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The Spectacle Blog
“If you were trying to come up with the most atrocious candidate imaginable to go toe-to-toe with Barack Obama in 2012, you couldn’t do much better than Mitt Romney.”
So starts the column of our friend John Hawkins at Right Wing News.
Most of his closing paragraph is here:
If you don’t want to spend the better part of the next year trying to drag this sad sack of Mitt across the finish line so he can disappoint us for the next four years, then stand up, speak out, and stop letting the mainstream media and a bunch of Beltway conservatives tell you that the race has to be over with just 1.8% of the delegates needed for a victory awarded. The Tea Party didn’t rise up, fight Barack Obama, and help the GOP have its best year in half a century just to see the Republican Party ideologically slide all the way back to the pre-Reagan years as a reward. If the establishment manages to grease the wheels for Mitt to such a degree that it turns out he’s unstoppable, then it’s still better to go down brawling instead of supporting a candidate you know is a mediocrity because you think he’s “probably going to win the nomination.”
In between, he does one heck of a job of supporting his case. Strong stuff. Sizzling.
Dai Alanye | 1.17.12 @ 4:41PM
The man makes a lot of sense, but your link to his site does not.
ncatty| 1.17.12 @ 5:34PM
You can get to it through the real clear politics website. It is worth reading.
Dixie Pixie| 1.17.12 @ 8:50PM
Try this link:
http://townhall.com/columnists.....page/full/
I only wish someone had written this article 3 months ago.
Clint| 1.17.12 @ 4:42PM
A Cat Named Mittens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1wPrsEP2nc
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina.
Matthew Vadum | 1.17.12 @ 4:51PM
The hyperlink does not work.
Braden | 1.17.12 @ 4:52PM
Scathing? Yes. Full of substance? Not so much. It's a hit job full of half-truths and typical exaggerations of Romney's record. The guy even retreats from capitalism and repeats the same hogwash from the widely discredited King of Bain video. Quin, you're a terrific writer, but this article by Hawkins is weak and counter-productive.
PattyMor| 1.17.12 @ 4:54PM
Well Bachmann faded, then Perry, and then the Hermanator (too bad, Herman could have won). So who's left that is worth in investing in? My money is going to Newt, the some times conservative. Better than the never conservative, Romneycare Romney. And Newt could put that linguini-spined Boehner in his place and make him eat his "spinach". Now that would be just desserts.
KennesawJack| 1.18.12 @ 9:43AM
Patty, Plus there's the little matter of payback for Boehner's role in Newt's ouster as Speaker. Methinks one of the benefits of a Newt Presidency is a new Speaker. This time, one with a set of brass ones.
Clint| 1.17.12 @ 4:55PM
" The New Hampshire Gazette.
The Chickenhawk Hall of Shame
name:
Willard Mitt Romney
rank:
Chickenhawk First Class with Distinguished Fleeing Cross
date-of-birth:
March 12, 1947
home state:
Michigan
missed opportunity:
Vietnam War
excuse:
None to speak of
preferred activity:
Trying to talk people into becoming Mormons
occupation:
Climbing ambition's greased pole
When your daddy's a Governor and a Cabinet Secretary, it's amazing how your odds of being drafted diminish."
2Anglico| 1.18.12 @ 11:05AM
Better to be a chickenhawk than a chicken.
BTW, 75% of all men who served in Vietnam were VOLUNTEERS, not draftees.
Dai Alanye | 1.18.12 @ 2:08PM
Clint is justified in using the chickenhawk slur due to Clint's own stellar combat record as a Sea Lion. You know what a Sea Lion is -- it's like a SEAL but merely sits on its fanny and barks.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.17.12 @ 5:04PM
It's bash Mitt Romney day at AMSPEC.
There isn't a conservative in the Republican field and few in the leadership of the Republican party.
So what's Quin's point? There doesn't appear to be any.
Tom| 1.17.12 @ 5:05PM
Romney would be the most liberal candidate in over half a century. The Republican Establishment failed America and betrayed conservatives by shoving Obama-Lite down our throats.
