The Other McCain

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Eat Cat Too

Posted on | April 21, 2012 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

Just in case #OccupyResoluteDesk runs low on on his usual four-footed fare, this blog would like to offer a suggested backup plan, via Angus and the boys:

The opening lines: “Dog eat dog / eat cat, too” are great. So much fun in six three-letter words. I suppose there is some jape about metaphorical cannibalism and BHO in here. And maybe a Benny Hill variation, if you wish.

What’s interesting about the whole doggone situation is:

  • This really can’t help BHO’s Middle Eastern popularity at all.
  • The sheer quantity of abuse directed at BHO on this silly topic could indicate some sort of tipping point. Previously, the usual Hollywood suspects would have popped up to tell us how raaaaacist we are for daring to question Teh One.
  • We’ve still got half a year until the election. Given the mix of legitimate and silly lines of argument against BHO, and the likelihood that ObamaCare, Fast & Furious, the various other executive branch scandals (take your pick) and the rest are only going to worsen over the summer, one begins to wonder the exact date for the announcement of the medical condition requiring retirement.

 

Category: Barack Obama

Mitch Daniels Reacts To This Morning’s Comb-Over Post

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

Indiana Governor and The Other McCain reader (?) Mitch Daniels usedAt least I'm not as bald as Smitty, said Mitch. body language to emphasize the proper configuration of the comb-over, whether adorning a conservative or progressive noggin.
It’s OK, Mitch: nobody thinks the less of you because you’ve vast tracts of. . .forehead.
Just go cue ball already, man.

Then again, via Insty, maybe there’s hope.

Category: Indiana

FEC Reports: Gingrich Campaign Ended March With More Than $4.3 Million Debt UPDATE: ‘State of Confusion’ Over Gingrich’s North Carolina Schedule

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 15 Comments

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign finished March with debts of more than $4.3 million, according to his report released to the Federal Election Commisssion today.

Gingrich’s monthly fundraising fell by 35% in March, declining to $1.7 million from the $2.6 million he raised in February, but his campaign’s spending declined more slowly, to $2.0 million from the February total of $2.9 million. Gingrich’s campaign had finished February with about $1.55 million campaign debt, slightly more than its cash on hand total. The campaign’s debt at the end of March, however, exceeded its cash on hand by more than $3 million.

For the second consecutive month, Gingrich raised less than either of the three other Republican candidates, including Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who raised about $2.6 million in March.

Rick Santorum raised slightly more than $5 million in March, but spent about $5.8 million, finishing the month with about $185,000 more in debt ($2 milllion) than cash on hand ($1.8 million). Santorum suspended his campaign April 10, a week after losing the April 3 Wisconsin primary.

Gingrich has said he will continue campaigning, but on Friday the former House speaker suddenly canceled appearances in North Carolina scheduled for next week. His campaign spokesman said Friday that Gingrich will remain in the race and keep his Secret Service protection, which reportedly costs taxpayer more than $40,000 a day. “He’s still a candidate,” Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond told the New York Times. “The nomination is not over.”

Mitt Romney, now the presumptive Republican nominee, raised more than $13 million in March, spent about $10.3 million, and finished the month with about $10 million cash on hand and no debt.

President Obama’s re-election campaign, meanwhile, raised $35 million in March and spent only $15.6 million, ending the month with a total of $104 million cash on hand.

UPDATE: Elicia Dover of ABC News reports a “state of confusion” in the Gingrich campaign about the candidate’s North Carolina schedule:

Two people close to the Gingrich campaign told ABC News they were contacted and told all of Gingrich’s North Carolina stops had been canceled, although R.C. Hammond, communications director for the campaign, said there was a “communication glitch.”
“There was confusion, but we will maintain our North Carolina schedule next week,” Hammond said.
One person close to the campaign said the stops were certainly canceled, then resumed after news reports left looming suspicion, even among his own staff, that Gingrich was suspending his campaign. . . .
Hammond denied the stops were resumed purely to extinguish speculation Gingrich was dropping out.

UPDATE II: Linked by Allahpundit at Hot Air. Thanks.

