Saturday, December 10, 2011

Republican establishment still hoping to find some way to get a GOOD candidate into the nominating process.

Courtesy of the Huffington Post:

Efforts are underway by some wealthy Republican donors and a group of conservative leaders to investigate whether a new Republican candidate could still get into the presidential race. The talk is still preliminary and somewhat wishful, but it reflects dissatisfaction with the two leading candidates, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. 

Conservative leaders are looking into whether it is feasible for a dark horse to get on the ballot in select states. The deadline to qualifying for the ballot has passed in Florida, South Carolina, Missouri, and New Hampshire. But a candidate could still get on the ballot in states like Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Michigan and Texas. At the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, voters write in their choice, so there is no formal filing deadline.

Somehow this reminds of the girl in the bar at closing time who keeps looking past the two drunken losers offering to give her a ride home, in the desperate hope that there is SOMEBODY better still in the bathroom, or maybe around a dark corner somewhere. Except of course there isn't, and she is destined to wake up in a broken down trailer, lying next to a guy with two missing teeth and a bright red rash all over his nether region.

(Oh come on! If that does not describe Newt Gingrich then I don't know what does.)

However, according to James Carville, the reason the pickings are so slim is because that is really all the Republicans deserve anymore:

We have watched GOP debates where audience members booed gay soldiers and cheered the prospect of someone dying without health insurance. We've seen a candidate who wasn't penalized in the least for not knowing that China has had nuclear weapons since 1964 but had to drop out because of a consensual sexual relationship. We have seen a member of the House Intelligence Committee who apparently didn't realize that we haven't had an embassy in Iran for the last 30 years, candidates who don't believe in evolution, and a candidate that didn't even know the voting age in the United States. Maybe Bush, Daniels, Christie, Barbour and Thune figured out ahead of time what Fairleigh Dickinson University uncovered just recently: that people who watch Fox News are actually more ignorant than people who watch no news at all. Could you imagine what they would have found had they studied people listening to talk radio? 

Perhaps the Republicans are getting exactly the kind of candidates that best match the intellectual composition of the majority of the people in their party -- just a thought, but it's my only explanation of our low bidders. Looks like their chance at the presidency is going, going, gone.

In other words, it looks like the Republicans live in an alternate reality where anybody with enough intelligence to actually perform the job of President, is way too smart for the brain damaged viewers of Fox News, and listeners of Talk radio, to trust with the job.

You know Republicans I believe this is the part of the movie where the main character wakes up screaming, only to realize it was all a bad dream. Go ahead. pinch yourself.


14 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:39 AM

    They made their bed so they should lie in it!
    Dominicastar

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  2. Anonymous4:01 AM

    Oh, boy. I bet the C4Pers are frothing at the mouth. "We knew that they would come crawling back to Sarah. We knew she was the chosen one. We knew that only Sarah could save the GOP. Run, Sarah, run!!!"
    Except that Sarah is no better than any of the others. In fact, she is probably far worse, as she would have made every gaffe listed and all in one breathless, incomprehensible statement. But, sure, send her some more cash and she'll be 'thinkin' about it,'

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  3. YES! This clown show is really telling, the party has cannibalized itself. No sane person could represent it anymore. The proof is in the pudding. (The only sane people running don't get any traction.)

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  4. Anonymous5:47 AM

    HOly Crap - remember Carville is married to ReTHUGlican uber strategist Mary Matalin.

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  5. Anonymous6:18 AM

    God help me but my fingers are crossed that Sarah Palin sees her opportunity here. :)

    Her resulting legendary screwups would make for months of free entertainment and scathingly brilliant Gryphen posts dissecting same.

    Not to mention how hopeless would be her quest.

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  6. Anonymous7:41 AM

    I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS POST JESSIE. I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING HERE TO MY 92 YEAR OLD MOTHER. SHE LOVES CARVILLE, AND THE TWO OF YOU ARE SO COGENT AND SUCCINCT HERE. THANK YOU!

