"Waah, wah! Act like a man! What's the matter with you?!"
Posted on 01/24/2012 6:31:02 AM PST by KeyLargo
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JANUARY 24, 2012 By Bret Stephens
The GOP Deserves to Lose That's what happens when you run with losers.
Let's just say right now what voters will be saying in November, once Barack Obama has been re-elected: Republicans deserve to lose.
It doesn't matter that Mr. Obama can't get the economy out of second gear. It doesn't matter that he cynically betrayed his core promise as a candidate to be a unifying president. It doesn't matter that he keeps blaming Bush. It doesn't matter that he thinks ATMs are weapons of employment destruction. It doesn't matter that Tim Geithner remains secretary of Treasury. It doesn't matter that the result of his "reset" with Russia is Moscow selling fighter jets to Damascus. It doesn't matter that the Obama name is synonymous with the most unpopular law in memory. It doesn't matter that his wife thinks America doesn't deserve him. It doesn't matter that the Evel Knievel theory of fiscal stimulus isn't going to make it over the Snake River Canyon of debt.
Above all, it doesn't matter that Americans are generally eager to send Mr. Obama packing. All they need is to be reasonably sure that the alternative won't be another fiasco. But they can't be reasonably sure, so it's going to be four more years of the disappointment you already know.
Is this the best they can do?
As for the current GOP field, it's like confronting a terminal diagnosis. There may be an apparent range of treatments: conventional (Romney), experimental (Gingrich), homeopathic (Paul) or prayerful (Santorum). But none will avail you in the end. Just try to exit laughing.
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The GOP, the party of GHW Bush, Dole, McCain - all LOSERS. The Establishment doesn’t want to win the While House, all they care about is retaking the Senate, so they can get rich on more Govt pork. IMHO
The GOP-E in total panic.
If you don’t think in a crisis, you die.
The E apparently wishes to commit political suicide twice, first with Romney and now the buzz about Daniels.
Daniels vs. Newt in a debate would be a bigger mismatch than Romney lol...it doesn’t get more boring and dry than Daniels.
"Waah, wah! Act like a man! What's the matter with you?!"
I just as most other conservatives will hold my nose and vote for whomever the GOP selects to run against Obama as we did in 2008.
But I think as Yogi Berra once said; “It’s déjà vu all over again”.
Newsmax
Palin Says She Will Formally Endorse, But Not Yet
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 04:41 AM
By: Hiram Reisner
Sarah Palin again stopped short Monday of endorsing new front-runner Newt Gingrich but did say voters should choose who they believe can recover the American exceptionalism defined by former President Ronald Reagan. Palin also told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Mitt Romney’s new strategy of going negative on Gingrich could backfire and he should instead concentrate on reaching out to the tea party, which she said helped Gingrich in South Carolina.
http://www.newsmax.com/PrintTemplate.aspx?nodeid=425252
“The little bald dwarf with the personality of a mop bucket, that guy?”
At least Romney looks sharp. He can give a great speech (which is probably why the girly girls of NR love him so much).
I think the real problem with Romney isn’t that he is a RINO but that he’s a Mormon. You see, RINO’s don’t have a theological problem with that religion. They have a problem with the fact that it is so ‘different.’
Thank you, Larry.
I hate this “The American People Deserve XXXXXX” bullsh*t. I am an American. I sure as hell don’t “deserve” high taxes, or to be underemployed, or to have the value of my house underwater. I don’t “deserve” to get nuked by Iran.
Why? I DIDN’T VOTE FOR THE SONOFABITCH!!!
“The GOP, the party of GHW Bush, Dole, McCain - all LOSERS. The Establishment doesn’t want to win the While House, all they care about is retaking the Senate, so they can get rich on more Govt pork. IMHO”
Hundreds of congressmen and staffers vs 1 President. That’s why W Bush couldn’t balance the budget even with a majority in both houses.
The main reason why I think we wind up with people like this is because no decent or normal person possessed of Conservative principles any longer wants to run for public office.
In order to do so, you either need to check your principles at the door - or not have any to set aside in the first place.
