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VIDEO: ‘Herman Cain Reminds Me of Ronald Reagan,’ Says Iowa Farmer

Posted on | November 15, 2011 | 37 Comments

During my visit to Iowa in August, I met and interviewed former Iowa Farm Bureau chief Dean Kleckner, who is featured in Herman Cain’s Iowa ad that began airing last week:

NBC News reported:

Unlike Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who have been running TV ads on local stations in Iowa, Cain’s 60-second ad began airing on cable — FOX News Channel to be exact.
“The new television ad is a result of the strong fundraising that has occurred over the last ten days,” Steve Grubbs, Cain’s Iowa chairman, told NBC News. “Our supporters are rallying to Herman Cain’s defense and that means we will be able to take our message directly to voters.”
The ad has three Iowa farmers and one former farmer discussing how EPA regulations are hurting their business amidst scenes of farmland and other Iowa landmarks.
“Over-regulation is killing the American farmer. I think Herman Cain is the answer,” retired farmer Dean Kleckner says in the ad.
Kleckner served 10 years as president of the Iowa Farm Bureau, 14 years as president of the American Farm Bureau, and on the U.S. Trade Advisory Committee under three presidents.
“Herman Cain reminds me of Ronald Reagan and I knew Ronald Reagan. It is time to put the United back into the United States of America,” Kleckner continues in the ad.

One of my beefs about the Cain campaign — and I’ve been complaining about this to friends for weeks — is that they have not yet produced a single 30-second TV ad. Lots of online videos, but no 30-second TV spots. Which was OK, when they didn’t have enough money to buy TV time, but we’re now just seven weeks away from the Iowa caucuses, they’ve collected millions of dollars in contributions since September, and isn’t it time they produce a standard 30-second ad?

UPDATE: By the way, the new-and-improved HermanCain.com site isn’t improved enough. For example, when I saw Cain in South Carolina, he told me he would be in Iowa today, but good luck trying to find today’s itinerary on the site. Instead, I have to get the news from Politico:

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Herman Cain is back in Iowa Tuesday for to kick off a week of early-state campaigning that will take him to New Hampshire and Florida. . . .
Cain’s in first place, with 20 percent, though Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are all just points behind according to the Bloomberg News numbers out Monday. A second survey, taken by Kellyanne Conway’s polling company, also shows Cain in first place in Iowa, with a one point lead over Gingrich.
Steve Grubbs, Cain’s Iowa chairman and a veteran of the Steve Forbes and Bob Dole campaigns, said Tuesday that Cain would speak with reporters after each of the two Iowa events . . .

I don’t want to link Politico for Herman Cain news, OK? But when I can’t get Herman Cain news in a timely manner from HermanCain.com, I don’t have any other choice. The last time I talked to J.D. Gordon, he told me he now has a communications team of four people. What the hell are those people doing, if they’re not writing press releases and posting them on the Web site?

Is there no one in the Cain organization who understands the importance of timeliness in the news business? And don’t they understand that campaign activity is, in fact, news? The campaign’s Web site therefore could and should be a conduit for breaking news, because who knows better what the campaign is doing than the campaign’s own staff? Instead the site is posting stuff way out of date, so that by the time it’s on HermanCain.com, it’s obsolete.

Three polls this week — from Bloomberg, the Polling Company and Insider Advantage — show Cain leading Iowa. As of 11 a.m. today, none of that good news for Cain was reported anywhere on HermanCain.com. Talk all you want about running a “non-traditional campaign,” but tolerating incompetence isn’t “non-traditional,” it’s just stupid. I can ignore gaffes, but I can’t ignore basic communications failure like this. 

A candidate’s Web site should be the first and best source for news about campaign activity. Your supporters (to say nothing of neutral objective journalists like me) shouldn’t have to go Googling around to try to figure out where the candidate will be campaigning from day to day.

