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Please put the RPA #6321 on your application. The Department of General Services' (DGS) Core Values are key to the success of the Department's Mission to "Deliver results by providing timely, cost-effective services and products that support our customers." The Department of General Services (DGS) expects its employees to adhere to the DGS Core Values of Integrity, Accountability, Communication, Excellence, Innovation and Teamwork. Our employees are expected to perform their duties with these values in mind. SELECTION CRITERIA - The selection criteria will be in the following order: • Local bidders (DGS employees) must file their bid requests for this position by the "Post & Bid File By" date above with the contact person listed above using the Local Work Area Post and Bid form, OHR-R12L (Rev 10/01/08). The employee with the greatest amount of continuous "local work location" seniority in the class shall be selected over other employees and notified of start date. If no local bidders, then • The Outside Local Post and Bid bidders will be contacted who indicated interest in positions in this location. If no outside bidders are interested, then • SROA/Surplus employees will be considered prior to other recruitment methods. • Transfers, reinstatements, or recruitment from the employment list may be considered after the Post & Bid process is cleared. Consideration may be given to applicants who are on a DGS employment list or on another department's employment list. Transfer of list eligibility must meet the criteria to transfer the eligibility from the other department's employment list to DGS' employment list. • Applications will be evaluated based on eligibility and desirable qualifications and interviews may be scheduled. Under the general direction of the Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager II, the incumbent performs miscellaneous skilled work in the maintenance, repair and alteration of multiple facilities in State-owned and occupied buildings while working independently in a wide variety of skilled maintenance tasks in the Mission Valley Management Unit in the Southern San Diego Region. The Southern Region, San Diego Mission Valley Management Unit is located at 7575 Metropolitan Drive, San Diego, CA 92108 that occupies a three-story structure and is approximately 250,000 square feet of office space. The San Diego Mission Valley Management Unit (Mission Valley) also provides maintenance services to Partial Service Buildings (Route) at the CHP, Cal Trans, DMV and EDD field office buildings which are located in both San Diego and Imperial Counties. The incumbent may be required to rotate from The Mission Valley State Office Building to the Partial Service Buildings (Route) Buildings at the request of the Mission Valley Office Building Manager. DUTIES All work to be accomplished in accordance with guidelines of the Department of General Services (DGS), Building and Property Management (BPM) manuals, Real Estate Service Division (RESD) and BPM strategic plans, and the Excellence in Public Buildings Initiative in order to maintain and repair all building systems following published guidelines (i.e., SAM, BPM, DGS) and published industry standards (i.e., BOMA, ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers), SMACNA (Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractor's National Association), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), NEI (National Energy Institute). Assignment may require temporary shift change, building location change or overtime to accommodate the tenant's request. The incumbent applies sustainable (environmentally safe) work practices in the operation and maintenance of all buildings systems and equipment. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS In order to maintain and repair all building systems following published guidelines and industry standards, under the supervision of the Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager II: • Inspects, maintains and repairs plumbing, heating, water, and sewer systems. • Lubricates and/or maintains mechanical equipment (e.g., portable generators, air compressors, injection pump systems, sewage pumps, elevator sumps, booster pumps, etc.) using oil, grease, spray, etc. to ensure proper maintenance and operations according to manufacturer and IIPP (Injury Illness Prevention Plan) guidelines. • Inspects, maintains, and/or repairs sewage, water, and heating systems (i.e., independent gas and electric heating) and equipment (e.g., wall furnaces, sewage pump, fire pumps, elevators, wells, etc.) by using various hand and/or power tools and equipment to regulate operation of critical systems according to manufacturer's specifications and departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Performs electrical maintenance and repair work. • Performs minor building construction and repair work. Constructs and repairs interior/exterior walls by patching, matching finishes, and painting as required. • Performs miscellaneous interior and exterior painting. • Makes or assists with repairs to roofing systems, i.e. rubber or asphalt. • Inspects and/or test emergency shower and eye wash stations according to IIPP and Cal-OSHA regulations and guidelines. • Inspects fire extinguishers according to UFC (Uniform Fire Code) to ensure safety of the buildings' occupants. • Inspects and test fire prevention equipment (e.g., fire hoses, standpipes, etc.) according to UFC to ensure safety of the buildings' occupants. • Rebuilds pumps and compressors using hand and/or power tools in order to restore original operation of equipment (e.g., domestic water and waste systems, fire systems, compressed air systems, etc.) according to manufacturer specifications and industry standards. • Assists the Stationary Engineers in cleaning or replacing filters for HVAC equipment, parts, lines, tubes, valves, and/or drums to maintain proper operation according to manufacturer specifications and industry standards. • Assists the Stationary Engineers in replacing and/or repairs components of HVAC equipment systems (e.g., convection air heaters, fans, ducts, dampers, economizers, fasteners, etc.) to maintain proper operation according to manufacturer specifications and industry standards. • Operates State vehicles and/or motorized equipments (e.g., forklifts, cherry pickers, man lifts, boom trucks, etc.) to perform maintenance tasks at worksite and/or remote offsite locations in accordance with the Cal-OSHA safety requirements and/or rules and regulations of the State. • Assists all trades with maintenance and/or repair of standard plumbing equipment (i.e., stopped sewage and drain lines, faucets, toilets, sinks, valves, water lines, gas, oil, sewage, fire control, steam, and refrigeration systems), wood and metal surfaces (e.g., desks, cabinets, counters, doors, shelves, floors, etc.), building electrical system components (e.g., electric lights, motors, heaters, generators, transformers, switchboards, and other electrical apparatus/equipment, etc.) and/or painting of various buildings, structures and fixtures to support and aid all trades as directed by the supervisor of building trades. • Instructs and/or leads skilled and/or unskilled assistants to perform various tasks to ensure job completion and/or continuity of work process according to departmental procedures and best practices for the trades. • Installs, maintains, and/or repairs locksets and components of locksets (e.g., lock cylinders, lubrication, keying, manual and/or electrical keypads, etc.) to maintain proper operation, safety, and security of facilities under the direction of the supervisor and/or departmental practices and guidelines. • Records and tracks keys issued and purchased to ensure facility and/or equipment security according to departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Recommends maintenance work and/or repairs of building components and equipment to supervisors to ensure continuous operations and safety of facility under the direction of departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Secures and coordinates clearances (e.g., asbestos/lead code of safe work practices, protocols, building manager notifications, etc.) in order to work on equipment and systems within the facilities under the direction of departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Assembles and disassembles equipment (e.g., scaffolding, barricades/barriers, safety equipment, rescue apparatus, etc.) for preparation of various maintenance tasks under the direction of Cal-OSHA rules and regulations regarding safety. • Restocks parts to prevent time delays in the delivery of services according to departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Keep work areas, tools and equipment in good/clean working condition for optimum performance and to prevent injury as directed by departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Attends scheduled safety meetings to ensure that safety procedures and regulations are complied with to avoid accidents and injury as directed by departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Responds to emergency calls (e.g., power outages, flooding, fire, vandalism, etc.) to assist with services to safeguard occupants and building as directed by the supervisor and/or the Office Building Manager. Under the supervision of the Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager II, the incumbent responds to service requests as submitted by tenants or other BPM staff by following BPM guidelines and warranty requirements and reports to supervisor when appropriate: • Reads blueprints (e.g., construction drawings, schematics, etc.) for new and existing systems in analyzing and solving problems to ensure accurate identification of building components, parts, equipment, installation and location according to the architect's design. • Prepares rough sketches of work to prepare for upcoming job projects to ensure successful job completion. • Prepares materials and/or supplies in order to perform daily repairs and preventive maintenance according to the job requirements. • Prepares reports and/or correspondence using computer software and/or standard paper forms to communicate job conditions and progress (e.g., unsafe working conditions, status/progress, requisitions, etc.) according to departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Estimates time, materials, and resources necessary utilizing standard departmental forms used in performing daily maintenance projects according to departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Completes regular visual inspection of building systems and equipment requiring walking, climbing stairs, entering small and noisy spaces. Records findings in building tour log and provides report to Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager. • Makes recommendations to the Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager concerning and takes appropriate action on repairs by evaluating functionality of equipment and systems. • Responds and performs repairs to office and common area comfort calls as needed, for heating, electrical, lighting, plumbing, etc. by going to the physical site and repairing electrical outlets, replacing lights, adjusting mechanical and/or electrical doors, fixing leaky sinks, clearing stuck flush valves, unplugging toilets and perform other simple and/or routine repair, comfort and convenient