Nuke the News: Final Debate of 2011
* I have a new New York Post column and in it I argue we shouldn’t worry about a potential cellphone ban and just feel lucky we’re allowed to drive at all. I make a pretty good argument cars would not be approved for general use if they weren’t invented until today and are basically a grandfathered freedom of a different time.
“So you’re proposing that people speed around in tons of metal? You must mean only really smart, well-trained people?”
“No. Everyone. Even stupid people.”
“Won’t millions be killed?”
“Oh, no. Not that many. Just a little more than 40,000 a year.”
“And injuries?”
“Oh . . . millions.”
* Also, I’ll be on Talk of the Town with Larry Rifkin at about 12:30pm ET talking about Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything
* So, another Republican debate last night — the last of the year. Newt Gingrich got beat up a lot (while having some good answers like his condemnation of Obama on delaying the Keystone pipeline) and the FOX News commentators did put Ron Paul’s full crazy and “blame America first” foreign policy ideas on full display for Iowa. The main thing, though, was that Romney did well. Really well. Like he had so many good sounding answers — including great attacks on Obama — that I wanted to forget how much I don’t like him. With Gingrich fading, we might want to think of embracing the inevitable and learning to be like Romney. He’s not so bad. He’s like shape-shifting robot, but if he’s on our side, that’s kinda cool.
So, I think we can like Romney if we try hard and just not think about a few things. And we also will need to be prepared for lots of talk about “magic underwear” in the general election.
* By the way, Mitt Romney has picked up the endorsement of Nikki Haley. There’s some talk of her being a VP nominee, and she would be a twofer — a woman and a minority. Of course, she’s not a popular minority like black or Hispanic — she a minority minority from a group that doesn’t have a large voting block.
Oh, don’t tell me you’re above affirmative action in picking candidates. We’re not pushing out the best man for the job in favor of a minority or a woman as there is no best man for the job — they’re all politicians.
* We’ve declared an official end to the conflict in Iraq. So I guess we’ve won… maybe. I don’t remember conflicts in the past being so ambiguous on the outcome. Well, maybe in a hundred years we’ll know for sure.
* Christopher Hitchens has died. He was a great and quite cantankerous writer. He was also a famous atheist and will now find have found out whether he was wrong or… nothing.
* Wisdom of the Day: “Finally told my parents they’re gay!” -Megan Amram
* This morning I started work on my next book for HarperCollins. Thanks to the sales of Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything
Hmm… I’ll need a leader hat…
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December 16th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Problem #1: The Moon
Solution: Nuke it!
December 16th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
As far as the hat, you could use a bucket. Now I am not suggesting you actually wear it, but keep it nearby and strongly imply that only the best leaders are even allowed to wear a bucket.
You could decorate it with your own made up fake presidential looking seal or something.
December 16th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
It wont really be so bad if we’re stuck with Romney. I’d like a real conservative for president, but I’ll settle for a fake conservative as President, and control of both houses of Congress with a fresman class of real conservatives taking over. It’s not like Romney is gonna veto anything that a republican controlled Congress would send him. The only scenario I see us being hurt by a politically squishy Romney is if the congress critter democrats run away like they did in Wisconsin. Then we’d wish we had a real conservative to round ‘em up and hang ‘em high.
Big picture. Priority #1 is to beat Obama. I don’t care who our nominee is. Obama has put us in a situation where he is the greater evil that must be purged. If Obama stays in the WH, even control of congress will be cold comfort as it will only slow his nation razing agenda down, not reverse it. A Republican controlled congress can block him legislatively, but he has shown that he will use regulatory bodies to further his plans. In that case, Congress had better be prepared to impeach him, and suffer the remainder of a term with Joe Biden. And we still wont be headed in the right direction.
December 16th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Coldguy just scared the crap out of me suggesting a possible President Biden O_O
December 16th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Dit-dit-da-dit-dit-dit…This just in off the wire…Congress has defanged the incandescant ban. If Obama signs the spending bill, the ban will go into effect; however, the administration would be denied funds to enforce it — for 2011, at least.
December 16th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Oooops, should have been: “[we'll be safe] for 2012, at least”
December 16th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I dunno, even Ron Paul is better than a republican at this point. mittnewt-bear-pig, commie Ameican-hating muslem rooster kisser whats the difference?
