FMJRA 2.0: The Boston Molasses Disaster

MYRTLE BEACH. S.C.
President Obama sees America’s transformational role in world history as a “mistake,” Rick Santorum said this morning at a gathering of Christian conservative activists.

The founding principles of limited government permit people “to pursue their dreams, to provide for themselves and build strong families and communities and build a great country, as [Alexis] de Tocqueville wrote about in the early days of America, from the bottom up,” Santorum said at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Prayer Breakfast here. “We’re the wealthiest country in the world and the world is wealthier because they have become more like us. We’ve transformed humankind. And we have a president who sees all of that as a mistake.”

The former Pennsylvania senator, who was endorsed Saturday by a key national gathering of evangelical Christian leaders, was introduced at Sunday’s prayer breakfast by Ralph Reed. Santorum urged South Carolinians to “vote your conscience, vote what you know if right for this country” in next Saturday’s crucial Republican presidential primary.

“We need to have someone who understands that vision and understands that if we if we stand up for the princples that made this country great — people ask, ‘How are you going to unite us together?’ Remind every American who we are,” Santorum told a crowd of more than 350 at the Sheraton Convention Center, and then said of Obama: “This president reminds us of what divides us, not what unites us.”

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Rick Santorum, South Carolina

Insanity

Posted on | January 15, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

If insanity is when perception does not correlate with reality, then maybe hitting black ice while driving resembles that state. You’re driving along, you see the road, and then, unexpectedly, your tires just quit gripping thereon.

Our federal government seems similar, a sad pack of crapflooders alternating between denial and blame, spinning randomly, without ever pointing in any responsible direction. The State of the Union address this year is scheduled to mark 1,000 days since the Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t bothered to do its basic job of passing a budget.

Are we spinning out of control, or are we just enjoying a higher form of travelling? I tend to think the former, but perceive that our political class behaves as though it is the latter.

Fortunately, Mitt Romney will step in and offer calm, carefully articulated Syllables of Soothing for us.

via House of Eratosthenes

Category: Economics, Uncategorized

While I Agree With Gerard Here, Sometimes I Wonder If There Is A Point

Posted on | January 15, 2012 | 37 Comments

by Smitty

Gerard has a great point about circling the wagons here. Read and heed.

If true conservatives want to have a truly conservative candidate in a truly conservative party they will have to commit to the long march. You know, “the long march” like the one the left took through out political, academic, religious, and media institutions. The one they spent decades on. The long hard road to political supremacy. The one that takes work and money.
That’s the one thing I don’t see erstwhile conservatives actually doing from election to election. Instead they run their lives and their businesses off on the side and they show up every three years or so to watch the little red hens of politics take the nomination away from their conservative flavor of the week.
The way the Republican party is set up in the primary system means that to even have a shot at winning it you have to be running for it years and years and years before the actual elections. That’s what Romney’s been doing. That’s the game and he’s got the pieces in place to win it. You may not like it, but, hey, change it or play it.

I agree. Romney has done the homework, and will have my full support, after the convention in August.

But, as Daily Pundit links, the Federal Reserve is getting ready to hoist a middle finger at Einstein again, easing us quantitatively, with insane hopes that, somehow, this time the economy will recover.

I haven’t heard a flipping thing from Romney that gives me shred #1 of confidence that, if elected, he’ll do much in the way of reforming. Long march, indeed. The good news about low expectations for Mitt is that he pretty much has to avoid being #OccupyResoluteDesk to succeed.

Update: linked at The Rio Norte Line.

Category: Uncategorized

Bill Maher Emits Truth

Posted on | January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

He admits his audience is brainwashed liberals. Rob Reiner notes that this is what Maher attracts.
Amazing.

via American Glob

Category: Uncategorized

Greetings From Myrtle Beach

Posted on | January 15, 2012 | 15 Comments

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.
We were somewhere between Nakina, N.C., and the South Carolina border, cruising south on Highway 905 at 70 mph when I hit the brakes. My 13-year-old son Jefferson, who had been trying to sleep in the passenger seat of the rented Toyota Corolla, sat up suddenly. “What? What is it?”

“Deer,” I said, pointing to the field on the right side of the road. “A whole freaking herd of ’em.”

One of them had crossed the road ahead of me, stirring memories of that terrifying night in September 2010 when a deer totalled my KIA Optima. That’s why I’d hit the brakes, slowing suddenly from 70 to 40 mph, and startling my son awake.

Sure, I had gotten the full insurance at the rental agency, but the deductible was $500 and if one of those vicious antlered bastards attacked the Toyota, I’d be out five hundred bucks. So we crept along until we were safely past the herd and after that, I kept it under 60 mph, just in case there were more of them lurking somewhere down the road, waiting to ambush me.

