The story CBS wants to do on Palin’s supporters appears to be something in the realm of “an unthinking, personal, and emotional defense of a woman they love”. It’s not a negative story, and the reporter doesn’t seem like the kind who would write a hit piece, on either Palin herself or on me as a Palin-supporter, but the impression I got from him was that he’s projecting the Left’s Obama cult of personality onto Palin supporters — when nothing could be further from the truth.
Most of the questions asked of me were in the vein of how I felt whenever Palin was attacked, and what makes me defend her.
I stopped the reporter on that one, because I don’t think Sarah Palin needs to be defended ever — she is more than capable of doing that for herself, far better than I personally could ever do. See, for example, her Facebook ninja throwing stars, and marvel at the sublime and politically deadly effectiveness of her patented personal brand of self-defense.
The role I see Palin’s supporters playing is, as we’ve said consistently here on HillBuzz, of Scoobies to Palin’s Buffy. She’s the slayer. She’s got far more strength, smarts, power, and voice than any of us. She leads, we follow. We’re her support team, whose mission is to make sure the public at large knows about all the good things she’s doing — and that her supporters never succumb to Eeyorism and listen to the Lamestream Media as it tries, desperately and pathetically, to foist Mittens Romney, T-Paw, John Thune, Mitch Daniels, or the rest of the born-losers in the cucumbers-and-mayonnaise soggy sandwich club upon us as the 2012 Republican nominee.
In talking about Romney, the reporter gave me a little insight into him as a man, which confirmed what I know firsthand from all the Romney guys here in Chicago: he will never accept being VP, to anyone, and believes he is destined to be president. I’m amazed no one surrounding Romney, not even his wife Ann, has the clarity or good sense to tell this man how delusional he is. Romney believes the “it’s his turn” mentality of the Republican Party is going to hand the 2012 nomination to him, the way this same thinking gave the GOP the stellar campaigns of Bob Dole ’96 and John McCain ’08. ”It’s his turn” is a steaming pile of moose droppings.
Sarah Palin is running for president, folks. She will be the Republican nominee in 2012. I personally am going to do everything I possibly can to help her in every way possible. Everyone here at HB feels that way, and we’re all committed to giving up another two years of our lives for a presidential race — which is something we didn’t want or expect to do, but we all believe in the Governor and believe she’s the one woman out there who can turn this country around and defeat Obama.
The reporter, who is a very nice guy, and handsome in that nonthreatening Sears catalog model sort of way (he actually looks a lot like the actor who played Brighton Sheffield on “The Nanny” in the 90s, and for the entirety of the interview I was convinced it really WAS that actor, because I heard somewhere that kid grew up to become a journalist), believes Obama will have his second term, and couches everything he asks in terms of that. Such as questions about whether Hillary Clinton would stay on as Secretary of State in Obama’s fictitious second term, etc. Me being me, I never let those slips go, and kept reminding him that Obama is not going to have a second term, because Sarah Palin is going to clean his clock in 2012. He’d smile at that, which made him look even more like the kid from “The Nanny”, but Wikipedia indeed maintains they are not one and the same.
Both the reporter and the Romney Guys here in Chicago believe it’s an effective attack on Palin to criticize her for leaving the governor’s office last summer. These guys are CONVINCED of this, and they honestly believe Republican voters in 2012 aren’t going to support her because she made the executive decision to remove herself as a target for Democrats nationwide to attack in our northernmost state. Palin removing herself from the governor’s mansion eliminated a means for DNC-funded lunatics like Andrea McCloud to file nuisance ethics complaints against her office every day, in a clear effort to cost Alaskan taxpayers an enormous sum of money and prevent the governor’s office from doing the work the people of Alaska needed the Governor to do. Resigning to save taxpayers so much money took a lot of guts — and it’s one of the things I most respect about Sarah Palin on a personal level. She’s forever in a position of being damned if she does, and damned if she doesn’t, and every day she’s attacked for something ridiculous. Leaving office was a hard decision to make, but it was the right decision for Alaska, and I believe for Palin personally (because she would not be able to travel the country and give speeches so often if she was tied to Juneau and Anchorage…and that means she would not be able to fulfill the role of Shadow President the way she is doing now, living rent free in the Obama White House and occupying a choice niche in the current president’s nightmares).
