re: Mr. R.

I had a recent meeting in SLC and happened to have lunch during a meeting about improvements to a local institution w/ a number of his co-religionists.

An amazing slice of life, from a lady who built from scratch a national maid franchise, a window-washer, and a bank president. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more liberal-in-the-classic-sense conversation – a free people and their enterprise where responsibility and self-government begin at home – and grow into voluntary society providing solutions long before creating a reliance on government. Never a word looking to government for a solution – including one of the members having to leave early because they had “Aunt sitting” duty.

If Mr. R. has any of these types of people as advisors, he’ll do fine.

Santorum on the ticket would appeal to them. He might also help with Pennsylvania and Ohio—electoral votes, you know.

MrLynn on April 13, 2012 at 3:46 PM

seriously?? Santorum dropped out before Pennsylvania because his internal polls showed him losing to Romney. And Romney won Ohio. What on earth Santorum could do for Romney in Ohio and Pennsylania in the generals, that Romney can’t achieve on his own?

MrLynn on April 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Santorum is not a true conservative, he is a social conservative.

And, if Romney picks him, I would seriously think about not voting for Romney. As the first decision I judge with a Nominee is their VP choice.

I sure hope it is Perry. I’ll win the bet I had with a friend over lunch last September.

That being said, can we put aside the hog wash that Santorum and Gingrich are the true Conservatives, please? Please?

uhangtight on April 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM

I didn’t say that Santorum was a ‘true’ conservative. One cohort that Mitt Romney has a problem with is social conservatives. Santorum on the ticket would appeal to them. He might also help with Pennsylvania and Ohio—electoral votes, you know.

I agree, Newt isn’t a ‘true conservative’ either, but he would add a lot of mostly-conservative juice to the ticket. And Newt has more vision in his little finger than Mitt does in his whole body. Mitt needs someone with him who understands why it’s important to go to the Moon, and beyond. That’s Newt.

Jack Welch is whining about Obama? That’s amazing. Jack Welch and General Electric are two of the main reasons why Obama was able to slither into the White House in ’08!!

Welch left GE in 2001. He supported McCain in ’08 (and Bush before that). You’re thinking of that dumbass Immelt.

I replied that Romney’s business sense would have him focused on the business choice, not the personal choice, for his running mate.

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the long-time executive Romney is interested in getting things done.

Another perspective on the same problem a lot of other people don’t get (yet?). You don’t gain anything by standing on political ideological principal, digging in your heals, and losing. A person who runs for office on an ideological slate that gets thrown to the curb by the voters and loses was just a big waste of time and money. In order for Romney to move things even one IOTA to the right, he needs to first get elected. Nothing else matters until THAT happens. All the “true conservative” rhetoric in the world isn’t going to do you a morsel of good if you don’t actually get elected.

And a bunch of troll-bait threads aren’t going to help matters.

I suggested that Rick Perry might not be a bad choice, although I’m not sure Perry would be interested in the job.

seriously Hot Air is rapidly entering delusional and bufoonish territory the last week..

really?!! the guy who dropped out after two states voted, who spent more money for less votes than nearly anyone in history, the guy who was a national laughingstock last fall-

you think THAT GUY may be one that Romney picks?!!

does every article writer on Hot Air go to clown college for their analytical prowess?!!

I served in the Navy over 20 years and I never once heard a Commanding Officer blame someone else in public. It makes him sound incredibly weak. Here he is, supposedly the most powerful man in the world and there are dozens of people out there, tripping him up on a daily basis.

How can anyone respect him? You can respect the position, but the man himself, is a mouse.

I’m no Jack Welch but I’ve managed a lot of people over many years. Every time I hear Obama blame someone else, I can’t believe he doesn’t know he’s projecting his own weakness and ineptitude for all to see. When a leader places blame, he is saying that whomever he blames has more power and more ability to control events than he himself does. Obama is saying he is inferior in knowledge or strength or smarts or power to someone else who has more influence.

