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The Spectacle Blog
Yesterday it was Florida Senator Marco Rubio and former President George H.W. Bush who endorsed Mitt Romney for president. The media’s reaction was a yawn, claiming more out of hope than out of belief that the endorsements were not “high impact.”
What will they say about Friday’s endorsement of Romney by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan just days before the critical Republican primary election in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin?
Perhaps it’s no surprise that the presidential candidate who most aggressively supported Ryan’s budget proposal gets the endorsement. But for Ryan it is clearly more than that.
Here’s Paul Ryan quoted in The Hill note linked above:
“We vote here Tuesday in Wisconsin. Lots of my friends, family, supporters are asking me, you know, ‘Who do you think we should vote for?’ I have two criteria I am using to make my decision to vote in our primary Tuesday. Who is the best person to be president - who will be the best president? And who has the best chance of defeating Barack Obama? And in my mind, Mitt Romney is clearly that person.”
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apnep| 3.30.12 @ 10:51AM
I don't get it and I don't get Romney.
Pete| 3.30.12 @ 11:41AM
I also have a big yawn as the GOP establishment lines up behind the establishment candidate. When will they get that we just don't trust them?
Jack in Wi.| 3.30.12 @ 11:54AM
Ryan Romney and Rubio, who cares? That's a group only a Bush or Rockefeller could love.
The American Hitman| 3.30.12 @ 1:35PM
Wait--the Bushes have weighed in with their endorsements? Well that seals it for me!!
Clint| 3.31.12 @ 11:17AM
Romney Is The Stupid Party's McCain Redux.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.
Indy| 3.30.12 @ 10:52AM
What is Rubio up to? More sunshine please
"Citing Senate sources, The Hill said that the proposal, negotiated in secret, will be announced after Mitt Romney secures the Republican president nomination.
It would be, The Hill says, a bill from which both parties would benefit: undocumented students would regularize their immigration status and Republicans would have something tangible to show the Hispanic electorate in November."
Also... "In the House of Representatives, Florida Republican David Rivera is promoting the ARMS Act, a type of DREAM Act that only opens the way to legalizing undocumented students who serve in the military.
In addition, Republican Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas are preparing their own immigration bills, but neither of them has been willing to tell the press anything about them." - two senators leaving office after this term craft plans behind closed doors.
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/lati.....z1qbjeEkVf
Will any of these plans be proposed before the border is sealed? This is why I remain unaffiliated, both parties craft plans in secret and use them to buy votes. Spending / debt are out of control, riots in Greece have spread to Spain, UK is back in recession...DC is so broken and the media is complicit, how sad for our country.
Pete| 3.30.12 @ 11:42AM
And in the process create more Democrats to take our freedoms away.
Dai Alanye | 3.30.12 @ 2:49PM
By all means load the armed forces with aliens, because as we all know, nothing makes the government safer than a passel of foreign mercenaries.
That is, the government is safer, but not the people, of course. Does anyone care?
FedUp| 4.1.12 @ 3:14AM
Indy, in the year 2001 I had assigned to my battalion a Nigerian woman (about aged 24 at the time) to serve in the personnel staff. She was to be nothing more than a clerk-typist.
It took a bit of doing, but I had to back-track just how she got to my unit and just why she was wearing a U.S. Army uniform. The whole thing seemed very dodgy. And, please note, that she'd already become a specialist (E-4) at that point. I would have blocked any efforts to have her promoted.
Her English was atrocious. She hated the white man. She had "issues" aplenty. Did she have any allegiance or liking for America? I could not discern any. Although she claimed to be single, that did not wash out as true. Just as it did not wash out as true that she was childless.
Note: She used her alleged "singleness" to obtain more sexual favors, advances, liaisons with the males in my unit and elsewhere. Nevermind that my older NCOs should not have been fraternizing with her.
She was the equivalent of a useless piece of humanity. Never completed any work. Never could be relied upon. Always ill. Always late. As far as I could tell, she was despised by several other junior enlisted in her section because they had to always cover for her so as to not earn black marks for the entire section. But, of course, black and a woman. She had a black set of more senior NCOs looking out for her, so it was treading lightly to try to enact any meaningful discipline. Yes, she already knew every inch of how to cry discrimination or harassment.
