Reactions to MD, WI and DC Primaries

Tuesday Mittens became a little more inevitable.  I hate to say it, because I've been quite the optimist on this, but when he soundly wins two of the three contests, it's hard to say otherwise.

Winning DC was a layup for Mittens, who took 70% of the vote.  Which says an awful lot, because all of the three dozen Republicans there (that are residents and not members of Congress) are about as conservative as Republicans in Massachusetts.

Maryland has a lot of DC residents, pundits, etc, so again, makes sense for Mittens to win there.  Despite it's position at the immediate south of the Mason-Dixon line, Maryland hasn't been a Southern State for a while. It's kind of like Florida in that regard. I expected Mitt to win, and he did.

Wisconsin is a completely different matter. Wisconsin has been a conservative battleground for two years now after Scott Walker was elected governor and has pushed for common sense reforms to close a budget gap.  Yet Mittens won Wisconsin.

But wait...what about the presence of Newt Gingrich splitting the vote!  Senator Santorum would've won AT LEAST one of those states with Newt's voters, right?  Nope.  The closest was Wisconsin, where Mittens beat the Santorum/Gingrich aggregate by 44% to 43%.  In Maryland, Romney beat the Santorum/Gingrich aggregate by a score of 49% to 40%.  In Washington DC it wasn't even close, where the conservative tangent only netted 6% of the vote (since Senator Santorum wasn't on the ballot).

Now I KNOW I'm going to get a whole lot of grief for this from fellow conservatives who are high on passion and low on logic here, but friends, the chances of us getting someone other than Romney just sank to about 10% (and that 10% is named Brokered Convention).   I know the same aforementioned people have a similar proclivity to Happy Imagination Hats as some Activist Liberals do. So I'm here to be your voice of reason AGAIN.

One, as imperfect and not Reagan as Mitt Romney is, he is, most definitely, better than Obama. (The same could be said of George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Foghorn Leghorn, and a Radish.)  Let's not be so ridiculous as to believe that we can't win with a more moderate candidate.  The Democrats are running Obama!  Despite the Drive-By Media's recent desire to present Obama as somehow a stronger candidate, he's been a huge, embarrassing failure as President!

Friends, if Mitt Romney is our nominee, be prepared for President Romney. Which will also not be as intolerable as some of you seem to believe.  While he's not the conservative powerhouse that someone like Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich (or future fantasy candidates like Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Bobby Jindall) he's also a whole lot more conservative than John McCain was, or Bob Dole, and honestly even George W. Bush. So for crying out loud, please breathe.

If Mitt's our nominee, I can live with it. I'll continue to hope for better and vote for someone else when my chance comes, mind you, but I can indeed live with Romney.

Crystal quote of the day #2

here's what Crystal said to me just a few minutes ago that had me cracking up:

"My next husband is gonna be rich. That's for sure."

well. i guess he might as well be.

Did the Flintstones Come After the Jetsons?

Most of the time, this blog is about serious political analysis and keeping the Drive-By Media in specific and the Left in general in check.  Yet once in a while, we like to have some fun, like comparing the GOP hopefuls to Jim Henson's Muppets or announcing that Tim Tebow won the New Hampshire Primary.  Sometimes, once in a while, anyway, you've got to just throw away the seriousness and have a little fun.

So today, Internet, we're going to discuss a pet pop-culture theory of the sort that I think about when I'm home alone and the power is out: I think the Flintstones occurred chronologically after the Jetsons.  In the storylines, I mean, not the actual historical runs of the two shows.

We already know that the Jetsons and Flintstones do in fact live in the same timeline. The 1987 movie The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones proved that. The common assumption is that the Flintstones are from the distant past of the Jetsons.  After all, the Flintstones live in the Stone Age, and the Jetsons in our future, right?

I must admit I labored under that assumption most of my life, too. Then I stopped and I thought about it.  What if the Flintstones is from a time not too far after the Jetsons where two very important events have occurred:  One, scientists perfects the ability to clone and genetically engineer long-extinct animals and a massive nuclear war (or some future, more destructive technology) has wiped out civilization, leaving only a few survivors to rebuild society.
What would those surviving individuals do, after they secure the basic necessities of food, shelter, clothing?  Would they not try to bring back the comforts of their previous society?  What sort of make-shift creature comforts would they create?

How about cars? Modern appliances? Entertainment sources?  Heavy equipment for building?  Look at the technology substitutes in "The Flintstones." Here are a few examples:

Think about it, friends: The Flintstones is packed with makeshift technology!  How did they come up with it?  Do you think they somehow invented the record player centuries before the real thing came to be?  Or is it more likely that a few generations back the people lived in a world with technology and recreated that technology with what they had available?  It reminds me of nothing better than the Professor on Gilligan's Island building a radio out of a coconut.

The aforementioned cloning and genetic engineering would also explain the apparent intelligence of the animals that were being used as showers, cranes, bridges and flights of stairs.  These at least modestly intelligent creatures are used for menial labor.  Now unless you're going to tell me that also in the past that animals had the ability to talk, again, this goes with my theory.  These animals are both intelligent enough to talk and to know that their jobs are lousy!  The best explanation is some level of genetic engineering. (Whether cloning then engineering their brains or Elroy Jetson built a time machine and brought dinosaurs forward in time and then their genes were restructured to be able to think intelligently/complain.)

Does this explanation make perfect sense? Of course not.  Then again neither did the Wacky Races or the fact that Donald Duck being properly covered on his bottom half has something to do with him wearing a shirt...

Anyway, Internet, can't wait to hear your thoughts. Or, tune in tomorrow for a much more serious and newsworthy post!