Establishment Turns Against Murkowski

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Now that Joe Miller has won the Alaska GOP Senate primary, the Republican establishment is his friend:

National Republican Senatorial Committee senior adviser and veteran GOP strategist Terry Nelson flew to Alaska Wednesday night to assist Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller’s campaign . . .
Nelson is going up to meet Miller and his campaign team and make clear that the committee wants to be helpful with fundraising, field operations and overall strategy as the insurgent begins his general election bid.
Nelson’s trip is also aimed at sending a signal to Sen. Lisa Murkowski that the national party is fully committed to Miller.

Yes, the establishment does know how to wield power:

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will likely be forced out of her party leadership position should she decide to launch a write-in or third-party candidacy, a Senate Republican said Wednesday.

Kind of funny how getting 51% of the primary vote changes things. And if 50,000 pro-life voters in Delaware show up next Tuesday to vote for Christine O’Donnell, things will change even more.

The Outrage Vacuum Over Hartford

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by Smitty

Aleister at American Glob wants to know where the liberals whining about Christianity in public are on the invitation to imams to pray at city council meetings.

I can follow the point that the ACLU is truly annoying about prayers mentioning Jesus Christ, but, having served as a Protestant Lay Reader at one point, a certain amount of equal time for all is a defensible argument. Maybe Hartford will have some Buddhists and Hindus invited as well. Solid, positive, courageous faith does not need sharia walls keeping out foreign ideas.

Now, if you’re gutless and in an entertainment position, that’s one thing. The real problem is cowardice in office. There is nothing intrinsically evil concerning cowardice. I’ve known some smart chickens. The management question is keeping them away from stress, as they fold in a stiff breeze like so much cheap aluminum lawn furniture.

One surmises that these media cowards are compensating heavily when, from the first link, they talk about “. . .recent anti-Islam events throughout the country.” One prays for peace, and hopes that actual, talented leadership, graced by Heaven with words of real peace, can emerge that will ratchet the situation down a notch or five. Until then, PTLAPTA.

Where All the Important Bloggers Will Be

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FreedomWorks made sure that only the very best bloggers were invited to speak at this weekend’s conference:

Erick Erickson, Matt Kibbe, Steven Crowder, Stephen Kruiser, Mary Katharine Ham, Melissa Clouthier, John Hawkins, Jim Hoft, Bill Whittle, Steve Green, Scott Ott, Matt Lewis, Caleb Brown, Will Lutz, Philip Klein, Lee Doren, Jason Mattera, Cord Blomquist, Max Pappas, Ace of Spades, Caleb Howe, Lori Ziganto and IowaHawk.

You wouldn’t want to miss that, would you?

As much as I’d like to absorb valuable knowledge from professionals who actually know how to do good blogging — to study at the feet of the masters, as it were — there is the problem of transportation. (I’m pretty sure it was Erik Telford who sent that deer to attack my car.)

Mrs. Other McCain says I’d have to rent a car for the weekend and I certainly don’t know enough about blogging to figure out how to pay for a rental car, do I?

Meg Whitman’s November Landslide

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This is the safest political prediction of the year. Not because Meg Whitman is all that, you understand. But not even Californians are so stupidly liberal as to elect Jerry Brown, who recently announced his solution to the state’s fiscal catastrophe:

“I have a plan; I’ll tell you after the election.”

The California GOP could nominate Charles Manson for governor and still beat Jerry Brown. So if Meg Whitman goes on a mass-murder spree between now and Nov. 2, don’t sweat it.

If Meghan McCain Has Lost the Gays . . .

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. . . then the only people who still have to pretend to like her are liberals:

That’s a Tweet from Christopher Barron, chairman of the gay conservative organization GOProud, which is sponsoring the upcoming “Homocon” event with Ann Coulter in New York City. (John Hawkins has an interview with Barron at Right Wing News.) Here’s video of Cuz on the Rachel Maddow show:

Now, let me say this about MeggieMac’s outspoken pro-gay stance: It’s a bit too much.

Megan strikes me as a certain type: “Fag hag“ — a term denoting a woman who likes to hang around gay men, often to the point of making a nuisance of herself. Generalizing rather broadly, fag hags tend to be women who suffer from self-esteem issues, have few close female friends, and have difficulty forming successful longterm relationships with heterosexual men. 

A fag hag hangs around with gay guys because it gives her a vicarious frisson, as well as “safe” male relationships with a built-in excuse for why these guys don’t find her sexually attractive. Whereas, by comparison, hanging out with straight guys presents problems for such a woman: Either they hit on her (and make her vulnerable to the pain of future abandonment), or they don’t hit on her, in which case she feels rejected. And if she hangs out with women, she feels deeply shamed that her friens have husbands or boyfriends and she doesn’t.

That’s the unmistakable vibe whenever MeggieMac goes on TV to proclaim her pro-gay bona fides.

Like her infamous boob shot, Meghan’s extravagant look-at-me-I-love-gay-people gestures reek of insecurity to the point of desperation.

Kudos to Chris Barron for calling her out.