The idea of a self described conservative populist like Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report as somehow being a stealth or closeted LGBT community freedom fighter, is a rather interesting thought. This is especially so given that the Ken Mehlman who ran Bush re-election campaign, recently came out and continues to apologize publicly for his role in helping to exploit marital politics. In an interview Mehlman gave to Salon which was analyzed further in The New Yorker highlighted an interesting perspective, possibly foretelling of a paradigm shift in the culture war:
“If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it’s clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do,” Mehlman said in an interview. “By contrast, opposing equal rights is a net negative that gets problematic to more voters each year.” …
As for his role in the 2004 Bush campaign and its exploitation of marital politics, Mehlman is candid—and remorseful.
“At a personal level, I wish I had spoken out against the effort,” he says. “As I’ve been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I’ve learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved. I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry. While there have been recent victories, this could still be a long struggle in which there will be setbacks, and I’ll do my part to be helpful.”
If this is in fact true then as I postulated on this blog, Santorum’s Gay Problem, just got a whole hell of a lot bigger than the ongoing cyber bullying campaign against him waged by internationally syndicated sex columnist and gay activist, Dan Savage. Savage’s approach has been criticized in one corner as ‘Savage hate from Savage Love’. On the eve of Super Tuesday, Rick Santorum finds himself at a critical juncture in his quest for the Presidency, on the outside looking in two men ‘Caught in a Bad Romance’ – the bad romance between a man who has long been rumored to be gay (Drudge) with one who once professed deep love for the gays (Romney). Then a candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney one famously told the voters of Massachusetts that ‘I will be better than Ted for gay rights’, but then conveniently disavowed that allegedly formerly principled stance as one born of his immaturity as a leader, adopting a more complicated position throwing the LGBT community under a bus when he decided to seek the Republican nomination for President. Scott Brown is what happens when you listen to charlatans like Romney.
Santorum, I suspect has long realized that the gay community, perhaps because of Savage’s activism in resistance to what he perceives to be any form of sexual repression, will not be fertile ground for his campaign. But he and the rest of us have a right to wonder whether a double standard is being employed that benefits politicians like the shape-shifting political chameleon and unfairly singled him out to be castigated for his consistent position. Mitt Romney consistently engages in double talk on nearly all meaningful issues and has been blatantly duplicitous in his support of gay rights depending on whether he were running for the Senate or Governor in Massachusetts or seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Yet, Romney has not suffered the wrath of the Matt Drudge or Dan Savage despite his blatant duping of the LGBT Community in Massachusetts with similar ‘bait and switch’ tactics that the Mormon Madoff employed at Bain Capital
It ought to raise more eyebrows when influential journalists, including those who run powerful media enterprises like Drudge, and who are publicly or privately members of the LGBT community and appear to act in a more favorable way towards one candidate specifically. This is especially true even though as pointed out in ‘Sex, Lies and Rick Santorum’ by William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal, Rick Santorum is being judged by a double standard relative to other politicians including President Obama and Multiple Choice Mitt. Its as if the compromises that someone like Romney has to make are perfectly acceptable. Romney’s blatant duplicity on social issues is perhaps the lesser of two evils vs. the consistency of Santorum. Romney has flipped before, perhaps he flips again in the direction of the Zeitgeist on gay rights. For now, its safer for Romney and his ilk to hold the same positions (for the moment anyway) as Santorum without focusing on it too much, lest independents think the robot is intolerant.
This begs the question, is Matt Drudge a ‘free bitch baby’, one who wants it bad from Romney or is it simply a matter of taste? If so, will Drudge come forward and share what Mitt tastes like? Will Dan Savage comment about Drudge’s support of a political hypocrite? Inquiring minds want to know. We do not necessarily know who is the top or the bottom. That might be ‘TMI’. But from the perspective of full disclosure, and in the interests of the American voter who seems to repeatedly ‘get the shaft’ (pun intended) it would be useful to know if there has been or will be a quid pro quo from Romney to his ‘rentboy’ and manservant shamelessly shilling for him.
