Say Anything Blog

Real Clear Politics says McCain already has 724 delegates. To win the nomination he needs another 467 delegates. 
 
These are the races yet to be fought in primaries as of Saturday Morning.  Since I have been a Huckabee Supporter I’m giving him everything I can give him on paper.  As of this writing according to Drudge Huck won Kansas.  The math however isn’t with him.  Winning would have to be at convention since it is impossible for him to accumulate enough delegates by votes.` 

Louisiana   02/09   47 C   Huckabee          
Washington   02/09   40   McCain          
Kansas     02/09   39 C   Huckabee WON        
Virginia     02/12   63 W   Huckabee        
Maryland   02/12   37 C   McCain          
DC     02/12   19 WC McCain
Wisconsin   02/19   40   10 Huckabee 15 McCain
Puerto Rico   02/24   23   McCain
Texas     03/04   140   Huckabee
Ohio     03/04   88   30 Huckabee 50 McCain
Rhode Island   03/04   20   McCain
Vermont   03/04   17 W   McCain
Mississippi   03/10   39   Huckabee
Pennsylvania   04/22   74 C   McCain
North Carolina   05/06   69   Huckabee
Indiana     05/06   57   Huckabee
Nebraska   05/13   33   Huckabee
Hawaii     05/16   20 C   McCain
Kentucky   05/20   45 C   Huckabee
Oregon     05/20   30 C   McCain
Idaho     05/27   32   McCain
New Mexico   06/03   32 C   McCain
South Dakota   06/03   27 C   McCain

w - winner takes all c - closed primary

If everything flew just right Huckabee would still be far behind but McCain would not have enough votes to lock up the nomination.  He would be 61 short.  It could go to a brokered convention at least for the first vote.  There are a few hundred uncommitted delegates in the Republican Party. They vote as they wish.  We don’t call them super delegates.  But they can tilt things.  They could lock it up for McCain if they all went for him on the first ballot.  But that isn’t certain. If they all stepped back it would then mean on second ballot all Thompson, Gulliani, Paul, Huckabee and Romney delegates could vote however they pleased.  So, while it looks like a lock for McCain, there is an outside statistical possibility that things could go to convention undecided.  I’m not hoping or holding my breath, just doing the math and I hope I got it right.

Needed 1191
       
McCain  
724 Today
406 still will likely win
1130 going to convention   (61 short) 
             
Huckabee  
196 Today
555 Possible to win
751 going to convention
 
Romney  
281   going to convention    
Paul   4 Going to convention

It could be St. Paul in the fall.  And, there’s lots of things that could happen.  No one talks about it but 72 year old men sometimes become incapacitated or even change worlds.  I don’t wish that on anyone, but don’t think for a second that this deal is settled till after November’s election.

I wonder what happens if something happened to McCain between September in St Paul and November?

Anyone Know?

I’m under no illusions, but a great deal of time is out there.  Lots of things could happen and that convention might be a doozy if things went south for McCain in any way between now and September.  One big mistake the Dems would make is to so damage and demonize him that a real force might emerge in St.Paul in a brokered convention.

I’m just sayin…..

Sam Zell just bought the Tribune Co.  He has decided to make a Biz out of it.  Horrors.  I heard about this confrontation on NPR.  The “Journalists” there were just as upset that Sam Zell doesn’t give a flying leap about their precious industry.  He wants to make (prepare yourself) Enough Money to pay her salary. 

The end he says to her what he really means and it sounds like he’s sending her to a city in Germany (noted in an earlier post).  F you he says.

I founded the American Ag Network (Lyle Romine) in 1981.  I Hired Lyle out of KDLR in Devils Lake.  We had some Journalists working for us at the time.  Once I had a Sam Zell moment with them.  I said, “we try to produce better programming so we can sell more advertising”.  You would have thought I shot her dog. 

NO, she said, “the programming must stand independent despite the impact it has on our ad revenues”.  She didn’t work there long. American Ag Network is still on the air.

Watch Sam explain free enterprise to them.  Go Sam Go.  Time for the Fifth Estate to be put in their respective place.

I have called Rush Limbaugh and other radio “Hosts” giant talking heads. 

The source of that was when William Shatner appeared as supreme leader of the Universe on 3rd Rock from the Sun.