Dan Abrams | 1.17.12 @ 5:07PM
Rich Lowry put it the best -- Romney is the only one to show up at the job interview wearing a suit. If only one person is going to run a competent campaign for the Republican nomination, than that person is going to win the nomination.
I think Romney will be fine, but I wish he had some real competition.
Dan| 1.17.12 @ 9:02PM
So Gingrich wasn't a serious candidate for high office last night at the debate?
Did Gingrich embarrass himself? Did Gingrich lack command of the facts and issues?
somnolence| 1.17.12 @ 5:08PM
Sorry, so the alternative is Newt Gingrich, courtesy of the same people who told us Palin would not be qualified. I'm not buying it. Gingrich? Is that the best we have got? HaHaHa!!
Dan| 1.17.12 @ 9:03PM
Sarah Palin didn't run, and we know why, because she would have been targeted for destruction, and as much as she loves this country, she knew she wouldn't be able to advance the real interests of this country by being politically obliterated.
Argon Ion| 1.17.12 @ 5:10PM
Sure. Name some electable names, smartypants. This ain't Purity Control around here.
Dan| 1.17.12 @ 10:33PM
I hoped Sarah Palin would have run.
I supported her, but I understand her reasons for declining to do so.
somnolence| 1.17.12 @ 5:10PM
All of these smartasses(including some Tea Party people) told us that Sarah Palin wouldn't do as candidate. And now their wisdom is coming back to bite them in the ass somewhat.
Argon Ion| 1.17.12 @ 5:13PM
BTW, the Tea Party has had a *practical* impact indistinguishable from zero. And if 2011 was a good year for Republicans, man the lifeboats, we're going down leaking at all the seams.
Ned Beatty| 1.17.12 @ 5:17PM
And if you come across Karl Rove, punch him in his fat face.
somnolence| 1.17.12 @ 5:24PM
SMARTYPANTS, Palin IS as electable as Gingrich. Have you or QUIN seen the latest polls as to how Gingrich fares agains Obama. He just doesn't have the temperament, that's all. Oh, and he is the penultimate Washington INSIDER, who is still trying to run away from guilt from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This page and its reference to John Hawkins amounts to little more than sour grapes apologia. The comment closest to the heart of the matter is that there is no such thing as political CONSERVATISM any more. All of us can try to practice it in our personal frugality and temperate, reasoned everyday choices. But politically, I hate to tell you(and Rush) this, but it is dead.
Oldefarte| 1.17.12 @ 5:30PM
It's understandably predictable that everyone wants Newt as the best debater as its nominee, in order to lay the wood to Obama BUT IS THAT THE REAL ISSUE HERE? This country is in a downward economic/financial spiral due to Obama's and Democrats' socialistic governmental policies [as rightfully highlighted by Newt last night] over the last half century, if not longer, but it is economic/financial professional decisions/policy directives by the next president that will only be able to reverse same. Everyone want a debate GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL, but then what? What needed is a professionally competitent business oriented manager type that can legislatively and administratively bring about reversed fiscal change from the present situation, and the ultimate question for us all is which candidate is best suited to accompolish same!!!!!!!!!
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.18.12 @ 5:40AM
Good comment.
KennesawJack| 1.18.12 @ 9:48AM
Bill, yes, it is, but the economy is only part of it. I think Romney is going to be as weak as Obamarx when it comes to the Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, et al. The economy isn't, by its nature, an existential threat to our country, those fanatics are. I don't think Obamarx or Romney has what it takes to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat.
