We now have the first race of 2012 under our belts. It was simultaneously exciting and boring. Exciting because it was a three-way race for much of the night, then it was a two-way race between the Dominant Guy and the Dark Horse, and then it was the Dominant Guy by a mere 8 votes. Boring because we conservatives are still saying, "Are we really going to go into this war with Barack Obama for the future of the country...with this group?" Sigh.
Well, sometimes you have to go to war with the troops you've got. While it's possible that someone else could jump in the race, it's not likely. So, here we go again, sucking up our frustration and having to make a decision about whom we want carrying the banner into the final battle in November.
Dominant Guy---Mitt Romney---remains dominant. His campaign is a machine of organization, fundraising and cash on hand. He's disciplined and so is his team. He rarely if ever steps off message, is late for an event or interview or makes a misstep. This is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because this is exactly the kind of tight ship campaign we're going to need to go up against Obama. It's a curse because he looks almost robotic out there. But in the end, I'll take disciplined any day.
The Dark Horse---Rick Santorum---came so close to Romney to place second not because he ran an ingenious campaign but because he was the last in line to grab a look from conservatives. Don't get me wrong: Santorum is a genuine conservative and a good man. But he surged only after everybody else did and was the last man standing. He's got some money rolling in now, but he doesn't have much organization anywhere else and not a lot of dough in general. We'll see how far his phenomenal Iowa finish takes him. Maybe through South Carolina. Maybe beyond.
Outlier Guy---Ron Paul---finished third, despite great organization and rabid fans. He finished strong, though not as strongly as some might have expected. He's right about spending, the debt and the Fed but woefully wrong about American superpower and our role in the world. That's hurt him big time. The United States cannot move into the 21st century with a commander-in-chief who doesn't believe in American power and influence.
I really feel for Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry---two strong conservatives---whose roads to the GOP nomination ended last night. They both had powerful messages of limited government, fiscal responsibility and free markets. They deserved close attention, and they got it---although they didn't always stand up well under the glare. Bachmann struggled to break through and Perry had some unfortunate debate moments. It occurred to most GOP voters that we really couldn't send either one into a general election against Barack Obama.
The November election is as serious national business as we will ever have. Despite our discontent, we've got to match the seriousness of the moment with our own seriousness. The future of the country depends on it.
"That comment bears REPEATING." - UG
GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN. Your taunts are beneath meaningless given the Source.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 07:27 PM
"Yet another example of how a very filthy and obscene reprobate abuses a website it discovers has no moderator. Shamelessness + cowardice = trollscum." - Gringoman
Asshole is just a word, and in this case, highly appropriate.
Of course, other assholes I'm sure will also be offended.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 07:28 PM
"Let's all get ready for the Mormon replacing the Marxist in the White House." - malarky
There is no Marxist in the White House, and there won't be a Mormon in there either.
Ever. No, really. Except maybe as a guest.
America. Love it or leave it.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 07:31 PM
"he said the anthropologists have proven it!" - DJ
DJ, please quit lying. I said anthropolgy has proved the first human beings were black.
If you believe that Adam and Eve were the first human beings, then they were black.
I also said that anthropolgy (and DNA) has proven that neanderthals did not go extinct, but crossbred with humans into non-existence. Which solved the thorny theological question, that, if Adam and Eve and Cain were the only humans on earth, who did Cain meet and breed with?
Yo mama. After God turned him into an albino Negro and white as a sheet.
Happy New Year, O crazed one.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 07:35 PM
"Maybe if Obama wins a second term, xbj can be his spiritual adviser. I think that message would fly with the Prez." - longrifle
If you only KNEW how many people I am spiritual advisor to, you'd crap your pants.
America. Love it or leave it.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 07:37 PM
If you only KNEW how many people I am spiritual advisor to, you'd crap your pants.
America. Love it or leave it.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 07:37 PM
Lim Jones complex. LOL!
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 07:48 PM
Jim Jones complex.
X-lax you are so F'ed up it's unbelievable!
LOL, but you provide us entertainment. Good on you for that.
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 07:51 PM
rafie, & you're one sorry azzhole that apparently has never witnessed the success of his state......as for idiotcy, how do explain the present occupant? Most importantly take your non opinions & shove 'em where the sun don't shine.............
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 12:28 PM
The successes of Perry. More minimum wage jobs than ever. More children without insurance. More...
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:05 PM
Just ignore what I said above.
.
Posted by: Ummahgummah | January 04, 2012 at 03:28 PM
we always do!
