Bad News For Republicans

The modestly-sensible Rahm Emanuel said:``If we believed in conspiracy theories, we'd think that only Karl Rove could dream up the idea of a linguistic professor from Berkeley urging Democrats to `practice reframing every day, on every issue.'''But it wasn't Rove...
Posted by Mitch on October 11, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Goebbels

In a piece yesterday that drew the attention of a legion of poo-flinging comment-monkeys, I reiterated a theme that I've been hammering on the show and in this blog; the Democrats, devoid of any strategy of their own, are resorting...
Posted by Mitch on October 05, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Let Me Get This Straight

Republicans tell the inconvenient truth about Keith Ellison; Democrats say it's cowing the voters. So what is this? Or this? This? UPDATE: Democrats threw oreos at Michael Steele, but they didn't hit him with them. So maybe the morons are...
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

Smells Like Truth...

...because I read it on the Internets:A new survey of Democratic voters indicates that in a hypothetical match-up between Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former presidential nominee John Kerry, most Democrats would choose suicide over either candidate. The poll, conducted...
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Oh, Please. Please. Please.

If I promise to eat my vegetables and say my prayers, can it please be true?"I haven't completely ruled out running for president again in the future but I don't expect to," Gore said before the Sunday night premiere of...
Posted by Mitch on September 11, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

ChickenVictim

Paul Hackett - Iraq veteran, liberal, and darling of the BDS-afflicted netroots - called former Pentagon spokesman Dan Senor, a child of a Holocaust survivor, a Nazi: "Last night, appearing with former Iraq-based Pentagon spokesman Dan Senor on the O’Reilly...
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

George McGovern's Ghost

Slate magazine is worried. Jacob Weisberg thinks there's a solid chance that Ned Lamont is a symptom of a gathering McGovernization in the Democratic party:The Lamont-Lieberman battle was filled with echoes and parallels from the Vietnam era. Democratic reformers and...
Posted by Mitch on August 11, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (78) | TrackBack

Why Is It...

...that when Republicans act to make Republicans act like...Republicans, by shunning candidates that favor higher taxes, bigger government, porous borders, speech rationing and victim disarmament, we're "imposing purity tests", which is a "bad thing" that "chills dissent from the neocon/fundie/Rovian...
Posted by Mitch on August 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (34) | TrackBack

Still Curious

I've been asking the same question in this space for years, now. I'll ask again. Democrats: What do you stand for? Your leaders can't articulate anything, and haven't for decades. We know you're against the President - fair enough. What...
Posted by Mitch on May 30, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (103) | TrackBack

Can't Fool 'Em

Harry Reid's success at transforming himself into a liberal (albeit a more stable one than, say, Howard Dean) is doing wonders for his career... ...except among his constituents:No minority leader has so dominated the Senate since Lyndon B. Johnson in...
Posted by Mitch on April 25, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Destruction of GOP Alert!

Several black activists plan to join members of the Minutemen Project to protest illegal immigration, which organizer Ted Hayes touted as the “biggest threat to blacks in America since slavery...Hayes, a homeless activist, alleged that most homeless people in...
Posted by Mitch on April 24, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack

Audio Op

My neighbor Flash, from Centristy, is going to be interviewing Barack Obama later today:If all goes well, I'll have the transcript up on Monday, hopefully with a couple photos. So, what ONE question would you ask the Senator, if you...
Posted by Mitch on April 08, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (23) | TrackBack

Quote Of The Day

In re the vote fraud scandal in Milwaukee, Learned Foot from KAR has this:"If you don't have evidence, you don't have fraud," said Colon.Foot responds:Got that? It's only wrong if you get caught.So let's recap this past two weeks:Empty, content-free...
Posted by Mitch on October 24, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Smack

Bill Clinton took his opportunistic whack at the President on the Stephanopoulous show yesterday. I'd fisk it - but Chester does it better....
Posted by Mitch on September 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

I Love Joe Biden

Listening to the questioning of John Roberts (which Ed ably pillories), I'm so glad Biden is a Democrat. "We are rolling the dice with you, Judge," Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) said. "It's kind of interesting, this Kabuki dance...
Posted by Mitch on September 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

More Dean!

Watching Wolf Blitzer interviewing Mad How on CNN right now. It's interesting - the Dems must be switching to full-blown Goebbels mode, latching onto a big lie and repeating it until their crowd believes it. I have to say -...
Posted by Mitch on September 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

The Coming Dark Age of the Left?

