8 Votes of Separation & Buh Bye Bachmann

Mitt Romney beats Rick Santorum by 8 votes.  Woo hoo!  He's on a roll now.  

Perry Tucks Tail,  Hightails to Texas to "reassess".  

Michelle Bachmann bows out in self-righteous style channeling Horton the Elephant  "I mean what I say and I say what I mean" and Prof. Harold Hill  'We Got Trouble Right Here in River City" which coincidentally takes place in I-O-WAY.  This woman can really yammer on.   She asserts the founding fathers wanted her to defeat Obamacare and Dodd-Frank among other things, and to "protect" us from Obama's socialism, our security, heterosexual marriage blah blah blah.

 If you want to waste another 10 minutes, here's the speech.  She's here for us.  

Newt in a snit.

Ron Paul & Rick Santorum...who cares?

Friday Funny

Inspired by kimy's suggestion to make Friday's fun, here's Kathy Griffin dishing about meeting Michele Bachmann on Conan.



Oh to be as quick witted as she!

Things to Come

First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate
June 13th 2010 New Hampshire
(AP photo)

You didn't think I'd let the very first Presidential debate go by without some kind of commentary, didya?

Held in our very own little "First in the Nation State" of New Hampshire last night at St. Anselm's College, the debate was moderated by John King who is excellent at keeping the talky talkers on point.  He did not allow diarrhea of the mouth or refusal to answer the question asked.  He was awesome!

Mitt did a good job.  He didn't talk too much and looked the part which is what everyone says about him anyway.  The big surprise to me was Michelle Bachmann.  I heard Joe Scarborough repeat someone else's comment along the lines of "...someone got her off the crazy juice" because she sounded reasonable.

Newt is toast.  Not sure why he showed up.  SNL did a great spoof of him leaving the debate a few weekends back after the moderator asked him, "You don't really want to be here do you?"

No reason to comment on the rest of the herd.  They stayed away from criticizing one another and stuck to a repititve onslaught of  Obama bashing.  It became just so much rhetoric.  

I lasted 45 minutes then turned to a much more interesting HBO movie called "A Matter of Taste" about Chef Paul Liebrandt.

Now that was theatre!   

 

Thanks for Nothing Anthony

I just commented on today's post by  "A Few Clowns Short".  It kinda put me in the mood to throw in my own two cents about Anthony Weiner, Democratic reprobate & loser. 

We have a Republican field for 2012 expanding exponentially.  We have Paul Ryan's tax bill proposing significant cuts to Medicare.  We have Sarah Palin riding around on a bus acting like a PT to every reporter who asks if she's "a candidate for President."  We have Michelle Bachmann hiring the vicious Right Wing former political advisor to Ronald Reagan, Ed Rollins, as her political advisor in a bid for the Republican nomination.  We have the banks and retailers going at it over debit card charges:  should they have a ceiling or can the banks continue to rake in $95 billion or more dollars in revenue from swipe cards at the retail level?   We have General Petraeus and Secy of Defense Robert Gates retiring but insisting we maintain a strong presence in the Middle East.  Qaddafi refuses to step down.  Our soldiers are still "over there".  Oh yes, and our economy sucks.

What are we talking about?  Anthony Weiner's weiner.  It's front & center and diverting attention from everything that really matters.

He's a jerk.  He should resign.  His wife is to be pitied.  Let's move on. 

 

Another History Lesson from Bachmann Palin Overdrive

Thank you Field Negro for this. My response is "How long, oh Lord, how long?"

The AP reports this out:

Revere was probably bluffing the soldiers, according to Joel J. Miller, author of "The Revolutionary Paul Revere." And while he made bells, Revere would never have rung any on that famous night because the Redcoats were under orders to round up people just like him.

"He was riding off as quickly and as quietly as possible," Miller said. "Paul Revere did not want the Redcoats to know of his mission at all.   Politico 6/5/11

If this doesn't ring your bell, perhaps Michele Bachmann's take on where the "shot heard round the world"  took place will do it for you.

 http://wonkette.com/446806/sarah-palin-hs-no-idea-who-paul-revere-was-or-what-he-did
             

 http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2011/06/03/sarah-palin-paul-revere-gaffe.html

The Road to Rogue

She's talkin' 'bout goin' "rogue" again in the 2012 election. 

Talking heads on MSNBC say Michele Bachmann is so inspired by the lack of knowledge, history and whatnot Sarah Palin displays, she's tempted to throw her hat in the ring as well.  

Ten million bucks a year, Sarah's income according to Chris Matthews, is a powerful incentive.   

If I didn't think the average American is so disinterested, dazzled by personae and just plain stupid, I'd be amused.

As it is, somebody, please shoot me.

Sarah Trump Newtie and Mitt: Oh MY!

Hear Sarah Palin talk about "vanquish"ing a great enemy. Listen to the Donald flirt with Sarah as he invites her to join his run for prez. God, imagine those two on the same ticket.

For those of you looking for a bit more insight into Mitt than SNL can provide, go here!

Shot Heard Round the World Fired by Michele Bachmann

I've been searching the internet all day for a video of Michele Bachmann telling a  gathering of N.H. Tea Partiers

"You're the state where the shot was heard round the world in Lexington and Concord."

Uh, no, we aren't, Ms. Bachmann and it would be reassuring to know you know your history which you clearly don't.  

Oops!

Of course, this is a drop in the bucket of what she doesn't know.  Chris Matthews addressed this issue in January:   

Matthews called Bachmann a "balloon head" on Tuesday for saying that the Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly to end slavery." He noted that, besides the fact that many of the founders owned slaves, and that slavery only ended nearly a hundred years after the founding of America, slavery was also protected in the Constitution via the three-fifths clause, which stated that slaves would be counted as three-fifths of all other people when it came to determining how many seats in Congress each state was due.  HuffPost 1/28/11

I could include more examples but why make you wait for the fun?  The video exists only on the site of our one affiliate in the state:  WMUR.  Enjoy! 

Random Political Tidbits

Mitch McConnell's GOP Agenda?  Take Down Obama

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one term president."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
National Journal 10/25/10


Meg Whitman Endorses Opponent Jerry Brown






 President Clinton Hammers Michelle Bachmann
But Not in a Biblical Way

"She 'makes Richard Nixon look like a member of Students for a Democratic Society.  They make Newt Gingrich and George Bush look like garden variety liberals'..."
twincities.com 10/25/10


Unendorsed R.I. Gubernatorial Candidate Says
Obama Can "Shove it"

Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Right, Unless You're Palin & Bachmann

For the love of God, noooooooooo!!!



I guess nobody told Michele Bachmann about Geraldine Ferraro "breaking the barrier" as a female vice presidential candidate all those years ago.

I suppose you could promote them as "Dumb and Dumber The Freakquel".