In The Interest of Civility

Via Swiftee, we see the testing of the Inaugural fireworks display intended to reach out to his harshest blue-state critics: By way of reaching out on my own, I have one thing I need to say to all the secessionists,...
Posted by Mitch on January 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Cue Conspiracists

Ohio certifies its November 2 vote count. Bush's margin of victory is a tad smaller than his unofficial election-night one - 119,000 votes versus 136,000. Let the snivelling begin....
Posted by Mitch on December 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Political? Or Just Slimy?

Stephen Gardner's former employer responds to charges that they fired Gardner for criticizing John Kerry....
Posted by Mitch on December 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Steve Gardner, John Kerry's former boatmate and a lynchpin of the Swift Boat Veterans Against the War, is on the wrong end of a world of Democrat payback and dirty tricks....
Posted by Mitch on November 29, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Interesting

What impact did blogs have in this past campaign? Blogpulse has the numbers. Lots and lots of them. (Via Ruffini)...
Posted by Mitch on November 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Failure Is An Orphan

Jonathan Last on the liberal myth (since 11/3) that Kerry was a lousy candidate....
Posted by Mitch on November 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

In Praise of Gloating

John Derbyshire is doing a bit of gloating....
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Tag It and Bag It

Kerry concedes:After a long, tense night of vote counting, the Democrat called Bush to concede Ohio and the presidency, The Associated Press learned.Thanks, Senator....
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Best of All Worlds?

The good guys lost by 3.5% in Minnesota. No - this is a good thing. We have a Republican governor, a Republican state house, a Democrat state senate that is largely an embarassment, an upcoming race with a US Senator...
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Suicide Watch

Matt Yglesias is hard at work:I would caution anyone against deluding themselves into believing that a second Bush term won't be so bad. With a majority of the popular vote and expanded margins in the House and Senate, we're going...
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Media In Tank for Kerry - Vol MMMCMLXXIII

Drove home from the station, knowing that Bush had won the popular vote by 3% and was within a concession or two of getting over 290 electoral votes. What did NPR News say? "American election too close to call!"...
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Yeeeeeaaaaaah!

Three points - just like I said. Republican net pickup of four in the Senate - better than I'd predicted. EV still in flux - but on track nicely. Digest of moonbat thought coming up soon....
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Your Attention Please

Apparently Zogby is calling the election for Kerry. Even though he hasn't done any exit polling in Florida or Ohio. Even though he's been a outlier in Kerry's favor throughout the election. Here's what Shot in the Dark central recommends...
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Getcher War Face On

If you're a Bush supporter, you can expect a lot of this from the mainstream media tonight; as Rocket Man notes, the mainstream media isn't even bothering to cover up the fact that they're overtly backing Kerry. So you can...
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

My Day at the Polls

Just before I left for the polls this morning, my neighbor - if anything, a stauncher Republican than I - phoned. "Have you see those MoveOn people by [our polling station]? They're right across the street!" He was wondering how...
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Buzz Live

I've set up a special AOL Chat ID just for tonight (and only tonight). If you have any election news, you can buzz us directly in the NARN studio at: NARNElection See you tonight......
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Blog meets the Godfather

The Northern Alliance will be covering the election live on the air tonight - AM1280 The Patriot, if you're in the Twin Cities. We'll be doing cut-ins on Hugh Hewitts live broadcast from Dallas, starting at 8PM and going until...
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Election Coverage

I'll be standing in line at my poll in the Midway of Saint Paul when it opens in about 90 minutes. My district is pretty reliably Democrat, unfortunately, but I doubt we'll see any monkey business. Like most precincts in...
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

In Which They Serve

If the vote were limited to those serving in the military (as it was in Switzerland until not so long ago), it'd be a Bush landslide:The respondents were broken down into two groups: Active Duty (AD) troops and Reserve /...
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Trunk for SCOM

Fraters Libertas has chosen the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour to launch a quixotic, but excellent, Minnesota Supreme Court bid. In Minnesota, the Supreme Court is elected. Three of the slots are up for election this term, although only...
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

300-238

Here's my prediction, in glorious surreal color. Bear in mind, I put no weight on my own predictions whatsoever - but it's an entertaining diversion. The wierd thing is, except for Hawaii, I don't think I'm being especially overoptimistic in...
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

100 Reasons I'm Voting For Bush, Not Kerry

In which I lay out my 100 reasons why I kept my vote with George W. Bush.

Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

All Of You Who Think...

...that Bin Laden's message was "aimed at Arabs", rather than at the US elections... ...please account for this:MEMRI said radical Islamist commentators monitored over the Internet this past weekend also interpreted the key passage of bin Laden's diatribe to mean...
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Harbinger?

Polipundit draws our attention to some stuff buried in the latest New York Times/CBS PollJohn Kerry has a 41% favorable, 47% unfavorable rating. This is his worst rating ever. President Bush has a 48% favorable, 41% unfavorable rating. That is...
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Kerry's Painful Discharge

Did John Kerry get an honorable discharge from the Navy? THe NYSun's Thomas Lipscomb makes the case that he didn't.A former officer in the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps Reserve has built a case that Senator Kerry was other than...
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Cheney and Perceptions

Dick Cheney went to Hawaii last night. And the reporting is an interesting look at the media's two-minute game to try to bring this election in for Kerry....
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Predictions

Varifrank has quite a number of predictions, some of which make Hewitt sound pessimistic. Vodkapundit is nervous about Tradesports' map.... More predictions later today....
Posted by Mitch on November 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Covering the Six

Wingmen for Bush is a brand new website on Bush's Air Guard career.It looks like the President has a better percentage of his former comrades on his side than Kerry does......
Posted by Mitch on October 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

When Predictions Go Bad

Bill Whittle, October 6:You may call that a Terror Mastermind. I call it a greasy wet spot on the wall of a cave in Afghanistan. The man is dead. Dead, or just possibly captured. The likelihood of him having been...
Posted by Mitch on October 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Swifties' Final Push

The latest Swiftboat Vets are out. Watch it. So Kerry's a decorated veteran? There's a decorated veteran. That's the Congressional Medal of Honor that Bud Day is wearing. Wanna see how he earned it?...
Posted by Mitch on October 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

New Kerry Ad

The new Kerry ad says voting for Lurch will lead to "a fresh start in Iraq". "Er, hi, Ba'athist hardliner with nothing to lose. Let's start over, and let my friend Pierre Omerde convince you to peacefully join a society...
Posted by Mitch on October 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

How's That?

Kerry, with Tom Brokaw. Insets are mine:Brokaw: "If you had been President, Saddam Hussein would be in power." Kerry: "Not necessarily." Brokaw: "You said you wouldn't go to war against him." Kerry: "That's not true. Because under the inspection process,...
Posted by Mitch on October 29, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Surely, Surely Not

Lileks on Sullivan and his endorsement:But peace, in the end. To repeat: He knows that if he lets his guard down and if terrorists strike or succeed anywhere, he runs the risk of discrediting the Democrats as a party of...
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Why Keep Digging?

So AmmoDumpGate has been discredited, probably fatally. John Kerry either knew that before his ad buy referencing the story went on the air (and if he didn't, the stupidity involved beggars logic). So why run with it?...
Posted by Mitch on October 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Damn the Refutation - Full Speed Ahead!

