I’ve struggled with attempting to understand the mind of a liberal, and over the years I’ve shared those struggles with you. Looking back on the 2008 campaign, and listening to the throngs of my fellow citizens extolling the virtues of our current President, I was indeed puzzled that no where on his list of virtues was any discussion of any proven ability or accomplishment. He was The Obamesiah, simply a man who’s mere presence on the world stage would cause the heavens to part, the rise of the oceans to cease, hunger and misery to abate, and kittens would be happily coexisting with puppies, as was evidenced by the award of a Nobel Peace Prize for what he was expected to accomplish. Teen and Twenty something women would faint and need first aid simply because they were in an audience that he was addressing. Falling for the snake oil sales pitch of Barack Obama was considered cool. I’ll be leaving to throw up, you feel free to watch the video of an Obama voter speaking with her former self.
So, now that the presumptive nominees are set, and the race boils down to Obama defending his job against Romney, we can get to the business of the Veepstakes. Obama it seems will stick with the barely sentient buffoon who makes him look smart by means of comparison, Joe Biden. This is the man who was supposed to lend his foreign policy expertise to Team Zero, since he was on the wrong side of history during ever single partisan divide our nation has ever faced. The result of that of course is that our foreign policy, in no small part by the way thanks to the imbecilic leadership of Hillary Clinton, has been an unmitigated disaster. As a matter of fact, were it not for the utter failure of the Zero’s domestic agenda and economic leadership, foreign matters alone and the absolute childish way in which all things related to our State Department have been handled would in itself have been enough of a campaign issue with which to fire the current leadership team. That, my gentle snow flakes is what the over rated commodity of hipster cool gets you. I would say, that and 50 cents will net you a cup of coffee, except that coffee is now $1.99, and by this time next year, all bets are off.
Who will Mitt Romney pick for his number two person. I think we’ve all seen the same lists bandied about. We’ve heard all of the appropriate talking heads give their expert opinions as to who he should pick. It’s been treated with the same pageantry you’d expect from one of those reality shows where a guy picks a bride from amongst a dozen vacuous pretty blonds who behave like back stabbing rats on a sinking ship. Every reason under the sun is given to support the decision, except of course for mere competence. So and so will bring in this constituency, while the other person will help with this state. This person is too boring or that person doesn’t have the sex appeal to look good for the ladies during the debates.
Yesterday, Brian Williams of NBC asked Mitt Romney if it were true that he plans on picking a, “boring white guy,” to be his running mate for the election this November. So that’s where we are in our nation today. Several decades ago, while I was still a student in school, “Gulliver’s Travels,” was required reading. A novel by Jonathon Swift, it was meant as a stinging satire of Swift’s fellow members of the human race. One of Lemuel Gulliver’s stops was on the island of Lilliput. The Lilliputians you see picked their national leaders by grading various circus acts. We readers were softly directed by Swift to see the folly of a nation who picked their leaders base on the most shallow of superficialities. Of course, Swift wrote his novel before the age of television, teleprompters, MTV, and Hopety Change.
Long story short, I’m tired of the flashy show piece national leaders. What after all is wrong with picking a leader not based on star power, but competence. We’ve picked the flashy empty suit, the guy who made the ladies swoon, and where did it lead? Things after all did not end well for the Lilliputians, who could not figure out how to extinguish a fire burning down the castle. They needed Gulliver to do it for them, and after a night of drinking wine, let’s just say that his solution to the problem was somewhat unique. Such is the situation we find ourselves in. We picked the best circus act in town to run our country, and they have lived up exactly to my expectations. Shockingly, we find our figurative situation exactly like nation in which we may seek out a giant to relieve himself at our expense, and that would be the best of our possible outcomes.
In light of our current GDP announcement, which will of course be adjusted downward as is always the case when Democrats occupy the Oval Office, serious talk of QE3 is now happening in the nation’s Federal Reserve System. The wrong answer to a misdiagnosed problem, meant to somewhat mitigate the disastrous consequences of previous meddling in our economy by the same cast of clowns, and Brian Williams wants to know what circus acts Mitt Romney will be demanding of his contestants for the number two slot on his campaign ticket. You can label me jaded if you desire, but at what point in our self identity as a nation did mere competence become synonymous with boring? I personally would love to see Mitt Romney pick as his running mate, someone who shares my views politically as well as my values as an American citizen, and has demonstrated the ability to accomplish the specific tasks required of a President so that I might reasonably be assured that they will be successful should they ever occupy the Oval Office. That’s just me though, selfishly insisting that our political leaders show mere competence, rather than being flashy circus clowns.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Hipsters are very dangerous. They create the Obama phenomenon.
He can pick John Thune. Competant and clean. Not as boring as Mitt. Looks good and speaks up and with a good voice. That’s my pick/suggestion.
That’s why the market soared on Friday. The bad data raises their hopes of QE3.
Rodan wrote:
Maybe when Obama enters the convention he’ll be dressed in all white like Morgan Freeman when he plays god in a movie
@ Rodan:
The markets soared on Friday because the Europeans promised to pay their bills. It was an emotional climb, as it would have been in reaction to QE3.
The problem is that competent doesn’t win elections. And you have to win elections to govern. You have to win elections to pass your agenda. I hope Romney chooses the VP that will best enable him to beat Obama. The only candidate that I’ve heard floated that is a deal-killer is Chris Christie. Christie would not help Romney win in any event. He can’t even bring his home state with him, and he’d be a bigger lightning rod than Sarah Palin.
