Ann Romney, in a rare honest moment, called Hillary Rosen’s statement that she never worked a day in her life a “great birthday present”.  Now she gets to play Martyr Extraordinaire, savaged by the beasts of the left, a model of courage for mothers everywhere.   Puh-l/… Read full post »

Tomorrow’s the day.  Michigan’s primary election: the day where I can impact who wins the 2012 nominations for president.             Since we don’t register party choices in Michigan, I can ask for and receive a ballot for/… Read full post »

In 1976 I proudly cast my first presidential vote for Jimmy Carter.  I have voted for the Democratic nominee in every race since then and will proudly vote for Barack Obama’s reelection.  But it is my humble opinion that Rick Santorum will be the one that saves the United States from/… Read full post »

“This state appears to be promising.  The android used to inhabit the region.  The tallest forms of vegetation are of the correct height.  Let us beam him down.”

“Not ready yet.  His body is rejecting the denim garment on the lo… Read full post »

Here in Michigan, we’ve heard for several days that Republican Senate candidate Peter Hoekstra planned to advertise during the Super Bowl coverage.  Little did we know that we’d see race-baiting that would rival the Willie Horton ad that smeared Dukakis:  http://www.youtube.com/… Read full post »

As we near the 100^th anniversary of the Titanic, it appears the SS Romney has struck an iceberg and is taking on water.   Once thought to be unsinkable, we now contemplate the unthinkable:  Romney may not win the nomination.  Yes, you read it right, Romney may not be the nominee.&… Read full post »

Watching highlights of Romney’s interview with Bret Baier, I was quite taken with the technology of today’s animatronics.  I thought, what if Romney wanted to appear more lifelike- what if he took a stab at standup comedy?  What would that be like?

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I had a root canal and gum surgery this past year.  I’d gladly have them all over again if I could skip the Christmas season.  I love family gatherings as much as the next guy, but if we could just have the good times without the rest of the seasonal headaches… Read full post »

A few months ago, I was in the checkout line at the grocery store.  It was in one of those periods in which the gas prices were soaring for no apparent reason.  I overheard a woman in the next lane tell her cashier “What we gotta do is drill our own… Read full post »

Don’t get me wrong.  I like train wrecks as well as the next guy.  But this train wreck of a nomination process left the rails long ago.  We can walk out of this horror movie right now because we know how it ends.

Barring an untimely death or major scandal,… Read full post »

The race for the Republican nomination is nearing the starting line.  The green flag is about to drop in a mere two months and a few days or weeks later it will all be over.  Mitt Romney, who has been running since the 1876 election, is still the presumptive nominee.  The… Read full post »

Who can forget the last appearance of the Republican Clown Car in 2008?  The car pulled into the circus tent.  Out popped a doddering old man….

“McCain?  McCain?  Seriously?  The guy who supported immigration and campaign finance refor… Read full post »

I freely admit that the recent revelations about Sarah Palin’s past gave me a certain degree of schadenfreude.  To see someone who so blatantly exploited latent racism among fearful middle class whites exposed as someone with a history of interracial intimacy is certainly satisfying to som… Read full post »

Some people compare politicians in general, and sometimes Obama in particular, to abusive husbands.  They tell us what we want to hear, we fall for their lines over and over again, and eventually we “wise up” and leave them.  It makes for some good blogging material, but it isn&… Read full post »

Signs such at this are becoming pretty common on the highways.

It’s getting so you can’t drive ten miles without seeing one of these on the back of a commercial truck.  Sometimes they have “My USA” above “Support Our Troops” or other slight wording… Read full post »

Not that the Republican Party has a lot of credibility to lose, but their self-proclaimed identity as the “party of life” was exposed as a fraud in the past two Republican debates.  During the Prostrate Yourself Before Saint Ronald The Martyr Debate in California, a question to Rick… Read full post »

It’s about time someone with some degree of prominence called out the so-called “Tea Party” for what they are:  Sons Of Bitches.  Yes, we need to “take them out”, electorally speaking, of course and not to be confused with Palin’s crosshairs or Angle&rsqu… Read full post »

Tonight’s debate promises to be a showdown between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry as each claim theirs is bigger- tax cut that is.  Michele Bachmann will show the most leg and the least intellect.  The five dwarves will wait for their limited share of the spotlight and try not to look… Read full post »

Here it comes, the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11.  The television specials have started, the solemn ceremonies are planned, the memorial blogging is underway.  September 11 has become larger than life to a lot of people and exploited by more than a few of us.&nb… Read full post »

 On the heels of recent news that the Tea Party is less popular than either atheists or Muslims, new polling indicates that these right wing extremists are indeed less popular than diarrhea, hemorrhoids, and the heartbreak of psoriasis.  What’s even more disheartening for this splinte… Read full post »

It happens every election cycle.  The Ron Paul Four Year Cicadas come out of the underbrush and start their incessant drone.  While noisy, these noxious pests pose little threat to the public.  You’ll find them in the letters to the editor section of your local paper and on inter… Read full post »

The Iowa straw poll, where a minority of wingnuts in a minority party dominated by right wingnuts decide the early dropouts from the presidential race, have decided that Tim “Mr. Dull” Pawlenty is just not loony enough to be the Republican nominee.  The results are in:

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Those of us who are old enough remember the old optimistic Ronald Reagan campaign ads, “It’s Morning In America”.   The mood was optimistic and the future was bright, we had this “can do” attitude.  America was going to be the shining city on the hill, a g… Read full post »

The Republicans on stage in New Hampshire last night spent the evening throwing daggers at Barack Obama and marshmallows at each other.  The theme for the evening seemed to be “Right makes right” as they all tried to out-conservative each other.  The longer they play King of the… Read full post »

I can just imagine Mitt Romney in high school- captain of the debate team, president of the Future Undertakers of America.  I can see him asking the perky cheerleader to meet him at noon in the cafeteria so he can ask her to the prom.  He watches her approach down the… Read full post »