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On the Road Again

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments

My wife has packed my bag, I’ve rented a car ($75 a day) and am now about to leave for Virginia’s 9th District, where Morgan Griffith is just one point ahead of Democrat Rick Boucher.

After VA-9? Well, I don’t know how far I’ll go. Depends on time and money. Please hit the tip jar, and thanks to everyone who’s already helped out with the Shoe Leather Fund.

Five more days until Nov. 2.

EXPECT UPDATES . . .

Category: Congress, Election, Shoe Leather Fund, Virginia

Alyssa Milano Explains Your Choice: Talk to Your Parents About the First Time They Had Sex — or Get Out and Vote!

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 4 Comments

Of course, these kind of get-out-the-vote ads are intended to persuade clueless liberal college kids to vote, assuming that at least two-thirds of them will vote for Democrats. But it’s Alyssa Milano, and there’s no such thing as bad Alyssa Milano:

10 Minutes from Alyssa Milano

UPDATE: All the cool kids in California are voting for Dale Ogden. Pass it on!

Category: Celebrities

Canadian Conservative Blog Seeks Support Against Jew-Hater’s Nuisance Lawsuit

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 5 Comments

Blazing Cat Fur is being sued for, among other things, linking to that notorious hater Mark Steyn. The $500,000 lawsuit was filed by Richard Warman, a former member of the Canadian Human Rights Commission Canuckistani Gestapo.

Even Canadians recognize Warman as an especially vile creature:

[In March 2009] Tribunal Chair Edward Lustig condemned Warman – who holds himself out as a human rights activist – for his membership in neo-Nazi organizations and ripped into him for his frequent anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi rants. The Tribunal effectively accused Warman himself of breaking the law – pointing out that Warman’s online anti-Semitism could quite possibly expose Jews to even more hatred and contempt. That just happens to be the offence Warman claimed he was trying to enforce. And, in perhaps the most damaging finding, the Tribunal pointed out that Warman at first did not answer questions truthfully – effectively calling him an attempted perjurer.

Blazing Cat Fur is soliciting funds for his legal defense online and by mail:

“Christopher Ashby in Trust”
Attn: Blazingcatfur defence fund
Suite 1013
8 King Street East
Toronto ON M5C 1B5

While conservatives in Canuckistan are being sued for linking Mark Steyn, here in the United States, our president is meeting with creitnous anti-social subversive menaces — and I’m still. free to call them that, thank God.

Category: Blogging, Canada, Foreigners

California Screaming

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 11 Comments

My friend Stogie at Saberpoint is, alas, a victim of Californication:

The buzz is that California will be a hold out in this next Republican revolution — they will proudly and stubbornly be wrong once again.  While Californians struggle with 22% unemployment, free soup kitchens and food banks, they will nevertheless vote for the party who made their poverty possible.  My disgust for the California electorate knows no bounds; they are firmly, solidly and reflexively leftist.

Stogie blames the voters, but the worthlessness of the California GOP — which routinely asks voters to elect clueless Republican losers like Meg Whitman — is the true cause of this situation. Loyalty is not a one-way street, and California Republicans expect loyalty from grassroots conservatives who have been getting stabbed in the back by the state party for 20 years.

The by-now-routine spectacle of inept California Republican candidates publicly pissing all over the party’s conservative principles is not likely to persuade independent voters to vote Republican.

Remember that the geniuses who run the GOP once expected California voters to elect Arianna Huffington’s closeted gay husband to the United States Senate. Thank God he lost and please pray to God that, even in California, a majority of the electorate are not so stupid as to vote for an untrustworthy backstabber like Meg Whitman. She’s down by 10 points in the latest poll, and my only regret is that she isn’t losing by a much bigger margin.

UPDATE: Professor Donald Douglas adds his two cents to the verdict on the billionaire loser. It’s simple, really: Anybody who would pay Mike Murphy $90,000 a month deserves to lose.

DALE OGDEN for CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR
Because he’s not Jerry Brown, he’s not a billionaire
and he didn’t hire that useless loser Mike Murphy

Category: California, Election, Saberpoint

The Evidently Obligatory ‘How Many House Seats Will the GOP Win?’ Post

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 9 Comments

Short answer: A lot fewer than they could have, if the NRCC had a freaking clue.

