O.K., folks... as you've noticed, I've been back since Monday night but as of yet... no newsbites.
Nope. I'm not giving up. I'm not "taking a break" per se. It's just... frankly... it's just so depressing to return to "reality" after vacationing... I've been procrastinating.
(Indeed... I'm still procrastinating... only time will tell if I actually end up posting any newsbites today...)
Do you folks listen to Rush Limbaugh during the day? I know... you're working... not everyone has the life of Bill.
(*GRIN*) (*WINK*)
Anyway... you should if you can. You really should! As much as I enjoy and appreciate Beck, now that he's off the (traditional) air, Limbaugh really is the "go-to" source for easily accessible fact, opinion, and analysis (outside of myself, that is).
O.K.
(*PAUSE*)
Enough lighthearted banter. While I am of course quite serious with my admonition to listen to Rush Limbaugh and (of course) continue to read my newsbites and other postings, what I really need to get across to you here is just how much trouble we're in.
Fox News is no longer "our" network. Ailes is going for "respectability" and if those of you who watch O'Reilly can't tell the difference between the FNC of several years ago and today's Fox (see: "The Five") then you just haven't been paying attention.
Folks... understand... in the battle between the GOP establishment (RINOs) and Tea Party libertarian-leaning, constitutionist conservatives... FNC sees itself as an "associate" of the GOP nomenklatura... an "associate" looking to be made full partner in the fullness of time.
Oh, sure... at the same time FNC movers and shakers see themselves as a "liaison" to their (supposedly less sophisticated when the truth is exactly the opposite!) "cousins" on the "fringe" of polite society... you know... those Tea Party folks... but even when the contempt is lacking, for more often than not the condescension remains.
(*SHRUG*)
Folks. Take Romney. Once again the mainstream media is doing all within their power to portray Mitt Romney as the inevitable GOP presidential nominee. And by and large... FNC echoes "the message."
How'd the 2008 presidential election turn out for a GOP which choose as their champion the guy most Democrats, most "independents," and most "moderates" favored for our Republican candidate?!
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Yeah... I'll vote for Romney if he's the nominee. Last time around was the time for a stand on principle and an "all in" bet that while an elected McCain would destroy conservatism and thus the GOP from within, an elected Obama would set the stage for Democratic overreach and the implosion of their party based upon the hubris of the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barak Hussein Obama, and the leaders of the various Democrat "machines" running all too many American cities and states (into the ground) and their various "constituency" allies.
I was right, folks. Pelosi's downfall in '10 proved that.
Thing is... McCainism isn't dead and buried. Nope. McConnellism is a branch of McCainism and unfortunately... McConnellism rules the Republican caucus in the U.S. Senate.
Boehnerism too is an offshoot of McCainism. Even as "our side" supposedly "controls" the House of Representatives, spending from year to year continues to rise... government continues to grow... the Executive Branch continues to run roughshod over the Constitution and the Rule of Law with Eric Holder as our nation's Attorney General.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Day in a day out you're lied to and manipulated by those in power, folks - by those in political power... by those with economic power... by the press and media... by the academic "experts."
Folks... the above isn't simply a rant or a rave - it's borne out the simple truth... the facts as laid out via day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year of newsbites and backed by stand-alone analytical posts.
I watched Tuesday's GOP debate with my friend Joey. It was depressing as hell. To those who neither caught it nor read about it in detail... Romney was his usual faux-charming, poised, polished, well-groomed, articulate, slimy, disingenuous, self-serving self.
(*SHRUG*)
He "won" the debate.
According to the press he "wins" all the debates!
(*SMIRK*)
What's really terrifying... the more honest journalists and pundits will come right out and admit that it's the veneer of Romney that people like; in other words, millions and millions of Americans apparently long for a well-put-together phony.
On Tuesday TARP came up. Romney basically said that he would have supported TARP back in 2008 had he been president or even a member of the House or Senate faced with voting for or against TARP.
(*SIGH*)
Oh... at the time... Newt Gingrich supported TARP. What he'd do in a similar situation come 2013 if he or another Republican sits in the Oval Office... your guess is as good as mine.
Cain? If you have the stomach for it... google "Cain TARP".
Perry? I literally have no idea and I'm afraid of further depressing myself by googling "Perry TARP".
Michele Bachmann? She was against TARP! She was right!
Ron Paul? Obviously he opposed the bailouts.
Rick Santorum? He spoke against TARP as soon as it had passed...
(*SHRUG*)
Huntsman? (Huntsman who...???)
Gary Johnson?
Folks... are you getting my point? There is no "perfect" GOP candidate (from my ideological perspective) with a shot at getting the nomination, but of the major candidates... Mitt Romney carries with him the most negatives and he's the least sincere and trustworthy.
I'll vote for him next November if I have to... but I pray to God I have another choice.
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