Happy 95th to my Mom. We  celebrated her birthday and I've had no time to write.

Mom is spry and in excellent health. I sure hope I have her genes.

Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

This and That for Friday

~~~ The race for the Republican nomination for president is just about over and I'm afraid we have a clunker at the head of the ticket. In 2008 the GOP standard bearer had an initial lead against a divided Democrat Party. John McCain was a true maverick who had the support of the eastern establishment so as to block any conservative nominee from emerging. His selection of Sarah Palin was an attempt to bring the conservative activist back into the fold. If not for McCain's erratic campaigning the Palin strategy nearly worked. McCain-Palin had a short lived lead in most poling. Then McCain shot himself in the foot with his falling into line on the budgetary crisis of the day. Even Sarah couldn't bail him out by then.



Enter stage left, the former very liberal governor from Massachusetts who correctly read the tea leaves and understood the day of the liberal Republican is long gone. He shifted midstream and now presents himself as a conservative. Frankly he is a bigger flipper than was John Kerry in 2004. So who will signor Flip Flop select as a running mate. Common sense would suggest someone who could energize the conservative base (as McCain had done in '08). There are a number of potential candidates who could do that. The most obvious would be Marco Rubio, the young conservative phenom from Florida or any of a number of conservative upstarts. Rubio would be a stop gap measure to keep many disenchanted conservatives in the fold.

Now to what will likely happen. You heard it here first; the choice will be Jeb Bush. Bad choice. The GOP needs another Bush as much as Democrats need another Kennedy.

Republicans are poised to increase their hold on the House of Representatives in this election and if Dick Morris is to be believed they could go from a minority status in the senate to a commanding 55 to 58 senators. However we could miss out on the presidency and in doing so could lose out on the opportunity to undo a whole slew of liberal imposed measures. With Obama in the White House we will have gridlock of untold proportions.

Now there I'm as pessimistic about regaining the White House as can be. Romney can't win the big prize, only Obama can lose it because he is a two feet in cement and is a far left ideologue.

Romney is about as exciting as yesterday's bubble gum.

~~~

I was just thinking back a few years. Do you remember the name Tawana Brawley and the story of the Duke University lacrosse team?

Brawley was offered up for sainthood and the teammates in North Carolina were found guilty before any trial. Are we witnessing another wrongdoing? Some of the same players in the Brawley travesty are up front on this fox hunt.

~~~

Should Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum drop out now? My instincts say wait until it is mathematically impossible either of them to win.

It won't be long in either case.

~~~

Even if the Supreme Court does not kill Romneycare, the court of public opinion will Scott Rasmussen says. In recent polling by him he found there are three ways the health care law could meet its end. The first, obviously, is the Supreme Court could declare some or all of it unconstitutional in June.  Second, the law also could be ended by Election 2012.

Even if the law survives the Supreme Court and the next election, its problems are not over: Because the law would cause 11 million people to lose their employer-provided insurance and be forced onto a government-backed insurance plan.

Rasmussen says, "That's a problem because 77% of those who now have insurance rate their current coverage as good or excellent.  Only 3 percent rate their coverage as poor. For most of the 11 million forced to change their insurance coverage then, it will be received as bad news and create a pool of vocally unhappy voters.