Category: Election 2012, Herman Cain, Iowa

NYPD Clears Out Occupiers

Posted on | November 15, 2011 | 21 Comments

About damned time:

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended his decision to clear the park in Lower Manhattan that was the birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, saying “health and safety conditions became intolerable” in the park where the protesters had camped out for nearly two months. . . .
“New York City is the city where you can come and express yourself,” the mayor said. “What was happening in Zuccotti Park was not that.” He said the protesters had taken over the park, “making it unavailable to anyone else.”
The mayor’s comments at a City Hall news conference came about seven hours after hundreds of police officers moved in to clear the park after warning that the nearly two-month-old camp would be “cleared and restored” but that demonstrators who did not leave would face arrest. The protesters, about 200 of whom have been staying in the park overnight, initially resisted with chants of “Whose park? Our park!”
The police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, said that nearly 200 people had been arrested, 142 in the park at 50 to 60 in the streets nearby. Most were held on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Via Memeorandum. Isn’t it weird that, in a city of 8 million people, a few hundred “Occupiers” could be portrayed as the spearhead of a broad-based popular movement? I mean, it’s almost as if there were some kind of bias in the media coverage or something.

Category: #Occupy, New York

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.15.11

Posted on | November 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Police Begin Clearing Zuccotti Park of #OWS Squatters
Sandusky Admits He “Horsed Around” With Boys, Denies Pedophilia Charges
Syria Under Increasing Pressure After Arab League Suspension



POLITICS
CNN Poll: Gingrich Soars, Cain Drops
Gabrielle Giffords Haltingly Promises Return To Congress When She’s “Better”
Tensions Rise As Deficit Committee Hits Final Week
Mass. Lawmakers In Rush To Pass Casino Bill
Panettaa: Deep Defense Cuts Mean Fewer Troops
Recall Effort Against Wisconsin Governor Walker Begins
Prosecutors To Reveal Details Of Georgia Militia Plot



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
European Stocks Drop As Italy’s Monti Faces Political Resistance
Who’s Afraid Of Big Tech? Not Buffett
Consumption Bounce Lifts French Q3 GDP, Outlook Gloomy
European Uncertainty Drags Wall Street Lower
Anadarko Reports Major Oil & Gas Find In Colorado
Store Closings Slam Lowe’s Profit
Gold Declines As Strengthening Dollar Curbs Demand; Paulson Cuts Holding
Kindle Fire Review: Yes, It’s That Good
iTunes Match: A Solution For A Problem Apple Helped Create
“HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary” Awkward But Fulfilling For Fans
Samsung Admits “Informal Policy Of Not Suing Apple”
Gartner: Android Passes 50% Of Smartphone Sales



SPORTS
Players Reject NBA Offer, Season In Jeopardy
Matthews, Defense Shake Off Season-Long Struggles As Packers Pound Vikings 45-7
Frank McCourt Apologizes To Dodgers Fans For Ownership Struggle
Texans QB Schaub Likely Done For Season
Giroux, Pronger Lift Flyers Over Carolina, 5-3
Gordie Howe Dons #9 As He Enters Hall Of Fame
BCS Leaders Begin Examination Of Possibly Altering Format
Venezuelan Police Arrest Two More Suspects In Ramos Kidnapping



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Charlize Theron: Breaking Away
Anna Kournikova Not Returning For “Biggest Loser”‘s Next Season
Channing Tatum For “Man From U.N.C.L.E.”?
NBC Unveils Midseason Schedule
“Like Crazy”‘s Felicity Jones Is Warren Beatty’s Choice For Howard Hughes Film
Pink Shares Her Secret For Successful Motherhood
Matthew Weiner On His Beef With Alex Trebek, And How “Mad Men” Will End
Yates To Direct Bigscreen “Doctor Who”



FOREIGNERS
Dozens Killed In Continuing Syrian Violence As Jordan’s King Tells Assad It’s Time To Go
Norwegian Judge Rules Mass Murder Suspect Breivik Not Insane
Israel Continues Withholding $100 Million In Taxes Owed To PA
Karzai Call For Loya Jirga Brings Security Fears, Political Clash
Norks Jolt Japan With Fractious Win In World Cup Qualifier
Two Bangkok Industrial Parks Hold Out Against Flood
Keeping Euro Only Choice For Greece, Papademos Says