It was the first time I saw him as the comic actor
he really is.  His timing and skill is unsurpassed even on Boston Legal. 

Here’s the first time the Big Giant Head shows up.

Shatner is one of the funniest people I know.  I wish our giant talking radio heads were just funny.  It wouldn’t be so damaging.

Sometimes you have to settle. Or lose.

There is no in between.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Read this long article in the light of the current kefuffle in Republican Land and if you are an unmarriaed woman or man still looking, there might be a clue here too.

It’s time for the Reagan Republicans to start behaving like Reagan

The Wall Street Journal in several places in Saturday’s edition gives a well deserved spanking to the self important giant talking heads on talk radio and the conservative misleaders who have put us in a place where we don’t have a candidate any of us loves much.

Surely Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter can agree that these challenges are terribly demanding and cannot be left to luck or divine providence. Finally, there is the cost of their extremist rhetoric to the Republican Party. As President Reagan once told me, “Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff.”

On the other side they do.  Obama will be the candidate.  I didn’t think so for a long time until I began to ask myself what it would take for him to lose.  He can’t.

They have a candidate they believe in and we have one that at best arouses tepid enthusiasm.  Shades of Bob Dole.

But, he didn’t cheat.  McCain.  He won fair and square.  He needs to finish this deal out with grace and without gloating.  The childlike idealism of the right has to come in line.  That’s what McCain said and guess what, he’s right.  Get in line.

There is too much at stake.  Giving into radical Islam is suicide.  There will be several (3 or 4) vacancies on the supreme court.  Global failed states with nuclear weapons will mount a new threat that a happy fresh faced liberal will fall on.

So, it’s time to get with it.

Pay attention, western civilization is at stake.  Your ego isn’t that important.  The world is.  We have to win this thing.

In case the poli Sci C students need a little education, Huckabee and Paul have to stay in this to the end.  There must be debates, we must stay in the news.  We have to have a forum that gets the message out.  Staying in does that.

If they drop out, we drop off any page, particularly the front page.  Do the real right thing.  Get behind McCain.  I hate it, I thought I never would, but it’s time to stop Obama.

Clinton is over.  She can’t.

Talk about irrelevance.  This morning I read that on the heels of the Romney exit from the Primaries that James Dobson is supporting Mike Huckabee.  Big Whoop.  Jimmy, where were you 3 months ago when things began to look real in the Huckabee campaign?  When the rest of us evangelicals were looking carefully at this good man and saying, “I can back him, and were prepared to take the slings and arrows of angry rhetoric”.  You’re a little late there buddy.

I won’t or can’t advise Mr Huck on what to do.  It might be smart to say “no thanks”.  Dobson’s endorsement is a little like a Squirrel endorsing nuts over Pork Chops.  DUH.  His lack of early endorsement is cowardice.

I don’t know if Huck has a chance in Heaven or not.  I do know I would be quite satisfied to have this good man at the helm of our country.  I think he would govern not like Ronald Reagan but like George W Bush who if it were possible I would support for a third term.

If we are ever going to have a viable non liberal alternative for which to vote in this country it’s going to look like Mike Huckabee and George W. Bush,  Not like Ron Paul, Not like Fred Thompson and not like John McCain. 

Mostly young idealist conservatives driven by misleaders of the talk show media have become useful fools in a lost cause.  They are the exact counterpart of the Young Idealist Liberals mindlessly supporting Obama.
The naiveté of these people is fueled by a messianic vision of how thing ought to be.  Even a book invoking this idea was written by one of the chief propagators of this illusion.

Now the political chickens have come home to roost.  Oh, the misleaders will have new fuel to drive their ratings as a President Clintons or Obama take this country further into ruin.  What has effectively happened is great has been shunned for illusory perfection.

This happens with this generation in marriage as well.  They are looking for mr or miss perfect and pass up mr or miss really great.  They are living in illusion of the way things ought to be.

This does not come from a book, this does not come from a talk show host, this observation is mine and mine alone hammered out purely on the anvil of experience. 

Time to take a clue.  Maybe there IS something left for idealists to learn.  Get what you can or lose what you have.  That’s the lesson that has been lost on this generation.  This generation has had it too easy, they believe in the 22 minute solution, they don’t understand the long slog.  They want instant microwave gratification. They believe that they are entitled to have it perfectly every time.  They have been duped into this idealism that feeds into a me generation mentality to their own demise.

