Sooner Blue

What do you want to bet that somewhere, someone is preparing another "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks" speech right now?

No pubic hairs on a coke cans this time .. probably just sexy talk about pizza toppin' and lady parts.

"From POLITICO: 10/31/11 8:38 AM EDT

During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO.

The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them financial payouts to leave the association. The agreements also included language that bars the women from talking about their departures. [..]"

Let's translate Cain's response:

"Unsubstantiated personal attack..." = We bought them off.

"Dredging up thinly sourced allegations..." = We tried to bury it for 20 years.

"Spreading rumors that never stood up to the facts..." = We could really use a cigarette right now!

So much fun to be had with this .. So that's why he's leering at the end of his smoking ad .. . it all makes sense, now.

Heaven help Herman if these women turn out to be white .. that may still be a hanging offense down there in Georgia.

Wonder who who is behind it all? Romney? Perry? Sounds more like a nasty piece of work named Newt .. a guy who dumped his wife for another woman--twice .. one of them while she was fighting cancer.

And now we wait for the conservative media to quickly try to lower the ridiculously high bar of conduct they set with the Congressman Weiner scandal.

Lest you think it's Democrats at the other end of the metaphorical rope .. just remember how much we Dems looove Herman Cain!

You thought this Republican primary was entertaining before .. more popcorn please.

President Obama is pretty scandal free compared to most presidencies .. though the Republicans still try to dig up some dirt. If he were a real crook he would be a ward boss in Chicago raking in kickbacks from contractors .. but he had no use for the Chicago machine.

Jonathan Alter says that maybe President Obama is going into his re-election campaign with a weak economy .. but he still has one asset that hasn't received much attention -- he's honest.

"How did we end up in such a scandal-less state? ... For starters, the tone is always set at the top. Obama puts a premium on personal integrity, and with a few exceptions (Tim Geithner's tax problems in 2009) his administration tends to fire first and ask questions later. The best known example is Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was mistakenly fired by her boss over a miscommunication that led higher-ups to believe -- wrongly -- that she had made inappropriate racially tinged remarks. In several other cases, the decision to give staffers accused of wrongdoing the boot was made within hours, taking the air out of any possible uproar. ..."

Nope, no scandals involving theft, bribery, payoffs, sex, coverups. Republicans like to holler about Solyndra .. but Solyndra’s loan process was initiated by the Bush administration and many key investors were Republicans.

So, they're going to have to work very hard to make Solyndra a negative for Obama .. at best, his part was poor judgment.

But the R's keep knocking themselves out trying to come up with something to tear him down .. of course, that's just how the game of politics is played.

Lately they're trying to paint him negatively with "he's campaigning" .. and he might well be, because his stumping around fighting for programs to help the working class sure makes him look good .. his numbers are climbing. People like this fighter part of him.

"In a new interview, Rick Perry said it was a mistake for him to participate in the presidential debates. Perry said 'I'm not one of these 'word talkers.''' –Conan O'Brien

"Michele Bachmann said she wants her three daughters to learn to shoot a gun. Mostly so they can put her campaign out of its misery." –Conan O'Brien

"Rick Perry is now behind in the polls and he's not taking it well. Today he executed his pollster." –David Letterman

"According to polls, Rick Perry has now fallen to fifth place. You know who is in fourth place? Carrot Top." –Jay Leno

"Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich said that next month they're going to take part in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate. The only similarity to the actual Lincoln-Douglas debates is that no one will watch them on television." –Conan O'Brien

"Michele Bachmann's campaign is in a lot of trouble. Five staffers quit her campaign, claiming it was because she treated them like second-class citizens. However, Bachmann said, 'That's not true. At no time did I treat them like gays or Latinos.'" –Conan O'Brien

"They have buried Moammar Gadhafi at a secret undisclosed location. In other words, it's going to be the best season of 'The Amazing Race' yet." –Conan O'Brien

"Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really?" –David Letterman

"Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair." –David Letterman

"Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen." –David Letterman

"So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed." –David Letterman

"Rick Perry unveiled his new tax plan. He says he wants a flat tax. He believes that tax should be flat, just like the earth." –Jay Leno