Honest Abe Lincoln observed, "Without popular support nothing can succeed, with it nothing can fail."

~~~

This is the way the KKK operates? No, just some "I'm for Justice" liberals. It's a good thing Zimmarman is white otherwise it would have been buried on page 55.

Have a good day.

Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

This and That for Thursday

The following was received from a long time friend from The Granite State.

Hiya Moe!

Isn't it funny how much a necessity a computer has become? So many help wanteds ask applications be submitted online now.

Observations:

I am praying that the Supreme Court upholds the Constitution and shoots down the purchase mandate of Obamacare! There are so many other options that can make health insurance affordable: interstate competition, TORT REFORM, etc.

In the early 90's, 60 Minutes did a story about medical students financed by the government. Nearly 90% skipped on the loans. The condition of the financing was payoff was to be done by working in impoverished areas such as reservations, the inner cities, Appalachia, etc. This was ignored and the doctors went on to lucrative private practices. They were never brought into account, either with legal penalties or financial penalties. I wonder if that money was recouped, what it would do to either help programmes like Medicaid, Medicare, or even toward the deficit?

When I lived in Danvers MA, we had a MUNICIPAL hospital, Hunt Memorial Hospital. As a municipal hospital, it was totally dependent upon the state and the feds to cover the costs of those unable to pay (as a municipal hospital, patients private hospitals turn aside, cannot be turned aside). Because the state and the feds were so delinquent in reimbursing the hospital, the town could not afford to keep it on the books, so it was put up for sale. 

It was bought by Beverly Hospital, a private hospital and functions as a rehab hospital. If the federal government takes over all medical facilities through Obamacare, we can see several things: lack of quality medical care due to lack of staffing, rationing of care, and more doctors and nurses leaving the medical profession. This is already evident by the increasing number of doctors refusing to take Medicare patients and the non big-box pharmacies going out of business or selling out to big corporations such as Walgreens.

This latest 'hot mic' episode with President Obama is disturbing. 'When he is re-elected he will have more flexibility?' Is he the president or a despot? Treaties must be ratified by Congress. It is obvious, he believes the Constitution means nothing if only from his never getting the mandated authorisation from Congress before committing our resources to the Libyan conflict. It is another example of although the Supreme Court is hearing the Constitutionality of Obamacare, it has additional implications, those implications being the president being able to make decisions on personal life choices.

I wonder what Martin Luther King would make of the Trayvon Martin case? The police need to make their investigation in order to pursue a prosecution. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the so-called successors of Dr. King, are automatically saying it is a racial hate crime, and the New Black Panthers are putting a bounty out on the shooter. It is a tragedy for the family NO MATTER THE COLOUR. If it was not self defense, the shooter must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 

Again, the president is weighing in on a local situation without complete facts and ratcheting up the situation as a racial issue. Newt Gingrich is being crucified out of context. He has said that grieves any parent losing a child to violence is a tragedy, no matter what they look like. Is this racism? The statue of Justice carries scales and wears a blindfold, because the law is the law with no consideration as to the appearance of those under the legal system. 

Are there racist people in society? Absolutely yes! In the last 3+ years, all the progress made by the civil rights movement as brought by Dr. King is being eroded by 'activists' whose agendas could be called into question. Is criticism of a political leader's POLICIES racist by virtue of that leader's skin colour? To demean that person because of skin colour is racism, but not bad policy.

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Okay, Moe, I've waxed on long enough! I'll give you a break and hope your new computer arrives soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My love to Helen, you, and the family!

Elizabeth
Conway NH

Memo to Elizabeth,

Thank you for your fine effort. I've posted your entire essay without edit because comments are spot on. Your nissive is inciteful.

Helen sends her best as well.

Thanks, Moe

~~~

A COUPLE MORE THINGS...

Pravda is attacking Mitt Romney because he said tough things about Russia.

"Russia is the geopolitical foe," Romney said earlier this week in response to President Obama's kissing up to the Russian strong men asking them to give him "space" so that he could have "more flexibility" after the election.

 

An editorial in Pravda's website, the infamous former Soviet newspaper writes, "Electing Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States of America would be like appointing a serial paedophile as a kindergarten teacher, a rapist as a janitor at a girls' dormitory or a psychopath with a fixation on knives as a kitchen hand. His comments on Russia are a puerile attempt at making the grand stage and boy, did he blow it..."

The big story is the year is the president getting caught making nice to Russia explaining he can't stick it to us before the election after which he'll nbe able to give away the store. His act was a disgrace.

My, what a strong man we have as elpresidente.

~~~

You gotta love Supreme Court Justive Antonin Scalia.... http://freebeacon.com/scalia-likens-obamacare-to-cruel-and-unusual-punishment/

More tomorrow.

Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

This and That for Wednesday

~~~ Supreme Court decision

           Answer to Scalia...My Mom made me eat broccoli...(I like it now)

I bet none of them eat broccoli.



~~~ Mega Millions half a billion

 Let's see, there's the mortgage, car payments, heating oil bills, etc. I guess we could make ends meet if we win.

