Results of the last Watcher’s vote
Bookworm on Feb 03 2009 at 9:16 am | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Where does the time go? These results came out Friday, and I really meant to post them at my blog right away, but time just keep scooting along and I did nothing. Better late than never, though, and these winners deserve their recognition:
Winning Council Submissions
- First place with 1 2/3 points! – Mere Rhetoric - NJDC Tool Aaron Keyak Helpfully Illustrates How Liberal Activists Sneeringly Cocoon Themselves In Asinine Arguments And Dishonest Smears
- Second place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – The Provocateur - The Shadow Government of the Obama Administration
- Second place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Cheat-Seeking Missiles - What, Indeed, Did We Win?
- Third place with 1 point – (T*) – The Glittering Eye - Let’s Have a Constructive Discussion
- Third place with 1 point – (T*) – Soccer Dad - Ob-eds
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Joshuapundit - Obama’s ‘Change’ In The Middle East
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Rhymes With Right - Tom Hanks’ Non-Apology For Anti-Mormon Bigotry
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Bookworm Room - Offensive “charm”
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – The Colossus of Rhodey - Is this a surprise? The News Journal says “race still an issue”
- Fifth place with 13 point – The Razor - I Won? No Mr. President, Howard Dean Won
Winning Non-Council Submissions
- First place with 2 2/3 points! – Spiked Online - After Gaza: what’s behind 21st-century anti-Semitism?
- Second place with 2 points – American Digest - Abortion in America: A Personal Journey
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – Power Line - How Things Look to a Democrat
- Fourth place with 1 points – (T*) – Rants And Raves - Israel and anti-Semitism, decision time
- Fourth place with 1 points – (T*) – Elie’s Expositions - Aaron’s Birthday 2009: 22 And Not Counting
- Fourth place with 1 points – (T*) – Jerusalem Post - History’s Tragic Farce
- Fifth place with 2/3 point – Covert Rationing Blog - We Have Enough Primary Docs After All
- Sixth place with 1/3 point – Debbie Schlussel - No Surprise: Iraqis Prefer U.S. Jailers to Iraqi Ones
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I think the Razor’s post contains a good point I don’t see mentioned much by conservatives or Republicans. Grassroots (aka insurgencies and counter-insurgencies) are incredibly important for democracies, whether you are attempting to stabilize a democracy (USA in Iraq) or whether you are attempting to destabilize a democracy (Fake libs in VIetnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, New Orleans, rest of America).
THe other highlights, the newcomers, were also pretty good. Mere Rhetoric got it right. When Fake libs like Helen are trying to make arguments, they really are just emoting. Now you can do this with an edge or without an edge, politely or rudely, psychotically or sanely, but the fake libs don’t use arguments and they definitely don’t subscribe to the epistemology of logical consistency.
The cannon fodder of the Left are the useful idiots. The 25% of the lowest quartile in human empathy and compassion, are people the Dems raise to positions of power and responsibility. This creates an interesting result. The higher echelons of Dem politics, like Dean and Obama, can make arguments but only to the extent that they think people will believe in those arguments not because they believe the arguments are true themselves. The cannon fodder of the Left, however, get this pseudo intellectualism by passing on the propaganda points of their leaders.
Dean’s 50 state strategy, a strategy based around insurgency, was designed to network people at the bottom so that they could generate cells, self-motivated cells, utilizing the DNC’s funding. Can’t do much without funding, since funding is what creates the tools to organize.
This mirrors the strategy of the US In Al Anbar. The Dems know how to fight and win wars, they just think their highest priority enemy are the Republicans. I hope you see how that goes.