The Victorious Opposition

New Yorkers, meet your new governor:

Well, in the running governor.

Not since porn star Cicciolina was elected to the Italian parliament has there been a sexier political candidate. The first thing you notice is her bust. Round, full, in the Dolly Parton/Jayne Mansfield sense, they are just too “perfect.” Then you notice her eyes: blue, piercing, determined.

Kristin Davis graduated from high school in central California at age 15. She earned a B.A. in business from St. Mary’s College while working in finance. The first hedge fund she worked for was bought by Fidelity, and she worked at hedge funds successfully for another 10 years. Then she became obsessed with the financial possibilities of sex.

Davis built the most successful escort service in world history. She had more than 100 girls and operated in 5 countries, with a call center in Uruguay. She could dispatch a $1,000-plus-an-hour call girl to a hotel or residence in Paris, Berlin, Gstaad, Rome, New York, L.A., Miami, Dubai, Montreal or elsewhere within minutes.

OK, I would not quibble with her business credentials, but the “sexier political candidate”  bromide is a bit of a stretch (at least for me). I find Yulia Tymoshenko (prime minister of the Ukraine) and Cristina Kirchner (Argentinian President) far sexier, but back to credentials. Not since Meg Whitman or even Mitt Romney have we seen a political candidate with this much business chops. And frankly, someone that understands budgets, the simple fact that monies coming in must exceed monies going out, and that spending that which you do not have is just plain bad business sense, this type of education is probably what is needed most, especially for those states (mine included) that is the most fiscally under water.

Davis says here platform is clear: “P-squared” — legalize and tax prostitution and marijuana. Davis thinks that could bring $2.5 billion or more in new revenue to New York, allowing the state to cut the more regressive income and property taxes. Davis backs gay marriage but also opposes gun control as a consistent Libertarian. With New York politicians in particular disrepute, perhaps New Yorkers will find Davis’s plans compelling.

What’s not to like? and a small tax on breast implants, balanced budget here we come.

And I would not even place her in the “novelty candidates” category, not like one of our own:

Some would argue that the way the system works, Solomon could not sway the Democratic run legislatures (plaguing both California and NY) from their profligate spending ways, but, as the Tea Party’s have shown, the people can be stirred,  why not have someone with a nice rack do the stirring?

My mom is a California Republican, little-old-lady-in-tennis-shoes type. Loved Ronald Reagan. Never missed an election. She didn’t know what my business was when I got busted, but she’s never judged and now she’s excited that what happened to me became something positive. She will campaign with me in October.

Gee, I wonder if we are related?

While wasting time over at iowntheworld I came across probably the most awesome, scary, apocalyptic, scathing, damning, and altogether sinister political ad I’ve seen in a long, long time. Fasten your seat belt prior to viewing, this is one wild ride.

Where to begin?

This guy has a ready made niche, doing voice overs for Satan in any more “Omen” remakes.

I don’t know if any of that stuff he said is true, political ads by their very nature run fast and loose with the facts, but that voice and those red eyes scared the crap out of me.

At first I thought this was a goof, I can’t see a 3 plus minute ad getting much traction but I saw an article in my local paper this morning about the California Democrats getting all indignant over it, funny, but the ad didn’t even mention them, what is their beef?  Maybe there is like a shorter version, about 1 minute in length, that will get aired.

The other thing I thought interesting, for an ad touting Carly Fiorina, we see precious little of her in it. Maybe she is still self conscious about her haircut. Here is the Carly for California website. For those unaware, Carly has been undergoing daily radiation therapy for breast cancer, no doubt the treatment has been kicking her ass, but she beat it, good for her.

The ad mentions that Carly “accomplished enormous things in life”, if he is talking about her cancer battle then I would agree. If this is meant to tout her particular business acumen, I’m not convinced. Without delving too far into her wiki page or her background ,the two things I know her for is her CEO’ship at HP and her work as chairperson of the McCain campaign. In my mind both were dismal failures. She did nothing to strengthen the HP name or it’s balance sheet before she was ignominiously let go (with a Warren Buffet style golden parachute) and we all know what a bad campaign McCain ran, if her fingerprints are anywhere near that debacle, she should distant herself from that immediately.

