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September 2008
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Yes, I Have Been Assimilated
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Thu Sep 4, 2008
11:53 am
by McGehee
2 comments
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[SARAH!]
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As you may have seen in the sidebar, I’ve put up a campaign magnet for Sarah! and that guy she’s got sharing her ticket with her. McTigh passed one test by naming her as his running mate, and then passed the follow-up test engineered by the Obamarrhoids.
I still don’t trust him; there aren’t many Republicans I wouldn’t rather have as my president for the next four years. But he didn’t fall to his knees begging for the mainstream media to forgive him for running against O!, and that’s a plus.
My wife and I had lives last night so we didn’t watch Sarah!’s speech before the convention, but Wizbang has the video here. I’d already read a lot of commentary on the speech (especially here) so the only line that really took me by surprise and made me laugh out loud was the one where, after the Governor’s jet went on eBay, she said she let the Governor’s Mansion’s full-time chef go, then cracked that her kids had some regrets about that move.
I’ll admit it: I underestimated her in 2006, and again in 2008. Obama is toast crumbs in the bottom of the toaster. He just doesn’t know it yet.
Update: Rachel Lucas awards the Chuck Norris Action Jeans Unique Hidden Gusset Award to her commenter JimK:
Good Lord, I so wanna vote for her. I wanna vote all over her.
Somebody hand that man a towel.
‘Nother Update:
Sarah Palin appears to be a normal American that believes normal American things. To expect anything less than a tee-total beatdown of anything Obama has done is to completely insult this country and its honorable citizenry.» Mean Ol’ Meany
‘Nother Other Update:
Jane, they have lots of talking points:
- Obama’s party says she lacks experience;
- Biden’s party says she just reads what other people wrote;
- Kerry’s party says she flip-flopped;
- Edwards’ party says there are strange rumors about pregnancies in her family;
- Hillary’s party says she should spend more time with her kids;
- The Clintons’ party says she used inappropriate pressure to get a government employee fired; and
- Carter’s party says she’s anti-Israel.
» bgates
H/t: commenter Kevin B at PW.
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Play Rough, Fight Dirty—Chapter 3: Rain, Rides and Wrath
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Tue Sep 2, 2008
7:30 pm
by McGehee
8 comments
[Fiction]
[Play Rough, Fight Dirty]
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It was a hot and, for Clearwater, sticky Saturday afternoon, and I’d noticed the day before while riding home from work that the chain on my bike was loose. So I was just inside the standing-open garage door working on it when Eric came walking up the driveway with his little bike, the one he’d learned to ride with training wheels before he was in kindergarten.
“Wiley, could you raise the seat some more for me?”
I looked up from the rear sprocket of my bike and remembered how I’d already raised the seat for him once around Easter time when we’d gotten our bikes out for the first time since last fall. To illustrate his request he stepped over the back wheel of his bike and stood straddling the seat before having to bend his knees to sit down on it.
I looked at the seat post and grimaced. I’d accidentally pulled the post right out of the frame before, and Dad and I had had a heck of a time getting it back in and tightened in place. “Eric, I don’t think that seat’s going to come up any higher.” Then I looked at my bike, with the seat post sticking only a couple of inches above the frame.
“If you’ll help me with my chain,” I offered, “I might have an idea how we can fix your bike.”
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The Collapse of a Candidacy, a Party, and a Movement
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Mon Sep 1, 2008
7:36 pm
by McGehee
1 comment
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[SARAH!]
[Here's Your Sign]
[Wackadoodle]
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Whose? Well, that depends.
The Palin-haters are in full-throated howl with innuendo as the main course, thoroughly seasoned with their insane preconceived notions of what kind of person could possibly (1) live in Alaska and (2) be a conservative Republican. Just check out the comments here for a small sampling, scattered in a long (and growing) thread. They’re so far out there that their candidate is begging them to spin it down a few thousand RPMs. (h/t SBP at the Protein Wisdom Pub.)
They won’t listen.
Sarah Palin threatens everything these people have told themselves about themselves, and there is no depth to which they will not sink to preserve it. An ultimate descent into madness would be inevitable, had they not already sunk deeply into that pit long ago with their “stolen election” fantasies and their “Bush let 9/11 happen” nightmares.
