victory for kos in michigan!

blogger markos moulitsas zúniga has succeeded in getting his buddy mitt romney elected in michigan, in a crazy scheme he proposed back on thursday january 10th! this is wonderful news! now the republicans are in disarray, since mike huckabee won iowa, mitt romney won wyoming (a contest which nobody in the mainstream media noticed because they are a bunch of dumbasses), john mccain won in new hampshire, and mitt romney has just won in michigan. so mitt romney has won 2 out of 4 contests so far and come in second in the other 2. brilliant! as the weakest of the republican candidates, a flip-flopper who will say anything to get elected, who does not really have any principles he staunchly believes in other than his very unpopular religion of mormonism, mitt romney is the best choice to run in the general election. and rudy giuliani is betting everything on florida, and we need to make sure that happens too, in order to keep the republicans in disarray. watch an attack ad made by one of the kossacks (kos’s brainwashed zombie cultist followers) about how awesome mitt romney is:



as for the democrats, i think i have been a bit too tough on hillary clinton. all of my attacks on her have been from the left, not the right, saying that she is too right-wing, too much like a republican. of course, i still think she is far better than any republican and would definitely vote for her in the general election. i already voted for her for senator from new york. twice. i just wish she were a bit more progressive with her voting record in the senate, a bit more popular in the polls, not someone despised by so many people, with all this baggage from a previous administration that was plagued with scandal. sure, most of that scandal was just republicans playing politics, but i still think that bill clinton has become something of an embarrassment to the democratic party, and we should not have him out in public flapping his mouth and saying things that make him and other democrats look bad in an election year. of course bill clinton has been an embarrassment to the democratic party for years, causing us to lose control of congress in 1994, and getting impeached in 1998. sure he got re-elected in 1996, and that was impressive, but it is very telling that bill clinton only knows how to win elections for himself, not for other democrats that he supports. hillary clinton has not exactly distanced herself from her lying, cheating husband, but i suppose she would rather have him on her side than have him as a scorned ex-lover denouncing her and campaigning for her opponent. anyway, i am still hoping we can move on from these scandals of this past and find someone new to run this country, but not a republican. i personally support barack obama but the other candidates left in the race are also ones i like. now sometimes i get upset about things people say about the other candidates besides the one i support. like this post on huffingtonpost.com is really outrageous in what it says about john edwards, and is patently undemocratic in trying to deprive voters of a choice. i have also been quite impressed with dennis kucinich lately. you know the guy, he voted against the patriot act and the iraq war just like ron paul, except dennis kucinich is a liberal democrat. and like jimmy carter and ronald reagan, dennis kucinich claims to have seen a ufo, which makes sense, since it is hard to identify every flying object you ever see in the sky. dennis kucinich is the only candidate proposing a single-payer healthcare system, which 70% of the american public supported back in 1992, before hillary clinton ruined everything with her healthcare proposal that was developed behind closed doors in secret, the same way dick cheney operates. many countries have a single-payer system, including every other wealthy industrialized nation besides us, and it works, because they spend a lot less on healthcare but people live longer in those countries. in the 2004 election, dennis kucinich stayed in the presidential race all the way up to the conventions, despite obvious evidence john kerry had won a clear majority of delegates. he is someone who will fight to the end no matter what happens. dennis kucinich is financing a recount of the results in new hampshire’s democratic primary, with his own money and the money from his supporters, because the results did not match any of the polls conducted prior to the election, and while barack obama won in precincts where ballots were hand-counted, hillary clinton won in precincts where they were machine-counted. this reminds me of how in 2004, the green party and libertarian party co-financed a recount in ohio of george w. bush’s defeat of john kerry in the general election, which was quite a noble effort by the greens and libertarians, who had nothing to win or lose, except their money to lose by spending it on this. anyway, dennis kucinich was shut out of the most recent msnbc debate that happened tonight, after originally being invited. he had sued in nevada state court to force msnbc to let him in the debate, and won. msnbc appealed to the nevada supreme court and won, limiting the debate to hillary clinton, barack obama, and john edwards, which was patently undemocratic and similar to what fox news did to ron paul. i am all for including as many candidates as possible. anyway, hillary clinton has won michigan, which had zero delegates because the state violated the rules of the democratic national committee (the republicans only gave michigan half its delegates). she won easily, since she was the only name on the ballot. it was about as reliable an indicator as the election results from when saddam hussein ran iraq, where he got 100% of the vote in every election. oh great! who cares? the same kind of fixed election pervez musharraf used to win in pakistan. but whose fault was this? well, barack obama and john edwards had both taken their names off the ballots in michigan and florida, after being pressured by howard dean and the democratic national committee. hillary clinton was the only “top-tier” candidate who refused to follow the democratic national committee’s bullshit orders to take her name off the ballots. a lot of people did vote “undeclared” in michigan, which basically meant they do not support hillary and their candidate was not on the ballot. hopefully the national party will not seat delegates from michigan or florida at the convention, because neither of those states is having any real contest, and they both get zero delegates under the current rules. if the rules are changed to give those states delegates, that amounts to handing out free delegates to hillary clinton unfairly. then again, barack obama and john edwards were gullible enough to agree to take their names off the ballots in both states, not realizing what it would cost them. still, nobody is perfect.

