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And then there were seven – Cain says good-bye

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) wannabe Herman Cain’s suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination to avoid continued news coverage of allegations of sexual misconduct that’s hurtful to his family.

“I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distractions and the continued hurt caused on me and my family,” Cain told several hundred supporters gathered at what was to have been the opening of his national campaign headquarters.

So, Cain’s dropping out because of the evil media’s coverage of the sexual allegations, but not because of his own misconduct?

Cain’s announcement came five days after an Atlanta-area woman claimed she and Cain had an affair for more than a decade, a claim which followed several allegations of sexual harassment against him.

“But because of these false and unproved accusations, it has paid and had a tremendous painful price on my family,” Cain said, with his wife, Gloria, standing behind him on the stage.

“Now here’s why it hurts – because my wife, my family and I, we know that those false and unproved allegations are not true; so one of the first declarations that I want to make to you today is that I am at peace with my God. I am at peace with my wife. And she is at peace with me.

And with that Herman “Pizza Man” Cain becomes a footnote to the 2012 GOTP Presidential primary season; good-bye Herman you’ve provided us all with hours of rib tickling entertainment.

 
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Posted by on December 3, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls – 01 Dec 11 Edition

A new Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 30 Nov 11 has been released concerning the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) nominating circus; the current poll results are:

Newton Leroy Gingrich 38; Mittens Romney 17; Herman “Pizza Man” Cain 8; Ronny Paul 8; Reverend Rick Perry 4; Michele “Krazy” Bachmann 4; Ricky “The Ric” Santorum 4 and  Jon “I can’t believe it’s not butter” Huntsman 3

The GOTP version of the Island of Misfit Candidates continues with Newton gaining a commanding lead over Bridesmaid Mittens and the Pizza Man beginning to burn up on re-entry; Reverend Ricky, Paul and Krazy all continue to drop like the stone in the well, while Huntsman maintains his bottom dwelling mud sucker status as Santorum continues to just sit and basically not go up or down. No one has scored this significant of a lead over the pack – ever, and considering it’s the uber-conservative Rasmussen polling organization this should be a huge concern for Mittens who went running to Texas today to plead for help from Bush 41.

In Iowa, a new Insider Advantage poll of likely voters conducted 28 Nov 11: Gingrich 28; Paul 13; Romney 12; Cain 10; Bachmann 10; Perry 7; Santorum 3 and Huntsman ?

In New Hampshire, Rasmussen Reports conducted a poll of likely voters conducted 28 Nov 11: Mittens 34; Gingrich 24; Paul 14; Huntsman 11; Cain 5; Perry 2; Bachmann 2 and Santorum 1

In South Carolina, the new Insider Advantage poll of likely voters conducted 28 Nov 11: Gingrich 38; Romney 15; Cain 13; Paul 7; Perry 4; Bachmann 3; Santorum 2 and Huntsman ?

In Florida, the new Insider Advantage poll of likely voters conducted on 29 Nov 11: Gingrich 41; Romney 17; Cain 13; Perry 7; Paul 4; Bachmann 3; Santorum 1 and Huntsman ? …

In Nevada, the PPP (D) poll of registered voters conducted from 20 – 23 Oct 11: Romney 29; Cain 28; Gingrich 15; Paul 7; Perry 6; Bachmann 3; Huntsman and Santorum 2 …

In the five states with the lead off primaries – or caucuses – Gingrich leads big over Romney 3 – 2

Concerning how the GOTP “candidates stack up against the President; according to a Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 21 – 22 Nov 11, if the general election were held today:

President Obama 44/Romney 38

According to a Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters conducted 19 – 20 Nov 11, if the general election were held today:

President Obama 46/Gingrich 40

So, if the GOTP clown car had finally stopped spinning, and the general election was held today, Newton Leroy Gingrich would be the nominee, and he would’ve lost to President Obama.

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Krazy would close the U.S. embassy in Iran?

The Huffington Post is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) plummeting political asteroid Michele “Krazy” Bachmann’s told supporters in Iowa of her plans for American diplomacy, claiming a Bachmann presidency would mean no U.S. embassy in Iran.

