NEW RICK PERRY BILLBOARD SIGHTED IN AUSTIN...

Robert Stacy McCain reports on turmoil in the Perry Campaign from somewhere in Iowa...

"Early Christmas Gift" for Newt, Coal for Herman Cain's Stocking...

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is threatening to "dish dirt" from then-Speaker and now wannabe teletubby in chief New Gingrich's ethics committee hearings that wound up with Gingrich paying over $300,000 in ethics fines.

A defiant Gingrich defied Pelosi to bring it, calling it an "early Christmas gift."

I dunno.  Maybe Newt should take his own advice to Herman Cain and come clean about his past indiscretions.  I mean, there were a lot of charges, you know, which indicates a pattern, and where there's a lotta smoke there's gotta be some fire, and he shoulda got ahead of this and not been blindsided it and if only he'd been more up front about this stuff with his staff and supporters...

"Hey wait a minute!  I know this tune!"

Yeah, Herman, you do, but you know what?  Bet they don't play it for Newt.

THREE BEERS LATER POLL: Who is the one VP choice who can give Mitt Romney a shot at the GOP base?

"All right you wittled, dung-footed peasants... happy now?"

Newt Gingrich

Herman Cain

Children's Literacy Advocate Sasha Grey

Who is the one VP choice that could help Mitt Romney appeal to the GOP base?
	Newt Gingrich
	Herman Cain
	Ex-Porn Star Sasha Grey
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THREE BEERS LATER POLL: WHO WOULD YOU RATHER VOTE FOR IN THE GOP PRIMARY?

With her dominating thrashing of President Barack Obama in the first Three Beers Later Opinion Poll, and the conservative blogosphere in a back and forth fight with the NBA Players Association for the most self-destructive clowns of 2011, it's past time to admit we have to reconsider our options for the GOP nomination in 2012.  So...

Who Would You Rather Vote For In The GOP Primary?
	Mitt Romney
	Newt Gingrich
	Herman Cain
	Ex-Porn Star Sasha Grey
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Gloria Allred and Blonde accuse Herman Cain!

UPDATED: Bialek has history of false sex harassment accusations, disruptive office behavior.
UPDATE #2: Multiple bankruptcies, major legal bills, paternity suit, unstable employment history
UPDATE #3: Bialek lied about tea party meeting, Cain's reaction
UPDATE #4: "She's a complete gold digger."
UPDATE #5:  Second accuser has history of filing harassment complaints at multiple workplaces

Attorney Gloria Alred just finished a press conference in which she introduced an alleged fourth victim of GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain.

So let me see what we seem to have here we seem to have a few answers now:

1.  She "reached out to Herman Cain on an employment matter."  Questions: is this sort of matter one normally dealt with by the CEO of the National Restaurant Association?  What basis did she have for believing Cain would involve himself in this matter?   Did they have any sort of previous association?  What kind?  None of this was addressed, am I correct?

2.  Whose name was the suite in? Who paid for it?  Are there any records?

3.  Gloria Alred has been searching for a week for other "victims" of Herman Cain, according to Michelle Malkin.  By an astonishing coincidence, she finds ANOTHER previously undocumented victim from the same organization and the same time frame as the three previous alleged "victims", and NOT from any of the periods in which Cain's female associates praise and defend him, who comes up with another story that can 't even be checked, let alone verified.

4.  The client of Gloria Alred, an attorney who makes her living off sexual harassment and abuse cases, just happens to describe an offense that EXACTLY fits the criteria for legal sexual abuse.  (Way to go, coach!)

Oh, hell, who am I kidding?  There's no point even trying to oppose this rock-solid evidence.  Why, it's the proverbial perfect storm...

...of dust.

Will Sarah Palin endorse... and who?

Even with her decision not to seek the Presidency in 2012, Palin remains a powerful motivational and ideological force for a huge part of the conservative base, as indicated by the response to her at the Searchlight Tea Party in Harry Reid's home town, below...

This means she still has a role in the ongoing election, where Hermain Cain's popular support is posing an unexpected challenge to the GOP's intended annointment of Mitt "It's My Turn Dammit" Romney as the party's nominee.

The thing is, she has only one bullet for her endorsement gun, one shot at leading her base to support another particular candidate.

So when does she pull the trigger?  Note, I am presuming she is not considering pulling it for Romney.  Romney is not popular with her base, and contrary to Ace of Spades, her base is largely supporters, not followers.  There's a difference.  Also, I don't see her endorsing Perry unless he can get his campaigning act together and do a better job of convincing the country he's the hotshot governor we thought he was.

She could pull it before the primaries.  Select who she believes to be the strongest, truest conservative candidate, that would put a lot of money and workers behind that candidate.  

That would also be a direct challenge to the corrupt, tired RNC to pull out all the stops in favor of Romney.  GOP leadership is already screwing with the primary schedule to try and prop up Mitt, and the GOP's poobahs have demonstrated a truly remarkable ability to backstab, viz. Rove and Castle, Dede Scozzafava and the NYS GOP leadership, or the RNC's championing of absurd outsider candidates like Fiorina and Whitman.  I suspect, given the provocation, though, they could outdo themselves this time.  The earlier she endorses, the more time it gives them to foul the nest.

She could pull it during the primaries.  That would give her more time to see which candidates were prepared to make a fight for it, and minimize the time the RNC would have to screw things up.  But it would mean writing off early primary states whose delegates might be needed down the line.

