The Other McCain

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

Unlike Stacy, Smitty Needs His Beauty Sleep

Posted on | September 10, 2010 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Thanks, Tabitha!

a couple members of the axis of fedora

Tom White of VA Right and Tabitha Hale


Tom blogs at VA Right, and Tabitha is mostly too busy for such.

Last night’s reception at the Crystal City Sheraton answered the question: if bloggers were Trekkies, would Scott Ott be Spock, Stephen Green be McCoy, and Bill Whittle be Kirk?

No: nobody was weird enough to ask that question.

BlogCon what it must be like to show up at the MTV Music awards if you’re a musician; getting to meet people whom you admire and discovering that, wow, folks like your stuff.

While he declined to have a picture taken, meeting the Iowahawk was a treat. I’d say it’s fair to characterize him as of the Charles Martin Smith mold. Unabashedly gushing, I allowed that The Idiossey had inspired me to write OediPOTUS Wrecks. Not to tout my own trash, mind you, but reality seems to be tending toward the deus ex machina at the climax.

The other rock star blogger that I’m pleased to have met was Ace of Spades, who is as non-descript Iowahawk, but writes some hilarious, if a trifle edgy, headlines, of which here are two related examples:

Ace: This New Rasmussen Poll Makes Me Want to Dress Up Like Jame Gumb And Put Marco Rubio In My Victim-Hole
Marco Rubio: I’m Calling The Police
Ace: There You Go With Those Mixed Signals Again		 Ace: This New Poll Makes Me Want To Devour Marco Rubio’s Life Essence So That I Can Transform Into Him
Marco Rubio: Please Stop Being Creepy
Ace: Then Please Stop Sending Me Psychic Phone Calls Through My Grandmother’s Skull

Today’s agenda seems full of useful stuff, so check back during the day, as the little netbook gets put through its paces.

Apropos nothing, check out tokarski21 on YouTube, who serves up interesting historical tidbits in a brief, entertaining fashion.

Category: Ace of Spades, Blogging, Iowahawk, Tabitha Hale, VodkaPundit

Delaware Republican Party Files FEC Complaint Against Christine O’Donnell UPDATE: RNC Robocalls for Castle?

Posted on | September 10, 2010 | 32 Comments

What kind of campaign does the GOP establishment wage against challengers? Scorched earth:

The Republican Party of Delaware has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing one of its own Senate candidates of illegally collaborating with the Tea Party Express.
Attorneys for the state party asked the FEC to launch an immediate and thorough investigation into conservative GOP candidate Christine O’Donnell “to remedy the alleged violations and to ensure that these violations immediately cease and do not reoccur,” according to the complaint filed Thursday. . . .
The complaint alleges that the O’Donnell campaign is “knowingly accepting illegal campaign contributions from the Tea Party Express PAC.” . . .
Delaware State GOP Chairman Tom Ross offered this statement:
“Christine O’Donnell needs to immediately call upon her third party supporters to cease and desist this illegal behavior,” he said. “This type of behavior has no place in our political process, and O’Donnell should denounce these illegal ads. Donors deserve to know whether they made an illegal donation so they can demand a refund and get their money back.”

When you take on the establishment, this is what you can expect in return. And when the grassroots are asleep, the establishment becomes arrogant.

UPDATE 11:10 a.m.: Angel Clark of the Examiner reports:

The RNC has allegedly been making “robo-calls” to voters in Delaware informing people of Castle’s fiscal conservatism. Many already frustrated Delawareans are now becoming angry. They are attempting to call the RNC office today and let them know that Delaware is tired of their establishment candidate (202-863-8500).

Clark also reports: “The Tea Party Express is holding a rally tonight in Sussex County. The 9-12 Delaware Patriots sent out some of the rally information. . . . Friday, Sept 10th at 5:30 pm – American Legion Post #28, 3178 Legion Road, Millsboro.”

 Stand up and fight! WOLVERINES!

UPDATE 11:30 a.m.: Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator talks about the Wall Street Journal and National Review as instruments of the Ruling Class. And the ever-fearless Dan Riehl isn’t afraid to argue with Glenn Reynolds.

UPDATE: Via C4P, audio of Sarah Palin’s call-in to Sean Hannity’s radio show endorsing Christine O’Donnell:

Also via C4P, Mark Levin discusses the endorsement:

Let us note that this conflict over the Delaware GOP primary finds three of the most influential conservative talk-radio hosts — Levin, Hannity and Rush Limbaugh — on the same side as Governor Palin. Think they’ll remember that? Think that will make a difference beyond 2010? Just askin’ questions . . .

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL for U.S. SENATE

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Election

Dixie Rising

Posted on | September 10, 2010 | 12 Comments

“If the question is which state has changed most in the last half-century, the answer might be California. But if the question is which state has changed most for the better, the answer might be South Carolina.”

Category: South Carolina

Blame Enough to Go Around

Posted on | September 10, 2010 | 24 Comments

Stuart Schneiderman gets all Freudian about Obama:

In the end the American people bought an illusion, an illusion of competence and eptitude. They were wrong, and thus, they are getting screwed.

(Hat-tip: Insty.) But what about those of us who never bought the illusion? Why are we forced to suffer a fate that we tried to warn against? Why aren’t people who voted for Obama — and the pundits who urged them to do so — being held accountable for their error?

