Mitt Romney Stirring Up Religious War

Is it even possible to be a worse American politician than that simply evil creep who calls himself Mitt, though his actual name is Willard?

Last night, while Americans were dying in North Africa, at the hands of fundamentalist religionists, instead of taking them on Mitt attacked the Obama Whitehouse for sending tweets it did not send, and actually completely disavowed. Then he said it again, even after all this was clear.

And worse then that, some Republicans supported him. Evil little scumbags like Jim DeMint. Listen people, if you want a religious war with the Islamists that will scuttle this country, energy-wise and influence-wise in the whole world, vote this stupid evil twit into office.

I guarantee you, he will pull the switch and start the war that will end everything. Hey, you wanna commit suicide? Vote for Romney. I myself have children and grandchildren. I want them to have something of a world left, but the old white people are determined to ignore the truth and vote their stupid prejudices.

May the Lady's mercy keep this from happening. May the Lady's love see us through this darkness.

What Are the Rich Guys Buying from Romney?

It's an election year and of course that tends to make me sick and nauseous. When you hear the out right lies that Romney and Ryan tell, over and over again, because they know that quite a few people will believe them because they support their worldview, it becomes difficult to understand how this democracy can continue to exist.

I guess the actual question is, will the rich billionaires and the other oligarchs of this country be able to buy the election of our president in November? Will we be able to tell if this election is actually stolen?

The voter suppression tactics of the GOP are in evidence every where and there is some truth to the idea that whoever runs local voting can mess with the results. It has happened before. Certainly Richard Daley messed with the results in 1960. Certainly the GOP messed with the results in Florida in 2000.

So, if the election turns out to be saleable, who's fault will it be? Clearly it is the fault of those stupid democrats who joined the gang of seven to prevent a filibuster of John Roberts and Samuel Alito's nominations to the Supreme Court. Once they were aboard the Citizens United decision should have surprised no one. And of course the rich always support the GOP, for the obvious reason that they are not interested in the USA, but in themselves. Their fortunes. Rich people vote and support only their pocketbooks.

SO, let's see what they will have bought if Romney wins:
1. the stock market reforms will be rolled back so the financial guys can rape us again
2. the oil companies will get to keep a great deal more of the money they extort from the rest of us
3. Adelson, the Jew who owns casinos that strip money from people, will have bought that war with Iran he can almost taste in his Israel-is-more-important-then-the-USA mouth
4. Global Warming will pick up the pace as more coal plants go online
and
5. more kids will fall into that category of being "food insecure" as they put it these days

Let's hear it for the rich. What they do not understand is that there truly is a structure in reality that the hindus called Kharma. The rich can be rich and be okay, but only if they have taken care to be part of the rest of the species. Any time any of us does things purely for our own gain, there is a price. Maybe not in this phenomenol reality, but in existence as a whole. But, people like the Koch Brothers really don't believe this, nor do they understand what they are creating for themselves. If they did, they wouldn't be on that side at all.

And right now Ayn Rand is, not burning in hell, no. She's been confronted with all the pain her work has created and now she is sharing that pain, personally. Waiting for another chance on the wheel.

The Lady loves us all. She will give Ayn that chance eventually. After her kharma has been leveled. I am, as always, grateful, for the Lady's love, and especially at this time, for Her mercy. Perhaps if we embrace Her mercy we will see the collapse of the Republican effort to destroy the world Franklin Roosevelt built. Could happen.

What's In Mitt's Tax Returns? DId He Pay Little, or Nothing?

It is becoming ever clearer that Romney will not release his tax returns because they would end his presidential bid. Why? I don't think he paid no taxes at all, but I do believe he did everything possible to lower his tax rate well below ten percent of his income.

If his returns would become public they would show that he has no interest at all in funding the government of these united states himself. He is a taker, not a giver.

And his refusal to show his returns in the face of even a storm of conservative criticism makes it clear that they would defeat him completely in the general election. Here's the thing, they will probably defeat him anyway, now that Harry Reid has essentially called him out on it.

