Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman question Trump’s diety status with the GOP

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Ron Paul is spot on.  Who is Donald Trump and why does he have such holding p0wer over the GOP?  To most of us, Donald Trump is a rich blow hard with extremely bad hair.  Yet many of  the presidential wannabes seem to be flocking to pay him homage. 

According to Politico:

Fresh off snubbing Donald Trump by refusing to participate in a debate he’s moderating, Ron Paul blasts his fellow GOP presidential candidates for paying the billionaire businessman so much credence.

“I don’t quite understand the marching to his office,” Paul said on CNN’s State of the Union this morning, referring to the parade of presidential candidates who’ve met with Trump in recent months. “I didn’t know he had the ability to lay on hands and anoint people.”

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Herman Cain press conference at 11 am Saturday

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Presidential Candidate Herman Cain has a press conference scheduled at 11 am this morning.  It is expected that he will drop out of the race.  Cain has soared with eagles and is soon to gobble with turkeys…turkeys with too much baggage. 

I am curious about all of this.  Ginger White is now the latest woman to come forward, charging that she had a 13 year affair with Mr. Cain.  White elaborated and said it was not a love affair but a sexual affair.  She produced documentation of phone records.  She appears to be very open. 

What prompts someone to come forward like that?  She has stated that she has received no money for her story. What is her motivation?  Why would she do something she knows will probably crater his chances for the White House?  Is it all about female power?

I am also curious about him.  I won’t question all his peccadilloes or charges of sexual harassment.  That pretty much speaks for itself and we have all knows people like that.  However, when you know you have baggage and you want to become president, why would you continue, knowing its all going to come out?  I don’t understand politicians who think that they are special and won’t get caught.  The higher the aspirations, the greater the likelihood of exposure. 

 The media will now crawl all over Ginger White, giving her more attention than she could have possibly ever wanted.  Sadly, they will crawl all over the Cain family, who have done nothing.  Mrs. Cain will stand by her man in public and skewer him behind closed doors.  She might take him to the cleaners or she might not.  Could be, she has known of his proclivities all along.  Some wives prefer to blind eye things like this.  No spouse wants public humiliation, however.  BLIND EYE is no longer possible. 

I don’t care if you are a local politician or aspiring to the highest office in the land, if someone knows something, it is almost human nature to want to share that knowledge with others.  That should be a warning to politicians.  If you have baggage, you might want to stay on the porch rather than running with the big dogs,l unless you have a mighty understanding spouse.

 

Joe Scarborough: the RINO test–the insult du jour

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By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 11/28/11 2:52 PM EST

The insult du jour for Republican candidates this election cycle is being labeled a RINO, a Republican in Name Only. Unfortunately, the insult has been so overused lately it’s been rendered meaningless. The insult is even emptier because it is so detached from actual statements, campaign promises and voting records.

A candidate like Newt Gingrich can get away with supporting the biggest socialist scheme in American government over the past 30 years because he says nasty things about the press and calls Barack Obama a Marxist. Jon Huntsman, on the other hand, can have a stellar conservative record as Utah’s governor, be anti-abortion and adored by the NRA. But if he refuses to spit out angry screeds against Obama, he’s dismissed as a RINO, the facts be damned.

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The Candidates: cheap entertainment

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The Cain Train is derailing again as yet another woman steps forward to proclaim having had a 13 year affair with married-man Herman Cain.  This news can’t go over too well with the base.  However, most are keeping a stiff upper lip. 

Most people can get by with an indiscretion or two if and only if they haven’t bashed others over their marriage behavior.  Cain has been a basher so he will have a harder time overcoming the long string of women who have voiced some form of impropriety. 

Poor Rick Perry misspoke and said the voting age was 21.  Give the guy a break.  He misspoke.  Picking at Perry over misstating the voting age is petty.  His gaffe was small potatoes and very forgiveable.  Perhaps the voting age should be 21. 

