— The GOP has your back. All you need do is trust them. Because they’d never try to sell you on “electable” candidates who don’t really represent you just to regain power and re-institute the “compassionate conservative” status quo, the one in which a Republican ruling class takes over the managed growth of government (and moves much less slowly toward the big government, social democratic Utopia nearly all establishment politicians seem to dream of).
Hell, it’s unfair — and the mark of unseemly purity tests, as well as of your own pedestrian bourgeois extremism — to even suggest as much!
Visigoths.
Or maybe you just want the GOP to remain a regional party, ruled by angry cranks who don’t have the proper schooling to presume to lead? Is that it? You like progressive rule so much you’re willing to throw your vote away on some extremist who can’t possibly win the general election, 2010 notwithstanding?
“Romney / Huntsman 2012: Getting Back to the Business of Losing More Slowly!”
(h/t geoffb)
I get them pimping Romney. He is the legitimate frontrunner, like it or don’t. But Huntsmann? Really?
They’re just letting us know who’s acceptable to them. Not that they’ll ever support them, but if, somehow, a Romney or a Huntsmann were to manage to win, that would be better than a Cain or a Bachmann.
Sadly, from my p.o.v., that leaves Pawlenty in the sweet spot.
Speaking of inconvenient truths,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/
By the way, I recently bought some cool shirts, but they’re too small for me. That’s what happens when you lift weights and shop on the internet. If any of you are interested, I’d rather sell to you than make the sale through eBay. Also have some higher-end jeans and cargo pants for sale. On these, I just don’t wear them much any more. All in great shape. Just let me know and I’ll cancel the eBay auctions and, because I’m cool, I’ll even knock $10 off the price for any of this stuff.
You can check it out here.
BMoe,
The answer is still the same….WE NEED MASSIVE GOVERNMENTAL CONTROLS ON … EVERYTHING!!!111!1!
I love the “social semimoderation”. He’s moderately moderate on moderation.
HAH! A likely story Mr. B. Moe if that’s your real name. AS IF the sun had anything at all to do with Climate Change.™ Tell me, which Eeevoll Corporate Polluter is paying you to spread these pathetic lies?
Does this mean that favoring gay marriage is the new moderate? If so, what’s the new liberal position? Homosexual polygamy?
For what it’s worth, here’s a poll by The Economist that has Palin out in front of Mittenz. But I suspect there are a lot of Dems being polled since Pelosi rates higher than Romney…
http://media.economist.com/images/pdf/Toplines20110615.pdf
I guess it’s really a pick your poison/pleasure kind of thing. Like opinions, and other body parts, there are polls to reinforce anyone’s worldview.
But I suspect that Romney’s far from “making the sale”, save for die-hard Rockefeller Rethugs! and folks hand wringing over appealing to the elusive “moderates”. You know, the same folks that chose to join Obama and be all historic and such last time around.
Pairing the term moderate with the idea of controlling climate change is hilariously goofy, isn’t it? Or, has the propaganda simply advanced beyond anyone ever pausing to think over such absurdities?
They won’t try to sell me on Mildred Romneycare, because I told them not to and I told them why.
I’d just like to state that the “Smoot” of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff was a senator from Utah and also a Mormon.
I’m sensing a pattern.
If so, what’s the new liberal position? Homosexual polygamy?
Heh.
The aforementioned Reed Smoot was a polygamist.
Wouldn’t it be sublime irony if anthropogenic global warming is the only thing keeping us from slipping into another ice age? We archaeologists have long recognized that human cultures flourish during “climactic optima”. When the climate is warm crops and livestock flourish, and life is easy — warm is good. The opposite is also true — climate shifts to colder weather are really the suxxor for humans and we may well relearn that over the next few decades, with the lesson reenforced by some nice famines and general global upheaval.
Back on-topic, let’s cast another hairy eyeball on Page 21 of the Pledge to America, where Boehner et al. promise to “put common-sense limits on the growth of government”. Dreams of Big Government utopia are indeed shared by our Ruling Class on both sides of the aisle. That’s not some TEA Party fantasy. And if they can’t have utopia they’ll certainly arrange it so they have a hell of a lot more than us peasants. If they seem unconcerned with the looming fiscal collapse I suspect it’s because they figure they won’t be the ones standing in soup lines.
‘Course they haven’t factored in tar and feathers. Or perhaps they have and that’s why they also seem rather unconcerned with the thugishness of law enforcement of late. Wouldn’t be the first time the noblesse de robe teamed up with the noblesse d’épée to maintain their hold on power at whatever cost to the serfs.
Interesting times we live in and about to get much more interesting.
The new liberal position starts with you bent over. Yes, it’s nearly indistinguishable from the establishment Republican position.
I dunno, Swen. I think the Republican position tends to be holding our hair while the Democrats do the deed. And they’re happy to be in that role because if we weren’t there the Republicans would have to take our place.
McG –
I grew up on a horse farm, and they didn’t just “hold the hair”, they wrapped it up.
Ever feel like a filly?
Lately, I have become uncomfortably aware that I feel that way much too often.