My money is on Fox. 

We’re all depressed, Daisy. But the soldiers who spent the winter at Valley Forge had more cause to be depressed, didn’t they?

Krauthammer spent months dissing the Tea Party as a passing fancy of no consequence until even he couldn’t fail to notice the impact they had on last fall’s election.  So as far as I’m concerned, his opinion isn’t worth shit.  But maybe that’s just me…

People like him spend way too much time talking about the election horse race and not enough time demanding answers for the bad behavior of our political class.  Which is why we end up with a campaign cycle which lasts nearly two years before the big event in November, while nothing gets reported outside rightwing blogs on stuff like Fast and Furious and the entire Green Industry scam.

People DIED as a result of F&F… and all Krauthammer can talk about is a stinking horse race?  This is the biggest scandal in our nation’s history, and people are acting as if it’s no big deal.

Is it any wonder, then, that our country is in the mess it’s in?

Where’s the outrage over this?  Where’s the congress and the media demanding answers on behalf of the people they allegedly work for?  Where’s the teeth of prosecution?  What happened with F&F is literally treasonous, yet there’s no outcry.  But we could all certainly spend months wringing our hands over Sarah Palin’s target on a political map and decry the lack of civility in our nation’s discourse and how that led to a tragic shooting.

Everybody’s so f*ing worried about our team versus their team that nobody gives a tinker’s damn about princicpled stands of right and wrong.  It’s just cover our team’s butt when they do something bad while hypocritically attacking the other team for the same sins.

I’m done.

Hubby and I turned off Fox more than a month ago and haven’t missed it AT ALL.  He was married to Brett Bair’s show, and Krauthammer was a particular favorite.  But when that smug SOB couldn’t help but smirk over Palin’s public statement about not running, that was really the very last straw.  For a man who’s wrong as often as the K-man is, he doesn’t get to gloat when he — like a stopped clock — happens to occasionally be right.

Until our political class takes seriously the need to cut spending, I’m done caring about who the parties nominate.  Oh, sure… they *say* they want to cut spending, but these people can’t even find the political will to cut the waste of federal buildings which keep their lights on all night.  If they can’t even be bothered to address that tiny bit of waste, why should I trust them to do anything about the serious fraud and abuse in Medicare or Social Security?  Or the obscene pensions federal workers make, compared to the rest of us?  If they routinely exempt themselves from the laws they make the rest of us abide by, why should I care which of them is in charge?  They’re all pigs feeding at the taxpayers’ trough.

We’re spending too much money.  How hard is this for any potential nominee to grasp?  Yet, when they take office, suddenly they get right on the spending train with their democrat brethren.

I’m sick of having these turncoats running for office who say one thing and do the opposite once elected.  You think Romney will repeal Obamacare when he can’t even bring himself to admit that Romneycare was an abject failure which cost the citizens of Massachusetts untold millions?  You think Newt will cut spending when he caved to the democrats at every turn back when he was Speaker?

We get the elected officials we deserve.  The American people have let this happen to us by not demanding better from our political class.  It’s time we stopped.  Better to spend the next convention drafting a random person out of the phone book than be stuck with the current field of candidates.  Not a one is worthy of our support, much less votes.

It is entirely possible that CK is correct about the direction the primaries are heading.  If so my only wish is that the primaries play out in such a manner that, be it either Newt or Mitt, whoever wins the nod is left scared witless of the right sided electorate.

They need to be left with the firm conviction that they are on a very short leash.

Give up GI Joe!
That’s all I hear when a talking head tells me “how it is”. Just stop listening to them and they will become irrelevant.

Well, I’m sure the Party is getting nervous… esp considering how the prospects of their preferred nominee get worse by the minute.

And the rap on Fox News from both Right and Left has been ‘mouthpiece of the party’.  I dunno to what degree that is true, but they sure have been in Romney’s corner from the start, haven’t they… like when Chris Wallace asked MB if she’s a ‘flake’ right out of the clear blue sky

Guys like Krauthammer and Rove are paid for their analysis and observations.  But when their opinions disagree with some people’s, many of those people immediately cast the analysts as the enemies of conservatism and even of freedom itself.

More here: ‘Mitt Romney vs. Newt Gingrich’. I don’t like either of ‘em, but if one ends up the nominee, I’ll be down whole hog. 

I’m not depressed.  I’m not even gloomy.

But I’ve noticed, …it sure is awfully drunk around here lately.

Stacy may have to double up on Rule 5 days, just so we can make it through the primary.

This word “pundit”, I do not think it means what they think it means.

Supposedly it’s a “scholar” or “expert.”  Well, Michael Barone is an actual “expert” at political analysis.  Next to him, most pundits appear about as “expert” as us Sluffers here in the comments.  But that doesn’t stop the rest of the so-called pundits from making some of the silliest declarations you’ll ever hear.

And then there’s the NRO folks, who supposedly are carrying the legacy of Buckley.  Where?  Right down the basement steps, evidently.  …Where they can hide it next to their collection of “Goldwater is right!” buttons and their complete collection of never -been-read volumes of the Cato Journal.

The pundit game isn’t about being wise.  It’s about staying relevant.

That’s because they can’t use Rule 5.

A four-year long leash.  Every Pubbie elected in the last 20 years has pissed all over the Conservatives within 6 months of getting into the office.

You think that’ll change?

“…The American people have let this happen to us by not demanding better from our political class.”

And, to tie your righteous rant together, by giving weight to chatterboxes on our idiot boxes.

Barone might be the only political scientist – keyword scientist – I respect.
Most everyone else with a name (and remember, it’s the media industry
itself appointing “those who matter”) is just another someone with an
opinion or a hack wherein entertainment value is as important as his advocacy.

I don’t disagree, but then ask what is it we must do to change this status quo? 

Because it would appear far too many are willing to swallow the RINO koolaid.

I wish I felt the same way.