IS DRUDGE ‘CAUGHT IN A BAD ROMANCE’ WITH WILLARD MILTON ROMNEY?
Rick Santorum has alleged that Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report, the news aggregation site with a conservative tilt, is in the tank for Mitt Romney. And by the looks and sound of the video above Romney certainly has love for Drudge. Santorum alleged this, rather passionately, when he was interviewed on Bill Cunningham’s talk radio show on 700AM WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cunningham asked Santorum whether he had hung up on another radio show host on same station, 700AM WLW, during a contentious interview the day before.
“It’s on The Drudge Report that you hung up on Scott Sloan,” Cunningham told Santorum.
“That’s baloney,” Santorum said. “I was driving and we lost the call and I called him back two minutes later and we finished the conversation. Drudge, again showing for Romney, gets the facts wrong.“
Drudge’s supportive stance toward Romney — the site rarely highlights negative stories about the former Massachusetts governor and has conspicuously gone after Santorum and Newt Gingrich — started drawing attention last year.
“Matt Drudge has done more for Romney than Romney’s super PAC in my estimation,” Republican operative John Feehery told HuffPost’s Sam Stein on Friday.
But Santorum’s comment was the first time that one of Romney’s opponents in the race openly called Drudge out for a pro-Romney bias
Drudge Report is largely perceived as simply a conservative news source, but even that label is not entirely accurate. Touting his campaign’s message of “Faith, Family, and Freedom,” Rick Santorum postures himself as a strongly pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-Israel, pro-family, pro-faith conservative. It is worth considering that the manner in which Santorum has articulated aspects of this traditionalist conservative agenda has been interpreted and widely attacked as bigoted and anti-gay; even while those who finesse around issues like marital equality get a free pass. That progressive media remains against Santorum is thus not a surprise. With Drudge, is it a populist angle or something more? Is it personal? Does Drudge not find persuasive the answers given by Santorum in his interview below with Fox News babe, Megyn Kelly:
Rick Santorum and leading syndicated sex columnist and gay activist, Dan Savage have an opposing world view represented by the fallout from a a rather unfortunate interview given by then Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum on issues pertaining to the right to privacy and sexuality. Santorum stated to the AP in 2003: “In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing.” Santorum has since tried to explain those remarks by stating that he did not equate them but excluded them.
Santorum was notoriously targeted for character assassination by Dan Savage, in a manner that one commentator has referred to as ‘Savage hate from Savage Love.’ Since 2003, Savage has waged a relentless cyber bullying campaign against Santorum giving the current Presidential aspirant and then Pennsylvania Senator a Google problem, redefining his surname as a byproduct of gay anal sex. As NPR noted recently, Santorum’s ‘Google problem’ has endured, even while some have called out Savage for his hypocrisy . Others have raised strong objections and articulated persuasive arguments against Savage’s credibility and his methods (see: For The Record: Santorum vs. Savage). While Savage’s tactics have made him more famous and celebrated, it arguably has only deepened the chasm between the faith based community and the gay community and may result in a backlash. As postulated by one commentator, “There’d certainly be a lot less evidence that gay activists are hateful, disgusting subversives, for one thing.” What I would say to Savage is that the snarky and dehumanizing tactics employed by you Sir may have promoted your own relative fame as a an outspoken sex columnist but ultimately it may have the affect of alienating those who stand with you and arming those who stand against you. It is certainly not clear whether this type of debate advances the interests of greater understanding between the LGBT community and the faith based community. Savage may think that irrelevant but its worth contemplating whether different tactics may sooner result in a reduction of tensions between those communities. Nevertheless, for his willingness, desire or focus on discussing traditional American values, Santorum has become a ‘media punching bag’. For example, in the recent debate over contraception, according to Mark America:
[The media] portrayed Rick Santorum unfairly as wanting to impose his personal views on contraception on the rest of the nation, but this is a bold-faced lie. He actually went out of his way to say that he wouldn’t impose his values through law, but instead that it is proper to raise the issue as a matter for national discussion. For this, we should throw him under the bus?