We know about the undernews. Here it is now: Romney paid no taxes for most of the last ten years.

Is that true? Probably, almost certainly not. But his refusal to prove that it isn't true means that the news in those returns is just as bad as what was in Ryan's divorce degree that wrecked his senate run against Barack Obama. You know, Obama has the edge in the most important category of all: dumb luck.

And Romney, smart and good looking, is eating himself alive. IT IS TRUE! If he were as smart as Obama he would have released his returns a couple of years ago and they would've blown over by now. But he has covered it all up. What a doofus!

I know I mentioned Eddie Haskell before, but it fits so well. The man is Eddie Haskell. OMG.

I am grateful every day for the Lady's mercy. And for Her love.

Eddie Haskell in the White House

Okay, I know I am getting to be an old guy and maybe some people won't really get this, but it is too good not to note. So today the Mittster stuck his big old foot in his mouth, in the U.K. to talk friendship with David Cameron, Mitt said that it looked like the Brits probably couldn't really run a good Olympics. Not like Mittster in Utah. Oh no. Yes, the man just went and insulted an entire country that is our main ally in the world, just to prove that he's much better then they are. His Olympics had no problems, you know.

Cameron came back with this line, "Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere." So very true.

Then in the facebook postings about this was this gem: Eddie Haskill lives.

That is it in a nutshell folks. If you don't know who Eddie Haskell was, you could always youtube him. He played a friend of Wally Cleaver's on Leave It To Beaver, going back to 1950s tv. Eddie was the kid who was real polite face to face with the adults, but a complete weiner behind their backs. Two faced, arrogant, but stupid and cowardly. Romney, in other words.

Will America elect Eddie Haskell as President? Wow. We really are in trouble, aren't we?

I do ask the Lady for Her mercy this November.

The Under News, Poison in the Body Politic

Here is a quote from David Frum's column today (which is mainly about response to the death of that black kid in FL):

You can read the answer on the past four years’ worth of front pages on the hugely popular website, the Drudge Report. Month in, month out, Drudge spotlights gruesome black-on-white crimes. In a country of 300 million people, there are always examples. These same stories circulate in e-mail chains — and often become the focus of local right-wing talk-radio shows.

The U.S. journalist Mickey Kaus calls it “under-news”: news that never quite emerges into the national media, but that shapes the consciousness of millions of people. And what is being shaped is a conviction among many white people — especially fearful elderly whites in the South — that the Obama presidency has licensed a rampage of black-on-white violence. That’s not what the statistics say. But as Stephen Colbert would say: statistics are elitist.

Frum was a speech writer for George W. Bush, and is a well known middle of the road republican. He blogs on The Daily Beast and is mainly a pro-Romney guy, but he is willing to critique the right and they don't like him because of it. He is absolutely right in this paragraph: There is what some have called "the undernews", Obama is a muslim, there are concentration camps being set up, the govt is getting ready to confiscate your guns. All of these stories are lies, made up to stir up ignorant people and give them specific reasons to hate Obama, democrats and black folk. We are in big trouble, and its because of these lies more then anything else. What do they think is going to happen if they win the white house? Do they think everybody is just going to fall in line and accept their lies???

In any case we have to stand true and vote for the democrats. There was a time I voted for Republicans, but they drove the middle of the roaders out of the party and I haven't voted for a republican in the last fifteen years. Too bad. We were a better country when the repubs weren't insane and capable of blatant lies. I have seen Romney say things that are completely false that he has to know are false, checkable on the internet in seconds, and he says them with a straight face. You don't see Obama doing that. If you did, Fox news would put it up on a repeating tape and run it for weeks.

Mittens Cleans the Santorum Off His Butt

The day after the Michigan primary for the Repubs, 2012. Well, Romney managed to stay afloat. I'm sure my sister, Dianne, and her husband Tom Bubnar, voted for Romney. I can't imagine them pulling the lever for Rick Santorum, though Ricky was supposedly the catholic candidate and Dianne is the one member of my family who still is pretty much an RC. Still, she has never been a fundamentalist member of the sect. And Tom's family have been what I used to call country club republicans for all the time I've known them (this goes back to 1963 when my sister married the guy). Mitt is definitely more their style.

