White House memos from 1997, when Elena Kagan was a top domestic policy advisor to President Clinton, show that Kagan — nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama — recommended that the Clinton administration permit cloning of human embryos for research purposes.
Writing just months after Scottish researchers had announced the birth of a cloned sheep, Kagan and another Clinton aide recommended that the president announce a ban on cloning that would lead to the birth of human infants, but emphasized that the policy “would not ban the creation of cloned embryos for research purposes.” . . . .
Yesterday we posted the endorsements U.S. Senate candidate J. D. Hayworth received from former NRA President Bob Corbin and from the Gun Owners of America. Yet the NRA, which has previously referred to John McCain as “one of the premier flag carriers for the enemies of the second amendment,” inexplicably gave McCain their endorsement.
In endorsing Hayworth, the Gun Owners of America (GOA) said: “John McCain has gone out of his way to earn the ire of conservatives and gun owners in his 20-plus years as a U.S. Senator from Arizona.” Watch this GOA ad exposing John McCain’s efforts to constrain our First and Second Amendment Rights. Then read what GOA’s Political Victory Fund says about McCain here.
This indefensible approval is akin to the shameful endorsement of McCain by Arizona Right to Life (AZRTL) which resulted in members of the board and PAC leaving the organization and calling the endorsement of McCain an “egregious affront.” . . .
. . . Sarah Palin’s? A misogynistic liberal Web site began speculating about the possibility of artificial enhancement, which prompted an indignant response from a leading conservative authority on impressive authenticity, Tabitha Hale:
If this were only on Wonkette’s site, I would never have seen it. I don’t exactly frequent there. However, the story picked up some legs. It’s been talked about by the Boston Herald, local news, and all kinds of leftwing blogs. Not to mention the “feminists” who claim that the question prompted “thoughtful discussion.” I picked it up initially via Jammie Wearing Fool.
The willingness to latch onto a complete load of crap like this is indicative of the real issue, which is that instead of acknowledging the power of Sarah Palin and launching serious attacks on, say, her grassroots cred after her establishment endorsements, they’d rather talk about her boobs. It’s demeaning. It’s offensive. It’s totally inappropriate.
Read the whole thing, because I would never — never — tolerate any inappropriate discussion about boobs. IYKWIMAITYD.
If I meant the GOP, I would have written it. The Right is a very different thing.
OK, fine. I suppose, given the following fragments from the post, you could have just as easily been talking about the Left:
. . .most political Twitter users. . .
. . .primaries amounted to something of a #twitterfail. . .
. . .interest, usage and blog traffic goes through the roof in the fall, as it does in election years. . .
. . .think of what would happen if we were at 2012. . .
. . .Twitter users following politics. . .
But then again, you could have been talking about Independents. So it was entirely too great a conceptual leap for me to connect the word ‘Right’ in the post’s title with the word ‘conservative’ in the post’s URL to arrive at the conclusion that the people in question were, in fact, ye Grande Olde Party.
Maybe one should have paid for that laser eye surgery to clear up these matters, so that these “very different thing(s)” wouldn’t seem to, you know, overlap substantially. As they do. The fact that the GOP and the Right/Conservatives so frequently do not overlap (e.g. Stacy’s cousin) is also a crucial point. The Right has to figure out how to get the GOP to destroy itself and be reborn closer to the ideas it claims to espouse if there is ever to be a Federalist recovery in the country. I get that. My bad.
What’s truly confusing about Dan’s post is the bit about:
But, as I don’t have a gal Friday to man my blog, too much time doing that and not blogging – and the blog suffers, which drives traffic and revenue down. NTTAWWH a gal Friday like Smitty, or any thing.
Well, I’m sure that Sissy Willis will be taken aback by this attack on her femininity, or is this this merely and alias, and the Sissy Willis posting to Dan’s blog one of those M. Butterfly sorts of people, NTTAWWT?
A “union-backed slush fund,” as Kyle Drennen called them in March. I’d never heard of them before, but when their ad bashing Republican Nevada Senate nominee Sharron Angle showed up in rotation on my blog, I decided to find out.
Among other things, Patriot Majority PAC claims to “support our troops” and “patriotic policies,” but who do they really support? Democrats.
Patriot Majority PAC “is in fact the creation of two men — Craig Varoga and George Rakis, Democratic Party strategists who have set up a number of so-called 527 groups,” Joseph Abrams of Fox News reported:
Calls and e-mails to the Maryland-based consultant firm Independent Strategies, run by Varoga and Rakis, were not returned.
Outside of that firm, the center of their activity appears to be a single office in Southeast D.C. — 300 M Street, Suite 1102 — which plays host to a sprawling political shell game they have established.
Public records show at least seven political shops listed in Suite 1102, most of which are essentially clones of one another, but all of which have offered money — from measly thousands to game-changing millions — in state-level elections across the country:
The American Public Policy Committee
Patriot Majority
Citizens for Progress
Oklahoma Freedom Fund
Mid Atlantic Leadership Fund
Public Security Now
Pioneer Majority
Bluegrass Freedom Fund
Read the rest of that important report and do not be deceived by these bogus Democrat scam operations that are trying to cash in on words like “Patriot” and “Freedom” and “Security.”
Dan Riehl seems concerned about the viability of Twitter as a communications channel this Fall, and especially in the 2012 contest.
There is a saying among SpecOps guys: ‘Two is one and one is none.’ Going into the 2010 and 2012 contests without a multi-channel comms plan for GOTV efforts will be roughly as effective as Stacy’s cousin in 2008. But all of the real work shall have been done, if at all, prior to Election day. Whether or not the political junkies and bloggers get a timely fix is tangential.
Keying off Dan’s earlier post expressing angst at the GOP, keep in mind that all organizational struggles boil down to attrition warfare. The right-o-sphere has to wear off a bit more “new”, in my estimation, and get bloggers into some no-kidding party positions before it shall have “arrived”. How this is done without sacrificing street-cred is left as an exercise for the blogger. Erick Erickson has moved in the direction of the media. Can Dan deliver the biatch-slapping the GOP needs?
Self-professed 'Caveman Blogger' celebrates shiny new technology.
Technology adoption is always a chancy thing. The GOP will have an effective Twitter strategy in place by around 2016. That result will be sandwiched between Stacy McCain’s 2015 adoption of TweetDeck, and the 2014 replacement of Twitter as the dominant communication tool by a to-be-announced technology.
The lads at iOwnTheWorld, in a desperate effort to help the unemployment numbers, have offered me a job as a contest judge:
Headlines For Major World Events… If It Was Strictly A Liberal World
Example: Construction Halted on Hadrian’s Wall Pending Environmental Impact Study
or
Oppressed Mexicans Defeat Imperialists at Alamo
Head over to iOwnTheWorld and offer up your best mix of:
Some (most likely historical) event
A “principle” founded in lefty cranial-rectalitis, and/or
A pair of conservative/libertarian buttocks what need kickin’.
BRITNEY SPEARS’ top bodyguard has quit – claiming the troubled singer sexually harassed him.
Ex-cop FERNANDO FLORES, 29, stormed out after allegedly facing a series of bizarre come-ons.
He told pals Britney, 28, often paraded naked in front of him and beckoned him into her bedroom. . . .
“She was always giving him the come on and he felt if he didn’t reciprocate he could lose his job. He finally handed in his notice last week and is considering legal action.” . . .
“She runs round the house naked and yelling at staff. . . .”
Remember when she was the hottest thing on the planet, the idol of millions? Now, the burn-out baby-mama has to resort to paying people to pretend to like her.