needs. • Responds to emergency calls in order to mitigate emergency conditions and minimize damage by performing repair at physical location according to health and safety and BPM guidelines regarding emergency situations. This may require working after hours, on days off or at another building location. • Completes locksmith requests such as duplication of keys, lockset keying and/or lockset rebuilding and maintains current locksmith records. • Maintains and monitors door access systems and records. • Orders parts and makes recommendations on more complex repairs when unable to complete service or repair requests and follows action through to completion. • Reads and analyzes blueprints and specifications in order to understand and provide information on system problems in accordance with design parameters. In order to maintain integrity and functionality to ensure reliability and long-term use of building, related systems and machinery used to maintain buildings, shops and grounds (various vacuums, blowers, grinders, electrical cords, sharpening tools, moving parts on office furnishing, etc.) as directed by the Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager II by following published guidelines, manufacturer's specifications and industry standards by using appropriate hand and/or power tools: • Performs preventive maintenance, minor repairs or service on electric, pneumatic, and gas-powered equipment per manufacturer specifications. • Installs, inspects, maintains, repairs, troubleshoots or assists engineers, electricians, electronic technicians all building systems, including but not limited to power distribution systems, plumbing and sewer systems, domestic water pump stations, fire sprinkler systems, doors and related components, lighting fixtures, and ceiling components. • Repairs interior/exterior concrete surfaces and steps. • Makes simple furniture repairs. • Constructs and repairs interior/exterior walls by patching, matching finishes, and painting as required. • Makes or assists with repairs to roofing systems, (i.e., rubber, asphalt). Under the supervision of the Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager II organizes and maintains records, files and technical listings on equipment, tools, products, and monitors work on all building systems following published guidelines and industry standards by using Microsoft Office and/or Maximo in order to make recommendations on recurring maintenance, special repairs, equipment, tools and supply prices to the BPM budget in accordance with DGS and DOF guidelines: • Maintains records of job costs, daily time records, equipment histories, schedules and services using computer software and/or hard copy forms to ensure accurate record keeping of activities and/or events according to departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Prepares Cal-Card monthly statements. • Creates work order tickets in MAXIMO. • Updates work order tickets in MAXIMO or MS Office. • Inputs time into PAL in the ABMS program. • Utilizes the internet for product research. • Creates reports using MS Office. In order to maintain a safe and healthful environment for the benefit of all employees and the public, under direction of the Chief Engineer II and/or the Office Building Manager II and the BPM Environmental Safety and Health Unit (ESHOP), in compliance with laws and regulations, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Safety Training (AB 2189), Injury and Illness Prevention (IIPP and SB 298), Workers' Compensation (Title 8 and SB 198), by promoting health and safety programs as follows: • Attends training in the handling of hazardous materials and use of environmental safeguards. • Participates in updating IIPP plans and records by completing reports and coordinating with the designated Branch Coordinator. • Participates in and/or leads team in executing the plans for Emergency Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Resumption, and Hazardous Materials and Waste Manifest. • Monitors worksite to identify, and remedy, potential safety hazards to ensure public safety. • Wears proper personal protective equipment when performing hazardous activities (such as spraying chemicals, or using power tools) to ensure personal safety and minimize exposure to hazardous materials. • Safely operates motor vehicles to transport self and materials in compliance with CHP and DMV rules and regulations. In order to remain current and knowledgeable of operational needs according to BPM policies and procedures, or laws and rules: • Completes mandatory training. • Maintains and submits accurate records regarding the times, locations using appropriates forms. • Determines work that needs to be completed by reviewing work orders and product specifications, sketches, drawing, plans, and diagrams. • Ensures proper use of tools, equipment, and chemicals by reviewing manufacturer's operation manuals and product labels. • Reports inventory needs to Supervisor by requesting equipment, supplies or materials, based on stock on hand. MARGINAL FUNCTIONS • Maintains and organizes records, files, technical information of equipment, tools, and products as instructed. • Prepares reports and/or correspondence using computer software and/or standard paper forms to provide requested lists, and reports (e.g., equipment, tools, recommended preventative maintenance etc.) according to departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Estimates time, materials, and resources necessary utilizing standard departmental forms used in performing daily maintenance projects according to departmental procedures and/or guidelines. • Participates in staff meetings to ensure current information is communicated within the unit at the direction of the Chief Engineer II or Office Building Manager. • Makes reports in Microsoft Office, Maximo or by manual reporting in order to report and track completed work per BPM procedures. • Acts as backup Maintenance Mechanic, as directed by BPM managers or supervisors, at any regional facility, in order to assure continuous and efficient operations of all buildings systems and equipment. • Attends current BPM training classes to maintain ethical work standards as directed by BPM managers and supervisors. • Assists supervisor, as needed, using current records programs (Microsoft Office, Maximo) and communicating with building staff in person or via cellular telephone, 2-way radio, or other electronic devices in order to facilitate building maintenance needs and take appropriate action in accordance with BPM guidelines. • May serve as, or assist the Unit Safety Coordinator in order to do thorough routine inspections of all state owned or occupied buildings for compliance with safety requirements. Prepares written status reports in order to report findings using Microsoft Office or manual report per BPM procedures and policies. • May attend with, lead, or instruct other BPM team members in on-going safety training conducted locally. KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES: Knowledge of: Methods, materials, and equipment used in the operation and repair of plumbing, heating, electrical, water, and sewer systems; materials, methods, and tools used in the repair of mechanical equipment and in miscellaneous building maintenance and repair work and skill in the performance of such work; Safety Orders of the Division of Industrial Safety dealing with heating, electrical, plumbing, and other mechanical systems. Ability to: Read, interpret, and work from plans, drawings, and specifications; estimate materials needed; keep records; follow oral and written directions; get along well with others; communicate at a level appropriate to the classification. DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS: • The incumbent will be required to possess and maintain a valid California Driver's License, Class C in order to drive self, supplies and/or equipment from one job site to another while driving a State vehicle in order to perform the duties of the Maintenance Mechanic in the Mission Valley Management Unit. • The incumbent may be required to pass the Department of Justice background and/or fingerprinting checks prior to working in the CHP Traffic Management Unit (TMC) and other restricted security access floors/buildings located in the Mission Valley Management Unit, Southern San Diego Region. • The incumbent will be required to take a medical examination and must be approved by the State Personnel Board. SPECIAL PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS • Demonstrates superior mechanical ability. • Demonstrates interest in assuming increasing responsibility. • Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Maximo, ABMS, PAL, and Outlook. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS • Ability to organize time efficiently and set effective priorities. • Uses good judgment and tact in making decisions and working with employees and interacting with clients. WORK ENVIRONMENT, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ABILITIES: Work Environment • Work in low-rise (6 floors and lower) to high-rise (7 floors and higher) office-building environment. • Wear unaltered BPM supplied shirts and pants according to current uniform requirements. • Stands for extended periods of time or walk extended distances. • Climbs stairs and ladders. • Reaches high spaces by climbing a ladder or operating a lift. • Work in mechanical equipment spaces environments. • Works in noisy spaces. • See and hear within normal parameters. • Willingness to work in any regional location. • May require ability to work overtime. • Requires fine motor skills/dexterity to manipulate small components and controls. Physical Abilities • Typical work activities involve frequent and prolonged periods of standing, walking extended distances, bending, stooping, kneeling or squatting while performing duties. • Repetitive grip, grasp, and hand movement while using tools or power equipment applicable to job being performed. Requires fine motor skills/dexterity to manipulate small components and controls. • Climb stairs or ladders, use power and noise producing tools or equipment; drive motorized equipment or vehicles applicable to job being performed. Reach high spaces by climbing a ladder or operating a lift. • Reaches or stretches by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction. • Considerable physical activity that requires heavy physical work; heavy lifting, pushing or pulling required of objects up to 50 pounds. • Works on elevated, high-reach areas using a vertical, motor-powered, MAN-LIFT. • Moves about and work in confined spaces. • Wears safety equipment during the performance of duties, i.e., ear plugs when working in machine spaces; dust masks when exposed to harmful dust particles, eye goggles when exposed to airborne particles, cloth gloves when working with abrasive materials, rubber boots or raingear and back support. • See and hear for visual inspection of the operation of machinery/equipment or sound inspection of proper operating machinery/equipment. Mental Abilities • Add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions or decimals. • Apply common sense in personal safety and safety of equipment in adverse weather conditions (light storms, downpours, etc.). • Read, write and understand written and verbal communications in English in order to follow instructions on manufacturer's label for use of and/or mixture of products and enforce safety procedures.
