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This is my last chance to write anything before the Rapture tomorrow, so I thought I\u2019d better get cracking.<\/p>\n
My question re: this stupid prediction that May 21, 2011 is the appointed time for the Second Coming is right in line with Doonesbury\u2019s. Check out below.
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Pretty explicit, no? The angels in heaven are, as Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, \u201cusually a pretty well-informed group.\u201d If they don\u2019t know when Jesus will return, I\u2019m thinking it\u2019s a pretty safe bet that Harold Camping doesn\u2019t know, either.<\/p>\n
That said, I\u2019m feeling like the Second Coming can\u2019t come soon enough, as it will spare us from the embarrassment of the 2012 election. As candidates continue to inflict themselves on the national conversation, I find myself wavering in my complete avoidance of all things political in an attempt to register my complete and utter disgust with the crop of candidates here presented. As a wavering Romneyite, I\u2019ve found Mitt\u2019s newfound love for all things Tea Party rather goofy, and with this latest \u201cremaking\u201d of himself, it makes me think there\u2019s no real there there. You have an extremely competent manager with some vaguely conservative ideological instincts, but, increasingly, it becomes harder to recognize whether he has anything but raw, naked ambition.<\/p>\n
Still, competence is something, and given that our budget problems aren\u2019t truly partisan in nature, it might be nice to get a nonideological perspective. Party politics provides a very tribal lens through which to view the world, and it would be delightful if everyone could recognize that demographic pressures, not the evil machinations of donkeys or elephants, are to blame for our current woes. That requires a dispassionate solution, precisely the kind of thing politics is designed to avoid. Romney could provide that dispassion, and perhaps he will, but his present partisan flailings don\u2019t inspire confidence.<\/p>\n
As for the rest of the field, who else has the GOP got? Gingrich? Really? I think he\u2019s extraordinarily bright, but surely he has to realize that the nation isn\u2019t interested in carrying his extensive personal and political baggage.<\/p>\n
And Palin? Oy. She gave an amazing speech at the 2008 GOP convention that made me a transient fan. Everything she\u2019s done since then, however, has been alternately goofy or painful. It is partisan boilerplate for the Left to dismiss each and every Republican as an imbecile, yet our Mrs. Palin seems to be the rule that proves the exception. When she inadvertently compared her plight to that of the Jews killed in the Holocaust with her sloppy \u201cblood libel\u201d comments, she confirmed that she is, to quote Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, a \u201cnincompoop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thankfully, Satan\u2019s brother Mike Huckabee<\/a> and King Combover Donald Trump are out of the running, so that leaves all the also-rans, some of whom might prove to be interesting, provided I discover anything at all about them. George Will insists it will be either Tim Pawlenty \u2013 who? \u2013 or Mitch Daniels \u2013 who again? \u2013 and there are some cool dudes like this guy Herman Cain who used to run a pizza empire. Yes, there\u2019s always Ron Paul, who thinks the Federal Reserve is owned by the Queen, the Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders.<\/p>\n But last and least, there\u2019s Utah\u2019s erstwhile governor and former Obama employee Jon Huntsman, Jr., a man who can\u2019t decide whether or not he\u2019s still a Mormon and thinks that the GOP is eager to embrace a pro-civil union, pro-Cap-and-Trade \u201cspiritual\u201d nebbish who thinks his foreign policy experience under the thumb of Hillary Clinton qualifies him for the White House. Folks, especially those outside of Utah that don\u2019t realize how relentlessly disingenuous this clown is, trust me that he ain\u2019t the way to go.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the incumbent. I confess that I don\u2019t hate him. But I do feel we can do so much better. So, yes, folks, I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s time to trot out the dead guy again.<\/p>\n That\u2019s right!<\/p>\n Jacques Cousteau 2012!*<\/strong><\/p>\n *I should note that I actually voted for Cousteau in 2008, but not for president. I didn\u2019t have the guts to do that, sadly. Instead, I wrote in \u201cJacques Cousteau, famed undersea explorer\u201d as my choice for governor. The Demo was a sloppy hippie, and I sure as hell wasn\u2019t going to cast a ballot for Jon Huntsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thisis my last chance to write anything before the Rapture tomorrow, so I thought I\u2019d better get cracking.My question re: this stupid prediction that May 21, 2011 is the appointed time for the Second Coming is right in line with Doonesbury\u2019s. Check out below.Pretty explicit, no? The angels in heaven are, as Elder Neal ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}