June 2, 2011

SandBox Comments: Aspen Times/Paul Nitze : "Opinion"

Prosecutor with a pen, Paul Nitze, smacks the first volley of local 'Prez Race 2012'  rhetoric over the net.

Thank you (sincerely), for relieving us of holding our breath until 2012 to see who one of our favorite local talking heads is voting for. 

It's just so much more fun to extend the politics-chasing season than to scurry round and round the mulberry bush:

"...Don't hold your breath or sell your house — I'm still planning to vote for the president in 2012...."
(Paul Nitze)

Let's see if Nanny can spread Nitze's ink around to the conservative Twitter followers she has.  Help him out a bit.  Let him rack up some RT's:

"...If you're a Dem who recoils at Romney's slick-topped, pearly white, masterfully cynical brand of politics, you might just read it and think he'd do OK in the White House...."
(Paul Nitze)

"...By next fall, a date that fortuitously lines up with the general election calendar, hospitals will receive Medicare payments that are tied to the total Medicare spending on that patient from three days before the patient entered the hospital to 90 days after the patient leaves...."
(Paul Nitze)

"....Instead of running on his very real achievements in Massachusetts, and in rescuing the Salt Lake Olympics from disaster, Romney is forced to trot out lame “federalist” excuses for why he did what he did as governor. A hard-core pragmatist is trying to reinvent himself as a sword-bearer, with poor results.

You may blanch at Romney's shamelessness, but shamelessness does not necessarily make for bad presidents. Romney is a brilliant, wildly ambitious, and fundamentally pragmatic politician. We could do a lot worse. But that's not the version of Mitt Romney we're going to see next year....."

(Paul Nitze)
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5 comments:

vet68 said...

The right does needs a serious contender, simply to go up against Romney's war-chest.

We all know Newt's going to run a real race that will get bloody.

Don't discount Pawlenty just yet and wait for the team ticket announcements early.

2012 will be won by the right not because of the mainliner on the ticket.

hammerandnails said...

Hooah.

So Nitze is ready to roll already, eh?

H. Neal Glanville said...

According to my memory pawnshop, NO democrat has been reelected with a unemployment rate below 7.5 percent since the lefts loveable FDR.
Newt's chance at a race are nil and none.
Bright and shiney,Romney, has the chest but not the support of the members of the right needed to elect him.

WingMan said...

Obama is the first President in the history of United States to be held responsible for liberals moving away from their party in droves.

If he gets put up against strong challenging in the primaries, look for him to not even get the nod from his own party. He's an epoch failure as a leader.

Newt nor Romney will be elected by the GOP. No matter how much money there is.

Look to whoever blends the Republicans with the Tea Party as an early in the game ticket. Not as foes who join up later on in the game.

Good to know where fellow liberal Paul Nitze is at, this early on in the game.

FCL said...

I would like to see a Pawlenty/Palin ticket.

And right out of the gate, not the usual waiting until getting the nomination.

I think she realizes it's not her moment for top spot yet and she could do so much good in the VP slot.