I wouldn't be so frightened of the prospect of Mitt as president if he weren't so obviously comfortable lying on the spot. All politicians fudge the truth some, but Mittens, as he is known online these days, can do it instantly on the spot and say things that he has alread said the opposite of with no shame or apparent lack of belief. In a way there's a genius to a person who can whip out whatever data point he needs and claim it as fact, even in the face of its actual falseness.

It bodes ill for the fall campaign. Romney will clearly say anything at all in the pursuit of his ego and it s weird need to be the man. He should take a clue from Santorum though; Ricky played the I'm a nuts whacko catholic conservative in the last weekend and that probably lost him Michigan. He attacked John Kennedy. What could he be thinking?

So the women didn't vote for him. We'll see which mistakes Mittens makes on the way to finally finishing the rightwing nuts in the mix. And how will they really stand him after he is the nominee? Will Rush Limbaugh come running home, proclaiming Mitt the true alternative to that black guy in the oval office?

It is clear, however, that Santorum, and perhaps Gingrich too, have some sort of dream of an american theocracy cooking inside themselves. Santorum truly wants the mullahs to have the power. Only he calls them the bishops. Same difference, though. Assholes who want to control your life and take your cash.

The other interesting tidbit in this long running reality show that is the repub nominating process for 2012 is Ron Paul. He is managing to sidetrack his whole crusade like campaign because it has become abundantly clear he is a stalking horse for the regular republicans, the old controller set. Ron Paul is watching Mitten's back. In all the debates Paul has never said a word against Governor Romney. This is fascinating.

Though we all have our theories, I suspect it is all just about his son and his son's chances in the 2016 race. Meanwhile I think he has some sort of deal with Mittens about the convention. I think for sure Ron Paul is getting a big speech slot. And he will still be the weird grandpa of the Republican Party. It's all starting to twist in that fragrant wind, the effluvia of Newt's asshole giving a sharp tone to the proceedings of the next few months.

Super Tuesday next week. Welcome to March.

Rick Santorum Wants You to Put Your Dick Away

Now I am just sitting here, thinking about thinking. I enjoyed the fact that Rick Santorum won all three contests yesterday. I really enjoyed the fact that voter turnout was abysmal, that the Republican enthusiasm factor is beginning to wilt. Santorum is just an weird guy who wants to control peoples' sex lives. I don't see how that could be a winner in today's america, but what do I know? I think he'd bee a pretty evil president and would guarantee a big war in the middle east. He's an Israel Firster, and he thinks we should bomb Iran. Look for really bad economic times under a Santorum presidency.

On the other hand, is it possible for him to get to the nomination? Romney has all the Money and the organization. In the next two contests, Arizona and Michigan, Romney will money bomb Santorum, like he did the Newster in Florida. Ron Paul finished second in Minnesota, ahead of Romney. Its a wild ride for sure. I did like what somebody wrote online today about Paul, that his support is really from kids who want their pot legalized and who thinks Ron is the great peace advocate, when he's really just against spending money on the military. He would be a nightmare president, maybe worse than Santorum.

And the Mittster, who used to play close to Obama in the polls is now slipping into darkness. O has a 7% lead in the most recent, and O's favorabilities have gone up five points while Mittster's have fallen 17. Wonder what the money boys in the Repug back rooms are thinking now. Wonder what the Koch Brothers think they have bought.

And I read that Obama is seeking big money for his PAC (that he said he would never have, but must've realized they would carpet bomb him if he didn't get a hydrogen bomb of his own) from the guy who owns the Power Rangers franchise, a current fave of my daughter's. I think Bill Gates ought to just sign up to give O a billion of his spare dollars. That would seem worth it to me to keep us out of any new wars. I think any of the Repubs is likely to drag us into a big war in the M.E. With disastrous consequences for the price of gas and for the economy in general.

Economically speaking the most conservative thing you can do is vote for Obama. Any of the Republicans is likely to blow the building up. And that is not an overstatement.