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:08 PM
The notorious anti-White bigot, X-lax--LONGRIFLE
Maybe if he was constantly debasing non-white like the irregulars. Maybe we should let the racists like the irregulars yell their constant racists remarks.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:13 PM
so basically what you are implying village idiot, is NO JOB is better than a minimun wage job eh? (which in Texas ain't so, but I can post that stats again if you'd like)
I gotta an idea why don't you STFU, cause other than your spiritual advisor nobody gives a sh*t what you want to parrot pt on............
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:14 PM
The notorious anti-White bigot, X-lax, proclaimed "White skin is the Mark of Cain" ... furthermaore, he said the anthropologists have proven it!--LR
They did prove that we ALL came from 4-600 hundred people of all ONE color. The different colors didn't come later until people moved away from the sun.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:15 PM
Yet another example of how a very filthy and obscene reprobate abuses a website it discovers has no moderator. Shamelessness + cowardice = trollscum." - Gringoman
Gringo want to improve the quality of the memo? Then, freaking Get off!
Since you came back. The memo has gone into the gutter!
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:17 PM
The notorious anti-White bigot, X-lax--LONGRIFLE
Maybe if he was constantly debasing non-white like the irregulars. Maybe we should let the racists like the irregulars yell their constant racists remarks.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:13 PM
---
Only jewboy jay could spin it that. Lies in jew fashion! Keep it up, jewboy!
Posted by: Samboonian | January 04, 2012 at 08:19 PM
so basically what you are implying village idiot, is NO JOB is better than a minimun wage job eh? (which in Texas ain't so, but I can post that stats again if you'd like)
I gotta an idea why don't you STFU, cause other than your spiritual advisor nobody gives a sh*t what you want to parrot pt on............
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:14 PM
I have freinds who were born and raised in Midland. They have said the quality there has gone down.Which is why they moved.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:20 PM
That comment bears REPEATING.
.
Posted by: Ummahgummah | January 04, 2012 at 03:44 PM
Okay I will Gringo and Ugly are looked in a doggie style position. How's that?
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:23 PM
Save the block letters for Mommy, you little punkass cowsard.--Gringo
Gringo, it's coward, not cowsard..
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:26 PM
VI, unless your friends are George & Laura, they must of been on the public tit.....unemployment in Midland presently is less than 2%........"if you ain't working, you ain't looking" & the service industries pay much more than minimum to keep their employees from jumping to the oil fields.....so how about that uh STFU 'cause you are clueless........
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:26 PM
Want to know why there is antisemitism? Look at Jay and Alan Colmes. Hear that Monica!
Posted by: Samboonian | January 04, 2012 at 08:27 PM
VI, unless your friends are George & Laura, they must of been on the public tit.....unemployment in Midland presently is less than 2%........"if you ain't working, you ain't looking" & the service industries pay much more than minimum to keep their employees from jumping to the oil fields.....so how about that uh STFU 'cause you are clueless........
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:26 PM
No they are retired. had to sell their home to a Mexican family. It's very much a Mexican area now. You work part time in texas. I have several friends and relatives that live or did live there. had an Uncle who was very high up at Fort hood. You are blinded.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:31 PM
"Let's all get ready for the Mormon replacing the Marxist in the White House"
Now we have religious bigotry on the memo!
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:33 PM
VI, you don't know jack sh*t, jack sh*t meet Jay.....so is it true you think NO JOB is better than a minimum wage job?
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR
GROWTH PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:37 PM
No they are retired. had to sell their home to a Mexican family. It's very much a Mexican area now. You work part time in texas. I have several friends and relatives that live or did live there. had an Uncle who was very high up at Fort hood. You are blinded.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:31 PM
Hey, look how incoherently stupid Jay is. Jethro with his sixth grade education would be embarrassed by him!
Posted by: Samboonian | January 04, 2012 at 08:38 PM
Holy crap!
This blog has really takin' a dive! Thanks to the maggot encrusted creeps that inhabit the bottom of the barrel of society. That means YOU, Jay, along your fat loser friend X-lax. If you had any decency in you, you'd do Monica and the rest of us a great favor and go back from whence you came and annoy the neo-nazis at YouTube. That's where you belong. Not at a conservative site hosted by a classy lady. Or better yet, you should follow Admiral Boorda's example.....
