A TALE OF A SELFISH BASTARD

From ConservativeByte comes this bit of prognostication that turned out to be wrong:

Yesterday, Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin went on a local public affairs show in St. Louis with, at most, 12 convalescent viewers and gave birth to the mother of all campaign gaffes in 2012. Responding to a question about rape exceptions to abortion, something asked of every GOP candidate since Roe v Wade, Akin said something about how in “legitimate rapes” pregnancies are very rare. There are at least three serious things wrong with Akin’s answer, but let’s put those aside for now. His candidacy is over. So, what happens now?

At some point before 5pm CDT tomorrow, Akin will file papers to formally withdraw his name from the ballot. I realize today Akin was defiant and said he wasn’t a “quitter.” His supporters claim he will stay in the race because he views his candidacy as “providential”, but this is just the bluster before the end. Everyone is entitled to 24 hours to try to right their ship, but Akin did nothing today to cauterize the wound. When Reince Priebus, Ann Coulter, NRSC and Tea Party Express are all united in saying you should quit, you’ve pretty much run out of options.

Wrong! Akin is still in. But why Akin got into trouble is because he tried to talk about a subject that he is not competent to talk about--biology. Why talk about female physiological reactions to rape--especially to a Liberal-Fascist interrogator? This is something that gripes me about the GOP. Why do they let their candidates go on Liberal-Fascist media shows? Why do only Liberal apparatchiks get to moderate Presidential debates? Those Goebbels Gerbils are looking for gaffes by GOP candidates.

Didn't the GOP learn anything from ambush of Sarah Palin by Katie Koran? How about the musical ambush of Michele Bachmann by that little bitch Jimmy Fallon? When was the last time that a Democrook canine-date went on Fox News for an interview? You can't name one because Democrat weasels know better than to be subjected to questions that would require honest answers.

Meanwhile, there's is a Democrat congressional canine-date that has admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old boy at a public rest stop, sex with an underage child I think it would be called. So where's the wall-to-wall coverage of that pecadillo from CNN, NBC, See BS, ABC, and my favs, the talking dead heads at MS-LSD? How about the sexual harassment lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security? Any takers for that story you Fourth Estate pretenders? I for one am sick of the cancer that is the Democrat party on the American Body Politic and their enablers, the New Pravda media.

As for Akin, what a selfish bastard. He said that he's staying in the race to make a point about abortion--bullshirt! He realized that if he pulled out that come January 2013, he'd be out of a job for sure. I'm disgusted with that bonehead. His ego is being assuaged at the possible expense of continued Democrat control of the Senate.

NOOZE ROUND-UP

Be True to Your School...

The problem with our Federal government is that there is far too much Ivy League School worship. The same is true for the United States Supreme Court. We have all been given the false impression that no one from a non-Ivy League college or university could  be as smart as an average Ivy Leaguer. We also see this educational idolatry in our popular culture. As much as I like the CBS show, Blue Bloods, a program about a family of New York cops; it also suffers from the same malady. The youngest son Jaime Reagan went to Harvard Law School but has chosen to be a New York City beat cop instead of a high priced lawyer. Yeah right, that's a real plausible character. But an even more ridiculous example of Ivy League/false idol worship is the 1988 film Action Jackson. As described on BadMovies.Org, "Action" Jackson is a former college track star and Harvard law graduate turned Detroit cop, with a tendency toward unnecessary roughness. Talk about ridiculous plot lines... It's almost as lame as Harvard Law grad and Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion in the ObamaCare case.

Clean Mexican elections make US elections look downright corrupt...

Vote fraud is a form of identity theft. Our identities as free citizens are stolen every time an ineligible person casts a vote in our elections. Next time you think that having to show an ID to vote is racist, try voting in a foreign country without an ID. John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, wrote about the electoral process in Mexico and believes that the United States could learn a thing or two about running a clean election from Mexico:

Mexico has developed an elaborate system of safeguards to prevent voter fraud. Absentee ballots, which are cast outside the view of election officials and represent the easiest way to commit fraud, are much harder to apply for than in the U.S. Voters must present a valid voter ID card with a photo and imbedded security codes. After they cast a ballot voters--just like those famously pictured in Iraq last year--also have a finger or thumb dipped in indelible purple ink to prevent them from voting again. ¶ In the U.S. opponents of such anti-fraud measures as photo ID laws claim they will disenfranchise many voters and reduce voter turnout. But John Lott, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, notes that in the three presidential elections Mexico has conducted since the National Election Commission reformed the election laws "68% of eligible citizens have voted, compared to only 59% in the three elections prior to the rule changes." People are more likely to vote if they believe their ballot will be fairly counted.