The house of representatives is now a joke, osama the rooster kisser has co-opted them. Instead of doing what we elected them to do in 10, they cave and give that pos in the white house everything it wants. Can’t we put the rooster kisser boehner in the mexi-cannon, along with holder, napy-headed-palitano, and that c*** sasquatch? Oh yeah, she escaped on another multi-million dollar vacation. Well maybe her plane will crash on the way to Hawaii.
December 16th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
@plentyobailouts: Wow, plenty, take a deep breath. You need to get in the holiday spirit – I know I felt much better once the tree was up:
http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2011/12/09/white-trash-repairs-much-easier-to-clean-up/#comments
December 16th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
“This morning I started work on my next book for HarperCollins. Thanks to the sales of Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything, I was asked to write another book. This one will be on my solutions for all the problems facing America. Hopefully it will start a movement when it comes out with me as leader.”
The last time someone said that, the idiot wrote a piece of crap called “The Audacity of Hope.”
December 16th, 2011 at 2:15 pm
@Son of Bob: And before that, it was “Mein Kampf.” Socialists always try to make that personal connection before they seize power. “Hey, I’m just a guy – a guy with a vision. Join me.”
December 16th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
You made a good presentation in the NY Post about the grandfathered-in freedom to own and drive a motor vehicle. Maybe we’ll see a Motor Vehicle equivalent of the Community Reinvestment Act where owning a Chevy Volt would be a right for all Americans, including illegal aliens—enabling them to obtain a car loan even if they have neither the means nor intention to pay back the loan.
December 16th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
For your model on ruling the nation, I suggest “Bananas,” a film made when Woody Allen was funny. The official language of the United States will now be Swedish!
And I’ve decided Romney is the guy. He’s resilient, and he’s taken more shots in the last couple of months than Obama ever had, and he’s still standing. I’m banking on the Frank J. Doctrine — since we can’t get a real 100% rock-ribbed conservative, we have to make sure we have someone close enough who knows he needs us.
December 16th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Your attitude has been noted Mr. plentyobailouts and for your own good we’re keeping a close eye on you….Janet Napolitano, Always watching (except the boarders), Washington DC.
December 16th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Final scoring of all the debates and the candidates?
Yes, finally is a simple scoring table.
It is called “Republican Primaries for Dummies”. A guide of who to vote for Dummies. And the winner is……….
The first simplified resume in a table format that scores all candidates on all 12 Republican debates. It includes individual scores in the six more important issues of this campaign. It also compares the scoring to Obama’s on the same issues.
You can see the scores, or leave your own, at http://www.RAmericaChronicle.com
December 16th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
i hate to say it, but that whole “grandfathered in freedom” thing also includes airplanes and asprin.
December 16th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
e pearse: (some link)
Let’s see: Immigration, Abortion, and Character weighed the lowest, with all other categories worth two or three times as much.
Admit it buddy, your grandparents were commies, weren’t they?
December 16th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
@Mxymaster: I ‘spose, but I tend to give Allen a miss after his incestuous relationship with his daughter.
December 16th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
@Burma: I know, but he was only m0lesting grown-ups then….
December 16th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Romney/Gingrich
Newt might make a great VP. Would be a fun race to watch, in any case.
Imagine the VP debate, Newt against Biden. or whatever brain-dead slug O’bambam picks this time around.
December 16th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
The war in Iraq is over today? Damn, I didn’t get to kiss a random nurse.
December 16th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Hold the phone. How long have I been away from here that Frank J has been publishing books? Adding to kindle….
December 16th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
LOOK AT FRANK! He’s top of the page! At Hotair, that is. At 10:30 PM.
December 16th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
“and will now find have found out whether he was wrong or… nothing.”
A fate that awaits us all, Frank.
One thing is for sure, Burma, Frank is ‘hot’ (no, I don’t mean that kind of ‘hot,’ ussjimmycarter). I wonder why he’s still messing around with this old blog of his?
December 17th, 2011 at 2:20 am
Who can forget the classic IMAO Reader Theater production of “Christopher Hitchens Finds God!” by WebsterGlobe? (You can hunt through the IMAO archives for it, or go to the direct link I so obligingly provide below.)
