comMITTed to Romney!

While others have been out on the campaign trail or enjoying the flurry of coming elections in their home states, I have been watching events unfold from the sidelines here in Texas. We don’t go to the polls until sometime in March. In the meantime, the personal nature of this election just stepped up a notch for me and my family.

You see, two weeks ago my husband was laid off. There is talk of the economy slipping and big government types are falling all over themselves to describe the myriad of programs they would use to “fix” everyone’s financial problems. I used to wonder how those promises would sound to me if I were in a serious financial situation. Well, now I know.

They sound condescending. They sound arrogant. Most of all they sound hollow. All they are doing is promising to take money from sources that could really help me out (i.e. businesses that would hire my husband or my in-laws who are in a high income bracket) and disperse it to me and others as long as we will live according to their directives.

Probably the most comforting political rehtoric is that spouted by conservative talk radio hosts. I heard it, again, for the first time the day after my husband was fired. I think it was Sean Hannity, but it could have been someone else. In a voice ringing with passion and sincerity they delivered a brief monologue on the opportunities offered to those who live in this nation. They talked of the opportunity to follow our dreams and build a life for ourselves in spite of any politician or government beauracracy.

Even if Hillary becomes the first woman president (heaven forbid), we will find work and carry on.

That said, the economic future of this nation would be better served by having someone in the White House that would get the government out of the way and let honest people buy, sell, trade and work freely in a capitalist system. Mitt Romney is the only candidate out there who even comes close to be willing to head in that direction.

There are lots of numbers and figures that can be used to make this argument but it’s rather late tonight. I just wanted to ask you, before you go vote in the primary on Super Tuesday–please remember my family. Don’t try and vote us a hand out. Instead, vote for the one man who understands the economy, who understands how to make business productive and successful and who will keep the government in it’s place. (At least for the most part.)

Please, vote for Mitt Romney. Thanks.

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Just one opinion on tonight’s debate:

With the exception of Huckabee, the candidates seemed tired. They are probably exhausted, but only appeared tired to me.

I am going to keep this short (you are all saying, “is that even possible with Vic?!!”).

I really tried hard to observe the debate as if this were my first time to see the candidates in such a forum. Focus here is on McCain. Trying as hard as I possibly can, I tried to put aside my bias. Mr. McCain really bugged me; more so than at any time prior to this night. There was something different about the man that I have not experienced in the past. To me, McCain has always been an obviously arrogant man — he has an ego big enough to fill that hanger alone.

But it was as if his Florida win gave him license to reveal a side of himself that he has had to keep bottled up. His victory speech last night, aside from being quite boring overall, was a rather meek (for him), conciliatory speech, ironically sounding as if he had the nomination wrapped. He did not seem himself in the speech. The win in Florida liberated him in his mind, I believe.

How many times tonight did the man say, “I am the expert” as he interrupted Governor Romney? Then, many times as Governor Romney was speaking, McCain would sit back with his hands clasped across his chest, looking straight ahead with that smug smile that completely exudes arrogance. In fact, a couple of the CNN pundits used words to describe McCain such as snarky and smirk. Now, I will reveal a little bit about myself. A human attribute I completely detest in any human being is that of arrogance. I must always check myself to not be judgmental of others in making such an assessment, so I don’t mean to be judgmental. I could be wrong in this assessment, but to me anyway, it appears that arrogance just flows and seeps and ooozes from every part of his being. It seems that to John McCain, every candidate, and for that matter every person around him, is simply not as qualified or competent or experienced or ready as he thinks he is. He appears condescending in every way to me. Might he have the Napoleon Bonaparte syndrome? For some reason, I always imagine John McCain driving one of those pick-up trucks in Arizona with giant tires, where the floor board is about six feet off the ground.

Candidly and with no hyperbole of any kind, it literally frightens me to imagine that man sitting in the Oval Office with the ability to do or say whatever he pleases, knowing that with a word, he can command any person or any thing and his wish will be immediately granted.

~ Vic

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A Hat Tip to MittReport for the above title and for this article from the Boston Herald:

Temper Tantrum Johnny

We see what he is like as a crotchety old man — I wonder what John McCain was like at four years old. I can just picture him flayling on the floor screaming when he did not get what he wanted. Or slamming closed his Risk board game when he was losing.

~ Vic

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H/T: Hotair and a tip from a friend of mine

First, here’s Grahamnesty playing dumb under an onslaught of facts from Sean Hannity and attacking Romney for allegedly supporting a timeline for surrender.

Putting that clip together with this link from Time Magazine from back in September, however, makes me think that perhaps Grahamnesty was just confused and projecting onto Romney his own desire and advocacy for a timeline to surrender.

Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2007
Lindsey Graham’s Iraq Deadline
By Michael Duffy/Washington

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a pivotal Republican vote in the U.S. Senate on Iraq policy, is willing to give the government of Iraq until Christmas to get its act together.

