The Third Avenue

Newton versus Willard

2012-01-31T23:19:00.001-07:00

As much as I have enjoyed the cartoonish fight between the one preventer and the former lobbyist for the one percent, one of these clowns might become president.

John Kerry was tagged with being out of touch because he had become a creature of the Senate. Willard Mitt Romney is out of touch because he has no concept of what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck, to worry about bills, finding a job, keeping a job, or about health insurance. He literally was the guy who was doing the firing, jacking up profits at the expense of its employees and in many cases he company itself.

Willard wasn't a turnaround specialist, he was a flipper. And then he became a flopper. Romney has been willing for since he first ran for office in 1994 to say whatever he thought the electorate wanted to hear. Voters were just a tool, a stepping stone to the real power to do whatever he wanted and could do. There is a reason Willard did not run for reelection. Romney would have lost. Badly.

So the man with no shame would tell one thing to voters one day, and something completely different the next. It is as if Romney thinks he still lives in an era without video and audio recording devices that can transmit Willard eating cake and having it too.

Not that the professor who sold his wife and integrity for power, and then traded in wife number two for a newer model, then resigned in shame, and then became a shill for whoever would pay him is any better. But Newt Gingrich will not last through March while he is pummeled for a month with no money, no supporters, and no organization to defend against Willard's millions. The only thing behind the former speaker is the eighth richest man in the US. Soon enough, he too will get tired of his play thing that keeps losing and saying crazy stuff while he gets crushed.

In the meanwhile, I will try to enjoy my February as I hope you will as well.

January 31, 2012 at 10:51PM

2012-01-31T23:05:00.001-07:00

@Saintless trying to link my tweets to my blog so I don't have to write posts and tweets. I used iftt. Suggestions welcomed. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164586736767344641

January 31, 2012 at 10:48PM

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http://t.co/SXLFfYm http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164585967565549568

January 31, 2012 at 10:18PM

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Wish this existed when I was in high school http://t.co/M04JlSr http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164578282661089280

January 31, 2012 at 08:48PM

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Utah Legislature wants to disregard the 17th Amendment and the Supremacy Clause http://t.co/lMbdyyl http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164555657087942656

January 31, 2012 at 07:55PM

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RT @freddoso: Turnout in FL '08 was 1.9M. This time, not looking like we're going to make it there. http://t.co/FnOSVQlB http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164542401216655361

January 31, 2012 at 07:19PM

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RT @pandagon: Newt to the future! If Obama hadn't taken down Gadaffi, it would be a lot easier to get black market plutonium, though. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164533310561849344

January 31, 2012 at 07:32AM

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RT @TPM: POLL: Private sector experience of Romney, Gingrich viewed unfavorably http://t.co/mrKPqA0l http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164355302450413568

January 31, 2012 at 12:03AM

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How about using that money to improve Utah's public schools instead? http://t.co/1WdxsW1 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164242405799890944

January 30, 2012 at 11:34PM

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http://t.co/m2Ry4V8 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164235146663436288

January 30, 2012 at 10:55PM

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OOPS: Romney ‘Proves’ Gingrich Supported ObamaCare With Three Quotes He Also Said http://t.co/lfb9tg8 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164225218519375872

January 30, 2012 at 08:41PM

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Americans don’t know much about Romneycare — except that it’s very similar to Obamacare http://t.co/BcseO9I the ACA has more cost-cutting. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164191432826036226

January 30, 2012 at 12:47PM

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RT @jdickerson: Late endorsing politicians of losing candidates should avoid deck chairs on the Titanic metaphors. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164072199819505664

January 30, 2012 at 12:33AM

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http://t.co/M53sRJ4 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163887584341266432

January 28, 2012 at 08:03AM

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http://t.co/KlIPfxd http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163276120639279105

January 28, 2012 at 08:01AM

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RT @NewYorker: Daily Comment: What government debt did for Romney at Bain: http://t.co/Y16thPzs http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163275462771097600

January 28, 2012 at 07:53AM

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RT @TwistedSifter: Picture of the Day: Graffiti by the 1% http://t.co/d7dp8mVH http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163273602060398592

January 28, 2012 at 07:48AM

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http://t.co/F2Z6EGR http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163272278400958464

January 28, 2012 at 12:48AM

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http://t.co/DehT3KS http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163166482849742848

January 28, 2012 at 12:03AM

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http://t.co/ZK8RMm1 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163155210775171074

January 27, 2012 at 11:59PM

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Romney’s ‘Blind Trust’ Was Not Very Blind http://t.co/CQIuATM http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163154270160560128

January 27, 2012 at 11:48PM

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http://t.co/YW18wr9 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163151412891623424

January 27, 2012 at 11:37PM

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EBay Official: Company Won’t Move Jobs To Utah If It Doesn’t Pass LGBT Employment Protections http://t.co/2WqHeCw http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163148680172552192

January 27, 2012 at 11:33PM

2012-01-27T23:35:00.001-07:00

http://t.co/0WYCcOl http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163147590060343296

Echoes

2012-01-27T23:26:00.001-07:00

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies - to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and mastered.
Robert F. Kennedy, Cleveland, Ohio, April 5, 1968.

I just finished watching a documentary on RFK's funeral train and I heard this quote. Sadly, Bobby's speech seems as true in 2012 as is was in 1968.

I know I have not written here in ages and the habit has died out. But the spirit and the need have not. Do not think that I have not missed writing my thoughts to you or hearing your comments and responses. Know only that the luxurious fleeting moments of time have been spent with family and friends. Still, I regret my neglect of my online friends and the community of minds that can connect over the Internet through an idea. Like wiretapping and torture are wrong and make us less safe, that our time, treasure, lives, and international regard were needlessly squandered in the sands of Iraq. And yet we as a people need to attempt to see the world through someone else's eyes, and not immediately separate and demonize those who disagree with us.

My hope now is that these thoughts will no longer have to echo through time so that the lessons will not have to be relearned generation by generation.