The recent Mexican election went smoothly with no hint of election fraud. Meanwhile, the most racist and fascist US Attorney General in US history is suing several states because their voting laws would require showing an ID to vote. IDs are required to open bank accounts, get utility services, obtain credit, and for a myriad of other ordinary services. It obvious that undocumented immigrants are really undocumented Democrat voters. Democrats cannot win without vote fraud because their ideas are weak.

The Crack Pots Calling the Kettle...

Listening to the Obama surrogates on the Sunday talking head shows makes one wonder if these people hear what their mouths are saying. The DNC chief urged Romney to release all of his tax returns. Another Obamabot said that Romney was the most secretive candidate since Richard Nixon. Other bots questioned Romney's offshore bank accounts. The subliminal obloquy is that Romney is acting like a secretive tax evading crook. Hmm... didn't Obama seal all of his records from birth through law school? Didn't Obama have business dealings with convicted felon Tony Rezko? Didn't Obama invoke executive privilege to cover up Eric "The Red Racist" Holder's involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal? Yeah, your administration is a real transparent bunch.

Big Bungler is Watching...

Posting this blog is a difficult task inasmuch as Leftist gremlins sabotage it by interfering with the process of composing the blog. The composition page frequently malfunctions by not saving content or by having the cursor move all over the page. Don't worry Barky, this blog will cease when you're voted out of office in November.

A COWARD'S WAY OUT

My jailhouse lawyer friend called it right. When John Roberts was nominated to the Supreme Court, he said that he didn't like Roberts' character because he seemed to play it safe throughout his life. We might have seen a sample of that "play it safe" attitude today with the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion. Roberts allegedly changed his vote against ACA in May siding with the Leftist stooges on the Court.

The rumored motivation for Chief Justice John Roberts siding with statist position was that he was moved to change his vote because of the attacks on the Court by the Goebbels Gerbils (a.k.a., the Mainstream News Media) and radical Senators like Patrick Leahy (D-VT).  Perhaps Chief Justice Roberts did not want "his" Court to go down in history as the spoiler of the historic Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. Needless to say, what the Roberts "majority" actually did today was to give government the unlimited power to tax. This opens the door to a carbon tax, a fat tax, a soda tax, and taxes on any behavior.

In McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, (1819), Daniel Webster argued that, "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy." In his majority decision, Chief Justice Marshall said: "That the power of taxing it [the bank] by the States may be exercised so as to destroy it, is too obvious to be denied, and That the power to tax involves the power to destroy [is] not to be denied." So too, with the potential destruction of freedom of thought using a tax. Imagine a CO2 tax on talk radio. The selective enforcement crowd at Eric "The Racist" Holder's Department of (In)Justice might now feel that they don't have to protect the First Amendment rights of their enemies. So they could conceivably selectively enforce a draconian carbon footprint tax on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al, to destroy them. The enforcement rationale would be that the talkers breathe too much CO2 as they spread, as the ubiquitous Senator Chuck Schumer has said, their "pornography." But Jon Stewart and his ilk would be free--as anyone should be--to spout their radical leftist ideas over the airwaves. It doesn't matter how stupid and anti-democracy those ideas are.

Willkommen to the totalitarian state. The Fourth Reich will not be televised, it will be imposed. But take heart, because as June 6, 1944 was--November 6, 2012 will be another D-Day.  We will have an opportunity to defeat another tyrant.

ERIC HOLDER'S SONG

SHOULD I STAY OR GET THE SACK?

(Sung to the tune of Should I Go or Should I Stay? by the Clash)

Oh yeeeeeaaaaah!

Wooh!

You gotta let me know Barack
Should I stay or get the sack?
If you say my policies are fine
I’ll be here ’til the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or get the sack?

Always saying you’re not a Fascist
But you’re happy when I act like a racist
And enforce voter laws only for Blacks
So if you want me to watch your back
Well come on and let me know
Should I stay or get the sack?

Should I stay or get the sack?
Should I stay or get the sack?
If I quit there will be trouble
And if I’m sacked it will be double
So come on and let me know!