 ~~~ Spike Lee is a little twit





This is what a jackass looks like. And we thought



~~~ George H.W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney...Eeee wow!!!

 

~~~ Gas now $4 in many areas. Wait until Memorial day

 

 ~~~ I've got a Secret was big when I was a young one. Barack never heard of that. "Psst! Tell Vladimir I'll take care of him after my reelection."

Enough said.

~~~ Mitt steps in it...Mitt Romney’s criticism of Russia following President Obama’s “open mike” moment with his Russian counterpart not well received by Moscow.

In a CNN interview Monday, Romney called Russia "our number one geopolitical foe."

"The idea that our president is planning on doing something with them that he’s not willing to tell the American people before the election is something I find very, very alarming," Romney said.

~~~ After Pope John Paul visited Poland communism took a nosedive. Now that Pope Benedict has visited Cuba is communism in trouble?

 

Now there, it feels good to be back. More tomorrow.

Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

At last we have a computer at our disposal. Mine will be back from the shop soon so I have borrowed this one until then. I'll post tomorrow. Thanks being patient with me.

Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

Computer problems again. I ordered a new machine and I should be back in action in a week or so.

Ciao.......Moe

This and That for Sunday

~~~ First Illinois, then Louisiana, the campaign rolls on.

Who will grab the brass ring? I don't know. But Mitt Romney's fierce adherence to the idea he can buy off anything may come back to haunt him. The campaign now has all the earmarks of going all the way to the summer and the convention.

Despite what the naysayers are spouting off about, hat could be a good thing.

The conservative right has always knuckled under to the status quo and we have gone down to inglorious defeat as we did in the last presidential election. 

I trust more in the run of the mill delegates making the choice rather than the media trying to panic Republicans into getting Newt Gingrich out of the race. A Gingrich departure does not grantee his delegates will flock en mass to Rick Santorum. Many of them could balk at the idea while some may go to Ron Paul who in turn could make a deal with Mitt Romney.

Gingrich is doing the right thing staying in this.

~~~ President Obama's Achilles Heel could well be oil prices. Everything hinges on where the cost of energy goes. Higher fuel prices mean greater cost to merely commute to work and perform such necessary tasks as schlepping the kids around, food shopping, etc. 

The pinch at the pump is fast becoming a bear hug. Then senator and later presidential candidate Obama preached much higher fuel prices to coerce us into going along with the high cost of alternative fuels. Our energy nightmare must be a dream come true to the left wing acolytes now dominating our government. 

~~~ Should Puerto Rico be granted statehood? This is a question which has been posed to to both the islanders and our states since I was a boy (a very long time ago). There have been plebiscites on numerous occasions and the reality is the status quo has been maintained  over statehood, and independence.

 

Whether there is a serious desire on the part of Puerto Ricans has always been in doubt. Their current status makes them exempt from income taxes and other responsibilities of full statehood. Also, the debate over the primary language is still a hot one. Puerto Rico is a bi-lingual territory. Would statehood rekindle the old struggle over whether statehood should be conferred to a people who cannot speak the language of the country.

Puerto Ricans like their current status and giving up Spanish as the co-national language would be difficult.

~~~ Occupy is back and the fun is just beginning.

 

After a long winter of no demonstrations we should brace ourselves for a salvo of attacks on our public spaces by the poor folks wanting to send us some kind of message. Already dozens arrest at Zucotti Park.

~~~ General Douglas MacArthur once said the only objective in war was to win. Frankly, anything lass is a perversion of the efforts and sacrifices we are making as a nation. The MacArthur comment could apply to Afghanistan.

 

Starting with Korea we have begun the process of being policemen rather than warriors.  Our forces are limited and put in many ugly circumstances. We did that in Vietnam followed by similar action in recent years. We have wasted the lives of many of our best and most dedicated Americans.