Oldefarte| 1.18.12 @ 11:14AM
It should not be up to a president's weakness or courage in dealing with foreign threats, but rather up to the US military's command structure. For two long this country has been erroneously guided by its civilian learership [ie Korean War, VietNam War, Middle East War, etc]. Presidential domination of the US military has got to cease. Granted, a president [and congress] has oversight authority over same, but for these presidents with personal agendas dictating to the military when, where and how they operate is ludicrous and should be unlawful. Did the military really/truly want to/advise their respective presidents to become involved militarily in these wars [or were they instead COMMANDED BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE TIME to do so]? What was the national security concerns at the respective time for our military to become involved in these quagmirish military operations? Paul's point is partially correct on this issue and should be considered, as the economic/financial/human costs of these possibly non-necessary wars are detrimental to this nation!!!!!!!!!
vb| 1.18.12 @ 8:46AM
I agree.
bruce| 1.17.12 @ 5:59PM
I would want to hate him, but his Illegal Immigration policy mirrors what we hardcore anti-Illegals people want. He didn't seem to need to be educated about it by us, he already had the knowledgeable Conservative position, and it's not what his business buddies want to hear.. Of course I don't trust him, but I trust the others even less. Gingrich is more undesirable than people think he his. We'd enjoy his debate with Obama, and that's the last thing we'd enjoy about him.
Clint| 1.17.12 @ 6:04PM
The Dog Ate Mittens' Tax Returns.
Slick Willard Is Tryin' To Run Out The Clock On His Tax Returns.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 1.17.12 @ 7:17PM
Clint: You didn't happen to listen to Mark Levin's program tonight? Yeah, probably not? But you might want to see if you can find it when he post it on his site, because I'm pretty sure that he "actually" referenced you and Jack from WI tonight. And I'm not joking either!! Around 6:23 PM (1823) tonight, he referred to Ron Paul supporters on American Spectator, who keep writing scathing posts on Jeffrey Lord's articles!! He said something like Ron Paul supporters are illiterate, and a few other things (his words, not mine!!). I was laughing too much so I didn't catch it all, because I instantaneously thought of you and Jack, and I don't think I'm wrong, because you two are by far, Paul's biggest supporters here. You should call his program sometime, and tell his screener it's Clint from AmSpec, and I bet you, you'd be put right through. It's nice to be noticed, isn't it? Even if it's a negative notice? Bad press is better than no press at all?
Mike 3/505| 1.17.12 @ 10:18PM
L3,
You owe me for a coffee soaked keyboard!
Regards,
Mike
Margie| 1.18.12 @ 12:00AM
I'd love to hear Clint's rantings of "Bigot Pig Serial Traitor to Conservatism Trailor Trash Israel Firster Neo-Con RINO-CINO Bitch, blah, blah, blah.
He and the Con-Artist Chef could call in together with their filthy mouths.
Compared to them, Jack is the milder of the three.
Indy| 1.18.12 @ 9:55AM
I look forward to listening to the podcast, thanks for the heads up
http://www.marklevinshow.com/s.....p?id=32930
Oldefarte| 1.18.12 @ 11:17AM
BARNEY FIFE RESURRECTED!!!!!
Kingofthenet| 1.17.12 @ 7:22PM
If we can get the Capital Gains rate to Zero, the Working class can support Mitt 100%. Seriously thou Mitt paying 15% tax is going to get ALOT of air, the Whitehouse is just firing up on it.
tonypal| 1.17.12 @ 7:31PM
That's why we need Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the only candidate who has supporters who have the time to cut and paste snippets of brilliance in favor of their candidate. Ron Paul is also the only candidate who has supporters clever enough to come up with cutting nicknames such as "Mittens."
As I see it, any candidate who can attract the kind support that we see here at TAS for Ron Paul not only deserves our consideration, but has actually earned the right to be President of the US.
So with that in mind, I proudly throw my support behind Ron Paul. Since I don't have a cut and paste paragraph right now, I will perform a spontaneous self-transmogrification into a Paulbot by contributing a new nickname for Mitt Romney: Flip Flopney.
Cpm| 1.17.12 @ 7:36PM
So what is the upside to giving Obama another 4 years to cement his vision of America? If Mitt is the nominee, what's the upside to working against him? Some people are gluttons for cold comfort.
Tom| 1.17.12 @ 9:52PM
There is no upside to that.
Fact is, we are screwed either way.
Clint| 1.17.12 @ 7:37PM
Levin's The Chairman Of The Bores.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz !
" The New Hampshire Gazette.