It is certainly worth pointing out, if a significant mainstream media outlet has an undisclosed tilt or bias towards one party or a particular candidate in an election cycle. That progressive media remains biased against Santorum is not a surprise. Yet, it does not take a brain surgeon or Media Matters to help discern that there has been a bit of cohesion in the mainstream media, both on the left and on the right that has played to elevate and stabilize Mitt Romney’s standing with voters while undermining and marginalizing Mitt Romney’s primary competitors, including Santorum, Gingrich and Ron Paul. The GOP Primary is in effect being ‘handicapped’ for the Mormon Madoff. As the candidate of the Anglo-America Eastern establishment, Wall Street, the media illuminati and the RNC establishment, Romney has the wind at his back, not because of his genuine steady earnest nature, a compelling persona, integrity, character and authenticity but actually despite a glaring lack of all those things, because the ‘hollow man’, has in effect been pre-selected. Don’t count on the mainstream media to cover or expose how they have helped to handicap or rig his candidacy, one which goes against the Zeitgeist.
ROMNEY’S ‘BAIT & SWITCH’ TACTICS WITH LGBT COMMUNITY
The Manchurian Mormon Robot, Mitt Romney is the beneficiary of a double standard on social issues relative to Santorum. Politicians like Romney who finesse around issues like marital equality, rather duplicitously even, get a free pass. Romney likewise has pretty much avoided questioning on his leadership role in what really goes on behind the Mormon Curtain of the Utah based LDS Mormon Cult and aspects of business and gubernatorial experience in Massachusetts. Neither Drudge or Savage have subjected Romney to the same wrath as Santorum despite Mitt’s blatant duping of the LGBT Community in Massachusetts with similar ‘bait and switch’ tactics that the Mormon Madoff employed at Bain Capital. Guess misrepresentation of material facts or fraud is in essence the ‘Bain Way’. Mitt’s word has never been has bond. Romney’s carefully nuanced position on gay rights is politically expedient and depends on whether he is running the U.S. Senate, governor of Massachusetts or seeking the Republican nomination for President. Romney is a self-entitled a-hole who does not need to subject himself to actual real interviews regularly like actual Presidential candidates Instead, surrogates who help gloss over his neverendling lies suffice,whereas his severely underfunded opponents because of their need to gain exposure have to make themselves available and when they do so they get asked repeatedly about controversial subjects designed to marginalize their standing with voters.
IS MATT DRUDGE JUST ANOTHER ROMNEY RENTBOY?
Is Matt Drudge a ‘free bitch baby’? For years, there have been rumors about Matt Drudge, the man called America’s most influential journalist, more powerful than Facebook or Twitter, being gay, but there is no evidence of him being openly homosexual. The raw story or hints of it are on NNDB, Gawker and elsewhere on the internet, with many who know him taking it as a point of fact. He has even made Out Magazines’s Power List of gays. Drudge is also, however, now very much a part of the media or Republican establishment, even despite his quirky reputation. According to wikipedia he considers himself a conservative with a populist/libertarian streak, one even willing to openly criticize ABC and Disney’s corporate activities, in a rather bitchy fashion no less. ”I guess I was a bad Mouseketeer and peeked under Snow White’s dress,” Drudge joked after being dismissed by ABC. Would love to know what the bad Mouseketeer thinks about allegations that Walt Disney was a gay pedophile. Both Santorum and Romney seem like tall, healthy, rugged, specimens, but I would argue that CEO Romney might edge out Santorum in a gay fantasy, that is assuming Drudge has one.
The gay community will not be fertile ground for the Santorum candidacy. This is true even though as pointed out in ‘Sex, Lies and Rick Santorum’ by William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal, Santorum is being judged by a double standard relative to other politicians including President Obama and Multiple Choice Mitt. I do not suspect that is any surprise to Rick Santorum. Gay people don’t just vote, however, some run powerful media enterprises. Many influential journalists are publicly or privately members of the LGBT community. Included are even influential Republicans like Ken Mehlman who continues to apologize for his role in the Bush administration opposing equal right and marital equality. Mehlman now sees opposing marital equality as the losing side of the debate, politically speaking. In terms of demographics, if you go with the 1 in 10 theory about the homosexual or queer population, it seems almost 2 in 10 in the mainstream media and probably more like 3 in 10 in the blogosphere, at least in certain fashionably elite circles. Hence Santorum’s positions endanger him in the digital age, not just in the blue states but even in the red states where one is more readily able to find stories on the internet with a Romney bias than those with a Santorum bias.