Really. Ace of Spades interrogates Jay Cost about the likelihood of Republican gains on the high side of 60, which I consider insanely optimistic, given the face-palming incompetence of the NRCC. But first the good news from Jay Cost:

Ohio is all but gone for the Democrats, including the swingiest of swing districts in Columbus. Michigan is a lost cause. So is liberal icon Russ Feingold in Wisconsin. Pennsylvania looks like it will go maybe +4-6 for Toomey and Corbett. All of these places voted for Obama, and all of them are basically gone.

And as Ace points in his inimitable way, there’s a poll showing Sean Bielat in a dead heat with Barney Frank. Yeah, it’s an internal Beilat campaign poll, but still: There’s a chance a Republican could beat Barney Frank, a possibility nobody dared dream of two years ago. There was also good news a couple days ago from The Hill:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is making a last ditch effort to survive a GOP wave by blanketing the airwaves in more than 60 districts in the final week of the campaign.
According to FEC filings late Tuesday, the DCCC purchased $21.6 million worth of air time in 66 districts.
The ad buys represent the breadth of the GOP ‘s momentum. Among those 66 districts, many were once considered safe Democratic seats, including those held by Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.). Only three of the seats in which Democrats are advertising are held by Republicans.

Good news, yes, but also bad news: That’s $21.6 million of brutal ads accusing Republicans of rape, murder, arson and wanting to give tax cuts to greedy corporations that ship jobs to China.

And the National Republican Congressional Committee? They can’t do shit to reply. The NRCC’s got nothing. The DCCC out-raised the NRCC by $14 million this cycle, because the NRCC is run by clueless dingleberries under the chairmanship of Rep. Pete Sessions.

Pete Sessions should have been stripped of his chairmanship the day after Dede Scozzafava endorsed Bill Owens. If there were still any old-fashioned justice in the world, Pete Sessions would have been horsewhipped and stomped to death by the House Republican Caucus, his head carried through the streets atop a pike, and his mutilated headless corpse fed to dogs.

(Rarest sentence in the English language: “Gee, Stacy, why don’t you tell us how you really feel?”)

Because Pete Sessions was not fired, etc., conservatives with good sense stopped giving to the NRCC, which is staffed by half-wits who got their jobs because their Daddy was good friends with some GOP bigwig. Consider that, in Florida’s 24th District — a key pickup Republican opportunity against an extremely vulnerable Democrat — the primary was complicated by a candidate whose fundraising consultant was the wife of NRCC executive director Guy Harrison. Thankfully, that candidate lost the primary, but not before raising and spending more than $600,000 — Republican money wasted on an “insider” candidate who, had she won the primary, would have been unelectable.

Such stories could be told in district after district across the country. If Republicans gain 5o or 60 House seats on Tuesday, I’ll be happy. But they could have easily won 70 or 80, had the NRCC been run by intelligent and competent people instead of well-connected subnormals.

And please keep in mind the unthinkable: Despite all the encouraging poll numbers, the GOP may yet fall short on Election Day. If so, the public horsewhipping and death-stomping of Pete Sessions and the NRCC staff . . . well, that would make a heck of a story.

Meanwhile, my shot-in-the-dark gut-hunch guess of how many House seats the GOP will win is . . . . consulting the crystal ball here . . . let’s go with 49.

I’m lowballing it, because I figure there will be at least 10 races where it’s close enough for Democrats to steal.

Category: Congress, Election, Florida, Kentucky, Polls, Sean Bielat

Interesting, But No, VodkaPundit

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Allowing the Federal government to control education remains wrongheaded.
The Smith Plan, which applies to both education and home ownership, is to add 49 more State banks, and let the several States figure it out. You can boot the DOE, Fannie & Freddie to boot.
Federalism: the Left can call it extremism all day long, but they can’t nullify the common sense factor.

Category: Education, VodkaPundit

LIVE AT FIVE – 10.28.10

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

TOP NEWS

FBI Arrest Pakistani-American In Subway Terror Sting

FBI agents and Virginia State Police search Farouk's residence

Farouk accused of scouting Metro stations for bomb sites

Colbert, Stewart Deny It, But Participants See Rally As Political Event

Attendees expect to energize liberal base

Prosthetic Leg May Belong To Missing Australian Girl

Zahra Baker missing for over two weeks, mother jailed for lying to police

POLITICS

Early Voting On Track To Break Midterm Record

Early voter arrives at the government center in Fairfax, Va.

“The early voting numbers are favorable for Democrats, but here’s the caution — they are not as favorable as in 2008.”

