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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 12:30 PM Dec 2011

The Rude Pundit - In Brief: A Few Lazy Observations on Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama

1. In a quote that got a bit lost last week in the orgy of various and sundry holiday celebrations, Barack Obama said, when asked by Barbara Walters about mistakes he's made as president, "When it comes to dealing with Congress, you know, of late, I've said, I'm not going to wait for Congress. I'm going to go ahead and just do whatever I have in my executive power. I think that there were times in my first couple a years where I kept on sitting there trying to see if we can negotiate some sort of compromise, and there just was a lot of refusal on the other side's part to compromise. And, I'd just stay at it...but as a consequence, I think a lot of time was lost that frustrated a lot of people around the country. They want to see action on behalf of some of these issues."

Whoa, whoa, there. You mean that Obama is realizing that motherfuckers actually do fuck their mothers? And that from here on out he's going to behave accordingly? Well, dude, put up or shut up.

2. Hey, poor, deluded Ron Paul supporters, how does it feel now that your racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, paranoid candidate is getting all the attention you've felt he deserved? And to the Rude Pundit's friends who have tried to convince him since 2008 about the awesomeness that is Ron Paul, is drug legalization really worth that much of your self-esteem? And even if by some miracle he is nominated, remember what Paul himself said: he can't catch up to a running black man.

3. But, really, at the end of the day, fer fuck's sake, Republicans, just accept that Mitt Romney is your nominee. In a whiny-ass editorial in the Weekly Standard, William Kristol offers blow jobs and crystal meth to any savior candidate who jumps into the Republican race. " (I)t is no time for leaders to duck responsibility," he says before going into great detail about how he can't go another minute without getting Christie or Jeb or Rubio spooge on his face. It's kind of embarrassing to see what a shameless knob-gobbler Kristol admits to being.

It's Romney. It was always gonna be Romney. Just like it was always gonna be McCain. Just like it was always gonna be Dole. Sometimes things are just inevitable. Embrace it. Because any candidate that has any smarts at all ain't getting in this race just so that Michele Bachmann can get nasal and nasty on them or that they have to endure the degrading spectacle of being on a stage with Newt Gingrich. Ask Rick Perry how that savior gig worked out.

(Fun fact: In 1994, Kristol predicted in Campaigns and Election magazine that Bill Clinton would start and win "a large-scale land war" to shore up his popularity, that he'd have a primary challenger in 1996, and lose the election with less than 40% of the vote. Pay that man for advice.)

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The Rude Pundit - In Brief: A Few Lazy Observations on Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama (Original Post) meegbear Dec 2011 OP
i wanna marry The Rude. nt xchrom Dec 2011 #1
Right on as usual. Rude is the only way to treat the pubs. Gregorian Dec 2011 #2
The Rude One rules hifiguy Dec 2011 #3
Glad to hear that Obama finally realizes that Reublicons are out to make America FAIL SpiralHawk Dec 2011 #4
Until recently Obama was the best republican ever Skink Dec 2011 #5
Kick for Rude FlyByNight Dec 2011 #6
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
3. The Rude One rules
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 12:45 PM
Dec 2011

and the next time Kristol is right about anything will be the first time. He was the one most vocally pitching the Quittin' Grifter to Grampy in '08. How did that work out again?

 

SpiralHawk

(32,944 posts)
4. Glad to hear that Obama finally realizes that Reublicons are out to make America FAIL
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 12:49 PM
Dec 2011

It has been plain to many for a long long time that the hate & fear that infest the Republicon soul wants only to destroy what is good, wholesome and honorable about America.

Skink

(10,122 posts)
5. Until recently Obama was the best republican ever
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 12:58 PM
Dec 2011

But now he is going to up the take and they can't have that so they are regretting not running a winable candidate.

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