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Rick Santorum Hears Hillary Clinton’s Caution About GOP Campaign Rhetoric, Delivers Cupcake And Pony Speech

Posted on | February 25, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

Speaking to Tunisians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, in summary “Pay no mind to those zany Republicans; they’re just talking election-year smack.” Via Alan Colmes, via Tampa Bay Online:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to “not pay attention” to the comments made by candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the often overheated rhetoric of the campaign doesn’t reflect U.S. policy.
Speaking at a town-hall style event in Tunisia, the North African nation that sparked the “Arab Spring” revolts, Clinton said the partisan remarks made during campaign events “certainly don’t reflect the United States, don’t reflect our foreign policy, don’t reflect who we are as a people.”

In a way, one must agree with Madame Secretary: talk of American Exceptionalism, equal respect for religious faiths, liberty, and national sovereignty are not embraced by the American people, as a whole, due to the presence of crypto-Marxists like Mrs. Clinton dragging down the country.
Via Memorandum, we have Politico reporting that Rick Santorum heard the Secretary of State’s words and walked back much of the rhetorical heft of his Americans for Prosperity speech today:

Stepping up his assault on Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum delivered a slashing speech Saturday morning that portrayed the establishment favorite as an elitist and unreliable conservative.
Santorum, appearing before over a thousand conservative activists gathered in suburban Detroit for an Americans for Prospertiy conference, emphasized his immigrant roots, modest background and conservative credentials in an impassioned address that won him a standing ovation.
“I didn’t blow in the wind when things were popular with the elite,” Santorum said. “Because I don’t come from the elite.”

Oh, wait. I may have misread that. I guess we’ll have to wait for Stacy to get some bandwidth and sort out what really happened for us.

Update: linked in a massive recap at The Camp of the Saints.

Category: Election 2012, Hillary Clinton, Michigan, Rick Santorum

Flip This Question Around

Posted on | February 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Should seniors have the freedom to opt out of Medicare?

How about: why does the government get away with coercing anyone into any entitlement? We cannot overemphasize the point: Progressives are false.

Category: Progressivism

Did The Romney Campaign Blow It By Kicking Stacy McCain Out?

Posted on | February 25, 2012 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

Daily Pundit linked Stacy’s “Fear and Loathing in Romneyland“, noting:

And there you have one of the disadvantages of being a journo openly in the tank for one particular candidate.
OTOH, they regard Stacy as a serious enough threat to pitch his ass out of there. Eight years ago, campaigns didn’t even know what blogs or bloggers were.

Have you read any of Stacy’s reporting for the American Spectator, Bill? While he may wear an open bias on the blog, Stacy plays a relatively straight hand in a more formal setting.

Thus, rather than punting him outright, the Romney campaign should have considered the idea of showing Stacy a bit of hospitality, a cup of coffee, and some bandwidth. It’s much harder to be biased against people who are taking care of you than it is against those showing you the door.

Category: Neutral Objective Journalism

The SNL Lin-sanity Sketch

Posted on | February 25, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Ace was on about the Asian-American Journalists Association taking themselves way too seriously. Commenter #9, rockmom, pointed out that SNL had doen this. The idea that you just treat people respectfully, apologize when confusion arises, and graciously forgive those who step on your toes a bit just seems lost. I guess that was an Enlightenment thing.

The sketch is driven by making fun of the hypocrisy of two of the sportscasters. It’s OK to jape about Asians, but those of another group? Not so much:

Of course, the ultimate source of raaaaacism remains the Equal Opportunity mongers. Racism is DNA-based decision making; putting the Government in charge of the decisions doesn’t minimize the problem. The government merely gives jobs to the marginally employable to maintain the problem.

Category: Ace of Spades, humor, Racism, Video

Stacy McCain Infiltrates Koch-Brothers Cabal Of Extreme Extremism

Posted on | February 25, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Are we supposed to believe that this

so-called: ‘Michigan Prosperity Forum’ is anything other than an organizing even for foul extremists, bent on overthrowing Holy Progress?

As Dr. Melissa Clouthier has reported, Americans for Prosperity is merely a front group for those bad, bad Koch brothers, whose hidebound commitment to pre-Progressive ideas like capitalism marks them as severe in their dangerous commitment to extreme extremism.

‘Prosperity’ is just another capitalist dog-whistle, attempting to rally those of equally archaic mind to the notion of dangerous life outside the protection of the state.

McCain notes that he was trying to get in before Rick Santorum’s speech:

Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum have also been invited to speak at the event.

Correct thinking Americans must pay no attention to these antiquated notions of personal liberty and freedom of conscience in religion! Also, do not check back later, when Stacy McCain will have a full report on this event. We know that anything Santorum has to say will fall flatter than a Romney speech.