if we used instant runoff voting, we could combine the primaries and general election into a single day, and that is the system i advocate. all the candidates from both major parties and all third parties would be listed on a ballot, and you would number them in your order of preference. the results of each individual’s preferences would all get combined together in a nationwide popular vote but not a winner-take-all vote, rather an instant runoff voting vote. on websites about instant runoff voting you can find out more. the point is, with this system, everyone could have their say, no matter what state they live in, and they could list all the candidates in the order of their preference, in essence voting in both parties’ primaries at the same time, while also having a system that makes it much easier for a third-party or independent candidate to win, breaking up the two-party monopoly on the system. nationwide instant runoff voting. now we could use the condorcet method instead, but it involves matrix math, and, speaking as someone with a mathematics degree from cornell university, i do not think most people are willing to trust mathematicians.

anyway, i am very pleased with the work of markos moulitsas zúniga to get his friend and mine, mitt romney, elected president of the united states, by helping him win the michigan republican presidential primary. it was a brilliant plan and it worked perfectly. now i only hope we can keep fred thompson in this race as long as possible, because recently he has started making lots of attacks on his fellow republicans, although he was mostly focusing on mike huckabee, who in my view is the wrong target, and the real target ought to be john mccain. we have got to defeat john mccain, more than anyone. and as for the democratic race, i have gotten sick of this fighting between hillary clinton and barack obama and the accusations of racism and sexism. even if some people may or may not be racist and/or sexist, those are mainly supporters of the candidates, and not the candidates themselves. although hillary clinton herself did trivialize the work of martin luther king jr. and especially the work of millions of supporters of the civil rights movement, buying into the false theory that history is made by a small number of great leaders rather than mass movements of the public, that will probably not hurt her in the general election. mike huckabee has said he wants to rewrite the constitution to match god’s law. mitt romney is a complete phony and flip-flopper. rudy giuliani’s campaign is entirely based on how he failed to protect his city from terrorists, but then rallied public opinion behind himself afterwards. and john mccain... well it is hard to think of much bad to say about john mccain, since the media loves him so much, and there are hardly any negative stories about him that ever get reported. the worst thing john mccain ever did was support the re-election of george w. bush in 2004, but there are some people who still think it was right to re-elect dubya and not a mistake. campaign finance reform was spearheaded by john mccain and my hero russ feingold. among republicans, john mccain is unpopular for certain things like campaign finance reform, giving illegal immigrants a path to earn citizenship, and other instances of cooperating with democrats, since democrats are seen as some sort of evil enemy that nobody should ever cooperate with. among people who are actually sane, this makes john mccain the most palatable republican, for precisely the same reasons he is disliked among republicans. i was hoping that the kiss-of-death from joe lieberman would doom the candidacy of john mccain, but joe lieberman is very popular among republicans, just like previous traitor zell miller. now it could be argued that just as zell miller and joe lieberman are traitors to the democrats, john mccain is a traitor to the republicans whom they should disown, but it is simply untrue, since john mccain has always supported his party and endorsed and campaigned for fellow republicans. and, as we are seeing with joe lieberman, sometimes if you disown someone and try to kick them out of politics, they come back with a vengeance and help out the other side for revenge. the voters of connecticut were quite wrong to re-elect joe lieberman, and should have known better, as a liberal blue state that usually votes for democrats, and a place with a lot of anti-war sentiment that totally went against joe lieberman and his pro-war neoconservative foreign policy. i suppose the greatest problems for john mccain in a general election would be how he is a pro-war neoconservative himself, espousing neoconservative doctrines in his speeches, and how he (just like every democratic candidate for president) supports letting those illegal “aliens” become citizens. and the religious right does not like how he, a long time ago, denounced people like pat robertson and jerry falwell, even though in recent years, john mccain has cozied up to those same leaders of the religious right and apologized and tried to curry favor with them. mike huckabee, the theocrat, would go down in flames, since the plutocrat wing of the republican party would refuse to support an anti-plutocratic theocrat like him. that is why the daily kos blog endorsed mitt romney for the michigan primary, since he is just the most obvious liar and phony imaginable. since romney belongs to what the religious right considers a cult, they are unwilling to support him. and everyone else will see right through all of his bullshit. i leave you now with an incredibly accurate news report about mitt romney from the world’s most reliable and trusted news source, theonion.com:


Mitt Romney Defends Himself Against Allegations Of Tolerance