* Well, no Newt comeback. Also, not a great night for Romney… or anyone hoping this primary will be over soon. Mathematically, it’s still hard to see how anyone other than Romney wins this (though he came in third in Alabama and Mississippi, it was a close third and he actually won the night in delegates when you add in Hawaii and American Samoa), but I guess we’ll continue on until the convention. Grah!
Come on! I just want to focus on how much I don’t like Obama! Why can’t we end this? Why?!
* The CBO has upped the estimate for the cost of Obamacare to $1.76 trillion over ten years. So not only did we get this health care plan forced on us that no one wants, but it’s twice as expensive as previously estimated. I swear I could completely ruin health care for like an eighth of that cost, a lot of it through cheap sabotage. But the Obama philosophy is if you’re going to do something wrong, it should at least cost a trillion dollars to do it.
Don’t worry, though; he’ll fix everything with another super expensive “stimulus” none of us want.
* Oh no, now Science! has turned on liberals. A scientific (Science!) study says that liberals are much less tolerant of opposing viewpoints. That’s pretty obvious to anyone who has met a liberal, but now Science! says its true which means it can’t be disputed. So what will liberals do now that Science! is their enemy? Will they turn against it? You don’t want to make Science! mad; it can fight back with lasers and meteors and dinosaurs and other Science! things.
* After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica is going to stop putting out a print edition of its Encyclopedia. Apparently people aren’t willing anymore to spend thousands of dollars on a giant print edition when they can get more up to date information for free online. Also, Wikipedia has way more information than Britannica could ever fit in it’s print edition; I don’t remember Encyclopedia Britannica having a separate, extensive article for each episode of Firefly. Also, clicking on a link is much easier than having to keep searching between a couple dozen different books. Also, again, free versus super expensive.
Anyway, end of an era, but that’s progress. So now Britannica will focus on… selling pencils maybe? Who knows; the encyclopedia was sort of their whole reason for existence. Maybe they should try cooking a really good cheeseburger; Five Guys has done great for itself.
* Wisdom of the Day from Ken Jennings:
Antarctica was awesome, btw. So weird that a century ago nobody had even been to the South Pole and now there are like 100 Starbucks there.
* Here’s Sunny on Critical Race Theory. Vroom vroom! (or are we talking a different kind of race?)
Republicans: “Why can’t we end this? Why?!”
Ghost of Reagan, Coolidge, Lincoln, and good Republicans past: “You did this to yourselves! Look at what you did! Look at what you did!”
Wikipedia is fine, if you wanted to see the infinite-monkeys-typing theory in action (that gag was transplanted and repurposed from the Straight Dope, so credit where due….).
I’m filing an absentee ballot and voting for MM!TTTT now so I can ignore the rest of the primaries and concentrating on loving my fellow man to prove how full of love conservatives are. And if the liberals spurn me, I shall then be justified in punching them in their dumb monkey faces.
“I just want to focus on how much I don’t like Obama! Why can’t we end this? Why?!”
Because, replacing Obama with a guy just like Obama doesn’t make much sense.
You do realize that Romney can’t possibly beat Obama, right? He can’t even get a consistent 40% of the die-hard Republican primary voters to hold their nose for him. While spending more money than all of the other Republicans combined. You do realize that he will not, ever, have more money to spend than Obama. Right?
So he can’t rally the base and he won’t have as much money as Obama does to court centrists.
So what you’d like to do is to get on to talking about how much you hate Obama…and keep at it for four more years? Is that it? Frank, is this a money thing? Are you not-so-secretly looking forward to 4 more years of Obama so that you can keep writing funny columns about how horrible he is?
Explain to us all how the Republican Centrist Presidential Campaign strategy works. I mean…let’s look at the data.
McCain. Centrist? Check. Won election? Hm.
Bush Jr. Round 2. Centrist? Not as much as in 2000, at least. Won election? Barely.
Bush Jr. Round 1 Centrist? Yes. But not as much as McCain! Won election? Barely – through constitutional SCOTUS decision and electoral college.
Dole. Centrist? Check. Won election? Uh.
Bush Sr. Round 2. Centrist? Check. Won the first Gulf War? Check. Won (re)-election? Hey now.
