A RINO establishment insider over a real conservative? Must just be his turn.
Staunch!
Crazy how all that online support that started out with Perry (and was simultaneously very vocal in its attacks on Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum, et al.,) seems now to have solidified behind Romney.
I mean, who would have thought it, right? These people go to TEA Party conferences! On stipends! And are given speaking roles. To stand up for conservative principles.
So they have to be conservatives, no? I mean, they are our conservative leaders, if you judge by their online influence.
— Which, I guess that’s how we are able to keep redefining conservatism until we end up with a “severe” conservative who backs TARP, federal minimum wage laws tied to inflation, individual mandates, top-down government control of health care, cap and trade, etc., etc., etc. — and wake up one day to find that speaking candidly on hot-button political issues is enough to have you drummed out of your own ideological company, and that the height of conservative courage is publishing pieces on the righteousness of Al Sharpton’s race baiting and attempts to pervert the justice system.
Now shut up and fall in line, or fuck if you’ll ever get a link from us again.
Remember, you change the party from the inside.
It’s not our fault if you impatient conservatives never manage to actually… you know… get inside. I mean, we like big tents, but not that big.
I seem to remember another Texan who had some folksy saying about urination and the difference between being inside or outside the tent.
To be honest, could you expect Perry not to endorse his own lieutenant governor?
To be even more honest, is this not the larger problem in microcosm? What does it say when loyalty to the people who helped you get into the Governor’s Mansion trump the putative aims of your political persuasion?
At some point we are supposed to be able to choose the conservative, at least until the general when we’re supposed to vote the Republican. Yet this is only the primary in Texas, and silver-tongued, coyote-killin’ Perry passes over Ted Cruz. If’n I didn’t know better I would say we’re always expected to support the least conservative, most connected candidate at all times, in all races. But that would be crazy tawk.
Just a plug for my candidate this fall.
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I’ve been in Texas a few months now (looking after youngest bro and his affairs while he deals with health issues). While I’ve taken note that most people I’ve talked to aren’t too thrilled with Perry, I caught the last half of a commercial late last night that got my attention.
Basically, it was someone running down Cruz for his ties with Chinese communists. “WTF” said I. Anyone know anything about this?
There’s no particular reason why he would; in Texas the gubner and lite-gubner are elected separately.
McGehee ^^^ This.
I’m a newish transplant to Texas, so I don’t know if split wins are common, but it used to happen all the time in Oklahoma, a D governor and an R lieutenant (or more rarely vice versa).
There is no reason at all that Perry would endorse Dewhurst… except for how alike they are.
I’ve only lived in three states, but two of those elect gub and lite-gub separately. Both had split wins while I was living in them: Jerry Brown (D) and Mike Curb (R) in California; Sonny Perdue (R) and Mark Taylor (D) in Georgia.
California’s had at least one more split win since I left there. It’s probably not exactly rare elsewhere.
Someone has to link this song at some point, I suppose.
It relates to our current situation even better if you really crank it up.
I feel so clean for hating Perry in the primary.
Ah, well. I noticed, anyway, in the linked article that Dewhurst was a big Perry backer in his recent lamented run for the nomination.
I feel so clean for hating Perry in the primary.
i disliked more perry’s blogosphere jock sniffers than perry.
Maybe if Ted Cruz tried to capitalize racially on the ethnic origins of his last name, the pragmatic Republicans would answer his telephone calls. It works for Rubio when he pushes his version of the DREAM Act.
It’s no newsflash that Perry can’t stand Hutchinson.
There once was a party pragmatic
that hated ideas dogmatic.
“Our tent must be quite wide,
Or we can’t be allied
With the party we call ‘Democratic.'”
Dewhurst, map, bodies…. makes sense to me.
he probably just picked the one he could spell
lugar, hatch and term limits
silver lining being that Perry’s implosion as a serious human being does prove that Team R can indeed dodge the occassional bullet
OT, but Holy. Fucking. Shit.
These are the people in charge.
Wow.
Gee, Dewhurst has been Perry’s Lt. Governor now for how long? Try since 2003. One has to wonder which way this cuts. Is this a “reward” for guiding Perry’s legislation through the Legislature in Austin, or is this an attempt to get Dewhurst OUT of Austin and out of the way?