I thank the Lady for Her mercy. "If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn/they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem."

Republican President Means the End of A Woman's Right to Choose and Probably the End of a Woman's Right to Procure Contraception

Politics on the right continues to be a slapstick movie version of reality. It looks like Santorum might just take Minnesota away from the glorious front runner, Senor Romney, the Mexican Mormon. Romney leads in Colorado, amongst the Mormons and skiers there. But Missouri is a tossup and perhaps Santorum will sweep up some of the Missouri rightwing catholics. Santorum is one of those catholic guys that I learned to hate in my years enduring the Church. Sanctimonius and desperate, absolutely desperate, to be "right" about everything. They are sad creatures these types who stagger through life desperate to force everybody else to be like them. When in reality they don't really want to be like themselves. But they can't admit that because they'd have to admit their lives are entirely devoted to whining.

Romney came out today and said the Komen fund's huge error in de-funding Planned Parenthood was the right thing to do. As usual Mitt is running well behind the story on the ground. The vice pres at Komen who promoted this action resigned today. She is gone and Komen has backtracked on the whole thing, but it is too too late. They screwed up big time. Now millions of people who used to give money to Komen know just how flawed an organization it is. How little of their money actually makes it to cancer care and research. They can't put that noise back in the bottle. Me, and lots of folks just like me, now know better than to take the pink ribbon seriously. No more. No more runs, walks, or contributions. Somebody else will sweep us this money and hopefully use it better than these people.

But Romney coming out, on the wrong side of this issue, points out something that everybody should pay attention to: If any of these Republicans are elected President of the United States they almost certainly will end women's right to seek a safe and legal abortion in the United States. It is pretty much one of the few things you can count on these guys to do, across the board. Even the libertarian goyourownway guy, Ron Paul, is completely on record as being utterly opposed to a woman's right to abortion.

That's right. A Republican President this time will probably get to appoint two Supreme Court justices in the next four years. They will only appoint judges that will vote their way on this issue. It is the central issue for the Religious Right. They will demand it of any Republican. And a Republican legislature will do all it can to re-enslave women and their sexuality.

Vote Republican and end abortion rights for all. That's what this election will really come down to. And after abortion, they will then seek to control women's ability to get contraceptives. These folks are against the normal sex lives that people lead today.

If you believe you should control your sex life, you cannot vote for the Republican party. Once you do that you have given them the power to destroy your life in its most intimate theatre.

But, if the Komen debacle demonstrates anything to the powers that really rule this country, it should be that if they destroy abortion and contraception rights there really will be an enormous effect. It will be an outcry that will last for years and that will destroy many peoples careers. And I think it is not too much to say that it really will destroy the Republican Party once and for all. The repercussions will go on and on.

Few people read this. Too bad. But I'm just putting it out here now for someone to find. Voting Republican means ending a woman's right to choose and a woman's right to choose to have safe sex. Rick Santorum is only the most explicit, but they all actually do believe that women who have sex should be punished, especially with the punishment of pregnancy.

I ask for the Lady's mercy for us all. Right at the moment I don't have the ability to forgive these twerps for what they are proposing. They will have a lot to answer for on the other side.

Wednesday Post Mortem

It is indeed Wednesday and I have crap to do later. Meanwhile the Mittster has kicked the Newt in the seat of his spacious pants. Will this be it? Now will we have to listen to months and months of paid for by rich republicans ads excoriating the President with lie after lie? I am afraid the level of crap on tv will become ever more widespread as the Mittster's minions do "whatever it takes" to get their robot into the White House so that the re-serfing of western civilization can continue apace.

Truly this next election will be a choice: give up and let the rich put us into the corrals of the lower middle class (and by us, I mean everyone but them), or fight back and try and obviate the corporate realms hold on most physical aspects of being. Americans (and really most humans) just love a good apacolypse scenario. We just plain like the drama. It makes us feel important to live in the "end times". So, I think you will hear a bunch of people blithering on about that, while the underground rattle will be the 2012 Mayan calender thing. Or is it Aztec? I haven't been keeping up with the nutcase reality of late.

