…as James Tiberious Kirk:
For all his talk of being different, representing “hope,” and bringing “change” Obama has turned out to be quite the bore. He is the consummate insider, a recycler of old ideas and failed policies. People wanted to beam up to the starship and explore strange new worlds. We wanted to boldly go where no man (or woman) has gone before. Obama is in the wrong franchise. He and crazy Doc Brown, I mean Joe Biden, gassed up the DeLorean and took us back in time. To 1976.
Palin passed the Kobayashi Maru. She is qualified to command the ship. She has all the qualities we want in a captain; valor, principals, vision and most of all, the ability to change the rules.
We’ll see if she’s changed them to her advantage.
I really don’t know what to make of Sarah Palin. Of all the complaints leveled against her the only one that really resonates with me is that she is erratic. It guess time will tell if her latest moves are “crazy like a fox” or something else.
Anyway, events may be moving past her. The latest reports are showing the government suffering a disastrous decline in tax revenue. Voters may be ready for a revolt against the Washington establishment with or without Palin at the helm. Quite frankly, I would just assume the coming revolt not be about personalities, but rather ideas. We shall see.
Mike, I wonder just how big the deficit is. That 1.8 trillion figure is from somewhere earlier in the year, I think, and doesn’t take into account the full extent of the decline in tax revenue. It’s probably not going to increase much since I gather there hasn’t been a lot of new spending and most of the tax payments occur in April, but a figure achingly just shy of 2 trillion isn’t unlikely, in my view.
According to this story, there’s going to be an update of the deficit projections (made in May), this month. And that it is expected that the deficit will have increased.
Kirk could find a way to take out a Klingon D7 battlecruiser with just a shuttlecraft. Let’s hope Palin is just as resourceful.
Sarah is still young yet. Thanks to her enemies she’s gaining experience fast. I do see her as better than most at weathering the shiitstorm.
I’m with Ken on this. She’s gaining valuable experience in how the MSM and libs goes after anyone they deem dangerous to their way of life.
Personally anyone who pushes their buttons that hard is alright by me.
Palin / Jindal 2012?
Paul / Palin 2012?
Or any combination there of.
At least Palin doesn’t get red faced when crossed like Algore.
Slightly off topic, but a Kirk(Shatner)/Palin connection nonetheless. Did you see Shatner recite Palin’s tweets as poetry set to beat music on the Tonight show? It was hilarious.
Have you been following Riehl World View? It appears that the anonymous blogger spreading lies about her has been de-anonymized. His name is Jesse Griffin, and he works as a kindergarten assistant at Trailside Elementary School in Anchorage.
It appears that he may be a pedophile as well. He has said on his blog, “I am teaching my boys to wear dresses and swish when they walk because being ignorant or drug addicted is no longer a guarantee of being passed over. If your not willing to suck cock then pack up your going to Iraq!”
He describes his own job as “teaching children to read, and HELPING THEM TO BECOME MORE INDEPENDENT.” (emphasis mine). Presumably by sucking cock. (Seriously, I’ve studied real pedophile groups and this is EXACTLY the kind of wording they use).
He also has stated his fantasy of getting Trip Palin beat up for having a funny name.
Call Trailside Elementary School at 907-742-5500 to help get this evil pervert away from innocent children.
Orville: I thought him reciting her resignation speech a couple days prior was good, but Shatner’s delivery on her Tweets was perfect. They could make that a regular skit (maybe branch out to other celebrities) and I’d watch every time.
The only thing worse than Leno, is O’Brien. And Leno was awful.
She has all the qualities we want in a captain; valor, principals, vision and most of all, the ability to change the rules.
Does he mean principles, or does Palin actually have principals?
Paul / Palin 2012?
A Democrat’s dream come true.
So Jim, what’s Obama’s catchphrase in 2012… we still hope/change we can run against Bush?
I believe we are in for much worse before we see the light.
These are the good old days I’m afraid.
Conservatives need to fix their primaries. I’m thinking back room with the doors closed wasn’t such a bad idea. I don’t think McCain would have been the result. We might even have gotten someone that didn’t have fire in his belly. What idiots the media make of us all when we let them.
The one has principles, he simply lied to the maximum about what they really are.
A pretty piss-poor way to have principles. But what can you expect from a scoialist Joker.
ken anthony Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Conservatives need to fix their primaries. I’m thinking back room with the doors closed wasn’t such a bad idea.
I agree. The legendary smoke-filled rooms of old had the advantage of picking candidates that served the party’s interests. They would also tend to weed out crackpots, flakes, extremists, and people who had serious skeletons in their closets. It was an imperfect system but it had its advantages.
At the bare minimum we have to abolish open primaries. The only people who should be allowed to vote for a party’s candidate should be voters who are registered with that party. The idea of primaries is to pick the best candidate for one’s own party. The fatal flaw of open primaries is that it allows voters to pick the worst candidate of the opposing party. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how that can go wrong.
Cute article, Palin as Kirk. But can candidate Kirk beat President Joker?
http://bedlammagazine.com/files/images/news/Obama-socialism_0.jpg
Maybe we need a Dark Knight instead. But who could fill that role?
In addition to getting rid of open primaries (too much opportunity for political mischief), I’d like to get rid of caucuses (cauci?). A simple vote works for me. I don’t have time to go hang around with a bunch of political junkies for hours.
Open primaries are the GOP’s only hope of nominating a presidential candidate who can win a general election. Without open primaries the 2008 nominee might have been Romney or Huckabee — does anyone really think either of them would have done as well as McCain?
They likely would have done better. McCain ran an incompetent campaign.
Anyway, I am kind of glad you guys elected Obama, you are going to be reaping the whirlwind from him for a veerrry long time. Pretty much anyone with a R next to their name will likely have easy sailing in 12′.
Let him actually be dumb enough to pass a VAT an the Democratic party will go the way of Whigs.
Of course… if the economy were to recover, even slightly, the chances of any Republican winning in 2012 are close to zero.
But then again, I remember reading on this VERY site that Obama didn’t stand a chance of the nomination and when he did get it there was no chance he could win…
Keep up the predictions chaps!
“Of course… if the economy were to recover, even slightly, the chances of any Republican winning in 2012 are close to zero.”
It depends on how you define recovery. Remember, the economy had recovered significantly in mid-late 1992 and GHWB lost the White House. No stagflation and a mild recession preceeding it.
The dems got shellaced in the House in 94 in spite of a good economy.
Technically, Stagflation was recovery and we were not in a recession at the time of the 1980 election. Ask Jimmy Carter how well that worked out for him. Just because you are slightly GDP postive does not mean much if inflation is eating it up, unemployment is high, taxes have gone up and energy costs are soaring.
Also, letting the Bush tax cuts expire in 2011 have been predicted to have about a -3 percent effect on GDP. Obama has embraced the seeds of his own political destruction in embracing the expiaration.
If the Dems pass the VAT they are discussing, they will go the way of the Whigs, it would be permanant political suicide.
As I said, I wish the tradition of Transterrestrial Musings political predictions to continue to be as accurate as ever.
You can wish in one hand and and void your bowells into the other. Please report back which fills faster.
Daevon. America is still a center-right country who was sold a bill of goods. Wait and see.