Newt, Newt, Newt....

I know these are still the primaries and I usually don't pay that close attention, but there are some really crazy things these candidates have been saying on the campaign trail:

Herman Cain: "We need a leader, not a reader." No Herb, we need educated folks making key decisions who can READ as well as listen. That's how you lead, sir.

Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." *Facepalms* #Mitt_fail

Rick Perry: "I will tell you: It's three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone: Commerce, Education and the... what's the third one there? Let's see... OK. So Commerce, Education and the... The third agency of government I would... I would do away with the Education, the... Commerce and... let's see... I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops." .... don't feel bad Rick. There are other things that you could've forgotten like the .... let's see. I can't ... Sorry, oops.

Newt Gingrich: "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument." Coming from a socialist fear monger like yourself, you don't seem to have a problem with special interests governing because after all, special interests are people too.

Michele Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." ... volunteers herself for the study that she can live on carbon dioxide alone. Reason #412 why politicians shouldn't try to pretend to be scientists.

Rick Perry: "Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America." ... which would be accurate if only Juarez was actually in America.

Rick Santorum: "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money." ...because he's okay with making white people's lives better, but if you're black - whoa now ... that's just crazy talk.

But then it comes back to Newt.

Newt lives for soundbytes. Unfortunately for him, his soundbytes tend to follow him. So when he comes out all pious and moral ... he casually forgets that he's been married three times, with relationships that were overlapping, not to mention getting rid of his wives when they got sick and yet having the audacity to say that gays represent harm to the institution of marriage. We hadn't even begun to pry the door regarding his desire for an "open marriage" with his second wife.

Now I'm divorced. I don't have a problem with people who marry and get divorced, but you can't hold yourself as being a beacon of family issues when you're peeing on the institution. You lose credibility the moment that you want to be a values candidate for the White House. That's why the exchange between Newt and John King represents a candidate who lives the double life. "Do as I say, not as I do." For a party that focuses squarely on morality and having a warped sense of being ideologically square with God ... I'm dismayed when candidates and those that support them ... find themselves in questionable waters like this. Thankfully the press is NOT giving Newt a free pass on his transgressions.

I don't condemn what Newt did or didn't do in his marriages. That's his business.

...but he loses that morality license and reasonable expectation of privacy the moment he wants to start condemning others for being less than moral.

Stone? Meet glass house.

This Is Gonna Hurt....

The R's are being more whiny than usual..

So when McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt pouts: "This nonsense is over" it absolutely REEKS once again that the R's refuse to take responsibility or to aptly defend their myopic slant of the world when it shines in their faces...

....but it's okay to rake Obama over the coals, yet you don't hear "This nonsense is over" from the D's side..

Maybe Steve Schmidt ought to grow a backbone because it's only going to get worse by trying to shove Palin out on stage when you met her but 5 minutes before the show was about to start..

Americans deserve better than a party that cowers at a relatively mild form of scrutiny, but it's okay for them to lash out against Obama and the whole Muslim angle.. Yeah -- I'm not feeling one damn bit sorry for the R's today.. In fact, I'm relieved because we're finally getting to see their true colors and most Americans seem to be seeing this as well..

Palin's Foreign Policy is confounding...

"Alaska Business Monthly: We've lost a lot of Alaska's military members to the war in Iraq. How do you feel about sending more troops into battle, as President Bush is suggesting?

Palin: I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe. Every life lost is such a tragedy. I am very, very proud of the troops we have in Alaska, those fighting overseas for our freedoms, and the families here who are making so many sacrifices."

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Haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq?? Is she going to be baking cookies and making lemonade for the boys because it's becoming pretty clear that if you don't have any knowledge (which to her credit she readily admits) then what are you doing becoming the veep nomination for the little guys running around with little "R's" on their shirts??

Cindy McCain quotes now....

"You know, the experience that she comes from is, what she has done in government -- and remember that Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia."

That's like the old joke stand up comedian joke by Jeff Foxworthy: "I've seen it on the map ... it's purple...."