Could go either way.
And leigh is right. After running against him in the primary for governor last time, Perry really doesn’t like Hutchison.
Dewhurst is still last on my list. Craig James is looking better all of the time.
katie lied
Steely Dan – Any World (That I’m Welcome To)
the happyfeet dude
what’s up with food?
I will tell you about food my friend.
What you can get right here is some tasty gumbo! Made by the son of the a fabulous cupcake-making lady what toured the world with Miss Anita Baker even. It’s incredible and altogether the real thing and chunky with lots of cracked crab legs.
Also today I had tasty Colombian. The hood was kinda ghetto but manageable just drive careful. Many famous people I have never heard of really a lot enjoy this place. It was very autentico and I think I got about three meals for the price of one entree, if I ever eat again.
here is one of cupcake lady’s recordings with her sisters from back in the day
smoov like something what is egregiously smoov is what that is
Many famous people I have never heard of really a lot enjoy this place
spanish speakers against the anglos. eat the tamale .
for some reason as you go further south from mexico tamales lose their e and become just tamals
maybe cause the further south you go the more likely they’ll be wrapped in banana leaves rather than corn husk?
nobody tells me anything
Also today I had tasty Colombian.
Focus: Medellín (capital of the state of Antioquía), as evidenced by the dish called “Eh Ave María,” an expression meaning “oh, fer Pete’s sake” that I use to this day.
Unless you had the red beans with rice, though, you weren’t “paisa auténtica,” because the antioqueños eat it thrice daily.
Ha!
Once again it becomes clear that I know way more Spanish and culture and all that than di.
Colombian food is all beef stew. No rice. They hate rice. They’ll hang you from your neck until you’re dead if you have any rice on your person.
OK, now I’m disillusioned. The proprietor of La Fonda Antioqueña is from Manizales, capital of Caldas, which doesn’t even border Antioquía.
I was in Manizales for the last four months of the mish. Way up high in the Andes (6000 ft), built on a mountain ridge, you could sit at one of the high points in the city and watch the clouds float by below you. We’d be walking along and alternate between bright sun and fog as fluffy clouds smashed into the city and passed by.
Also, the Nevado del Ruíz is clearly visible, as is the plume of smoke it spews continually. I was in Colombia, but farther south in Popayán (where the smoking volcano Puracé is visible), when Armero was destroyed by a lahar.
I’m guessing that was Peru. Or maybe Austria.
so do the colombians have food fights with the mexicans in la?
belushi slav infiltrator
Colombian food is all beef stew. No rice. They hate rice. They’ll hang you from your neck until you’re dead if you have any rice on your person.
By that standard, they also hate beef, chicken, fresh pineapple, coffee, agua de panela, hot cocoa, and plátano.
Some of those words are in German or something but others are just things a witch has on her person indicating she needs to be hung from her neck until dead.
so do the colombians have food fights with the mexicans in la?
If they do, perhaps it’s because the Colombians object to combining chocolate and hot peppers in that mole stuff.
I know I do, anyway.
what I had was on a bed of rice… white rice. On top of that was some ground beef, on top of which was an easy-over egg. To the left was a huge chunk of pork cracklins, which you needed to flavor the starchy with. At the top of the plate were some maduros (the sweet plantains)… and at the botoom was a ball of cassave. To the right were some red beans.
When I was done the only way you could tell I had even started was cause the egg was gone.
I want to see the clouds below me nonchalantly smashing into cities someday.
Very badly.
others are just things a witch has on her person indicating she needs to be hung from her neck until dead.
I’ll have you know I weigh a lot more than a duck.
One of the best things I learned to eat in Colombia was a fried egg on a bed of rice.
Wonderful comfort food.
*cassava* I mean
So was bh the only one to click my gobsmacking link up there? Interesting. I thought I knew you people.
the justice department is just a slightly less classy columbian hooker
*colombian* hooker I mean
katie lied
white folks singing with black folks or vis a versa for the dog whistle types
The Band, The Weight
I clicked your link, Pablo. I commented verbally rather than typing. That’s actually what I usually do, but seeing as you felt ignored, know that I mumbled something very profane after reading that tweet.
