Category: Melissa Clouthier

Because Mitt Is Just Too Cool

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by Smitty

Why is the low pressure of the Romney vacuum continuing to bolster Santorum?

Romney, for reasons that continue to remain a mystery to me, appears to be following a strategy of actively avoiding the Tea Party movement. To my knowledge, he has never addressed an actual tea party rally or local tea party group. In December, he spoke on the phone at a tea party tele-town hall with other Presidential candidates, but that appears to be the extent of his direct communication with the Tea Party movement.
This remoteness–an odd strategy to keep Romney in a “bubble” away from potential supporters–seems to permeate his campaign. In Ohio last week, for instance, Attorney General Mike DeWine withdrew his endorsement of Romney and endorsed Santorum. “He doesn’t write, he doesn’t call,” DeWine said of Romney.
Gingrich, who has a long and twisted history with the movement, has, until recently spoken at numerous tea party rallies, but has never really actually modified his policies according to communications he’s received at these rallies, at least as far as I can tell. And where Santorum appears friendly, upbeat, and approachable, Gingrich appears a bitter, scowling, intellectual elitist. Santorum is blue collar, Gingrich is academic cap and gown.

Because Mitt is an elite, Ruling Class, Progressive tool. Those who support Mitt may also be of that ilk, too silly to notice, or, I don’t know, genuinely like the guy. I guess it’s possible to like Mitt, judging by the great-looking family.

But would George Washington, who sucked it up with the troops in the field, be impressed with Sir Mitt of Romney? Maybe a little moreso than GW would be with Barack Obama, but I submit that neither Mitt nor Barack’s commitment to liberty and the notion of every American having an equal stake in the new nation would impress the first President.

In defense of Mitt, hanging out with Tea Partiers and waving a Gadsden flag is one thing Romney has not tried to fake. Santorum got spanked in an election and, seemingly, used the free time to get out there, mingle, and re-connect with the electorate. That disarming sweater-vest of Rick’s gets him out there with the people in ways that blue jeans and rolled-up sleeves have not for Mitt.  Perhaps Mitt’s every hair follicle and syllable are too calculated. Perhaps the charade of being above the fray, while the SuperPAC artillery makes dust out of the pebbles of the opponents is looking just a tad fake.

Should Romney carry the GOP nomination, the Tea Party effort will shift to supporting state and local candidates. I owe the country more in the struggle against another Ruling Class turkey, ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran, than I do supporting Mitt. Sure, I’d vote for Romney, but heres the bottom line: the Tea Parties will mirror Romney’s enthusiasm for them if Mitt is the nominee.

via Instapundit

Is Dr. Melissa Going Just A Little Easy On The GOP?

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by Smitty

I submit that Dr. Melissa Clouthier is going a tad too easy on the GOP here:

. . .I never see the GOP pondering their really bad choices in politicians that had money but had little charisma, political deftness or policy intelligence. See also: Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Linda McMahon. And that’s just three of them. Many bad candidates put forth by the GOP got trounced in the primaries by these Tea Party candidates because the candidates stunk so badly.
GOP apologists also don’t seem to remember what prompted the Tea Party to begin with: The Bailouts. TARP (something I was on the fence about, myself, but eventually came out against on the principle that everything the government touches turns to poo), GM bailouts, the stimulus and the gnawing anger that Republicans left their values behind with the creation of things like Medicare Part D and the Department of Homeland Security (two things that infuriated me at the time).
The Republican party leadership left their party planks and so people who actually believe in smaller government, in personal liberty, in freedom, left the GOP.
The sense that the government is doing too much for too many for little or not return; the sense that the government is piling up debt for a future generation enslaving them and their children horrified average people who decided to become politically involved and joined the Tea Party.
Anyone who is a third generation Christian knows the joy and dismay being around a new convert. It’s wonderful to see their wonder, love and affection for God and His word. It’s a little disconcerting to see scriptures distorted and extreme behavior in the name of zealotry.

