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There is only one

Last week, Joseph Farah expressed a certain degree of frustration with the Republican candidates for president. Like clockwork, one candidate after another has demonstrated fatal flaws that serve to completely disqualify him, or her, as the case may be, from the White House.

Mitt Romney is still the nominal front-runner, as he has been from the start. However, he is only a front-runner because of the huge quantity of corporate cash he has collected, which is hardly a positive in an election cycle when the electorate is keenly aware of the huge amount of corruption in the Wall Street-Washington axis. He has no conservative grassroots support because he is not a conservative. Not only is he a religious cultist and an architect of the precursor to Obamacare, but he is downright notorious for his lack of principle. While it is possible he could defeat Obama, there is no reason to believe he would govern in a manner that is materially different than President Goldman Sachs. Both Romney and Obama are post-ideological, in that neither appears to believe in anything but himself.

Exit Perry

Somehow, I don’t think Ron Paul would have had any problem naming the agencies he would eliminate. Of course, this shouldn’t disqualify Perry as a potential president, considering that our current one believes there are 57 states.

The gang that can’t shoot straight

The Harassinator’s team raises more questions about his competence as an executive:

Based upon information available at the time of Mr. Block’s Tuesday night interview on Fox News, the campaign was led to believe that Mr. Josh Kraushaar, currently with the National Journal and a former employee of Politico, was the son of Karen Kraushaar. Mr. Josh Kraushaar is in fact, not related to Ms. Karen Kraushaar.

You’re already in a hole. You’ve already developed what is rapidly approaching a Clintonian reputation for playing fast and loose with the truth. So why not keep digging? Being a gunslinger really isn’t impressive when you keep shooting yourself in the foot.

Mailvox: Exit the Harassinator

NB isn’t buying Herman Cain’s astoundingly inept attempt to deal with multiple historical accusations of sexual harassment:

I saw Herman Cain on Fox News this weekend, discussing the sexual harassment issue. He blew it.

He said he’d never sexually harassed anybody and that if the Restaurant Association settled a claim, he didn’t know about it and he hoped they didn’t pay anybody because he never did anything wrong. Now it appears there’s an out-of-court settlement involving two women who got a year’s pay each. It’s never the offense that sinks you, it’s always the cover-up.

He should have said: “I was accused of sexual harassment when I worked for the restaurant association 20 years ago. I denied I did anything wrong at that time, and I deny it today. We ended up settling out of court because it was cheaper to settle than continue paying the lawyers. Both sides agreed never to discuss the details of the settlement and I’m sticking to our agreement. That’s all I’m going to say about it.”

That would have been honest and believable. Most people would said “huh” and moved on. Now, it’s not the accusation that troubles people – hell, lots of people get falsely accused of stuff and have to settle or take a plea to avoid losing everything in litigation – it’s the lying about it that troubles us. Next, he’ll play the race card and compare himself to Clarence Thomas. When that doesn’t work, he’ll probably enter sexual harassment training for a weekend and have Billy Graham pray for him. When his wife stands beside him on stage saying she’s always believed in him, that’s the death knell.

I have to admit, I simply do not understand these morons who appear to believe that the skeletons in their closet are not going to eventually come out… unless one resorts to conspiracy theory. My explanation for this seemingly stupid behavior is that most, if not all, politicians have some sort of past history that will render them political toast if outed; Cain was probably told by the Republican establishment to settle down and not get too carried away with his success in the polls, but he went cowboy and decided to buck the system in the hopes that they wouldn’t air his dirty laundry.

On the one hand, the fact that the someone in the establishment wants to finish off his campaign tends to speak well for him. On the other hand, he is an incoherent bankster. America is probably better off with him out of the race, assuming this serves to finish him.

Thomas Friedman blows a whistle

It’s interesting to see that even some stalwart liberal Democrats are beginning to see that this isn’t a Democrat-Republican problem:

Many Egyptians were convinced that they lived in a deeply unjust society where the game had been rigged by the Mubarak family and its crony capitalists. Egypt shows what happens when a country adopts free-market capitalism without developing real rule of law and institutions.

But, then, what happened to us? Our financial industry has grown so large and rich it has corrupted our real institutions through political donations. As Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, bluntly said in a 2009 radio interview, despite having caused this crisis, these same financial firms “are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they, frankly, own the place.”

Our Congress today is a forum for legalized bribery. One consumer group using information from Opensecrets.org calculates that the financial services industry, including real estate, spent $2.3 billion on federal campaign contributions from 1990 to 2010, which was more than the health care, energy, defense, agriculture and transportation industries combined. Why are there 61 members on the House Committee on Financial Services? So many congressmen want to be in a position to sell votes to Wall Street.

I came up with a better term for the evil alliance between Washington and Wall Street in the column that will run tomorrow. The Washington-Wall Street Axis of Oligarchy is the real enemy of both the Tea Party Republicans and the Occupy Wall Street Democrats. And both the TP and OWS will have to give up their delusion of Republicans/Democrats good, Democrats/Republicans bad before anything positive is even possible.

I am nearly certain it is too late for any curative measures already. The contraction is already well underway, while risis and collapse appears to be guaranteed. The only serious question is when it will occur in an unmistakable manner. But even if that is the case, it’s still worthwhile helping people understand the true source of the trouble.