So this is Kerry's October Surprise? The left, naturally, is throwing everything it has into keeping this story on life support. As well they should - they conveniently had an ad campaign (and plenty of free news push) ready to...
Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

They're Gonna Need Some More Campaign BS

Yesterday, the story swept the internet - the NYTimes reported that nearly 400 tons of high explosives were missing from an Iraqi weapons depot. Josh Marshall, naturally, clung to the story like a life preserver. Today - NBC says not...
Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Kerry: Six Reasons

Kerry's six big handicaps, according to Victor Davis Hanson....
Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

All The Marbles

Things are looking good for the President this week - but we can't let up. As the Captain mentioned this morning, he, the Elder, Saint and I went to the Bush/Cheney HQ on Saturday and spent a couple of hours...
Posted by Mitch on October 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

The World As It Is

Via Powerline, a cartoon by one of their readers, Matt Chisholm: Remember; if you call the President "Bushitler!", you're exercising your first amendment rights. If you question John Kerry's pathetic record in the Senate, you're engaging in a smear campaign....
Posted by Mitch on October 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Blitz

The Wolves ad, along with Ashley's Story, are two of the more amazingly effective campaign spots I've seen this campaign. I can see why Bush saved 'em both for the final stretch....
Posted by Mitch on October 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Guardian Angle

Last week, the UK's lefty Guardian newspaper urged its readers to write letters to voters in Ohio. Bad idea: Terry Brown had received a letter from a Scottish Guardian reader. The navy veteran and retired lorry builder was "offended" as...
Posted by Mitch on October 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Open Letter...

...to all of you lefties who are up in arms over Sinclair's airing of Stolen Honor. In the past week, you (collective) have:tried to abrogate the First Amendment by siccing the FCC on SinclairPut pressure on Sinclair advertisersTried to invoke...
Posted by Mitch on October 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (44) | TrackBack

John Kerry: A Life in Quotes

Hawkins has the goods - the most detailed digest of Kerry's history in quotes I've ever seen. Read it. Absorb it. Forward it....
Posted by Mitch on October 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Ashley's Story

If you came directly out from under a rock to read this blog, you might not have seen Ashley's Story yet. It's one of the more moving campaign ads I've ever seen. Who can quibble with it? Josh "ua Micah"...
Posted by Mitch on October 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

It's Not Scrappleface

Arafat Endorses John Kerry, according to LGF. Well - sort of....
Posted by Mitch on October 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Why I'm Voting Bush

Hugh Hewitt's Blog Symposium question is a good one: Why am I voting for Bush and not Kerry? When I was a boy in North Dakota, I wondered how I could bring children into the world among the Minuteman silos...
Posted by Mitch on October 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (14) | TrackBack

Unfit To Lead

I'll be perfectly honest, as I always am; I didn't support George W. Bush until his nomination was locked up (I was a Forbes guy), and didn't honestly become enthusiastic about him as president until the day he stood on...
Posted by Mitch on October 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Jiggered?

Steve DenBeste returns from hiatus with accusation: In my opinion, the polls were being deliberately gimmicked, in hopes of helping Kerry. In early August it looks as if there was an attempt to engineer a "post-convention bounce", but it failed...
Posted by Mitch on October 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Synchronicity?

Elder from Fraters Libertas on the lock-step, talking-point-like synchronicity odd, surely coincidental similarities between the NyTimes and Strib's endorsements of John Kerry....
Posted by Mitch on October 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Slippery Weasel vs. Lying Weasel

The difference:Saying "I have a plan..." when you don't have one makes you a slippery weasel. Saying "My opponent has a plan..." when he doesn't have one - say, to implement a draft - makes you a Lying Weasel.That is...
Posted by Mitch on October 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Sign of Desperation?

Days after Kerry's "victory" (according to the media and the lefty blogs) in the third debate, most polls show a slight Bush lead. Nothing to get remotely complacent about - the 72 plan will not be wasted in this election...
Posted by Mitch on October 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Resounding Kerry Victory

As the "Pundogarchy" noted after the third debate on Wednesday, it's groaningly obvious that John Kerry won; in fact, as they were saying within seconds of the end of the debate, Kerry's numbers were booming in the polls to reflect...
Posted by Mitch on October 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Base The Vote

The WaPo reviews the new, post-debate George W. Bush:The president is selling conservatism a lot harder than compassion these days. His "uniter, not a divider" persona seems a quaint vestige, and in recent days, his stump speech has been especially...
Posted by Mitch on October 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Why Bush Won

John Kerry had boundless stores of facts (leave aside that many were obfuscatory, contradictory or wrong). He noodled endlessly (within the context of 90-second statements) about the minutiae of one program or another. He pecked away at the periphery of...
Posted by Mitch on October 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

Different Worlds

Read Oliver Willis' take on the debates. Tell me he was watching the same debate we were. Picture the sound his head is going to make when it explodes Election evening......
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

Wrapup

Craig westover: "Can't score it - but the first debate where bush was on the offenseive". King Banaian: "Bush won 10-9 on his own merits, but deduct a point from KErry ont he faith question. Kerry shoulda shut up!" Scott...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

End of the night

End of the night - HUUUUGE Standing O!" Anoka Flash (token libeeral in teh crowd): "I go with thwat I said before - Bush looked rested up. I think the polls will show Bush won -he far exceeded expectations. Thought...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Moonbat Alert

"When people pray for me, I can feel it". Oy, vey, the moonbats are going to spit froth all over that one... Kerry: "Freedom is a gift from the allmighty - no, everything is a gift from the almighty!"...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

At the NARN Table...

Brian "Saint Paul" Ward - "I hope it's not just the booze talking, but I think Bush is hitting a home run"....
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Around the Room, Part IV

Scott Johnson - "It's pretty even". Ed: " I think Bush is doing great" Kerry: "One combat division, one support division". Huh? What is a support division?" Margaret Martin: "President is kililng him - he ate his wheaties!" Dwight Rabuse...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Around the Room again

Random guy in a 173rd Airborne Brigade sweater: "I think the first debate bush was sizing him up, the second one he was plaing with him, and this time he's crushing him". Marion and Nathan - "Bush is very active...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wandering the room

8:26 - BUsh on sanctity of marriage - biggest round of applause of the night. Boom. Talked with Nancy from ProtestWarrior - "Bush is rocking!" 8:28 - Teresa, "I think Bush is n the offenseive". 8:30 - Bartender: "They're tipping...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Observations!

8:14 - Every time Kerry says "I have a plan", the crowd goes nuts. I don't think Kerry's going over. "Bush seems like he got a nap - he's much sharper tonight" 8:16 - during Bush's "His rhetoric doesn't match...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

From the crowd

8:11 - Anoka Flash from Centrisity: "I went to the bar and told them that Im surrounded by Republians -make it a double!"...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Sign being handed out...

Just vote for us and you will get up out of that wheelchair and walk....
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Kerry's Difficult Discharge

Questions about the circumstances surrounding John Kerry's discharge from the US Navy - started by, among others, conservative tool Mickey Kaus - made it into the New York Sun today, in a piece written by favorite NARN guest Thomas Lipscomb....
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Defeating Kedwards - the Moral Imperative

Lex Green of Chicago Boyz on the moral cretinism of too much of the left when the talk turns to atrocity....
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Silent Witness

"Meandering Mind of a Seminarian" is a blog written by a Catholic seminarian. He writes a two part post (Part One and Part Two) about a silent pro-life prayer vigil at a Kerry rally in Saint Louis. It's inspiring -...
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Kerry On Water

What do you think would happen if you asked key celebs what kind of water they drank? Let's think about it....
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Have No Fear: Thugs Will Be Watching The Polls

Welcome to Bolivia! According to Fund, the AFL-CIO will be providing that extra little jot of security our elections need:This year, lots of groups are jostling with each other to monitor the elections in battleground states. For its part, the...
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Five Points

The latest WaPo poll shows the President up by five points among likely voters. Good news?...
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Debate Redux

Some thoughts about the debate....
Posted by Mitch on October 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Breaking Ranks

Was the debate a draw? Well, in the sense that the nation is pretty evenly divided, and everyone thought their candidate won, yeah, probably so. But Ann Althouse dug about in the ABC Poll and found something interesting:Despite an overwhelming...
Posted by Mitch on October 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Line of the Night

Rocket Man has the best one:I've always thought of him as a rather dull-witted stiff. But that's wrong. He is a demagogue of some genius, like Father Coughlin or Huey Long, with, I think, the psychopathology that that implies. Two,...
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Wrapup

