"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
And the other 57% say they’re still hoping to get lucky Saturday night with a girl named “Tonya.”
Tonya could not be reached for comment.
The most surprising finding in this study? A sharp increase in the number of teenage boys who say they’re planning to become Republican political consultants.
Pretty simple, really:
UPDATE: And here is Larry Marchant’s interview with WCBD-TV:
“I spent the night with Ms. Haley, and we had sexual relations. We had sex . . . We had several drinks, we went to dinner, we went to a couple bars, we were with a lot of people — you know, it just happened.”
Classic: “It just happened.” Because, after all, what woman can resist a perma-tanned guy with a pink tie?
When Larry Marchant walks into any cocktail lounge in America, you can bet your bottom dollar he’s going to be spending the night in the hotel room of a Republican politician.
He’s magic. It just happens.
UPDATE II: David Kurtz at TPM is compelled to ask, “What is wrong with these people?”
“[W]hen she got fired last summer from her job as a banker at a Citibank branch in Midtown . . . [s]he sued Citigroup, claiming that she was fired solely because her bosses thought she was too hot. . . .
“This is the way Debbie Lorenzana tells it: Her bosses told her they couldn’t concentrate on their work because her appearance was too distracting. . . .
“Lorenzana claims that her bosses basically told her she was just too attractive. And when she raised hell and refused to do anything about it — as if there was anything she really could do about it — she lost her job.”
— from “Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?”
The Village Voice
How unfortunate that Ms. Lorenzana felt compelled to file a lawsuit, which has the effect of criminalizing the truth.
Of course, her bosses were right: She is too hot to be a banker.
However, Ms. Lorenzana is not too hot to be a blog intern. And she’s in luck — I understand that Steve Bartin at Newsalert might be looking for help. The pay is low, but the benefits . . .
“We have been working non-stop for the last twenty-four hours examining the cargo holds of the three large cargo ships and I can say with great assurance, that none of the equipment on board is needed in Gaza. The equipment that we found is all equipment that we have regularly allowed into the strip over the past year. This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the whole premise of the voyage was for propaganda and provocation and not for humanitarian purposes.”
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“This wasn’t a love boat. This was a hate boat. These weren’t pacifists. They weren’t peace activists. These were violent supporters of terrorism.”
by Smitty
Bill Whittle’s Sam Cohen interview on Afterburner is important viewing. Look for the Going Nuclear I & II links under Afterburner.
Cohen is the inventor of the neutron bomb. The first segment is interesting, the second shocking for his stone-cold chilling analysis of where things are headed.
One defers to the wisdom of such genius as Cohen’s. Perhaps I’m a naive. Why I doubt that there will be any usage of nukes except in the case of (a) truly unhinged actors or (b) external forces threatening a regime with imminent destruction are:
Actual leaders who take their responsibilities seriously and live in the real world don’t enjoy the luxury of thinking out loud in a consequence-free blog post. The first bullet point above is why leaders from representative democracies don’t go around threatening each other; it’s a lose-lose proposition.
It’s the unhinged ones that cause the concern.
Hat-tip: Sorenkay on Twitter. For those arriving late at this bizarre story, my thumbnail synopsis at The American Spectator:
Republican politics in South Carolina has been a rough sport since the era of the legendary Lee Atwater, but the dirty games have descended to a new low in the past 10 days.
On May 24, GOP consultant/blogger Will Folks claimed that he had an “inappropriate” relationship in 2007 with Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, who had surged to the front of the four-candidate primary field after being endorsed by Sarah Palin.
Folks was unable to substantiate his accusation, which seemed likely to fade away until Wednesday when — mere hours before the final televised debate leading into next Tuesday’s primary — a campaign staffer for one of Haley’s GOP rivals claimed that he had a one-night stand with Haley in 2008.
Larry Marchant, the latest accuser, is a consultant and lobbyist who was reportedly asked to resign Wednesday from the campaign of Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer.
Oh, and in case you didn’t know: (a) Haley’s mentor, Gov. Mark Sanford, escaped impeachment after admitting an affair with an Argentine woman, and (b) after Bauer called for Sanford’s impeachment, Bauer was accused of being gay.
This story has more twists than a package of Ramen noodles.
UPDATE: Ace of Spades is in rare form:
If there were any honor left in South Carolina politics, the bloody corpses of GOP campaign consultants would be stacked up like cordwood by now.
UPDATE II: Because there’s so much honor down there, y’know?
An adviser to the Barrett campaign, which has been accused of shopping the affair rumors about Haley, sent a story about the new allegation to reporters shortly after the news broke Wednesday.
Yeah. Honor.
UPDATE III: This video clip highlights the deer-in-the-headlights expression on Bauer’s face after Nikki called him out:
Like Moe Lane says, it was a televised evisceration.
UPDATE IV: Feeling pretty well vindicated for having pointed the finger at Bauer, Erick Erickson says:
Thus we see Andre Bauer’s entire campaign strategy — ignore the issues, ignore the experience, and go straight to calling Nikki Haley a whore. I really and truly hope South Carolina voters will not reward the man for something so disgusting.
Let’s hope not.
UPDATE V: Finally, a Memeorandum thread. And Gail Collins of the New York Times makes a point when she say Lt. Gov. Bauer “is pretty much a walking explanation for why Governor Sanford was never tossed out of office.”
by Smitty
Announcement here.
“I will smite that knave with my Massaponax,” said Mike, after one too many Kenneth Branagh movies. In this exclusive clip, we glimpse Mike and his campaign team working on his planned 25 October kickoff:Because, when you’re that eloquent, you don’t need a teleprompter.
by Smitty (h/t BlogProf)
Kudos to Megyn Kelly for tolerating this ludicrous pettifogger so long. She has done her homework; the Reverend, not so much. At one point in his recitation of canned talking points, he entreats Arizona to rejoin the Union. Did somebody goose him with the notion that SB1070 was an act of secession?Reverend Jackson, you’re 69 years old this year, per Wikipedia. I’m not sure whether it was age, illness, or the sheer distraction of getting thrashed by Megyn, but you were barely intelligible. I submit that a shift to retirement planning may be worth considering.