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  7. Anonymous8:07 AM

    Maybe the GOP strategy is to make everyone look so bad that when they trot out their 11th hour man or woman the GOP will be so relieved they'll ignore what would otherwise serve as a disqualifier. Thinking Jeb Bush here. If he ran now he'd get eaten alive and his brother's memory would make it impossible. Desperate they might look the other way. Of course the sea of pee'rs are probably thinking Sara is going to come riding in to save the day but I'm thinking she's a lot crazier than she seems and right now they are dressing her up and putting her on camera like a trainer gets his fighter back out for the tenth round even though he's out on his feet and bleeding from his eyebrows, mouth and nose.

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  8. Anonymous8:55 AM

    Carville's comment about talk radio was echoed in a post I read at Kos. Since the inception of right wing radio like Rushbo, the tenor of the right has been bullying, willfully anti-intellectual, and racist. The candidates reflect this. The extreme
    side of the GOP wants a bully, and they have a whole clown car full of them.

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  9. Beldar Awful Offal Conehead9:14 AM

    "Conservative leaders are looking into whether it is feasible for a dark horse to get on the ballot in select states."

    And somewhere in Alaska (or Arizona) a rapidly aging former small town beauty pageant distant runner-up cocks her once semi-attractive head to one side like an ugly dachshund responding to the sound of an electric can opener in the kitchen cutting into a can of tasty horse offal.

    (With all due apologies to ugly dachshunds...)

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  10. Anonymous11:29 AM

    Anon.@ 8:07- good point. I am quite concerned about Jeb as well. What makes me feel better is that his kids are "officially" even less stellar than Sarah's (arrests records and rehab).

    Also, too, Jeb's wife tried to ignore customs duty by smuggling in some French couture. Sarah only cheated the GOP out of some department store goodies.


    W.T.

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  11. Anonymous11:37 AM

    Sad but so true. The GOP is failing and flailing.

    I admire the character of our President but I don't agree with many of his economic polices. But, what other choices do I have? I'm voting for Obama...again. May he win by a landslide.

    Alaskan who used to vote Republican

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  12. Anonymous11:52 AM

    Beldar, you paint the prettiest pictures LOL!

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  13. Anonymous12:24 PM

    And this from a mother? Cold bitch.

    Michele Bachmann: Undocumented 'Can Be' Dragged On Buses Before Their Crying Children (VIDEO)



    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/micRep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has no problem "dragging undocumented immigrants onto buses" in front of their crying children. "It can be done," she told Bill O'Reilly on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor.

    Bachmann doesn't appear concerned that families are being torn apart with devastating consequences to U.S.-citizen children.

    Amid a record number of detentions and deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions, more than 5,000 children are in foster care around the country, according to a study, "Shattered Families," by the Applied Research Center.

    O'Reilly told the GOP presidential hopeful: "Look, if you pick up some guy in a car, and he's an illegal alien -- he's got three kids at home -- what are you gonna do, throw him and his kids on a bus the next day? Is that what you're gonna do? Can you imagine that?"

    Bachmann, reinforcing her hard-line stance on the issue, replied: "Well Bill, what we have to do is end the practice of anchor babies in the United States" because that's when "illegal aliens come in."

    O'Reilly said, "I'm not justifying it. I'm just saying on a human basis, I don't think that -- theory is one thing. Dragging people out, putting them on a bus with their children's crying can be quite something else."

    Bachmann said matter-of-factly: "It can be done. That's the thing, it can be done."

    "It can be done, but at what cost?" O'Reilly asked.


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/michele-bachman-on-dragging-undocumented-immigrants-onto-buses_n_1139439.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics

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  14. Anonymous2:54 PM

    The powers that be will put Jeb Bush in the nomination pot at the convention and everyone will be so relieved that he will win the nomination in a land slide.

    No way is the hierarchy of the party going to run a dud again.

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