Day: March 14, 2012

What Happened To The History?

Recently in one of my “Random Thoughts” posts I asked the question……. Whose idea was it to have a History Channel without any history”?

I do not understand why we have a history channel with very little history on it, instead it is filled with gator chasers, catfish idiots and modern dumpster divers…..about the closet thing to history on the channel is “Ax Men”….why?  They are cutting down history by destroying old growth forest…..

Over the years I have said many things about GOP lawmakers….some not so good……and for maybe the first time in history(there is that word again) I find myself agreeing with Sen. Chuck Grassley. a Repub from Iowa….I know I am not too thrilled to find him and I agreeing on anything…but alas we do….

“I love history,” Grassley wrote in an email to The Washington Examiner. “A better understanding is going to strengthen our country. It’s going to strengthen patriotism.”

Plus non-history programming represents an unfulfilled promise by the network. “When I signed up for the History Channel on my satellite service, I expected to get history,” he said. “Instead, all I see are people chopping wood or driving trucks on an icy road.”

Back in February Grassley began tweeting about his discontent with the History Channel’s programming. “No history,” he tweeted “I used to get history. Why do we have such a channel when it doesn’t do history?”

As the Examiner reports, about a week later Grassley turned on the History Channel again and was still not pleased with what he saw. Again he took to Twitter to express outrage. “When will they put history back on the channel,” he tweeted.

The only thing we can learn by watching the History Channel is how NOT to fish for catfish or why you should avoid driving in the Arctic…….in other words NOTHING!

I am going to join him on his crusade on Twitter to get the History Channel to actually show history and leave the reality BS to the moronic channels like Tru TV……….

VP Sweepstakes

Flash:  Rick Santorum sweeps the deep South….Mississippi & Alabama

“We hold these truths to be self-evident……” Mitt Romney will be the nominee after an exhausting primary battles…….and then the pontification will begin on who will be the person that gets the nod as Mitt’s running mate….the VP candidate…..most of the important polls, and there are so many of them, shows that the GOP has serious problems with moderates/independents/women and Latinos…..they need help….lots of help!

I know I am a bit premature in my predictions….but I will be able to go back and tell everyone …”I Told You So!” and if I am mistaken we will never speak of it again……

First, let us look at the media’s man crush….Chris Christie of New Jersey ….Romney does not need help in the Northeast where there are many moderates so Christie will be low on the list…plus he said he was not interested, but that is just crap….if asked he will jump on it!

Next is Pawlenty the former governor of Minnesota….he is too much like Romney….white, boring and untrustworthy by the base…..

The name that many have thrown around is Daniels of Indiana….he has said that he is not interested……that also is crap….he and his work with trying to make Indiana a right to work state would not fly well with Lunch pail Repubs………

Then there was the one most everyone in the media was betting on….McDonnell of Virginia….but he crapped all over his chances with the ultra sound debacle….and now he has signed a less intrusive form of the procedure but still will NOT fly well with women voters…he kissed his own ass good-bye.

Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has been thrown into the mix…mostly by conserv media types….he would not play well in the South and moderates may like him somewhat but is he strong enough to carry Mitt where he needs help?  Nope, too much a numbers person that cannot relate to us mere mortals…..makes him like Mitt…..boring and outta touch….

Bobby Jindal of Louisiana…….would help in the South and that is about the extent of his credentials….he is too Mitt-esque to appeal to the whole country….besides he is a Hindu…not true but I thought i would see if it would go viral…..

I am not ruling out some fancy foot work like what the McCain campaign did with Palin…..but without some totally unsuspected thing like in 2008 which was disastrous…..who would I see as the VP candidate?

In my opinion it will be…….(insert drum roll and trumpets blaring here)……Marco Rubio!  Mitt has a real problem with Latinos, Rubio would help………Mitt has a real problem with social conservs, Rubio would help……and because of his stand with Blunt on the contraception thingy he may play well in the South….an area that Mitt just cannot catch a break in……

I am sorry….but Mitt and whoever he picks will have a hard time defeating Obama in November……women will be the most sought out demographic and they may well be the decider in the election….but since Romney has a low rating among Latinos I feel he will go to Rubio to try and seal the deal…….

The perfect candidate would be a female Latina…..but I do not think the GOP would go for that…especially after the beating they took in 2008…….

Any thoughts?