Bush Sr. Round 1. Centrist? Not on the campaign. Also, Dukakis. Duh. Won.
Reagan. Centrist? No sir, No how, NFW. Won in a landslide.
And THAT’S why the Republican strategy is to run Massachusetts Moderates. It works great!
Which states has Romney won, BTW? Of those, which ones are actually not going to vote for Obama? In key swing states, what has Romney’s actual vote count been? How is Romney doing in the core Republican states? What’s his vote count there?
Go ahead. Explain to me how Romney beats Obama in the general election. Is it something like…even though the conservative base can’t stand him, they’ll hold their nose? That makes sense. Except that’s not enough to win. So it must be that a guy who can’t even energize his own party base is going to fire up the Independents (who voted for Obama last time) so that they vote for him overwhelmingly. While spending less money. Is that it? Is that the plan?
“Explain to me how Romney beats Obama in the general election.”
Simple. A majority of people are sick to death of Obama.
Ding ding ding ding ding. We have a winner!
Jimmy,
What ChevalierdeJohnstone is pointing out is the reason why candidates like McCain lose. Obama didn’t win solely on the “I hate Bush” mantra, he inspired lib voters with “Hope, Change & Unicorns.” Without that, they wouldn’t have turned out in numbers. With Romney, we only get the “I hate Obama” voters, and that’s not enough to win.
It’s not that a vast majority of American people wanted Obama, it’s that when there is a candidate like McCain (or Romney), Republicans aren’t energized to go vote in large numbers for a candidate they don’t fully support and Obama wins. Obama’s margin of victory in 2008 was not very large. If we had run a conservative candidate, Republican numbers would have been up and Obama would have lost – instead, Obama motivated the lib voters to go the the polls in bigger numbers and so he won. Romney isn’t exciting Republican voters in the primary, and he’s not going to inspire them in the general election.
Yes, SOB, but Romney will defeat Obama nonetheless – consistent with the “anyone but Obama” sentiment that is growing in the country regardless of party politics. In fact, it’s starting to look like any of the four could beat him.
I don’t have to like any of them.
But Obama’s a crook and he makes Nixon look like a saint. All we’ve got to do is pick a fairly decent person and run him.
I don’t get why Encyclopedia Britannica is just giving up like that. They are a foreign company with a technology that is unsuited for today’s market. They’re a shoo-in for some Obama stimulus money!
@ Jimmy: The difference between Nixon and Obama is that the media was entirely willing to go after Nixon for both his perceived and proven misdoings. The mainstream media has already demonstrated that no matter what information comes up regarding Obama, it will not dare to criticize him, and will often minimize and excuse his many wrongs.
Also, we don’t have a “fairly decent person” to run with. We have Mittsy Obomney, who failed to even beat McShame.
Nevertheless, JAG, I’m optimistic. I may not like Romney’s politics, but I don’t think he or Santorum or Gingrich or Paul are crooks. I’ll take ANY of them right now! To a greater or lesser extent, they all believe in our Constitution and the legislative process in this country. We are in an accelerating crisis and O.M.G!
BTW, I voted for Nixon and I still like him. I like Dick!
Now, who’s with me?
Huh?
😉
Cialis was kind enough to let us know what to do if its effects lasted more than four hours…”Consult your physician”. Should someone be responsible to let us know what to do when an ‘election’ lasts more than six months?
I don’t know, Burt but I’m pretty sure it involves 2 separate bathtubs on claw feet in a field somewhere.
Carolyn’s right. For some reason when you use Cialis you can only have marital relations in side-by-side bathtubs. (And they thought the Petrie’s side-by-side beds were rough….)
No print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica? Great. Now how do I keep my La-Z-Boy chair from reclining too far back?
Liberals are not tolerant?!?
Next you’ll be trying to tell me water is wet and honey badger don’t give a shit.
I remember the days when people kept that sort of thing to themselves…..
Irish proverb:
“May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been,
The foresight to know where you are going,
And the insight to know when you have gone too far.”
Where we’ve been – Greatest Country in the History of Forever. Hindsight, check.
Where we’re going – Up Shiite Creek without a paddle. Foresight, check.
Time to pray for Insight.