NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

He is one of those people I can't imagine ever giving up the internet no matter what he might claim, so no.

Nordlinger making weak lemonade out of a bitter pill. Or something.

this guy's on a roll:

y Jay Nordlinger
March 7, 2012 2:59 P.M. Comments0
Have you noticed that, when Romney wins, he can’t quite win? I mean, his victories are spun as losses, or not-good-enough wins.

He wins New Hampshire, and everyone says, “Own backyard. Neighboring state. Spent a lot.” He wins Florida, and they say, “Spent a lot. Was mean to Newt.” Wins Nevada, and they say, “Lotsa Mormons.” Wins Michigan, and they say, “Home state, whaddya want? Should’ve won by more.” Wins Arizona, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, they say, “No big deal. Doesn’t really count.” Wins Ohio, and they say, “Squeaker!”

A reader of ours writes, “When Newt won South Carolina, why did no one say it was ‘in his own backyard’? When Rick was campaigning in Ohio, why did no one point out it was a ‘neighboring state’ of Pennsylvania? Why is Romney’s wipeout win in Massachusetts less impressive than Newt’s plurality win in Georgia?”

Etc.

I have a feeling that, if Romney’s the nominee, and he beats Obama on Election Day, many in the Right blogosphere will find a way to grouse about it. Me, I’ll be dancin’ and singin’ like those Munchkins in the movie.

Unfortunately he is referring to this movie:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Under-the-rainbow_poster.jpg/220px-Under-the-rainbow_poster.jpg

Entertainment!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292780/conspiracy-again-editors

The commenters are a mixed bag, shall we say.

Is he being disingenuous, or does he truly not get that pouring vast amounts of money and resources into winning states and then barely winning does not bode well for the general election? xp

lol that first paragraph. that is magnificent partisan-mind blame shifting and belongs in a museum.

I think Nordlinger believes life is actually like a musical production.

pouring vast amounts of money speech, you mean

Nordlinger's writing style and cyclical bursts of activity make me think he has serotonin-receptor issues.

The Art of Swagger: The Artist, Obama, and the Republican Candidates
By William F. Gavin
March 8, 2012 3:28 P.M.

President Obama is a swaggerer. No other word for it. Look at the way he moves across the stage, notice his little gestures, the very way he holds his head when walking. This guy is swaggering and that is not good news for Republicans. Despite the argument that the economy is the issue, we don’t vote for policies, we vote for individual human beings. And a swaggering attractiveness is one of the qualities we look for in a president. FDR, wheel-chair bound, always gave the impression of swaggering, and he was irresistible to the electorate.

This all came to me, oddly enough, while I was watching the Academy Award–winning movie, The Artist. At the beginning of this (almost) silent movie, there is a scene that sets the tone, immediately establishing the personality of 1920s movie idol George Valentin (played by French actor Jean Dujardin). At the end of a screening of one of his movies, Valentin comes on stage to receive the adulation — indeed, the adoration — of the audience. From the moment he appears, he shows off shamelessly. He glides like a dancer — which he is — and moves as if everything in the world belongs to him, which, in that moment, it does. He is a star, and the only word that can convey what he is doing is swaggering. It is this swagger, much more eye-catching and attractive than a mere strut, that makes him a star, and it is his stardom out of which his swagger emerges. When he loses his stardom he moves differently, slowly, hesitantly, as if he is lost, which, of course, he is.

http://www.amazon.com/Ernesto-Guevara-School-Wayward-Girls/dp/0312338899/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

swagger like jagger

If there were a bulwer-lytton contest for political blogging, it would be called the corner

good luck with the empty suit angle while running mitt.

The commenters are a mixed bag, shall we say.

http://www.moreofmetolove.com/images/uploads/content_images/cache/mixed-nuts-roasted-salted-460x377.jpeg

I was thinking a different type of nutbag but I can't search for those pictures ate work

lol

ha!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293329/re-let-syria-be-michael-ledeen

interesting to see two true blue fanatics going at it

"there wasn’t much in the way of internal opposition to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, or Mao. The German, Russian, Italian, and Chinese peoples were quite enthusiastic about the evil men and evil systems that ruled them."

oh really!

lol wat

that's just so... weird

have you guys read Ledeen's resume?

i gather he was something close to a mussolini defender, eons ago

i don't know his full bio, no. a nixon henchman, i thought?

even with the most surface-level reading, Mao and Stalin came to power on the heels of massive civil wars, then there was Trotsky and all the purges and... I mean just what

Hey guys guess what Jews do not count as "German people." This has been today's moment in Ledeenistory.

From the comments:

"For a man who warmly embraces the likes of racist Professor Bell in public. . . "

It's almost mind-boggling to watch the echo chamber work in real time. I absolutely guarantee that the writer of this comment had never heard the name "Derrick Bell" one week ago.

My dear professor George Mosse would bellow from his grave if he thought I’d left the ranks of cultural historians.

george mosse was pretty liberal. strange how things turn out.

(like i read his wiki bio yesterday, ha)

how did we miss this one

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291997/where-are-women-not-all-laughing-kathryn-jean-lopez

jesus christ

you said it!

I realize it’s a silly skit, but this is our culture. The comedy shows and the White House are on the same page.

Last week, in that “Religious Liberty: Obamacare’s First Casualty” video the Heritage Foundation put together, Representative Marsha Blackburn said, “The American people have been awakened to what this administration is doing. It will be a fight. And I believe it will be a worthy fight.”

I pray that’s true. But have they gotten the wake-up call? Has a majority? Or are we laughing as our country changes under our watch?

Fartman
02/27/12 10:42

Culture is important but fewer and fewer people care about the direction we are going. I see no hint of a restoration of virtue. We will crash and burn.

A lot of progressives like to pretend that conservatives don't have a sense of humor (despite Steyn, Lileks, Long, O'Rourke, Goldberg, etc. just for a few examples

I look forward to Fartman's restored virtue, when he becomes Pootman.

the thing is, the culture has ALREADY CHANGED when it comes to birth control and what we're currently seeing is a determined effort to change it back

reminds me of those "god's stimulus package" prolife billboards

yes, let's breed ourselves out of this recession

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0yk3x30ez1qa9bmvo1_1280.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6CDYxMQ_dM

is that why K-Lo looks windblasted

kathryn jean teasdale

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293679/presidential-embarrassment-about-gas-victor-davis-hanson

The truth? The Obama administration all along has been captive to the cult of man-made global warming as expressed by Al Gore, and saw high fossil-fuel prices as a good thing in reducing their use and thus “cooling” the planet, while make subsidized wind, solar, and hybrid power competitive. Worse still, the Obama technocrats naively thought that changing habits, rather than recessionary times, had temporarily lowered demand and thus prices, and were completely caught off guard when a recovering global economy, expanding Chinese and Indian appetites, and unrest in the Middle East all sent oil futures skyrocketing. Had we opened up federal lands for drilling three years ago and encouraged the private sector to drill at breakneck speed as a matter both of national security and national financial solvency, we might well have had at least the expectation of 1–2 extra million barrels coming on line that would have dampened speculation.

"the truth"

yo goole you gotta check out that ben stein essay about pat nixon

i made a thread about it

as in 'dry eyes/bueller' ben stein?

the very same

The Beautiful Pat Nixon by Ben Stein