So it's January and we are eight days from Super Tuesday....and people in town seem to be forecasting doom for the Republicans...
Is it because Giuliani's strategy has so massively failed? Is it because Americans seem to really like and vote for people that are entertaining as opposed to good leaders? I.E. Huckabee? Bill Clinton? Stephen Colbert? (J/K)
There does seem to be some truth to the idea that people vote based on personality that is true. But they also do vote for people who are smart, it takes intelligence to keep people entertained and not have your cracks show-flashback to Clinton vs. Bush. Bill Clinton glossed over his flaws by being both entertaining and knowledgeable..Huckabee has not become the main choice because he is mostly just entertaining and down home, his flaws still show-like a lack of foreign policy experience.
And this year, Bill Clinton's charms are thin and not helpful to Hillary, probably because he is aiming them all at being cranky and a diva, while at other moments being charismatic...like he was bipolar??? Hmm, he's divalicious. This morning on The View, Whoopi Goldberg addressed the camera and Bill Clinton directly saying 'Bill, Stop it.' meaning stop getting out and defending your wife by being a cranky jerk in front of the cameras....and Goldberg said 'I hope it is' when asked if he was being so difficult because he wants to defend Hillary, because he loves her and she is his partner, and we all know that normal people get defensive (it's game over) when someone-even their own parents- attack the person they love....except we all know that the Clinton's are abnormal and if they have love, it's complicated...so he could just be doing it all out of ego.
Bill Clinton could just be frustrated because he always used the race card, he was known as the 'black president', and his affinity for civil rights issues in public policy, that is the brand he has sold. But how does he do that against an actual black man like Barak Obama?
He can't, awww poor Billy.
Or maybe it's poor Republicans, more than one person has said here in town that there are worse things than Hillary as President...out of frustration..
Actually, most of the apathy comes from the fact that Jon McCain seems like the frontrunner, we won't know until next week for sure, and the only other major person is Mitt Romney. McCain has turned off the base with his ego and temper over the years....so no one is jazzed about him, well except that he keeps winning and came back from the dead over the Summer. So somebody likes him....Mitt Romney is the best candidate in this blogger's opinion.
He comes from a solid background as a Mormon, no scandal at all, only his past as the governor of a liberal state seems to haunt him...and what kills is that some members of the base attacked him in the beginning because they couldn't see that they were knocking down the most pro life person who had the best statistics to do the job of President.
In the past President Bush's past as a party boy turned reformed person appealed because people thought he had something to prove-he wanted, needed to be good. He was the anti Bill Clinton.
What about someone like Mitt Romney though who has a solid family history and who has a solid past performance in the world running businesses? He could stop the liberal argument about the economy in a heartbeat. It's the same argument that the liberals are starting now over the economy that defeated Bush Sr. when he ran against Clinton....personally the Clinton years were not great, but at the time, this argument helped defeat the incumbent president.
Past performance is a great predictor of the future, and Romney has a great past with optimism too. Personally, this blogger says there are worse things than a McCain Presidency..but Hillary is just unacceptable.
Why oh why would someone send this to a conservative blogger? Is this punishment for accepting massive amounts of email from Ron Paul's campaign????
If this looks funny, that is because it came from an electronic form email.
January 28, 2008
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