by admin | Feb 24, 2012 |
I said I’d never do it but I did. I watched another episode of the long running political comedy called The GOP Primary Debates-2012. I can’t explain why I did it. There were some perfectly good basketball games on as well as some reruns of NCIS that I had only seen three or four times. I guess it must have been the Icarus effect. I won’t insult your intelligence by retelling the story of hubris and arrogance that led Icarus….suffice it to say, I couldn’t help myself. I knew I was going to have a problem with this one though because the field is now reduced to four, which means that each of them would have more time to talk. I don’t mind listening...
by admin | Dec 28, 2011 |
I dunno why exactly, but I’ve been ruminating on the results of the Iowa GOP caucus. I guess it’s in part because I’ve actually attended an Iowa caucus (see I Caucus, Too November, 23, 2007), and in part, because I’m fascinated by the fact that Romney won/lost this caucus after spending only $1,642 per vote cast in his favor. My preliminary conclusion is that there’s a lot of people including a bunch of really conservative Iowans who are pretty well convinced that Anyone But Mitt (ABM) would be a far better candidate. Go figure. Ok, this may be too clever by half, but the parallels between this caucus and the 1972 Democratic caucus that I attended in a...