Heather MacDonald argues that Republicans have fallen into the diversity trap with the selection of Sarah Palin. Of course she is right, to a point: the Republican brand has become diversified. And, yes, Gov. Palin is not nearly as qualified as, oh, hundreds of other Republican politicos. But can we [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Diversity comes to the Elephants
Posted in Politics, Republicans on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Country First
Posted in Republicans on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looks good to me. And, based on some table talk with some liberal Democrats today, the Palin pick has got them scared witless.
Nice going, Donks
Posted in Politics on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once again, showing how small and petty they are, this from The Anointed One’s Donk World Domination Headquarters (via NRO’s Campaign Spot):
Barack Obama’s campaign is blasting John McCain for putting “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
The scathing description of Sarah Palin, from [...]
It’s Palin
Posted in Republicans on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fox News just called it at 10:35am EDT: McCain’s running mate will be Sarah Palin, one-term governor of Alaska.
Pro-life; conservative; overwhelmingly popular in Alaska. A bold choice, but her one term as governor gives her more executive experience than the three other candidates combined.
Root canal and a cold shower
Posted in Obama on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Chosen One is now Obama the Serious. The man with the slight resume and the excessive ego will fix all that is wrong by going to Washington. Not that he hasn’t been there for a while. Oh, right. That was his co-conspirator for change, Joe Biden.
His [...]
The ad that Emperor Obama would ban
Posted in Obama on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Obamamaniacs are making quite the fuss over this ad. Perhaps it hits a little too close to home? For a mainstream candidate for president to have even been in Ayers’ home requires some tall ’splainin.’ If only because Ayers remains an unrepentant hater of us Americans.
Curmudgeon, like me
Posted in Politics on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Derbyshire is not enthralled with the choice between John McCain and Barack Obama. To say the least. And he’s been accused of being “a total depressive curmudgeon.” Ouch; that had to hurt.
I don’t at all share Derb’s lack of enthusiasm for John McCain, but, then, I’m not a pure Republican [...]
“youth and fresh ideas”
Posted in Obama on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those who don’t care about the realities of today’s world, Barack Hussein Obama may be the perfect candidate. He is not laden down with any record to speak of; his portfolio of accomplishments is vacant — excepting his accomplishment of stealing the nomination from Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Oh, sorry. Shouldn’t have [...]
From Mt. Olympus
Posted in Obama on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Guess the Berlin Victory Tour did not do the trick. Now The Anointed One is going to appear before 80,000 Kool-aid drinkers at Denver’s Invesco field. But instead of being a mere cult figure, now Obama is going for god-hood. From Reuters:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on [...]
“Dangerously Unprepared to be President”
Posted in Obama, Politics on August 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
New ad from the McCainiacs: “Tiny.” Love the tag line: Obama is “dangerously unprepared to be president.” You could say that again. And again. And…we get the point. The danger for us is that it is true.
We’re just so noble and selfless
Posted in Obama on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the myths being spun by The Chosen One is how noble and selfless he and Michelle are to have chosen “public service” over, say, being ambulance chasers like Johnny Haircut Edwards. Or Wall Street tycoons, or whatever.
Nevermind that the Obamas are worth millions, and, for all of that “public service” nonsense, [...]
The answer is “yes”
Posted in Democrats, Politics, Racism on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here it comes: the race card, played big-time by liberals. A major political party is about to officially nominate a black candidate for president. And, given the simply superb job Republicans have done these past few years (sarcasm off, now) and the many scandals involving them, it is the Democrats’ election to [...]
“A reassuring choice”
Posted in Democrats on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the Great One’s gaffe introducing Joe Biden was a precursor of things to come: Obama steps aside at the convention, and releases his delegates to…Joe Biden. Well, Obama did introduce Biden as “the next president.”
It seems that Joe Biden has everything that Obama lacks: credibility as a president; [...]
Faithful Catholic?
Posted in Abortion, Christianity, Politics on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are Roman Catholics. Both a firmly in the pro-abortion corner, though they’ll call it “a woman’s right to choose.” Choose death, that is. Are they faithful Catholics?
As a lapsed Catholic but still Christian, my belief is that life begins at conception. [...]
Required reading
Posted in Democrats, Energy on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the sure bets should we be so foolish as to elect The One president is that there will be higher taxes and more government spending that attempts to accomplish what the free market will not.
Not that the free market isn’t without problems — it’s not always free of attempts to artificially create demand [...]