Elder: "For Kerry to invoke Reagan, over and over, when he actively subverted him..." John LaPlante: New improved Bush - biggest winner was Ronald Reagan. It will turn off people who think abortion is most important thing. Margaret Martin: "Bush...
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Debate Liveblog

Kerry - "I supported the Patriot Act and No Child..." Kerry - "I'm going to give you a tax cut" Bush - "Kerry voted against middle class tax cuts..." Kerry - "World is more dangerous because of the President's decisions",...
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Debate Prologue

Ready for the debate, out at the Undisclosed Location with Doug from Bogus Gold, Chumley Wonderbar from Plastic Hallway, Jo from Jo's Attic, Saint Paul, the Elder and the fetching Mrs. Elder from Fraters, John LaPlante from Policy Guy, the...
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tip Sheet

Dick Morris has advice for the President before the debate tomorrow....
Posted by Mitch on October 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Bribed, Coerced

Chrenkoff with his translation of an interview with Poland's president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, on Kerry's preening disrespect for our allies:"It's sad that a Senator with twenty years of experience does not appreciate Polish sacrifice... I don't think it's a question of...
Posted by Mitch on October 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Signs of a Winning Campaign?

Kerry is redeploying his resources out of Virginia:Sen. John F. Kerry's top campaign officials in Virginia have been reassigned to work in other states, effectively conceding the commonwealth to President Bush even as the Democratic presidential nomineerides a wave of...
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (51) | TrackBack

Profile In Outrage

Hanna Rosin from the WaPo writes a profile of SwiftVets/POWs founder Roy Hoffman....
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

We'll Always Have Paris

There's a feeling in the air - on the left, anyway. Belmont Club put its finger on it....
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Watch It

The new Swifties/POWs for the Truth spot. Which part of this spot is "all lies" and "debunked", again?...
Posted by Mitch on October 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

News Flash: Majority of Democrats Prefer Kerry!

Patterico notes the significance of the Newsweek poll that shows Kerry ahead:The Newsweek poll, which has rather consistently overpolled Democrats as compared to the other major polls, shows Kerry having erased his deficit in the first post-debate poll.In the meantime,...
Posted by Mitch on October 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

New Bumper Sticker

Courtesy of a commenter to a previous thread: Think "Global Test"/Act Locally I like it. Any sticker printers out there wanna drop me a line?...
Posted by Mitch on October 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Let's Have A Summit

There were two running jokes at the Undisclosed Location last night; every time Kerry mentioned Vietnam, everyone took a drink (or talked about it), and every time Kerry called for a summit (five times, by my non-scientific count), people ran...
Posted by Mitch on October 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Draw

Rocketman, easily the most pessimistic blogger in attendance at the Undisclosed Location last night, is coming around just a bit:the Gallup poll indicates that watching the debate had almost no effect on respondents' assessment of who can best handle the...
Posted by Mitch on October 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Kerry's Big Lie

This was the part last night where - ask anyone - I almost threw my laptop at the TV set:"Saddam Hussein didn't attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. al Qaeda attacked us. And when we had Osama bin Laden...
Posted by Mitch on October 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Two Words

I want you to remember two words from last night's debate. KERRY "...global test..." Got that? His protestations about Bush's "I'm not going to get a permission slip" line aside, that is exactly what he wants. Remember those words. To...
Posted by Mitch on October 01, 2004 | TrackBack

Two Americas

Last night, I started the germ of a point that I want to elaborate on. It's one that Laura Ingraham's been hammering on, and one to which Hugh Hewitt puts a perfect coda in his blog. I think there are...
Posted by Mitch on October 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Wrapup

I was thinking about the debate on the way home. I don't think I could call it a win for either candidate, honestly. Here's how I think the analysis will break:Wonks will give points to Kerry for coming across fairly...
Posted by Mitch on September 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Liveblogging The Debate

I'm here at the Stroms' house, with a galaxy of Twin Cities' bloggers:King Banaian, Atomizer, Saint, Elder and the fetching Mrs. Elder from Fraters, James Lileks, Jo from Jo's Attic, the Nihilist in Golf Pants, Rocketman, Mrs. Rocket (not to...
Posted by Mitch on September 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Coals to Newcastle

Jay Reding on Dick Morris' new critique of the Kerry campaign, especially its "all war, all the time" strategy:As Morris notes, Bush has a double-digit lead on the issue of the war to begin with. Kerry is assuming (and in...
Posted by Mitch on September 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

The Drumbeat Begins

You're a Democrat. Your attacks on George Bush, when not being folded, spindled, mutilated, and tossed to the curb by an aggressive and asymmetric alternative media, are falling on deaf ears. Your former comrades in arms revile you by a...
Posted by Mitch on September 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (25) | TrackBack

Enter Envoy

John Kerry says he'll bring his formidable diplomatic prowess to the table in bringing our allies into the war on terror. He'll have to be a formidable diplomat indeed....
Posted by Mitch on September 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

The Poll That Matters

Forget the Gallup, AP, CNN, Minnesota and Quinnipiac polls. This one has the juice:What is the Presidential Mask Election Predictor? In 2000, due to the popularity of political masks, BuyCostumes.com began publishing statistics on each Presidential Candidate's mask sales. It...
Posted by Mitch on September 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

954 Points

Retired Air Force Colonel John Wambough has what, in a sane world with a rational Democrat party, would be the last word on Bush's Air Guard service:...
Posted by Mitch on September 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

301-237?

According to CNN, if the election were held today Bush would win, and win big. Quite a sea of red, there - and of the blue states, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Minnesota are all very much in play at the moment...
Posted by Mitch on September 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

John Fund was Right

John Fund warns, in his latest book, of massive voter fraud in this election; the immense, systematic fraud boggles the mind:The U.S. has the sloppiest election systems of any industrialized nation, so sloppy that at least eight of the 19...
Posted by Mitch on September 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Candidate from Fantasyland

I keep referring to Goebbels' "Big Lie" dictum when referring to the Kerry campaign. I'm sorry about it, in a way - once you've invoked Naziism, your argument really has noplace else to go. And yet I can think of...
Posted by Mitch on September 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Not Dead Yet

"Eventually, Jane Fonda apologized for her actions. But John Kerry refuses to." The new Swiftvets ad should put the Swifties, and their explosive allegations, front and center again. The media will, of course, do their best to bury the facts...
Posted by Mitch on September 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

"Unimpeachable"

Ed at Captain's Quarters has the essential evisceration of Bill Burkett. Too many money quotes to list. Just read it, and forward it to any friends that still back CBS....
Posted by Mitch on September 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Nuance

John Kerry's sister Diana shows us what her bro means by building alliances:Diana Kerry, younger sister of the Democrat presidential candidate, told The Weekend Australian that the Bali bombing and the recent attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta clearly...
Posted by Mitch on September 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Five Points?

Last week, it was the news that Illinois and New Jersey - very blue states - were in serious play (the President may be ahead in Jersey, and tied in Illinois despite Chicago's dominance of the state's voting climate). Before...
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Hollywood Parallel?

David Strom - the junior contributor to Margaret Martin's "Our House" blog, has the perfect simile for the Kerry campaign these days:The Kerry campaign is beginning to look a lot like a large-scale replay of the Caine Mutiny. Kerry, "old...
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Please please please...

...oh Lord, let the left keep believing this sort of thing. From the increasingly-incoherent Oliver WillisI think Bush has problems with his base. Even with the Iraq war supporters, I don't see the motivation like there was to remove the...
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Heads Begin To Roll

According to Bird Dog at Tacitus, the first head has rolled in relation to Rathgate. Oh, not a CBS staffer or anything...:A radio talk-show host said Saturday he has been fired for criticizing CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges...
Posted by Mitch on September 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

The Flaking Begins?

