Pepe is marching!

It's Chicago '68 all over again. Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, and Ward Churchill are linking up arms with Pepe. Pinko nirvana! [Added pic. -- JJ]

McCain = Dole+Kerry

The McCain campaign is looking to ground its messages in duty, honor, and ability, presenting the candidate as a man who has always been ready to step up and act when his country needed him. This was roughly the approach of the Dole campaign in 1996 and (in a rather different way) of the Kerry campaign in 2004, and in both cases it failed to capture the imagination of the electorate. Despite JJ's protestations to the contrary, this is not a winning strategy.

Run, Cindy, run!

Cut & run

This WSJ guy compares McCain & Obama -- and finds McCain much better. Of course. But here's a little nugget which will fly by the McCain sycophants, but not by a heard-headed Romney-Nader-L. Ron Hubbard curmudgeon:

On Oct. 14, 1993, John McCain took to the floor of the United States Senate to offer what, in light of his past history and his later positions, was an unusual amendment.

Earlier that month, 19 American soldiers had been ambushed and killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, by militiamen connected to warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid. The corpse of one U.S. serviceman had been humiliatingly dragged through the streets. The Arizona Republican wanted U.S. forces out of Somalia -- and was prepared to cut off funds for the mission if the administration refused to expedite a withdrawal. President Clinton attacked the amendment as a "headlong rush into isolationism."

Hmmm... Maybe Bubba had a semi-point, after all? So what does McCain have to say about that craven surrender to Islam Militant that he was pushing for way back when?

As for Somalia, Mr. McCain noted in one of his memoirs that "The decision to leave Aidid unpunished and to withdraw from Somalia had a disheartening effect on our military. . . . They wondered if we would ever be as committed to victory as they were in the causes we ordered them to serve. Somewhere in Sudan, Osama bin Laden observed our withdrawal from Somalia and concluded that America no longer had the stomach for war."

Precisely. And Bubba bears a huge responsibility for letting AQ rise unchecked throughout the 1990s. How about McCain? What was he doing in 1993 about that? Hmmm....

Zbig & Huntington pulling the strings

Seethe, JJ, seethe!!

Mac=pinko?

Hah!

I hate to rain on your parade, but...

...these predictions have a certain ring of truth to them. I wish to be proved wrong -- I'm listening, if anyone cares to make the case, but I'll take a jaundiced view.

Steyn imitates moi

President McCain? Or Queen Hillary? It’s a shame that neither of them will lose.

The Rudy Giuliani campaign went from national frontrunner to total collapse so spectacularly that they’ll be teaching it in Candidate School as a cautionary tale for decades to come.

What else has the senator got going for him? Surely, it’s not his global-warming hysteria or illegal-immigration amnesty or demonization of capitalism. It’s because he’s Mister Surge.

Hillary must occasionally be enjoying a luxury-length cackle at the thought of being pitted against a 71-year old “maverick” whose record seems designed to antagonize just enough of the base into staying home on election day. In the 2000 campaign season, running in a desultory fashion for the New York Senate seat, Rudy Giuliani waged a brief half-hearted campaign just long enough to leave the Republican Party with no one to run against Hillary except a candidate who wasn’t up to the job. Has he managed to do the same this time round?

AI, your boys on the march!

Did Ann Coulter jump the shark?

Or is she impersonating moi?

The Nation is now part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy??

For once The Nation speaks truly Truth to Power.

Lanny Davis Is Romanian?

Asks Taranto. Well, since I kinda had something to do with this story starting, I wonder what you guys think of it.

Dolce farniente

In the belly of the Nanny State. Aahhh, the hard life on Planet Pepe.

Camille Paglia channels moi?

But things will be vastly different: no more happy facade of pacification and reconstruction; no more corrupt protectionism of commercial contractors; no more costly police or military training of volatile, faithless local recruits; no more intrusive neighborhood patrols with our soldiers blown to smithereens by cheap booby traps. It will be real war, heavily applied by air force, with maximum damage inflicted at minimal cost to our troops.

My only quibble: why wait to send in the flyboys?

Nobel Dreams of Blood

Why not? In the last 15 years or so you have a much higher chance of finding a murderer when you scratch a Nobel Peace Prize Winner than you do finding a murderer in a random sample of 20 taken from Angola [the one near Now Not So Big Sleazy ]

Run, Cindy, run!

Hey AI! You and Putin are together on this one, huh?

A I Sheehan High School

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