I can guarantee you Mittens Romney gives no one nightmares. The White House doesn’t care what Romney thinks or says. When Romney holds an event, all of 12 people attend, and no one’s particularly enthused to be there. Not even Romney himself.
When Sarah Palin gives a speech, the atmosphere is electric. I’ve seen big, beer-bellied, bearish men sporting pink PALIN 2012 shirts, as excited as school girls at a Jonas Brothers concert to actually hear the Governor speak in person. I’ve spotted fathers bringing their daughters to see “the next president”, Sarah Heath Palin. This excitement, support, and enthusiasm actually exceeds what I experienced at Hillary Clinton’s own events in 2007 and 2008.
If Palin wants that nomination and wants to be president, she’s going to win. I do not believe Mittens or T-Paw can stop her. And I don’t believe she’ll pick any of those boring, soggy losers as her VP. I think she’ll go rogue, and choose an Alan West, a Michael Williams, a Michele Bachman, or someone else incredibly awesome and give the GOP establishment and “It’s His Turn” club the shaft. Alaska-style. You betcha.
But, I don’t want Palin supporters to ignore what the Romney people are up to. Though I don’t think the “she quit as Governor!” nonsense is going to have any traction against her, I wanted to communicate just how absolutely CERTAIN this reporter was about this “ending her campaign before it begins” and how the khaki-pants, blue-blazered Romney Guys here in Chicago think Palin is a “non-starter” because of this.
I think these guys are all nuts, but I want all of you, and everyone at Conservatives4Palin especially, to start thinking about ways to diffuse this attack before it can even be made. If you love this country and want to prevent Obama from having that second term the media believes is guaranteed to him, then you need to work hard every day on ways to prevent the GOP from running Mittens, T-Paw, or any of the other members of the cucumbers-and-mayonnaise brigade in 2012.
I have no idea when this piece for CBS is going to come out, but if I hear more about it, I’ll be sure to let you know. As I said, the reporter was a very nice guy and showed great respect for the Governor, but it was very clear to me he voted for Obama and wants to see him get a second term — though I don’t think he had an Obot agenda with the article he’s writing, or I would not have agreed to sit down with him here in Boystown.
- K.
PHOTOSHOP CHALLENGE: Need cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwich versions of male 2012 GOP contenders
We wish we as a site existed in 2006 to stop the DNC from taking the Democrat nomination for president away from Hillary Clinton and awarding it to Obama — if we had an internet presence then, we would have done everything we could think of to derail Obama’s campaign before it ever began, before the DNC decided to make him the next president. We will forever be haunted by the fact that we can never have the last four years to do over again.
So, every day we want to do as much as possible to prevent Obama from winning a second term. His radical agenda must be stopped. We will put every idea we have for preventing his re-election out there, and ask for as much creative support as possible to do whatever we can to stop all those who are either pushing for Obama, or who are backing Republicans we know have no chance in Hell of beating Dr. Utopia.
We believe the RNC is already conspiring to make Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty the 2012 Republican nominee — this would be an unmitigated disaster, as we do not believe either of these man can beat Obama. If not Romney and Pawlenty, the RNC appears to be pushing Mitch Daniels, John Thune, and John Huntsman as well.
All of these men are about as exciting and energizing as soggy cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwiches on Wonderbread, dipped in skim milk and served on frilly doilies. They are all natural born losers.
Anyone who wants to see Obama defeated needs to stop the RNC from doing to Sarah Palin what the DNC did to Hillary Clinton — namely, screw her out of the party’s nomination.
We will repeat the cucumbers-and-mayoinnaise Vichyssoise Republicans line as much as possible between now and 2012 — until it sticks against Romney and the other half dozen political dwarves the RNC, DNC, and Lamestream Media dream of pitting against Obama in a losing contest.