Your indecision’s bugging me
Esta indecision me molesta
If you fire me and set me free
Si me despedirme y librame
Exactly what am I supposed to do?
Dime que tengo que hacer
Do you know the words to fire me?
¿No sabes que las palabras para despedirme?
Come on and let me know
Me tienes que decir
Should I cool it or should I blow?
¿me debo ir o quedarme?

Split!
Yo me enfrio o lo sufro

Should I stay or should I blow?
Yo me enfrio o lo sufro
Should I stay or should I blow?
Yo me enfrio o lo sufro
If I quit there will be trouble
Si me dejar de - va a haber peligro
And if I stay it will be double
Si me quedo es doble
So you gotta let me know
Pero me tienes que decir
Should I cool it or should I blow?
Yo me enfrio o lo sufro

Should I stay or should I blow?
Yo me enfrio o lo sufro
If I quit there will be trouble
Si me voy - va a haber peligro
And if I stay it will be double
Si me quedo es doble
So you gotta let me know
Pero me tienes que decir
Should I stay or should I blow?

REPORT FROM CHEDDARVILLE: WHY LIBERALS ARE A CANCER ON THE AMERICAN BODY POLITIC

Liberal-Fascists are sore losers. They seem to like democracy only after they've stolen an election. Read these Tweets from the base of the Democrat Party following Governor Scott Walker's sound defeat of the recall effort against him led by public employee union thugs in Wisconsin. Listen to the lament of an SA-like fruitcake supporter of the Obama Reich. And finally, there's the hysterical bitch rant of the bloviating village idiot of MS-NBC, Ed "Deadhead" Schultz. 

Uncle Adolph and Uncle Joe would be proud of you Democrats, because you're the kind of unruly, irrational mob that they would have liked in their day. As they say in the law business, res ipsa loquiter, i.e., Latin for, "The thing speaks for itself."

300 PLUS TV CHANNELS AND NOTHING TO WATCH

• Prologue

While channel surfing through the TV universe, one finds that there's very little or nothing to watch, even if you have cable plus. Most Latina females don't have that problem unless they don't have access to Spanish language TV and the never-ending parade of telenovelas. I refer to these soap opera-like programs as brain rot. One acquaintance of mine had his marriage end because his wife was obsessed with telenovelas and neglected the marriage. I've heard similar stories of "telenovela neglect" from men married to Latinas. While I don't have the problems of my acquaintances; I do long for a good TV show that doesn't involve reality subjects, cops, lawyers, or doctors.        

• Reality TV is for People Who Can't Live Real Life.

I don't know about you but I'm getting really sick and tired of reality TV programming. I've had enough of singing competition shows, cooking competition shows, dancing competition shows, fashion model competition shows, weight loss competition shows, and dating competition shows. And then there are the reality shows that involve intramural treachery like Big Brother or Survivor. 

America's Got Talent (AGT) is a Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour meets the Gong Show while on crack cocaine. This past week on AGT, we were treated to the sight of man having his crotch assaulted with a kendo stick, a steel toe boot, and a cinder block crushed with a sledge hammer. Unless the man signed a hold harmless/waiver of liability agreement or wore a Kevlar® cup, I'm surprised that the NBC lawyers gave the green-light for the act to proceed. I have never thought that crotch busting videos were funny, even America's Funniest Home Videos. But only a baseball catcher or a serial bar brawler can really appreciate a good crotch busting.

• They Want Nothing but Cops and Robbers; and When They Get Bored It's Robbers and Cops!

Typical TV cop shows involve rule benders, i.e., the type of tough guys that during an interrogation can rough up a criminal suspect without leaving a mark. Louie the Leg Breaker and SEIU union thugs need not apply. These guys could solve Rubik's Cube if there were only a blood splatter or a bloody fingerprint on it. These cop shows run the gamut from the simple minded Hawaii 5-0 to the cleverly written Castle, which relies less on chop busting and more on brain storming. Then there are the "black and white" shows like Blue Bloods in which there are definite good and bad guys much like the old CBS Walker Texas Ranger TV series, which was loved by my late Grandmother. Right now the copycat trend seems to be rookie cop shows like NYC 22 or Rookie Blue. Zzz.

• Odor in the Court! Odor in the Court!

Old school lawyer TV shows generally were bogus. They were to the law as Woodpeckers are to carpentry, For example, in Perry Mason all the witnesses are in the courtroom and privy to the testimony of the other witnesses. The dramatic license taken in writing Perry Mason allowed for everyone involved in the case to be present in the courtroom when the guilty party is exposed. The scene often resembles just about any episode of Poirot in which detective Poirot exposes the guilty party in front of the assembled dramatis personae. Generally, under Federal and state law; on the motion of any party or sua sponte, (i.e., the judge does it), that the court may order witnesses excluded so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses. Good trial lawyers and good judges exclude non-testifying witnesses.  