Well, at least we won't have Callista for First Lady. She is kind of Barbie Doll like isn't she? I don't have a mental picture of Mitt's wife, but she is probably in the Laura Bush school of first wifery. She and Mitt had a bunch of kids. There is that story about the dog riding on the roof of the car for 12 hours. I read today that back when his sons said the dog ran away after that, but the Mittster says the dog lived to a ripe old age and died in his arms, crying softly that he wanted to see the White House.

This being the 1st of February, I ask the Lady Bridget (which I will pronounc Breed, as they did back in the day) for the mercy of an early Spring. It is Imbolc, the ewes begin lactating, in advance of giving birth. The world that lives continues on its fiery wheel. What Kerouac called "the quivering meat wheel of conception." He was anxious to get off that wheel, but I choose to stay in the game, riding the circle for yet another year. Thanks to the Lady, for Her love and for Her mercy.

Ignoring Ron Paul

Things get more fabulous every day here in the land of pretend. I watch the Republican primaries this season and shake my head in disbelief. They say so many things that simply don't match the reality. Yet, we are supposed to take seriously the idea that one of them could run the government?

So Mitt carpet bombed Newt in Iowa, back when people were taking Newt seriously there. Before xmas. So no Newt is carpet bombing Mitt in South Carolina. And New Hampshire didn't change a thing. The good burgers of Republicanism in NH came out for the candidate of the rich guys and the plutocrats, Mittster. The interesting tidbit of Republicanism is the rise of Ron Paul.

But the men who own the mainstream media do not care for Ron Paul at all, so he is either ignored or villified. I myself think Ron Paul is not the sainted Ghandhi figure his followers believe, but I can't help but wonder how the media can ignore the hearts of litereally millions of Americans when it comes to the good Doctor.

Sure he's a closet racist, and sure he's a fruitcake when it comes to economics. If he were President what could he really do? A lot of damage and not much good. But wouldn't it be fun? That's the apocalypse folks speaking. Still, the things that make Ron Paul important are easy: He is against stupid wars and maybe most wars and certainly he is against spending so damn much money on the war machine. And two, he is actually always speaking in a way that stays true to his beliefs, no matter how inane they are. People like that because he doesn't appear to pander.

However, his real record is rife with inconsistencies, so we can adjudge him an actual human being, after all. And not a saint, nor a grandfatherly figure who will make everything better.

What is ultimately going on in the land of Ron Paul/I'm #2!, is that he is a stalking horse for his son, Rand Paul. I think he believes that whoever runs this year will lose to Obama and that in 2016 his son, the senator from Kentucky, will have a decent run at a realistic chance for the nomination of the Republicans. For Paul's supporters come from the ranks of the young and bitter and they will only increase as the years go by.

No matter what Obama succeeds in accomplishing in his second term, things are just not going to be as good as the 90s ever again. And that is really what people are judging against. The 90s of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. If the Republicans hadn't wasted two years on the laughable impeachment, things could have been made even better. Though perhaps that isn't so. It was under Clinton that the Wall Street boys tossed out most of the rules to keep them in line. The etymology of the crash of '08 goes back to the Clinton years/and the Gingrich years.

In any case I am not a Ron Paul fan, having seen a video of him talking about the Civil War and getting the history of it very wrong. But I think his is an important candidacy and that his success should be taken by the establishment repugs as a warning bell, ringing loud and clear.

Things are going to change.

But, isn't the Republican race for the nomination so funny as to make you laugh until you cry?

The Lady brings us Her mercy. May this life continue on for many more turns of the wheel.

Cain, in Defeat

Herman Cain has had multiple failures that would have done in a more normal candidate, but he holds his 25-30% in spite of all the mainstreamers and the regular republicans can throw at him. Yet, that 1 of 3 republican votes mostly just establishes that the tea partiers are happy to have a black man that they can support now to show they are the racists everyone knows they actually are. The fact is that when the primaries start happening, and push comes to shove, a lot of those people are not going to vote for a black man, even one as clearly an oreo as this guy. Clarence Thomas himself could not get within ten percentage points of a majority of the Tea Party. There's a reason for that. A reason we are all actually quite clear on.