I’m all tingly about Joe
Posted in Democrats, Politics on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Joe Biden, Bloviator Extraordinaire. What a choice: six-term senator; supposed expert on all things relating to…hair plugs? Sorry; low blow. Joe Biden is a decent guy, representing a small, crappy state that is virtually a wholly-owned subsidiary of DuPont.
Hey, I know something about Delaware; my [...]
Glass houses
Posted in Obama, Politics on August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The old saying should have been absorbed by Barack Obama: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Or lame accusations, for that matter. The matter is the alleged controversy, or “gaffe” by John McCain about how many houses he owns.
Now, via NRO’s Campaign Spot, from the McCain campaign:
“Does [...]
Standing up to the Bear?
Posted in War and Peace on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like most utopian radicals, Barack Hussein Obama just can’t resist that moral equivalency thing. Speaking about the Russian occupation of Georgia in Virginia, he said
We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies…They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on that point.
This [...]
Never Forget
Posted in War and Peace on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just got this as part of an email about the USS New York (LPD 21), christened March 1, 2008:
It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center. It is the fifth in a new class of warship – designed for missions that include special operations against [...]
You know you’re out of touch…
Posted in Abortion, Democrats on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…when you start calling real people “real people.” It seems that some ordinary folks are going to whisked out of their bitter, clingy lives and, as the expression goes, “handled.” As in prepped, cleaned up, dressed appropriately, and flown in to attend the anointing of The One in Denver. From [...]
“breezy indifference”
Posted in Obama on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Will voters not vote for Barack Hussein Obama because of his foreign name? Because he is a secret Muslim? Or because he is African-American? Or because his wife is such a mean, whiny caricature of the “you owe us” mentality? Or because he’s spent his entire career under the tender mercies of [...]
“above my pay grade”
Posted in Politics on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two questions in last night’s appearance at the Saddleback Civil Forum placed the two presidential candidates in a stark light.
One question was a hard one for Christians: when does a baby get human rights? John McCain answered “At the moment of conception.” One might argue with this [...]
Factual innuendo?
Posted in Obama, Politics on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Hussein Obama is somewhat like the old Soviet Union’s foreign policy as described by Sir Winston Churchill: “a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma.”
Minus, of course, the underlying engine of Soviet nastiness, which remains to this day: Russian nationalism. As for Obama, not to worry, [...]
ObamaNation
Posted in Obama, satire on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via On Tap, a shameless ripoff of Green Day’s American Idiot, which is the usual crank-up-the-amps-and-whine about what a crappy place America is.
Pissants. Which also describes those who are kool-aid tippling members of ObamaNation. Which rhymes with…
Are we all Georgians?
Posted in War and Peace on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case people get a man-crush on all Georgians (the former Soviet republic; not the one that’s on my mind), I just saw a report from Fox’s Steve Harrigan.
Harrigan was reporting live, but almost dead, from Georgia. He and other non-combatants were fired on, or about to be fired on, by Georgian irregulars. [...]
All shall know ye by your sign…
Posted in Obama on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest in buffing the shiny aura of The One: The hand gesture by which Obamanians shall greet one another. From U.S. News, contemplate the fascistic goodness:
‘Let’s try and start a movement where even while walking down the street, people would hold up the O and you would know that they were for [...]
We’re just like the Russkies?
Posted in Tyranny on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So-called liberals just don’t get it. They’ve partaken of the multi-culti kool-aid. The beverage of choice for those who can’t tell the difference between a tyrant and a democratically elected leader. Here’s the moral equivalency paragraph from H. Meyerson, a liberal’s liberal in today’s WaPo:
The United States even has a name [...]
Idiotic pandering
Posted in Idiotarians, War and Peace on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like the Messiah can move mountains, part the seas, and get the Russian Bear to sheath his claws. Via The Campaign Spot, this from Virginia governor Tim Kaine:
‘I’m very, very happy that [Obama]’s request for a ceasefire has been complied with by President Medvedev.’
Yep. That’s it, guv. Obama need but ask, [...]
Big fish; little fish
Posted in War and Peace on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our natural response is to support Georgia against the Russian Bear. And, it’s hard to dismiss the autocracy that Putin has built — back to the future, whether Czarist or Soviet. Little changes in Mother Russia, it seems.
But big fish swallow smaller fish, who swallow yet smaller fish. In this conflagration, [...]
Respect the Bear
Posted in Politics, Tyranny, War and Peace on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The current imperialism by Russia on its southwestern “near abroad” is the latest sign that the Bear is back. Russia is reverting to its Czarist and Soviet past: tyranny at home; aggression abroad.
Russia has also become Iran’s new best friend in the U.N. Security Council, and, with its partner Red [...]