Judd for the Defense attempted to present contemporary legal issues such as those involving anti-war protesters. What bothered me way back then was that Attorney Judd's tactics bordered on the unethical, which contributed to image that the only good lawyers are slicksters. 

Contemporary legal dramas like The Good Wife are generally well written and fairly accurate as to what goes on in a legal practice. The episodes generally capture the cavalcade of legal assholes that one will meet in the day-to-day practice of law. My major problem with The Good Wife is the recurring appearance of that insufferable liberal, Michael J. Fox. I refuse to watch any episode in which he appears.

Law and Order, is an amalgam of a cop and a lawyer show. The shows are based on crime beat news stories, although any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. The scripts are the rough equivalent of a "rip and read" newscast except that it's a rip and write a teleplay. But at least the news stories are changed somewhat by the writers for dramatic purposes. Oh wait, the news media writers change news stories for dramatic purposes also, i.e., except that their reporting also result in works of fiction. 

As an aside, in over 32 years of on and off lawyering, I've never seen an administrative or courtroom judge use a gavel. But it is a good attention getting device. Unfortunately, that ditz Nancy (a.k.a., "Nazi") Pelosi turned the gavel into a clown prop by arrogantly carrying an oversized gavel prior to the vote on ObamaCare. Liberals have all the class of a cracked toilet seat.

• TV Physician Heal Thyself

What can I say about TV doctors? If you believe the TV stereotype, they are horny SOBs. They always seem to be having sex in the linen closet or behind the bed curtains in an empty ward. With the exception of House, M.D., I generally avoid medical shows like the plague. In comparison with House, Grey's Anatomy is a soap opera set in a hospital. But I've stopped watching House, because it became too formulaic, and thus boring. What attracted me to House initially was the chance to learn about diseases, but over the last three seasons it has devolved into a typical medical soap opera. Otherwise, I don't waste my time with doctor shows.

• With One Exception, TV Sitcoms Are Lame

I like The Big Bang Theory, a show about four super smart nerds working at Cal Tech, although their employer is not specified, the show is set in Pasadena,California. Jim Parsons is superb as the egotistical and eccentric Dr. Sheldon Cooper. But the show is getting a little long in the tooth and except for one of the nerds, all the nerd geniuses are beginning to pair off with females and evolve as couples. Unfortunately, that may be the death knell of the show. TV viewers are persnickety when it comes to characters changing and moving forward, i.e., developing as maturing adults. 

My big fear is that the Indian character, Dr. Rajesh Koothrappali will be "outed" as gay. The running gag has been that he exhibits "gay" traits such as liking Bridget Jones's Diary. If they do "jump the shark" like that, it might piss me off, as well as  the Indian community. I really don't care what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms. But it will piss me off because men that like stuff other than blood-sports or, are interested in things  most people associate with females, are tagged as gay. Yes, I like World Cup soccer, the NFL, UFC, MLB and (Gasp!) the WWE. But I also like to cook, like Impressionist and Fauvist art, like ballet, and I am a damn good amateur interior decorator. After seeing what I had done with the living room of the house I was renting with a female roommate, I took it as a high compliment when my gay neighbor said I'd make a great gay guy, except that I like women too much. Let Rajesh have a girlfriend and leave nanny state social engineering to Liberal-Fascists like New York Mayor Bloomberg.

The best example of TV audiences resisting change was the classic Leave It to Beaver (LIB) sitcom. Unfortunately, viewers were expecting a cute 8-year old to entertain them for eternity, but tuned out when Beaver Cleaver grew up to become a typical obnoxious adolescent. The show ended in June 1963. The party line was that the LIB actors wanted to move on to new opportunities. But I lived through those times and know that people were angered that Beaver wasn't "cute" anymore. But the later episodes of the series were probably the best written scripts of the show and reflected in its own naïve way, the changing times in the 1960s.

Memo to NBC: you suck at comedy. You haven't had a really funny and clever show since Frazier left the air. The Office (boring), Community (dumb), Parks and Recreation (not funny and a silly portrayal of public employees), and Saturday Night Live (dated and should have been cancelled 20 years ago) are simply NOT funny and are a waste of time. Watching these shows represent hours of your life that you'll never get back. Moreover, the so-called "carbon footprint," caused by the electricity used to broadcast these shows--if you believe in pseudo-science--is destroying Mother Earth.

