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Ron Paul, the anti-Romney
Mitt Romney (R-MA), the liberal flip-flopper whose one-word campaign slogan could be “same” — same expanding government, same deficit spending, same eroding constitutional liberties, same foreign policy, same socialized healthcare, different party affiliation and skin color and small else — won the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday with 24.6% of the vote, a mere eight votes ahead of last-minute surger Rick Santorum (R-PA). That’s a margin of less than one-tenth of a percent.
With no recount, it’s honest, if technically inaccurate, to say that the two men tied. Far more vital is Ron Paul’s (R-TX) impressive third-place end. With 21%, he came incredibly close to winning the first contest of the 2012 presidential race; much closer than anyone would have expected a month ago. Unlike Romney, who has been regarded as a flawed frontrunner throughout most of the race, Paul is — was — a long-shot underdog who was never supposed to break 10% in any caucus or primary election, much less outperform so-called “top tier” rivals Newt Gingrich (R-VA) and Rick Perry (R-TX).
Ironically, the Romney supporters within the Republican establishment had been downplaying the relevance of Iowa for weeks in anticipation of a Paul victory; by their own logic, Romney just won — barely won — a meaningless event that says nothing about the winner’s electability. Of course, political observers know that to be nonsense. If the Iowa caucuses were irrelevant, candidates wouldn’t pour their time and resources into the rural state (before abruptly packing up on January 4 and descending upon New Hampshire like a flock of ravenous vultures).
Romney’s victory — which, really, considering that he did better in 2008, should more properly be termed a near-loss — certainly didn’t hurt him, though it’s unlikely that hordes of conservative voters in early primary states like South Carolina and Florida will suddenly set aside their misgivings about his liberal record and jump on the center-left bandwagon. But Paul’s third-place end could have a significant impact on the race. Frontrunner or not, Romney is really, really disliked by conservatives. They’ve had three years to learn what they dislike about Obama, and for all of his private sector experience and smooth campaigning, the former Massachusetts governor offers few meaningful changes. That’s why this primary race was always going to be between two people: Romney, and someone else.
Could Ron Paul be that “someone else,” the alternative to Romney around whom the GOP’s dissatisfied conservative voters rally? Conventional wisdom says no. Then again, conventional wisdom has been turned on its head so many times in the last two election cycles that it’s a wonder anyone mentions it anymore. Despite Santorum’s near-win, which can be attributed to momentum generated by an unexpected surge in the polls, he cannot be the anti-Romney. Like an inexperienced runner who sprints the first mile of a long race and runs out of steam before reaching the end line, the former senator spent nearly all of his time and a fantastic deal of his funds in Iowa. He doesn’t have the time, or funds, to duplicate that feat in other states. He, along with Huntsman and Perry — the “bottom tier,” now that Bachmann has suspended her campaign — will henceforth be running for vice president, or a cabinet position, or maybe just for the fun of it.
Then there’s Gingrich, who only a few weeks ago seemed poised to teach Romney a lesson about counting chickens before they hatch. He finished in fourth with a pitiful 13%, and is plummeting in the New Hampshire polls, but could still salvage his campaign with wins in South Carolina and Florida. Especially if thousands of conservatives develop amnesia all at once, or his record magically erases itself. His connection to taxpayer-funded bailout recipient Freddie Mac, flip-flops on so-called global warming, support for infringements of civil liberties under the Patriot Act and similar laws, and apparent desire to initiate yet another war in an already unstable Middle East should be more than enough to alarm informed voters, not to mention that his two known extramarital affairs are an embarrassment to a party that prides itself on promoting and defending family values.
Who, then, has the credentials, name recognition, national organization, and funds to run a conservative campaign against Romney? We’re back to Ron Paul, the 76-year-ancient congressman who wasn’t supposed to compete with the mainstream favorites, but did anyway. The family man who has been married to his wife, Carol, for nearly fifty-five years, and has five children and a host of grandchildren and fantastic-grandchildren. The devout Christian who weaves Bible tales and proverbs into his speeches about government, economics, and foreign policy. The Air Force veteran who served his country in Vietnam, and now receives more campaign contributions from active military personnel than all of his Republican opponents combined. The pro-life obstetrician who personally delivered more than 4,000 babies during his career. The advocate of free markets, sound money, low taxes, and a balanced budget. The fiscal conservative who pledges to cut $1 trillion — with a T — from the federal budget immediately.
