Jul
9
Awww, so sad
July 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Bob Inglis is mad. The six-term incumbent was defeated in the Republican primary in South Carolina a couple of weeks ago, and wouldn’t you know he would have won hadn’t been for those kids Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. “Too many Republican leaders are acquiescing to a poisonous ‘demagoguery’ that threatens the party’s long-term credibility, [...]
Jul
9
Olbermoron strikes again (update)
July 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
The clip linked by Daniel Foster is kind of fun to watch. It’s just beautiful to see Olbermann getting all self-righteous and smarmy about Sharon Angle, the Republican nominee to take on Harry Reid in November, making a comparison between herself and Abraham Lincoln. Angle noted that Lincoln lost many elections before winning the one [...]
Jul
2
Michael Steele – the Jerry Manuel of politics
July 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
The New York Mets have had a really nice run over the past month or so. Most Mets fans were expecting the team to finish at about .500, but they now sit nine games over the .500 mark, and are right in the thick of things, only a couple of games back of the Braves [...]
Jun
28
Sometimes you should just stay on the sidelines
June 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
I’ve purposely largely stayed mum on the McCain-Hayworth primary in Arizona (except to mock McCain’s ludicrous tough guy on the border act). Frankly, I find both candidates less than appealing, and am sad that the good people of Arizona have to choose between these two. If I lived in Arizona, I’d be inclined to go [...]
Jun
23
History Lessons
June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
Even in an otherwise positive story about the GOP, the Washington Post feels it necessary to get a historically dubious dig in: The Republican Party stepped away from its long and uncomfortable history of racial and ethnic politics in South Carolina on Tuesday, nominating an Indian American woman for governor and an African American man [...]
Jun
22
The Doctor is in
June 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Doctor Zero has an excellent takedown of David Frum’s latest inanity. Amazingly Frum continues to peddle the idea that the only way forward for Republicans is to steer towards the middle. Doc Zero is having none of it. My crystal ball doesn’t work better than anyone else’s, and we’ve still got a long way to [...]
Jun
18
Stop
June 18, 2010 | 2 Comments
Right now the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in South Carolina, Alvin Greene, is being interviewed by Laura Ingraham. Earlier in the week, Mark Levin interviewed him. It is clear that this guy is not right in the head, and while there’s a definite car crash quality to these appearances, it’s stopped being amusing. [...]
Jun
14
What is in the water in South Carolina?
June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
While North Carolina has representatives attacking student reporters, its sister state to the south seems intent on blowing by Louisiana as the most bizarre state in the Union, politically speaking of course. We’ve got governors gone missing, bloggers claiming they’ve had affairs with gubernatorial candidates, and now a Democratic nominee for the US Senate who [...]
Jun
10
The perils of the anti-Establishment
June 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
Ed Morrissey has a post on the groundswell of support for an insurgent candidate in the Florida gubernatorial GOP primary race. In the comments, there was some discussion about some of the recent insurgent, tea-party campaigns (ie. Sharron Angle in Nevada), and how unfortunately some of these candidates (not necessarily Angle) have turned out to [...]