That would be a viable option if, as was assumed by the RNC and Romney's backers, the earliest states, FL, NV, NH were a lock for Romney.  But Cain is leading in the polls now in FL, and rising in New England; those early delegates could serve to build momentum for Cain, for instance, in the later states.  So it becomes a juggling act of what's to be gained and lost.

Or, and this is a counsel of desperation, she could withhold her endorsement until after the nomination.  I say counsel of desperation because this presumes Romney is the candidate.  If one of the base's candidates were to be nominated, her endorsement would not strictly be necessary, the base would already be energized.  In that case Palin would be smartest to turn her endorsement and assets to House and Senate races in key swing states.  But if Romney is nominated, she would be facing the task of  motivating her base to support a candidate they do not like now and would like less for losing to him.  It would be difficult for her to do this; as I said above, she has supporters, not followers who will slavishly march where she points.  Sarah Palin is a leader because the parade likes the way it is going with or without her.  In this case she might also be smartest to turn her efforts to the House and Senate as a cushion against Romney's failure... or, perhaps worse, success.

I'd like to see her endorse before the primaries, and I'd like, frankly to see her endorse Cain as the last real conservative standing who is not a part of the old 20th-century GOP machine and dynasties.  But as per usual I assume Sarah Palin will make up her own mind for her own reasons... and likely surprise us all.

Bloomberg GOP Debate Displays Weak GOP Commentariat Field... Twitter and blogging hardest hit

A special guest editorial by Frumley Brooks, Esq., Mainstream Conservative Pundit


In keeping with the highest traditions of the Brooks family motto, "Uno dies tardus quod uno denarius brevis" ("a day late and a dollar short") Mr. Brooks decries the latest failings on the part of the American conservative movement.

Last night's debate on the influential and widely popular "BloombergTV" shone a brilliant spotlight, not on the regrettable list of rural extremists trying to impede the campaign of the Presidential candidate and our fondly-remembered classmate Willard Mitt Romney, but on the slapdash and dispiriting performance of our modern-day conservative commentariat.

When discussing Internet political commentary, of course, one must acknowledge that we are forced to deal with two elements: the self-appointed pundits themselves, and their correspondents, or "commenters."

The "commenters" may in large be dismissed out of hand, of no more relevance than those faceless throngs trudging through the factory gates; their guttural yawps infused with no more content and significance than the barkings emanating from the high "bleacher seats" at Wrigley Field on "Dollar Beer Day." (Or so one is informed, certainly never having imposed said "bleachers" on oneself.)  Of a surety one can read an entire "thread" or series of debate comments by them and come away without the slightest idea of what was actually said by the debaters.

The pundits themselves are another matter.  While it is a priori regrettable that they have arrogated this position to themselves without the years of prior vetting and conditioning at the proper schools and publications to which the rest of us have had the upbringing and associations to submit ourselves, their performance during the BloombergTV event was particularly lackluster.

Given that far too many of the hoi polloi have far too little judgment to select "BloombergTV" for their cable assortments over the likes of "ESPN," "Spike" or (one shudders to think) "Fox," one would hope these pundits would make a particular effort to provide some detailed exposition of the actual goings-on that transpired at the debate: to lay at least a token pearl or two before their swinish audiences. Alas, it was not so.  

With the token noteworthy exceptions of one or two bloggers with at least nominal proper journalistic experience such as Michelle Malkin and Robert Stacy McCain, the online punditry wallowed in its subjective incontinence.  Even those who arranged special commentary feeds for the event were too often reduced to subjective banalities such as "so and so looked uncertain" and "that could have been clearer" with no further elaboration, even had such been comprehensible to their notional audience.

Far more attention was paid to the pundit's approval or disapproval of specific candidates, in a narrative stream seemingly scripted specifically to discourage the electorate from any of the choices on view.  The performance of these pundits offered abundant grist for the mills of any canny Democratic operative in the forthcoming elections, a litany of despair and pettifogging criticism that could drown any lesser man than Governor Romney, and may well have.  Even the plucky rustic Ron Paul was subjected to hypocritical mockery  — the equivalent of stopping a film review to specifically complain about the performance of Gabby Hayes — first for speaking out and then for remaining silent, making too big an affair of a tiny little man.

The pundits' lack of experience and perception further showed in their uniform criticism of the hosts, the topics and the specific questions presented in the debate.  Partisan amateurs at heart, they do not see the value of forcing the candidates to address the public in the terms of their opponents' talking points; they do not see the importance of reassuring possible Democratic watchers of the validity of their own points of view, and of demonstrating the GOP's continued commitment to comity and collegiality in the unlikelihood one of them takes office.

Fortunately for the nation, the remaining Republican candidates recognize this, and have been eagerly snapping up the remaining GOP consultants and campaign managers still unemployed, doughty men and women who understand from New York and California and the bloody battlefields of 2006 how a Republican campaign should be run to keep the voters engaged before the Party's own man is nominated.  If the blogging pundits can learn this lesson it should be a rousing show.

"The only proper choice for the right sort of person;

it doesn't bear thinking about..." Frumley Brooks

A THREE BEERS LATER EXCLUSIVE: BREAKING TERRORIST LIST NEWS!

In the wake of the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama's latest attempt to reenergize his base is causing fresh controversy.  With bin Laden's death, every other terrorist on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List has moved up a notch.  The problem is, Obama's guidelines to Eric Holder on how to fill the new vacancy have led to a many-sided catfight with every one of the Democratic Party's special interest groups bickering with each other for their choice.  So far, Department of Justice has managed to narrow it down to a somewhat smaller group... (not shown in order) The President is considering providing funds from the Stimulus package to upgrade the list to Best of Most Wanted... or 300,000,000...