All Politics
This is hilarious. Peggy Noonan (Reagan speechwriter and sellout political hack) and and Mike Murphy (Republican political consultant) are recorded after an interview not knowing that their microphones are live. A sample:
Noonan: The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives amd youthfulness and the picture.
Ooooh, Peggy. You got some 'splaining to do.
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Ex-bug exterminator, ex-House Majority Leader Tom "The Hammer" DeLay, indicted
on conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws, boss to two aides convicted in
the Jack Abramoff scandal . . . decided to show up at the Republican Convention
and have a party! John McCain was less than pleased. The party drew
"hundreds of delegates and Republican officials". You gotta love these
guys.
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More than one commentator has called the Palin selection and subsequent
revelations "an evolving train wreck." I mean, what's next? Not that
it would matter to the Fundamentalist core of the GOP. As a buddy of mine
said "sex with an underage monkey on the gov's lawn, a gay monkey" wouldn't put
a dent in her appeal to the nutcases.
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As of this morning, Obama has the lead in popular vote polling, 48% to 40% over
McCain. The current projected electoral count is 307 for Obama, 230 for
McCain. Privately, most pollsters, including Republican strategists think
that the electoral lead could actually be more substantial than that. His
polling numbers have just exceeded 50% for the first time ever.
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One of the 600 POWs who suffered along with McCain has something to
say. Then, he
says it on You-Tube. The fact that he graduated in the top quarter of
his Annapolis class (also awarded two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, two
Legions of Merit, two Purple Hearts) means he's sure to be Swift-Boated any day
now. BTW, McCain graduated 894 of 899.
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Bueller? ... Bueller?: Ben Stein
on Sarah Palin.
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Pitbull with lipstick? I think it was an effective speech for everyone who
was going to vote for McCain anyway. Most of it was bullshit, of course,
but we're so used to hearing Republican speeches about what they wish were true
that I think it might work.
David Brooks
has an insightful article out today (which is unusual). After praising
Palin for her oratorical skills, he sums it up by noting that she, like McCain
governs from a moral philosophy, not a political philosophy. That having
two mavericks on the ticket is one maverick too many. We'll see.