But not much more.

Graham told TIME Wednesday that the Iraqi leaders have 90 days to start resolving their political differences with real legislative agreements or face a change in strategy by the U.S. “If they can’t do it in 90 days,” he said, “it means the major players don’t want to.”
Graham, who has been to Iraq nearly a dozen times, including spending 11 days in August on duty as a reserve Air Force officer, pointed out that Washington has spent the last few weeks debating Iraq policy and emerged with a commitment to continuing the surge through the spring. That commitment, he said, is the green light for the Iraqis to finally take action on resolving their disagreements.

But Graham, who is up for re-election in 2008, said he will not wait forever. “If they can’t pull it together in the next 90 days,” he said, “I don’t think they are ever gonna do it.” He followed that prediction with a promise: “If they don’t deliver in 90 days, I will openly say the chances for political reconciliation are remote.”

Graham said he believed the “conditions are ripe” for political deals between factions on de-Baathification, which would ease the way for participation of Sunni tribes in local Iraqi politics, and on the holding of local elections, which would allow Sunnis to take a greater role in the Shia-dominated country.

Graham first hinted at a 90-day clock in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee September 19. In his comments before that panel, he merely predicted the world would see progress by Baghdad in the next 90 days.

In his conversation with TIME, he held out a stick in the event that progress does not materialize. Said Graham: “We’ve won the day here politically, to give them the infrastructure they need to do this. It’s been missing up until now. I am vocally saying it’s up to [the Iraqis] to deliver. We’ve done our part.”

Though he would not elaborate on what kind of plan he would push if the Iraqis fail to meet the deadline, Graham did say a change in strategy would be warranted. “If they can’t do it by the end of the year,” he said, “how do you justify a continued presence?”

In response to Graham’s comments, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Wednesday, “The President urged the Iraqi government to make progress on the political front in his meeting with Maliki yesterday. The President has also said that Petraeus and Crocker will report back in March, when they will be able to make a further assessment.”

Do McCandidate and his lap dog Grahamnesty really think that Republicans are this stupid?

By way of contrast, here’s the link to Mitt’s interview with Wolf Blitzer today. Note the good nature and humor with which he responds to McCain’s lies. Night and Day.

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Here are some latest news bits about Mitt.

Top Thompson Fla. fundraiser joins Romney

By The Hill Staff

Mitchell said she decided to go with Romney after she was contacted by the other GOP campaigns. She said she will likely start raising money for the former governor after she meets with him Sunday.
Mitchell said she thinks “a lot of the people I brought to the table for Fred will go with Romney.”

Scoring Mitchell and her considerable Sunshine State connections could prove to be invaluable for Romney in Florida’s Jan. 29 primary, as poll after poll continues to show a tight race.

Duncan Hunter endorses …. Mike Huckabee?!  Hmmm…

Hunter backs Huckabee

Hunter’s endorsement could help Huckabee with his credentials on illegal immigration and border security. The congressman’s presidential campaign never caught fire and ended Saturday, following the Nevada Caucus.
 

Louisiana results - Mitt gets another bronze - well, probably…

Louisiana Caucus: McCain wins, Paul second, Romney third

State party officials cautioned that the results were preliminary. In order for a voter to be eligible to participate in the Caucus they must have been registered with the state Republican Party by November 30 2007. Party official are still verifying provisional ballots for newly registered voters which may boost Paul’s numbers a little since most of the newly registered voters supported his candidacy.
The delegates elected at the Caucus will attend a state convention on February 16th where they will elect national delegates. As a result it is unclear at this time how many delegates each candidate will receive.

Finally, on a McCant, McCranky, McCain note - Ann Coulter says it like only Ann can.  Hat tip to reader Louise for this one!

‘Straight Talk’ Express Takes Scenic Route to Truth

 

John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most “electable” Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

It’s good, keep reading …

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I was talking with a friend this evening. He’s a McCain supporter. Where I ended up is that I would find McCain marginally acceptable (gritting teeth now…), except that his conduct during this campaign toward Mitt, I find completely unacceptable. Tonights debate really reinforced that for me.

I found this Newsmax article by Ronald Kessler from July 5, 2006 entitled “McCain’s Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President?” It makes a very comprehensive case that McCain does not have the temperament to be President.

Read it all, but here are a few key excerpts:

McCain’s outbursts often erupted when other members rebuffed his requests for support during his bid in 2000 for the Republican nomination for president. A former Senate staffer recalled what happened when McCain asked for support from a fellow Republican senator on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.

“The senator explained that he had already committed to support George Bush,” the former Senate staffer said. “McCain said ‘f— you’ and never spoke to him again.”

