Again, it is only a cartoon.
Where was this logic from PJB re the Mohammed cartoons? Then, he wanted us to yield to the sensitivites of the Religion of the Perpetually Outraged.
It’s a choice on the high school summer reading list in the Walpole, suburban Boston, People’s Republic of Massachusetts school district. It wasn’t that long ago that most Bostonians spoke like Ron Paul, though they had to take a break from chatting in order to dispose of some tea.
Unfortunately, one of Obama’s books is on the list. And knowing what the state has for a Governor, and that he is good friends with BHO (and a dark horse for running mate, I predict), the students might feel compelled to read that book.
Will be John McCain’s running mate. As the media are fawning over Obama, this is something that McCain could easily do. They say he has “star power,” but the only “star power” he might have is that he is Mike Tyson’s brother-in-law.
For the record, he has never won a statewide office on his own accord. He did become Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, but in that state, Governors and Lt. Govs run on a ticket. He became Lt. Gov. because Bob Ehrlich picked him as a running mate, and then won himself in 2002. When Michael Steele himself ran for U.S. Senate in 2006, to replace to retirning Paul Sarbannes, he lost to Ben Cardin.
If Greg Zotta has his way. He wants to replace some fellow named Carnahan, who he probably thinks isn’t doing too well of a job. Then again, I don’t think he is, either.
Curiously, on the front of his campaign website, he has a list of issues and a link to his positions on each one. The link to “taxes” is a 404, meaning there is no page about them. It might be an oversight, or that might be his way on telling us his opinions on taxes :) No news is good news.
Two observations on the political media buys so far this season:
(1) If you’re the average person looking at Obama’s and McCain’s ads, what have you found out? Obama’s for hope, and McCain was tortured viciously in Vietnam. That’s it.
(2) There are a few Republicans left who know where the hearts and minds of the people are on the immigration issue. There are a number of open state Senate seats, and of course MO-9 is open because Hulshof is running for Governor. Almost every radio ad I have heard for a Republican running for these seats mentions their opposition to mass immigration, amnesty and open borders.
Like Wesley Clark two weeks ago, I think the McCain campaign had Phil Gramm make a completely inane statement, in order to have McCain himself denounce it and its author, to create the outward appearance that he cares about the bad economy.
Meanwhile, the real John Sidney McCain III has never had to worry about paying a bill in his life, and never will.
What a stupid thing to say. Some 3,200 Chrysler workers are going to see their income plummet from $50-some-odd thousand a year down to $0, all the while they and everyone else have to come up with $4 a gallon for gas, and more than they use to for food. That’s not really happening, according to Phil Gramm. It’s just the perception of no job and higher gas and food prices that’s making us blue. That’s what the liberals all say about black and Hispanic crime.
Then again, Phil Gramm won’t ever have to worry about paying a bill, either, thanks to the wagon we’re pulling for him.
P-D :
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign plans to triple the number of paid workers in Missouri to 150, making it one of the largest campaign efforts in the state’s history.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign said the plan shows that Obama is desperate to win the state.
And John McCain isn’t?
No kidding slappy. They don’t call MO “bellwether” just for fun.
The Obama family is apparently going dog-hunting, and the AKC wants you to help them pick a breed.
I vote for the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
John McCain’s latest campaign ad, on “free trade.”
So, Latin America should have good jobs. If they do, they won’t try to sneak into here. The trouble is that the good jobs they have there are the ones you used to have here. That $40G a year that Western Union used to pay you in St. Charles, Missouri, will now be done for $18 a day in Costa Rica.
Then again, once the Plutocrats are done sucking every job out of America that they can, this country won’t be worth sneaking into anyway
Laura Ingraham is back on talk radio, and her first guest was a policy analyst for an anti-invasion think tank. Neither he nor I thought that immigration would be an issue between McLame and B.H. Obama, because they’re almost exactly alike on the issue. But he reminded us that on even the scant few differences between them, they’re already throwing major stones at each other.
What this means, according to the guest, and I agree with the reasoning, is that even though the re-emergence of the immigration/amnesty/open borders question won’t mean that we’ll have a President to our liking, the fact that the issue is now an issue again might affect downballot races, and give us a House and Senate that is even more loath to adopt “comprehensive immigration reform” than the one we have now.
I think we’re witnessing a fan dance. My bet is that Obama’s people had the W.C. say some outlandish things about McLame’s military service, so that Obama can turn right around, repudiate them, and appear level-headed and moderate. The old joke during the Clinton years was that if the President proposed a bill to implode the Capitol, the Republicans in Congress would have introduced an alternative to phase it in over five years.
