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Saint Charles, Martyr of LGF

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 16 Comments

Because there are so many important things to blog about — hey, CPAC starts Thursday — I seldom take notice of Charles Johnson’s idiocy anymore, but His Weirdness has once again been pursuing his sick obsession with Pamela Geller. And when Donald Douglas of American Power called him out for it, Charles predictably played the victim card.

Having spent two years waging an online campaign to destroy Geller and the counter-jihad movement — his pathetic vendetta failed — Charles keeps projecting his own hate onto her, so that he sees no irony when he claims she is “spew[ing] hate” at him!

Pamela Geller will be at CPAC, hosting a panel Friday afternoon on “Islamic Law in America,” and I can guarantee you that event will be packed. In fact, I’d bet at least one presidential candidate might drop by.

Jazzy McBikeshorts? That bloated loser couldn’t fill the corner booth at Denny’s with his supporters.

Category: Atlas Shrugs, Charles Johnson, CPAC

Your Choices: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum or ‘Sweet Meteor of Death’

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 18 Comments

This looks to be a big day for Rick Santorum, which probably explains why last night Erick Erickson began apocalyptic doomsaying:

Influential conservative blogger Erick Erickson said he would endorse the “sweet meteor of death” over any of the current GOP candidates, but would back the party’s eventual nominee in the general election against President Obama. . . .
Erickson has been highly critical of all the remaining candidates, saying the only reason Romney was seen as the eventual nominee was because “the other candidates, right now, are a pretty pathetic lot.”

Here’s a partial transcript from Erickson’s Monday WSB radio program:

It’s time for a moment of candor, I believe. I’m going to give my endorsement for President of the United States tonight. . . . Of the candidates running for President of the United States, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, on the Republican side — oh, I guess I’ll throw in Ron Paul there, as well — my choice for President of the United States is the Sweet Meteor of Death. Yes, that’s right, the Sweet Meteor of Death. Now, naturally, you could presume that, being a conservative, that of course I would choose something like a great fireball coming from the sky, annihilating us all, because women and minorities are hardest hit. . . . I’ve decided, a pox on all their houses. They’re all terrible. I doubt any of them can beat Barack Obama, unless the economy goes back down, which it may very well, in which case they don’t need my endorsement — they’ll have the economy.

(Hat-tip: Hot Air.) I had written a very long rebuttal to Erickson, but then thought better of it. Why bother? Dan Riehl calls Erickson’s rant “basically a concession to Romney and simply another incidence of his being one of the first to quit the battle.” And permit me to quote from Erickson’s Wikipedia biography:

The analysis from one of Erickson’s “Morning Briefing” emails, just after the November 2009 election, was posted on the website of Human Events, referred to on the website of The American Spectator, and by Rush Limbaugh, and “fueled discussion later that morning at two influential weekly meetings of [Washington,] D.C. conservatives”, according to an article in the Washington Post. The Post added, “The ability of a single e-mail to shape a message illustrates the power of the conservative network.” The article described Erickson as one of the American conservative movement’s “key national players”.

Hmmm. Erickson’s analysis was “referred to on the website of the American Spectator,” and thence became an example of “the power of the conservative network.” How do such things happen?

The value of Neutral Objective Journalism is sometimes overlooked, and I would assert that Doug Hoffman’s victory in New York was the irreversible turning point in the Florida Senate campaign. But there were hundreds, even thousands of people who deserved credit for those victories, and it was Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Hoffman that crushed the spine of Dede Scozzafava’s campaign.

Don’t know how that happened, either.

When was the last time Erick said anything nice about Sarah Palin?

Category: Colorado, Election 2012, Minnesota, Missouri, Rick Santorum

President Who Attacked The SCOTUS For Citizens United OK’s SuperPAC

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Noted 2010 thought criminal Justice Samuel Alito must feel some satisfaction at the news that #OccupyWhiteHouse has blessed the efforts of Priorities USA.

Let’s have the entire dextrosphere relax here. BHO is no hypocrite. Only conservatives, especially of the white male persuasion, can be hypocrites. More at Da Tech Guy.

via The Moderate Voice

Category: Uncategorized

Today’s Metaphor For Progress

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

McPherson Square Park, over at American Glob, has the before/after pictures that show us just how swell Progress can be. I’m looking at the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, seeing that #OccupyOvalOffice has nearly clawed himself to a single-digit disapproval, and wondering if we’re losing sight of the prize.

Between now and November, every number is going to be as cooked as McPherson Square: the jobs number, the approval number, the Dow. You’re dealing with an utterly ruthless crew, in this administration. Do not forget that, ye patriots.

Category: #Occupy, Progressivism

So, After The Left Has Politicized Everything, They Have The Sack To Whine About Those Seeing Political Overtones In Eastwood’s Superbowl Ad

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Colmes, emphasis mine:

Leonard Hirshan explains:
“That’s the problem; everything is political now,” says Hirshan, who tells us that he didn’t see the “Halftime” spot until it aired last night, and insisted that Eastwood agreed to make the spot without even consulting his representative of 50 years because it was “something personal he got involved in” that was neither political nor commercial.

