Well, I have ben playing golf and have missed some stories over the last couple days. So here is a list of some of what is going on. Bin Laden peeks his head out of the cave (The Jawa Report)…

Sanford and Pawlenty may not want to accept a veep offer if it means that Rush Limbaugh will hate them for the next 20 years because of it.

funky chicken on May 15, 2008 at 11:19 PM

Pawlenty may very well have taken himself out of the running with a stupid joke that contained the subjects of his wife and sex.
Not Presidential.

Mark Sanford would not be caught dead on a McCain ticket. Sanford is known for fighting against Republicans just like McCain BUT Sandford fights them because they are too liberal and spend too much.

It was mine too. Back in the 2000 primaries. Now I’m considerably Right of him.

baldilocks on May 16, 2008 at 12:17 AM

I was a McCain booster in 2000 too. Before that it was Perot – both times. (I was young and stupid…I’m much older now.)

I thought George W. Bush was an absolute idiot. I hated Gore, but thought so little of W that I actually wrote in McCain’s name on votin’ day. Just couldn’t bring myself to vote for a moron for President.

Then came 9-11, a serious rethink of my political convictions and the blossoming of what I can only call a real life, honest to goodness sense of patriotism. All for one and one for all, “till death do us part” kind of patriotism. Then a re-evaluation of Bush, particularly in the six month run up to Iraq (The Whitehall speech, the AEI speech, the 2002 SOTU, etc.) and then his tenacity in the face of mounting problems. Honestly, the longer and the closer I watched the guy the more I came to admire and respect him.

Now I’m 180 from where I was when he first ran and I’m 180 on McCain too. If it weren’t for his recognizing the seriousness of Iraq and the importance of victory there I wouldn’t bring myself to vote for him. Cutting taxes and spending will be a nice plus, but I’m gonna throw up a little bit after I pull the lever in November. He won’t even be a good President, let alone a great one, but at least he won’t be the Marxist Messiah from the South Sida’ Chi-Town. He’ll have to do for now and I doubt he’ll run for a second term. After one he’ll be ready to quit.

She simply does not trust Obama, and thinks he is hiding everything under the Marshmallow Fluff. It is not that she objects to his stated positions. She is all for them, in fact. She just does not have any confidence that he supports them.

In any case, it is a telling thing that John McCain is an acceptable alternative for My Favorite Liberal.

Sucks that her first trip into conservatism is going to be for McCain, though.

BadgerHawk on May 15, 2008 at 10:14 PM

It was mine too. Back in the 2000 primaries. Now I’m considerably Right of him.

EJDolbow on May 15, 2008 at 11:06 PM

I don’t think that’s going to happen, but it is pretty funny to imagine that Newt, the grinch of 1994 suddenly morphing into Prince Charming.

Sanford and Pawlenty may not want to accept a veep offer if it means that Rush Limbaugh will hate them for the next 20 years because of it.

funky chicken on May 15, 2008 at 11:19 PM

That’s not going to happen. Rush would probably prefer that Obama win and take the blame for the impending catastrophe, but he wouldn’t hold it against a conservative veep for running with Mac.

I just had a thought though. Barack will not put Hillary on the ticket but I bet McCain “Reach Across the Aisle” McCain is sure as hell thinking about it.

EJDolbow on May 15, 2008 at 11:06 PM

Only if all the MDS “true conservative” media folks have intimidated all the GOP folks to whom he offers the job. Sanford and Pawlenty may not want to accept a veep offer if it means that Rush Limbaugh will hate them for the next 20 years because of it.

It’s so funny. I’ll bet if they were asked what positions Obama has that turn them off to him they wouldn’t be able to come up with any. personality politics at it’s worst.

Typhonsentra on May 15, 2008 at 11:00 PM

Oh, don’t be so quick to condemn them. The long comment from pajamasmedia that I posted up above is a good example of what will likely sink Obama among mothers and grandmothers. How many times did your mom and grandma talk to you about choosing your associations wisely?

Comfort level with lunatics is a legitimate issue for women.

You know who else has been kind to Hillary? Newt Gingrich!

Buy Danish on May 15, 2008 at 11:03 PM

Indeed.

I just had a thought though. Barack will not put Hillary on the ticket but I bet McCain “Reach Across the Aisle” McCain is sure as hell thinking about it.

I suspect a large number of them will “punish” them by not voting for “their Guy” or by voting for McCain who has been far kinder to Hillary than the Democrats.

EJDolbow on May 15, 2008 at 10:58 PM

You know who else has been kind to Hillary? Newt Gingrich!

