Daniel Webster is the candidate that finally got chosen to be the instrument by which we propel Alan Grayson to a fun new career as a bitter MSNBC analyst. We talked this afternoon, and I manfully avoided referencing either Stephen Vincent Benet or Charlie Daniels:
Daniel’s site is here.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Paul is the Republican candidate for Maine’s gubernatorial race – and the one holding onto a honest-to-God lead there right now. We had a talk on why he’s running, and what he wants to do as Governor:
Paul’s website is here.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
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Among the very puzzling aspects of the midterm election — and the Democratic debacle that appears to be looming in November — is why voters would return the opposition to power only two years after the multiple disasters of the Bush administration.
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I don’t know: maybe it’s because you guys suck?
Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh QotD & RotD, Joe Conason edition.
The very short version: the NEA put up an attack ad for Denish and against frontrunner Susana Martinez that featured a teacher who proceeded to badmouth Martinez’s education strategy. The only problem? Martinez happens to have been the prosecutor who put said teacher’s husband away for 23 years for kidnapping – something that was not exactly brought up in the first campaign ad, and which certainly calls into question the true source of the teacher’s ire. Naturally, the Martinez campaign is taking advantage of this mistake:
Continue reading Diane Denish (D CAND, NM-GOV) smeared by own attack ad?
Who?
Last month I implied that one of the signs of DOOM in November would be an increased number of convoluted theories about how to ensure Democratic dominance. Ben Domenech over at The New Ledger has links to the latest one, which is apparently resting on the core assumption that two years of Democratic disillusionment with an administration that is excellent at betrayal, yet incompetent at actual policy- and agenda-setting can be instantly set aside by the appointment of Elizabeth Warren to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Continue reading Elizabeth Warren will rise from the sea to destroy us all!
…a combination of kids, preschool starting up for the eldest, various random factors, and Mass Effect 2. I like to think of it as me girding my loins.
Individual race analysis is telling him 40+ lost in the House and the national totals are even better. Well, better from a certain point of view, which is not one currently shared by the Democratic party.
How bad is it? This bad: Continue reading #rsrh Charlie Cook declares DOOM.
Got asked to contribute some pieces to RIGHTNETWORK, which I will be doing more or less on a weekly basis. They’ll be different from the stuff that I do for RedState or here; this one 0n the mothballed antiwar movement is the first to be published. Check out the site.
You have probably read or heard by now that one of Senator Barbara Boxer’s used-to-be-senior-aides got busted for trying to bring pot into Capitol Hill. I say ‘used-to-be’ because they fired him, of course: aside from the bad image generally, as the Politico article notes Sen. Boxer is currently being a War on Some Drugs warrior when it comes to pot legalization. Now, I will not pretend that I do not have a certain rough sympathy for the fellow, coupled with a healthy contempt for his underlying arrogance. As someone privately commented to me on the matter, it must be pretty bad having to got to work for a Senator like Boxer every day: you’d almost need a painkiller. And/or a powerful anti-nauseant. As this is thus only indirectly Sen. Boxer’s fault, I’m not inclined to rake her personally over the coals for this.
However, I would like to know why she’s buying her own contraband – to wit, purchasing the endorsement of a woman who is up on ethics charges for using her position to profit family members. And no, I’m not joking or exaggerating. Continue reading Boxer pot aide should have gone with different drug.
Sympathy For The Devil
Come on. You knew that this one was coming.
