BrooklynDame,  Jan.18 12:52 pm - Maybe with all that venom he’s
splashing around he will poison himself!  Oh…maybe he’s already
done that and we are just watching the end of days, his days?  I don’t
know why but he reminds of the ancient mythological snake that the
Greek, Egyptian, Celtic, and the Aztecs all have that, that is eating its
own tail, the Ouroboros.  In a self-regenerating act of paradoxical and
unending autophagy (that which sustains itself on its own tissue), the
beast cannot help but draw meanings in the receptive mind of “self-
fecundation; disintegration and re-integration and things fearsomely
serpentine.  Also seeming to also symbolize something that begets,
weds, impregnates, and slays itself.  Gingrich seems to teeter
neurotically on the double edged psychology of utter cleverness or
madness.

I bring out a bag of popcorn every time I hear any of the GOP clown show
candidates speak. Newt isn’t dishing out venom to Mitt, per se. Newt is venomous
to everyone. Period. The more the candidates implode, the better it is for the
Democrats and, better yet, the American people who will see the level of toxicity in
that party and within their agenda.

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/01/false-narrative-the-gop-
primaries/

Leefeller, you write:
“Flying kitchen sinks do teach one if capable of learning to (duck)!”

That’s PScheer’s point and he’s right. 
The $10,000 bet, Bain Capital and “Like to Fire” stories are becoming old news already.

But we have a lo-o-o-o-o-ong way yet to go.

Romney plods ahead like the Tortoise.
Paul fights on, keeping the fires of passion lit.
Gingrich and the Tea Party, locked in their echo chamber, continue to delude each other and themselves.
Santorum and Perry are window dressing.
Greens and Justices struggle to gain notice.
Obama is wise to keep his $1B worth of powder dry.

Whiteness and money may have more power towards Mittens success than all the voter rights tampering, birther begotting, touting Obama as a Moslum and Republican induced kitchen sinks combined!

By the way I recall a few kitchen sinks being thrown in Clinton’s direction and she didn’t win, Peter Sheers argument seems a tad weak in his kitchen sink memories?

Flying kitchen sinks do teach one if capable of learning to dunk!

Both of these candidates, as well as the rest of the GOP field, are objectionable to freethinking people who do not follow a religion but believe in science and reason rather than myth and superstition.  Mormonism was founded by a notorious liar and con man—imagine early America visited by an angel called Boney Maroni—and the evangelicals, certainly no better, insist that Mormonism is not Christianity. As if to make matters worse, Newtie is a lobbyist for the Conference of Catholic Bishops which really makes policy for faithful Catholics in America and peddles a hardcore social conservative agenda.  The choice is Scylla or Charybdis.  Both are illogical and without basis in anything real, only in fantasy and wish fulfillment.  Both, also, follow similar dogma and presentist views, trying, as did Gomer Shuckabee, to make our laws conform to Christian principles.

I know it’s a re-run but Romney and Obama are nothing more than Thing 1 and THing 2 from _The Cat in the Hat_.  Whichever gets elected, the Cat’s in charge.  And the Cat is the Corporatist influences.

Is it just habit that we have to get in line and pretend interest in the Primaries?  It’s a big charade, a dance, an elaborate ritual.  In the end, whether it’s Romney or Obama or Newt (outside chance on that one—but almost hilariously he’s painting himself as the outsider being threatened by big money influences), the net impacts are the same.  WE lose; Big Money interests win.

See Your God is My God By Sam Harris on wWhat Mitt Romney Could Say to Win the Republican Nomination
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/your-god-is-my-god
And do not miss Hold Out No Hope for the Republican GOP. http://open.salon.com/blog/f_arouete/2012/01/12/hold_out_no_hope_for_the_republican_gop

“a Romney-Obama contest will have as much excitement as a spelling bee.”
—PZ Scheer

everybody knows spelling bees are boring UNLESS your kid is in it.

The American people are being set up, isn’t it obvious, by the
power hungry Republicans?  Apparently Mr. Sheer has missed it. 
Or perhaps pretending to be omniscient, he is part of what is to
be a national catharsis.  Everybody knows Mitt Romney will be
their candidate, all of the contenders, Huntsman the latest planned
casualty, Santorum, Paul, and Gingrich will all fall into the political
toilet, very soon.  The last several months has been the best strategy
to get out all the Romney warts that have existed in the people’s
mental furniture to try to “cleanse” them, baptize them, and raise
him from his grave before he faces the intellect and cunning of
Barack Obama.  The contention, hostility, and oddness has been a
clever satire.  Sheer thinks it is going to be a ho hum political year. 
Don’t bank on it, he… and you will go broke and will have to borrow
money to save the farm.  You don’t think for a second the Republicans
will let anything as important to them as the election up to chance, do
you?

The onslaught of the Republican candidates, the literal aggression and
invasion by all of them has merely been to ferret out, to dig as deep as
possible every and any verruga peruviana, every vestige of his political
vulnerability in order to give Romney practice sessions hoping he will be
able to withstand everything with which Obama and the Democrats (call
it a machine if you want) will bombard him.

Incongruity is a characteristic of theatrical comedy, which, in staging
politics, is the way politicians pretend to be opposed to the way they
really are.  Romney’s pretenses are his weak spots.  Using the devices
of both high and low comedy, it has been an incredible burlesque of
breaking the proscenium by each of the candidates, meaning their
peculiar asides to the audience (who are thought to be the gullible
American people) that exposes hazard Romney could face.  I mean
just look at the parade of clowns.  They have all attended the
Republican School for Scoundrels.  Their comedy of situations where
character and ideas are made to appear as “minor” hidden identities,
oh yeah, with egregious (allegedly surprising) discoveries, definitely
reversals used as a tactic, and so forth, that farcical devices, but to
those who are conscious these funny men and women are a whole lot
less unrealistic, they are… menacing.  It is in reality a malignant fate
we in middle America face should the Republican’s hoodwink us into
another regime of misfortune.

No, it is not going to be a mere dull domestic comedy, this is going to be
serious drama, and a serious tragedy if Romney, or just on the outside
chance it is another Republican, gets any nationwide traction at all.  But
we are being set us up for it.  Aren’t we?