Parallels between the American left and pre-renaissance Islam? Could it be? Work with me, here. Sisyphus over at Nihilist in Golf Pants quotes from “The Civilization of the Middle Ages” by Norman Cantor....
Posted by Mitch on August 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Yeeaaaaaaaaagggggh!

The Democratic party leadership is foursquare behind Dean:Democratic National Committee leaders embraced feisty party boss Howard Dean on Saturday and urged him to keep fighting despite a flap over his blunt comments on Republicans. After a meeting of the DNC's...
Posted by Mitch on June 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Open Letter To the Democratic National Committee

To: National Democrats From: Generic White Christian Re: Your Boss Esteemed Opponents, There's been talk that some of you are becoming nervous about Howard Dean.The physician and former Vermont governor has sparked a controversy over recent inflammatory remarks, including a...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

On the Other Hand...

...this can't be good for Kerry's future ambitions:...
Posted by Mitch on June 08, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

On the One Hand...

...I could care less about John Kerry's grades:The transcript shows that Kerry's freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was...
Posted by Mitch on June 08, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Deathbed Boogie

John Zogby issues a plateful of platitudes on Huffpo - but ends with an interesting (and possibly unintentional) challenge [1]:Here's my challenge to my fellow bloggers: comb this country and find me a Democratic idea that is new and that...
Posted by Mitch on May 12, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Kennedy: Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

Ted Kennedy http://www.drudgereport.com/matttd.htm On December 4, 2003, President Bush had proclaimed to the world that the capture of Saddam Hussein brought "further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever." The photos of Abu Ghraib made...
Posted by Mitch on April 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Dayton: Sandbagging

Powerline points out that "Senator" Mark Dayton has stepped in it again. Our favorite powerlawyers have no idea how comically ill-informed our "senior" "Senator" is....
Posted by Mitch on April 13, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

The Wonders Bush Hath Wrought

In 1980, most Democrats were firmly Keynesian, and thought that it was government's place to spend in deficit. Today, they are all budget hawks. Hawks, I tells ya (except, of course, in places like Minnesota where spending is actually being...
Posted by Mitch on March 29, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

On Dean

I have little to say about the coronation of Dean that I haven't said already. Why not check out Chris Dykstra at NewPat for the take of someone who actually wishes Dean well?I am looking forward to a Democratic era...
Posted by Mitch on February 13, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Kos of Death (or: How I Learned To Love The Daily Kos)

Markos Moulitsas is big. Real big. Among Democrats. That's a good thing for Republicans. Dean Barnett writes in the Weekly Standard about the Kos phenomenon....
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

On Dean

The editors of NRO have a fantastic editorial about the ascent of Mad How:The appeal of Howard Dean is simply this: He has stood up at regional meetings of (generally left-wing) DNC members and delivered versions of his usual rants,...
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

It Could Be Real...

Dean Ascends:Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, whose failed presidential bid in 2004 established the power of the Internet as a campaign tool, seems poised to assume the leadership of the Democrat party, according to a report in The New York...
Posted by Mitch on February 02, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Why Do They Hate Democracy [*]?

Leftyblogger, George Soros employee [he's an employee of Media Matters, which is floated by George Soros] Oliver Willis:You know, I really wish Iraq were having an honest, safe, real election. But that isn't happening, and that's a shame. Even if...
Posted by Mitch on January 30, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (14) | TrackBack

The Hamster Herd

Condi Rice won confirmation as Secretary of State today, by an 85-13 vote. Voting against? Ted Kennedy (MA): He knows the party is going to swing to the left, and he's swinging with it. Evan Bayh(IN): Ditto. Bayh is frequently...
Posted by Mitch on January 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

John O'Sullivan learning from defeat, Democrat-style....
Posted by Mitch on January 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

What? Us Worry?

Example of Groupthink in action; watch the big leftybloggers spread a trope. Last year, it was "There were never any WMDs, and we always knew it" - this despite Bill Clinton and most of the mainstream media's statements throughout the...
Posted by Mitch on January 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

Idiotstakes

We have a donnybrook here. On the one hand, we here in Minnesota have ample reason to believe our "senior" "senator", Mark Dayton, is an idiot. A big idiot. Yet Hugh and especially Generalissimo Duane make a pretty fair case...
Posted by Mitch on January 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Grasping For Equivalence

I'm going to take a moment to praise the Minnesota Democrat "Farmer" Labor party. When you, Mr. or Ms. DFL, grasp for myths to support your party's stances, you pick nice, dumb local ones, like "wouldn't it be great if...
Posted by Mitch on January 13, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

The Death of Feminism

Boxer lied, Boxer cried....
Posted by Mitch on January 08, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Daddy Needs New Shoes

The Democrats are pondering leaving Terry McAuliffe in charge at the DNC. None of the early candidates for chairman has gained momentum. Some potential candidates - Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Democratic activist Harold Ickes and former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman...
Posted by Mitch on January 06, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Next...