I agree completely with the poster above that you can’t respect (or trust) someone like that. I don’t know what is worse, that Obama follows his wrongheaded instincts or that no one (let me repeat that, no one, amongst his vast staff and the resources of the presidency which includes experts in virtually every conceivable discipline) advises him differently. But thank goodness. He is his own worst enemy and if he were more competent it would be much harder to dislodge him.

GE has always been a Country Club Liberal company. For starters, they own NBC. I go out of my way to NOT BUY anything made and/or sold by GE.

Jack Welch is a country club liberal elitist who a) is out of tocuh with real Americans and b) was too lazy, stupid and ridden with White Guilt to do his own research on the candidates in ’08. If he had done just a tenth of the research I did on the “internets”, he would have realized that Obama was an incompetent, zero-experience, empty suit “community organizer” who was being sold by the Mainstream Media as the second coming of Christ.

Thanks a lot you stinking Libtard! Why don’t you go hang out with another Liberal elitist, this one a thief, Jon Corzine, the stealer of $1.2 Billion dollars and he’s not in Jail! Forget Trayvon Martin – let’s have a million limousine motorcade to protest the fact that Jon Corzine isn’t wearing bright orange coveralls right now!

GE has always been a Country Club Liberal company. For starters, they own NBC. I go out of my way to NOT BUY anything made and/or sold by GE.

Jack Welch is a country club liberal elitist who a) is out of tocuh with real Americans and b) was too lazy, stupid and ridden with White Guilt to do his own damn research on the candidates in ’08. If he had done just a tenth of the research I did on the “internets”, he would have realized that Obama was an incompetent, zero-experience, empty suit “community organizer” who was being sold by the Mainstream Media as the second coming of Christ.

Thanks a lot you effing Libtard! Why don’t you go hang out with another Liberal elitist, this one a thief, Jon Corzine, the stealer of $1.2 Billion dollars and he’s not in Jail! Forget Trayvon Martin – let’s have a million limousine motorcade to protest the fact that Jon Corzine isn’t wearing bright orange coveralls right now!

If i’m not mistaken, divide and conquer was stalin’s leadership style

aniptofar on April 13, 2012 at 9:28 AM

Stalin was competent. Thankfully, Obama is not.

Everything is the 85% Democrats fault!

Funny how Newt did not have as much problem getting things past the Democrat President while he was in office with a bare majority of Republicans.

Anyone imagining that Romney will govern as a conservative or even a right of center moderate are just deluded and have not looked critically at his tenure as governor.

I think a big part of Barry’s problem is the fact that he has been told his entire life that he is a victim because of the color of his skin.

When a person always thinks of himself as a victim, it’s probably hard not to believe that others are to blame for one’s problems.

AZCoyote on April 13, 2012 at 9:22 AM

Much more than that. Besides being told that he is a victim, -every job, every promotion, every election, every degree he has been awarded has been on the basis of AA. He has never in his life held a real job, or had to perform against a fair and flat evaluation.

He has led a charmed life, and now as president he is being exposed to the real world for the first time, and he can’t handle that shock. To him it looks like racism.

“He’s got an enemies list that would make Richard Nixon proud.”

Getting on Nixon’s enemies list meant you didn’t get to go to the White House parties. Obama is far worse. You get on his list and regulatory h*ll is brought to bear.

Welch, who helmed GE for 21 years and founded the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University, penned an op-ed article for Reuters with wife Suzy Welch this week in which he tackled the idea of Obama’s enemies list.

Yeah, but did his wife stay-at-home? If so – she is not allowed to have an opinion on economics.

Obama has been given a free ride his entire life based on his skin color. He is a person of few ideas and little understanding or intellectual curiosity. He has adopted every liberal concept that was spoon fed to him during his ivy league education. He is incapable of comprehending that these concepts are false. He will continue to pursue them because he cannot conceive of an alternative. We are in big trouble if he is re-elected.

talkingpoints on April 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM

On that subject, you might want to read this;

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2012/04/12/teaching-as-a-subversive-activity-the-theory-of-political-indoctrination/

And especially this;

http://www.nas.org/images/documents/A_Crisis_of_Competence.pdf

Obama is an inevitable result of the disconnect between academia and the real world that has occurred since the 1960s.