I was enraged. She is just one non-US citizen that I encountered while serving. I highlight her here as I learn more and more about the islamists that originate from northern Nigeria. Was this Army specialist coming from that background, muslim Nigerian?
U.S. citizenship cannot be bought and sold.
DREAM Act or ARMS -- semantics don't matter. This is a joke. A non national's loyalties are not necessarily authentic. Our military is not so desperate for recruits that we have to wave citizenship papers in front of the world's illiterate downtrodden to fill the ranks.
Every one of us could and can name 60 countries in the world where a 19 - 30 year old would lie, cheat, forge, and do whatever necessary to swiftly obtain U.S. citizenship in less than 5 years -- while getting paid for it as a soldier and earning years toward early retirement at the ripe old age of 39 or 50, right?
My guess is that today she is out of the Army, has her husband and children living on U.S. soil, still cannot speak passable English, let alone type it. I doubt her work ethic has improved one iota. Maybe all four or five of them are now American citizens. She certainly is; she has equal status in this land as does a Mayflower descendant. And soon grandma and grandpa will be here, too.
Is this really what we want?
End this enlistment to U.S. citizen crap.
If I were our enemies, oh how I'd love to exploit this.
Indy| 4.2.12 @ 9:02AM
Thank you for your service. I understand your frustration. There are some who want to serve to gain citizenship and want the freedom they seek, but there are others who raise questions of trust. Our challenges are great, we are in a rough patch where truth is hard to find. We must push for transparency, debate must be in public. For now, I believe nothing must pass unless it's a Senate Budget.
Derek Leaberry| 3.30.12 @ 10:57AM
The Republican elite not only is showing its arrogance but its obtuseness. That elite- which includes Ryan and Rubio along with failures like George HW and Jeb Bush- is discredited amongst many conservatives not part of the elite. Regarding Republican politics, after foisting onto the Republican Party moderates like the two Bushes, Robert Dole and John McCain, the elite believes it can force the self-styled "progressive", Mitt Romney, down the throats of conservatives. And some conservatives will sell their souls to play ball with Romney. Such is the case with Ryan and Rubio. As for me, a defeat of Romney and a disastrous Obama second term is preferable to a failed one-term Romney presidency. Remember that the best thing that happened to the Republican Party and conservatism in general in 1992 and 2008 was for the Republican presidential candidate to lose. Victories for Bush the elder and McCain would have crashed and burned conservatives and the Republican Party.
W| 3.30.12 @ 11:12AM
You are correcet. Having Justices Ginnsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor on the Supreme Court to vote to uphold Obamacare, affirmative action, abortion, and next to strike down the marriage laws, is a victory for conservatives. Not to mention stopping drilling for oil and "fast and furious" and a 15 trillion dollar debt. A couple more vicotries like this and conservatives will have more to cheer.
Pete| 3.30.12 @ 11:44AM
“It’s a measure of her qualities and her qualifications that Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the U.S. District Court by a Republican president, George H.W. Bush, and promoted to the Federal Court of Appeals by a Democrat, Bill Clinton,” the president said.
W| 3.30.12 @ 11:51AM
What is your point, that the Supreme Court is the same as a federal district court?
wp| 3.30.12 @ 3:54PM
How about David Souter, recommended of course by John Sununu. Great pick by GOP President right? Of course we know Romney would never listen to Sununu right?
W| 3.30.12 @ 4:21PM
Logical argument. Bush was wrong about Souter so vote for Obama over Romney becuase why? How about Bush was right about Thomas? Or how about Reagan was wrong about O'Connor and half right about Kennedy but right about Scalia? You prefer to be 100% with Obama who if he wins will appoint Justice Holder and Justice Sebellius.
Al Adab| 3.30.12 @ 5:07PM
W:
It will be interesting to see how many of these folks doing the endorsement, right back to Niki Haley, end up in the cabinet - assuming of course there is a Romney administration. Henry Clay and the "corrupt bargain" still live.
W| 3.30.12 @ 7:45PM
Al Adab
Not a fair comparison, the corrupt bargain was to elect John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson in the when the House had to elect the president.
