Thursday, January 31, 2008
Romney Gets Most Important Indorsement
All day I've been hearing about the misgovernator's nod to John McMexiCain*. But this is the real news: (from http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog)
Sean Hannity: "I'll tell you right now, and I've not announced this, but I will be voting for Mitt Romney in this campaign. It's the first time I've stated it publicly. I'll state it now." ("Sean Hannity Radio Show," 1/31/08)
Here is a misguided prediction:
http://www.examiner.com/blogs/tapscotts_copy_desk/2008/1/30/Is-Romney-the-real-winner-in-Florida-GOP-primary
PREDICTION: McCain is now established as the clear front runner and that means he will soon experience a depth of analysis and critique from the mainstream media and the Right side of the Blogosphere that he has never before had to endure.Two things will follow: First, the more typical Republican voters know about McCain's views, the less likely they will be to vote for him, and, second, as this process become more evident, McCain's legendary temper will manifest itself in ways that are extremely damaging to him.
Why is it misguided? Because the mainstream media will not do any meaningful analysis of John McMexiCain. A McMexiCain win of the republican nomination would as good as guarantee a win for the democratic candidate -- and even he did win the presidency, it would be just about the same result as if Obillary won.
*John McMexicoFirstCain -- shortened to McMexiCain
Sean Hannity: "I'll tell you right now, and I've not announced this, but I will be voting for Mitt Romney in this campaign. It's the first time I've stated it publicly. I'll state it now." ("Sean Hannity Radio Show," 1/31/08)
Here is a misguided prediction:
http://www.examiner.com/blogs/tapscotts_copy_desk/2008/1/30/Is-Romney-the-real-winner-in-Florida-GOP-primary
PREDICTION: McCain is now established as the clear front runner and that means he will soon experience a depth of analysis and critique from the mainstream media and the Right side of the Blogosphere that he has never before had to endure.Two things will follow: First, the more typical Republican voters know about McCain's views, the less likely they will be to vote for him, and, second, as this process become more evident, McCain's legendary temper will manifest itself in ways that are extremely damaging to him.
Why is it misguided? Because the mainstream media will not do any meaningful analysis of John McMexiCain. A McMexiCain win of the republican nomination would as good as guarantee a win for the democratic candidate -- and even he did win the presidency, it would be just about the same result as if Obillary won.
*John McMexicoFirstCain -- shortened to McMexiCain
Saturday, January 26, 2008
McCain's Reconquistador Advisor
Dr. Juan Hernandez
Hugh Hewitt interviews Michelle Malkin on the subject:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/talkradio/transcripts/Transcript.aspx?ContentGuid=1a200363-a8d0-4886-8346-0df6b68b3449
HH: Hats off to some superb reporting today. Let’s do the facts first, and analysis second. Who is working for John McCain on immigration?
MM: Well, it’s a man named Dr. Juan Hernandez. He’s the Hispanic outreach director for the campaign, and my colleague, Brian Preston at Hot Air confirmed his status there, and dug up a sweet picture of Dr. Hernandez with Mark MacKinnon and Megan McCain, McCain’s daughter, during the Univision debate last December. The guy is somebody I’d known for a while. He’s been a debating opponent of mine for several years. And he is the king of double talk and crooked talk when it comes to border enforcement. He is a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States, and served in Vicente Fox’s administration, overseeing a now-defunct office called the presidential office for Mexicans abroad, whose primary and sole purpose was to undermine immigration enforcement in this country.
HH: Now Michelle Malkin, I think this is a fairly stunning bit of news, that John McCain’s director of Hispanic outreach is a former Mexican cabinet government official. Now I know he’s got dual citizenship, and that’s a legitimate form of citizenship. But to go get a former Vicente Fox cabinet member and make him your…it’s just not going to assuage the concerns of the base in the Republican Party, is it?
MM: Absolutely not. It’s going to confirm the suspicions of a lot of grassroots conservatives that despite McCain’s assurance that he now understands the need for border security, that in fact what he simply understands is that he has to pay lip service to it to try and get elected. And this guy is not just somebody that he hired on at the last minute. It turns out that he is also serving as a senior fellow at a McCain-founded non-profit, supposed non-profit, non-partisan think tank called the Reform Institute, which has come under scrutiny by mainstream media outlets in the last couple of years, because it appears that this thing was set up to solicit donations from people who then benefit from lobbying by McCain, for example the Cablevision company, but then also is used to funnel a lot of left wing, open borders money, including funding from George Soros.