If Paul is not the conservative alternative to Romney, who is? And if there’s to be no alternative to Romney, why have primaries? For conservatives who want to elect a conservative Republican in November, now is the time to take a second — or third, or fourth — look at Congressman Ron Paul. There’s still time to avoid a repeat of 2008, and the disastrous term that followed.
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Herman Cain, the Democratic Party Crime Syndicate, and Sexual Harassment
One of the fascinating capabilities of the human brain is the ability to process multiple input modalities, giving the proprietor of the brain the ability to produce functional, reasonable, and accurate conclusions. The brain can integrate the sensory input of a given situation, previous observations by the brain’s proprietor, factor in the previous outcomes from previous observations, then calculate the probability of the authenticity and credibility of a situation based on the brain’s ability to produce a judicious and cogent conclusion based on the aggregate of input. When assessing the validity of something, this is referred to as the smell test; when using this process to make a choice, this is referred to as commonsense. This particular function has been successfully eliminated from the brains of liberals through selective breeding, DNA manipulation, and aggressive indoctrination.
Let us apply the smell test to sexual harassment claims against Herman Cain.
Why Now
Herman Cain has a very storied past pregnant with professional accomplishments spanning forty years. In chronological order, no one has claimed sexual harassment against Herman Cain starting with the Department of the Navy, Coca-Cola Company, Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather’s Pizza, or the Department of the Treasury. To believe his accusers, Cain would have started his sexual harassment pursuits in 1996, and ending in 1999, at the age of 41, only 3 years out of 42 years in business, and all the claims are conspicuously linked to the city of Chicago and Barack Obama. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Chicago
Chicago: the headquarters of the Democratic Party Crime Syndicate and arguably the most corrupt city in America. Herman Cain is not from Chicago, nor has he ever lived in Chicago. All of Cain’s accusers have ties to Chicago or the Obama administration–which was made in Chicago. Sheila O’Grady is from Chicago; David Axelrod is from Chicago; Barack Obama is from Chicago; his chief of staff William Daley is from Chicago; William Daley’s father was the mayor of Chicago; his brother, Richard M. Daley, was the mayor of Chicago; and Obama’s ex-chief of staff Rahm Emanuel–known as the Godfather–is currently Mayor of Chicago. The Illinois Restaurant Association is located in Chicago. Sheila O’Grady is David Axelrod’s friend. Sheila O’Grady is the former chief of staff of former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and she is currently president of the Illinois Restaurant Association; the Illinois Restaurant Association has an extremely close working relationship with the National Restaurant Association where the sexual harassment settlements against Herman Cain are housed. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
The Attorney
Gloria Allred’s primary professional mission is to garner as much media attention as possible for herself. The timing of Gloria Allred’s entering the Herman Cain fray with a client claiming Herman Cain was sexually inappropriate is no coincidence, and has the blueprint of a Chicago political hit that fits the historical modus operandi of David Axelrod. Two things happen when Gloria Allred takes a case: 1) Allred and her client are seeking publicity: Allred a continuation of hers, and her clients seeking to, in some manner, cash in on their 15 minutes of infamy. 2) Allred’s clients’ credibility can be presumptively dismissed. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Sharon Bialek Wants to Place a Face to the Charges
Sharon Bialek lives in Chicago. Chicago has a population of 2.7 million. Sharon Bialek lived at 505 North Lake Shore Drive. David Axelrod lived at 505 Lake Shore Drive. Same building. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Sharon Bialek felt compelled to speak publicly “on behalf of all women who are sexually harassed in the workforce but do not come out because of retaliation or public humiliation.” She was so “embarrassed” by what Cain did, she never went public with it. This overwhelming drive of being compelled to come forward only took fourteen small years to come to fruition, and remarkably she was not that compelled when Cain was just campaigning for president, but the overwhelming drive of being compelled only came after he surged ahead in the polls and became a viable candidate. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Reading awkwardly from a script at her press conference, Bialek’s “embarrassment” was miraculously replaced with a giggling and giddy camera occupier, and appeared to be having a excellent time with the attention. Bialek bantered with reporters and said regarding her hair, “I just got it done.” In fact, Sharon Bialek’s “embarrassment” was such a distant crippling shame, Allred already had Bialek scheduled for a talk show tour the following day with CNN, “Excellent Morning America” at ABC, “The Early Show” at CBS, and the “Today” show at NBC. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Sharon Bialek reached out to Herman Cain after being fired from the National Restaurant Association. She was summarily terminated for making fake sexual harassment claims against her supervisor. She had a reputation as someone with a loathsome character at the National Restaurant Association, according to her coworkers. A few remarks from her coworkers regarding her character: “I remember her as a time-waster, and rabble-rouser…if she didn’t get her way she cried about sexual harassment…she was distress with a capital…etc.” Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
During their investigation of Sharon Bialek, the New York Post interviewed some of her personal friends in Chicago:
She has a very infectious personality. It’s simple to see how she won Cain over. But the reality of her situation is — she’s a complete gold digger. It’s all about the money. Adding that she was from a middle-income family but lives in a posh house while running from bill collectors, the source said: Most of her jobs finished in termination. It’s always the employer’s fault, not hers. This is a lady who lives off the system. She is hellbent on finding a way of never having to work and living the lifestyle she wants to live, a very affluent lifestyle.
