It’s never too early to start contemplating the Republican Primary campaign for 2012!<\/p>\n
Well, actually it is.\u00c2\u00a0 But never mind, let’s roll my second “2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Cattle Call” listing of who’s up, who’s down, and who’s sideways as the candidates all line up and jockey in order to lead the currently embattled Republican Party to victory against Cheese – Eating Surrender Monkey* and chronic Tele-prompter reader Barack “Barry” Obama.<\/p>\n
The hard data we have to work with <\/a>from since last time\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>— polling shows a Statistical Three-Way Tie between Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 Newt Gingrich trails.\u00c2\u00a0 Jeb Bush is proferred for reasons not quite clear.\u00c2\u00a0 Tim Pawlenty is not proferred up as a name.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor is Bobby Jindal.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor is John Ensign.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor is Ron Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 The list is thus useless.<\/p>\n Bare in mind that at a similar point in the 1948 race, Henry Wallace was the Democratic favorite — before joining the Communist Party as the head of the third Progressive Party, and that at a similar point in the 2004 race, Joseph Lieberman was the Democratic favorite, before joining himself as the head of the Joseph Lieberman Party.<\/p>\n #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Mitt Romney.\u00c2\u00a0 I still think he is the choice by default.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s been making a lot of speeches calling Barack Obama a poopy-head and all the rest.\u00c2\u00a0 Interesting to note, this exercise of absurdity — the idea that Barack Obama should put Mitt Romney in as head of GM<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Assuming the worst, that Obama is sold on Mitt Romney — is a neoliberal of the highest order who goes for Mitt Romney’s Union – Busting ways in restructuring GM, and assuming that he thinks Romney would do a terrific job in a political vacuum — the political vacuum is pierced by the fact that Romney fancies himself President and would much use his position for some good amount of political grand-standing, which pretty well undermines his job.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad idea.\u00c2\u00a0 Also one of those Silly ideas that shows people have too much time on their hand — similar to this hypothetical match-up scenario asking if Michael Dukakis might have won the 2008 presidential election<\/a>.<\/p>\n #2:\u00c2\u00a0 Ron Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey.\u00c2\u00a0 A vast swarth of votes is his if he wants it.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe, just maybe, the necessary political realignment\u00c2\u00a0due to the\u00c2\u00a0interloping hooligans known as the “Free Staters”<\/a> will give him the boost he needs to win the New Hampshire primary!<\/p>\n #3:\u00c2\u00a0 Sarah Palin.\u00c2\u00a0 She may want to not run for re-election in Alaska<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the problem with our political system:\u00c2\u00a0 it encourages politicians to avoid having a job lest they leave a record to scrutinize. #4:\u00c2\u00a0 Mike Huckabee.\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 Really.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t laugh.\u00c2\u00a0 Why, he’s currently in\u00c2\u00a0a three-way tie with Palin and Romney!\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure his speech at the Iowa Association of Business and Industry’s annual meeting in Okoboji on June 10 will go down in the anals of History.<\/p>\n #5.\u00c2\u00a0 A tie.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s John Ensign, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, and Bobby Jindal.\u00c2\u00a0 There may or may not be much to say about any of them, except that they’re all kind of mysteriously swarming into the state of Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n I always wonder about Iowa.\u00c2\u00a0 Do Iowans want to be continually swarmed by greasy politicians, at all hours of the night, at all days of the year, for about three straight years?\u00c2\u00a0 What percentage of their economy is based on campaign flutterings?\u00c2\u00a0 Is this Iowa’s fate?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Regarding Newt Gingrich — a sign of his viability as Presidential timber — his twitters\u00c2\u00a0are considered newsworthy<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Regarding John Ensign — do you quite believe this copy?<\/a><\/p>\n “I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rising star in the conservative movement and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to introduce him to Iowa,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Tim Albrecht, an organizer for the American Future Fund, an Iowa-based conservative advocacy group.\u00c2\u00a0 Albrecht, a former staffer for Romney during his presidential run, said Iowa is the perfect place for potential candidates to hone their message. Romney visited Iowa repeatedly before declaring his candidacy, then held events in the state almost weekly in the months leading to the caucuses.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find a more fertile soil in America to begin growing the new conservative movement,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Albrecht said.<\/em><\/p>\n Does anybody desire to see a ticking off of what everyone else is doing in Iowa?<\/span><\/p>\n #9: Another tie.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not that either one of them are any more or less forminable than the entry for #5.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just that neither of them are in Iowa right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the two, I’d give the edge in Presidential racing to Pawlenty.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s quitting his job — Sanford seems to be sticking to a job, and that’s going to end up killing his chances.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though it may be better if he did opt out of his job<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n * Due to historical problems with that insult, the word “monkey” is sort of null and void for this particular President.\u00c2\u00a0 I regret the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s never too early to start contemplating the Republican Primary campaign for 2012! 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\nAlso noted here, in purely crass political terms, the Islamic Fundamentalist who shot the army recruiter proferred Palin an easy out in addressing the Tiller murderer — a little from section a and a little from section b comes out a bit tidier.
\nAnd on the pop cultural front, Hustler has released, with a quasi-safe video clip on youtube, a new porn film by the title “Obama is Nailin’ Palin”.\u00c2\u00a0 So you’ve got that.<\/p>\n