The Candidates: cheap entertainment

MoonHowler

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.

 

GOP Worried that Az Legislation Might Hurt both Fall and Future Elections

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Republicans got that dead cat bounce from the new law in AZ.  However, now they might be going back to the old adage about being careful what you wish for.  Now the movers and the shakers in the GOP are worried that there might be a negative impact from this law and that some new potential base might be lost.

According to Politico.com:

Arizona’s immigration law has been an immediate hit with the Republican base, but some of the party’s top strategists and rising stars worry that the harsh crackdown may do long-term damage to the GOP in the eyes of America’s Hispanic population.

 From Marco Rubio to Jeb Bush to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Republicans who represent heavily Hispanic states have been vocal in their criticism of the Arizona law, saying it overreaches. Even Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia, a conservative hero for his win last fall, has questioned the law.

 And the party’s long-term thinkers worry that the Arizona law is merely a quick political fix which may create a permanent rift with the fastest growing segment of the U.S. electorate.

Most of us were unaware the Governor McDonnell had weighed in on the AZ  issue. 
The question people need to be asking themselves is will the new legislation help alleviate AZ’s violence.  If the answer is no, then they need another strategy.  They are making a bad mistake if they are curbing lawn care workers entering the United States.  Meanwhile, London burns. 
Specifically, Rove, Jeb Bush, and Governor Perry had the following to say:
“I think there is going to be some constitutional problems with the bill,” top Bush strategist Karl Rove said during a stop on his book tour. “I wished they hadn’t passed it, in a way.”

Jeb Bush was also blunt: “I don’t think this is the proper approach.”
 

Regardless of what GOP heavy-weights say, the many folks in AZ are pleased with their legislation. It must be that RINO Karl Rove who just doesn’t have what it takes to be a conservative Republican. [Sarcasm key pressed.]