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Better Goosestep with the Goons or Else Girlie …

Posted: September 21, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, U.S. Politics | Tags: , , |64 Comments

Plenty of Reagan Republicans have criticized the current Republican Party and their embrace of policies and stances more suitable to the John Birch Society, the KKK and the Taliban than the party’s past lives or the US Constitution.  Bruce Bartlett and David Stockman have both come out with books that mince no words about the embrace of crazy economic policies that don’t resemble anything of Reagan’s views or modern economic theory. So, why is it they’re suddenly jumping on Peggy Noonan?   I guess the boyz don’t like one of their women stepping out of line more than it bothers them that many of their stallions have already bolted from the stable.  Sexism anyone?? First there’s Chris Wallace who is one of the clearest voices of John Birch propaganda and spurious economics to be found on the Fox Propaganda Network.

In her column today, Noonan doubled-down on criticisms she made earlier in the week: “This week I called [the Romney campaign] incompetent, but only because I was being polite,” she wrote. “I really meant “rolling calamity.”

During today’s interview, part of POLITICO’s “Turn The Table” series, Gavin asked Wallace whether conservative opinion makers who have criticized Romney — such as Noonan, David Brooks of The New York Times, and the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol — had influence on conservatives around the country or were simply participating in an “inside-the-Beltway parlor game.”

“I think it’s more of ‘Inside-the-Beltway,” Wallace said. “Some of the people you’ve mentioned, like Peggy Noonan, sometimes they’re New York City’s idea of conservatives. Kristol is a different deal. Kristol is a serious, movement conservative, and he never wanted Mitt Romney. He always wanted people of the next generation like Ryan, Rubio — so I think he feels disappointed.”

Wallace then mentioned David Frum, the conservative columnist who now writes for the Daily Beast, though whether he was referring to David Frum or David Brooks was unclear.

“David Frum is the guy who turned on George W. Bush. Peggy Noonan has bashed George W. Bush, bashed Mitt Romney, wasn’t crazy about McCain. So, their conservative bona fides I’m not sure I take too seriously,” he said.

One of the creepiest goons in the enforcement racket is John Sununu. Evidently, he doesn’t mind going after Peggy either. Remember, we’ve had a series of wingers criticize Romney recently.  Why single out Noonan?

In today’s edition of the Sununu Series, Mitt Romney’s attack dog pushes back against Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan for her ongoing criticism of Romney’s campaign. “I wouldn’t hire Peggy Noonan to run a campaign,” Sununu says.

What set them off?  Noonan’s blunt assessment of  Romney ‘s inefficient management style was published in this WSJ op ed: Noonan: Romney Needs a New CEO. Here’s three of her points that really hit home.

5. “The president had a strong convention and Romney a weak one.” The RNC failed “to relaunch a rebranded Romney and create momentum.”

6. Team Romney has been “reactive,” partly because of the need for damage control, but it also failed to force the Obama campaign to react to its proposals and initiatives.

7. The “47%” comment didn’t help, but Mr. Romney’s Libya statement was a critical moment. Team Romney did not know “the most basic political tenet of a foreign crisis: when there is an international incident in which America is attacked, voters in this country will (at least in the short term) rally around the flag and the President. Always. It is stunning that Team Romney failed to recognize this.”

Still, the Romney team is attacking Noonan while letting other republican pundits off the hook.  After Scott Brown’s smirking performance last night, I’m beginning to see how much the boys really like to beat up on those uppity girls who dare to question their born-with-a-dick abilities.  Call a Whambulence boyz. The girls obviously hit you where it hurts.

64 Comments on “Better Goosestep with the Goons or Else Girlie …”

  1. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    September 21, 2012 at 4:33 pm

    Personally I believe it’s a two-fer. She’s a woman so they can exercise all the sexism they want without fear of backlash from their dumb ass base. But, she also stuck a sword right through the heart of the ONLY argument Romney has for being president. He’s a wonderfully successful CEO who can run the country but, how can that be true when he can’t even run his campaign? That’s something that even a lot of Bubbas will understand at gut level.

  2. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    September 21, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    I think you’re right about this. No one has been beating up on Bill Kristol or David Frum. It must be the vagina factor.

    • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
      September 21, 2012 at 5:04 pm

      I think Dak, Ralph and BB have good theories on this, it looks like a vagina factor. But I also have a tin foil hat theory, I think some of the more sane (I don’t think they’re ideas are sane) republicans are looking to who the hell they have left in the queue for 2016.

