RICK PERRY PULLS OUT OF LOONEY BIN RACE TO THE BOTTOM

We are doing a little web site purging of our own just like John Huntsman taking off the anti Romney stuff.  The individual in question has now changed his mind and is going for Santorum based on moral and credibility issues.  This is a big step twords sanity in my oppinion and it was something we could agree about at least a little.  Last night I had the debate on but got disgusted in the very little I saw.  I missed Gingrich's outburst at the beginning.  The crowd was on Gingrich's side.  There is so much ugliness in South Carolina the best we can do now it to put it out of our minds.


Governor Rick Perry today withdraw from the Presidential race two days before the election, which was something that surprised me.  Of course of any candidate he was the most forceful one talking about “The difference between venture capitalism and Vulture Capitalism”, a distinction that needs to be made.  Now Mitt Romney has a post box address in the Caamen Islands, like all those who want to sequester their money to avoid taxes.  Romney said that “he hardly gets anything for giving speeches”.  Well, to most people $374,000 is pretty high cotton, but this is the rarified world that Mitt Romney lives in.  To him it is only a sliver of his income.  Rick Perry endorsed Newt Gingrich as the most “conservative visionary”.  He spoke of “having our differences” and they certainly did on issues like marital infidelity.  He spoke of the virtues of forgiveness and it being a Christian value.  Randy Rhodes and others want to know about the 234 men that Rick Perry gave the ultimate penalty to.  So any of them get to repent, particularly those who might have been proved innocent with new DNA testing?  Of course Newt Gingrich was virtually guaranteed a win in South Carolina a month ago.  He had everything going for him.  It’s a tailor made Southern state where he and Romney can feel free to toss whatever racial barbs they wish.  South Carolina of course is where the Civil War started and they still fly the Confederate flag over the State Capitol building.  And the state’s two senators are Jim De Mint and Lindsey Graham.  You can’t do better than that.  So yesterday Newt was telling Santorum and Perry to get out of the race and rally behind him.  Santorum took offence at the remark calling Newt arrogant and presumptuous.  However Rick Perry decided to contribute his five percent or whatever vote he would have gotten.  So now there are only four candidates left for tonight.  Yesterday Rush Limbaugh was all for Romney but today Rush was all for Newt on his show.  It’s hard to keep up.  But the zinger where Newt is concerned is that his second wife will be interviewed on ABC “Night Line’ or whatever this evening.  In the interview Maryanne says that Newt’s Catholicism is bogus and he doesn’t really believe it.  But the big news of the day is that Maryanne said that Newt came to her and told her he wanted an open marriage.   He said to his wife, “The problem is I want you to share me with Colista.  Colista doesn’t have a problem with sharing me”.  This advocacy of an “open marriage” plums new lows for even a scum bag like Newt.   People like Rush Limbaugh who are devoid of morality anyhow aren’t bothered by it.  And others don’t see it as any real problem and shouldn’t alter the fact that he is now two percent of Mitt Romney in one poll.  However in other polls he is still down seven percentage points to Romney.  So now there is Santorum, whom we learn today actually won in Iowa by 34 votes.  But they lost the ballots for eight precincts so they say that “we will never know who the actual winner is”.  We just have to accept things like this.  From where I stand the Republican party is having a total moral melt-down.  They stand for nothing but are all like a bunch of doomed men on a sinking ship blaming each other.  Since South Carolina is 30% Black and Santorum was kind of pandering to Blacks the other night there just might be a bit of a Black “front lash” vote, crossing over to Santorum.

There are other issues to be concerned about, of course.  The Internet restriction bill or the PIPA and SOFA bills - - anti piracy something- - both bills appear to be going down to defeat and neither bill has the support of the President.  Meanwhile Rush Limbaugh is saying that there is some push polling done by the Obama staff trying out ploys for the State of the Union address.  One of these suggestions is that the Administration file charges against Wall Street and suggest that so many of these crooks deserve to be in jail.  That one would get my vote.  Rush Limbaugh countered that Senators Dodd and Frank ought to go to jail for “their part in the real estate collapse”.  Perhaps Rush should inform us all just what PART that is.  If Rush will remember, both the House and Senate were firmly in republican hands for most of the Bush administration, who was also a Republican.  So how could two democrats with no power be responsible for anything?  There is a lot of support in the country for Campaign contribution reform, and others would go farther in this issue than I would.  Jerry Brown wants California to go full speed on that high speed railroad because people are moving to the Central Valley for lower land prices and need places to live and transportation.  And it’s pointed out that neither expanding Freeways nor expanding LA International Airport are workable solutions.  We need to think ahead.  Unemployment claims for the week are once again down and are in fact the lowest since 2008, which is something to be really proud of.   Also we can be proud of the fact that OASDI funds never were allowed to invest in junk bonds as I’m sure Romney would have done were he President, since according to him it isn’t really a risk of someone else is the one who gets hurt.  So Social Security funds are safe.  Democrats point out the fact that one thing government unions are good for is safeguarding Pension funds for workers against whatever thievery the Republican non union people would have in mind.  Some public figure had the audacity to suggest that “teachers are being devalued in joining Unions because it means they will get lazy and not try as hard and so lower their standards of quality”.   And it seems that people are taking exception to a certain minimal standard of Medic-Aid will have to be uniform throughout the States in 2012 to conform to the Health Care bill.  Even though the US government pays the vast majority of the funds some object on principal to the States being compelled to provide ANY medical aid, if they choose not to.