Here is quote from Hernandez' own website:
http://www.juanhernandez.org/index-33.html
* A few weeks ago, Hernandez visited a U.S. credit union in North Carolina on a tour to extend banking privileges to undocumented Mexicans and to drive down wire-transfer fees for Mexicans sending money back to their families.
Translation: He wants banking privileges for illegals in the U.S. in order to expedite the flow of cash out of the United States to Mexico. Now we can better understand McCain's position on illegal immigration.
Hugh Hewitt interviews Michelle Malkin on the subject:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/talkradio/transcripts/Transcript.aspx?ContentGuid=1a200363-a8d0-4886-8346-0df6b68b3449
HH: Hats off to some superb reporting today. Let’s do the facts first, and analysis second. Who is working for John McCain on immigration?
MM: Well, it’s a man named Dr. Juan Hernandez. He’s the Hispanic outreach director for the campaign, and my colleague, Brian Preston at Hot Air confirmed his status there, and dug up a sweet picture of Dr. Hernandez with Mark MacKinnon and Megan McCain, McCain’s daughter, during the Univision debate last December. The guy is somebody I’d known for a while. He’s been a debating opponent of mine for several years. And he is the king of double talk and crooked talk when it comes to border enforcement. He is a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States, and served in Vicente Fox’s administration, overseeing a now-defunct office called the presidential office for Mexicans abroad, whose primary and sole purpose was to undermine immigration enforcement in this country.
HH: Now Michelle Malkin, I think this is a fairly stunning bit of news, that John McCain’s director of Hispanic outreach is a former Mexican cabinet government official. Now I know he’s got dual citizenship, and that’s a legitimate form of citizenship. But to go get a former Vicente Fox cabinet member and make him your…it’s just not going to assuage the concerns of the base in the Republican Party, is it?
MM: Absolutely not. It’s going to confirm the suspicions of a lot of grassroots conservatives that despite McCain’s assurance that he now understands the need for border security, that in fact what he simply understands is that he has to pay lip service to it to try and get elected. And this guy is not just somebody that he hired on at the last minute. It turns out that he is also serving as a senior fellow at a McCain-founded non-profit, supposed non-profit, non-partisan think tank called the Reform Institute, which has come under scrutiny by mainstream media outlets in the last couple of years, because it appears that this thing was set up to solicit donations from people who then benefit from lobbying by McCain, for example the Cablevision company, but then also is used to funnel a lot of left wing, open borders money, including funding from George Soros.
Here is quote from Hernandez' own website:
http://www.juanhernandez.org/index-33.html
* A few weeks ago, Hernandez visited a U.S. credit union in North Carolina on a tour to extend banking privileges to undocumented Mexicans and to drive down wire-transfer fees for Mexicans sending money back to their families.
Translation: He wants banking privileges for illegals in the U.S. in order to expedite the flow of cash out of the United States to Mexico. Now we can better understand McCain's position on illegal immigration.
What's to Hate About Romney
The American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/why_they_hate_mitt_romney.html has this (and much more) to say about why the other candidates dislike Romney:
Why do the Republican candidates hate him? Because they don't have any answers to his challenges. They seek to undermine him by using personal attacks more worthy of a middle school playground than a presidential contest. This is politics and Washington as usual, and choosing any candidate that employs these tactics will only get us more of the same. One would hope that Americans could see beyond these base attacks and choose the candidate who is best for the country - Governor Mitt Romney.
Why do the Republican candidates hate him? Because they don't have any answers to his challenges. They seek to undermine him by using personal attacks more worthy of a middle school playground than a presidential contest. This is politics and Washington as usual, and choosing any candidate that employs these tactics will only get us more of the same. One would hope that Americans could see beyond these base attacks and choose the candidate who is best for the country - Governor Mitt Romney.
Friday, January 25, 2008
McDemocrat -- McCain's true colors
Hewitt has the latest bad news, including video on McCain's true nature. The video includes Britt Hume reporting that McCain actually considered crossing the aisle officially. I don't think it's crossing the aisle so much as he's trying to deliver the whole ship of the republic to the dems.