In The Real Romney, out today, Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman chart Mitt Romney’s devolution from embracing equal rights for gays and lesbians in 1994 and 2002 to falling in line with the anti-gay bigotry of religious social conservatives in order to win the GOP presidential nomination at the end of his term as governor. Romney’s shift betrayed his LGBT allies in the state — including gay groups who endorsed his campaigns — and frustrated those who saw Romney’s support for equal rights as an extension of his father’s strong embrace of civil rights for African Americans. It’s a parallel Romney himself made in private meetings with gay and lesbian groups, only to abandon the comparison when the time came to swoon Christian Evangelicals.
And then there is this video which might make the LGBT community throw up.
Given the foregoing, one would think that Romney would be the target of indignation in the LGBT community, even more so than Santorum. Romney’s hypocrisy with regards to the LGBT agenda may be more acceptable ultimately to Drudge, who might willingly accept that Romney is playing the necessary politics with ‘a wink and a nod’ to both sides. So in the end, Drudge thinks maybe there is a chance with Romney, that once he becomes President, he may “flip” for him. Or maybe there is some undisclosed quid pro quo? Romney must also know that behind the Mormon Curtain and inside the closet, among the garment-wearers, are many gay Mormons. Then again perhaps some of those who should be wearing magic underwear, might actually be wearing not so magic lingerie.
Is Matt Drudge gay? I do not know but then again, Drudge knows something too, otherwise what is the basis for the magical love connection between a man who once professed to love the gays with one long rumored to be gay? In terms of this bad romance between Romney and Drudge I have only two questions. Is Matt Drudge ‘a free bitch baby’, one who wants it bad or is it simply a matter of taste? And secondly, who is the top and who is the bottom? As to the latter, I suspect that it is the American voter. As to the former, only time will tell whether there is some quid pro quo for Romney’s ‘rentboy’. Men of means usually pay for their man servants, don’t they? No wonder Santorum find himself on the outside of this bad romance.
On the eve of the Michigan Presidential Primary, Mitt Romney was desperately trying to hold on to victory, real or perceived, in his native state. In order to manage expectations, in the case of a close win or close loss, so he could render himself triumphant in either case, the ’severely conservative’ candidate, was even heard to be channeling Bill Clinton in New Hampshire Circa 1992, anointing himself the ‘comeback kid’. Let’s be clear, Mitt Romney is as much of an underdog in Michigan as I was one to get fed at my mom’s dinner table. This is yet another a desperate ploy by the shape-shifting con-man to cast himself as the underdog in his home state. The following day, actually today he explaind his reasons for voting for Paul Tsongas in 1992 was to stop the real ‘comeback kid’, Bill Clinton. According to the Chicago Tribune:
“In my case, I was certainly voting against the Democrat who I thought was the person I thought would be the worst leader of our nation. In this case, as I recall, it was Bill Clinton. I wanted someone other than Bill Clinton,” he told reporters during in his first news conference in several weeks.”
ROCKY BALBOA NEEDS TO DROP THIS IVAN DRAGO IN A SUIT
One can only hope that Rocky Balboa drops this Ivan Drago in a suit to the canvas in Michigan like a dirty sack of potatoes. Oh the horror of the prodigal son returning home only to get an ice pick in his head from Michael Myers. Happy Halloween Mittens.