A weird and bizarre non sequitur chain of events occurred prior to Cain’s alleged assault on Bialek: Sharon Bialek made arrangements to meet Herman Cain in D.C., a man she met once, flew to Washington D.C., booked a room two blocks from the White House–which she states was upgraded to a suite by Cain–she and Cain then had drinks in the hotel lobby, they drove to dinner in his car, and it was after all this transpired, sometime during the dinner Cain was finally curious enough to question her, “Why are you here?” Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Sharon Bialek’s memory is unparalleled, and a contravention. Bialek seems to be afflicted with creditor dementia regarding anyone or entity with whom she owes money, but has an extraordinary memory regarding what she wore on a particular day fourteen years ago. She remembers that she wore a black pleated skirt, a suit jacket, and a blouse; she also remembers that Cain wore a suit with his shirt open. These are all secured in her extremely selective memory, but what is not secured in her memory is corroborating evidence that she even went to Washington D.C., stayed at a particular hotel, had drinks at a particular hotel bar, or dined at a particular restaurant. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Herman Cain was a speaker at a Tea Party gathering in Schaumburg, Illinois Sept. 30-Oct. 1. According to eyewitness, WIND radio co-host Amy Jacobson, who was there to get a photo with Cain, was bum-rushed by Bialek, who beat her to Cain. Jacobson stated that Bialek “cornered him” and was very “flirtatious,” quite a contrast to the description of Bialek’s confrontation of the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her. Bialek embraced Cain and whispered in his ear, and they talked for 2-3 minutes. But according to Bialek, she wanted to go there to “see if he was going to be man enough to own up to what he had done some fourteen years ago.” She said she confronted him, and “I went up to him and questioned him if he remembered me.” Herman Cain denies ever knowing Bialek. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
The Legal and Credit
Sharon Bialek’s past and present of dodging creditors, filing multiple bankruptcies, dodging taxes, and filing fake sexual harassment claims is as contemptible as Herman Cain’s is admirable. In the ample and overstuffed baggage from her past, Bialek can boast of current federal and state tax liens resulting from unpaid taxes, filing bankruptcy in 1991 and 2001–coincidentally the exact amount of time, ten years, between bankruptcies that the law allows–lawsuits attempting to collect back rent, myriad of credit card companies stiffed, attorney fees, a personal loan from then boyfriend William Conchita for the amount of $4500, eviction from her home by Broadacre Management for nonpayment of rent, and a paternity suit by the executive she claimed was the father of her son. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Current Source of Income and Current Fiancé
According to Allred, Bialek has not had a job outside the home in about two years. Bialek, according to her and her fiancé, Mark Harwood, live very comfortably in a five bedroom suburban home. Harwood was in a “bit of shock” after hearing for the first time about the Cain allegations. Harwood denies Bialek has any current money problems and stated that he supports her financially so she can be a stay-at-home-mom for her thirteen-year-ancient-son. Even though an entire brigade of jilted creditors is in hot pursuit of Bialek for nonpayment, she has no money problems. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
To further diminish the nonexistent credibility of Bialek and Harwood, Mark Harwood wants to come clean and retract 100% of what he said. Bialek and Harwood were engaged last year, but are not currently, and Bialek, in fact, does not live with Harwood in the comfortable five bedroom suburban house. In his new revelation, he does not support her financially even though he stated he did so she could stay home in his five bedroom suburban home. As incredulous as this sounds, Harwood said, “I’ve never supported her financially in the four years that we were together.” Even more incredulous than that, Harwood is unemployed, and according to court filings in his ongoing divorce, his ex-wife’s attorney stated that Harwood is preparing to file for bankruptcy. Bialek was subpoenaed in the divorce case, but she was a no show for the deposition. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
