My Darkhorse Pick For President In 2012

I have been seeing more and more of Dan Quayle recently on various shows and each time he comes off sounding very knowledgeable and moderate. In this interview with Neil Cavuto he was given a couple of chances to take some shots at Obama but he didn't.

You want to know something? That was refreshing. In this day and age when it seems everybody has picked sides and seeks to gain 15 minutes of fame for some sort of inflammatory comment, he remains statesmanlike. That is a word you don't hear a lot of nowadays, and contrary to how liberals like to make hay out of his spelling of tomatoes, potatoes, whatever--gawd how many years have they milked that line,?--he sure does show signs of having a firm grasp on world affairs.

The other thing I like about his style while being interviewed is how he takes nothing for granted. For instance, while discussing energy he used the word fracking. Rather then just going on with his answer he took the time to explain what the word meant. He did the same thing later on when he used the acronym MRE, never assuming anything or trying to sound smarter then you.

If there is somebody I would like to see maybe actually test the waters in the next election it would be Dan Quayle.

The final point I wish to make is that when he mentioned the Middle East he brought up the country of Bahrain and explained why that is deserving of some attention.


He just strikes me as somebody who will return the office of President back to one of respect and cool the super heated rhetoric which has taken over politics in this country. The left will probably never cool down, but then he seems like the type who isn't going to worry his little head over a child's temper tantrum.

P.S. Regarding former Vice President's Quayle advice to watch Bahrain we have this.

What If The Southern States GOP Seceded from the RNC?

Why not? Maybe it is time for the southern states GOP party to finally say enough with the national Republican party? It has already become apparent that when it comes to launching any sort of attack of the Messiah apparent Obama that it is the southern states GOP committees that are carrying the water. Whether it was the ad in North Carolina or Tennessee, it has been the state GOP groups who have done it only to be criticized by McCain and his campaign group.

It is said the GOP can't win without the south, and so far the national party seems to have turned not only a deaf ear but even turned it's back on the very part of the country they consider to have in the bag. Now with the announcement of Bob Barr launching a presidential bid there are even nasty rumors that Georgia may be in play.
I think it is time for the southern states, whom are supposed to be so important to the Republicans winning, not only spoke up more but started demanding that the the national organization start listening to us.

The southern states have the clout and in fact they could even turn the GOP convention into an uproar by not only not having their electorates cast their votes for McCain but even put forth a different candidate. I know what everybody is saying, the primary elections are over and everybody has voted. Everybody has voted but nobody is listening. They allowed Iowa and New Hampshire set the tone. Here are the primary results for the southern states when we had a full slate of candidates.

GA
Huckabee 326,069
McCain 303,639
Romney 289,737

SC
McCain 143,224
Huckabee 128,908
Thompson 67,897
Romney 64,970

AL
Huckabee 230,608
McCain 210,989
Romney 103,295

TN
Huckabee 189,443
McCain 174,763
Romney 129,722

MO
McCain 194,304
Huckabee 185,627
Romney 172,564

If you add it all up Huckabee comes out the winner. I did not include all the southern states merely because candidates were dropping out and the poll results reflect that skewing along with lower turnouts for the Republicans as the list of candidates got smaller.

Let me say from the outset that Huckabee was not my man either, but rather Thompson was, however out of the final 3, McCain, Huckabee, Romney, I would be in the Romney camp. Support for Huckabee would be difficult, in my opinion, because he ran too much as a pastor and not enough as a politician concerned about the issues.

So while it sounds like I ain't happy about none of the contenders on the Republican side, I do think the southern states would be better representated by somebody other then McCain.

What I am proposing however, is that instead of our continual whining about how the Republican party no longer represents our values and views on issues, let's do something. The southern states have enough pull to make McCain come back to the right.

It might be time to send him a message that he can't ignore by raining on his parade at the convention. Does he still have enough delegates in his pocket to pull off the nomination? Of course, but by expressing a very open and public display of discontent in the way the Republican party is moving it just might make other folks take notice.

People in this country who also feel the Republican politicians no longer speak for them and might be motivated to look into their local races and instead of continuing to send the same old tired hacks back to congress get some fresh blood in there. Conservatives of all stripes may be uplifted enough to make their voices heard.
The south may indeed have to do it again, secede, but this time from the party who claims to need us so much but return so little to us. I don't mean earmarks, either.

The Danes sum up our presidential race nicely

I am shamelessly lifting this from Neal Boortz's blog.

'We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.
On one side, you have a lawyer who is married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a lawyer.
On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a blonde with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.
Is there a contest here?'

Is it inevitable that a liberal will win the White House?

Well I wrote some last week about some concerns I had about the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in regards to his policies on taxes and now there is more coming out bout his soft immigration stance while governor as well as other issues with ethics he had while governor. Mike this is what happens when you rise in the polls. It has been easy to beat up on Giulani and Romney since they have been the favored candidates but let's see how Mr Huckabee stands up to the scrutiny.

At one time I liked the guy even though he was from Arkansas and we all know what happened the last time we elected a former governor of Arkansas as president. It is the gift that keeps on giving. Of course being from Georgia I can't say a whole lot about former governors who make it to the White House since the stain of Jimmy Carter just won't go away either.

I am stuck in the unenviable position of having to watch the CNN/YouTube debate tonight, but I am looking for one thing. I want to see some fire come out of Fred Thompson. If he doesn't excite folks tonight then I think it is over for him. Huckabee, I am starting to think is trying to pull a Clinton on us and I am getting soft on my support for him.

It looks like this is going to come down to residents of New England running this country. If the other Republican candidates continue to falter we are going to be left with Guilani (NY), Clinton (NY), Romney (MA), and Obama (IL). It will be a shame since once again America will be in the hands of a liberal.

For all you political junkies out there

Olbermann Set to Host ‘Biggest Job Interview in History’

The AFL-CIO simply calls it the AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum at Chicago's Soldier Field.

It will be carried on the XM satellite radio channel 130. This is the channel that will be running full time starting in Sep and is dedicated to covering the presidential race.

The only problem is they seem to have left out one word. DEMOCRAT

Just in case you were interested.