"A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow." –Jimmy Fallon

"I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?" –David Letterman

"I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum." –David Letterman

"There's so many protestors now they are going to move them out of the park and put them in a pothole. You know, that one over on 8th Avenue." –David Letterman

"Rick Perry is now saying he thinks that Barack Obama's birth certificate is fake. I think Perry may have faked his driver's license." –David Letterman

"So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power." –David Letterman

"A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine." –Conan O'Brien

"It seemed that after he was killed, Gadhafi's body was stored at a commercial freezer at a shopping mall. It's one thing to hunt a guy down and shoot him twice in the head, but then to drag him to the mall? Come on, guys hate that." –Jay Leno

"The guy who killed Gadhafi was wearing a New York Yankees cap at the time. So, for at least one Yankees fan, it turned out to be a pretty good October." –Jay Leno

"Yesterday on CNN, Joe Biden said he hasn't made up his mind about whether he'll run for president in 2016. Which raises the question: 'Who was raising that question?'" –Jimmy Fallon

"I'm very excited that President Obama is coming tomorrow night and as you know he's on his nationwide 'I Whacked Another Terrorist' tour." –Jay Leno

[a tip of the hat to Daniel Kurtzman, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, HBO, and Comedy Central]

"Out badass ninja black president did it again. Don't f**k with this guy. So far this year he's killed Somali pirates, he killed bin Laden, he killed al-Awlaki,, now he's killed Gaddafi. The only threat to our way now is from Bank of America." –Bill Maher

"Today Obama was seen leaving the White House in a nurse's uniform on a flight to Cuba to smother Castro with a pillow." –Bill Maher

"And you know what, if he did smother Castro with a pillow in a nurse's uniform, Rush Limbaugh would say, 'See, socialized medicine.'" –Bill Maher

"They found Gaddafi in a hole with a gun and luggage, or as it's known here, the middle class." –Bill Maher

"They say now that Gaddafi is dead and Michael Jackson is gone, we have enough over-the-top military uniforms to outfit an entire gay army." –Bill Maher

"The end of the war in Libya is good news for Obama and good news for Michele Bachmann. Now she doesn't have to find out where it is." –Bill Maher

"These Republicans, they will not give credit. They gave credit to the rebels, to the British, and to the French. But they would not mention the president. It was like they were on a game show and the password was 'Obama.' They're like the banks; they will not give a black man credit." –Bill Maher, on Gaddafi's death

"In their world, Gaddafi died of natural causes, Bin Laden was shot in the face by the free market. You should've heard them, we went in too strong, everything they could’ve said that he did wrong. It's like there’s some kind of hidden Republican clitoris, that they won’t let Obama find, and whenever he tries, they're like 'that’s not it!'" –Bill Maher

"I'm guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a country where there's crumbling infrastructure and an ignorant population, but they said they're happy to come home anyway." –Bill Maher

[a tip of the hat to Daniel Kurtzman]

Not only am I buoyed by the recent good economic news, the latest Gallup tracking poll finds President Obama's job approval rating is on the rise .. has improved to 43% .. up from his low point of 38% two weeks ago.

Maybe the increase could be tied to two recent major foreign policy events -- the death of Libya's Gadhafi and Obama's announcement that he's bringing ALL of our US troops home from Iraq by the end of the year. Home by Christmas! People in this military town are dancing in the streets.

The boost could also be from Obama writing off Congress as an ineffective body .. deciding to go it alone .. bypassing them with executive orders that will help the working class with mortgage and student loan relief.

Voters aren't blind .. they see him trying to help them .. they also see how Republicans only care about hurting Obama.

Those Republican clowns wrote him off .. so Obama gives them enough rope to hang themselves, then goes out stumping to gain approval despite them.

The recent Republican food fight debate might've had something to do with the bounce .. which is precisely why Obama will beat the Republican candidate next year. He's the only sensible one running.

The Teavangelicals only make up around 30% of the national electorate .. and it looks like if the GOP favorite number-2 candidate will be Romney, who is a satanic Mormon who wears magic underwear, they'll probably stay home.

The rest of America is finally taking a long look at the alternatives - and realized that it would be a mistake to let the perfect be an enemy of the good .. they also realize that it's going to take more than 4 years to clean up 8 years of Republican mess.

