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Republican robocalls
Our Missouri-based household is feeling the love from the GOP presidential candidates in the homestretch to Super Tuesday. Three robocalls on Friday, three on Saturday, and two today. The breakdown, if I recall correctly, is four for Mitt Romney, three for John McCain, and one for Ron Paul (!).
The amusing thing is that these robotic [...]
Matt Blunt impersonates Karl Rove, lamely
Now that scandal-plagued, lame-duck Missouri governor Matt Blunt has abandoned his own reelection campaign, he has plenty of spare time in which to tell state Republicans how to vote on Super Tuesday. Blunt has drawn upon his vast reservoir of political judgment and experience and hauled up a warning against voting for Mike Huckabee - [...]
Tough second choice
If not John Edwards, then who?
Obama’s too vague.
Hillary? Not nearly vague enough.
Damn.
This “we’ve got three good candidates” schtick is comforting only if you equate “good” with “any Democrat at all.” I can follow that line of reasoning, but only so far.
Matt Blunt cuts, runs
“A great Shadow has departed,” said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land…
Well, perhaps that verges on overkill. Still, it comes as an unexpected pleasure - the shock announcement that one of the most partisan and least popular governors in the nation, Missouri’s own [...]
Democrats for Mitt. Sigh.
The Great Orange Satan commands his minions to prop up a reeling Willard Romney so he can survive the Michigan primary. Someone’s blurred the distinction between “crashing the gate” and “trashing the place,” apparently. But hey, it’ll be “fun.” And the Repubs do it all time, so, so, so there!
The older I get, the [...]
Jim Talent: Gay basher for Romney
One of the very best things the Missouri electorate ever did was to usher conservative water boy Jim Talent out of the Senate and into the unemployment line. You’d think that the humiliation of losing to Claire McCaskill might have taught Talent the folly of pandering to homophobia in exchange for votes…and you’d be wrong. [...]
There are no stupid questions…
…but there are plenty of embarrassingly revealing ones, as demonstrated in this Mike Huckabee moment:
I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘‘I think it’s a religion,’’ he said. ‘‘I really don’t know much about it.’’
I was about [...]
Quote of the day
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. - Will Rogers
Not necessarily a commentary on our Decider-In-Chief, but you may interpret it as you like.
The obligatory Karl Rove post
Actually, I don’t think I care about Rove’s announced resignation and am not sure much has changed apart from atmospherics. Svengali will still be on The Decider’s speed dial, regardless of his removal from the official organizational chart, and - as we’ve seen with Harriet Miers - Rove will doubtless enjoy the shield of executive [...]
Show Me State showing Matt Blunt the door?
While Matt Blunt has finally inched up into political sunlight for the first time in his tenure as MIssouri’s governor - 46% negative, 48% positive, for a whopping net job approval rating of +2 - the recent SurveyUSA poll pitting him against Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon throws Blunt back into deep shade. As the [...]
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