Thursday, March 15, 2012

I'll be happy to read your palm, too.

I make no claims to psychic powers (or, to be honest, to the existence of psychic powers), but I'm willing to make some predictions. The GOP candidates are going to keep kicking each other in the crotch up until the convention. Ron Paul might or might not stay in, but the three front runners? They're all in it for the long haul.

Mitt Romney will be the eventual candidate, but first he has to overcome two handicaps: the fact that the Religious Right Wing distrusts Mormons, and more importantly, that he comes across as a privileged huckster, a rich kid trying to sell used cars. He's used to being surrounded by two types of people: shameless sycophants willing to laugh at anything he says, and other billionaires. He has no idea how to connect with ordinary people, because he only sees them at a distance: he's Dan Ackroyd in the beginning of Trading Places.

Santorum swept the South, but doesn't realize that he has less than no chance of attracting a majority of Americans. He's turned off about 80-90% of women by indicating that he doesn't care if they're going to die in childbirth, they're taking that kid to term. And then, just because he opens his mouth and random stuff falls out, he decided to lose another 16 percent of the electorate by telling Puerto Ricans that they needed to speak English.

OK, Frothy, is it a good idea to make fun of somebody's cultural heritage? Here's a hint - I live in New Mexico - want to guess what state you just lost entirely? Here's another - do you speak Latin? Think about it.

And Gingrich? He's got no more chance of getting elected than a radioactive skunk, but he's staying in, because he feels like he deserves to be elected king president.

I've got to admit it: I may have gotten frustrated in 2008 watching Hillary Clinton snipe at Obama. But I've got to say, it's much more entertaining watching the GOP do it to each other from the other side of the fence.

That's why the GOP is panicking and trying to prevent people from voting. Tea parties across the country are pushing for measures like "voter ID laws" despite the fact that there is exactly zero voter fraud. Is it a good idea to require Americans to show ID in order to vote?
More than 74,000 people who skipped voting in past elections might have been excluded from data used to estimate how many voters lack state-issued identification... Earlier this week, the Election Commission said nearly 217,000 registered voters in the state lack a state driver’s license or photo ID. That already was nearly 40,000 more than the election agency had previously estimated.
Studies show that these measures mostly affect young, minority and low-income voters, as well as voters with handicaps: in other words, strongly Democratic groups and people who think Obamacare is a good idea. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

The Justice Department already had to stop Texas from taking the vote away from more than 300,000 Texans, because they'd be likely to be voting for Obama.

And there is one very specific reason they want to do this. One conservative lawmaker even admitted it - they couldn't let out-of-state college kids vote where they were going to school, because they'd be "voting as a liberal. That’s what kids do — they don’t have life experience, and they just vote their feelings."

Legal American citizens have already been prevented from voting, and it’s only going to get worse. Because the GOP knows that the only way that there isn't going to be a black man in the White House in 2013 is if they steal the election.

3 comments:

ToeJamm said...

Are you slamming Santorum for being honest? Are you slamming him because he has the balls to tell people his beliefs, even though it will kill his political chances?

Why do lefties hate on Mitt for being a liar, only to turn around and hate Santorum for political integrity?

You are right, Santorum has no chance. Shouldn't you be bashing his policies rather than his failure to tell people what they want to hear?

Obama will win though. He'll tell the dems all they want to hear and they'll eat it up. LOL

Nameless Cynic said...

Santorum? Honest? You know he was named one of the twenty most corrupt members of Congress, right?

There is so much about Santorum that's just wrong. His bold vision to lead America into the 15th Century just isn't going to go over well with the electorate, and his fixation on everybody else's sex lives is not the sign of a healthy mental state.

And if he can't even pick up a statistical majority in his home state, where he's leading by the margin of error (30% to 28%), well... the Grand Sanquisitor's chances just don't look good.

StevenK said...

And wouldn't you know, ol' Sanitarium just suspended his campaign. Guess the 'baggers will have to support Mr. Magic Underwear after all.

Oh, and I see that the Jammer finally changed his thumbnail pic. I guess his vibrator's now fully functional again. Heh.

Steven