But my burning contempt is reserved for the NBC show, Whitney, which is an outdated feminist polemic, disguised as a sitcom. The NBC brass keeps moving it around the weekday schedule trying to find a niche for it. Yet it's going to return in the fall. Somebody really big wants this piece of crap show to succeed. My guess is that that person has links to the DNC or NOW. 

The back story for women like the Whitney character is that they are paleolithic women's libbers, i.e., "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." They demand that sex with "their" men be solely on their terms, including the unilateral right to see other men, while the "main man" waits at home sitting by the phone. Incidentally, I dated two women that are doppelgängers to the female lead of this show. But we've all had lapses of judgment. 

Women like Whitney manifest their poor self-esteem through their predatory sexual attitudes and social ineptitude, i.e., they often assume the worst traits of the men that they allegedly despise. They lack manners and laugh off any social faux pas to their quirky and unconventional personality, i.e., "I'm just being me." 

These women are also not above embarrassing "their men" in front of friends and strangers; or in private at the worst possible moment, e.g., before, during, or after sex. I was at a Cinco de Mayo event and listened to the wife of a really good guy bad mouth him in front of their friends and strangers. Too often, a woman like Whitney thinks that she is the smartest person in the room. She's not.

• Is There Anything on Broadcast TV That You Like?  

Yes, Person of Interest, Castle, and Revenge. They are well written and as original as television programs can be. 

Otherwise, go read a good book...

McCAIN REDUX OR HEY MITT... WTF?!

Here's a news item that should alarm Conservatives concerned about the Establishment Republicans resolve to defeat Obama:

May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney denounced a plan drafted by Republican strategists to run a racially tinged advertising campaign against President Barack Obama focusing on Obama's former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

[Nafta's Notes & Comments: "Racially tinged"?! Facts are facts. Wright is an unabashed racial bigot. And aren't you all a little bit tired of the one-sided racism that Black radicals get away with? For example, the failure of U.S. Attorney General Eric "The Racist" Holder to prosecute New Black Panthers for intimidation of white voters in Philadelphia is a sad commentary on race relations in the US. So much for Equal Protection under the law. White guilt on the other hand is condescending and generally looks really stupid and phony.]

Romney responded to a report in today's editions of the New York Times detailing a proposal for a super-political action committee backed by billionaire Joe Ricketts, the founder of what is now TD Ameritrade, to finance ads featuring Wright, whose racially incendiary sermons became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. [Emphasis added.]

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[Nafta's Notes & Comments: Click here to view ex-Black Muslim Wright's "racially-tinged" vitriol as discussed in the New Republic. Oops, somehow the left leaning New Republic has made the article about Wright's ex-Muslim background "unavailable" as of the posting of this piece! This is like the old Soviet Encyclopedia changing the facts to suit their Marxist agenda. But here's a veiled threat that is apparently being taken seriously by the RINOs running the Romney campaign. It's in the aforementioned Liberal-Fascist rag, The New Republic entitled Smear Interrupted.]

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So Mitt; even though these Liberal-Fascists are going to resort to religious bigotry against you and the Mormon Church and to use false accusations of racial bigotry as a deodorant for the stench of their crappy economic, foreign, and domestic policies; you're going to treat the America-hating Wright and Obama with the utmost respect? Huh?

Hey Mitt, in the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries, why was okay for you to have carpet bombed Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee with no-holds barred negative ads? Now that they're all gone, where's your resolve to defeat the biggest threat to the freedom of the United States since WWII? What makes the arrogant America-hating Obama immune from criticism that any other President--Democrat or Republican--would get for doing such a lousy job? 

Dammit Mitt! Grow a pair for the country's sake.     

SAY ANYTHING II - STARRING TEAM OBAMA 2012

No, there really isn't a sequel to the 1989 movie coming to a theater near you. But listening to and seeing the recent work products of Team Obama's presidential campaign, you'd think that the following dialogue from the Say Anything movie might have occurred during a recent staff meeting.

Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they?

Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story. 

But recent silly and factually inaccurate attacks on Mitt Romney by Team Obama look more like they came from the mind that brought us the movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space rather than from an accomplished political strategist. Plan 9 is arguably the worst movie ever made. So to carry the movie analogy a bit further, the 2012 Obama campaign is to the 2008 Obama campaign as Plan 9 from Outer Space is to Citizen Kane. 