The GOP (with a break for Ronald Reagan) has been just as sold out to Progress as the Democrats for the last century. The party planks had become a joke. The GOP has gerrymandered our culture with the Democrats in exchange for creating a Ruling Class. One can nearly see where the Democrats had a point, calling the GOP hypocritical for showing affinity with the Tea Parties.

But there is a substantial difference between the proffered example of recent converts to a religious faith of whatever sort, and that of the Tea Partiers to the GOP. If you’re a new student of math, nothing in the Arithmetic->Algebra->Calculus->Differential Equations progression contradicts what came before it. New material elaborates, generalizes and embellishes: it never says “Remember the part where we said you can’t divide by zero? Watch us ‘quantitatively ease’ that denominator to nothing.”

Thus, while I accept that I don’t know every Supreme Court decision by which the Tenth Amendment has been sodomized to hellnavigated about in a nuanced fashion, I don’t really feel it necessary, for these Ruling Class idiots of either party have abdicated any authority through what is very clearly malfeasance.

Our under-aged or dry readers, are encouraged to use unsweetened ice tea in lieu of whiskey if you wish to check the math in this clip:

Thus, Dr. Melissa, “The Tea Party Is Killing The Republican Party And Therefore America” seems more of an act of mercy, if you wish to allow the GOP has life remaining. PROGRESSIVISM DELENDA EST.

Guys: Collective Guilt Is Not Sexy

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A couple weeks ago, there was a lot of buzz surrounding the “Dear Woman” video — hell, no, I’m not gonna embed it here — in which a bunch of New Age dudes profess their intent to compensate for the historic oppression of women. Melissa Clouthier’s reaction:

My initial response was to laugh so hard I cried. My stomach hurt. . . .
My second response was that they were full of crap. These guys probably have porn stashes that make Larry Flynt blush. Why do I say that? Because when someone has to tell me how much he thinks/feels/believes something instead of live his beliefs, I’m suspect. Ever been told by someone, “you can trust me”? Do you trust them now?

Bingo. This should be every woman’s basic street-smart hunch about guys who make a big show of their sensitivity: “What’s his angle? What’s in it for him?”

In general, women can’t go wrong by operating on the assumption that all guys are always on the make, but you should be especially suspicious of any dude who ostentatiously presents himself as a White Knight of impeccable nobility. I’m not saying that there are no White Knights out there, but when a guy starts parading his moral rectitude — “Admire me! I’m virtuous!” — it should automatically trigger your bullshit detector.

Two words: John Edwards.

What is so stunningly wrong-headed about the “Dear Woman” approach is its social-justice sensibility, which replaces individual responsibility with collective guilt — a mentality that Thomas Sowell critically examined in The Quest for Cosmic Justice.  Continue reading Guys: Collective Guilt Is Not Sexy →

A Post That Is Not About Net Neutrality

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At BlogCon Friday, we went to the Newseum in D.C. for a panel discussion that was supposed to be about politics. During the Q&A period, however, it got hijacked into a discussion of The World’s Most Boring Policy Issue. After ten minutes of this narcolepsy-inducing blather, I gestured frantically at Tabitha Hale and got the microphone for the next question, the beginning of which was Tweeted by Glen Asbury:

Seriously. That was ten minutes of our lives we will never get back.

Erick Erickson of Red State with National Review‘s Jim Geraghty, who loves Mike Castle in pretty much the same way an 11-year-old girl loves Justin Bieber.

Bill Whittle and Stephen Green now have perfect spinal alignment, after hanging out for a few minutes with Dr. Melissa Clouthier. She’s billing it to PJTV’s health insurance plan.

Tabitha Hale liked that caption so much, she said she’d hit the tip jar — when hell freezes over.

Marriage of Convenience? No, Rosie O’Donnell Had a Marriage of Vengeance

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The most absurd episode of Blame Bush Syndrome evah!

