{"id":27419,"date":"2011-05-06T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=27419"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:37:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:37:59","slug":"hugh-hewitt-is-not-the-boss-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=27419","title":{"rendered":"HUGH HEWITT IS NOT THE BOSS OF ME! STILL!"},"content":{"rendered":"

But that won’t keep him from telling us who should be allowed to run<\/a> for the GOP nomination and who should be, well, not<\/em>:<\/p>\n

This is why the GOP needs to rethink its debate schedule and why the RNC should take over the operation of the debates and exile Cain, Johnson and Paul as well as every other candidate without a prayer of winning. (Santorum is a long shot, but he has a realistic though small chance of winning the nomination, while the others do not.) The seriousness of the fiscal crisis requires the GOP and its candidates to act seriously, and allowing marginal candidates to eat up time and distract from the enormous problems facing the country is not serious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To borrow a line from the late great Chuck Heston, what intoxicating vanity.<\/a><\/p>\n

I remember Hugh Hewitt trying to convince<\/a> us all that Harriet Miers was a dandy SCOTUS pick<\/a> — a happy political pragmatist and darn good gal who, let’s face it, would have sold her vote to the liberals any time an identity group brought a grievance and looked to find a new “right” (and those who disagreed<\/a> with his assessment? Not fit to speak, really<\/a>, their not being professional pundits and lawyers) — and now this same Romney-crony is lecturing the GOP (and us) on whom it should and shouldn’t allow into the tent to vie for the party’s nomination.<\/p>\n

Here’s an idea, Hugh: how about you let the market — in this case, GOP and independent voters, along with those voters horrified by what Obama has done since taking office — decide who they want to represent them. You know. Like, as if you actually believed in such a thing.<\/p>\n

Or else knock it off with the freedom and individual liberty shit. Because you’re proving yourself to be every bit the out-of-touch political insider that the TEA Party rose up to knock on their arrogant asses in 2010 — and in so doing, proving yourself to be less a conservative than a political opportunist and GOP party lackey. And frankly, we don’t need you to tell us who our candidates can and cannot be — and we’ll thank you to stop trying to pare down the field artificially so that you can stick us with the next bunch of stiff-haired, milquetoast, neutered, poll-managed centrist duds that Democrats enjoy beating in November like rubber-suited gimps.<\/p>\n

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But that won’t keep him from telling us who should be allowed to run for the GOP nomination and who should be, well, not: This is why the GOP needs to rethink its debate schedule and why the RNC should take over the operation of the debates and exile Cain, Johnson and Paul as well as every other candidate without a prayer of winning. (Santorum is a long shot, but<\/p>\n

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