Bookworm on Dec 07 2012 | Filed under: Conservative ideology, Presidential elections
Tweet I’m still reading scattered posts castigating Mitt Romney for being a bad candidate or running a bad campaign. I understand the need to analyze failures to identify remediable errors, but we’re making a huge mistake focusing on the end of the campaign, rather than the beginning. One could say the beginning of the campaign [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2012 | Filed under: Elections, Israel
Tweet America’s not the only one with crazed Leftists. I managed to miss the fact that Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just accused Sheldon Adelson of using Benjamin Netanyahu as his puppet in this election. Adelson utterly destroys that canard and, to my delight, he does so in three short paragraphs that are a [...]
Bookworm on Jun 21 2012 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet If you’re old enough to remember the Soviet Union, you’re also old enough to remember that, when the American news reported that voter turnout was 50 or 60% for a given election, the Soviets would boast that they had 100% turnout for all elections. Even I, a child, realized that there was a connection [...]
Bookworm on May 08 2012 | Filed under: Elections
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Bookworm on May 04 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Presidential elections
Tweet When Don Quixote and I talked yesterday about Obama’s use of the bin Laden raid as a campaign talking point, he pointed out that any sitting president who is running for reelection would use the raid as a talking point. I agree. The problem isn’t that Obama politicized the raid, it’s the way in [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2012 | Filed under: California, Elections
Tweet This election will be the first election since California voters decided, in 2010, to turn ours into an Open Primary state. The practical effect of having done so is that the November election, rather than being head-to-head combat between the two parties, will be a run-off between the winners from the June election. The [...]
Bookworm on Mar 26 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Women
Tweet In 1920, for the first time, American women had the right to vote in a federal election. Warren G. Harding won that election by a landslide and, rightly or wrongly, he went down as the president whose dashing good looks and insouciance so charmed American women that they put him in the White House. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet The usual crowd of race hustlers, including Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the New Black Panthers and Barack Obama, have been making as much hay as possible out of Trayvon Martin’s death. Clearly, they think that this episode has ballot potential in November. I can see only one way in which it does have that [...]
Bookworm on Dec 13 2011 | Filed under: Presidential elections
Tweet A friend sent me a link to a post at Whatever, a blog that John Scalzi runs. Scalzi, who describes himself as a “pinko commie socialist,” is interested — truly, not snarkily, interested — in the views Republicans/conservatives/libertarians currently hold when looking at the Republican primary field. Having the luxury of my own blog, [...]
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 [...]
Danny Lemieux on Sep 14 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Have you ever been in a debate with a Liberal/Lefty and been so overwhelmed with either the vapidity of their arguments or the absolute volume of misstatement, sloganeering or fact-twisting that you are left open-mouthed and unable to respond. After the interchange, you kick yourself by thinking, “I should have said….”. Happens to me [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet Question for all of you: A friend thinks that we shouldn’t get our hopes up over November and beyond. He thinks that, aside from the concern political junkies are exhibiting, most Americans actually don’t care enough about the political scene to vote for politicians who would put a stop to this. They got their [...]
Bookworm on Mar 22 2010 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Elections
Tweet As part of a longer rumination about the stability that the Cold War provided for our political system, James Taranto makes the following observations about yesterday’s House vote: Why did it happen? Last November voters sent what seemed to us a pretty clear message by rejecting Democratic candidates for governor in New Jersey and [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2010 | Filed under: Elections, Open Threads
Tweet It’s a done deal, awaiting Obama’s signature. I am truly too disheartened to write anything tonight. Please use this open thread to share your thoughts, provide insight and inspiration, give practical advice, etc. I’ve already received several emails from conservative groups (the GOP, Republican politicians, etc.) urging fund raising. (Just FYI, in less than [...]
Bookworm on Mar 09 2010 | Filed under: California, Elections
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2010 | Filed under: Unions
Tweet Here’s a beautiful matched set: The first part of the set is Daniel Henninger’s truly brilliant article about the way in which President Kennedy’s 1962 executive order allowing federal workers to unionize “transformed the Democratic Party into a public-sector dependency.” Henninger thinks this dependency broke down yesterday in Massachusetts. The second part of the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet 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, [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2010 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Education, Elections, England, Political correctness
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Republicans
Tweet In the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks. If there are 100 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 14 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Leftist morality, Political correctness, Presidential elections
Tweet I had a lovely time last night at a reception on the Bonhomme Richard, and plan on writing about it later today. However, other work calls, so I thought I’d fill this space with recommendations for interesting stuff you may want to read. In no particular order: William Katz, a witty, erudite man who [...]
Bookworm on Oct 01 2008 | Filed under: Democrats
Tweet What do I get? I get why people are voting Democrat. It’s all explained in this clever little film: And be sure to visit VerticalBlu’s website, if for no other reason than to show that a company that manages to put together a great little video like that deserves traffic. Hat tip: LGF
Bookworm on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet The moment I saw the boastful headline yesterday announcing that, if the election were held today, either Obama or Hillary would beat McCain by a mile, I suspected that something was wrong. The numbers just didn’t sound right. And of course, they’re not: However, a closer look at the poll’s internals reveals that the [...]
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