LEE RODGERSVOTING FOR A CANDIDATE -- OR AGAINST
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AFGHANISTAN ANGST ...
SANTORUM'S DISORGANIZATION
AFGHANISTAN ANGST ...
SANTORUM'S DISORGANIZATION
Some Republicans are decrying the perceived lack of enthusiasm for any of the remaining candidates for their nomination. Perhaps I'm in a minority, but since I've almost always voted against one candidate rather than become (naively, in my view) overly-enthusiastic about the other, this is not a conundrum for me.
In fact, this year is one of the easiest choices I've ever faced despite the fact that I'm not all fired-up about Gingrich, Romney or Santorum. But then again, I haven't been optimistic about any candidate since Reagan. And then it was mostly because of the abysmal performance of Jimmy Carter.
Thus, I am less concerned about the ultimate Republican nominee than about the absolute necessity of removing the worst president in history from office.
Let us repeat the mantra of the sensible voter ...
Never fall in love with a politician. They'll break your heart every time.
Amen.
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Once you cut through all the goody-two-shoes obfuscations, the real reason Democrats oppose voter identification is obvious. Through the long, sordid history of illegal voting ... illegals to dead people ... it is the Democratic Party that has cultivated and had the far more bountiful harvest.
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Survey says ...
... 53% of Likely U.S. Voters support the complete pullout of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. (Rasmussen). Not surprising when our leaders never convinced the public as to why we're there, then not only fail to win a war while losing lives but concede defeat by announcing a date-of-departure in advance. This is "leadership?"
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The Washington Times editorially summarizes the dilemma both parties face re Afghanistan ...
"Mr. Obama’s challenge in the election year is to make the planned withdrawal from Afghanistan not look like a defeat. His Republican challenger, meanwhile, has to have something more positive and popular to say than 'Stay the course.'”
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I hold a deeply-felt suspicion that Obama would be happy if the U.S. military were reduced to the status of the palace guard in Monaco. Armed with unloaded weapons.
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Even the liberal Washington Post's fact-checker finds the Tom Hanks-narrated video about Obama rife with half-truths and outright lies. Especially about Obama's mother and the treatment of her terminal cancer.
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Easiest prediction of the year: As more people learn from bitter experience, either personally or through mistreatment of family members, what Obamacare means in terms of medical procedures denied, the poll numbers showing dislike of this forced "health plan" will hugely increase. Medical coverage in the abstract is given little attention by most folk; when the shortcomings strike home, the painful reality will induce some serious thought.
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Rick Santorum's organizational failures might call into question his ability to handle the responsibilities of the Big Job. He failed to get on the ballot in Virginia ... didn't file delegate slates in some congressional districts in Ohio ... and, going into today's Illinois primary, again has no delegates up for election in some districts and his people may have failed to submit the required number of signatures in others.
References to inability to organize a one-car funeral procession may be in order. Or a contest of some sort in a brewery.
And what is this silliness? -- Santorum saying that "the unemployment rate and economic growth are secondary issues." Dumb-de-dum-dumb.
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Burt Prelutsky with a reminder about the consequences of irresponsibility and the blind worship of celebrity idols ...
"A recent study showed that 53% of women under the age of 30 giving birth are unwed. Among black women, the number soars to 73%. One could make a case for the fact that a great many female celebrities provide role models for these women, but the problem is that the ladies who make millions of dollars acting and singing can afford to pay nannies to raise their children. The poor schnooks who idolize these sluts tend to be ignorant and penniless, pretty much guaranteeing that their offspring will wind up equally ignorant, penniless and, more than likely, wards of the state, whether in or out of jail."
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So it's Denver for Peyton Manning. Which likely means Tim Tebow gone. To??
Jacksonville badly needs a drawing card after playing before too many empty seats ... Tim Terrific made his reputation at the University of Florida ... so that looks like a strong possibility. Miami? Maybe. They've been playing before thousands of empty seats, also. And Tim's alma mater, the University of Florida, has far more alumni in the Miami area than does the much smaller and more expensive University of Miami, which is private and has tuition on the level of Ivy League schools.
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That ludicrous "King" who was the centerpiece of the Burger King commercials didn't get the job done, and BK has fallen behind Wendy's for #2 in the Hamburger Derby.
Who's #1 -- by a mile? No need to McAsk.
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There will be much media industry speculation about the failure of Oprah Winfrey's cable network OWN (for Oprah Winfrey Network) to gain traction. Rosie O'Donnell, who went from Ms. Likable to one of the most disliked people on television, failed to get OWN off the ground. She's taping her last show today, to be run next Friday. Meantime, 30 more people have been cut from Oprah's payroll.
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It compromises my claim to infallibility, but I'm actually proud that my readership includes folk who catch glitches like a misplaced apostrophe in "it's". I know better, but sometimes the thought gets ahead of the fingers on the keyboard. Then an oversight in proofreading ... and then it's on the web and I drown in shame!
Actually, the over-used and misplaced apostrophe is one of my own pet gripes, so I am doubly humiliated. Now I shall retreat quietly to my sarcophagus and weep ...
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Words of wisdom from a long-ago teacher upon hearing a colleague remark that he was spending his weekend "just killing time" ...
"Wrong. We're never killing time. Time is killing US."
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A truism the left never learns ...
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -- Winston Churchill
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Reader Rick, taking note of the choice of many Californians to relocate to Texas, offers the following translations to facilitate communication ...
CALIFORNIA TEXAS
Delicate Wetlands Swamp
Undocumented Worker Illegal Alien
Multicultural Community High Crime Area
Upper Class or "The Rich " Self-Employed
Investment For the Future Higher Taxes
Healthcare Reform Socialized Medicine
Exploiters or "The Rich " Employed or Land Owner
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."