The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m way behind the curve this week, so let’s skip the Obligatory Warning with its Doctor Strangelove references and get right to it.

Leading off this week is Laughing Conservative with some surprising Rule 5 Cat Deeley. EBL has a Cowboys cheerleader and then gets political with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman before submitting the Rule 5 Twitter Retweet of the Week. Reaganite Resistance spotlights FNC’s Patti Ann Browne, while Randy’s Roundtable goes big with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Zion’s Trumpet doubles up with Lisa Angelina and Mariana Rios, and IMNSHO follows the First Street Journal’s lead, posting girls with guns. Speaking of which, First Street Journal has weapons training this week, while Senator Blutarsky assembles a dossier of Democratic Mistresses.

A View From The Beach proclaims “No More Seal Clubbing For Heidi Klum”, has an explanation for the Great Depression, the reason cat ladies are crazy (with obligatory Cave Girl content), Norah Jones, Redheads and Global Domination, Labor Day Pinups, and a boating safety video.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jordana Brewster, his vintage Babe is Dagmar, and the Sex In Advertising segment is hot off the grill. Dustbury has Tiffani Thiessen and Emma Watson this week, while Three Beers Later offers substitute lesbians and Laura Branigan (not a lesbian).

Soylent Green bats cleanup this week, starting with a Monday Non-Motivationer, Afternoon Awesome Harley, Back To School Spassfabrik, Humpday Hawt Yuliya Kizim, Thursday tumblr, Over Nighty, House of Corsetcare (no relation to the Haunted House of Lingerie), Catalina Robayo Goes Commando, OverNighty Aria, AM Awesome Jessica, and something about not washing the car because it’s raining.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery; deadline for sending links to the  Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s roundup is Saturday, September 15.

Category: Rule 5

‘Corrupt Maryland Democrat’

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 7 Comments

The phrase is kind of redundant, really:

Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner running against freshman Rep. Andy Harris (R) in the Eastern Shore-based 1st Congressional District, released a statement saying that “with great regret, and much sorrow” she was resigning from the contest.
“Personal issues have made this the hardest decision that I have had to make,” Rosen said.

Personal issues? Yeah, like vote fraud:

Rosen’s announcement came the same day the state Democratic party released a letter to state Attorney General Douglas Gansler and state prosecutors reporting the allegations against Rosen.
“The Maryland Democratic Party has discovered that Ms. Rosen has been registered to vote in both Florida and Maryland since at least 2006; that she in fact voted in the 2006 general election both in Florida and Maryland; and that she voted in the presidential preference primaries held in both Florida and Maryland in 2008,” wrote Yvette Lewis, the state party chair. “This information is based on an examination of the voter files from both states. We believe that this is a clear violation of Maryland law and urge the appropriate office to conduct a full investigation.”

Not that Maryland Democrats are actually against vote fraud, you understand. Probably some Democrat got tipped off that Republicans had found out about Rosen’s double-registration, and so they dumped Rosen to prevent her from causing an October meltdown once the GOP blew the story open.

How many other Democrats from Maryland are also double-registered in Florida? Enough to tip a close election? Yeah, but never mind: No ID required! — because that would be racist.

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Maryland

Do Sovereign Nations Name Their Capitols? Not According To Joe Kennedy

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Wikipedia gives the answer for the capitol of Israel correctly: Jerusalem. Prospective Massachusetts Democrat Representative Joe Kennedy III, not so much.

It’s not like the question was: “What is the capitol of Burkina Faso” (Ougadougou). Israel is among the top, oh, five foreign policy issues today. So it’s far from nit picking.

Sean Bielat for Congress

Because Senator John Kerry has more than filled the Congressional Upperclass Twit void left by Ted.

via Gateway Pundit

Update: linked at American Glob

Category: Massachusetts

Striking Teachers: When Omitting Letters, Avail Yourself Of The Apostrophe

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Another best practice: lay the sign out in pencil before using markers. In the plus column, at least this is hand-made:

Spelling c’unts

via Michelle Malkin

Category: Education, humor, Unions

Obama Campaign Fundraising Claim Deserves More Than a Few Grains of Salt

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 14 Comments

August was not yet over when word got around during the Republican convention in Tampa that Romney and the GOP had raised more than $100 million in August — their third consecutive month of nine-digit fundraising. The Democrats had nothing to say in reply at that time. You could hear the crickets chirping at Obama HQ in Chicago.

OK, so overnight the Romney campaign announced a specific figure — $111.6 million — for August and immediately the Democrats answered with the claim that they’d raised $114 million, resulting in a blitz of headlines like this:

Obama beats Romney
in August fundraising
— Washington Post

Obama fundraising edges
out Romney in August
— CBS News

This news contributes to the sense of a shift toward Obama, but permit me to offer an important caveat: We won’t get the official Federal Election Commission reports for another 10 days, and the official numbers on those reports may add up to different totals than those announced by the two campaigns. There isn’t any law that requires campaigns to tell the truth in their public statements about fundraising, and if you think Democrats wouldn’t fudge the numbers in order to gain a 10-day advantage in the media narrative of the campaign, you have a far higher estimate of Democrat probity than I do.

Be that as it may, however, even if we take the total fundraising numbers at face value, there remains the question of “burn rate.”

