Yes, They Are Worthless

To piggy back off of DPUD's earlier post about the RNC extending a $5 million lifeline to the Senate candidates, my reply is:
Yes, they are worthless, but (sadly) they may be our only buffer against full bore Obamanomics.

But, in a wave year, as in 1994, 2000 (a mini wave, Senate wise, where massive Dem GOTV and last minute events such as Bush's DUI and the Mel Carnahan death in MO caused many of the Class of 1994 and other GOP stalwarts such as Roth to lose), 2002, 2004 (Senate wise again, where virtually every tight Senate race went for the GOP), and 2006, one factor is the fact previously invincible incumbents fall to virtual nobodys they should trounce in a different year. And, sadly, this is shaping up to be another wave.

The problem, as in 2006, is that so many seats are vulnerable, and so many of our Senators have run incompetent campaigns, are crooks, or are fools. Here are the five seats we might as well abandon, since they really have no shot:
CO, VA, NM, OR (Gordon Smith?), and NH. All of these seats are either vacant due to retirements, or are held by Republicans in blue states (such as NH). That right there makes it 56 D (if you count Joe Lieberman).
The next batch are the improbably tight races,incompetent campaigns, or outright crooks:
MN (even in lefty MN, Al Franken should never be as close as he is, except for the fact this is a good year for the Dems), NC (Dole is the worst campaigner and organizer ever), and AK (ugh! How can we stomach supporting a crook, just because he may keep the Senate filibuster proof?). If all three are losses, that's D59.

Sadly, here is where previously thought untouchables are needlessly facing tight races, for no other reason they are a Republican in a Blue Year:
GA and KY (I know McConnell is a fool, but he shouldn't be in a tight race).
If these both go blue, which a wave might portend, it's D61.

And none of this factors in whichever idiot is running in Maine, who might as well be a Democrat.

I hate sounding like Allahpundit, but how sad is it that we may be pinning our hopes for a filibuster proof majority on Ted Stevens (ugh again!), Liddie Dole, Mitch McConnell, and some dimbulb from Maine?

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A visual representation of what the Giants believe just stepped on their . . . face

I'm going to go have a cigarette now. 

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Yard sign bizarreness

I meant to post about this yesterday but something shiny went by I was thinking deep thoughts.  On my way to work yesterday I saw another Obama sign.  In the same yard as a Lou for Congress sign.  That's Lou as in Lou Barletta.  One of these things is not like the other.  I thought maybe it was someone having a little fun but they were still there when I came home and still there tonight.  Either it's a mixed marriage or someone's been hitting the bad crack. 

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Just a guy from the neighborhood

There's a link-rich column on the Obama-Ayers connection over at the American Spectator that's worth a read. Here's a taste:

EVEN IF WE ACCEPT the argument from ignorance, we know that Barack Obama had heard about Ayers' past by 2001, as a campaign spokesman recently admitted to Mark Halperin of Time magazine. That year, Ayers was photographed stomping on an American flag, He also reminisced about his bomber days in a profile that the New York Times had the misfortune to publish on September 11. People have parted company with each other for lesser reasons, but nothing Ayers did or said caused Obama to resign from the board of the comically progressive foundation on which they both served at the time.

Moreover, as Stanley Kurtz points out, when a New York Times reporter writes that Obama has never expressed sympathy for Ayers' radicalism, "he's flat wrong," In fact, Obama helped bankroll that radicalism via grants to school projects and community organizing groups that teach what Ayers calls his "small-c communist" philosophy.

Like they say, read the whole thing. And maybe pass it on to a friend or two who are sitting on the fence.  Do they really want a president who sees nothing wrong with communism in education policy, even of the "small-c" variety?

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What does this say?

The RNC is looking at spending $5 million to bolster our worthless Senators.  What does this say?  Does it say that they think McCain can't win it, or that he doesn't need their help?  It certainly says that the GOPers in the Senate are largely worthless, and they're in trouble because of their worthlessness.  I'm still deciding.