  3. ecocatwoman's avatar ecocatwoman says:
    September 21, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    Seriously, can’t that cootie covered girl read the sign on our clubhouse? NO GIRLZ ALLOWED!

  4. ecocatwoman's avatar ecocatwoman says:
    September 21, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    Anyone up for a smile for the day? http://www.treehugger.com/culture/norman-eco-warrior-cat-will-soon-shop-loblaw-grocery-stores-guilt-free.html I love the captions on the photos & the video is too cute, although I don’t think cats should eat fish – sustainably sourced or not.

  5. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    September 21, 2012 at 5:13 pm

    Charles Pierce is going to join the gobshites on a couple of shows this weekend. Hope to catch them!

    Out on the Weekend

    Big news from the land of the gobshites: Bill Clinton will be all over the Sunday shows in advance of his big do-gooder conference (the blog will be there with the candidates on Tuesday), including an appearance with former Polk Administration congressional correspondent Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation. Schieffer has started to grow on me, basically because he’s not the Dancin’ Master, but mostly because he occasionally affects the mien of the Old Guy Who’s Had Quite Enough Of Your Bunk, Young Man. Anyway, Clinton on TV is always good craic, as they say in the motherland, although Jill Biden may be turning into a serious contender.

    (Also, too: I will be talking about the Warren-Brown campaign with Chris Hayes Saturday morning on MSNBC in what we in the electric television business call the nine-o’clock hour. Expect a ruthless appraisal of my own gobshitery to come on Monday next.)

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      September 21, 2012 at 5:42 pm

      Oh, great. He’s going to be on Chris Hayes show. I listen every weekend!

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      September 21, 2012 at 7:23 pm

      Those Nixon quotes are a riot!

      This Week In The Watergate Tapes, A 40th Anniversary Special (Thanks as always to the indefatigable Stanley Kutler): September, 24, 1972.

      NIXON: Where do they get these Yippies, Bob? They’re the same group that hit us in Santa Fe, isn’t it, the same kind?

      HALDEMAN: Yeah, same kind of people. They’re violent. They’re based in San Francisco.

      NIXON: Are they students?

      HALDEMAN: Mostly, non-students. They work the students. They use the students. They foment the students.

      NIXON: I mean, are they dopies?

  6. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    September 21, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    $7,204,114 of Mitt Romney’s 2011 Adjusted Gross Income Is Missing!

    http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2012/09/21/the-mysteries-in-mitt-romneys-tax-return

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      September 21, 2012 at 5:44 pm

      Uh oh. Something’s up. It figures. Someone will figure out what he did and he’ll look like a moron again. Why doesn’t he just come clean? He’s not going to be president anyway.

      • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
        September 21, 2012 at 5:58 pm

        This is interesting from your link:

        The Romney campaign now says that since 1990, “the lowest annual effective federal personal tax rate” Romney paid was 13.66 percent. In other words, the rate on what might be characterized as his personal income never fell below that threshold.

        But that doesn’t account for the three trusts, or other investment vehicles that may have existed prior to 2010. And it’s unusual to limit the claim to “personal” taxes when Romney has acknowledged other types of income. So it’s possible that the effective tax rate on the trusts was very low at some point—and maybe even zero, which would have indicated a net loss for the year.

        Romney’s personal return for 2011 shows significantly less investment income than his 2010 return. In 2011, for instance, Romney claimed $6.8 million in capital gains, down from $12.6 million in 2010. That alone helps explain why Romney’s overall income and tax bill dropped. The stock market was flat in 2011, but other investment classes, such as bonds, did much better, so it’s unlikely Romney lost money on his investments in 2011.

      • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
        September 21, 2012 at 6:03 pm

        “Uh oh. Something’s up. It figures. Someone will figure out what he did and he’ll look like a moron again”‘

        Oh good, I love to watch Romney tap dance.

        • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
          September 21, 2012 at 6:24 pm

          Either that or Ann of Green Stables will come on radio and shout about YOU People THESE people THOSE people a few more times so she can express her dismay at how we just don’t appreciate their obvious superiority and sacrifice … poor poor put upon and oppressed rich people!

      • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
        September 21, 2012 at 6:08 pm

        Their is something funky about that, I don’t think the tax crap will go away now, but the Democrats need to find the smart message because it’s not easy to understand for a lot of people. You know Republicans are going to scream “charity”.

      • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
        September 21, 2012 at 6:26 pm

        we people just don’t get it …we’re supposed to be happy with the little scraps and dribs and drabs we get … they’re being so charitable after all !!!

      • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
        September 21, 2012 at 6:36 pm

        Here is a replay of Ralph’s find

      • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
        September 21, 2012 at 7:02 pm

        “Either that or Ann of Green Stables will come on radio and shout about YOU People THESE people THOSE people”

        ROTFL!!!!

    • RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
      September 21, 2012 at 6:03 pm

      Wonder if this tax release is being used as cover for something bigger?

      Castellanos on tax summary: Is this a joke?

      Alex Castellanos, the former Mitt Romney strategist from 2008 who has alternately been critical and praising of the current campaign, left no doubt where he stands on the decision to release a summary of the candidate’s tax rates over 20 years.

      “At first I thought this was an April Fool’s Joke,” said Castellanos, who tweeted something to that effect at me earlier. “But it isn’t April. I can’t imagine that David Axelrod will now say, I’m glad Mitt put this issue behind him. This will drag Mitt’s taxes back into the debate. And there’s not many days left. I just can’t imagine why they would do this. There are 40 days left and you have now made more of them about Mitt’s taxes….you don’t serve a life sentence and then confess afterward. They’ve taken their beating on this (already) … I just don’t understand how a (being) ‘little pregnant’ strategy (works).”

      Other Republican operatives have emailed in with a similar reaction – that the summary is going to revive, instead of settle, questions on an issue where what had seemed to be the worst was already behind Romney.

    • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
      September 21, 2012 at 6:08 pm

      Why yeah, He just decided to move that measly $7 Million dollars in investment income to a place where he can’t be taxed. Don’t we all do that?

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      September 21, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    • minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
      September 21, 2012 at 11:59 pm

      I was waiting for this…

  7. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    September 21, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    Cynthia Tucker, just said it better, Some republicans don’t want to be associated with Mitt the Twit, it’s bringing down the whole ship.

  8. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    September 21, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    I read the whole Noonan piece. I have to admit it was very hard to make it through the part where she praises James Baker III to the skies.

    • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
      September 21, 2012 at 6:09 pm

      I admire you BB, I can’t hold my breath long enough to read anything she writes.

      • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
        September 21, 2012 at 6:34 pm

        I know. My eyes started glazing over when she went into paroxysms of joy while discussing the Reagan campaigns.

    • pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
      September 21, 2012 at 6:14 pm

      No breathing person could suffer that much. I know Noonan is suppose to be a “wordsmith”, but I can’t take it.

      • Seriously's avatar Seriously says:
        September 21, 2012 at 6:32 pm

        She kind of makes an easy target due to the whole “being certifiable” thing. It’s hard to forget Elian and the magic dolphins, or the time she wrote a whole column in some patois she was trying to represent as some kind of African American dialect.

      • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
        September 21, 2012 at 6:46 pm

        True, but she’s not nearly as crazy as John Sununu.

        {Typo corrected}

      • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
        September 21, 2012 at 7:05 pm

        “True, but she’s nearly as crazy as John Sununu.”

        The last couple of times I’ve seen Sununu on TV, he was about to stroke out. He was wide-eyed and short of breath, rambling on about how Romney was taken out of context at the $50k a plate dinner. I think the man has gone Batshit Crazy!!!

      • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
        September 21, 2012 at 7:13 pm

        I left out the word “not.” Noonan is not nearly as crazy as John Sununu. His insanity isn’t recent either. He was the same way when he worked for daddy Bush.

  9. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    September 21, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    Harry Reid released this statement on Romney’s tax returns.

    Washington, D.C.—Nevada Senator Harry Reid issued the following statement after Mitt Romney released today one year worth of tax returns, showing he paid a lower tax rate than most middle class Americans:
    “The information released today reveals that Mitt Romney manipulated one of the only two years of tax returns he’s seen fit to show the American people – and then only to ‘conform’ with his public statements. That raises the question: what else in those returns has Romney manipulated? We already know Romney has money in tax havens in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. What we don’t know is why he refuses to be straight with the American people about the choices he’s made in his financial life. When will the American people see the returns he filed before he was running for president? Governor Romney is showing us what he does when the public is looking. The true test of his character would be to show what he did when everyone was not looking at his taxes.