One of the best parts of an Obama win is that the Tea Party will disappear into thin air, and out of Congress, the day after Election Day 2012 .. they'll be back home cleaning their guns, checking the ol' ammo supply, waitin' for Armageddon .. or the Rapture .. whichever comes first.

Oakland Peacekeeping Force Cracks Down ...

Buncha hippies ...

Republicans are up in arms after Obama declares he's pulling troops out of Iraq per George W. Bush's instructions.

Ain't nobody can hit it dead on like Jon Stewart ...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-24-2011/end-o-potamia?xrs=eml_tds

"President Obama's teleprompter was stolen. Police are on the lookout for a thief that's eloquent and spreading a message of hope." –Conan O'Brien

"Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans." –Conan O'Brien

"Almost all of Rick Perry's support appears to have gone to Herman Cain because, again, and I cannot stress this enough, nobody likes Mitt Romney." –Jon Stewart

"You got to feel bad for poor Mitt Romney. He's in their plugging every week, and every week somebody gets ahead of him. The people who have led Mitt so far: Donal Trump, then Michele Bachmann, then Rick Perry, now Herman Cain. He's been led by a reality show star, a crazy lady, a stuttering cowboy, and the guy who brings the pizza. That's gotta hurt a little." –Bill Maher

"Rick Perry has dropped 20 points in the polls in one week. They say he is so depressed about this, he hardly has the energy to execute anybody." –Bill Maher

"Rick Perry got the date of the American revolution wrong by two centuries. What is it with the right wing? Michele Bachmann doesn't know where the 'Shot Heard 'Round the World' took place, Sarah Palin doesn't know why Paul Revere went on his ride, Rick Perry doesn't know that 1776 happened in the 1700's. These aren't gotcha questions. I know this sounds mean about Rick Perry, but if he was a child, you'd leave him behind." –Bill Maher

"This Occupy Wall Street movement is now in 1,500 places all around the world. I was at the Occupy Beverly Hills today. It's two Jews at Starbucks complaining that the scones aren't fresh, but still it's a start." –Bill Maher

"Bill O'Reilly calls them drug traffickers and crackheads, he says they're out here having sex outside at night. Bill O'Reilly – the only man in America who'd make Andy Rooney seem hip. He also said they're practicing free love, as opposed to the kind Bill tried to practice and cost him a fortune in legal fees." –Bill Maher

"Herman Cain said, starting today, if you buy into his 9-9-9 plan, he'll throw in a free 32-ounce soda." –David Letterman

"The Occupy Wall Street protests continue to grow. They've started to attract a very unsavory element – celebrities." –Craig Ferguson

"The Saudi government is upset about this plot to assassinate their ambassador. As you know, Saudi Arabia condemns all acts of terrorism unless, of course, they're sponsoring them." –Jay Leno

"Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza." –Conan O'Brien

"This morning on the 'Today' show, Jenna Bush interviewed Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy was so confused and inarticulate that Jenna accidentally called him 'dad.'" –Conan O'Brien

"The new iPhone 4S comes out tomorrow. If you are not already standing outside in line, it's too late. The line for the iPhone 5 starts up Monday. … You watch TV and they say our economy is on life support. If we can afford $400 for a phone whose main difference appears to be that there's a letter 'S' on it, how bad could things be?" –Jimmy Kimmel

[a tip of the hat to Daniel Kurtzman, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, HBO, and Comedy Central]

Gallup reports that since the 1950's only one president has had a lower average approval rating in his 11th quarter serving in office than President Obama -- Jimmy Carter.

Obama 's approval rating averaged 41% during the last quarter while Jimmy Carter's average was 31%.

And yeah, we all remember what happened to Jimmy Carter ...

But at least Carter was trying to do the right things .. trying to get us used to the idea of weaning ourselves off foreign oil, etc. .. but we just didn't want to hear it. Then there were Reagan's trickle-down chickens coming home to roost .. but unfortunately, the Iran hostage situation was what really did him in.

It's natural for folks to blame the man in the White House for our continued hardship as a country .. along with blaming faceless members of Congress. But the closer we get to the election, the more attention paid to what the Republicans have to offer, the more folks will realize that President Obama is actually trying to help the working class in the face of 100% Republican obstruction .. folks will wake up.

