"The G.O.P. Deserves to Lose"

Ooh look at this, the Wall Street Journal (the in-house journal of the Republican elite) is not happy with the current crop of GOP Presidential candidates.

Some selected highlights:


Above all, it doesn't matter that Americans are generally eager to send Mr. Obama packing. All they need is to be reasonably sure that the alternative won't be another fiasco. But they can't be reasonably sure, so it's going to be four more years of the disappointment you already know.

Ouch!

As for the current GOP field, it's like confronting a terminal diagnosis. There may be an apparent range of treatments: conventional (Romney), experimental (Gingrich), homeopathic (Paul) or prayerful (Santorum). But none will avail you in the end. Just try to exit laughing.

Double Ouch!!

A primary ballot for Mr. Gingrich is a vote for an entertaining election, not a Republican in the White House.

Stop it, you're killing 'em!

On the evidence of his campaign, Mr. Romney is a lousy CEO.

This is just unfair!!!

What about Rick Santorum and Ron Paul? They are owed some respect, especially for the contrast between their willingness to take a stand for principle against the front-runners' willingness to say anything. But Messrs. Santorum and Paul are two tedious men, deep in conversation with some country that's not quite America, appealing to a devoted base but not beyond it. Sorry, gentlemen: You're not going anywhere.

"...in conversation with a country that's not quite America." I'll have to remember that one.

And the U.S. will surely survive four more years. Who knows? By then maybe Republicans will have figured out that if they don't want to lose, they shouldn't run with losers.

Man, this is what there own team thinks about them! What chance have they got?

Of Winston Riley, Slim Smith and Pat Kelley

In the week of Winston Riley's untimely death (from injuries received in a brutal attack last November), I thought we should pause long enough to listen to a song from the group that he founded - The Techniques.

When Slim Smith left the group in 1967, Pat Kelley was recruited to take his place. This song 'You Don't Care' was the first single recorded with the new line-up. And what a recording it is, adapted from a Curtis Mayfield song, it has a lovely lilting style and was a huge Jamaican hit, spending six weeks at number 1.

For years I have been of the opinion that poor ill-feted Slim Smith was the greatest vocal talent that Jamaica ever produced, but listening to this song you would have to say, Kelley is at the very least Slim's equal.

David Cameron's ToDo List

Don't Vote For Romney - He Speaks French!

In his defense, he does speak French very badly.

Fox News Finds a New Way to Diss Mitt Romney

Remember when Fox News would 'accidentally' list any Republican involved in a scandal as a Democrat?

Well, on a similar note, if anyone doubted that Romney is Fox's least loved Republican candidate, check out this graphic from last night's report.

It has been shown that there is a direct lineal correlation between minutes spent on Fox News and the poll standings of Republican presidential candidates. It could be argued therefor that FoxNews is Obama's biggest single strategic asset. To appease Fox and to get the face-time they need to win the Republican nomination, candidates have to dance to Fox's hard-right tune, a dance that will distance themselves from the great bulk of American voters.

So it is that with Obama's approval rating languishing in the lower 40%'s, he his well ahead of all his likely opponents, some argue that he may even be heading for a landslide victory. The two candidates that have a chance of beating Obama - the worthy (though dull) Mitt Romney and the intelligent and articulate John Huntsman have next to no Fox face time, and are thus falling away in the polls.

Our New House

HA!

Best Boy Band Evah!

Don't Get Bitter, Get Organized

Oh dear, turns out Marx may have been right