Primary Boogeyman

Rule to the Exception.
Freedom / Hardball
Mitt Romney wins, Paul 2nd, Huntsman 3rd.
Gingrich and South Carolina next.
Huntsman ticket to ride or flavor of moment?

Yeah that's the ticket, but here is even more.

There is the old adage "divide and conquer",
but then there is the exception that proves the rule.
If Republican political calculus is anything, it is attack strength.
Economic Freedom is the key.
What it means, is the meme.
Absolutism may be the red flag of the Teddy Bull,
but the cape* of the progressive.

*Ctrl F "Nietzsche"

[Romney indeed made history as the first non-incumbent Republican to win both Iowa and New Hampshire, but given recent history, Fukuyama and the Neo-cons, it seems to fit the Primary Boogeyman frame, not to mention unprecedented Bush the Uniter.]

[1-11-12 CBS Christie Does Cynical Well, "Jersey-Style" **
CBS Poll Romney beats Obama,
Michelle Beats Anger.]
[My original intent here yesterday, was a Primary Colors reference, and a pun on Exception to Rule, not The Rule, but don't step on my blue suede shoes. (Reference post-**)]

[** I mean the Governor of New Jersey does "lame" well, if as Romney's "hit man" he is accusing Obama of not doing anger well.  Is that Neo-Boogeyman?  A flip-flop of the Doom and Gloom, and more of the Fear and Smear.  Governor Christie is the Sarah Palin with Lip Schtick.  Ouch, that was not to imply that he is a VP choice, but given the frame maybe.  When I use Hyperlink, I use Hyperlink. ]

[4a continued:  Freedom is not a tool***, but an end that doesn't justify economics.  This is my riff off of only the 1st paragraph of The Economist, on Economic blogs and "A less dismal debate." After reading it more fully(see ***) a funny thing happened on the way to the for 'em.  Actually it only hinges on the "tool" concept and the nature of "innovation" and the nature of economic debates.  Not that I have more than glanced at the debate example, but it also hinges on the nature of people as well as material or ideological forms.]
*** again note anacronism of 4m (see asterisks and bracketeds) as I evolved the post comma segment.[being in magazine 4m another one of the 4a.] (Note technical difficulties, uncertain if any threads or hyperlinks are lost, but I close in the middle of reading Marginal Revolutionaries in hard copy.)]


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Tin Foil Herman

[11-30-11]It's official, unless it's not.

I guess I am not "some people". I wanted a business man to run, for the sake of the nation, for the sake of the debate. For the sake of settling* what the heck market forces have to do with running a government.

* Cain references** in order:
Temporal
No Teddy
Nailed it! T-point Oh!
Never the Twain
From GOP to NOP
Bite of the Big Apple?
Courting Jesters
Apples and Oranges?
Para-Model
Cain Un-Able
Two Points
Sat Ire[!]

** Not the same Cain, or "machine"
[I might not have all the facts, but that doesn't leave Cain*** out.]

[More to sort. Witch Cain first and why did he cross the road?]
*** The "Cain" and "facts" links apparently are interchangable.(that is Jon Stewart and a YouTube)

[Sort: Search Cain is good. NOT!]
[Sorting Cheese Heads]
[Look up
attack strength.]
[Original Break on Halloween?]
Cain is an art project?
Buffet v. Trump
Cain un-Able
Ron Paul Scariest
[Meanwhile: Papa mmmm MOW OW! Michigan is still coming along, but the Bill is the Word in Ohio and Wisconsin.
Takin' out the Trash Men.]
[Rachel Maddow: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I]
[Geez Heads Unite!Ed(!)]

Citizens United?

Hyper Sorting

The "Liberal Media" is Laughable...
Update
If Only It were Black and White
Axis of Fruit Loops
These links reflect the actual sequence of the last four posts.

The "Liberal Media" is Laughable...
Meet the Press from the week before featured Ron Paul(14 minutes in),
"undoubtably" the scariest thing for Herman Cain.
Then I feature Norman Goldman* "on the other hand"
Followed by two takes on the OWS crowd.