We have placed high demands on soldiers without hope of victory. MacArthur would turn over in his grave to see what is happening now.

See you late in the day tomorrow.

Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

German View of Islam This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. However it was penned by Paul Merek, who wrote it in March 2007 under the title of "Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant."  Dr. Emauel Tanay was the son of Jewish dentists, was born in Russian occupied Vilna in 1928, which is now part of Poland, according to the personal account of his life in a Polish ghetto during the Holocaust. Merek's article was apparently altered and posted on several reader and comment boards on the World Wide Web. Some altered versions include Merek as the author and cite Tanay as the original forwarder of the story.    A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates.  When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care.  I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools.  So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen.  Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come.  My family lost everything.  I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.' We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.  Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.  It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.  It is the fanatics who march.  It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.  It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.  It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill.  It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.  It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.  It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people.  The peaceful majority were irrelevant.  China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist.  Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'? History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.  As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life. Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late. Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

~~~ Top of the morning....

~~~ From the Wall Street Journal

One Quick Way to Lower Gas Prices

Regarding Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's "Obama's Politicized Energy Policy" (op-ed, March 12): President Obama can immediately lower gasoline prices. All he has to do is remove the ethanol mixed with gasoline at the pump. Refineries are having to pay millions of dollars for cellulosic ethanol waivers because there is no cellulosic ethanol production. This causes gasoline prices to be higher than they should be. Ethanol has only 61% of the energy of gasoline, so it gets very poor mileage. Removing the mandate which forces ethanol to be mixed with gasoline at the pump would result in cheaper gasoline, which would give better mileage and cost less per mile of travel.

Ethanol can never replace foreign oil imports. Ethanol production in 2010 was less than 10% of foreign oil imports which were 3.34 billion barrels. Using ethanol emits more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than using gasoline. Ethanol is increasing gasoline prices. Get rid of the ethanol mix in the gasoline at the pump.

Seldon B. Graham Jr.
Austin, Texas


Amen Sheldon


---Moe


~~~ Do you recall the tragic death of Milena Del Valle

Emails show Romney’s callous dealings with Dig victim’s kin

By Hillary Chabot
Saturday, March 17, 2012 - Updated 37 minutes ago

As governor, Mitt Romney played hardball with the grieving relatives of Milena Del Valle just weeks after her tragic death in the Big Dig tunnel collapse — hoping to derail a family press conference by forcing them to pay top dollar to rent a state facility, according to administration emails obtained by the Herald.

“(Massachusetts Convention Center Authority chief) Jim Rooney just called to say Del Valle reps are at new conv cntr looking to rent space for Wed. press conference,” Romney budget chief Thomas Trimarco wrote to then press secretary Eric Fehrnstrom on Aug. 25, 2006, weeks after the July 10 collapse.

“The normal charge is ($)20,000 ... I suggest they be treated no differently than any other user of the facility and hope the upfront cost would deter them from renting high cost state facility for their media circus,” Trimarco wrote.

Romney’s hands-on role after the deadly tunnel collapse, which could have been a public relations nightmare for the presidential hopeful, instead helped cement his reputation as Mr. Fix It.

Jeffrey Denner, the lawyer who represented Del Valle’s family in their wrongful death suit against the state, said Trimarco’s email suggests “a certain level of hypocrisy” on the part of the Romney administration.

“They certainly didn’t mind deriving benefits from the media circus when he held his own press conferences and expressed his regrets to the family,” said Denner. “He might as well have been the Ringling Brothers.”

Coincidentally, Milena Del Valle’s husband, Angel, now lives in Puerto Rico, where Romney was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination yesterday.

Andrea Saul, spokeswoman for Romney’s presidential campaign, refused to weigh in on the email and directed requests for comment to Trimarco, who now works at O’Neill and Associates. He did not respond.

Romney is such a sensitive man.


Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

This and That for Friday

~~~ This story appeared on a Hartford, Connecticut television station.

Downloading music, movies, e-books and Apps could soon cost Connecticut residents more as lawmakers consider a tax on digital downloads.