The Other Public Accuser
Serial complaint filer Karen Kraushaar, currently employed in the Obama administration’s Treasury Department, filed a sexual harassment complaint against Cain at the National Restaurant Association after Cain mentioned that Kraushaar was the same height as his wife. According to the attorney representing the National Restaurant Association, the remark about being the same height as his wife was the most serious claim that she made against him, “the one she was most upset about.” The National Restaurant Association, along with the EEOC, found that Kraushaar’s allegations were not credible, but in these instances, settling for a few thousand dollars is much cheaper than litigation. Three small years later, Kraushaar filed another claim against the Immigration and Naturalization Service for being exposed to a sexually oriented email and not being allowed to work from home. What she wanted for these debilitating and humiliating offenses was thousands of dollars in back pay, the reinstatement of the leave she used after a car accident, promotion, and a one-year fellowship to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Gloria Allred’s Last Gasp for Relevancy
Who brokered the union between a broke and bankrupt Sharon Bialek and the ambulance chasing, attention seeking, face for tort reform Gloria Allred? This is a very fascinating question considering there could never be any impropriety with the connection between Allred and her intimate connections to the Democratic Party Crime Syndicate. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Allred’s hopes of orchestrating a concert with the ensemble of Herman Cain’s knavish accusers together upon one stage, reminiscing on camera about the ancient days of being sexual harassed by Cain, with myriad media outlets capturing her genius and splendor, seems to have died a sudden death; the fatal malady being the surfacing of the accusers’ questionable motives and their unscrupulous histories of employing these questionable motives. But Allred attempted one last Hail Mary via Jay Zimmerman. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Allred, in a dramatic change of venue, which mirrors her faith in this caper, held a news conference at the Holiday Inn in Shreveport, Louisiana with Jay Zimmerman, in stark contrast to her news conference with Bialek at the New York Friar’s buy Remeron online Club. Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Bear in mind, this is not the ex-fiancé from whom Bialek stole $4500. Zimmerman lost a lawsuit to Stratford Medical Center, but before judgment was entered, he sold his assets from Stratford Pediatric to Central DuPage Hospital for $333,333. Zimmerman promptly lost all the money gambling. Zimmerman then joined the Bankruptcy club with Bialek. But he made two statements that could quite possibly be the smoking gun: obviously coached by Allred, Zuckerman could not possibly be lying, as he stated that he is a registered Republican. He also stated, and Allred is presenting this as irrefutable proof that Herman Cain must have committed some type of sexual malfeasance against her client Bialek, that he and Bialek did indeed meet Herman Cain fourteen years ago at a function. Allred is working with a bag of nothing at this juncture, other than showcasing a small meet and greet fourteen years ago between Cain and Bialek, and that Zimmerman, the bankrupt thief, is a Republican. Cain says he does not remember Bialek, but what high-profile person who literally meets thousands of people a year would remember some off-chance greeting fourteen years ago unless a measurable impression was made? Conclusion: Fails the smell test.
Sexual harassment is an extremely serious issue, and should be dealt with expeditiously and with the full force of available law. But the tragedy with serial sexual complaint filers such as Gloria Allred, Sharon Bialek, and Karen Kraushaar, who use sexual harassment as a secondary source of income and fame, is when something such as this is in the headlines, the first impression is a roll of the eyes, and an instant dismissal unless irrefutable and substantiated facts are presented. The real victims are the women who are really subjected to sexual harassment, and have to first scale this dunghill of doubt that the likes of Allred et al. have forced real victims to overcome before proceeding with justice.
