The Crying Game

You may remember that when John Kerry was looking for votes in Ohio people relied on the exit polls to project a Kerry victory but then there was a three or four point percentage discrepancy and people made a lot of that. In the case of Hillary beating O Bama 39% to 36% there is no less than a sixteen percentage point discrepency that materialized over the period of just one day. The question is how? I can imagine the sort of show Rush Limbaugh will have today. I'm definitely tuning in. Rush is the one who has said that love is the one emotion you can't fake, unless of course you're a woman, and thank God for that. The thing is men have emotions, too, but at least with men you know it's their real emotions. Women have always used their emotions as tools of the trade in work or whatever. Women have used their emotions to get their way since Biblical times. Of course if you're a man at some kind of a spiritual revival meeting you may feel the need to fake emotions, because in metaphore, the man plays the part of the "woman" with "God" as the man, who's supposed to be "faked out" by your emotions of exticy. I would not believe anything at this point Hillary said or did because she's a pathological liar. As you know she talked about that "vast right wing conspiracy" with Monica Luinsky, knowing all along that the alligations about her were true. Then there was that piece of "fiction" she wrote in her book that when she found out about Monica, her jaw dropped open and she felt like she was going to pass out- - and all of that. The thing is if it's wrong for Ed Muskey to cry in 1972 as somehow a sign of "instability" for a job such as the Presidency, why is it any more "acceptable" for a female Presidential candidate to cry? You know I didn't see the debate last Saturday. Being a man, I was doing what all red blooded American men were doing; I was watching a football game. Neither did I see Bill Clinton angrily come to the defense of his wife on Monday. Once again, if it had been a first lady coming to the defence of a man because "someone made him cry" it would really look unmanly.

We kept hearing that those votes from Hanover and Dartmoth College were going to come in any moment where all the young people voted to sway the score from its 39% to 36% tally. What we didn't hear was the slightest hint that this vote was going to come out like this. I don't want to say that the fix was in but I'd like to see someone explain a sixteen percentage point swing in the space of one day. Monday it was "Panic" and Tuesday it's "Total victory". Of course I may have jinxed it myself when I used the phrase "Going for the brass ring". I've never used it before and I'll probably never use it again. The original "last song" on that compilation was a highly apocraliptic song about doom, gloom, and total destruction. Except we'd already used the track on "Radio Ready". Pat Buchannon is a new found Hillary supporter by his remarks on MSNBC last night.

Of course the other phenominum was that John Mc Cain came in first on the Republican side. This has to be the most meaningless victory of all time. We know he is "toast" as a candidate. He's all washed up. People call him "grandpa Mc Cain". So let him have his day. It will be his last. Equally meaningless is Romney's two losses in a row. This projects nothing as to Romney's future. Some may ask me, "What do you care about Mit Romney, you're never going to vote for him". That is quite true. To be honist as this point I'm thinking of voting for Ron Paul. I think he got eight percentage points. I thought perhaps he might get more. But the thing is you have Mc Cain in at first and Romney in at second, and Huckibee at 3rd. but look who is lurking at fourth place. Giuliani. Giuliani is there in stealth mode just waiting to make his mood. I DON"T want Giuliani to be on any ticket as a choice on election day. The prospect of his election fills me with more dread than anybody else. We need to see what will happen in Michigan. If Romney wins big in Michigan, people will come to look more kindly on him. I think Romney is the best choice the right can make to articulate their views in some debate forum.

We've been hearing that the stock markets have not been performing that well in the first week or so of this year. While I could say "I told you so", actually I was expecting a much WORSE drop off for the beginning of this year. I made a number of dire predictions about January of 2008 that haven't exactly come to pass yet. It could be they aren't telling us things. It could be that I just "jumped the gun" in saying we were headlong into a major economic recession.

I'd like to endource Governor Swartzenegger's four Indian tribe amendments to boost revenues. If you heard the governor's speech yesterday afternoon you had to be impressed with it. He spoke of building infrastructure. He spoke of ecology and the need to sue the Federal Government to "get it out of our way" so we can do the job we know we need to do. He spoke of No Child Left Behind- - and the need to take action against schools that don't comply so that we don't lose federal funds. The governor spoke of revenues as being "flat" and we were now off the sugar high of the spike in revenues two years ago, and how we need a constitutional amendment to institute automatic mid year budget cuts, to prevent crises in the future.