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Hit @JeffQuinton’s Tip Jar, Now

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 49 Comments

Jackie Wellfonder explains how some wretched young scoundrel evidently tried to blackmail Jeff Quinton in a fight that began over a 2014 Republican primary in Maryland. This is unacceptable.

Jeff Quinton is one of my oldest friends in online politics. I knew Jeff via the Internet for more than a decade before I ever met him in person in 2006 and, basically, Jeff was a blogger before anybody had ever thought of the word “blogger.” His extensive experience in South Carolina Republican politics has made him a valuable resource (Jeff could tell you everything he knows, but then he’d have to kill you) and he was getting links from Michelle Malkin and Instapundit way back in the misty dawn of the conservative blogosphere.

That anyone would try to smear a guy like Jeff — a married Catholic with a year-old baby daughter — is as evil as it is foolish. Jeff has too many friends who owe him favors. We’ve got his back.

Please go hit Jeff’s tip jar now — I just did.

 

Category: Quinton Report

‘How Dare You Quote Me, Haters?!’

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 51 Comments

There is a phenomenon on the Left — especially among academics and other “intellectual” types, including feminists — where they become so used to living within cocoons of like-minded sympathizers that they don’t realize how weird their ideas seem to normal people. And so, when somebody outside the cocoon takes notice and quotes their deranged gibberish, these people claim victimhood: “Those right-wing [sexists, homophobes, racists, Koch-funded Rethuglicans, whatever] are [harassing, libeling, slut-shaming, whatever] me!“

You can ask Jeanette Runyon how she has actually been reported to the police for the alleged crime of quoting some of the “Free Kate” weirdos who want to legalize sex with 14-year-olds.

See, the Left has spent so long preaching the rhetoric of “rights” that some of them have begun to believe their own propaganda, so that merely disagreeing with them makes you a criminal.

Feminists are absolutely the worst about this. When I reported rather frankly about the craziness of “SlutWalk DC,” it  spurred a berserk reaction that included not only the accusation that I was a misogynist (yawn) but also variations of the claim that my reporting and commentary constituted harassment, a sort of word-rape that traumatized the helpless victims of my hate-blogging.

Only within the progressive cocoon do people think this way, so you will not be surprised to learn about Gish Jen, a novelist who wrote a column for the Boston Globe that treated the Boston Marathon bombers as if they were victims of intolerance:

It’s hard not to recall these things and wonder: Did we fail the Tsarnaevs somehow? It’s not clear that we did. And yet for people who knew Dzhokhar especially, who had seen him at school, who had studied and partied and played sports with him, the lurking fear has been that we failed to truly open our hearts, that we accepted him, but only up to a point.

Of course: People who commit heinous crimes against the innocent can’t be held responsible for their acts. Blame society!

And when people who disagreed with Gish Jen quoted her?

Yeah, she’s a victim who was hatefully quoted by haters.

 

Category: Intellectuals, Liberals

FMJRA 2.0: Election Judge’s Blues

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Management regrets the delay, but I think there will be some surprises in this week’s FMJRA…

The Liar-in-Chief

Totalitarian Means to Totalitarian Ends

The Drunk Sluts Rights Movement

Rule 5 Sunday: Maximum Acceleration

Sound The Collision Alarm! Yet Another Lefty Switcheroo Is CBDR!

‘Seize This Opportunity to Cripple the Tea Party’s Political Power for Good’

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.29.13

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.30.13

Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) Proves She Is a Special Kind of Stupid

The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge

FMJRA 2.0: Floating

Legal Woes Mount for Alabama Anti-GOP Conspiracy Theory Blogger Roger Shuler

T-Mac Is A Fine Addition To The Rodeo Clown Political Class

Did Roger Shuler Violate Alabama Law by Impersonating an Attorney as ‘RogerS’?