We would like to have a few images of these men to use going forward, which we hope will become iconic and spread through the web. Here’s what we’d like to see, for all those with the photoshop skills to put something together:
(1) We’d like to see a set of cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwiches that have been cut with a gingerbread man cookie cutter, so they look like little men. These men are all holding hands in a straight line, like the men in a chain of paper dolls. The little sandwich men are displayed on a fancy table setting of some kind, like that found at a country club. There are stacks of regular cucumbers and mayonnaise sandwiches on the table as well…additionally, there is a jar of mayonnaise, some whole and sliced cucumbers, and a carton of skim milk on the table. The carton of milk has a “WANTED” picture on one side, where the MISSING CHILD picture is on some milk cartons. The WANTED picture is Sarah Palin…and under her picture there’s the wording ”Sarah Palin — The Candidate Who Can Actually Beat Obama in 2012″. If you can come up with a better tagline, please add to the thread.
(2) In another version of this, the sandwiches are whole, but the faces of Romney, Pawlenty, Thune, Huntsman, and Daniels are all watermarked on the bread…or otherwise appear, as if their faces are made of sandwich bread. These sandwiches are on a tray in the Oval Office…with Obama sitting at the Resolute Desk, with his feet up, preparing to devour them all. If that’s too hard to pull off, just a tray of the sandwiches with these men’s faces on them would work.
(3) A picture of Romney, Pawlenty, Thune, Huntsman, and Daniels all in a 50s retro kitchen, making cucumber and mayonnaise sandwiches, and making a big mess fumbling and bumbling doing it. We can use this in the future as part of a “Sarah Palin’s needed to clean up the mess” meme.
We think the tag “cucumbers-and-mayonnaise-Vichysoisse Republicans” will stick to the Romney bunch.
It’s a proactive, prescient, and preventative strike against the RNC’s efforts to pull that “It’s his turn” sausagefest garbage and award the nomination to Romney, because Republicans are so good at losing, why stop now.
It’s our sincere hope that both Romney and Pawlenty have sense talked into them between now and 2012 and realize that they won’t win, and that they should both get behind Sarah Palin now, and help her run her general election campaign from Day One, never having to bother with a contested primary. Obama will be running his general election campaign from Day One as we don’t anticipate Hillary Clinton or anyone else challenging him. Thus, while Romney, Pawlenty, and the cucumbers and mayonnaise gang drain Palin’s resources in another “all the boys against the woman” round of primaries, just like the Democrats did to Hillary in 2008, Obama will be sailing towards his re-election with the media working 24/7 to first make Romney or Pawlenty the Republican nominee, and then once that’s secured, kicking into hyperdrive to destroy Romney or Pawlenty as the nominee so that Obama is granted his “historic and unprecedented second term”.
We can stop this, folks.
Together.
But we need your artistic help. We need big mouths to help us spread the imagery and branding that Romney, Pawlenty, et al are the Cucumbers-and-Mayonnaise-Vichysoisse Republican gang of losers.
If we do this, we’ll be a step ahead before the rest of the country starts even thinking about 2012.
Why Sarah Palin Will Win in 2012
Please read the latest Sarah Palin hit piece over at the sausagefest that is RedState — a place we like for most things, but have to call out on a regular basis for being such myopic Eeyores.
Now, when reading anything at sites like RedState, you need to realize how many “Romney guys” are entrenched practically everywhere in the Republican junior ranks. They are a very subversive lot, with a loyalty to Mitt as deep and strong as our own loyalty to Hillary. Here in Chicago, most of the young Republican guys we worked with during the McCain campaign were Romney guys who wanted to beat Dr. Utopia, for sure, but who weren’t all that terribly upset on election night because they planned to start Romney 2012 efforts the next day.
We comiserated that night in the hotel suite with them after McCain’s concession, brokenhearted we wouldn’t be starting Hillary 2012 that morning instead. So, we understand these guys. We know the love of a candidate and the lengths loyalists will go to for that person.
It is our firm belief Romney guys are working to stop a Sarah Palin 2012 campaign even harder than the MSM is working on Dr. Utopia’s behalf to stop Palin.
