YAAAAY!! ROMNEY WINS! YAAAY!
Is there a single human being that can honestly utter those words?
Who is it that likes this man?
In the John LeCarre books you get a bit of a glimpse, now and then, of what the British upper class are like- the sense of entitlement is baffling, none of them can do a damned thing, certainly not any better than some poor schmuck who went to school in the meanest district. Its easier to understand why so many vote labour,just to get rid of the idiots- but they always manage to find a way to keep on keeping on.
Romney is and always will be a member of that class. Whatever you have to say about George Bush (either) or Ron Reagan, the fact remains that they were capable of getting their hands dirty, and the pictures of them clearing brush or feeding animals werent’ photo ops, they were just pictures of their everyday lives. I will always have a mistrust of anyone who doesn’t have a habit of getting their hands dirty once in a while.
While we’re on this subject, a couple days back commenter Tony suggestes he was thinking about running for office, and I hope he does not. he doesnt’ have (Based on my admittedly brief discourse with him) the qualities I like in a candidate, and that set me to thinking, what were those qualities?
Well, to start with, a perfect presidential candidate would already have a decent job, or business, and leaving that job or business would be a hardship to it and him.
He’d be cynical, suspicious, and you’d have to earn his trust, and it would be hard to earn his trust.
He’d despise the politics of personal destruction and he’d be snarky enough to smack down the press when they started down that road.
Once he got elected he’d concentrate on a very few specific matters, like national security, the national debt, and energy policy. He might not resolve those issues, but in his term he would take the power to resolve those issues from the burocracy and place it in the hands of the people so they could do so long after he’d gone.
he would not be afraid to use the power of the military to wipe out an entire foreign city to let our enemies abroad know that we will have none of their nonsense.
He would keep his nose out of issues like Abortion, Marriage, Medicine, the environment, education, and finance. He will try to see that other people do that too.
It would be nice if he had a huge battleaxe and could cleave the stupid in twain, but that’s probably hoping for too much.
Anyway, nobody remotely like this will ever be elected, we’re gonna be stuck with the likes of Romney, Newt, Santorum, and My Favorite Martian forever.
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Romney is winning so far because he is the least objectionable to the most people.
That’s like winning an Indy race because every other competitor managed to hit the wall before you did… but you still hit the wall.
I can only imagine crowds of Romney supporters chanting “We suck the least! We suck the least!”
That said… if the man showed up at my door I’d talk to him on the porch. I don’t like or trust him enough to invite him into my home, let alone vote for him.
What Carteach said. I’ve never been a registered Republican, but I’ve voted either a Libertarian or Republican party ticket my entire adult life. If Romney’s the candidate, I’ll vote for someone else. I’ll even overcome my legendary laziness to (gasp!) write-in someone else.
Unfortunately we are the sheep dogs in this world. The sheep will always out number us, and they cannot tell us from the wolf. Since they elect us to take care of them and they cannot tell a wolf from a sheep dog, it is no wonder we are in the mess we are in.
Right now the wolves are running the rodeo. Form the things I see, more wolve become lawyers than any other profession. I would propose a law that wouild preclude lawyers from running for ANY elected office. That might get us back on track.
Doubt that such a simple thing would effect true change, but we have to try something.
Never the less, I would vote for the candidate you outlined there, Og.
I’d vote for that candidate as well. I’m disqualified on the cynical, suspicious, distrustful and snarky requirements. Do you have to be born with them, or can you acquire them over time like bad knees and high cholesterol? I’m only 47, so maybe in another 10 years or so?
Hell, we had that guy in Goldwater, and couldn’t get him elected then.
Forget Goldwater as a role model. When he went totally into the Planned Barrenhood camp he showed his true colors. Wanna know his lasting legacy? He helped advance Sandra Day O’Connor to SCOTUS, another Incrementalist RepublicRat.
Hmmm, except for the battleaxe, you pretty well described me. When people first meet me they think I’m a grouchy, cantankerous, cynical, skeptical, anti-social old bastard. Once they get to know me they realize they were mistaken. My parents were married.
Time to google battleaxes, maybe I can get elected. My campaign motto: “Don’t piss me off.” Maybe Og will be my running-mate.
Mark D: If anyone would ever let the skeletons out of my closet, there would follow such mayhem as has not been seen in the world since the Goths sacked rome.
Here you go.
An archetype of your prototype. :)
Jenny
Ogman, you obviously don’t hange out with many Mormons. They think Mitty is Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and Steve Young all rolled into one. Mainly for the same reason 99.999% of blacks voted for Obama. As the freaks sing in “Freaks,” “Gabba gabba! Gabba Gabba! One of us! One of us!”
I have a claymore, is that sufficient? It’s a lot easier to tote around than a battle axe.
Dang, a real claidheamh mòr? Where do you put your mitts on one of those? Sure, John, I’d go for that.
It is real in that it precisely follows the original design in appropriate materials. It is not an actual antique though. I think the steel is better than the historical model. Practical application suggests it works as well.
A “Suitable facsimile” is, as we say, suitable!