florida debate

So if you missed last night's debate like I did, you can watch it here. First of all, not to be negative, because we all know I'm the princess of positivity, but Romney and Gingrich were terrible. I mean, really.

Tax returns.
Private sector.
Career Politician.
Fannie Mae. Freddie Mac.

We get it. We got it 35 debates ago when they started all this nonsense.

Finally, somebody called them out on their petty drama. Who? None other than the vest man himself! About 35-36 minutes into the debate, Santorum confronted the two middle school girls... I mean... the speaker and the governor.

"Can we set aside that Newt was a member of Congress and used the skills that he developed as a member of Congress to go out and advise companies, and that's not the worst thing in the world, and that Mitt Romney is a wealthy guy because he worked hard, and he's going out and working hard. And can you guys leave that alone and focus on the issues?"

Good job, Rick! He did so well last night! Nailed every question. Responded to every comment. Nobody has any accusations against him - why? Because his record is clean! Definitely the winner. No doubt.

Now that we've crowned him the winner, can I just please say how completely and utterly terrible Newt's "my wife would be the best first lady" response was? (About an hour and 15 minutes into the debate) Honestly. I mean, he's told us the reason he divorced his second wife and ushered Callista into the Gingrich's Wives Club.

Why? Because it was going to help him become president. - because she was first lady material? Please. He could be her father. Then his response was so... unflattering. He's completely unelectable on the divorce reason alone.  None of our presidents have ever been divorced (apart from Reagan, which really nobody ever knew about - and she left him.). And it's not that America's never run a divorced candidate. Because we have. And they haven't made it. So if a man who's been divorced once can't make it to the White House, how in the world would we think that Gingrich, currently on wife #3 (no telling what will happen if Callista doesn't win him the White House), could ever make it?!

That's beyond me.

Statistically, electing a divorced candidate isn't going to happen. Newt fans, you need to rally behind Santorum. Your vote's going to be wasted!

As long as we're on the topic of supporting Santorum, all you Paulites need to realize your candidate is never going to win. He didn't in 1988. He didn't in 2008. He won't in 2012. You're also wasting your vote.

Let's all rally behind and support Rick Santorum! He's the stark contrast and change we need to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!

santorum president/obama lies

And this is why Santorum has to be the next president.
He, out of the only three real contenders left in the election (Paul is just a joke), is the only true conservative.

He's the only one who can give us something different than what we have now.
And we all know that man in the White House has got to go. Anybody who can outright lie to the American people and say, "Anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about."

One of Obama's lies to the United States

Noooo, we're not in decline. We haven't lost our AAA rating. Our unemployment rate isn't through the roof. Our debt... well, let's just look at our debt over the past 12ish years (somebody has to because our president sure isn't).

In 2000 when Bush was elected, he came into office with almost 6 trillion dollars of debt. He, like Obama had a mess to clean up. Whoever says that Clinton balanced the budget is just ignorant.

Bush left, having raised the debt less than 3 trillion - over the course of 8 years. Obama, however, has raised the debt 6 trillion dollars over 3 years. That's double what Bush did in his entire 8-year administration.

2000 Debt Clock

2008 Debt Clock

Current Debt Clock


Let's take a look at our current president, shall we?

When Obama came into office with 9+ trillion, we all know Bush gave him some stuff to clean up. (You forget, though, that Bush came into office with 6 trillion dollars of debt and no expectations of being attacked by terrorists - war=$ -)

I'll give Obama that much.
But Bush didn't give him a 2000+ page healthcare bill.
Bush didn't give him Libya.
Bush didn't give him so much more that he's done to this nation.

And how long is it the previous president's mess considered the previous president's mess?
When does it become the new president's problems and responsibilities?
Evidently this country doesn't have any problems. We're soaring!!  We're so influential everybody wants to be just like us!
Fifteen trillion dollars in debt.
Multiple wars.
A terrible relationship with Israel.
An extremely high unemployment rate (oh. I'm sorry. It's dropped to 8.5. How critical of me. Mind you, Bush kept it between 4.2 and 7.3, but Obama can't seem to keep it below 7.8. he sure can get it to 10%, though!)
And if you think that we're not soaring, if you think our country is in decline, your opinion is absolutely ridiculous and you "don't know what [you're] talking about."

I know it looks like I'm comparing Bush and Obama. I am. Bush wasn't my favorite president either. But don't give Bush the "he gave Obama so much debt" garbage when you should actually be looking at the current president who may or may not be creating jobs? That's still up for debate. When I see the unemployment rate drop more than .5 percent in 4 months, I'll reevaluate.

I'm sorry I'm not sorry. I obviously have no clue what I'm talking about.

back from the SC

After 10 days of phone calls and sign waving, I'm back! I literally had the absolute best time of my life. Seriously - and I'm so glad I got to spend it with my cousin!

Hali and me waving signs in downtown Charleston. Notice the official Santorum vest.

       

One day (and after being there almost two weeks, it's hard to tell which day) Hali and I made phone calls all day - and were basically competing with this eight year old. No joke. She was a little homeschooled girl from Pennsylvania making phone calls to hundreds of people a day to convince people to vote for Senator Santorum. She was absolutely inspiring.






Speaking of calls... I made the official Rick Santorum video!!

Game on in South Carolina!

My previous post talks about the presidential debate and the annoying Ron Paul campaigners (who were almost as bad as the protesters) and obnoxious protesters who were... I guess exercising their First Amendment rights?  One protester, though, was kind enough to take a picture for us. Thanks, random socialist! You're so kind!

This is that same night of the debate in Charleston.

Hali and me in the median of the highway. 