The 2008 Obama presidential run was a well-run political campaign that took advantage of a sympathetic news media, John McCain's weak campaign, Bush fatigue, and carefully controlled information releases about the mysterious Candidate Obama. On the other hand, the Obama 2012 campaign is petty, immature, and reminiscent of an adolescent movie about a contentious high school student body presidential election. 

The first ridiculous attack on Mitt Romney came with the revelation that the cruel Romneys carried their dog Seamus on the roof of their car on a road trip to Canada. (See my post of April 18, 2012, It's a Man Bites Dog World and Bo is Nervous.) As it turned out, the President Obama's own autobiography revealed that the President as a kid had sampled canine cuisine--no he didn't eat Alpo®--he ate a real canine! The joke became, "Better on the roof of a car than on the roof of a mouth." By the way Team Obama front-man David Axelrod was the one that conceived the Plan 9-like "Dog Strategy" in which Romney is portrayed as cruel to dogs. David Axelrod, I'd like you to meet your intellectual doppelgänger, Ed Wood. 


Then came the 50-year old story of how Romney and several other high school "thugs" held down a fellow student that was suspected of being "gay" and cut his hair off.  The "victim's" family has disputed the characterization of the alleged victim, John Lauber.  The National Review cited an ABC News interview of Betsy Lauber one of John Lauber's three sisters. According to the ABC News interview, Ms Lauber stated:

“The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family,” she said.
… 

“If he were still alive today, he would be furious [about the story],” she [Christine Lauber] said with tears in her eyes.

But that didn't keep Team Obama from milking the story for all it's worth. Besides that, Democrats don't really care about facts, only the psychological impact of a story is important. Coincidentally, Obama announced his support of Gay marriage, although it was half-assed in that Obama left it to the states to legalize it. It was clear that it was a non-committal commitment designed to impact fund raising from the LGBT* community. It worked as the money flowed from the LGBT community after Obama's announcement. 


The latest Obama campaign ad being run in five battleground states portrays Romney as capitalist vampire, responsible for the closing of 100-year old steel mill. The capitalist vampire (or vulture) theme was espoused first by Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry, two of Romney's Republican primary opponents. But according to the Christian Science Monitor:

... the [Obama] ad elides some facts: Romney left Bain [Capital] shortly after it acquired GST Steel, though he continued to receive profits from Bain payouts. He wasn’t around when GST went under. Also, it was an era when cheap foreign imports were hitting US steel firms hard, in general. It’s not clear whether GST would have survived in any case.

But that's the essence of the American economic system. There are risks and rewards.  There are winners and losers. And it was in Bain's best-interest to have had GST succeed and not fail. Besides Romney was long gone and was working to rescue the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. But that little fact doesn't seem to matter to Team Obama. Moreover, Democrats and Obama are rarely held accountable by the Lamestream News Media. 


Team Obama is counting heavily on the fictional view of businessmen like Romney as portrayed in movies like Pretty Woman. The movie is about a businessman in the legal business of hostile takeovers. He's in LA in connection with the takeover of a shipbuilding company and hires a prostitute to accompany him to social events connected with the takeover. Here's some illustrative dialogue from the movie between the hard-hearted businessman Edward (Richard Gere) and the heart of gold hooker Vivian (Julia Roberts):

[Fumbling with his tie, Edward tells Vivian about his business.]

Vivian: You don't actually have a billion dollars, huh?
Edward: No. I get some of it from banks, investors… it's not an easy thing to do.
Vivian: And you don't make anything…
Edward: No.
Vivian: … and you don't build anything.
Edward: No.
Vivian: So whadda ya do with the companies once you buy 'em?
Edward: I sell them.

[Viv reaches for his tie.]

Vivian: Here, let me do that. You sell them.
Edward: Well, I… don't sell the whole company, I break it up into pieces, and then I sell that off, it's worth more than the whole.
Vivian: So, it's sort of like, um… stealing cars and selling 'em for parts, right?
Edward: [sighs exasperatedly] Yeah, sort of. But legal.

Of course in the end, the hard-hearted businessman falls in love with the hooker and under the influence of her heart of gold decides to keep the target company intact building ships and preserving union jobs. A noble and "fair" ending. No doubt that if a sequel were ever made, "Edward" would be an Obama campaign contribution bundler who gets an Department of Energy grant to fund a wildly successful green energy company. "Vivian" would be the CEO running the company. If only Hollywood screenwriters could grant the wishes of Team Obama.


