Ron Paul Fans Conveniently Ignore His Racist Ties, Crackpot Views

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GOP Lacking Decent Candidates for 2012

Newt Gingrich

While the mainstream media seems to fueling the story that the Democrats are in trouble, the Republicans are not exactly in great shape either. The recent CPAC poll shows the lack of viable Republican candidates for 2012. Rep. Ron Paul, a fan of the libertarian crowd, was the surprise winner of the poll, but he comes with all kinds of baggage.

Ron Paul, and his family, have been linked to racial scandals on at least three occasions. The latest thing I discovered was a picture of Paul arm-in-arm with Derek Black, a second generation white separatist, who ran for a GOP post in Florida. There is a saying from Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger," "Once is pure chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." So according to Paul's track record and the company he keeps, it seems clear where he stands.

The other candidate that conservatives are excited about is former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the genius behind the Contract on America and impeachment of President Bill Clinton. When the smoke from the impeachment, cleared Gingrich and his replacement Rep. Dan Burton were both out of a job, and Clinton was still in office.

Gingrich, who has formed a PAC, also has a pretty messy personal life. He is currently on his third wife, and was having oral sex with a staffer, while he was trying to get Bill Clinton fired for the same thing. (He did this so he could claim that he was not extra martial intercourse.) Gingrich may believe that he washed away his sins by converting to Catholicism and confessing to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, but I doubt if the media will be as forgiving.

The best candidate seems to be Mitt Romney, but he failed to capture the nomination last time. And with the Republican party currently being hijacked by the far right, I doubt if Romney or Paul could get elected. There is always the wild card Sarah Palin, but that seems to be more of a media story than anything else. Palin's poll numbers are abysmal, and she is too far right to win over moderate parts of the country.

It also seems that Republicans are beginning to cotton onto the fact that Palin is shallow. Bill O'Reilly recently said she needs to go back to "political college," and Jeb Bush said GOP candidates need to show "more intellectual curiosity." Who do you think he was referring to?

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Mass. Man Arrested With Stockpile of Weapons

Paranoid, white people with guns always scare me. According to this story from Talking Points Memo, the latest is Gregory Girard of Manchester, Mass., who was recently arrested by agents of the Bureau of Alchohol, Firearms and Tobacco.

Girard, a technology consultant, was arrested with camouflage uniforms, guns, knives, bullet proof vests, night vision goggles and a six-month supply of food! He is believed to have been hoarding supplies in preparation for Armageddon. Girard's wife became alarmed when he suggested that she "stop talking to people, and just shoot them in the head because traitors deserve it." That sounds awfully like some media commentators I know.

It's easy to laugh at this kind of behavior, but this kind of paranoia is being fueled by FOX News, which has Glenn Beck running "The sky is falling," type stuff every night.

It will be interesting to see what media sources Girard was reading.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/police_ma_man_stockpiled_weapons_feared_armageddon.php?ref=fpblg

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Post's Broder Says Palin Tea Party Speech Was "Pitch Perfect"

David Broder

Washington Post columnist David Broder is referred to as the "dean of the Washington Press Corps." Well it might be time for the Dean to retire. His latest column is a fawning a love letter to Sarah Palin and her recent speech at the Tea Party convention.

(I think Broder may have scored some Viagra and is hot for Palin.) One of the problems with the newspaper business if you have fossils like Broder, who have been in place for years, and no one dares to question or even challenge.

Broder said that Palin was "pitch perfect" and hit all the conservative and populist notes. Maybe Broder is getting senile, because most media pundits widely condemned her speech, which was the usually grab bag of GOP talking points, strung together in Palin's grammar-free style of talking.

Also Broder needs to remember that Palin was speaking to a group of assorted nuts who believe that the president was born in Kenya and one of their speakers advocated bringing back racist voting laws. Huffington Post Editor Simon Whatley describes the Tea Baggers as a "national embarrassment.

Broder goes on to say that Palin may pose a challenge to GOP front runner Mitt Romney in 2012. The GOP had better hope that Palin, who prepared for her big speech by writing notes on her hand, doesn't run in 2012, because a recent Washington Post poll said that most Americans think she is not qualified to lead the country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021002451.html

Alarmist Root Article Claims Obama Paving Way for Palin Presidency

Sometimes left wing blogs can really get on my nerves, especially when they start going over the top with their anti-Obama diatribes. The Root, a web site that is geared towards African American news, recently printed a ridiculously alarmist story claiming that Barack Obama's screw ups are guarnateeing a Sarah Palin presidency.

Firstly, Palin has not come out and said she will run in 2012 and secondly, there is no guarantee that she will make it through the gruelling primary process. Palin has a reputation for quitting when the going gets tough and she attracts scandals the same way Tiger Wood's attracts bimbos.

In addition, 2012 is still two years away. There is still plenty of time for the economy to improve. Plus Jon Jeter, author of the Root article, is discounting Obama's popularity. The country is changing and becoming browner, while the GOP seems to be digging in its heels by becoming more conservative and sticking to it's base -- angry white people. Just look at the success of the Tea Baggers.

http://www.theroot.com/views/how-barack-obama-paving-way-palin-presidency?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheRootRssFeed+(TheRoot+RSS+Feed)

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Ron Paul Says American People Are Demanding Third Option

Rep. Ron Paul talks to CNN about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to speak at the Tea Party convention. (She is alleged to be collecting $100,000 for his speech.) Palin turned down the opportunity to speak at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention alongside other Republican 2012 hopefuls, which may suggest that she is positioning herself to run as a third-party candidate.

I don't think Palin is a serious candidate and even if she ran on the third party ticket, she would only guarantee their failure. Palin creates drama every where she goes, and unlike Ronald Reagan, who was called the Teflon President because scandals never stuck to him, Palin is theVelcro Candidate who collects scandals the way nerds collect Star Wars figures. If the Teabbagers want to put their faith in a candidate as shallow as Palin, they have big problems.

Paul, a Republican with a libertarian streak, says that the main problem with the American political system is that both parties are too similar, especially when it comes to their views about the size of government and fiscal policies. He has some points, although I would argue that there is a big difference between a Republican party that started two wars and gave tax cuts to the rich, and a Democratic party, which is trying to push through health reform and middle class tax cuts.

Paul says that any third-party candidate will have a hard time breaking through the American political system. He said that even getting on the debates is difficult if you do not belong to either of the two parties.

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Cheney Rumors Show GOP Desperation

Recently several right-wing writers at publications like the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report and the Wall Street Journal have floated the idea of former veep Dick Cheney running for president. If they are really serious about this idea, it just shows how out of touch with reality the GOP is.

I know things are desperate, but when you start reaching back to the genius behind the last eight years of disasterous policies, you have officially lost it. But recently everyone from Sarah Palin to Glenn Beck has been named as a potential 2012 candidate.

Whoever the Republicans run for president needs to have broad-based appeal that can bring in independents and even conservative Dems, and Cheney is not that person. He has a whole army of fresh skeletons in his closet, that he really does not want the press digging into. Maybe this time they can ask him about his health.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2009/06/02/cheney-for-president-in-2012-republicans-have-no-one-else.html

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