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I’d heard some talk about this: Evidently, the pro-Romney leadership of the North Dakota Republican Party rigged their state convention so that, despite the fact that Mitt Romney came in third in the March 6 caucuses, he got most of the delegates. The Right Scoop has this video:

(Hat-tip: Richard McEnroe on Twitter.) The amazing thing about this is how GOP “leaders” flagrantly screw over their own rank-and-file like this — and “leaders” in the Republican Party do this all the time — and then wonder why it’s so hard to generate grassroots enthusiasm for their hand-picked candidates.

Short of tar-and-feathering the corrupt bastards, what can you do?

Category: Mitt Romney, North Dakota, Republicans, Rick Santorum

Too Stupid for Media Matters

Posted on | April 8, 2012 | 14 Comments

In a sidebar headline at AOSHQ, I noticed a story from The Lid:

BREAKING: MJ Rosenberg OUT At Media Matters

Hmmm. Media Matters fires some guy. What’s this about?

Rosenberg’s offense was describing pro-Israel Jews as “Israel Firsters.” Which is to say, Rosenberg thinks his fellow Jews are too pro-Israel.

Let me see if I can find an appropriate analogy. My ancestors were Scots, and I am generally pro-Scotland. Now, suppose that Ireland got taken over by a bunch of dangerously violent wackjobs who insisted that every problem suffered by the Irish was the fault of those damned sneaky Scots. So the leader of the Radical Wackjob regime in Ireland demagogued almost daily against the Scots, whipping up anti-Scot sentiment amongst the Irish masses and — oh, by the way — Ireland started a kinda secretive nuclear program.

If such a scenario developed, and Scots-Americans urged the U.S. to help protect Scotland against the Irish Wackjob with nuclear ambitions, would anyone blame these “Scotland Firsters”? I think not.

Anyway, Rosenberg got canned at Media Matters and now starts a blog, and is criticizing the U.S. for opposing Iran’s nuclear program. Perhaps Rosenberg can’t figure out this simple equation:

Ahmadinejad + nukes = dead Jews

Does anyone with an IQ above room temperature believe Adhmadinejad’s nuclear program has a peaceful civilian purpose?

Look: You can criticize U.S. foreign policy all you want. But you can’t tell me that Israel’s concerns about a nuclear Iran are illegitimate. And if the U.S. can’t find some way to shut down Ahmadinejad’s nuclear program, Bibi Netanyahu will do whatever Bibi Netanyahu has to do, because the likely consequences of not doing it are too dreadful to contemplate.

What part of “never again” is so hard to understand, huh?

If Rosenberg doesn’t understand that, he deserves the distinction of being known forever as The Liberal Too Stupid to Work at Media Matters.

Category: Iran, Israel, Liberals

Rule 5 Sunday: Lobo Town

Posted on | April 8, 2012 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Short notice this week for a Rule 5 roundup that’s actually on time this week, but the usual suspects are serving up the linkalicious lovelies, so who am I to slack off?

Fishersville Mike informs us that not only do the Miami Marlins have a new stadium, they also have a new dance line. Laughing Conservative escalates the boob war (his words not mine) with Keeley Hazell (NSFW) while Reaganite Resistance maintains decorum with Miss Portugal 2011, Laura Goncalves. Eye of Polyphemus this week goes with Jennifer Love Hewitt, while Jake Finnegan’s Burkalicious Babes this week come from People Of Walmart. I dunno, Jake, with some of those gals a burka might be an improvement, if only esthetically. Back in the burka-less present time, Jerseynut is hot for teacher – Cameron Diaz as Bad Teacher, that is. Maggie’s Notebook has Beyonce, and Three Beers later serves up a musical extravaganza of hot rockin’ ladies.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Katherine Jenkins; his vintage Babe is Barbara Shelley, and Sex in Advertising this week is all about Victoria’s Secret. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Amiee Rickards, the Rule 5 News, and Kelly Carlson.

Soylent Green’s Monday Motivationer is all about the kismet, and Tuesday’s Titillation is all about Famke. Humpday Hawtness is brought to you by Jessica Lorin, while on opening day, the count is two balls on Johnson. There follows some palate cleansing with Julia B, while on Saturday there’s a recommendation for Tiger’s new caddy. Also, winning the Easter egg hunt!

A View From The Beach offers transforming Jennifers, science discovering beer goggles, hot peppers for heart health, something about a cutie who makes a rainbow & kills a leprechaun, the question of whether women are predisposed to be liberal, and a Frank Cho rendition of a cavegirl offing a velociraptor.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes include Adrianna Lima, Kokomi Sakura, AnnaLynn McCord, Aya Takigawa, Kana Yume, Kana Tsugihara, Gaby Espino, and Haruka Itoh.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for next Sunday’s Rule 5 roundup will be Saturday, April 14; please make sure your links go to
Rule 5 Wombat and not to the link at the top of the page.

