Fly Them To the Moon. Please.
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You can peruse my Twitter page for highlights and lowlights of the CNN GOP debate in Florida, but this basically sums it up:
Wolf Blitzer went all Oprah/TMZ with his fishing into the candidates’ wives’ lives.
Newt doubled down on open-borders stupid and gave an indignant defense of illegal alien grandmothers that the SEIU and La Raza would love. To which Romney aptly replied: “The problem isn’t 11 million illegal alien grandmothers.”
Rick Santorum and Ron Paul sparred over Latin American dictators and freedom-fighters. Paul supporters the former. Santorum supports the latter.
Paul shined where he’s strongest — providing a clarion stand against government bailouts. Santorum landed solid blows on health care and the individual mandate supported by both Romney and Gingrich. Romney failed to defend his painfully exposed Achilles’ heel, Romneycare — and bizarrely argued that we needn’t “get angry about it.” Smile while your budgets are hemorrhaging…
Santorum also said encouraging things about the need to get entitlements under control instead of spending on pie-in-the-sky moon missions. Then again, this is a guy who supported the massive prescription drug entitlement under Bush.
Sigh.
Blitzer devoted an embarrassing amount of time to Gingrich’s moon colonization plan, prompting Paul (here I am saying something positive about Paul again!) to jibe that the only people we need to send to the moon are some politicians.
Score.
I was glad to take my nose plugs off for a fleeting moment and appreciate some lively, substantive debate — even if it happened unintentionally between bouts of Wolf Blitzer-led bloviations and special interest-pandering. There was no Macarena, but Wolf and the candidates came pretty close.
Big loser: Gingrich.
Big gainer: Santorum.
Big surprise: Paul’s likeability factor, even if he is completely on the moon when it comes to Israel, jihadists, and national security.
Big, unchanged reality: Big Government Romney, Big Government Gingrich, and Not As Big A Government As He Voted For When He Was in the Senate But Still Too Big Government Santorum.
The journey/march/slog (towards a brokered convention??????) continues…
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Ron Paul is already on the moon…..
I was just conveying Blackstone a similar assessment on another thread.
Brokered conventions are rare, and my questions for those that hold that hope. Who are we holding out for again? Is the 2 months from end of convention to election day enough to paint the difference between America of our parents and grandparents or a Sal Alinsky dream?
Michelle, you and Anne Coulter have much more in common than you think. When Romney loses the election because he cannot win, look in the mirror to see who helped. I will not vote for Romney.
Seems more than one person is using Alinsky tactics. Guess what George Romney said about old Saul was something Willard listened to.
Romney acted like someone gave him a big cup of coffee just before he took to the stage! He was strong and focused and scored some real points against Gingrinch, who looked as though he need a nap!
Why does the thought creep into my mind that Romney spread a little of that wealth around and had some advance notice of the questions?
Santorum pretty much owned the night when he slapped down the petty bickering between the two front-runners.
Why can’t they all agree in advance that when the moderator tries to start fights between them, they will all refuse to play? Yet again, no substinitive discussions about almost ANYTHING!
Great Chairman of the Board YouTube too
Romney acted like someone gave him a big cup of coffee just before he took to the stage! He was strong and focused and scored some real points against Gingrinch, who looked as though he need a nap!
Why does the thought creep into my mind that Romney spread a little of that wealth around and had some advance notice of the questions?
Santorum pretty much owned the night when he slapped down the petty bickering between the two front-runners.
Why can’t they all agree in advance that when the moderator tries to start fights between them, they will all refuse to play? Yet again, no serious discussions about almost ANYTHING!
I’d hate to jinx anything, but it seems like conservative pundits like MM are warming up ever so slightly to Ron Paul. All it took was 3458 debates and plenty of opposition research for the other candidates to remind us of how horrible they are on spending and big government. I do not mean this to be snarky towards MM in any way whatsoever because she has, derogatory statements against Paul notwithstanding, continued to be true to conservative principles. Keep up the good work!
Santorum looked like the only grownup tonight.
Gingrich wants us on the moon before the end of the decade. Really, that’s his big plan for America?
Been there, done that! I wonder why this great idea man came up with such an unoriginal plan like that. Could it be because he wants to buy votes in a state that is losing a bunch of NASA jobs? At least he’s imitating JFK now instead of FDR.