Marxism, socialism, “liberation theology”, and every other “-ism” that has failed miserably in the world for the last two centuries thrives on our college campuses today. And does so to the point of driving out actual scholarship, to say nothing of rational thought.

The last time this happened in academia, was during the early Renaissance. At that time, the universities in Europe were dominated by the Catholic Church, and as such there was no interest in teaching anything of the new knowledge in the sciences, etc., because those new discoveries called into question the nature of the real world. The Church had staked its prestige on retaining the status quo, in which the Sun went around the Earth, among other things. (No, they didn’t think the Earth was flat, just an immovable sphere in the center of everything.)

As a result, the universities in most of Europe forsook teaching sciences to avoid conflicts with Church dogmas. This reduced them to what James Burke (in The Day the Universe Changed) refers to as “temples of irrelevant logic-chopping”, at a time when unbiased, literate inquiry was badly needed, on purely practical grounds. In the end, most such inquiry came from the universities in Holland, northern Germany, Scandinavia, and England, where for one reason or another Rome’s writ didn’t have quite as much authority. (The reasons ranged from Martin Luther, to Henry VIII, to the Thirty Years’ War.)

As the NAS study shows, the same phenomenon exists in the U.S. university system today. In this case, the faculty are acting once more as “defenders of the faith”, but in this case, the faith is a heady brew of Marxism, anti-Americanism, “deep ecology” neo-Luddism, all-out anti-Westernism, and (perhaps not surprisingly) some old-fashioned anti-Semitism thrown in for good (or bad) measure.

Next, consider that President Obama spent his entire adult life prior to becoming (briefly) a legislator in this hothouse culture of opposition to, not just the United States, but practically every aspect of Western civilization as we know it.

Now explain why anyone should be surprised at his behavior as President of the United States.

clear ether

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MrLynn on April 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Santorum is not a true conservative, he is a social conservative.

And, if Romney picks him, I would seriously think about not voting for Romney. As the first decision I judge with a Nominee is their VP choice.

I sure hope it is Perry. I’ll win the bet I had with a friend over lunch last September.

That being said, can we put aside the hog wash that Santorum and Gingrich are the true Conservatives, please? Please?

It’s amusing.

Fish on April 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM

I fear you’re correct….and I’m not amused.

I think a big part of Barry’s problem is the fact that he has been told his entire life that he is a victim because of the color of his skin.
Absolutely.

That’s why he tends to do things half-ass. Someone’s always been there to clean up his mess and if they are unable to, he has an excuse for why he didn’t get the job done.

He’s never shouldered the blame for any of his serial failures.

Then again, if he were aware of how absolutely mediocre he is, he never would have had the condfidence to get to where he is. How that benefits the rest of us, I don’t know.

NoDonkey on April 13, 2012 at 9:34 AM

It doesn’t benefit the rest of us. Obama has been given a free ride his entire life based on his skin color. He is a person of few ideas and little understanding or intellectual curiosity. He has adopted every liberal concept that was spoon fed to him during his ivy league education. He is incapable of comprehending that these concepts are false. He will continue to pursue them because he cannot conceive of an alternative. We are in big trouble if he is re-elected.

long-time executive Romney is interested in getting things done.

It’s about time to get a competent grown-up back in charge.

And playing on racial tensions, fake “women’s issues”, and the fears of the lazy loser/taker classes to get elected is really classy there, dude. If that is all you got left for a base then God help you, even if you get reelected.

Jimmy Carter? Richard Nixon? Forget the comparisons. This man is in a class all by himself.

What an embarrassment.

…and compared Romney’s record in Massachusetts as the model of consensus over Obama’s “divisiveness.”

Well. There you have it: The Romney campaign’s ‘King Plank’. Run on it – it’s very long.

Obama/Olbermann 2012. Because two zeroes are better than one.

Dextrous on April 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM

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