Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 18 March 2012

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

March 18th, 2012

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney; actor George C. Looney and John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, an advocacy group that does work in Sudan.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Clooney and Prendergast.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus; David Assholerod, adviser to Obama's re-election campaign.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Santorum; Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S., Eklil Hakimi.

[skinkinthegrass]

thxs, for the report & analysis, Di. :-)
& the SMNS thread pings, AB.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yes, and here he is, in public, saying the same: Capt Chris Alexander:

Army capt.: Afghan killing suspect has saved lives

I believe Capt Alexander. He is a REAL officer and a gentleman. He is also putting his career on the line by going public like this, but it is the right thing to do, and for that, he has my undying Senior NCO respect.

While praying for the Bales, pray for the good Captain, too.

Frankly, we are asking too much of all these fine young men and it sickens me that because of these demands, tragedies like this happen. It really is too much. I have no answer.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hey, where’s your essay? Are you taking a break this week? Not that you don’t deserve it.

[Alas Babylon!]

Your essays do not take away from this thread. Rather, they are welcome!

Now, so nobody thinks I’m playing favorites, anyone can post an essay here, and if they ask me nicely, I’ll even post it for them.

In any case, I can hardly dictate what can and can’t or shouldn’t be posted in Mr. Robinson’s web site.

I enjoy Bray’s essays, so I gladly post them.

[rodguy911]

I really think at this point if we get a Republican President that we in the New Media do have the potential to light fires under their ass and at the very least make them quite uncomfortable if not spur them into action.

If any President, dem or pubbie aggravates the likes of Rush Limbaugh they risk getting a spanking that hurts for along while.Just ask dingy harry about the letter he sent to Clear Channel.How'd that work Senator putz.

[rodguy911]

This guy Bales was on his 73rd recall since we only have 4 troops in reserve these days.And zero’s answer is to cut the defense budget more. We need more fema brownshirts not troops.
Of course that never will excuse what he did.That was just plain stupid.

[Cheerio]

WELL SAID - I have been thinking this for years now.

I want the Grand Ole Party (too many RINOs) to just go away and the TEA PARTY to become an official party.

[Alas Babylon!]

Krystal makes comment on Romney’s performance this am on FOX....Romney did pretty well, except when he said the fundamental difference between himself and obama was that Obama does not have private sector experience...didn’t bring up heathe care, anything else. Not a compelling argument for Romney.

My goodness that is true!

Really, Romney's statement is a disaster. What a wishy-washy milquetoast thing to say. Where's his fire that the rest of us, who love our country and is dismayed by what Obama is doing. have? I say that not as someone who like or dislikes Romney; but I want to see Obama defeated!!!!

If Romney is too weak to do so, and an argument like that is a sure loser, than Romney CANNOT be the nominee.

[Alas Babylon!]

Of course that never will excuse what he did.That was just plain stupid.

I cannot agree with you, Rod. You have NO idea what he's been through. Up to the very last day. Yes, it is no excuse, but it is the reason, like night following day, or rain coming from dark, swollen clouds.

How can something be stupid when no thought was even formed, and the only thing left was vast, horrendous outrage? If thought had won, nothing bad would have happened. But that is now in the past, and we must deal with the present and the future.

Please pray for Mrs Bales and her two small children.

[Kaylee Frye]

My husband is trying to do the right thing in speaking up for Bales when he cannot. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes.

I would say more about this, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to say.

[tarheelswamprat]

I don't think Mitt is going to accept the idea that conservatives don't like him. He's been running too long to ever consider that.

Back from church and catching up - some good comments here from many folks.

Re: Mitt "accepting" the idea, I see the situation a bit differently. I believe Romney and the GOP-E (a friend calls them the Institutional Republican Party) understand perfectly well that he's never going to win over conservatives.

I think the reality is more ominous, in that the GOP-E would prefer to lose with "their man" than to win with conservatives and upset their comfortable status quo. If we learn nothing else from this election, at least we have seen the Establishment elites, which includes both parties, reveal their hand and demonstrate that wealth and power are all that matters to them.

[rodguy911]

Thanks,tea party taking over pubbies= a great idea.

[rodguy911]

While he should never have been sent over for yet another tour that he seemed not to have not wanted or to have been ready for,few will excuse what he did.

[tarheelswamprat]

It is my belief that there has been a long term, deliberate policy/plan to grind down, over-deploy, stress out and weaken our military.

Additionally, destruction of morale through impossible ROE’s and legal prosecution/persecution via corrupt, politically-motivated JAG and NCIS lawyers and their politicized command hierarchy. Remember the “Haditha 9” marines? Multiply that by dozens of similar cases that passed beneath the public’s radar, which have destroyed careers, impoverished the families of services members and imprisoned many.

Now we are about to witness Sgt. Bales own chain of command throw him to the wolves in a vain, stupid and futile attempt to appease the mob of un-appeasable savages.

[Cheerio]

Finally someone brings it up.How the country took a huge dive off the platform when the dirty dems took control over congress in 2006. We need to stop anyone from blaming GW when it was the piglosi mantra that started destroying the country in 2006 not anything GW did.

Never ever forget........

"Will everything you've worked so hard to accomplish be lost to the San Francisco values of would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi?" -- Newt Gingrich, former House speaker. Associated Press file photo, 2004, by Dennis Cook

THREE DIRTY WORDS: SAN FRANCISCO VALUES,
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
If the Democrats win the House on Tuesday, expect the descriptor -- epithet, really -- "San Francisco values" to become a permanent part of the media conversation.

"If (House Minority Leader) Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker of the House, it will be on the Republicans' list of top five talking points every week," said longtime GOP media strategist and UC Berkeley political science instructor Dan Schnur.

Who's waiting until next week? The phrase is already resonating in conservative corners of the blogosphere, MySpace, right-leaning media outlets and even on newspaper editorial pages. It's a sign of how new media strategies can frame the debate quicker than in past elections. Especially the conservative parts of it. .

[skinkinthegrass]

"..is Karzai. He’s very unreliable."Ahem..don't we ever learn from history?...47+ years ago (1963), SVN Diem was overthrown; w/ a *wink* of the US Gov.
not saying; to hell w/'em...but, there must be a very rational exit strategy....*sigh*

[shalom aleichem]

Agree with all you’re saying re Sgt. Bales. I’d like to know how many guys have been prosecuted like Haditha 9 (all of whom were acquitted except Sgt Witterich who copped a plea to “insubordination” in lieu of mass murder). This is bringng to my mind Tim McVeigh. No comparison in scale of course. But I’d love to know what Tim was thinking. Neither he nor Bales have claimed “insanity”. Indeed a mental defect has been aluded to with Bales (”brain trauma”) but not to the level of legal defense. The active servisemen I am hearing from (I’m a veteran) are pretty much down on Bales for once again portrating us “all” as baby killers. The stresses and humiliation the US command structure and CIC have and are placing on these guys is intolerable, and now they threaten to further reduce retirement medical and financial benefits.

[Reo]

"Ryan is a born leader and my guess is some time in the future he, Palin and Marco will take their leadership places and our party will shine again."

My dream scenario: a deadlocked convention brings the party together with a Ryan-Rubio ticket that sweeps the election in the fall and secures control of the White House for the next 16 years. President Ryan's first cabinet appointment is Sarah Palin as Secretary of Energy, and we all live happily ever after.

[mathluv]

I am not convinced that mittens would be better. He has flip flopped on so many issues. I have no faith that he will repeal o-care. Of course, we KNOW o will not repeal it. I don’t know that congress critters will do so either - of either/both party.

[bray]

You’re breathing aren’t you?

Pray for America