Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

Any lols on this front?

At this point it might be a question of trying to find the non-LOL posts.

i am hoping 4chan crashes the site with EPIC FAIL pics

http://t4toby.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/epicfail1.jpg

Good job there, Mr. Goldberg:

Well.... [Jonah Goldberg]

Looks like paperback sales of Liberal Fascism will be brisk!

Goldberg just did his gracious-in-defeat bit. Meanwhile, back at the Batshit Ranch:

What Freaks Me Out About This Election [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

is how oblivious to facts people have been. Everything about Obama's judgment and radicalism — whether Sean Hannity or Stanley Kurtz or Andy McCarthy etc. is telling you about it — was essentially deemed irrelevant (including largely by the McCain campaign, save for Palin eventually talking about Ayers). Abortion? Near no one outside a handful of conservatives were talking about his record on infanticide — beyond abortion.

People are in for a rude awakening. And a mature conservative movement, with both an ear and a solid voice, will be needed.

whether Sean Hannity or Stanley Kurtz or Andy McCarthy etc. is telling you about it

Telling != shouting.

Anyway, what's interesting to me is how...well, cowed they are sounding over there. Even Levin is suddenly all restrained. Amusing.

The View from Harlem [Mike Potemra]

It happened, almost too quickly, what everyone was waiting for. Is it really possible to sneak up on a crowd of many thousands of people? At 11 PM, the big-screen TV at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem went very briefly silent, and blank; and then a graphic silently popped up, "Barack Obama Elected 44th President." It seemed to take forever for the crowd's resulting murmur to coalesce into a shout, and then a roar. This was not a wish or a test pattern, this was it.

The scene was Congressman Charlie Rangel's block party celebrating the election of Barack Obama. People of all races and ages were there on this mild Manhattan evening, and they were in a festive mood even before the big news was announced. American flags abounded; a platform preacher repeated "God bless America, God bless America."

Why was I, a John McCain voter, there? A bit of personal history. I was born in 1964, and on the day I was born the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Prince Edward County in Virginia had to reopen its public schools. The county had closed the schools because they decided it was better to have no public schools at all than to have to admit black kids into them. Here we are, just 44 years later, with an African-American president, a president elected with the electoral votes of that very same Commonwealth of Virginia.

I voted for John McCain because I admire him immensely as a person, and agree with him on many more issues than I do with Senator Obama. And I ask a rhetorical question: Can we McCain voters, without embarrassment, shed a tear of patriotic joy about the historic significance of what just happened? And I offer a short, rhetorical answer.

Yes, we can.

11/05 12:44 AM

O_O

Sour Loser [John Derbyshire]
Just watched Wonder Boy's speech. Hmph. "Callused hands"? When did he ever have callused hands?

All right, I'm sour. The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate! And that shakedown-artist of a wife, with the permanent frown! And Joe Biden! …

I'm sour about the GOP too. What did it all get us, those 8 years of pandering and spending? If GWB had turned his face against from new entitlements, closed the borders, deported the illegals, held the line on calls to loosen mortgage-lending standards, starved the Department of Education, and declined those invitations to mosque functions, would the GOP be in any worse shape now?

What won this election was the packaging skills of David Axelrod, the swooning complicity of the media, the ruthless opportunism of Barack Obama, and the unprincipled thuggishness of his supporters.

What lost this election was the cloth-eared cluelessness of George W. Bush, the timid squeamishness of John McCain, and the deep lack of interest in conservative principles among Republican primary voters.

Sour? You bet I'm sour. Where was conservatism in this election? Where was restraint in government? Where was national sovereignty? Where was liberty? Where was self-support? And where are those things now? Where are they headed this next four years? Down the toilet, that's where. Pah!

11/05 01:00 AM

pah!

Derbyshire can't even vote, right?

No, I think he became a citizen a while back.

unprincipled thuggishness? Since when is thuggishness adherent to rules? Man, fuck him and fuck everybnody else writing with him. Big Homie won.

otmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Can't even begin on the "thuggish" meme, but a friend who worked the polls in St. Petersburg, FL was stunned and amazed to see actual GOP operatives actually trying to turn qualified voters away.

