* Has Rick Santorum gone off the deep end? He’s sort of suggested that Obama is preferable to Romney:
“You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there. If you’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch-A-Sketch candidate of the future.”
I blame the Etch-A-Sketch. It’s just ruining campaigns left and right. Maybe it’s made with lead or something.
Anyway, trying to ride the Etch-A-Sketch to victory is about the only option left for Santorum and Newt, but let’s be realistic about our chances here and not say things we can’t take back. We can already see the ads if Romney is the nominee: “Santorum says votes for Obama!” Of course, considering how freaked out some Dems are about Santorum, maybe that will scare them into staying home.
Ooh, this could all be some Rovian strategy. He’s still out there, you know, and plotting. And I bet he owns stock in Etch-A-Sketch.
* Don’t worry about oil prices, because Obama is riding to the rescue with… half a pipeline. Yes, Obama is fast-tracking part of the Keystone pipeline… even though it didn’t really need this approval. And what can you do with a partial pipeline? Absolutely nothing. But that’s Obama’s genius compromise between the vast majority who wants the Keystone pipeline and the fringe minority environmentalist against it: a useless half pipeline. From our useless half-man president. Of course, that leads to the perfect Halloween costume for Obama: half a horse costume. You know which half.
* You know that half billion lost on Solyndra? Obama wants to assure us it was not his program “per se”. Despite him appearing with Solyndra and championing them, he’s trying to claim he wasn’t involved in that giant waste of our money, putting blame on Congress… I guess for stupidly listening to Obama and approving money going to Solyndra. Anyway, there’s Obama’s energy plan: a half-billion in a defunct solar panel maker plus half an oil pipeline. Throw in some broken windmills and maybe part of a track for a high speed train and we’re…
So is there some way I can invest and make money off of the skyrocketing price of oil?
* Joe Biden is going to Florida to start scaring seniors about Medicare, because what other argument do they have left for the Obama presidency. This could work out well, though, because maybe when when Biden is seen wandering around some nursing home doing his usual incoherent babbling, they’ll just keep him there.
* Wisdom of the Day from PoliticalMath:
I can’t wait for the HBO John Edwards movie. Suggested title: “Dame Change”
Heh. Now that right there is funny. Highlight of my morning so far.
Santorum’s just wrong. I’ll take the guy with the dog on top of his car who likes to fire people over the Marxist Crook – any day.
Any day of the week. But it doesn’t mean I’ll like it.
Santorum definitely crossed a line when he said we might as well have Obama in the oval office rather than Romney. When candidates start crossing those lines I start crossing them off my list.
I agree with Santorum. The only way to beat Obama is to provide a contrast. Romeny won’t be much of a contrast at all. As Romney’s performance in the primaries so far demonstrates he’ll make a really strong showing in the blue states that he has no chance of winning. The battleground states… not so much. Maybe Florida if he’s lucky, but that’s about it.
I do accept the inevitabilitly of Romney getting the nomination, though. I also accept the inevitability of Obama being reelected because the primary voters selected a man with a moral etch-a-sketch, rather than a compass, to run against him. I’m also redoubling my efforts to stock up on food, weapons, and ammuniton in prepartion for the completion of the “fundamental transformation of America”. You should too.
PBunyan – I assure you, no one will remember the “Etch-a-Sketch” comment by the time election day rolls around.
The only things that will matter on November 6th are the price of gas and the unemployment rate.
If they’re both high enough, Obama will lose.
I’ve been watching Romney since 2006. He has a moral compass that leans right and for reasons that are unfathomable to me, he isn’t using it. He is running a general election campaign right now, and not a conservative one. Maybe that is part of his elaborate strategy. When he gets the nomination, the independents, who will be the targets in the election, won’t see Romney change from a conservative to moderate. He will be there already and that won’t give the impression of hypocrite. I don’t know.
They were supposed to stay in business so we could keep giving them
free moneyloans and they could turn around andkick backdonate 2/3 to me.“Has Rick Santorum gone off the deep end?”
Well, let’s review. Romney developed Obamacare. Romney supports “global warming.” Romney’s campaign has told us that he won’t repeal Obamacare, that he doesn’t really believe anything he’s currently telling us, that they basically despise conservatives. And so, Rick Santorum pointed out that there’s not much difference between Romney and Obama. Wow, how crazy.
No one will remember that comment, Harvey, but can we be sure that Romney and his sickening cronies (really, his political consultant freaks are worse than him) won’t do something stupid like it right before the election?
Of course, we can’t be sure that clowns like Santorum and Gingrich wouldn’t do exactly the same.
Anyway, I’m tired of this politics crap. It’s all trivial compared to the fact that someone left a jar of cashews lying around here! There’s no name on it! All of those cashews – mine! All mine! Protein!
Amazing coincidence that all those green companies upon which Obama crapped our money gave him gigantic mounds of campaign dough. Nothing to see here, folks….
RACIST FRIEND OF AL SHARPTON: Reverend Al, the guy that killed the black kid in Florida is a minority!
RACIST AL SHARPTON: What?
RACIST FRIEND OF AL SHARPTON: He’s a spanish kid.
RACIST AL SHARPTON: Dammit!
If the great Obama is going to only give us half a pipeline, could he at least be magnanimous enough to give us the bottom half of the pipe?
I mean, a metal chute from Canada to Texas wouldn’t be much good at moving oil, but it sure would make one hell of an alpine slide….
Half a pipeline to make both parties happy? King solomon is rolling over in his tomb!
I agree with Santorum. I fail to see much if any difference between Romney and Obama. Just look at Romney’s record in MA. He’s the godfather of Obamacare. He governed to the left of other lefty Republicans like Weld. No Romney for me, please.
Could someone clear up the name of the Keystone XL for me? I mean, does the XL stand for the size, as in Obama plans to reduce the Keystone XL to a size S? Or does it refer to the number of plans so far, as in this is the XL’th plan, and Obama is working on the XLI plan. Or XIL?
Or is it simply Plan 9 from Mars? Bela Lugosi was only alive for half of Plan 9. By coincidence, the Keystone pipeline will cross only 1/2 of the country.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to say there’s “NO difference between Romney and Obama” and remove all doubt.
Maybe you’ll get it when all nine members of the supreme court are communists. His “record in MA” was certainly better than the
Obama clone we have now, so obviously you don’t live here or the difference would be that much more obvious.
If some terrorist says “I’m going to cut off one of your hands, which one do you want to keep?” you’re right handed, which one do you choose?
XL = extra long
Obama is just looking out for other pipes self esteem.
Rick speaks without a teleprompter, which, for a politician, is like a trapeze artist working without a net.
As long as he keeps telling the truth, I can overlook how awkwardly he may express it.
Now he should put the etch-a-sketch away and talk about what he’s going to do instead of what Romney did as governor or what he thinks undecided voters are likely to do.
and start carrying one of these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-DGaNmtA0&feature=youtu.be
“Sorry, I can’t hear your off-topic questions over the sound of how awesome my pistol is!”
(hat tip to Harvey’s blog)