Remember Rick Santorum and Herman Cain endorsed Romney in the 2008 primary as the conservative alternative to McCain.
I am sure that some endorse for a Cabinet post but Rubio, Ryan, McDonald, Haley, and others were favorites of the conservative/Tea party before their endorsements.
Off to the fish fry, have a pleasan weekend, Romney/Rubio will win!
Derek Leaberry| 3.30.12 @ 2:08PM
I'm still waiting for the Republicans to strip jurisdiction from the Supreme Court as provided for in the Exception Clause in Article 3, Section 2.
Inevitably, we can blame Justices Ginsburg and Breyer on George the elder's "Read My Lips" lie 1990 tax hike that led to his 1992 defeat. Justices Kagan and Sotomayor can be blamed on George the younger's hard-headed pursuit of his Middle East crusade. Needless to say, the Bush family has brought disaster to the Republican Party. They are the perfect example of King Midas in Reverse.
W| 3.30.12 @ 4:27PM
First it takes a bill to pass the House and Senate and then be signed by the president. You think the Senate will pass a bill to strip abortion from the jusrisdiction of the Court? You think Obama would sign or veto such a bill if it passed Congress? Do you think there are 67 votes in the Senate to overrule the veto?
Second, even if the bill became law it would be ruled unconstitutional because it strips jurisdiction over a right that the Court has found constitutionally protected. That is why nobody takes this proposal seriously. You need an amendment to the constitution to outlaw abortio.
You are fixated on the Republicans. There is another political party.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 11:17AM
Derek,
I'm not a huge fan of the Bushes, and I never voted for W, but please tell me how Jeb is a failure.
This is not a rhetorical question. I don't know very much about his tenure in Florida, but had generally heard good things.
Pete| 3.30.12 @ 11:45AM
He has failed to tell us the purpose of his meeting with Barack Obama along with his aging father. What was this meeting for, especially considering all the vitriol leveled at his own brother by Obama. The Bushes are not to be trusted.
Derek Leaberry| 3.30.12 @ 11:47AM
As governor of Florida, Bush's budgets all contained large increases, especially in education, due to the fact that revenues flooded into the Florida treasury during Bush's two terms. In fact, when times are good and tax revenues come in, Republicans are almost as excited about spending money as the Democrats are. For instance in my home state of Maryland, Republican Bob Ehrlich was a bigger spender than Democrat Martin O'Malley because he had more of an excess in revenues to spend. To be fair, Ehlich never increased taxes as O'Malley has done.
That said, Ross, I've been listening for over three decades to Republicans touting how they wanted to cut government. They rarely do and usually only under duress like a recession. Call me jaded. The only way Republicans will cut budgets is when you don't give them any money. My trust level with Republicans hovers around zero.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 12:49PM
My trust level with the GOP is also near zero, but that's much higher than with the Democrats. The key is to make sure Republican politicians fear credible primary challenges if they don't get back to support of limited government and liberty. We've seen it a few times now, and it's the best tool to keep them in line. It's the critically important value of the Tea Party movement, in my view.
Pete| 3.30.12 @ 3:57PM
Romney is not for limited government, at least not by his actions. He buys into Global Warming and Cap and Trade, which imposes severe limitations on all of us. He has RomneyCare and accepts wall street bailouts. Its going in the wrong direction
Windy City Commentary| 3.30.12 @ 12:55PM
You never voted for W.? That means you voted for John McCain, Al Gore, and John Kerry. No wonder you endorse Romney.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 1:25PM
I have not voted for a Republican since George H.W. Bush's first election. I have voted Libertarian every time since. I have never in my life voted for a Democrat, and I refused to support John McCain.
I will probably vote Republican this time around, not because I'll like the nominee very much, but because it's time to take back the country.
I have not endorsed Romney, though I am leaning that way for exactly the same reasons Paul Ryan laid out.
He's far from perfect, but I don't think the nation can handle another four years of Obama and I hope that a more conservative Congress will keep him in line the way Republicans in Congress totally failed to under W.
The American Hitman| 3.30.12 @ 1:37PM
I have voted for Rs until now, but if its Romney, I'll be voting for Gary Johnson this time. 2010 was the Last Tango for me and the 'Pubs.
