{"id":39441,"date":"2018-02-18T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=39441"},"modified":"2018-02-19T04:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T11:52:26","slug":"mitt-romney-almost-gave-us-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/mitt-romney-almost-gave-us-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney almost gave us Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney almost gave us Hillary Clinton<\/strong>\u2026just like how Dean \u201cNever Trump\u201d Heller helped deliver Nevada to her on a silver platter.\u00a0 I accept that he\u2019s gonna be the next U.S. senator from Utah.\u00a0 But I wish it was otherwise.\u00a0 We have enough problems with moderate Never Trumpers in the Senate already.<\/p>\n

Tennessee Sen. Bob \u201cNever Trump\u201d Corker<\/strong>\u00a0is so damaged with Trump supporters that even if he does a Rubio-like flip-flop and decides to run for re-election he\u2019s quite likely to lose in the primary to Rep. Marsha Blackburn and, if he somehow pulls it out, will almost certainly lose in the general election to the Democrat.\u00a0 Too many Trump supporters simply won\u2019t vote for him under any circumstance.<\/p>\n

Just like here in Nevada with Sen. Dean \u201cNever Trump\u201d Heller.<\/p>\n

Hearing there may be yet another late entrant<\/strong>\u00a0into the CD3 race; a Trump supporter of unquestioned loyalty and dedication who was up to his ears in making America great again in Nevada in 2016.\u00a0 (Countdown to new Victoria Seaman meltdown\/blow-up begins in 5, 4, 3\u2026)<\/p>\n

The field has also shifted in the CD4 race.<\/strong>\u00a0 Former Clark County Republican Party Chairman Dave Gibbs is hopping into the race vs. former Rep. Cresent Hardy for the GOP nomination.\u00a0 Not sure of Gibbs\u2019 fundraising ability for this race, but Hardy will be severely hamstrung at the ballot box by his Heller-like Never Trump position in 2016.<\/p>\n

Also hearing that conservative GOP\u2019er Jeff Miller, who earlier announced he was going to run in this race, has opted to drop out and give Gibbs a straight one-on-one shot vs. Hardy for the Republican nomination.\u00a0 Helpful for the Gibber.<\/p>\n

Also, go ahead and plan on North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee jumping into the Democrat primary in CD4 vs. former Rep. Stevie Horsford and a fistful of lesser players.<\/p>\n

Rumor mill has it that former State Assemblyman<\/strong>\u00a0Brent Jones is mulling a challenge to Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson in the GOP primary for lieutenant governor\u2019s race.\u00a0 He\u2019d be joining Scott LaFata of Vegas and Eugene Hoover of Reno in an effort to derail GOP gubernatorial nominee Adam Laxalt\u2019s choice for the #2 state guv position.<\/p>\n

Tax-hiking RINO former Assemblyman Stevie Silberkraus\u00a0<\/strong>has announced a comeback bid by running for the seat he lost last time out after voting for the largest tax hike in Nevada history.\u00a0 Absent an unambiguous apology for that vote and signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge this time around, there\u2019s no reason for conservatives to support this political resurrection effort.<\/p>\n

I met Democrat Clark County commission candidate<\/strong>\u00a0Marco Hernandez at Little League try-outs Saturday morning. Chatted briefly about his race vs. State Sen. Tick Segerblom to replace term-limted Chris G on the commission.<\/p>\n

Laborer\u2019s Local 872 is all-in for Marco and all-out for Tick.\u00a0 The union is also surprisingly backing a number of Republican candidates this cycle over the issue of \u201cputting people to work.\u201d\u00a0 I think Sen. Segerblom may have a much more difficult time in this race than most otherwise would have expected.<\/p>\n

I received a \u201crequest\u201d from the United States Department\u00a0<\/strong>of Commerce to spend what they estimate will be nine minutes of my time to complete a 2017 Economic Census survey.\u00a0 The \u201crequest\u201d includes this warning at the end in bold, all-cap letters:\u00a0 YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW.<\/p>\n

Somebody doesn\u2019t understand the definition of \u201crequest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adult film stars are paid money to have sex.<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s legal.\u00a0 Prostitutes are paid money to have sex.\u00a0 That\u2019s illegal (except in a handful of rural counties in Nevada).\u00a0 What am I missing here?<\/p>\n

