Random Political Observations

Politics has been boring as of late, but here are a few items of note which do not merit a post of their own.

Anthony Weiner’s wife has returned home today. This is bad for him. Not only because she has been taking emotional castration lessons from Hillary Clinton over the past week, but because her return puts Weiner’s name back in the spotlight. Part of his plan was obviously to duck out of sight in rehab and hope he gets lost in the next news cycle. If the public forgets him, he can stay in congress. Not really a bad plan, that. The public attention span is pitiable.

Jon Huntsman has announced he is about to announce his run for president. If I am not mistaken, he announced last he was going to announce his announcement for a presidential bid announcement. I would nickname him Candidate Blue Balls, but I cannot think of anyone who is excited at the prospect of a Huntsman presidential bid. He is the Pierre DuPont of 2012--a bored rich guy whose ego cannot handle the fact his political career peaked as governor of a less influential state.

Rudy Giuliani has a similar problem, except his overblown ego demands he skip necessary steps towards becoming president. He cannot stand a mayoralty being his only legacy, but he also cannot tolerate a stint as governor or senator as an interim step towards the presidency. He has squandered eleven years because of it. He will never be any of the three as a result.

Barack Obama blames ATM and kiosks for high unemployment. Any comment on the stupidity of that statement would be overkill. I will just say it demonstrates the mindset of a wealth distributing progressive that it is perfectly acceptable to hire a person to do menial, low paying jobs rather than have them automated. Because it is perfectly fine for people to have low paying, menial jobs, as long as everyone has a low paying menial job. It is the progressive definition of equality.

When did Michele Bachmann suddenly become a strong intellectual candidate among progressive pundits? Right after Sarah Palin’s email hunt did not turn up anything to kill her potential candidacy. Coincidence? I have doubts. Bachmann is further to the right, far less compromising, and only has House experience. She is not even a better candidate on paper, but at least she is not palin. At least, that is how I read the mindset.

Yes, I still think Herman Cain will get no where with his candidacy. No, I will not stick to writing Star Trek reviews and posting hot babes instead of telling you so. Will you abandon the trolling handbook from which you cut and paste such responses? I assume not, as your blogs and comments would fall silent if you did.