Tread softly w/respect to Ghouliany and Rummy

yes, both are despicable in their own creepy ways. I actually had a nightmare last night that mitt the shitt was being inaugurated; I was trying to decide whether to leave the country, kill myself, or what.

There is plenty of crap to throw at both, but remember, freddy is going to enter. We want it to be tough for him. Despite his having no qualifications whatsoever, I think he would be the most formidable opponent because the machine would go into high gear packaging him as the "new reagan." Why in the hell anyone thinks that is a positive thing to say about anyone, I don't know, but there are a bunch of idiots out there who are already drinking that kool-aid and will go gaga when he gets in.

So we want the ghoul and the mitt to still appear to be viable candidates, who will go after freddy tooth and nail. Otherwise we'll have to do all the work to pop his balloon. Ideally, they'll form a big circular firing squad, and all we'll need to do is hand them ammunition.

Then whichever one is left standing we go after with everything we've got. Love nests in the WTC, flipflop on choice, large empty pumpkin for a head, you name it.

His arrogance is beyond the pale. I, for the life of me, can't see what the draw is.

because of his religious affiliation.

Mitt is an unlikely choice. As is Ghoul-liani.

The media is making a circus of the whole ting when neither of these candidates is going to get a lot of traction in primaries and caucuses dominated by religious conservatives.

As the Bullshit Media System remains firmly in their control. However in a hypothetical world where we could actually mount an effective media attack against neocon candidates, holding off destroying these two clowns over their idiotic remarks is the kind of pretzel logic that our side indulges in all the time. When your opponent is wounded: strike hard.

and freddy is the nominee by default/acclamation with the spin machine in high gear the cabal's chances are, in my opinion, significantly enhanced. Enough so that I live in borderline-terror that they'll get yet-another four years to keep dismantling the government and building their aristocracy.

damn democracy is tough. nobody who disagrees with me should be allowed to vote! :)

He can't even shit or get off the pot with his candidacy. Why you are advocating holding fire on the two front runners for fear of Thompson is beyond me. Then again this board was full of people explaining how that numskull Mccain was going to stomp all over us not too long ago, so nothing much surprises me here.

Look at how their side works this stuff: they systematically go after each of our candidates, tearing them down, floating their meme-droids to set the poisoned perception they want about each of them. They are good at it and they do not hold their fire while pondering the relative merits of destorying the current crop for fear of what the future might bring.

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I know he's a doofus. I am not worried about him

he is a convenient blob of clay for their machine to package, just as reagan and gwb were. neither of them had the sense to come in out of the rain either. That is their tried and true strategy - run a cardboard cutout. If they clear the field of all the dreck currently stumbling around they can focus on the packaging. If the dreck is still there, Thompson has to actually mix it up with them.

THEN will you be worried?

when he's made appearances and speeches, he's got baggage that will catch up with him (including the cancer), and his organization and work ethic thus far SUUUUUCKS! He's proving the laziness/no fire in the belly rap against him to be true. Contrast this with Romney: a CEO's work ethic and organization, good looks, and an utter, shameless ruthlessness. I'm sure Romney's thinking, I didn't govern through four years of that godawful Kennedy-loving liberal state to LOSE my bid for the WH. No, the person who wants it most, and lays the groundwork, and does the heavy lifting, will win the nomination. That ain't Fred. Even the moranic Repubs don't coronate.

shit, they dried him out and got him the tx governorship as soon as Clinton beat his daddy. He didn't do shit as a governor but they manufactured a record (while obscuring the other records) and then stole the election for him so they could put him in and tell him what to do.

The cabal really running the show does not WANT an actual leader, a qualified person, in that job. They want a yes man. Thompson is their perfect front man. His work ethic is just as good as bush's.

but I don't think there will be a strongman VP to run the show this time around, so lazy isn't going to cut it. Romney is hard-working, but will be an absolute whore for any position his neocon masters want him to take--he's totally malleable, the guy doesn't have a principled bone in his body. He'll do the work of the Chimp PLUS some of Cheney's, and grin like Guy Smiley to the public all the while he's fucking us over.