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Originally Posted 02/12/2010
There never seems to be enough time in the
day for important matters and lately with weather issues and other
responsibilities, it has been difficult if not impossible to keep
browsers of this site up to date on what is on The Raptor's plate.
One item that continues to burn is the
awfulness that is the Republican Party. Consider the GOP's
next candidate from hell, Sara Palin. Governor Palin was in
the news recently after her successful address to the annual Tea
Party Convention which was held this past weekend.
Palin, who continues, along with other
Republican dofuses such as Rush Limbaugh to be the gift that keeps
on giving...for The Raptor...is seen here lounging on a Bear which
she apparently shot in the wilds of Alaska
Going back to last weekend, Governor Palin is
hot for the Presidency and as such will say or do anything to
appeal to her base...whom ever it happens to be at that moment.
So when called upon to address our Nations voting block of
malcontents, she needed to keep several key issues on her mind.
Lacking a brain, she elected to write them on her right palm and
so now we know that Governor Palin is all excited about Energy,
Tax Cuts and Lifting The American Spirit. The coolest thing
to note here is how Governor Palin first wrote "Budget Cut"...then
wrote "Lift American Spirit"...then went back and crossed out
"Budget" and wrote in "Tax"...what happened here Sara?...no white
out available?
If this is all it takes to get mindless sheep
to vote for you maybe I should take a crack at it. What
could I write on my hand? Probably something
like...Childhood Obesity, Drug Addiction and Criminalizing the
XBox.
Another major player in the present
Republican Strategy for 2012 game is Newt Gingrich. Gingrich
is the ultimate GOP role model. He's white, older, fat and
has a big obnoxious mouth as is evidenced by the photo...
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It not to difficult to imagine what
Gingrich is saying here...probably something like..."Hey
Obama...your fly is open!" |
Gingrich was recently seen on Comedy
Central's "The Daily Show" and decided to come out and criticize
President Obama's administration for reading the Underwear Bomber
his rights rather than interrogate the poor bastard in order to
gain some valuable intel on his Al-Quiada overlords. The
event is best summed up by Sam Stein of The Huffington Post...
"Newt Gingrich tried on Wednesday to brush
off the glaring gaffe he made this week on "The Daily Show" when
he insisted that the Bush administration was right to read shoe
bomber Richard Reid his Miranda rights because he was an American
citizen.
But in doing so, the former GOP House Speaker
only dug his hole deeper.
In a post on his Twitter page, Gingrich
explained that when he made the Reid comment to the "Daily Show"'s
Jon Stewart his reference was actually to Jose Padilla. Reid,
after all, is a British citizen -- Padilla is American.
But Gingrich wasn't done there. In a dig at
the Obama White House, he added to the tail end of his tweet:
"Treating terrorists like criminals wrong no matter who is Pres."
That's a standard GOP talking point, and yet
when President Bush moved the Padilla case from a military setting
to the criminal system, it was Gingrich who came to his defense
despite conservative howls of protest, a Democratic source points
out.
Appearing on Fox News in November 2005, the
former speaker said the following when asked whether it was "a
loss" for the Bush White House to have tried Padilla in civilian
courts after holding him for three-and-a-half years as an enemy
combatant:
"Well, I think if they believe they have
enough evidence to convict him, going through the process of
convicting him and holding him, I suspect, maybe for the rest of
his life without parole would not be -- would hardly be seen as a
loss," Gingrich said.
The former speaker went on to note that Bush
was "wrestling with what are the real ground rules for dealing
with people who are clearly outside of normal warfare" --
suggesting, implicitly, that a criminal setting was appropriate
for Padilla because it was the most effective at the time. "[W]e
don't have a good set of rules," he declared.
But that is a mirror of the Obama
administration's current argument -- the one that Gingrich
criticized on Twitter.
The Raptor can sympathize with Gingrich.
I am fat too and a lot of times, I say things which are
inappropriate. The difference is that I am not an elected
official charge with managing the affairs of this Country!
Gingrich has stated he has not ruled out a possible run at the
White House. Another gift that keeps on giving...
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