Category: Rule 5

Predictable: Gingrich Admits He Owes More Than $4 Million Campaign Debt

Posted on | April 8, 2012 | 22 Comments

“In January, Gingrich spent everything he raised, and more, and finished the month with debts nearly equal to his cash-on-hand figure. Newt’s campaign was essentially broke after the Florida primary Jan. 31.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Feb. 21

“Question 1: How much did Newt raise in February? Question 2: What was his campaign’s cash-on-hand and total debt as of March 1?”
— Robert Stacy McCain, March 13

If you haven’t been reading this blog regularly, you may have been shocked by Newt’s confession today on Fox News Sunday:

“Unfortunately, our guys tried to match Romney,” Gingrich said of the Florida match-up. “It turned out, we didn’t have anything like his capacity to raise money.”
Gingrich said he has a little less than $4.5 million in campaign debt, and he’s operating on a shoestring budget.

I was there when it happened, although nobody realized it at the time, and it took another seven weeks to learn the truth.

On Feb. 21, the day after his January FEC report became available, I said Gingrich’s spending was “unsustainable,” and when his February report became public March 20, I said he was bankrupt.

There are ways of billing expenses so that a campaign can push forward its obligation. The invoices delivered on March 1 won’t be made public until the March FEC report goes online April 20. Yet was obvious from the February report that Newt’s campaign had spent the entire month trying to maintain an expensive illusion of financial viability, an illusion that did not dissolve until three weeks into March. Apparently, many people still don’t comprehend what a rotten scam it was.

A veteran political observer to whom I spoke by today said, of course, it has become “standard operating procedure” for campaigns to conceal the reality of their finances by agreeing with consultants and vendors to delay invoicing. “Hell, that’s what the RNC was doing under Michael Steele,” said the veteran political observer.

On Feb. 29, Santorum’s campaign announced it had raised $9 million in February. A week later, Romney’s campaign said it had raised $11.5 in February. Newt’s campaign kept silent about its February fundraising, and I knew they were hiding bad news. After I saw the March 20 FEC report, I paid attention to three little items:

Days before the March 24 Louisiana primary, Gingrich’s campaign entourage was rolling across the state in a 10-car motorcade;
Newt didn’t announce staff layoffs until March 27; and
The day after the layoffs, we learned Gingrich had met secretly with Romney in New Orleans before the polls opened in Louisiana.

For most of March — from the week before “Super Tuesday” all the way to his closed-door meeting with Mitt in New Orleans and beyond — Gingrich’s campaign was a money-gobbling mirage, already “under water” on its debts, like a homeowner living large on money obtained through a re-finance deal on a house appraised in excess of its actual value.

Gingrich, however, is still in denial about what he did, as witness the quotes buried in a story by Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post:

“It never occurred to me — and this is one of the lessons I’m contemplating for some future memoir — it never occurred to me the scale of the Romney fundraising capability,” Gingrich said. “I was fully prepared to be outspent 2-to-1, even 3-to-1. But when you’re up to 5- or 6-to-1, you’re being drowned. You’re not going to be able to match it.” . . .

(Whoa. The “scale of the Romney fundraising capability” “never occurred” to Newt until his own campaign was blowing through $980,000 a day in late January in an ill-advised effort to win Florida, despite all the evidence that the effort was already doomed?)

He will find money to pay off the seven-figure debt “the same way I did in 1978 [when he was first elected to Congress after two losing campaigns], the same way I did in 1999 [after resigning the speakership]. You work and pay it off,” Gingrich said. “Whatever shape we’re in when this is over, you look at it, you take a big swallow and go to work.”

Yeah, he’ll “go to work,” all right: As Mitt’s rent-boy.

Category: Election 2012, Newt Gingrich

World’s Youngest Blogger: I Pledge Allegiance

Posted on | April 8, 2012 | 16 Comments

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Lefty Blogs We Love: ‘The Blogistan Polytechnic Institute’

Posted on | April 8, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

NCrissieB linked yesterday’s “Contrary To The 2008 Campaign? I Think Not” in a genuinely fun way (i.e., I may have to #OccupyFormat at some point) at the BPI, and is, well, nearly engaging in the comments section. I say “nearly”, as she is recycling Lefty points, instead of admitting we’re broke and have 3^rd world leftovers occupying the Resolute Desk.

Because, why face reality when you can point fingers?

At any rate, those who’d like to head over and offer cogent, fact-based responses may find some welcome.

Category: Progressivism

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