I was thinking about the recent history of the Missouri Governorship, and going back to at least Warren Hearnes, those elected as Governor had a previous political job that is another statewide elected office. The only exception is Joe Teasdale, who was the Circuit Attorney for Jackson County before he was Governor.
Congressmen don’t seem to have very good luck in this stead; the last to try in MO before Kenny Hulshof was Jim Talent in 2000. I think the reason is that Congressmen have their nose to the D.C. grindstone, and don’t know what’s going on in their state capital. In fact, Congressmen don’t have good luck becoming Governors of their states when they try, though Ohio’s Ted Strickland and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal are exceptions. New Jersey’s Jon “Look out for the speeder” Corzine was in the Senate, but that’s another statewide elected office, and his going from Sen to Gov is a reversal of the trend.
In fact, the recent history of American state governors show that they almost always come from the ranks of either: (1) Other statewide elected offices, (2) The state’s legislature, or (3) Local area chief executive of some sort (mayor, county executive, prosecutor).
I want Jim Guest to win the Republican nomination. I think Sarah Steelman will, because she’s already state treasurer. She has a far better chance to beat Jay Nixon than Kenny Hulshof does.
This kinda makes up for Lindsey Graham. Two years ago, Cannon had a strong challenger, and was able to turn it back. Then and now, the only difference between Cannon and his primary challenger was immigration, as Cannon is conservative on almost everything else. I think the reason why Cannon won two years ago and lost now is that the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” battle happened last year, and he probably pushed for it heavily and in public.
By the way, it’s too bad that my “best blogging friend” down in Louisiana seems to have fallen off the grid, because I could have returned the gloating that he emitted two years ago when Cannon won. Meanwhile, yours truly now has two frequently-updaed blogs, proving that my way is better.
Notice that BHO was in town last night to scrape pennies off the floor of a downtown hotel, stayed overnight, and today played nurse at Barnes. And during that overnight and morning, there were four murders in the city. Counting the three from the night before, that makes seven in two nights.
Coincidence, perhaps, but someone must have told him that there were a bunch of murders here overnight, so he took the time and denounced guns in front of local MSM news cameras.
Today was D-Day for Buddy Witherspoon; the bad news is that Flimsy won it with two-thirds of the vote. The good news is that both of the major Democrats that are contending to take on Flimsy in November (too close to call between them at the time of this writing) have come out against “comprehensive immigration reform,” calling it the amnesty that it is, and Flimsy the open borders creep that he is. Either one of them would welcome the third of Republicans that wanted Flimsy dispatched today. Remember, politics are games of margins.
I privately predicted earlier in the year, but didn’t tell anyone not to ruin the espirt de corps for Buddy’s campaign, that Flimsy would beat Buddy in June but then lose to the Democrat in November.
This is really going to happen, and I still can’t believe my eyes. A major American political party is about to nominate this twit. Not only that, the Democrats are going to go with Obama.
All kidding aside, Obama’s effectively clinching the nomination has these two lessons:
(1) We all though of the Clintons, and Clinton, Inc., as this invincible, omnipotent, well-greased political machine. As it turns out, they weren’t nearly as powerful as we thought they were. The only reason they ever seemed powerful is that their opponents were George H.W. Bush (1992), Bob Dole (1996), and the slap-happy Stupid Party in general (impeachment saga et al.). Those aren’t very high bars to flop over.
(2) Pat Buchanan warned us several months ago that Democrat Party superdelegates are not the kind of people that like to “ride to the Alamo,” i.e. to pick a fight. If Obama won more pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses than Hillary, PJB warned us, the supers would line up behind him over her. And that’s precisely what happened after the last primaries this past Tuesday. Even with MI and FL, Obama had more delegates, so the supers broke for him big-time starting Wednesday.
Re the rumors of the Michelle Obama video where she denounces “whitey” at the TUCC pulpit — I’m not buying it. I don’t think there’s such a video.
The rumor, started by HRC operatives, is that both Obama and Karl Roverrated (but coincidentally not HRC) has this supposed video, and the latter is saving it for an October surprise.
I don’t think that Roverrated would do such a thing even if he has this mythical video, for two reasons: One, doing so would help the McCain campaign, Roverrated is a Bushite, and the Bushites and McCainites don’t get along with each other, for the obvious reasons. Two, this is the same Karl Roverrated that either came up with the Hispanic Strategy, or at least countenanced it and approved of dumping the Southern (i.e. white) strategy. Are we to belive that this same Karl Roverrated would then turn around and stir up white voters? The notion of him doing such a thing only reflects the left’s sometimes paranoid caricature of the “evil genius” Roverrated, but not the reality.
Besides, some conservative site or blog would have had it by now, if it exists. Believe me, I read so many that I wouldn’t have missed it.
