Archive for the 'Elections' Category
Danny Lemieux on Sep 21 2011 | Filed under: Corruption, Crime and punishment, Democrats, Elections, Leftist morality, Liberal blogs, Republicans
Tweet The Obama administration is headed for a big showdown with judicial accountability next year. Let’s look at the dance list thus far: 1. The “Fast and Furious” gunwalker scandal, involving potential collusion from the top of our government to funnel automatic weapons and explosives to drug cartels operating within and actively undermining a friendly [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2011 | Filed under: Congress, Elections, Open Threads
Tweet Apparently the passions that burned in voters’ breasts in 2010 have yet to burn themselves out in 2011. In a very Jewish district (Jews! The Democrat stalwarts!) Republican Bob Turner took over Anthony Weiner’s seat (although I hope he disinfects it well before he sits down on it). This election bodes well for 2012, [...]
Bookworm on Aug 22 2011 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Media matters, Presidential elections, Republicans
Tweet Ace has an excellent post up today about the way in which the media invariably frames Democratic and Republican victories: when Democrats win, Americans are intelligently embracing the Democrat agenda; when Republicans win, Americans are acting irrationally, operating from fear, or failing to understand the virtues of the Democrat agenda. As Ace says: I’d [...]
Charles Martel on Jul 13 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Elections, Presidential elections
Tweet We’ve skirted this topic before in Bookworm Room, but never really plunged into it: If you could plan the GOP’s 2012 campaign against Obama, what themes and visuals would you bring into it? This assumes you have a big war chest and carte blanche regarding the many embarrassing and critical things you can [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2011 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet Get a room full of conservatives together, and one of the things that they’ll talk about is potential Republican candidates. I can tell you that, last night, many were enthused about the thought of Rick Perry jumping in. Others dreamed of a Jeb Bush candidacy. The current “frontrunners” — Mitt, Mitch, Tim, etc. — [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2011 | Filed under: Elections, Herman Cain, Presidential elections
Tweet Since I’m in California, which has always been a late primary state, and since California is now switching to open primaries anyway, it’s always hard for me to get very excited about primaries. The fact is that I never feel I really have any say in them, since the front runners are already decided [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2011 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet Jack Davis put himself on the ballot in the New York-26 special election as the Tea Party election. If you are in that district, please beware the he is a fraud. He is either trying to capitalize on Tea Party popularity, or he is an imposter deliberately trying to destroy the Tea Party brand. [...]
Bookworm on May 09 2011 | Filed under: Congress, Elections, Republicans
Tweet The GOP has recognized that, as much as anything, the next election starts on the new media. In order to get House GOP members on board with new media, they’ve instituted a contest by which GOP representatives compete for the most YouTube links, twitter friends, etc. In other words, to win the contest, GOP [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet Background: I live in a building inhabited by a lot of seniors. When they moved in they were younger mid 50′s Democrats. Now, they’re aging Democrats and fear and wincing registers across their faces as if they were wearing — not a yellow Star of David, but something worse, much worse. They’re suffering the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Silly Stuff
Tweet Since warnings labels seem to be dominating the news (that cigarette thing), Doug Ross has some suggestions for political warning labels.
Bookworm on Nov 11 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet You’ve no doubt heard that, with redistricting on the table, the Republican victories in local elections are incredibly important. (Poor California….) Zombie, in a pair of lucid, entertaining posts, explains why.
Bookworm on Nov 05 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet Democrats are wondering how the pendulum could have swung so quickly in two years. The premise underlying this wonderment is wrong. They perceived a pendulum swing to the Left, only because they managed to run an election that hid from the voters the fact that they were electing an exceptionally left leaning government. As [...]
Bookworm on Nov 03 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet Bob Etheridge is demanding a recount against Renee Elmer. Apparently he understood what I said yesterday, which is that a candidate shouldn’t concede before the last vote is counted. He seems to think that he shouldn’t concede even long after the last vote is counted. But still, a recount is his right. Recounts, though, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 03 2010 | Filed under: California, Elections
Tweet I feel as if I should say something profound, but I don’t really have that much that is profound to say. I do have a few observations, and then I’ll start compiling a running list of good post-election posts (so check back often): I’ll repeat what I said yesterday: it irks me when elections [...]
Bookworm on Nov 02 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections
Tweet American Digest is getting lots of hits for this list, and deservedly so. It surely explains what’s happening in California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc. UPDATE: And if you want something that will make you laugh, this will. I need to laugh. I’m bummed, although not surprised, about California. UPDATE II: SGT Dave [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Bookworm on Oct 31 2010 | Filed under: California, Elections
Tweet If you’re in California, it’s easy to figure out which people should get your vote: Fiorina over Boxer, Whitman over Brown (and yes, that’s something of a nose-holder), anyone over Pelosi, etc. It gets much more confusing when you get to the numbered items on the ballot. Prop. 23 is easy: Vote for that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2010 | Filed under: California, Democrats, Elections, Republicans
Tweet My friend Sally Zelikovsky says it in the clearest words possible: Unless conservatives in California vote for the Republicans, we will have a Sacramento government made up entirely of San Francisco Democrats. If that horrible outcome sounds painfully obvious to you, you don’t know California. There are two dynamics in California that are a [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Republicans
Tweet Mike Pence asked me for money today. He seems like a good guy. I hope he wins. Life, liberty and limited government, he wrote, these are the cherished ideals of our nation, and they are ideals from which we must never stray. Indeed they are. Truly American ideals. As David Mamet, writes, as American [...]
Bookworm on Oct 22 2010 | Filed under: California, Elections
Tweet Funny, funny David Zucker video challenging Boxer’s arrogance and cavalier approach to American money: Call Me Senator from RightChange on Vimeo. If you’re in California, this year you have a real choice: vote for Carly Fiorina. She’s a true conservative and a dynamic, effective individual. My mom, who can’t quite let the MSM go, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 20 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet Across the conservative blogosphere, a single cry for help is going out: Please donate money to Pat Toomey, who is running against Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania. Not only is Toomey the real deal on small government (less spending, lower taxes), Sestak is awful. He’s an Obama rubber stamp, and a staunch, but dissimulating, foe [...]
Bookworm on Oct 20 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet I wrote earlier this week that I was going to vote in person, rather than by mail, which is what I usually do. There’s just too much risk that my absentee ballot will “accidentally” get lost in liberal Marin. Meanwhile, at the polling place, they scan it instantly. Better odds for a fair outcome. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections
Tweet Put aside the fact that Bawney Fwank sent his boyfwiend out to heck his opp0nent. What I like about this video clip is Sean Bielat‘s poise and humor in handling said boyfwiend’s heckling: Bielat seems to have mastered many of the US Marine’s Leadership Traits which is, in itself, a recommendation for a leadership [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet I’ve been an absentee ballot voter for years. This election, however, I’m personally handing in my absentee ballot. Fellow conservatives and I have already talked about the risk that our ballots, if mailed, may never be counted. At my polling place, however, it will be instantly scanned — with me watching. I suggest that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 13 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Military
Tweet This is how it works if you’re a Democrat: They’ve got your back, fighting against our nation’s mortal enemies (so you don’t have to), and you respond by stabbing them in their collective back, by denying them their constitutional right to have a say in our government.
