Monthly Archives: February 2009

Don’t Forget Romney

The Conservative Public Action Conference (CPAC) is currently underway, and while some of us are stuck at our day jobs, the rest of the conservative world has transcended on Washington D.C. to discuss all sorts of ill conservative schtuff.

The highlight, beside El Rushbo throwing chunks of raw meat at an already ravenous crowd (he might even throw the whole bovine), is the “straw poll” to see who da’ base likes for our next presidential candidate.

It’s funny, because while most attention has been focused on cats like Sarah Palin and especially Bobby Jindal as of late, there is another perennial 2012 candidate flying under most radar’s…Mitt Romney. CPAC and Mitt have also been synomous for the past few tears. 2007 was considered his “coming out party” and he ended his presidential run their in 2008. In both years, he won the straw poll.

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Song of the Day: Desolation Row

A little MCR to wake you up…

Eric Cantor Announces His Candidacy for President

Psyche. :-)

One small reason I’m enjoying being in the minority party is watching to see which new leaders will grab the Republican Matrix of Leadership and lead us all like Jacob to freedom. On any given issue, and one given person can step up as the “point man” and rally the troops while presenting a conservative alternative. And if there’s been one cat who had universally been that “point man” over the past month, it’s been Republican Whip and conservative it-boy Eric Cantor.

If there was one silver lining to passing the $2 TRILLION stimulus that the Obama Administration was borrowing from China and saddling our grandkids with the massive debt, it was seeing Cantor rise to leadership. Right off the bat, once the outline of the crap sandwich was announced, he held public hearing to discuss alternatives, made sure all members of the caucus had a copy of the bill and was reading it the minute it came out, and “whipped” everyone together to where not a single R voted for the bill…and even had ten D’s cross the isle and – in a bi-partisan fashion – stand against it with us.

And others are starting to take notice. From a recent Time Magazine profile
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I Just Can’t Quit Bobby Jindal

“At this point in the election cycle, no Republican can be considered more than the flavor of the month. But [Bobby Jindal] is an appealing one.” - Michael Gerson

There’s nothing wrong with being honest that that Bobby Jindal gave a bad speech. And I’m not talking aboot the activists like MSNBC or HuffPo; they decided it was a bad speech before he gave it. I mean from actual conservatives – the ones who will actually support him – the speech was universally panned. It’s okay to admit that, it’s not the end of the world, and as you see in the video at the end Gov. Jindal bounced back just fine the next morning on “The Today Show.”

I think it was a combination of over hype and an overwhelming desire amongst the right to find “our Obama” to where a single slip up seemed like the end of the world, and that’s just silly. It’s barely 2009 and there are tons of Jindal’s, Palin’s, Romney’s, Newt’s, Sanford’s, Pawlenty’s, Cantor’s, DeMint’s, Coburn’s, and others that could step up, we have time to let our leaders develop.

And as Michael Gerson points out, there’s A LOT more to Bobby Jindal than just one speech…
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House GOP, “Can We Get a Mulligan?”

It’s been driving me INSANE listening to people claim that “oh well, the Republican’s opposed to stimulus but didn’t present a plan of their own.” I actually yelled at Mika Bernenski this morning when she said that to Michael Steele (and her I actually like). Never mind the hearings Eric Cantor held or the twenty-five different plans and/or amendments that were unanimously reject by the Democrats, we didn’t present any alternatives. The television told me so.

Here’s the rub though…it’s our fault. You and I know we had mad alternatives, the R’s in the House and Senate knows we had mad alternatives, but the cats on the television were more concerned with winning the daily news cycle my pointing out the wasteful spending in the bill. And while that was good for firing up the base (which we desperately needed), it rapidly turned the debate against us.

That’s all going to change. As per Byron York, who knows a thing or two aboot a thing or two…
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Democrat Governor Hates Poor People

This story made my day because I’ve had to sit through a week’s worth of Democrat demagoguery over five Republican Governors who decided that taking the full amount of stimulus might not be in the best interest of the people in their state, and were going through the bill to look for hidden items, see what strings were attached, etc.

You know, that pesky ideology of theirs – the one that tells them borrowing money from our children and increasing the debt by a few trillion dollars are bad things – was getting in the way of just doing what Dear Leader said.

These Governors were scoundrels! They’re doing it purely for political reasons! One douchebag even accused implied that they were racist that it might have been racially motivated that certain voters may have been disproportionately affected.

I wonder if they think the same thing aboot Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a DEMOCRAT who might not want the full amount either
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