McCain may best be likened to Benedict Arnold: Once tremendously talented, an heroic patriot giving his blood and suffering for the nation -- but remembered only for selling out and betraying his nation. Arnold was to give up West Point to the British. McCain wants to give up the U.S. to Mexico and the Democrats (to add to his treacheries in campaign finance, tax cuts, etc.) It's difficult to tell which of his twin aims is more detrimental to the nation.
McCain may best be likened to Benedict Arnold: Once tremendously talented, an heroic patriot giving his blood and suffering for the nation -- but remembered only for selling out and betraying his nation. Arnold was to give up West Point to the British. McCain wants to give up the U.S. to Mexico and the Democrats (to add to his treacheries in campaign finance, tax cuts, etc.) It's difficult to tell which of his twin aims is more detrimental to the nation.
Monday, January 21, 2008
My Travel IQ
On a completely different note, playing this game
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1?536d=5ca4
for the first time, I completed level 10 of 12 and I scored 373,168 with a traveler IQ of 111.
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1?536d=5ca4
for the first time, I completed level 10 of 12 and I scored 373,168 with a traveler IQ of 111.
Romney Leads going into Florida
Hugh Hewitt has results showing Romney leading both in delegates and in total votes -- with 59 delegates and 530,162 votes. And the results don't include Wyoming, which Mitt also won.
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog
Coulter continues her praise of Romney:
"One clue that Romney is our strongest candidate is the fact that Democrats keep viciously attacking him while expressing their deep respect for Mike Huckabee and John McCain. "
http://www.anncoulter.com/
"The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing. That is Mitt Romney by a landslide. "
What's Huckabee really after:
Politico thinks it is to be a Mitt-Killer for McCain: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/8003.html
“In Florida, McCain is desperate to keep conservative Republicans from coalescing around another candidate, and the best way to prevent it is to have the GOP vote fractured,” said University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato. “Huckabee knows that by keeping his candidacy alive, he’s potentially helping McCain win another split plurality vote. McCain knows it, too. Gratitude will follow — but whether that includes the vice presidency is anybody’s guess.”
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog
Coulter continues her praise of Romney:
"One clue that Romney is our strongest candidate is the fact that Democrats keep viciously attacking him while expressing their deep respect for Mike Huckabee and John McCain. "
http://www.anncoulter.com/
"The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing. That is Mitt Romney by a landslide. "
What's Huckabee really after:
Politico thinks it is to be a Mitt-Killer for McCain: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/8003.html
“In Florida, McCain is desperate to keep conservative Republicans from coalescing around another candidate, and the best way to prevent it is to have the GOP vote fractured,” said University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato. “Huckabee knows that by keeping his candidacy alive, he’s potentially helping McCain win another split plurality vote. McCain knows it, too. Gratitude will follow — but whether that includes the vice presidency is anybody’s guess.”
I've wondered if the media hasn't latched on to Huckabee as a darling because they have a whole congregation of lunatic quotes and statements that can easily be made to sound like religious tyranny that they can beat him to death with in the general election and thus guarantee a win for Clinton or Obama. On the other hand, McCain might as well be a democrat, so the liberal media would like him just as well as either Hillary or Barak.
Ice Melt not caused by global warming
An old and largely ignored article claims the melting of antarctic ice began approximately 10,000 years ago. Not caused by man-made global warming.
http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9910/09/antarctic.meltdown/
http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9910/09/antarctic.meltdown/
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Romney Appeal
Malkin posted this with regard to the latest NH Debate:
Wow. Interesting. Frank Luntz’s focus group was just asked about Romney. Only a few raised their hands to say they supported him before the debate. Almost all raised their hands to say they were supporting him afterward.
Can't just be the hair, it didn't really change during the debate. I also notice that Malkin has started calling that Arkansas Govenor, "Shuckabee" -- and apparently the focus group found him to be slick and evasive.
I may not agree with Romney on everything -- but the more I see of him, the more I think that he should be the nominee -- with no one else even running a close second.
Wow. Interesting. Frank Luntz’s focus group was just asked about Romney. Only a few raised their hands to say they supported him before the debate. Almost all raised their hands to say they were supporting him afterward.
Can't just be the hair, it didn't really change during the debate. I also notice that Malkin has started calling that Arkansas Govenor, "Shuckabee" -- and apparently the focus group found him to be slick and evasive.
I may not agree with Romney on everything -- but the more I see of him, the more I think that he should be the nominee -- with no one else even running a close second.
