The Grinch or the Bobbleheads

Newt's an OG, "Original Grinch."  His baggage is said to have baggage, or as my favorite Cajun lefty puts it "his herpes has aids." He'd been book-touring for president as a cartoonish snake-oil salesman, but each of his fellow vanity candidates in turn jumped into the lead in and flamed out.  In early December, he finds himself improbably in the lead against the establishment's reluctantly anointed champion, and selling himself as the man to "put Obama in his place" to his party's gut, it's "George Wallace" base who physically loath this president and everything for which he stands.   So far, he's defying gravity in the polls and being ignored by his party's moneymen.  A recent National Journal survey of a hundred democratic insiders and a hundred republicans agreed in the high 80s that he's likely to flame out before the first vote.  It's only such universal agreement among the "experts" and Romney's  uncomfortable wierdness that casts some shadow of doubt on my similar expectation.

Willard Romney is such a personification of other-worldly wholesomeness, that his bobblehead is more identifiably human than his magnificently groomed person.  He's as focus grouped, consulted and edited as a nomination speech; his only obvious core conviction is ambition.  Willard can't seem to get above 20% in the polls, and his unsuitability as a candidate - a progressive Massachusetts Mormon in a reactionary Southern Christianist party- has propelled a chain of comical opportunists into temporary leads against him.  Nevertheless, he's the most viably funded and organized on the ground in a grueling race where being the tortoise is probably better than being hare of the month.

Neo Confederate Racist/Anti Semite Loudmouth "Boys" President Obama, Saying McConnel "Whipped Him"

Here's a shocker:  MSNBC's old racist uncle called the president "your boy" to RevAl while laughing about him getting "whipped" and claims there's nothing racist about it.  As if his public racism, as above, and here    http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-a-brief-for-whitey-969  is irrelevant in discerning the meaning of his comments.

On MSNBC Tuesday night, Pat Buchanan called President Obama "your boy" when speaking to Rev. Al Sharpton, who has been hosting the 6pm hour on the network. He said that Sharpton's "boy" Obama got "whipped" by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

"My what?... My President, Barack Obama? What did you say?" Sharpton retorted in disbelief. Buchanan attempted to cover his tracks by saying he was using boxing terminology, meaning "your boy in the ring," but Sharpton shot back "he's nobody's boy -- he's your president." Watch the interchange here, via Mediaite:

 http://www.salon.com/news/race/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/03/pat_buchanan_boy_comment_context

New Evidence of Southern Racist Extremism Driving Tbag Priorities

The connection between the American neo-confederate-anti immigrant-anti gay-anti-tax axis can't help but be visible, but Mike Lind proves, with names and numbers, that they all coalesce in the Tbag Nation.

http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parties/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/02/lind_tea_party

The Tea Party movement takes its name from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American patriots dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest British imperial power. But while New England was the center of resistance to the British empire, there are few New Englanders to be found in today's Tea Party movement. It should be called the Fort Sumter movement, after the Southern attack on the federal garrison in Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12-13, 1861, that began the Civil War. Today's Tea Party movement is merely the latest of a series of attacks on American democracy by the white Southern minority, which for more than two centuries has not hesitated to paralyze, sabotage or, in the case of the Civil War, destroy American democracy in order to get their way.

The mainstream media have completely missed the story, by portraying the Tea Party movement in ideological rather than regional terms. Whether by accident or design, the public faces of the Tea Party in the House are Midwesterners -- Minnesota's Michele Bachmann and Joe Walsh of Illinois. But while there may be Tea Party sympathizers throughout the country, in the House of Representatives the Tea Party faction that has used the debt ceiling issue to plunge the nation into crisis is overwhelmingly Southern in its origins:

I Believe Nafissatou Diallo

The asylum immigrant/hotel chambermaid obscenely attacked by international banker/politician Strauss-Kahn.  I've seen plenty of "prior untruthfulness" afflicted witnesses, even complaining witnesses,  effectively re-habilitated by prosecution and defense attorneys.  People always have baggage, it's just a matter of what resources either side devotes to digging and what the judge lets in.   The Manhattan DA's office is hopelessly compromised in this prosecution; Vance has jumped in every direction half-cocked, losing whatever credibility his troubled tenure had left him along the way and now can neither dismiss nor prosecute with any whatsoever. It should go to the Atty. Gen to prosecute.

Black Valedictorian of Majority White HS, Joined by Lower GPA White Co-Val

http://abcnews.go.com/US/student-sues-school-barred-sole-valedictorian/story?id=14164431

A black Arkansas teen who graduated top of her class is suing her high school for racial discrimination after the principal decided to name a white student with a lower GPA as co-valedictorian.

Kymberly Wimberly, 18, told ABC News she always dreamed about being at the top of her class at McGehee High School.

"When I found out I was valedictorian, I was ecstatic," she said.

That soon changed when Wimberly's mother, Molly Bratton, who works at the school as a media specialist, overheard school officials saying they wanted to avoid the "big mess" that would happen with Wimberly as valedictorian, the teen said.

"I told [the co-valedictorian] this isn't fair. This is an administrative decision," Wimberly said, saying she told the student: "We both know if the tables were turned, there wouldn't be a co-valedictorian."

She said the other student agreed.

'Ol Seccesh's Neo-Confederate Past Appears In Wake Of Trial Ballon

Texas' secessionist governor, Rick Perry, is a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group that like it's mirror image the Sons of the Grand Army of the Republic, both honors the courage and sacrifices of it's members ancestors and promotes the cause for which they fought.  He's (never denounced and) repeatedly benefitted in his political career by neo-secessionist 'League of the South" campaign endorsements.  That's the publicly known background to  his famous 2010 pro-secession speech to Texas Tbaggers.

Of course the main value that these and other pro-secession groups want to uphold is white supremacy: our founding doctrine.   Its what animates the Tbaggers who want to "take back" their America from it's first black president, and 'Ol Seccesh is hoping to ride it to the "white" house.  Check out the article in Salon for the details http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/07/13/rick_perry_sons_of_confederate_veterans