Remember: Barack saved you from the awful burden of freedom.

On a slightly less absurd note, The Right Scoop has Levin’s Santorum interview.

Category: Rick Santorum

Nuns for Santorum

Posted on | February 25, 2012 | 16 Comments

Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist pose for a photo with
Rick Santorum in Lincoln Park, Michigan, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

TROY, Michigan
It’s gonna be kind of hard for Mitt Romney to compete with Rick Santorum in terms of his straight-out appeal to Catholic voters in Michigan. At last night’s Lenten fish fry at a Catholic church in Walled Lake, Santorum began by saying, “I love the smell of fish on a Friday night.” Here’s my video showing the kind of rock-star reception Santorum got from the crowd there:

The contrast was obvious to Paul Egan of the Detroit Free Press:

A long line of people waited to get inside more than an hour before Santorum was scheduled to visit in Walled Lake, in western Oakland County.
The fish fry organized by the St. William Dads’ Club in a Roman Catholic parish was a venue that contrasted sharply with cavernous Ford Field, where former Massachusetts governor and Michigan native Mitt Romney spoke in Detroit today with tens of thousands of seats to spare.
Santorum, a Catholic, praised the religious tradition of abstaining from eating meat on a Friday, especially during the holy season of Lent.
“I love the smell of fish on a Friday,” Santorum said when he entered the gym to loud applause.
“The only thing I request is when you take that picture, put it up on your Facebook page.”

Santorum was swarmed by well-wishers at Walled Lake, but drew a smaller crowd at the Knights of Columbus hall in Lincoln Park, where some locals in attendance said they had only learned three hours before the event that Santorum would be there. Among those in attendance in Lincoln Park, however, were 12 members of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in full habit — kind of a natural photo-op for the media in attendance:

Joe Klein of Time magazine interviews the sisters. I’ve got audio of an interview with Sister Maria, who is from the Bronx, N.Y., and was quite outspoken in her support for Santorum. But I don’t have time to transcribe that interview now, because Santorum is speaking this morning at the Americans for Prosperity forum here in Troy.

Watching Fox News this morning, I haven’t seen any coverage of Rick Santorum’s campaign in Michigan. So I guess the question must now be asked, “Why does Rupert Murdoch hate nuns?”

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Category: Catholics, Election 2012, Michigan, Rick Santorum

Old And Busted: Representative Democracy. New Hotness: European Disenfranchisement

Posted on | February 25, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Call me a lunatic, but I think that the lengthy primary season has been a qualified success. The negative aspects of character assassination are due to (a) the media seeking to tell people what to think, and (b) voters rewarding crappy behavior on the part of candidates by way of SuperPACs.

Other than that, letting candidates demonstrate their commitment to the job is a Good Thing. For all my high regard for Herman Cain, his campaign simply was not up to the task. Compressing the process, and taking shortcuts doesn’t seem like a good idea.

Yeah, we need a short, sweet primary season so the RNC can lock things up for its favored next-in-line Gentry GOP Ruling Class RINO candidate without having to deal with Teatards, Bitter Clingers, and other Right Wing Nutjobs.

I love ‘Teatard’, which I think I first saw on Daily Pundit. As a proud Teatard, I think we need more, not less, time and focus on policy and candidates. #OccupyResoluteDesk famously talked about sunlight as a disinfectant. That BHO meant that statement about as much as anything else he campaigned on, which is to say, not at all, does not negate it.

Our Ruling Class RINOs, rather than harnessing Teatard power, seem to want the Brussels approach, where pointy-headed little worms pull stunts like the Treaty of Lisbon.

Category: Tea Party

Fanaticism Is Such A Bore

Posted on | February 24, 2012 | 50 Comments

by Smitty

Allahpundit:

Having one of the world’s most prominent atheists admit he’s not totally sure is catnip for believers, but all he’s doing is being a conscientious skeptic.

Total certainty, in my humble, is fanaticism. The kind you encounter in sporting explosive fashion.

For all I’m deeply certain that the Jewish carpenter is actually the meaning of life, that is a spiritual conclusion. There is no closed-form, mathematical, intellectual proof of the existence of God. If such proof existed, the amount of wrangling going on would simply not occur. So even us happy little disciples of that long-ago Galilean peasant need to be really clear when we’re speaking intellectually, and Christianity is one religion among many, and when we’re speaking spiritually, and can make claims that may not pass strictly logical muster.

So let’s hear it for intellectual honesty, and follow up with a question to Dawkins about what, if anything, life means. If he’s too poor to offer a meaning for life, then the next question is why he bothers to behave as though there is some meaning. Shouldn’t barking like a dog be equally meaningful to selling books of folly?

Category: Religion
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