Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Woot!

Romney is definitely the front runner unless there could be a slew of Republicans that are scared of him. But he speaks their language of Money too well.

Alright y'all I'm going to try to go to sleep! Have a great night.

Woot to ZOEY

Local Orlando NBC gave McCain the win......
We know the value of Polls, Like being on the cover of SI.

Craig, Who let Romeny Win?
Are you implying that the NBC network and corp pandering already?

night fellow jennBe

goodnight, jennbe

War in Iraq.......the golden rule.......he who has the gold makes the rules.......to the victor go the spoils (a jackson another sc rube..........)

victors

Night Jennbe!

Well I'm awake again. Not a whole lot of passion was there? Makes a man wonder if they even want the job.

I hope Craig is right about the Mittster. Love to see these Missouri country boys try to wrap their brain around a pro gun control, pro choice and "looks like the sumbitch that laid me off" presidential candidate. Their heads might just explode.

Seriously, I ran both Mitt and Rudy past my B-i-law , the NRA gun safety instructor. he pointed out that if it came to the choice of either one there was always the libertarian out there. As he said "I won't vote Democrat but I don't have to vote Republican either"

Jack

Ping,
Nobody chllenged Mitt. The other candidates let him win. Local Orlando gave McCain the win? I guess that was a different debate than the one I watched.

Back to the list after cleaning the kitchen...your 'name tales' are great! But I think Zoey's brother and sister team win the night! Fonda and Harry Dicks. What WERE their parents thinking???

That settles it. He was anointed tonight

Jack.....i bet he was fibbing....he'll get into the booth and pull the repub lever, just like always?

Ping...I say...from the lips of your local press to the ears of Republicans everywhere!!! Go, McCain...Stop, Mitt!

I'm going to pull a Sturg here.

If Ima Pigg married Harry Dick, what would we call her?

yeah, that's funny but I swear to bejebus i went to high school with the Hogg sisters.......

LOL

we was COUNTRY out here.......lol

I don't know Sturgeone, not if he heard Romney blowing the gun control question tonight. He is serious about his guns. It won't take many like him to flip a state like Missouri, all they have to do is be disgusted and stay home. I've talked to several lately and there is a lot of disgust out there among the Republican base.

Jack

I look for them to be a bit more disgusted than that.....you know..........disgusted enough to vote for a Democrat.......I mean, some democrats LOVE their guns and wouldnt give them up any sooner than a republican would.....

son of a gun.........one of the actresses in "De Duva" was Madeleine Kahn............Aint that weird?

De Duva.............Madeleine Kahn...............bergman parody

http://dvdspindoctor.typepad.com/dvd_spin_doctor/2007/07/more-ingmar-ber.html

ROFLMAO
"If Ima Pigg married Harry Dick, what would we call her?"
sheila, you are too funny! i have tears running down my face.

John McCain almost married a woman named Barbie Dahl, but he dumped her, then married a look-alike.

Here's a simple name of a real person:

John Senior, Jr., New York City.

one more...now we all have heard of weird names...but this takes the cake!

If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebones, London, England [Set up first the fire insurance office in Britain. Changed his name to Nicholas Barbon].

KO mentioned Craig's blog tonight before Craig came on. He mentioned the last post.

tt

if anyone missed it or cares the first segment of A Daily Show was brilliant, if you can catch the rerun it's well worth it

Evening Posse...

Thought I'd let the markets run a little before pulling today's Intrade Presidential Futures Market data...

http://www.central.edu/publicdocs/01%2D24%2D08FuturesMarketGraphs.pdf

DEMOCRATS: Nationally, Clinton has maintained about a 2.5-1 margin of support over Obama since the Nevada caucus. Edwards slips under a 1% level of support for the first time. In South Carolina, Obama maintains his 9-1 lead over Clinton.

REPUBLICANS: Romney is about 15% behind McCain nationally on Thursday, but he is has gained about a 2-3% per day over the last 6 days. Guliani and Huckabee continue their downward slide of support.

In Florida, Romney continues his rocket upward, surpassing McCain yesterday, and today already has about a 2-1 advantage over him. Romney is gaining about a 6% increase in support each day, while McCain is losing about a 4% each day. Guliani slips under 10% support today, which is about 6 times less than Romney.

The homeschoolers don't seem to be coming to Huckabee's rescue....