So we ended up not getting into the debate because our way cool security friend, Mike, couldn't get us in, although (as you'll see in a few minutes) he was able to get us in backstage at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference to meet Herman Cain. Score.

After waving signs all night, we decided to head back to the hotel and watch the end of the debate and comments on the news while we painted. (Hali's is to the left. Mine's to the right.)Yeah. we're cool like that. We even asked the people at the restaurant we went to one night to turn one of the tv's from football to Fox News with closed captions so we didn't miss our nightly Fox News. Don't judge.


People from the Boston Globe, some local papers, and some other media source that didn't really tell us who they were (I thought about afterwards how that was kinda sketchy) and other people interviewed me and took our picture (or in Hali's words - "we got our picture made"). Most people had driven from up north, but we were the only southern belles in Charleston.

Campaigning downtown. Again. Waiting for Santorum.

After waving signs for about two hours, Santorum "left the building" decked in his vest and all, and he and his wife thanked all the volunteers. Hali and I visited with a volunteer and his daughter from London.  He was a speechwriter in the House of Lords - he had read 9000 books. Impressive? Absolutely.

There he is! Probably one of the most humble men I've ever met in my life.

What happened when Santorum left? I thought you'd want to know. Our dear friend, Mike ran outside, grabbed us like the world was going to end, gave us backstage passes, and we were able to meet Herman Cain!

 Ok. So Mike wouldn't make a good living as a photographer, but he's good at getting backstage passes. That's all I really cared about in that moment.

How did we get a picture with Herman Cain? Glad you asked. Do you see that crowd of media behind Herman? Yes. Our dear friend Mike stopped them all in their tracks for us to get a picture. Did they hate us? Probably. Did we care? Absolutely not. We'll never see them again. Herman Cain acted happy as a lark to take a picture with us.

To finish off our trip, we attended the Santorum election party, and we made the official page! Whoop whoop!

Dustin, Hali and Me at the election party!

Absolutely the best trip ever. Period. The end.

Occupy vs. the Cousins

Last night before the debate (which is another post in itself), we went to wave signs outside the coliseum.  Were we the obnoxious girls who ran across the highway to stand in the median to get away from the Ron Paul losers? Duh.

However, we were not nearly as obnoxious as the Occupy people who came.  I would say we were about 1% obnoxious. Them? Definitely 99%. And they didn't mind yelling how 99% obnoxious they were last night. All night.

Here's my thoughts on the Occupy (I'm not sure if it's supposed to be capitalized or not, but I don't know the grammatical rule on capitalization of an obnoxious group of ignorant protestors) people's protesting events (because I know you're dying to hear).

I'm pretty sure there's a mass e-mail that goes around that says something like this:

Dear Communist Comrades,
       We here at the Occupy movement just want to thank you so much for your protesting efforts. During your next march/protest, make sure you all have a scraggly beard and dress like you've been homeless for about seven months.
        Five tips for looking homeless:
               -Don't take a bath or brush your teeth for two weeks.
               -Along with not taking a bath, stay away from deodoarant.
               -The signs you make cannot be printed like the 1%'s political signs. I know you all have money to pay for your monthly smart phone bill, so your local Occupy group definitely has the funds to get some signs printed, but please. You'll just look like them (you know. the corporations who aren't people).
              -When we say the signs can't be printed, we mean make your signs on pieces of cardboard, using a sharpie and really bad handwriting (like a homeless person's sign).  On your signs, cartoon characters, such as the monopoly man, Spongebob, etc make a nice touch.
              -Also, if you're over 60, try to find a cane. (It increases the sympathy the other 99% have for you, and when you're shouting those obnoxious phrases like "You are the 99% too!" they'll realize that, because they don't make what that 1% makes, maybe one day they'll end up homeless with a cane.)
       We're so encouraged by your efforts, (that have really done nothing except make some people really annoyed, some others pretty injured, one or two raped - oh. and temporarily shut down some small business owners by your protests in NY- you know, the ones that are not the 1%. Congrats on that one.) We appreciate them.
       Be in touch, and we will see you on the liberal media outlets.
Sincerely,
Your Occupy Leaders

and then there were four

As if Santorum winning Iowa wasn't enough of a reason to celebrate like it's New Year's, Rick Perry's dropping out this morning!


About 11:00, Perry is going to finally withdraw from the race. Is the campaign headquarters ecstatic? Of course. Is the campaign headquarters baffled as to why he's going to endorse Gingrich. Yes.

Especially after this comment.

At least he's dropping out.

PTL. Fear the vest! SantorumTTT!

ding ding ding! we have a winner!!!

The Iowa recount is in... and Santorum WON!!!

My cousin, Hali, came up to SC last night to volunteer, and we woke up this morning to the news. We're basically jumping up and down on our hotel beds like children.

In all these thousands of phone calls, I keep hearing, "I really think Newt can beat Obama."

Ok. I'm sorry to tell you this (not really), but Newt hasn't beat anybody in his own party so far.
He came in 4th in Iowa and 5th in New Hampshire. Let's be serious people. I mean, he has a better chance than Perry, God love him, but he's not going to get it.


Don't waste your vote.

SantorumTTT! Fear the vest!

interesting responses take 2

  Just a few good ones -

"Anybody would be better than Odumba." I mean, I agree. But really? Odumba?

"You could put your hand through Romney's navel. There's nothing real about him." At least somebody's seeing through him.

"Newt is like a fungus. He makes me feel like I need to take a bath after I see him." Nuff said.

"You're young and don't know what you're talking about." Right. I don't have a degree in political science or anything.

"Just because you were so entertaining to talk to, we'll reconsider!" Score.