BLOGS & STUFF
Nick Gillespie: The Dumbest Theory On Why Pedophilia At A Nonprofit Went Unreported For So Long
Legal Insurrection: Poll – Romney And Newt Tied Up For Lead
Pat Dollard: Cain Sinks
Michelle Malkin: The Real Cain Scandal – Video Cringe Alert
Verum Serum: Video Livestream Of #OWS Being Evicted
Lonely Conservative: Deranged #OWS Crowd Vows To Shut Down Wall Street, Rebuild Neighborhoods
Weasel Zippers: Obama Golfs With Friend Busted In Prostitution Sting
Gateway Pundit: Portland Needs 70 Dump Trucks To Clean Up Filth After #OWS Goons Ejected
Sister Toldjah: CNN Shows Heavy Bias In Waterboarding Question To Obama, Gets Facts Wrong

Category: Live at Five

Allred and Bialek’s Ex-Boyfriend: ‘No Wonder He Didn’t Want to Answer Questions’

Posted on | November 14, 2011 | 35 Comments

Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has video of Gloria Allred’s press conference today with the ex-boyfriend of Cain accuser Sharon Bialek. 

This whole story strikes me as profoundly weird: At the Bialek press conference last week, Allred waved a couple of affidavits from people to whom Bialek previously told her story — as if this proved something. But if all Bialek has is one side of a “he-said/she-said,” what does it matter that her ex-boyfriend attests to her side of the story?

So then today, Allred brought out the ex-boyfriend, Dr. Victor Zuckerman, for his own press conference, at which he read his statement and refused to take questions. And then Professor Jacobson did a quick search and discovered some details of Dr. Zuckerman’s 2010 bankruptcy:

In May 2010 (after the bench trial, but before the judgment was entered) Stratford Pediatric sold its assets to Central DuPage Hospital for $333,000.00 in cash. This money was mostly transferred to Zuckerman’s personal accounts. He soon went on a gambling and day trading spree and lost all of the money. In July 2010, Zuckerman moved to Louisiana. On September 15, 2010, Zuckerman filed a chapter 11 petition in the Western District of Louisiana. His creditors include, among others, Stratford Center (with claims of $675,000.00), his ex-wife (with claims of $89,000.00), and the IRS (with claims of $50,000.00).

So this guy blew more than $300,000 in a gambling spree, declared bankruptcy owing more than $800,000, while Bialek herself has a shaky financial history (never mind the cryptic comments of Bill Kurtis) and the other named accuser, Karen Kraushaar, seems to be a habitual complainant. Everybody keeps saying, “Four accusers! Where there’s smoke, there must be fire!” but when examined critically, the accusers whose names we know don’t seem especially upstanding people. What would we learn about the other two anonymous accusers if they weren’t anonymous?

Anyway, back to Gloria Allred:

Allred says it’s time for Cain to admit he does know Bialek, and “fully disclose” the specifics of the allegations against him. Cain’s strategy of “blanket denials simply won’t work,” she says.

This is absurd: Herman Cain says he doesn’t remember this woman whom, according to her, he met exactly twice in 1997. Since then, Cain has run for Senate in Georgia, built a career as a radio talk-show host, survive Stage 4 cancer, spoken at scores of Tea Party rallies, and launched a yearlong campaign for president. Yet if such a busy man says he doesn’t remember a woman he supposedly met twice 14 years ago, Allred wants us to conclude, Cain must be lying!

And if Cain is innocent, what’s wrong with “blanket denials”? Allred would have made a fine prosecutor in the Moscow show trials.

Category: Election 2012, Herman Cain

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | November 14, 2011 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, this has been a fine weekend to be without the Intertubes at home. Fortunately, unlike last week’s FMJRA, all I need for Rule 5 Monday is e-mail and WordPress, so let’s see what came in over the transom this week.

The POH Diaries lead off with Kate Upton, followed by a two-part midweek break from Randy’s Roundtable. Fishersville Mike brings us some good news from PSU for a change, and Eye of Polyphemus goes with some Katy Perry this week. Reaganite Republican spoils the fun with the first sharia-compliant Rule 5 post. The Rio Norte Line takes a gander at the new Bond Girl, and also Rachel Grant.

El Opinador Compulsivo checks in with a pair of Colombian bombshells, a report on sweatshop conditions, random pictures here here and here, as well as here, Dakota Fanning’s banned ad, and a high-res picture gallery.

A View From The Beach leads off with Catherine Bell, follows with Avril Lavigne, a review of Silvio Berlusconi’s women, advice for the women on settling, and a video purporting to be the Girls Summer Fail Competition.