The Chickenhawk Hall of Shame
name:
Willard Mitt Romney
rank:
Chickenhawk First Class with Distinguished Fleeing Cross
date-of-birth:
March 12, 1947
home state:
Michigan
missed opportunity:
Vietnam War
excuse:
None to speak of
preferred activity:
Trying to talk people into becoming Mormons
occupation:
Climbing ambition's greased pole
When your daddy's a Governor and a Cabinet Secretary, it's amazing how your odds of being drafted diminish."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina.
Kingofthenet| 1.17.12 @ 7:38PM
There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black cat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of Bane
There's a little black spot on the sun today
That's my soul up there
It's the same old thing as yesterday
That's my soul up there
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
That's my soul up there
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop
That's my soul up there
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of Bane
There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall
That's my soul up there
There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall
That's my soul up there
There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb
That's my soul up there
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web
That's my soul up there
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of Bane
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread
King of Bane
There's a red fox torn by a huntsman's pack
That's my soul up there
There's a black-winged gull with a broken back
That's my soul up there
There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of Bane
King of Bane
King of Bane
King of Bane
I'll always be king of Bane
I'll always be king of Bane
I'll always be king of Bane
I'll always be king of Bane
Cpm| 1.17.12 @ 7:43PM
I think the little black spot is on your chest X-ray.
Kingofthenet| 1.17.12 @ 7:53PM
or your heart...
albert constantine jr| 1.17.12 @ 8:34PM
There’s a little black spot on the blog today
It’s a nasty old troll without a thing to say
With some hit and run words with a leftist slant
With all the earmarks of a Van Jones rant
As I browse through the words on the leftist fringe
So over the top it could make Biden cringe
But all us mere mortals can only fret
As we’re forced to endure the King of the Net
(Please pardon my not completing the parody, as I have work to accomplish).
Kingofthenet| 1.17.12 @ 8:37PM
You mean 'Job Creation' or playing the markets for a quick score? Or is it one in the same like for Mitt...
Cpm| 1.17.12 @ 8:02PM
Ah.....KingofLame
bluecollarbytes| 1.17.12 @ 8:05PM
At some point anti-Romney folks should tone down the rhetoric, unless they're refusing to support Romney if he's the nominee. Anything could happen, but Romney is going to be the one.
Dan| 1.17.12 @ 9:05PM
We will never be reconciled to a man who believes in policies that have wrought havoc on the nation.
And that's the Rockerfeller Republican Romney.
Cpm| 1.18.12 @ 3:30AM
So you are obviously reconciled to re-elect Barack Obama. Brilliant plan.
Kingofthenet| 1.17.12 @ 8:05PM
Only the Little People pay taxes...Mitt
Clint| 1.17.12 @ 8:17PM
The Dog Ate Mittens' Tax Returns.
Mittens Is A Pussy.
Oldefarte| 1.18.12 @ 12:15PM
Did the dog also eat Ronnie's TOO SHORT SHORTS ?????????
Dan| 1.17.12 @ 9:07PM
But Quin,
are you going to post this type of anti-Romney analysis over at NR?
I saw your byline over at NR, ------------- so if you are dead set against Romney, if you truly believe that Romney will prove a disastrous candidate, then perhaps you need to take your objections into the heart of the darkness over there at NR.
Tim the Enchanter| 1.18.12 @ 8:53AM
Amen! Pax vobiscum.
Margie| 1.18.12 @ 12:13AM
Since when has speaking the truth become "smug"??
Mormonism is indeed as much a cult as Roman Catholicism and you aren't a Christian if you aren't able to say so.
Tim the Enchanter| 1.18.12 @ 8:54AM
Sorry. You're the one that belongs to a cult.
W| 1.18.12 @ 11:24AM
Her husband admitted in answer to a direct question from Nick that they are both anabaptists.
The anabaptists were persecuted in Muenster,Germany because of polygamy, and child sex. MuensterMargie now denies they are anabaptists. But who care what they are, the only issue is she posts daily her bigoted opinions about Catholics and distorted history. She is just a bigot.