The bill, proposed by the Connecticut General Assembly's Finance, Review and Bonding Committee, would have consumers pay the 6.35% sales tax on any electronic transfer.

Supporters say the bill would level the playing field for brick-and-mortar retailers in the state who are already required to charge Connecticut sales tax to consumers who purchase these products in their stores.

About 25 states around the country have already begun taxing digital downloads.

Yuck!

~~~ David Ignatius in the Washington Post reports, "Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus."

“The reason for concentrating on them,” the al-Qaeda leader explained to his top lieutenant, “is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make (Vice President Joe) Biden take over the presidency.

… Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour … and killing him would alter the war’s path” in Afghanistan.

Needless to say, the plot never materialized.

Osama permanently checkmated.

~~~ The New York Times is reporting the American staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers had been drinking booze in  violation of military rules in combat zones and suffering from the stress related to his fourth combat tour and tensions with his wife about the deployments on the night of the massacre, a senior American official said Thursday.

The story almost sounds something written by a lawyer for the sergeant. 

~~~ Mitt Romney's advantage during this presidential campaign has been his purse. At the start of the campaign there was next to nothing he had to spare in assaulting his opponents. Between his campaign tactics and especially the tactics of his outside campaign group became a hammer against first newt Gingrich and later Rick Santorum.

Romney comes off as the brat son of the local mill owner who took whatever he wanted from anyone who had it.

Whenever he was confronted about one of his tactics  he hid behind the campaign law which said he has to remain at arms length from the so-called independent slandering Romney's opponents.

Now, the money pot is running out for Romney and he is actually having to campaign like the goyem. Last week poor Mitt  was forced to spend two days privately courting donors in the New York area, even as his Republican rivals were wooing voters ahead of elections in places like Illinois.

It's unclear if he will tap his own personal wealth.

I can only imagine him as president.

~~~ Newt Gingrich says there's "probably" no circumstance that would cause him to drop out of the Republican presidential race before the GOP August convention.

When asked about his plans he said, "I'll be with you in Tampa," Gingrich said on CBS's "This Morning" show.

Gingrich has won primaries in only two states, South Carolina and Georgia. But when asked Friday what conditions could lead him to withdraw from the race, he says, "Probably none."

Gingrich told CBS, "I have 176,000 donors at Newt.org. They want me to stay in the race."

I wonder why no one is asking Ron Paul why he's not dropping out. He has has won no primaries.

That's it for now.....

Ciao.......Moe

This and That for Thursday

~~~ I'm back. Sorry for no blogs the last two days.

I've had a few calls from friends calling to ask if I am OK. I am. My reasons for being away have been corrected.

~~~ Good bye Blago. One smooth talking punk. It would be easy to feel sympathy for him but he was in complete control of his behavior.

He married into a political family who has lived off the taxpayer for decades. His sin is he overreached and bucked heads with people more powerful than himself.

He received justice.

~~~ Is Barack Obama responsible for the defacing of an American by some of his overly zealous supporters? The short answer is no. I doubt he would have approved if for no other reason that this flag resurrects  the suggestions of some that he is unpatriotic. Even if this flag represents his views it can only be politically damning.

At issue is this American flag defaced with the image of Barack Obama, while flying above a Florida county's Democratic headquarters. The practice is in violation of Florida state law, as well as the federal flag code. After taking down the flag the Florida Democrat party leader would not give assurance it would not fly again.

The silence from Obama supporters is deafening.

~~~ The Washington Post’s China Watch publication, a print and online advertising supplement that purports to deliver the news about China hosts numerous articles and feature pieces that portray the Chinese government—particularly its human rights record—in a glowing light. 