Jake Finnegan’s Burkalesque Babe this week is Rachel McAdams. Troglopundit reports on Danica Patrick’s enormous pair, while the theme at Dustbury this week is women not on bicycles. Example A: Famke Janssen. Example B: Jane Seymour.

Proof Positive has Erin Heatherton, vintage babe Evelyn Ankers, another 49er cheerleader, this week’s installment of Sex In Advertising, and in a possibly disastrous crossing of the streams, Pinups For Ron Paul. Maggie’s Notebook has the Top Ten Hottest Blondes, and Three Beers Later checks in with not just Mitzi Gaynor but a Rule 5 poll! Late arrival: That Mr. G Guy with two things that go together: girls and guns!

Soylent Green starts the Rule 5 week early with Leticia Zuolaga and a Daylight Savings Time reminder before getting back into the groove with the large economy-sized Monday Motivationer. Then follows Humpday Hawtness, a shoutout to Bulgarian Go(Oglers), Jessica DeCarlo, the obligatory corsets, and supplementary snooch for Friday.

At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Nanci Li Brandi, the Rule 5 News, Cristina Buccino, Katrina Kaif, Erika Elfwencrona, and a bit of Witches’ Brew.

Thanks to everyone for their links and patience! To be included in next week’s Rule 5 roundup, please send your links to Rule 5 Wombat by November 19.

Category: Rule 5

The Difference Between Junior And Senior Democrats Is The Number Of Zeros

Posted on | November 14, 2011 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

The blogs are alight with the Worst Speaker in U.S. History undertaking actions which, while not illegal, fail to pass the smell test. From the American Spectator:

Yesterday’s “60 Minutes” on CBS included a report on members of Congress profiting from privileged information. The report was based on a upcoming book by Peter Schweizer, a research fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, and includes instances of Rep. Spencer Bachus and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, among others, benefitting from investing in industries affected by legislation they were working on at the time. The segment is worth reading/watching.

Now, Princess Pelosi is a nationally known piece of work. One hopes that the factual details of the insider trading case will be sufficiently sordid that even the open sewer that is her district cannot stand her any more.

Democrat party hijinks are often more tawdry at lower levels. For a look at Prince George’s County, across the river in the Peoples’ Republic of Maryland, we get Jack B. Johnson,

Jack Bruce Johnson (born April 3, 1949) is an American politician who served as the county executive of Prince George’s County, Maryland from 2002 to 2010. On November 12, 2010, both Johnson and his wife were indicted on federal charges as part of a larger political corruption scandal in the county.[1] On May 17, 2011, Johnson pleaded guilty to extortion and witness- and evidence-tampering.

Today, the FBI released recordings of the bust:

For the first time, the public’s getting to hear private conversations between former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife, former Prince George’s County Council member Leslie Johnson, recorded by the FBI as agents arrived at their home to serve a search warrant.
Leslie Johnson was at their Mitchellville home when the FBI arrived, and she had a panicked phone conversation with her husband. He instructed his wife to get a check out of his bedroom dresser drawer.
“Get the little box, and in the box there’s a check,” Jack Johnson told his wife. “Just tear it up or chew it up, or something.”
It was a $100,000 bribe from a developer, according to court documents.

Regarding the wife:

Authorities said when they searched her they found almost $80,000 in her underwear.

Let Nancy and the Johnsons be sentenced to spend a week with #OccupyDC, since the Democrat party is all about the little guy, and the #Occupy weenies are mostly Socialists like the Dems, right?

Category: Democrats, Maryland

‘You Have to Answer for Santino, Carlo’

Posted on | November 14, 2011 | 73 Comments

“Our best chance to put responsible and principled leaders in Washington starts here, with Dede Scozzafava.”
— Newt Gingrich, Oct. 16, 2009

“Former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells NRO that he is sure that endorsing Republican Dede Scozzafava in the upcoming special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district was the right thing to do.”
— Robert Costa, National Review, Oct. 20, 2009

“She’s dramatically better than the Democrat.”
— Newt Gingrich, Oct. 21, 2009

“The choice in New York is a practical one . . .”
— Newt Gingrich, Oct. 22, 2009

“Newt for 2012? No, thanks.”
— Michelle Malkin, Oct. 26, 2009

“If this third-party candidate takes away just enough votes to elect the Democrat, then we will have strengthened Nancy Pelosi by the divisiveness. . . . The money raised in the district is overwhelmingly going to Dede Scozzafava.”
— Newt Gingrich, Oct. 27, 2009

