Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

50-43 is "almost even"?

I'm sure she is looking at the Likely Voter Model that pretends it's 2004 and none of the newly registered voters are going to vote.

On a Brighter Note [Rich Lowry]

The McCain campaign says their internal polling still shows tightening, and their track shows them down three in the swing states. Fwiw...

10/28 06:14 PM

This is going to be exactly Like the K-Lo Sanatorium fiasco, isn't it

That one is 49-47 with a 2 pt margin of error.

"That one"

Sullivan posted one of my emails on his blog! Yay

Hahah, nice, I was just reading that.

The McCain campaign says their internal polling still shows tightening

"It's weird -- all the registered Republicans we talked to half support us."

Strange that this tightening STILL isn't reflected in external polling.

This is going to be exactly Like the K-Lo Sanatorium fiasco, isn't it

― Mordy, Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:48 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha what was this

Revive the 2006 Congressional election thread.

Basically K-Lo spent all day explaining that Sanatorium was going to win, even as the results came in showing him losing by a lot. She posted about a dozen times on it, until the other posters eventually told her to cool off.

And of course, I meant Santorum.

pa ground report [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

One Santorum volunteer I know reports knocking on 3oo doors in south central Penn. today, hearing most often: "These polls are absurd! I'm ready to show those media people how wrong they are!"

Oremus.

11/06 06:06 PM

Yeah. She really lost it.

should we send her a case of twinkies next wednesday y/n?

One Santorum volunteer

2008 [Mark Levin]

I'm going against today's conventional wisdom and suggesting that Rick Santorum and George Allen should consider running for the Republican presidential nomination. It certainly wouldn't be the first time politicians who've lost elections have run (and won) office. Indeed, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have lost elections. Obviously, Richard Nixon lost for president in 1960 and governor of California in 1962.

I still consider Santorum and Allen among the best and most appealing conservatives on the scene. I believe Santorum has national appeal, despite his loss in Pennsylvania. And although Allen's campaign was knocked off stride, nobody will care much. After all, John McCain has overcome much worse, namely the Keating Five scandal; and Rudy Guiliani appears to have put his marital and health issues behind him.

And on the Democrat side, don't get me started. Suffice it to say that Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Kerry, et al, all carry baggage, and some of it pretty heavy.

11/10 03:11 PM

should we send her a case of twinkies next wednesday y/n?

I think she's turned to drugs.

I am gonna try and google some dirt on Santorum. gotta be something out there!

It Seems Unanimously Called Now [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I won't be writing the amazing Senator Santorum comeback piece.

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;_;

The Gathering Storm [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Now that it's past midnight, I begin my Santorum for SecDef campaign.

Rumsfeld will likely resign before year is out. And so ...

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should we send her a case of drugs next wednesday y/n?

Yes, and cut them with melamine.

and an three-year-old Steak and Ale baked potato.

*a

Kathleen Parker hasn't written for the Corner since she accused McCain of being horny. Did they fire her?

Re: 7th Inning Stretch [Andy McCarthy]

John J, I've been telling my 6-yr-old son that the games start after 830pm because these are games even the people in California want to watch so they can't be started at our usual 7pm time. But it's not making anyone around my house feel any better about it — that a kid who loved baseball and got deeply involved in it all year can't watch the World Series because it's on too late.

My one consolation: Naturally, all the kids at school want Obama. But when I told him yesterday that we would have been able to watch an inning or two tonight but Obama bought commercial time so the game is starting too late, he got pretty annoyed at The One. If all of Obama's support is this thin, McCain's got a real shot.

Who, after all, would want to watch the late innings of what could be the deciding game of the Fall Classic if you could watch Barack lecture us about Social Justice, Economic Justice, Redistributive Change, 95 percent gobbledygook tax relief for non-taxpayers, etc.

"If every voter acts like they're six years old and gets mad because The One is delaying the baseball, McCain's got a shot."