Send Angels to Fort Bragg

U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Warns Fort Hood Troops Against Christians

Celebrity Psychopath Chris Brown Arrested on Felony Assault Charge

Roger Shuler: Another Kook Succumbs to ‘Investigative Blogger Syndrome’

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.28.13

CBS: ‘Hey, Benghazi Is a Real Scandal’

Obvious Truths of the Obama Age

‘Students for Pleasure’?

A New York Times Columnist Even Worse Than David Brooks and Paul Krugman?

Loose Cannons And Enthusiastically Violent AIs

Inmate Number 288928

‘Sooner or Later …’

Just in Time for Halloween: ‘The Evil Baby-Killing Monster From Hell’

Parents Permitted Teen Daughter’s Relationship With Sex Offender

Creepy Criminal Sex Freaks Planning Halloween ‘Wedding’ on Prison Island

Marriage, Success and Feminism

ObamaCare: The Liar-in-Chief Throws Kathleen Sebelius to the Wolves

Bill Schmalfeldt Lies to @SilverbergDave: Failure and the Exact Opposite of Truth

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.31.13

A Petty Criminal

IRS Leaker ID’d; Confidential Information Given to 2007 Harvard Graduate UPDATE: Gay ‘Diversity’ Program

It’s Halloween: Does the FBI Know Where Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser Is?

Why Did Neal Rauhauser Lie?

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 11.01.13

Texas Appeals Court: It’s OK to Talk Dirty to Kids, Because … Shakespeare!

Does @FromaHarrop Know About Neal?

Suicidal 23-Year-Old NJ Guy Who Hated ‘Pigs’ Reported as #LAX Shooter

Top linkers this week:

  1. Dead Citizens Rights Society (39 + 4 DeRP)
  2. Rick’s Crazed World (32)
  3. Regular Right Guy (16)
  4. EBL (6 +9 BCN)
  5. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot (6)
  6. DaleyGator (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to this weekend’s FMJRA is Friday, November 8.


Category: FMJRA Award

Lucrative Campus Perversion: Sex Freak Gets Paid to Fist-F**k Student Minds

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 44 Comments

Dan Savage is one of the most hateful anti-Christian extremists on the planet, and the fact that this filthy degenerate creep was paid $24,000 to speak at a public university ought to be sufficient cause for outrage, even without reference to the sordid details of what Dan Savage actually said to the students, shocking as that was.

TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!

These pep rallies for perversion are part of a Cultural Marxist agenda to destroy the basic moral understanding of American youth, and the fact that Savage postures as an advocate of “rights” and “tolerance” is central to the subversive purpose of this activity.

Wake up and smell the Emerging Awareness Doctrine, people.

What I cannot understand is why there is no organized campus opposition to this kind of deviant brainwashing. If, on a campus as large as the University of Oregon (with more than 20,000 students), there were only a dozen intelligent conservative activists determined to oppose this agenda, they could have an impact far larger than anyone might imagine. What is lacking is the kind of courageous leadership that begins with one student determined to make a difference. No one can predict where the young David will arise to stand up against the heathen giant and set the kind of example that inspires others, but I know this: There must be many hundreds of University of Oregon students who are disgusted by the decision to spend $24,000 — TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS! — to bring the anti-Christian hatemonger Dan Savage to their campus, and if any two or three of those students can get together, determined to organize in opposition to such indecency, they will find many others who will rally to their banner.

Ask yourself: How was it that a dangerous sexual psychopath like Professor Hugo Schwyzer could have been not merely tolerated within academia, but indeed celebrated as a public intellectual? If the current climate on campus is such that disturbed freaks like Hugo Schwyzer and Dan Savage are welcome — and traditional Christian morality is unwelcome, banished as “hate” — what kind of belief system is being instilled in the minds of our nation’s youth?

America’s universities have become hives of subversion, where your tax dollars are being used to teach your children to hate you.

UPDATE: How hateful is Dan Savage? This hateful:

“Population control: there’s too many Goddam people
on the planet. You know, I’m pro-choice, I believe that
women should have a right to control their bodies.
Sometimes in my darker moments, I’m anti-choice.
I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.”

