Maggie's Farm

Speaking of something completely irrelevant (yes - irrelevant is now a word much to my dismay - kind of like the whole quote/unquote thing), how hard would it be to optimize Maggie's Farm for smart phones? I spend more time on my phone looking at this and that and the regular page takes an extraordinary amount of time to load. ('Droid Incredible). Other sites have a mobile redirect. Just curious.

RE: The Magnificent Ronald - there are people in this world who are natural born leaders - they have the charisma, the quick wit and brains to know when they are outclassed intellectually so they co-opt the smart people to their cause. He was a master at it. Plus he had a clear vision of where the country was and where he wanted the country to go and could articulate those concepts and ideas to the citizens.

Sadly, Sarah Palin is not the second coming of Ronald Regean - I wish she were. I'm looking more toward Bachmann (sp?), but the conventional GOP will never, EVER, allow a woman to head the ticket so we'll lose the Presidency in 2012 because there will be a "centrist" candidate to who "appeal to the broader moderate Independents" and centrist Republicans while paying little attention to the conservatives. The main stream GOP will never allow the conservative wing to take over again.

I'm beginning to think that it is time for the (drum roll and ominous music) THIRD PARTY candidate.

And that is exactly why there will never be a woman at the head of any political party's national Presidential ticket. Thank you for proving me right - once again.

If she was old, ugly or both, she wouldn't even be considered.

There will never be a woman heading up the ticket for either party - EVER.

I would like to think that is the case, but unfortunately there just aren't enough true social or political conservatives anymore. The mission of the GOP has changed - moderation in all things is now the mantra of the day because to win elections you have to win Independents. Additionally, the average "conservative" has been conditioned to accept the "gray" area of moderation as being conservative rather than the stark black/white line drawn in the sand type conservative. It has become more important to be re-elected than to actually stand up and put your position and politics on the line and state in clear, concise terms how you view an issue.

1 - I don't spend a lot of time at or near a computer anymore so I tend to rely on my smartphone more than a computer. It just takes a second to whip out the phone and check something on Google, or check the marine chart (by the way, that is a really cool deal - Navionics has their entire navigation packages on smartphone platforms now - it's pretty damn amazing) and (2) I find that my computer time is greatly reduced by useing the smartphone rather than a computer - in particular if I'm sitting out on the porch or grilling fresh caught striper or cat fish, etc. A lot of sites have recognized this and have optimized for mobile - well hey, it was just a thought.

With respect to Perry/Bachmann - nah, that ain't gonna happen - male lead, female second fiddle again? Nope - just ain't gonna happen. The Democrats didn't follow up with Mondale/Ferraro, the GOP will not follow up after the diaster of McCain/Palin. It would be more likely the other way around, but the establishment GOP will not allow that to happen.

You heard it hear first - it will probably be Perry and Huntsman in some order - not sure who will head the ticket, but that's what is likely to happen at this juncture. Maybe Thune if he gets moving immediately, but I don't think he really wants it.

That really horrible, awful, ugly truth is that President Obama is beatable - and beatable by a huge margin, but two things stand in the GOP's way - (1) The GOP itself and (2)the lack of a clear vision of where they want to take the country.