I suppose if you placed all those arrows around on a list of up and down on the Presidential candidates, you would — just this minute — have a down arrow for Candidate Perry and Bachmann, and an up arrow for Romney, Cain, and McCotter. \u00c2\u00a0The other candidates are in a perma-standstill.<\/p>\n
Which is interesting. \u00c2\u00a0A week ago conventional wisdom was something that Perry had displaced Bachmann who had displaced Cain. \u00c2\u00a0And maybe Perry was starting to fade a little even in this rubric. \u00c2\u00a0But then Cain just won a Florida straw poll… with, like, the vote count along the lines of the attendance of a Screaming Trees concert.<\/p>\n
Jon Huntsman remembers the Screaming tries, right? \u00c2\u00a0Seems like something he would remember, seeing \u00c2\u00a0as\u00c2\u00a0Jon Huntsman references Kurt Cobain… awkwardly<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve zoned out of this matter a bit more than usual over the last couple of weeks. \u00c2\u00a0There have been two debates — the headlines show Perry and Bachmann nicking at each other over fruit-loop posturing on vaccines. \u00c2\u00a0Ron Paul throws an assist in there. \u00c2\u00a0And Romney bludgeoning Perry over comments about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme, the better to check him in Florida. \u00c2\u00a0I guess it was someone with the Romney campaign who blew around and placed posters of a satirical nature about Perry’s comments in the boxes of the city’s alt weeklies. \u00c2\u00a0(Note: \u00c2\u00a0This is a joke. \u00c2\u00a0Those print-outs are liberal \/ Democratic based.)<\/p>\n The debates … the debates… one Tea Party, one Republican, neither distinguishable. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0A major news story is that the Republican Debate audience is cheering the macabre<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Figures, and kind of horrifying in light of Troy Davis <\/a>(Note: I don’t even want to wrangle through the contentious editing process on that wikipedia article.) \u00c2\u00a0And another flub over boos at the spectrer of gay soldiers — this gets a Rick Santorum Profiles in Courage-ishness<\/a>.<\/p>\n And Herman Cain is back. \u00c2\u00a0Kind of. \u00c2\u00a0Well, he’s got the Dennis Miller endorsement<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0That’s worth something, right?<\/p>\n And Thaddeus McCotter is tweeting about HIS jump to 1 percent in the polls… that’s\u00c2\u00a0THAD-MENTUM<\/a>! \u00c2\u00a0Or … statistical noise in being found in a poll.<\/p>\n In other cross candidate news — Ron Paul fans note that Newt Gingrich said History will include Ron Paul<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0And history probably should — there’s a chock-o voter bloc convinced that the EPA is out to poison them and it’s things like that that show the political accomplishments of Ron Paul.<\/p>\n Yeah…<\/a><\/p>\n In other Ron Paul Revolution News<\/a>… it’s a grassroots deal, you understand.<\/p>\n