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Pennsylvania Could Be Romney’s Inchon Landing
By John Fund
November 6, 2012 11:49 A.M. Comments0

In 1950, during the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur launched a truly daring military maneuver — outflanking the enemy and making a sudden amphibious landing behind North Korean lines at Inchon. The invasion was almost a complete surprise, forcing the North Koreans to flee inland. Within days MacArthur had recaptured the capital of Seoul and changed the entire conflict.

Mitt Romney is attempting a political equivalent of an Inchon landing in Pennsylvania, a state that hasn’t voted Republican for president since 1988. His campaign and allied groups have poured in $12 million in last-minute advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts.

i.e. The Batshittery Begins

"Begins"

oh but I mean the combination of stiff upper lipism, triumphalism, tribalism, self-pity, and thuggery that only out-of-shape people posting behind a Target can pull off on Election Day.

Did Jay-Z Just Accidentally Endorse Romney?
By Jillian Kay Melchior
November 6, 2012 12:38 P.M.

At an Obama rally yesterday, the rapper performed his hit “99 Problems” but changed the lyrics to “if you’re havin’ world problems, I feel bad for you son/ I got 99 problems, but Mitt ain’t one.”

If this person is 80 years old I might allow that.

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Grover: The Republican House was reelected after not just touching but fondling the “third rail of American politics.”

literally every column up there today is gold

Yup. This one is my favorite -- Maggie Gallagher, mugged by reality:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332853/mistakes-and-losses-maggie-gallagher

The epic levels of butthurt this morning are a thing of beauty.

Assuming this is not a troll, I love this comment:

George LeS • 5 hours ago
I talked to too many people to believe that we can win with social conservatism. The fact is that, to most Americans, Mormons, Evangelicals, and we Catholics are creepy. They really fear us. And since they disbelieve in fiscal conservatism, are weary with overseas problems, and don't give a damn about the Constitution, we really have nothing to offer which they want.

From this day forth, we live under a Left tyranny.

K-Lo seen outside closed Sizzler tweeting.

She's babbling:

Kathryn Jean Lopez ‏@kathrynlopez
the culture. that's what i have on my mind this morning. gotta win the culture to win the future.

http://www.editkid.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/freaks_randian.jpg

"The culture. The culture. The culture."

Classic single-issue ranting: it's the whole education system, stupid.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332872/times-david-gelernter

PORGIS!

Time’s Up
By David Gelernter
November 7, 2012 8:12 A.M. Comments0

We’ve seen an important (though far from decisive) battle in the slow-motion civil war the nation is undergoing: The blue states want to secede not from America but from Americanism. They reject the American republic of God-fearing individuals in favor of the European ideal, which has only been government by aristocracy: either an aristocracy of birth or, nowadays, of ruling know-it-alls — of post-religious, globalist intellectuals (a.k.a. PORGIs). As I’ve said before — many others have too — you can’t graduate class after class after class of left-indoctrinated ignoramuses without paying the price. Last night was a down payment.

xpost re 'the culture': did y'all see the article the day before election claiming that a vote for Mitt Romney = a vote against the leftist academic tyranny of 'the Frankfurt School narrative'? smdh

isn't "an aristocracy of [...] ruling know-it-alls" just a really polemical way of saying "meritocracy"

is Mitt Romney really "a God-fearing individual"? I don't know the first thing about Mormon God but I always pictured him as p.benevolent

His real god is money.

wow we might have to poll today's corner posts

We’ve seen an important (though far from decisive) battle in the slow-motion civil war the nation is undergoing: The blue states want to secede not from America but from Americanism. They reject the American republic of God-fearing individuals in favor of the European ideal, which has only been government by aristocracy: either an aristocracy of birth or, nowadays, of ruling know-it-alls — of post-religious, globalist intellectuals (a.k.a. PORGIs). As I’ve said before — many others have too — you can’t graduate class after class after class of left-indoctrinated ignoramuses without paying the price. Last night was a down payment.

But we’ve won civil wars and preserved the Union before. We’ll do it again — if we face up to the fact that we need to replace our schools and colleges now; the grace period has lasted a generation, but it’s over. I know we can do it and I’m pretty sure we will do it. Americanism is too strong and brilliant and young to die.

either an aristocracy of birth, or nowadays, of ruling know-it-alls not an aristocracy at all under any sensible definition of the word.

Read one of those columns, and OMG, had no idea "the Obama electorate defeated marriage." Should I tell my wife? Y/N?

The Republican House was reelected after not just touching but fondling the “third rail of American politics.”

what the fuuuuuuuuck

the "most powerful man in the republican party" thinks the future of the right is paul ryan. i think that says it all http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332850/what-just-happened-grover-norquist

This from Maggie is pretty otm:

2. The money guys bought the GOP nomination for a candidate voters didn’t like very much. Romney won by pummeling his opponents with negative ads. He lost the same way because he did not have a five-to-one money advantage over Obama.

(Of course, she's probably still fantasizing about what a great nominee Santorum would've been.)

Hm. The results proved that $$$ helps but only up to a point imo

yup

romney beat his opponents because they were all crazy people who said crazy things and couldn't hold their own on national media for a week

did the super big-money shadow figures accomplish anything?

holy christ I wish you guys could listen to Cuban talk radio this morning

are they freaked out?

the "most powerful man in the republican party" thinks the future of the right is paul ryan. i think that says it all http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332850/what-just-happened-grover-norquist

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:20 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"hmmm people seem to be getting tired of Ja Rule. ok it's your turn, Cadillac Tah, you're the future of rap now!"

Cubans livid over Joe Garcia's victory; Garcia seen as a traitor and appeaser and Fidelist.

Garcia last seen leaping from building to building, a veritable Fidelist on the roof

alfred, do you think the results in florida indicate a waning of cuban influence on broader hispanic community in that state?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xo3f93gQXs

well, part of the trouble is that Univision bought the all-powerful AM station Radio Mambi, and guess who is the most powerful person in Univision (it rhymes with "Schmamos). Callers accusing the octogenarian anti-Communist hosts appeasers for not criticizing "their paymasters" (direct translation)

"hmmm people seem to be getting tired of Ja Rule. ok it's your turn, Cadillac Tah, you're the future of rap now!"

― Citizen Ship (some dude), Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:57 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i just read this post while "between me and you" played on the radio

I loves you, PORGI (DJP)

You East-coasters get up too early, otherwise that is EXACTLY what my DN would be right now.

Kevin Williamson, author of the essay claiming that conservatives did more for civil rights than libs:

There is not much in this to comfort conservatives. The lessons of Ohio are that Barack Obama is a skillful demagogue, that the ancients were wise to number envy among the deadly sins, and that offering Americans a check is a more fruitful political strategy than offering them the opportunity to take control of and responsibility for their own lives. This is what Oakeshott had in mind when he wrote that liberty was something that many people simply are not equipped to “enjoy as an opportunity rather than suffer as a burden.”

aaaahahaha DJP's DN

and man, these people. So, "Obama won because he offered people the denial of their own subjectivity, that bastard, and speaking of which those people are not equipped to handle liberty."

"hmmm people seem to be getting tired of Ja Rule. ok it's your turn, Cadillac Tah, you're the future of rap now!"

loooooool

David Gelernter seems to have an excellent grasp of invective. Substance, not so much.

Jonah reduced to (mis)quoting Burke.

aaaahahaha DJP's DN

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing DN