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Maintenance Mechanic
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San Diego
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7575 Metropolitan Drive, #101
San Diego, CA 92108
John Filehne
(619) 688-0200
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2002 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport AWD 4dr Wagon (2.5L 4cyl 4A)
At 2 yrs old developed small oil drops leaks 20k miles.
At 3yrs started to drip coolant on driveway and oil
Dealer would not cover this fix because Subaru claimed only the Forester has bad gaskets but they asked me for my VIN any way.
They gave me a bottle of head gasket sealer for 2$ and told me they were going to charge me $3500 for new gasket replacement.
The very fact that the dealer even stocked(sealant) and basically gave it to me indicated that they have a widespread problem.
It did not work. Used Bars Stop Leak instead.
2014 75k add coolant twice a week and code (Knock) triggered prob due to worn bearings from water in oil.
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Bad fuel economy. For Weight and power ave 20mi in city , 27Hwy.
Terrible for 4 cyl.
My six cylinder 3.8 l 3500lb boxy 87 automatic Buick Grand National gets 34 by camparison. Got stuck in snow high centered because of 2 open diffs does not power wheel side w traction.
I assume the new symetrical drive takes care of this now.
Make 4 wheel drive defeatable so better fuel economy w fw drive like a jeep patriot.
2002 Subaru Impreza WRX AWD 4dr Sport Wagon (2.0L 4cyl Turbo 5M)
This is my third Subaru. Previous was an 04 Sti and 98 2.5 rs. This car is very reliable even at 200K plus miles. I have replaced the 02 sensor once. The slide pins for the front calipers stuck, so those got replaced. Both pretty common. The valve in the AC had to be replaced, a bit of a pain to get to, but not a huge issue ($30 part).
The interior is that of any Subaru. If you are coming from a luxury vehicle, you might not like it. Always seems to be cheaply made, but I've never had any issues.
Would recommend to anyone needing an overall reliable car. Any Subaru really.
The interior space. There have been many times where we loaded this car up with more stuff than I thought was possible/you don't need a truck.
Gas mileage. Never did like the bug eye much (the front headlight setup), lucky it's gone.
2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS AWD 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 4A)
My son bought it used with 170,000 km in 2007 and I got it from him with about 210,000 km. This month it turned 300,000 km. Engine and transmission all original but have small oil leak, probably from valve cover gasket. Had trouble with A/C compressor - replaced this summer (after 11 years of service). Had to overhaul front end - ball joints, tie rod ends, again after 11 years. Shock absorbers started leaking last year - I think 10 years is as good as it gets for driving through Canadian winters. And so apart from some rust (se reference to Canadian winters above), the vehicle looks and driving qualities are the same when we got it, and I even suspect it drives like new.
Road stability, acceleration, comfortable front seats.
Until I got new tires which i selected for comfort, I thought the car was overly noisy during highway driving. However, it's very quiet now.
Rust over rear wheel wells seems to be a problem but I am not sure what improvements Subaru can make to counter salt and water on the roads.
I bought my Blue WRX wagon because I liked the way it performed in the WRC rallys. The car was my favorite and was a stout performer. I'd still have it if it wasn't for the super stiff clutch wearing my left knee out. Replaced it with a 2005 RS wagon
Speed, AWD, looks
Improve the HVAC airflow, lighter clutch, better cup holders
I bought my wrx in July of 2004 while I was attending community college in Pennsylvania. I chose the wrx because of the power and the awd. I chose the wagon because it cut my insurance in half (I was a 19 year old male buying a turbo charged car). I have driven the car as a daily driver ever since. I later attended Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana which lead to some 500 mile trips back and forth to Pennsylvaina. I now have close to 140,000 miles on the car. Aside from tires and brakes, I have replaced the clutch at 900$ including labor and almost all of the ac components at 1400$ including labor. 7 years and 140,000 miles with ony 2300$ in repairs is pretty good in my book.
I love the turbo, wish it was an STI though. I bought the wagon for insurance purposes, however after going away to college, growing up and buying a house I am so grateful for the practicality of the wagon. I have a 100+ pound rottweiler who absouletly loves riding in the hatch area, keeping my back seat free of hair and tears. The amount of cargo space given in the wagon is astounding for a small car. I also love the awd system. My fiance has an IS250 awd which doesn't have a rear LSD and its center diff doesn't put power to both axles as well either. Her car is good in the snow, but the wrx is amazing. The difference in awd systems from car to car is much greater than I thought.
The best improvement that came for the standard wrx was in 2006 when they switched to the 2.5 liter engine. The 2.0 is a little underpowered if you don't keep the revs up. I have driven my friends 2006 and there is a very noticible difference in power at low rpms. That being said, if you are on the gas and keeping the revs up, the difference is pretty minimal and the extra cash that one would spend on a newer wrx may not be worth it.
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This week, we've learned something about what constitutes an existential dilemma for your elite GOP bigwigs. It seems that when they stare into a void, it is Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich who stare back. Lurking somewhere off in their peripheral vision, ominously, is Ron Paul, perhaps. But as this wide-open contest begins to crystallize into a two/three-man race, the discontent that the establishment GOP has felt has only grown more acute.
As described on these pages earlier this week, there are some who are trying to find a new investment in Jon Huntsman. And there's still talk of that candidate-to-be-named-later, who really, really should have been named much earlier, now that we're within a month of the Iowa Caucuses. Names like Giuliani, Daniels, Ryan, and even Trump continue to be bandied about as possible saviors. Trump will get a new chance in the spotlight when he hosts what was once thought of as a debate on December 27th. We say "once thought of" because most of the field have declined the invitation. So now, it looks more like "Donald Trump Date Night With Newt Gingrich, featuring Rick Santorum as 'the third wheel who doesn't want to see anything sexual happen.'"
Gingrich's improbable rise in the ranks has clearly caught Mitt Romney off guard. At one time, it really looked like Mitt was going to have a shot at a quick and dirty victory -- perhaps even a sweep of the early primary states. But Gingrich has been steadily drinking Mitt's milkshake in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida, and he now poses a decent threat in New Hampshire. And he's done it all on the cheap.
Romney has weapons at his disposal, the three strongest of which are time, money, and campaign structure that's already sprawling across the primary map even as Gingrich gets his first-ever telephone installed in the Hawkeye State. He's also pulling in endorsements -- though this week's alliance with Dan Quayle doesn't quite carry the same heat as having Chris Christie in your corner. But now, Romney has to go on the attack, and that's going to be an interesting thing to watch, considering that most of the daggers you'd wield against Gingrich -- insufficient fealty to the conservative orthodoxy, a history of flip-flopping, questions about leadership -- are envenomed with the same poison that slays a Mitt Romney.
Gingrich's rise has Democrats feeling giddy. If they can't get matched up against Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich is, in their estimation, a more-than-desirable opponent to have at the top of the GOP ticket in 2012. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who hinted at her own trove of Gingrich grime, outsourced the quip responsibility to Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank: "I like Barney Frank's quote the best, where he said 'I never thought I'd live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party.' ... That quote I think spoke for a lot of us."
But let's not speak too soon, and let's not get carried away. Our own Mark Blumenthal has been hunting down stats and performing focus-group augury and sees plenty of reasons to hold off on counting anyone in or out. Go read his most recent examination in its entirety, but the bottom line is this:
... for many Republicans, the race is narrowing to a choice between Gingrich and Romney, but it's a choice that often remains tenuous. According to Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newport, 35 percent of Republicans on the same survey consider both Gingrich and Romney to be acceptable nominees, while 81 percent consider either candidate acceptable.
Last week, Peter Hart reflected on the fact that, while only two focus group participants walked in as Gingrich supporters, 7 were ready to vote for him on the way out. "Here we are a month away," Hart said. "Boy there's gonna be a lot of volatility."