Occam's Tool| 3.30.12 @ 8:25PM
Ross---completely OFF topic:
Have you heard of "Cluck: A Murder Most Fowl" about Zombie chickens?
When fighting Obamabots, a love for Zombie literature is most useful.
rightasrain| 3.30.12 @ 11:15AM
All aboard the Romney Express! C'mon, it won't hurt a bit--just ask Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and Mike Lee.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 11:17AM
While I'm not a huge fan of the Romney Express, I am a huge fan of the Beat Obama Express!
rightasrain| 3.30.12 @ 11:38AM
Too true. Even with his problems, Romney is our best shot at beating Obama and apparently the thoughtful conservatives listed above agree.
Pete| 3.30.12 @ 11:47AM
Romney is not a very good choice and ironically the worse he does in a primary, the more we here how inevitable he is as a nominee.
Windy City Commentary| 3.30.12 @ 12:56PM
You've been the lead engine on this site for the Romney Express for months. Now your re-writing history.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 1:27PM
I have made quite clear that my Romney leanings are really anti-Obama leanings. I simply don't think any of the other Republicans have the slightest chance of beating Barack Obama. I think I will have to suck it up and vote for Romney even though I refused to support McCain.
Re McCain I said "If he represents winning then we've already lost." I don't feel much differently about Romney, but the last four years has been quite different from the four years preceding the last presidential election.
So, I agree that I've been writing mostly in support of Romney (but with plenty of criticism too). But I would point out to you that I wrote an article preferring Pawlenty to Romney and particularly preferring Mitch Daniels to Romney.
So if I've been the "lead engine", it's been a slow-moving train!
Dai Alanye | 3.30.12 @ 2:56PM
I don't want to come right out and declare Kaminsky a lying illegitimate, but he surely acts the part with fervor.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 4:34PM
Come right out with it, Dai, but you'd better have some damn good evidence before you start calling me a liar.
Windy City Commentary| 3.30.12 @ 3:38PM
You writers don't even realize how you appear to your readers. Almost every Kaminsky post has been pro-Romney; anti- not- Romney. All because you think Romney has the best chance to beat Obama? That's all this is?
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 4:32PM
What part of "I want to beat Obama" do you not understand? And do you think that particular motivation is unusual?
Trinacria| 3.30.12 @ 5:00PM
As the current occupant of the White House has abundantly demonstrated, the Windy City has been rather less than exemplary when it comes to cultivating a keen intellect. Consider the source...
Occam's Tool| 3.30.12 @ 8:32PM
A few points: One can vote Libertarian, but you ain't gonna win. Obama will love you for it.
There may be FOUR open slots to fill in the next 4 years on the SCOTUS. Pay attention to demographics: Scalia is a fat guy in his mid 70s, Breyers is, I believe, 73, and Kennedy is 75. My least favorite justice, Ginsberg, is one foot in coffin and one on banana peel. The next POTUS may determine the shape of the SCOTUS for the next 20 years, particularly since Ginsberg will retire if Obama is re-elected, and perhaps Breyer. Kagan and Soto are in their early 50s. SCOTUS can do many bad things.
Me, I'm donating to Romney and voting for the Harvard double degree swine. I'd prefer a Fighting Frog undergrad/HLS JD run, but my favorite HLS grad isn't running for any office (yeah, Joe R., that's YOU!).
Obama is a sumbitch.
Clint| 3.31.12 @ 11:16AM
Romney Is The Stupid Party's McCain Redux.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.
Dai Alanye | 3.31.12 @ 2:11PM
I have trouble with the part that considers Romney a winner when his electoral record suggests otherwise. Without a huge money advantage Mitt would be nowhere in the primaries, and he won't have that advantage in the general. I've said all along that Mitt-Minus-Millions is nothing more than a small-town mayoral hopeful.
What I'm particularly looking forward to is when Obama and friends start charging Romney with right-wing extremism. Mitt will dodge left at the speed of sound, leaving his "conservative" admirers gasping for air.
