Comments on: Hide Your Wallet

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:45:49 +0000

They will have to clean up their act or accept a position as a minority, regional party until they reemerge under a new name. I would not suggest the “Bull Moose Party”, as it would show favoritism, but “American Conservatives” might fly.

It will be a branding exercise, by they certainly don’t intend to fundamentally change their ways.

One of the things that set Charlie off was when he found out that Nestle, Coke, and Pepsi are paying about $150/year to pump all of the Florida water they want into plastic bottles to sell to people. When you have looming water rationing in some areas, people get a little restless about that sort of thing. Brown lawns and 1.6 gallon toilets really drive some people over the edge.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:32:47 +0000

Yeah, that’s the problem. If you talk sense, you can’t get the Republican Party Presidential nomination because you offend both the business base (which wants to believe it can have all the advantages of government without paying for it) and the batshit crazy base (which is, well, batshit crazy). You can only get the Republican Party nomination if you talk batshit crazy. Yet if you talk batshit crazy, you can’t win the general election. This is gonna be a *long* eight years for the Republican Party…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:29:25 +0000

I think he got himself in trouble today – he’s looking a ways to raise revenue and is talking about charging corporations for some of what they steal from the state, as well as eliminating some of their tax exemptions. That won’t go over well with the Party’s overlords.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:54:42 +0000

Maybe we should be hoping for a gay prostitute and a meth problem, then :-(.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:19:24 +0000

Charlie has managed to stay above the fray through a number of nasty incidents and has avoided taking sides in some nasty internecine conflicts. I don’t see any of the problems directly affecting him, as this mess is something the legislative leadership has brought on itself by cutting off all of its revenue sources and refusing to fix the problems that have been evident for years.

Charlie has no ties to the legislature, as he came in via the DA, Attorney General route, so, unless he goes wild with vetoes, he is just administering “the will of the people”.

Charlie is a better actor than Bobby, and, so far, has had better writers.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:02:32 +0000

How much of the mud will spew off the stuck truck of the Lege onto the Governor? Just curious. Some of that same morons who tried pushing Mittens Romney for Preznit are now rustling around looking for a sane Republican to run in 2012, and seized upon some of the sane stuff Crist said lately and said “Hey, that guy would make a great Preznit!” I don’t see it, myself, but I suppose it depends how much this disaster will make him look bad. Well, that and the whole trophy-wife-cause-I-ain’t-gay problem, but that didn’t stop Rev. Ted Haggard from being beloved by the base (until caught with meth and a male prostitute, anyhow).