First things first: One poll doth not a trend make. We're clear on that, right? That said, the latest CBS News Poll, conducted just after the GOP convention, has some interesting figures....
Posted by Mitch on September 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The Real Debate

Behind the presidential race, the most important campaign in the country this year is the Senate race in South Dakota. Jason Van Beek at South Dakota Politics is going to be live-blogging the debate between candidates Tom Daschle and John...
Posted by Mitch on September 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The Gap, Plugged

Last week as Memogate broke, one of the big glaring, non-typographical sirens that erupted was the mention of Brig. General Buck Staudt - a man who had apparently retired from the Guard nearly 18 months before the alleged memos were...
Posted by Mitch on September 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Narrow the Slogan Gap

iowahawk notes that Josh "ua Micah" Marshall has discovered Kerry's problem: There's a slogan gap. And he wants help:Kerry needs a catch phrase or catch question about the Iraq war, one that provides offense against President Bush's oft-stated, extremely lame,...
Posted by Mitch on September 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

The Couch Test

Kerry's in a putative dead heat with Bush, say the pundits. But answering a phone poll is easy. Dragging yourself off the couch on a chilly November night to go stand in line at a polling station? That's hard. You...
Posted by Mitch on September 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

Crumble?

Kerry's Black August seems to be still falling out. Wouldja believe Illinois - among the bluest of the blue states - might be in play now?The turn in this election tide could set up a political stunner. Illinois is a...
Posted by Mitch on September 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Sugar Coat

The Boston Glob grandiloquently claims that the Rather/TANG memos are purrfectly legit:But specialists interviewed by the Globe and some other news organizations say the specialized characters used in the documents, and the type format, were common to electric typewriters in...
Posted by Mitch on September 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Oops

What's the left blogosphere saying about the phony dox rhubarb?...
Posted by Mitch on September 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Fearless Predictions Part II

CBS is going to take a bath. The Kitty Kelley book on the Bushes will backfire on Kerry. Teresa Heinz-Kerry will be caught beating John Kerry with a coat hanger, apoplectic with rage....
Posted by Mitch on September 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Type Cast

When I entered college, in 1981, my alma mater had just started a computer science department. The equipment was fairly revolutionary in its day; a DEC PDP11/44 running UNIX. Jamestown College was a very early adopter, in the great scheme...
Posted by Mitch on September 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Well By Law

Apparently Joe Soucheray has infiltrated the Kerry inner circle:"And I intend to have not just a Department of Health and Human Services, but a Department of Wellness." Note to all bloggers: Please please please repeat this as widely as possible....
Posted by Mitch on September 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

The Sound Of A Dog Not Hunting

Bush racked up enough points to qualify for his full hitch of Air National Guard service. Not bad for a deserter, huh?...
Posted by Mitch on September 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Through the Grace of McCain Feingold

If you're a 527 organization, you are supposed to stop with the radio and TV ads now; the election is less than 60 days off. Of course, there are loopholes:printed communication, direct mail, voter guides, or the InternetIt's here I'll...
Posted by Mitch on September 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

I'm Glad...

...that I'm not the only guy to whom this idea came to mind:I got to thinking about how much John Kerry reminds me of the M*A*S*H character Frank Burns. Follow me on this: Sure working at a MASH unit was...
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Step Off The Duke

The comparisons between Kerry and Dukakis bother me on two counts....
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You Be The Judge

This: Or this:...
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Too Clean?

Susan Estrich whines that Democrats - the party of Begala and Carvile - need to start playing dirty:What their records suggest is not only a serious problem with alcoholism, which Bush but not Cheney has acknowledged, but also an even...
Posted by Mitch on September 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Boing

Bush's numbers get the bounce that was was declared a thing of the past after the bounce-free Democrat convention, according to Time. Chuck at Big Mouth puts the numbers in a convenient table. How is the blogging left - which...
Posted by Mitch on September 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

In the Beginning, There Was The Plan

Yesterday, I wrote about the continuing, bottomless vapidity of Kerry's alleged foreign policy. A few commenters responded....
Posted by Mitch on September 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

Hateful

Zell Miller's speech was indeed animated last night; John and Ed covered it well, read about it there. However - is there anyone who seriously believes that the lefty media wasn't calling Miller's speech "hateful" even before Miller took the...
Posted by Mitch on September 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Twice

Ed quotes Terry MacAuliffe on Kerry's alleged time in Cambodia:Q: Does it bother you that the Democrats have nominated a candidate that told a fable about spending Christmas in Cambodia on the floor of the United States Senate? A: John...
Posted by Mitch on September 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Simile of the Day

I have to think my dad, a former speech teacher, would love James' description of Ahnold's speech:A good Arnold speech is not full of subtle rhetoric, cozening shifts in vocal tone, facial nuance. It’s like watching a strong man chop...
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To Drive Your Enemies Before You...

Ahnold kicked donkey....
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Rudy Didn't Fail

Matt Yglesias gets a fair amount of respect from conservative bloggers. He's frequently called "one of the good ones". As this piece shows, it's all relative....
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Kaus on Cook

When, oh, when, will Mickey Kaus install permalinks? Because storiesl ike this are too good to have to scroll down for:ABC's "contest to lose" blooper was explicitly based on Cook's incumbents-never-win-the-undecideds analysis. Today Cook declares [I]n the absence of some...
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Please Don't Hurt Us

Johns Kerry and Edwards will draw a line in the sand. And if the murdering mullahs in Teheran cross that line - well, the Johns will draw another line, dammit! Or so says their "plan" to "confront" Iran on their...
Posted by Mitch on August 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

What's In A Medal

What must it be like to be in John Kerry's campaign today? You're young, idealistic, probably Ivy-league-educated and pretty dang attractive. You joined the campaign because you wanted to "Make a difference", or as a steppingstone to bigger things. You...
Posted by Mitch on August 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack

I Will Gladly Give You the Proof Tuesday if you Shut Up Today

As http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/">Ed noted the other day, the WaPo is beating on Kerry's story:However seared he was, Kerry's spokesmen now say his memory was faulty. When the Swift boat veterans who oppose Kerry presented statements from his commanders and members of...
Posted by Mitch on August 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (24) | TrackBack

Mantra Watch

So every leftyblogger these days is saying, in nearly perfect unison, that no matter what the truth about Kerry in Vietnam is, they're voting for him because "Bush has been a disastrous president" - but the Swifties are lying, so...
Posted by Mitch on August 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (19) | TrackBack

Another Lie That's Not

Via Ed, we see that Kerry is backing off from one of his Purple Heart claims, admitting that his first Purple Heart was accidentally self-inflicted. Here are the relevant sections from the Purple Heart issuance criteria:(8) After 7 December 1941,...
Posted by Mitch on August 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Discount On Million-Dollar Wounds?