I have heard her speak on the issues and she has a command presence that, in my mind, would serve her better in giving Boxer the boot than these Beelzebub ads her campaign is running now.

I found a funny line over at ed driscoll

“I like it! Boys, we’ve got a winner with this one. Run that baby! Get it up on YouTube, pronto.”

“Don’t you mean EweTube, boss?”

“BWAHAHAHAHAH! What could wrong with this idea?!”

And Mary Katherine Ham had some choice comments:

  This thing’s going viral, but not necessarily in a way that will help Carly Fiorina’s message. It just oozes that special brand of ludicrous hilarity that the Internet loves, and the Internet will give the demon sheep many, many lives. And, you will now be able to say, “I knew the demon sheep when.”

  If I thought the creation of the demon sheep was an intentional Internet hit, I’d be impressed, but I’m not sure it was. Nor am I sure that the true inanity required to produce viral hits will ever be the kind of thing that serves political campaigns well, but here’s to the Fiorina campaign for creating something we’ll all remember.

I hope Carly gets the nomination, I can’t wait to see what this crew will come up with in targeting Boxer, but stick with the Satan theme, is always works with democrats.

Check out this ad I found over at iowntheworld:

Give me a minute so I can go put my flag out on the side of my house.

No doubt most are aware of the contentious battle going on in Mass. regarding Ten Kennedy’s senate seat (oops, my mistake, I mean “the peoples” seat). This senate race is a veritable magnet for attention for several reasons, it is the only game in town, it is being contested in the bluest of the blue states, and it features a GOP candidate that has oodles of charisma. And most importantly, it is still a close race. There are tons of sound bites over at youtube for those that have not heard this guy speak (he is Obama like in presentation…......argh…......I’m so ashamed).

But I wanted to talk about this particular ad and its cheesy attempt to emote a certain nationalistic duty to promote one candidate over another.

Yesterday I posted on how Bill Clinton made an out of his ass comment linking the miseries of the Haitian people to the Mass. race and how a vote for Brown would be detrimental to Haiti. We can all laugh and say ,“What a buffoon” but in this ad I heard ,“A vote for Scott Brown is a vote for liberty”, hmmm, so a vote for his opponent is a vote for tyranny?

Another patriotic jingoism we here is “The will of the people”, yes we are all for that, since that is type of government we have (no King George III telling us what to do) but since all the other senators including Ted Kennedy were selected by the will of the people (they won with the most votes) I would say that the will of people always wins out (discounting fraud of course).

Other hot button images that always plays well with the folks, the triumvirate of Obama/Reid/Pelosi as the antagonists and the assclowns of MSNBC, other images that they missed, ACORN and those black panther thugs with clubs intimating voters, those never disappoint.

Those criticisms aside, it was a powerful ad. But the GOPer’s in Mass. (all 3 dozen of them) don’t need any more motivation. And since Brown has pegged his run of the position of being the vote that will derail Obamacare. Those independents that are against this governmental takeover should also be sufficiently energized.

All the right wing blogs are absolutely giddy at the latest poll numbers that show Brown ahead, but I still think his opponent should be favored, this is Mass. after all. Living in another blue state, there is ample buzz about Boxer’s seat being vulnerable this November. I’m skeptical.

Last year (dang, has it been that long?) I posted on a rabble rouser from Michigan, one of five hundred and thirty five who seems to get the concept of where their loyalties should lie. This year we get the opportunity to introduce some new blood into that august body.

For those that live in District 22 in Florida (West Palm, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale areas) Lt. Col. Allen West is throwing his hat in.

Nice speech, using phrases like “Take our country back” will always whip up a crowd populated primarily by those in the minority.

Having a career in the military is a tremendous stepping stone to public service, especially one as prestigious as one lived by Col. West, and if Harry Reid were a Republican he would give Allen a nod due to his lite skin and lack of negro dialect.

Oh, and that reference to that woman who voted for Obama so that she would not have to pay her bills anymore?

Oops!!!