But having Herman around to confuse the regular people is quite fun. His sins in the 1990s are now coming to light, and it looks like he's broken a bunch of campaign finance laws. And he doesn't have any ground operations in Iowa and New Hampshire.

So, Romney won't win Iowa, but he will win New Hampshire, but it won't be a blowout win. Still he'll do okay in Nevada. But who wins Iowa now that our girl Michelle has come apart? Will it be Rickety Rick Perry, scoping the possibility of rising from the ashes of his weird candidacy? Who was it who talked him into running in the first place? He had his nice little kingdom that didn't stress his clearly limited intellectual resources. Why he would want to be pres must be all about the benjamins. Some rich guys are trying to get him to run a government that he actually hates. Perfect for the grover norquist types out there.

But what if Herman wins Iowa? Its a caucus state. I don't think that can actually happen, unless people there just hate the regular repubs so much that they want to fuck everything up as much as possible.

It really is too bad Sarah took herself out of this movie. It would've been pretty funny to see Mitt scramble when she rolls through the Iowa Caucuses and when she massacres him in South Carolina. Now, who knows what will stop the tepid train from rolling into the nomination station? Looks like the Plastic Mormon will be the opposition, come this time next year.

It really is a shame, but there is no actual conversation going on about what we are gonna do. Which means we probably are not gonna do anything. Welcome to the cardboard playhouse of the stupid rich.

They built this structure by competing with each other for who could hold the most marbles in their bowels. Pretty soon all that offal will carry them to the bottom of time's sea. There they will discover that it was all something of a hoax. Herman will be there, laughing his ass off and having a cigarette with his campaign manager.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth, Obama will be trying to negotiate a way out of the stupidity. Will we understand that in the nick of time?

It was the Band who said, "you can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat", The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

Republicans and Penis Size: Why They Really Hate Barack Obama

Well, the Republicans have always relentlessly marched us in the direction of fascism. That was true forty years ago, and it is true now. And the democrats are true leftists: they can't all be in the same boat at the same time without arguing about who's turn it is to paddle. I've always known nice people in Kansas and Oklahoma and even in Texas, but clearly most people there are minions of the evil empire of republicanism.

And politics is getting us all down. We all hoped Obama could force the gop to work with him some, not much maybe, but some. But we didn't figure that they would throw the baby out with the bathwater in their quest to get the "n****r" out of the White House. You know it is true. What I don't think they don't understand is that black folk are already clear on the fact that they are deliberately screwing the black guy president. Whether the repubs want to admit it or not, its a form of racism. Rush L. set the course two years ago when he said he wanted this president to fail. Or maybe they just don't actually care what the black folk think. They've got them down on the bottom. They keep 'em from becoming educated because look what happens when they are educated? They turn out to be superior to them rich white boys, like Mitt. And Rick. And particularly, George W. Bush.

I know that the real source of racism in the repubs is the classic: the black guy has the biggest dick, canard from long ago. Insecurity over penis size drives people like Mitt and Newt and allows Perry to overcompensate for his inability to actually understand certain things. And being a xtian allows them to be holier than thou about sexuality. You know, sex is bad. Black people are good at sex. Therefore black people are bad; particularly when they are doing it in the White House. How many orgasms do you think Laura Bush got in the White House?

And despite Herman Cain and that slimy bastard on the supreme court, Clarence Thomas, black folk are never gonna forgive the Repubs. And neither, ultimately, will the brown people. The latinos, despite the fact that they are overwhelmingly catholic in culture, just aren't going to be able to go for the Repubs knowing they actually hate them on a racial level. What was the term? Beaner? Something like that. You ever see that great scene in Giant when Rock Hudson gets into the fight in the diner over the mexican family getting served. Rock tries to stand up for them and gets his ass beaten by the white cracker cook. Good scene. True to life.