@ waldensianspirit:
I doubt that, but I bet the MFM gives him a halo…
Flyovercountry wrote:
Unfortunately, the Europeans have nothing but IOUs with which to pay their bills. Not unlike a certain country on the west side of the Atlantic. But for short-term gain, IOUs are enough…
Given that high-speed rail is full of shit, would it be appropriate to start referring to it—with a nod to its pitchman, Obama—as the Incontinental Railroad?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Funny! you are still the undisputed king of puns.
Waiting around for check-out time and getting the f*** out of the Turd World for at least a while, and I just can’t stand it. So pardon the OT for a “happy” break…
Cain’t hep mysef sometimes…
@ Mike C.:
Oh, and send that one out to “Lobo 91″ who’s down to less than two weeks and counting minutes by now, I’m sure…
@ Mike C.:
Which one are you looking to leave at the moment?
@ Flyovercountry:
It’s an illusionary rise.
@ Rodan:
did you have a chance to see the link I sent you?
@ Iron Fist:
Christie, Pawlenty and Portman are just Establishment hacks. they represent the past. It would be ironic that 2 years after the Tea party win in the midterm election, the GOP has its most Progressive ticket since Nixon=Lodge in 60.
@ brookly red:
Not yet.
Anyone seen Lily or Yenta? They’d love these.
Rodan wrote:
I can see the logic (ok it sux) but conservatives are going to vote against 0 no matter what… a progressive GOP ticket can attract traditional dems that have suffered economically under 0 and there are 10′s of millions… Mitt has a unique opportunity here to united the country under the lesser of 2 evils banner.
Hold your nose and you for me! appeals to everyone at this point.
@ Rodan:
it is a jaw dropper
@ brookly red:
I disagree, we need a sharp contrast to Obama. Running one Liberal is bad, but 2 could cost the election.
Kafir wrote:
Bolivia. Not as dire as ‘Lobo’ who will be seeing Kuwait in his rear-view mirror after an entire year, but still…
Rodan wrote:
well I said it sux, but I get the logic. In bad times the GOP can get a lot of Democrat votes if they don’t get too “scary” about social issues… heck I am a registered Dem.
@ Mike C.:
I bet you’re looking forward to that home cookin!
@ brookly red:
I see the logic, but I think whoever they get to pull over a few dems will lose waay more conservatives than dems they’d bring in.
Not that I agree with them -but too many are already thinking of staying home because of the less than steller nominee. The VP should help, not keep those people home.
Kafir wrote:
in a good or even fair economy I would agree, but this is a freakin nightmare… nothing like losing your home or your job or both make one question one’s leadership. It is the economy and 0 owns it.
@ brookly red:
Not all Conservatives are into the social issues stuff. By Liberal I mean Romney economic views. He is not a fiscal Conservative.
@ brookly red:
The answer is economic and fiscal Conservatism. A Romney-Christie/Pawlenty/Portman ticket means that nothing will be done to fix the economy.
Kafir wrote:
You bet your ass I am. I’m even looking forward to doing some home cooking, with proper ingredients and actual decent equipment. I might even throw dead animal parts on the old grill after returning from a day at the firing range, just like civilized folk do… And I need to make both another batch of that tomatillo salsa and give my work-in-progress ice cream recipe another go. Not to mention I would kill for some corn-on-the-cob…
Rodan wrote:
and what could be more fiscally conservative than to drive out the socialist ?
@ brookly red:
Replacing a Socialist with a Progressive is not economic/fiscal Conservatism. I pray Congress forces Romney to govern from the Right.
@ Mike C.:
I was just eating some yellow/red cherries that came recent off a nearby tree
/Everybody, let’s torture Mike
Rodan wrote:
I agree totally.
But he needs to win first… and I dare say the Senate is also in play. Americans are not stupid and we see what we are up against. My only fear is voter fraud, 0 can not win an honest election. In fact if we can institute voter ID nationally it will be generations before we see another liberal in the white house.
@ Rodan:
I don’t know anymore. He has the nomination sewed up, and if he were going to take that left turn, he would have done so by now. Maybe he has evolved. After all, Reagan did. He has had ample opportunity to pander, and for the most part has stuck true to free market principles. We’ll see of course in the end, and hopefully he’ll follow through on his promises. But recently, he has been spot on.
waldensianspirit wrote:
well, he could look at my avatar?
waldensianspirit wrote:
Local plums made their appearance on the breakfast buffet yesterday, and they were great, but sadly none this morning. Also none of their local grapefruit. They’re very small by US standards, but are excellent, and I always eat them when they appear. It’s not like they don’t have some good food items here. The surubi (a local fresh water fish) is very good. And I finally found some actual local coffee, and it’s pretty damned good as well.
@ Flyovercountry:
I don’t trust Romney. The only reason he hasn’t shifted Left is because he knows Conservatives hate his guts. If he went left it would be an electoral disaster.
Congress is the key.
‘Gutsy Call’ Not So Gutsy After All, New Book Reveals
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158411#.UBbY_bQgOOj
@ Mike C.:
You should write a handbook for globe trotters in the trades and technologies. You know, like as if you’re starting with what you know now about local foods, coffee, etc.