Bookworm on Mar 09 2010 | Filed under: California, Elections
One of the things the last few elections has revealed is escalating voter fraud in America, fraud of the type that aligns us more closely with a banana republic than with a traditional Western nation. Thus, we know that groups such as ACORN have registered thousands of non-existent people. And because America has traditionally had [...]
Bookworm on Feb 23 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Andrea Shea King has an interesting post today, castigating Mark Levin for his “petty” and “envious” attack on Glenn Beck. Her post is very useful in highlighting the divisions in the conservative side of the political spectrum, divisions that are sometimes so deep, both as to style and substance, that they might foreshadow conservatives managing [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections
I can’t resist fisking Helen Thomas’ post-election ruminations. The woman is a dummy, and yet she’s had enormous access to the halls of power for decades, and has always been a thorn in the Republicans’ collective flesh. And, of course, as her widely published post, below, demonstrates, the old media still gives her enormous access [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Thinking about it, Scott Brown’s election as the Senator for Massachusetts may be more significant than any election in my lifetime, including the Reagan Revolution and the 1994 Congressional takeover. I know this sounds silly. In 1980, the political shift involved a President, not a mere Senator; in 1994, it was an entire Congress, not [...]
Bookworm on Jan 17 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Elections
. . . as he’s heckled (h/t Sadie):
I don’t think that’s ever happened to him before.
What must also have bewildered him was the skimpy turnout, a stark contrast to Scott Brown’s rally today.
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Bookworm on Jan 17 2010 | Filed under: Elections
A little over the top (especially music-wise), but still worth watching, if only as a reminder the a small pebble can divert a flood:
Hat tip: Lulu
Bookworm on Jan 16 2010 | Filed under: Elections
It’s only because it’s just a wee bit more over the top than the real things that you can tell it’s satire:
Big hat tip to The New Editor
UPDATE: The above video represents fake Democrats (read: “Republican satirists”) in action. Nothing, of course, can compare to the real deal, who are so over-the-top that Scott Brown [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Vanderleun, who blogs at the wonderful American Digest, put me on to a liberal Massachusetts blog that tells its readers to suck it up and vote for Coakley:
Let’s get this out of the way. You might not want to vote for Martha Coakley. You might think she deserves what’s she’s getting after an absentee, self-satisfied [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2010 | Filed under: Elections
It’s vintage Mark Steyn, with Barney Frank diving into mosh pits, references to Cosmo magazine, and this gem-like writing:
If you’re one of the dwindling band of Bay Staters who rely on the [Boston] Globe for your news, you would never have known that a Massachusetts pseudo-“election” had bizarrely morphed into a real one — you [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Education, Elections, England, Political correctness
When parents think about what a school should do for their children, they think in terms of the three “Rs,” plus a lovely layering of science, history, and other subjects that maketh a full (and employable) man. The politically correct Nanny State, however, cares little for education and a great deal for ideology. It should [...]
Bookworm on Nov 03 2008 | Filed under: Elections
The National Journal Online has put together a compendium of political blogger best-guesses about this race’s outcome. Yours truly got to play a role in this one. What’s fascinating, since the vote is broken down into results from liberal and conservative bloggers, is the way in which the liberals are wildly optimistic, and the conservatives [...]
Bookworm on Aug 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Islam, Jews, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, Media matters, Muslim violence
In 1980 (and again in 1984), Ronald Reagan won in significant part because traditionally Democratic voters abandoned their party to vote for him. Those same “Reagan Democrats” have shown up frequently in the news today. Indeed, McCain is specifically targeting those same people and demographics. US News & World Report explained back in May:
As the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Elections, Hillary Clinton, Presidential elections
John Hawkins has written a really scathing indictment of Hillary Clinton attacking, not her political positions, but the fact that she is doing nothing more than ride on Bill’s coattails, having no independent experience of her own that would justify making her President of the most powerful nation in the world during a time of [...]