And let’s not let Republicans off the hook. Someone needs to go back and collect all the quotes from conservative pundits who, from 2007 on through Super Tuesday in 2008, assured us that John McCain would be a good presidential candidate.

Many of those pundits urged Republicans to back McCain because they assumed Hillary Clinton would be the Democrat nominee. Arguably McCain could have won that matchup, although I still insist Romeny was the better all-around candidate.

But McCain vs. Obama? No way.

The visuals were all wrong: Young, tall, brown and eloquent vs. old, short, bald and grumpy.

There was a glimmer of Republican hope in summer 2008, when Obama made that stupendously pretentious trip to Berlin, and then a real surge when McCain picked Palin as his running mate. But once Maverick backed the Bush bailout and especially after America saw the two guys on the same stage in the first debate — oh, it was hopeless.

Yet Republicans who actively promoted John McCain as the nominee (or who unwittingly did so, by backing Giuliani or Huckabee, rather than uniting behind Romney as the “Anybody But McCain” consensus) want to exempt themselves from culpability for Obama’s election.

And I’m still bitter about it.

Every time I see those Maverick-loving pundits sharing their “strategic insights” on our current predicament, I want to shout at the TV or computer: “Yeah, putz? Why should we believe a word you say now, when three years ago you were telling us about how that two-faced backstabbing RINO geezer was a surefire winner in 2008?”

Don’t Blame Me. I Voted for Bob Barr.

Category: Uncategorized

Sarah Palin’s Biggest Gamble

Posted on | September 10, 2010 | 27 Comments

Following up on the earlier post about Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Christine O’Donnell, I have spoken to a few sources, one of whom described this as “the longest of long shots,” a decision based not on political calculation but as a matter of “pure principle.”

Another source pointed out that Rush Limbaugh might have had an influence, as he returned from vacation Tuesday and pounded hard on the Delaware primary — following his friend Mark Levin, who has been O’Donnell’s staunchest defender on talk radio.

At any rate, here’s Sarah Palin’s Facebook endorsement:

The wave of positive change can really sweep across our land with the election of Constitutional Conservatives who promise to use common sense and rein in the federal government spending! Please support Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. She will support efforts for America’s energy security, patient-centered health care reform, cutting government waste, and letting the private sector thrive and prosper! We can’t afford “more of the same” in Washington. Christine will help usher in the real change we need to get America on the right track. Please visit her website at www.christine2010.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Just five days before Sept. 14 primary, can Palin’s endorsement turn the tide in Delaware? Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Dan Riehl has a similar reaction, citing this endorsement by Palin as a matter of “principle . . . integrity” and certain other admirable qualities. A tip of the fedora to Dan who, as I said Tuesday, went on the warpath against RINO Mike Castle and Castle’s supporters. And I must point out that it was co-blogger Smitty who first called our attention to Christine O’Donnell back in March.

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Senate

Don’t Tell Tabitha Hale . . .

Posted on | September 10, 2010 | 23 Comments

. . . but despite her efforts to exclude me from Blog Con, I managed to find a way down here with Chris Renner. Here are a few photos of Thursday evening’s reception:

Important blogger Stephen Kruiser and Amy Miller of Red State.

All the BlogCon ladies love Steve Eggleston of No Runny Eggs. BTW, the blonde on the left is Oregon’s Kristina Ribaldi.

Mary Katharine Ham with Stephen Green, who insists that he’s still Vodkapundit, mainly because BudLightPundit “just doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.”

Lisa De Pasquale was heard to explain to Cynthia Yockey: “No, trust me — Joe Logue is available.”

Da Tech Guy to North Carolina congressional candidate Renee Ellmers: “So, this testa dura, this Etheridge fellow, he disrespects you?”

I’m not sure Michael Chamberlain is actually a blogger. He may have just been hanging around trying to meet Amy Miller.

The following “man on the street” video interview is rated NSFW:

Hey, when Dan Riehl says to hit the tip jar . . .

Category: Blogging, Shoe Leather Fund, Tabitha Hale

It’s Official: Lisa the Loser

Posted on | September 9, 2010 | 15 Comments

Anchorage Daily News:

Final vote is in The Alaska Division of Elections counted the last absentee ballots Wednesday. The final vote in the Aug. 24 Republican primary for U.S. Senate was 55,847 for Joe Miller and 53,834 for Lisa Murkowski.

Erika Bolstad and Sean Cockerman also report:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky pledged $5,000 from his own political action committee to Miller, joining the support of the NRSC. . . .
Miller is also getting money from the more conservative wing of the party. South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund on Tuesday devoted $12,983 to an online appeal to help raise money for Miller, according to disclosures. That comes on top of the Washington, D.C., anti-tax group Club for Growth promising to spend “whatever it takes” on Miller.

If you’re committed to doing “whatever it takes,” sometimes impossible things happen. They say it’s impossible for me to get to Blog Con, just like they say it’s impossible for Christine O’Donnell to beat Mike Castle.

Category: Alaska, Election

Is Your Fanboi Blogging Shameless Enough?

Posted on | September 9, 2010 | 21 Comments

by Smitty

Haven’t even got checked in to BlogCon yet. Stopped at the bar for a photo of the Tres Hombres.
Promises to be a fantastic time, if I don’t get shunned for excessive creepiness.

Category: PJTV
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