Yeah, we can attest to that. This week, Ron Paul stepped up in his new role as attacker with a searing nastygram lobbed at Newt. Michele Bachmann, who considers Gingrich to be a "lobbyist," followed suit. But a Rick Perry grenade blew up in his face and exposed rifts in his campaign. Jon Huntsman undertook a makeover, Buddy Roemer drew new attention, Mitt Romney prepped to return to hostile territory, and you'll have to judge which candidate made a bigger mess of his "Plan B," by entering the Speculatron for the week of December 9, 2011.
Michele Bachmann continues to do what she can to rekindle the candidacy that peaked way too soon in Iowa, but the story isn't good. The Des Moines Register, which has been furtively tracking the candidates, notes that there is currently "more dissatisfaction with Michele Bachmann than with any other candidate actively competing in Iowa," and that "27 percent of likely GOP caucusgoers in Iowa say they would not support her if she were to be the nominee." Only Jon Huntsman does poorer in the latter statistical measure. In the meantime, her campaign memoir, "Core Of Conviction," will likely form the core of your local bookstore's remaindered section sometime soon -- in its first two weeks on the shelves, it's only sold 3,000 copies. With the zero hour approaching and Iowa seen as a make-or-break state for her, Bachmann is running out of options to get her campaign back on track. One thing she wisely won't be doing is participating in Donald Trump's sham-debate -- Bachmann is the latest candidate to back out of the affair, leaving Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to fend for themselves. Instead, she'll do what she can to attack her fellow GOP contenders, and hope for a boost from supporters of the now-concluded Herman Cain candidacy. Bachmann went especially hard at Gingrich this past Sunday as she made her way back to the weekend chat shows, calling Newt a "memory-challenged professor" and decrying him as a lobbyist. "His address is located on the Rodeo Drive of Washington: K Street," said Bachmann, in a pretty good line. Bachmann tells reporters that she still has a good chance to win in Iowa because of her rivals' "significant flaws." "We're going to be shocked on Jan. 3 when we see the results" of the Iowa Caucuses, she says. That may be true, but in our most likely "those Iowa Caucuses sure were a shock" scenario, we have Ron Paul winning. As far as her stump strategy, Bachmann continues to throw what she can at the wall to see what sticks. She won't be raising taxes on millionaires in any conceivable scenario, she says. She has also promised the Republican Jewish Coalition that she will move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with the help of a donor. She's also very worried that if she's not elected, American troops will be having sex with animals all the time. And she's going to deport every last undocumented immigrant in America, a plan that received some skepticism from Bill O'Reilly: O'REILLY: Look, if you pick up some guy in a car, and he's an illegal alien -- he's got three kids at home -- what are you gonna do, throw him and his kids on a bus the next day? Is that what you're gonna do? Can you imagine that? BACHMANN: Well Bill, what we have to do is end the practice of anchor babies in the United States. That's when illegal aliens come in -- O'REILLY: You've got to pass a law for that. BACHMANN: We've got to pass a law that will end that practice. O'REILLY: All of them that are here now are going to be an enormous problem to deal with. Because there are a lot of people here who've been here for a lot of years. And if you're gonna start dragging them out of here, it's gonna be very, very difficult to do that. BACHMANN: But remember they broke the law to get in here, there is a consequence -- O'REILLY: I'm not justifying it. I'm just saying on a human basis, I don't think that -- theory is one thing. Dragging people out, putting them on a bus with their children's crying can be quite something else. BACHMANN: It can be done. That's the thing, it can be done. O'REILLY: It can be done, but at what cost? We covered that for you last week, Bill! Furthermore, mass deportation would reduce the country's GDP by 1.46 percent, which would amount to $2.6 trillion in cumulative losses over 10 years. It would also cripple several essential industries, like agriculture, that depend on immigrant labor -- which is why the farmers and business owners Bachmann claims to represent have been vehemently opposed to such a plan. Also, what happens when you have your son tell Michele Bachmann that your gay mother "doesn't need fixing?" It gets awkward. Hey, maybe they should have an "It Gets Awkward" campaign for the GOP primaries!
Well, as the folks over at Crasstalk put it, "Tearful family-values conservatives who had longed to vote for a clownish adulterer in upcoming primaries were stunned" when Herman Cain pulled into Atlanta and suspended his campaign. It was a day for sorrow -- no more 999 plan, no more "sneakataxes," no more Mark Block smoking his way along the campaign trail. And hopefully, no more of that grating earworm of a campaign song, either. Cain touched many people, but as the large majority of that touching was inappropriate and occurred in the bathing suit area, his once promising candidacy fizzled and died. Not before he made a ton of money, though! Which is why the campaign has been "suspended." Now he can get on with his PAC-making and media career. Cain told the crowds who gathered for his disappointment-fest that he was "at peace" and would not be "silenced" -- though the identities of those who wanted him to stop talking remains a mystery. And hequoted a line from the Pokemon movie, for the second time in his candidacy, because that's where the American political discourse is these days. He also announced that he was in favor of "Plan B," though he was not referring to the contraceptive pill that the Obama administration upheld restrictions on in an entirely different debacle this week. No, "Plan B" is apparently a website called "The Cain Solutions." It will probably harass other websites, sexually. Cain and his supporters both were quick to blame the media for his demise, because that is what American politicians do when they screw up and reports of their screw ups are carried in major newspapers. But it's pretty clear that the media would have loved nothing more than for Cain to stay in the race. Jon Stewart had a lengthy lamentation on the "Daily Show" this week. Now, we wait and see which candidate receives Cain's endorsement. There was rampant early speculation that Cain was going to come out for Newt Gingrich, but so far, Cain has withheld giving any of his rivals his seal of approval. He ends his candidacy with a lot of cash on hand, but the National Review's Rich Lowry wants Cain to return it: "Cain owes it to his supporters to endeavor to return that money to all those people who gave it to him in good faith." Rich Lowry's request will probably not sit well with Rich Lowrie -- genius creator of the 999 plan -- because he likely wants a helping of that cheddar for himself. What's up next for Herman Cain? Providing debate analysis for Fox News apparently. So look for that. Try not to sexually harass anyone on the way to the studio, Herman. Toodles!