It's interesting to see how much more donation money Democrats are receiving, as opposed to Republicans .. especially since so many are small-amount donors, the very people who don't have all that much to spare. Just because people are upset with the way things are going, doesn't mean they're attracted to the cruel and small-minded policies of the current Republican presidential field.

It's just going to take more than 4 years to clean up 8 years of Republican mess.

Revenue would help kick-start our economy .. those who can afford it should pitch in .. but there's the Republicans refusing to raise revenues one penny, no matter how much it would help .. like a little kid throwing a tantrum to get his ideological way.

Or more likely, not wanting to help our president in any way that might make him look good .. that might make people vote him in for a second term.

Fog used to bloom off the distant river
turning our streets strange, elongating
sounds and muffling others. The crack
of a gunshot softened.

The sky at night was a dull red:
a bonfire built of old creosote soaked
logs by the railroad tracks. A red
almost pink painted by factories—

that never stopped their roar
like traffic in canyons of New York.
But stop they did and fell down
ending dangerous jobs that paid.

We believed in our unions like some
trust in their priests. We believed
in Friday paychecks sure as
winter's ice curb-to-curb

where older boys could play
hockey dodging—wooden
pucks, sticks cracking wood
on wood. A man came home

with a new car and other men
would collect around it like ants
in sugar. Women clumped for showers—
wedding and baby—wakes, funerals

care for the man brought home
with a hole ripped in him, children
coughing. We all coughed in Detroit.
We woke at dawn to my father's hack.

That world is gone as a tableau
of wagon trains. Expressways carved
neighborhoods to shreds. Rich men
moved jobs south, then overseas.

Only the old anger lives there
bubbling up like chemicals dumped
seething now into the water
building now into the bones.

"Motown, arsenal of democracy" by Marge Piercy, from The Crooked Inheritance. © Alfred A. Knopf. Reprinted with permission.

Quick, make up some bumper-stickers. And "Another One Bites the Dust" should be his new campaign song.

Andrew Sullivan has something interesting - and so true - to say about President Obama's recent foreign policy successes:

"To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now."

Obama took a big risk when he intervened militarily in Libya .. his own military commanders were skeptical because resources were stretched so thin in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But Obama had a plan, and the gamble paid off - after six short months, Qaddafi and his regime are no more.

So all those critics who predicted failure were wrong .. all those who said we should've put boots on the ground (Sen. Lindsey Graham) were sooo wrong.

Yes, President Obama took a lot of shots along the way .. but it's fair to say that his vision of using a broad, international coalition to squash Qaddafi – with other nations sharing the burden for a change – worked out pretty dang well. From a purely US foreign policy point of view, you could call it genius.

President Obama did exactly what Bush did with Saddam Hussein .. without the lies, without a war, without Americans getting killed .. and it cost a drop in the ocean compared with Iraq. End result = same.

Well, what are those nay-sayer Republicans saying about it now?

Last night I saw scads of video clips at the beginning of MSNBC's The Last Word .. Lawrence O'Donnell showed all the negative crap Republican leaders said when President Obama first intervened in Libya .. all their snarky attempts to make him look incompetent on matters of defense.

But now they're giving him no credit .. they're praising the French and the Brits.

Jon Stewart says it better than I can - "We removed a dictator in six months, losing NO American soldiers, spending like a billion dollars instead of a trillion dollars, and engendering what appears to be goodwill to people who now have a prideful story of their own independence to tell (not to mention oil, they have O-I-L).

Is there no Republican that can be gracious and statesmen-like in this situation?"

He then played clips of Republican Senators Marco Rubio, Chuck Grassley, and John McCain praising the French and the Brits.

I prefer the high bar Obama set for US involvement .. the Libyan rebels would have been slaughtered without air support. Obama ordered that before handing off the operation to NATO. Obama stopped a massacre.

We have no idea how competent the new Libyan government will be .. the US didn't select and/or install it, so therefore we don't have to make sure it works, or do any nation building.

I'm proud of President Obama .. the conciliator, the Quiet Man, the anti-hero in a way .. a calm rational person who steps in to lead .. who goes for results even when his adversaries spurn him.

No way would he ever strut around in a flight suit...

