freecounterpoint: Rush is left

Monday, March 03, 2008

Rush is left

14 comments:

Tecumseh said...: Maybe he wants a piece of the action?; 3/03/2008 9:55 PM
Mr roT said...: For once I agree with Rush. Open primaries are the place to hamstring your opponent.; 3/04/2008 1:07 AM
Tecumseh said...: "We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically. It's obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it, they don't have the stomach for it," Limbaugh continued. "As you probably know we're getting all kinds of memos from the RNC saying we're not going to be critical. Mark McKinnon of McCain's campaign said he'll quit if they get critical over Obama." Yep, Rush is right about this much: when it comes to criticizing Obama, McCain is a pussy, he will rather lose big than say anything cutting -- though he will attack Obama on ideological points, that I'm sure of. Hillary has no ideological dispute (they are birds of the same feather), but she can fight -- maybe. As she's started to do with the Rezko story, which McCain won't touch.; 3/04/2008 2:02 AM
Tecumseh said...: Hmmm... OK, you could be right, JJ (but then, think about the implications to free speech, etc -- this is scary), or you could be wrong (in which case McC is a pussy). Either way, he is doomed from the start with his campaign.; 3/04/2008 9:25 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: It seems like there's still some latent Mitt Romney fascination within the G.O.P. that manifests itself in projecting doom-and-gloom for McCain. Am I out of line with this thinking. Be honest, please.; 3/04/2008 10:43 AM
Tecumseh said...: It's called being a realist. As Taranto rightly points out (it's one of his favorite points), part of the reason the Democrats have been losing elections for the past 2-3 decades is that their candidates get lulled into complacency by an adoring, rapturous media. No such thing here for McCain -- he needs to earn his support, and prove himself over and over again. I'll keep his feet to the fire, don't worry -- and jump on him every time he makes a mistake. You can count on that. Whether he'll listen, that's another story...; 3/04/2008 11:54 AM
Tecumseh said...: Speaking of which, one thing that keeps bothering me about McCain is his very weak grasp of economics, and his muddled message on the subject. See here for a recent discussion of that. With all the other formidable obstacles he faces, he simply cannot afford to mess up this bread-and-butter conservative issue, or he's toast. No amount of rah-rah can change that -- it's gonna be pffttt big time, to much ullulating from Pepe, othewise.; 3/04/2008 12:02 PM
Mr roT said...: Right. Reagan was a researcher in MathEcon before he went on to playing supporting role to a chimpanzee. Ooohweee he was hell on wheels with a martingale.
Look, these guys hire advisors for the technicals. Some advisors are competent, like Gates, and others are idiots like Rumsfeld. McCain will not wreck the economy worse than a Democrat so let's just quit making the perfect (Romney? Thompson? please...) the enemy of the good.; 3/04/2008 4:36 PM
Mr roT said...: There are no implications for free speech. You can say what you want. You sound like the A I Sheehans of Berkeley.
Say what you want, Dixie Chick, but don't get upset when others dislike you for what you say.
McCain can call Hillary the C word (that's getting a fair amount of currency these days here) and Obama the N wird. Perfectly legal. He migh offend an odd voter or two, though, and that voter can vote against if he feels like it.
No infringement of Constitutional Rights, A I Gitmo!; 3/04/2008 4:40 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: ...one thing that keeps bothering me about McCain is his very weak grasp of economics, and his muddled message on the subject.

In Vegas, there's something the high-ups know but don't often say: the market is driven by emotion more than dissertation-level statistical modeling.

Off hand, I can't think much more about economics other than, 1.) Colonies are a big fat waste of time and money; and 2.) if two people make a deal, and walk away from that deal thinking they got a good deal, then it is in fact a good deal.

This isn't anything new, just Adam Smith 101.; 3/04/2008 9:21 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: AI, weren't you saying something a bit ago about how you thought military service qualified someone more as an author and, taken to its logical conclusion, a politician? McCain put some time in that realm.; 3/04/2008 9:23 PM
Tecumseh said...: JJ, you're not arguing logically. Reagan was no econ whiz, granted, but he picked some good ideas along the way (especially from Arthur Laffer and Jack Kemp, in the late 70s), and he articulated them well, and sold them well in his campaign in 1980. Of course he's got some pros to implement them later. But you gotta have someone making the pitch during the election. So far, McCain has been a total muddle on economics, no focused, coherent message. And that's a fact, you can't weasel out of it even if you were Houdini.; 3/04/2008 10:22 PM
Mr roT said...: OK, AI. Vote for Obama or write in Romney. Hell, vote for Castro!; 3/04/2008 11:35 PM
Tecumseh said...: Man, you're showing your feminine inner logic, or what?; 3/05/2008 1:10 PM

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