Herman Cain is out, all hail President Gingrich!?

Well, Herman Cain has dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination race.  This action will absolutely cement Gingrich as the party machine, right-wing candidate of choice for Republicans and conservatives.  As we’ve talked about before here that will surely draw the target squarely on the head of Newt Gingrich.  However, since the Tea Party and the vocal right of the party hate Mitt Romney I think this really opens up a path to the nomination for Gingrich.  The really ironic thing is that Cain is being taken down by the family values crowd for having one marital affair, which is actually Newt Gingrich’s primary dating strategy.

I hear lots of noise about how Mitt Romney is the establishment candidate, but let’s face it, conservatives are running the Republican Party and Romney is just not conservative enough for them.  So Newt becomes the defacto conservative flag carrier and soon to be Republican nominee.  To steal the old Lotto motto, you have to be in it to win it, if Newt is in the election and Europe melts down and the economy stays beaten and slow or in even in decline, Obama could lose to him.

So, let the hypocrisy begin.  The Republican Party, family values, conservative value protector in our country, the party being pushed by the Tea Party to weed out the Washington insiders will support a man who has NO credibility in a discussion of any sort of family values, is a total Washington insider, and who while out of office makes money almost solely based on his inside the beltway Washington political influence.  Everything the right, conservatives, Republicans and the Tea Party say they abhor.  Once again we are quickly finding politics as usual in Washington, with neither party having any true values or credibility.

 

 

 

Republican family values: Gingrich and Trump

So the field of potential Republican candidates or as I call them, the nest of cuckoos, gets ever more interesting.  Between Sarah “fight like a girl Palin” looking out over Russia or Michelle “the president is not our side” Bachmann rallying Tea partiers the circus is certainly in town.  However I think the most interesting aspect of this group at this point is that among the party of “Family Values” Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump currently have 30% of the party vote.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/04/12/rel6c.pdf

Really, the same party that has spent the last 30 years blasting gays for immorality, talking about the moral turpitude of America and particularly liberals is considering voting for Trump or Gingrich?

Trump has five children by three wives and has made public statements about how great sex was with his mistress and was in favor of abortion:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/11/donald-trump-family-values-conservative-believe-it-or-not/

Gingrich has multiple marriages and is rumored to have had multiple affairs during his “illustrious” career.

http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

What I think this shows particularly in Trump’s case is that Republicans are more interested in hating President Obama then they are in the potential governance ability or the morals of their candidates.  It’s sad that American Politics is now based on hate, not the good of the people.

Rush Limbaugh: Traditional Conservative Values

I have made no secret of my raging dislike for conservative blow hards like Rush and Sean Hannity, truth be told not a big fan of liberal blow hards either, basically against blow hards as a species. However, with Rush I have a confession to make. In the early days of his radio show I was working in California and was actually quite amused by Rush Limbaugh’s radio show. He was obviously doing a lot of what he was doing to be outrageous and attract attention and frankly he didn’t seem to take himself all that seriously. He was certainly a conservative commentator and responding to an unfilled niche on the radio. Then the greatest thing in Rush’s life happened, no not oxycodone, but the election of Bill Clinton. Rush rose to huge heights on the wave of absolute hate the right showed for the Clintons. It was during that rise that I began losing the amusement I used to have with Rush, he started to take himself way too seriously. He began in my opinion to believe in the crap he previously only said to build an audience and make money. Rush began to believe in his own press, expanding ego and the wave of love he felt coming back from the dittoheads. How sad that people take pride in a name that actually celebrates the fact that they don’t think for themselves. I know, I know dittos, you constantly, and he constantly say no that’s not what it means, obviously none of you own a dictionary.

However today I read news that may bring my dislike of Rush Limbaugh to new heights. Mr. Conservatism, Mr. Traditional values has gotten married again. In thinking about Mr. Limbaugh’s nuptials it struck me that he and even more so his fans, are a bunch of freakin hypocrites. Were I to approach any of them and tell them I had advice for them from a four-time married drug addict who had a gay man serenade him at his last wedding, singing Elton John songs no less, they would laugh in my face. They are conservatives, they couldn’t possibly take advice from someone who obviously does not share their traditional conservative values. Yet there they are listening to Rush Limbaugh, married for the fourth time, oxycodone drug addict and having Elton John serenade him at his wedding. Fact of the matter is if that’s the new conservatism, I may just have to sign up.