Drudge`s poll got slammed by Paulbots as usual but the results are exactly backward.
Read
“The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must” by Robert Zubrin.
It would be better to go to Mars than the Moon.
Oh please please please!!
Michelle, you can lead the Conservative delegation.
Provided we haven’t drafted you…
Who are we holding out for in this brokered convention ?
Santorum: “Newt, you’re a good guy, but you have too many pie-in-the-sky ideas at once.”
Gingrich: “Rick, the residents of my proposed future US Moon colony, and the 51st state it will become, disagree with you.”
This is off-topic, but I’m about to go crazy– I’ve had Yahoo as my homepage/portal for several years, but today was the final straw– there was some headline “news” story with the title “Low IQ, Conservative beliefs associated with Prejudice”. This is too much. Last week it was “Gays make Better Parents”. And of course the front page is also peppered with stories bashing the Vatican, Republicans, etc. I can’t take anymore. OH, but there are 50 stories a day about Kim Kardashian. And also there’s a story about how wonderful it is that Barney Frank is “marrying” his partner.
PLEASE, will somebody get some investors together and create a homepage portal/search engine similar to Yahoo but without the ridiculous left-wing bias? Breitbart? Fox News? Somebody? I’m temporarily using Townhall, but it’s just a politics site primarily. Can’t somebody create a site to compete with the Yahoos of the world and drive them into the dungheap? I don’t know a lot about how these things work, but I think people would flock in droves. Please, somebody hear my prayer…
None of the currently above!
Wow! Sinatra – and I think that’s Quincy Jones conducting Count Basie’s band. If only every debate had a soundtrack this good! Thank you Michelle.
That reminds me – Google has a new (anti)Privacy Policy going into effect in March. I haven’t read it all yet, but guessing it gives them the right to “Palin” you in terms of information gathering, then share it all with anyone willing to pay…
And you thought Facebook was bad.
Some guy on Twitter wants Michelle to “Kill yourself please”. He has all of 9 followers. #Fail
Oh, Michelle has 219,000 plus followers.
Big Government Romney? What a lie! Who said he would fire someone with Newt’s stupid big government ideas?
You are such a hypocrite! You supported Newt and look at the corruption!
Newt’s $10 million dollar donor is buying the move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem… straight up bribe.
And then he has the caucus in Nevada rigged to be in his house.
How is that for corruption?
I better not hear a peep about Acorn from any Republican hypocrite again.
YOur man is taking straight-up bribes of $10 million dollars. And cheating his way to delegates.
Michelle — I was going to say “better watch out, you’re going to get slammed like Drudge for being part of the bribed republican establishment”. (Shame on you for saying something not so flattering about Newt!) I was too late.
There may have been more references to Rick Santorum in the post than in the comments.
MM lists Santorum as the ‘big gainer’. I lament the notion that Romney and Gingrich are the frontrunners for anyone who opposes Obama.
Certainly I agree with the proposition that one must vote for whomever the GOP nominee becomes. But to do that without giving the two conservatives who were in the race, Bachmann and Santorum, reveals the sad state of American politics.
I know, political reality says one thing and I say something else. If those who view themselves as conservative cannot rally around Bachmann or Santorum I wonder how conservative they are.
This whole thing absolutely makes me sick. We hold our noses while liberals advance. We claim conservative priniples without supporting the candidates who do.
I do not watch debates hosted by left wingers masquerading as a free press.
As it stands today, Santorum gets my vote.
We need to go to both Plymouth
Couldn’t agree more, where the hell is the so called conservative RNC, trying to decide which big giverment candidate their going to support in the end?
Bachmann was the only true conservative, but goodness we couldn’t support her she must be a Jesus freak being anti-abortion and pro family valves. And don’t forget she talks the life she lives.
There a reason the Republicans are now known as the Repukian Party…barrff.
Newt tried to repeat his ‘John King’ moment, but Romney was quick to quip, “wouldn’t it be nice if people wouldn’t say things in interviews they weren’t willing to defend in debates?”
When Newt started to respond to the ‘first lady’ question, “I think all three wives,” I thought he was going to talk about his three wives. Ron Paul could have delivered a clever joke about that.
Attaboy! See, that was easy. Did you come up with that all by your little self? Keep that up and pretty soon you’ll be able to stay inside the lines when you color.