There’s only one big problem with her plans, the U.S. hasn’t actually had a functioning embassy in Iran since 1980.

Krazy’s always been an outspoken critic of Iran and earlier this month she actually urged the Pentagon to “prepare a war plan” in case of it acquiring a nuclear weapon. She later alleged that the Middle Eastern nation had threatened to launch nuclear warheads at the U.S. and Israel. PolitiFact quickly pointed out the fact her claim was, how can I say this? “False!”

So, sports fans, this is just one more example of how Bachmann really is as ignorant as she looks, and it proves she’s not now, nor ever will be, ready for prime time.

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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The campaign’s all but over?

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that former Republican Tea Party (GOTP) frontrunner Herman “Pizza Man” Cain is still campaigning for president; but anyone with an ounce of sense – which rules out both Cain and Michele Bachmann – knows his White House bid is all but over.

“His chance at winning the presidency are effectively zero,” said Dave Welch, a Republican Tea Party strategist who worked on both of John McCain’s presidential bids.

That’s an interesting proposition Mr. Welch, except Cain’s chances of winning the White House have always been effectively zero.

One of the “no duh” moments in this so-called campaign came today when the Pizza Man told the New Hampshire Union Leader that his wife, Gloria, didn’t know he was providing the 46-year-old Atlanta-area businesswoman with money for “month-to-month bills and expenses.”

And, guess what? Cain also said, his wife didn’t know of what he called a “friendship” with White until she said publicly that she had a casual 13-year affair with Cain that ended about eight months ago.

“I’m still backing him, but I definitely think it’s a bigger and bigger mountain to climb,” Florida state Rep. Carlos Trujillo said after White emerged. “It’s going to be difficult to make up that ground in so short an amount of time.”

Difficult?! Difficult?! Were dropped as a child; repeatedly?!

First, if he’d ever been a real candidate – meaning he had a snow ball’s chance of winning – it’d be impossible after the sexual harassment charges and a woman saying she’d had a 13 year affair with him’ second, since he was never a serious candidate, there was never a chance, even less than a snow ball’s chance. Seriously, what’s fetching wrong with you people?!

Cain’s said he’s reassessing and re-evaluating whether to remain in the race and will only make that decision after speaking face-to-face with his wife of 42 years.

He should’ve said after he speaking to his wives’ attorney; good luck with that conversation.

“Turn out the lights, there’s never been a party – it seems that all good things must end” – like his so-called campaign and his so-called marriage.

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Drug Testing For ‘Any Kind of Federal Aid’?

Huffington Post is reporting current Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential darling Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich thinks the federal government should make it more expensive to be a drug user.

“It could be through testing before you get any kind of federal aid,” Gingrich told Yahoo’s Chris Moody in an interview on Saturday. “Unemployment compensation, food stamps, you name it.”

Newton’s suggestion is popular amongst the uber-conservatives, and many GOTP Governors and legislators have been proposing drug testing the poor and jobless as a way for the government to save money on programs like welfare and unemployment insurance; the idea being of course that the vast majority of those receiving these benefits are drug addicted welfare queens driving around in their Cadillacs; only the sunshine state of Florida actually enacted a new requirement, but it was promptly locked by a federal court.

“It has always struck me that if you’re serious about trying to stop drug use, then you need to find a way to have a fairly easy approach to it and you need to find a way to be pretty aggressive about insisting — I don’t think actually locking up users is a very good thing,” Newton reportedly said. “I think finding ways to sanction them and to give them medical help and to get them to detox is a more logical long-term policy.”

For three months – July to October – Florida required welfare applicants to submit to mandatory urine testing to prove they weren’t using drugs. The policy was stopped with an injunction from a federal judge, finding the 35-year-old single father who claimed the test violated his constitutional rights would be substantially likely to win his case. Courts also found the same policy unconstitutional when Michigan tried it in 1999.

