Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 1 April 2012

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

April 1st, 2012

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum; former Govs. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and Howard Dean, D-Vt.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Santorum; Sen. Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Vice President Joe Biden; Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul; Kevin Madden, adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.; Ryan.

[altura]

It’s looking more and more like Romney is gonna take this thing and I find I have an odd detachment about it.

All I want now is someone who can get Obama out of my life, out of the country’s life and hopefully he can move back to Hawaii or wherever he’s from.

I think Romney can beat him if we concentrate on what’s important, i.e. beating Obama.

I might feel more passionate if there were a candidate I could back wholeheartedly.

I spent 3 years fully expecting Sarah Palin to run. She should have. I was greatly comforted though when Rick Perry entered the race. Still disappointed about what happened there and still a little bitter.

We didn’t have a great field to start with and it’s narrowed down to two mediocre candidates. I don’t care. I wish we’d done better but we didn’t. We now need to get behind Romney. Santorum convinced me of that this morning when he totally failed to counter any of Chris Wallace’s accusations in a satisfactory manner. No fire.

Sorry, but I can’t get enthusiastic about Santorum though I prefer him to Romney.

Sadly, Gingrich is out and admits it himself. He’s got some sort of delusion going that he can stop Romney by staying in.

[guinnessman]

Ask yourself this question:

If Romney was really the candidate that the Democrats feared most, why would the national Democrats and their friends in the media build him up for over a year?

[Diogenesis]

Dear FRiend,

The WAR is against ObamaCARE = RomneyCARE

and is against more taxation (Obama) and more "fees" (Romney)

and is against more coverups (Fast and Furious Obama) or (BIG DIG Romney)

and is against more TARP, Sharia or IAG (Romney or Obama)

and is against any politician that usurps Constitutions (Romney and Obama)

and is against any ineligible POTUS (Romney or Obama)

and is against LYING-FLIPFLOPPING Politicians (Romney OR Obama).

and is against politicians who HAVE LIVED ONLY to
be our next Emperor at all costs (Romney, Obama).

Now, what do you have to support the Backstabber?

[rodguy911]

Great post, really helps the left so your plan of attack now is what?

[Sirius Lee]

The most Conservative to the least:
1) Newt
2) Santorum
3) Paul

The most Liberal:
1) Obama
2) Mittens
3) Pelosi
4) Jane fonda

[altura]

Can you believe that some idiot ... there are many in Hollywood, but this is a low ... has chosen Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in some movie.

There are a lot of people who wouldn’t go see Jane Fonda if they were paying people to go. I’m one of them.

Vietnam veterans day was March 29th. Maybe most people have forgotten the national disgrace of how these veterans were treated on their return. I have not.

[Diogenesis]

guinnessman is CORRECT. Let the truth free you.

IT’S UNANIMOUS FOR RINO ROMNEY
From the Kennedy Seat in Massachusetts to the entire DNC

Mitt Romney wins much coveted Jimmy Carter endorsement

Gore Praises Romney's 'Climate Protection Plan'

Carville(D):
"It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing.
Romney is an ascendant guy."

Sen. John Kerry (D) to Don Imus on RomneyCARE:
"I like this health care bill".

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) on RomneyCARE:
"To come up with a bipartisan plan in this polarized environment is commendable."

[Miss Marple]

My question as well. Mitt Romney is not the most conservative candidate we could have had, but a bunch of them didn’t run.

He is the most organized and has demonstrated an ability to raise a lot of money, which is sort of important in running against Mr. Big Bucks Obama.

Am I to believe that John Bolton, Paul Ryan, and Ron Johnson are liberals or completely clueless?

I am going with Romney. Would have preferred Perry, but he flamed out early.

[tarheelswamprat]

I will feel much more confident after the final votes are released and the opinions published. Until then, there is too much that can go wrong.

bray always writes eloquently and incisively (even in those rare instances where he's wrong... /g). Your caution is merited, however, and the danger of being overconfident is even worse than you stated.

The historical record of oral arguments and subsequent SCOTUS decisions demonstrates clearly that the impressions given by the justices questions and arguments in the hearings are not a reliable indication of how they will vote. Justices often use the hearings as a way to play devil's advocate in exploring AND shaping the parameters of the argument, even to the point of telegraphing or offering clues and leading counsel towards the argument they want.

In fact, Justice Kennedy did exactly that in his final remarks about the "special case" or "exceptional" nature of the healthcare issue. To me it was frighteningly obvious he's determined to find a way to craft a narrowly defined solution to allow them to toss a bone to a public that overwhelmingly opposes this legal obscenity, but still preserve the government's absolute control of healthcare.

