Author: Moe_Lane

Andrew Cuomo (D CAND, NY-GOV) lied about voting for Bloomberg.

Given that Mayor Bloomberg has wandered up and down the map in his quest to be loved for who he truly is*, this may not be very surprising. How can a legacy politician whose most marketable skill is his last name be expected to keep up with the political peregrinations of a rank opportunist and party-switcher? – still, you’d expect better than a room-temperature IQ performance here. Andrew Cuomo is supposed to be someone special. And not in the mean sense of the term.

“Have I voted for the mayor? Yes,” Cuomo said.

Actually, he didn’t. The Cuomo campaign had to issue a clarification, saying he was only registered to vote in New York City in 2005 when he endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer.

Translation: “Has he voted for the mayor? No.” Personally, if I had ever voted for Bloomberg the shame and anguish at my lack of judgment would have been burned into my soul, but that sort of thing apparently weighs lightly on the consciences of Democrats. No wonder Carl Palladino‘s surging.

Moe Lane

*A quest made utterly futile by the fact that he’s, well, Mayor Bloomberg – and thus inherently unlovable.

Crossposted to RedState.

Meet Sandy Adams (R CAND, FL-24).

Sandy is running against Suzanne Kosmas, who has been busy these last couple of years in utterly [failing to prevent*] the administration from gutting manned space exploration. Sandy has a moneybomb going on today and tomorrow, so we talked briefly about her race:

Sandy’s main site is here; the moneybomb site is here. [FL]-24 is definitely gettable for the GOP, but you have to speculate to accumulate.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

[*Yes, kind of important revision, there.]

[Geez, what’s wrong with me today?]

#rsrh Orrin Hatch reads the tea leaves…

…and decides that it’s never too early to start laying down markers.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) says Democrats and members of the press are going “overboard” in their criticism of Christine O’Donnell, Delaware’s GOP Senate nominee.

Continue reading #rsrh Orrin Hatch reads the tea leaves…

Meet Patrick John Ryan (‘R’-CAND, IL-STATE 22).

Well… actually, if you can you’re one up on the Illinois Republican party, which is in the novel position of running a fundraiser for a candidate whom nobody can find.

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady announced that the Party will host a fundraiser for Patrick John Ryan, the “Republican” candidate challenging House Speaker Michael Madigan in the race for State Representative in the 22nd House district.

“We applaud Mr. Ryan for taking on such an enormous challenge of trying to unseat Speaker Madigan, and we want to show our support,” said Chairman Brady. “He’s definitely got the intestinal fortitude we look for in our Republican challengers. I’d just like to meet him.”

Continue reading Meet Patrick John Ryan (‘R’-CAND, IL-STATE 22).

As CO-07 goes, so does the nation?

That’s certainly the subtext of this Washington Post article on the district.  CO-07 is described as being an almost stereotypical suburban swing district (the article goes so far to describe it as being designed to be 50/50 in partisan breakdown); it currently has a two-term Democratic incumbent (Ed Perlmutter) and went 59% for Obama in the last election – thus making it representative of the Democratic wave of 2006-2008.  Today it’s being categorized as being representative of the receding of that wave; Perlmutter is vulnerable and facing an insurgent candidate in Ryan Frazier, and is actually (barely) behind Frazier in what polling exists.  Meanwhile, the article also notes that suburban districts nationally are breaking two-to-one in favor of Republican candidates in generic polling, which is probably making a lot of Democratic strategists frantic.

But probably not as much as the fact that it’s Ryan Frazier who’s looking like he’ll be beating Perlmutter.  Certainly the Washington Post (not to mention CBS in the link above) did their level best to avoid bringing up what may be the most inconvenient-to-Democrats* detail about the man…

Moe Lane

PS: Ryan Frazier for CO-07. Continue reading As CO-07 goes, so does the nation?

#rsrh Peter Beinart concedes 2010.

Not that he’d admit it, for his own pride’s sake.  Typically speaking, you talk about the next Presidential election when you’re pretty much certain that the current midterm election is going down the drain for your side.  Which is one reason why the Democrats were so eager to get us talking about 2012 early: they’re big believers in sympathetic magic over there, so they were hoping that we’d get into the habit of just conceding 2010 right off the bat*.

As t0 Beinart’s thesis (“defeated parties become more extreme”)… well.  That argument assumes that Bob Dole was more extreme than George HW Bush: John Kerry was more extreme than either Al Gore or Bill Clinton; and, for that matter, that Bill Clinton was more extreme than Michael Dukakis.  It also assumes that Beinart’s typical reader is sufficiently below the triple-digit IQ threshold that he or she won’t notice those minor little flaws in Beinart’s theory – but then, the man does write for the Daily Beast these days.

Moe Lane

PS: I haven’t removed the bookmark because I’m lazy, that’s why.

*There are times when I wish we had a socially acceptable emoticon to represent the Hawaiian good-luck symbol.

#rsrh Dana Milbank is bitter.

He’s so bitter, in fact, that he let what would normally have been about four or five opportunities to slam the Republicans just… drift on by.  A taste:

“We have a powerful message to send,”[Rep. Steny] Hoyer said, then asked himself: “And what is that message?”

That you named a lot of post offices?

I won’t pretend to feel sorry for Milbank, but I do remember feeling similarly frustrated in 2006.  With the major difference, of course, that I didn’t deserve it; while Milbank and the rest of the Democratic party does.  They pretty much got what they ordered; it’s not my fault that they don’t like the taste.