Update
Rovian Republican Recalcitrance(theory)
Attack Strength
SIN
and Spin on the Simpson-Bowles*** and the NRA**.

Axis of Fruit Loops
Martin Bashir on Koch/Cain and Mika Brzezinski on Elizabeth Warren on Morning Joe
* adding 10-31-11
** need Martin Bashir
*** Morning Joe?

[MB- McDermott on debt plans and super committee
Smoked Cheese, etc.]

Hi tech whining. [10-4-11 Republicans Crack Me Up]

Update

Spell check "strength"
Blog search [attack strength]

Pop Quiz: blog search "strengths" (there are at this time four hits.
(note: searches might change over time, but I am not sure that even the al gor'ythms might not, also this is the reference to pop quiz, no G'ribble intended, but you can search for yourself - actually further reference of "strengths" at bold this.)
(also I must update links and labels, in particular Navigation and the evolution of changing course)

[BTW*** this is on point: Simpson Bowles was taken up by Obama, as a committee that did not have consensus. Hence it is more as Warner contexts it than Chambliss con texts it. And here is how I'ved parsed that point; The Curve or Nuance Thing, The Timing Thing, Duoh!, Flash Words]
[Go Zbig!]
[If Only: MBA = WC / CW (Martin Bashir Associates)
I must now wait for the MB link, but the Warring Class over the Culture War is inconvenient rational or grammar.
Or new world order. I don't have the facts to back this up, but either the NRA... never mind, the facts don't have to come out, in fact it would might be illegal if not journalism if they do. That is the definition of settlements, and CYA, or it could be shooting the messenger.]

[High tech whining and Star Power]

An Economy Runs Through It.

The last thread, that is.
I don't recall seeing the movie about the river,
was it about trickle-down?

This is, though.
Why You Want a Progressive to Be Running the Economy
The trickle-down, not the river.

On the other hand.
This is about the power of planning.
Ten Things You Should Know About China

The former is a good primer on the politics of economics, while the latter may be a more advanced course on freedoms and economic powers, not to mention foreign policy.

[Update- Because I just did not want to start another post- Going after National Security(nfr* - preemptively I will say that the Republican Rove machine seems to attack on the strength of their opponents, National Security and the Economy. But the reality is that they are attacking on their own weaknesses. Remember The Twin Towers? Remember the Deficit? And Foreign Affairs? Remember Saddam Hussein, the Bin Ladens, and other royal families?) From Doom and Gloom to Fear and Smear, is that a world we can believe in? OK, this is not too tightly linked to McCain, but is he really too tightly wrapped as the Maverick? Not to mention is the word "trump" coming up too much? Have we gone from poker to pinochle? ]

Who started it?

Bill Bennett asks why would the Democrats attack Bush on his strength,[update 10-31-11 *] his war on terrorism?

Release of the NIE was bad for everybody, he claims. That is the point. Intelligence is on the Democrats side, and they want it locked up.

Matt Lauer did a surprisingly good job countering most points that Bennett made including pointing out that Bush has been on the offensive, and Bennett served his cake and ate it too, by excusing that as becuase it is Bush's strength.

Well, if it is their strength, just who is Bennett waving the white flag to (maybe a semafore, when he persists that "he brought it up" meaning Clinton started it? Is he talking to those he claims didn't blaim Clinton, didn't blame Bush or did blame the CIA? And who is he sending the message to, when he brings the war on terrorism back to Iraq, but he hopes that "chasing after Clinton on the world stage... is over"?

We must keep the truth out there, on the media stage. They will continue to misread it. Who will keep it up?

Who will be fearless? [Segue in closing] Special thanks to Stephanie Miller for waking me up (and my snooze alarm) and for having Arianna Huffington on, not that the latter is what got me started, but we are finally on the same page and in a growing choir.

In contrast or no thanks to Tucker Carlson or Matt Drudge.

[* also labels and link added]