Bookworm on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Elections, Media matters
Would it surprise any of you to learn that the media’s coverage of the President horse race accords more coverage, and more favorable coverage, to the Democratic candidates? It didn’t surprise me, but it’s still useful to see it in black and white:
Campaign coverage of the 2008 presidential election has been both biased and [...]
Bookworm on Sep 25 2007 | Filed under: Elections, Military
I was impressed by the temperate tone in this Stars and Stripes article, because I was just incensed when I read that our troops, who are putting their lives on the line for us, as a result of bureaucratic inefficiency, are being denied that most fundamental of all American rights, the right to the vote:
Overseas [...]
Bookworm on Aug 31 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Presidential elections, Republicans, Women
In an inspired Wall Street Journal article, Kimberley Strassel points out that Republican candidates, at their peril, are ignoring women, while Democratic candidates, knowing that women voters are the statistical difference for them between success and failure, are wooing them aggressively. This wooing needed go well. Strassel explains that the Democrats are locked in the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 05 2007 | Filed under: Abortion, Anti-Semitism, Anti-war, Britain, Children, Elections, England, Europe, Israel, Judges, Judicial activism, Marriage, Media matters, Mitt Romney, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Presidential elections
I’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting.
The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really liked:
But it was Romney forced [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Presidential elections
Seraphic Secret gets to the heart of the insanity behind the Democrats’ decision to hide from Fox TV:
So let me get this straight. According to the Democrats, Israel is supposed to sit down and chat with Hamas, a terrorist gang dedicated to Israel’s annihilation.
According to the Democrats Israel is also supposed to sit down and [...]
Bookworm on Mar 10 2007 | Filed under: Elections, Presidential elections, Silly Stuff
I am, apparently, worthy of voting. I bet you, my regular readers, are too. But if you’re in doubt, take this test:
I have to admit to having slipped up on one question, but my excuse is that I’m not a very visual person, and photos are involved. It is worrisome that, of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2007 | Filed under: Elections, Presidential elections, Silly Stuff
I know it’s unkind of me, but ever since I saw that video of John Edwards preening to improve his pretty-boy self, I think of him as a sort of Barbie doll — or, maybe, I should say a Ken doll. That’s why I found it exquisitely funny that this plastic candidate is complaining [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2007 | Filed under: Elections
Daniel Henninger has a really brilliant article about the fact that the focus of the Presidential primaries, on both sides of the political divide, is entirely wrong, with form (and the hunt for public humiliation) dominating when substance should matter:
The world beyond America’s borders isn’t dormant; it is a globalized world trembling with problems and [...]
Bookworm on Feb 20 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Media matters
As you know, I agree with Ann Coulter, who considers Obama a singularly uninspiring orator. She thinks he’s given a pass because he’s black. I think he’s given a pass because, in our inarticulate age, he’s able to string sentences together (something, sadly, that President Bush can’t do). Take, for example, Obama’s [...]
Bookworm on Feb 20 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Democrats, Elections, Israel
John Edwards is clearly attempting to attract the European vote. It was Europeans after all, who opined in large numbers that Israel is the most dangerous nation in the world. In a clear effort to attract Europeans to the polls in 2008, Peter Bart’s column reports on this gem: “Perhaps the [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Elections
I am pathetically grateful to Ann Coulter for saying what’s been bugging me for some time: Obama may have charm (although it eludes me), but he is not a gifted orator. He is banal and pedantic, like most lawyers, included Harvard educated lawyers:
Only white guilt could explain the insanely hyperbolic descriptions of Obama’s [...]
Bookworm on Dec 07 2006 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Democrats, Elections, War crimes
Ann Coulter can be too mean sometimes, and I think she undermines her points when she is. Sometimes, though, she’s right on the money, as she is in this article, some of which I quote here:
The “bipartisan” Iraq panel has recommended that Iran and Syria can help stabilize Iraq. You know, the way Germany [...]
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