I tried to tell y’all after the last GOP debate that there would be a push for fewer candidates. Personally, given Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s performance during both debates it was pretty clear he was not ready for prime time. Now, if only his Ohio counterpart John Kasich would get the message and a few other going-nowhere’s like Jim Gilmore, Gorge Pataki, Bobby Jindal, and Lindsey Graham would take the hint we can start having an earnest conversation about who should be the next GOP nominee for President.
I’m trying to hang with Donald Trump but, as I suppose I had suspected from the start he’s all bluff and bluster. I mean, getting into a new pi$$ing match with Megyn Kelly and FOX News or threatening the Club for Growth with a lawsuit because they happen to run a hard ad against him is not the demeanor of someone who should be considered for the highest office in the land. The race for the presidency is about ideas and vision, not bluster and buffoonery. Is he entertaining? Sure, but right now we’re thirteen months away from Election Night and just a few months away from the Iowa caucuses, and you’ve got to start giving voters something to hang their hat (and votes) on besides a big ego and personality. Hell, we’ve already got that in the White House and where has it gotten us?
Leave it to Hillary Clinton to camouflage her decision to come out against the Keystone pipeline behind the Pope’s U.S. visit. Not only is she a corrupt and dishonest witch, she’s a gutless weasel as well.
There’s such a double-standard in the mainstream media. They spend every waking hour trying to pick apart the GOP candidates but not one of them will ask a serious question of Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Here’s one they might try asking: “Mrs. Clinton, as a leader in the Democratic Party and a former senator, do you, and would you, support Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse’s “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” passed by the House last week and now introduced in the Senate for consideration? And, if not, why not? I doubt you’ll get any form of a yes. And you know why? It’s Hillary Clinton and the Democrats that are the extremists on the abortion issue, not Republicans or conservatives.
…and while they’re at it, they might want to ask Mrs. Clinton if she scheduled her annual mammogram through Planned Parenthood yet. After all, we’re told endlessly how PP is a “women’s health organization”, right? Surprise, surprise.
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s top abortion provider, swears up and down that notwithstanding the numerous admissions made on tape by its top officials, the organization doesn’t buy or sell organs and body parts harvested from aborted babies. Then, in order to defend its reputation, Planned Parenthood points to other medical procedures performed by the group that don’t result in body counts. One of its top rhetorical gimmicks is to reference all the mammograms that women can receive by visiting Planned Parenthood:
Planned Parenthood helps women nationwide get access to mammograms, as part of the range of health care Planned Parenthood health centers provide to nearly three million people a year.
There’s only one problem: Planned Parenthood does not manage a single licensed mammography facility in the U.S. Not one. Of the 8,735 licensed mammography facilities in America, Planned Parenthood operates exactly zero.
Planned Parenthood is a vile, without conscience, ghoulish for-profit abortion provider, period. And the fact that Republicans in the U.S. Senate don’t even have the political gonads to defund this criminal organization is just one more example of why the Republican Party needs to be blown up.
Rubio has impressed me most so far. Hopefully his stock will continue to rise as Trump inevitably fades. Although Trump has provided entertainment value and the much needed “change in political attitude”, this presidential apprentice is completely lost on matters of foreign policy. He would be dangerous in that office – as our current POTUS is – just in a different way. The good news is that whoever the GOP ultimately settles on, I have to believe that he/she will best the sorry lot being offered by the donkey (ass?) party.
Comment by Goose — September 25, 2015 @ 11:05 am
Agree with you there, Goose. I know a lot of very conservative folks don’t like Rubio because of his role in the “Gang of Eight” comprehensive immigration plan of a few years ago, but I guarantee the one person the donkeys don’t want to run against is Rubio. He’d sweep the floor against anyone they might offer up.
And I still don’t think Hillary is going to be the nominee. I see her quitting due to health or personal reasons before Christmas.
Comment by The Great White Shank — September 27, 2015 @ 10:08 pm