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6150401/christopher-hitchens-finds-god
December 17th, 2011 at 6:08 am
I liked your article. Then I thought about what if we asked this dill weeds in congress today to write the Constitution. They would like get to the “Right To Bear Arms” and it would be “Arms Forbidden By Everyone, Ever”… Oh, and Free Speech? Oh…and Religious Freedom…that would be written for everyone but Christians who would be decreed a replacement for the light-bulb as they are to be crucified and lit on fire on every street corner…
December 17th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
5 of 7 – that was great – thanks for being so obliging!
December 17th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Apparently, Frank J. is well-known in Germany.
December 17th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
I read your Post article which was linked to at Hot Air. Great job. I like your descriptions of riding a car. As I got older I started getting the same exact notions in mah haid.
December 17th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
. . . start a movement when it comes out with me as leader.
Toldja. Frank J. for Preznit!!
Hmm… I’ll need a leader hat…
Herman Cain has one. Maybe you can borrow it.
December 17th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Romney is not as popular as an anal probe nor as trustworthy as Obama but other than that he has all the charm of Nixon.
No sale.
December 18th, 2011 at 4:09 am
I think 2012 could be extreme enough that Monsieur IMAO could become Presidentiable. This is a “tail risk”, sure, but I’m all in. Better than a lottery ticket. Oh, wait, are you 35 yet???
December 18th, 2011 at 9:20 am
Meanwhile, in other news ….
Imho, the gift of that drone and its stealth technology to Iran was certainly as noteworthy as that whole Abu Ghraib brouhaha was. I’m skeptical that it was an accident. Security is too tight and there is too much redundancy in its safeguards for that to have been an accident. It is more likely that another traitor like Bradley Manning breached security and gave that drone to Iran, imho.
Not that this current administration’s shills in the MSM would ever question the validity of this current administration’s lame explanation. Until I mentioned it, you had already forgotten about it, right? Oh hell, let’s forget about Bradley Manning, the Wikileaks Scandal and the Fast And Furious Scandal, too.
December 19th, 2011 at 8:24 am
Hopefully it will start a movement when it comes out with me as leader.
North Korea got the message. Their Dear Leader died. The job is open, and just waiting for you, Frank!
December 19th, 2011 at 8:54 am
Those of you saying, in effect, “Romney is a great campaigner and he’s the closest thing we have to a conservative” are setting yourselves up for massive failure. If you must, you may say he’s the only option we conservatives have. But those of you who sound actually enthused about Mitt effing Romney don’t sound really enthused. Frank’s writing in description of the debate read like he had taken some koolaid before hand. And that’s a good thing. The more you become truly enthused with Romney is the moment you’re ready for actual heartbreak when he does stupid liberal crap.
December 19th, 2011 at 9:01 am
MarkoMancuso:
I expect any Republican who wins will do stupid liberal crap. Why? Because they’re all politicians and will do stuff to “get along” and, like George Bush in 1990, be betrayed by the liberals in Congress.
Politicians never learn.
(For those others reading this that don’t remember, Bush ran on a “no new taxes” pledge in 1988. He gave in to insistence of the Democrats in Congress that there be a tax hike to help balance the budget. They then mounted a ‘George Bush lied’ campaign. Worked so well, they tried it on his son starting 12 years later.)
Oh, and Marko, don’t read into this that I’m supporting Romney. He’s my next-to-last choice on the GOP side.
But, come November 2012, my choice will be on the GOP side.
December 19th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Basil, that’s the same thing you’ve said all along. I disagree with some of it, but I have no further argument with it.
Again, what boggles my mind is that some seem to be in the midst of trying to talk themselves into a state of enthusiasm because, hey, if you squint really hard, Romney kinda sorta looks conservative. I feel bad for them.
December 19th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
MarkoMancuso:
No one in the race is conservative enough for me. But they’re all a darn sight better than Obama.
And, like you know I’ve said, and are tired of hearing me say, the place to defeat the non-conservative Republicans is the primaries, and in state and local races. If we load state and local up with real conservatives, then only real conservatives can graduate to the national stage. The reason we don’t have national conservatives is our own fault.
Whatever happens, though, in the national races, the GOP candidates must win, simply because they’re not as bad as the Democrats.
This election cycle, I picked my horse. My horse threw a shoe. I’m looking for another horse. All I see are a bunch of horses’ asses. So, I have to go with the best horse’s ass. And I’m really hoping it’s not Romney. Or Ron Paul.
December 19th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
#26 – DamnCat,
You’re welcome! And a tip of the hat to WebsterGlobe, where ever he is!