That amounts to a complete sellout by the Post of any journalistic principles it had. We will not only know them as a sellout to a nation with contempt for any civil rights of their people but being similar to women of the night who do most anything for a buck. Shame on this formerly respectable member of the journalistic community.

~~~ Democrats are disappointed with President Barack Obama and are withholding campaign donations, leaving him well below his campaign’s fundraising goals, Karl Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal.

He wrote the Obama campaign shows that donations have trickled in at a rate of about half of the $50 million a month needed to reach the campaign’s goal of a $1 billion war chest for the campaign.


Through January, the president had raised an average of $24 million a month for his campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Compared with an average of $29 million in each of the previous three months, reported in July, Obama is on track to fall hundreds of millions of dollars short of his original goal, Rove wrote in Wednesday’s issue of the Journal.


What does all this mean? Simple. Obama's big supporters are not pleased with him. What is happening is what your boss would do when he is unhappy with you. He's take back bonuses and any perks. The next step is to fire him.


Say bye, bye, Barack.


~~~ Why is Newt Gingrich staying in the race for president despite the poor overall showing in most primary results. Simple, he intends to deny Mitt Romney the nomination. I suspect he would remain in even if he lost his financial support to split the vote sufficiently to make certain Romney didn't acquire the delegates necessary to win.

The Speekah is angry. Romney has been able to pay his way in but his campaign of personal destruction against Gingrich early on did not sit well and the chickens, as they say, are coming home to roost. Cluck, cluck, cluck.


The oomgalagala by Romney had to be stopped.


More tomorrow.


Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

Everything is fine and, God willing, we'll have something tomorrow.

Moe

Out for the day. God willing we'll be here tomorrow.


Moe

This and That for Monday

~~~ It’s about time to face the facts. The Republican nomination for president is tantamount to election as president. The campaign blather about electability is nothing but a smoke screen. The four Republicans currently in the race will defeat Barack Obama.

 

There is no reason for any of them to drop out, certainly not on the basis of electability pure and simple. The primary process leaves the selection process up to the voters. I no one has 50% + one of the delegates then we’ll have a floor fight.

There is no pressing need for anyone to pack up and go home. Let the games continue.

~~~ How can Barrack Obama explain away the severe gas price increases, the continuation of high numbers of unemployed people and his killing the Keystone Pipeline project? The answer is he can’t.

 

All the king’s newspapers and networks cannot put poor Obama together again.

~~~ Considering all that has occurred in Afghanistan how much longer will we remain there? In what is now Obama’s war (in the same way Vietnam became Nixon’s war), it belongs to him. About two thirds of the casualties there have occurred on Obama’s watch.

We receive mail suggesting it is time we bring our troops home. We have nothing more to gain there. If Obama decides to pull out I hope he doesn’t involve us in any more conflicts. Out soldiers are shop warn and need to come home.

If we decide to do more investments in wealth and blood President Obama should seek a declaration of war from the congress. I suspect he will be unable to get a majority of our elected officials to consent.

 

Abe Lincoln once said, “Without popular opinion nothing can succeed, with in nothing can fail.”

~~~ This item in today’s CNSNews hits the nail on the head: “GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is not happy with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for saying that he would seek “international permission” as the legal basis for imposing a no-fly zone on Syria.  Paul called the statement another ‘blatant disregard for the rule of law and our Constitution.’

“‘For President Obama’s head of the Defense Department to state that international permission, rather than congressional approval, is what would be needed as a legal basis to initiate a no-fly zone over Syria flies in the face of the guidelines established by our Founders,’ Paul said in an official campaign statement.

 

‘“There is no issue more serious than war. And make no mistake, establishing a ‘no-fly zone’ is in itself an act of war,’ the Texas congressman added.”

As usual on matters of this sort, Paul is right. We have more than enough on our plate as it is.

~~~ Is Rick Perry angling for a spot on Newt Gingrich’s presidential ticket? Some pundits think so.

I doubt the Texas governor is interested in being second fiddle to anyone.

As Shakespeare was fond of saying, Vice president isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit.”

~~~ The following appeared in this morning’s Lucianne.com:

President Barack Obama has never apologized to Mexican President Felipe Calderon for the 300 civilians murdered with weapons the United States provided to Mexico’s drug cartels, but on Sunday he found time to place a call to Afghan president Hamid Karzai apologizing for deaths caused by an American soldier this weekend in Afghanistan. The Daily Caller asked the White House why Obama hasn’t similarly apologized to Calderon for the murders that resulted from the U.S. policy of providing weapons to the Mexican cartels. Obama spokesman Eric Schultz did not answer. 