Christopher C| 4.1.12 @ 6:15AM
Why on earth do you think that Mr Plastic is going to defeat that disgusting fraud currently in the White House. Remember, the formula is: You can fool some of the people all of the time (e.g., the Barack Obama/Howard Dean/Debbie Wasserman-Shultz/Pelosi etc. acolytes), and all of the people some of the time ... Except that Obama doesn't need to fool "all of the people". 50% + 1 will do and when that 50% + 1 are offered the choice between the incumbent, who has clearly mastered the art of "believing" what he's saying as he's saying it (double-think, as Orwell called the skill) and an excruciatingly obvious huckster ("severe conservative" - give me a BREAK!), who ya gonna bet on?
Dear Mr Kaminsky - even if Romney won, and I doubt that he has a prayer, what would the difference really be? Okay, he may sign a Paul Ryan-authored budget, but leading from in front on necessary conservatism, before the republic is utterly destroyed? It wouldn't even occur to the man. The choice looks like it's going to be between poison that's deadly within just a few months after November, and poison that allows necrosis to continue unchecked. What a disaster!
Anommynous| 3.30.12 @ 11:39AM
I do consider Paul Ryan's endorsement valuable. It's not enough for to "rally" me to Romney during the primaries, but it might be enough for me to hold my nose for Romney in the general election.
wp| 3.30.12 @ 11:49AM
Not once in Paul Ryan's budget does he actually make a cut. He is also bent on increasing spending year after year. The GOP intends to maintain a huge government. They have their own greedy mouths to feed.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 12:51PM
One step at a time, WP. Ryan's budget is not as aggressive as I'd like either, but it is a tremendous difference from the path we're on now. Also, although I wish spending would be cut, it is politically powerful for him to be able to argue that he's not slashing government, just getting it under control. That will sell much better with most of the nation. And then we can take the next big step after we take the first one.
Pete| 3.30.12 @ 3:59PM
That one step MUST be undoing all the programs started by Obama. Instead he gets fixated on Social Security, a big mistake in my opinion.
We must slash government. If the GOP is too cowardly now to propose, then they will never do it.
R. Dittmar| 3.30.12 @ 1:29PM
All Ryan's endorsement does for me is convince me that Ryan is just another sell-out. I'll forever distrust anyone that endorses Romney before it's made absolutely necessary by the nominating convention.
Dai Alanye | 3.30.12 @ 2:55PM
I'm keeping a list of all these fools, simply in order to remind them of their stupidity when the genuine Mitt is revealed.
Ross Kaminsky | 3.30.12 @ 4:34PM
The genuine Mitt is already revealed. He was for RomneyCare. He says stupid things about China. He wants capital gains and dividend tax relief only for those Americans unlikely to have substantial cap gains or dividend income.
I'm sure he can get worse, of course, but Romney on his worst day is much better than Obama.
If this were 4 years ago, I would not support Romney, just as I did not support McCain. But having been through what we've been through for the last four years, and with the rise of the Tea Party movement, I feel less bad about the idea of Romney as president.
aware| 4.1.12 @ 1:08PM
Soon you will wish you had the last 4 years, no matter who runs the circus the next 4. Wait and see.
Oldefarte| 3.30.12 @ 6:02PM
Since I'm 66 and have consistently and always voted REPUBLICAN except once [when a known member of the KKK was a candidate under the Republican Party and I was forced to vote for the Democratic Party candidate to avoid the possible election of a demonstrated racist becoming governor of my then state of residency], I welcome the endorsements of Republicans such as Rubio and the Bushes. I voted for George HW and W and would gladly do so again if given the opportunity over this current socialist/radical community orgainzer from Chicago who stealthly trojun-horsed this country into electing him on 11/4/08 sadly. Nothing is perfect, but when the choice is a Democrat versus a Republican, there is not choice. These morons proclaiming the purity factor of conservatism slay me in their ignorance [or possibly stupidity]!!!!!!!!!!
Trinacria| 3.30.12 @ 7:05PM
I hear ya', brother.
Part of the problem, in my humble opinion, springs from the false assumption that the modern day Republican party is the Conservative party. Sadly, this simply isn't the case, and there's an abundance of empirical evidence over the last 20+ years to prove it. Once one accepts reality and recognizes that the Republican party is no longer strongly tethered to purely conservative principles, one has rather lower (i.e. more realistic) expectations of the candidates it puts forth. Those who insist on conservative purity at this point in the game are somewhat like the drunk in the bar at last call who insists on holding out for a super model. Ain't gonna happen - so you can either leave with a "6" or go home alone (and if you have to wait another 4 years for an outside chance at getting the supermodel, my advice would be to take the "6" and make the most of it...).
