Buddy Roemer: The Best Republican Presidential Candidate You’ve Never Heard Of
Imagine a Republican candidate for President who truly has all the right stuff:
- Looks the part like Mitt Romney, but not a mealy-mouthed animatronic prig.
- Silver-haired, silver-tongued devil like Newt Gingrich, but not a delusional windbag.
- Defender of individual rights like Ron Paul, but not a torch-waving anarchist.
- Experienced legislator like Rick Santorum, but not a rigid, moralizing dandy.
- Shoot-from-the-hip Governor like Rick Perry, but not a stammering loose cannon.
- Consistent message like Michele Bachmann, but not a gaffe-prone idiot.
- Successful businessman like Herman Cain, but not a womanizing puff-talking wanker.
Ron Paul in One Lesson: A Primer on Libertarianism
Quadrennial asterisk Ron Paul is once again displaying his Libertarian Wolf Boy exhibit at the Republican freak show, again prompting puzzled onlookers to remark “oh yeah, I remember that guy,” and “what the hell is he doing up there?” Now that Paul has risen from novelty candidate to so-called “top tier” status, his libertarian principles arguably merit closer examination before being mothballed for another four years.
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Why I’m Rooting for Newt Gingrich To Be The Republican Nominee
If you’re a liberal, you’ve probably had at least one Republican acquaintance inform you that you ought to be supporting Ron Paul for President. This is because Republicans don’t really quite understand Ron Paul. Since he believes in civil liberties and doesn’t like sending young people off to die in ill-conceived foreign wars, Republicans often assume he’s a flaming liberal hippie in disguise. In the black-and-white world of Tea Party Republicans, he’s not nearly white enough to be white, and must therefore be black.
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House Republicans Hit A New Low By Passing The Year’s Dumbest Bill
While grocery shopping, I often chuckle at (for instance) the myriad varieties of vegetable oil lining the shelves, proclaiming “No Cholesterol!” It’s vegetable oil, for crying out loud. Damn well better not have cholesterol. This sort of nonsense often sets me off on another tongue-in-cheek rant, remarking for the umpteenth time that Crisco ought to tout their product as caffeine-free and sugar-free while they’re at it. Why, they oughtta introduce a whole new line of “fill-in-the-blank-free” oils and shortenings (at a premium price, naturally) and even beat the competition to market with an ultra premium line Certified Free of Death Crystals. After all, why would one worry about saturated fats or trans fats now that we’re all threatened by Death Crystals? You don’t want your family eating Death Crystals, now, do you? Of course you don’t! And so on….
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Chapter 11: The New Shape of Solar?
Once hyped as a prototypical green jobs pioneer, Solyndra Inc., a California-based maker of high tech solar modules, has filed for bankruptcy. One thousand workers are back to pounding the pavement, and $535M in Department of Energy loan guarantees to Solyndra are in jeopardy, triggering an FBI investigation. Sounds like a bad thing, but—if you’re a Republican—bad things are good. Indeed, right wingers are doing victory laps, lambasting Obama’s green jobs proposals with Solyndra as their cause célèbre.
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