Arianna Concedes for Nutty Ned
Arianna Huffington appears to concede that Lamont will lose. She and other nutroots bloggers thought that Lamont was capable of beating Ol’ Joe Lieberman. They blame Lamont and not his message. Arianna writes in her usual biting, spiteful, and sarcastic style that we should write Lamont’s concession speech to help him win.
“Remember Ned Lamont? He was that guy who came out of nowhere to beat Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary in 2006, only to turn around and lose to him in the general election when he got too cautious and stopped running the hard-charging campaign that had excited everyone in the first place.
I really thought he was going to win there for a while. He probably could have, but, hey, hindsight is 20/20 — too late to do anything about it now.”
That’s not a real quote — yet. But if things keep going the way they’re going in the Senate race in Connecticut, you’re likely to hear many variations on it in the years to come. Which would be too bad — especially because it’s so preventable”
Nutty Ned is all washed up. Once you play burlesque, you are all washed up.
Bush, Rove and Limbaugh Upbeat…
Bush and Rove are upbeat about the November 7 election. Rush Limabugh is, as always, upbeat too.
White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects
Self-Assurance of Bush, Rove and Others Is Not Shared by Many in the Party
By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 15, 2006; A04
Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove.
Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing for losses of 25 House seats or more. But party operatives say Rove is predicting that, at worst, Republicans will lose only 8 to 10 seats — shy of the 15-seat threshold that would cede control to Democrats for the first time since the 1994 elections and probably hobble the balance of Bush’s second term.
In the Senate, Rove and associates believe, a Democratic victory would require the opposition to “run the table,” as one official put it, to pick up the necessary six seats — a prospect the White House seems to regard as nearly inconceivable.
The Mark Foley page scandal and its fallout have many Republicans panicked, but Rove professes to be taking it in stride. “The data we are seeing from individual races and the national polls would tend to indicate that people can divorce Foley’s personal action from the party,” he said in a brief interview Thursday.
The official White House line of supreme self-assurance comes from the top down. Bush has publicly and privately banished any talk of losing the GOP majorities, in part to squelch any loss of nerve among his legions. Come January, he said last week, “We’ll have a Republican speaker and a Republican leader of the Senate.”
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Welcome Liberal Trolls and Barking Moonbats
We have at least two liberal trolls stalking this Journal. They have made several comments that have been deleted, and are trying to falsely claim that the recent upgrade of Thespis Journal meant a transfer to a site for less traveled blogs. Like most statements that emanate from liberals, nothing could be further from the truth. These liberals appear to live in Rosie’s alternative reality.
More people are reading Thespis Journal than ever before. We have more capability than ever before, and the critiques from flaming liberal trolls only mean that we are getting to them. The free speech “tolerance crowd” would like nothing more than to silence all conservative voices. While they stridently protest in their tone clusters of elite liberalism, they can’t seem to stay away from reading everything we write and chatting about it on liberal posting boards of no credibility. They comment from their padded rooms of elite comfort, but are afraid to engage the debate and publish their own work.
Like the liberal campaign this Autumn, these stalkers and trolls run a stealth campaign of sinister motives spreading hatred, and the cancer of Bush Derangment Syndrome. Since they can’t win on issues, these barking moonbats must run a campaign of innuendo, smear, and hate. Even if they win a few new seats, they will have no mandate to govern. These liberals are intellectually and morally bankrupt. In their hallowed halls of eltism, they call this strategy profound. In mainstream America, we call it just plain stupid.
John Kerry: Idiot of the Week
Update: This isn’t the first time that John Kerry has invoked the name of Ronald Reagan…
Paul Kengor points our Kerry’s Curious Name-Dropping:
John Kerry continues to invoke the name of Ronald Reagan when criticizing what he calls George W. Bush’s “go it alone” use of force. Kerry’s decision to name-drop Reagan is curious, especially in light of an event that happened nearly two decades ago this week.
Then, something strange happened: In a bizarre twist, the operation was so successful that liberals ridiculed its ease. Madeleine Albright, then a decade away from becoming Bill Clinton’s secretary of state, dismissively likened the operation to a football game pitting an NFL team against “The Little Sisters of the Poor.” Her words were mimicked by a future presidential candidate from Massachusetts named John Kerry, who said the invasion was like “Boston College playing football against the Sisters of the Mercy.” Kerry called Grenada “a bully’s show of force.”
As the Boston Globe notes, John Kerry has today changed his tune. “Campaigning now for president,” reports the Globe, “Kerry is rewriting that history…. Kerry often lists Grenada among the U.S. military incursions he says he has supported.” Indeed, the senator now says of the invasion: “I never publicly opposed it.”
Why has Kerry supposedly reappraised Grenada? Was it because Reagan had rejected that alleged “go it alone” tendency Kerry sees in George W. Bush?
No way. Despite his reputation as a hawk, Ronald Reagan used force only twice as president — less than Bill Clinton’s use of force (unilaterally, even) in Iraq alone. One of those two episodes took place in April 1986, when U.S. fighter pilots bombed Libya. The French were so against the strike that they refused to permit American jets to fly through French airspace.
Grenada, however, was first and foremost an example of Ronald Reagan’s virtually going it alone. To say that Reagan had less support in 1983 than George W. Bush did in going to war in Iraq 20 years later is a major understatement.
John Kerry is the most disigenious liberal of the last thirty years. Ronald Reagan ran against exactly this type of politician. John Kerry is a fool. It’s too bad for Kerry that he never supported Ronald Reagan.
On the record: Kerry bashing Reagan.
John Kerry appeared with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Kerry flipped and flopped in his own trademark style. Kerry joined in on the “Clinton was perfect” on North Korea fantasy, denounced his own vote on the Iraq War, conceded for the first time that the nations of “the axis of evil” are related, and blamed President Bush for everything. Here are just a few comments of Senator Kerry in the past two days.
Kerry compared himself with John McCain, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon when he admitted that he is planning to run for President again. A John Kerry/Hilary Clinton match-up will be priceless.
Mr. Kerry’s whopper of the day came when he compared Kim Jung Il to the former Soviet Union. Kerry revealed his naivete of world affairs when he made this outlandish and unrealistic comparison:”Just as Ronald Reagan was willing to negotiate with the “evil empire,” George Bush should be willing to negotiate one-on-one with Kim Jung Il.”
Kerry cited Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan repeatedly to make his case. This in spite of the fact that he was a strong supporter of the “nuclear freeze” movement, and never supported Ronald Reagan on any of his policies.
In a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, Senator Kerry calls the North Korean bomb the “Bush Bomb. Read more »
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