Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

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

S. E. Cupp : Election Lessons From Michael Crichton

"I'd rather die than see that man inaugurated!"

two things to discuss here

Bad News, Good News [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The bad news from USS NR this morning: Both Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney turned down the RNC chair job when I offered it to each this morning. (Aren't you glad to know it's mine to give away?) The good news: Mike Steele seems to be a frontrunner in the hearts of the crowd here.

11/09 12:21 PM

Late Edition [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

It wasn't late enough in the day — I'm not sure it ever would be — for Arnold Schwarzeneggar making bedroom jokes about his marriage.

11/09 12:12 PM

The Youth Vote & Exit Polls [Jonah Goldberg]

Andy - I'm not so sure. By all means, let's wait for better data. In particular I would like someone to clarify whether or which exit polls are worthwhile or not. There's been a lot of sweeping punditry running through the blogosphere, on both sides, with people making bold declarative statements about what voters think about America in recent days. I'd really like to know if that should be "voters" or "Obama voters."

As for the youth vote, it doesn't sound like there was a huge surge of young voters at the polls (particularly if you discount young black voters, who probably deserve to fall under the surge in the black vote more than a surge in the youth vote). Curtis Gans says that the turnout this year wasn't much bigger than '04. It sounds like Obama's advantage among the youth has more to do with the fact that Obama was exciting to young Democrats and McCain wasn't for young Republicans. I ain't going to argue with that, but I think there's some daylight between that observation and the grand prognostications about the death of the conservative youth vote.

But we can discuss this tonight at the bar.

11/09 09:18 AM

young black people - more black than young

do you think if i put enough work into it i could actually blapp amy holmes

pretty sure u could blapp klo

if i could find it

1st step to blapping amy holmes - get on next year's NR cruise, and dont get too drunk and end up with ... anyone else

we need to do some fundraising to send ethan on nr cruise 2009 asap

http://blog.epromos.com/obama-t-shirt-promotion.jpg

(particularly if you discount young black voters, who probably deserve to fall under the surge in the black vote more than a surge in the youth vote)

lol

reminds of something some blogger used to go on about (Josh Marshall I think) -- conservatives who would argue, "hey, if you throw out all the votes of blacks, gays, union members and all those people who are guaranteed Dems, we'd be crushin em in every election!!"

aka massive chunk of Dem coalition = "not real America"

have fun w/ your shrinking pie, gop!

uhm, enjoy:

http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2008/11/09/no_we_cant

And Patrice O'neal gets mentioned, even!

Friday, November 07, 2008
MN Recounter Supported by Communists, ACORN
Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 1:14 PM

The man overseeing Minnesota’s contentious recount between incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and comedian turned candidate Al Franken is a known Democratic cheerleader with ties to far-left organizations including ACORN and the Communist Party of the USA.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has not carried out his role in the traditionally non-partisan manner expected of the office by contributing money to the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Laborer Party and speaking with press at the Democratic National Convention about “ways Democrats can sway rural voters.”

Most alarmingly, officials from ACORN and the Communist Party of the USA endorsed his candidacy for Secretary of State. Ritchie even highlighted ACORN’s endorsement on his campaign website.

Ritchie once worked as a leader of a coalition group that coordinated with ACORN in 2004. As Executive Director of the National Voice, Ritchie worked with a slew of left-wing get-out-the-vote organizations like ACORN and the People for the American Way under the umbrella group "The November 2 Project."

Today, ACORN is being investigated for fraudulent activities in Ritchie’s state among several others. The group is accused of failing to turn in registrations within the required 10-day period in Hennepin and Ramsey County.

The Communist Party of the USA wrote on their website that Ritchie “could play a valuable national role” in protecting voter rights, as opposed to the roles Republican Secretaries of State Katharine Harris of Florida and Ken Blackwell of Ohio served in previous elections.

The hard-hitting Minnesota-based blog “Minnesota Democrats Exposed” has consistently criticized Ritchie for his liberal bent. The blog published a photo (above) of Ritchie standing speaking in front of a podium with an “Obama-Biden” sign at a Democratic Farm Labor Party fundraiser in October. Blogger Michael B. Brodkorb contrasted it with statements from his office claiming non-partisanship from his office weeks before Election Day.

The Minnesota Star Tribune is giving Republican Senator Coleman a narrow 239-edge over Democrat Franken. The race was originally called by the AP for Coleman, but his winning margin was so slim Minnesota law required a recount.

Update: I'm not the only one on this. Matthew Vadum has more details on Ritchie up HERE.

switch out "florida, katherine harris, right wing, gore, bush" for a few of those

I can never remember - is the problem with Obama the fact that he never stood for anything, so we can't tell 'who he is', or that what he promised was so grandiose that he'll never be able to live up to it?

Kinder, Gentler ObamaCorps [John Derbyshire]
I dunno if it was me, but the Obama's Change website has undergone some fast changes of its own.

When I commented on Friday about the pretty-much-compulsory-looking "national service" plan proposed there, the site said this:

… developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year …
It currently says this:

… setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free …
In the minds of our college administrators, that will translate into: "Oh goody! — We can raise tuition by $4,000!" Nice, anyway, to suspect that someone in the Obama machine is reading The Corner.

11/10 01:17 PM

Yes, Derby, that's precisely it. The Obama campaign is reading you breathlessly.

uh, we are

ha but those two proposals arent v different