SANTORUM MUST FIRST UPSET MICHIGAN NATIVE SON – MITT ROMNEY
Rick Santorum (Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikicommons)
The often ridiculed and perhaps most controversial Republican candidate is the one who arguably and ironically stands the best chance to beat President Obama. The question is will he get the chance. Can Santorum Score A Michigan Upset? Will Republicans be courageous enough to throw caution to the wind and ignore the powerful manipulation and help to shed the myth of Romney’s Inevitability? Today, despite Rick Santorum’s rise in the polls purely on the power of his message and authenticity Rombo remains the favorite in the battle for Michigan but not necessarily for the right reasons. Romney is a man with all the advantages and a heavy shovel. Rick Santorum is outgunned on every basis. Romney is running as a native son of Michigan. He has an unmatched financial war chest to fund his attack machine against Santorum and any challengers, the boots on the ground across the state to deliver the votes, Wall Street and the RNC establishment firmly in his corner to lay the groundwork for Super Tuesday and Ron Paul doing some dirty work for him. With his entire candidacy potentially on the line in Michigan, in yet another bout of shape-shifting, Romney has tried to claim the underdog mantle in his own house. Jeez Louise what a royal con. Just one more maneuver in the Romney Con’s arsenal. Romney is about as much an underdog in Michigan as I was to get fed at my mother’s dinner table. That Santorum has presented this difficult a challenge to a man who should have run away with the contest is a testament to the strength of Santorum’s character as much as it is a signal of the weakness of Romney’s.
Call me crazy (some of you already do), but I think the latest USA Today/Gallup polls illustrating that Santorum would beat Obama and have greater strength over Romney in a head to head matchup witth President Obama in the battleground states portend of something that many are not quite prepared to grasp. They may actually find it quite unsettling. In fairness these new polls provide mixed news for the President and his potential competitors. And that is how does a man who is a caricature of a social conservative to the liberal community and a veritable punching bag to the gay community, perceived as a religious zealot with extreme views, even remotely competitive against a sitting President, one who killed Obama and helped rescue Detroit’s auto industry?
Romney is damaged goods. His CEO branding which might have been a greater asset in different times has been severely undermined by his character flaw. His inconsistency on a range of issues along with some miscues have contributed to the further perception of him as an out of touch elitist. This is not especially helpful when doubts persist about your character and integrity. A narrative about Romney was framed by Republicans who ran against him in 2008 and in this election cycle. He is widely perceived as an inauthentic, insincere, hollow man, a veritable shape-shifting political chameleon with no core principles or values. Some of his own miscues have enhanced a the view of him as an out of touch elitist. When you are already seen as somewhat fradulent, that is hardly helpeful, especially in turbulent and uncertain times where authenticity matters.
Among social conservatives in particular, the contempt for Romney is that he is seen as a man without character or integrity who has served as a leader in the Utah based - LDS MormonCult, widely seen as a spiritual ponzi scheme. Santorum does not have an authenticity problem like Romney. To the contrary, he is seen as a rock solid social conservative by some and a religious zealot by others, a problem in an of itself. His views are problematic for more libertarian Republicans but also Independents and Democrats. Nevertheless, if Santorum were to get by Romney and ascend to the nomination and focuses in earnest in his discussions with the wider electorate on core economic issues and improving conditions for working families, regardless of their faith, or lack thereof, I would hold that he is a much bigger threat to President Obama with his focus on support of the hardhats and tax breaks for manufacturing. Romney’s robotic Gekko persona is problematic from an electoral standpoint in that it presents a caricatureof the guy that fired you and shipped your job overseas.
Doubters of this thesis will say that Santorum will get trounced in places like New York and Massachusetts and lose pockets of this country in wide margins. I would agree with this theory. But here is what they ignore, the red states would become increasingly red and the battleground states are ultimately more in play with a Santorum candidacy than with a Romney candidacy. Santorum will even get some Reagan Democrats. I see very few if any Democrats crossing the aisle to vote for a guy who is the embodiment or caricature of the greedy, indifferent CEO. And then you have the Mormon CULT factor – Romney is not just a member but a High Priest or Bishop in a fradulent cult with a racist history. Hence, it is hard to see how the Mormon Madoff gets by President Obama. His inevitability argument is ringing increasingly hollow.