It is a similar situation to what we Hillary Dems faced in 2008, where the DNC elite and MSM worked together to stop a woman from being the Democrats’ nominee. We believe, to this day, it wasn’t so much about stopping a Clinton third term as it was stopping a WOMAN from being president.
The same thing is at work now, with the MSM and these Romney guys doing everything they can to halt Palin.
We implore Palin supporters to read the book “Game Change”, looking at the Clinton 2004 and 2008 anecdotes in particular.
Read the story of how the Kennedy Family talked Hillary Clinton out of running for president in 2004…using THE EXACT SAME THINGS the Romney guys are saying to Palin today. “We have a chance to beat this guy, and you’re divisive and not ready, so you should wait. If Kerry loses, then you can have it in 2008. We promise. Wink wink wink.”
Then read the story of how Chuck Schumer stabbed Hillary in the back and encouraged Dr. Utopia to run against her, joining the other men in the DNC to shunt her to the side.
This is EXACTLY what the Romney guys are trying to do to Palin.
We truly hope the Gov does to the RNC what she did to the Republican party in Alaska: she needs to stop listening to these idiots, do her own thing, root out the biggest fools and dispose of them, and run her own show for 2012.
We believe the TV show she’s producing with Mark Burnett on the wonders of Alaska will be Reaganesque in its reach of regular people. Conservatives will love it, but so will independents. Far leftists won’t watch it, the same way they don’t watch FOX, but claim they hate FOX anyway. So, without even seeing the series, leftists will hate it. But, there is no getting those people to do anything but hate every Republican blindly, no matter who it is.
Moderate and conservative Democrats, however, will watch the show too, to see what the fuss is about. If it’s informative, well-produced, and showcases Palin’s Alaska, we believe it will become a cultural phenomenon. We foresee Alaskan imagery everywhere in 2011. Which is a wonderful setup for the Palin brand in 2012.
Late 2010-early 2011 is also when Palin’s next book is due: a policy book on American Virtues. That will be coupled with a book tour that should end round about February 6th, 2011, the day we believe Palin will announce her presidential run.
Essentially, the tour bus she uses for the book will just be slightly rebranding as PALIN 2012, instead of AMERICAN VIRTUES.
Chances are, American Virtues will actually be her campaign motto.
We can see the branding and marketing already at work.
Palin’s playing 11th dimensional chess that RedState’s not seeing, because it’s so focused on Romney, or dazzled by his Mattel-produced hair.
She’s operating a fully-formed multimedia strategy designed to counter Dr. Utopia’s razzle dazzle and media darling status. She knows in her heart Americans will want a true conservative in office in 2012, one who is smart enough to focus on jobs, the economy, energy independence, and limited government instead of allowing the media to degenerate the debate into social issues. The media is going to do everything it can to control the debate in 2012, doing its level best to hand Dr. Utopia a second term on a silver platter.
The ONLY Republican we see on the field who can take charge of the debate is Palin.
She merely mentions something on Facebook and it derails the White House for three days.
She writes something she wants to talk about on her hand, and it drives the Left so nuts that’s all they talk about for weeks…tricking them into getting her message out there when they think they are making fun of her.
Mitt Romney could hold a dozen nuns hostage at knife point in the middle of a crowded shopping mall and hardly anyone would notice. MAYBE the media would report on it, if a semi-famous rapper happened to be nearby, like with Romney’s recent altercation on an airplane.
Romney could set himself on fire and perform nude Cirque du Soleit acrobatics on live television and most of the country would still not pay any attention to him.
In 2012, Palin would control what she wanted to talk about and would be a proactive campaigner dictating what the media was forced to cover.
Mitt Romney, or the rest of the stale, tired, losers RedState and other “Romney guy” sites keep pushing would just follow the standard GOP model of reacting to whatever the MSM is pushing…and since the MSM would be pushing whatever made Dr. Utopia look best, the campaign dynamic would be completely different.