UPDATE III: R.C. Hammond tells CBS News that Newt sees “a sign that we need to keep scrapping, keep fighting.” CBS notes that Gingrich’s “Winning Our Future” super-PAC got its last $5 million check from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson on March 21, three days before the Louisiana primary, where Gingrich placed a distant third.

UPDATE IV: Alex Moe of NBC News reports that Gingrich has been spending most of his time in Delaware, which holds its primary Tuesday, and quotes “a source close to the Gingrich campaign” as saying: “Tuesday is a big day. … Newt is just waiting to see what happens on Tuesday.”

What will happen Tuesday is, Newt will lose.

By the way, Newt’s campaign was the last to file its FEC report Friday. Ron Paul’s report was posted about 12:30 p.m., Mitt Romney’s about 2:30 p.m., and Rick Santorum about 4:45 p.m. The Gingrich campaign’s report didn’t go online until after 8 p.m., which almost guaranteed that it wouldn’t be reported in Saturday’s papers.

UPDATE V: There is probably some kind of literary metaphor in this report from ABC News:

The campaign’s list of debts and obligations is long, but Gingrich owes the most money to Moby Dick Airways Ltd., a private charter company based in Sterling, Virginia.

“Call me Ishmael.”

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Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul

A) They’re Just Bloggers.
B) A Thousand Word Screed’s No Biggie.
C) New Media Is Just Some Fad.

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Q. Why does the Virginia GOP continue to spurn people like just a conservative girl, to its detriment?

So I wasted well over two hours of my time and have no tickets to the debate. When I got back home I sent the following email to the Chairman:

I am writing to tell you how deceptive the FCRC is. The below email says that the tickets for the debate are free. I no longer drive for health reasons, so it took me two hours round trip to get to the office today to pick up my “free” tickets. Come to find out according to them free means that I have to do two hours of volunteer work. I even inquired on why the email said that the tickets are free, she said they are free. How exactly is something free if you are required to work for two hours? I was told that your email said that they were looking for volunteer help in exchange for the “free” tickets. Unless I am missing something the below email says nothing about volunteering.
I have given money and volunteered in the past. No more. The RPV will never get another dime or one bit of help from me again. This is why you can’t make traction in Fairfax County. No one wants to deal with people who are purposely deceptive.

Read the whole enchelada.Knowing this lady as I do from doing Tea Party events and candidate support over the last couple of years, the FCGOP really did itself no favors here.

I’m embarrassed. I’ve gone to a couple of Fairfax County GOP meetings (OK, I am a member). I can say that they’re actually trying. Probably I should volunteer to form up some kind of blogger outreach unit, so that the old dogs can learn some new tricks, lest they become Presidential lunch.

Category: GOP, Tea Party, Virginia

When Liberals Tell the Truth

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 11 Comments

It’s usually not pretty. Tim Graham at Newbusters catches a DKos diarist telling the truth about what liberals think of babies:

“Sasharusha” blogs “back to the whole fetus= parasite thing. That is how I see them. I don’t see them as cute and cuddly. I see them as terrifying and scary. I see pregnancy the same way. Here are some examples on how pregnancy is a parasitic relationship:”

Terrifying scary parasites! And as we all know, the fetus parasite has no rights, whereas liberals know that killing these terrifying creatures is the most important right guaranteed by the Constitution:

TV star Cybill Shepherd went on a radical feminist bender on Friday’s CBS This Morning, touting that there really is a “war on women” manifested by the “attack on Planned Parenthood.” . . .
The far left actress made her devotion to the pro-abortion cause clear, and hinted that pro-lifers were so extreme that they would try to kill her: “Abortion is our constitutional right. We should keep it legal. . . .”

That’s right, Cybill: A “woman’s right to choose” is guaranteed by the “Penumbras and Emanations” clause of the Right to Privacy Amendment.

Category: Abortion, Celebrities, Daily Kos

‘It’s Only Ever an Issue If …’

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 11 Comments

“. . . the politician is Republican,” says Jim Hoft, speaking in particular of polygamy, but you could apply it to many “scandals.”

John Kennedy’s father was arguably pro-Hitler in the 1930s, but you don’t hear much about that, do you? Bobby Kennedy authorized J. Edgar Hoover’s wiretaps of Martin Luther King Jr., another subject you don’t hear much about.

