Who won the debate in Iowa last night? Four possible choices:
- Anyone who didn’t watch it
- President Obama
- Rick Perry
- Fox “News”
I watched the debate, to my own detriment, and didn’t hear ONE feasible idea or solution given by any of the candidates on stage. They threw around the word ‘jobs’ a few times but no one elaborated on how to create them. I don’t think the words “middle-class” were ever used.
Bachmann flat out lied about S&P’s reasons for the downgrade, and she did so calmly and thousand-yard-staring right into the camera. So that should tell you all you need to know about her.
Bachmann and Romney say they would NOT have raised the debt ceiling last week. Can you imagine the world of hurt we’d be in this week? I have to say I did admire Santorum’s speaking out against this kind of extremist lunacy with his “showmanship not leadership” scolding. To me, that sums up Bachmann, Palin, the Teaparty and the entire GOP Congress right now. Or as Andrew Sullivan says, “The current GOP doctrine is not conservatism, it’s anti-government radicalism”. That was on full display last night. Also, Santorum said the C-word (compromise) so, obviously, he’s out.
Of course Ron Paul had a couple sensible ideas. He was arguing to end the wars — which the crowd loved. No one else seems to want to end the wars. And auditing the Fed isn’t a bad idea either. But he won’t win the GOP nomination.
Newt Gingrich was just flat-out pissed off last night. It was like watching Michael Douglas in Falling Down, if Douglas was about 150 pounds heavier. He got into it with Chris Wallace and the crowd went wild! Gotcha questions and the lamestream media, dontcha know. How dare Wallace ask Newt about Newt?
Bachmann and Pawlenty had a couple of Minnesota-nice kerfluffles. Is she as useless as Pawlenty described? Or is Pawlenty really a version of Obama? All I know is, who else but Bachmann would crow about introducing the “Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act”? Right there, that’s the extent of her years in Congress.
However, when asked who would walk away from a 10:1 deal (spending cuts vs. tax increases), every one of them raised their hands. Every one of them, even “showmanship not leadership” Santorum and “let’s legalize all the drugs” Paul. And that’s just stupid. Seems they all agree that corporations should be more ‘competitive’ by way of further tax cuts.
So that’s all they’ve got: more tax cuts. Corporations are people, my friend!
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Michele Bachmann: Gays can marry!
Michele Bachmann told a group of supporters in Waverly, Iowa yesterday afternoon that gay and lesbian people should have “no special rights” to marry people of the same sex, insisting that “the laws are you marry a person of the opposite sex.” Iowa actually began allowing same-sex couples to marry in 2009, but Bachmann, oblivious to the growing acceptance of marriage equality, explained that prohibitions against such marriages don’t discriminate against gay people since they can always marry partners of the opposite sex:
JANE SCHMIDT: Then, why can’t same-sex couples get married?
BACHMANN: They can get married, but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man. […]
via: thinkprogress
No comment from Michele’s own ‘lawfully’ married husband, Marcus Bachmann…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvkw02ceg31qf10tro1_500.gif)
![REMEMBER: Ron Paul knew nothing about his Newsletters!
FACT: RON PAUL IS NOT A MAN OF PRINCIPLE. He’s a grifter and an opportunist:
I’ve been following Paul a long time. And I can say that Ron Paul never does the hard, right thing. He always does the easy, opportunistic thing. In the 80s and 90s, that meant publishing paranoid, racist tracts to make money. In the 00s and 10s, that’s been grandiose pontificating, pandering to a liberal crowd desperate for an anti-Bush Republican and grabbing all the pork he can – all the while posing as a statesman that the “system” can’t handle.
[…] Ron Paul is not a man of principle. He has no interest in doing any of the hard work it takes to put his ideas into practice. He just wants to live comfortably on his royalties and government paychecks as he grandstands against the very Federal government without whom he’d be much poorer.
— read more: Ron Paul’s ‘Principles’
GRIFTER? OPPORTUNIST? YES. HERE IS A LETTER WRITTEN BY PAUL (on his stationary, apparently signed by him) that has recently been revealed (PDF copy):
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul’s political and investment newsletters two decades ago warned of a “coming race war in our big cities” and of a “federal-homosexual cover-up” to play down the impact of AIDS.
The eight-page letter, which appears to carry Paul’s signature at the end, also warns that the U.S. government’s redesign of currency to include different colors – a move aimed at thwarting counterfeiters – actually was part of a plot to allow the government to track Americans using the “new money.”
The letter urges readers to subscribe to Paul’s newsletters so that he could “tell you how you can save yourself and your family” from an overbearing government.
Subscribe to my newsletters! Save yourselves from the coming race wars and federal homosexual cover-up on AIDS!! Oh my GAH!!!
[…] Paul’s letter went on to describe various plots and schemes that he had “unmasked,” including a “plot for world government, world money and world central banking.” He also claimed to have exposed a plan by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to “suspend the Constitution” in a falsely declared national emergency.
Despite being “told not to talk,” Paul wrote that his newsletters also “laid bare” the “Israeli lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica,” and a “federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS.”
Paul claimed that his “training as a physician” helped him “see through” this alleged cover-up.
— read more: RawStory and Reuters
THE NEWSLETTERS: did he or didn’t he?
[…] But let’s suspend disbelief for a second and pretend that he didn’t write them. Let’s say Lew Rockwell wrote them, as many Paul defenders have claimed (Rockwell denies this, and Paul has never specifically implicated anyone else, except in 1996 when he acknowledged that he did write them.) He certainly profited from them (to the tune of over a million dollars) and allowed them to be published using the first person POV, under his name, and with his signature.
There are [only] three options:
1) Paul wrote the newsletters, which are undeniably racist.
2) Paul published the ghostwritten newsletters, tacitly supporting and profiting from their racist rhetoric.
3) Paul is so unbelievably incompetent that he founded a newsletter, kept a staff on his payroll and then never read a single copy in the years between 1978 and 1996 while it published racist drivel in his name. And you want someone this incompetent to run the country why, exactly?
This is not some conspiracy to torpedo Paul’s campaign (Republican primary voters will take care of that). This is a real issue that he has yet to sufficiently address and has changed his stance on multiple times. These racist, homophobic views, combined with his positions on the Civil Rights Act, the 14th amendment and Lawrence v. Texas, etc., pose a very real threat to racial and gender/sexual minorities in the US. To throw up your hands and write them off as unimportant is an endorsement of minority oppression.
— reagan-was-a-horrible-president
FINALLY HERE’S A ROUNDUP OF PAUL’S MOST INCENDIARY NEWSLETTERS from TNR…
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We need to talk about … Ron Paul](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwnx45LL8R1qf10tro1_500.jpg)
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The Iowa Caucus: did you know…
Did you know Iowa caucuses are open? Meaning:
[I]ndependents and Democrats can choose to go to cast their vote in the GOP race.
Also:
Only 46 percent said they were evangelical or fundamentalist Christians.
A majority, 54 percent, said they were definitely not.
7 percent of Republican primary voters view themselves a supporter of the Tea Party. But NBC/Marist data from Iowa shows a 46 – 47 split against support of the conservative movement.
nearly 30 percent of GOP caucus-goers say they’re in the “moderate” or even “liberal” category.
Read more
This chart / brain scan of a seizure is beginning to make a little more sense now:
This means Michele Bachmann may very well get her miracle after all! : )
Related:
Des Moines Register / caucuses](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx6kfoYKlq1qf10tro1_500.jpg)