Oldefarte| 3.31.12 @ 11:56AM
Yep, been there, done that! And that "6" will resemble a supermodel depending upon how smashed one is!!!!!!
PCP Smoker| 3.31.12 @ 3:49PM
"I voted for George HW and W and would gladly do so again if given the opportunity over this current socialist/radical community orgainzer from Chicago "
the question is whether you would vote for those RINOS over conservatives, not whether H Bush would be acceptable over Obama.
About the only thing that idiot ( George Idiot Sr and not Idiot Jr) did was promote Justice Thomas to the Supreme Court. RINOS like W almost gave us Justice Harriet Meyers instead of Alito.
Oldefarte| 4.1.12 @ 3:10PM
Brilliant, for an idiot no doubt. Thomas, Myers, Roberts, Estrada etc are/would have been superior to Kagan and Sotomeyer [which is what you'll get if Obama is re-elected, fool]. And what's more brilliant is that the latter are on the SCOTUS for life, okay, DA? Got it....LIFE! You morons that are so GD stupid as to attempt to compare ANY REPUBLICAN to ANY DEMOCRAT slay me. You're the idiots that gave us that Chicago street merchant in 2008 that resembles a POTUS about as much as Barney Fife would do so. Ya boy is a complete EMBARRASSMENT to this country [or at least to some of us] and only represented POLITICAL CORRECTNESS 101 for which we're paying the price now. The Bushes, Clarence Thomas, and Harriet Myers are/were a credit to this country and all honorably served [or are so] this country with dignity and grace, compared to that POS now occupying the WH, so SHOVE IT, OKAY??????????
Oldefarte| 4.1.12 @ 3:16PM
OH, and PS MORON: I will vote for WHICHEVER REPUBLICAN IS NOMINATED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, JUST AS I HAVE FOR 40 YEARS, okay dimwit? If you're referring to whether I prefer a simpleton labor union bedmate from Pa whose only claim to fame is fathering multiple children and attending Catholic Mass daily over another Yankee businessperson experience professionally enough to resurrect this country from the economic toilet that that Chicago idiot has excremented this country into in the last three years, YEAH I'LL VOTE FOR THE YANKEE REPUBLICAN ANYDAY, ANY TIME, ANY WHERE [IF HE IS THE NOMINEE].......does that answer your asinine question??????????
Your Excellency| 3.31.12 @ 4:06AM
Come on Kaminsky just about every article you write is about Romneys march to his inevitable victory. Take off the knee pads once in a while.
DavidH| 3.31.12 @ 7:50AM
Reading this comment thread is revealing. A bunch of conspiracy theories. People trying (wildly and without any evidence) to rationalize how an Obama second term (or the Obama first term) has been good for conservatives. The meaningless "establishment" label applied in an attempt to dismiss or tar people who have hitherto been successful conservative leaders (Ryan, Jeb Bush, etc.).
This is thoughtlessness run amok. If this is what conservatives have to offer in the way of rational thought and argument, conservatism is dead.
Oldefarte| 3.31.12 @ 12:20PM
Shazam the following sounds like some of the IDIOTS here who THINK they are more qualified to opine than these TAS writers are, which is ludicrous BS [since the latter are PAID for their writings]:
'.....Unpaid Bloggers' Lawsuit Vs. Huffington Post Tossed Saturday, March 31, 2012 08:40 AMAOL Inc has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by unpaid bloggers who complained they were deprived of their fair share of the roughly $315 million that the company paid last March to buy The Huffington Post website.U.S. District Judge John Koeltl on Friday rejected claims by social activist and commentator Jonathan Tasini and an estimated 9,000 other bloggers that they deserved $105 million, or about one-third, of the purchase price.
The lawsuit contended that the work of unpaid content providers like bloggers gave The Huffington Post much of its value, and that the website's sale allowed co-founder Arianna Huffington to profit at their expense. Tasini said he alone had made 216 submissions to the website over more than five years.But Koeltl said "no one forced" the bloggers to repeatedly provide their work with no expectation of being paid, and said they got what they bargained for when their works were published.
