for what its worth, i agree that smutgate is stupid and gains us nothing. i dissagree that the corker ad backfired on us. i believe that the “race truther” “dog whistle” couter-attack backfired on them.

i agree with ace to some degree. i don’t think we should replicate “allen spit on his ex-wife” with “smutgate”, but i do believe that we should be more aggressive with promoting more substantive and defensible frames, such as that progressives oppose free speech, progressives hate america, progressives tend towards treason, etc.

No, I’d like to see the Republicans win and do something about the border. But while I think they’ll keep both houses, I’m not hopeful that they’re going to do anything about the border because they don’t seem to be very interested in fixing it.

Pablo, I agree, but I look at it as just another reason for us to stay on the backs of our elected Republicans.
If they want to act like donkeys then we will ride them like donkeys.

The Senate bill was an amnesty plan foremost. Not even amnesty lite. Good that it was defeated. The House bill was much stronger, but where is it? Everyone is playing political football waiting for the election. I would think given the current climate that the Republican majorities would be trying to get ANYTHING done before they get kicked to the curb. Getting a few things done might be enough to make a commercial about and get reelected.

Tony Blankley’s column last week hits the nail on the head. Be advised that as of Wednesday the 1st that link will be to a newer column. Washington Times doesn’t give permanent links to editorial columns until they are archived.

Right, that awful Republican controlled, Bush-backed Senate Bill. And the sensible House Bill stands where now? It’s stone dead.

Nope, they’ve failed to take it seriously and they’ve done absolutely nothing of substance about it.

Pablo on October 30, 2006 at 8:29 AM

So I gather that you want to see democrats win, but isn’t that like cutting off your nose to spite your face?

The House had the bill that we hoped the Senate would follow up on, but instead we had our beloved RINO’s side with the liberals, and Bush. Less than half of the Senate Republicans voted in favor of that Amnesty bill, yet you would crucify them all?

If democrats win this is what we have to look foreward to…

The first 100 days if Democrats win

This is not correct: President Bush just signed the Border Fence Bill because of House Republicans.

Yeah. Whoopee!

And the Republican-led House killed that awful Senate immigration “reform” Bill, too which would have opened our borders to 30 million illegals.

Right, that awful Republican controlled, Bush-backed Senate Bill. And the sensible House Bill stands where now? It’s stone dead.

Nope, they’ve failed to take it seriously and they’ve done absolutely nothing of substance about it.

My ire is due in large part to my working my arse off to get Republicans to go vote. I was among this group last Saturday, and we spent the day giving out lawn signs, trying to create a bit of energy, and we did so across an entire county. Forget that it rained. Forget that it was cold. Forget that the wind kept tearing up our float, and I had to repair it several times. We did the work that most Americans don’t want to do!

Remember to vote on Nov. 7th.

Michael barone has an interesting work

[snip]
Serious pollsters concede that there are some problems with polling. Americans have fewer landline phones than they used to, and the random digit dialing most pollsters use does not include cell-phone numbers. Larger and larger percentages of those called are declining to be interviewed.

Interviewers can inject bias in the results. The late Warren Mitofsky, who conducted the 2004 NEP exit poll, went back and found that the greatest difference between actual results in exit poll precincts and the reports phoned in to NEP came where the interviewers were female graduate students — and almost all the discrepancies favored the Democrats
[snip]

He also goes on to say that polls are extremely poor projectors of turnout

“…the Republicans abject failure to take border control seriously too.”

This is not correct: President Bush just signed the Border Fence Bill because of House Republicans.
And the Republican-led House killed that awful Senate immigration “reform” Bill, too which would have opened our borders to 30 million illegals.
Hardly “abject failures.”
If the House and Senate weren’t able to accomplish more about immigration, it’s not because they didn’t try or didn’t want to, but because they were thwarted by the Dems in Congress, who want wide open borders and complete amnesty because they think those illegals are going to vote for them and it will also necessitate large tax appropriations to keep the Welfare Nanny state funded to take care of them.

I for one am enjoying the debate.
No on said she should lie. No one said she should not have and opinion. But to take the holier than thou atitude is not integrity when (Once again) WE ARE IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE ELECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (is that twenty)
Say it here, put it in your blog if you just have to say something, but don’t go on national tv and call Allen out with — “It looks desperate. It looks pathetic and it looks so immature. I mean can we grow up? This is fiction! It’s made up!”

If this was Allen that wrote the books, I think we would all agree that Michelle would be defending him. But in turn she is defending Webb.

My point is this in a nut shell – I don’t know if it was right or not. Allen has fault a good fight and has got smacked around in every forum. He desides to slap back and republicans are slapping him. Elections are dirty and they will continue to be. They have been for more than 200 years.
I am not defending Allen, I am upset that people have to think their smarter and speak there opinons on matters that they are not going to change with TWO WEEKS TOGO!
She could have lumped all the stuff together but she did not.

You don’t stop doing what you believe is right just because in one case or another it might prove inconvenient. You don’t suspend honor for the sake of political expedience. It is exactly that sort of decision-making that has watered down the Republican party.

Freelance the stakes are high and some times you have to take one for the team, step into the ball and take your base. Michelle swung, hit, center field, back, back, back, catch made at the wall. OUT!!

again Freelancer I am enjoying this debate, good spar my friend.
Lets toast to control of Congress at least, we will not change the others mind on this.

Later
ross

What she said was her opinion. Choosing to say it because she believed in it displayed integrity.

