THE DAILY BLADE: Counting Your Votes Before They Hatch
In a recent column, Dick Morris called Mitt Romney a "corpse" and a "political duck decoy" who "can’t get nominated or even become the consensus candidate of the right wing." He's trailing badly in the polls, The Associated Press reports:
Romney has lagged behind former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain in the polls, often with support registering in the single digits. He also trails such better-known Republicans as Gingrich and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson - who are weighing presidential bids - when their names are added to the mix of candidates.
Despite the flatlining of his fortunes, in a move that’s either clueless or presumptuous (depending on your point of view) the Dead Man Walking floated a few potential running mates yesterday. His short list includes three Southerners: SC Gov. Mark Sanford, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of GA and former FL Gov. Jeb Bush.
According to PollingReport.com, Rudy has a commanding lead in every poll taken in the month of March, including: Zogby (27%); USA Today/Gallup (31%); CNN/Opinion Research Corp. (34%); AP-Ipsos (35%); American Research Group (34%); NBC News/Wall Street Journal (34%); and FOX News/Opinion Dynamics (39%).
The Stiletto did her own informal, unscientific survey of several people she knows - a Reagan Democrat; a moderate Democrat; an Independent; a social conservative; and an Attila-the Hun type – and asked each the same three questions: Who will be the Republican nominee?; Do you think he can win the general election?; and Why do you think he can win? Every one of them thinks Rudy will be the nominee. The group was also unanimous in the opinion that Rudy’s liberal positions on social issues will cost him the rock-ribbed conservative vote – but that he will more than make up the deficit by capturing Reagan Democrats and Independents. The prevailing consensus is, "The war on terror is the only thing that matters."
Assuming that The Stiletto’s friends are right on the money and Rudy is the Republican nominee, her dream ticket would be Fred Thompson in the Number Two spot. Between the two, there’s geographic (north/south) and ideological (liberal/conservative) balance. In addition, both men are charismatic, dynamic, have unusually high name recognition (for 9/11 and TV’s "Law & Order," respectively) – and are seen as strong, capable leaders.
Just the ticket for these troubled times.
Swap Meet
Rudy Giuliani’s successor, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (himself rumored to be considering a run for the White House) announced a "bold antipoverty experiment," reports The New York Times. The social engineering plan will pay poor families up to $5,000 a year to "meet targets like exemplary school attendance, going for medical checkups or holding down a full-time job." The paper adds that the program, which is scheduled to begin in September, is modeled on "a similar effort in Mexico but is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation."
If paying families to act in their own self-interest is such a great idea, The Stiletto wants to know why Mexican families are pouring into the US by the millions. Hey, maybe when we start paying our poor families to go to school and to get steady jobs, they will cross the border into Mexico by the millions.
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April 3, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
Islamic advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the six "imams" removed from a Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight on Nov. 20 after acting suspiciously enough to alarm fellow passengers and US Airways crewmembers (last item, The Daily Blade, December 4, 2006). CAIR and the "imams" are seeking as-yet unspecified compensatory and punitive damages against the airline, Minnesota's Metropolitan Airports Commission and the unnamed "John Doe" passengers who "saw something and said something" – just as they have been urged to do by public safety officials since the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. ... -
April 27, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
Radical attorney/activist Lynne Stewart, convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists by helping client Omar Abdel-Rahman (AKA "the blind sheik") communicate with his disciples, has now been disbarred. The New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division denied request to voluntarily resign from the practice of law, because she made the offer in a letter dated Nov. 14, 2006, after her conviction. Found guilty of one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to provide and conceal material support to terrorist activity and providing and concealing material support to terrorist activity. She also was convicted of ...
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