freecounterpoint: roT says the GOP is a joke this year. Next!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

roT says the GOP is a joke this year. Next!

Another fucktard out, but they have plenty more.

15 comments:

Charly said...: Y'all got yourselves a real comedian here. See you in 2016.; 10/16/2011 3:12 PM
Mr roT said...: Ouch...

Can't we turn this into a diatribe about affirmative action or something?; 10/16/2011 3:15 PM
Mr roT said...: Great moments in bad timing.

To answer that question: Quit.; 10/16/2011 3:17 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: So a joke about electric fences is a joke? Shocking.; 10/16/2011 3:29 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Charly won't see us in 2016. If he ran away when he saw what Obama did to this country that Charly wanted done to this country, when he sure as hell ain't gonna come back when Obama has finished doing to this country what Charly said he wanted done to this country.; 10/16/2011 3:31 PM
Mr roT said...: That any different than what Mitt wants?

Just askin...; 10/16/2011 3:34 PM
Tecumseh said...: Will not impressed.

But Axelrod knows who's the real class enemy. And Mr Rot, of course, parrots the Party Line.; 10/16/2011 3:35 PM
Tecumseh said...: And, yes, Mr Rot, there is a real difference between Obama and Romney. Not that you'd know it if it hit you over the head. Or perhaps, more likely, you pretend that you don't know it, Herr Axel Rot.; 10/16/2011 3:37 PM
Mr roT said...: Missed headline of the year:

Axelrod slams Romney on effeminate action.; 10/16/2011 3:40 PM
Tecumseh said...: AA: Yes, that's a real concern. Of course, Mr Rot ululated in 2008 when the GOP put up that wet pussy who could not run a really strong campaign.

Now, I cannot vouch for Romney that he would have much more internal fortitude than Jean Francois Mac did, and that he would be capable to articulate a strong case for a market economy and individual freedom. But the fact that Mr Rot is so adamantly opposed to Romney gives me hope -- paradoxically, perhaps? -- that Mitt can run strongly. If he were just as weak as Mac, wouldn't Rot ululate again?

I agree, this conjecture is not up to my usual standards of rigor, so I put it up there as a trial balloon, to see if it makes some sense. But there must be some rational (though not totally obvious) explanation why Mr Rot is acting like he is, so one needs to be bolder than usual in making conjectures.; 10/16/2011 3:44 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: There is a real difference, Tecumseh, as there was between, say, someone like Gordon Brown and someone like Cameron
But its a difference which sees the latter reduced to playing jester at the court of King Brown.

There is not ENOUGH of difference between Obama and Romney. That Obama hates America, and that, presumably, Romney likes it, doesn't mean that Romney has the will, never mind the right stuff, to fight hard to undo what the Left has wrought under Obama.
Nixon was not the same as LBJ/Humphrey, but he did not begin to try to undo the poisonous expansion of government that had been carried out. All he did was make it safe for the GOP status quo to say "We're All Keynesians Now".
Romney will do the same for Socialism. I betcha.; 10/16/2011 3:46 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: I will say this much. We need a ticket that unites the warring strands of the right in this country. Reagan made his peace with Bush Sr, for the greater good, when Bush Sr. had shown nothing but the worst Voorhiesian contempt for this upstart Reagan.
To his credit, I think McCain tried for something similar with Palin, this time the Rhino working with the "radical", but his personality, or at least that of his team, was too peevish and Voorhesian to make it work.
Our best shot is if someone like Cain wins, and allies with a Romney as VP. Second best is if someone like Romney wins, and he allies with someone like Cainor Rubio and actually does his damndest to make it work.....after that? Le Deluge.; 10/16/2011 3:52 PM
Mr roT said...: La Delusion.

Cain can't get golf dates anymore.; 10/16/2011 3:56 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Golf dates???

Ah, so that is why Obamakles is judged such a rousing success.; 10/16/2011 3:58 PM
Tecumseh said...: The comparison with 1968 and Nixon is quite relevant -- I also thought of that. In hindsight, the best GOP candidate in 1968 would have been Reagan. Did you know that actually Ronnie beat dick in the popular vote in the 1968 primaries -- 37.93% vs 37.54%? But, at the convention, both Nixon and Rockefeller beat Reagan on the first tally (Nelson had 3.67% of the popular vote, but got 50% more votes than Ronnie).

So yes, the game is usually stacked in favor of the establishment candidates. But would you have really picked the Humphrey/Muskie ticket over the Nixon/Agnew ticket in 1968? For all his many faults, Nixon at least put some kind of cap to the expansion rate of the Nanny State.

As for the Brown/Cameron comparison: though I see what you're trying to say, I don't think it works too well.

First of all, again for all his faults, Cameron has started limiting the damage done by Brown's wild spending spree, and actually has made some very drastic cuts in spending -- something much more serious than anything contemplated this side of the pond, even by many in the GOP.

And second, the GOP as a whole is much more conservative now than the Tories, who are more like Sarkozy or something -- kind of where moderate Dems used to be in the late 1980s, early 1990s. And, I suppose, anybody who wants to be nominated by the GOP this time around would need to represent that kind of consensus, no? I mean, otherwise, how do you get the base to be enthusiastic about you and get out the vote in November?

Mac did something like this in 2008 -- his one and only bold move, with Palin -- but then he didn't know how to capitalize on it, when those weak interviews ensued, and when the Lehman crisis hit in Sept 2008. My point with Mitt is that at least he's a better politician than Mac (I hope), and he would be able to manage a campaign better than Mac did. It's setting the bar pretty low, I know, but hey, I'm not asking much.; 10/16/2011 4:24 PM

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