Posted by Pistol Pete
2012 PRIMARY SCHEDULE
This is tenative and likely to change.It is evident the republican establishment and the media are in a hurry to end the primary process quick,while Romney is still leading.That way the media can set about their real job,which is destroying any threat to the boy-king.
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/
KRAUTHAMMER:THE SCAPEGOAT STRATEGY
DEAR DEMOCRAT PARTY DONOR
OBAMA’S FUNDRAISING FAIL
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/obamas_fundraising_fail.html
CONSERVATIVES SHOULD HOPE OWS ENDURES
THE COSTS OF THE OCCUPIERS
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/10/14/costs_of_the_occupiers/page/full/
OBAMA WILL NOT BE DETERRED
http://www.creators.com/conservative/david-limbaugh/obama-will-not-be-deterred.html
HOLD ON,THERE,ROMNEY PUSHERS
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/hold_on_there_romney_pushers.html
NASTY: ‘REPUBLICANS WANT WOMEN TO LAY ON THE FLOOR AND DIE.’
No,but we’d appreciate it if you’d STFU!
TEA LIBEL
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/588059/201110131835/Tea-Libel.htm
OBAMA:JOBS ‘SAVED OR CREATED’ REPLACED BY ‘JOBS SUPPORTED’
Remember when unemployment was 4.5% under Bush and the media sniffed about a ‘jobless recovery?’
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/13/new-obama-metric-jobs-supported/
PERRY’S WIFE: ‘WE’VE BEEN BRUTALIZED BY OUR PARTY THIS MONTH–PARTLY BECAUSE OF HIS RELIGION’
It’a nothing personal,Katy.Your husband is slowing down the media choice for the party’s nominee.Ergo,he must be destroyed.
OCCUPY BOSTON PROTESTERS SPIT ON COAST GUARD MEMBER
Do that to a cop and you get arrested for assault;do it to me and you get an ambulance ride.
THE PRESIDENT WITH THE WORLD’S THINNEST SKIN
THE BACKSTORY
WHEN DID THE TEAM BREAK UP?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/13/when_did_the_team_break_up
WHEN THE RACE CARD GETS TRUMPED
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/when_the_race_card_gets_trumped.html
GOP EMPIRE’S PLAN TO CRUSH TEA PARTY REBELS
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/10/gop-empires-plan-crush-tea-party-rebels/43582/
HIGH TECH LYNCHING PART II
http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/cheri-jacobus/187503-high-tech-lynching-part-ii
ARTICULATE,MY REAR END
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Hmmm…don’t know that I buy that Perry has been brutalized by the GOP for his faith. I do, however, recall a certain pastor who introduced Perry presenting the choice of a good, moral person (Romney!) or a born-again believer – the implication that you should choose Perry because of his faith. Later that pastor called Mormonism a cult, and I don’t believe Perry has said anything in response to this pastor’s remarks. I do realize that Perry didn’t pick this man to introduce him, so that has some bearing, but it’s humorous to me that now Perry’s the one claiming to be brutalized because of his faith. Hmmmm……
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The establishment moving the primaries up, may backfire for them. What if Cain is peaking during the first primary? Perhaps he’s already peaked, it would seem that way. But what if his momentum keeps going? This could turn out badly for the Romney folks. That’s alright with me. I like Cain.
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I find it troubling that some of Rubio’s staff had a role in moving the Florida primary, which started the whole ball rolling. Remember that Kevin DuJan never trusted him for some reason. With Pete’s links to Rush and The Atlantic in mind, I am about to call all out war on the GOP, too. No way they have the best interests of the voter at heart. I am not a Republican and not a member of any Tea Party, although I went to the first tax day tea party rally in 2009. Fortunately in Virginia we do not have to declare a party. You just show up at the polls and vote in a primary. You simply tell the poll worker which ballot you want, Republican or Democrat. I usually go and vote in the primaries to head someone off at the pass before they get too far in the process, so I am all over the board in which ballot I have requested. This whole process is pretty disgusting to me. The GOP in my county decided that they did not like their own candidate for Commonwealth’s Attorney this fall and in August they talked a very popular state legislator into giving up his run for re-election and instead running as an Independent against their own candidate. Eric Cantor was all for it. I have a feeling that is what they threatened Sarah with, but I guess we will never know. Those GOP big shots here are all Romney, all the time, but I don’t hear as many actual voters saying too much about him, or anyone for that matter. It seems people are not paying attention or not ready to go all out for a candidate. Just kind of watching and waiting and hoping to hear something they can hang onto.
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Missouri has an open primary as well. Which is good, as I’m still registered as a Democrat. 😀
I hope it backfires on them, if that’s what they are attempting. The thing is, I don’t see how moving it up closer to the holidays is helpful for Romney. Do you think Romney voters are excited and motivated to get out and vote? He has very little momentum, as far as I can tell. Maybe they are motivated. I couldn’t be excited about him, that’s for sure. If it snowed and I was voting for Romney, I’d probably just stay home. That’s what happened last time and my non-vote for Paul. I was not a true Paul-ite, that’s for sure!
