Just wanted to wish you all a terrific night. Drive safely. Hope you have a wonderful November, 2008!
Archives for December 2007
My Thoughts On Iowa
It seems to me that a lesson from the Dean-Kerry race is that it’s not enough to be the first choice of a lot of Iowans. It seems equally important to rank well as the second choice of people who support other candidates. As I recall John Kerry went into that state with far from …
2008 Predictions
Just in time for the New Year, Andy Borowitz has a few New Year’s predictions: January: After paying five billion dollars for The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch will reduce the size of the paper by removing the facts. June: Population experts will warn that the world’s population will soar in 2008, largely due to …
Crockpot Mania
Crockpot mania is growing. Consider this an open thread.
Fuck Up, Move Up
I guess Doug Feith was unavailable, so I see that Bill Kristol has a new gig: William Kristol, one of the nation’s leading conservative writers and a vigorous supporter of the Iraq war, will become an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, the newspaper announced Saturday. Mr. Kristol will write a weekly column …
Clinton And The Haters
Kevin Drum helpfully knocks down the weirdest anti-Hillary argument coming from the kneejerk Hillary haters, the idea that her support comes just as much from hatred and revenge fantasies as does the opposition. If that were true then the political netroots, famously home to the angriest liberal fringe, ought to be teeming with Clintonistas. Yet …
The Cookie Crumbles
A quote poached from Sullivan: “It’s gone. The breakup of what was the Reagan coalition — social conservatives, defense conservatives, antitax conservatives — it doesn’t mean a whole lot to people anymore,” – Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan’s political director and Mike Huckabee’s national campaign chairman. I have written on the same topic here and here. …