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Friday, May 18, 2012 ∙ 2:35 pm EDT
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Twenty Twelve
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McGehee
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Say what you like about French President Nicolas Sarkozy, but you can’t call him a cheese-eating surrender monkey.
Charles de Gaulle once famously declared: “How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”
The fitness mad Mr Sarkozy has chosen to remove the source of De Gaulle’s angst from his sight, according to presidential chef Bernard Vaussion, who is cooking for his fifth French head of state. ► Nicolas Sarkozy bans cheese from Elysée Palace
For that alone he deserves re-election, I’d say.
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March 2012
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McGehee
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My state representative, Billy Horne, has decided not to seek re-election in his slightly redrawn state House district this year. He first won his seat when its previous occupant, Lynn Westmoreland, ran successfully for Congress in 2004.
Horne’s decision has led Coweta County’s solicitor general, Robert Stokely—about whom I’ve written before on this site—to seek that seat, leaving the county office open for a newcomer.
Castle McGehee remains in the state House district in question. We’ll know for sure who all the candidates are in late May, and the primary for both the House seat and the county office take place July 31.
There’s time yet for Horne to announce whether he’s seeking another office; the Senate seat currently representing our area was filled a few months ago by special election, but it may be up again, or the new district lines may have shifted his home into a different Senate district. Statewide constitutional offices are not up again until 2014.
Update: It looks like Billy’s out of politics, at least for now. I had somehow missed this news item yesterday.
Dividing by Zero
These Here Parts
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McGehee
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On this sunny, springlike day just before we set our clocks to Daylight Saving Time, I have come to terms with the prospect that the one candidate for the GOP nomination for whom I cannot vote, will be at the top of that party’s ticket in November.
There are still those clinging to the hope that His Electable Inevitableness might still prove evitable, but I find that life is easier once you’ve embraced certain doom.
Still ain’t gonna vote for him, or any ticket that includes him. I relented in 2008 because of Sarah Palin, but it turned out to be only a ploy. And you don’t ploy this hoi polloi twice.
Before, I was just having fun with the Get Offa My Lawn Party. Right now, the fun has just gone out of it.
Corrupt Bastards
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The Etch-a-Sketch Candidate
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McGehee
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I do want Obama to lose this November.
I don’t want my party to nominate the least electable His Electableness on the primary ballot. And I won’t vote in November for the Republican who is the least different from Obama out of all those offered for nomination.
The Republican Party—the party of Lincoln and Reagan—is on a self-inflicted death spiral, as evidenced by 2012’s instant replay of 2008.
Corrupt Bastards
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McGehee
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Earlier today, Instapundit asked:
Back in 2008, the social-cons were all-in for Romney, to the point where Hugh Hewitt’s take became a running tagline (“You know who this is good for? Mitt Romney!”) that’s still used by by bloggers from time to time. Now, not so much. So what changed about Romney since 2008 to make him un-conservative?
He’s posted one response that works quite nicely, but it’s not a complete explanation of why I don’t support him (perhaps partly because I’m not what can properly be called a “social-con”).
In 2008, I wasn’t “all-in” for Romney even when I voted for him in the Georgia primary. At that point the only serious candidates left were him, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, whose rhetoric had balanced the worst of the “religious right” with the worst nanny-statism of the big-government “right” (it is possible to balance the best of those tendencies; he just didn’t do it) (though if he had I still wouldn’t have voted for him). Romney was then what Santorum is now: the least unacceptable of a bad lot, due in some part to the fact he wasn’t being sold as inevitable. It wasn’t yet his turn. He wasn’t yet entitled to anybody’s vote.
Now he’s His Electable Inevitableness, all the things that made McCain impossible for me to vote for in the primary campaign, and should have made me withhold my vote that November, Palin or no Palin. You watch: if Romney gets the nomination he’ll try to recapture the conservatives he’s spent this entire campaign cycle alienating, by choosing a running mate from deep within our own ranks, on the assumption that if it got the right to vote for McCain it’ll get the right to vote for him.
That’s why I’ve sworn not to fall for it if it happens again. I will not be an enabler.
Anyway, I think Reynolds is misstating the situation back in 2008. Despite his nanny-statism it was Huckabee, not Romney, who was the darling of the low-information social-con voter—after all, he won the Georgia primary that year.
Anyway, all of this points to another of my Rules to Vote By. The first one was, If you can’t figure out how a ballot proposition is supposed to achieve its stated objectives, VOTE NO. You just need to look at California, where 99% of the laws on the books that actually accomplish anything, are the result of ballot propositions that were voted in by people who assumed that if they couldn’t understand it it must be a good idea.
The new one relating to this subject is, Never vote for the guy whose TURN it is.
Update, early March: Here’s another one: never vote for a so-called conservative who can’t manage to get along with Rush Limbaugh. That leaves out both McCain and Romney.
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Stacy McCain wants bloggers to link to his piece at Spectator.org.
So, here.
What, you want content too? Oh, all right.
At last, the candidate arrived, eliciting applause and cheers from his waiting supporters. Santorum answered a couple of questions from the press gaggle, then did a brief TV interview with Andrea Tantaros of Fox News, before the crowd outside was led in to get their “grip-and-grin” moments with the candidate. While the candidate shook hands and posed for photographs with the CPAC attendees, I walked over to talk with his campaign’s finance director, Nadine Maenza, who confirmed previous reports that Santorum had been raking in online donations at a pace of $1 million a day since Tuesday’s trifecta. In fact, Maenza said, she had been informed that the campaign had already collected a half-million dollars that morning, so that total donations to Santorum since Tuesday were already more than $3 million.
Such a windfall of campaign cash, like the crowds of supporters and the swarming media coverage, is further evidence of Santorum’s status as the top rival to the Republican presidential field’s longtime frontrunner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. ► Santorum’s Second Surge
I just want to keep His Electable Inevitableness from screwing up our chances of getting the peewee leaguers out of the White House. If that means nominating Santorum, so be it.
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McGehee
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In the 2012 presidential campaign so far only one candidate earned enough of my support that I was willing to contribute money—and he is now out of the race. It’s possible he will nevertheless be on the ballot in next month’s Georgia primary, and depending on what happens before then I might still vote for him.
Of the four still running, the one with the largest number of delegates is unacceptable to me, and if nominated will not receive my vote. I first announced this back in, I believe, 2010—so it’s not as if I’m springing a surprise on anybody.
Any one of the other three, including Ron Paul, could and almost certainly will receive my vote in November if he is the nominee. Paul is the least acceptable of the three, but that should tell you how strongly I feel about the fourth.
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is a long way from being my first choice for the nomination. He’s a former Senator, which is slightly better than being a sitting Senator because the IQ points have had some time to grow back. He took a great many positions as a Senator that were anathema in this house. Nevertheless, among the four candidates still running at this time, he is the least unacceptable—and if he is still running on March 6 he will receive my vote.
Will I give him money, or put a bumper sticker on my truck or a sign in my yard? No.
I’m cutting bait. Which is one step above going right over the rail, and the last act of optimism I am prepared to offer for this presidential campaign.
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