The big news of the week continues to be Newt Gingrich's rise from the ashes of his early campaign. He began his week up in Iowa and South Carolina and leading the rest of the field. And by the end of the week he had either maintained or extended his leads in most of the early primary states, staking out a double-digit lead on Romney nationwide. There are still indications that this whole "Newt Gingrich campaign" thing could be an elaborate sham -- The New York Times notes that the whole Newt Pageant still resembles a book tour and that "[e]xperienced campaign strategists cannot recall a top-tier contender devoting so much time to pitching products while seeking the White House." But beyond that, Newt's campaign is finally starting to do some respectable fundraising. Though this "fly by the seat of the pants" campaign is only now getting its house in order -- there are reports of empty campaign headquarters and, in one notable instance, we learned that his Iowa campaign office only got phones this week. And Newt's first Iowa ad hit a snag when he got into a flap for using music from the score of the movie "Rudy" and ran afoul of that film's writer/producer. Still, despite these setbacks, it's clear that the time is ripe to start taking Newt seriously. Says Paul Waldman: We've all assumed that Newt Gingrich, who is now clearly leading in the polls, would self-destruct before anyone actually had to vote for him. But now all he has to do is hold out for 28 more days, which is when the Iowa caucuses take place. If he wins there, he'll get a wave of positive news coverage (look for Time and Newsweek covers with headlines like "The Return of Newt"), and he could actually pull out a win in New Hampshire, where like everywhere else, few people feel that strongly about Romney, even when they support him. Alex Pareene notes the significant advantage that Newt has in this still-crowded field: What Newt is good at -- and it's the exact thing Romney is awful at -- is defending himself against charges of apostasy. Gingrich has been all over the political spectrum during his career, but when you try to nail him on some sort of offense against conservative orthodoxy, he talks his way out of it. That makes this an especially tough road for Mitt Romney, considering it's nearly impossible for him to jab Gingrich on deviating from the conservative standard without nicking himself in the process. To wit: Romney's latest ad from his super PAC contains the line, "Newt was a longtime supporter of a national health insurance mandate, the centerpiece of Obamacare." Greg Sargent asks: "Can someone explain why the new pro Romney ad attacking Gingrich for embracing the mandate isn't an instant national laughingstock?" Right now, Newt's reached the moment where he's going to learn who his friends and enemies are. Gingrich currently enjoys substantial support from Tea Party types, 82 percent of which find Gingrich acceptable as a candidate -- far ahead of the rest of the field (Romney's the next in line, at 58 percent). He's getting the support he needs from evangelicals, too -- most notably the influential Iowa social conservative kingmakers Bob Vander Plaats and Steve Scheffler, who says, of Newt's past marital indiscretions, "I actually sat with the Speaker about a year ago with a group of pastors in talking about some of his past history and that he was regretful of that and that he'd asked God's forgiveness." Rush Limbaugh's talking Newt up with the talk-radio set. And frankly, Newt's doing fine with moderates at the moment, as well. Gingrich was also very swift to embrace Donald Trump and his plans to moderate a debate that no one else besides Gingrich and Rick Santorum plan to attend. Gingrich really lucked out, there -- should the debate go forward, he'll have the opportunity to command the stage and do what he does best, lecture ad nauseam. He's been careful to "suck up" to Trump, making a break from his criticisms of yesteryear. But there remain a significant portion of the GOP elite who are not happy about Newt's ascension, and for a large part, it's because they remember what Newt was like as a leader. As one particularly "unnerved" GOP lawmaker put it, "Newt's hand is always six inches from the self-destruct button." And the Romney team's response to Newt's threat is only now starting to mount. Per Ben Smith: "They don't seem to have had a playbook for the war on Newt for quite that long." So far, their response has been to craft and "accidentally leak" (LOL!) a particularly scathing ad, and to turn loose some rather tepid broadsides from surrogates like John Sununu and Jim Talent. Jim Talent! Wow. You know, you don't have to be a Missouri voter or a political reporter to know who Jim Talent is, but it sure helps! So the big time GOP thought-havers are doing what they can to pick up Romney's slack in the "derail Newt" department. Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn went on Fox News Sunday to express his dismay, saying, "I'm not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich, having served under him for four years and experienced personally his leadership," which Coburn found "lacking." David Frum recalled that Gingrich was toppled in the House because "he could not control his mouth, because he wanted to be a star more than he wanted to get things done," adding, "there's a reason Gingrich is fascinated by management gurus: he needs the help." Other have piled on. John Podhoretz: The problem is that there are still all those things to remember and that when you use glue and tape and paste all those things together to form an overall portrait of Gingrich, you're looking at someone who is probably unelectable as president. The question now is this: Will Mitt Romney be able to get Republican primary voters to see that portrait? Or will the task fall in the general election to President Obama -- who will use the $750 million-plus he's sure to raise and aim like thousands of heat-guided precision missiles at an undeniably easy target? Ramesh Ponnuru: In the mid-1990s, Gingrich was the de facto head of the Republican Party. He helped lead it to victory in the congressional elections of 1994, which brought about real accomplishments such as welfare reform. But once he attained power, both his popularity and that of his party started to plummet... Although Gingrich isn't solely responsible for the Republican policy defeats of those years, his erratic behavior, lack of discipline and self-absorption had a lot to do with them. We already know the basic strategy of the Obama campaign. It will be to portray the Republican nominee as a dangerous right-wing extremist. Romney's demeanor -- his steadiness, his reasonableness -- would undercut that strategy. It seems likely to be much more successful against Gingrich. After all, it already was. And Jennifer Rubin says Gingrich would be "most likely to kiss up to the liberal elite." (Is she not familiar with Jon Huntsman?): In short, if you dreamed up a portrait of a "Republican likely to go native" you'd be hard pressed to do better (worse?) than Gingrich. Actually, Gingrich doesn't need to "go" native since he's the quintessential insider. He's not simply comfortable in the Washington scene. He didn't merely serve as the sherpa for unconservative special interests. He craves acceptance by the liberal establishment. If conservatives saw such a character coming up on a short list for Supreme Court justices, they'd scream bloody murder. So why should they be willing to take this man as their presidential nominee? Elsewhere, you have gun rights groups and libertarian think-tankers in a lather over Newt's potential coronation, and there's even a bit of derogatory treatment that seems to coming Newt's way from Rupert Murdoch's newspapers. But zero is the number of craps that Gingrich seems to give about these, or any, attacks. When Nancy Pelosi warned that she might make some kind of Newtileak document dump of all of Gingrich's past dirt, his reaction was "bring it on." And this might explain why for every internecine opponent Gingrich seems to draw out, there are many more "old enemies" that seem loathe to jump in the fray. Jonathan Chait and Jonathan Bernstein still have reasons to believe that this Newt boomlet may end up being shortlived, but if you ask us, the person most likely to derail Newt Gingrich will be Newt Gingrich -- and his outsized sense of self-regard. This is the guy who needs to have two toilets at the ready wherever he travels, and who believes he is owed thanks from Mitt Romney for personally seeing to it that Mitt could become wealthy. For a wonderful 1990s-era relic that attests to Gingrich's titanic ego, click over here to remember the man who literally believes himself to be the "teacher of the rules of civilization" and the "arouser of those who form civilization." Don't spend too much time contemplating how Gingrich might "arouse" you, however.
As the GOP elite remains in full garment-rending mode over the prospect of having to support either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich, the campaign of Jon Huntsman is looking to remind everybody that he's out there, running for president, as well. And while the GOP's widespread dissatisfaction hasn't touched off a Huntsman feeding frenzy yet, there are some who are quietly kicking the former Utah governor's tires again. A good example of this comes from George Will, who's willing to overlook Huntsman's campaign strategy for the package he offers: "[Huntsman] inexplicably chose to debut as the Republican for people who rather dislike Republicans, but his program is the most conservative." Perhaps! So armed with an influx of campaign cash from his father, Huntsman is looking to press a "charm offensive" while elite Republicans seethe in desperation. Jon Huntsman will stand on a couch and be handsome and tell you he's the "consistent conservative" for you and your money. And he's changing what he can change about himself so that he looks even more consistent. After attracting all sorts of media attention for the fact that he trusts scientists on climate change, he now doesn't believe in the science anymore. Deep down, Huntsman may be pro-environmentally friendly policy, but for the moment, he's more "pro-winning the nomination" instead. Campaign manager Tim Miller thinks that when the pre-primary roller coaster pulls into the station, Huntsman will look like a natural choice: "We want to give conservatives who are upset with the boom and bust cycle of the field and don't trust Mitt Romney's record a safe place to land on election day." And Huntsman pollster Whit Ayres is seeing signs of improvement across the board: name ID and favorables are up, poll numbers are veering in some instances into the double digits, and the trendlines seem to be turning in Huntsman's favor. But the other big beneficiary of Huntsman's recent success is Newt Gingrich. Jonathan Chait explains: Can Huntsman win the state? I highly doubt it. He can hurt Romney, though. As a moderate (and a Mormon) he outflanks Romney on the left, competing for votes among the party's shrunken centrist wing, and preventing Romney from moving further right to fend off Gingrich. It wouldn't take much for Huntsman to deliver a death blow to Romney's campaign in the Granite State. If there's one thing that should make everybody happy, it's that he was one of the swiftest out of the gate to pull out of the Donald Trump debate -- and he seems to have insulted Trump sufficiently enough to ensure that he won't win Trump's endorsement.