Angle Answers Behar Slur With Flowers

Thanks Behar for helping her raise $150,000

Feingold Fights Mood For Change

Marathon County illustrates sour mood among Wisconsin voters

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Dollar Reaches Weekly High Against Euro As Fed Shows Signs Easing Won’t Be As Big As Previously Guessed

Wells Fargo To Amend 55,000 Foreclosures

Crude Oil Breaks $82 As Weak Dollar Spurs Raw Materials Buying

MySpace Reorients Toward Videos and Music

Sony Exec Sees Value In A PSP Phone

SPORTS

Cavs Begin Post-LeBron Era With Shocking Upset Of Celtics

Cavs owner Dan Gilbert: "I have no regrets about what I said."

Good start on getting to a championship ahead of the Heat.

Thrashers Stop Rangers Three-Game Win Streak

Caps Blank Canes In Miami Home Opener

Phil Jackson: Lakers Championship Rings “Unwearable”

CC Sabathia Having Knee Surgery After Sub-par Postseason

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Charlie Sheen Tests Positive For Cocaine

Oops.

Two months out of rehab and back on the Bolivian Marching Powder already. *sigh*

Christopher Nolan Reveals Title Of Third Batman Film

Audrina Patridge Bounces Back From DWTS Elimination, Inks Reality Show Deal

Conan O’Brien Ready For One Last Late-Night Ride

James Cameron To Do Avatar 2, 3 Next

Photographer: Tila Tequila Kidnapped My Girlfriend!

Prince William & Kate Middleton Ready To Wed

FOREIGNERS

Nestor Kirchner, Former President Of Argentina, Dies At 60

Death  Toll From Indonesian Tsunami, Volcano Eruption Tops 300

Gorbachev Says Putin Obstructs Democracy

French Parliament Signs Off On Pension Reform As Strikes Dwindle

BLOGS & STUFF

C4P: DNC Attempting To Use Pentagon For Oppo Research?

Hot Air: On Second Thought, Maybe We Should Forget About Compromising Our Principles For The Sake Of Bipartisanship

AmSpecBlog: A Second Term For Steele?

NRO: Manchin Administration Under Federal Investigation


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Uncategorized

Whatever Was at the Bottom of the Barrel, Chris Matthews Just Scraped It Off

Posted on | October 28, 2010 | 8 Comments

Geoffrey Dickens of Newsbusters nails Matthews for his disgusting Republicans-as-Brownshirts smear:

“Chris Matthews, on Wednesday’s Hardball . . . claimed the restraining of a MoveOn.org activist by a Rand Paul supporter reminded him of what “we saw from hoodlums in the thirties in another country I will not mention” and added: “I mean it isn’t far from what we saw in the thirties, where all of a sudden, political parties started showing up in uniform.” Matthews . . . even went on to claim physical attacks against political opponents was something that existed exclusively on one ideological side as he asserted that it was “right wing by its very nature.” . . .

Matthews went on to accuse Republicans of having “hire[d] armies of paramilitaries [to] stomp people.”

This is the exact opposite of truth.

Nobody hired Tim Profitt. He was a volunteer for the Rand Paul campaign. It was Lauren Valle who was hired, and by whom? MoveOn.org, which is trying (falsely) to claim that the GOP enjoys an unfair electoral advantage from an “unprecedented flood of corporate cash.”

Let someone, anyone, examine the “corporate cash” that helped elect the president who sent a thrill up Chris Matthews’ leg: Goldman Sachs $994,795, Citigroup Inc $701,290, JPMorgan $695,132 — go down the list a bit and you come to General Electric, $499,130.

Oh, yeah: General Electric, which stands to profit handsomely from Obama’s energy policies and porked up on stimulus cash. I guess if GE is getting taxpayer-subsidzed profits, they can afford to lose money paying Chris Matthews to do a cable TV show with fewer viewers than Alyssa Milano has Twitter followers.

And don’t lecture us, Mr. Matthews, about people who “hire armies” in politics. Why don’t you ask some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters how Obama’s goon squads cheated in every caucus from Iowa to Texas?

Let’s see: Black Panthers wielding nightsticks at polling places, Kenneth Gladney  beaten by union thugs, Bill Rice’s finger bitten off by MoveOn protesters . . . Hey, if you really want to argue that political violence is “right wing by its very nature,” Mr. Matthews, we could point to the riots in France and Greece. And what about the May Day riots in Santa Cruz, Calif.? But I guess if it’s OK to hang around with terrorists, all bets are off.

Chris Matthews once again goes to show why it’s wrong to accuse liberals of not having standards. They’ve got exactly two standards — one for them, and one for everybody else.

Category: Kentucky, MSNBC
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