THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
The Other Shoe Drops: Updates To Previous Posts
† It’s A Topsy-Turvy Campaign: Want more proof? The New Hampshire chapter of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, has endorsed Mike Huckabee (AR) for Republican presidential nomination – the first time the 16,000-member union (only about a 25% of whom are Republican) has endorsed a Republican candidate, reports The Associated Press. The endorsement is remarkable for another reason: Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, favors including intelligent design in school curricula. But wait – it gets weirder: Minuteman Civil Defense League founder Jim Gilchrist has also endorsed Huckabee. When he was governor of AR, Huckabee supported awarding merit-based state-funded college scholarships to forged documented aliens who graduated from a state high school. Huckabee says that Gilchrist has blessed his "humane and compassionate" plan to curb illegal immigration, saying he could have easily written the plan himself.
† Craig, Constituents Clash: Bipartisan lobbying firm Federal Strategy Group sent out a holiday greeting that “was quickly downloaded into a PDF format and is now going "viral" on the email circuit,” reports The Washington Post’s Mary Ann Akers (AKA “The Sleuth”). The card depicts “two men in Washington power suits passing a giant candy cane under a men's bathroom stall, undoubtedly the international symbol for ‘Ho Ho Ho.’" Here is a photo of the greeting, in case you’d like to pass it on.
† Prince Charles Is Carbon Neutral. Now We Are (ROTFL) Amused. (third item): In its report on the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, The Nation finally wakes up to the fact that carbon trading – essentially, buying the “right” to keep your carbon footprint as big as you please – is a scam. Outfits that trade or sell carbon credits or offsets are akin to those that sell naming rights to the stars in the heavens, or those that create coats of arms for families whose forebears were too humble to own a coat, much less arms.
† Mitt Romney Leaves Voters Cold (third item): The New York Times once observed that Mitt Romney comes off as aloof, and that voters have trouble connecting to him on a human level. Watching the CPAC speeches back in March, The Stiletto noted that Romney’s smug demeanor and a smirk set her teeth on edge. When you combine “aloof” and “smug” together you get “arrogant” – and Proverbs 16:18 instructs that "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." The Boston Globe reports that Romney got his comeuppance in this exchange with Tom Tancredo during that Des Moines Register debate the other day that hardly anyone watched:
When Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado looked down the lineup of fellow Republican presidential candidates and said he had a question for the governor "because you're leading the pack now," former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney straightened up as if readying himself for a punch.
But Tancredo interjected, "no, no no," and pointed instead at former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, as Romney receded with a locked-jaw smile.
The latest Newsweek poll has Huckabee leading Romney by 22 points in IA (39 percent vs. 17 percent); the Mason-Dixon poll has Huckabee up by 12 points (32 percent vs. 20 percent).
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