Palin would be in charge by the very nature of who she is, and the massive response she gets to every little thing she does. Romney and the others would be at the mercy of fate and media whims, forever tilting the way the wind blew against them, never gaining traction, losing to Dr. Utopia’s re-election machine…of which the media is not just a part, but the core and engine.
We will endeavor for the next two years to make sure we do everything we can to help Sarah Palin. For those of you reading this in Alaska, you tell the Governor she’s got a bunch of Palinites here in Boystown who are on the ground for her already. We’re going to see her on April 17th, so we’re going to tell her all this ourselves…and most importantly we’re going to warn her not to listen to the things said to Hillary Clinton in 2004.
If Clinton had run back then, we think she would have beaten Bush and would be president today, at the close of her second term. But, she listened to people who were dead wrong, and who largely just didn’t want to see a female president.
We do not want Palin to make that same mistake.
Not if we can stop history from repeating itself.
BREAKING NEWS: Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney Sign Deal at MSNBC for Reality Show: "Wandering the Mall of America"
Coming soon to MSNBC: Wandering the Mall of America, with Tim and Mitt
MSNBC, determined to foist Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney, in either combination, as the two boring, anemic, duller than stale dirt, cucumber and mayonnaise Wonder Bread candidates on the Republican ballot in 2012, has announced a new Reality Show it intends to rush into production before the exciting Sarah Palin-Mark Burnett documentary on Alaska is even fully pitched to the broadcast networks.
“Wandering the Mall of America” will feature Pawlenty and Romney loosely riffing the Jack Lemmon/James Garner movie, “My Fellow Americans”, arguing over who should be president and who should be vice president on the losing-est sausage-fest of a ticket Republicans have dreamed up since Dole/Kemp ’96. Looking as drab and unappealing as possible, the two will wander from store to store in the Mall of America, interacting with shoppers, and periodically stopping at the Food Court, where they will eat as many foods with mayonnaise and no seasoning in them as possible. Boring, pasty, caulk-like, bland food…for boring, pasty, caulk-like, bland men.
They’ll ride the elevator together.
Sometimes, Pawlenty will push the button.
Other times, Romney will push the button.
They’ll throw pennies into the fountain, then wade into the water barefoot, clutching their loafers and black socks in one hand, to retrieve the pennies and invest them in stock someplace boring, like a paper pulp corporation or a Wite-Out distribution center in Altuna.
Sometimes, other boring men will visit the Mall to join the sausage-fest, already in progress. Mitch Daniels. Haley Barbour. John Thune. And other men who sound like soap opera characters, but aren’t nearly as attractive.
Crazy oddballs will stop by, too, like Bobby Jindal and Charlie Crist, who will perform an exorcism near the Aquarium and dance in drag through a circuit of Victoria’s Secret, Lane Bryant, and Tops & Bottoms, respectively.
“Where are the Tops? I like mine orange,” we can already hear Crist shriek.
“Maybe a demon’s got them. Until I can exorcise it, maybe you can settle for some Bottoms”.
“Honey, story of my life. It’s why I don’t go to the Green Iguana no more”.
“Oh, Charlie, you stop.”
“No, you stop, you stop, you stop”.
{{ Tickle, tickle, tickle, TICKLE FIGHT! }}
“What’s all this laughing? Are people laughing at me and my chances of winning the presidency again? Is it my voice some more? Are people still saying I put insomniacs to sleep in five syllables or less? Do people think I’m more like Frankenstein, only boring, than John Kerry was?,” Pawlenty asked, though no one in a mile radius was awake afterwards to answer.
{{ YAWN}}
“What? Oh, must have dozed off there, Tim. Because you were talking, and you are so damn boring many people can’t stand living if they know they have to watch you and hear you talk in person. No, I think people are laughing at me again, because I seem to think no one remembers why I didn’t win the nomination in 2008, because no one trusts me, everyone knows I lie, and I change positions more times on an issue than Crist over there changes costumes for one of his Cher “retrospective” revues”, Romney droned, deciding a moment later he should have talked about Crist’s Madonna-rama performances instead of the Cher stage spectaculars, because he realized voters were leaning more Madge than Turn Back Time.