An Associated Press analysis finds South Carolina's new voter photo ID law appears to be hitting black precincts in the state the hardest.

"For instance, nearly half the voters who cast ballots at a historically black college in Columbia lack state-issued photo identification and could face problems voting in next year's presidential election. ... [..]"

The law requires that every person have a photo ID of some kind when they vote .. a driver’s license, military ID or passport .. it hits the poor, minorities, students, the elderly and disabled the hardest. You know, people who usually vote for Democrats.

The Department of Justice is checking to see whether it violates the Voting Rights Act.

I saw a SC state official say on TV that there hasn't been a single case of voter fraud in SC for over ten years .. yet this law will cost the state $2 million. Why now?

I'll tell you why now .. because they don't want a repeat of record minority turnout in 2012 like they had in 2008.

When I vote in OK all I have to show is my Voter ID card the state gave me when I registered to vote .. no picture on it. We still vote on paper ballots too.

The margin of error in electronic balloting is as big an issue as fraud and you don't see states giving a damn about that.

Don't tell me the law is only aimed at fraudulent voting by illegals .. almost all illegal aliens have decent fake ID and could register in most states.

Jim Crow is alive and well .. sponsored by your local John Birch Chapter and GOP State Government.

The King of Hate, Rush Limbaugh on his radio show: "Romney is not a conservative. He's not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't... This isn't personal, not with what country faces and so forth. I like him very much. I've spent some social time with him. He's a fine guy. He's very nice gentleman. He is a gentleman. But he's not a conservative."

Atta boy Rush, we need all the help we can get re-electing President Obama.

Seriously, it's in Rush's best interest to knock down the GOP front-runner .. he'd rather them run someone who doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell .. because his whole shtick depends on President Obama being re-elected. Rush he needs a villain .. and when Republicans run everything his show gets stale because he has trouble attacking them.

That goes for Bill O'Reilly too .. they both need something to bitch about, since bitchin' and moanin' are what their shows are all about. They need to keep their Teavangelical base riled up about "America-hating, idiot liberals."

Not to worry, from recent polls most Americans don't want a real conservative for president .. why else would so many more of them identify with the Wall St. protesters than the Tea Party?

Rush started planning for his ratings future as soon as President Obama was elected .. spent his entire show the day after the Obama election talking about how "he WILL be a one-term president, folks".

"Hank Williams Jr. got his ass kicked off of Monday Night Football. His crime was comparing Obama to Hitler on Fox News. Or as it used to be called, 'The Glenn Beck Show." –Bill Maher

"If we are going to fire every Southern hillbilly who thinks Obama is like Hitler, who will be our Republican congressmen?" –Bill Maher

"Rick Perry assured Hank Williams that he has a job singing theme songs once Texas starts televising executions." –Bill Maher

"It's the 24th day of the Occupy Wall Street protests, also known as the largest homeless slumber party in the world." –Jimmy Kimmel

"Some protesters brought their kids to the demonstrations. Some of the kids got bored and decided to occupy Sesame Street instead." –Jimmy Kimmel

"California had its first medical marijuana job fair. Over 2 million people meant to show up." –Conan O'Brien

"Bo the White House dog is 3 today. The difference between Bo and the economy is that Obama fixed the dog." –David Letterman

"A team of American scientists just traveled to Russia to search for the Abominable Snowman. That's right, a mythical creature who probably doesn't exist. Or as Republicans call that, 'a presidential candidate.'" –Jimmy Fallon

"Chris Christie announced he would not enter the race. In a statement he said 'Look at me. Do I look like I'm ready to race anyone?'" –Bill Maher

"Very sadly, the great white dope, Sarah Palin – yes, our long national nightmare is over – she said she would not enter the race. I am of two minds about this; as an American, I thank you Sarah. As a comedian, I beg you to reconsider." –Bill Maher

"Herman Cain answered the Wall Street protesters, and he had a message for these protesters. He said, 'If you don't have a job, if you're not rich, don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the banks, blame yourself.' And a nation of out of work teabaggers said, 'Yeah! Hey, wait a minute.'" –Bill Maher

"Rick Perry has fallen way down. He's got a new ad campaign where he says Mitt Romney is a carbon copy of Obama. Yes, that has always been Mitt Romney's problem. He's just too black." –Bill Maher