In spite of the tiresome and lazy swipes at Ron Paul and his non-interventionist policies towards Israel and other sovereign nations, it will be that those policies would have ultimately saved Israel and others. Our current interventionistic policies, if continued, will soon force Israel’s hand in potentially igniting WWIII. That is all.
Um…
Who the heck uses a “Home Page” anymore? I have my “Home Page” set to “about:blank” I get a nice clean white blank browser window that opens nearly instantly (no waiting to load anything but the browser itself) and then I select where I want to go from my list of bookmarks. Why wait for some overcrowded news page to load all it’s crap just to open my browser?
Also, ted, please join us here in the 21st century and stop even GOING to “yahoo news”. It’s been a lefty cesspool since it’s inception back in the ’90s, and still looks just like it did back then too. Are you using IE6 still too?
Join us in the future and get a better browser:
Firefox
Chrome
Opera
Then set your homepage to a blank page or some internal dummy page, and never darken the door of yahoo again.
So, everybody that votes for Paul is a Paulbot? Is that how that works? So only Paul has followers mindlessly clicking away for him? Where’s Romney’s followers, Newt’s, Santorum’s? How is it that they don’t have these mysterious footsoldiers doing the same thing? Or could it be that there is a growing base of people of all stripes who like Paul’s message?
I’ve been wondering about a brokered convention. Michelle or Doug, that would make a great post if you can explain how that would work.
I feel like I’m waiting for someone (not a Donald Trump or 3rd party candidate) to pop up and say “enough, these guys aren’t working out”.
Maybe that person doesn’t exist. While I’d probably show up and vote, I feel despair when I think of any of the remaining four being the candidate.
I don’t know who’s out there that could satisfy this. Not Chris Christie, and again not Trump. I would support Palin in a second but I think her leaving the governorship of Alaska early is a problem (though I understand why she did). I like Bobby Jindal. Is it too late for Herman Cain to re-enter? Even Jeb Bush..
I guess it would be nice if “None of the Above” was a choice, and then it be decided who other than the above it is.
311 million people and the best we can come up with are these four clowns.
I’m done here and I’m done with what’s left of this country.
After watching that dismal spectacle last night, I’m hoping for a brokered convention. Newt and Romney sorely disappointed me. I must say it’s a good thing that one candidate has not yet been decided upon. That way the demoRats don’t have the rest of the year to destroy him. God is in His heavens.
I will simply quote JFK about going to the Moon:
“We choose not to go to the moon. We choose not to go to the moon in this or any other decade, and not do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because they will be difficult to organize and impossible to measure the least of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are not willing to accept, one we are willing to postpone for eternity, and one which we intend to allow the communist Chinese to win, and the others, too.”
And now NASA has been re-tasked with “making muslims feel better about themselves” and Obama has cancelled the American manned space program. Whew. Glad we dodged that one!!
Gladiola: Since I can’t help my self, PEEP, Acorn.
Reading this post, what the hell are we suppose to do? We have to vote for someone.
Again the Republicans have played right into Libraland’s playbook. They have us answering stupid questions, defending indefensible positions, and fighting and bickering among ourselves. I thought we were smarter than this. I’d hoped maybe this time with the Tea Party we had matured over 2008. Nope, nada, no way. Same old sh*t different day.
“Big surprise: Paul’s likeability factor, even if he is completely on the moon when it comes to Israel, jihadists, and national security.”
Easy fix, Allen West VP!
Well..if we can’t have Michelle Bachmann, at least we have another grown up in Santorum.
There is always one in every crowd !
Poor choices for a great nation in need of leadership.
If one truly looks at the field of candidates left over after Iowa and New Hampshire, we have a neutered rich boy who hires people to fight for him, a fighter who every “Republican” hates, a one term senator who only gets the antiabortion vote, and an old goat who has many great qualities, but also lives in a land before time on half the issues.
I support the fighter, because the next president is going to get push back from unions, illegal immigrant groups, crony capitalists sucking at the trough, government workers shown pink slips, and of course the accountant/attorney groups who want the status quo to keep their gravy train rolling. Wall Street will be angry that we can no longer affor QE 14, and pension holders will be angry because we can no longer afford to bail out governmental institutions who have promised their constituencies (bribers) more than they can afford.
