Pat Oliphant for February 01, 2012

Been down so long,looks like up to me.

We have a clown for a President now and all the Country can come up with to get him out of office is another clown or fools. No wonder we are losing our Republic to the liberals.

Why do political campaigns, even at the lowest levels, end as moral crusades? To paraphrase Mencken, they end up fighting not in the manner of gentlemen fighting a duel, but in the manner of a longshoreman cleaning out a waterfront saloon. Mencken might have said of Gingrich that his “distinguishing mark is the fact that he always attacks his opponents, not only with all arms, but also with snorts and abjurations – that he is always filled with indignation – that he is incapable of imagining honor in a antagonist, and hence incapable of honor himself.” (from “A Blind Spot,” 1920)

You would think that thorough media coverage would induce candidates to behave themselves. Maybe it is all like so-called reality shows that are actually scripted performances. Maybe Oliphant could have showed them mud wrestling.

Romney’s time has come, he stuck it out through several election cycles just as Reagan did, and of course he’ll get the nomination. He could have stayed safely in his One Percent Nirvana, but he has the political itch. He “dedicated himself to politics, and spent years mastering its complex but fundamentally childish technique,” as Mencken said of Henry Cabot Lodge in 1920.

It is interesting to read of politics around the Wilson era. It is eerily similar to what we have now, almost 100 years later. Read history, and you realize that the same stuff happens over and over. “Quid rides? Mutato nomine, de te narratur.”

I hope the dog on the right does his business on Newt and Mitt.

Carry on, boys!Carry on!

Interesting times :-) If the present crop of Repubs is the best they have to offer, Obama has nothing to worry about in the election. In fact, the campaign can be just a great way to educate the voters about the intransigence and obstructionism of the Repubs.

Obama is watching the game films from these primaries

yup. it’s another election where the democrats win by default. noone is going to risk being laffed at for voting for Laurel or Hardy har.

Simon_Jester & Sharuniboy: Why stop there? cf. Carl Sagan’s SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS. Must be a primate thing …

I wasn’t aware these guys had climbed back up from the sewer to the gutter, or is Newt still in the ghetto? If this is the way they fight “friends”, the post-convention campaign they’ll wage will be “all aboard the Ex Lax Special”!

I wonder when Newt’s sugar daddy is going to dump the crooked and delusional little weasel?

What a pair. I hope it never ends…

The record skips again, and again, and again…