Not Surprised

Lot of talk on the blogs and in the media about the new cover of Newsweek Magazine.

Get it? Michele Bachmann is crazy!! She's the "Queen of Rage"... according to the lefty editors at the bankrupt tabloid.

This, the same magazine, that gave us this cover two years ago. How convenient that the prelude to the White House's 2010 theme of "recovery summer" was a favorable seed planted by this rag magazine.

By the way- how did that recovery summer go? Did the "God" Obama command the seasons to bloom economic growth and jobs? Or did that seed just die in the dust?

I don't dub Obama "God". No- that would be the editor in chief of said rag magazine, Evan Thomas, who in 2009 reminded us of his inordinate affection for Barry.

My favorite part of this interview is Chris Matthew's hard-hitting retort "yeah". Here is the editor in chief of a rag magazine, a theoretically non-partisan magazine, who just compared the President to GOD and the journalist in Matthews responds with "yeah". Wow... talk about kool-aid drinking. OH YEAH!!!

So- as I mentioned in the title- I'm not surprised by the current cover of the rag magazine. I'm sure Bachmann isn't either.

Can't wait to see what Newsweek has in store for Rick Perry. Or if Evan Thomas has chosen a new religion.

The Shifty Left

The left's biggest weapon in the battle of ideas is their plasticity. The left is anything it wants to be- and anything they want you to be.

Think of "hope" and "change" from the 2008 campaign. It meant... nothing. And everything. It was every desire you held and squashed every fear in your heart. For the greens it meant lowering the tides and healing the planet. For the pro-choice it meant unrestricted rights to abortion on demand. For the big government socialists it meant single payer healthcare. Cindy Sheehan took it as an immediate withdrawal of troops and race mongers took it as enhanced affirmative actions policies.

The left is plastic. If the polls say X, they become X. They are were against the war before they were for it. They embody any whim, any policy, any idea when it is convenient and when it could lead to further political power gains.

Where is Cindy Sheehan these days? We've all read of NATO ground troops getting ready to deploy after almost 4 months of air strikes in Libya. I've yet to see a protest on the Mall- and trust me, I live right there. In fact the only Code Pink protester to interrupt the House was a young pinky shouting down Benjamin Natanyahu. No one has interrupted hearings. No one has painted and blood red and waived them in front of Secretary Clinton.

General "Betray-us" was just picked to head the CIA. Where's that "willing suspension of disbelief"? I guess it too was plastic.

What prompts my ponderings is today's press conference by Anthony Weiner. He came clean. Those cries of hacks and right wingers framing him? All lies. All untrue. All... plastic.

Where are the women's groups? Where are the mother's groups? Where is the outrage about internet preying and sexual abuse by men in power on young college coeds?

Plastic.

Plastic outrage. Plastic indignation. Plastic protests. Plastic beliefs. The left stands for nothing but themselves. They believe in nothing but power. They want nothing but political gains.

How else to explain the fact that our President spent 2 years fighting for a healthcare bill while watching the dollar plunge, inflation rise, food prices soar, home prices plummet... they don't care. Plastic.

If Anthony Weiner was comfortable lying for days- blaming others- accusing others, what else is he comfortable doing? What other cover-ups are so cavalier? What else is convenient to lie about?

Congressmen Weiner will sit down again, behind a microphone, leading discussions about serious issues that will compel and force us to live certain laws he deigns to pass. How anyone can take him serious, I don't know. How anyone can listen to his opinion again, I don't know.

But then again- who cares? It's just plastic. I'll feel different tomorrow.

The 11th Commandment

The vast and ever changing field of 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates loves to quote Reagan but, so far, the emulation ends there.

Reagan attributed this rule to the head of the California GOP, Gaylor Parkinson, the year he ran for the Governor's seat, 1966. Reagan wrote: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since."

Reagan looked at the state of California, and indeed the nation, in 1966, and knew that he need not attack his colleagues but rather run on the facts of their principles and positions. Their ideas contrasted to his own were losing ideas. His truth would win per ipsum. It needed only telling. And what a master teller the Great Communicator was.

Looking at the halflings of his legacy, we see Santorum attacking Romney, Newt attacking Paul Ryan's budget (Ryan must be wondering why he's suddenly the enemy...), Ron Paul attacking everybody who is not shrugging with Atlas, and a whole slew of trolls, goblins and circus freaks attacking Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin. They would all gang up on Tim Pawlenty if it seemed worth it.

Why few are taking the position that the attacks will and should come from we the people is beyond me. We will, in good time, destroy them all in turn for that is what Americans love to do in politics. Bush, Clinton, Bush and even Obama have felt the love turned rage that is the sceptical and fickle American voter.

So my advice to the candidates- not that they would take it because, of course, they know better, is to shut up. Tell your story, stake your claim in the ground and let us decide. 2012 is so winnable. Barack Obama is so beatable- he knows it, the media knows it, the people know it. Why waste energy and resources attacking each other when even the worst candidate amongst you, yes even Gary Johnson the baby killing pot smoking hippie would still be better than the liberation theologian, marxist who currently sits at the Resolute desk, feet up and coat off.

Reagan never took his coat off in the Oval. He thought the room and the Office were both worthy of such etiquette. That's another lesson any President could learn from Reagan.