K-lo must be sharing her stash with Steyn:

Eye Caramba [Mark Steyn]

Jonah, you just don't get it, do you? Who ya gonna believe? Obama or your own lyin' eyes? There are none so blind as those who will not see and none so seeing as those who are blinded by the light. Americans want to move beyond the same tired old eyeballs. There are no red eyes or blue eyes, just red eyes gradually turning blue again all over America as they sober up after eight years of an almighty Bush-McCain bender that left them face down in a pool of vomit with a repossessed home and no health insurance. But, if you have got health insurance, why not get that Canadian laser eye surgery everyone raves about? It's amazing. On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you'll see who you are. On a clear day you can see Catalina, twinkling under a shimmering hazy tax cut for 95% of the American people just waiting to make landfall. On a really clear day you can see Europe, where all over the continent happy contented workers place their infants in government day care and then leave for six weeks' paid vacation. Obama is the Cyclops, and America is Jean Grey, back in her Marvel Girl days, if I recall correctly.

Anyway, don't make any cracks about Sammy Davis Jr's glass eye, because that's just racist, like Joe the Plumber.

And now if you'll pass the sharp pencil I think I'll remove my own ideological blinders.

Poor Steyn be mixin' his metaphors.

I am still trying to figure out what his x-men comparison is supposed to mean, but maybe that's a futile exercise.

Obama is the Cyclops, and America is Jean Grey, back in her Marvel Girl days, if I recall correctly.

wha-?

xp lol

omg mark steyn

that is like the time i kept a journal when i was tripping on mushrooms

without the weird scratches from when i couldnt figure out how to use the pencil

actually its more like a fiona apple album title

Is it worth asking him how the X-Men reference is supposed to tie into the rest of this? Is he implying Obama is going to pine gormlessly after America for years before working up the courage to court it? (He would have gotten more mileage out of referencing the first Phoenix storyline, where he could imply that America was begging Obama to destroy itself by voting for him.)

America wants to cheat on Obama with a short Canadian?

Gordon Brown better not be Emma Frost, that would be just gross.

ew

Wait is America going to turn into the Dark Phoenix?

If Obama is Cyclops and America is Marvel Girl, then McCain is Dr. Light and America is Sue Dibny.

oh snap

So What About the Obamacons? [Jonah Goldberg]

Several readers have asked, with varying degrees of charity of spirit, whether I still think the Obamacons are a phoney phenomenon. After thinking about it, I have to say I have changed my mind somewhat. The Obamacons have reached sufficient voice and number to be more than the "statistical noise" you get every election year. That said, I would still say that while the phenomenon isn't entirely phoney, I have a very hard time saying the same thing about the arguments the Obamacons use. I think the idea that there would be much that is recognizably conservative in an Obama presidency is absurd.

10/29 03:24 PM

'statistical noise'

I love how Goldberg strives for a tone of bemused detachment, like he conceives himself as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.

The Obama Show [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I had a sinking feelings watching this Obama infomercial. Until it flashed a preview for the LIVE OBAMA EVENT. That instinct to overshoot could may be a big part of the reason this is still a contest, that he hasn't quite sealed the deal. When you think about it, his campaign is one huge overshoot. It could be a successful one, mind you. But we are a skeptical people ... right?

I'll say this much for the last half-hour [Andy McCarthy]

The Knicks look much better than I'd have thought.

A Joke And What It Reveals [John Hood]

Speaking in front of a huge audience at downtown Raleigh rally yesterday, Barack Obama threw off a humorous line about John McCain's accusation that the Obama tax plan is redistributionist:

McCain has “called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class,” Obama said. “I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten.”

Ha ha.

Only, in this passage Obama revealed precisely why he is vulnerable to such charges: he can't seem to tell the difference between a gift and a theft. There is nothing remotely socialistic or communistic about sharing. If you have a toy that someone else wants, you have three choices in a free society. You can offer to trade it for something you value that is owned by the other. You can give the toy freely, as a sign of friendship or compassion. Or you can choose to do neither.

Collectivism in all its forms is about taking away your choice. Whether you wish to or not, the government compels you to surrender the toy, which it then redistributes to someone that government officials deem to be a more worthy owner. It won't even be someone you could ever know, in most cases. That's what makes the political philosophy unjust (by stripping you of control over yourself and the fruits of your labor) as well as counterproductive (by failing to give the recipient sufficient incentive to learn and work hard so he can earn his own toys in the future).

Government is not charity. It is not persuasion, or cooperation, or sharing. Government is a fist, a shove, a gun. Obama either doesn't understand this, or doesn't want voters to understand it.

John Hood evidently not a relative of the Nottingham Hoods then...

I can only assume Mr. Hood is going to spend tomorrow giving a fist, a shove or a gun to all those damn kids coming around trick-or-treating.