This is a question. I don't know the answer. I'm hoping someone does. We are told that John Kerry was sent back to the US after serving four months of his tour of duty because he'd received his third Purple...
Posted by Mitch on August 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Riposte

This started as a comment yesterday. I figured it was worth expanding on....
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Campaign Ads

On the one hand, after three weeks, Kerry is finally trying to respond to the Swifties:The Democratic Party launched a costly round of ads Friday to buttress John Kerry's credentials to be commander in chief as the White House accused...
Posted by Mitch on August 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Dole on Kerry

Bob Dole, himself a decorated war veteran, addresses Kerry's war service:Former Sen. Bob Dole, a World War II veteran and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, suggested Kerry apologize for his 1971 testimony to Congress about atrocities U.S. soldiers allegedly committed in...
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One Step Up, Four Steps Back

Ed notes that William Rood, a former Swift boat commander and current Chicago Tribune editor, is backing part of Kerry's story. Which is where Kerry's problems begin....
Posted by Mitch on August 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Shipmates

Before the Swifties, Ensign Kerry served on the guided-missile frigate/cruiser (it was reclassified at some point in its life) USS Gridley. Some members of the Gridley's crew have put up a website with their reminiscences of serving with the future...
Posted by Mitch on August 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Bush Rally Epilogue - Part II

By the way - nobody made anyone sign any loyalty oaths. I even saw someone in a "Thune' T-shirt. That's as big as any tent needs to be. UPDATE: Dave Thune is a DFL city councilman from St. Paul. He's...
Posted by Mitch on August 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

An Afternoon With The President

I saw President Bush at the XCel Energy Center in Saint Paul today, along with the Elder and Saint Paul and Captain Ed, as well as my son Sam, and Drew, the son of Paul from Wog's Blog. First, some...
Posted by Mitch on August 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Once And For All

Since the apparent problems with John Kerry's possible fantasy life began leaking into the mainstream media, some Dem flaks have been trying to jump the trend by tossing out an oldie but goodie - Bush's service in the Texas Air...
Posted by Mitch on August 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Presidential Visit

President Bush is coming to town on Wednesday. Wanna go? They're giving away tickets at Bush/Cheney headquarters in St. Paul, 1445 Energy Park Drive in Saint Paul. Tickets are available until 9PM tonight (Sunday), and until they're gone tomorrow. Get...
Posted by Mitch on August 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

The Number Game

Mark Steyn hardly qualifies as a blockade runner - he's usually good - but under the existing conditions, I'm amazed this piece got printed in the Sun-Times....
Posted by Mitch on August 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Gathering Storm

As Ed notes, we seem to need the foreign, especially Brit, press to do our actual journalism for us - at least as far as the Kerry story is concerned. Fortunately, the conservative London Telegraph is doing exactly that. This...
Posted by Mitch on August 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Serving Together

According to Dog Snot Diaries. By the way - I find it endlessly fascinating that the left giggles about the credibility of guys who served on boats in Kerry's division and squadron - but treats John McCain's defense of...
Posted by Mitch on August 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

More Blockade Runners

PoliPundit notes that more newspapers are breaking ranks: When the Swift Vets' story makes it to the ultra-liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Dallas Morning News and the Seattle Times, you know there's some there there. The piece is poorly researched,...
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A Picture Says A Thousand Words

Essential. (Via Allah Is In The House)...
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Musical Gunners

Captain Ed notes a problem with the timeline for one of John Kerry's most articulate supporters:Bingo! Yachtzee! Alston received his serious wounds in that same exact battle that took Peck out of service. On January 29th, Alston was medevaced out...
Posted by Mitch on August 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Senator Cliff Effing Clavin

Jeff Fecke commented yesterday:I still think that in the end, at worst this is somewhat embarassing for Kerry and then it vanishes into the night. Certainly if the media has its way, that's exactly what will happen....
Posted by Mitch on August 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

I Wuz A SEAL, Ya Know

Remember Jesse Ventura? I was thinking about ol' meatbrain the other day, in relation to John vietnam Kerry's eternal campaign to vietnam associate himself vietnam in peoples' minds as a Vietnam veteran. The mentions are too frequent, too inappropriate, too...
Posted by Mitch on August 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Deafening Silence

The Professor notes that Matt Yglesias is the first of the heavyweight leftybloggers to acknowledge the existence of John Kerry's "Kurtz Khronikles" story:in my experience these damaging-looking allegations have a way of turning out not to be true, a fact...
Posted by Mitch on August 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Credibility

Yesterday while talking about Swift Boat Vets for the Truth, someone commented to the effect that "they never had any credibiliity anyway". Really? Why? And says who?...
Posted by Mitch on August 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (25) | TrackBack

Sterner Stuff

First, the good news: Captain Ed, heretofore not convinced that the Swift Boat Veterans For The Truth campaign was a good idea, has finally come around. Does America need a President this pusillanimous? At least now we understand the reason...
Posted by Mitch on August 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Really, Really Dumb?

There is much disagreement about the Swift Boat Vets For the Truth ads about John Kerry's war record. It strikes me that if the charges were truly groundless, this would not be happening. HUMAN EVENTS has obtained a copy of...
Posted by Mitch on August 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

I Will Gladly Give You A Plan Tuesday For A Presidency Today

John Kerry has a secret plan. Shhhhhhhhhh....
Posted by Mitch on August 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The Military Vote

An acquaintance of mine insists that there's a groundswell of support for John Kerry - in the military. As Hugh notes, this is probably largely balderdash. But Brendan Miniter notes that there may be something to this; parents of soldiers...
Posted by Mitch on August 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

My Mayor

When the likes of Nick Coleman and Lori Sturdevant bemoan the rise of the right in Minnesota, they frequently put their complaints in the context of complaining that in the blessed past, Minnesotans could put aside their differences for the...
Posted by Mitch on August 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Core Constituency

Kerry's base is getting more and more solid, according to NPR:Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's popularity is rising in Europe. European newspapers are becoming increasingly vocal in stating the hope that a new president in Washington will help heal the...
Posted by Mitch on August 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Thud?

Could it be that Kerry got no bounce at all after the convention?...the Democratic ticket of Kerry and John Edwards trailed the Republican ticket of Bush and Dick Cheney 50% to 46% among likely voters, with independent candidate Ralph Nader...
Posted by Mitch on August 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The Word

Jay Reding has an excellent piece over on RedState about the one word Bush needs to win the election. I'd post an excerpt, but RedState seems to disable copying of more than a line or so of its content. Note...
Posted by Mitch on July 30, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Thinking the Unthinkable

Deacon from Powerline ponders the worst by way of answering a rhetorical question:Dean Esmay poses this question to conservatives: If Kerry is elected, will they try to support him if he does the right thing, or will they degenerate into...
Posted by Mitch on July 29, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Memo To DNC: Lose the Silly Hats

Blogs of War on Sillypicturegate:I didn’t think anything of the original photos but then again I spent many years working in and around NASA. You get used to guys in funny suits. The real story here is Mary Beth Cahill...
Posted by Mitch on July 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Coulter Kerfuffle

Yesterday, USA Today bagged their planned Ann Coulter convention column. Today, Human Events has (courtesy of Coulter herself) the editor's line comments from Coulter's submission Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of...
Posted by Mitch on July 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Close Combat

For a while, I had a hard time telling who was who: ...and... (Via A Small Victory)...
Posted by Mitch on July 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Democrats With Happy Fingers

First, it was Sandy Berger and the Pants and Socks of Holding. Now it's Phyllis Kahn (DFL - Shangri La). Kahn, who was a moonbat before being a moonbat was cool, was collared pilfing a Republican candidate's literature....
Posted by Mitch on July 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Bushwhack

Jay Reding links to Steve Den Beste's fascinating predictions for the race. They're interesting, and only in the least because they coincide with my own....
Posted by Mitch on July 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Blogging the Conventions

There are times I think it'd be fun to blog at the conventions. Oh, not so much in the conventions themselves; I think blogging from the mob of fleabitten moonbat protesters outside Madison Square Garden would be a lot more...
Posted by Mitch on July 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Disintegration

You know the basis of your credibility - if you're a darling of the left, like Joe Wilson - is falling apart when even the WaPo bails on you....
Posted by Mitch on July 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Not So Fast

F*** The Vote (not at all safe for work - you've been warned) isn't the dumbest idea I've seen - that would have to have been vote-swapping between Nader supporters in Gore states and Gore supporters in swing states back...
Posted by Mitch on July 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Fearless Predictions

Last January, the Northern Alliance met Hugh Hewitt for lunch at a restaurant in Long Lake, Minnesota. At the end of lunch, Hugh had us predict the electoral vote breakdowns by state, and thus predict the election. Of the entire...
Posted by Mitch on July 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

The Senate Shuffle

As the rumors of Mike Ditka running for Senate gain substance, it's clear that time has not mellowed Ditka, known to all rational football fans as the greatest coach the game of football has ever known....
Posted by Mitch on July 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Non-Sequitur

