Comments on: It’s come to this

By: IlÃon

IlÃon — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:54:16 +0000

“Also–have you noticed a lull in the news for the past couple of days? It’s almost as though the nation and even much of the world is holding its collective breath to see what will happen on Tuesday.”

[singing]
… The world in silent stillness lay,
to hear Electors sing …
[/singing]

By: Michael F

Michael F — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:54:40 +0000

SteveH is correct: CA leads the way! Be that in politics, economy, environmentalism, entertainment, or ethics and morality, CA leads the way. Thus did the disgruntled Pied Piper of Hameln lead the way for the town’s children….

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:32:59 +0000

The Estrich column may be crass and cynical, but that’s precisely what motivated some of Nevada’s establishment Republicans to endorse Reid over Angle. Some of them just don’t like Angle because she’s not part of their club–she’s decidedly middle-class, she’s a southern Baptist, she’s not an attorney or a lobbyist, and she could be something of a fringe figure during her years in the state assembly. So they have endorsed Reid because he’s more like them, and also because he has the potential to bring home more pork, which will make it easier for them to fund their pet projects, regardless of whether or not any of it will do anything to help Nevada’s troubled economy.

By: effess

effess — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:24:01 +0000

Broder has not gotten over the “Kennedy Seat” being occupied by Scott Brown.

May he now add the loss of the “Frank Seat” to his funk.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:09:19 +0000

This must be the latest meme for Nevada Democrats. Here’s a status message posted this morning on Facebook: “Nevada! Vote for Harry Reid for your own good. He is very powerful and brings it all back to Nevada. Racist Sharon Angle would be a lowly Freshman, which means nothing for you.”

Notice how neatly this collapses several fundamental Democratic beliefs into a few words: that citizens should vote according to what’s in it for them, rather than what’s good for the nation (but remember, it’s Republicans who are greedy); that the ideal political leader is the one who’s best at looting that great big candy store in Washington D.C. and “bringing it home” to buy votes (but it’s Republicans who are corrupt) and that the word “racist” is the best way to express disagreement with a political opponent (and of course, Republicans are all racist — even when you’re defending the unlovely Harry Reid, who complimented Obama for being “light-skinned” and having “no Negro dialect,” and who remarked, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” )

Also, notice the shamelessness — it does not seem to have occurred to this person that, possibly, Senators should not be chosen for such reasons or, at least, that those who have such reasons for choosing them should not admit it out loud.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:00:31 +0000

Expat, the Stanley Kurtz article is awesome. His book is going to be a must read. And how about the solution which Kurtz presents; namely, that “simply exposing the president’s lack of frankness about his political past and present could do more than anything to deplete his public appeal.”

By: geran

geran — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:20:15 +0000

Judging by the high unemployment in Nevada, and the massive National Debt, that “bacon” now-a-days looks like rotted roadkill.

By: expat

expat — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:24:45 +0000

Did you read the Stanley Kurz interview at NRO.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/251245/radical-white-house-interview

He thinks Obama has strategic plans to use a Repub win. He gets into this on pages 4 and 5 f the article.

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:12:02 +0000

Re California and the blue states: When the train is going off the track, you want to be in the caboose.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:50:47 +0000

California was always said to have been on the cutting edge in America’s direction. The problem being, that was also true of its slide into malignant liberalism. Which explains the state being much farther along in the disease process.