Day: August 15, 2011

A View From Waterloo

The sleepy time debate is over and the total waste of time, the Iowa Straw Poll, is also over……we gained a GOP candidate and we lost one….the candidates fed the voters, entertained the voters and then the voter made its mark and the winner was Bachmann….the biggest loser was Huntsman….and now I would like to give a few observations from the dinner that a couple of the GOPers showed up to talk at in Waterloo…that is Iowa if you were not sure……

First, the anointed frontrunner of the mainstream media….Bachmann….I watched her little performance in Iowa and found a quote that says it all….at least to me….Bachmann said…..”We need social conservs in the tent…..without them we have NO chance of beating Barak Obama”…..that says it all!  The GOP has NOTHING to offer the American people but social issues….you know like who gets married, who should smoke, who should pray and where….stuff like that….social conservs….they have NO answers to the economic crisis but they sure want to jump into the middle of your life and tell you what to do…..that statement by Bachmann should be the rallying point for Dems….

And then there is the new guy on the political block……Rick Perry.  I did not know much about him other than the sound bites that the mainstream media wanted me to know….so I decided to watch his speech in Waterloo……after 30+ years of watching and listening to politicians and the manure they spread to get elected….I have this observation about Perry…..Watch his eyes when he speaks…..he is disingenuous and not even he believes the manure he shovels…..he is a cheap actor and a “snake oil” salesman…..

My view about these two so-called frontrunners……we will know after the first real debate held in September at the Reagan Library….if either one of these two are capable of being presidential material….my guess is that at least one of them falls on his/her face and will be nothing more than a flash in the pan…..

One In, One Out

Saturday, all eyes were on Iowa…..all 6 of them…..it was the straw poll that the media had been waiting on and telling the American viewer just how important it was to the complete picture of the upcoming 2012 election…..first of all it is a worthless waste of time and resources…..about 1% or less of the population is involved in it…second, the people of Iowa are NOT representative of the thinking and feeling of the country…..other than those things it is just something to do while they wait for real news to come along…

For those that just have to know the out come of this brazen snooze feast…..Bachmann wins….Ron Paul is second and good old Pawlenty was third and the rest of the field duked it out for single digit results…..a thrilling down to the wire wet dream…..

One In!

While all the usual suspects were trashing the Prez and his policies….the darling of the radical right came a calling…….that is right!  Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has thrown his hat into the ring of fire….he announced his candidacy just before the straw poll was taken in Iowa while in South Carolina….now the GOP has a true “snake oil” salesman running for the nomination….and now the dissection of his record will begin and he will be exposed to the light of truth….the brainless now have their “savior”…… (let us pray)…..

One Out!

T-Paw as he is lovingly called in the mainstream media, had a pretty good showing in Iowa….he finished third….but after much deliberation he has decided to take a powder…He withdrew from the nomination process…..he saw the handwriting on the wall…Perry in and Bachmann leading the field now because of her win of a non-important straw poll….I guess since he could not persuade 1% of the population that he had good ideas that it was time to go home and plan another day….

I listened to each of the candidates in different interviews and you know I had to snicker……they point out a lot of problems and we do have a lot of them, but NOT one of these medicine show freaks has any idea how to fix the problems other than trashing the Prez….it will be humorous to listen and watch the upcoming GOP events to see if any of them actually have an idea that would be worth our valuable time as a voter…..I am sure there is one!  (but I have been mistaken in the past)……..