"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Posted on 01/18/2010 8:58:32 PM PST by goldstategop
Well, as a wintry election day dawns in Massachusetts, I'll believe it when I see it. If all but one of those polls are right, Scott Brown now has a lead well beyond the margin of error. But, as that Boston Globe "Dead Heat!" headline suggests, it's not necessarily beyond the margin of Acorn, the margin of lawyer, and the margin of Franken-style recounts. On the other hand, if you're minded to (as MSNBC's electokleptomaniac Ed Schultz recommends) steal the vote, you don't really want to have to steal it big, on a Mugabe-esque scale.
However things turn out, the Dems have got a fright. I would be surprised if many candidates in November are quite the same spectacular combination of gaffe-prone stupidity and arrogance as Martha Coakley. But, granted that, I was surprised at how incompetent the Democrat machine was. On Sunday, the President veered between dull and really, really lousy. He did what he did with his Olympics pitch in Copenhagen - he took the extraordinary step of flying in to save the day, and then when he got there thought he could wing it. He, or at any rate his minders, should know by now that his rhetoric is seriously underperforming - "incoherent without his teleprompter and a bore with it". Yet his staff allow him to stagger around as the last believer in his own magic. What sort of functioning pol would be so careless as to say "Everybody can own a truck"? He should talk to any New England dealership about that. As it happens, I bought a new truck* last month and I've never seen the place so empty.
At the start of this campaign, the issues were health care and the economy. After "Ted Kennedy's seat" and "Curt Schilling the Yankees fan" and "only the little people campaign at Fenway", the genius Dems succeeded in making their own assumptions about one-party rule a very potent secondary issue. Very foolishly, Obama both underlined the regal hauteur of the Massachusetts machine - and simultaneously nationalized the election by portraying it as a referendum on the Hopeychange. If Martha now loses, he can't plead it's nothing to do with him.
(*purely for the purposes of running against John Kerry. I'm putting it on water skis and I'm going to ride alongside him when he's windsurfing off Nantucket scoffing "Oh, everybody can buy buttock-hugging yellow spandex.")
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
GAHHHH! this is great Steyn again.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
BTTT!
I am not a “fan” of Scott. Martha Coakley is evil. Not a tough choice really.
He’s just so .. so . . .so Joe Cool
I always liked the one with Kerry windsurfing and in the background the world trade center is burning.
Take heart, I’m informed that the vote must be within 0.5% in Mass. before there’s a recount. That’s where the rats steal votes by the boat load.
Bump for later reading
Mr. Smith goes to Washington moment?
Or this one! What a girly-man.
This can be condensed into "not beyond the margin of Democrats ability "to Al Franken the election".
Using "Al Franken" as eponymous with "voter fraud" infuriates the left. Its a tactic they use and they flip out when its turned on them. It's a great way to marginalize Franken in the Senator too. Make his name not that of a U.S. Senator but a word which immediately evokes the notion of political chicanery and fraud.
Try it when posting on a liberal or mixed forum. The reaction from the left is outstanding.
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