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I'm just saying . . .

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(Tableau borrowed from huffingtonpost.com)

The two faces of Mitt Romney were seen arguing on Boston Harbor this morning:


Mitt I: See, I told you, you shouldn’t have gotten out of the race.
Mitt II: You? You said nothing of the sort. I wanted to stay in and you told me I should get out and endorse McCain.
Mitt I: Well, hear me now. You should cancel your subscription to that damn New York Times. Why are they now telling the world this about McCain? Couldn’t they have come out with it six weeks ago? Even a month ago would have helped? Now, that hayseed, Mike Huckabee is going to walk away with a nomination that I almost bought outright.

That’s one of the perils of being two faced. Sometimes one face doesn’t remember what it is telling the other.

Ensconced somewhere with a team of divorce lawyers, headed by Raoul Felder, Rudy Giuliani is bashing his head against the wall, saying: 9/11. Judy. 9/11. Judy. 9/11. Judy. 9/11. Judy. 9/11. Judy. At least he marries his paramours.

Okay, say what you will, but doesn’t ‘that woman, Ms. Iseman,’ look like she and Cindy McCain were separated at birth? I’m not saying that Jim Rutenberg at The New York Times looked at Mrs. McCain and thought he was looking at Vicki Iseman but . . .

Anyway, it’s not like Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), was ever a choirboy.

I mean, wasn’t it his flagrant philandering that broke down his marriage to Carol Shepp, the woman who nursed him of his war wounds? And people, especially his friends in the media, praised him to no end for his candor and straight shooting when he confessed to that little infidelity. And, of course, this started a pattern of bad behavior by McCain, followed by penitence, which then leads to more praise, and so on and so forth.

The Times’ exposé is essentially combining the two strains of McCain’s Washington life: marital infidelities and financial improprieties.

February 21, 2008
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Gipper

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joeyboy says:

Huckabee is the scariest presidential candidate I’ve seen since Ronald Reagan.

Like Huckabee would say, he’s not mad about being scary. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is scary because he masks his unreasonableness with a honeyed tongue. He’s managed to get the so-called liberal media to fall in love with him. Out of boredom, more than anything else, the news mongers are keeping him afloat.

How ’bout this: what if McCain picks Huckabee as his running mate, wins office and promptly drops dead! Then, our nightmare comes true: President Huckabee.

He’s even more ignorant than George W. Bush and unabashed about it. Asked about his lack of expertise in foreign affairs, Huckabee jovially agreed with his questioner, then added: “but I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express last night.” Much hilarity. His glib, happy-go-lucky persona is winning over pundits and ink-stained wretches alike.

The Republicans running to succeed W. are uniformly worse than he was as president, if you can believe such a thing is possible. McCain is worse because there’s no principle that he won’t trim, if it’ll help him become president.

February 13, 2008
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The News

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Ozier Mohammed/The New York Times

Barack Obama campaigning at a diner in Maine, where Democrats caucus Sunday.

BREAKING NEWS 10:09 PM ET: Television Networks Project Obama Will Win Louisiana

Obama Wins Nebraska and Washington; uckabee Wins G.O.P. Caucuses in Kansas By KATE ZERNIKE and PAUL VITELLO 33 minutes ago

Barack Obama defeated his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Democratic contests in two states as Mike Huckabee showed that he is still attracting Republican voters.

The U.S. Virgin Islands also gave its vote to Obama.

February 9, 2008
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The Other Party

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This shows how little I know. I thought former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as Republican vice-presidential nominee answers all the problems that Sen. John McCain is having reeling in his party’s base. Mr. Pat Toomey, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is now the president of the Club for Growth, thinks not.

Some have suggested Mike Huckabee. But that’s a legacy
of a hard fought primary season. Moving forward,
Mr. Huckabee on the ticket would be a disaster. The former
governor has a record of raising taxes and increasing
spending. Picking him would only make it more likely that
conservatives will sit on their hands come November.

Mr. Toomey would know better than I would, although you cannot discount that he and the group he heads have their own agenda. Club for Growth (CFG) bills itself as inheritor of Ronald Reagan’s “vision of limited government and lower taxes.”

It’s probably news to them that Reagan, among his many crimes against the American people, not only raised taxes, but he grew the size of government and the national debt beyond what was tolerable. Remember the national debt clock?
It took a Democrat, former president Bill Clinton, to erase the deficit and return sound fiscal management. Clinton left office with a significant surplus that another Republican president, George W. Bush, promptly squandered.

The Club for Growth advances this anti-government vision by supporting candidates for political offices who hew to its right-wing economic orthodoxy. It aggressively opposes moderate Republicans often to the consternation of GOP political leaders.

So who does Mr. Toomey think Mr. McCain should run with:

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint
Indiana Rep. Mike Pence
Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm
Forbes Inc. CEO Steve Forbes

I don’t much about most of these people (Sen. Phil Gramm probably belongs in prison, so corrupt was he; and Mr. Forbes probably belongs in an insane asylum, probably a well-appointed one since he’s wealthy but certifiably insane) other than that they’re Mr. Toomey and Club for Growth’s suggestions for the GOP ticket.

Here’s my question: Should the Republicans be banned from a couple of election cycles, considering the horrible state that George W. Bush is about to leave our country?

February 9, 2008
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