Choosing to say it even if it meant disagreeing with her base showed integrity to her opinion.

Choosing to say it even though she wants the right to win and it was the right she was expressing disapproval of, DEFINES integrity.

You don’t stop doing what you believe is right just because in one case or another it might prove inconvenient. You don’t suspend honor for the sake of political expedience. It is exactly that sort of decision-making that has watered down the Republican party.

it is not integrity, it was her opinion there is a big differance.

!!!!!! Theres a couple for you……

Look I don’t think Michelle is in the tank for anyone. Yes we have to stand up. No I am not scared.
I just have a differant opinion than you and the 20% & 30% that agree with you, AP and Michelle on this blog.

But WHY WHY WHY do we have to be so ready to bash our guys and gals, 1 week and 4 days before the election.

Do you serously think this is ok, like I said before from now to next tuesday, Kool-Aid for everyone choose you flavor and drink it up, and if your on TV MIchelle I just want you to imagine that big red picture and sing the Kool-Aid song for the next 9 days.

ross

“Can you seriously believe that the left would use Michelle’s words as talking points?”

Not if they want to keep dissing her other opinions.

Michelle is one of a tiny few who restored my political faith, by speaking truth. Robert Spencer is another.

Noted back-stabbing, Republican-bashing, NAMBLA-lovin’ santimonious apologist for the Democratic party and paid Fox News shill Michelle Malkin has, according to some, very likely singlehandedly ruined any chance Republicans might have had to maintain …

AP is AllahPundit, the guy who actually manages HotAir.

Beyond that, nice use of exclamation points. In the future when you apply less than twenty of them, it will be obvious that you lack conviction. /sarc

Can you seriously believe that the left would use Michelle’s words as talking points? Do you seriously expect that they wouldn’t already intend to lambaste the Allen campaign as childish and absurd? Are you really that afraid?

Look, which side has reasoned positions on the issues, instead of fear and negativism? Which side holds the values that founded this nation as the only ones upon which it can succeed? Which side believes in the individual, not the almighty State, as the real power that makes a nation work?

Why on earth would the side that can answer “Ours!” to those questions spend more time convincing the voters who to vote against, than who to vote for? Michelle wasn’t being self-righteous, she was being right.

I agree with you that Michelle has fault the good fight and continues to do so.
And yes 2+2 equals 4.
BUT!!!!!!!! WHY IS IT COURAGOUS TO GIVE THE OTHER PARTY TALKING POINTS AND NAMES THAT WILL AGREE WITH THEM DURING THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE ELECTION CYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can we for once keep our mouths shut and support and after Nov 7th have at it, or am I just “stageringly stupid”.

Come on guys, Michelle and AP (I am new don’t know who this is he did send me an email) lets get our Men and Women elected. Then have at it, don’t let yourself become DC talking points.

Ross

Michelle gripes that candidate A is trying to use candidate B’s fiction as a smear. She makes it clear that politically she is on candidate A’s side, but sure wishes he hadn’t made this tasteless attack. She states that it looks desperate, pathetic, immature. She states that we (conservatives) shouldn’t cheer winning by such a method.

And now Michelle is called a sell-out, is accused of…

= stabbing republicans in the back (a later retracted comment)

= having faux holier-than-thou outrage

= playing into the left’s tactics

= making democratic dhimmitude comments

= playing a schtick to ensure her media viability

= not caring if the dems win because she will have more to talk about and make money from

= hitting the “bus” (conservatism) full speed with her bulldozer

= using her prestige to weaken her own base

Now before anyone calls me a bootlicker, AP can pull up at least ten posts of mine in the past two weeks where I disagree with him and/or Michelle. But this is “staggeringly stupid”. Michelle has done none of the things she is accused of above. She answered questions and expressed her honest opinion on a political topic.

Yes, she scolded people on the right during Foleygate, but only those who tried to EXCUSE Foley on the basis of the left’s dirty timing. She kept the concepts separate. She most certainly DID bash the left for the timing and the bad faith politics involved, while equally condemning Foley for being a creep. She also, if you remember correctly, bashed the left for trying to maintain the traction of the story beyond Foley’s resignation.

What Michelle is, regardless of how it seems, is consistent. If the right does something foul, she cries foul. If the left does something foul, she cries foul.

Let me put it this way. We all applaud Kirsten Powers for not toeing (yes, it’s toe the line, not tow the line) a strict Democrat line, and for keeping their feet to the fire when they are obviously wrong. She criticizes her own party and you call her courageous. Michelle criticizes her own party and you call her a sell-out.

Bogus, people. Disagree with her in principle all you want, but don’t call her names or impugn her motives, I hope you know better than that.

Bumped to Saturday 
Far be it for a much smaller blogger like me to disagree with Michelle Malkin, but, in regards to her post on Politics and Pulp Fiction, I must disagree.
The post is about George Allen's campaign releasing information about…

You lost me EFG, could you clarify? “…they ain’t an option”?

revolution on October 28, 2006 at 1:02 AM

“They” are paragraphs. You need ‘em. They help break prose up into logical chunks. Usually they come at transistion points in your prose as you move from one idea to the next.

Like here. Now I’m moving to another point. Namely, even the bible has paragraphs. Yeah, they have a different name, ie, verses, but the idea is the same.

New idea, next paragraph. The bible is divinely inspired. By God. You get that? God uses paragraphs. God wants you to use paragraphs. So quit with the defying the will of God and make with the paragraphs!