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Just Quit Defending Her

ArchPundit October 31, 2008 No Comments

She’s stupid:

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks.  Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”

However she feels about the way her story has been told in the press, Palin told WMAL she is not discouraged.

and a nutter to boot.

Throwing Good Money After Bad

ArchPundit October 31, 2008 No Comments

In one particular way campaigns are like gambling. If you are using your own money, set your limit and don’t make rash decisions at the end.

Marty Ozinga:

GOP congressional candidate Marty Ozinga had loaned $320,000 of his own money to his 11th District campaign by the end of the third quarter. Campaign finance reports show that, in the month since, he has given an additional $250,000 to the effort, bringing his total personal contribution to $570,000 this election year. This amount flies in the face of Ozinga’s statement in September that he wouldn’t be “writing big checks for my own campaign. I just don’t believe in that.”

Throwing it in at the last month is almost always a bad idea.

Blagojevich Endorses Con Con

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There’s really no other explanation for this:

“Thank God that the constitution gives the executive branch a lot of power to get around the legislative branch,” Blagojevich said, adding that without his ability to issue executive orders or use his amendatory veto power there would be no free mass transit rides for seniors or free breast and cervical cancer exams for women.

“If the constitutional convention were to occur and there was an effort to erode the executive branch’s ability to do those things, then I think less good things would happen for people,” Blagojevich said.

Well, maybe severe mental illness.

The Friends You Keep

ArchPundit October 31, 2008 No Comments

Forte Scott gets some support from the Minutemen

Listen in here

The Bad Sampling Example

ArchPundit October 31, 2008 No Comments

One of the things about polls is sometimes you just end up with a bad sample.  It doesn’t make the pollster bad, it just makes that particular result bad.  For example the Politico poll showing a dead heat in Missouri with this finding:

Towery acknowledged that the poll showed a closer-than-expected race among black Missourians – Obama took a lower-than-usual 65 percent of the group – and said that if African-Americans ultimately vote for Obama by the huge margin analysts expect, “it will make the race closer.”

Sometimes you don’t like polls because they don’t give you the results you want. Sometimes you don’t like polls because they don’t conform to reality.  This is one of the latter examples.

Rahm for Chief of Staff?

ArchPundit October 30, 2008 No Comments

Two things:

1) If he wanted it and it was leaked by someone close, they just lost it for him.  I’m sure he’ll understand.

2)  The most even keeled campaign ever is going to transition into a Chief of Staff who you need an animal tranquilizer to calm down?

Feds indict insider in Blagojevich probe

ArchPundit October 30, 2008 No Comments

Best headline of the day

The Lege Dems can start impeach me now or explain why they waited so long later.  I’ll be there with the I told you sos.

Questions He Might Not Want the Answer To

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“You think I’m nuts? You think I’m not gonna invite people down? No way I’m gonna tell people they should not come down and celebrate,” Daley told reporters after serving as principal for a day at Orr Academy High School, 730 N. Pulaski.

“You cannot make it just an exclusive party for a few. Sen. Obama’s campaign has never been about a few. It’s been about many people,” said the mayor.

Just a Reminder from January of 2007

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They’re Too Soft

Rich takes on some of the claims that Obama’s team can’t handle what Clinton and others will throw at them.

Bullshit.

Giangreco was central to Rod’s reelection–you know, the one where he ran against George Ryan…uhhhh…Judy.

Let me add as I briefly mentioned below. Gibbs worked with the team that torpedoed Dean with the terrorism commercials in Iowa. That might not ingratiate him to others, but he’s good at fighting. He just had an embarrassment of riches in 2004 with Keyes.

Hildebrand ran a brutal campaign against Bradley in Iowa. Every damned event Gore people were there mucking it up.

Burton was working in a very effective press shop at DCCC this cycle. They turned out good work the entire campaign keeping the Republicans off of message.

I don’t know if this team will win, but it’s certainly a group who can handle a punch and hit back.

Fetuses Are Patriotic

ArchPundit October 30, 2008 No Comments

The flag really sells it.