Observations Going In To A New Year

I was not at all surprised when the Republican Party said that they would count their caucus votes behind closed doors due to “concerns about disturbances.” My contention is that Romney is the choice of the money boys and they do not want their horse to lose. So, as the Republicans have always said, “it’s not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.”

If I recall, God spoke to Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Herman Cain. According to each, the big guy hand picked themselves to run for president. Somehow, I feel we are privy to a cosmic practical joke.

Rick Perry thinks Canada is part of the US? Or at least their oil is – or will be apparently, if he is president.

I saw some pictures of the Kim Jung Il funeral in Pyonyang. It looked like they had his casket mounted atop the funeral car. When I saw that, all I could think of was the stories of Romney putting the family dogs in a cage atop the family station wagon to go on vacation.

Speaking of Romney – just to remind you of the gap between him and real Americans – he is in the process of tearing down a $12 million house to build a $30 million house. Anyone else out there doing this please speak up?  Bueller?  Can’t hear you!

Romney has been running for something for 20+ years. His one-time real job was buying up businesses, squeezing every last cent out of them, firing the workers and then selling what was left for major profits. I am sure he would love to do that again.

At least by Wednesday morning we will no longer hear that Michelle Bachmann is an Iowa girl. Good bye, Michelle. And please don’t ever tell anyone else you were born in Iowa.

In doing some reading on the Ron Paul racism issue (he didn’t write ’em, he didn’t read ’em, he disavows them, BUT the money was good), someone noted that this year Romney has not one person of color on his campaign staff. Imagine my surprise.

In one of the funniest “be careful what you ask for” moments of the 2012 Republican campaign, it seems that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry failed to qualify for the Virginia Republican primary. The reason is that the new, restrictive voter rules disqualified enough petition signers for each that they did not qualify. And Virginia primary rules do not allow for a write-in candidate. OOPSIE!

But Rick Perry will fight Virginia the old fashioned way.  An advocate for stopping “frivolous lawsuits,” the Governor will sue the state to get on the ballot. Should have read the rules, Rick.

Well the clown car departs Wednesday. Here is hoping that none are left behind.

One last thought. As Trish Nelson noted here the media has been quite poor in allowing Republican candidates to say the most off-the-wall, demonstrably false statements without so much as batting an eye or asking a question. For many years the media has been referred to as stenographers. I think they have truly achieved that status.