ROMNEY DESPERATE CLOSING APPEAL IN NATIVE STATE AS ‘UNDERDOG’ & ‘COMEBACK KID’ – Presents Challenge which may ultimately eclipse Santorum’s Rise
The overselling of Romney’s inevitabilty has been to date a very powerful force among Republicans committed to defeating President Obama. Money and psychological manipulation by the mainstream media are the advantages that Romney has over an otherwise fractured and relatively weak and under financed field. As reported by CBS News the recent polls undercut Romney’s electability argument over Santorun on the eve of the Miohigan primary. Even so these powerful forces at play in Michigan may deny Santorum the victory mantle in Michigan this evening, even though he has seemed to win the hearts of voters more so than Romney, who offers them calibrated or pragmatic choice, not necessarily the righteous choice.
Michigan was poised to be ‘a Bonfire of Romney’s vanity’ with the Big Varmint, Small Vision Playing to Empty Fields. Even despite Satan’s Santorum Problem with the rise of Santorum in Michigan even given his late appeals that brough him neck and neck with the Manchurian Mormon Madoff, it was going to in the end be difficult to sustain the climb given Romney’s procedural and financial advantages. Even though I will hold to my steadfast belief that in a general election, he is a stronger candidate against President Obama than is Mitt Romney, the media in recent days seems to be setting up a repudiation of Santorum, with the intended or incidental affect that Christianity looks radical compared to Mormonism. This will help elevate and insulate Romney from the baggage associated with his fraudulent CULT. There is a chance of a big victory for Romney in Michigan today buttressed by a lead with the early vote and some of Santorum’s extreme views eclipsing distaste for Romney. And since Romney is rather good at lifting off of others, posing as like Reagan when it suited him, he now seems to be playing Bill Clinton touting himself as the “comeback kid” The media will eat it up, playing up Romney’s come back and Santorum’s implosion. Romney will preach about religious tolerance and move further to the center. He will seem inevitable again until he stumbles a on Super Tuesday. Rick Santorum may have peaked. But it’s hard to see how an over financed imperial and inevitable candidate can pull off being the underdog before people start realizing ‘WTF is wrong with a guy who has every advantage and under performs against a weak field’? It would be sort of like A-Roid bragging of hitting a moon shot against a little leaguer World Series starter, while he was as an adult. Mitt Romney is similarly a tool; only a douche who laughs about being being unemployed too and who is carpet-bombing carpet-bagger forced to manage expectations of his weak candidacy would present himself as the ‘comeback kid’ in his native state. If voters see through that Romney may be looking at a depressing evening and a long fight.
SMALL VISION ON DISPLAY AT AN EMPTY FORD FIELD IN DETROIT
"It's quite the venue for Romney's speech" @MaeveReston
Yesterday in the America’s heartland, the epicenter of the auto industry, Detroit, Michigan at Ford Field (home of the Detroit Lions) a hollow man with no core principles or values and clearly without a vision gave an awkward gaffe ridden speech to an empty Stadium in his hometown. In this address to the Detroit Economic Club, there was a once in a lifetime opportunity for a man to rise to the challenge of the times and present himself as a serious alternative to the existing administration in the White House. By all accounts he not only failed and fell flat but the ‘Detroit Debacle’ may have stalled whatever momentum had been building over the last few days in his campaign. Mitt Romney’s Ford Field Fumble was not only a missed opportunity to dismiss his under funded rivals for the nomination but raised serious doubts about his viability against President Obama. As reported in the Daily Kos, “Mitt Romney’s speech to a nearly empty Ford Field [was] roundly mocked on Twitter.”
“The real problem for Romney, though, is that unforced errors like this — and by that I mean the bad choice of venue, the lackluster speech, and the line about the Cadillacs — chip away at the only real argument for his candidacy, the argument that he’s the best candidate to beat Barack Obama in the fall.”