Oldefarte| 1.18.12 @ 2:44PM
'..... At first sight it seems that private judgment as a rule of faith would at once dissolve all creeds and confessions into individual opinions, thus making impossible any church life based upon a common faith. For quot capita tot sensus: no two men think exactly alike on any subject. Yet we are faced by the fact that Protestant churches have lived through several centuries and have moulded the character not only of individuals but of whole nations; that millions of souls have found and are finding in them the spiritual food which satisfies their spiritual cravings; that their missionary and charitable activity is covering wide fields at home and abroad. The apparent incongruity does not exist in reality, for private judgment is never and nowhere allowed full play in the framing of religions. The open Bible and the open mind on its interpretation are rather a lure to entice the masses, by flattering their pride and deceiving their ignorance, than a workable principle of faith. The first limitation imposed on the application of private judgment is the incapacity of most men to judge for themselves on matters above their physical needs. How many Christians are made by the tons of Testaments distributed by missionaries to the heathen? What religion could even a well-schooled man extract from the Bible if he had nought but his brain and his book to guide him? The second limitation arises from environment and prejudices. The assumed right of private judgment is not exercised until the mind is already stocked with ideas and notions supplied by family and community, foremost among these being the current conceptions of religious dogmas and duties. People are said to be Catholics, Protestants, Mahommedans, Pagans "by birth", because the environment in which they are born invariably endows them with the local religion long before they are able to judge and choose for themselves. And the firm hold which this initial training gets on the mind is well illustrated by the fewness of changes in later life. Conversions from one belief to another are of comparatively rare occurrence. The number of converts in any denomination compared to the number of stauncher adherents is a negligible quantity. Even where private judgment has led to the conviction that some other form of religion is preferable to the one professed, conversion is not always achieved. The convert, beside and beyond his knowledge, must have sufficient strength of will to break with old associations, old friendships, old habits, and to face the uncertainties of life in new surroundings. His sense of duty, in many eases, must be of heroical temper. A third limitation put on the exercise of private judgment is the authority of Church and State. The Reformers took full advantage of their emancipation from papal authority, but they showed no inclination to allow their followers the same freedom. Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and Knox were as intolerant of private judgment when it went against their own conceits as any pope in Rome was ever intolerant of heresy. Confessions of faith, symbols, and catechism were set up everywhere, and were invariably backed by the secular power. In fact, the secular power in the several parts of Germany, England, Scotland, and elsewhere has had more to do with the moulding of religious denominations than private judgment and justification by faith alone. Rulers were guided by political and material considerations in their adherence to particular forms of faith, and they usurped the right of imposing their own choice on their subjects, regardless of private opinions: cujus regio hujus religio. The above considerations show that the first Protestant principle, free judgment, never influenced the Protestant masses at large. Its influence is limited to a few leaders of the movement, to the men who by dint of strong character were capable of creating separate sects. They indeed spurned the authority of the Old Church, but soon transferred it to their own persons and institutions, if not to secular princes. How mercilessly the new authority was exercised is matter of history. Moreover, in the course of time, private judgment has ripened into unbridled freethought, Rationalism, Modernism, now rampant in most universities, cultured society, and the Press. Planted by Luther and other reformers the seed took no root, or soon withered, among the half-educated masses who still clung to authority or were coerced by the secular arm; but it flourished and produced its full fruit chiefly in the schools and among the ranks of society which draw their intellectual life from that source. The modern Press is at infinite pains to spread free judgment and its latest results to the reading public. It should be remarked that the first Protestants, without exception, pretended to be the true Church founded by Christ, and all retained the Apostles' Creed with the article "I believe in the Catholic Church". The fact of their Catholic origin and surroundings accounts both for their good intention and for the confessions of faith to which they bound themselves. Yet such confessions, if there be any truth in the assertion that private judgment and the open Bible are the only sources of Protestant faith, are directly antagonistic to the Protestant