The bottom line, to use an overused cliché, is that silly tripe like dog on the car roof stories, bully boy stories, and the corporate vampire diaries are what we will be treated to until election day by Team Obama. It makes one dread an October Surprise from Team Obama, especially if it involves Mitt Romney being implicated in the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping.  


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*Nafta's Notes: According to Wikipedia, LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to the "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" community. It has been in use since the 1990s.

JUAN "Win at any cost!" VARGAS

Some time ago, I posted a blog called Mismanagement 101 or Welcome to Scam Diego. In it I promised a "Part Two" describing the incompetence of the major political players, governmental and business entities within the area also known as San Diego, California. It is an arduous task because there is so much to expose. One of the points I intend to make in Part Two is that generally, people that run for any political office in the San Diego area do so because it is the best job that they will ever have without having any real marketable job skills.

This brings up the unique case of Juan Vargas, a Harvard Law School graduate and classmate of Barack Obama, who has been a San Diego City Councilman, a California State Assemblyman and a current California State Senator. He is an ambitious man that has wanted to run for Congress for a very long time, but was blocked by the incumbency of one Congressman Bob Filner. So now that Bolshevik bump on a log incumbent Filner has opted to run for Mayor of San Diego, Vargas has finally set his sights on the 51st Congressional District in California. Vargas has held several impressive private sector jobs including an associate attorney position with the silk stocking law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps, Vice President of External Affairs for Safeco Insurance, and Vice President of Corporate Legal for Liberty Mutual Group.  Along with his impressive academic credentials and public service, this seems to result in a formidable resume. It is so much so that according to a campaign press release:

California State Senator Juan Vargas secured the coveted California Democratic Party endorsement for his bid for U.S. Congress this Sunday, Feb 12 at the Democratic State Convention in San Diego. The Democratic Party voted to approve the regional Democratic Party's overwhelming decision to endorse Senator Vargas over Denise Ducheny for the 51st Congressional District.

Normally, I don't care much about Democrat primaries because most Democrat candidates pretty much espouse the same old class warfare and race card tripe. But front runner Vargas has assumed a particularly vicious approach towards his opponent Denise Moreno Ducheny. A recent Vargas principal campaign committee mailer was sent to potential or registered Democrat voters highlighting an apparent 12-year old DUI arrest. It clearly states that it was paid for by Vargas for Congress 2012, (FEC # C00497321). There are several other alleged character issues that are included in the Vargas mailer. It's the same old negative campaign tactics that we've come to expect from Democrats. But going after one of their own? Perhaps there is no "11th Commandment" for Dems like the Republicans had under Reagan, i.e., "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

But this tactic of digging up old DUI convictions seems to be a standard Democrat strategy by their candidates for office, as happened to George W. Bush in the waning days of the 2000 Presidential campaign. But why talk about issues when you can take the intellectually lazy way of engaging in personal attacks? It is especially true if it is tired old news. But if it is the admitted heavy alcohol and cocaine usage in a self-serving autobiography by the cool "slow jammin' the news" Preezy then ni modo. 


Liberals can be hypocritical, break laws, break rules, break wind, and have a good chance of getting away with it. So never mind what's good for the country--just get elected--civility and decency be damned. And the scary thing about Socialist/Fascist/Communist and Democrat political parties is that in practice most all of them act in accordance with the maxim that the ends justify the means. If this kind of dirty politics happens in a local congressional election, what can we expect from the Master of Deceit and Disaster, Barack Obama's presidential campaign? More on that very soon...

TOUGH GUYS DON'T PRANCE (Apologies to Norman Mailer)**

After a grueling day of golf, our tough guy POTUS is 
on the sidelines, as a bystander during the killing of 
Osama bin Laden.

Barack Obama has questioned whether Mitt Romney would have had the courage to take out Osama bin Ladin. Here's the short answer--yes. Mitt Romney said today that even Jimmy Carter would have done it. Now, look at the picture to the right. Does Obama look engaged in the task at hand? Not really. He's hunkered down like he's trying to avoid being noticed. That day he was playing golf until he dropped into the situation room 20 minutes before the Navy SEALS began the mission to take out Osama bin Laden. 

