H/T Theo Spark 

H/T Theo Spark

(update)  For those of you who think that the Occupy Movement is patriotic in any way, let’s look at the participants.

Official List of Occupy Wall Street: Supporters, Sponsors, Sympathizers:

Communist Party, USA
American Nazi Party
Revolutionary Communist Party
Industrial Workers of the World
International Bolshevik Tendency
International Socialist Organization
Marxist Student Union
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Party for Socialism and Liberation
The Revolutionary Guards of Iran
Communist Party of China
Louis Farrakhan, National of Islam
Black Panthers

Now, what kind of person would support ANY idea that all of those groups agreed on?

(update) Including the OWS Rap Sheet (h/t Big Government)

With so many conservatives questioning the relevancy of Herman Cain, it is important to ask – Why is he topping so many polls?  What happened to Rick Perry?

Two words: Sarah Palin.  Want a different set of two words?  Crony Capitalism.

With one speech, Sarah Palin demonstrated once again that she is the closest thing to a spokesperson that the Tea Party has.  In doing so, she gave voice to the frustration we all feel at sending our own congressman back to office again and again, and expecting different results.  Washington is corrupted, and we need to deal with it. 

With one speech, Sarah Palin cut the legs out from underneath Rick Perry’s campaign.  He never knew what hit him.

Which is strange to consider, because Perry was supposed to be the Tea Party alternative to Mitt Romney, RINO.

The Perry camp is blaming lackluster debate performances, but that was not it.  The Tea Party does not pick candidates from debates.  The Tea Party picks candidates based on whether a candidate will fight for Tea Party values.  Without mentioning him by name, Palin connected Perry to crony capitalism, and it was over for his campaign.

So, count Perry out.  What about the others?  Tim Pawlenty lacks spine. Michele Bachmann blew it when she embraced the fraud about autism linked to vaccinations.  Ron Paul remains a major flake.  Santorum, Johnson, and Huntsman have never been serious contenders.

So, as legitimate challengers to Romney, that leaves Newt Gingrich, who is on the rise because of all this, and Herman Cain. 

Newt is playing the campaign a lot smarter now, obviously experience counts, but in the long run he already burned his bridges with the Tea Party.  He may not be a crony capitalist, but he sure is a politician.  Which means he won’t satisfy the base, and can’t win the nomination.

So, in my opinion, it falls to Herman Cain as the last man standing to go against Romney. 

Who will win between them is still a tough prediction.  Romney is experienced with a better organization.  But Cain has the Tea Party.

In a few months, this will all be decided.  If Cain wins, political analysts will eventually trace it all back to a single speech by Sarah Palin.

H/T Nick Gillespie at Reason.

AJ Strata breaks Cain’s 9-9-9 plan down to the basics:

OK, the simple wrap up then is;

• Under the current system the $82,250 in taxable income results in $59,209 in actual take home pay, giving the government $23,042 of your hard earned money
• Under Cain’s 9-9-9 (from the perspective of the tax payer), that $82,250 in income results in $71,430 in take home pay, giving the giving the government only $10,820 of your hard earned money,

Anyone can see this middle class taxpayer is walking away with a LOT more disposable income. Which means they will be buying goods and services in greater quantities and energizing the economy.

H/T Theo Spark

Update. For more information on the physics behind this phenomena, check out this link.

It’s come to this.  Ask me again why I oppose adoptions by gay or lesbian couples.  The little tyke on the left is Tommy Lobel… before his lesbian “parents” began giving him hormone blockers.  On the right is 11 year old Tammy Lobel, on the way to being the little girl they want him to be.   

Juxtaposition.

Instapundit covers this a bit better than I have time for.