What did we learn this week about Republicans?

by YankeeJim | November 11, 2011 at 01:52 pm

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If there is something in a politician’s past for which they are not proud or for which they may be embarrassed and ashamed, rest assure it will surface.

Remember Jimmy Carter when he said he lusted in his mind? He didn’t have to go that far to share his inner most feelings, but that shows how honest he was.

Compare that with Herman Cain. Herman Cain would like us to believe that four women made up stories about his sexual advances and he can’t even remember who they were. His former employer handled the problem and concluded with a settlement and hush letters. Cain was the CEO and he said he was unaware of the details because the HR department took care of it. What! You want us to believe that? You have to be kidding.

Rick Perry has a reputation for being somewhat of a jokester and for not being real sharp on his feet. He proved that to be true. He also proved he wasn’t real quick on the draw to remove the racial slurs painted on a rock at his hunting lodge. He would like us to believe that prosperity in his state has more to do with his governance than it does with Texas having rich oil resources. What! You want us to believe you can be commander in chief when you are so tense at a debate you can only remember 2 of 5 points in your canned campaign drivel?

With competitors like that, Newt Gingrich, who was long lost in this race, has suddenly surged to break-even with Mitt Romney. Republicans so detest Mitt for his agility and adaptability they are willing to take Grandpa Newt instead.

Underlying the distaste Republicans have for Romney and Huntsman, you surely have to wonder is it their being Mormons that’s holding them back. Someone should ask Michele Bachmann, do you have a Jewish heritage?

“Report: Michele Bachmann isn't Jewish

By Mike Mullen Wed., Aug. 31 2011 at 1:43 PM

Categories: Michele Bachmann

From the "You're joking, right?" files comes a strange report in the New York Post that one of the most strident Evangelical Christians in America is being mistaken by some New Yorkers as a fellow Jew.

Oy vey.

According to the story, Michele Bachmann's name and her fierce support of Israel are confusing some Jewish folks, who have drifted away from supporting Mitt Romney -- what with all the Mormonism -- in favor of a nice Jewish girl like Michele.

Bachmann's spokespeople said they were unaware of the phenomenon. Then again, Bachmann has made repeated statements about her religion that, taken on their face, could really confuse someone who didn't know any better.

Admittedly, the Post -- which has a somewhat tenuous relationship with reality -- has only a single source in its story. A Mitt Romney fundraiser cites the confusion, but does so with exasperation, saying, "It's a real problem."

Now, why would anyone think Bachmann's a member of the tribe? Maybe because says she is.

In an interview last year with the website TCJewFolk, Bachmann gave her weird thoughts on supportingIsrael.

I am honored to be in a position where I can help Israel. I have a tremendous love for Israel, and great admiration for the Israeli people. I am a Christian, but I consider my heritage Jewish, because it is the foundation, the roots of my faith as a Christian.

She does have sort of a point there, in the sense that Christianity followed on to Judaism. In that case, Bachmann is also a Catholic, because Lutheranism grew out of Catholicism, and she's a Muslim, because that followed Christianity.

Oh, snap! By that same logic, she's also a Mormon, just like Mitt Romney!

We all know that Michele has great command of Yiddish -- recall her perfect use and pronunciation of "chutzpah" -- but beyond that, she also seems to really, really love Israel. According congress-tracking website Legistorm, Bachmann and her family have gotten all-expenses trips to Israel several times in the past.

In 2008, Bachmann ran up $7,170 in a trip to Jerusalem, with the Jewish Community Relations Foundation picking up the whole tab. Two more trips, in 2007 and 2009, were paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation to the tune of more than $37,000 total.

This year, Bachmann got a free trip to Palm Beach, Florida courtesy of the David Horowitz Freedom Foundation, which is mostly concerned about the "freedom" to say pretty offensive stuff about Muslims: On it's "Bookstore" page, you can order "Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America Without Guns or Bombs," or "Religion of Peace? Why Chrisianity Is and Islam Isn't." Freedom!

So, there you go, Jewish people. Michele Bachmann really, really wants to be a member of the tribe, and some of your own are starting to believe her.

Mazel tov, Michele.”

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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)

at 16:43 on November 11th, 2011

If this article is an example of what you learned, of your ability to reason, then you are the same dumb unthinking partisan you were yesterday. One would have to be a complete moron to find any intellectual legitimacy in that incoherent rant against Michele Bachmann. Never mind your own abuse of facts to suit your prejudices. I get it. You need to constantly exercise your hate, and belittlement is a particular liberal humor but, to say you have actually learned something of Republicans through that exercise of ridicule and belittlement is inconsistent with reason and common sense. You can not learn anything by attacking those you have no intention of ever listening to. At best you sink any personal credibility in the muck you rake up to put them down.

