Presidential Election Predictions

If Chris Christie is preparing to endorse Romney, then here's how I see the 2012 GOP field panning out:

Christie will be the Romney VP choice for the ticket. I believe they cut a deal. Here's why: Christie doesn't want to run for President right now. It means stopping his work in New Jersey which he truly seems to love in order to head to places like Iowa and Nevada and South Carolina which doesn't interest him. Skipping the Presidential primaries, he is "off" until the GOP Convention in July of 2012. That's 9 months of his life.

He can campaign July - November and will raise Romney a ton of money because the conservatives will be totally jazzed he's on the tickets. Hey- trust me on this. I worked McCain 2008. And forget what you think of Sarah Palin NOW. But in July and August of 2008 she gave that campaign energy, life, and voters. Christie can do the same thing for Romney. though I think it will be less important to Romney than it was for McCain. Meaning- Romney can win on his won. Christie just ensures it.

Christie will guarantee New Jersey and possible Pennsylvania, too. He will be popular in places like Arizona, Nevada and Florida where millions of Jerseyites have relocated. A Romney/Christie ticket will lock up Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Now- 8 years of Romney/Christie and the Veep is a shoe in for Christie 2020. He'll still be young enough to run for his own White House and have had the best possible training for the job.

That's a pretty attractive offer...

The Christie endorsement hurts Perry, though not as much as Perry hurts Perry. Bachmann, Gingrich and Huntsman will eventually putter out leaving Santorum to battle Paul, Romney, Perry and Cain to fight it out. But Romney will prevail.

Here's my prediction knowing what I know now... Romney / Christie 2012 will win in a landslide. Unemployment has no chance at improving, Solyndra and "Fast and Furious" are just starting to gather steam, and the stalemate in the Congress will be laid at the feet of the great orator who can't talk his own party into voting for his jobs bill.

Romney / Christie and an electoral landslide.

On Drones, Prisons and Principles

President Obama has proven to be the biggest supporter of President Bush's War on Terror protocols and policies. So much so, that recently former VP Cheney asked for an apology. President Obama has no need to apologize. But Candidate Obama does. Too bad they are not the same person.

Candidate Obama had many names for the War on Terror: illegitimate, over reaction, shredding the constitution, illegal, etc etc. He blasted the policies of rendition, military tribunals, enhanced interrogation, predator drones, and the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. On his first day in office he signed an executive order to look into closing the prison within the year. And he would pull all troops out of Iraq and Afganistan immediately. Global War on Terror became Overseas Contingency Operations.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize based on his rhetoric. Or branding effort.

And here we are just a few short years (and several dozen rounds of golf) later, and we've escalated war in Afghanistan, continued Bush's time table in Iraq, carried out drone attacks (and one targeted assassination) in Pakistan, bombed Libya with additional troops on the ground, and now killed an American citizen in Yemen for his preaching. Guantanamo is still open and functioning and the military tribunals are ongoing. New Coke was not such a hit.

I wonder if Candidate Obama and President Obama have ever met.

3 years ago the interrogation of KSM was a war crime. Obama claimed he was due a civilian trial in Manhattan with full protection of the rights granted by the U.S. Constitution. By today Al-Awlaki can be blown to pieces in Yemen by a drone.

Confused yet?

So you can't put enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan in Guantanamo because of the Geneva Convention. But if you are an American citizens preaching anti-American rhetoric in Yemen... watch out!!

Candidate Obama's rhetoric of the "good" war and "Bush's" war or "war of choice"- phrases he preached in Berlin and Cairo... it's all so much more meaningless and so much more insulting now. It shows what little principle he has. And just how clueless he was as a candidate.

We are no more safe now than we were under the Bush Administration. But we are much less respected. Makes me wonder if that was the plan all along.

The liberal tautology

I loved logic. My professor was a true aristotelian and we learned all the order of syllogism (hello, Barbara) and symbolic logic with absolute precision. Disecting a logical problem was not whimsy or emotion- it was pure science and mastery.

Liberals lack logic. (I know you appreciate the alliteration).

Two years ago Jeanne Garafolo told us that the tea party's opposition to the Obama agenda was based on racism. They conjured up a story of tea party members spitting at Congressman Cleaver and called him the n-word. Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for anyone who could provide video or phot evidence of this. Alas, none was found.

So the tea party is racist.

But the fact that the party candidate is Herman Cain? Racist.

No matter what they do, it's because they are racist. And the definition of pedantic is pedantic.

I anticipate a lot more racism charges as 2012 heats up. Especially if the racist tea party's black candidate is the nominee to defeat the racists tea party's black president.