Undoubtedly they’re hoping to stampede Sen. McCain into throwing Palin under the wheels of his campaign bus, but he can neither do so, nor accept an offer by Palin to let her do it herself. And there’s no reason why he should.
The question is whether he realizes it.
Update: Anyway, I’m supposed to be concentrating on my real writing. So, to all of those vile creatures out there who have no moral qualms about raining character assassination down on a 17-year-old girl just because her mother happens to be a successful and popular Republican who has accomplished more in two years as governor of Alaska than Barack Obama and Joe Biden have in all their combined years in the U.S. Senate: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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August 2008
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How Is a Man to Sleep?
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Fri Aug 29, 2008
2:49 pm
by McGehee
6 comments
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[SARAH!]
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All these interruptions! Jeez, what does a man have to do to get Prominent People Who Are Doing Important Things to let him get on with a puny little month-long nap?
Okay, so John McCain has picked Sarah Palin for his running mate. I was against it months ago, more for reasons having to do with Palin’s best interest than anything else really. As I replied to reader Bobbert by e-mail:
I like what I’d been reading about Palin. She’s popular up there in a way that no other governor I know of has been. I thought she could have had a real future in national politics—but this kind of short-circuits that.
Barack Obama has been running for president longer than Palin has been governor. All the enthusiasm for her nationally has to do almost entirely with her second X chromosome and her attractiveness.
Since writing that, I’ve actually seen her (on TV) in action on the stump, at the rally in Ohio where her VP candidacy was announced. I’m warming up to the idea now and getting a much better idea of why she’s as popular in Alaska as she is. Hint: it’s not as much because of X chromosomes up there as it is in the Lower 48.
Also worth bearing in mind is how she got to be governor. She defeated an incumbent Republican governor in the primary, someone who was already a big fish in Alaska politics even before becoming governor (a little more detail here) You don’t do that, even in Alaska, without some chops.
Skeptical or not, there can be no denying McCain is going to reap a bounce from this choice—a bounce Obama didn’t get from his choice of Joe Biden. Furthermore the timing will undoubtedly squelch whatever bounce the Democrats might have hoped for from their convention.
I can begin to imagine that McCain could actually win this more because of votes for the GOP ticket than against Obama.
That would be a heck of an accomplishment for Palin. I just wish it weren’t going to be “asterisked” by the identity-politics angle that has overshadowed this election from the very beginning.
Me? In November, I’m voting for Palin.
Update: Lest anyone think I’ve always been impressed with Palin, or that my turnaround on having her on the ticket is something new, a bit of history:
Sarah Palin? Hickel might as well endorse Michael Palin for all the good it would do in November.» Alaska Republicans: Democrats’ Best Friend—7/1/06
When Sarah Palin was nominated to run against former Gov. Tony Knowles (D) in Alaska, I was pretty sure Knowles would walk right over her. I was wrong, and I won’t complain about it.» I Need to Move Around More—11/8/06
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Rewriting History in Denver
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Wed Aug 27, 2008
5:08 am
by McGehee
[From the Pub]
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
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Jeffrey Lord writes of his experience on a cable TV show talking to the author of a House resolution apologizing for slavery.
With the Congressman in his Memphis district and myself in a Philadelphia studio, the Congressman broke into the discussion the moment we returned from a commercial break to challenge me indignantly. The very idea of asking Democrats to apologize for their support for slavery and segregation and, well, all the rest he had personally cited in his House Resolution, was now a “red herring.” Worse, he said when the point was picked up by another guest, Horace Cooper of the conservative American Civil Rights Union, to demand any sort of apology from the people who did these things was a “rabbit trail.” In other words, a request for Democrats to apologize for their considerably racist history would go nowhere.
Would the Democrats be considering an apology at their Denver Convention, I asked sweetly? I brought up the fact that the Democratic National Committee had eliminated from the “Party History” section of their website 52 years worth of history from 1848 until the beginning of the 20th century.
Obviously the Democrats won’t be playing the race card this fall.
And I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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