Meanwhile, Newt equivocates and says he wasn’t a lobbyist because he didn’t need the money.  He charged $60,000 a speech. Does this offend anyone?  Mr. Sell a Speech.  Make no mistake.  Newt is an insider.  Newt makes more per half hour than a truck driver in South Carolina makes in a year.  Twice as much as a matter of fact.  He makes  $20,000more  in that half hour than a registered nurse or elementary teacher makes in a year.   There is just something wrong with his arrogance.

 

Cuccinelli to be panelist for Dec 3 GOP Debate

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Three Attorney Generals will be questioners in Fox’s December 3rd Republican Debate that will be hosted by Mike Huckabee. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will be one of the three panelists. Cuccinelli is one of the darlings of the tea parties.  For those non-extremists who enjoy elevated blood pressure, the evenings events should be high political comedy.  Get those rotten tomatoes ready to throw.  Cover up Lady Virtue’s “chest” and gays gladly not attend.  Health care, bend over and kiss yourself good bye…Ken is here.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch:

Cuccinelli, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt have been actively involved in the legal challenges to President Barack Obama’s health-care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Cuccinelli said the questions will focus on issues confronted by attorneys general and states in their relationship to the federal government, such as federalism, regulation, exercise of executive power and, of course, health care.

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Not a Lyin’ A$$ B!tch

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The introduction to Lyin’ Ass Bitch was played as Michele Bachmann walked in to the Jimmy Fallon Show to promote her new book. I don’t think she recognized the music. I didn’t. However, someone must have given her a heads up because she was furious.

I don’t blame her.  The band was disrespectful.  Even if it passed her by, it was still disrespectful and undeserved.  This might be a case where someone needs to be furloughed for a week. 

Bachmann was even more furious that a day went by before she got an apology from NBC and Jimmy Fallon, who said he was unaware that was going to happen.   Again, I don’t blame her.  I am waiting to hear about the consequences for those who made an  extremely  poor choice.  Strange that those who actually misbehaved have not issued an apology. 

And lastly, what a stupid song. 

 

Newt straps on the TNT–the biggest take away

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Newt somehow found a way to articulate that middle ground that describes how most moderates feel about the immigration issue.  He effectively managed to push across an idea that Rick Perry tried to accomplish but didn’t quite manage to do. 

Pundits this morning are discussing how badly Newt damaged his lead with the base who doesn’t care if grandmas and grandpas are lined up and marched back across the border. 

 The strategist implication probably wasn’t thought out as well as it should have been.  

Do you agree with Newt or Mitt?  Is that really amnesty?  Notice Newt was careful to exclude citizenship for those who stayed under this category.  That, in effect, excluded the notion of any party trying to get new voters. 

What are the pros and cons for Newt in his bid for presidential election?

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski goes on a Newt Rant

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Mika goes ballistic over Newt Gingrich. The rant was set off by Newt’s remark about OWS-ers needing a bath and worked on down to his other character failures.

According to the Huffington Post:

Mika Brzezinski let forth with an angry rant on Newt Gingrich and his criticism of the Occupy Wall Street movement, calling him “the biggest hypocrite in the Republican field” on Monday.

The source of her ire was Gingrich’s recent barbs about the protesters, particularly his comment that they should “go get a job right after you take a bath.” Brzezinski called his words “arrogant” and “disgusting.”

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Condoleeza Rice advises 2012 Candidates to Beef Up on Foreign Policy

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From Politico:

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Republican presidential candidates can – and must – learn about foreign policy basics while on the campaign trail.

Asked in an interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the basic foreign policy gaffes that Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann have made, Rice asserted that a potential president needed – at a minimum – to master the basics of foreign policy.

“I would say to the candidates, you don’t have to know the ins and outs of foreign policy because nobody would expect that kind of exposure. But the basis of foreign policy, you can – you can master those during the campaign. And it’s important for the American people to know that you care enough about these issues to do that,” Rice said.

The former Bush Cabinet official noted that it was crucial for Republican presidential candidates to know the historical role America has played on the world stage.

“A potential president has to know the role of the United States of America and that it’s an exceptional role, that we have, in fact, been willing to bear a lot of burdens over the last 60 plus years in order to promote a balance of power favor – that favors freedom,” she said.