I digress.

Dobson endorsing Huckabee is as meaningless as the pronouncements of the Giant Talking Heads on radio and TV.  Both should be disregarded.

Show some discernment people.

If the conservative talk show talking heads wanted to seal the deal they should all stand up, shun McCain, Boo him, walk out, Moon Him and give him the finger.

That would single handedly guarantee his election in the fall.

Come on Rush, Show some balls.

I got this from Little Green Footballs.

It’s a piece from Freakonomics blog published in the New York Times. There, if that’s not convoluted enough, I don’t know what is.

The question is: What would you make the Motto of the USA in 6 words.

Yikes

Here are some entries:

What can we screw up next?

Hubris: it’s not just for Greeks!

All your oil belong to us.

Equal Representation* *Offer void in D.C.

“God bless America! And nobody else!”

“The Orwellian Superpower with Christian Roots.”

Life’s fast, screw saving, spend faster.

“America: Because We Know Better Than You.”

Where’s the Free Stuff?? Vote Democrat!

Everyone hates US; immigration way up

Lawsuits, Mullets and All-you-can-eat Buffets: Awesome!

“No, we still don’t like soccer”

USA - “That hot girl who ignores you”

Bold Leadership for a Brighter Yesterday

America….at least we’re not Canada.

One Nation, Over Weight, Over Budget

Greed. Lust. Consumption. The American Dream!

“McDonalds! Walmart! Microsoft! Starbucks! Porn! Christmas!”

USA… Big Man On Campus… Once

God bless America! Starting with me!!

One Nation. One God. Screw You.

America: bombing you, suing each other.

Like Ancient Rome, with flush toilets.

And, if you read them all on both LGF and Freak you will see a trend. The USA sucks, but less than everywhere else.

I think the USA needs a hug.

I won’t blame Rush for this. Although..............

Some think so.

I’m not sure.

I listened carefully today to Rush. I thought, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe he will have some analysis that will demonstrate after yesterday’s debacle leading to an Obama Presidency that I was mistaken. I have decided I am not. I was Wrong to think Rush was Right. He might have been at one time. He’s not any more.

He’s a bozo with no more wisdom or intellectual capacity than anyone who writes or comments on this blog. I’m not saying that as a complement, just demonstrating equivalence. I would rather hear Rob on the radio than the pompous one.

I’m really angry with him. Now, he pretends that the party laying in ashes on the ground for everyone to despair over isn’t due to him in any part. Bull.

He was a way maker. He demonstrated the way things ought to be and millions listened.

Others tried and some succeeded in their own way to do the same as talk radio heads. Hence we have hundreds of more or less Rush wannabes. But like any good thing, too much of anything is less.

I think some of the Giant Talking Heads are OK. They are sincere. Rush has become cynical and manipulative. He enjoys being a con man.

I looked Con Man up. This is what it said:

Noun: con man (con men) kón man

1. A swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim

Victim, That would be you, me and all the other sheeple he has taken to hell with him.

Rush, do us all a favor and take your big money, leave the country in disgrace like you should.

Let us real conservatives rebuild what you destroyed for your own amusement.

Like Nero, what I heard today was you playing your fiddle while Republican Rome burned to the ground.

McCain despite my best efforts will be the REP candidate.  McCain has zero chance of winning in the fall.  Maybe Huck will be VP, maybe not.  Doesn’t matter.  It’s over.

Whomever the Dems put up will win in the fall.

So now what?  The most dangerous man in the race is Obama.  He is Jimmy Carter on steroids.  Remember 20% interest, Islam rampant, Losing every war and a huge raft of other liberal policies implemented by a rank amateur. That’s Carter Obama

I know my friend RBB will hate me for for this.  I hope he will forgive me. But Obama is about to destroy this nation in ways unimaginable.  We as a party fumbled every good pass tossed us.  Let’s not fumble this one.

Right now Hillary and Obama are dead even in Delegate counts.  If you factor in super delegates you have the edge for Hillary. 

Unless Hillary stops the momentum Obama is building, he will be the next President of the US.