It got the following response from one of her reader’s:

Because Aghans are muslims & Mexicans are catholics.

Right on target.

That’s it for now.

Ciao…….Moe

Saint Mitt

Will he or won’t he drop out? Only Newt Gingrich’s wife knows whether he is in the race to stay. The betting in this corner is he will stay in it to the end.

Is it because it is obvious neither he nor Rick Santorum can sew up the convention delegates to win the nomination? Why would a guy in his late sixties like Gingrich take on what from all appearances is a suicide mission? Simple, he is an inveterate politician who has a big dose of the campaigner in his soul. This is a very important election and he is not about to surrender the nomination to someone like Mitt Romney.

                                       

A double header sweep by Gingrich this week changes everything.

This coming election is by far the single most important one in my lifetime and I suspect Gingrich has the same view of its importance.

For Gingrich it is a matter of what we don’t do, which is repeat the last eleven years. The selection of Mitt Romney would amount to a repeat of the Bush years.

For its part the Bush Years were a disaster in many ways. Beyond helping the country through the year following 911 Bush was an old fashioned liberal. Despite his claim to being a conservative, the reality was his nonsense about being a compassionate-conservative. That was nothing more than hyphenated blather.

In the words of the old Louis Jordan song so popular with our soldiers in uniform just prior to the end of World War II: "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby"? The answer from either George Bush should be “I ain’t”.

   

Young and old George had the spirit of missionaries trying to spread their religion. What they didn’t understand is America became the beacon of hope because we were the light from Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” millions around the world aspire to.

One of my grandfathers came to America from Canada alone while a teen and the other came with his family at a tender age and both worked their entire adult lives.

Neither was a politician but both had an uncanny sense of what America was all about. My dad’s father was an un abashed conservative and many years ago was on a first name basis with our congressman Joe Martin who during WWII and after the war when he was the House Minority Leader and then Speaker of the House during the Truman years. One ran a small grocery and the other was a millwright in a textile mill. Both had a love affair with America and what it stood for.

Usually we select our leaders on the basis of what they stand for. Some on the basis of what the aspirant is willing to do for us personally. If we agree with them we give them our vote, if not we pass on them. It’s not complicated. We generally know what a presidential candidate or one running for congress stands for.

We began this presidential race with about a dozen prospective candidates which was whittled down to nine by the time the primary season began and is now down to a final four.

Where Ron Paul stands on issues is unquestioned. However all his TV spots have been negative bombs hurled at either Gingrich or Rick Santorum. To my memory nothing has been aimed at Paul and during one of the debates I asked my wife if she sensed Paul was stroking Romney. The thought by some is he is stroking Romney because he thinks he’ll win the nomination and then beat Barack Obama in November.

Maybe Romney would select Rand Paul as a running mate. That is not out of the question. Whoever makes a deal with Romney for the veep had better get a signed deal, yeah, signed in blood – Romney’s.

The strategy of dealing with Mitt is strictly a last resort. Romney is not a movement conservative. Actually he is a flaming liberal if his debate with Kennedy in 1994 and campaign for governor in 2002 is a measure of the man. Even today he has the chutzpah to say he’s proud of the medical tomfoolery he perpetrated on us we now know as Romney care. Ask anyone in the medical profession jn Massachusetts whether Romneycare has made medical services more or less available in any cheaper overall?

As for Rick Santorum, I can’t imagine him in a general election campaign against one of the most opportunistic men to sit in the White House in my memory. If anyone thinks the GOP race has thus far been dirty wait a minute, you have not seen anything yet.

The odds the GOP nomination may not be settled before the convention is rapidly becoming more and more possible. Somehow I can envision a convention battle between the third Bush and Sarah Palin.

As yogi was fond of saying, it ain’t over ‘til its over.

Ciao…….Moe