Muscatine

There are those--I won't name them, they know who they are--who have taken to calling the slate of Republican presidential hopefuls "Sarah Palin and the Seven Dwarfs." That's unfair.

There are way more than seven GOP politicians ready to run. I put the list right now at about 12, give or take a dwarf.

And there'd be more except that John Thune withdrew from the race a month or so ago.

Most of the rest of the GOP gang showed up in Washington a few months ago to try out their acts at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Generally speaking, the candidates spoke with one voice--for God, guns, and Ronald Reagan. They were uniformly against health care, taxes, and Barack Obama. (Have I mentioned that the conference was about a quart low on new ideas?)

The 10,000 attendees listened to all of the speeches, then made Ron Paul, the Texan flat-earther, their choice for president. (Did I also mention that its sense of reality was running on empty?)

Ironically, the only Republican that a clear majority of Americans could pick out of a police lineup--Sarah Palin--failed to show up at the conference. She and Mike Huckabee, the comfort-food candidate, were busy organizing their sock drawers. Or something.

To call the Republican field weak is to understate the obvious. It's a collection of has-been (Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Mitt Romney), never-were (Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Mitch Daniels) and "who's he?" candidates (Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman).

The real problem the Republicans have, however, isn't the relative anonymity of their candidates--after all, hardly anyone knew who Obama was two years before he was elected. It's the fact that no Republican who can win the general election in 2012 can be nominated. Call it the tea party effect.

There are those--I won't name them, they know who they are--who have taken to calling the slate of Republican presidential hopefuls "Sarah Palin and the Seven Dwarfs." That's unfair.

There are way more than seven GOP politicians ready to run. I put the list right now at about 12, give or take a dwarf.

And there'd be more except that John Thune withdrew from the race a month or so ago.

Most of the rest of the GOP gang showed up in Washington a few months ago to try out their acts at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Generally speaking, the candidates spoke with one voice--for God, guns, and Ronald Reagan. They were uniformly against health care, taxes, and Barack Obama. (Have I mentioned that the conference was about a quart low on new ideas?)

The 10,000 attendees listened to all of the speeches, then made Ron Paul, the Texan flat-earther, their choice for president. (Did I also mention that its sense of reality was running on empty?)

Ironically, the only Republican that a clear majority of Americans could pick out of a police lineup--Sarah Palin--failed to show up at the conference. She and Mike Huckabee, the comfort-food candidate, were busy organizing their sock drawers. Or something.

To call the Republican field weak is to understate the obvious. It's a collection of has-been (Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Mitt Romney), never-were (Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Mitch Daniels) and "who's he?" candidates (Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman).

The real problem the Republicans have, however, isn't the relative anonymity of their candidates--after all, hardly anyone knew who Obama was two years before he was elected. It's the fact that no Republican who can win the general election in 2012 can be nominated. Call it the tea party effect.


http://www.otherwords.org/articles/sarah_palin_and_the_dozen_dwarfs

Funny! Didn't we hear some of this about House candidates last election? The fool's tool!

Libs continue to show how scared they are.

Have a laugh at davie's expense:

The newest members of the US House:

"The freshman class is one of the largest Washington has seen in years, with at least 85 new members joining the GOP in the House. Nearly half of the new Republicans have never served in government."

Nearly half have never served? And davie posts an article that says unknown candidates cannot be elected? That pretty much shows you libs what being unknown means. These people were elected on principle. A "schellacking", if you will remember? Last November's elections proved it to you.

LMBBAO!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/freshman-class-congress-begins-orientation/story?id=12142690

So, you copied this twice - why? If you think we will be more impressed if you say it twice you are mistaken. Besides, we knew it wasn't YOU saying it long before we read the link.