One of the weirdest things is how almost everyone under 40 has been taught to think of Vietnam as “Nixon’s war,” when in fact U.S. military involvement began under Kennedy, was escalated by Lyndon Johnson and was ended by Nixon.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Gateway Pundit, Mitt Romney

Go Ahead, Blame Me

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 41 Comments

Ed Morrissey informs us that Tina Korbe is leaving Hot Air to take a job at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and I’m sure some people will find some way to say this is somehow my fault.

As I explained in February when people were screaming for my scalp: I’ve always liked Tina, had often linked and praised her blog posts, and she was always nice to me. My remarks that were interpreted as being critical of her were misunderstood, but if I write something that is misunderstood, the fault is mine anyway for having been less than clear in my writing.

Therefore, mea culpa, and best wishes to Tina.

Category: Hot Air

Hey, @Jack: Smear-Troll @Dan_Verg_ Commits Libel With Fraudulent Tweet

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 91 Comments

Lots of stuff I just ignore, but this particular Twitter twerp crossed a line: The fake re-Tweet, defaming me as a neo-Nazi.

My late father was wounded within an inch of his life fighting the Nazis — his Army medals, including his Purple Heart, are displayed in my office — and I’ll be damned if I’ll let some obnoxious atheist punk get away with this kind of cheap smear.

“Dan Verg” evidently bears a grudge against “teabaggers,” and has sent a series of recent messages suggesting that Slate political reporter Dave Weigel, author Pamela Geller and talk-radio host Dana Loesch advocate or endorse terrorism.



Given his obvious penchant for defamation, you might ask, what kind of language does Dan Verg use about Republicans? And what is Dan Verg’s attitude toward the late Andrew Breitbart?

Dan Verg is entitled to his obnoxious opinions about such things, but he certainly has no right to USE HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT to falsely portray me as having sent a message I never sent, in an intentional act with the purpose of defaming me as a Nazi sympathizer.

FALSE, MALICIOUS AND INTENTIONALLY DEFAMATORY messages would appear to be a clear violation of Twitter’s terms of service agreement, and I believe that the proprietors of Twitter are under obligation to provide me, as the object of a libelous communication, or my attorney, with contact information for the user “Dan Verg,” in order to facilitate whatever legal action might be pursued.

UPDATE: Holy freaking crap! According to sources on Twitter, @Dan_Verg_ is Florida resident Daniel Vergara who, in an interview two years ago disclosed: “I was very active during the 2004 election, I was second-in-command for the Crystal Beach area of Tampa Bay for the Kerry-Edwards campaign.”

How stupid do you have to be, to engage in the kind of obnoxious defamation Vergara does on Twitter and disclose your identity, when you are employed by a public university? (Still checking this out.)

UPDATE II (Smitty): Woo hoo, Insta-lanche!

UPDATE III: Currently attempting to disambiguate @Dan_Verg_ from other people with the same name, including one employed by a public university where the media relations office says they think this is not their guy. Meanwhile, we find the following letter to the editor sent to the St. Petersburg Times in March 2011: 

Nonexistent issue
I am so glad our brave state legislators have had the courage to introduce a bill banning sharia law in our beloved Florida.
However, while I applaud this good news, I worry that the very important issue of unicorn leashing has been left undecided. While it may seem unlikely to bleeding-heart liberals that there is any chance unicorns will ever show up, I feel that the sharia bill is the perfect place to deal with the issue of whether or not they should be leashed.
And to those who say that would be a ridiculous, demagogic bill tackling an absolutely nonexistent issue, I say: You can never be too careful.
Daniel Vergara, Palm Harbor

Is this the same Daniel Vergara? Is that name particularly common in Florida? Still checking it out and have communicated my concerns to Twitter.

Let’s be clear, by the way: This isn’t just one of those Godwin’s Law things where someone starts losing an argument and calls his antagonist a Nazi. This character, with whom I had never had any previous interaction, just decided to smear me by doing a fake re-Tweet, to create the false impression that I had praised Adolf Hitler.

This is libel per se, and many, many people can testify to the falsehood of the defamatory impression @Dan_Verg_ was maliciously attempting to create.

Category: Crime
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