Shot in the Dark

Category: Campaign ’24

  • Feeling Seen Yet?

    Tim Walz is not the savviest politician who ever kissed a baby or shook a hand. But yesterday’s “knucklehead” admission may be the dumbest own goal he’s ever made: Admitting that one is a marketing charade is a bold move, Cotton.  Let’s see how it works.  Ed Morrissey notes: In that sense, perhaps this is…

  • The Golden Age Begins Now

    I’ve never made bones about the fact I’ve been a Trump skeptic.  Eight years ago I voted for Scott Walker, and thought that Trump’s term would be a disaster, hopefully mitigated by a good SCOTUS pick.   I was wrong – mostlly, anyway.  His behavior in 2020 cost the GOP the Senate, and he had an…

  • The 2024 Top Five

    So – what were the five most important stories of 2024, according to that most dispositive of sources, yours truly? Glad you asked.  Here goes: 5. I, Knucklehead – Recently, we learned that Harris’s insiders knew she never had much of a lead or chance. But that wasn’t what we saw, or even inferred from…

  • Cold, Hard Joy

    Giggles isn’t paying her staff. But sure, she could have fixed the economy.  Let them eat brat vibes.

  • Wishful

    Governor Klink is doing the rounds of the Twin Cities media, saying he’s not going to rule out further runs for national office. Of course, to a leftist, “conversation” means “Monologue” – which is what Walz is used to here in Minnesota, with his constant stream of selfies and Twitter proclamations and straw men. His…

  • Let The Gaslighting Begin

    To hear her partisans call it, Kamala Harris ran an amazing campaign – she just didn’t have the time to actually do interviews! Harris was consistently criticized for shying away from substantive public interviews and appearances, enhancing a public image many associated with inauthenticity and empty spouts of “word salad.” “Real people heard in some…

  • Back From Vacation

    SCENE:  A “domestic” set in a media production room in DC.   Two Staffers, CHAD and JOSHUA, and two Harris staffers, COURTNEY and CLAUDE, are going over footage from an attempt to shoot a video. COURTNEY:  OK, try take 45: KAMALA HARRIS (on playback) “Hey, I’m Kamala Harris, and I spent the past week or two…

  • Not Close Enough?

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Thank you to everyone who Voted as Hard as They Could.  It paid off.  The election was not stolen.  I have a parenthetical thought that doesn’t pertain to Joe. I don’t want to interrupt the flow, so I’ll hit that at the bottom of the post. Back to…

  • Perhaps They’ve Been At Their Lake Houses For The Past Two Weeks

    Governor Walz on Twitter, over the weekend: Lt. Governor Flanagan, who uses her Native heritage like Walz uses plaid shirts: That might explain them missing this bit of news: Apparently “stolen land declarations” aren’t as important as a decent economy and, perhaps, taming of the federal bureaucracy that’s sandbagged so much of Native American society.…

  • Moving Forward With Joy

    Some Democrats are reverting to their mean: they lost because the dumb people didn’t support them, and if they somehow were kept out of the process, and voting were reserved for the deserving, things would be different: So I thought – how about we continue the thought? Let’s impose more, better standards on the electorate!…

  • The Times And Public Mores, They Are A’Changing

    I’m old enough to remember when “election denial” was the highest of crimes and misdemeanors.  And if you’re much over four years old, so are you. But (predictably) not as re Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania: I had a hunch that pendulum was going to swing back, and hard, yet again.

  • Going Back

    SCENE:  In a conference room at the headquarters of Minnesotans United for All Progressive Causes, a blindingly Scandinavian-looking suite of offices in a pre-war building in Saint Paul.  On one wall, a window looks out on a stunning vista the Mississippi River.  Through the other, rows of cubicles staffed by interns making fund-raising calls, as…

  • Sweep

    One of the more surprising results from election night:  the nation is more…not “conservative”, probably.  More Republican, anyway.  The New York Times released a “shift map” of election result shifts, by county. It’s live and interactive here – and it’s an interesting read. Each red arrow is a county where the vote was more Republican…

  • I’m Only Human

    After being called a “Nazi”, a “misogynist”, a “fascist” and a “Racist”, it’s hard not to indulge in a little schadenfreud.  Maybe a lot. And when God throws an opportunity like this in your way, who am I to argue? A licenced “poiltical analyst”, last Tuesday before the results started rolling in: I asked the…

  • Substance

    One of my biggest beeves with Donald Trump over the past four years has been the cult of personality around him – the wave of Scaramuccis and Loomers and other camp followers more partial to chanting points than issues. But the Democrats tried to out-cult the cult.  Kamala Harris was a terrible candidate who ran…

  • Hugh Oughtta Know

    It was 20 years ago when Hugh Hewitt released “If It’s Not Close They Can’t Cheat”. And he was finally right.  As this is written, Wednesday morning, Donald Trump has 277 electoral votes nailed down.  Trump could actually get over 300 – as this is written, Michigan, Arizona, Alaska and Nevada and their 35 votes…

  • Reason 110

    Crystal K, charter MOB member, has a scathing review of life in Tim Walz’s Minnesota. Read the whole thing . There are too many pullquotes to run them all: Fingers crossed.

  • 109 Reasons I Voted Straight Ticket Republican

    Not that there’s a lot of doubt – the last Democrat I voted for was in 1996, and that was probably the only one since I voted for my mom in 1984. But yeah, while Trump isn’t my favorite human on earth, and I wrote in Scott Walker in 2016 and held my nose voting…

  • Further Proof…

    …were any needed, that nobody on the Harris/Walz campaign has ever actually met a straight adult male: Because guys go to vote like they’re a bunch of girls at a bar going to the bathroom together.

  • Doakes Sunday: What The Hell Is Going On In Bucks County?

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Election officials in Trump-trending Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philly, sent a police officer to turn away voters standing in line, waiting for early voting.  The line was closed at 1:45 pm instead of 5:00 pm as advertised.  A judge later reinstated early voting after Republicans sued.…

  • Doakes Sunday: What The Hell Is Going On In Hennepin County?

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: After 265,000 absentee ballots have already been accepted, NOW they’re going to consider putting Republicans on the Absentee Ballot Board to decide which absentee ballots can be accepted in the future:   There is no election fraud.   There may be occasional errors but not enough to change the…

  • Doakes Sunday: What The Hell Is Going On In Mesa County?

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Around a dozen ballots in Mesa County were stolen from registered voters in the mail and submitted fraudulently. State officials said Thursday they discovered the thefts this week through the signature verification process in Grand Junction, prompting an investigation by state and local officials.   This caught THIS…

  • Doakes Sunday: What The Hell Is Going On In Colorado?

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: There are no standards for printing ballots.  Different counties use different print shops to print election ballots, but some ballots cannot be scanned.  Not all voters got the defective ballots and nobody knows whose votes were counted versus whose were rejected.  In counties where the red-blue split is…

  • Doakes Sunday: What The Hell Is Going On In VIrginia?

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Virginia Governor Youngkin issued an order in August directing the state to remove ineligible non-citizens from the list of eligible voters (dead people, non-residents, illegal aliens, fraudulent registrations).  Democrats sued to keep ineligible persons on the eligible voter list, the district court decided the state could not remove ineligible…

  • Doakes Sunday: What The Hell Is Going On…Everywhere?

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I have been pelting you with emails on a certain theme. Now Laughing Wolf takes up the refrain: “I highly recommend going back and re-reading Larry Correia’s excellent takes on the 2020 elections, here and here. There are some other good ones out on that election, and 2022,…