Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

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.

the only people who thought we would have a "race war" on our hands were chicago cops, and even then it wasn't clear if they thought it would be only if he lost...

can we get uncle shavedlongcock in here to clarify?

ps did everyone see that endorsement of obama by the neonazi that sullivan quoted? fucking bizarre elexion we just had yall.

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.

seem to me like w takes things way personal, and if someone got in his ear with "those crazy ex marxist neocons FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED you!" enough he might do some sensible shit to piss them off.

*thinks* well dreams are free ppl

xpost

[If Obama loses] I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged.

this part may have been partly true

I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008.

this is the part that's fabulously wrongheaded. people are voting for O because they're scared of what will happen if they don't!! lol

not to mention some of the nutjobs who wrote that there would be a race war if Obama lost)

fanmail from charles manson

I don't get Jon's reader-mail LOLs, as both of these things are unobjectionable and well put:

- 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. - I fundamentally believe our ideas about free markets, individual liberty, etc. could be enormously appealing to (ethnic minorities), but we aren't seeking to engage these broad communities as much as we should.

Haha whereas in actuality the main thing the GOP has done lately to bring young people and minorities into the fold has been massive expansion of military service

Well, many of the lols for item #2 surround the fact that people are greedy, ergo people without money get completely screwed over in free markets.

really i think all the gop needs to do to be competitive again is ditch the racism. softening the social conservatism isn't a bad idea either. a general no-handouts get-your-shit-together message always has resonance in the US of A, but if you're a party of angry christian white southernern country people, good luck selling it.

i have no doubt they will not be ditching the racism anytime soon.

I agree with Sullivan that the Republicans are going to go way right-wing after this and pull a Tory party. I think the most alienating aspects of their party are going to blow up.

They ain't ditching the social conservatism either. The day this party softens this stance on abortion/gay marriage/prayer in schools/drugs in schools/etc is the day it becomes as irrelevant as the libertarian party.

drugs in schools should be drug decriminalization haha.

^^^^ this

there's already a no-handouts get-your-shit-together party in the US, without all the damage of the GOP brand, and all they could get was a couple million paultards

i have no doubt they will not be ditching the racism anytime soon.

apparently it run pretty deep:

Actual Conversation I Overheard While Waiting for a Train to Massachusetts This Morning [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
"Good morning, how are you?"

"Wonderful. Who isn't after Tuesday?"

"That was good news!"

"Better than good. He's going to change the world."

"America likes us for once! It will only get better."

don't think she was quoting this approvingly.

well that's the problem for them innit, the palin-head demographic is becoming a smaller and smaller slice of america, but still occupies a huge place in the GOP coalition. a politician can't win without them, but the party can't win with them.

xp god damn that disgusting woman

A train to Massachusetts? But...they're liberal there.

Wonder who the "us' is in that post?

Who wants an invitation to next year's cruise?

Fred Bleg [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Feeling a little like I should channel Tim Russert, I am interviewing Fred Thompson on the cruise Sunday morning. Anything you have been anxious to ask him? I'll let you know the answer if your question is asked on the cruise. And no doubt tempt you to join our next one this summer . . .

sir are you now or have you ever been alive?

are you gonna eat that?

I'm Sure It Wasn't Mean Spirited [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
But I'd leave Nancy Reagan and astrology alone, thank you.

11/07 03:40 PM

I actually agree that the remark was tasteless towards Nancy, and I was happy that Obama called her to apologize. But is K-Lo really trying to defend astrology here? Is she upset that Obama was making fun of seances? I think this is a key insight into K-Lo's personality.

I am actually shocked at the generosity of spirt from KJL. I thought for sure she'd think it was mean-spirited.

lololololol @ leave astrology alone

youtube.com/leavebritneyalone

I can see K-lo making a video like that, but probably for Sarah Palin or Lynn Cheney.

Obama’s Shot at Nancy Reagan [Jay Nordlinger]
Well, as everyone kept telling us during the fall campaign: If nothing else, Obama has “a first-class temperament.” Was that not the most surreal campaign in memory? Say what you will about Governor Palin’s familiarity with Frantz Fanon, at least she’s not a jackass.