Morefield Storey Institute President James Peron calls Gary Johnson the "Rodney Dangerfield of Politics," owing to the fact that Johnson's a successful former western state governor with an affable disposition whose legacy of accomplishments has not been enough to impress GOP debate organizers or the media. Johnson tells Peron that the whole way he's been mistreated by the system is odd, because he feels that lots of Americans can relate to his candidacy: "I hate to stereotype, but I think the majority of Americans consider themselves fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That position is not being represented by anybody, and I would like to think I represent that group. But I haven't been given the opportunity," referring to his systematic exclusion from Republican debates to date. He also thinks most Republicans are not really social conservatives, but they "are not activists, and those who are activists are social conservatives." He says he fears that because of the grip by social conservatives on the party, "many Republicans are becoming independents." [...] "I was the libertarian governor of New Mexico under the guise of being a Republican. And it worked." Over at the Daily Caller, former Cain supporter Christopher R. Barron is urging other Cain supporters to come home to Johnson: Now former Cain supporters like myself are left to find another candidate and another campaign that can carry that tea party message. While many candidates will be asking for a second look from former Cain supporters, I believe there is one candidate who deserves a first look. I strongly believe that former Cain supporters, tea party activists, and limited government conservatives should consider the campaign of former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. [...] Governor Gary Johnson is a candidate who fits that bill perfectly. Johnson -- like Herman Cain -- supports fundamental tax reform. Like Cain, Johnson believes we should scrap the current tax code and replace it with the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax, a national sales tax, would get the government out of picking winners and losers, end the grip lobbyists have on our tax policy, and treat all companies, people, and families the same. The Fair Tax would also unleash the entrepreneurial power of the American economy -- freeing businesses from the burdens of an out-of-date tax code. Like Herman Cain, Governor Johnson takes spending seriously. Johnson has a plan to slash federal spending 43% in his first year in office. Instead of offering a plan that balances the budget in 15 or 25 years, Johnson is offering a plan that would immediately end Washington's addiction to spending money it does not have. Governor Johnson is also an outspoken advocate for truly limiting the power of the federal government. Unlike other cafeteria conservatives, Johnson consistently supports returning power to the states and the people without exceptions. However, it seems fairly evident that Cain's supporters didn't flock en masse to Johnson, which is why there is a drumbeat for Johnson to run a third party campaign as a libertarian, and, as it happens, the Florida Libertarian Party is trying to get him to join up.
Fred Karger's campaign has been quiet, but far from dormant. He needs a breakthrough in New Hampshire if he's even going to have a chance. So he's been on the hoof in the Granite State, doing retail politics and staying a part of the issues that he cares about. This Saturday afternoon, he'll be at the University of New Hampshire's law school to attend the Marriage Equality Forum. Next week, he will have to leave the state, but only so he can attend a pair of fundraisers in New York City and Chicago. Karger's message has been relentlessly optimistic, and he told the Sentinel Source that he'll be a force against partisan bickering: "The Republican Party has been taken over by the far right," said Karger during a meeting Thursday with The Sentinel's editorial board. "These are the people that have been working very hard for 30 years in the vineyards to take over the county parties, the state parties, the national party; this is what they do, which is really not that significant in the scheme of things because candidates have usurped the parties now." He also characterizes his candidacy as a "protest vote": It's a protest vote," he said. "... I realize if people are mad -- which they are at the Republican Party, and I think a big chunk of the 42 percent of independents have left the Republican Party because of the tea party and the rightward movement -- that I will be that protest vote.
Against the rising tide of Newt hype, let's have a couple of reminders that Ron Paul is still fully in the 2012 mix, and perhaps poised to exceed expectations. Here's Steve Kornacki: Paul is generally faring better -- much better, in some instances -- in polls than he was in the 2008 cycle, running in the high single-digits nationally (better than Rick Perry) and emerging as a dark-horse contender to win Iowa, where a recent survey showed him bunched in what amounted to a four-way tie for the lead. And the center of the Republican Party has moved sharply to the right since 2008, toward the outsider-friendly anti-government purity that Paul embodies. Plus, the GOP race is unusually unsettled -- the "inevitable" Mitt Romney can't break 25 percent and Newt Gingrich, of all people, is now threatening to open up a wide lead nationally and in some of the early states -- and delegate apportionment rules have been altered in a way that could stretch out the process. Paul's campaign insists it has a strategy to capitalize on this unique moment, one that relies on competing aggressively in Iowa and New Hampshire and gobbling up delegates in low-turnout caucuses where intensely loyal and well-organized supporters can dramatically affect the outcome. So shouldn't we treat Paul as a real prospect for the GOP nod -- or at least as real a prospect as Gingrich? Well...we're going to leave out Steve's pivot to "[a]ctually, there's still a good reason not to," and smash-cut to Robert Costa: Rep. Ron Paul rarely makes news, and his candidacy is frequently ignored by Beltway reporters. But headlines, his aides say, are overrated. In fact, the Texas Republican's low-key autumn was strategic. As Paul's competitors stumbled and sparred, he amassed a small fortune for his campaign and built a strong ground operation. And with January fast approaching, his team is ready to surprise the political world and sweep the Iowa caucuses. "This was a movement when he first started running in 2008," says Trygve Olson, a senior Paul adviser. "Now it's turned into a highly professionalized campaign, but the energy from that last run is still there, and at the heart of what's keeping up his momentum." The latest polls back up that confidence. In the influential Des Moines Register poll published over the weekend, Paul placed second. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, captured 25 percent of likely Iowa GOP voters, but Paul garnered 18 percent, two points ahead of Mitt Romney, who in 2008 placed second in the caucuses. We don't plan on being gobsmacked if Paul pulls off a win, place, or show in Iowa. He's clearly planning to be in the race for a long while, having just opened campaign offices in "Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota and Washington." Paul makes a good point when he calls himself the "flavor of the decade." He could also call himself "President of Twitter," or "King of Cream Cheese," if he wanted, but those titles don't reflect how much the country has oriented itself in the direction of Paul's major issues -- like Fed bailouts, endless wars, and an entrenched and decadent establishment cult running the show inside the Beltway. That perhaps explains the particular zeal with which Paul is attacking Newt Gingrich. This week, Paul released a knives-out attack ad on the former House Speaker that portrayed Gingrich as the avatar for all that's gone wrong in Washington -- leading off with Gingrich's own call for the lawmakers who have undermined the nation to be thrown in jail and closing by accusing Gingrich of "serial hypocrisy." It may be new to think of Paul as an attacker, but he's taken to the role with relish, and he's spending the cash to back it up -- he started with a $24,000 ad buy and now plans to expand that fourfold. Jaime Fuller thinks Newt should be worried: First, caucuses reward candidates with strong organizational grassroots organizers who can infiltrate town halls and school buildings on election night and persuade voters to change their minds. Obama's dedicated organizers were the key to his victory in the Iowa caucus, and Paul's strongest supporters are drawn from the same demographics as the current incumbent's--moderates, liberals, and young adults. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad remarked on the strength of Paul's efforts in his state: "Ron Paul has got probably the best organization and has a very loyal following. He's got more yard signs and bumper stickers than anybody else." The second reason that Paul has a chance to upset the race is that likely caucus goers are ripe for persuasion. Eleven percent of voters are undecided, and a whopping 60 percent are willing to change their mind. Paul may not win, but he has the potential to do very well. Even a second-place victory could level the battleground before New Hampshire. Paul has also been one of the only GOP candidates to keep something of an alliance with Occupy Wall Street, which makes sense, considering that so many Paul supporters have been among the Occupiers. He's clearly not averse to smacking certain one percenters around though! Paul, like many of his fellow 2012ers, took a pass at participating in the upcoming (maybe?) Donald Trump debate -- but only Jon Huntsman rivals Paul in laying down a diss on The Donald. The Paul campaign's official statement on the matter reads: "The selection of a reality television personality to host a presidential debate that voters nationwide will be watching is beneath the office of the Presidency and flies in the face of that office's history and dignity." And that is 100% correct.