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I sense a theme here

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Official Alexthechick DoomMeter For Tonight's MNF Game

12.  Stuck between Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell on a trans-Atlantic flight

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Official Moron Pundit DoomMeter

• 11 - Obama wins, veto-proof majority in the Senate, all 50 state senates and houses go Democrat, Obamassianism named official state religion, Yellowstone Caldera erupts, hypercolor t-shirts make a comeback, Packers win GAMETHATSHALLNOTBENAMED, DPUD replaces me on the site with Obama Approved Fairness Blogger, etc., etc.
• 10 - Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
• 9 - How alexthechick feels every time she opens a comment thread for a post that mentioned spiders.
• 8 - How the Lions feel after establishing a 24 point lead.
• 7 - How the Lions feel before kickoff.
• 6 - Did I forget the baby at the Grand Canyon?
• 5 - Did I forget the baby at day care?
• 4 - Did I leave the stove on?
• 3 - Similar feeling to when the low fuel light turns on in my car.
• 2 - Feeling that someone I met once may break a nail shortly causing nearly no impact to anything anywhere.
• 1 - I anticipate unicorn-riding babes in bondage gear and awesome high-heels to come bearing money and fried chicken at any moment.

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DOW Makes Sweet Love To Recession Fears

Gives reach around:

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) ended 936 points higher, after having risen as much as 976 points during the session. The advance was the largest ever during a session on a point basis. The point gain was equal to 11.1%, the fourth best ever day on a percentage basis.

In other news, official Moron Pundit DoomMeterâ„¢ back up to 11.

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ACORN and the Financial Meltdown

Here is a pretty good (seeming, I'm ignant but this jibes with what I DO know) map of the ACORN/Fannie/Freddie/Obama/Frank  situation.

(h/t: Absinthe & Cookies)

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It Is Now Probably Easier To Get A Drink In Iraq Than It Is In Some Parts Of America

Especially since an Iraqi town held an Oktoberfest.

We can make this festival with Iraqi people, Turkish people, Kurdish people, American people, German people, with (people from) all over the world in peace and in a real good mood."

He also had a special message for his compatriots, who as Europe's biggest travelers can contribute greatly to any nascent tourism industry.

"For my people from Germany," he said in German to AP Television News, "Iraq is not dangerous everywhere. There are good areas here. There is Kurdistan and the Kurdish region, where you can get around well, where you can get work done, where you are welcome, where the war stays away."

Iraq's Kurdistan region is already a travel destination for thousands of Iraqis, eager to leave behind the heat, dust and daily killings in their country's heartland for the green, tranquil mountains of the north.

Organized bus tours are possible as a result of the improved security that has taken hold in much of the country over the last year. A week in a modest hotel, with bus fare, costs about US$160 per person, or just one-third of an average monthly Iraqi salary.

Arab visitors are still carefully screened in the semiautonomous region about the size of Switzerland and home to nearly 3.8 million people.

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Moron Pundit Has Job, Will Travel

I'll be leaving the comfortable confines of the Midwest this week and travelling to the as-yet unexplored city of Savannah, GA.  I should have a pretty good amount of time to explore so any suggestions on that are greatly appreciated.

Also, as usual, I must remind you that McCain is doomed and we're all doomed and even doom is doomed.

Doomed.

more...

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Don't know much about history

You would think that lefties in South Carolina, of all places, would know a thing or two about this kind of thing:

Vandals spray-painted the words “Republican means slavery” on the door of the York County GOP campaign headquarters overnight Friday.

Oh, right, they're probably well aware of which party fought to free the slaves and which party fought not just against that, but for segregation and Jim Crow, too. They're just flinging poo.

Oh, and how's this for some irony (with my emphasis):

In York County, Republican leader Glenn McCall is among the first African-American [sic] to chair a county party in South Carolina. He’s also one of two black representatives on the 100-member Republican National Committee.

McCall said he believes the vandals were trying to influence voters at a time when polls show a tight contest.