spirit. This is recognized, among others, by J. H. Blunt, who writes: "The mere existence of such confessions of faith as binding on all or any of the members of the Christian community is inconsistent with the great principles on which the Protestant bodies justified their separation from the Church, the right of private judgment. Has not any member as just a right to criticise and to reject them as his forefathers had a right to reject the Catholic creeds or the canons of general councils? They appear to violate another prominent doctrine of the Reformers, the sufficiency of Holy Scripture to salvation. If the Bible alone is enough, what need is there for adding articles? If it is rejoined that they are not additions to, but merely explanations of, the Word of God, the further question arises, amid the many explanations, more or less at variance with each other given by the different sects of Protestantism, who is to decide which is the true one? Their professed object being to secure uniformity, the experience of three hundred years has proved to us what may not have been foreseen by their originators, that they have had a diametrically opposite result, and have been productive not of union but of variance" (Dict. of Sects, Heresies, etc.", London, 1886, s.v. Protestant Confessions of Faith). By pinning private judgment to the Bible the Reformers started a book religion, i.e. a religion of which, theoretically, law of faith and conduct is contained in a written document without method, without authority, without an authorized interpreter. The collection of books called "the Bible" is not a methodical code of faith and morals; if it be separated from the stream of tradition which asserts its Divine inspiration, it has no special authority, and, in the hands of private interpreters, its meaning is easily twisted to suit every private mind. Our modern laws, elaborated by modern minds for modern requirements, are daily obscured and diverted from their object by interested pleaders: judges are an absolute necessity for their right interpretation and application, and unless we say that religion is but a personal concern, that coherent religious bodies or churches are superfluous, we must admit that judges of faith and morals are as necessary to them as judges of civil law are to States. And that is another reason why private judgment, though upheld in theory, has not been carried out in practice. As a matter of fact, all Protestant denominations are under constituted authorities, be they called priest or presbyters, elders or ministers, pastors or presidents. Notwithstanding the contradiction between the freedom they proclaim and the obedience they exact, their rule has often been tyrannical to a degree, especially in Calvinistic communities. Thus in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was no more priest-ridden country in the world than Presbyterian Scotland. A book-religion has, moreover, another drawback. Its devotees can draw devotion from it only as fetish worshippers draw it from their idol, viz. by firmly believing in its hidden spirit. Remove belief in Divine inspiration from the sacred books, and what remains may be regarded as simply a human document of religious illusion or even of fraud. Now, in the course of centuries, private judgment has partly succeeded in taking the spirit out of the Bible, leaving little else than the letter, for critics, high and low, to discuss without any spiritual advantage.....'
somnolence| 1.17.12 @ 9:25PM
I've had Mormon missionaries stop and talk to me while I was raking leaves in the front yard. Never once did they attempt to convert me to Mormonism. I did join them in prayer for the Lord to provide saving grace to this land, but nothing else. I found them to be very mannerly young men, refreshing in contrast to many of their age, but I did remind them that I love coffee, and could never be a good Mormon because I would refuse to give it up. They respected my stance and didn't proselytize. Mr. Gingrich, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton were also "chickenhawks" in your vernacular. So what? These options were viable for deferment at the time and those who used them in good conscience were smart. My late father, a combat veteran of W.W. 2 with a Bronze Star told me in 1970 he didn't blame anybody for skipping out on Vietnam, a noble cause in the beginning, but an unforgiveable mistake in the long run by the way we prolonged it and fought it overall. Whatever the case, your rant against Romney doesn't hold water for what it is worth, and your man Paul is a raving old fool.
somnolence| 1.17.12 @ 9:29PM
Gingrich was a serious candidate for soundbites only, not policy, and that is what millions of us are looking for. In fact, Gingrich hasn't a clue, and I highly doubt that I could vote for him if he became the nominee. Paul is a tottering old fool and Gingrich is an egotistical wild man. My only choices are Romney or Santorum. The rest can go to hell.
Dan| 1.17.12 @ 10:23PM
So balancing a budget, when it hadn't been done for a long time prior to, is only "soundbites?"
Creating a Republican majority was nothing but soundbites too?
Overturning Democrat dominance, a dominance that they've never succeeded in reestablishing by the way, nothing but more soundbites?
Gingrich "hasn't a clue?"