Ever since May, we’ve seen the Democrats burning through campaign cash faster than they can bring it in. The Obama campaign has built a very expensive infrastructure, with high fixed costs for staff salaries, and they launched an early ad blitz this summer in key swing states, at a time when the Romney campaign was hoarding its resources in preparation for the fall season. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air calls our attention to this detail from a Politico reporter:

Romney’s campaign, including the RNC and state parties it raises money through, have about $168.5 million cash on hand. The Obama camp has not announced how much they have.

Right. Some readers may remember how angry I got toward the Gingrich campaign in March, when Newt was acting like he was still Mitt’s chief GOP rival at a time when it was obvious to me — and to any experienced observer — that his campaign’s burn rate was out of control and that they were running up huge debts with no chance to win, thereby hurting Santorum’s chance to stop Romney.

Manipulating perceptions is part of the game in politics, largely because so many people are swayed by bandwagon psychology and susceptible to confirmation bias, believing what they want to believe. If you aren’t braced to expect these manipulations, you can be misled. This was why the Romney campaign felt obliged to issue a warning against panic in the face of the post-convention media blitz suggesting that Obama’s already won the election. And this was also why I felt the need to remind readers of a campaign that faced an even worse blitz of slanted media coverage:

Sixty-four days remain in the 2012 presidential campaign. Election Day is nine weeks from tomorrow, both party conventions are now in the rearview mirror, and Mitt Romney’s uphill battle to unseat President Obama has reached its most crucial phase. Everything that happened before today was merely prelude to this, the heart of the fall campaign season, and no “expert” can confidently predict today what the final result will be on November 6.
These basic facts are important to establish at the outset of any discussion of the current state of the race, because there are many influential people who would like you to believe that the outcome of the election has somehow already been determined, and that they have clairvoyant insight on what that outcome will be. But why bring Nate Silver into this?
Silver is the poll-analyzing guru of the New York Times, whose reputation as a wizard was developed in crunching baseball statistics before being applied to political campaigns. On Saturday afternoon, Silver published an analysis which asserted that Obama now has a nearly 80 percent chance of winning the election, with 317 Electoral College votes and 52 percent of the popular vote. All of which is very interesting — and very important, if true.
However, baseball isn’t politics, and public-opinion polls are not batting averages or on-base percentages or any other such metric of past performance. Readers of Michael Lewis’s bestseller Moneyball may appreciate this distinction, especially if they have any extensive experience in following polls and election campaigns. For myself, to cite just one example, I recall the Sunday in October 2010 when I arrived in New York’s 25th Congressional District and was greeted by a Syracuse Post-Standard headline proclaiming that Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei had opened up a 12-point lead over Republican challenger Ann Marie Buerkle with barely two weeks remaining until Election Day. There was a mood of grim determination at the Buerkle campaign events I attended that Sunday and Monday, and I was far from certain that she could pull off an upset. On Election Night, the vote was “too close to call” and it was only after an extended recount that Buerkle was declared the winner — two days before Thanksgiving — by a margin of fewer than 600 votes. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 

 


Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, Polls

White House: Blowing Off The Homework Is An American Tradition And Stuff

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Top 5 excuses for why the White House didn’t get the sequestration homework done on time:

  • Too busy golfing/fundraising
  • Taking cues from the anthropomorphic lint that is the Senate Majority Leader
  • Numbers are raaaaacist
  • Math is hahrd
  • Clint Eastwood stole my chair
Category: Democrats

Why Don’t We Just Give In To Low Self-Esteem And Re-Elect Barack?

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

Building on the theme of this Power Line post, let’s just admit that:

  • We can’t have nice things.
  • Our ancestors were bad.
  • Taking our turn at the bottom of the global gutter is the only way we can hope to be shriven of the defects that Barack has identified in our national character.

I, for one, welcome my finger-pointing overlord. Stockholm Syndrome, they say, is good for the karma. Whip me, beat me, make me vote Democrat.

Category: Barack Obama, Power Line

Jeremiah Wright Rates A Second Look In The Light Of D’Souza’s 2016

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Red State serves the mix:

If we’re subscribing to the 2016 thesis that BHO Junior is informed by Senior’s anti-colonial politics, then Jeremiah Wright’s black liberation theology dovetails nicely with the anti-Colonialism to demonize the United States and offer the country up as a target for punishment. That’s a fairly crude and simplistic connection of dots. Let’s call it a theory for now, and see how much explanatory power the idea has with respect to Obama’s record, for example, acting as a roadblock to the Keystone XL pipeline.

Generalizing a bit, it seems that a vast amount of our political dialogue is what I’ll call argumentum ad culpam (for which coinage I feel kinda bad). The capacity to manipulate feelings of guilt in you positively  (the 1787 U.S. Constitution was silent on the scourge of slavery) and negatively (you may not be culpable for your monstrous hormonal urges) is weapons-grade political plutonium, currently dropping economic bombs on a country near you.

When having a discussion with another, pay attention to what degree the arguments in play are straightforward appeals to how you should feel bad about something to which you’ve no connection, and how we ought to expand government to ‘solve’ this matter.

More at Nice Deb.

Update: linked at Jackie Wellfonder

Update II: why am I surprised, Bill? I guess I’m taken aback by the complicity of the mainstream media, not to team up and get their dude elected, but to commit suicide like this.

Category: Barack Obama, Red State
« go back — keep looking »

    About

    This is an area on your website where you can add text. This will serve as an informative location on your website, where you can talk about your site.

    Subscribe to our feed

    Search

    Admin