11/08 12:25 AM

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Now there is some generosity of spirit.

wow

mordy as official ilx -> corner communicator you should create an 81-page-bill-clinton style list of times sarah palin was a jackass

I thought that was a funny joke answer to a mangled question btw. Anyone getting offended or thinking it's tasteless has too much time on their hands.

Would have been even funnier if he'd picked Mary Todd Lincoln though!

ok it was tactless if not actually tasteless. but cornerites being all huffy about obama is going to be funny for a good while to come. 'how dast he?' 'the nerve!' etc.

what did he say about astrology that i missed?

It takes a mirthless wussy, etc:

The Nancy Reagan Jab [Andy McCarthy]

C'mon folks, let's not be a bunch of mirthless wusses here. Mark Steyn's cover story for NR's April 21 edition on Mrs. Obama's America was laugh out loud stuff, and we all howled over the unintentionally hysterical New Yorker cover that depicted Michelle as a militant. First families and their eccentricities, real or imagined, have never been off-limits. What Obama said, whether you think it was funny or not (I thought it was kinda funny) was not offensive — it didn't come close to John McCain's infamous joke (at a 1998 fundraiser) at Chelsea Clinton's expense, and I don't recall too many protests around here about our candidate's occasional low-brow jape. Let's not act like a bunch of Lefties just looking to be aggrieved over this or that slight. This is likely to be a tough stretch, and we'll need to be able to laugh — at ourselves and at the other side — to get through it.

Anyone getting offended or thinking it's tasteless has too much time on their hands.

Isn't that the definition of 90% of Corner contributors?

we all howled over the unintentionally hysterical New Yorker cover that depicted Michelle as a militant.

unintentionally???

what did he say about astrology that i missed?

hoos, he got asked something like "will you consult with past presidents" and Obama's joke answer was "I'll consult with all the ones that are living .... I'm not gonna be like nancy reagan holding seances"

which might have been funny in the 80s when it was a more current reference, but nowadays it has an implication of "hey nancy why not call up your dead husband on the seance telephone, lol"

but he called her later to apologize, so whatever

Nancy Reagan didn't hold seances (Mary Todd Lincoln did, methinks), but made Jeanne Dixon an unofficial appointment secretary. Any seances Nancy held were too call Ron's spirit to the land of the living between 1981-1989.

they should give a spot to Coach Dave

meanwhile, here's today's list of TownHall columns for your amusement and/or ire:

TODAY'S OPINION
Sat Nov 8, 2008

The Culture War and Barack Obama
By Bill O'Reilly
The fascinating thing about Barack Obama's election is that few Americans seem to know exactly how the man is going to govern.

George Will : One Man's America
Thomas E. Woods Jr. : Who Killed the Constitution?
Daniel J. Flynn : A Conservative History of the American Left
Michael Barone : Triumph of Temperament, Not Policy
Donald Lambro : Word of Warning to the Dems: Do Not Overreach
Robert D. Novak : Newt in 'One-Two'?
Brent Bozell III : Media Defeats McCain?
Janice Shaw Crouse : Marriage Unites as Politics Divides the Nation
Kathryn Jean Lopez : How to Survive Media Bias
Rich Tucker : Conservatives: Right in More Ways Than One
Jonah Goldberg : Election Questions No One Asks
John McCaslin : Lovelace, You Say?
Mike Gallagher : Mourning In America
S. E. Cupp : Election Lessons From Michael Crichton
Rich Galen : Don't Blame Me, I Voted for McCain
Amanda Carpenter : Conservative Bloggers Feel Spurned
David Limbaugh : Conservatives, Don't Be Hypnotized
Oliver North : Protect and Defend
John Hawkins : Say "Enough's Enough" And Do Your Part To Stop Mitch McConnell
Ken Blackwell : Post-Racial Preference America
Burt Prelutsky : A Contrarian Comes Clean
Patrick J. Buchanan : An Unnecessary Defeat?
Jonah Goldberg : Progressivism's Achilles Heel

S. E. Cupp : Election Lessons From Michael Crichton

O_O

Mike Gallagher : Mourning In America

still can't get over this XD