Bob Dole thought likewise when Gingrich proposed nationalizing all Congressional races, creating a Contract with America, and promising the American people that their Republican Congress would pass certain things, and they could be held accountable for those items.
It was GINGRICH by the way that quipped of Dole that he was a "tax collector for the welfare state."
Did you know that? Was that the observation of a man without a clue?
Ross Kaminsky | 1.17.12 @ 10:08PM
Not nearly as good an article as you had me expecting, Quin.
Dan| 1.17.12 @ 10:23PM
It's good enough.
Good enough for government work.........
somnolence| 1.18.12 @ 1:05AM
Most of his own colleagues don't support Newt in the House at the moment. No, I don't happen to want the current "benevolent" dictator, Obama, or the "tempermental" dictator, Gingrich, near the White House. BTW I'm sure he accomplished balancing the budget all by himself. Sure he did.
somnolence| 1.18.12 @ 1:21AM
Joseph Smith was no more of a radical than John Wesley, John Calvin, or Mary Baker Eddy. I'm beginning to think Lincoln had it right over all when he refused to join ANY church. I'm all for affirmation of faith; it's just when some wear it on their sleeve and threaten abyss to those who disagree with them that I become very impatient.
somnolence| 1.18.12 @ 1:27AM
Protestantism means all groups that aren't Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox, or Islamic. Contrary to what an idiotic court in Arkansas said, LDS Mormonism can be said to be a Protestant faith. For argumentative purposes it can come down to both yes and no.
Ken (Old Texican) | 1.18.12 @ 9:02AM
I'm going to give the early Roman Church a forgiving pass.
The printing press...allowed the Protestant movement to take place. (that and the number of people who learned to read thereby.)
Right or wrong...the pre printing press Roman Church decided that the only way to prevent a world full of illiterate people from splintering into dead-end superstitions and departures from what the original scriptures taught...and warned...
Well, the Roman Church, (and the Eastern Roman Church for that matter), spent a lot of effort copying manuscripts by hand and passing them along to their priests...(and down through the centuries)....
...Who they hoped would accurately share the content verbally to their "laymen".
Maitaining "ORTHODOXY" IN THOSE YEARS was one of their most difficult tasks.
(ie: The Apostle's creed came from this effort.)
With whatever their failings, we owe those priests and monks a world of gratitude.
Ken (Old Texican) | 1.18.12 @ 9:05AM
Another thought. We owe the Israelites a huge debt of gratitude for passing down their scriptures over the centuries.
Todd S| 1.18.12 @ 11:15AM
That is a good point Ken, at least they maintained the records that led to the printing of the King James Bible. There is alot you can be critical about the Roman Catholic Church over the ages but it was better than the alternative of paganism and barbarianism until the printing press allowed for a reformation of learned individuals to worship as they sought fit. Of course there was much bloodshed involved to get to get to that point but it is the world we live in. I think everyone here is sick of Margie's Catholic and Mormon bashing, she needs to give it a rest or she should be kicked of the site.
florin| 1.18.12 @ 10:09AM
Strange that Quinn was trashing gingrich all over the place then Romney...is it that he needs to be negative....??? strange guy...or a Dem. plant?
somnolence| 1.18.12 @ 10:17AM
Florin, I find that to be most strange also.
jmm1890| 1.18.12 @ 11:53AM
I hope this fool (Hawkins) is as strong in his support of the eventual candidate as he is against Romney, and turns his vitriol to Obama!
Casey Abell| 1.18.12 @ 12:13PM
"If you don't want to spend the better part of the next year trying to drag this sad sack of Mitt across the finish line so he can disappoint us for the next four years..."
Well, if the Republicans nominated Quin's heartthrob Santorum, we wouldn't have to worry about him disappointing us for the next four years. Obama would bury him by ten to fifteen. Little Ricky is already down close to double-digits, and it would only get worse when the anti-birth-control crusade got rolling.
But SC will effectively end the Santorum campaign. He looks like a distant third at best, a distant fourth at worst. So it may well come down to Romney vs. Gingrich. Watch Quin's head explode over that one. His two favorite hate-objects battle it out for the nom.