Author: Moe_Lane

Shocker: IL-08 Pledge-hater also OfA drone.

A follow-up to yesterday’s post on the Pledge scandal in IL-08: it turns out that the League of Women Voters moderator (one Kathy Tate-Bradish) just happened to be a hardcore OfA member and Obama supporter.  Everybody shocked, raise your hands… no, me neither.  Admit it: you didn’t even think that she was anything except a typical Democratic elitist, right?  And, oddly enough, you were clearly right to think that.

Also, guess what?  The local LWV grand poobah thinks that the whole thing was a Republican plot.  I don’t know what’s funnier: that the Democrats think that we’re plotting against them, or that they’re conceding that making Democrats recite the Pledge of Allegiance is a successful slam against their political party…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Joe Walsh for IL-08.

#rsrh WaPo lays down a marker.

Allahpundit’s trying to figure out why the WaPo’s publishing this article that’s essentially admitting that yea, indeed, the Justice Department is credibly being accused of not enforcing civil rights law in a race-neutral fashion.  More specifically, he’s trying to figure out why this is coming out now, when it could actually harm Democrats running for office.

It’s an easy question to answer, of course: you see, the Democrats are going to lose anyway – and in such numbers as to make every Republican in the House revise his or her status sharply upward.  Best to get in good with next year’s committee chairs now…

The 2010 election cycle, crystallized.

It does not get any clearer than this:

If you can’t see the video, here’s the summary: over in IL-08 they had a debate between Rep. Melissa Bean and Joe Walsh, run by the League of Women Voters. Somebody in the audience interrupts the beginning to ask if they were going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance. The moderator – stupidly, stupidly, stupidly – says ‘no,’ starts lecturing the crowd on how that was never required in the past… and gets drowned out by the audience getting to its feet and reciting the Pledge over her spluttering.  Extra points: perfect shot of Joe starting an anticipatory clap at the suggestion that the Pledge would be recited, looking startled that this wouldn’t be allowed – and getting out of his chair like a jackrabbit when the audience overrides the moderator (who later kept getting snotty about the whole thing).

Well, he is the Republican candidate.  We just have better civic reflexes when it comes to this sort of thing.

(H/T: Instapundit)

Moe Lane (crosspost)

Continue reading The 2010 election cycle, crystallized.

#rsrh The ‘Stache showing support for Mattie Fein.

Just got the word today.  Mattie Fein is, of course, the Republican candidate in CA-36; the ‘Stache is, of course, John Bolton, who is probably the only US Ambassador to the UN who ever wanted to start his tenure there by dousing the foundations with gasoline, then lighting a match*.  At any rate, he’ll be there next week to do a campaign breakfast for Mattie**… and possibly cause Jane Harman to implode in pure shame for how far she has fallen from the high places of the Earth.

Moe Lane

*Personally, I’d use a professional demolition crew and make a proper job of it.  Which would include a camera crew to go through the place and show 9/11 Troofers what a building wired for controlled demolition looks like on the inside.

**Not exactly sure how this works; you can contact the Fein campaign here if you have any questions.

Pew Research reveals THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.

DOOM.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think that Pew was just having its little joke by making sure that its latest report on the midterms had a URL of http://people-press.org/report/666/. If it did, then Pew would be well on its way to winning the contest of being The Coolest Research Center EVER – but it’s much more likely that this was just an accident. A very, very hysterical accident.

Certainly the contents are. The very shortest version: the generic ballot flipped in a month from 44/47 Republican/Democrat to 46/42 Republican/Democratic among registered voters (the likely voter model only mildly increased from 50/43 R/D to 50/40 R/D). That would be bad enough for the Other Side – but there’s more:

  • 18% of Republicans reported contributing to political campaigns in 2010, as opposed to 15% of Democrats (11% & 13% in 2006).
  • Likely independents favor the GOP candidate by 19 points (the Democrats won them by seven in 2006).
  • 17% of voters identifying with the Tea Party have attended a political event in 2010, which is double the percentage of Democrats (9%) and a third higher than that of Republicans (12%). Tea Party-friendly voters are also showing significantly more engagement with candidates than the norm. Continue reading Pew Research reveals THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.

Elizabeth Moon learns a valuable life lesson.

If you’re a Lefty, you have to be a Lefty all the way.  You don’t get to be heretical* on things like the 9/11 Mosque and expect to keep your GoH status at a major feminist SF convention. You just don’t.  And it doesn’t matter how much you qualify your statements**, either: once you’re past the heresy line, that’s it.

Well, live and learn, right?  It’s not like many of those people read military science fiction, anyway.

Via Instapundit.

Moe Lane

*Although having to call that position ‘heretical’ is a insult to Giordano Bruno.

**Or going for crowd-pleasing by sneering at the Right.  Notice which side’s more sympathetic to her on this?  Yup, the Tea Partiers and the libertarians.