For an overview on Presidential Futures Markets, please see:

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/01/florida-to-forecast-both-party-1.html#comment-16896

Total Times
Romney: 21:11, during 13 times
McCain: 16:00, during 13 times
Giuliani: 13:50, during 11 times
Huckabee: 12:11, during nine times
Paul: 6:31, during six times

I can't believe that Ron didn't ask McCain why he (Ron Paul) has to push a law to release all classified documents relating to our POW/MIA issue. Why would 269 congressmen have to co-sign it as they have? WTF national security issues would they have for a 40 year old war? Ask him if he has read "Enormous Crime" specifically the "Fragging" chapter. I can't believe that John Rambo supports McCain when it's clear he doesn't care if we left "them" behind. Wake up people! Your government and your media lie ALL the time. Go Ron Paul!

Just read y'alls comment on the Debate and am LMAO!!!

Probably watching Sjunde inseglet, Det, "The Seventh Seal", by that happy, go lucky director Bergman would be uplifting after that debate. ;-)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0050976/

tt

tiptoe: how come you can't watch the teevee and surf the net at the same time?

Being an Iowegian is both a blessing and a curse...Despite what people have heard, its really a pretty nice (and cheap!) place to live...

Unfortunately, its also a small state, and just about everybody know everybody else, or at least knows their cousin, brother-in-law, etc...

Zoey brought up Harry and Fonda Dicks. They are about my age, and lived about 30 miles from where I grew up. My first job was as the Friday-night sports desk guy at the local newspaper who answered the phone to collect sports scores as coaches called them in after the games.

One Friday night in early winter, I was working the desk at the beginning of the basketball season. About 11 pm, I answered the phone to find yet another coach calling in his scores. He gave me the box scores, and then started into top scorers, leading rebounders, etc.

I was writing down all the information the coach was giving me, and has part of his report, he very matter-of-factly said that "the leading scorer was Fonda Dicks...."

I nearly fell out of my chair, but just to make sure I had heard him correctly, I asked him to repeat what he had just said. He did....

So as not to act like I didn't know what the hell he was trying to tell me, I thanked him for the information and hung up the phone. When the sports director got in, I asked him about what the coach had said...After he picked himself off the floor, he told me the rest of the story about Fonda and Harry...

ran, the desk top is in one room and the TV in another. It's cable TV and there's no hook up where the DSL is. It's just logistics and not wanting to string cable all over the place.

tt

that's a pretty damn good reason tiptoe

ran, yep. Nuttin' nefarious, just logistics.

tt

right on cue, here comes Michael Medved

A Great Night for the G.O.P. -- and for Mitt, Mac and Mike

Voters should make a direct comparison between this debate –which was substantive, serious, genial, even friendly- and the recent Democratic brawl in South Carolina.

there's more but that's all you need to see

in the 1860's there was a govenor (D) James Hogg that had a daughter named Ima. It seems that it was an urban myth that there was twin daughter whose name was Ura. There is no record of the other daughter Ura.

yo soy Horsedooty!

I didnt see the debate, but i cant believe the GOP would pick var-mitt hunter over McCain. Are they nuts?

-Hipster

From: The corporate leaders who run the GOP
To: The Republican "Base"

Vote for Romney, you ignorant rednecks, or we'll give your jobs to Mexicans.

NY Times has endorsed Clinton & McCain. I guess they didn't get the memo that Romney is the establishment candidate.

-27 degrees F this AM in northern Maine, a new record.

National Weather Service in Caribou just issued a "no tongues on the flagpole" alert.

Mitt Romney is one of the two or three things Brian and I have agreed on all along. I think there is a group of Wall Street types who are solidly behind him. It'll be very interesting to see how the GOP plays out on Super Tuesday and beyond.

Kansas is having a caucus....they haven't had one for twenty years or so, I believe. My sister, who is a Republican hoping to caucus with Democrats, now says she doesn't believe Kansas will allow her to cross over to the other party. Moreover, someone told her that to caucus with the Republicans one must be "invited." Anybody know how that works?

RE the NY Times endorsement....the paper claims to have been against the Iraq war from the beginning. Funny, I don't remember it that way.....

Patsi: Blogging at 5;52 AM? You must have no life.

10 degrees in NE Georgia

-Hip

Patsi: Romney is going to win because the others are running out of cash. Romney is using his great personal wealth to run thousands of ads in FL.

NYTimes & the war: You are right. They were cheerleaders for the war, publishing Cheney's lies. They thought the war would help Israel.

Oh goody! MoJo is on. I wonder what Mika is wearing today?

Hip: 10 degrees? When it gets that warm around here, we put on shorts and t-shirts. (But we keep the long underwear on until July.)

Patsi,

In case you didn't get an answer about the Kansas Caucus Rules, here is a site that might help. Today appears to be the last day to register, but at least you will have a contact for questions.

http://www.hutchnews.com/Todaystop/caucuses2008_01_21T21_33_26