Double Standard [Mark R. Levin]

Let's not fool ourselves. If Barack Obama had been a conservative Republican (a la Lynn Swann, Michael Steele or Ken Blackwell) the response to his election would not the same as it is today. Before the election, the liberal and media commentariat were putting out different arguments for an Obama election — including that this was not an election about race if he won or it was an election about race if he lost. But now that he has won, I am hearing this is victory against racism. But I didn't think modern America racist. Of course, there are individuals and pockets that are. But that's different. I don't remember the same tests, such as they are, being applied to the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. I understand that's different than a national election. However, it simply cannot be denied that there is a double standard as applies to liberals and conservatives regardless of race or gender. Indeed, if Hillary Clinton had been elected president, we would be hearing similar words of celebration; but if Sarah Palin had been elected vice president, we would be hearing very nasty things, as we have since she was nominated.

lol

Let's not fool ourselves.

Makes you think.

Truth.

Marriage Victory Thoughts [Maggie Gallagher]

California is huge, of course. It proves that when it comes to marriage, there are no blue states/red states. Americans believe unions of husband and wife really are unique and deserve a unique status in our culture and law.

Florida is huge because we had to get to 60 percent — and we surpassed that with 62 percent of the vote.

Arizona is huge because Arizona was the only state ever to reject a marriage amendment in 2006. This year, Arizonans decided to correct that anomaly, bringing to 30 the number of states that protect marriage in their state constitutions.

And also: giving marriage a perfect 30 out of 30 record of victory at the ballot box.

All victories are temporary in a fallen world. But this one is sweet.

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FUUUUUUUUUCK THEMMMMMMMMM

yeah that post sucked

She's a particularly repulsive piece of shit

Down the toilet, that's where.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/27/gallagher/story.gallagher.jpg

SWEET SWEET VICTORY AGAINST THE SODOMITES

woah another bitter fattey who woulda guessed huh

i'm sorry you can't get laid, but take it out on some other people, mags

ugh why did I just imagine her making out with K-Lo

that's all the defense marriage'll ever need for me

lol

best maggie gallagher piece hands down http://www.andreadworkin.net/memorial/gallagher.html

You know honestly I love the gay marriage ban amendment bullshit because as long as they spend money trying to push that kind of utter blue law nonsense that has no actual effect on real life land, that's money these dimwitted fuckos aren't spending on actually trying to win, you know, elections. Do they know who just got elected? Do they know he's going to make at least three appointments to the Supreme Court, never mind all the circuits and who knows what else down the line? What the fuck ever, 700 Club, your ass just got ssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacked

Every Maggie I have ever been acquainted with has been completely kookoo bananas. It's like the female version of Tucker.

All victories are temporary in a fallen world. But this one is sweet.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d857/d85773ev92y.jpg

xpost i think shes on the left?

ugh why did I just imagine her making out with K-Lo

UGH.

ALso Three Silver Linings [John J. Miller]

Congratulations, Barack Obama. Only in America.

Three silver linings:

1. I always thought America's first black president would be a conservative. So much for that theory. I've also always looked forward to the day when we would no longer have to comment on the "first black this" and the "first black that," whether it's a Superbowl-winning football coach or the secretary of state or whatever. I suppose these announcements will continue to go on for a while, but the achievements behind them will feel a lot less like barrier-busting progress than a mopping-up action in the wake of a dream realized.

"so much for that theory"

\o_o/

lol does he actually know what "silver lining" means???? (HINT: it is not something that you complain about further!)

lol "mopping-up action in the wake of a dream realized" sounds like what i had to do some mornings during high school

so much for that theory

You bet I'm sour.

Every Maggie I have ever been acquainted with has been completely kookoo bananas. It's like the female version of Tucker.

TRUTH

Feeling Gravity's Pull (Ramesh Ponnuru)

Kevin Merida: "The magnitude of (Obama's) win suggested that the country itself might be in a gravitational pull toward a rebirth that some were slow to recognize." I'm not sure what that means—maybe I'm just slow to recognize it—but I'm pretty sure I don't like it.

And what Ramesh, his hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Can't these clowns just go on their cruise now and get sloppy drunk please.

that is going to be one sad boat.

How To Take A Beating [Jonah Goldberg]

Deadwood is one of my all time favorite shows, and when I am made czar many an HBO executive will meet my dungeon master for allowing it to go off the air.

o_0

"take a beating"

post photos of last year's cruize, plz.

They're upthread...somewhere...

best maggie gallagher piece hands down http://www.andreadworkin.net/memorial/gallagher.html

― and what, Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Once again, Andrea put her finger on my truth

ahem