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Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Florida Romney Stupidity Friday Edition Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:10 AM PDT The stories in the news lately about how several states are shuffling around the dates of their primaries may seem like inside political baseball, but it’s important to the voters and will have a direct influence over our choices in the Presidential election next year. Here is the story in brief. Some states have gotten a bit miffed that Iowa and New Hampshire get all the media love early in the primary season because they traditionally have been the first states to cast votes in the Presidential election. Florida, in what could charitably be described as a fit of pique, moved its primary to January 31 to jump ahead of the Iowa Caucuses on February 6. Iowa then moved its caucuses up by more than a month, so that the first real electoral action will happen on January 3. South Carolina jumped to January 21st to keep its normal place in the primary order (which is traditionally Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Or so we thought. Nevada wants to move its primary to January 14th, ahead of Florida’s, to suck up some of the media attention. New Hampshire then went to electoral DEFCON 2 and told Nevada it needed to back up a few days or it would move its primary up to either December 6 or December 13. Yep, folks, we could be choosing our nominee in December and January instead of February and March thanks to the selfish dopes in Florida. It is entirely possible that we’ll be down to two or three candidates before Super Tuesday in early February, which means that nearly the entire country would not get to cast a vote for the candidate they really want. Why did Florida trigger this mad dash to push the election season in the middle of the Christmas holiday season? Stacy McCain has sources who lay the blame on GOP Senator Marco Rubio’s chief of staff who used to work for Mitt Romney’s campaign. Essentially, this staffer, Cesar Conda, pushed Florida Republican to move the primary up to make it more likely (so they think) that Mitt Romney will win the bucket full of Florida delegates and put the nomination away early. This, as you can imagine, is a horrible and exceedingly selfish move, that will fatally damage any chance the right has of ousting President Obama. Mitt Romney can not beat Barack Obama in an 8 month campaign. In fact, there isn’t a GOP candidate who can. The President has far too much money to spend, and he’ll spend every dine he has, plus some he doesn’t. Romney’s best bet, assuming he wins the nomination, is to push the President into a short general campaign, where the President won’t be able to pour his money into campaign ads lest he overexpose himself to voters. But hey, what do I know? I’m not the chief of staff to a US Senator, right? And now, links! Duane Lester’s All American Radio podcast is now a part of the Take That Media family. Go welcome Duane and subscribe to his show. I think you’re going to like what he does. President Petulant? Yeah, I’m pretty sure this nickname is going to stick if he corks off to reporters a couple more times. Meet the ridiculously rich people who support the Occupy Whatever protestors, but not with a dime of their vast fortunes. Finally, Congress has the three free trade agreements President Obama and the Democrats have held hostage for three years. Too bad the New York Times couldn’t report the story correctly. We’re starting to get reviews on Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan and some are better than others. This is one of the harshest I’ve seen and while I it leaves out a few important points, it’s worth a read (via memeorandum). I’m pretty sure that “Unite the World” is not the sort of foreign policy we really want. The last guy who tried that ended up dead in a bunker. I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a few more times before we’re rid of the blight that is Obamacare but if you want to see how government-run health care turns out, look to England. Specifically, look at this NHS report which shows yet more rampant patient neglect, staff incompetence, paperwork burdens, and out of control spending. I guess it’s too much for us to expect that an august journalist like E.J. Dionne actually pay attention to a debate before he writes a scolding column about something he thought Newt Gingrich said.

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