Newton is pandering to the far-right yet again in an effort to win their votes in the primaries; problem is if he wins the nomination he’s going to have to run back to the center to have any hope of winning and that doesn’t seem very likely after pledging his political soul to the uber-conservative tea party affiliates; here’s a better idea for the GOTP front runner, why not propose mandatory drug testing for radio talk show hosts?

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Because one fence just isn’t enough

Because one big, long expensive fence just isn’t enough, Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Newton Leroy Gingrich has signed yet another pledge, but this time it’s a pledge to build a double fence along the entirety of the southern border of the United States. That’s right folks, because nothing says national security more than not one, but two fences along your boarder.

According to the Huffington Post, Newton – also known as “Stay Puff” – promised in the Americans for Border Security pledge to construct a complete double border fence between the United States and Mexico by the end of 2013, should he become president, joining Michele “Krazy” Bachmann as the second GOTP candidate to sign on.

“The United States must control its border. It is a national security imperative,” Stay Puff’s campaign website reads. “Every nation has the right to control its border. Historically, every country that has been determined to control their border has been able to do so. Controlling the border is a matter of resources and will.”

Reportedly, nearly all of the major GOTP presidential candidates have called for a fence along the southern border, with the exception of the Reverend Rick Perry, who’s said it would be too expensive to build and maintain. Continuing upkeep of the current border fence, without additional fencing, will cost an estimated $6.5 billion between 2009 and 2019, according to a 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office.

With his signature on one more pledge the question persists as to whom the GOTP candidates will answer to if elected, the American people and the Constitution to which they swear an oath, or to those who’ve gotten them to “pledge”? Wherein does their honor rest?  To their country and its best interest, or the special interests they’ve sworn their allegiance to?

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Child labor laws ‘truly stupid’?

Promising “extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” Newton Leroy Gingrich, aka “Stay Puffed” said recently that he’d fire all the school janitors and pay students to clean schools instead.

Speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) come from behind presidential candidate is challenging laws preventing children from working certain jobs before their mid-teens.

Newton’s blaming “the core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization” for “crippling” children.

“It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, in child laws, which are truly stupid,” he said.

”I tried for years to have a very simple model,” he continued. “Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they’d have pride in the schools, they’d begin the process of rising.”

What sort of union does Stay Puffed imagine that school janitors belong to, the United Brotherhood of School Sanitation Workers United?

Newton is not a man of the people, he’s every bit as much a man of the wealthy classes in this country as Mittens Romney is. He wants to do away with child labor laws so companies can put kids to work for far less pay, and with no troublesome restrictions, this one will come back to haunt him and to bite him in the butt.

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Mittens mews back?

"I firmly support a woman's right to decide!"

According to the Associated Press (AP), Republican Tea Party (GOTP) perpetual presidential bridesmaid Mittens Romney is fighting back against a Democratic National Committee (DNC) commercial that portrays him as a flip-flopper; it’s the first time Mittens has mewed about what many see as his biggest political liability.

The Romney camp threw together a hasty defense, arranging for supporters to hold conference calls with reporters in an attempt to combat the ad which highlights Mitten’s changed positions on abortion, immigration, guns and other issues.

"I firmly support overturning Roe v Wade"!

But Mittens isn’t just getting bashed by the DNC, fellow GOTP candidate Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich, who just won an important endorsement in New Hampshire, told a South Carolina radio audience “it’s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election.” Finally, a GOTP contender is attacking his primary opponents!

Unlike Mitten’s recent ad where he took a remark the President made in 2008 quoting his opponent John McCain and editing it to sound as though it were today and the President was referring to himself, the DNC ad simply takes statements Romney has made and then flipped on.

"I'm an Independent who never supported Reagan/Bush!"

If nothing else, the urgency of Mittens campaign’s reaction to the Democratic ad suggested he sees the flip-flop accusations as serious, and a wound that could prove mortal to his aspirations to be president.

The DNC launched its multi-state attack, portraying Romney as a politician in conflict with himself. The TV ad’s airing in the battleground states of North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and New Mexico. Democrats also held events in Iowa, Florida, Michigan, Maryland and Massachusetts calling attention to a longer and more detailed version of the criticisms on the website mittvmitt.com.