If responsible adults were in charge of our universities, deranged monsters like this would be arrested if they ever set foot on campus.




 

 

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Category: Culture, Education, Gays, Sex

Dougherty’s Law and the Blame Game: The Truth About Cuccinelli’s Loss

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 43 Comments

In 2006, Michael Brendan Dougherty described the habitual lament of digruntled Republicans: “If it were more like me, the Republican Party would be better off. It’s failing because it’s like you.”

Whenever Republicans lose, we are forced to witness the ugly spectacle of this sectarian internecine blame game re-enacted, a tradition that dates back at least to 1948, when the “Eastern Establishment” handpicked Tom Dewey as the GOP nominee.

The sad and familiar spectacle was shamefully repeated after Barry Goldwater’s 1964 defeat which, with an eye on an approaching anniversary, reminds me of something: Years ago, I interviewed a veteran of the ’64 Goldwater campaign who pointed out that the man who made the crucial difference in that election was Lee Harvey Oswald.

The GOP had scored gains in the 1962 mid-term election and (despite the retrospective “Camelot” glamour with which the Kennedy presidency has been cloaked), by late 1963 JFK’s popularity was sinking amid a storm of controversies. The conservative backlash that would eventually elect Republicans to the White House for all but four years of the 24 years between 1968 and 1992 was already taking shape, the New Deal Democrat coalition was showing signs of stress fractures and — as the senior Goldwater campaign official told me — if John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated in November 1963, Barry Goldwater almost certainly would have been elected in 1964.

Hypothetical “what-if” alternative histories are interesting to contemplate, when we think about the extent to which America’s problems today are a direct consequence of LBJ’s disastrous “Great Society” failure, a deliberate expansion of the Welfare State that has proven almost impossibly difficult to stop, much less to roll back.

However, we must live in reality, not in hypothetical alternatives, and this is also true of Ken Cuccinelli’s heartbreaking loss in Virginia. Everybody who knows Cuccinelli swears by the guy — a brilliant policy-minded conservative and relentless campaigner who, nonetheless, got defeated by Democrat Terry McAuliffe.

The basic reasons for this loss were apparent nine weeks ago, in late August, when I started writing an article on the Virginia campaign for the October print edition of The American Spectator:

How does Terry McAuliffe, an old Clinton hand from New York, win the Virginia governorship? Simple: He talks about women’s issues and paints his Republican opponent, Ken Cuccinelli, as a dangerous extremist.
Energy policy, not social issues, was the assigned topic of the late-August event in the Washington suburb of Arlington where McAuliffe recently spoke. But polls showed McAuliffe with a double-digit lead among the commonwealth’s women voters, so the candidate stuck to his campaign’s message: Ken Cuccinelli hates women, hates gay people, and hates science too.
“We cannot be putting walls up around Virginia by attacking women’s rights, scientists or gay Virginians,” McAuliffe said in his opening remarks at the Consumer Energy Alliance forum. “This is a fundamental difference in this race.… Ken Cuccinelli has shown that he will spend his time in office fighting social, divisive, ideological battles, and those battles have defined his career.” . . .
One glance at the 2012 exit polls [in Virginia] explains a lot about Terry McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign tactics. Romney won 51 percent of the male vote, but Obama pulled in 54 percent of women. Any Democrat seeking to exploit this gender gap understands it involves basic cultural values. Romney actually won among married women (53 to 46 percent), but lost unmarried women by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, 64 to 35 percent. Religious voters favored Romney, who won nearly two-thirds of Protestants who attend services weekly, while voters who say abortion should always be legal favored Obama more than 4-to-1.
It’s no wonder, then, that Democrats spent the summer hammering away at Cuccinelli’s stance on abortion and other social issues. . . .

