Some things said on Morning Joe this morning. (Women, especially in purple states, listen up!)

[No Elephants]

Not exact words below, but the gist.

Halperin: "Women, more than any other single group, may decide this race."


Scarborough: "Romney has to get Ryan off the ticket."

Later, though, Joe Foe tried to backpedal, yelling--and i do mean yelling- things like "Ryan never said anything so stupid as women who have been raped don't get pregnant. If anyone can show me anything like that, I will say I am sorry."

Joe also demanded to know when Ryan had co-sponsored the Akin bill. Mika said, "That would matter if Ryan were 85. he's only 42."

Scarborough continued to make a deal of the time issue, though. When the answer came back "2011," of course, Joe had nothing to say..

The bill, dated January 2, 2011, to be exact--way to start off the then brand new year of a brand new Republican house majority--with a list of its many co-sponsors) is here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr212ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr212ih.pdf

Also, they said that Wall Street thinks the few Senate races are more important than the Presidential race--as if either party actually has a shot of ever taking the house, sixty totally predictable senate votes AND the white house, all at the same time.

Putting all that together with things we have heard in the past:

Undecided women in only twelve counties that are scattered among a few purple states may well decide this Presidential race. (Montgomery County in Pennsy is an example.)

However, that is not an entirely meaningful race because we are likely to have more and more gridlock in Congress, except on things both parties totally favor, which are usually things like war, "defense" spending, renewing the hysterically named PATRIOT Act, etc.

Finally, gridlock in general tends to work more in the favor of conservatives--who, by definition, don't want change.

Welcome to an alleged demmocracy within an alleged republic, also known as "the system may well be FUBAR, especially if you are left of Mitch McConnell."

But, we will, I suppose, continue to allow the media to focus us on the shiny things.

[Enthusiast]

1. Rape is a Republican value.

And incest is Republican family value.