It was about 3:30 a.m. and I’d been on the road since 8 o’clock Saturday night. We’d made good time, especially once we got off Interstate 95 and onto the two-lane highways, from Lumberton through Bladenboro and Whitesville down through Nakina. And then, with my nerves already worn down from sleep deprivation and too much coffee, I saw the deer.

An ill omen, I’m certain, but at least it woke me up, and I was on high alert for the next 45 minutes as we drove on down to Myrtle Beach. We pulled up in the parking lot of the Sheraton Convention Center on Oak Street, and went inside to scope out the location of today’s Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast. Then we got back in the car, drove down 21st Avenue to Ocean Boulevard and turned left, looking for a cheap motel. It didn’t take long to find what we were looking for.

We paid cash ($43, including tax and the key deposit) for a room with a balcony overlooking the ocean. Now I’m going to try to get a couple hours of sleep before the prayer breakfast. But I’ll probably have nightmares about being attacked by antlered monsters. Hit the tip jar.

UPDATE: While I was on the road last night, Tina Korbe at Hot Air posted these two ads by the pro-Gingrich “super PAC,” Winning Our Future:

““Mitt Romney,” a voice tells the audience as dramatic music pumps underneath. “Not conservative. Not electable.”

Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Shoe Leather Fund, South Carolina

Romney Leads by 21 Points in S.C.?

Posted on | January 14, 2012 | 89 Comments

Carolina RINOs?

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race, trouncing Newt Gingrich and gaining momentum in his march toward the party’s nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. . . .
The poll showed 37 percent of South Carolina Republican voters back Romney. Congressman Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum tied for second place with 16 percent support.
Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has fallen far back after holding a strong lead in South Carolina in December. He was in fourth place at 12 percent in the Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Do not despair, conservatives! There is good news here, too:

After Gingrich, Texas Governor Rick Perry placed next in the Reuters/Ipsos poll with 6 percent support. Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who was third in the New Hampshire primary, came in the lowest in the South Carolina poll with 3 percent support.

Perry and Huntsman have less than 10 percent between them and if they finish that low, they’re finished. Subtract them from the field, and there’s that much less distraction going into Florida. And still more good news:

At a forum hosted by Mike Huckabee with 800 undecided South Carolina Republicans, Newt Gingrich was loudly booed when he criticized Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital, according to a Republican who attended the closed-press event.

To quote Allahpundit: “Oh my.”

If Newt’s getting booed, so that his fade continues, that benefits . . .?

Yeah: Rick Santorum, fresh off his endorsement by the social conservative conclave. There are two debates this week — Monday on Fox and Thursday on CNN — and therefore a chance that Romney can say something stupid enough to cost him 10 points. And never underestimate the sweater vest. There is still hope to stop Romney, and therefore . . .

Exit Question: Why is it that so many conservatives who have said their top priority is to stop Romney at all costs don’t support Rick Santorum?

Update (Smitty): linked by Surber.

Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Polls, Rick Santorum, South Carolina

A Note On Raaaaacism

Posted on | January 14, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

Legal Insurrection has a chilling video about raaaaacism and a prominent GOP candidate, of whom I’m not fan.

One of the fascinating general questions about political leadership, and cutting across a variety of issues and candidates, is the notion of repentance. Mitt, in the linked clip, is all but called a raaaaacist. Ron Paul feels that heat too, both of incidents decades in the past.

Part of Progressive propaganda is to fool around with time. Mormonism had a discriminatory past; therefore Mitt is a raaaaacist. Paul had these raaaaacist newsletters. I live in Virginia, which held the capitol of the Confederacy; by this logic, I must be a raaaaacist.

We need to demand more analysis from the finger pointers. New rule: if you’re going to develop a claim that Romney is a raaaaacist, you have to carry it forward through his career at Bain, his tenure as Governor of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, and his campaign. Is there even shred one of an indication of disdain for anyone based upon heritage?

And Ron Paul delivered a lot of babies. Did he feel less joy in his heart bringing minority life into this world? Or was all life just, you know, life to the guy?

I’m actually an Oregonian by birth, and a Virginian for the last decade. And I’m no raaaaacist, but I sure am developing a strong bias against those who spout accusation with neither proof nor motive, save destruction. May God have mercy on your lying, demonic souls, and bring you to repentance.

Category: Racism

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Insanity

While I Agree With Gerard Here, Sometimes I Wonder If There Is A Point

Bill Maher Emits Truth

Greetings From Myrtle Beach

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