Powerline notes this exchange between the Bush and Kerry campaigns:Bush also took issue with Kerry's pronouncement this week that he and running mate John Edwards were proud of the fact that they opposed in the Senate the $87 billion aid...
Posted by Mitch on July 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Light Strawman, Kick Across Stage

One of the most insidious strawmen of the past week has been the left's insistence that "Edwards has just as much leadership and foreign policy experience as Bush did when he was elected." Buncombe....
Posted by Mitch on July 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

The Moron from Massachusetts

Silly America speaks."And," Kerry added with a grin, "We've got better hair. I'll tell you, that goes a long way."With John Kerry, it's going to have to. It's probably his most coherent foreign policy statement....
Posted by Mitch on July 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Diminishing Returns

Kerry received, in effect, no bounce in the polls from picking John Edwards....
Posted by Mitch on July 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Blast from the Past

Remember the howls of outrage when George Bush answered Larry King's question:Well, I haven't been briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time. They called him "willfully ignorant". They called him "Smirking Chimp". That...
Posted by Mitch on July 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

MoveOn Now Superfluous

I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh much - I'm usualy busy during that time of the day - but the few minutes I caught yesterday were classic. John Kerry has joined the lunatic, conspiracy-mongering left - and he did it...
Posted by Mitch on July 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

What Does Edwards Mean?

Joe Gandelman analyzes what Edwards likely means to the Kerry campaign....
Posted by Mitch on July 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

The Case for Edwards

Who's Kerry's Veep choice? Pfft. Probably Edwards. At least one pundit is making a case for John Edwards....
Posted by Mitch on July 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Rationalizing Life

People who favor "choice" rationalize it in many different ways; most commonly, they quibble with the actual beginning of life, or more often the "Viability" of life. Using this rationale, France and Germany allow abortion through the first seven and...
Posted by Mitch on July 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Departing Controlled Flight

As I've said before, I used to be a Democrat. Like a lot of conservatives - including many of the best ones - I started my politically-aware life as a liberal of sorts. I joke that America would be better...
Posted by Mitch on July 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

This Would Be Extreme

The editors of Shot In The Dark in no way condone this sort of thing, or even joking about it: Not funny. Not funny at all. UPDATE: Actually, it's really not funny; Charles Johnson at LGF has more: Clowning around...
Posted by Mitch on July 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Kicking Dogs

Laura from the Hennepin County for Bush campaign writes:Worked the Edina 4th of July Parade for Bush today and one Edina volunteer brought her beautiful golden retriever festooned with Bush placards. No sooner did the parade start than the dog...
Posted by Mitch on July 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

I Don't Dare Hope

I don't think I've been good enough this year for this to pan out.The National Draft Dean for VP Committee has not contacted either Dean or Kerry about its efforts, but it expects to approach the former Vermont governor before...
Posted by Mitch on July 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Essential Reading

Further proof that I need to have a political section in my blogroll....
Posted by Mitch on July 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Light Enough Already

My Northern Alliance colleagues at Powerline made the Strib....
Posted by Mitch on June 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Show Me

Senator Lurch Kerry apparently interviewed Dick Gephardt for the Veep slot on the know-nothing Democrat ticket.John F. Kerry spent 90 minutes yesterday interviewing Representative Richard A. Gephardt, as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee began the closing phase of his search...
Posted by Mitch on June 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4)

Backing Into Office

As Captain Ed notes, the Dems' strategy seems to be to try to get the public to avoid any mention of John Kerry. As long as the public's attention is on anything - anything - other than Kerry himself. First...
Posted by Mitch on June 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4)

I Don't Know About You...

...but if I were John Kerry, I wouldn't be happy to have a Washington > Campaign 2004 > Behind the Scenes, a Restless and Relentless Kerry" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/politics/campaign/13TRAIL.html?hp">pff piece start:Like a caged hamster...Is that wrong?...
Posted by Mitch on June 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Rear-Guard Action

The war is going well, despite the most fervent wishes of the moonbat far left. The economy is improving - perhaps even shaping up into a boom. After a year of wondering whether to run on the economy or the...
Posted by Mitch on June 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Flip This

The Center for American Progress bills itself as "a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America". Translated into English, that means "another stealth Democrat propaganda front". To wit: Yesterday's piece, "President Bush -...
Posted by Mitch on June 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3)

Bad Sign for Kerry?

This can't be good for Kerry: How many Democrats do you think know what that means?...
Posted by Mitch on June 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

What If Napoleon Had a B-52 at Waterloo?

Via Memeorandum, we see that a Kerry-McCain ticket is polling waaaay better than Bush/Cheney. Note to CBS, and to the usual pack of liberal bloggers: I bet a Kerry/Christ ticket would do well, too....
Posted by Mitch on May 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4)

Delayed Gratification

It's not surprising to me that John Kerry was for being nominated, before he was against it.During a long campaign, a lot of good and bad ideas get tossed around, and some of them are destined to regrettable. Putting Mike...
Posted by Mitch on May 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4)

Unexpected Battleground?

As Ed pointed out on Saturday, everyone expects New Jersey to be solidly Democrat. And yet, says Jeff Jarvis, not all is well for the Dems in the swamps of Jersey....
Posted by Mitch on May 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

When He Says "Help", He Means "Endlessly Stonewall"

The latest John Kerry ad crows that the Massachusetts senator joined with John McCain to work on solving the POW/MIA issue. Leave aside for a moment the curious mention of a senator from an opposing party in a Kerry campaign...
Posted by Mitch on May 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

He Wanted to Raise Gas Prices - Before He Wanted to Lower Them

John Kerry has spent the week condemning the administration for...gas prices. The same John Kerry that, a month ago, proposed a 50 cents/gallon gas tax....
Posted by Mitch on May 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2)

Unfit To Command. Unable To Rebut

As noted in Powerline, the Boston Glob has been covering the story of Kerry's former commanders and shipmates' statements. The left, predictably, is reacting predictably....
Posted by Mitch on May 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12)

Demonstrations

John Kerry spent parts of two days in the Twin Cities - which must mean that Minnesota is in play, as far as the Dems are concerned....
Posted by Mitch on May 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Band of Bothers

Captain Ed finds some ghastly reporting at the Boston Glob....
Posted by Mitch on May 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Another Flipflop

Tagorda notes a new Kerry flipflop:John Kerry, March 5, 2004: At this rate the Bush administration won't create its first job for more than 10 years. Americans have a clear choice in this election. They can either suffer with more...
Posted by Mitch on May 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Cue The Violins

Dane Smith is one of Minnesota's best political reporters. I don't know his personal politics, nor do I care. But he has a reputation for relative fairness and detachment. But this piece in this morning's Strib? Oy, vey....
Posted by Mitch on May 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

The Next Kangaroo Court

Two weeks ago, when John Kerry's mouth started getting him in trouble, the media pulled out the Clark testimony and the 9/11 commission. It drew some attention away from Kerry's budding meltdown. But the hearings are over. What next?...
Posted by Mitch on April 29, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5)

Ugly

I was watching some of the footage from the President's visit on Monday. It shows some of what's at stake in this election....
Posted by Mitch on April 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

The Clark Of The '04's

Soundfury on why John Kerry is the new Wesley Clark. One of several money quotes:In an electronic age further buttressed by the Internet evolution and the later blogosphere revolution, his record caught up to him at warp speed. He just...
Posted by Mitch on April 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4)

Why Bush Will Win

As much thrashing around this issue as I've done, nobody has put it quite as well as our guest last week on the Northern Alliance show, area polymath Vox Day:Why will Bush win? At first, I assumed this would be...
Posted by Mitch on April 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Credit Where Credit Is Due

I've said it many times; nobody can take anything away from Kerry for having served in combat, whatever his motivations, his actions after he left the service, or the disposition of his naval career. However, we may need to make...
Posted by Mitch on April 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3)

The Fraudier Fraud

It refers to the 9/11 commission.

