Another one bites the dust

CNN is reporting that republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will suspend his campaign today following his poor primary & caucus showings earlier this week.

This race just got more interesting…

Since they don’t really trust Sen. McCain and question his conservative credentials, religious conservatives are going to flock to Huckabee. All the ‘clarity’ that conservative pundits were spouting off about after Tuesday is out the window in my opinion… with the numbers Romney was drawing on Tues, if they flock to Huckabee, as I think they will, the races will be that much tighter and McCain’s frontrunner status may be short lived.

Another thing to consider is this; how long until Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and James Dobson (after writing all those names I need a shower) announce they’re endorsing Huckabee? Okay, maybe not a strict and proper endorsement, but more of what they have been doing; attacking/questioning McCain’s conservative credentials and offer back-handed support to Huckabee.

As always, stay tuned…

UPDATE: Rather than admit he screwed up and was a major flip-flopper, Mitt Romney took advantage of everyone listening to him (as it WILL be the last time anyone care's what he says) and criticized Senators Obama and Clinton during his speech of retreat, claiming that an electoral victory by either of them would mean “attacks on America. [...] About this, I have no doubt."

What a tool. Stay classy Mitt...

Fleeing the Ship…

With yesterday’s announcement of Sen. Trent “Lobbying is My Friend” Lott retiring before his term ends, another republican has decided to flee while the fleeing’s good.

Let’s review the plethora of republican and White House departures and the soon-to-depart; Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay, Larry Craig, Dennis Hastert, Fran Townsend, Karen Hughes, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, David Hobson, Ralph Regula, Tony Snow, Wan Kim, Deb Pryce, Chip Pickering, Richard Griffin, Alberto Gonzales, Trent Lott… I could go on, but the internet only has so much space…

Why are they all fleeing?? What about the good of the party? What about the rest of Bush’s reign of terror term?

Over the course of seven years, Bush, his cronies and much of the gop has trampled all over our Constitution, driven the US economy into the ground, threw our world standing into the toilet and got us involved in a misguided and mismanaged war that has cost us, as a nation, thousands of lives…

And republicans are running out of DC faster than you can say ‘indictment’.

Why? Is it possible that they know something we don’t, like the shit is going to hit the fan very soon and the USS gop is going under faster than XX’s career?

Stay tuned…

Another one bites the dust

I was going to write a post about the gop’s smear-campaign aimed at a 12-year old boy… but instead I will let John Cole, a republican… after this disgusting display he’s now a former republican… give his opinion;

“If you look through this family’s dossier, it appears they are doing everything Republicans say they should be doing- hell, their story is almost what you would consider a checklist for good, red-blooded American Republican voters: they own their own business, they pay their taxes, they are still in a committed relationship and are raising their kids, they eschewed public education and are doing what they have to do to get them into Private schools, they are part of the American dream of home ownership that Republicans have been pointing to in the past two administrations as proof of the health of the economy, and so on.

In short, they are a white, lower-middle-class, committed family, who is doing EVERYTHING the GOP Kultur Kops would have you believe people should be doing. They aren’t gay. They aren’t divorced. They didn’t abort their children. They aren’t drug addicts or welfare queens. They are property owners, entrepeneurs, taxpayers, and hard-working Americans. I bet nine times out of ten in past elections, if you handed this resume to a pollster, they would think you were discussing the prototypical Republican voter. Hell, the only thing missing from this equation is membership to a church and an irrational fear of Muslims and you HAVE the prototypical Bush voter [...]

I simply can not believe this is what the Republican party has become. I just can’t. It just makes me sick to think all those years of supporting this party, and this is what it has become. Even if you don’t like the S-Chip expansion, it is hard to deny what Republicans are- a bunch of bitter, nasty, petty, snarling, sneering, vicious thugs, peering through people’s windows so they can make fun of their misfortune.

I’m registering Independent tomorrow.”

A poster at consertive website Free Republic spun information about the family which allowed him to claim that the boy was actually a rich kid who was being pampered by the government and that the boy and his sister attend wealthy schools that cost "nearly $40,000 per year for tuition" and live in a well-off home.

The only problem is that none of that is true. Rather than spin information to use as ammo, ThinkProgress did the unthinkable and did some investigative journalism and found that the boy has a scholarship to the private school, Yes, it costs $15K a year, but the family only pays $500 a year.

The boy’s sister attends another private school to help her with the brain injuries that occurred due to her accident. This school costs $23,000 a year, but the state pays the entire cost.

Their “lavish house” was purchased sixteen years ago for $55,000.

Last year the family made $45,000 combined and have never earned more than $50,000, combined, a year…

The conservative pundits (Limbaugh, Malkin, etc) are so fucking desperate to defend Bush’s decision to cut SCHIP, that they are now launching baseless and uninformed attacks against a 12 year old child and his family.

The gop is neither passionate or family friendly… they’re a group of feckless thugs who WILL get theirs in the end via a little thing called Karma, baby!

Count on it…