"The principles of equity and good conscience do not justify giving the plaintiffs a piece of the purchase price when they never expected to be paid, repeatedly agreed to the same bargain, and went into the arrangement with eyes wide open," the judge wrote.Koeltl also dismissed claims that AOL materially misled the bloggers about how often their works were being viewed, and how much revenue they were generating. He dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again.
"This is the electronic equivalent of someone writing a letter to the editor," John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School, said in an interview. "You are rewarded by publication, not by payment."Jeff Kurzon, a lawyer for the bloggers, said, "We are reviewing the decision and considering our options."AOL spokesman Mario Ruiz had no comment.The Huffington Post is a left-leaning, part-news and part-opinion website that has since its 2005 founding relied in part on free contributions to attract traffic. It said it had 36.2 million unique visitors in December.Tasini was also the lead plaintiff in a landmark 2001 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court said publishers violate copyright law when they reproduce freelance works electronically without first obtaining permission from copyright owners.
The case is Tasini et al v. AOL Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York,....'
Oldefarte| 3.31.12 @ 12:36PM
The following is an example of the stupidity of Santorum's arguments, since the ability and desire to FIRE PEOPLE is exactly what is needed in DC [the government's defecit/debt is entirely attribitable to the overblown excessive government payroll/employment and is all due to labor unions] and if Romney possesses that ability so much the better. Santorum's labor unionist whining about how people are suffering if absurd and is right out of the AFL-CIO handbook obviously:
'.....Santorum Jabs Romney for Joke About Firing People Friday, March 30, 2012 05:45 PMBy: HUDSON, Wisconsin — Rick Santorum says Republicans won't win the presidency by nominating a candidate who jokes about firing people.Santorum was talking about rival Mitt Romney, who joked earlier this week about his father, the former chairman of American Motors, closing a factory in Michigan and moving production to Wisconsin.Santorum suggested Friday that the quip is more evidence that Romney doesn't understand the struggles of working people. He says working people are the ones who will decide the outcome of the presidential election in November.
Santorum said Romney's only argument is that he has "the math" to win. Santorum says vision, not math, is the key to victory.The former Pennsylvania senator was campaigning in Wisconsin for the state's primary next week...'
Dai Alanye | 3.31.12 @ 2:20PM
Anyone who believes it good politics to joke about firing people, especially during hard times, has no more idea of intelligent campaigning than a chimpanzee. The example offered by OF showcases Mitt's lack of political savvy, and Santorum is absolutely right to condemn such ham-handedness.
Oldefarte| 4.1.12 @ 3:26PM
No you're totally incorrect. Mitt may have joked about it, but it's not humorous to anyone with common sense [and if that excludes you then so be it]. What is exactly needed in the country is someone who has the proven professionaly managerial ability to FIRE PEOPLE, okay? Do you know what the defecit/debt of this country's government is and why it is so large? Simple, because there are thousands of labor unionized governmental workers that should be fired [which would lower/reduce the defecit/debt accordingly]. Try researching the problem that Scott Walker is now having in Wisconsin over his fighting governmental labor union employees. When the economy nosedives, private industry companies are forced to lay off/decrease their payroll-employees in order to reduce their expenses and therefore maintain profitability. Not so with government, since they do not fire any goavernmental employees because the labor unions will not allow it, so therefore they raise taxes and the taxpayers end up paying the payrolls of those governmental employees that should have been fired. Understand now dufus? Mitt knows how to fire people [as all private industry managers do our of necessity] and he will do the necessary if elected president. Got it dufus? Fire/terminate governmental employees=reduction in governmental defecits/debt! Got it DA!!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 4.1.12 @ 3:30PM
PS Dai: the reason why the Rickster critisizes firing governmental workers is because he's sucked up to the labor unions for campaign money in Pa for years, and as such he refuses to take an anit-unionist stance. DA!!!!
PCP Smoker| 3.31.12 @ 3:45PM
Yawn, and I'm not even part of the liberal media. Other than Romney-orgasmic KaSHITsky, does anyone care about the endorsements any candidate gets?