New Hampshirites go to the polls today to determine which flav of the week they are hungry for. Ask them next week, and they might well change their mind. For folks who are in love with “things as they are/were/always have been” GOP voters these days sure seem uncertain of little else but what state they reside in.
We are tempted to spend some time in the kitchen making snacks so we can sit noshing as the returns come forth. Will it be another nail-biter like Iowa? Will Santorum’s Google problem catch up with the staid Catholic prude? Will Newt sit in the middle of the street in diapers and bawl his head off? Or will Mittens try rap as a means to communicate with the masses?
I guess my biggest question is whether or not Newt gets it. Has it dawned on Pillsbury DB that he is dead in the water? Is he simply engaged in a Shermanesque slash and burn campaign to destroy the man he thinks took him down? He is doing the Democrats work for them, and of course that is great. Can the Establishment GOP rein him in other than by assassination at this point? lets
My second question is whether Jon Huntsman is just getting his name out there in anticipation of 2016, or is he angling for the Establishment to turn his way now that Romney is starting to flounder a bit?
What is clear is that there is now an answer to why Romney avoided interviews and other unscripted situations up until he was forced to it by Newt’s surge. He is a bit undisciplined. Not a bit. A lot. He comes off in debates as childish and as some teacher’s pet sorta brat when he doesn’t get his way. He also let’s go with stupid crap like: “I’m running for President, for God’s sake!”, “I like to fire people,” “I’m proud I forced him to take a mortgage out on his house to beat me,” and other assorted gems that prove that rich people like me live by way different rules than you.
Me thinks that Santorum’s moment in the sun was just that, a moment. Odds are that second place is gonna be a fight between Dr. Paul and Huntsman. His homophobic theocratic crap will play much better in South Carolina. Too bad DeMint don’t like him. He could do well there, but probably won’t. Newt is pinning his hopes there as is Ricky P. You remember Ricky P don’t ha?
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I must say, I do try to understand those folks who hold opinions that I find utterly mad. I do. I try to figure out what set of basics one starts with, from which one can build a house of cards that lead to whatever cockamamie conclusion that I am scratching my head about. There is an interesting article over at Religious Dispatches about how and why the likes of Santorum and others come to their weird explanations as to why marriage equality is so dangerous to life on Mars. Well thought out and well written.
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Just a question. How are the climate nay-sayers explaining this winter? I haven’t heard a peep out of them. Usually about this time of year one hears the stupid “yeah, it’s 15 below and we have three feet of snow in Virginia–so much for global warming!” Strangely they aren’t explaining this nation wide warmth and lack of snow. Hmmmm.
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The Right, including the GOP panderers are always hot to trot when it comes to sabre rattling against “Islamic Jihadists”. And of course it sets a tone that is anything but helpful. There is a really nice article by Anouar Majid at Informed Comment about the Arab Spring, and the opportunities to forge a better relationship between Americans and Muslims. Do read.
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You may have missed this. Here in Iowa, they broke into regular programming to give the news. Todd Palin has endorsed Newt Gingrich. Along with Christine O’Donnell opting for Mittens, I can’t wait for who Ronald McDonald is gonna choose. I mean, millions four people want to know.
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This just in. The Blaze has gained access to the pictures, and they are up in arms. I mean, the inhumanity of it all. Exclusive here, you can see the photos of the extravaganza that taxpayers were forced to pay. The Obama’s had a Halloween party in 2009, replete with costumes and the usual riffraff from Hollywood, including JOHNNY DEPP dressed as the Mad Hatter. Register your anger now.
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What’s on the Stove? Well, we got the taste for a Reuben sandwich so I got some corned beef, some sauerkraut, some high-grade Emanthaler swiss cheese, so rye bread, and of course some homemade thousand island dressing (which will be posted today). Weep on my dears.
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The push-back against Santorum in NH has been pretty good. His argument that marriage is only for ‘procreation’ has been called out as threatening the right of older couples to marry (with at least as much logic as he tries to marshall against homosexual unions).
In response to your efforts to understand whackiness, what about all the cries we hear about homosexual unions threatening heterosexual marriages? My theory is that most of this uproar is coming from ‘ex-gays’ and perhaps closet lesbians who have cobbled together low-fire marriages with the opposite sex to keep up appearances. Because if the law (and society) starts to support marriage unions with partners of choice, then I think there is a chance these people will walk in large numbers, deserting their make-believe families in favor of their true orientations. Just a theory.
Yes I agree, Ricky’s social agenda was not well received in NH. I find your theory about who the opponents of gay marriage are, most intriguing. I had never thought of that. I’ll be giving it a good thought. You may well be on to something.
It was the Ted Haggard story that suggested the theory to my mind. Here was a flagrant angry attacker of homosexuality and a leader of the evangelicals – exposed as a custormer of gay strippers and prostitutes.
The Bible’s very few but powerfully negative hiccups against homosexuality have contributed to the creation of a huge pool of latent and unconscious homosexuality among conservatives and Bible-cult fanatics, according to my unprofessional view. I conjecture that great numbers of these folks have been driven into these ‘low-fire’ marriages I’m talking about, especially in the South.
All these people think they have ‘beaten’ what they perceive to be their dark sides – and they are intolerant of LGBT’s who have not been coerced to abandon their true orientations. It’s a mother volcano of sexual latency and suppressed libido set to disrupt the whole culture of stupidity if allowed to come to a head.
I see what you mean John. It does make some sense. Sad that so many of these types have not read the rather large compendium of books now available that really explain those few passages in their proper context and pretty much put the whole matter to rest. But it makes sense that a lot of gay men and women simply did what the only thing that they thought they could, and entrapped themselves in these sham marriages. Sadly their spouses remain largely unaware and it ends up all being a very hurtful experience for all involved. How anyone could think that God would require such a thing is beyond me.