Boo frickin’ hoo, dude. Yeah, it was sunnier back ten years ago when I didn’t fret the next legislative rape coming down the pike from DC.

The problem may abate when we break the imperial federal government. Join the fight. More at NewsBusters and the Conservatory. I actually didn’t mind the ad as a pick-me-up speech, but my Pavlovian response to all things Government Motors is overwhelmingly negative. I don’t want to hear a single word about the American spirit if we’re not letting overly unionized organizations eat the fruit of their ‘labors’.

Category: Culture

VIDEO: Was Ann Coulter Right?

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 20 Comments

A year ago, at CPAC 2011, Ann Coulter was asked what she thought about the 2012 Republican presidential field:

“Well, I’ll put it in a nutsell: If we don’t run Chris Christie, Romney will be the nominee and will lose.”

Although I never shared Chairman Ann’s enthusiasm for Christie as a presidential candidate, the second half of her prediction has become rather problematic, considering how she is now an enthusiastic supporter of the candidate she previously prophesied would lose to Obama.

Miss Coulter’s prediction was cited by American Spectator columnist David Catron, in a column with an unfortunate title.

David: How am I supposed to explain this to Ann, huh? Do you want her to hate us? Given all her previous services to the conservative cause, is she not entitled to some measure of respect, even when she is demonstrably wrong?

After having examined the enormous odds against stopping Romney from getting the nomination, it occurs to me that Miss Coulter’s early endorsement of Mitt could be viewed in a gentler light. But I’m not yet prepared to argue in her defense on this specific point, and certainly she is as always her own most formidable advocate. My point is that, if we disagree with her, we should do so respectfully, in consideration of Miss Coulter’s long years of combat on behalf of conservatism.

Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, each being senior to Miss Coulter in the ranks, are entitled to chastise her as they see fit. But their criticism shouldn’t incite a dogpile reaction against her. If she’s off the ranch and out of bounds in this instance, OK. Criticize her judgment, but don’t attempt to annihilate her reputation.

Category: Ann Coulter, Mitt Romney

Mead Seeks Technical Solutions To Existential Problems

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

I’m still waiting for Walter Russell Mead to get down to brass tacks. In this third installment, Mead sounds like he thinks shiny gadgets are going to fix everything.

Economically, the decline of the blue social model presents Americans with some urgent questions: how can we generate a rising standard of living for our citizens in a post-Fordist world? If manufacturing and stable oligopolies won’t underpin lifetime employment and rising wages for new generations of Americans, what are we going to do instead?
To start answering these questions we have to think about whether the United States enjoys any comparative advantages or can we develop some that, wisely deployed, could provide us with the kind of rising living standards that we have enjoyed in the past?
It’s clear that many such advantages exist and some are even becoming more prominent and useful. In the energy sector, homegrown shale gas and shale oil plus large new discoveries in the western hemisphere suggest that 21st century America will enjoy secure access to an abundant and varied mix of fuel from nearby and friendly neighbors. Blessed by a favorable climate and rich soil, our agricultural productivity will continue to astound. Our geographical location, which gives us access to both of the world’s greatest ocean trading basins while protecting us against invasion by other great powers, remains a tremendous advantage. The language we speak continues to develop as the global lingua franca, giving every American citizen and American business a significant boost.

Sure, I love me some technology. I took an undergraduate engineering degree, and have veered into software. Yes, it’s shiny. But can buzzing little doo-dads and social networks really forge some brave new liberal world? Put me in the doubtful column.

The crisis of our day is a moral one. The surfeit of laws to which Mead alludes has rendered a generation of spoiled brats who demand of the Nanny State, which gives with the one hand and slaps with the other. One of the lies of Progress is that we must always move ‘forward’, though the slope be negative, and reject traditional mores, which have (in the words of Postmodernists) been disproven.

What we must do to recover is reject the Postmodern idiocy, the Progressive falsehoods (global warming, abortion, welfare states, &c), and return to a traditional focus on morality and liberty. The technology, always orthogonal to human nature, will take care of itself. Trust me.

via Insty

Category: Intellectuals

Quaff That Kool-Aid!

Posted on | February 7, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

#OccupyOvalOffice would like to lament the fact that Triple-O can’t snap his fingers and make us all drink the Kool-Aid:

Listen, buddy: you can’t have it both ways: either you’re a transformational figure standing in front of the Greek columns,

Those Greek shafts have taken on unexpected meaning, no?

or you’re just a mediocre crapflooder with “Property of the Plutocrats” stamped on his forehead. There really isn’t a lot of middle ground here.

Strictly as a thought experiment, would #OccupyOvalOffice demonstrate any shred of responsibility in a second administration? Peer into the year 2015, when his refrain is “Hey, if you guys in the bread line ignore the 22nd Amendment, I swear I can fix this mess Bush left me. Third time is the charm, eh?”

Bicker and argue over GOP candidates all you care to, but never lose sight of the ultimate truth that This. Joker. Must. Go.

via Red Alexandria

Category: Barack Obama
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