You know, I don’t even know if I’ll watch tonight’s debate.  I think we all know pretty much what to expect by now.  Nobody is going to ask Newt about his proposal to his second wife for an “open marriage”.  Nobody is going to state the obvious fact of the glairing contradiction with “Christian family values” people like James Dobson talk about so much.  Nobody is going to ask the hard questions on anything.  We will no doubt here more “dog whistle” speeches, signaling to the racists in the crowd.  It was Lee Attwater who said that back in 1954 you could do a “Laura Schleshinger” and use the word “Nigger” every other word.  But by 1968 this kind of talk was now considered goche and the accepted expressions were “Forced Bussing” and “State’s Rights”.  Just last night you-know-who was telling me how many more Blacks commit crimes than Whites and that’s why so many are in prison, because they are raised without moral values.  I don’t know how Republicans can even say the word “moral values” at this point without their tongues falling out of their mouth.  And now a cigarette break.

This reality of oppressed peoples and races is something that no tea bagger wants to be honest about.  A component in this “minority” status is the idea of illigitamacy.  They would also make Bastard all religions that aren’t Christian.  Of course some of this is vaguely sublimated guilt or “guilt shifting” to get psychological.  Newt Gingrich is exhibit A in this hypocracy.  Santorum is in the running on the abortion issue.  Many minorities were sired by rape of a superior race over an inferior race.  Thomas Jefferson and many others sired Black children by their black slaves.  Indian women were rapes.  The Latino race to a lesser degree has been oppressed by the Norte Americanos.  They talk about six degrees of separation.  Some of those six degrees of separation between me and Jimi Hendrix may go through Cherokee blood since we both have Cherokee in our ancestry.  The Cherokee people, thanks to Andrew Jackson are certainly one of the more oppressed tribes.  I was talking to Judy about various socio economic factors and just plain poverty figuring into crime among the poor.  Judy points out that there are poor people who were quite moral.  Yet the overall thrust of her argument (what she says the other 97% of the time) is that the mere fact of being of low income is In Itself a means to impute some sort of “guilt”.  People talk about America being a land of religious liberty but they don’t mean it.  They mean it the small sliver of time that the patriotic music playing in the background and they are in fact doing some film promotion.  But the rest of the time they look down on those of other faiths, as well as women, and homosexuals and also minorities as somehow “not in our club”.  It’s like fundamentalists who are always building their own reputations by preaching “you know- I fear a few undesirables have slipped in among us”.  You always feel as though you have to walk on tip toes around these people.  Too much of Christian life consists of “sneaking around” because you know they are looking for the slightest excuse to finger you for something, and thus justify all the horrible things they’ve been saying about you for years.  In my own case as you know I have at times doubted my own paternity.  I learned my father has O blood, and independently I learned my mother has O blood.  And yet in summer of 1976 me and Pete Richards did our own blood tests in biology class, and we both tested out to be type A.  Assuming we performed the test right.  I have suspected attempts to conceil the date of my birth making it two months earlier than evidence indicates it was.  And then we have the personality changes in my Dad around late 1965 and 1966.  You have Judy’s remark in the car on the way home from a dinner at LB harbor with Fred and his son in July of 1998 to the effect that I was not entitled to all the love I USED to get from my Dad.  You’d have to hear the tone of her voice.  You have this whole “personality shut down” particularly where I am concerned.  (however also with others)   Christianity appeals to these perhaps subconscious anxieties in people in how it describes Christians as a “New Creation” with a clean slate.  But people like Neil Savedra say not to place too much stock in lines line this, or in lines about healing.  One woman on the radio, I’ve heard her give the same speech twice on call in radio shows saying the world was like a big mouth with all kinds of teeth.  There were gold teeth, and healthy teeth, and teeth with small cavities and teeth with major cavities, and all sorts of gum disease in places such that many teeth were on the verge of falling out.  This mouth image is a metaphor for the world at large.  When you go to the dentist he treats the whole mouth, because you are all part of one body.  Many people read such sentiments by St. Paul in Corinthians about “the body of Christ” which is the Church.  It’s too ad so few believe it.