The complete disrespect she has gotten from Obama, The DNC and the Media has probably made many of them mad as wet hens.

I suspect a large number of them will “punish” them by not voting for “their Guy” or by voting for McCain who has been far kinder to Hillary than the Democrats.

Entelechy on May 15, 2008 at 10:25 PM

Great stuff. I started to read that earlier but gagged at Roger Stone’s stupid acronym and didn’t make it any further. Anyway, I just love watching this civil war between gender and race, and I do hope Democrat women all over America believe this:

But for all Clinton’s political blemishes, the darker stain that has been exposed is the hatred of women that is accepted as a part of our culture.

Personally, I think it’s a slightly hyperbolic ending to an otherwise poignant piece, but if that’s how they feel, I, for one, am not going to take that furiously boiling pot off the stove.

WHINNERS!

Thousands and thousands of women,sounds like Liberal fuzzy
math,ummm,57 states,ya that must mean there’s actually 13
disgruntled women voters! Hehe

cfbleachers:
The issue that concerns me is the comfort that Sen. Obama has with some very extremist worldviews.

He has a comfort with Frank Marshall Davis’ worldview, to the extent that he held the man in high esteem. In isolation, that’s not determinative, but in combination with other factors begins to paint a picture.

He has a comfort with Jeremiah Wright’s worldview, to the extent that he held the man in high esteem. This is quite disturbing. The embrace that Sen. Obama wrapped around Jeremiah Wright was not fleeting or casual. I would not embrace David Duke, and would view anyone who did with a jaundiced eye. I find Jeremiah Wright’s worldview as disgraceful and repulsive as David Duke’s.

He appears to have had a comfort with Rashid Khalidi, Ali Abunimah, Edward Said worldview, to the extent that he held these men in high esteem. That is quite disturbing. I am a staunch defender of Israel as an ally and believe she is constantly picked on by a combination of leftists, Islamo-fascists, and Farrakhan/Wright types who slander her repeatedly.

He seems quite comfortable with the Nation of Islam, to the extent that he utilizes members of that group in his highest staff postions. This is not suspect in the South Side of Chicago, but it does give any rational person pause…when the similarities between Wright and Farrakhan are examined more closely.

He seems quite comfortable with the extreme radical worldview of Ayers and Dorhn and their ilk. I’m sorry, but there is a point where traditional liberalism ends and anarchy begins. I consider Ayers and Dorhn treasonous, seditious, and they are no more my countrymen than Osama Bin Laden. Their worldview is one intending to bring down this government and I have absolutely no use for their extremist goals.

Let’s not be coy or disingenuous. Sen. Obama has been extremely cozy and comfortable surrounded by some of the most virulent anti-America and anti-Israel voices that exist.

He has embraced the holders of worldviews which are antithetical to what is normally considered within the bounds of patriotic discourse and within the range of reason and rational thought.

When you combine that with the small things that send up a signal flare (discomfort with a flag lapel pin, accusing middle America of “clinging” to religion, Michelle’s description of America as angry, mean, slothful, the request to abandon corporate America et al)…the picture that is painted is one of someone who is closer to Michael Moore than to John F. Kennedy.

Moore lacks charm and charisma and is basically a slob who is willing to put his lies on screen. Sen. Obama is a gifted orator who hides his embrace of extremism behind the shroud of pedantic smugness. He is “above” all these “distractions”.

Well, I’m sorry…but, if he is not willing to confront his own leanings and embraces…then he simply is someone who wishes to run on personality, not principle. And that is fine in high school, but not for the the most powerful position in the world.

May 15, 2008 – 1:30 pm

tour de force comment from pajamasmedia.com

Entelechy on May 15, 2008 at 10:25 PM

Yes, glad that article was posted, well done.

Women vote?
Bah humbug!
?s

TheSitRep on May 15, 2008 at 9:40 PM

:)

This was a great article last night on the HA headlines. Ms Coco gave the dems and its leadership a great/deserved lashing

I will not miss the deafening, depressing silence of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean or other leading Democrats, who to my knowledge (with the exception of Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) haven’t publicly uttered a word of outrage at the unrelenting, sex-based hate that has been hurled at a former first lady and two-term senator from New York. Among those holding their tongues are hundreds of Democrats for whom Clinton has campaigned and raised millions of dollars. Don Imus endured more public ire from the political class when he insulted the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

Baby steps.

Sucks that her first trip into conservatism is going to be for McCain, though.

Note to self: Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. The Democrats hate you, ladies; there can be but one solution.

HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAhahahaha…heh..