“You Didn’t Build That”
“You Didn’t Build That”
Great clip from American Crossroads:
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This is your day to call the shots, so you should.
O.K., if I had an ounce of self-restraint left before the Wisconsin primary coming up this Tuesday, this fortune cookie just eliminated it.
I’m going to call the shots.
What shots would I like to call today?
The 2012 Presidential election, of course.
Something I have little control over, so the results are bound to be amusing.
If you call the shots, you are in charge and you tell people what to do.
But calling the shots can also mean using a psychological trick: you “call the shot” in advance, forecasting a result, hoping to influence people’s choices, so that you encourage your favored result.
And that seems to be what the Republican Party is doing right now- calling the shots in advance.
The Republican establishment probably never planned that Mitt Romney would get serious competition from any of his running mates, and now that he’s getting some serious competition from Rick Santorum, they are scrambling to discourage that. They are bringing out the big guns, party leaders who are endorsing Mitt Romney prematurely, when Mitt has only 565 of the necessary 1144 delegates to win the primary.
Republicans have not bargained on an awakening of the American people, a scenario in which politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle would have to become more responsive to their electorates (and responsive to Tea Party supporters) than they previously had been. It’s a lot easier to sit in comfy chairs making small polite concessions to opponents followed by socializing after work, than to implement the big changes and make the big cuts that many Americans want in 2012, and which will cut some of the frills in Washington, too.
So many Republicans are rallying behind Mitt Romney prematurely, hoping to discourage Rick Santorum, and hoping that Rick Santorum will concede and quit. This would avoid a long, drawn-out primary, followed by a “brokered” or “contested” convention, during which the Republican establishment will have less control over the results, and the American people will have more control over the results.
Calling the shots in advance did not work so well 4 years ago, when everybody was forecasting that Hillary Clinton would be the nominee. Obama was a nobody. Yet we have President Nobody issuing mandates today, and the Supreme Court struggling to read the 2700 pages of his NobodyCares for ObamaCare. Calling the Shots in advance backfired on the Democrats in 2008.
Then there was President Harding in 1920, who was a nobody with only 20% of the candidates compared with his opponent (General Leonard Wood) in the primary. If anybody were calling the shots in advance back then, he would have lost the primary. But what happened? Nobody won the initial race, and they went to a contested or brokered convention, where Harding got 70% of the votes and became President.
Now, for the first time since 1920, we could be heading for a contested or brokered convention again. Although Mitt Romney unquestionably has the most delegates at this time, it is not clear whether Romney will be able to reach the 1144 required to win.
1144 out of 2286 total delegates are needed to win; Romney has 565; Santorum has 256; Gingrich has 141; Paul has 66, and thus 1258 delegates are still up for grabs. In other words, any candidate, including one starting with zero delegates today, could still be the winner.
Top Republicans are panicking and calling for an end to the primary battle, uniting behind Romney.
Newt Gingrich has slowed down his campaign, planning to sit out the fight between Romney and Santorum, then join back in for the contested convention.
Rick Santorum vows to stay in the race, even if he does not win Wisconsin this Tuesday.
Everybody wants to forecast events before they occur. I will join them.
too far for everyone. D’Souza has branded Obama as an anti-colonialist whose goal is to readjust America’s standing in the world – not in a positive direction. When the movie 2016 comes out this summer, Obama’s presidency will be over.
If I am wrong, Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee.
If he beats Obama, since trying to prove why he is different from Obama on central issues like ObamaCare and Abortion will not be easy, he will do one of two things:
Fulfill all the promises he made during the election, unlike his predecessor Obama.
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Change his mind and continue Obama’s policies, or something akin to them.
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Fortune cookie yesterday:
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Good advice for Presidential candidates this election year!
Truth can be, and has been analyzed both by me and by more noteworthy philosophers throughout millennia of history. Cultures have differing attitudes towards truth and toward its value.
Without embarking on a long philosophical discussion, suffice it to say that the foundations of European and United States governments rest on Christian principles; that Christ is the Word and the Truth; and that our innate common sense indicates the importance of truth during an election year. A vote is meaningless if it is cast for a lie.
Democracy does not work when candidates lie.
Election year compels us to question the trustworthiness, truthfulness, and dependability of political candidates.
Our President Barak Obama is not famous for truthfulness. The issue under consideration by the Supreme Court today, the constitutionality of ObamaCare, is one prime example of Obama’s lack of commitment to truth. ObamaCare was passed only very narrowly, and only after Obama promised Stupak, who was holding out for the exclusion of abortion from ObamaCare, that abortion would be definitely be excluded from ObamaCare. 70% of Americans oppose federal funding of abortion, yet the Obama administration has included abortion in ObamaCare. That’s a pretty big lie, going back on a public promise, and railroading federal funding of something that half of America considers equivalent to murder and to the Holocaust, and something for which 70% of America opposes public funding.
Other lies of President Obama’s include :
With Obama, when it’s not lies, it’s disregard for and manipulation of the will of the American people, which is just as serious. In fact, today, President Obama was caught on a hot microphone betraying his electorate, asking Russian President Medvedev to put off discussions of nuclear defense reductions until after the November election, when Obama would have more “flexibility” (to disregard the will of the people). continue reading…
The recent attacks on Herman Cain, the swiftness of his “trial” by media, and his rapid exit from the Republican presidential primary race have left many bewildered. There lingers an uneasiness, as though a lynching had just occurred, and nobody objected.
There are two possibilities; that Herman Cain is guilty of recent accusations of sexual harassment and marital infidelity, or that he is innocent of these accusations. We simply do not know which is the case.
If Cain were guilty, that would be unfortunate. His moral integrity would certainly be blemished. However, to be fair, it must be pointed out that similar issues did not get in the way of Gingrich’s, Clinton’s, or JFK’s public careers. In a society that has just removed the ban on bestiality in the military, with the White House laughingly declining to comment, surely Herman Cain’s weakness would not be as staggering as such transgressions might have been in the past?
If Cain were innocent, however, then the extent of the coordinated slanderous attack on Cain would be historically significant and unnerving. If President Obama’s campaign was prepared to coordinate such a vicious and fallacious attack on an opposing candidate, that really would make a story dwarfing other stories of political ethical misconduct, including Watergate and the more recent Blagojevich affair.