A theory on 2010 candidates and the Ground Zero Mosque.

It is as follows: the Democratic candidates that come out wholeheartedly in support of President Obama’s position – whatever it actually ends up being – are the ones who must rely on the President’s largess in order to have any hope to survive.

This is why we see Alexi Giannoulias* and Lee Fisher** echoing the President’s language in Illinois, while Harry Reid*** in Nevada does not; and why Jeff Greene in Florida doesn’t, yet Charlie Crist**** does.  I’m not going to claim that this is a law of physics, or anything – but if you’re wondering why any Democrat to the right of Dennis Kuchinich is being loud and supportive of the Ground Zero mosque, well, check their cash-on-hand totals.  This issue may be the latest price for support, such as it is, from the White House .

Which is going to make Dick Blumenthal***** of Connecticut’s eventual response interesting….

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Matt Kibbe’s & Dick Armey’s new book out.

It’s called Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, and it comes out today. The book was written to be a combination history/manifesto/blueprint for the Tea Party movement, and I spoke with co-author (and President of FreedomWorks) Matt Kibbe about it:

The main FreedomWorks site is here: those interested in the 9/12 March mentioned at the end of the interview can see more information here.

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#rsrh EMILY’S List goes… furry.

I swear to God, I didn’t have anything to do with this ad where liberal women dress up as bears and growl at the screen to scare off Sarah Palin.

Ace of Spades calls it an Ewok ad – but then, he would. Seriously, though: what the heck is it with Left-feminists, anyway? Every time they speak out these days it’s apparently their goal to cater to yet another sexual fetish. Don’t get me wrong; in the grand scheme of things, people who like to dress up as wolves and then go have sex with people who are dressed up like ocelots are not a threat to the Republic. It’s just that I hadn’t realized that their staying home from the polls this election cycle would apparently throw critical House elections to the GOP.

Who knew?

#rsrh Aww, Pete Beinart’s all nostalgic…

…and sh*t*.

Remember when George W. Bush and his neoconservative allies used to say that the “war on terror” was a struggle on behalf of Muslims, decent folks who wanted nothing more than to live free like you and me? Remember when Karen Hughes paid millions to produce glitzy videos of Muslim Americans testifying about how free they were to practice their religion in the USA? Remember Bush’s second inaugural, when he said “America’s ideal of freedom” is “sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran?”

Sure, this neoconservative remembers, Petey.  Just like this neocon remembers how at the time you and the rest of the freaks in the professional antiwar movement – and may you never be forgiven for your part in bringing over The New Republic to that side – did everything in your power to assault, deride, decry, degrade, and generally oppose the men and women who you are oh-so-hypocritically pining for now. And that pining will last precisely as long as it takes to get the grownup party on foreign policy – mine – back into office.  After that, you’ll call us devils again.

Moving along to the merits of your article – such as they were – face facts, Sparky: you don’t speak for the trees.  You also don’t speak for the 70% of the population that readily admit that the backers of the Ground Zero Mosque have every right to build it.  You may not even speak for the 30% or so that want it built.  You speak for the fringe… just like old times, hey? Continue reading #rsrh Aww, Pete Beinart’s all nostalgic…

#rsrh Eloquent? In what universe?

This is a perfectly acceptable article about the problems facing the President over his position on the Ground Zero mosque*; but I’m going to pushback on one, specific point.

White House aides have spent four days trying to explain exactly where the normally eloquent president stands on the mosque.

President. Obama. Is. Not. Eloquent.   He merely reads a speech well (for a non-actor).  The then-candidates 2008 media appearances were carefully scripted: his use of a teleprompter is at this point infamous; his extraneous manner of speaking is actively cringeworthy; compared to his two immediate predecessors, the President has the charisma of a radish; there’s a very good reason why President Obama avoids open-question press conferences like the bubonic plague; and his most famous catchphrase (which I viciously threw back in his face here) is a ripoff of Bob the Builder.

So can we stop pretending otherwise? It kind of annoys. Or peeves.

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RSC’s red meat for today.

The Republican Study Committee’s latest video is available after the fold. Personally, the older I get the more careful I become about going too many times to the Ronald Reagan well… but the comparison here between him and the people running the government right now is both spot on, and stark.

Very, very stark.

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Hey, Ray Bradbury will be 90 in a week!

And he sounds nicely… cantankerous.

Bradbury wrote darkly about bookburning in “Fahrenheit 451,” but he sounds ready to use a Kindle for kindling. “I was approached three times during the last year by Internet companies wanting to put my books” on an electronic reading device, he said. “I said to Yahoo, ‘Prick up your ears and go to hell.’ “

He’s right, by the way: the man doesn’t write science fiction. He writes myths that sometimes have rocket ships in them.