We will need a “mean” fighter who can both think of ways to fix things with no money, and tough enough to tell people there is no free lunch anymore.
No one in congress is smart enough or tough enough to even cut the $800b dollar stimulus bill of 2009 from todays budget, so now we stimulate the economy to the tune of $800b PER YEAR. Our “representatives” think they can call this stimulus forever budget a continuing resolution, and no one will notice that when Bush left, we had $400b in yearly deficit, and now we have $1.5T in yearly budget deficit. $1.5T less $800B equals $700b which is what Obama has spent in “Normal” government deficit spending. But Obama and Reid have turned a 1 time $800b stimulus bill into a forever continuing spending plan by the continuing resolution method of budgeting. And when the next congress finally has to cut that 800b bucks from budget, lots of democrat constituents are going to be squeeling. Better have a fighter.
Well said.
Well, Santorum may not be an option for long. He’s running out of funds.
We’ll see how far he can last. His only shot right now is for Gingrich and Romney to take each other out of the contest.
Still can’t tell who to really support.
This is why you let states do their own reforms if they like. Romneycare is a bust? OK. Massachusetts can fix their messed up attempt at reform. I can forgive Romney’s “honest” botched attempt at the state level. He undoubtedly sees that. However, when things are deliberately rammed through at the federal level in the face of incontrovertable evidence, that is another matter entirely.
Consensus?: We’re screwed as far as a true Conservative candidate. We need to get used to the fact that we will only get a “moderate” for POTUS at any time. That is our new reality. At this point I would settle for a Romney/Santorum ticket and be done with it.
Let’s not waste our time and energy on small time budget wars and “reform” programs. The long term focus must be the balanced budget amendment and fixed % of GDP spending cap, with the only exception being to pay for a major war. If we achieve anything less, the Marxian Democrats will maintain us in a state of perpetual crisis. A free taxpayer-cosigned credit line is their Achilles’ heel and a classic choke point in military terms.
Priorities:
1. Balanced Budget and Spending Cap
2. Immigration and Border Security
Everything else is irrelevant in comparison.
Time for the Tea Party to put up or be co-opted it would appear.
Thank you, Michelle, for recognizing Ron Paul in a positive manner. It’s a long time coming. Where you’re wrong is that he supports Latin American dictators. He doesn’t. For too much of our history we have supported dictators so long as they have supported us and/or so long as it was popular with the people of the United States. So let’s be honest: Ron Paul doesn’t like, nor does he support dictators. He loves freedom. But if we’re going to be militaristically interventionist, we are no better than the Soviet Union was who thought it knew best how the countries of Eastern Europe should be.
Michelle,
Thank you for making a bit of sense of all this nonsense. Newt was weak. Rick did indeed come across as the adult in the room. Ron Paul’s likeability factor shot way way up. And Mitt? One thing people are not seeing is how surgically he got under Newt’s skin, took him off his game (when he’s on message of defeating Obama and enhancing America, he’s brilliant), and made him look small and ineffective. Perhaps, if he can do the same to Obama, perhaps he’s the guy. I think he’s still BIG GOVERNMENT, and I question how honest he is, but if there is a choice one has to make between him and Obama, I don’t see Romney running the country into the ground, praising our enemies, and dismantling our defenses around the globe to embrace some Islamo fascist ideal.
Agreed, except I’d throw in there funding the military.
I know, I know, I confess I watch the first 5 minutes of that bloviater on Fox last night and I must say he may have had a point as to why everyone is opposed to Newt. Tell me if you agree – most are opposed because they want Obama out of office. PERIOD!! and they do not think Newt can do it. I disagree, I believe anyone can beat Obama, but his point made sense.
Again with ALL CANDIDATES you really, really. really need to see what they said and believe in PRIOR to running for President.
What all of them say now IMO is of little relevance. Their earlier ACTIONS are who they most likel are.
There is NOTHING in Romney’s past prior to his running in 2008 to indicate he is not a moderate, borderline Progressive who likes government based solutions.
In 1995 he openly rejects conservatism repeatedly. He is who he is. He’s not evil; it’s just his worldview and I fundamentally disagree with it.
Three yars into the Sock Puppet reign we have 46 million people on food stamps – again, 3 years into the Sock Puppet reign; This is the Sock Puppet excuse:
“First of all, I don’t put people on food stamps. People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, the initial expansion of food-stamp eligibility happened under my Republican predecessor, not under me. Number three, when you have a disastrous economic crash that results in 8 million people losing their jobs, more people are going to need more support from government.”