In terms of full disclosure, I enthusiastically supported Barack Obama in 2008. As an American patriot, while I believe and have come to expect that there is always a thoughtful and perhaps even persuasive critique of any sitting leader, including President Obama, I do not believe in any way that the demonic caricature of him and the endless stream of lies by Mitt Romney and forces on the right is at all helpful or constructive to advancing our republic. We should always have a reasoned debate about the performance, accomplishments and failures or our elected leaders. I welcome the opportunity to consider perspective from enlightened individuals and thinking voters from across the political spectrum. Every incumbent deserves a challenge that amounts to something more substantial than replacing them with a better looking empty suit or even a plastic Ken Doll. There is a joy that comes from enlightenment that allows you to recognize a better path to the one you already know. I am not at all threatened by being awakened to that realization, whether it is in my politics, my morality or my sensuality. Learning and evolving are good. The current debate does not contribute to my enlightenment or increase the likelihood that I would ever vote for Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is a tool.
Mitt Romney and the RNC establishment had a unique opportunity in this election cycle. But they have thus far put forth a rather uncivilized non factual critique of this President, hoping to engage voters in a nonsensical dialogue. They assume you will buy into it and join the opposition to President Obama because of the relatively unstable and uncertain times we live in, blaming him for the creation of every misery you can think of or that one may be experiencing. They are half right. But the debate truly borders on the absurd and is an insult to the American voters of all stripes. Frankly we deserve better.
RICK ‘ROCKY BALBOA’ SANTORUM THREATENS TO TAKE MICHIGAN & ‘SHOCK THE WORLD’
And to those who fear that Rick Santorum seeks to impose some kind of theocracy, I simply do not think America will go backwards in that regard, and even he knows it. He is on some level playing Machiavelli. In fairness to Santorum he has spoken earnestly and sincerely about the collapse of the middle class, a break down in the family unit and tied his economic policy to restoration of a cohesive and functioning family unit without in any way threatening to impose his some of his unpopular personal beliefs into policy. In my estimation that is a function of media drama queens blowing his moral stance out of perspective for ratings and to sell newspapers and for individual writers and activist to preserve their stature within the liberal community; ironically it is those who I most often see eye to eye with. Santorum has been a convenient punching bag for the progressive and gay community ever since gay activist Dan Savage gave him a google problem redefining the name Santorum with a byproduct of gay sex. There are far better ways to advance a dialoque between the faith community and gay activists. The google problem remains. We have gone so far that a man who talks about faith, family and freedom seems like a throwback to a bygone era. And frankly that frightens me. It used to be the aspiration of every middle class kid to obtain a good job, save money, marry the man or woman of their dreams, buy a house and build and nurture a family. Now I suspect, it is to get a gig on a reality show, become famous and have endless sexual partners and a nice shoe collection; a different form of life if you will. I am not sure how that it is necessarily better. Santorum is not the demon here. Of that I am confident.
Rick Santorum has no choice but to play Macchiavelli because he does not have all the advantages that does Romney with the media illuminati, Wall Street and RNC establishment firmly entrenched in his corner. The media has thus far has seemed to try to spin every positive for Romney into a water shed event and every misstep by his opponents as catastrophic to their candidacy. Even with all these advantages the Mormon Madoff cannot break free of a relatively weak and under financed field of competitors. This is quite telling of Romney’s fundamental flaw as a candidate and as a human being. It is thus no wonder why many see him as either an out of touch elitist douche, a callous cold hearted prick or simply an asshole.
THE VISION THING – MITT ROMNEY DOES NOT HAVE IT
“I’m not a big-game hunter. I’ve made that very clear,” he said. “I’ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times.” –Mitt Romney, Avid Hunter of Small Varmints
“Six months before this thing got going, every Republican I know was saying, ‘We’re gonna win, we’re gonna beat Obama,’” says former Reagan strategist Ed Rollins. “Now even those who’ve endorsed Romney say, ‘My God, what a fucking mess.’”
The True Conservative, Rick Santorum, regardless of what one may think of him has actually put together a more visionary campaign, a cogent economic message, one that even this President now seems to be listening to. If Romney did not look like the guy on top of a wedding cake, his candidacy would have imploded long ago. There is simply nothing there but hubris, entitlement and ambition for the brass ring.
MICHIGAN VOTERS – RECALL ROMNEY UNDER THE ‘LEMON LAW’
