Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s Saturday and I’m posting at McCain-Palin 2008. As always, since I think it’s a wonderful cooperative blog, I’d like to get more traffic headed its way and, therefore, I’m publishing the beginning of my post here in the hope that you finish reading the rest of it there: Biden
Continue readingMany years ago, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies (my favorite TV station), I watched The Farmer’s Daughter, a 1947 film starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten. Over the years, I’ve carried a strong memory of liking the movie a great deal, and no memory at all of the plot. So,
Continue readingThe media is struggling with difficult decisions. On the one hand, media members have to ask themselves if they should report about Sarah Palin’s tanning bed, the fact that she was interested in seeing her ex-brother-in-law lose his job after issuing death threats to her father and tasering her nephew,
Continue readingThe McCain campaign is giving substantive responses to the attacks the Obama campaign is leveling against it: TO: Interested Parties RE: Empty Words And Insults Cannot Cover A Weak Record DATE: September 15, 2008 Over the last few days, the Obama campaign has watched their poll numbers falter and decided
Continue readingThe very clever Lionel Libson (father of our own Joseph Libson, who sometimes comments here) came up with this great Photoshopped image (click on image for a larger version):
Continue readingIt turns out that Charles Gibson has two different interview modes. If you’re male, black and a Democrat, it’s very loving. If you’re female, white and a Republican, it’s condescending, aggressive, and dishonest. I know that from all the articles I’ve read about each interview. Now, the Anchoress reprints a
Continue readingCharles Krauthammer wrote a nice article tracking Obama’s swift rise and (probably inevitable) decline. In the section dealing with Obama’s peak moments, Krauthammer compares him to Reagan — and explains why the two men and the public’s reaction to those two men are completely different. If you substitute Palin’s name
Continue readingWe all know that the turning point in the public mind for John Kerry’s candidacy was his famous “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it” when speaking of his ultimate vote against military appropriations for Afghanistan and Vietnam. Voters were left with the impression
Continue readingJames Taranto puts his finger on something that’s been bugging me about the malevolent attacks leveled against Sarah Palin for choosing to have, rather than to abort, Trig. After citing to three such attacks, he has this to say: This is worse than tasteless or even unhinged. It is depraved.
Continue readingAs you know, I’m willing to assume that Obama, rather than intentionally calling Palin or McCain a pig, used an infelicitous expression, which may or may not have had any subliminal resonance for him (although it clearly did for his audience). Listening to the speech, I find much more upsetting
Continue readingFull marks to Sandra Tsing Loh for honestly expressing her disapproval of the fact that both of her candidates (that would be Obama and Biden) abandoned the public school system when it came to their own children. And she explains why their abandonment is more than merely symbolic: Let us
Continue reading1st woman: Oh, my God. I’m so upset. I made the most horrible Freudian slip. 2nd woman: What happened? 1st woman: I was having lunch with my mother. I meant to say, “Please pass the toast,” and instead I said, “You horrible woman. You’ve ruined my life.” *** “You can
Continue readingIn the past couple of days, I’ve read more than a few articles in which liberal women express incendiary anger about Sarah Palin. I blogged yesterday about Michelle Cottle’s screed, and today read equally over-the-top material from Judith Warner (h/t The Anchoress) and Heather Malick (h/t Small Dead Animals). In
Continue readingI noted earlier that the “Country First” slogan that McCain uses is meaningful (and moving) only if you understand McCain’s life story. Otherwise, it sounds suspiciously jingoistic, especially to liberal ears. Beldar, however, has come up with a brilliant slogan that would serve McCain and Palin very, very well. What
Continue readingI don’t know how much difference this will make, but it’s a petition to show that the media is wrong — women will and do support Sarah Palin. Hat tip: Bloggers for John McCain
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