"No wait, I'm a Republican who thinks Ronald Reagan is the most awesomest thing ever!"

The video calls Romney “an unparalleled flip-flopper.” It shows two late-night comedians mocking his sincerity and three Fox News reporters seeming to question Romney’s authenticity.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Newton said he’s “a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney.” In response to a question about Romney’s eagerness to be elected, Gingrich said: “I wouldn’t switch my positions for political reasons. It’s perfectly reasonable to change your position if facts change. If you see new things you didn’t see – everybody’s done that, Ronald Reagan did that. It’s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election. Then people will have to ask themselves, `What will you tell me next time?'”

Newton is 100% spot on with his appraisal of Mittens; if you can’t hold on to any core values as a candidate, it’s a perfectly reasonable question for the electorate to ask, “What will you tell me next time?”

Don’t get me wrong, Newton’s as loathsome an individual as the GOTP could ever hope to nominate, he’s the Gollum of the race with his sexual liaisons and extramarital affairs and his excuse that only he committed them because of his “great love for his country”; Newton is just as unelectable as Romney, but getting shellacked by the President will at last drive him from the national spot light.”Which way is the wind blowing right now”?

 
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Posted by on November 28, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Romney’s ‘Perfect’ President for the 19th Century?

New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, the Union Leader, has announced Sunday it’s endorsing Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich in the 2012 Republican Tea Party (GOTP) primary race. This of course comes as a near devastating blow to fellow GOTP presidential candidate Mittens Romney.

Union Leader editorial page editor Andrew Cline said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Romney’s a “very play-it-safe candidate” which is not what America needs right now. “Perhaps in the late 19th century, perfect.”

“He doesn’t want to offend anybody, he wants to be liked, he wants to try to reach out and be very safe,” said Cline. “And that’s not very realistic, but imagine what that would be like as president.”

The paper had narrowed down its choices to Gingrich and Reverend Rick Perry, eventually going with Gingrich because of his political experience, Cline said.

“I’m really not sure precisely what we get out of a President Romney — who might very well be a good president — but we don’t really know,” he said. “Given the choice between the candidate who wants to be liked and the candidate who wants to be respected, we would rather have the guy who wants to be respected.”

Publisher Joseph W. McQuaide wrote in the endorsement that Gingrich is “by no means the perfect candidate,” but is the best one in the running.

“We don’t have to agree with them on every issue. We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear,” he wrote.

So, Mittens has been passed over by the largest newspaper in the state of New Hampshire for Newton; wow, no matter how you try to spin it, that’s got to sting quite a bit. But the editor’s right, Mittens wants to be liked and he’s been selling his soul to every new audience, flip flopping back and forth on every issue saying whatever he thinks the current crowd wants to hear; and well frankly, eventually that kind of political foosball catches up with you. Gingrich’s the first viable challenger to King Mittens and he could pull it off, the rest of the Crazy Eights are simply courtesans at this point.

 
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Posted by on November 28, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Harassment claims have affected support, ya think?

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential has been playah Herman “Pizza Man” Cain’s acknowledging his slip from the top of the Crazy Eights was due to his lack of addressing accusations of sexual harassment and continued abject confusion about his so-called policies.

The former pizza magnet and “playah” insists his campaign’s sound and supporters remain on board what he calls the “Cain train;” and that sounds reminiscent of what a White Star Line ticket agent might have said about the RMS Titanic still sailing into port even as she was floundering at sea.

Cain has denied the accusations and says “nothing has gone wrong” in terms of the campaign’s mechanics. But he tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that some people “are heavily influenced by perception more so than reality.”

Well look who just caught up; perception is reality Pizza Man, especially in politics, and the fact you and your staff didn’t know this shows once more how unprepared you were to be running.

The Pizza Man never had a chance of winning the nomination, and the fact the party faithful are now flocking to Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich shows that. It’s way past time for most of the Crazy Eight’s to pack it in.

 
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Posted by on November 28, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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