“In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York.”
— Dede Scozzafava, Nov. 1, 2009 (endorsing Democrat)

“I’m very, very let down because she told everybody she was a Republican, and she said she was a loyal Republican.”
— Newt Gingrich, Nov. 2, 2009

“Guess who will not be representing the 23rd District? Dede Scozzafava!”
— supporter of Doug Hoffman, Nov. 3 (Election Night)

“This one was worth the fight. . .  And this is only one fight in the battle. . . . Stand up and fight back.”
— Doug Hoffman, Nov. 3, concession speech

“We cannot forget how this whole thing happened in the first place. . . . The right message here would indict the way party bosses, Republican Party bosses and these big thinkers like Newt screwed the whole thing up, from the get-go.”
— Rush Limbaugh, Nov. 5, 2009

When Allahpundit first asked, “Second look at Gingrich?” on Oct. 18, my visceral reaction was, “Are you freaking kidding me?” Nothing astonishes me more than poll numbers — from PPP and CNN — suggesting that people are taking Newt seriously as a presidential candidate. And of all the prognotications I’ve ever made, of none have I been more confident than in predicting this: It won’t last.

The Newt Bubble is one of two things:

  1. A transition point for the erstwhile Rick Perry voters before they go to one of the other Not Romneys; or
  2. The final doomed hope before these fickle voters — the ones who started out for Tim Pawlenty or some other non-viable candidate, then hopscotched around amongst the Flavor of the Month candidates — shrug their shoulders, say “Why not?” and settle for Mitt Romney.

The croakers are once more pronouncing doom on Herman Cain (all day today the Fox News talking heads have treated Cain dismissively), which doesn’t bother me much since the croakers never believed in Cain to begin with, and they’ve been so wrong so often that I automatically discount their repetitive doomsaying. Cain will either recover or he won’t, but the ultimate non-viability of Newt remains a solid fact.

To get way ahead of the argument, Newt is unelectable, period. If Republicans actually were to nominate him, sending the twice-divorced Pillsbury doughboy up against Obama would be a fool-proof formula for catastrophic electoral wipeout on Nov. 6, 2012. Supporting Gingrich is therefore tantamount to advocating the re-election of Obama. I’m convinced that Republican primary voters will sooner or later wise up to that reality, and the Gingrich Bubble will collapse as suddenly as it has inflated the past two weeks.

What is ironic, of course, is that many of those prominent voices now cheering the Newt Bubble are the same people who often say that they oppose Herman Cain or Michele Bachmann or Rick Santorum on the grounds that those particular Not Romneys are not “electable.”

These self-authorized arbiters of “electability” are never going to have a chance to be proven wrong about Gingrich in the general election next November because, within the next 10 weeks, it will be demonstrated that Newt can’t beat Romney.

Prediction: Newt won’t even finish ahead of Ron Paul in Iowa.

Why do I say that? Because Ron Paul inspires fanatical devotion from his followers, and can muster armies of fired-up volunteers. By contrast, Newt’s staunchest supporters are respectable Establishment types who aren’t going to be trudging through the snow in Iowa on Jan. 3.

If a blogger really wants to have some fun, do this: Start collecting comments of pundits who are currently pumping up the Newt Bubble. Save the links in a special folder in your browser bookmarks, and wait until the morning of Feb. 1 — the day after the Florida primary — at which point those quotes are going to look silly as hell.

By Feb. 1, Newt will be 0-for-4, his campaign will be deeply in debt, and he’ll be ready to quit and endorse Romney. Take it to the bank.

Of course, if I’m wrong and the Newt Bubble proves an enduring phenomenon so that, on Feb. 1, we’re left with a choice between Newt and Mitt, I’ll endorse Mitt, because I can never forgive Newt for what he did to Doug Hoffman in 2009.

