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And the coveted Tom Ridge endorsement goes to…

Jon Huntsman. Who apparently is running for President. On the GOP ticket!

Honestly, who knew?

Meanwhile, every time it seems Americans are getting fed up enough to get off their couches and survey the political landscape with an unjaundiced eye, they backslide into Hope and Change and the empty promises of an empty suit. Obama leads Perry 46-39 (Rasmussen). Last month, before entering the debates, Perry held a lead of 44% to 41% over Obama.

Romney holds a 3 pt advantage over Obama, but he did get the fiercely sought after Jimmy Carter endorsement, so there might be an artificial bump built in to Romney’s numbers.

Most discouragingly, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. I note this as I remind you all that something like 47% of Americans don’t pay federal income tax, and Obama’s latest jobs plan is an effort to permanently raise taxes on the productive class to keep that 47% happy and well fed on the dole.

I’d quote de Toqueville here, but really, why bother? The math is what the math is. The window of opportunity to pull back from the end state of a free market capitalist society built upon the idea of individual rights and equitable justice is all but closed.

16 Replies to “And the coveted Tom Ridge endorsement goes to…”

  1. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Polls are noise at this point. Don’t let ’em get to ya.

  2. Darleen says:

    What Ernst said

    plus how they sample and how the questions are phrased affect ’em too

  3. Seth says:

    While I agree with Ernst and Darleen that polls aren’t to be entirely relied upon, the capacity for stupidity by low information voters is fairly astounding.

  4. geoffb says:

    Barry Manilow on Ron Paul: ‘I agree with just about everything he says’

    Via Morning Jolt.

  5. newrouter says:

    hey its good for business

    The crater in lower Manhattan and the hole in the Pentagon spawned a nearly trillion-dollar homeland security operation, including a new Cabinet department, new congressional committees, and new local government jobs. A Homeland Security-Industrial Complex now towers alongside the Military-Industrial Complex that President Eisenhower made famous in his 1960 farewell address.

    With $100 billion in Homeland Security contracts since 9/11, defense giants like Lockheed Martin had a new pot of government money to divvy up. Specialized security companies — like the guys who make airport scanners — suddenly became huge government contractors. And the politicians and bureaucrats who got in on the ground floor of this new agency cashed out as consultants and lobbyists for this burgeoning industry.

    Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was George W. Bush’s pick as director of homeland security until Congress created the Cabinet department, and then Ridge became the department’s first secretary. Ridge left DHS in 2005 but he never returned to Pennsylvania.

    Now ensconced inside the Beltway, Ridge started a consulting firm, Ridge Global, populating the firm with his DHS colleagues. Homeland Security Chief of Staff J. Duncan Campbell and spokeswoman Michele Nix joined Ridge Global along with their colleagues Christopher Furlow and Susan Galen. Among other consulting work, this crew, brimming with the original Homeland Security public servants, helped Albania set up its homeland security apparatus. Ridge also joined the board of directors of Homeland Security contractor Deloitte, which has raked in a half-billion dollars in DHS deals.

    Within months of leaving DHS, Ridge owned a million-dollar home in Chevy Chase.

    Read more at the Washington Examiner:

    Link

  6. Seth says:

    Well hell, if the singer of such hits as Copa Cabana and Mandy is for him, it’s time to give Ron Paul another look.

  7. McGehee says:

    Biden claiming terrorists creat jobs in 5… 4… 3…

  8. motionview says:

    Is Tom lining himself up for a Cabinet position in the Huntsman administration? Or just demonstrating to the permanent government that regardless of which transient the peasants select, Ridge Global stands ready to service the Establishment.

  9. JHoward says:

    I’m with you, Seth. For the logic.

  10. Matt says:

    This Huntsman guy seems to be one to watch for. My liberal friends tell me Huntsman is the only “non-extremist” republican candidate in the race and while they would never, ever vote for him, they think I should.

  11. McGehee says:

    while they would never, ever vote for him, they think I should.

    Seems legit.

  12. LTC John says:

    Yeah, Seth – how dare you employ humor…on this site of all places!

  13. bains says:

    Jeff, what we are seeing is a direct effect of one of your constant themes. The willingness of conservatives/libertarians (classical liberals) to surrender linguistic battles. Irrespective of how many leftists have called Social Security a ponzi like program, when Perry uses those very words, the interpretation foisted by so many, including many on our side, does not pass GO, does not collect $200, but is cast in the most nefarious terms. Similarly with Palin, Bachmann, Romney, Santorum, and anyone who speaks in clear, forceful, and yes, stark terms.

    The non-left is petrified by the idea of having to support a candidate of whom their lefty friends have bought lock, stock, and barrel, the caricature created out of nearly whole cloth by manipulating statists and their useful idiots of our media.

  14. Seth says:

    I was going to get a “Barry M. 4 Eva!” tat, but I ran out of room after I got the combat engineer tramp stamp. It’s a picture of a castle with a banner that says “Essayons!” Very butch.

  15. Spiny Norman says:

    Big-time Washington lobbyist endorses the Democrat mole for the GOP nomination, and the MBM quietly smiles to itself.

  16. zino3 says:

    I’m amazed that ObaMao could lead ANYBODY in ANY true poll. Even my lefty friends are sick of him. I know no one who thinks he is a “good president”.

    Well, almost “no one”. There are still a few people who don’t understand what he is doing to our grand children. But they are frantic to really feel good about themselves, and their “will” to do good.

    It would never occur to them to actually help needy people, because, in their eyes, that is what the government is for..

    UGH!

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