If there was ever a time that Rick Perry could buy himself a second look, that time is now. He earned a plaudit from George Will -- whose wife, Mari Maseng, is an advisor to Perry, so grab a salt block and take a lick -- who says Perry still retains "political assets" such as his "Texas record and Southwestern zest for disliking Washington and Wall Street simultaneously and equally." And in some of the polls we've seen, Perry has quietly tacked back up into the double digits. So this week, Perry's campaign forged ahead with some new life. Perry used the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting to walk back a previous insistence that he'd zero-out all foreign aid and start over, averring that he would increase U.S. taxpayer aid to Israel. He also got to Mitt and Newt's right by firmly coming out against the White House's plan to extend both the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits. And his team went large in an Iowa ad buy, hoping to expand upon some discernible momentum by hitting Romney and Gingrich hard -- painting both men as the fathers of the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act. But it was another ad that turned what might have otherwise been a fairly productive week into another classic Rick Perry clusterfrack. In it, Perry launched a vicious attack on lesbian and gay servicemembers, saying, "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." Who in America has been prevented from openly celebrating Christmas? The claim is preposterous and the disrespect for the troops is galling. And the internet very quickly handed down a verdict -- the likes/dislikes on the YouTube version ran at about a 1 to 40 ratio, and it was repeatedly flagged as hate speech. (It was also pointed out almost instantly that Perry made the ironic choice of wearing a jacket that looked like the one Heath Ledger wore in "Brokeback Mountain.") But the kerfuffle over the ad didn't end there. It soon came out that Rick Perry's staff was bitterly divided over the ad. As Sam Stein reported: When the ad was being crafted several weeks ago, Perry's top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, called it "nuts," according to an email sent from Fabrizio to the ad's main creator, longtime GOP operative Nelson Warfield. In a separate email to The Huffington Post, Warfield confirmed that the ad was made over Fabrizio's objections. "Tony was against it from the get-go," Warfield wrote. "It was the source of some extended conversation in the campaign. To be very clear: That spot was mine from writing the poll question to test[ing] it to drafting the script to overseeing production." That a presidential campaign would suffer from internal disagreements over a controversial ad or broader campaign strategy is far from shocking. High-stakes political operations are often rife with strategic disputes. But it is rare for those disputes to spill over into public view and even rarer (at least when it comes to Republican politics) for them to center on the issue of gay rights. It just so happens that several members of Perry's campaign staff have worked to advance LGBT causes inside the GOP. Liz Mair, a consultant to the Texas governor, serves on the advisory board of the group GOProud. And Fabrizio has done polling for the Log Cabin Republicans in addition to urging lawmakers to reconsider their approach to the culture wars and embrace basic fairness for gay Americans on the issue of marriage. He was considered an ally by pro-gay rights conservatives. And things got even battier still, with members of GOProud using Twitter to drag Tony Fabrizio out of the closet. It's like that episode of Glee from a few weeks ago, except we don't get to hear anyone sing any Adele songs. It should not go unnoted that all of this clatter and bang over the advertisement managed to overshadow Perry's other anti-gay statement of the week, in which he decried the Obama administrations' effort to curb abuse of the global LGBT community by making tolerance and the preservation of human rights a benchmark for international aid. Maybe once the Perry campaign can resolve these issues with one another, they can work together to ensure that they have all their domain names locked down.
As readers know, your Speculatroners have made an effort this year to honor the fact that there are many candidates in the 2012 race who are being excluded from coverage despite being just as vibrant and interesting as the approved-for-consumption candidates. Typically, we've watched the coverage of candidates like Fred Karger and Gary Johnson wax and wane, as they struggle to run sub-rosa campaign operations while the rest of the field gets to play in all of the GOP debate organizers' reindeer games. But Buddy Roemer -- it seems that he may be starting to stick. In the past few weeks, thanks to some well-timed media appearances and a newly robust social media presence, Roemer has seemingly achieved some small measure of criticial mass and got himself rooted into the ground and growing. Now, if it were only May of 2011, and not December! But better late than never for, say, a fairly sympathetic take on the Roemer campaign from the Washington Post: "What I'm learning is that becoming president is not always about experience and ideas," Roemer said. "It's also about money, fame and momentum." Like other unknown candidates, Roemer has been stuck in a cycle of anonymity ever since he formed his campaign and moved to New Hampshire in the summer, inviting his senior staff member to sleep on his couch and establishing a temporary headquarters at the coffee shop inside Barnes & Noble. He lacks money to buy advertisements, he said, "so even distant relatives don't know" that he is running for president. Some pollsters forget to include him as an option in their polls. His low support numbers -- usually 1 or 2 percent nationally -- disqualify him from participating in debates. "I got into the race because I thought I was the right person ... and because I thought I could win," he tells Eli Saslow. But if he's not penetrating the news cycle as much as the machine candidates, the inherent corruption of the political system is helping him to refine his message on the inherent corruption of politics. Per Seacoast Online: "Corruption," he said, "it touches everything. It is the key to unlocking our future." [...] "You know who the man works for? Whoever signs his check. You know who the politicians work for? Whoever gives them the money." He noted in particular what he says is the irony of Super PACs in that they aren't as independent of candidates as the Supreme Court's Citizens United case of 2010 might make voters believe. "Mitt Romney's Super PACs are run by his business partner, his former chief of staff and his former campaign manager," Roemer said. "Jon Huntsman's Super PAC is fully funded by his father; now that's real independence. "Rick Perry has seven Super PACs -- seven! And every one is run by a cousin, a neighbor, a friend, or a former employee. It is a lie. It is illegal. It is a joke. And no one's laughing." Roemer has famously refused to take any donation above $100, a decision that's largely both purified (in that he lives his principles) and damned him (in that the lack of money has been his major impediment to gaining traction). But Roemer finally has enough cash to buy some air time in New Hampshire, where he'll make the case that the other candidates have been giving short shrift to in favor of "having fundraisers...and...trying to get on television." (Roemer might have had an opportunity to get onto the debate stage with Donald Trump, seeing as how no one is showing up for it, but he took himself out of that trainwreck early, telling Dave Weigel that he'd show up "driving a clown car with a bumper sticker that reads, 'Really people? Is this what the debates have come to!?'" And the media is starting to cover Roemer's critiques of the candidates as well. This week, Roemer took Romney to task for flip-flopping on campaign finance reform, mocked Huntsman for using a super PAC funded by his daddy to stay in the race, and decried Gingrich as a one-percenter and a lobbyist -- both dirty words in the Roemer dictionary. Roemer seems to especially despise Newt, telling The Hill, "Among the candidates running for the Republican nominee, the furthest from me is Newt Gingrich." It all makes one wonder what might come next for Roemer, but Steve Kornacki took some time to examine what might have been: a possible primary challenge to President Obama: The main theme of Roemer's campaign is that politics and government are now rigged in favor of major corporations and super-wealthy individuals, a monied elite that profits from the actions of politicians it controls through massive campaign contributions. This is what led Roemer to embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement, something that virtually every Republican-aligned opinion-shaper has sought to paint as a dangerous leftist uprising, arguing that even in post-bailout America the big banks are still calling the shots and jeopardizing average citizens. "Too big to fail is still the law," he lamented on Tuesday's "Morning Joe." "Glass-Steagall is still defeated. No increase in capital ratios. And Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still exist. It's a disgrace." In other words, as his fellow GOP candidates cry "Socialism!" over the modest Wall Street reform package that Obama pushed through Congress last year, Roemer is making an argument more commonly heard on the left: It didn't go nearly far enough. And he connects this to another key tenet of liberal disgruntlement: the huge sums of money Obama has sought and received from the bad boys of the financial world. "Guess who the president's raising from," Roemer said Tuesday. "The very banks he's supposed to regulate. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiser, $35,800 a ticket. And you know who the host was? Goldman friggin' Sachs."