Some of the ones we have seen seem to know nothing and are proud of it.  How can we be a world super power if the president has no knowledge of foreign policy?  Even as candidates, these people are being watched around the world.  Especially to those who don’t understand the democratic process fully, those who are unprepared simply embarrass the United States when they refuse to learn the basics. 

A candidate has to be more than a set of sound bytes and cutesy expressions.  A presidential candidate has to be able to communicate that he or she has a clear understanding of America’s role in world affairs and where the rest of the world is coming from.  Right now our focus is on domestic policy but that is not to say that next week, month or year the focus will not switch drastically.  All our candidates will have to pass muster.  Some clearly are not ready to do so.

Another Republican Debate

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These folks are all over the board with their ideas. 

Water boarding seems ok.  Cutting off foreign aid to some countries seems ok. 
Is there a common theme regarding foreign policy?  Which candidate, if any, seems to be the most realistic in a 2012 world?

The Wednesday night Republican Debate–who goes who stays

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I only watched part of it.  Wednesday night is taxing for my DVR.  Who won that one?  I saw poor Rick Perry.  I just feel sorry as hell for that guy.  He is really out of his league and he needs to go home.  Watching him was painful.  It made me want to take back all the snickering I had done about some of his stunts.

 

Has Huntsman come up in the eyes of the party faithful?

Did Herman Cain redeem himself after a grueling week of sex harassment accussations?

Is Michele Bachmann still able to hang in there?  That woman is tenacious.  I will hand her that. 

Rick?  Ron Paul?

Herman Cain: Here We Go Again

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Geraldo wants an answer to a straight up question. This information does not bode well for a presidential candidate. 

Spokesperson J. D.  Gordon dodged Geraldo’s questions fairly clumsily. 

I feel a story taking on a life of its own.

According to Politico.com:

 

During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO.

The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them financial payouts to leave the association. The agreements also included language that bars the women from talking about their departures.

We have no opinion at this point because there are too many missing facts. However, that is certainly not going to stop the speculation.

What I do find offensive is to blame it on Cain being a conservative politician. There were enough bad boys out there the past couple of years to give John Edwards a good run for his money.

Speaking of John Edwards, he keeps getting in deeper and deeper. He is now in criminal court. However, some idiot reporter claimed some old rich woman backed him. Bunny Melon is hardly ‘some old rich woman.’ Are reporters just getting dumber or is it my imagination?

Back to Herman Cain–any speculation here? Please don’t say its because he is conservative….that is such an excuse.

You can read more at politico.com.

Jon2012girls Smokin’ Ad

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Too Funny!!

Jon Huntsman’s daughters shamelessly promote their dad and refuse to take lessons from the stuffy campaigns of others. According to the Daily Beast:

Mary Anne, Abby, and Liddy, all stylish twentysomethings with a penchant for snark, have been chronicling their campaign misadventures with a lively Twitter feed called @Jon2012girls. Originally created to let their friends know where they would be stumping for dad on any given day, the feed has attracted nearly 6,000 followers and turned its authors into minor celebrities among the political chattering class.

It helps that the Huntsman girls seem allergic to the hyper-polished talking points that dominate presidential campaigns, sharing photos of themselves planking and sarcastically complaining about the campaign’s decision to relocate headquarters from Florida to New Hampshire (“Thanks dad.”) After their father appeared on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, they tweeted: “FYI @ColbertReport has heated toilets in the green room. #hotbuns.”

They also seem to take special pleasure in needling the clean-cut, well-starched Romney camp. On October 11, for example, they tweeted at Romney’s son Tagg: “Want to tailgate for the next debate? Vegas wild. We’ll bring the godfathers, you bring the diet coke.” Then they added, “Mormon tabernacle choir can DJ.”

Is America ready for the Jon2012girls?  They are too cute.  I love their irreverence.  Of course,  Jon Huntsman is my R of the month.   Careful what you say.  He might walk away with the nomination.  You never know.  The rest are tripping and falling all over themselves.