You can read the entire 2,500-word article, which was filed on Tuesday, Sept. 3 — the day after Labor Day — and yet fairly well summarizes what we now know: McAuliffe invested his huge fundraising advantage in early attack ads that “defined” Cuccinelli before the Republican candidate had enough money to reply effectively. By the time Cuccinelli began fighting back, he was on the defensive, and had already lost a key segment of the electorate. You should ignore any post-election analysis that doesn’t address that basic tactical problem.

Ben Domenech performed a post mortem on the Cuccinelli campaign that touches on some of these points, and I also like Steven Ertelt’s article, “Lesson From Cuccinelli’s Loss: Pro-Lifers Must Go On the Offensive on Abortion.” You cannot win an argument that you’re afraid to make. Pro-life is a winning position, if argued effectively and consistently by articulate and attractive spokesmen — and spokeswomen, I hasten to add. Most of the really outspoken pro-lifers I know are women, but unless pro-life women aggressively step forward with their message, the liberal media will always find a way to ignore them.

Whatever explanation you accept, the important thing to avoid — if conservatives are to go forward with an eye on victory in 2014 and beyond — is the kind of angry, disgruntled, self-indulgent finger-pointing that Michael Brendan Dougherty described so accurately. That doesn’t solve any problems, and tends to undermine the spirit of cooperation necessary to effective coalition politics.

 

 


Category: Conservatism 101, Election, Fear. Loathing., Virginia

In The Mailbox, 11.06.13

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Too ragged out from yesterday’s stint as an election judge to even think about Live At Five last night, so you get this instead. Enjoy.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Dead Republican Party: What America Needs In 2016
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Rob Ford For Mayor Of Detroit
Proof Positive: Your Doctor Won’t See You Now
Michelle Malkin: Libertarian Candidate Backed By Obama Bundler
Twitchy: Genius Screenshot Sums Up McAuliffe’s Victory In Virginia


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Running Scared – Mary Landrieu Introduces The “Keeping The Affordable Care Act Promise Act”
American Thinker: I Am Now A Dissident (And You Should Be, Too)
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: The Ongoing Kerfuffle, 11-05-13
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Sally Kohn’s Most Mendacious Hysteria; also, Obamacare Watch – Less Choice, Especially In Rural Counties and Obamacare Watch – A Dip Into The Data
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, November 5
Jammie Wearing Fools: Bumbling Obamacare Website Chief Shredded By Democrats After Claiming Site Could Process Five Applicants Per Second
JustOneMinute: Lying About His Lying
Pat Dollard: 900,000 Californians To Lose Health Insurance Thanks To Obamacare
Protein Wisdom: There Isn’t Very Much For Me To Say Today, So I’m Going To Reiterate
Shot In The Dark: Hypstr Doesn’t Know History, but Lekturez The Grownupz About It Anyway
The Jawa Report: Good News – Terrorists Openly Fundraising On Twitter, Facebook
The Lonely Conservative: Conservative Parents Beware
Megan McArdle: Is Obamacare Dying Of Old Age?


The very belated FMJRA and Rule 5 posts will be up later today.
No, really!


Category: Linkagery

Say Good-Bye to Old ObamaCare Lies, and Say Hello to New ObamaCare Lies!

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 85 Comments

When you catch a liar lying, what else do you expect, except a new lie offered as an explanation of the old lie? “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” — repeated endlessly by Obama during the past three years — is now defunct, so President Blame-Shifter and friends are now trying to say that this falsehood was not their fault.

It was those slutty insurance companies, all tarted up in short skirts, high heels and lipstick, drunk on profit and practically begging to be raped.

Ace of Spades explains what common sense should tell us:

On Megyn Kelly last night, Judge Napolitano pointed out the power of adding Period to the end of most of these vows. When one says “Period,” one means there is no fine print. There are no caveats, conditions, or qualifications. “Period” means that the vow you just heard is self-contained; there is no extraenous material elsewhere you have to check to determine what the promise means.
But that’s exactly what he’s saying “Period” doesn’t mean now. Now he’s claiming “Period” meant — actually, he’s claiming “we” said this, which is a lie — “unless there have been any changes [whatsoever] to your policy.”
Such as $5 increase in your copay to keep pace with rising medical costs. Yes, a $5 change in your copay ungrandfathers your policy. The HHS deliberately wrote these rules to terminate as many policies as possible.

