‘Destructive’! ‘Capricious’! ‘Irresponsible!’

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No, Charles Krauthammer was not talking about Meghan McCain’s Dirty Sexy Politics:

Thanks to The Right Scoop for the video. Note that Krauthammer states as a fact that Christine O’Donnell will lose the general election. But why, then, did Krauthammer support John McCain, who lost so disastrously in 2008?

Krauthammer’s certainty that Mike Castle would be a “shoo-in” is equally questionable. If a Tea Party Express ad buy totalling something like $200,000 can put Castle in jeopardy of losing the GOP primary, exactly why should we believe that he is an invincible electoral juggernaut for November?

If O’Donnell pulls off a miracle upset Tuesday, it would be a continuation of the same pattern we’ve seen with Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist, Sue Lowden, Jane Norton and Lisa Murkowski: John Cornyn, the NRSC and the entire national Republican establishment lining up to tell us that their hand-picked pets are surefire winners — and yet they couldn’t even win their own primaries against underfunded challengers!

BTW, I’m hoping to rent a car and drive to Delaware to blog Tuesday’s results. Please hit the tip jar.

VIDEO: 9/12 DC Mike Pence Speech

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by Smitty

Mike Pence was the ranking speaker of the day. Very easy to edit, and served up in seven pieces a tartar for your red meat delectation, 51, 281, and 1:

 

Clip 2 unambiguously calls for ObamaCare repeal:

We don’t consent to runaway Federal spending. No new taxes: Reid his Pelosi.

No new taxes, continued, plus the class warfare quote:

Chases class warfare with a twist of Reagan:

Doom and gloom is ours, if we don’t remember in November:

Doing freedom’s work is proclaiming liberty throughout the land:

What an impressive leader. Thanks, Hoosiers, for sending such to Congress.
Separated at birth?

What’s Up With Bob Etheridge and Cows?

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For the record, no one has suggested — not even so much as hinted — that Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) has a relationship with his cattle that some might call “unnatural.” But when a congressman leaves a meeting with his constituents because he wants to spend “quality time” with his cows . . . well, Mary Katharine Ham certainly seems suspicious:

Etheridge then left the event an hour early, leaving only his staff behind, because he got word from his wife Faye that his cows had gotten out. As one local blogger put it, “Bob Etheridge presumably spends extended periods living in DC, so one would assume a standard procedure for caring for his cows in his absence would be in place.” . . .

Why would these cows be trying to escape Bob Etheridge’s farm? Does he abuse his cows the way he abused that kid with the video camera?

Again, it must be emphasized that there have been no formal accusations that Etheridge’s livestock suffer a twilight existence of shame and fear. Mary Katharine Ham is just askin’ questions, is all.

Meanwhile, one courageous woman has promised to end Etheridge’s degrading exploitation of North Carolina’s cows and taxpayers:

RENEE ELLMERS for U.S. CONGRESS

A Fine Point Of Correction For Thrasymachus

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by Smitty

Over on the Meghan McCain appreciation thread, Thrasymachus offers the following:

Meghan is a juvenile egomaniac and attention whore, just like her father.

Sir, there is a difference between juvenile and Juvenal, whose birthday roughly equates to that of Meghan’s father.
Subtle, I know.
Anyway, back to the video editing. Come back in an hour or two for Mike Pence in seven delightful, readily linkable sections. Meghan may be an attention whore, but we are link whores. Which is a whores of a different color.

Why Christine O’Donnell Is Surging: Three Ads From Tea Party Express

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O’Donnell’s unexpected last-minute surge in the Delaware GOP Senate primary has caught some people flat-footed. How did this happen? It’s simple: For the first time, RINO Mike Castle is being called to account for his record with a series of hard-hitting ads (two on TV and one on radio) from the Tea Party Express:

Let’s not overlook everything that everyone has done to help make this a competitive primary. Mark Levin has done yeoman’s work and Sarah Palin’s endorsement was crucial. But those who kept pushing the same tired bandwagon argument — “Castle can win, O’Donnell can’t” — were doing so without considering what might happen when, for the first time in his career, Castle had to defend his record against this kind of conservative ad campaign.

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL for U.S. SENATE

The Most Crucial County Council Election in 5,000 Years of Human Civilization

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The primary is tomorrow, and it is impossible to overstate the importance of Mike Calpino’s campaign in Wicomico County, Maryland. Mike is a visionary statesman who is destined for greatness.

That’s Mike and his teenage daughter Rachel at yesterday’s 9/12 Taxpayers March on Washington, which sort of explains the “visionary statesman” part. You see, Mike had the foresight several years ago to bring Rachel to a church camp where she met my son Jim, who is now 17.

This was why Jim insisted that he had to attend yesterday’s rally, to meet up with Rachel. She is “just a friend,” Jim says, as if expecting me to believe that.

You have to admire the keen political strategery by which Mike Calpino arranged to have his daughter Rachel enchant my son Jim so that — at this pivotal moment in Mike’s campaign for Wicomico County Council — he could secure my endorsement.

Fortune? Coincidence? Luck?

No, this is clearly a Rendezvous With Destiny, a clarion call from the cosmos, the bugle’s blast that will rally all good men to unite behind a leader with the courage we need in these troubled times — Fate’s chosen hero, whose election to Wicomico County Council will be the first step in his march into the pages of History. Mere words are too feeble to capture the profound significance of this moment.

The man and the hour have met!

MIKE CALPINO for
WICOMICO COUNTY COUNCIL

Hey, Has Anybody Else Noticed That Meghan McCain Is Intensely Stupid?

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“It is impossible to read Dirty, Sexy Politics and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot. . . . That a graduate of Columbia University, as Ms. McCain purports to be, produced writing this shoddy is bad; that a publishing company let this authorial abortion go to print is an insult to the collective self-worth of our thinking nation. . . . One would think hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on Ms. McCain’s education . . . would have somehow resulted in a basic understanding of the colon and semicolon, but alas — no such luck.”
— Leon Wolfe, “Meghan McCain’s Dirty, Sexy Politics“

UPDATE: I think “obligatory” is the proper word for this:

“So there we are in 2010 — young, pretty blonde women with huge cans are victimized by not being given enough attention on television. . . . If I’m going to hear a lot of stupid blather (and that’s going to happen most nights you’re watching cable news), I’d rather have some bazongas to look at while I gnaw the meat off my own fingers.”
— Ace of Spades

Ace of Spades Interviews Ladd Ehlinger

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This is two weeks old, but I hadn’t seen it before, and it’s 31 flavors of pure awesomeness: One of my favorite people interviewing another one of my favorite people, and look at where Ladd lists his “top five Don’ts” for Republicans:

1) Stop concentrating on the sure wins.
2) Stop thinking a district is lost
3) Quit letting your campaign consultants run you.
4) It’s the ideology, stupid.
5) Have a damned sense of humor. Democrats win because pop-culture meme is, they are cool and fun.

Exactly right, and go read the whole thing right now. While Ladd deserves all credit for being Ladd, I take credit for being the first conservative blogger to discover America’s Greatest Living Film Maker (TM). He bought an ad on the blog, used Twitter to kick me in the knee, and thus was formed the McCain-Ehlinger Mutual Admiration Society.