It is all Bushes fault — to the Moon? I will settle putting the Sock puppet and his brood back to Kenya.
We can’t afford to go to the moon. And we can’t afford to continue spending money on these snippy, worthless “debates”!
Obama is laughing himself sick. The left-wing media is screwing us with the kinds of questions they are asking. We are playing right into their hands!
The GOP is run by a bunch of fools, and the candidates are too stupid to see that they are being played. The only adult on the stage was Rick Santorum. Let’s get rid of the three other bozos and make Santorum our nominee. Why aren’t we doing that? Why is he so low in the polls? I’ll tell you why…the GOP and the media don’t want Santorum. So, that is that. He may as well drop out and save the rest of his money.
If Romney and Gingrich are too blind and stupid to see how they are coming across to the American People, they are too blind and stupid to lead this country.
Obama is the worst President we have ever had. There is AMPLE proof of his failed policies, his cronyism, his corruption, his intimidation tactics, his massive spending, his cultural, economic and racial warfare…yet we will LOSE to this man! How can that be? We saw the reason last night. They AREN’T TALKING ABOUT THAT! THEY ARE TOO BUSY TRASHING EACH OTHER. Yeah, that will end well!
Until they agree to stop bickering over stupid things and get back to taking on OBAMA, I will not be watching any debates, or supporting either one.
NOW you’re talking. Let’s make sure it’s not turned into a stage for drafting Jebbie. This RINO stampede just goes on and on and on and….
The question about the moon was stupid and was only asked to show how over the top Newt’s ideas were based on a comment he made about it. The whole debate was geared toward making Newt look like a chump and it did just that. The moon question was stupid and the question about their wives was stoopid. Now why would CNN ask that question? To put the focus on Newt’s many marriages. Come on! We continue to fall into it every single freakin time!
..and every one here talks about sending people to moon and how much it would cost and is it viable…SHEESH! Please! Like that’s even an issue with anyone. It’s not the candidates that will do us in.
Don’t forget to turn off the curly lights when you leave.
For the last year I have heard a daily barrage of federal government radio messages soliciting people to enroll in Medicare D, food stamps, and all manner of other available federal subsidy programs. There is a reason for this and it has nothing whatever to do with George Bush.
No…I would leave them on, turn the heat up full blast, turn on the A/C, and leave the gas grill on. THEN you can leave.
RINOs have got the powahh! When they say “jump” all we’re allowed is to ask “how high?”.
This is almost certainly what ails Gingrich and why he has adopted the liberal Democrat language on amnesty (notice he attacked Romney for being anti-immigration?) and other issues. It’s always about the money and his $10 million man Sheldon Adelson wants something for keeping Gingrich (no organization) in the race. I’ll bet that what he wants is different from what we want.
just who is ‘our’ man again?
Who is that person? Sounds like he/she’s channeling Jeanine Garofalo. “straight-up” Whatever you hip thug you.
The argument against a brokered convention is that there’ll be backroom deals and the party elites will just end up choosing the candidate. We already know the 4 worst choices they could make, so where’s the surprise? On the other hand, if there’s doubt, who knows what could develop at a brokered convention.
I don’t get how people can be saying it’s inevitable that Romney will get the nod when only 3 states so far have primaried/caucused and only two have awarded delegates. So should I just surrender my vote now to inevitability, in which case then am I not being complicit with the party elites anyway? or to the slimestream mediots? Then just let the mediots and the party elites decide outright. If people can’t shut up and allow the primary process to play itself out, then why are we spending millions of dollars and wasting time conducting this useless, futile primary exercise?
In my state, the vote for the presidential candidate is merely advisory–for bragging rights and campaign fundraising, I guess. It’s the convention delegates that we vote for here that matter, but on the ballot, they don’t have to indicate a specific candidate that they’re pledged to–so there could be plenty of votes blowin’ in the wind.
If either way it’s inevitable, then why not drag it out to the bitter end? Yesterday Rush pointed out that by keeping the Repub candidate a mystery as long as possible it gives Oblunder less time to focus his $billion at a single, specific candidate. If the candidate isn’t known for sure until the convention, then it’s a 2-month campaign as opposed to 5-9 months.
