Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

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

reader email lulz

1. The youth vote: It was marginally more important this year; and 18-29 year olds are solidly Democratic. This is a major branding problem for the Republican Party. I think millenials, in general, have a lot of conservative tendencies. They believe in the private sector. They aren't cynical. They believe in the family, community, service, and social responsibility; but I think that Republicans are losing them based largely on outreach and perceived problems with tolerance and diversity.

2. Minority votes: There are scary trends in this election. Obama won 96% of the African-American vote (the Dems weren't far behind) and more than two-thirds of the Hispanic vote, concentrated largely among younger Hispanic voters. Perception matters, and I think it's important for the Republicans to make an effort to talk to these groups. I fundamentally believe our ideas about free markets, individual liberty, etc. could be enormously appealing to these folks, but we aren't seeking to engage these broad communities as much as we should.

"Folks" is the new "You People"

Obamaweek Strikes Again [Mark Hemingway]
q Newsweek's "special election project":

The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied.

Funny, I always thought correlation is not causation. But clearly, Palin was stoking hatred. Thanks for keeping it classy, Newsweek. You never fail to dissapoint with your partisanship and general sloppiness.

LOL What have u done, Mordy. Also lol at using "is" instead of "does not imply".

Hemingway fails to acknowledge that the Secret Service, um, confirmed the threats.

how's that for fucking causation?

perceived problems with tolerance and diversity.

'perceived'

Hey, I only taught the difference between correlation and causation to Jonah. He must've shared it with Hemingway.

I always thought America's first black president would be a conservative.

Well, technically, so did Berke Breathed in 1988. At least, Oliver's dad stated as such.

GOP Electoral Strategy: Date Democrats [John J. Miller]

Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg says unmarried women made the difference for Obama. Back in 1994, when white male voters were said to be responsible for the GOP's takeover of Congress, the media came up with a label for them: "angry white men." Will the media now refer to Greenberg's voting bloc as "bitter unmarried women"?

Don't bother answering that.

11/05 04:25 PM

Move Over Move On? [Jonah Goldberg]

From a reader:

Thank God dissent is patriotic! Now NRO can be the most patriotic web site on the internet!

Alas, that standard only works for liberals. When conservatives dissent it's called being "divisive." Man, get the latest glossary already.

11/05 04:05 PM

lol total lack of self awareness

first line is 'from a reader,' second line is jonah

"bitter unmarried bloggers"

BUBs?

the female Lindsey Graham.

― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:12 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://mccainblogette.com/postings/102708_0718/48.jpg

JUST ONE OF THE GIRLS

Looks like an outtake frame from The Shining

^^HA!
Losers [Byron York]

There are a lot of things you can do when you finish a losing campaign. You can sleep for 30 hours straight. You can get drunk. Your can reflect on what went wrong and why your side lost. Or you can immediately dump every unflattering tidbit you know — or think you know — about your colleagues to the press.

That is the route some McCain campaign staffers have decided to pursue with regard to Sarah Palin. Within hours of McCain's loss, they were dishing on everything Palin did or didn't do, everything she did or didn't know, and why they, the staffers, bore no responsibility for anything that went wrong.

Did Palin once answer a knock on her hotel room door dressed in a bathrobe? Get it out there!

The question here is not whether Palin was a good or a bad choice for vice president. Reasonable people disagree on that one. It's about the character of the McCain campaign. There is no doubt that it included some fine people who, whatever their opinions, wouldn't be involved in this kind of behavior. But it also, obviously, included some who would. John McCain ran for president, to some large degree, on the character he had displayed throughout his life. Not so for some of those around him. What a bunch of losers.

"The question here is not whether Palin was a good or a bad choice for vice president. Reasonable people disagree on that one."

No they don't.

"Reasonable people disagree whether reasonable people disagree on that one."

What a bunch of losers.

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.

Um....

zona got a mulligan

giving marriage a perfect 30 out of 30 record of victory at the ballot box

gosh my wife of 19 years and I are so relieved, our odds for making it to 20 are so much better now that gays can't get married too

LOL divorce rate

Palin . . . and the Vice President-elect [Michael Ledeen]
The continued trashing of Sarah Palin — IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four — is very disappointing, and the rash of unseemly whining from the McCain camp just shows once again why so many of us were depressed when he won the nomination. The stuff from the left is understandable; they fear her, and they want to drive a stake through her heart. But the trash from the McCainiacs is beneath contempt. So much for "elegance in defeat."

The worst of it is that very little attention is devoted to the actual VP-elect, Joe Biden of Delaware, a man with no executive experience, who invents 'facts' many times a day, who is the walking definition of narcissist, and who will, for the next four years, be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

11/06 11:18 AM

hahahaha

Hillary Clinton is much closer to being "the walking definition of a narcissist" than Biden, who is actually "the walking definition of a big doofus".

not the corner, but too good not to post

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/erick/2008/nov/05/operation-leper/

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

http://images9.cafepress.com/product/301191239v8_350x350_Front.jpg
P.S. - Did I ever tell you how RedState was able to stock Gov. Palin's campaign plane with twenty of these?. We were glad to. And we were glad not to mention it at the time. We are rooting for Sarah Palin. Don't make us add you to our list. Do you really want to be next to Kathleen Parker in the leper colony?

wow full fledged vendetta - u go redstate!

btw I am all for these douchebags marginalizing themselves like this; perhaps that will allow rational conservatives who understand the concept of compromise to take back their political control

IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four

well prob see more lunification of the gop before we see that - most of their moderates have already been axed xp

I'm waiting to see if Ledeen's head explodes if the rumors I've read about Bush partially normalizing relations with Iran before he leaves office come true.

i'm tellin ya, most people in this country have always hated this part of the GOP, and now that "terrorism as issue #1" has passed on by in large part, the extreme right has lost their ace-in-the-hole. i think they didn't recognize that their own influence has always been marginal, a total mirage, and people sided with the gop despite them and not because of them.

i think the dems need to do as a party (w/r/t this part of the gop and their pundit attack dogs) what obama did with mccain in the debates: remain cool and calm in the face of the aggression and negative stuff, because it will only make them look worse the less they react to it.

^^^^^^^

Nasty in the Senate [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

A statement from Harry Reid:

Today Senator Lieberman and I had the first of what I expect to be several conversations. No decisions have been made. While I understand that Senator Lieberman has voted with Democrats a majority of the time, his comments and actions have raised serious concerns among many in our caucus. I expect there to be additional discussions in the days to come, and Senator Lieberman and I will speak to our caucus in two weeks to discuss further steps.

Translation: I am a bully and will make Joe feel pain.

She seems almost calm posting that. Must have switched meds.

"Fabulously Wrongheaded Prediction"? [Jonah Goldberg]
So says Salon about what I wrote on January 4, 2008:

"I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee — and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. Forget Hillary's inevitability. Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he's denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid."

Not only do I stand by that, I know a significant number of liberals who've said pretty much the same thing to me personally (not to mention some of the nutjobs who wrote that there would be a race war if Obama lost). I stand by that entirely.

I never heard anybody, liberal or conservative, say there might be riots if Obama lost. the only "segments of American political life" who became "completely unhinged" were those loudmouth jerks at the Palin rallies.

Speaking truth to Salon.