Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The GOP poohbahs’ belief that they can save the party by bowing before the ascendant left shows how disconnected they are from voters. One thing that’s become clear in the past week is that the Republican party in Washington, D.C., is completely disconnected from the ordinary Americans that, of necessity,
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A romance novel explains why Trump is destroying the media and a Jewish survival doctrine provides a road map for conservatives who want to win. These are strange times and I sometimes have a strange brain. That may explain why, in the days since the Alabama election, when I read
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As the Roy Moore drama escalates, because I distrust those doing the escalating, the new information actually makes me more disposed to believe the judge. I’m watching with fascination the kill and then overkill with Roy Moore. The GOPers (especially McConnell, McCain, and Romney) are even more hysterical than the
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Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was politician who successfully took to the field to defeat Napoleon and then resumed his political career, eventually rising to become Prime Minister. Given his alpha male status, and the rather loose morals amongst the aristocracy in the early 19th century, Wellington was consistently unfaithful to
Continue readingI’m still reading scattered posts castigating Mitt Romney for being a bad candidate or running a bad campaign. I understand the need to analyze failures to identify remediable errors, but we’re making a huge mistake focusing on the end of the campaign, rather than the beginning. One could say the
Continue readingI do believe that vote fraud had an effect on this election, although I don’t know if it was big enough in swing states to change the outcome. Abe Greenwald’s theory makes a lot more sense when it comes to explaining how conservatives could have so completely misread the election
Continue readingThis keeps cropping up on Facebook and every time I see it, I find it irritating. There’s something horribly medieval about reducing women to their sexual organs. After all, when you think about it, the only thing that Obama has done for women is to order employers to provide insurance
Continue readingOne of the things that made Reagan such a winner in 1980 was the fact that he was a happy warrior. Voters had a real choice between Jimmy Carter’s dour malaise (“it’ll be this way forever”) and Reagan’s ebullient optimism in America (“morning in America”). This year, voters have that
Continue readingI honestly think this is Romney’s best ad: Incidentally, regarding Obama’s revenge remark, Jonah Goldberg had exactly the same thought I did: Revenge against whom? If you watch the clip itself, it’s not clear at all what Obama’s supporters are supposed to want revenge for. Obama mentions Romney’s name in
Continue readingOn Monday, November 5, an ad will run in the Washington Times with the names of almost 500 retired military officers from all of the different forces who support Mitt Romney. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of the ad. The same email forwarding the ad asked
Continue readingBill Whittle explains very clearly why it’s a mistake in this election for those who dislike Obama to a protest vote for a third party, or not vote at all, in order to protest the fact that Republicans are so far from perfect. It’s a principled stand, certainly, but it
Continue readingThe Ohio Democratic Party Chairman, knowing that Mitt Romney is a wealthy man, who might have some extra millions lying around, has suggested that Romney give those dollars to a charity that helps Hurricane Sandy victims: Mitt Romney should have donated $10 million to the Red Cross instead of ‘taking
Continue readingI have been keeping abreast of the news, and I do know that there’s a cascade of information about Benghazi rolling out now. Yesterday I posted about Edward Klein’s claim that Hillary had tried to get security for Benghazi but that higher-ups (presumably in the White House) had simply ignored
Continue readingHere’s today’s Progressive Facebook offering: Point by point, let me show why this poster is really, really stupid: His support of the middle class by encouraging the auto-industry to go bankrupt? If you’re not living in Victorian England, when bankruptcy meant that the man of the family ended up in
Continue readingA picture is making the rounds amongst my liberal Facebook friends, complete with the caption that “This says it all to me.” I’m actually not sure what “all” the picture says. That Romney smiles at people performing a service for him while Obama gives them a fist bump? If the
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