Otherwise we might as well become a bunch of good little Obamabots and surrender to the idea of four more years down the Dimbecile drainhole.
Right on, Flyoverman! Look to the past to foretell the present and the future.
I’m thinking, as long as we are running up deficits astronomically as we, that we could take a small chunk of that and send Barky and his ilk to the moon on a one-way mission. May be the best investment we make.
I think the responses are getting better but the questions from liberal newsers aren’t. Santorum came out on top from my perspective. Newt, quit with the moon stuff, we can’t afford it. Romney is showing himself to be old school and that Bob Dole endorsement fits him well.
Ron Paul did nail it with tying space exploration to defense. Why did NASA turn over rocket launches and satellites to the Air Force and become a weather agency?
My thoughts exactly but I knew going in the poodle was going to set him up.
Maybe. Probably. Let’s find out. I could write a book about how a conservative candidate could work this to his advantage. The key is that they simply could not emerge with yet another liberal GOP establishment Democrat as their pick. They could start by acknowledging that their favorites can’t even beat “generic Republican”.
And they have to open up the discussion/process to those of us who are determined to take the GOP back from the one-world-without-borders globalist special interests. We can’t have a brokered convention where only the monied country clubbers are allowed to negotiate.
That is why the 3rd party threat is so important. Without it, we don’t have the clout to break through the walls and the GOP will simply perish. There WILL be a 3rd party if things don’t change. It could very well happen this year. All people have to do is open their eyes and ears and see the elephant standing right in front of them.
Actually, they aren’t fools. The only way to understand the candidates and the GOP is to realize that both Parties are made up of the very same players; all are entrenched political animals whose sole intent is to remain in power and in control of the national treasury. Think “Professional Mexican Wrestling” as you watch this poor performance play out.
I hate to break it to ya GoneDoeLa said:
But you aren’t helping Romney much.
I feel like a ping pong ball.
Donated to Rick for the first time today.
His site has some problems with accepting online donations – I had to call mine in.
And they say he’s broke … .. sigh..
I’m thinking the moon is too close…its within out sight. Better that Barky and his cohorts be in the first, and only, mission to Mars. More expensive than a moon mission, but it’d be worth it.
Also one way, naturally.
These guys need to all stay in the race through the summer if possible. That way moneybags team Obama has to spend more time/money destroying 4 v.s. 1.
Ditto that.
Well, there’s always beer pong.
That’s well and good unless you started as a complete Neanderthal in the mid 90′s being ignorant of the politics on line and you have had Yapoo email all those years. I have so much info in that account I’m afraid if I changed emails servers I’d lose a lot of it. Is there a conservative email server or at least a nonpartisan one? I also use Google and trust them as much as I do Yapoo.
The economic benefits that would spin off of developing the technology for a moon base would more than justify the cost. That was true during the entire history of the manned space program.
There is nothing nutty at all about a proect like that. Our ancestors had the courage to leave for something better. They did not wring their hands about what might lie ahead.
I thank them for their courage that caused me to live my life here.
Note to self: party trumps person, party trumps person, party trumps person.
Hope this helps me.
so, you think we should be focusing on this right now?
Won’t help. Moneybags Soros has got plenty of cash for TeamObama, whether its 4 or 400 opponents.
Not to mention vicious personal attacks by the media and assorted leftist orgs on behalf of Obama against his opponents wait in the wings, as soon as the GOP hopefuls stop doing the dems work and stop destroying each other. That’ll whittle down the effective field.
Has everyone read Krauthammer’s latest opinion piece? The president plays small ball
Here’s the one quote that really sticks out:
No, our first NASA priority should be to reinitiate and accelerate the program that replaces the shuttle.
And yes, nationally we should be focused lie a laser beam on it.
So let Soros spend it on 4. If ‘our’ 4 can hold on through summer, Obama has only a few months more to attempt to cream ‘our’ guy. All the bickering about past positions/issues between these candidates allows us to vet them (alien concept for democrats). The back-n-forth is sharpening each one of them. I saw that last night with Santorum as he pushed hard on the healthcare issue.
Romney was a bit more feisty (albeit awkward) too.
“Pelosi” – twisted dim bulb filled with toxic material.
Usage: Don’t forget to turn off the Pelosis when you leave.