    “It’s also galling to see the creative accounting Mitt Romney applied to his own tax returns only days after learning of his insulting comments that seniors, soldiers and hard-working parents don’t pay enough taxes. Once again, we see Mitt Romney is out of touch with middle class families, who don’t have the luxury of accounting wizards and foreign tax shelters. It’s obvious he believes in two sets of rules: one for him, and one for the middle class. He says he wants to be president for only half the people but he acts like he only cares for the top two percent. Despite the fiscal cliff looming in just over three months, Mitt Romney refuses to explain the details of his tax policy. Will the policies he proposes benefit all Americans, or only multi-millionaires like him?”

  10. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    September 21, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    In fact, Romney could always decide to amend his returns and take the deduction, Ryan Grim pointed out.

    But his still-low tax rate, which is below the 15 percent federal payroll tax rate that some of that bunch of irresponsible layabouts pays, will raise questions about the fairness of our tax system. Romney pays very low rates in part because most of his income comes from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate than normal income. That’s a good thing, as Matt Yglesias at Slate notes. Not so great? The “carried interest” income Romney still gets from his old private-equity firm Bain Capital, which is taxed like investment income when it’s really labor income.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-gongloff/mitt-romney-tax-return-2011_b_1904659.html

  11. ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
    September 21, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    I know this is off-topic, but I thought y’all might want to take a look see at the Rick Perry Dominionist supporter, Cindy Jacobs, as she talks about her vision of natural disasters that were, of course, brought on by Barack Obama. Plus I thought y’all might need a good Friday Night Laugh.

  12. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    September 21, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    I don’t know if this is true but a comment I read:
    I listened to Conservative David Brooks on NPR tonight. He said the problem with the Republicans is Romney. He said Romney is insincere. This is a CON!! “

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      September 21, 2012 at 7:35 pm

      See ANonOMouse @6:53 for what’s wrong with Republicans … plus Paul Ryan’s budget plan plus Bobby Jindals’ idea of “science” and whole lot of other batshit crazy things they force on the rest of us

  13. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    September 21, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    This is where some of that creepy billionaire Romney support money is going.

    Anti-Obama Movie Mailed To 1 Million Ohioians

    An anti-Obama movie claiming — without evidence — that President Barack Obama’s real father is an obscure African-American communist has been mailed to 1.5 million voters across the country, its creator told BuzzFeed Friday.

    A reader in Ohio emailed this photo of his free copy of the film Dreams From My Real Father, which claims that the Chicago activist Frank Marshall Davis is actually President Obama’s father. He received it in the mail this week.

    The film’s director and producer, Joel Gilbert, said that the film was sent out to more one million voters in Ohio; 200,000 after a mid-summer conference, and a million after that. He said that 50,000 copies had been sent to voters in Nevada and 100,000 to voters in New Hampshire.

  14. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    September 21, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Here’s a update on the sick chair lyncher
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/21/texas-man-takes-down-lynched-chair-threatens-media/

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      September 21, 2012 at 7:17 pm

      OMG, what a loony tune!

    • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
      September 21, 2012 at 7:39 pm

      The man said “he hung it on the tree because he wanted to cut the grass on the lawn.”

      Well goddamn, why didn’t I think of that? Here I’ve been picking stuff up out of the yard and putting it in on the porch. Next time I cut the grass I’ll climb a tree, throw a rope over a limb and hang the stuff from a tree. Makes so much more sense.

  15. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    September 21, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    I don’t think this has been put yet. James Murdoch to come to the US and fuck up our media more than it is.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/james-murdoch-news-corp-tv_n_1902127.html?utm_hp_ref=media

  16. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    September 21, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    This is really inspiring Libya! Libya! Libya
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/21/us-libya-benghazi-militia-idUSBRE88K17920120921

  17. ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
    September 21, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    Rachel Maddow is on a tear. Y’all might want to watch.

  18. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    September 21, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    Just reading this post now,

    After Scott Brown’s smirking performance last night, I’m beginning to see how much the boys really like to beat up on those uppity girls who dare to question their born-with-a-dick abilities. Call a Whambulence boyz. The girls obviously hit you where it hurts.

    Brilliant!

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