Month: May 2012

“The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields.”

The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields, The Lord Of The Rings – The Return Of The King – The Complete Recordings

Stay loose, people.  Stay loose.

Moe Lane

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I think that Mitt Romney should make a deal with Barack Obama.

Romney will not try to be a community organizer – whatever the heck that is – and, in exchange? Obama will not try to make any more ‘strategic investments.’

(As always: when the other side gleefully captures your argument and sends it around, you probably have not won that particular round.)

Executive summary of the video:

Chuck Todd: Erm, the GOP kind of has a point about this entire Solyndra/Bain comparison thing.

Stephanie Cutter: No, they don’t […I think that’s what she said.  Coherence levels were… low.]

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#rsrh Illinois state Rep. Mike Bost may be a little annoyed at the system.

Just a touch.

Ah, the joys of a one-party state.

Moe Lane

PS: Mike Bost’s campaign site, I think.  Although, based on this account of why he blew his stack, I suspect that Bost’s constituents are mostly just fuming that their representative didn’t grab a whip and do some impromptu temple-cleaning.

#rsrh Please let it be known for the record…

…that I spurn this as being too easy.

The Associated Press is trying to get its Washington, DC bureau designated a “prostitution free zone.”

This is not a criticism of @streiffredstate. What is and is not worth a man’s time is an individual judgement, and there are no right or wrong answers on the individual level.  It’s just that, on mine, I prefer that the prey puts up a little more of a fight.

#rsrh QotD, Some Friendly Advice For Team Romney edition.

(H/T: Instapundit) It’s not “take this Bryon York article” seriously – I already know that they’ll do that.

Romney aides believe that cooperating with Democrats and media figures who are demanding a Trump disavowal would most certainly lead to more calls for more disavowals of other figures in the future — leaving Romney spending as much time apologizing for his supporters as campaigning for president.  Team Romney views it as a silly and one-sided game designed to distract voters from the central issue of the race, which they remain convinced will be President Obama’s handling of the economy.

By one-sided, they mean not only that Obama has not disavowed SuperPAC contributor Bill Maher for a number of Maher’s statements that were particularly insulting to Republican women.  They also mean the press, with, as Team Romney see it, questionable associations of its own. Has David Gregory, moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” repudiated his colleague Al Sharpton, the MSNBC host with a decades-long record of incendiary statements and actions?  And has, say, the New York Times columnist Gail Collins repudiated her colleague Charles Blow, who once wrote to Romney, “Stick that in your magic underwear”?

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#rsrh Prominent state PA Democratic party organizer flips to GOP.

Well, that’s going to leave a mark:

Jo Ann Nardelli, a state committeewoman and founding president of the Blair County Federation of Democratic Women, has switched her political affiliation to the GOP, citing her Catholic faith and President Obama’s embrace of gay marriage as reasons.

Via @biggator5.  More here, and a bit of why this is actually kind of significant, on an organizational level: Continue reading #rsrh Prominent state PA Democratic party organizer flips to GOP.

Silvestre Reyes (D, TX-16) defeated in primary.

It was a bit of a surprise, yesterday: long-term Texas Democratic incumbent Silvestre Reyes was taken down in a primary yesterday. Early reports are crediting the Campaign for Primary Responsibility (CPA), an ostensibly non-partisan anti-incumbent group, for the upset.  Fortunately, Reyes is frankly a loss neither to our side (long-notorious PMA porker) nor the Left’s (heavy-handed War on Some Drugs booster).  And alas, but the district is pretty heavily Democratic, so the news just guts the Democrats of one more experienced politician when they’re going to need every one they can get their hands on next year.

Yes.  This is my sad face.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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