On January 27th, 2012 at 7:44 am, Phredd said:
Newt tried to repeat his ‘John King’ moment, but Romney was quick to quip, “wouldn’t it be nice if people wouldn’t say things in interviews they weren’t willing to defend in debates?”
When Newt started to respond to the ‘first lady’ question, “I think all three wives,” I thought he was going to talk about his three wives. Ron Paul could have delivered a clever joke about that.
I WAS LEFT PONDERING ABOUT ANYTHING STABLE AND CHRISTIAN-LIKE THAT MITT MIGHT SAY ABOUT HIS 5 PATERNAL GRANDMOTHERS IN MEXICO…SPEAKING OF NO DIVORCED NUCLEAR FAMILIES THAT STAY TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT.
TALK ABOUT ENGLISH AS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF GRANDPARENTS???
WONDER IF MITTENS HAS ANY KIN LIVING IN MEXICO DOING TURNAROUND FINANCE FOR MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS…MIGHT BE IN THE DNA?
ha ha ha ha ha. I hate my Pelosis in the dining room.
Please tell me the “twisted dim bulb” is not the same thing as a spirochete?
I think I once left some pelosi behind in the toilet and my mother said not to worry because the antibiotic the doctor gave me would make it go away, eventually. I couldn’t sleep at all that night.
The only “pelosi” in my house is hanging at the bottom of the basement stairs. Oh, there is one utside on the porch, but I won’t allow it in the house.
What candidate would a brokered convention produce, and how would he be significantly any different than the rest of the people already on the stage?
I already know the answers, by the way.
Ditto. Paul does seem like a nice guy, who never attacks personally but doesn’t hesitate to point out inconsistentency in policy and voting records.
If I have to choose between domestic economic policy and foreign military policy, I’m picking the former because we have to pay with it all somehow.
If Michelle wants politicians out of her life, then voting for RP is the way to go. For you to suggest that he is crazy because he wants to follow the constitution, have limited government and give people their freedom back, is not fair to him.
Which works well in favor of Ron Paul.
As for a brokered convention or any convention for that matter, if there is slightest sign that the delgates are going to stick us with anyone but a constitutionalist advocate of limited government anyway, conservatives can finally say they have or will have no other options but to form an independent conservative party not led by GOP loyalists.
Same here. You can’t build a brick building without making the brick first.
I would like to take some credit for MM’s recent quasi-support of RP. Michelle, did I influence your perception in some way?
Now, let’s see you do an article entirely devouted to examining RP’s policies – both good and bad, as you see them.
Please, please, please, please?
Also, you can’t have a strong military after spending your way into bankruptcy.
Run Sarah, RUN!!! (please)
I’m convinced that with either Romney or Gingrich, (especially Romney though), running against Obama, Sarah Palin would easily win as the only Constitutionally principled conservative choice on the ballot.
More and more the difference between Romney and Obama sounds like less and less.
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HI JHSII–#34. Going to the moon was a response to the surprise Sputnik satellite launch by the Russians. It became clear that unless the U.S.A. could master the technology to put lots of heavy loads into orbit and into space that we would become vulnerable to Russki weapons from space.
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I don’t think we have the same critical need now. Unmanned space exploration missions are far cheaper and do not risk pilot’s lives. And until we stop our soon to be fatal wild spending and get control of our exploding debt–NASA and space exploration should be off the table. When we have our economic and unemployment problems fixed–then maybe we could revisit the space programs. Right now–no way–we can’t afford it.
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John Bibb
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The only problem with the Apollo program was that it was instigated by JFK, and turned fanatical cause by leftists who wanted to masturbate over JFK.
Just when we established our foothold in space, just when we got going to the moon down to a process rather than an art, the leftists orgasmed, rolled over, and fell asleep.
Just as using WMDs to invade Iraq was the wrong reason to give for doing the right thing, achieving that womanizer’s alleged ‘dream’ was doing the right thing for the wrong reason. And likewise, years down the road and billions spent, the emotions die down and the leftists whine about no WMDs because they can’t roll over and go to sleep again. Forget all the real reasons for an active space program.
The fact of the matter is, Apollo was to many technologies what ARPANET was to the Internet. Arpanet didn’t create the internet, it certainly didn’t create Google, Facebook, Twitter, or ‘blogs’ or internet millionaires. What it did create was a new frontier for the ambitious to exploit.
