Posted on 11/03/2007 5:52:28 PM PDT by Josh Painter
It seems that the discovery on the part of the master of the HillarySpot of my chuckle-inducing quirk of referring to the avowedly Romney-backing & flacking Hugh Hewitt’s blog as “RomneyIsGod.com” and the scarcely any less Rudy-leaning (or at the very least decidedly anti-Romney) American Spectator Online as Giuliani Central Hub is spreading my newfound fame far and wide, judging by TAS’s John Tabin’s reaction:
I see via Jim Geraghty that a Fred Thompson enthusiast at HeadingRight.com has slapped that label on TAS. Oddly enough, the only cited example of “Rudy backers” in these parts is a link to a Prowler column. A few months ago we were getting a different complaint from readers (scroll down to “Unconcerned Conservatives”): “The Prowler needs to endorse Fred Thompson. It’s a fairly consistent drum-beat from that column propping up Thompson and tearing down Romney.”Well, I’ll freely and enthusiastically acknowledge the “Fred Thompson enthusiast” label that Mr. Tabin slapped on me. A cursory check of my sidebar will confirm that.
As to the rest, I’m afraid he’s implicitly jumping to some unwarranted conclusions.
In the original post in question, I was commenting on Double-H summarily declaring the GOP primaries “a two-man race” between Rudy and Mitt, as though FDT - WHO’s MY GUY, JOHN, AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT!!!! [*ahem*, pardon me] - had ceased to exist. I then cited some of Romney’s nettlesome problems from a TAS piece to illustrate how the former Massachusetts governor hasn’t emerged from the proverbial woods for this mano-a-mano showdown by a long shot.
What I was manifestly not doing was attempting to bolster at great, or any, length the case that TAS is pro-Giuliani. I have no doubt that I could, if I had either the time to do so or the axe to grind, neither of which I possess. Doesn’t really seem necessary to me, as all you have to do is follow their group blog to get a pretty clear picture of which horse they have in the GOP race. Or you can save a mouse click and simply check out the lead article on their main page from their leading Rudy cheerleader. Nice to see them making it so easy for me to make the case I wasn’t trying to make - at least in the post J-Ger noticed.
For the record, I couldn’t give a targ’s ass who gets endorsed by TAS, or the Prowler, or John Tabin even. That’s probably because it looks so day-glo obvious who they’re already leaning toward. But if they do ultimately lurch the other direction and go with Ready Freddie, I won’t gloat. It’ll just fuel my burgeoning global fame as “that Fred Thompson enthusiast at Heading Right.”
As if to prove the point that TAS is pumping up Rudy, a quick gander to TAS has this latest article:
http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12253
i have to guess that run-on sentences appeal to perhaps 3% of those able to read and are tolerated by another .5%.
But it's just a guess.
It’s hard to get interested in a guy writing about himself.
And doing such a piss-poor job at it.
Yep, so hard to get interested that you had to force yourself to make two comments, LOL!
I fell off the anger-management wagon.
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