Reflections on the Republican Nomination Process

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Let’s just admit it.  We have a pretty stupid process of choosing the Republican nominee.  The Democrats’ process is even more fouled up and overcomplicated, but at least they don’t have to go through with it this time around.  We Republicans, on the other hand, are stuck with a terrible process for choosing the best person to face off against President Obama.

First off, I’d like to know why Iowa and New Hampshire deserve to be first.  Do they have higher IQs?  Are they better judges of character?  Did God grant them the first Caucuses and Primaries just as he gave the Israelites their homeland?  I don’t think so.  These two small states are not representative of the country and do not deserve to be first in line just because they have laid claim to it.

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Why Herman Cain No Longer Gets My Vote (And Why It’s Good He’s Dropping Out)

Perhaps it was a mistake for me to jump on the Cain Train.  By now, you’ve all seen the implosion of the Cain campaign, and it is quite clear that Mr. Cain was never quite ready for primetime.

Here are the reasons why I can no longer support Mr. Cain for President:

Food Police State

Originally posted at The Right Wing Blog

The problem for me is not that Congress classified pizza as a vegetable, but that it was voting on the issue at all.

The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.

The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza’s status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million U.S. school children.

The action is a win for the makers of frozen French fries and pizza and comes just weeks after the deep-pocketed food, beverage and restaurant industries successfully weakened government proposals for voluntary food marketing guidelines to children.

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Occupy Parasites Harass Defenders of the American Dream

Originally posted at The Right Wing Blog

The mature and responsible “Occupy” movement has so far done an effective job of spreading its message through the use of offbeat drum circles, incoherent chants, and illiterate signs.

Now the occupiers, who are already economically terrorizing the nation (lost business for establishments near the protests, higher security and sanitation costs for local governments, etc), have begun to physically terrorize hard-working Americans as well.

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Herman Cain and the Left’s Fixation with Race

Originally posted at The Right Wing Blog on October 26, 2011

Lawrence O'Donnell lectures Herman Cain about civil rights. (Photo RCP)

The candidacy of Herman Cain is a shock to the progressive system.  In the neat little world that resides in their heads, liberal Democrats envision an alternate reality in which President Obama is a liberal Reagan, the private sector is booming, all international conflicts have been ended with diplomacy, and Herman Cain is secretly a white man in blackface.  Either he’s secretly white, or he hates his own race.

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Herman Cain Gets My Vote

Mr. Cain's latest book

If you listened to “Monday’s KaibCast: The Impossible Dream” (10/17), you would have learned that I am supporting Herman Cain for President.  I am a political junkie who is sick of politics.  America needs a principled, well-spoken leader to challenge the President, not some opportunistic shape shifter, psychopathic child hoarder, or incoherent cowboy.  While any of those are preferable to an ideological wealth-destroyer and redistributionist, the GOP can do better.

Smelly Mob Descends on D.C.

An idiot who can't spell "Tahrir" properly. (Getty Images)

The anti-capitalist, class warfare-waging hippies who are “occupying” Wall Street have inspired like-minded mental midgets to descend on over 30 American cities, including Washington.  While they are finally protesting in a deserving city (the federal government deserves more blame for our economic woes than Wall Street), the “Occupy Insert City Here” crowd continues to baffle observers, left and right.

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Maybe Rick Perry is 2012′s Fred Thompson After All

Originally posted at The Right Wing Blog

Back in August, when Rick Perry officially launched his campaign for President, some bloggers and columnists compared him to Fred Thompson, who got into the 08 race late because of good poll numbers.

I dismissed such comparisons at the time because they were superficial.  Besides, Rick Perry’s campaign was just beginning, making such comparisons premature:

Look, Perry is not Fred Thompson.  He’s the Governor of a state that’s doing well despite Obama’s war on prosperity.  Also, Perry’s fame is not based upon a poorly acted role on Law & Order.  It is based upon results.

Now, I’m starting to wonder if the comparison is correct.  After his poor performance at the Fox News/Google debate, Gov. Perry was met with a deluge of criticism:

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Lemon Socialism and Crony Capitalism: The Failure of Obamanomics

Originally posted at The Right Wing Blog:

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The collapse of solar firm Solyndra is the beginning of the end for Obamanomics.  After more than  32 months on the job, President Obama and his economic (on)crack team have managed to increase the chronic unemployment rate to record highs, increase the national debt to record highs, decrease economic growth to near-record lows, and decrease the President’s approval rating to record lows.  Not exactly great results, but now the solar scandal is exposing why Obamanomics is such a failure.

I say the Solyndra scandal is the beginning of the end because it’s finally shedding light on what’s really behind the administration’s economic policies: lemon socialism and crony capitalism.  These failed ideas are a “toxic combination,” according to Charles Krauthammer, and have been exposed as the backbone of Obamanomics.

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Paul Krugman is a [insert expletive here]

Fun fact: Krugman was an advisor to Enron. (Photo from NY Mag)

Originally posted at The Right Wing Blog:

Paul Krugman is a fascinating example of a brilliant mind gone haywire, somewhat like Russell Crowe’s character in A Beautiful Mind. 

To commemorate 9/11, the ever-brilliant Krugman published a short blog post titled “The Years of Shame.”  In it, he calls Pres. Bush and Rudy Giuliani “fake heroes.”  Here’s the meat of the post:

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te [sic] atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

Actually, I take the “brilliant” comment back, although I’m pretty sure he hears voices in his head.  Krugman never had a brilliant, or beautiful, mind.  He’s been a morally bankrupt, intellectually elitist, dishonest smear merchant his entire life.  No one becomes that disturbed based on life experiences.  In fact, I have it on good authority that he attacked a fellow kindergartener for being a “fake hero” after a fire drill.

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