"On Tuesday New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced he that he was not running for president. And then on Wednesday Sarah Palin also announced that she would not run. Palin said she would love to be president but she just couldn't handle the two-year commitment." –Seth Meyers

"Unemployment is still at 9.1 percent. Well, 9.2 percent if you count Hank Williams, Jr." –Jay Leno

"China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen." –Jay Leno

"Under Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, everything would be taxed at 9 percent. Now, Rick Santorum says he has a better tax plan called 0-0-0. Oh, sorry, that's his chances of becoming president." –Jay Leno

"There's a proposal in Congress to allow rich people who feel they don't pay enough income tax to voluntarily pay more. Economists say this could bring in as much as $75 a year." –Jay Leno

"This week Arnold Schwarzenegger dedicated a museum in Austria devoted to him. Kids get in free if they turn out to be his." –Jay Leno

"Sarah Palin won't run for president. Who better to lead us out of the troubles of the world than a half-term governor from Alaska?" –David Letterman

"Sarah Palin went on Fox News and said Paul Revere talked her out of running for president." –David Letterman

"You folks feeling the economic pinch? That's why we lowered the ticket prices. And the hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are now accepting chickens." –David Letterman

"Here's why Sarah Palin says she won't be running for president. She says she can be more effective at getting others elected by not running. And I thought, well, that's true, because in 2008 she got Obama elected." –David Letterman

"Palin said she could help the country more by not running for president. Today, John McCain said, 'Why didn't you tell me that three years ago?'" –Jay Leno

"Sarah Palin is not running for president, but she says she will help other candidates get elected. Yeah, those other candidates are named Barack Obama and Joe Biden." –Jimmy Fallon

"There's a bill in Florida to repeal the state ban on dwarf tossing. Is this what Republicans mean when they say they want smaller government?" –Jimmy Kimmel

[a tip of the hat to Daniel Kurtzman, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, HBO, and Comedy Central]

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I agree with pundit David Brody, who thinks there is "a certain segment of evangelicals who simply won't vote for a Mormon. To make matters worse, many of these folks live in Iowa and South Carolina, which puts Romney at a severe disadvantage ... if one of the other candidates wins Iowa, South Carolina and Florida then Romney's in trouble heading into the deep south where his Mormonism will become more of an issue."

That is why Obama will win and Republicans are doomed in 2012. Betcha good money that if Romney gets nominated, the radical right will run a third party Teavangelical against him. If Perry is nominated they will lose, because he is not electable by the centrists and moderates in to the vast middle of the county.

Most Republicans, and maybe even most evangelicals would vote for a Mormon over Obama .. but a significant minority would not .. COULD not. Hardcore fundamentalists simply can't compromise their faith .. they have grown up going to church and hearing about how Mormonism is a Satanic Cult...

Yep, they'd break off in a third party .. no matter what Dick Armey and the Koch Bros. say ...

Anyway, with the Rapture coming and all, what difference does it make who wins the election?

Funny how nobody ever asks the fundamentalists in politics about that ...

Here's Sarah Palin on The Bob and Mark Show (Alaska radio talk show) the other day, talking about not running:

Palin at the 8:24 mark: "I came very close to saying yes..I..I..certainly did not want to string people along..and..and I did NOT do that."

Bob at the 9:51 mark: "Now millions and millions of dollars has been raised in a lot of different action committees in the hopes that you were going to mount a campaign against Barack Obama. Where does that money go?

Palin: "Um you know I ...don't think that there are millions and millions of dollars sitting out there..um. ... but PAC dollars will be used in support of efforts to get the right people elected ... and turn the country around."

"Um SarahPAC has a million dollars in it. ....I..I don't believe that people have been ever under the impression that..that SarahPAC was ONLY for..in case Sarah Palin ran for president."

Seriously? Does she expect people to believe this load of bull?

Those people ONLY gave money because she teased them into a frenzy over the possibility that SHE might run for president ...

And since they actually convinced themselves that Sarah is qualified to be president - they sent her their grocery money - they shouldn’t have any problem convincing themselves that the cat food they’re about to eat for dinner is really Pate Maison ....

