Obama beats Romney hands down. Newt was right, when the two candidates are close in policy, then the media has an easy job swinging the electorate to go for the more leftward position. But when there is a massive contrast between the candidates on left and on the right, the persuasive power of propaganda doesn't yield the same ultimate outcome.
Not that I really care if the GOP self-destructs, but it won't get much of the base to cast a ballot for Romney. I think the GOP wants to lose the presidency. What better gig than to have power without accountability?
LOl! Don’t make me get any more upset than I already am.
So okay, here's my story....last week I heard, I forget from where please forgive. My kitchen TV is on most of the time, to Fox if not on a taped program...so I hear sometimes without seeing.
the ongoing discussion was about Newt and his association with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Now some of us might have born at night, just not LAST night. We know Newt has baggage but we're of a mind that we'll take Newt's baggage over Romney the meek RINO, wannabe liberal, creator of Romneycare.
Newt's association with Frannie Mae et al is murky, I get this. Newt did release his contract with Fannie Mae and it too was kinda vague, but there was, notably and as Newt pointed out, no reference to lobbying, that he merely a consultant for those two gubmint sponsored giants that almost destroyed this country's home buying market.
So one of the pundits said...and I paraphrase, "Everyone knows that these politicians are paid money just to keep their mouth shut", and at this my jaw dropped.
I don't know about Newt but that Freudian slip made the sun shine bright over my marble head.
I've wondered just how the hell all those Republicans in congress, both Senate and House, didn't know a damn thing about that experiment in socialism going on at the Freddies. And I'd add a lot of this was going on when the pubs were in the majority in both houses!
All those earmarks, giving mortgages to Crystal and her pimp, bridges to nowhere....folks, more proof we've got a political class and the Republican elite are part of it.
Like that pundit let slip, if those elected pubs didn't know what was going on in that abuse of the Community Reinvestment act, then I got a bridge to sell to anyone who believes it.
and I most certainly do believe that Newt maybe got money for NOT going out and railing in public against Fannie and Freddie....he was trying to raise campaign funds after all. There was also, with lightbulb still going on over my head, that stupid thing with Pelosi over global warming. I think Newt got some bucks for that.
But I think Newt is ever the opportunist and I think he realizes he better appease the very angry Tea Party types for they grow angrier and more hostile.
Yeah, I'll take a glib opportunist as I think he'll follow the prevailing winds. Mittens, oth, is bound by the political class and will align to protect their good thing. Newt's a rogue cannon and might just tell the tales and I'm quite sure he knows where the skeletons are hidden.
Their fear of Newt is that he'll put an end to their good thing and maybe he'll do it all for the glory of Newt but I don't care why. I want that political class stopped and dismantled and I do think Newt will do it.
So long as it benefits him is what I'm saying here.
I'll end with the factoid that when Newt was coming up to hero status, back in the mid-90's, he DID advance a conservative agenda, he did stop federal funds into welfare, he DID balance the budget.
Folks, there's nothing wrong with those who think the world needs them to, eh, think the world needs them. These are the types who will do your bidding, so long, as I remember Christine O'Donnell, it benefits them.