Read the whole thing, because the new lie is in some ways worse than the old lie. The old lie merely insulted our intelligence. The new lie insults our dignity. Basically, this is Obama saying, “Sorry about doing that in your mouth, America.”

Except, of course, he’s not the least bit sorry about it.

Obama has no remorse, because he has no conscience.

He is, after all, a Democrat.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

When Virginia Rubs The Lotion On Its Skin, The Victim Can Blame Itself

Posted on | November 6, 2013 | 79 Comments

by Smitty

UPDATE: Mis-attribution fixed. Sorry, Adjoran. Blame Robert Sarvis. 🙂

Stacy put about the best possible spin on matters last night. As with Lonegan in NJ, saying the candidate “beat the spread” is thin gruel.

I disagree with Adjoran[‘s responder]:

Nope, you can blame Robert Sarvis of the Libertarian Party for Cuccinelli’s defeat. He and Cucinelli have a combined 53% of the vote. If Sarvis has not been a spoil sport, Cucinelli could have won.

No, you can’t.

(a) Sarvis is a free moral agent. It’s his state and he can run if he wants to, run if he wants to. The results show the degree to which the Republican party must alter course to capture those votes.

(b) This was not a high-turnout election. I served in a polling station supporting adjacent precincts covering ~8k voters, with ~30% turnout. If you’re going to beat up the Democrats for nominating a no-talent rodeo clown for office, blame the lazy conservatives who were just to lazy to turn out and do something about it. Oh, my dog/car/wife/long line/leaves/traffic–SHADDUP! I put in a 17 hour day supporting this election, and earn roughly minimum wage for those hours. That is, it ain’t about the frogskins. Furthermore, I had to eat vacation time to do it. Thus, my opportunity cost was high. Which is by no means a complaint, but I know first-hand that (a) it was a clean election, and (b) voters are getting what they wanted.

Mataconis was hasn’t got a happy-dance post up yet:

Still disagree, Doug. Cuccinelli is an able public servant who articulated reasonable plans to an audience that doesn’t bother to vote, or votes for a guy whose main plan for anything seems to be ‘get liquored up’.

The GOP, at Tea Party insistence, conducted a nominating convention this year. The GOP nominee in a primary, had such occurred, might have been Bowling, who certainly showed his worth during this gubernatorial campaign. Entertaining the counterfactual: would Bowling have beaten McAuliffe? He could have just as easily done worse.

Mataconis himself supported Sarvis, nominally as a protest vote. Maybe the lesson for the GOP concerning Sarvis is that, if the party is driving matters, and winning is everything, then brass knuckle politics is fine:

A major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert C. Sarvis on the ballot — a move that could split conservative votes in a tight race.
Campaign finance records show the Libertarian Booster PAC has made the largest independent contribution to Sarvis’ campaign, helping to pay for professional petition circulators who collected signatures necessary to get Sarvis’ name on Tuesday’s statewide ballot.
Austin, Texas, software billionaire Joe Liemandt is the Libertarian Booster PAC’s major benefactor. He’s also a top bundler for President Barack Obama.

So, a possible “conservative” strategy would be to fund some godless Commie sodomite, to rail against private property and capitalism, and pick off some Democrat votes. The word “conservative” in the previous sentence is scarequoted because people of good conscience tend not to engage in subterfuge.

No, it’s far easier to just turn out the base and win properly.

As for Virginia, well, four years of Detroitification stand to suck. Norther Virginia will do OK; this is the land of homo bureaucratus, that species which excels in regulating others. As for the rest of the state, well, if you liked Healthcare.gov, you’ll love the gubernatorial equivalent, and slather that lotion the heck on. Right now. Or else it gets the hose again.

Category: Election, Virginia
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