And since it’s supposed to damage Obama, this has the Hillary campaign’s fingerprints all over it. I think they’re just making this up to scare the superdels into abandoning him and settling on her.
Really, Maria? It wasn’t easy picking Obama over Hillary? What’s weird is that nearly all of the superdelegates that look like her all say that they agonized, yet they all seemed to go for Obama. One would think that some of them would have agonized in Hillary’s direction. What are the odds?
Says the Republican-leaning SLPOA. Two words: Recognizing Inevitability.
Republican presidential contender Ron Paul will have some competition when he shows up in Branson for a Friday night rally.
Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating — a Republican who served two terms and is a close ally of presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain –will be the featured speaker Friday night at the Missouri Republican Party’s pre-convention gala.
The state GOP’s event — like the Paul rally – begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, at the Chateau on the Lake Resort Spa and Convention Center in Branson, MO.
The rest of the article is the state GOP singing Keating’s praises. Don’t count me in — The one thing I remember about Frank Keating’s tenure as Governor of Oklahoma is that he did everything he could to prevent a real investigation into finding out the truth about what happened in his state’s capital city on April 19, 1995. As Keating is ex-FBI, he probably still maintained a lot of organizational fidelity with the Bureau, and thus had as much incentive as anyone not to let the truth come out, which would most likely be monumentally embarrassing to Federal law enforcement.
I think Keating’s arrogance is the reason why Oklahoma now has a two-term Democrat Governor, who won his first term in an upset victory in 2002.
Libertarian Party nominee. It took six ballots, but the LP conventioneers chose Bob Barr over a more conventional libertarian, choosing a big name who is in 80% agreement with LP principles than a nobody who is a purist.
Since the LP is on the Missouri ballot, my current plan is to vote for Barr if Hillary is the Democrat, and to vote McCain if Obama is the Democrat. If Hillary is the Democrat, then I would imagine that the LP will set records for the Presidential ballot in every state that it is on the ballot.
Speaking of which, don’t be surprised if the Democrat convention needs more than six ballots this year to pick a nominee.
HRC says she’s staying in because she thinks that she could play the Humphrey to Obama’s RFK, as we all know what happened to RFK just about 40 years ago. Actually, Hillary’s carpetbagging to New York to become Senator in 2000 is very much like what RFK did in 1964. (Actually, I don’t think that RFK was his party’s frontrunner even after he won the California primary, as I said when a movie about his life came out November before last.)
Actually, if there is really any assassination threat, it would be if she would pick him as her running mate, and the ticket would win. There would be a whole lot of black radicals that would be hunting for her head.
AP:
McCain media consultant departs
A top adviser is leaving Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign because he doesn’t want to work against Democrat Barack Obama.
Mark McKinnon, the chief media consultant to McCain, wrote in a campaign memo last year that if Obama won the Democratic nomination, he would not actively campaign against him. With the results of Tuesday night’s primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, Obama claimed he had a majority of convention delegates.
McCain doesn’t want to work against Obama, either. So they’re two peas in a pod.
Now I know why McCain is running as a Republican at all. The line is just too long in the Democrat Party, and there aren’t very many Democrats running for the Republican nomination, so I guess he figured he should queue up in a short line.
AP:
Huckabee quips about gun aimed at Obama
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed a gun at him.
Hearing a loud noise and interrupting his speech, Huckabee said: “That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He’s getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him and he — he dove for the floor.”
It wasn’t really Obama. We know because the audience didn’t hear any caterwauling from offstage about the evil gun lobby and how he’s going to sue the gun manufacturers.
Though Ron Paul was only my second Presidential choice this season (Duncan Hunter was), I easily foresaw the upcoming possibility that his campaign and all the money he raised, plus the enthusiasm around his campaign, could change Republican Party and American politics even if RP himself had a low vote count. And the difference between the three best candidates, Hunter, Paul and Tancredo, were minute in the larger scheme of things; if not for two of them, I would have heartily endorsed the other.
Ron Paul revolution sees second wind
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Now the Ron Paul revolution, as his supporters call it, is experiencing a second wind. Paul took 16 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania, his best primary showing yet, and has surpassed 1 million votes in the GOP contest. Ron Paul Republicans have started roiling local party organizations, taking control of state conventions and running for public office, all without much coordination from their leader.
One of the Ron Paul Republicans who actually has the congressman’s endorsement is B.J. Lawson, a fellow Duke Medical School alumni running for the House of Representatives from North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. Lawson won his May 6 congressional primary with more than 70 percent of the vote, despite his opposition to the Iraq war and criticism of the Bush administration’s free-spending ways. ["Because," not "despite" -- Ed.]
In the neighboring 3rd District, Paul endorsed incumbent Republican Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. in his primary fight against Onslow County Commissioner Joe McLaughlin. McLaughlin decided to challenge Jones after the freedom-fries crusader became one of the country’s most vocal anti-war Republicans.
