This is from Thursday’s WaPo, and it’s part of an article about how liberals feel apathetic and disinterested and vaguely dismayed about how everything’s turned to excrement since… err, January 2009*. WHICH IS OF COURSE A COINCIDENCE. And you’re a racist to even suggest otherwise, of course.
Still, it’s apparently not salad days for progressives: Continue reading QotD, Savor the Irony Edition.
This one comes from that former GEICO twerp Lance Baxter, who apparently is now spending his life building little apartment shrines to Tabitha of Freedomworks (and RedState). I swear to God; why can’t unhinged left-extremists look for dates inside their own demographic? …Yes, there is the potential for a plethora of cheap shots, there; but I’m still tired of seeing fringe lunatics from the Other Side use political commentary as an excuse to express their sexual neuroses.
Knowing Tabitha, and now that I’ve actually seen Baxter, I assume that this will all end in tears. The special kind of tears that result when you get a dose of pepper spray, right in the eyes.
Acts of civility all around, really: Andrew Romanoff (former Democratic candidate for CO-SEN) decently invited Ken Buck (R CAND, CO-SEN) to his birthday party, and Ken graciously accepted that invite. The birthday party was also a debt retirement party – the Colorado (and national, of course) Democratic establishment of course has no intention of encouraging future challengers to their anointed picks – so Ken’s present was along those lines. Nothing objectionable about that at all, if you’re reasonable enough to recognize that there comes a time to put down the partisan rhetoric, particularly when the other side is holding out a legitimately conciliatory hand. Nothing objectionable, and perfectly reasonable.
Unless you’re a hyper-partisan Lefty, of course. In that case, there’s nothing left for you but to mutter dark comments about “party crashers” and mock the losers of your primary. And if you’re the guy who has to depend on these hyper-partisan Lefties to win, you encourage them by starting a negative ad campaign against the guy who got an invite to a birthday party and had the effrontery to bring a present.
No wonder Bennett’s now losing in the polls, apparently. Too much time around the Democrat establishment, I wager.
Interesting game, there. Something called Audiosurf.
That’s the message (via RCP) of this article about the premature death announcement of conservatism. I will only note that they certainly had us down on one knee, at one point; fortunately, progressives fight like Braxton Bragg did after Chickamauga. Which is to say, no killing instinct and with plenty of backbiting along the way; it’s a damned good thing that we were able to knock the Democrats back on their heels in the GA-SEN runoff and the two late LA elections. If they had won those and Specter had then flipped in time for the start of the 111th Congress, the GOP caucus might not have unified… well, no need to fret over things that can never happen, now.
Still, good thing to remember for November: the fight doesn’t stop when the other guy’s on the ground. Although I suspect that the author of the WSJ piece doesn’t really want me to point that out.
I’ve got a request for Kendrick Meek (D CAND, FL-SEN). Rep. Meek, please watch this week’s Republican response video by Marco Rubio:
…then show me what you’ve got to match that. Go right ahead and try to impress me. Because I heard that you’re just a legacy Congressman who got his job because your mommy didn’t want her seat anymore – and that you’ve never had to actually fight to keep that seat in a general election – which means that you’re so far in above your head right now that you’re touching the bottom of the pool. But, hey: I invite you to prove me wrong. So wow me, and more importantly, wow the Florida electorate.
If you can.
Moe Lane
PS: Charlie, we already worked out that you had nothing when it comes to facing down Marco Rubio. Now hush: grownups talking.
Crossposted to RedState.
This absolutely says it all:
As one group of black women chanted “Yes we did and get over it,” those part of the Glenn Beck rally clapped and passed out Restore the Honor bottles of water.
One side, trying to taunt; the other, making sure that the first group doesn’t put themselves in the hospital while doing so. Hey, real quick: which side sounds more confident and attractive?
Roll on, November.
Moe Lane
PS: Via The Other McCain. And hit his blipping tip jar, already.
This cropped up at one of Phil Hare’s events. Some background (you can see the raw video here): Phil Hare was doing his best to ignore his constituents’ rather pointed questions about Hare’s lack of awareness when it came to Constitutional law; eventually Hare fled to an area where said constituents could not follow; they turned to leave; and then a Democrat called one of them a seven letter obscenity.
And that’s when the fun started.
Turns out that the guy is apparently Charles Giger, the husband and the chief of staff of DK Hirner, who has been tapped to lose the IL-18 Congressional election to Aaron Schock. Which leads to an interesting question: did Giger try to hide his wife’s campaign button to protect her, or to protect Phil Hare? – Because Hirner’s not only far too progressive for IL-18 (R+6); these days she’d be iffy for IL-17 (D+3). The last thing that the Hare campaign needs right now is any sort of association with left-wing extremists.
After all, isn’t Nancy Pelosi enough? Continue reading Democrats Acting Badly Watch: IL-17 AND IL-18!
Admittedly, we were hoping for more than 37%, but every little bit helps.
[Alvin] Greene, an African-American, captures 63% of the black vote. Eighty percent (80%) of whites favor [Senator Jim] DeMint.
I’m not going to be cruel and quote the total poll results. Suffice it to say that I wish that Greene had actually done something to deserve the public humiliation that is coming for him. The poor SOB just wanted to try out American democracy for himself, and he’s not going to get anything out of it…
Moe Lane
PS: OTOH, Nikki Haley is easily crushing Vince Shaheen in SC-GOV, and I’m sure that Shaheen has done something to deserve that.
…may not be unseen.
Blame Ed Driscoll.
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