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The bogus polls

Posted on September 26, 2008 | Comments Off on The bogus polls

Hard as it may be to do, these last few weeks of the presidential election are the time to ignore the polls. Many of them will be phony from here on out, as the polling companies weight their results on the Dem side to satisfy their clients, usually partisan-Dem Big Media.

If mystery-man Barry somehow proves more compelling than "reporting-for-duty" Kerry did in 2004, and the turnout on election day is wholly different (packed, for instance, with bright-eyed Dem youth), then the polls might be meaningful. Otherwise, there’ll be a repeat of 2004, when the polls showed right up until election day that Kerry was going to take it. Then he lost by three million votes. There’s already some indication that Barry could lose by a lot more.

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Dems use bailout for radical pork

Posted on September 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Dems use bailout for radical pork

I had a suspicion the Dems would want to prolong the economic agony as a way to help their presidential candidate. When the economy falters, as the saying goes, the voters turn to the party out of power. Hence liberal Big Media’s partisan assertion all year that we are in a recession, despite the lack of statistical evidence for it.

But it never occurred to me the Dems were so cynical as to try to use the bailout bill to benefit the very groups whose radical missions (in pursuing no-money-down minority housing loans) helped create the mess. No, not Freddie and Fannie, but La Raza, ACORN, and the Urban League.

The Seablogger calls it "a kind of creeping civil war, conducted through politics, in accordance with revolutionary theory," which Mac probably knew about and was determined to thwart when he pulled his return-to-the-Capitol-to-look-presidential stunt. Presidential politics has always been fierce, and 2008 seems especially so, though I suppose if we’d lived in the 1850s, in the runup to the real, shooting Civil War, we might think this was all pretty tame.

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Oxford town, Oxford town

Posted on September 24, 2008 | Comments Off on Oxford town, Oxford town

My Mississippi cousins tell me the national and world media have taken over little Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi and not much else, for Friday’s first Mac-Barry "debate." The locals can’t even get tickets. The media have taken them all.

So some of the locals are renting out their houses at a thousand dollars a day. (The global economy marches on.) I told them to expect the media slobs to trash the rentals. The more "important" the media, the more trash to expect. It’s an attitude thing. The media elite despise the proles–which is why they enjoy dumping on Sarah so much.

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That old devil OODA Loop

Posted on September 13, 2008 | Comments Off on That old devil OODA Loop

Political analyst Michael Barone says Mac is not only inside Barry’s OODA Loop, but inside Big Media’s loop as well. What fun. We get to watch both "unravel," as loop-creator John Boyd used to say– while their flung grenades boomerang and blow up in their own faces.

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Barry’s mockery insults again

Posted on September 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Barry’s mockery insults again

Barry’s given up on his pig and lipstick "joke." Now he’s put out an ad making fun of Mac’s disability. Is this guy really the one we’ve been waiting for?

He’s calling the old fighter pilot "computer illiterate" because he can’t send email. What The Human Gaffe Machine doesn’t seem to have intuited, despite his ability to lower the seas and heal the planet, is that Mac’s war wounds prevent him from typing on a keyboard, combing his hair, or even tying his shoes.

Via Drudge Report, but generating lots of other comments. 

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Mac takes majority of Independents

Posted on September 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Mac takes majority of Independents

Gallup may be off here, but if it’s not, this thing is over before we even get to the "debates."

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Mac’s speech

Posted on September 5, 2008 | Comments Off on Mac’s speech

It wasn’t as good as Palin’s, alas. Thank goodness she’s on the same ticket, which is more than enough for some previous Mac doubters. Because, after all, she wouldn’t be there without Mac’s vision and wisdom.

But I enjoyed watching and hearing him. The establishment media covers him so rarely–and never his wealthy wife, a genuinely interesting and admirable person. The POW stuff, which the big-whoop media meisters are bound to complain about, as they always do (it must make them nervous since few of them have served) was powerful and he has the right to use it. It was a good exemplar of the fundamental difference between him and his opponent, and of his brand of patriotism. It also demonstrates, as he suggested, why he is not at all the war-monger the Dems like to paint him. At the same time it shows why our enemies will have to be wary of his resolve, making him much less likely to have to widen the war we’re already in.

UPDATE:  It seems that Mac’s speech outdrew Baby Barry’s on teevee viewers. Good for him. And reading the speech, at the link above, I’ve changed my mind. It was better than Palin’s. He knows more. How could it not have been? A young independent more or less agrees.

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