“Maybe we should get back to wandering around the Mall of America, being really boring, because that’s what MSNBC told us to do, and Republicans always do what MSNBC tells them, because we desperately seek the approval of Liberals and Leftists who will always hate us. Yet, we yearn for the sweet suckle of their acceptance all the same. As sweet as non-fat curd cottage cheese, blended with soy beans and skim milk, served with a side of mayonnaise and some cucumbers for dipping”.
“Oh, partner, you’re making this flip-flopper hungry! Let’s head on over to the Food Court and bore people to tears there!”.
And….scene!
Troll Dissection 101: the pro-Horsemen of the GOP Apocalypse Troll
Here’s a new variation of troll dropping we found in the old Troll Filter today.
This one’s clearly triggered by how well Sarah Palin did on the Tonight Show last night, blowing David Letterman and Mitt Romney out of the water. So, trolls feel the need to hit at Palin today, while further promoting the Horsemen of the GOP Apocalypse like Tim Pawlenty, John Thune, etc.
Can you dissect this troll dropping line-by-line and identify the following:
(1) What’s the goal of the troll?
(2) What specific words is the troll emphasizing to psychologically advance its goals?
(3) What’s the troll’s desired response from you?
(4) Who sent this troll out into the world full of droppings, ready to dump them against the Internets?
Have at it:
First let me say that I am not a Romney supporter and do not want him to be the nominee in 2012. Having said that, you couldn’t be more off in your understanding of what is going on. The MSM and their Democrats buddies would *love* to run against Sarah Palin. They’re not promoting Romney because they want him as the GOP nominee; they’re promoting him so they can accuse the GOP of being extremist idiots for *not* nominating him.
As for Sarah Palin – I like her and I think she has taken a lot of undeserved abuse from the media, but let’s face it, she is not qualified to be President anymore than the current officeholder.
There are about a dozen people who would make a much better nominee than either Romney or Palin, including Pawlenty, Thune, and McDonnell.
Who is the MSM pushing today to lose to Obama in 2012? Mitt Romney!
Mitt Romney, picture here at a book signing, for his new tome few outside of Utah will ever read.
We wonder if there will ever come a day when Republicans stop falling for this garbage. But, as kids, we kept hoping the rabbit would finally learn his lesson and outsmart the damn kids that wouldn’t let it ever eat a bowl of Trix, and we were forever disappointed with that, too.
Today the MSM is taking another swipe at Sarah Palin, while telling everyone how wonderful Mitt Romney is. Romney wrote a book all of 12 people will ultimately read. It’s called, apparently, “Cucumber and Mayonnaise Sandwiches on Wonderbread: Delicious Romney Recipes for 2012 Disaster”.
Essentially, the MSM is saying, “Sarah Palin wrote that Going Rogue book that none of us liked, and it was terrible, because she’s terrible. And now Romney’s written this book, and because he’s not Sarah Palin, we think this book in wonderful. So, you should go read it or whatever. Romney! Romney! Romney! You should pick Romney in 2012 for your nominee, and if you do, we in the MSM will know how smart and edumacated all of you conservatives are. If you pick that damn Sarah Palin, then we will think you are stoopid, and you crave and yearn desperately for our approval, don’t you? DON’T YOU?”.
Honestly, all of this is as transparent as listening to small children lie.
“No, I didn’t spill the juice on the rug. I don’t know who did it, really. Some man came in and spilled juice and then left. I don’t know who it was.”
“No, we the American Media are not picking the GOP’s 2012 candidate and making him the most boring, milquetoast, beatable Republican we can find so that Obama wins the second term we promised him. No, we are not constantly trying to convince Republicans to start hating Sarah Palin, the only person on the scene guaranteed to deprive Obama of that second term. We’re journalists! We’re objective! We don’t have any agenda! Of course we don’t think you are too stupid to ever figure out what we are up to. That’s ridunkulous.”
Are conservatives and independents really so stupid to keep falling for the MSM’s manipulation of the GOP nomination?
What think you?