This is according to a story in the UK Daily Mail online, citing claims in a book by Chuck Pfarrer, a former SEAL team commander, entitled SEAL Target Geronimo.  Pfarrer spoke to several of the men that carried out the operation at Bin Laden's mansion hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.  According to the Daily Mail story: 

Mr Pfarrer says the President's role was largely inflated and suggests he stayed out on the golf course for so long so he could distance himself in case it went wrong. Mr Pfarrer writes: 'If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow.'

A year later, Obama is taking full credit for the hit on Osama. He acted like he was the man being sung about in the old Gene Pitney song Liberty Valance.*** The song is about the killing of a vicious gunslinger named Liberty Valance by a lawyer. Hmm, Obama is a lawyer. Perhaps some of the song's lyrics could be altered to sing the praises of our tough guy POTUS:

Everyone heard shots ring out, those shots made Osama fall

But the man who watched as Osama died, he watched as Osama died

He was the bravest of them all 

Tough guy Democrat POTUS candidate 

Michael Dukakis in 1988-- showing that 

he's combat ready. 

Obama has been thumping his chest for the last couple of days as if he pulled the trigger that killed Osama. And he seems to have gotten a taste for killing lately with the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. During Sunday's 60 Minutes interview with Jose Rodriguez, the ex-CIA Interrogations Chief quizzed naïve Liberal propagandist Lesley Stahl with the moral conundrum of which is less ethical; indiscriminately killing terrorists or capturing them, interrogating and pouring club soda up their noses. To hypocritical Liberals, the former and the latter is true only if it is a Republican in charge. But when Liberals are in charge, they are usually appeasers, i.e., unless they sense some political advantage in appearing to be a tough guy.  Still a Liberal male usually looks very silly whenever he tries to look tough. See, e.g., the above picture of the 1988 Democrat Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis.


The current Obama-Romney tit for tat may have begun when Mitt Romney called Obama "an appeaser" in December 2011. On Chrissy Matthews' show Hardball, (read Softball) Obama shill and Washington Post propagandist, Eugene Robinson stated in response:

The fact is, though, that as President Obama said, he's not an appeaser just -- if you look at the record, he's more of an assassin if you want to talk about the way he's attacked terrorism. He has  gone out to kill the al-Qaeda leaders."

This delighted Obama fan boy, ex-cop Chrissy Matthews who pointed out that Mitt Romney had no business calling Obama an appeaser because he had no history of military service in his family, (so much for free speech.) What that flawed bit of logic has to do with anything is beyond comprehension. But Liberals are comfortable pointing out the flaws of others even though they are among the most flawed, self-centered, and cowardly of all human beings.  And it doesn't matter if they have the same flaws as those that they are criticizing. Anybody that is sane would have made the call to take out Osama. That the normally passive Obama wants to make political hay out of the killing of Osama is shameless. It also shows that real tough guys don't prance.

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Nafta's Notes: 

**The title of this blog post is a play on the title of the Norman Mailer book, Tough Guys Don't Dance as well as a movie.  The movie got some mediocre reviews and rates 4.9 out of 10 stars by IMDb users. One piece of trivia about the movie in the IMDb entry is interesting:

Norman Mailer, in the director's commentary on the DVD, said that he was counseled to cut the ending of the scene in which Ryan O'Neal's character Tim Madden reads a note from his ex-girlfriend Madeline informing him that his wife was having an affair with her husband, and he exclaims, "Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man!" because of O'Neal's poor performance. Mailer kept it in because he thought the poor line reading actually added something to the picture. O'Neal, who had been friendly with Mailer, turned on him, as the bit revealed his shortcomings as an actor and embarrassed him.

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***The song Liberty Valence is from the movie The Man who Shot Liberty Valence. According to the IMDb entry, the film is about, "A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed." Except for telling the truth, the storyline is not unlike Obama's account of the taking out of Osama bin Laden:

When Senator Ransom Stoddard returns home to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon, he recounts to a local newspaper editor the story behind it all. He had come to town many years before, a lawyer by profession. The stage was robbed on its way in by the local ruffian, Liberty Valance and Stoddard has nothing to his name left save a few law books. He gets [a] job in the kitchen at the Ericson's restaurant and there [he] meets his future wife Hallie. The territory is vying for Statehood and Stoddard is selected as a representative over Valance, who continues terrorizing the town. When he destroys the local newspaper office and attacks the editor, Stoddard calls him out though the conclusion is not quite as straightforward as legend would have it. [Emphasis added.]

This another way of saying there were political spin doctors back in the day.