We can only hope that Obama survives the gauntlet of Republican obstructionism and comes out the other side with his integrity mostly in tact. Now that would be a triumph over racism in this country. If we could just allow the man to be the President we know he would be, if he were white.

The Mormons are Coming! The Mormons are Coming!

The snarks of current utopian dweebs; that is to say, the first Republican debate of this season. It took place in New Hampshire last night, and despite the large group of people willing to say anything at all to get a chunk of the power cheese, it turns out that Republicans are gooey soft in the center after all. Mitt Romney won the debate, going away, though Michelle Bachman pulled out of the pack as far as the crazy wing of the party goes.

It was always likely that Mitt would be the one seen by the elite as having the best chance to chase the Obama Man from the top of the heap. I truly wonder why that is, but I do think the zeitgeist was promoted Joseph Smith-wise by the crashing success of The Book of Mormon at the Tonys night before last.

Gosh, those darn Mormons! They even let black people in (after 1978, when God rearranged his list of appropriate latter day saints). In any case, it's a Romney romp for the moment. And with Michelle turning out to be good at the debate thing, does this mean that the Queen in waiting, Sarah the P., is done for this round?

It will be interesting to see what Sarah does to try and wrest the diva crown back from Michelle. There's already been a small bit of sniping between the two camps. It is said that Michelle has Iowa already wrapped up. We reserve judgement on that, but nobody around here would be surprised to see Michelle Bachman pull Iowa out of her, well, let's call it a hat.

And so Mitt (how I love that name, so baseball, so foodie, so my name backward!) is taking a big pass on the Iowans. He depends upon those live free or diers in New Hampshire to prove his bona fides. Of course, last time they went for John McCain. Now I have lived in NH and I can tell you that the reason McCain won in 08 is because the independents who can swing either way assumed the Obama had already wrapped up the dem nod and so they voted republican to try and swing the repubs back to the center of things. At that time McCain was viewed as a moderate, even a liberal republican.

Of course, as we all know, after a few months on the campaign trail John McCain devolved into the guy who picked Sarah Palin to take over after his heart attack. That one thing, alone, lost him the election. No matter what the Palinites say, the image of Tina Fey invoking her Queenship's vision of Russia from the front porch wrote cancelled on McCain's final big check. Yada yada, as they say.

So, if it is the Mittster, amid the newly mormoning of america, what does that mean for Barack and the dems? I have to say I would really enjoy that debate, between the cool black dude and the plastic boy from old money. I think Mitt would probably be able to tack to the center gracefully and keep his very Mittness as an asset. Can he win? Too many variables to know.

As a hardcore dem and an early supporter of Obama, I wish the repubs would nominate Sarah Palin, because I think Barack could handle the woman well and would win by a margin, coattails even. But as an american who actually cares about the future (I have two granddaughters and expect I'll have some more down the way), I think I'd prefer a more sober contest. And I do think Mitt actually offers that to the country.

As for poor old Tim Pawlenty. Dude, it was always just a dream. Give it up and keep on moving.

And Newt? What a weiner (yes even more of a weiner than the weiner man himself). Self deluded pretty much to the max. Give it a rest man. Close the pie hole. Go on a diet. Self your wife's jewels and fund an end hunger program in the third world. Be useful. You claim to be a catholic, well, get right with the church's teachings. You are way off base with this pro-rich guy stuff.

I did read somebody this a.m. who suggested that the Donald will run as an independent on his own money. I counter that by saying in reality Donald Trump doesn't have that much money and wouldn't waste it on a run he probably wouldn't win. Once again though, as an Obama supporter and someone who hopes the country has an actual future, I urge the Donald to take the independent plunge. I believe it would guarantee the re-election.

Finally, I'd really hoped that there would be a great deal more range to the republicans this year. But if they are all going to just shuffle and bow to who they think the tea partiers are, then I'm not watching anymore of this show. And then it will truly be over by xmas (yes, even before the actual voting and caucusing). Just keep your eye on the fundraising. Where the money goes, so goes the party. That's republicanism.

Thanks to the Lady for the mercy of a sense of humor in this crazy weird time.