Moe Lane

This post is deliberately not going on Twitter, not being reposted to RedState, and not being guest-posted on AoSHQ this week; I just want to say it, and minimize the chances of it being used as ammo next year if Romney is the nominee.

Here’s my problem, and here’s Mitt’s problem; he’s a one-term former governor saddled with the reputation that he’ll say whatever the hell you want him to say in order to get elected (Stephen Green infamously summed Romney up in 2008 by saying that Romney acts like the guy who wants to know just what it’ll take to get you to drive that BMW off of the lot).  Nominating him will take one of our primary motivators (Obamacare) off of the rhetorical table for the general election*, which is bad: Obamacare is the God-help-us signature achievement of this administration, and the country hates it.  Worse, his performance in the pre-primary season can be best described as “ducking under the podium as the firefight goes on.”  Probably wise in the short term; in the longer one, not so much. (more…)

Reportedly, the press conference that New Jersey Governor Christie has called today for 1 PM is to indicate, yet again, that he is not running for President in 2012. Which, given the way that people have ignored all previous attempts by the man to tamp down speculation, will not do a darn thing to end said speculation.

What does Christie have to do? Eat a puppy on national television*?

Moe Lane (more…)

Permit me to summarize this CBS video on Operation Fast & Furious*:

Eric Holder: I only heard about Operation Fast & Furious after it blew up in 2011!
CBS: Here’s a list of memos that shows that you were briefed on Operation Fast & Furious, starting in July.
Eric Holder: Oh. That Operation Fast & Furious.  Yeah. Um.  I, err, misspoke .  Didn’t know the details.

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I like it, but it’s not available commercially, alas.

Or, as she would be like to be known as now, “Totally Megan McKane.”

I am, so horrific in fact, have taken steps to have my name legally changed. It turns out some jerk already owns the name Totally Meghan OchoCinco, so I have decided to go with Totally Megan McKane, which is how, it should be spelled anyway (the silent “I” in McCain doesn’t make any sense!)

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To continuing my point, this “Meghan McCain” actually had, the nerve to have a lawyer send a letter to, the good people of Red State.org, demanding that I stop impersonating her! Hello! Is my name, Totally Meghan McCain, a part of “Meghan McCain”? No. Is “Meghan McCain” a part of my name, Totally Meghan McCain? I think, as the old people say, that is QDE. Or putting it, in such a manner that independent, young voters who decide the next election, will understand, FACE!

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It’s honestly the best way to describe it. PPP is doing its best to put a positive spin on the way that their own polling is showing Democratic Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin going from a 46/40 lead over Republican businessman Bill Maloney to a 47/46 lead now, but the trend is fairly clear.  September’s polling showed 14% undecided; today it’s 7%, and those numbers have pretty much all broken for Maloney.  Worse, from Tomblin’s point of view?  Those are Democrats going to Maloney: Republican and independent voters have not shifted in the last month.

Does this mean that Maloney’s a shoo-in?  Of course not; Tomblin retains three advantages.  First, party registration is still lopsided in West Virginia.  Second, the Acting Governor is personally popular (as is Maloney), which is rare for Democratic incumbents these days.  Third, this is a special election, which means that turnout will be reduced.  Normally that wouldn’t favor an opponent, but if Tomblin’s hemorrhaging Democrats… well.  We’ll see tomorrow.

In the meantime, Bill could almost certainly still use some help.  Every little bit, and all that.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

I don’t care: it’s funny.  And makes me nostalgic for high school.

Well, actually, no: high school was… I used to say that it was a living hell, but really; it was just kind of lame and not very much fun for me. Besides; judging from the online political scene, there’s a bunch of folks out there who have never gotten over their high school experiences, and are thus now serving as Horrible Examples for the rest of us…

Moe Lane

…how do you guys tell the difference between your protesters, and vomiting homeless people?

This is not a trick question.  You have to understand: from the point of view of normal people the usual trick of checking hygiene, smell, facial hair, fashion sense, and/or sign messages simply doesn’t work.  One wonders how your faction is handling that, assuming of course that your faction even really cares…

This is old, but good.  Actually, ‘good’ is using the fact that one of your members once allegedly punched out Russell Crowe in a bar as an excuse to promote your  band.  But putting together a contest to have your fans make their own music video of the song?

The Night I Punched Russell Crowe, Gaelic Storm

TOTALLY AWESOME.

And by ‘vicious’ I mean ‘brutally accurate.’ This one’s going around, folks, and it should: it’s very, very good.  It also reminds me of something that I did a few months ago.

Well, except that this version:

• Is more up-to-date;
• Has a lot more details;
• And is certainly prettier.

So maybe it shouldn’t.  In fact, compared to the infographic what I did looks pretty lame.  Never mind…

Background: there was a ranch in Texas with an unfortunate name*. Gov. Rick Perry’s father rented the hunting rights of the camp; when the family discovered that there was a rock on the premises with the aforementioned unfortunate name on it, they first painted over, then turned over, the rock**. Almost thirty years pass. In the meantime, Rick Perry switches parties; takes over the hunting rights; watches as the Texas legislature handles the problem of unfortunate names; gets elected Governor; and eventually stops using the property. The Washington Post, apparently looking to replicate the same magic in 2011 that caused them in 2009 to be rechristened The Washington Bob McDonnell’s Thesis, begins the process of trying to blow this story up.

Contra Jim Geraghty, who is wearily tired of junk like this, I submit that it would be fairly simple to counter the WaPo’s rather naked and fairly sad agitprop; and it involves using Gov. McDonnell’s strategy of calling in any paper that’s interested to a media availability. Once there, Gov. Perry should simply patiently explain the circumstances of the ranch, over and over and over and over again, until the other papers realize that the WaPo’s being gonzo partisan crazy again and go find something else to report about. (more…)

Because I’m in my second KOTOR run-through, that’s why.  Oddly, I don’t even think that it’s in the game.

The Imperial March, John Williams