Monday, June 18, 2007

know your enema...

Carpetbagger has a tidy summary of the Repo front-runners:

* Rudy Giuliani — Matt Taibbi recently made the case that the former NYC mayor is actually “worse than Bush.” Giuliani is autocratic, thin-skinned, and self-absorbed. He’s inexperienced, ignorant about policy specifics, and his only selling point (performance on 9/11) doesn’t stand up well to scrutiny. His campaign is built around demagoguery — driven solely by fear.

* John McCain — A shadow of his former self, the senator appears to be a man who’ll do anything to win. McCain is combative and intolerant of dissent. He defends the indefensible and lashes out angrily at anyone who dares to disagree with him. He’s become dishonest, condescending, and egotistical, while pandering shamelessly to some of the worst elements in Republican politics.

* Mitt Romney — The man appears to have no real convictions at all. On most of the major political issues of the day, Romney believed the exact opposite fairly recently, and has struggled to explain his metamorphosis from moderate governor to far-right candidate.

* Fred Thompson — The actor/lobbyist/senator doesn’t seem to have any real rationale for seeking the presidency, other than the belief he might win. Thompson is at least as phony as Romney — the red truck story should be humiliating to him — and developed a Bush-like reputation for being lazy and incurious. He considers moving to northern Virginia “getting out of Washington” and his most valuable skill seems to be his ability to pretend to be someone else.

And before Naahmy gets a burr in his butt-ox, I would add Hillary (and Joe Biden) to this quad.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOL!!! In all seriousness, this does worry me. My god, a group of republicans that even Hillary could beat!

On another topic, more anecdotal evidence, in the form of favorite tax quotes, that the democratic party symbol should be the hammer and sickle, not the jackass (though it equally appropriate):

"Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our Medicare."
Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
(yes, he did say tax cutters are greedy. Wonder what that says about people in favor of tax cuts?)

"Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Radio Broadcast, April 28, 1942
(Sounds a lot like "From each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs.")

"I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him."
T. Coleman Andrews, Former Commissioner of Internal Revenue, May 25, 1956 in US. News & World Report
(so that is where FDR got the idea)

"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."
Karl Marx, 1848, author of "The Communist Manifesto"
(but isn't that how communism gets its start???)

"There's only one way to kill capitalism, by taxes, taxes, and more taxes."
Karl Marx
(that explains the dismal state of the French economy)

Respectfully submitted,
Commander Guy

Anonymous said...

Funny thing is that the description of Romney sounds a lot like Bill Clinton, and the description of Thompson sounds a lot like Ronald Reagan.

N'est pas?

Commander Guy