Complete Burn-Out Looms: Random Notes on the Road to the American Dream

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“A top Iowa supporter of Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is blaming top Cain aide Mark Block for the campaign’s poor response to allegations that Cain sexually harassed at least two women in the 1990s.
“Jeff Jorgenson, the chairman of the Pottawatamie County Republican Party, said Cain’s campaign has been caught off-guard and that Cain should consider changes, starting at the top.
“ ‘I’m not very happy with the response to these allegations from the campaign itself,’ Jorgenson said. ‘I think Herman Cain needs to take maybe another look at his association with his chief of staff.’ ”
— Aaron Blake, Washington Post, “Top Iowa supporter for Herman Cain blames Mark Block for fumbled response”

Frustration eventually overwhelms even my otherwise inexhaustible energy, and being unable to get a return phone call from the Cain campaign has pushed me into the Burn-Out Zone. Two points:

  1. It’s not their fault.
  2. It’s not about me.

Pursuing the Presidency of the United States is a serious enough business that I understand the utter insignificance of my own complaints. For when the Great Scorer comes to write beside their names, he will mark — not that they didn’t return my phone calls when the Big Story was breaking — but whether they won the game.

Any correlation between the two phenomena is probably accidental.

Also utterly random: A friend called my attention to a story about Shorter College, a Baptist school in Rome, Ga., that is being excoriated for expecting faculty to uphold Baptist standards.

More than 30 years ago, I dated a Shorter coed and we, uh, failed rather drastically at upholding Baptist standards. IYKWIMAITYD.

Anyway . . . just called up my editor at the American Spectator and said I probably won’t be filing anything for them tonight. The Americans for Prosperity “Defending the American Dream Summit” kicks off tonight in downtown DC, and early registration ends at 8 p.m., so I wouldn’t want to miss that. Because there might be refreshing beverages for sale, and friends who want to buy them for me.

Did I mention that Phil Kerpen, vice president of policy at Americans for Prosperity, is the author of the blockbuster new book, Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America – and How to Stop Him? I’m sure my readers have seen my good buddy Phil on Fox News, and want to buy lots of copies of Democracy Denied — now just $15.95 at Amazon! — which will make Phil very, very happy. And when Phil’s happy, I’m happy. IYKWIMAITYD.

So I’m pulling the ripcord, hitting the silk and bailing out on the blog for a few hours, while I go down to hit the D.C. scene, schmooze my sources and try to get over the frustration of going five hours without a call-back from my friends with the Cain campaign. If it wasn’t urgent enough to deserve a call-back by now, it can probably wait another day, I suppose.

Meanwhile, there is more news and still more news but . . . Well, maybe this is God’s way of telling me I need to turn it loose and let Phil Kerpen buy me a refreshing beverage. And if you guys will hit the freaking tip jar, I might even violate my code of ethics and pick up the tab myself.




When burn-out looms, one of the most important symptoms is an overpowering thirst. And I must maintain my health. IYKWIMAITYD.


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  3. Today’s actions
    by President Obama’s Super PAC provided even more proof that Mitt
    Romney is the republican that scares democrats most. This anti-Romney ad buy is
    $100,000 and it’s far from the first anti-Romney attack ad President Obama’s
    Super PAC has produced. The continued paid attacks this early in the election
    illustrate a level of desperation from the Obama administration that makes
    sense considering President Obama’s record of accomplishment is so weak.

    http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/11/02/president-obamas-super-pac-priorities-usa-launches-another-round-of-attacks-on-mitt-romney/

  4. Sure. he scares them into thinking he’ll lose the nomination, and they’ll have to run against a candidate that can win;   unlike Mitt, the Midwife of Obamacare, who’ll guarantees an Obama victory.

  5. Before this is over, Politico will have it that Cain was the guy running around all those #OWS “protests,” rapin’ and molestin’ all the happy campers.

  7. So an official apparatchik of the Republican Partk trashes Cain & Co., to WaPo.  And we’re supposed to take that seriously?

    I can’t respect anybody who talks out of school like that to a leftist rag.  Just another Establishment attempt to take out conservatives.

    And ruin the country.

  8. Romney’s CO2 regulation raised the price of electricity for the people of MA by 25%.
    Mitt is not a Republican he is a RINO.

  9. Shame on Mark Block for making Herman Cain tell all those lies!  Shame on him for not shaking the truth out of Cain two weeks ago!  Shame on him for carrying Cain’s water while he knew he had to be lying!

    Yup, all of this big mess is Mark Block’s fault!

  10. Palin will announce her candidacy for POTUS just after the initial Black Friday numbers come in.

    Bachmann: too crazy, too religious – so sayeth the GOP and the MSM
    Perry: too pro-illegal immigration, too slow-witted – so sayeth the GOP and the MSM
    Cain: too inexperienced, too… wrapped up in scandal and handling it poorly. So sayeth the GOP and the MSM

    Gee, that leaves Ru Paul and Mitt Romney, and that other dude who visited China.

    Yep, Palin was right to wait.

  12. “More than 30 years ago, I dated a Shorter coed and we, uh, failed rather
    drastically at upholding Baptist standards. IYKWIMAITYD.”

    I’m not surprised she didn’t want to be stuck with a Shorter Baptist standard. You lucky dog.

  16. Rush’s comments on this whole “handling” business are worth a listen.  Go over to TheRightScoop and check ’em out.

    This is why, in  a court, the defense must be provided everything the prosecution knows.

  18. You are correct.  But “sexual harassment” is a thought crime, exempt from the Constitution.  It’s not about provable actions, it’s about “feelings” and “perceptions.”  Which is why it’s impossible to defend against. 

    And the “evidence” (especially from the “Tailhook” 1990s) is usually just the accuser’s opinion.  So  in effect, there is no “evidence.”

    What is scary about this is it resembles a Soviet-style show trial, which is what Chicago politics is all about.  It’s a vicious town (I lived there and saw lots of bad political stuff).    I wouldn’t be surprised if “evidence” is being fabricated behind the scenes right now, and the delay in the “victim” with the Clintonista lawyer “going public” was to convince her to go along. 

    Who’s to say it’s untrue?  Cain wasn’t part of it, and the attorney conveniently “lost” his records.  So anything the D.C./Chicago-based NRA says is gospel.  And who controls D.C. and Chicago?

    Just sayin’. 

    I’m mad as hell, in case people can’t tell.  I’m sick of these Soviet-style smear jobs.  And of Republicans (hello, Michelle Bachmann–in the long run, this will be your ruin, you phony) joining in the chorus to trash Cain.

  19. Reading Ace and a couple other non-Cain-supporting sites, the latest problem for Cain is his supporters are too supportive of Cain. Which is like declaring the air in one’s tires is just toooo… airy.

    What’s the phrase? Redcto ad absurdum?

  23. Here in Virginia, “sexual harassment” is pretty narrowly defined by statute, and what was allegedly going on doesn’t fit. There’s no there there, which is why Politico and all these other yahoos have nothing to peddle but rumors, innuendo, and rumors about innuendos.

  24. I didn’t read it as a “trashing,” so much as a bland statement to the effect that “he has to do a better job.”

    It kinda sucks, but it’s always true, too, since EVERYONE needs to do a better job, on whatever they are doing.

  29. Nope. Although I am reminded of a crude Russian idiom having to do with tea that, very broadly translated, means “Quit f*cking around/get busy!” It’s been on my mind since I saw that asinine story.

  33. RSMcCain: That’s a 99%er I can support 😀 (No offense Stacy). I’ve got to get back to my own personal protest of bad t.v., “Occupy Couch!”.

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