Sunday, September 19, 2010
Of course, Rot thinks Kraut and Rove are retards
Counterpoint: Contra-Rover makes his case. OK, perhaps, but still: can't we really come up with someone better than Christine? It's all Rot's fault, of course.
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Of course Tecs watches Bill Maher every night. Right before Maddow and Olbermann.
Tecs' evening entertainment, in his big shorts, canned beer, and rented dank hovel.
Not pretty.
Hey, you forgot mentioning the pork rinds, and the tsuica straight out of the plastic Pepsi bottle.
Hey, you forgot to mention the pork rinds, and the tsuica straight out of the plastic Pepsi bottle.
Getting back to the subject at, um, hand, how do you propose to respond to this ad, Señor Rotta?
Right. Rove & Kraut were just blowing hot air. Nothing to worry about.
The problem is that Castle, like Ms. Snowe, or Spector before, is one of those whose sympathies lie closer with Obama than with our Republic. It is not that O'Donnel was so great, it is that Castle was that awful. If Ms. O'Donnell was just to do this, work hard to roll back the government expansion of powers under the current regime; then she will have done good no Castle would ever do. On the other hand if she loses the man who takes her place would do precisely as much as Castle to roll back that expansion. Namely, nothing at all.
Again, if we don't stop this radical change in the relation between the State and the people, as is meant to come to fruition in the next few years, this Republic is as dead as the Roman one. We simply cannot afford accomadationists or Vichy "Republicans".
Though I agree in theory, in practice it's still a case-by-case judgement, balancing the local and global pictures, etc.
Now, I don't know much about this Chateau guy--in fact, he never showed on my radar screen since about a couple of weeks ago, despite the fact he's been in the Ruling Class for decades on end. So how bad could have he been, compared, say, with Arlen Specter, who I saw in action for decades, and knew what kind of an SOB he was for eons. Now, I must say, after the disgraceful spectacle he put after the election (well, not as bad as Murkowski, but still), it's becoming clearer, at least in hindsight. Still, all in all, I cannot imagine Castle was ever worse than, say, Chaffee or Jeffords.
That said, you still have to look at the state we're talking about, and at the counter-candidate. Clearly, DE is just about as pinko as it gets, so nominating Palin-lite is not the smartest political move, I'd say. Not impossible--just about every event in politics has p>0--but here we're talking p \simeq 0.1, according to Kraut, and he sounds kind of optimistic to me.
Finally, you gotta look at the actual nominee -- you can't beat somebody with a nobody, even if that somebody is a self-avowed "bearded Marxist" like Coons. And it still looks like O'D has no substance to her, and absolutely no record on which to run (not even a stint on the advisory board for the local library, or something). I mean, Palin was a giant by comparison -- mayor of Wasilla, and Guv of AK on the resume. So what's O'D gonna talk about, besides her youthful follies? All right, she's gonna repeat some half-digested principles she's heard around, but has she ever thought about that in any deeper way, or tried to work on anything concrete? Far as I can tell, she has not held any kind of real job in her life, just flitting about (and, unlike Palin, she doesn't have any kids). Nothing necessarily bad about this, but I still don't understand what are the qualification she brings in in order to aspire at the elevated position of Senator (a job description going back to the Romans). Of course, it's not really her fault--the whole system has been so dumbed down over the years, that there is essentially no lower bound left in order to run as a major party candidate (remember the guy running against DeMint?)
And, by the way, if we started at 45 in the Senate, and were now looking at 53-54, I'd be much more inclined to say, hell with Castle, let's take a gamble and see how it goes, no big deal. But, the way things are...
Finally, look--there are much better candidates that made it past the primaries this year. Take Rubio--he's heads and shoulders above O'D. I mean, duhh. If Castle was so vulnerable to a conservative challenge as he turned out to be, why couldn't they find someone just a little better to run against him? Even at a ratio of 1:4 in between O'D and Rubio, that mythical candidate would have had a much better chance of winning than the present abysmal odds, which by the way means the Senate is slipping from reach.
Of course, we should keep a stiff upper lip, and play the game with the cards we're dealt, best we can. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be realists about it.
The site is a bit buggy today, yes? I've also had a comment getting multiplied with just the initial click.
Actually, something else happened: it wouldn't accept my posting, saying it's too long. Then I cut it two: still bad. Then in 3 or 4, and finally it accepted it. But then it turns out all the pieces had been posted, so I had to delete them. WTF is going on?
Yeah, you're right, Tecs.
If you're going to gamble like this, I would say to Palin and DeMint, then make the odds a little better.
The local GOPs are full of pussies is the problem. Remember Scozzafava? What a carbuncle on the anus of man. But there she was, the natural candidate of the Right.
By the way, wtf happened to that district? Wasn't it NY-23?
Scozza disappeared, but so did the Tea Party guy who defeated her--it's a D seat now. But that election was much closer, and the stakes much lower (just a random House seat, instead of a Senate seat). And the Tea Party guy there was much better candidate than O'Donnell, from what I recall -- more like this Miller guy in AK who defeated Murky.
Yeah, he seemed OK. Also a bit flawed. I thought for sure he'd be running this time around. He said back then that he would and now he would more easily win.
I wonder if the local GOP idiots there shafted him somehow.
And yes, it's NY 23, and the D guy leads by 2.
Good job, Tecs!
Hmm, so where's the insurgent that lanced the Scozza boil? He would've won easily, I think, without her splitting the party.
Well, I'll take this anyway. Seems not bad. In the noise a month out.
Seems an OK bio, but of course it's from his website.
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