- No matter who wins the upcoming presidential election, it could well be named The Grecian Formula election.
- While I don't want to come across being as ridiculous as Harry Reid in spreading unlikely and wholly unsubstantiated allegations against Romney, I have suspected for some time that Mitt uses Grecian Formula to keep his hair looking a youthful black. After all, the man is 65 years old, just five years younger than Ronald Reagan was when Dutch ran against Carter, and his father George's similarly thick head of hair started turning gray when he was only in his fifties. (Reagan, as you will recall, didn't use Grecian Formula, its just that his hair was prematurely orange.)
- So I suggest that a vote for Romney is a vote for the old Grecian Formula.
- On the other hand, a vote for Obama is a vote for the new Grecian Formula.
- For those blissfully unaware of such critical matters, the old Grecian Formula turns the hair black while the new Grecian Formula turns the government's books red.
- Obama's four years of unprecedented economic and fiscal failures have increasingly resembled what is happening today in Greece and to a lesser but still ultimately disasterous extent among the rest of the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) as they hurtle toward bankruptcy and dormant private sector economies with unemployment already above 25% and rising.
- The new Grecian Formula is really quite simple: create ever more bloated, wasteful, ineffective, inefficient government with a priveleged, overpaid, overpensioned, overperked and underworked public sector that gradually drives up taxes and debt to the point that the competitive market sector is first stifled and then strangled and thus severe cuts in entitlements are required and riots in the streets result.
- Amusingly, some think that the US economy and fiscal situation is somehow magically immune to this spreading disaster which Obama will exaccerbate rather than seek to ameliorate in a second term all too similar to his first term.
- Tell that to the seven US cities that have already declared bankruptcy in the past 18 months (with more of them to come) and to the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania which has had to reduce the pay of all 398 of its city workers including engineers and accountants and other professionals to the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour just to be able to pay the pensions and benefits of its retired employees. I could continue with accounts of the severe current financial struggles of other US states and cities but this is enough to make the point and those who care can do their own research into the matter.
- In any case, the choice is between Romney, the old Grecian Formula, and Mitt's determination to restore the US to its traditional path of exceptionalism and enterprise and Obama, the new Grecian Formula and the continued weakening of the US economy and fiscal situation until it, too, becomes a facsimile of what is happening in the southern nations of Western Europe. You might call it the choice between exceptionalism and enterprise on one side and bloated government and unsustainable entitlements on the other.
- Who will win this Grecian Formula election?
- Given the bump that Obama gained from the ill wind named Sandy, it is now too close to call, a virtual dead heat in the averaging of the opinion polls.
- This is the first election in decades that I find too close to make a bet on although the concensus of the pundits and the polls is that Obama should squeek through with a 1-2% lead in the popular vote and about a 40 seat electoral college lead (290-300 vs 248-238).
- Of course the liberal MSM had the same take on the 2004 election in which they favoured the left wing genius Kerry against the right wing buffoon Bush (who actually has a higher IQ and had a higher SAT score and Yale GPA than Kerry but facts never get in the way of the demonization of the right by then loony left) and W. overcame their bias, bile and BS and won the popular vote by 3% and also the electoral college.
- This time I won't be putting my money where my mouth is but I have a purely unscientific hunch that a combination of the greater enthusiasm of the GOP base this time and the higher percentage of independent voters favouring Romney will help Mitt to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and win by 2-4% in the popular vote and 310-330 vs 228-208 in the electoral college. Certainly not a huge win or even a large win like BO's 2008 victory four years ago today but a win nonethless.
- But don't put money on this!
- I certainly won't.
- While I don't want to come across being as ridiculous as Harry Reid in spreading unlikely and wholly unsubstantiated allegations against Romney, I have suspected for some time that Mitt uses Grecian Formula to keep his hair looking a youthful black. After all, the man is 65 years old, just five years younger than Ronald Reagan was when Dutch ran against Carter, and his father George's similarly thick head of hair started turning gray when he was only in his fifties. (Reagan, as you will recall, didn't use Grecian Formula, its just that his hair was prematurely orange.)
- So I suggest that a vote for Romney is a vote for the old Grecian Formula.
- On the other hand, a vote for Obama is a vote for the new Grecian Formula.
- For those blissfully unaware of such critical matters, the old Grecian Formula turns the hair black while the new Grecian Formula turns the government's books red.
- Obama's four years of unprecedented economic and fiscal failures have increasingly resembled what is happening today in Greece and to a lesser but still ultimately disasterous extent among the rest of the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) as they hurtle toward bankruptcy and dormant private sector economies with unemployment already above 25% and rising.
- The new Grecian Formula is really quite simple: create ever more bloated, wasteful, ineffective, inefficient government with a priveleged, overpaid, overpensioned, overperked and underworked public sector that gradually drives up taxes and debt to the point that the competitive market sector is first stifled and then strangled and thus severe cuts in entitlements are required and riots in the streets result.
- Amusingly, some think that the US economy and fiscal situation is somehow magically immune to this spreading disaster which Obama will exaccerbate rather than seek to ameliorate in a second term all too similar to his first term.
- Tell that to the seven US cities that have already declared bankruptcy in the past 18 months (with more of them to come) and to the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania which has had to reduce the pay of all 398 of its city workers including engineers and accountants and other professionals to the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour just to be able to pay the pensions and benefits of its retired employees. I could continue with accounts of the severe current financial struggles of other US states and cities but this is enough to make the point and those who care can do their own research into the matter.
- In any case, the choice is between Romney, the old Grecian Formula, and Mitt's determination to restore the US to its traditional path of exceptionalism and enterprise and Obama, the new Grecian Formula and the continued weakening of the US economy and fiscal situation until it, too, becomes a facsimile of what is happening in the southern nations of Western Europe. You might call it the choice between exceptionalism and enterprise on one side and bloated government and unsustainable entitlements on the other.
- Who will win this Grecian Formula election?
- Given the bump that Obama gained from the ill wind named Sandy, it is now too close to call, a virtual dead heat in the averaging of the opinion polls.
- This is the first election in decades that I find too close to make a bet on although the concensus of the pundits and the polls is that Obama should squeek through with a 1-2% lead in the popular vote and about a 40 seat electoral college lead (290-300 vs 248-238).
- Of course the liberal MSM had the same take on the 2004 election in which they favoured the left wing genius Kerry against the right wing buffoon Bush (who actually has a higher IQ and had a higher SAT score and Yale GPA than Kerry but facts never get in the way of the demonization of the right by then loony left) and W. overcame their bias, bile and BS and won the popular vote by 3% and also the electoral college.
- This time I won't be putting my money where my mouth is but I have a purely unscientific hunch that a combination of the greater enthusiasm of the GOP base this time and the higher percentage of independent voters favouring Romney will help Mitt to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and win by 2-4% in the popular vote and 310-330 vs 228-208 in the electoral college. Certainly not a huge win or even a large win like BO's 2008 victory four years ago today but a win nonethless.
- But don't put money on this!
- I certainly won't.