Jones easily outraised McLaughlin and won the primary by nearly 20 percentage points.
Another Paul endorsee, Murray Sabrin, is running for the Republican senatorial nomination in New Jersey. Paul traveled to the Garden State on April 28 to help Sabrin raise campaign funds. In Virginia, Amit Singh is the Paul-backed Republican primary candidate running for a chance to take on Democratic Rep. Jim Moran.
In other cases, Paul isn’t involved in his supporters’ efforts at all. Four Ron Paul Republicans in Maryland won their primaries without the congressman’s endorsement. Paul backers amended the Alaska Republican Party platform to reflect their stances on civil liberties, the Patriot Act, repealing the 16th Amendment and abolishing the Department of Education.
At GOP district meetings in Minnesota, Paul supporters captured seven Republican National Convention delegate slots; one delegate was selected by the Maine Republican convention. The Nevada GOP convention adjourned early after the initial balloting showed Ron Paul Republicans winning at least half the delegates for the national convention.
Even the revived Paul juggernaut isn’t without problems. One of them is that Paul himself is too much a believer in decentralization to provide his movement with much direction. At a recent book event in Washington, he was asked what his supporters should do in the general election if he did not run as a third-party candidate. Paul reaffirmed that he wasn’t going to run as a third-party candidate and replied that it was up to his supporters to decide what to do.
I don’t find this decentralization to be much of a problem. In fact, I think it’s a solution, or rather, the reason why the RP movement may well be a long-term phenomenon, rather than an ephemeral personality cult that would die when he does.
Travis Childers, a Democrat, beat Greg Davis, a Republican, in yesterday’s special election in MS-1 to fill Roger Wicker’s seat. MS-1 is heavily white, and Childers pandered to blacks by trying to make the false claim that Davis sponsored a resolution honoring a Kluxer. Yet, Childers won, among white Mississippians. If whites in MISSISSIPPI are trending leftward, the end is truly near.
The end of the Republican Party is near. After this November, there will only be one political party in this country. I would imagine that the few Republicans that survive November will switch to the Democrat Party, making the entire House and Senate 100% Democrat.
Actually, that’s not quite true. There’s only one political party in St. Louis City, but there are really two — the white Democrats, and the black Democrats. That’s what will become of national politics, throw in another party for Hispanics for good measure. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the end of the Republican Party actually worked to further racial politics. We’re seeing that among Democrats these days. They’re all left-wing, but bickering about race. So much for “race doesn’t exist.” Even left-wingers don’t believe it.
Speaking of which, Hillary beat Obama by a more than 5-2 margin in West Virginia yesterday, bucking the trend of heavily white states going for Obama. Notice that while he did not win Jefferson County, W.V., (essentially suburban D.C.), he came within three points, making it is best county in the state. That was also Ron Paul’s best county, as he finished in second place with 10% of the vote.
If he makes the Libertarian Party nomination, (which is not a given, as he is not a pure libertarian), I will probably vote for him. In spite of his recent perfidy and ambivalence on the immigration issue, he would make a far better President than John McLame.
Congressman Walter Jones (R-N.C.), who initially supported the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and now criticizes it, won his party primary on Tuesday, in spite of the fact that (1) He had neo-con challengers, and (2) his district has a lot of military bases. Or maybe it was because of those two things.
Or what does he really know about himself that he’s not telling us? What is he promising a certain segment of this state’s population that he can receive the endorsement of Freeman Bosley, Sr., Betty Thompson and Wayman Smith, the latter remarking that Kinder’s fundraisers and Obama’s fundraisers tend to draw the same crowds?
I’m glad he dropped out of the Governor’s race. (He is running for re-election as Lt. Governor, hence the fundraisers.) His family’s close association with the Limbaughs might have fooled enough conservative voters into voting for him instead of the real right-winger, that being the next Governor of Missouri, Jim Guest.
Letter to the Editor of the P-D, from one Michael Hilburg of St. Louis:
The “GOP cracks down on Ron Paul activists” (April 20), about a meeting in which Republicans were forced to support U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican nominee for president, or be excluded from local conventions, illustrates that we Republicans are going to lose in November if we don’t straighten up. Mr. McCain may be the presumptive nominee, but the Missouri Republican Party’s actions to stifle dissent are more reminiscent of the communist China than the party of Lincoln.
Although Ron Paul supporters should honor the outcome of the primary vote, the party must recognize that Missouri Republicans are not all neoconservatives.
His letter has a slight error. The MRP is stifling dissent BECAUSE they’re the Party of Lincoln, who didn’t exactly honor the true outcome of the 1864 vote.
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