While thousands of grassroots conservatives all across the country were doing all they could to elect Hoffman in the NY-23 special election, Gingrich spent three weeks telling everybody that Dede Scozzafava was “our best hope.” He kept going on TV to repeat the counterfactual assertion that Dede was the unaminous choice of Republicans in the district, while suggsting that Hoffman — a mild-mannered accountant — was some kind of wild-eyed extremist, and that those of us who supported Hoffman were ignorant of the realities in the district. Of course, Newt himself never even bothered to visit that district, and was just repeating what he had been told by the clueless hacks in the New York GOP leadership and at the NRCC.

When push came to shove, as we all remember, Dede quit on Halloween — the Saturday before Election Day — and endorsed the Democrat on Sunday, which was just about the only thing she could have done to prevent Hoffman from winning. In the end, Bill Owens won by less than 4,000 vote out of more than 150,000 votes cast in the special election, with Dede leaving her name on the ballot to collect some 8,500 votes, which was greater than Owens’s margin of victory.

It was Dede Scozzafava, not Doug Hoffman, who was the marginal “spoiler” candidate in that election, a role she played with Newt’s wholehearted support.

Like many of other Republicans of his vintage, Newt never understood or sympathized with the Tea Party movement. Gingrich, like so many GOP Establishment types, seemed to fear the grassroots uprising as a potential third-party threat, and viewed Hoffman’s campaign in that context. But what happened in NY-23 was a unique circumstance that has never been repeated in the past two years, and Gingrich evidently couldn’t be bothered to do the research necessary to discover that his Republican buddies were lying to him: About Dede, about Hoffman and about the 23rd District.

As someone who traveled all over NY-23, I can attest that the district was mostly rural, with a few relatively smallish towns — Watertown and Plattsburgh being the biggest — and a bit of suburban Syracuse thrown in. It was a basically conservative district and there was nothing in Hoffman’s platform that made him unelectable. Frankly, Hoffman’s worst problem in the district was the open hostility shown by the publisher of the Watertown newspaper, who seems to have been a personal friend of Scozzafava and hated Hoffman with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns.

Newt couldn’t be bothered to learn any of that, and made a complete fool of himself: “She said she was a loyal Republican.” Chump.

Here we are two years later, and Gingrich wants to pretend none of that ever happened. Newt is currently prospering because he talks a good game. He’s always been brilliant at articulating issues, and has benefitted by comparison to the hapless Rick Perry, at a time when Herman Cain has been under siege for two weeks. But the Newt Bubble won’t last, because people will eventually remember Newt’s past and his lack of grassroots volunteer enthusiasm will doom his candidacy.

Nobody is going to volunteer to campaign for a career politician who blows half a million at Tiffany for his third wife and then goes off on a luxury Mediterranean cruise. Newt isn’t going to get those $25, $50, $100 campaign contributions from retirees and housewives. Whatever campaign Newt puts together, he’ll have to rely on paid staff, and he’ll get no help from Tea Party activists who remember what he did to Doug Hoffman, the original hero of the Tea Party movement. And if nobody else remembers, we’ll be sure to remind them.

“You have to answer for Santino, Carlo. You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. . . . Barzini is dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia. Moe Greene. Stracci. Cuneo. Today I settled all family business so don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Admit what you did.”

Category: Doug Hoffman, Election 2012, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party

Ayn Rand On The Liberal And Liberal-Lite Parties In The U.S.

Posted on | November 14, 2011 | 37 Comments

by Smitty

The Tea Partiers are the moderates; everyone to the Left is suicidal.

NPR quotes Ayn Rand:

“Both [GOP and Democrats] today are for socialism, in effect — for controls. And there is no party, there are no voices, to offer an actual pro-capitalist, laissez-faire, economic freedom and individualism,” she said. “That is what this country needs today.”

The Tea Parties are a de facto second party, infiltrating the Liberal-Lite party.  Hence the tepid response to Mitt Romney at the Defending the American Dream Summit, until he mentioned repealing ObamaCare. Lots of applause. “Should have started with that,” he observed.

The Rand quotation comes from a 1959 interview. Since then, we’ve entered an Information Age. The Nanny State was as brutally stupid toward individuals then as it is now. Subsequently, the demographics have worsened, and the people who used to scream at home, clutching their newspapers, are now blogging, commenting, networking, and comparing notes. The Nanny State delenda est. The likelihood of success for the GOP nominee is proportional to the degree (s)he gets it.

via The Future of Capitalism

Category: Politics, Progressivism
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