Here’s Girl Talk song sampling “The Weight”. Want to hear something weird? That’s all The Band that people born after about ’80 have ever heard.
A rebellion against the Rebellion: The Band in Woodstock in the late sixties
I pretty much thought all of The Band’s songs I heard growing up were The Grateful Dead. Both rated about a 1 on my give a fuck meter. But I wasn’t a filthy dope smoking hippie like newrouter.
This one has no The Band but it’s probably the best Girl Talk mash-up overall.
Elton and Biggie together is like getting too hammered and then getting too high.
But I wasn’t a filthy dope smoking hippie like newrouter.
that’s not nice. but i find solace in knowing i live through the 1970’s. just waiting for the smod. tamales!
So, I was reading the QOTD at Hot Air and i got to the Malkin quote and was momentarily wondering if I’d read it here. Realizing that I was mistaken, I decide to write this:
It immediately disappeared. Usually, if you curse, you’ll get a message that you’ve been moderated. Not this time. Too many links? Something else? Let’s find out.
OK. Maybe too many links.
Thanks, Abe! I did that too. It’s a big WTF???!!!
“maybe cause the further south you go the more likely they’ll be wrapped in banana leaves rather than corn husk?”
I use the banana leaf. It’s Oaxaca thing I heard. But easier than the corn husks too. No soaking, no moths.
From a link within a link, here’s another interesting blast from the past.
But I wasn’t a filthy dope smoking hippie like newrouter.
’70’s loser that git. where’s my pacer?
Pacer? My first car was this Javelin.
I refuse to vote for a presidential candidate that can’t speak Swiss.
That was your first car, Pablo? Jeebus.
I was driving something like this in grey.
speaking of smod:
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The Last Waltz – Van Morrison – Caravan
1st car Ford/Mercury Capri II
What is this smod of which you speak? I’m thinking it’s some kind of hippie code.
Not the first, but had one anyhow.
Bought that fucker for $300, bh. Of my own hard earned money, when I was all of 15. One of my girl classmates’ Daddy bought it for her and figured out it was too much car for her. It was just enough car for me. I got a deal on it. I dunno what he paid, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t $300.
God bless you, Susan Libby.
BTW, not that exact Javelin. Just that model. That one has much cooler wheels than mine did. Pretty much that paint job, tho.
Praise Jesus. His ways are mysterious.
What is this smod of which you speak? I’m thinking it’s some kind of hippie code.
oh my sweet meteor of death dontcha know? romney 2012: at least he’s not a communist!
Interior shot. Again, not mine, but pretty much the same, minus the aftermarket wheel.
For instance, Jesus didn’t want me to have a car named The Panty Dropper. This was my cross to bear.
I only had a few friends who had cars like these growing up. I think 70’s cars had to wait 30 years or so before most people thought they were cool again. Then again, what’s cool exactly when you grow up where you can’t throw a rock without hitting a Saab or Volvo?
“. . . where you can’t throw a rock without hitting. . .” — parent’s driveway, Volvo from ’57 to ’95.
Probably the Jag E. Maybe that Mercedes from the Clapton song in Goodfellas.
. I think 70?s cars had to wait 30 years or so before most people thought they were cool again.
@18 pushing a ford capri 4 speed is fun @ 80 mph
A. Healey Mark III 3000 one door down. Same guy owned a Jag S. Another guy in the cul-de-sac had two of these.
Probably the Jag E. Maybe that Mercedes from the Clapton song in Goodfellas.
There was very little of that in my town growing up. The lower end of upper-middle-class was less vulgar then I think. Those were “look at me” rich people cars.
. The lower end of upper-middle-class was less vulgar then I think.
we go grrl
I can never seem to find my newrouter to English decoder ring.
That’s hard to figure then, Abe. MGs? Maybe a Stingray?
I can never seem to find my newrouter to English decoder ring.
dude in the cereal box next to the tampon. ny propaganda today you flyover losers.
wasn’t that when the SUV was just being invented in the form of the…
crap
what was it? Oh yeah the suburban. Those were very statusy I think when they first came out. The Bronco was the sorta vulgar stab at it. But suburbans were doctors’ wives’ cars for awhile when I was getting carpooled to school when I was little.
