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Quick Hits: Who’s Making Headlines?

by Jen Green

Looks like Santa might have the opportunity to caucus for his favorite GOP candidate this year, assuming at least one of them has been more nice than naughty. If any other states beside Florida and Nevada try to butt in line before Iowa, we might be holding our caucus right around Christmas. As it is right now, we’ll be ringing in the new year with candidates and the worldwide press. Hope they have good study winter coats.

Herman Cain has won another straw poll, lost another high profile staffer, has had to defend another “controversial” statement, has called another GOP contender racially insensitive, and is now saying maybe he should have defended the gay soldier who got booed at the GOP debate when he asked the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” question. He’s making plenty of headlines and getting lots of airtime—and his book is supposed to come out this month.

The GOP candidates are “annoyed” at Florida because now they have a truncated amount of time before the caucus/primary season starts. Well, not all are annoyed—Ron Paul’s campaign says he was prepared for this all along. The rest are realizing how much time they are going to have to spend in Iowa in the next 90 days and revamping their schedules.

Mike Huckabee hosted Mitt Romney on his show Saturday night. Four years ago, they pretty much couldn’t stand each other. This weekend, they acted like all is forgiven. No doubt, Mitt would love Huckabee’s endorsement. No doubt, many of Huckabee’s supporters would rather have an itchy rash they couldn’t reach before seeing their conservative stalwart endorse the country’s most liberal governor . . . ever.

Rick Santorum seems to be reinstating the gameplan he used before his fourth place finish in the Ames straw poll. His campaign continues to stop in smaller towns, speaking with smaller groups, in his effort to get to as many Iowa counties as possible before the caucuses.

  • AdamSmith

    “Mike Huckabee hosted Mitt Romney on his show Saturday night. Four years
    ago, they pretty much couldn’t stand each other. This weekend, they acted like all is forgiven.”

    Jen, when will you realize that to them it’s all a game?  They probably didn’t even hate each other back then and just pretended to for the sake of their supporters.

    But even if there was actual animosity, politics is like a game of “Survivor”.  No I am serious.  Alliances are made and broken constantly.  Personal feelings come second.  Perhaps that’s just a male thing. We are able to better compartmentalize our feelings and do what we think is in our interests regardless of personal feelings.

    I see you are not a student of history.  You should read more about Julius Caesar.  He was famous for being able to make friends with his former adversaries. It was like he had no hostility towards them at all.  The miniseries “Rome” really did a good job at showing this but I read this in other sources as well and I wouldn’t recommend “Rome” to you for other reasons though for the most part I thought it did the history better than most historical fiction.

    You know, I know you won’t do it, but if there was one book, one book I would have every Christian read about politics it would be “The 48 Laws of Power” book by Robert Greene.  It is the BIBLE of every politician I have ever come into contact with, well at least the successful ones.  Even those who haven’t read this book seem to know these “Laws” instinctively.  I am not saying we need to live by these rules. Of course we need to live by the Bible, but since the people who control our politics live by these Laws we at least need to know them.  We need to read this book so we can be aware of  how they operate. If Steve Deace could do just one thing, just one thing to leave his listeners more aware and more prepared it would be to have Robert Greene on his program. And you (and Steve if he has never read it) need to get that book and read it cover to cover and back again. Again, I am not saying you need to agree with the book, or model your life from that book but you need to understand THEY DO. And there is something to the whole “know thy enemy thing”. So please, please get this book and do some kind of thing with it like you did with the “Five Thousand Year Leap” thing. 

    I am disappointed at the naivete you seem to be showing regarding your apparent shock at Huckebee’s behavior, just as I was disappointed at the naivete that Steve seemed to display when he really did seem shocked at Pawlenty lying to his face (I usually assume everything a politician says is a lie until I can prove otherwise).  If two people like who who I do feel are rather sophisticated politically can still seem to be taken in like you have been by Pawlenty and Huckebee, what chance do others out in the conservative grassroots/Christian/Tea party community have against these politician

    The only hope I see for you and Steve is to read “The 48 Laws of Power”. Again, not to agree with the book in believing that is how the world should be (I don’t think that’s even was the point the author was making in writing the book) but to understand that is how the world is. That is how THEY operate.

    There was a scene in the movie “Patton” where Patton was able to out flank Rommel or something like that.  How did Patton do that?  Well Rommel had written a book before the war about Tank Tactics and Patton had READ HIS BOOK.

    And that is all I am asking from you and Steve. READ THEIR BOOK!  It is that important. Please, please, Please read it

    The 48 Laws of Power, Please, I beg you. Our country is at stake!  And if you can have Robert Greene on your show, you don’t have to agree with him, but we all need to understand what he has in his book!

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