I’m definitely in the watch and see mode. I will be ticked if they rush this process and don’t give us enough time to really learn about the candidates. Like Cain, for instance. I really like him but his comment about picking Greenspan is troubling. Granted, I’ve heard some reasons why this would be an okay pick, but I need Cain to explain it, not his supporters. He kept the interest rates low for a loooong time and that contributed to the housing bubble. Well, that and Congress pushing b/c loans. Maybe low interest rates wouldn’t have mattered so much if those who could actually afford the houses were the only ones getting loans at that time.
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And Greenspan also said that he never thought trading derivatives could have such a disastrous effect, but it did. I could have told him that. Any math major could have told him. I knew we were going to be in a world of hurt eventually back about 10 or 12 years ago when a bond trader friend of mine (who works not for a hedge fund, but for a regular commercial bank like you and I have our checking accounts) told me they could securitize just about anything legally thanks to new rules. They could make a bond based on the future earnings of a race horse, for example, or an NFL player, and sell and resell that bond, with each seller taking something out of the mix. And never mind that the horse may stumble and break a leg, or the NFL player might be injured or arrested and end his career.
It was excessively reckless, but I did not know how to invest my piddly retirement funds to protect myself, even though I knew it was going to fall apart. Very few of us ordinary people could have done a thing, even if you could see it was bound to happen. We depended on supposed geniuses like Greenspan to look out for us. I really doubt that Paul Volcker would have been on board with all that exuberance. Did you notice how Volcker was supposed to be a big economic adviser to Obama, but he just seems to have slipped out of that role. Maybe he was pushed out, maybe he saw the real picture and disengaged. I just know we never hear of any of his ideas in D.C. We hear more from Warren Buffet than Volcker.
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Personally,I’m dead set against open primaries.Democrats helped shove McStain down our throats.The opportunity for fraud is too great to risk.Romney has been at 24% approval amongst republicans for months.Cain will NOT be the nominee-count on it.The media will cut him into pieces.So will our own party.
I still think Perry is the best choice,even though I can’t get past his love for illegal immigrants.I just don’t know if he has the time to rehabilitate himself,given the rush the power brokers seem to be in to anoint Romney.They anointed the Kenyan half-breed,how’s that workin’ out?
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Yikes, hadn’t even thought of Dems intentionally voting for Romney to help Obama. Although, Rush did promote Operation Chaos for Clinton last time around – not sure if people participated though.
I can’t get past Perry’s debate performances. It’s a bummer, because maybe he’d be good otherwise, but debates are part of the game and if he can’t handle them I’m afraid he’ll be toast in the general. That’s one thing Romney has going for him – he’s had a LOT of practice and he’s polished. Who knows, though? Perry could ramp up his game and perform better in future debates.
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I don’t know how many people participated in Operation Chaos, but I know I did! Wisconsin’s primary comes so late that by the time we vote it’s usually been pretty much decided — all the names are still on the ballot, but everyone except the frontrunner has usually dropped out. In 2008 there was no point in voting in the Republican primary, since McCain had already clinched it, so I voted for Hillary instead. Never thought I’d live to see the day that I would vote for Hillary Clinton! And that’s still not the worst vote I ever cast: Back in 1988 I voted for Jesse Jackson in the Democrat primary, because all the Republican challengers to G.H.W. Bush had already quit the race, but Jesse Jackson was still slugging it out with Michael Dukakis. My husband, who would rather make a statement than make a difference, just went ahead and voted for the Republican he’d actually wanted, who of course was no longer in the race. He was horrified when I told him who I’d voted for — he said he wasn’t sure he wanted to sleep with someone who would vote for Jesse Jackson. I reminded him that he once voted for Lowell Weicker for Senate, and so he had no right to be lecturing me about my voting habits.
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LOL! Jesse Jackson…….too funny Bob!
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Well, Dukakis was such an insufferable bore. Say what you will about Jesse Jackson, and I admit he’s a first class twit, but even if his speeches don’t make any sense, at least they’re full of rhymes and alliteration. If he’d gotten the nomination instead of Dukakis, the campaign would have been much more colorful and entertaining than the snoozefest it ended up being.
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On a totally different subject, here is a great column by Mona Charen, on Steve Jobs, the “unwanted” child.
http://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2011/10/11/steve_jobs_unwanted_child/page/full/
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Open primaries are dangerous, I admit. I am an independent, and if I had to register, that is what I would choose. I usually don’t participate in too much mischief, but sometimes I do vote to head some really bad choices off at the pass. For example, in 2009 i voted in the Democratic primary for governor. There were 3 running. McDonnell had it already for the Republicans. But of the Democrats, one was just crazy, the brother of the despicable Jim Moran. Another was Terry McCauliffe, the former head of the DNC and Clinton crony. The third was a guy named Creigh Deeds who got creamed by McDonnell, but I could have lived with him if he had won, so I voted for Deeds. We were too close to the 2008 election for me to have faith that the Republican would win. Remember all that “in the wilderness for a generation” talk about the Republicans in the news?
On the whole, I don’t think that I abuse the privilege of the open primaries, but I am sure there are many who do.
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I think open primaries are a really bad idea. However, this is war, and you can’t hope to win a war if you aren’t willing to be as ruthless as your enemy. If they insist on holding open primaries, the opposition is going tamper with our primary, so I have no qualms about tampering with theirs, if the opportunity presents itself.
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