The difference between investments in “green energy” like Solyndra is that the government is not organizing and financing a specific set of intellectual goals. Those funds went to finance production companies, not research companies. Where NASA let us down, and it’s difficult to really blame them for it, is that it did not do for space what Arpanet did for telecommunications.
And for those who say we should go to Mars instead of the moon, no. First, there’s lots to learn on the moon still, before we take on the much more difficult task of going to Mars.
What we need to do is initiate a 4 step attack, which primarily will exist of “X-prizes” for achievements, with said achievements then becoming public property (no patents/copyrights).
First, we need 4 or 5 capabilities. ALL of them must be reusable, production-line creations.
We need a to-orbit capability (call it sub-orbital). My preferred technology is based around the Delta-Clipper, but basically we need payload-capable lifting systems that can deliver to orbit, and not only be reused, but be manufactured on an assembly line. The days of one-shot or one-use technology must end.
Second, we need a reusable, assembly line manufactured orbital system, to lift payloads from LEO to Geosync.
The nice part about this stage is, the only essential difference between space stations and space craft is a propulsion system. If we develop this into a modular system (think semi-tractor-trailers), the technology can be reused for building space stations.
Next, we need those space stations. Modularly built on Earth, assembled in orbit.
After that, we can use the same technology to build reusable, assembly-line produced, self-sufficient spacecraft. Initially used for reaching the moon, they can further be used for manned interplanetary missions.
Next, a lunar base, with not only research but mining and manufacturing capability. It would, in the long run, be cheaper to manufacture spacecraft there than deep in the Earth’s gravity well. There’s no environmental impact, and it would use little Terrestrial resources. Middle-finger to EPA.
At this point, we have private industry with the capability to not only do research in orbit, not only to travel to any point on the planet from any other within a few hours, but capable of traveling to Mars, to the asteroid belt, to comets, and deeper (my goal is Titan). The asteroid belt is loaded with valuable minerals and probably unknown compounds whose value cannot yet be evaluated. Comets will have hydrocarbon compounds, but in particular vital substances necessary for sustaining spacecraft, space stations and lunar bases.
Queen Isabella hocked the family jewels to finance Columbus’s voyage. He was wrong in his math, his goal was to reach the East Indies and acquire access to that wealth…
But, what monetary value can you place on the existence of the United States? What monetary value can you place on the advancements made in civilization and technology due to the drive across the North American continent? Whatever the number is, it’ll involve a LOT of zeros. But, we speak English because the Spaniards couldn’t take their eyes off of the gold on the ground. They couldn’t lift them to the sky and see what might be. That took a small group of Anglo-Saxons, who saw what the Spaniards could not.
Unlike the green energy plan, a structured invasion of space will benefit the taxpayer not only through “spinoff” technologies, but from the Microsofts and Apples that will be created in the process. Remember, NASA didn’t really invent the lunar module; that was figured out by Grumman.
And, while what I’m preaching may seem like insane space fantasy… the basic idea of an organized invasion of space is one the Japanese and Chinese have been working on for at least 30 years.
My parents told me of a now-defunct magazine that offered a tremendous prize to anyone who could prove any of their articles wrong. In 1957, they scoffed at the Soviet space program, belittling it. A few months later, Sputnik went beeping overhead.
You wrong about almost everything.
Apollo made Americans tons of money and helped make us dominant in the world. Apollo was a response to JFK’s speech; prior to that we were indeed concerned about the Soviets.
But, they had the advantage in heavy-lift capabilities. We were after technological capability, which is not heavy-lift.
What the hell is the point of unmanned missions? What do they get us? The incredible lunar rovers were controlled with Gameboy technology! What is that, 20 year old tech? Hardly bleeding edge.
Investing in an organized invasion of space will return countless wealth, create jobs whose type don’t even exist yet, which is far preferable to blowing money on entitlements.
Delta Clipper… passed over by NASA, but could have cost a few hundred thousand per flight, had a two week turnaround, and been run by a crew of 9 in a trailer. You want to compare that cost in time and money to what NASA blew on launching a single Space Shuttle (which couldn’t even reach space)?
We can get back into space. We can do it fast, and we can do it cheap. The problem with NASA is the problem with all of our government; bureaucrats who are more interested in controlling people than in seeing what free men can do!