But that was in Texas.
oh and then mini-vans had their day
The most ostentatious car I ever saw as a kid was an insanely large BMW 7 series that stopped by my friends house when we were playing in the front yard. His dad was the chef at the country club and this lady came out and knocked on their door. If she had been really hot it would have been like a Whitesnake video but she wasn’t. The end.
Speaking of which, Witchboard is a very scary movie.
There were some MGs or Alfa Romeos about. Not a lot though. It was mostly a town of Catholics trying desperately hard to be WASPs. Happy is right about SUV’s too. Suburbans. Broncos were popular too.
GM claims the Suburban goes back to the 1920s.
And the 1966 Bronco was more a response to things like the various upscale Jeep models and International’s offerings, I believe. Ford didn’t really take on the Burb until the Expedition.
Career politicians are going to tend to support each other because that system keeps them all in power. That same system favors incumbents. That means that one does not piss off other politicians who one might have to deal with or need support from in the future.
On topic: my second-grade teacher drove an XKE. Since that was 1971, I imagine her husband had money, as teaching did not pay nearly as well as now.
We always had older cars because my father was
cheapthrifty. Plus, we were likely broke a for a good while.Pablo.
Aquí mismo.
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Wasn’t Rick Perry supposed to be one of the staunch Conservatives?
In Texas (because of a carpet bagging Republican fellow named Edmund J. Davis..interesting story that, and a big part of why there were no republican governors in Texas until Bill Clements) the powers of the governor (which would usually be handled by appointed executive deputies in most other states) are divided into five offices that are all elected separately and thus can be divided amongst the two parties.
Elected Texas Executive positions”
Governor, (appoints secretary of state)
Lieutenant Governor,
Comptroller of Public Accounts,
Land Commissioner,
Attorney General,
Agriculture Commissioner,
Texas Railroad Commission (3 commissioners, all elected),
State Board of Education.
The lieutenant governor is considerably more powerful and important though less prestigious than the governor. He controls the agenda of the senate and decides what order the bills come before the senate and can exert a lot of indirect influence over what bills come up for a vote in the house of representatives too.
The governor mostly signs stuff, vetoes, pocket vetoes, line item vetoes, pardons, and calls special sessions of the legislature.
The legislature normally only meets for 140 days every other year. It cannot call itself into session. When the governor calls a special session it lasts up to 30 days. The governor can call as many special sessions as he wants.
Anyway the point is that the lieutenant governor can make life miserable for the governor, is sometimes of a different political party, and is not the governor’s appointee or subordinate or running mate.
When Perry became governor he LOST a lot of political power but gained a lot of exposure and prestige.
Perry is a fairly unpopular in Austin because he is a republican, was pro-Bush, and because he (and legislature) spent the highway money on mass transit projects and then to raise more highway money declared existing tax-payer built streets to be turnpikes. Worse he planned and has partially built a crazy webwork of them that will eventually virtually force Austin residents to pay tolls every time they drive. If you buy the Tex-Tag it will automatically deduct the tolls from a debit account and supposedly it gives you a discount over the normal rate. Austin will soon have more turnpikes around it that Kissimmee and Orlando in Florida do now. And we don’t have any huge major attractions like a Disney World or a Universal Theme Park.
Of course it is fairly normal for most of Texas to hate Austin and try to heap crap on it at any opportunity, and Austin, trying to be Portland Jr. or Little San Francisco, more or less openly invites this kind of abuse and scorn. it also wastes money on stupid projects like a train that goes from Austin to Leander( a suburb) that only carries around 200 people a trip and actually carries less than half that and CANNOT break even if it ran at full capacity. It was built to accommodate semi-rich out-of-towners who want to commute to work and don’t want to pay to charter a bus.
Peryy also condemned a lot of land between Waco and San Antonio for a railroad and freeway corridor that never really happened. And he is big on arranging temporary property tax exceptions if businesses move to Texas.
that freeway corridor was a very cool idea and it’ll have to be built someday if texas is gonna take it to the next level
Yeah, it was SUCG a cool idea that the state had to massively subsidize it before it fell apart, and no real estate development group would touch it.
SUCH