“George Bush, in the middle of a war, had an all-station news conference to announce how horrible it was for the safety of America that gay people were getting married in San Francisco, which pissed me off enough to get on a plane and go get married . . . It was like an act of . . . defiance . . . If you’re gonna count up everybody who you think is not of value and round ’em all up and slap a pink triangle on ’em.”

You see that O’Donnell has bought into the Bush-as-Hitler analogy so deeply that she deploys it automatically, unthinkingly, with this divisive “pink triangle” nonsense. Furthermore, like many of those on the Left, Rosie is so accustomed to getting her news filtered through biased venues, that she “remembers” things that never happened.

Tim Graham fact-checks Rosie’s bogus history, pointing out that there was no “all-station news conference” and that Bush’s 2004 statement was actually a very thoughtful and measured expression of the conservative position on marriage.

It’s sad, but not really surprising, to think that Rosie’s San Francisco wedding with Kelli Carpenter was merely a political publicity stunt — which is what Rosie means when she misuses the phrase “civil disobedience.” We could scarcely expect any union solemnized under such a pretext to endure, and the dissolution of the O’Donnell-Carpenter romance was one of those “second time as farce” episodes:

Rosie was talking about her long-haired chihuahua Misty with pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick . . . And she then revealed further, “What happened [was] when Kelli moved out two years ago, I got the dog. Because I wanted another child or something to love. And I got the dog.”

“I got the dog,” indeed! Speaking of marriage and children, pro-life blogger Jill Stanek notes how Judge Walker’s decision in San Francisco v. Schwarzenegger is being likened to Roe v. Wade.

Further commenting on the undemocratic nature of Judge Walker’s ruling, Melissa Clouthier of Liberty Pundits expects that “the disenfranchised masses will add this to the list of ways that the government treats them as worthless dung.”

That sentiment ought to be repaid with interest Nov. 2.

UPDATE: Dan Riehl calls attention to the news that Ann Coulter will address an event being billed as “Homocon.” NTTAWWT.

Insulted Again

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By Dan Riehl this time, seconding Melissa Clouthier’s “wild animal” characterization of journalists as inherently untrustworthy.

At least he links me. Love me, hate me, as long as you link me.

Here’s the thing: Media bias is a subject about which every conservative is his or her own expert. To denounce “the media,” whole hog, is obligatory for conservatives and no one who wishes to be well-regarded among conservatives can be permitted to question the efficacy of this approach to media relations.

Therefore, I must be condemned as a weak reed, a pushover blabbermouth who should never be trusted or taken seriously in any discussion of conservative media strategy.

OK, I give up.

Meanwhile, I just got through interviewing Andrew Breitbart about David Weigel and the Journolist scandal.

Ignore me. Because I don’t know nothin’ ’bout no media bias.

UPDATE: Dan Riehl replies: “But journalists who want to play blogger half the time risk running into the Weigel-Space trap, because establishment figures can begin to see you as less serious, or a loose cannon.”

Translation: Your advice is not welcome, because actual insight into the organizational dynamics of media bias, based on years of newsroom experience, might contradict the popular theories propounded by the overpaid Republican “media consultants” who’ve been doing such a great job lately.

Help Wanted: No Journalists Need Apply.

VIDEO: Will Folks, Boy-Man

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“I don’t look at what I do as being angry and mean, and if it comes off like that, then I think maybe some people who are being criticized, maybe I’m hittin’ a nerve with ’em.”
— Will Folks, Republican douchebag

And I mean “douchebag” in the most respectful and affectionate way.

What’s weird is when Folks says, “I’ve got a little girl who’s 7 months and a little boy who’s six year old” — and he’s dressed like a teenager.

Really. What’s up with this 30-something GOP political operative doing the sports jersey-and-ballcap look? OK, the cap is useful for hiding early-onset male pattern baldness. However, when you add in the grunge-rocker scruffy facial hair, isn’t the overall effect that of the guy who’s always hanging around campus pubs in college towns, hitting on 20-year-olds?

Video totally poached from Melissa Clouthier.