OK, so I\u2019ve wanted to go hang out at the Dueling Piano Bar<\/strong>\u00a0at Harrah\u2019s for a long time.\u00a0 Going this Thursday with Gia and another couple.\u00a0 Thought maybe I\u2019d just get a room there for the night instead of risking driving home \u201cunder the influence.\u201d\u00a0 And it seemed like an even better idea when I found on Expedia that a room was only $35.<\/p>\n

But then I read the fine print.\u00a0 There\u2019s an additional $39.68 for a \u201cresort fee\u201d!\u00a0 Plus an additional $9.37 for the room tax.\u00a0 And of course, thanks to the stinkin\u2019 MGM Grand, another $10 for parking.\u00a0 For a grand total of $94.05.\u00a0 Not such a great deal after all.\u00a0 And very misleading.<\/p>\n

This is all part of the Las Vegas Convention Center effort to re-make Vegas into a convention town instead of a tourist town because convention-goers are usually spending somebody else\u2019s money \u2013 their employers\u2019 \u2013 rather than their own.<\/p>\n

As Ted Newkirk of AccessVegas.com noted in an op-ed in Sunday\u2019s Las Vegas Review-Journal, this nickel-and-dime fleecing of tourists in preference to expense account-wielding conventioneers goes a long way to explain an almost 2 percent drop in non-conventioneer visitors last year.<\/p>\n

Sounds like Big Gaming\u2019s corporate bean counters are intent on killing the goose that laid the Golden Nugget\u2019s eggs.<\/p>\n

\u201cPunking\u201d Victoria Seaman (She\u2019s So Easy\u2026and Predictable)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I understand that some of my conservative friends and allies are unhappy with my opposition to Victoria Seaman\u2019s campaign for Nevada\u2019s 3rd congressional district seat.\u00a0 And that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been through this sort of thing before \u2013 like when I warned that now-Assemblyman Chris Edwards was a weasel and former Clark County GOP chairman Dave McKeon was a louse.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I\u2019ve seen a side of Seaman that she hides from most people when she\u2019s out in public.\u00a0 And I understand how she\u2019s been able to fool a lot a people.\u00a0 I\u2019m just not one of them.<\/p>\n

In my experience I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that she\u2019s a phony with an insatiable appetite to \u201cbe somebody.\u201d\u00a0 She\u2019s a \u201cconvenient conservative\u201d with an explosive temper, a habit of spewing falsehoods, a high degree of paranoia, and skin so thin you can see though it (yuck).<\/p>\n

She\u2019s rash and easily \u201ctriggered\u201d \u2013 as demonstrated last weekend when I \u201cpunked\u201d her at a political event we both attended.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what happened\u2026<\/p>\n

I was standing outside the campaign headquarters of Adam Laxalt for its grand opening.\u00a0 A number of people came out and told me that Victoria was inside telling people I was being paid by one of her opponents, State Sen. Scott Hammond, to expose her actual voting record from the 2015 legislative session in which she served.<\/p>\n

The claim is false.\u00a0 Which is par for the Seaman course.\u00a0 She invents paranoid campaign conspiracies in her own mind and then makes totally false allegations with absolutely no proof whatsoever.\u00a0 But in light of the reports I heard, I decided to have some fun at her expense and stoke the flames.<\/p>\n

Sen. Hammond was there, also.\u00a0 He came outside and we chatted briefly about his race and the school choice issue \u2013 an issue near and dear to his heart.\u00a0 I then asked if we could get a \u201cselfie\u201d together for me to post on Twitter to see if it would set Queen Victoria off into a \u201cSee, I told you!\u201d conspiracy meltdown.<\/p>\n

It was like shooting fish-sticks in the freezer. She took the bait – hook, line and sinker!<\/p>\n

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In case you can\u2019t see the Facebook post image she sent out, she claims I haven\u2019t written anything negative about Sen. Hammond because we\u2019re buddy-buddies, as \u201cproved\u201d by nothing more than the fact that I took a photo with Sen. Hammond for no reason other than to see if Queen Victoria would make a conspiratorial fool of herself.<\/p>\n

She concluded with, \u201cDon\u2019t you think that there\u2019s something fishy here.\u00a0 Hummm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

Paranoia will destroy ya, hon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney almost gave us Hillary Clinton\u2026just like how Dean \u201cNever Trump\u201d Heller helped deliver Nevada to her on a silver platter.\u00a0 I accept that he\u2019s gonna be the next U.S. senator from Utah.\u00a0 But I wish it was otherwise.\u00a0 We have enough problems with moderate Never Trumpers in the Senate already. Tennessee Sen. Bob […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39443,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441\/revisions\/39443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}