Bottom line, it's good to hear some justices give at least lip service support to the principles of the Founders and the Constitution, but there is a terrifying amount of momentum and inertia from so many of those "institutions of civil society" which have been co-opted by the Left as described in Antonio Gramsci's "Long March" socialist strategy.

They are absolutely determined to close the deal and cement their statist control regardless of the wishes of the people of this country. If that entails public violence, assassination (whether character, career, or literal), or simply tearing down the whole edifice on our heads a la Sampson if it appears they might lose, they will do it.

Despite the ostensible "detachment", "objectivity" and "impartiality" supposedly guaranteed by their lifetime appointments, the SCOTUS ARE political animals, they DO respond to pressure and their own ideological biases, and they WILL factor into their decisions the possible societal consequences of cutting the legs out from under a century of statist centralization and consolidation.

If they were to decide to strike a blow at Leviathan government, they might or might not succeed, and even if they managed to inflict a significant blow, a wounded Leviathan might do incalculable damage as a result. They may, quite reasonably from a certain perspective, although not necessarily wisely, decide to split the baby and kick the can a little farther down the road.

I am not optimistic. A Supreme Court which can give us such blatant constitutional obscenities as Roe vs Wade, McCain-Feingold or Kelo vs New London is not to be trusted. We need to beware of taking too much comfort in their recent oral arguments, however comforting they may have been.

[EGPWS]

Way to go,get down and dirty on Romney, that’s the way to help the country in its time of need!!

Yeah, we need a socialist liberal hack to save us from a socialist liberal hack.

[mtnwmn]

Mybe the Solicitor General is too used to dealing with the MSM, not the Surprene Court.

[rodguy911]

Nice try but come back when you have a clue about the real world. Definitely you live in an alternate realty where we win all the time and never lose a battle. Wake up Jim the ship has sailed, we lost. The rinos won this one!

We already know everything we need to know about Mitt Romney. He's a given at this point. We also know everything we need to know about the statist/marxist regime now in power.

Now we have to decide whether we care about helping the country or ozero. Do you want to stand up against the fascist/Marxist regime we have and oppose them with every fabric of your body or are you merely committed to standing in the corner and complaining? Let me know just how well that works.

[EGPWS]

Way to go,get down and dirty on Romney, that’s the way to help the country in its time of need!!

Yeah, we need a socialist liberal hack to save us from a socialist liberal hack.

[shalom aleichem]

Thanks AB. Down to KY and KS for basketball Kings.

[Clint N. Suhks]

OMG WAY TO GO ANN COULTER!

Way to KICK ASS!

[rodguy911]

Reality thinking is not always appreciated here MM.But you are absolutely correct.There is no question most of us here wanted Newt, some Santorum like you I wanted Palin but we didn't get our way.Our choices lost.

The decision now is where to go from here.

Some will go in the corner and pout. Others will oppose the marxist regime we now have with all they have regardless of whether or not we got our way or our candidate. The ones still in the battle are called adults.

[altura]

I agree, Miss Marple. Sad to say but we just didn’t present a good field to begin with.

When I saw Santorum this morning, I just began to feel more tolerant of Romney.

There’s no doubt in my mind that he will be a thousand times better than Obama.

Running as a conservative, even a moderate conservative, he will espouse views we like and then he will have to govern that way, especially if we take a bigger majority in the house and get the Senate.

He’s just a more attractive all-round person than Santorum and has more money and organization.

In my (liberal) Bible class at my (liberal) Episcopal church where I make a nuisance of myself weekly, they consider Santorum a joke and a religious fanatic. They are not deep thinkers on political issues, of course.

They were also laughing at his use of the term, B*** S***.

He can be so D*** clueless. Romney may seem scripted but at least he doesn’t make as many dumb mistakes.

[rodguy911]

Unfortunately you are correct. Its not great strategy to anticipate what the court will do better to wait.Sad that the passing of such an obviously flawed act of congress needs such thought by supposedly greater minds.

[TomGuy]

Also ... I’m not as up on street and drug slang as I should be ... is it true that tea and skittles are code name for drugs?

I am about as clueless on such lingo as Arthur Clarson of WKRP was when he sprinkled the 'foot powder' in shoe. After he found out what is was, he screamed that he had a monkey on his foot. [One of the funniest scenes ever. I still LOL when I recall it. ... but I digress ...]

rodguy911's post #46 to me was the first I ever heard of skittles and tea being code words.

[rodguy911]

You can dodge the question of “where we go from here” all you want. But, it keeps coming back to smack you in the face one more time.