You can send it to Romney and Gingrich, too — though you needn’t bother on my account. I never expected better from them.
Bachmann, conversely, I never anticipated would be willing to sabotage the conservative movement and frame the debate from the left — and in so doing, cede yet another bit of linguistic ground to the very people whose programs are at the heart of our economic problems — simply because of a dip in the polls.
oooh, death threat
Bye, Michelle!
Perry op-ed in USA Today.
Jeff: Rush was banging on this pretty hard today. Not just all the prior use of the term by everyone under the sun, but the media framing issue as well. Maybe it’ll sink into these numbskulls before showtime. I’ll be watching football, anyway.
Perry leads Romney 46% to 21% among voters age 65+. CNN poll.pdf
Romney’s the guy who lost the last primary to the second-weakest Republican presidential candidate in the last 25 years (I’m looking at you, Bob Dole). I’m surprised the guy is even in second.
Just go away, Mittens. Maybe President Perry could make you Commerce Secretary and you could your wonk on, shuffling trade sutdies, etc.
Suddenly, en masse, the left sees the Bachmann Time cover for what it was, a parody of Time itself. They’re noble like that.
Strength. Conviction. Principle. Leadership.
These are what America is desperately looking for, and it won’t find it in anybody who caves in and panders to the chattering classes that have proven so colossally boneheaded over the past decade. Bachmann talks a tough game, but she’s always been stronger in front of a friendly audience than when facing a critical crowd.
Stand up to the pundits, make your case, and punch back twice as hard. Force them to question their assumptions instead of attacking yours. Expose the dishonesty and shallowness of their positions. Do all of this while maintaining a semblance of optimism that your countrymen are smarter and better than the chattering fools who would rule them, and you’re three-quarters of the way to the White House.
Ah, well. At least Michele took T-Paw out of the race before she imploded.
Apparently the Newt Implosion was not clear enough of a signal.
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Hypocrisy Alert: Bachmann to Attack Perry on Social Security
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Romney isn’t just being a cowardly socialist Massachusetts pussy he’s actively lying about Perry’s positions.
That casts him in a way different light than Bachmann so far. She’s just desperate – Romney is desperate AND doesn’t give a fuck what he has to do or say to get the nomination.
But one Meghan’s coward daddy is enough for this century I think.
I never expected too much from Mittens. I expected more from Bachmann. I thought her candidacy gave her a chance to articulate conservative/classical liberal positions, and that she understand it was about that. Now I can cross one more off the list.
In some circles this gets called a purity test. I prefer to think of it as a test of principles. She has failed.
understand -> understood
but also her instinct to get in bed with Mitt Romney on this issue is all kinds of stupid – is she trying to dig into Romney’s support? That seems risible on the face of it. And if she thinks this is the way to peel off Perry people she’s really very genuinely not ready to play at this level.
Before we reject her out of hand, let’s wait and see if she actually does what “adviser” says she’s going to, or if this was just a way to garner some pre-debate publicity and make sure she gets to participate tonight.
No Republican candidate can stick up for any entitlement status quo. Saying they are “unsustainable” and leaving it at that ain’t going to cut it. The truth must be exposed and the medicine taken. Otherwise collapse is eminent.
Speak truth and educate! Enough with the smoke up my ass.
Romney and Perry both make me a little sweaty in the palms of my hands. They are both kinda “Who knows what they will REALLY do if elected?”
I LOVE Sarah, but also know that her screeching voice makes her unelectable. Sad but true. She IS me, in so many senses of the word (except that she has much nicer parts than I do)…
Just the way life goes, unfortunately.
“I LOVE Sarah, but also know that her screeching voice makes her unelectable. “
You know this from personal experience? ;-)
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Hey. Somebody’s gonna have to pay into the system if we’re going to support all those Social Security recipients.
We need to be more like Europe. We need Latino (or is it hispanic? —the distinction confuses me) guest workers. Just like France has its North Africans and Germany its Turks.
Yeah. That’s the ticket!
Jonah is tweeting great CNN debate questions.
We need Latino (or is it hispanic? —the distinction confuses me)
Hispanic—From a Spanish-speaking country
Latino—From Latin America
Ergo, “Latino” excludes Spaniards but includes Brazilians, whereas “Hispanic” includes Spaniards but excludes Brazilians.
Romney called Social Security an illegal program in his book (I did not read it but I heard Rush say so today), so I am not sure why Perry calling it a Ponzi plan is so offensive. I would like to hear particulars from all the candidates on how to either “save it” (by making it pencil) or getting rid of it.
I have always been of the belief that Social Security was savable on the $$$ in and out but that Medicare (along with the Prescription Drug Entitlement and Obamacare) was fucked. But I am willing to be persuaded all of it is fucked.
crony capitalism
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About those “nudie-scanners”, there’s a new generation. Profits will be made…