Know how we know that Mitt Romney is never going to strap his family dog to the roof of his car ever again? It's because Newt Gingrich's sudden and not-going-anywhere-anytime-soon rise has got him feeling like that petrified pooch, hurtling into a future that now seems largely uncertain, save for the prospect of potentially crapping himself everywhere in liquid terror. It wasn't long ago that a shortened pre-primary season and weak opponents were going to make the Romney nom a quick, sure thing. He thought he might be able to snatch Iowa, despite having largely ignored the state. All those dreams are gauzy and fleeting now. Iowa looks like it's going for Gingrich or Paul. Newt's got big leads in South Carolina and Florida. And that New Hampshire haven is starting to look pregnable, between the piece Gingrich is taking for himself and the portion that Jon Huntsman may yet break off. Now, New Hampshire is looking like a must-win. So Mitt is getting help, getting defensive, getting nervous, and most of all, getting prepared for a knock-down, drag out primary season. Per Philip Rucker: Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades and his lieutenants have spent the past year building the bandwidth they believe they need to squeeze every advantage out of what one aide called the "byzantine" nomination process. With rivals fortifying their positions in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Romney's team has been announcing volunteer networks in such places as Delaware, Indiana and Montana, where contests occur months after the trio of early states. The Romney campaign believes organization will be particularly critical because of changes in the nominating process. In the past, the winner of a state -- or, in some cases, the top vote-getter in each congressional district -- won all the delegates. But in 2012, most of the 30 states that hold contests before April 1 will award delegates proportionally. The ones that will come after will still be winner-takes-all. That means a candidate could lose a number of states but still remain competitive in the race to gain the majority of the 2,427 delegates at stake. As a reminder to take the long view, Romney's political director, Rich Beeson, walks around headquarters carrying a matrix in his pocket charting which states award delegates proportionally and which are winner-takes-all. "We're not Kentucky Fried Chicken," Beeson said. "We don't have the luxury to just do one thing and do it right." One thing we know Romney is ready to do is lie his ass off in as many campaign spots as possible. He should maybe stick to that, as opposed to airing ads against Gingrich that contain unintended ironies like, "Newt was a longtime supporter of a national health insurance mandate, the centerpiece of Obamacare." And if you really, really want to remind voters of Newt's many, many personal failings, just take the gloves off and get it done. You aren't going to derail Gingrich with passive-aggression. This ad, from Romney's SuperPAC, was a little bit more on point: in it, it makes the case that President Obama is loving Newt's rise in the polls because he's ready to point out all of Newt's baggage, so the only safe thing to do is vote for...you know! Someone else? Hint, hint! But why not take your own shot at Newt's baggage, with words that come out of your own mouth. (Also this ad was "accidentally leaked," which should inspire you to say, "har-dee-har.") You can't take down Newt playing by the Marquis of Queensbury rules. And Mitt's going to have another test of his toughness in short order, when he makes his first appearance on Fox News Sunday this weekend. The last time Romney went mano-a-mano with a Fox anchor (in this case, Bret Baier), it did not go well. And frankly, his last big media availability did not go well either. Romney sat down with the conservative editorial board of the Washington Examiner, and they gave him a good grilling. On TARP, Romney left a gaping hole in his opposition to bailouts, essentially conceding that he had no answer to a widespread, systemic banking collapse other than to pull a TARP redux. He didn't seem prepared to discuss his immigration plan. And between Philip Klein and Byron York, Romney was put through his paces on health care, and he often seemed to be lacking in specific responses. Beyond that, he's been flipping and flopping on whether or not he supports an extension of the payroll taxcut holiday. All in all, there's a lot of game tape for Chris Wallace to study in advance of Sunday's interview.
Ben Smith pretty much nailed it when he called the results from the latest Des Moines Register poll the "saddest statistic in Iowa": "Which of the candidates have you seen in person before the caucuses?" Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum got 12 percent. Santorum has run a traditional, all-in Iowa campaign, practically moving to the state and visiting each of its counties. Romney has been there four times this year. Yep, Rick Santorum is just plain stinking up the joint in Iowa, the state he absolutely must win in order to even have a fragile, uncertain future later on in the primary season. He's trying everything! He's taking out full-page ads in Iowa newspapers, touting the support of every anti-gay personage in the state, fundraising off that one time Sarah Palin said something nice about him. ... He's even participating in the Donald Trump debate that most of the rest of field is wisely giving a wide berth. Santorum, however, says the non-participants are "hypocrites," but let's see how he feels after he has to endure two hours of Trump and Newt bathing him in enough hot air to launch a fleet of dirigibles. And Santorum is doing everything he can to serve up steaming hot plates of the bloodiest of red meat for Hawkeye State conservatives to feast upon. Insurers should definitely discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, Santorum says, because the only reason people ever get sick or die is because of their own terrible decisions. (Bear in mind, this is a man whose daughter needs health insurance because of a pre-existing condition called Trisomy 18.) And of course, there's a whole lot of new stuff about gay people, too. You would have to poll the participants of the Folsom Street Fair to find people who spend more time thinking about gay sex than Rick Santorum. Nothing has worked. And the whole matter reached a comical apotheosis this week when Santorum announced he was going to have a "big announcement" Friday. Just about everyone immediately began speculating that he was going to leave the race, because there couldn't possibly be a more momentous thing that he could announce. As it happened, his "big announcement" was that he had won the support of...are you ready? Iowa's Secretary of State! Uhm...o-kay!
President Barack Obama's week began with a speech in Osawatomie, Kan., a site specifically chosen so that he could channel the past. But he found limited success on the same grounds as Teddy Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" speech, which contained many of the same themes that the White House has spent their last year attempting to advance. Keen-eared listeners, however, may have heard Obama channeling a figure from a more recent era: Elizabeth Warren, who's having a more successful time running for office in Massachusetts of late, and whose support for the middle class seems to be of the moment. Obama made 23 references to the "middle class" in his speech, which also bore thematic similarity to Occupy Wall Street. Obama caught some other decent breaks this week as well. An L.A. Times editorial from Spike Dolomite Ward offered a stirring defense of the Affordable Care Act from someone who had major doubts about the president's leadership. And when the president caught wind of charges that his foreign policy was rooted in appeasement, he had a pretty good comeback. The president looked like he got some swagger back -- perhaps so much so that he might be willing to make a recess appointment? Too bad, then, that the administration managed to turn a chance to increase the availability of the "Plan B" emergency contraceptive into such a debacle, with the administration going against the scientific consensus, upholding the status quo on restrictions, and pawning the whole thing off on Kathleen Sebelius like she was the one running the executive branch. Rebecca Traister rightly saw the whole escapade as a wide spill of some weak sauce. Per Traister, the "most disturbing" part of it all was Obama's "reliance on language that reveals his paternalistic approach to women and their health": "As the father of two daughters," Obama told reporters, "I think it is important for us to make sure that we apply some common sense to various rules when it comes to over-the-counter medicine." First of all, the president was not talking about "various rules." He was supporting a very specific rule, one that prevents young women from easily obtaining a drug that can help them control their reproductive lives, at an age when their economic, educational, familial and professional futures are perhaps most at risk of being derailed by an unplanned pregnancy. "As the father of two daughters," Obama might want to reconsider his position on preventing young women from being able to exercise this form of responsibility over their own bodies and lives. But as an American, I think it is important for my president not to turn to paternalistic claptrap and enfeebling references to the imagined ineptitude and irresponsibility of his daughters -- and young women around the country -- to justify a curtailment of access to medically safe contraceptives. The notion that in aggressively conscribing women's abilities to protect themselves against unplanned pregnancy Obama is just laying down some Olde Fashioned Dad Sense diminishes an issue of gender equality, sexual health and medical access. Recasting this debate as an episode of "Father Knows Best" reaffirms hoary attitudes about young women and sex that had their repressive heyday in the era whence that program sprang. "Early money is like, yikes!" says everyone who sees value in building out an active and engaged liberal coalition of voters. But beyond that, things weren't so bad for Team Obama Re-Elect. Yahoo News got a scoop about the upcoming GOP strategy when they were inadvertently invited to attend a conference call, at which they learned that Republicans were fearful of mounting personal attacks on the president. A strange press release that claimed SEIU was withdrawing their endorsement turned out to be a hoax. And the campaign is still raising money hand over fist. On the downside, however, it seems that President Obama has lost the support of the band Korn, who are still a band, apparently.
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Morning all,
itchy eyes this morning, will need to venture out at lunchtime for more eye drops. Must have them in tip top condition for Kona stalking at the weekend.
Curiously I've just finished listening to the latest marathon talk, the interviewee (http://www.docparsley.com/) was talking about the importance of sleep.
How much running are you doing at the moment?
Have a read/lurk/post on the sub-3 thread, which is chock full of quick and talented runners. A number of them have had success following the Pfitzinger and Douglas advanced marathon programs.
timely reminder that I need to book a service for the boiler.
one of my more surreal work experiences was holding a meeting in an open plan office at a foreign branch of Pedigree pet foods and being brought to a complete standstill by the sight of a cat strolling along the top of the desk partitioning. Said cat being part of the in-house testing team.
From all accounts the IT team found them a bit of a headache as they liked curling up on top of the lovely warm laser printers- printers and stray fur is not a good combination.
I regard it as a bit of an occupational hazard. The last few times I've been able to identify the culprits- tree roots, unevenness in the pavement or foreign objects on the footpath. I've got a very low recovery stride (which gets worse when tired).
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text: We went to Salitre restaurant after visiting the Arecibo Lighthouse recreational park. It is a short drive along route 681, which runs along the coastline from Arecibo to Barceloneta. They specialize in seafood and have a wide variety of fish. I had the mahi mahi (dorado) in a passion fruit and... read more