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“McCain used the f-word,” the former senator said. “McCain called the guy a ‘sh–head.’ The senator demanded an apology. McCain stood up and said, ‘I apologize, but you’re still a sh–head.’ That was in front of 40 to 50 Republican senators. That sort of thing happened frequently.”

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But only a few news outlets, like the Phoenix New Times in Arizona and the National Journal, that ran an Associated Press story reporting McCain’s 1998 joke suggesting that Chelsea Clinton was ugly and Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton were lesbians.

“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?” McCain said at a GOP fund-raiser in Washington. “Because Janet Reno is her father.”

There is a lot more…read the whole thing.

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“Mike Huckabee is the candidate that just keeps on giving!” [quote from Jeff Fuller just now after speaking with him]

Does Mr. Huckabee think we are all complete, utter idiots?

[Please forgive me for using the nickname "Duckabee" --- I depart from the normal decorum in this one instance as I believe the label best suits Huckabee as he continues to dodge truth --- I simply could not resist.]

KUDOS to Rusty, Ann Marie, and Mike for getting the Huckabee low-road story up so fast. Is this amazing, or what? Seriously, I think Huckabee woke up this morning and said to his wife,

“I think I want to become the first presidential candidate in the history of the Iowa caucuses to become a certifiable laughing stock of the media and the good folks of Iowa. What do you think darling? What is the best way for me to do that today?”

There are so many words that came to my mind after seeing all the reports today on this. I chose the title of this post from a line in Rusty’s post. Here are the words that came to my mind after watching all of these reports on Duckabee:

— CUNNING — INDECISIVE — MANIPULATIVE — CRAFTY — DISENGENUOUS — UNSOPHISTICATED — BACK-WATER — DISHONEST — CORRUPT — DECEITFUL — FRAUDULENT — DOUBLE-DEALING — UNPRINCIPLED — UNSCRUPULOUS — GUILE — TWO-FACED — DESPERATE (I could list the other 25 but want to keep this short)

Why the word “dishonest”? Simply because Duckabee absolutely knew that the State of Massachusetts, by law, does not allow capital punishment. Even if the guy feigns ignorance on this, he is inept at the very least. Governor Romney campaigned to add the death penalty in Mass.

The best moment of this day with Duck? When he said he made the (”high road”) decision to not run the ad but that he wanted to show it to the reporters so they supposedly would know he made the ad. He made that statement with a complete straight face as if he were serious. Then the entire audience burst out in complete spontaneous laughter and Duckabee stood there with a complete serious face. I totally expected him to burst into laughter himself. That was hilarious!

Carl Cameron, in one clip I saw, said this could end up as a genius move by Duck. If the people of Iowa don’t mind being played the fools by his camp, then maybe. There is a chance that Huckabee has attained “martyr” status in the minds of some in Iowa. If so, then there will be a sympathy following, but still I cannot imagine thinking people backing a person who touts his “Christian values” while his behavior is completely dishonest at best.

No, I think this will sink Huck’s life-raft. Iowans are not fools. Reporters of the MSM are not fools and I think they will turn on Huck. Until about two weeks ago, Huck has gotten a pass from the MSM. His presumptuous, manipulative, and cunning behavior to play all the reporters for fools will backfire. They will shred him in the next few days. Mark my words. It is over for Huckabee. He will get the martyr-sympathy vote, but that is it (credit to Jeff Fuller for this insight). Iowans are too smart to vote for this guy. I think we will see the media eat Huckabee alive over the next three plus days.

I wish I could be a fly on the wall in one of the Republican caucus meeting halls to hear the discussions among voters. Oh, how sweet it would be.

Here is how I would like the results to show three nights from now, in Iowa, on Thursday night:

— Romney: 44%
— Hunter: 18%
— Thompson: 9%
— Keyes: 8%
— Giuliani: 5%
— Paul: 5%
— McCain: 5%
— Tancredo: 4% (yes, he will still get votes)
— Duckabee: 2%

I gave Duckabee 4%, not because I think there are really dumb Iowans, but because I think 4% of the Republican voters of Iowa who liked Duckabee a month ago, will not have gotten the news from today.

IOWANS: Please remember that both Giuliani and McCain abandoned the Ames Straw Poll in August effectively telling you a) your straw poll does not matter, and b) we [McCain/Giuliani] don’t want you to have any of our campaign money for your economy.

~ Vic

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During his interview with Tim Russert on Meet The Press this morning Mike Huckabee declared the following:

The fact is in light of what’s happened in the last week, some of my comments on Pakistan seem almost prophetic.

I have reached the conclusion that this guy really believes that God has chosen him to be President and that every word he utters carries the endorsement of the Deity.

Also it is very pompous for him to declare prophetic foresight on current issues in Pakistan when until his advisers briefed him before this show, he didn’t even seem to know where Pakistan was on the globe.

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