[Pokey78]

[Common Tator]

The most significant event of 2002 election occured in Georgia. It was not the governors race or the senate seat that was significat. The Democrats controlled the State goverment of Georgia for redistricting this time.

The Democrats Gerrymandered 4 NEW Georgia house districts so Republicans could not win them. Last Tuesday the Republicans won 2 of them.

[tom paine 2]

R.W. (johnny) Apple has had his snoot in the Port bottle for so many years that he can no longer distinguish reality from fantasy.

[LibertarianLiz]

A Mark Steyn bump.

[You Dirty Rats]

Pokey,

Please add me to your MSPL!

I'd be in favor of Mark Steyn for President, but it would be much more fun to make him Press Secretary. (Ari got that covered, though).

[FreetheSouth!]

Thanks for the ping!

[facedown]

As a strident conservative myself, if I had to pick just one Republican to lose on Tuesday, I’d have plumped for Connie.

I'm not sure about the use of the word "plumped" here but I second the sentiment on Morella. She's beyond RINO.

[expatpat]

Thanks for the photo of Mark Steyn, Pokey. He's different (e.g., younger) from how I'd visualized him.

[NYC GOP Chick]

As always, thanks for the ping! Steyn is just about always 1000% on target.

[Radix]

"both parties have so gerrymandered the House districts that they’re essentially one big incumbent-protection racket."




This is the thing that most pisses me off!

[Jesse]

Insane cult...hastily exhumed Walter Mondale...Mark Steyn aka the "Quote-o-matic".

Does this guy do stand up comedy too? What a great writer. Has anyone here ever seen him on television? Wouldn't you like to see him up against Carville, Begala, or Mcauliffe?

[grammymoon]

Please, put me on your Mark Steyne ping list???
If you have one , that it.

Thanks, I just love this guy.

[mrustow]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey. Keep 'em coming!

[leilani]

"we’re (New Hampshire) a solidly Republican state and, even weirder, we’ve got Republican governors in our sissy-boy border states of Vermont and Massachusetts." Live Free or Die, guys. God bless NH, land of poets & patriots, because if yall ever go over to the other side, I will know then that it's time to bail. New Hampshirites (sp?) are the canaries in the coal mine for a lot of us across the fruited plain, you know.We're counting on you scrappy, self-reliant North Country types to stem the tide of Massachusetts-style social self-destruction. Godspeed, and may the Old Man of the Mountain keep you safe wherever you go.

[MitchellC]

Beautiful article. Please add me to the ping list.

[MeekOneGOP]

Big bump for yet another excellent Mark Steyn piece !!

Meanwhile, the do-what-you-gotta-do philosophy of the McAuliffe crowd is making the party look just plain ugly: at Republican concession speeches, the bromides about congratulating the Democratic victor and urging everyone to get behind him in the best interests of our state were listened to respectfully; at Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s concession speech in Maryland and Gray Davis’s victory speech in California, the pro forma acknowledgments of their Republican opponents were greeted by boos. From the crowd. This was in keeping with what I think posterity will record as the ‘defining moment’ of the campaign — the grisly televised ‘memorial service’ for the late Senator Wellstone held in the solemn cloisters of the basketball arena at the University of Minnesota at which fist-pumping mourners hissed Republican senators, and deranged activists publicly demanded that these alleged GOP friends of Paul demonstrate their loyalty by renouncing their parties and campaigning for his posthumous victory. To those watching at home, it looked like hidden-camera footage from inside a particularly insane cult. It’s a commonplace, especially in Britain, to hear the ‘religious Right’ referred to as a bunch of weirdos who are an embarrassment to the Republican party. Well, the Minnesota memorial gave us the religious Left: they don’t believe in God, they believe in politics; the Democratic party is their church, Wellstone their latest martyr, and the campaign a crusade. They couldn’t have been any freakier if they’d been speaking in tongues.

The media didn’t seem to see anything wrong in the memorial attack-orgy, until they started getting word that regular Minnesotans had found it a turn-off. Maybe we don’t just need some new Democratic candidates, but some new Democratic pundits, too. On the front page of Wednesday’s New York Times, veteran Times bore R.W. (‘Johnny’) Apple Jr turned in a masterpiece of patrician ennui in which the unprecedented Republican achievements, from New Hampshire to Hawaii, were passed off as lifeless and cheerless and evidence of the public’s ‘disenchantment and curious disconnection from the political system’. I’d say they were evidence of the Times’s disenchantment and curious disconnection from reality: Apple’s ‘analysis’ was almost as hilarious as his predictions of a Vietnam-style quagmire in Afghanistan a week before Kabul fell.

[Prodigal Son]

You know, what's so ironic is Wellstone's Funeral will probably turn into a rallying point for the ages for the GOP! instead of for the donkeys.

I literally believe Mark Steyn is the best columnist out there.

[Prodigal Son]

BTW, I wouldn't mind at all if you pinged me to any Mark Steyn you decide to post ;-)