Comments on: MITT SWEEPS!

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:33:36 +0000

"It seemed like such a good idea at the time."TPM: "Who’s To Blame For The GOP’s Drawn-Out Primaries Nightmare?" The Republican primaries in 2012 would be their own version of Obama vs. Clinton, prompting excited conservatives to register to vote in droves, donate early and often to the candidates, and keep the attention solely focused on the GOP’s message instead of the White House’s bully pulpit. But only two years after deliberately retooling their primary rules to encourage a lengthier fight, Republican politicians are struggling to remember just what on earth they were thinking. […]Read: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/whos-to…Friedersdorf: "The GOP's Extended Primary: It Isn't Like Obama vs. Clinton""The Democrats were deciding which historic nominee excited them most. Republicans can't decide who depresses them least."Read: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/…H/T: A. Sullivan

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:10:05 +0000

Reax from right-wing world……Erick Erikson: "Three Percent"When you have a candidate few people really like, whose support is a mile wide and an inch deep, whose raison d’etre (a 4am fancy word) is fixing an economy that is fixing itself without him, and who only wins his actual, factual home state by three percentage points against a guy no one took seriously only two months ago, there really is little reason for independent voters in the general election to choose him if the economy keeps improving.Seriously, putting it bluntly, conservatives may not like Barack Obama, but most other people do. And when faced with a guy you like and a guy you don’t like who says he can fix an economy that no longer needs fixing, you’re going to go with the guy you like.If Republicans in Washington are not panicked and trying desperately to pull Bobby Jindal in the race tomorrow, or someone like him, the party leaders must have a death wish. Mitt Romney continues to run an uninspiring campaign only able to win by massively outspending his opponents to tell voters how much worse the other guys are. That may work in the primary, but it will not work in a general election where the President of the United States won’t be outspent 5 to 1.Three percentage points. In his home state. In his wife’s home state. In the state his father served as Governor. Three percentage points against a guy few took seriously two months ago and who just three weeks ago no one expected to give Romney a run for his money in Romney’s home state.And this is our nominee. [….]Read: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/02/29/three-pe…Redstate Commenter:This is personal now for EE. He has totally invested himself in a Romney defeat. Facts don’t matter. This is about him now, dammit.The reality is that there has been no credible Conservative candidate against Romney since this thing started. I looked up disaster in the dictionary and there was a picture of Rick F Santorum. Now Erick seems to be jumping on the White Knight bandwagon which is the last refuge of a losing strategy.I voted for Romney reluctantly in 2008 as an alternative to McCain. I am stuck supporting him again because nobody better has mounted a winning campaign. That is not my fault. But we all better get behind him now or we are looking at four more years of soft fascism. […]"…four more years of soft fascism"..??? Wow. The level of fear AND stupidity in that world really does boggle the mind…smh.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:21:16 +0000

Yesterday I posted a passage from an article written by David Brooks (Repub) which I think dovetails perfectly with Olympia Snowe's decision to retire_AND with the way Romney's twisted himself into a pretzel trying to appeal to the GOP *base.* Here's a little more of that article:WashPost: "The Possum Republicans"In the 1960s and ’70s, the fight was between conservatives and moderates. Conservatives trounced the moderates and have driven them from the party. These days the fight is between the protesters and the professionals. The grass-roots protesters in the Tea Party and elsewhere have certain policy ideas, but they are not that different from the Republicans in the “establishment.”The big difference is that the protesters don’t believe in governance. They have zero tolerance for the compromises needed to get legislation passed. They don’t believe in trimming and coalition building. For them, politics is more about earning respect and making a statement than it is about enacting legislation. It’s grievance politics, identity politics.Of course, the professional politicians don’t want to get in the way of this torrent of passion and resentment. In private, they bemoan where the party is headed; in public they do nothing.All across the nation, there are mainstream Republicans lamenting how the party has grown more and more insular, more and more rigid. This year, they have an excellent chance to defeat President Obama, yet the wingers have trashed the party’s reputation by swinging from one embarrassing and unelectable option to the next: Bachmann, Trump, Cain, Perry, Gingrich, Santorum.But where have these party leaders been over the past five years, when all the forces that distort the G.O.P. were metastasizing? Where were they during the rise of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck? Where were they when Arizona passed its beyond-the-fringe immigration law? Where were they in the summer of 2011 when the House Republicans rejected even the possibility of budget compromise? They were lying low, hoping the unpleasantness would pass. […]Read: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/opinion/brooks-…

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:43:44 +0000

Forgive me. An *off-topic*_but important_bit of GOP related news:CNN: "Citing partisanship, Maine's Snowe says she'll leave the Senate" Snowe, who turned 65 last week, was first elected to the U.S. House in 1978 and then to the Senate in 1994. She is the first woman to serve in both chambers of a state legislature and the U.S. Congress.Snowe was known as a moderate who sometimes sided with Democrats in the increasingly partisan environment of Washington politics.Her statement cited the partisan divide."I have no doubt I would have won re-election," Snowe said, describing her political service in Maine and Washington as "an indescribable honor and immeasurable privilege."While her motivation and sense of responsibility remain, she continued, "I do find it frustrating, however, that an atmosphere of polarization and 'my way or the highway' ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions.""Unfortunately, I do not realistically expect the partisanship of recent years in the Senate to change over the short term," Snowe said. "So at this stage of my tenure in public service, I have concluded that I am not prepared to commit myself to an additional six years in the Senate."The White House released a statement praising Snowe's bipartisan efforts. […]Read: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/28/politics/senate-sno…Not a big fan of Sen. Snowe (her self-serving brand of politics). But I would take her ANY day over the ignorant and extremist nuts now running her party.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:15:19 +0000

Dan Balz: "Mitt Romney survives Michigan primary, looks to Super Tuesday" His Michigan comeback — he fell behind Santorum earlier in the month — showed his resilience as a candidate and underscored the advantages he holds in the nomination battle — more money, a superior organization and the ruthlessness to attack anyone in his path. Still, his advisers fretted that he would not get enough credit for turning around a campaign that only a week ago had party strategists speculating about the possibility of another candidate getting into the race. Yet even in victory, the campaign in Michigan highlighted Romney’s flaws as a candidate. That he had to fight as hard as he did in a state he won four years ago was a reminder that he is still struggling to connect with a portion of his party’s base, even against what party strategists regard as relatively weak opposition. While Tuesday reinforced again that he has the clearest path to the nomination, the way he won suggested that he still might have to scratch his way there, which is not how a front-runner is supposed to win. […] Read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-sur… IMO, Mitt's "comeback" in Michigan was mostly due to the sheer STUPIDITY and fanatical ramblings of a Mr. Rick Santorum. Heading into Michigan with a bit of wind in his sails, Santorum had a good chance of winning Michigan. AND THEN he opened his mouth and proceeded to p*ss it all away.