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It’s safe to say no one expects anything in the way of a blink of an eye is going to happen in D.C. until after Tuesday.
aside from the continued meltdown of the House GOP reputation – what little they had left, there won’t be anything happening.
When even Karl Rove is telling you to throw in the towel, you know you’re toast.
it might be wise to consider and prepare for what might spring from the ashes of the republican party…you, of all..uh…people. 🙂
Or is the GOP more a new testament kind of party?
and Old Testament for everyone else.
Is that yours or someone else’s?
Just my reaction to Dave’s question.
Thanks, sxp.
Sig line worthy.
You’re making me blush…
(at least IMHO) the Republican Party hasn’t built up the pyre for its funeral and rebirth quite yet.
I have to admit, though – it would be interesting to see the Tea Party fanatics win out in this battle over not only Boehner but also Karl Rove and the slightly more sane Senate Republicans. If the party establishment loses positive control, then we can start watching for things springing from ashes. (Probably zombies…)
The one everyone said is DOA in October/November after most of the debate debacles.
A few of us around these parts said he’s definitely down but not out. He still has money to burn.
Well looks like Rick has built a big old Texas size football bonfire with his media buys.
http://politicalticker.blogs.c…
He still can’t win but he sure has made a lot of small town TV networks and their cable companies happy.
It’s not going to be won with TV. It’s going to be won with a ground game.
The national buys are good, but he’d have been better off spending the Iowa money in South Carolina.
Of course he might not last that long…
Ron Paul would be a testament to the ground game.
I’m no good at it.
But my gut says Ron Paul.
First or second place. Everyone laughs, but nobody thought Edwards was going to do well in Iowa in 2004 either. Santorum has done more events than just about anyone (though Paul is up there too).
Yes, Santorum has a Google problem, but how many rural elderly Iowa Republicans even know what Google is?
and he’ll end up running as a Libertarian or starting his own party
for Main Street and Madison Avenue.
Rickster announced on Aug. 13, so he blew that wad in just 4 months — that’s real fiscally conservative. Or desperate measures of a desperate man.
Parry’s polling as good as “don’t Google me” Santorum so it’s gonna be a big ‘ol whippin’ for the Rickster. Hell, he’s so desperate he hailed Jeezuz with his Tebow comparison and then had to watch his touchstone get a Brady beat down.
At the time, GEN Shinseki was the Army Chief of Staff, and the quote in question was over his proposals to move the Army away from being a mechanized beast that had to slug it out with the Soviet hordes and to a more mobile, flexible force that could fight battles around the world with short notice.
Turns out he was pretty correct in his vision of the future of combat.
At the time, BushCo and his cronies in the Pentagon loved what they were hearing. But when he started pushing back against some things that this mob were trying to do to other Army programs (Crusader, Paladin) then Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and their dark minions starting the process of setting him up for removal.
When he refused to parrot the NeoCon line on Iraq and accurately told Congress what the force levels would be need to be for a SUCCESSFUL Iraqi Campaign, then he was deemed irrelevant.
Now that the last troops are out of Iraq after 9 futile years of combat, looks like he was right again.
We’ve missed you.
Please he’s a local Hawaii boy and that’s another plus. (Note the term boy as used in Hawaii has no negative connotations.)
as used, is also apparently without connotation (at least for most Coloradans).
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Let’s see – you are running for a very public office, yet you don’t get control of the single most likely domain name – your own name dot com. That requires willful stupidity.
I believe that poster is still around under another name. Anyway, I can’t remember the exact domain name he registered, but it was something like TomTancredo.com and it did the same thing.
But it never got much traction.
if you type in ‘corygardner’ on a web browser address bar, it will try to tack on .com if it can’t find a short hostname by that name. And people will type in ‘corygardner.com’ as a quick guess, too. The same can’t be said for .net addresses.
in Indiana, where Republican Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White has just been ruled ineligible for office because he knowingly falsified his voter registration to maintain residence in a town he no longer lived in (to remain on the town’s city council).
The judge hearing a complaint about White’s eligibility issued the ruling today, ordering the state’s election commission to certify the second place vote getter (a Democrat by the name of Vop Osili) as Secretary of State and disqualifying White from his office.
(A separate trial is not yet begun on the actual criminal case of multiple counts of vote fraud – this was merely an election ruling…)
As Republicans are big believers in profiling, I guess they’ll be demanding we closely check all Republican candidates for fraudulent activity.
I know Ann Coulter had some issues with her registration at one point, too. It’s obviously a pattern of unpatriotic Republicans out to destroy our country.