Halsey Minor: Not running for governor.
Halsey Minor says that he’s not, in fact, running for governor. He’d be as terrible a candidate for Virginia governor as I’d be for the fifth congressional district. (I adore the sporadic rumors that I’m going to run against Virgil. Have these people never read a word I’ve written about the district?) And, as Halsey [...]
I’m fighting mightily against using the phrase “flip-flop.”
What can you say about somebody who says one thing in Philadelphia but another thing in Fairfax?
No winners, just a debate.
Just a quick thought: Nobody “won” the presidential debate tonight. It wasn’t the kind of a debate that anybody could win, in that it wasn’t game-like. Both were strong speakers. Personally I think that Barack Obama did a better job in a few regards, but I think it’s disingenuous for anybody to claim that there [...]
Conservative columnist: Dump Palin.
I’m not the only one who thinks that John McCain has to dump Sarah Palin from the ticket to have any chance of winning: conservative pundit Kathleen Parker calls on Palin to drop out in the National Review:
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, [...]
These Palin interviews, they hurt me.
I don’t mean to make this an all-video night here at Ye Olde Blog, but Katie Couric’s latest interview with Sarah Palin is just so stunning that I think everybody ought to see it.
Don’t miss the prior night’s interview, either—it’s just as jaw-dropping.
I’m pathologically incapable of witnessing uncomfortable moments. You know how sometimes the local [...]
“Did I ever tell you what my mommy says about fighting?”
I thought Jackson was stretching things with his comparison of John McCain’s stunt to Super-Grover, but after watching this video clip, I think it’s pretty hilariously apt.
The great schlep.
I don’t care what your politics are—that’s just funny. (Via Derek Powazek)
“The Palin Institute for Pediatric Neurosurgery.”
Sam Harris, in Newsweek:
What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance. Watching her deny to Gibson that she had ever harbored the slightest doubt about her readiness to take command of the world’s only superpower, one got [...]
Super McCain to the res—. D’oh. Too late.
This bullshit* from the McCain campaign about John McCain riding into the Senate and saving the day is kind of stunning. It’s somewhere between hilarious and frightening—frightening insofar as anybody actually believes that McCain is some kind of a superhero who will swoope to the rescue of the helpless Congress, saving the planet from the [...]
The contest?
I just got a fundraising mass e-mail on behalf of Mark Warner from Jason Alexander, complete with “serenity now” and “summer of George” jokes. Really? George Costanza? With Warner up by by 40%, or wherever he’s at these days, this sort of thing seems unnecessary.
Biden and bankruptcy.
This bailout bill debate could be really bad for Joe Biden and, by extension, Obama. If talk turns to helping out struggling homeowners, and not just CEOs, it’s only a matter of time until somebody points out that Biden is responsible for their inability to declare bankruptcy.
The ongoing Palin disaster.
I maintain that Sarah Palin was a terrible, terrible pick for VP. The three interviews that she’s dared participate in since her nomination have shown her as a naif, looking every bit the deer in the headlights, utterly unqualified to run a company, to say nothing of the country. Her scandals keep getting deeper and [...]
Our socialist president?
Is it possible that one of the most radically-right governments in ages is advocating one of the biggest step towards socialism that this country has taken in generations? President Bush has nationalized the nation’s largest mortgage provider and insurance company. (For contrast, imagine President Obama demanding that Congress approve the government take over and nationalize [...]
This financial bailout plan is fishy.
For the record, I think this financial bailout plan is scary and probably trouble. I have no patience for this business of giving unchecked power to the executive branch—I don’t care who wins this election. The rapidity with which this plan and this bill were put together makes me suspicious, in the same way that [...]
“The economy, stupid.”
Reader FW writes:
I was curious about the stock market’s performance during the Clinton era vs the Bush era so I looked up historical Dow Jones Industrial Average data. I thought you might be interested in the results.
11/02/92 – Last market close before 1992 election 3262.21
11/06/00 – Last market close before 2000 election 10977.21
09/17/08 [...]
Halsey Minor for governor.com.com!
CNet founder and Republican Halsey Minor wants to run for governor of Virginia:
Though CNET brought Minor to the West Coast, where he still owns homes, his love for Virginia remains so strong that in 2007, he told a local paper that he was interested in becoming governor. Asked about it again, he nods. “I’ve been [...]
Come to the annual Albemarle Democrats BBQ.
All you local Democrats (and surely even those of you not of the Democratic persuasion and, hey, even those of y’all not local) are encouraged to attend the annual Albemarle Democratic BBQ at Ash Lawn this Sunday. It’s from 3pm-7pm. There’s always music, speechifying, and genuinely good food. Admission is $20, $5 for kids, and [...]
Saving me the trouble of writing a punch line.
The RPV, devolving into self-parody, has made George Allen a featured speaker at their minority outreach rally in Fairfax this Saturday.
McCain’s confusion sparks an international incident.
John McCain has stirred up a shitstorm of an international incident by declaring that he wouldn’t meet with the Spanish prime minister, for the same reasons that he wouldn’t meet with leaders of rogue states. If your Spanish isn’t so hot, here’s an auto-translated version, and Josh Marshall’s explanation. It appears that a confused McCain [...]
The RPV’s newsletter takes a turn for the worse.
The RPV newsletter has generally been pretty even for the past few years—they hate Kaine, Warner, etc., and that’s basically been the theme of every installment for as many years as I’ve been reading it. But it’s really gone to hell under Jeff Frederick, becoming angrier and unhinged with each new e-mail. But this week’s [...]
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