The secret of Herman Cain

Steve Sailer ponders the conundrum of Herman Cain’s mysterious appeal to Republican voters:

How can some random corporate executive emerge from nowhere? It’s almost as mysterious as how some random state legislator / part time law school lecturer can rise to the White House in a few years. Maybe Cain and Obama have something in common? It’s crazy to think that, I know, but there’s something about the two of them that seems similar. But what could it be?

Well, they both said “The Godfather” was their favorite movie. Which makes me wonder. Shouldn’t it be at least a little troubling that an individual who really, really likes a movie about corruption and the violent acquisition of power wants to be president? I mean, would you feel comfortable voting for someone who said his favorite movie was Saw, especially if he went into great detail explaining why Saw 3 was his particular favorite in the series?

Okay, I would probably be tempted to vote for such a candidate on that basis alone. But to return to the subject, it would appear that most Americans are far more concerned about obtaining a get-out-of-racism free card than they are about the economy. Still, it’s not Cain’s appealing blackness that is the problem, it is his banksterism, which like his blackness, is in excess of Obama’s.

As for Romney, a Mormon isn’t going to win. Southern Christians don’t vote for cultists. They may not vote for Obama either, but they’ll certainly be willing stay home even if it is THE MOSTEST IMPORTANTEST ELECTION EVER again.

Fuck the Police

Thus sayeth the United States Marine Corps after the Oakland police attack on Marine veteran Scott Olsen:

As God is my witness. I will fight tooth and nail to restore the decency this country was founded upon. The politicians, banks and large corporations have ruined this country. I find it difficult to notice any sense of politeness on the streets anymore. But it goes farther. As a Marine and a citizen I am outraged. I am sick to death of the world my children are being raised in.

So I ask all of you, can you too sense the tipping point? When will enough be enough? If not now, when? I feel the problem is that the average Joe citizen is ignorant and comfortable. These, in addition to selfishness have become the standard for the majority of the population. As long as people are comfortable they remain silent. Well, I’m really fucking uncomfortable and I’m sick of seeing this sort of shit happening. The Occupy protests that are going on are our first glimmer of hope. If we can take this and move it further, get every lazy ass off their rocker and open their eyes; then maybe, just maybe we have a chance.

Semper Fi brothers, and remember who you are. Protectors of a great nation, not politicians or wealthy money grubbing bankers and the like. When it comes time, I know we’ll stand strong.

So, the Washington-Wall Street Axis of Corruption have the police, the media, and the Mexican gangs to whom they are selling guns and with whom they are laundering drug money. We the People only have the angry veterans of the USMC on their side.

I like their odds.

The U.S. Constitution is to be defended against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC. And there isn’t much question about who the domestic enemies of the Constitution are.

The candidates on Hollywood

As if you needed another reason not to vote for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama/Soetoro/Soebarkah:

Herman Cain: The Godfather

Michele Bachmann: Braveheart, “or maybe Saving Private Ryan”

Newt Gingrich: “Probably” Casablanca

Rick Santorum: Field of Dreams

Ron Paul: “I don’t watch many movies”

Gary Johnson: Dr. Zhivago

Mitt Romney: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Rick Perry: Immortal Beloved

Barack Obama: Casablanca, The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

My translation of their answers:

Herman Cain: Heh heh, get it?

Michele Bachmann: I would have said Notting Hill, but that wouldn’t have looked manly enough.

Newt Gingrich: What movie would sound the most intellectual without sounding too avant-garde for hoi polloi?

Rick Santorum: I’m just a regular guy who drinks beer and watches sports. And dreams.

Ron Paul: I actually read books.

Gary Johnson: I actually like movies.

Mitt Romney: I am the dorkish prick you thought I was. And I have a dreadful sense of humor.

Rick Perry: I’m quite not as dumb as I look and sound.

Barack Obama: Since that all things to everyone worked so well in 2008. (Seriously, what sort of jerk has not one, but four quasi-film buff favorites.)

Personally, I think Ron Paul gave the ideal answer, although I would also consider voting for a candidate who cited either Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Grosse Pointe Blank.

On the other hand, it didn’t stop Obama

Marc Rubio is not a viable candidate for president, in 2012 or afterwards, because he is ineligible for the office:

Rubio is ineligible for the office of President. That’s how it is. I don’t care if you like it or not, that’s how it is. It is because his parents held allegiance to a foreign nation at the time of his birth and therefore so did he.

There’s no way to cure this other than through Constitutional Amendment.

If you don’t like this fix it the right way. All this BS, strum and furor doesn’t change facts – Rubio was born to two foreign nationals; neither was a citizen at the time he was born. And he was not the child of two people “fleeing Castro” either – his parents came to the United States before Castro took power in Cuba.

In addition to being ineligible he’s a damned liar.

It’s interesting to see how many Republicans who like to wave the Constitution around suddenly became silent about what the Constitution says concerning “natural-born citizens” once questions about Obama/Soetoro/Soebarkah arose. If Rubio puts himself forward as a presidential candidate in spite of knowing of his Constitutional ineligibility, he won’t merit a single vote from anyone loyal to the U.S. Constitution. And yet, the conservative media keeps talking him up… what logical conclusion can we draw from this?

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Herman Cain: Pro-Choice Republican

Herman Cain on abortion, Take 1: “It’s not the government’s role or anybody else’s role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you’re not talking about that big a number. So what I’m saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family, and whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn’t have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue.”

Herman Cain on abortion, Take 2: “As to my political policy view on abortion, I am 100 percent pro-life. End of story.”

End of story? I think not.