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 11:33 AM
why go back to Youtube? ther's enough racists on the memo. Except the ones here are amatuers compared to the Neo-Nazis on YT.several of them have probaby engaged in violent hate crimes. The racists here, their "thuggery" is all talk.Just name calling and insults. And, the classy lady? agree! Then, start giving Monica the respect she deserves!
And, let her run HER blog as she sees fit!
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:42 PM
VI, you don't know jack sh*t, jack sh*t meet Jay.....so is it true you think NO JOB is better than a minimum wage job?
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR
GROWTH PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:37
No such thing. But, Perry is well known for his low paying jobs. Remember DJ88's 24 reasons or so to not like Perry? that, he posted months ago.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:45 PM
once again pt #4 addresses Texas wages, average median is $15.14/hr
http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1590
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:48 PM
"Lim [sic] Jones complex. LOL!" - DJ
Have another sixpack....
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 08:51 PM
"Jim Jones complex.
X-lax you are so F'ed up it's unbelievable!
LOL, but you provide us entertainment. Good on you for that." - DJ
Perchance that's why I always win. Somebody up there likes me.
And good (or, as in the case of politics, always the lesser evil) IS winning this time.
Watch.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 08:53 PM
once again pt #4 addresses Texas wages, average median is $15.14/hr
http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1590
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:48 PM
And Texas has one of the highest property taxes in the country.
Oh, it's 14 reasons not 24.
http://www.infowars.com/14-reasons-why-rick-perry-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president/
Here's the first six
#1 Rick Perry is a “big government” politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.
#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.
#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?
#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.
#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a “track record” of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.
#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:53 PM
Cool. Jay and I simulposted.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 08:54 PM
Perry is yesterday's news. Did you see the pic of him on twitter with the puppy?
Reminded me of the dogs in the first Omen movie, released, not insignifantly, on 6-6-76.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 08:55 PM
#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.
#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year….
• We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
• We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.
• We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.
#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.
#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:56 PM
"Now we have religious bigotry on the memo!" - Jay
And why not? We've had every possible other kind forever.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 08:56 PM
information from a third party is heresay, information from someone actually at the scene is testimony..............
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 08:58 PM
Cool. Jay and I simulposted.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 08:54 PM
never tried to keep anyone from voting for or commenting about any candidate. But, since whoever wins is the President for all. Just want Conservatives to pick the right one.
Posted by: Jay | January 04, 2012 at 08:58 PM
F-uck it all!
I'm watching Mitt and McAnus coalescing on Fox News. F it ALL!
I'm existing the country! Belize sounds good.
F-Uck America! Liberalism sucks!
The GOP sucks!
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 09:17 PM
keep watching Herman has got an announcement at 9:30.......
PART TIME CONGRESS, FULL TIME PRIVATE GROWTH SECTOR, PERRY 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | January 04, 2012 at 09:19 PM
exiting
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 09:20 PM
If Herman gets back in, I have renewed faith in the country!
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 09:22 PM
"I'm existing the country! Belize sounds good." - DJ
Thank God. Can I help you pack?
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:31 PM
"If Herman gets back in, I have renewed faith in the country!" - DJ
One drunk white supremacist endorses another...
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:32 PM
"Just want Conservatives to pick the right one." - Jay
There is NO right one on the right. The only right one is on the left.
And so it shall be.
God bless America. Love it or leave it.
Dj is!
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:34 PM
One drunk white supremacist endorses another...
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:32 PM
--
Further proof you're completly insane!
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 09:35 PM
"Liberalism sucks!" - DJ
You think America is bad? Wait'll you get to hell.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:36 PM
"Further proof you're completly insane!" - DJ
Further proof I nailed it right on the head. Herman McCain is, indeed, a white supremacist.
Which is why you, also a white supremacist, loved him so much.
Durnk on his as*s and all.
Are you packing yet?
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:37 PM
Or let me put it this way:
Man is a caucasian supremacist who was born a Negro.
A transupremacist.
ROFL.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:39 PM
A white man born inside of a black man trying to get out.
Oh, Dole's on a roll tonight.
America. Love it or leave it. I hear Belize is nice.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:41 PM
Of course, all us racists know Herman Cain can't have possibly been an Oreo.
Not with that delightful ebonics accent! No way.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:41 PM
Herman McCain is, indeed, a white supremacist.
LOL!
You are so f'ing weird!
Posted by: DJ | January 04, 2012 at 09:42 PM
No, DJ, Herman is not getting back in the race. He's at the Koch plantation, fetching mint juleps for da Massah.
And he will be, for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: xbjllb | January 04, 2012 at 09:43 PM