The only chance we have to save this country is to get Hillary nominated.  In this I agree with Coulter, Hillary is more reliable as a conservative and as a proven policy maker than McCain.  She might do a lot of dumb things but you can trust her to do mostly right.

Oh, I’ll vote for McCain in the fall if he’s the candidate.  He just won’t win. 

If you really have the future of your children and your country at heart, help Hillary defeat Obama in this spring’s primaries. 

She can then be President and maybe we have a chance in 2012. 

Truth is hard.

From CNN’s Political Blog a year ago.

Friday, March 02, 2007
Huckabee at CPAC: ‘Dude, where’s my candidate?’
WASHINGTON (CNN)—Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made it clear to the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday that he is hoping to be their choice in the 2008 GOP presidential field.

“This conference is called CPAC and maybe this weekend it might be renamed the ‘Conservative Presidential Anxiety Conference,’” Huckabee said to laughter. “The theme might be, ‘Dude, where’s my candidate?’ Well I’d like to think that maybe he’s standing in front of you.”

Huckabee also dismissed notions that the candidate with the most money and name recognition has a lock on winning the White House.

“I hear people say that, well, the only thing that’s going to matter in this election is celebrity and money—who has the most familiar name and who’s raised the most money,” he said. “My dear friends, may I say to you that if celebrity and money are the criteria to be President of the United States, then Paris Hilton might be our next president.”

Watch Huckabee strut his conservative credentials at CPAC
Posted 3/02/2007 12:13:00 PM

He won’t claim to be a prophet, but what he said was prophetic.  This year’s CPAC will be interesting.  Crow will be served.

      Posted by:      Duane R. Patterson      at       12:55 AM

This is from a comment on a blog for Mike Huckabee. This passionate supporter says what I cannot say as well.  People wonder why I went off so hard on Rush and the other giant talking heads.  This guy says it better than I could.  If we want to win in the Fall it must be Huck.

If McCain is nominated, he will get destroyed in Nov. McCain won some big states (NY, CA, and others), but those states will go to the Dems in Nov.

McCain is Bob Dole all over again. The GOP is committing political suicide. What is wrong with our party? Have they lost their mind?

Rush, Laura, Sean, etc., have caused all this and they are traitors to social / values conservatives. What they did to Mike in SC is horrible. In SC, they convinced many to support Fred and now they have ended up with McCain.

Last night in the GOP, many voted for McCain for the same reason they did Dole. They think McCain deserves to win because he is a war hero, and he is a long time serving Senator. That is not a reason to vote for a nominee. We need a leader, not a long time serving DC insider who has zero executive experience.

On the other hand, Romney has transferred himself into a conservative with a $100 Million dollar makeover. Remember, he was a MA liberal Governor.

I have listened to many conservative voices on radio, and they are all very much responsible for the demise of the GOP. They have tried to influence this party and it has all backfired.

The GOP has been given a great candidate with the most experience. He was a Governor for over 10 yrs. That is why Governors usually win the Presidency.

If this party does not wake-up now and vote for Mike, our Nation is finished. Many establishment GOP idiots are taking the GOP into a death spiral.

Most of McCain voters have not learned from history, and for that reason the GOP may be finished.

It will take a miracle now to save our party, and that miracle is Mike. It is time to act and we only have one choice, and that choice is Mike. If GOP voters make the wrong choice, then say hello to Obama or Clinton. Our nation will not survive these radical liberals (socialists) Dems.

The liberals have taken prayer out of schools, they have banned the Bible and the Ten Commandments. They will destroy marriage, and the family. The are forcing perversion on our children in the schools and in the Media. It seems that Laura, Rush, Hannity, etc., are only concerned with their radio future. Well, our future is more than about just conservative radio, it is about whether America can survive. Most Conservatives missed the boat concerning Mike, but they had better get on board now, or it will be to late.

The Dems are destroying our very foundations, our Constitution, our families, etc.

God is watching, if we make the wrong choice, we will not survive. 

Mike is the only true conservative to save the GOP and our Nation.  (One Nation under GOD)

About 200 or so people are recruited to walk into Grand Central Station in NYC and at a given signal freeze in place.  The idea is to discombobulate those around them.  Here is the video of that action and reaction.  It’s pretty cool.  I would enjoy being part of something like this. Enjoy watching this very good plan come to pass.