McCain, Palin and the “Diversity Racket”

Here’s a different take on the Palin Pick by Heather MacDonald of the conservative Manhattan Institute. If she’s right, irony lives: GOP Puts End to White-Male Tickets.   
 Thanks a lot, John McCain. With his selection of an unknown, two-year female governor as his running mate, he has just ensured that the diversity racket will be an [...]

Unionized, Moose-Eating, Working-Class Eskimos

Well, if nothing else, Palin is the face that launched a thousand conversations this week. Scanning her resume, this thought hit me: If lightning struck and Rev. Wright turned out to be Obama’s father  and the moon was in the Seventh House and McCain won, look who would be in the White House, or Blair House [...]

Does Palin Ruin the “Experience” Argument?

Having picked my jaw up from the floor re McCain’s VP pick. . .  
We’ll see whether the move  brings in more voters than it loses, but my first reaction was it would deprive Mccain of the “experience” argument, which I think is valid and which was working against Obama; in fact, I think it’s the main [...]

“America’s Hottest Governor”?

Okay…wait…wait….more details trickling in. Now I learn she’s a beauty queen and ex-athlete. Next: fevered prose about her “melting the glaciers and the hearts of Americans,” or something. …
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Palin, Proud Daughter of Wasilla, Alaska

Okay, I’ve found the coordinates for Gov. Palin. Lower 48 to McCain: Who?

Palin? Alaska? Who? Where? Is He Serious?

Quick Gut Reaction: As a longtime pol watcher who reads 2-3 papers a day, I have to say…Who? Who is Gov. Palin of Alaska? She’s a woman, I infer, and that may help some, but there goes the Experience argument. Think Obama has a thin resume? Who’s this One Heartbeat Away?
Part of this has to [...]

Fear of Muslim Violence Again Stifles Speech

Lost in the hoopla over the conventions is a deeply troubling incident that may say more about our future than any number of 10-Point Plans for Somehow Lowering Gas Prices and Punishing Greedy Oil Barons.  Publishing giant Random House has decided not to publish The Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones’ novel about the Prophet Muhammed’s [...]

Hillary 2012? Then Obama Must Lose

The media hive’s abuzz with the “Unity” theme of the Dems this week. Did Hillary reach out enough? Will her hordes go hard for Obama? Did she really, really  seem completely sincere as she urged a pro-O surge in November?
Keeping in mind that it was a political speech, I thought it “seemed” sincere enough. But if [...]

Orwell at the Convention

Watching some of the Dem Convention last night, something crystallized in my mind. It had been tickling around in my head for a few months, ever since I watched  two Iraq vets “debate”–to smear a word with a distinguished history– on Chris Matthews’ show. One of the vets actually tried to engage with the questions, whereas the other [...]

Why Do We Vote as We Do? The CRIIPPPP Factor

Suppose we start with a  hypothetical blank-slate voter and ask:  Where do we get the ideas that impel us to vote for one person over another?
Here’s a start on answering that question with an acronym called CRIIPPPP: My aim is to gather here all the possible sources of information/feeling/inclination toward or away from a candidate.
As you read, [...]

Wise Quote of the Week: Reinhold Niebuhr

“Our moral perils are not those of conscious malice or the explicit lust for power. They are the perils which can be understood only if we realize the ironic tendency of virtues to turn into vices when too complacently relied upon; and of power to become vexatious if the wisdom which directs it is trusted [...]

Buffett: Voters Should Sue Edwards

Bazillionaire Warren Buffett, hacked like me,  weighs in on John Edwards, who was recently added to the Parade of Alpha-Male Idiots:
 I think if I were Edwards, I might give up a haircut or two and refund at least, you know, the people that gave the 50 or $100, $200 items, because they– if they had known [...]

McCain House Gaffe Shows Brain-Dead System

A couple of weeks ago I wrote:
I hate to believe that sideshow distractions and tangentials sway the votes of millions, but I believe that sideshow distractions and tangentials sway the votes of millions. A couple more of these Viagra/PC incidents, coupled with McCain’s penchant for wearing those giant Granny-at-Luby’s Cafeteria sunglasses, and not even his [...]

Obama Biden His Time

 

Astute political prognosticator that I am–remember those dead-on primary picks?–I now stand buttressed by the likes of TheFabSage and NY Timesman David Brooks in my belief that Biden is The One for The One.  Brooks outlines a number of ways Biden could help make The One Number One in this column.

Edwards Joins Alpha-Male Hall of Shame

 
I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t had time to update the Parade of Alpha-Male Idiots who come to the voters so full of fine promises and grand plans to improve their lives, but throw it all away on the strumpet of the week. Too bad their voters can’t sue them for breach of promise.
Anyway, let’s [...]