I've been blogging for over a year that Palin never had any intention of running for president .. that she's a Supreme Grifter who was only stringing her Teavangelical base along so she could to keep the donations flowing, so she could keep getting the high-dollar speaking fees, so she could keep selling the books and DVDs .. so she could continue using SarahPAC as her own personal slush fund.

Because the instant she declared her candidacy, every dime would have to be accounted for because of all the oversight laws.

Just last Sept. 20 there was a SarahPAC fundraising letter posted online by conservatives4palin.com: "Gov. Palin is on the verge of making her decision of whether or not to run for office."

The letter is signed by Tim Crawford, SarahPAC’s treasurer, and continues, "It’s one of the most difficult and important decisions of her life. And I want her to know that she has our support" .. and if Palin supporters believe she is the right candidate to rescue the country, the letter advises them to "send your best, one-time gift to SarahPAC today."

Last Sept. 20. Two weeks before she announced that she would not run ...

And it was back in June that Palin scolded Bristol for letting slip that her mother had already made the decision about running.  

Now take a look at SarahPAC's money - $5,685,213 ...

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/cancomsrs/?_10+C00458588

"Sarah Palin announced she’s not running. Finally, a Palin who pulls out before it’s too late." –Jay Leno

"Are you telling me that driving around the country in a bus with a giant picture of her face next to the Constitution was just a giant publicity stunt? I find that hard to believe." –Jimmy Kimmel

"Chris Christie decided not to run. He had a big decision. He weighed the pros. He weighed the cons. He weighed himself. I like the guy. This is a candidate we could have all gotten behind. Now they’re saying he might be a Vice Presidential candidate. He’d make a great one. I’ll bet this guy knows how to spell 'potato.'" –David Letterman

"Hank Williams, Jr. was fired by ESPN because he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler. That’s a rookie mistake." –David Letterman

"Republican voters have been reduced to using the same criteria as a 4 a.m. barroom pickup: he has a pulse and no visible cold sores." –Stephen Colbert

"As the Republicans continue checking underneath every available flag pin and Bible for viable candidates, presumed de facto frontrunner candidate Mitt Romney has gotta be thinking, ‘What the fudge? This is starting to hurt where my feelings should be.'" –Jon Stewart

"Not only did Christie say he's not going to run, he's also not going to jog or walk anymore." –Jimmy Kimmel

"Rick Perry is pretty serious about running for President. Today he freed all of the slaves on his ranch. Did you hear about that?" –Jay Leno

"We're learning more about these Republican candidates. Did you know Mitt Romney speaks French...did you know that? Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. Of course, Michele Bachmann was never able to learn a second language, thanks to a vaccine she was given against her will as a child." –Jay Leno

"That terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed last week, was American-born and was a top recruiter for al-Qaida. You don't often see an American taking a foreigner's job." –Jay Leno

"Police in Massachusetts have arrested a man for allegedly planning to blow up the Pentagon and the Capitol by using radio-controlled model airplanes filled with explosives. Is this the best the terrorists have now? Using toys? Wile E. Coyote joined Al Qaeda?" –Jay Leno

"Florida announced that they are moving their presidential primary to January, and it will be the first in the nation. If there's one state that is known for organized, reliable voting . . ." –Craig Ferguson

"As governor of Texas, Rick Perry executed 236 people. Turns out many of them were guilty." –David Letterman

"I love Nascar. It answers the age-old question, 'What if my box of Tide could go two hundred miles an hour?'" –Stephen Colbert

"Gov. Chris Christie keeps saying he's not running for president. On the other hand, he would consider running for Santa." –David Letterman

"President Obama was heckled by a protestor who called him 'the Antichrist.' The protestor was detained, but released without being charged, and then later he was offered his own show on Fox News." –Jay Leno

"Hallmark has launched a line of recession-themed cards that say, 'Sorry you lost your job.' The good news is, the cards come pre-addressed to your congressman." –Conan O'Brien

"You want to add another candidate? It's like the Republican primary is a season of 'American Idol' in reverse, where every week you just add some new idiot… Have you ever considered the possibility that your candidates aren’t the problem — it's you?" –Jon Stewart to the GOP base

"President Obama and Bill Clinton played golf together. You know what you’d get if you crossed Obama and Clinton? Tiger Woods." –Jay Leno