Posted by Mitch on April 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7)

Rocket Watch

Rocket Watch - Last January, when Hugh Hewitt gathered the Northern Alliance for lunch, he asked us all to submit our predictions for the election. The most optimistic was Hewitt, who predicted a crushing landslide. I felt I was being...
Posted by Mitch on April 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

News Flash!

News Flash! - John Kerry has... ...flip-flopped!The most disturbing political attacks spewing from the droopy mouth of John Kerry are not the expected jibes over national security policy, but rather his stated disdain for free trade. Kerry’s economic ignorance aside,...
Posted by Mitch on April 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Hollywood's Fantasy Life

Hollywood's Fantasy Life - I saw the beginning of "The Siege" with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis yesterday. The movie begins with footage of the bombing of the Khobar Towers. It recycled the footage of President Clinton's public reaction to...
Posted by Mitch on April 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The One Bad Rap -

The One Bad Rap - Howard Dean deserved most of his bad raps. He was a flip-flopper of Kerryesque dimension - and had he remained the front-runner, that would have come out the way Kerry's past is coming out today....
Posted by Mitch on April 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Does Kos Know This?

Does Kos Know This? - Lefty bloggers have been known to obsess over polls. One wonders how this is flying among the Kos crowd - Kerry has dropping in Pennsylvania, a key swing state. Bush currently leads in PA. Captain...
Posted by Mitch on April 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Advice

Advice - Mickey Kaus has advice for the President: "P.S.: I was seated next to two soldiers who'd returned injured from Iraq and were being treated at Walter Reed hospital. If I'd known Bush's joke was going to be a...
Posted by Mitch on March 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Outrage?

Outrage? - This email was forwarded to me by Colonel Fingers (congrats!), after a roundabout journey from Kirkuk Airbase in Iraq:All outside US flags need to come down per CENTAF guidance. Col Gibson is taking this back to CENTAF. Inside...
Posted by Mitch on March 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Damned If You Do...

Damned If You Do... - Last week, the President finally started hitting back. So I suppose this was inevitable This piece, from AFP, is headlined "Kerry and Bush urged to tone down election attacks frenzy". Try this exercise at home:...
Posted by Mitch on March 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kerry On Defense II

Last Friday, I asked Democrats and other Kerry supporter exactly why they thought John Kerry was "untouchable on national security". I got roughly the answers I expected: Jeff Fecke of BLOTML said "I think most Democrats believe Kerry will be...
Posted by Mitch on March 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kerry On National Security

Kerry On National Security - One of the Democrat mantras this election has been "Bush Can't Touch Kerry on National Security". Kerry is, of course, a complete non-entity on national security. It's entirely possibly that Dianne Feinstein would be better...
Posted by Mitch on March 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Goebbels 101

Goebbels 101 - "'If you tell a big enough Lie, and keep on repeating it, in the end people will come to believe it." Case in point: Senator John F. Kerry attacked President Bush on national security issues today, asserting...
Posted by Mitch on March 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Drifting Up?

Drifting Up? - Deacon from Powerline reports that some new polls are showing the base is returning to Bush. I wonder if Kos is harangueing about these yet?...
Posted by Mitch on March 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Bring It On!

Bring It On! - The names, I mean. Colin Powell called the candidate on his lie omission:Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, under pressure to say which foreign leaders were rooting for him to beat President Bush, refused on Sunday to...
Posted by Mitch on March 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Ou Est Le Boeuf? -

Ou Est Le Boeuf? - Kerry won't cough up the names of his alleged foreign supporters:Sen. John Kerry refuses to provide any information to support his assertion earlier this week that he has met with foreign leaders who beseeched him...
Posted by Mitch on March 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Lies, Damned Lies, and Kaplan

Lies, Damned Lies, and Kaplan - There's working hard, and then there's working smart. When you are trying to paint John Kerry as responsible on foreign policy and defense, working hard is not enough. Problem is, either is working smart....
Posted by Mitch on March 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Second Black President, Redux

Second Black President, Redux - In yet another case of John Kerry trying to have his cake and eat it and cut carbs too, we trip across this story about John Kerry's background as a supporter of affirmative action and...
Posted by Mitch on March 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Which Priorities Do We Have, Anyway?

Which Priorities Do We Have, Anyway? - How many times can we repeat it - John Kerry is not a serious candidate when it comes to foreign policy. We - and by "we", I mean "the blogging right" as well...
Posted by Mitch on March 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Foreign Polity

Foreign Polity - I was going to respond to John Kerry's idiotic statement ("This president has in fact created terrorists where they didn't exist," he said. "And I believe this president has run the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological...
Posted by Mitch on March 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kerry Picking

Kerry Picking - Some on the left (I got this from Centrisity) are claiming the right is "cherrypicking" John Kerry's record on defense to find damaging votes. As evidence, they cite this column by Fred Kaplan. The piece deserves a...
Posted by Mitch on March 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

War Hero

War Hero - John Kerry's war record may or may not stand up to much detailed scrutiny, according to Thomas Lipscomb in the NYSun. Assuming it ever gets detailed scrutiny. But then, that's what we're here for. [Admiral] ‘Bud’ Zumwalt...
Posted by Mitch on March 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kerry Scrambles

Kerry Scrambles - John Kerry is in the middle of a five minute unpaid campaign commercial on the Today show. Couric lobbed him a softball about gun control: "You believe in gun control, don't you?", which led to a two-minute...
Posted by Mitch on March 02, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Numbers -

The Numbers - I'm thinking Bush is going to have to start getting these numbers out there:The numbers speak of strong overall economic growth. The gross domestic product — the figure for the total output economy — grew at an...
Posted by Mitch on March 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Not To Be Trusted

Not To Be Trusted - I'm listening to the Democrat candidates talking with Dan Rather right now. They're talking about Haiti. John Kerry: "Our president, as usual, waited too long to act". Hm. And then when he acts, you'll be...
Posted by Mitch on February 29, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Big Day

Big Day - Yesterday was a huge day for the president. Leaving aside the moral rights and wrongs of the issue, I think the Marriage Amendment is a can't-lose for the President. Most Americans across the political spectrum oppose gay...
Posted by Mitch on February 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Heroism and Leadership

Heroism and Leadership - John Kerry and his supporters repeatedly insist that his stature as a Silver Star-winning war hero are positive proof that he's qualified to manage this nation's national security. Let's leave everything aside for a moment -...
Posted by Mitch on February 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Nader

Nader - Lots of Democrats are upset about Nader's entrance into the race. Not all conservatives are happy either. My biggest worry - in this election, Nader will serve the same role that Pat Buchanan did in 2000, once he...
Posted by Mitch on February 23, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Does Kos Know This?

The most important poll yet. All emphasis mine:Here's a breakdown of the results: -- 48% said, "I usually vote before work, and it's too late for that now." -- 32% said, "I have not yet devoted enough study time to...
Posted by Mitch on February 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Proving Negatives - We have

We have a number of officers who do recall seeing George Bush on duty in Alabama thirty years ago. So watch for the moonbat left to start trotting out an endless stream of people who don't remember him - as...
Posted by Mitch on February 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

John Kerry

John Kerry - Have Your People Call My People - I love great oratory - so even if you leave out his chameleonlike, pusillanimous record of defense and foreign policy and his worse-than-Kennedy domestic record and consider the record on...
Posted by Mitch on February 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

End Of The Beginning -

End Of The Beginning - Power Line notes the silver lining in a bad month for the President: "The latest poll data, collected as always by the invaluable Real Clear Politics, show President Bush to be battered, but still hanging...
Posted by Mitch on February 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Empty Suit

Hewitt also linked a wonderful piece from USA Today, by Judy Keen, that did something no Democrat seems to want done; analyze John Kerry's voting record:Kerry and his advisors express confidence," writes Balz, "that his background as a decorated combat...
Posted by Mitch on February 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Big Refute

A squadron-mate of the former Lieutenant Bush, now a retired Colonel in the Air Guard, should by all right have finally disposed of the worst of the "Bush was a Deserter/AWOL/Draft-Dodger tropes with this WashTimes editorial. It addresses every single...
Posted by Mitch on February 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Fair Game

John Kerry's remarks from 30 years ago are baaaack.“I’m an internationalist,” Kerry told The Crimson in 1970. “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.” Kerry said he wanted “to...
Posted by Mitch on February 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Good News?