“It just goes to show the election is much closer than folks would have you believe,” McCall said. “We have probably the most liberal ticket on the Democratic side that we’ve ever seen. When I look at the polls, it’s within the margin of error. There are people who are just getting nervous about that. As a result, they do desperate things.”

While I'm not sure I'd like to be the chairman of a county GOP organization right about now, I kind of doubt the experience is akin to being human chattel.

(Via Hehindeedpundit)

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Teach your Morons while they're young

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Too Bad The Deciders Will Ignore This

Yeah, doing what Tapper references here is Freedom Of Speech, but it still is vile.

It's sad that probably the most even handed political reporter covering this election is Jake Tapper. And yet, the Deciders will ignore this for more coverage of a crazy old lady screaming that Obama is an Arab.*

H/T This comment by ECM.


* And given what is going on over at Ace's, I am not, by any means, defending the "monkey" or "Arab" references. Those fools, and those who defend them, have no place in my party or my conservative movement. I am just trying to point out the differences in coverage.

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Samantha Darko

They're making a sequel to Donnie Darko, centered around the youngest daughter in the film.

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reason 4,234,038 to hate Keith Olbermann

Today was one of the most exciting days in NFL history and I can't watch the halftime show because he's going to get his ick all over it. 

SHUT UP KEITH!  JUST.  SHUT.  UP.

Look at me being all tolerant of others. 

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Yeah, right

Stephen Hayes, writing today at the Weekly Standard's blog, engages in a little fantasy:

After the outpouring of anti-McCain sentiment at yesterday's Obama rally in Philadelphia I'm sure David Gergen is going to call for the Democrat to tone down his rhetoric. And the mainstream media will start reporting on the dangerous left-wing "rage" that's taking over the campaign in its final weeks.

I think we can all agree on the proper response to that scenario.

Update: Michelle Malkin has a rather detailed post on the subject of the "insane rage" that seems to be gripping  a certain side of the political spectrum.

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Sports Are Bad For Your Testicles. And So Is Smuggling Steroids.

Just ask Kellen Winslow of the Cleveland Browns about the harmonic convergence of sports and testicles.

A league source tells us that the talk among the Browns is that tight end Kellen Winslow landed in the Cleveland Clinic because his balls swelled to the size of grapefruits.

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Actually, one explanation for the situation is a condition known as hyrdocele.  And while the condition in itself isn’t serious, it could be a symptom of testicular cancer.

And regarding steroids, ask Jose Canseco.

It is drug commonly used during and after steroid cycles to maintain and restore testicular size as well as produce testosterone.  When I reached Canseco's attorney, Greg Emerson he had "No Comment" and the U.S. Attorney in San Diego told me that it was an ongoing investigation and no comment either.  Canseco is due in Federal Court on Tuesday, October 14th to deal with this.  Canseco was not arrested, just detained.

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Shock! Mugabe Breaks His Promises!

In a move as shocking as dead people voting in St. Louis, Zimbabwe "President" Robert Mugabe has broken his power-sharing promises with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. It turns out Mugabe has seized all of the cabinet posts and put his cronies in them.

South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, is expected in Harare tomorrow to try and rescue the agreement he brokered, under which Tsvangirai is appointed prime minister and Mugabe remains president but with far few powers than before.

Tsvangirai told a rally in Harare today that he would not be pressured by Mugabe into joining an administration dominated by the president's Zanu-PF party when the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won the last reputable elections in March.

"If they do it that way, we have no right to be part of such an arrangement," said Tsvangirai. "The people have suffered. But if it means suffering the more in order for them to get what is at stake, then so be it. We will renegotiate until an agreement is reached but that does not mean we will compromise for the sake of it."

Mugabe announced the appointment of new cabinet posts this weekend, allocating his party jurisdiction over the various security and intelligence forces as well as the justice portfolio and the information ministry, which has control over Zimbabwe's highly partisan pro-Mugabe state newspapers and broadcasters.

I see the "Fairness Doctrine" will be implemented in Zimbabwe as well.

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