...they'll try to tell you that the '84 election was stolen. I mean, how much farther down can they go?...
Posted by Mitch on January 06, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The Old Fashioned Way

No problem here:Rep. Maxine Waters (news, bio, voting record)' family members earned more than $1 million in the last eight years doing business with candidates, companies and causes she helped, a newspaper reported Sunday. Waters' daughter and son pocketed fees...
Posted by Mitch on December 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

They Can Be Taught

Democrat Brent Budowsky writes not to bury Reagan, but to praise him:When historians reflect back one thousand years from now, the era from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan will be seen as a period of epic triumph in human...
Posted by Mitch on December 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Scrappleface Does It Again

Scrappleface branches out into flash animation with this hilarious send-up. Even so, it's almost too much; look at the first half of the video. Scott Ott seems to have scoured the web to find pictures of people who have turned...
Posted by Mitch on December 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Titanic Survivors Demand More Iceberg Encounter

So, all you responsible, moderate Democrats out there; what do you think of this?A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the group's supporters on Thursday targets outgoing Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) chairman...
Posted by Mitch on December 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

You Know Who Your Friends Are

Prominent Democrats leap to Kofi Annan's Defense:Some House Democrats are coming to the defense of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) after several Republican lawmakers called for his resignation because of allegations of corruption in the organization's oil-for-food...
Posted by Mitch on December 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

DLC Joins "Venomous Fury"

Last week, the Star/Tribune's editorial board unleashed a ludicrous diatribe against Senator Norm Coleman and his investigation of Kofi Annan and the Oil for Graft scandal. The editorial said:This is really all about Annan's refusal to toe the Bush line...
Posted by Mitch on December 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Where Have You Gone, Harry Truman?

One of my questions during yesterday's dustup with the New Patriot's Chris Dykstra was "What does winning the war mean to you?" In light of this piece by Peter Beinart, a better question might be "do you think your movement...
Posted by Mitch on December 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

The F Word

One of my least-favorite words in the world is "Fascism" and its various related adjectives. During the late eighties, I lost count of the number of times I heard graduates of places like MacAlester and Carlton Colleges, or the U...
Posted by Mitch on December 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Ad Campaigns While You Wait

Posted by Mitch on November 25, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Strike One Meme

The meme: "Lookit those hypocritical Republicans! They're changing the rules because their guy DeLay is going to get indicted!" The truth?:[Delay] is unlikely to be indicted by a state grand jury probing alleged campaign finance violations in Texas, according to...
Posted by Mitch on November 22, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Open Letter to Dean Supporters

I've said it before - Howard Dean is not a serious candidate when it comes to foreign policy. But to be honest, I've never really read much about Dean straight from the horse's mouth. So this morning, I went to...
Posted by Mitch on December 17, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

A high school classmate of mine, who is a career fighter pilot, sends me this story, saying:It appears to support your "Moon Bat" labeling of certain individuals. I have some stronger feelings but...given my current occupation will reserve them until...
Posted by Mitch on December 17, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

MoveOut

Jay Reding quotes Byron Yorkfrom National Review on MoveOn.org's disingenuous message:Despite it all — its anti-Bush campaign, its contributions made only to Democrats, its ties with left-wing charities — MoveOn calls itself a "nonpartisan" organization. "MoveOn.org is an issue-oriented, nonpartisan,...
Posted by Mitch on August 12, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Gored, Part IV

If Moveon.org is the most irritating liberal artifact of the nineties, the most cloying trope of the two-thousands has to be the liberal bleat that Algore was defeated by the fiat of an "activist, conservative Supreme Court". George Will...
Posted by Mitch on November 21, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Slickster Returns? (Why I Love Ann Coulter, Part II)

Ann Coulter talks about the effort to rehabilitate "the Clinton Legacy". As she says it: I THOUGHT THEY WANTED TO "MOVE ON." But now that all the statutes of limitations have expired, liberals won't shut up about Bill Clinton. To...
Posted by Mitch on April 04, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)