Sullivan has this on the Edwards campaign:In both primaries yesterday, Kerry won close to a half of the votes and Edwards won around a quarter. But more interestingly, as Will Saletan points out in a must-read, Edwards beat Kerry...
Posted by Mitch on February 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Note to Dems - Drop It

The Dems asked for personnel records. They got them.. Think it'll shut 'em up?: "Lt. Col. Scott Gorske, a 23-year Guardsman with experience in personnel issues, said there is no requirement for National Guard members to drill every month. They...
Posted by Mitch on February 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Kerry On

John Kerry leads the president in some polls. It's troubling, but not entirely unexpected; Kerry's had the advantage of having Howard Dean to serve as his lightning rod, making Kerry look both responsible and moderate. His media coverage has been...
Posted by Mitch on February 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

He Could Have Run the Budget

He Could Have Run the Budget - Where did all the money go? Howard Dean's use of internet fundraising got a lot of attention last year. This year, it's another story:As Howard Dean's presidential campaign tore through the millions it...
Posted by Mitch on February 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Manchurian Moonbat

The Manchurian Moonbat - For the benefit of those who thought the President did badly in his interview, Sullivan quotes the ever-less-lucid Wesley Clark, who admits Hussein was a "bad guy", but that we just don't invade nations because their...
Posted by Mitch on February 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Got the Bug

Long time Shot in the Dark commenter (and neighborhood kegerator owner) Anoka Flash has a blog going again. He joins Jeff Fecke's ever-more-misnamed "Blog Of the Moderate Left" as the entire lineup of lefty blogs on my blogroll. For a...
Posted by Mitch on February 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Personality

We've seen a number of replies to Powerline's Hindrocket's pessimistic appraisal of Bush's odds in this election (Hindrocket alone among the Northern Alliance picks Kerry to win the election). Jay Reding had a good piece on the subject, as well...
Posted by Mitch on February 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

A Not-So-Obvious Point

A Not-So-Obvious Point - Powerline's Rocket Man tackles the current Democrat trope - that Bush was AWOL/deserted the Guard. The post as a whole is a fairly complete digest of the facts - which have been gurgitated for the past...
Posted by Mitch on February 04, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Above It All?

Among the Northern Alliance, Powerline's Hindrocket is the only person predicting a Kerry victory. The reason's not a bad one:But President Bush, sadly, is too inarticulate to make his own case. He is a good man and generally a good...
Posted by Mitch on February 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Son of Signs I Need a Life, Part II - Stories Liberals Tell Themselves

Yesterday, Jeff Fecke of Blogomodleft left a comment under my "Conservatives and Bush" piece. It contains a number of tropes, memes and urban legends that even moderately reasonable Democrats are telling themselves these days (and while Fecke is by...
Posted by Mitch on February 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Signs You're Over

Sites dedicated to hating you are declaring "Mission Accomplished". Jon Chait is bagging his anti-Dean blog. He's now free to continue his spittle-flecked hatred of George Bush. (Via Blogomodleft)...
Posted by Mitch on February 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Fix

Dick Morris knows exactly why Mad How collapsed in Iowa: What happened to Howard Dean? He was assassinated by Bill and Hillary with the assistance of Chris Lehane, the political hit man who first worked for Kerry and now backs...
Posted by Mitch on January 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Trying To Forget Your Generation

Kondracke in Roll Call via Drudge:"Here's a harrowing pair of facts for Democrats: In 60 years, no Democrat has ever won the presidency without carrying the youth vote. And right now President Bush's approval rating among 18- to 29-year-olds is...
Posted by Mitch on January 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Just

Dean Falling Apart - Just saw Mad How on the Today Show. He looks angry, defensive, petulant. Not Presidential material....
Posted by Mitch on January 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Pundit Confesses

Sullivan admits it - the pundits are all wrong, again:What a hilarious period for punditry (and I include myself). I don't know a soul who, only a couple weeks ago, predicted a four-way tie in Iowa. And yet the voters...
Posted by Mitch on January 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Dean Eats Toad

Alfred Fingulin has his commentary on advertising in Iowa. It's on Gunshow Trash, and since his permalinks are a little temperamental, I'm going to beg his indulgence and just post the whole thing:Howard Dean looks like he ate a live...
Posted by Mitch on January 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Stupid Iowa Tricks

From Carol Moseley Braun's withdrawal speech:"Governor Dean has the ability to break through the cocoon of fear that envelopes us...""Cocoon of Fear". Good band name. Dumb statement....
Posted by Mitch on January 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Predictions

As the Iowa caucuses loom, I'll make my predictions for Monday's contest: Candidates will say monumentally stupid things, like this John Kerry speeh:"'Do you like the surge?' he asked 160 people packed into a tiny auditorium in Sioux City, as...
Posted by Mitch on January 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Poll Cat

Poll Cat - Now that the Daily Kos's list of polls (see right margin) shows Bush's approval ratings beating his disapprovals by 6-29 points, with an average gap of 17 points among the eight he tracks... ...where is the obsessive...
Posted by Mitch on January 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Oh, The Humanity

Oh, The Humanity - RB Monkey, from Infinite Monkeys, has a theory:Earlier today, a question was posed by Hugh Hewitt. He blogged and later wondered on the air about how long the Hindenburg remained in the air before... you know....
Posted by Mitch on January 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls

The Captain reports Dean is losing ground among Dems, while Bush's numbers are the strongest ever for a sitting President going into an election year. The numbers come from a CNN, USA Today, and Gallup poll. Says the Cap'n: "The...
Posted by Mitch on January 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Where's the Beef?

Hewitt sounded off yesterday (scroll to is - his hyperlinks seem to be hosed) with an inspired defense of Jerry Falwell against Howard Dean. Read it - I share Hugh's reservations about Falwells' politicization of his church, and some...
Posted by Mitch on January 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Foot In Mouth To Knee

I used to joke that in Saint Paul, the DFL could plaster a set of those wind-up chattering teeth with a DFL sticker, and it'd win an election. "It may just be a set of wind-up chattering teeth", would say...
Posted by Mitch on December 29, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Dean-Hatred?

Jonathon Chait returns. A while ago, we met Chait when he was extolling the virtues of hating President Bush in the New Republic. He's turned his apparently boundless supply of ire on Howard Dean now. And it's pretty darn good....
Posted by Mitch on December 29, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9)

Dean Update

From Curious Furious: "Update on the Howard Dean Slaughtered By a Landslide Meter: Last month it was Godzilla v. a Giant Jelly Donut - Dean of course being the donut - with the capture of Saddam it has been upgraded...
Posted by Mitch on December 25, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Bush Up

Bush Up - The Minnesota Poll - as liberal an artifact as exists in Minnesota - shows President Bush's job approval at 56 percent in the state. The Strib ran some positive comments..."He stands up for what he thinks is...
Posted by Mitch on December 24, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Not Ready For Prime Time

Powerline was absolutely on fire yesterday. First - a fascinating series of links about General Clark, explaining why he's just not a viable alternative, even for those looking for a less-fevered alternative to Dean. Money bit:Clark now blames the non-capture...
Posted by Mitch on December 22, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Deaniacs?

What to call Dean supporters? Hewitt says: "I have been using the term Dean Dongs to refer to Dr. Dean supporters."Not bad... ...but whenever I see two or more of them in the same place, I refer to them as...
Posted by Mitch on December 18, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)