A government grown obscenely large, powerful and bloated with taxpayer money will fight off those who seek to shrink it - especially if it has a champion in the Executive Branch like Obama. On occasion, newcomers and reformers can break through (e.g. - the Tea Party election of 2010). But soon, without leadership, the effort fizzles and reformers are either co-opted or intimidated by the backlash from government institutions and their beneficiaries seeking to preserve their power.
In such an environment, a superficially attractive candidate such as Romney will be consumed, because to quote William Butler Yeats: "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity".
He’s a pants pisser. No way the kind of bias in the media and electronic scrutiny of candidates happened in 1860 as it was today.
Stephens can agree to the same proctological scrutiny Gingrich and Romney are undergoing and then they can comment.
No, the GOP deserves to win. The Democrats will do anything to win because they want to continue filling their pockets from the public treasury.
Neither do I, and this paragraph from the article says why in a nutshell:
Then there is Mitt Romney, even now the presumptive nominee. If Mr. Gingrich demonstrated his unfitness to be a serious Republican nominee with his destructive attacks on private equity (a prime legacy of the Reagan years), Mr. Romney has demonstrated his unfitness by—where to start?
The only asses around here are people who call other people asses for telling the simple truth.
Bret Stephens
last updated: August 22, 2011
Wall Street Journal: Columnist
Commentary: Former Staff Editor
Bret Stephens is a columnist and editor for the Wall Street Journal editorial page and a former staff editor of Commentary magazine, both key bastions of neoconservative opinion. An avid proponent of aggressive U.S. policies in the Middle East and militarist Israeli security policies, Stephens’ distinctions include being named a “Young Global Leader” in 2004 by the World Economic Forum, receiving the Navy League’s 2007 Frank Knox Media Award for his “important contributions to the vital role of the media in national defense,” and being named editor of the rightwing Jerusalem Post at the age of 28.[1] Stephens appears regularly on Fox News.com’s “The Journal Editorial Report” and serves on the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, where he is “primarily responsible for the unsigned editorials on foreign policy” that appear in the Journal’s neoconservative-dominated editorial page.[2]
Summing up his view of the president, Stephens wrote: “I just think the president isn’t very bright. … Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.”[7]
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Stephens_Bret
How much hard-earned taxpayer money has gone out of the public treasury these past few years and to what good purpose? We’ve paid people who never raised pigs. We’ve forced lending institutions to give home loans to people who never intended to pay the loans back. Education - problem. Environment - any difference? World affairs - completely screwed up. Employment - broken. The economy - Democrats don’t understand it. One failure after another these past three years, and the press keeps stirring the pot about Republicans. And where did that money go? Democrats - the biggest organized crime syndicate in the history of the world.
Nothing?! Hey...rock-ribbed conservatives won't vote for Romney the Robot. Moderates and independents dislike Gingrich. Paul is crazier than a loon. Santorum is a decent sort who is a "real" conservative, but even conservatives reject him. I mean...what's not to like.
“Asses” are people who whine about loosing before the whole game is played and those who agree with them.
I don't agree. The new majority in this country, which is now a Democrat country, gets what it deserves. America is becoming California on its way to becoming Detroit.
What the writer ignores is two fold: it is historically very difficult to unseat an incumbent president and two Obama has the additional factor of "historical nature" of his regime.
Obama wins in Nov., the question is whether the GOP puts forth a candidate and agenda that will make voters regret their decision.
The truth is not "whining."
1. As we can see on FR every day, Romney can't win over conservatives.2. Gingrich can't win over most of his own former colleagues, let alone Republican moderates, independents and moderate Democrats. As little as two months ago, FR was filled with vitriol for Gingrich. So his support even among conservatives may currently be about a mile wide, but is barely a quarter inch deep.
3. I've lived on this planet 65 years, have always been a Republican, and have never seen Republicans this divided. The divide is so deep, the vitriol so nasty and bitter, that I don't see how Republicans come together. To be absolutely blunt, conservatives keep screaming at Republican moderates to get the eff out of their own party!
4. Everyone's a "RINO" except thee and me, and I'm not so sure about thee. Some mindset.
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