There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. The almost certain victors are already in full gloat mode, and that’s why the rest of us feel lower than a gopher hole, as Molly Ivins said to me after Bush v. Gore. Nothing you try seems to work. But as I experienced dozens of times in tennis matches as a youth, if you don’t give up, sometimes there’s a shift under your feet, and you win one unexpected point, and then another, and somehow, miraculously, you pull ahead.
Democratic operatives are once again planning to expose the scandalous news that a GOP candidate has a daughter who looks hot in a bikini, sources say.
UPDATE II: While the mainstream media continues to ignore this shocking story, our investigation has now uncovered the biggest Republican scandal since it was learned that Scott Brown once appeared as a Cosmo centerfold. Yes, indeed, Republican Senate candidate Joe DioGuardi’s daughter Kara posed nude:
And how does Joe DioGuardi respond to this shocking scandal? He keeps attempting to distract New Yorkers by talking about so-called “issues”:
What’s really important to New York voters: That Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand votes for the Obama agenda of reckless deficit spending, or that Republican Joe DioGuardi has a smokin’ hot daughter?
The opening phrase of the clip “It doesn’t give them comfort and solace for me to tell them. . .,” arguably, means he is disclaiming the assertion that he saved the world from a depression. Of course, he would enjoy it if you took the clip as a whole to mean he’s the savvier savior.
Credit where due: Senator Harry Reid is a man of low animal cunning. Nevadans, you know what to do.
So, NPR’s use of ‘Juan Begone’ has ended in a $2 million dollar contract for Mr. Williams. Well, that’s capitalism for ya.
What I’m wondering, putting Soros’ $1 megabuck grant to Media Matters, the recent canning of Rick Sanchez don’t point to internal financial turmoil within the various Lefty outlets, and the non-success that is Parker/Client 9 From Outer Space, is whether Juan is symptomatic of something bigger.
If the cash flow was regular, wouldn’t these relatively minor utterances from the various media personalities fail the ‘So, what’ test?
Stay tuned after the election, when the ratings vacuum starts to suck down some bigger names, and we arrive at MSNBC-NN-BS, in a vain experiment to see if bigger acronyms are correlate with, you know, viewers.
Let’s wait for law enforcement to investigate this incident, but I’ll bet dollars to donuts that no Republican is responsible:
The FBI is investigating a toxic substance found inside a package that was sent to the office of Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, a spokesman for the congressman said.
Staffers checking mail in the congressman’s Tucson, Arizona, office Thursday found a white powdery substance and drawings of two swastikas inside an envelope, Grijalva campaign spokesman Adam Sarvana told CNN.
The Tucson Fire Department confirmed the substance inside the envelope was toxic, he said.
Almost a dozen people were inside the office at the time, he said. All of them were checked on-scene by local authorities and sent home.
Scientists at an FBI laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, are now conducting a full analysis of the substance, Sarvana said.
Arizona Nazis? Stipulating that such persons actually exist, why would they wait until two weeks before Election Day to perpetrate a crime like this? Here’s video from KVOA-TV in Tucson:
As the local reporter says, this incident occurred less than 24 hours after Grijalva debated his Republican opponent, Ruth McClung. How did that debate go for Grijalva?
The candidates in the tightening Congressional District 7 race gave voters some clear choices in a nearly two-hour debate in Rio Rico on Wednesday night. . . .
McClung supports school vouchers, saying parents deserve a choice. Grijalva doesn’t. “That will further rob our public schools of the resources they need to educate our children,” he said.
McClung supports a permanent Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 19 near Tubac, while Grijalva said mobility is important in making the checkpoint effective.
And while Grijalva said the border is more secure now than it has been in the past, McClung said the border is far from safe. “So far, all we seem to be getting from the federal government is lawsuits, and on top of that, we’re getting boycotts,” she said, contending her opponent’s early call for economic sanctions over Arizona’s new immigration law damaged the state.
The debate . . . came as the nationally respected, nonpartisan Cook Political Report dubbed the race a “tossup” and as the national Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has been forced to spend money in a district that had long been considered safe.
Grijalva, other than saying the state’s economic woes cannot be laid exclusively at his feet, did not directly address his decision earlier this year to call for a limited boycott of conventions and conferences in the wake of the passage of the state’s controversial immigration law.
The state’s immigration law, SB-1070, is “controversial” only so far as “controversial” can be accepted as a synonym for “overwhelmingly popular” — favored by 70% of Arizona voters.
So you see that the narrative in local news, coming out of Wednesday’s debate, was that voters had a clear choice, that the race was now rated a tossup, and that Grijalva was trying to avoid talking about his call for a boycott of his own state. And within 24 hours, the story suddenly changes to swastikas and toxic powder?
UPDATE: A Memeorandum thread, with reports by MSNBC and Politico. Grijalva’s offices have been threatened before, but this swastikas-and-toxic-powder business . . . well, question the timing.
So last week I attended two O’Donnell-Coons debates and saw a campaign that could determine which party will be in the Senate majority. Mr. Coons has been elected three times to New Castle County office; Ms. O’Donnell has not won an election, though this is her third Senate run. But she has raised more campaign money–$3.8 million to his $1.3 million in their Sept. 30 reports. He is a real liberal, and she is a real conservative. President Obama came to town for Mr. Coons on Friday, and it seems likely Sarah Palin will likely be here for Ms. O’Donnell at the end of October, just before the election.
The debates showed that public policy positions of the two candidates are real, substantive and very different. The University of Delaware debate was run by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who said when it ended that Ms. O’Donnell was the overall winner because “she didn’t come across as just a weirdo or anything like that.”
And, in closing:
“On Election Day the question is: Who will help correct the negative policies that have hurt our nation over the past few years? One of the candidates [Democrat Chris Coons] supports almost all of them; the other [Christine O’Donnell] favors policies that would make us more successful in the future. Two weeks from now we have avery important election in America’s First State that could change the direction of our country.”
The question will become whether this endorsement overrides Castle’s sour grapes. Update: Great roundup of Christine O’Donnell quotes at Hot Air.