"It's the first day of fall, or as the Republicans call it, 'the end of global warming.'" –Jay Leno

"Pakistan warned the United States to stop the rhetoric against their country or 'they will lose an ally.' Pakistan could become an enemy harboring terrorists – as opposed to an ally harboring terrorists." –Jay Leno

[a tip of the hat to Daniel Kurtzman, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, and Comedy Central]

Hank Williams Jr., famous for asking millions of viewers if they're ready for some football, has been pulled from Monday's broadcast of "Monday Night Football" over comments he made yesterday on "Fox & Friends" .. among other things, he compared President Obama to Hitler.

Check out his radical rant for yerself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eF6vCv13bw

Now, everybody knows if you make a Hitler comparison about *any* US President, and you're on a TV show that cuts across all political demo groups, you ain't long for that job.

Sure enough: "ESPN dropped Hank Williams Jr. from opening Monday Night Football tonight after Williams' controversial comments Monday ..."

Oh boy, I've seen this before, it's gonna be bad .. the country music community is deeply committed to the commander-in-chief .. will strike down anyone who shows the slightest disrespect to the office of the presidency. Can you say "Dixie Chicks"?

Boy howdy, they're going to turn on Hank Williams Jr. with fury now .. burn his records, humiliate him, send him death threats .. ol' Hank just don't know what a hornet's nest he's stirred up ... <snark>

To refresh your memory about what happened to the Dixie Chicks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCQZeG9OWI

Long ago I liked several Hank Williams Jr. songs .. can sing every word to "Family Tradition" .. and when it was a hit I went to see him in person at a big Okie honky-tonk. I had my date dance me close to the stage to get a good look .. wanted to see how bad his eye was - the one he had to hold in with a shirt that time he fell off a mountain - but his glasses were too dark.

Back then he was considered an Outlaw .. he didn't walk the traditional country and western line .. wrote songs about smoking pot, which didn't sit well with C&W hippie-hatin' hierarchy. They said he'd never be the singer his daddy was .. I felt sorry for him having to live in Hank Sr.'s shadow.

Cut to today - geez, I knew Bocephus was kinda rednecky, but looks like he's turned into a full-blown extremist a-hole.

Now I hear on the radio that Williams is back pedaling .. says he was misunderstood .. musta sobered up.

Well, boo-effin'-hoo .. like a good redneck Okie would say - "Own it you chickenshit sumbitch!"

Anyway, Hank Jr. will probably ride on some Tea Party shoulders for a while .. macho man Toby Keith, who once offered to beat up a Dixie Chick, still rides that patriotic wave.

May the ghost of Johnny Cash come and strike both of them senseless.

A new UMass-Lowell/Boston Herald poll in Massachusetts has Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) barely ahead of challenger Elizabeth Warren (D) .. dead heat if you want to go with the margin of error.

Warren has never run for elective office and is already the clear front-runner in the six-person Democratic primary race ..triple digits ahead of the rest of the field.

I know a million things could happen between now and election day .. but I still like her chances. She started her campaign off with such a bang when she had the viral video destroying the Republican talking point that corporations should get a free pass on taxation and regulation.

And, hopefully, the Tea Party is just crazy-right enough to throw in a primary challenge to trip up Scott Brown because he's too librul .. I'm only half kidding when I say that.

Also, six challengers for the Democratic seat is a good sign .. showing some discontent with the incumbent eh?

Warren not only takes no prisoners, she actually dismisses her rivals as people who never ever saw the bigger picture.

I can't roll up my sleeves for Elizabeth here in OK .. but I dang sure can send her money.

The musical treat for today is from Ry Cooder's album - Meeting by the River - with V. M. Bhatt .. Cooder on bottleneck slide guitar and Bhatt playing his own invention, an Indian version of the Hawaiian slide guitar designed to play Indian classical music, the Mohan Veena. Oh how the purists laughed .. made Bhatt's Grammy all the sweeter.

This is from a duet with Ry Cooder, but it's mostly Bhatt solo with just tabla accompaniment .. after the pretty nature scenes you'll see him play :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeN-qpDrSUo&feature=player_embedded

Here's more from the album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWFc4avub0&feature=player_embedded