YankeeJim

at 17:20 on November 11th, 2011

1. What do you bet, that the Herman Cain allegations are true?

2. What do you bet that Rick Perry's "success" as governor has a whole lot to do with Texas power sources and natural resources than with his personal abilities?

Slinging the muck is exactly what Michele Bachmann did. I don't condone it. I think the circumstances are pathetic, and the only way I can cope is to laugh.

You make a good point about journalistic integrity. When I write seriously about important topics, the audience drops to 1/10 of that when I am silly.

"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)

at 19:00 on November 11th, 2011

1/ I would never attempt to justify a prejudice before the facts were in evidence by asking what if some time later the allegations proved to be true? Just as I would never suggest that a criminal be convicted for a crime that could not be proven -on the strength that some time later it may be proven.
B/ I also wouldn't omit from my consideration that these women have profited once already from these accusations and that they chose to NOT have their accusations go before a public court, to be judged on their veracity according to the law, and therefore I don't agree that at this time it is just to have them come forward as victims of sexual harassment unless they are resolved in a court of law and NOT a court of liberal media ridicule and belittlement.
C/ What would you bet, that these accusation would disappear if a judge said, that having made them again, outside of their legal agreements when they took the money. That they would now have to go before a court and all money returned until a judge made a decision on the legal veracity of each accusation.

2/ I would bet that Rick Perry's success as a Governor on the whole is intimately tied to Texas as a whole. As good management is the art of managing what is available in whole. Just as Obama's failure on the whole is tied to his unwillingness to work with government in whole, and his use of the nations system[s] for the selected partisan few and not the country as a whole.
B/ As I have stated before. Rick Perry has done very well for the people of Texas and made the compromises, some very socially liberal, some more conservative where he thought necessary. Considering the level of authority Perry has at hand to "get" things done in comparison to Obama. I think Perry has done a much better job than Obama has. Given the opportunities and systemic access Obama has had, and failed to acknowledge [them] as part of government, or seek that participation and/or make any compromise for the betterment of the nation as a whole. Leads me to think that given the same "systemic" access, using the numbers of those involved and their experience. That there is no doubt Perry would outshine Obama by a mile working with the whole of government and that we would not be experiencing such Congressional activism and blowback to Obama's overt rejection of and circumvention of Congress.

But, these are not the things the liberals focus on when they have Michele Bachmann to ridicule. Liberal three card monte, the street hustle, instead of looking at Obama's policy behavior. And Obama throwin' the shuck and jive back on the community pulling at his forelock and shufflin' about "how the man is keeping him from making restitutions." It's a replay of the behavior much like the way the liberals used Sarah Palin as their punching bag so to distract the Democrats from what the Obama camp was doing to Hillary Clinton during the last election. And believe me. All this punk shit being spewed by the liberal press is exactly so that Democrats don't see what the Obama administration is doing and what they are not doing. It has nothing to do with Republicans or their leadership race. This is Obama campaign 2012 that has been ongoing since 2008. Liberals have been so distracted with an onslaught of make believe and trivial bull shit they haven't got a f*ck'n clue. And I have no hesitation in saying that that is the way most liberals like it. It fits in with their PC victim moralism. Blame Wall Street not Obama and his policy decisions.

YankeeJim

at 04:28 on November 12th, 2011

1. Facts are evident -- the standard for public opinion is what?

2. I don't know everything about Texas, but I saw what the last Texas Governor did to America and I don't want a repeat.

3. I stand by everything that comes from Michele Bachmann's mouth that I have heard with my own ears.

Yes, liberals don't like them, and for every word of ridicule coming from them for our standing President, I will give them 100 back.

"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)

at 12:59 on November 12th, 2011

Must be a b*tch being the only Obama fanboy in a State that has just voted to be represented by Republicans at all levels of government. When everyone else around you can acknowledge the truth that Obama has offered the people absolutely nothing other than redoing what was done by the last President. Differing only in that Obama does not have the last Presidents Congressional participation. This same behavior you are willing to defend coming from Obama but, claim you don't want a repeat of. I finally understand the reason why liberals have this lemming like need to be institutionalized. Y'all are comforted by the act of running in circles. LOL.