Hold the Mayo...And the BS

It is an article of faith amongst the Democrat party that the Republican party only wins elections when it scares people. Recent blogging by Rep. John Mayo merely confirms this. In his Clarion-Ledger blog recently he posted that the Republican party only wins by fear: Fear of gays (someone tell him about his state party chairman's stance on Liberace and Elton John), fear of terrorism (yeah, because we all just collectively dreamt what happened in Mumbai recently), fear of abortionists (because the only people who should fear them haven't been born yet!)...eh, you get it.

Never mind a couple of things:

1) Democrats have maintained consitutencies through fear for ages. To the old, they tell them that their Social Security will be confiscated by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. To the minority, they talk about losing voting rights and priviledges. To women, they prey on the fear of men doing icky things to their women parts. To the young, they tell them to fear they'll be forced to war.

2) Most of these 'fears' aren't founded in boogeyman superstition and bumps in the night. The fears are rooted in a group of people who seek to change the very structure and foundation of our culture and society. People aren't concerned about an abstract thing called terrorism (mostly because for the last 7 1/2 years some of us have actually been concerned about it, unlike, apparently, Rep. Mayo). We watched as an entire city was held hostage by willful, brutish men not two weeks ago. I'm not afraid of an idea, sir, I am afraid of people acting out that idea. The same for the cultural, moral, and ethical questions about abortion.

I'm sure Rep. Mayo would enjoy telling his constituents (who, after all, are the same clingy bitter people his presidential candidate pontificated on several months ago) how they're so stupid as to keep falling for professional liars and cheats. I mean, what kind of idiot would those people elect?

Oh, wait.

I Seem to Remember

Last year, Jere Nash chided Andy Taggart for bringing up the "Russian Boogeyman" in a blog post, because the only way Republicans win is by scaring people.

My question for Jere today is: Are the Russians scaring you yet? Because the people in Georgia are absolutely terrified.

Since Andy Taggart Started It

Here's another thing GWB is responsible for, Andy: John Edwards' love child.*

Mr. Rove wants us to pass this along: Shampoo When Wet Cleans Hair. This is all.

* Alleged. He is a lawyer after all.

Oh, Man, This Is Too Much

http://yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/9839/#37969

Kudos to you, ma'am.

A Good read from This Site

http://www.theconservativeview.net/

Good work by our fellow conservative blogger...read the post on "George W.'s War"

Nash and Savage (A Contrarianism)

Jere Nash, pundit and Democrat operative, thinks that Michael Savage did damage to the conservative cause every time he opened his mouth.

Personally, I thought he did more damage when he gave money to Jerry Brown. You remember Jerry Brown-he of the far-left views and former California governor, later mayor of Oakland and commune resident, and current California attorney general. Savage gave Brown money for his campaign for AG last year. Folks, if you think Samson is bad, imagine a guy who is not afraid to tell people he has Socialist leanings having the power of the state behind him.

Savage is a poser, who had no real thought-out conservative position. Frankly, to me he came off as a guy imitating what he thought a conservative here in flyover country would sound like. He did a good job of it, but what position does he ever flesh out? Nothing. Just screaming into the microphone. And he makes money off of it. It's very American, but that doesn't make it any less put-on to me.

I Didn't Know

That Senator Messiah was on the Banking Committee in the Senate. Did you?

It's probably because he's not.

John Hinderaker at Powerline:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/07/021066.php

Perhaps this can be categorized as "inartful."

Clingy and Bitter, You Mean

With a big tip of the hat to the indespensible Alan Lange, from the Wonkette site:

They’re old fashioned in Mississippi, that’s what! They believe in the old fashioned way of life, such as women are for making babies and the Negro is for slave labor on your plantation or maybe for lynching.

All class man, all class. They wonder why we remain 'bitter' toward their coastal liberal politics.

Peggy has a whole column to write, so she needs to explain exactly how badly the Republican Party will be stomped by the Democrats in November, even in slave states like Mississippi, where only Trent Lott’s family can legally vote.

Where oh where are the so-called Independent Southern Democrats coming to our aid? Snidely? Monty? Why aren't you jumping on this like Congressman Pickering jumped on "who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?" Where is David Hampton's outrage? Huh?

I'm both terrified and eager to see what they'll be saying when the Obamessiah drops the entire south in November.
http://wonkette.com/400862/mississippi-wingnut-congressman-retiring-

Cue Nash, Defending Whiplash

Far be it from anyone to ask Congressman Whiplash to, I don't know, put his money where his mouth is on energy. You can't blame Iraq forever, and you can't run on a phantom record when you're the incumbent. Eventually, people are going to look for more results than faxed statements from Baghdad and you pointing out that you're not living in the Memphis suburbs.

It's such a shame that President Bush wasn't calling for more drilling eight years ago when running for president the first time. Oh, nuts, he was, wasn't he? And it's too bad that drilling in ANWR has been verboten to the Democratic party ever since they allied themselves with the enviro-wacky left in the late '60s. Face it, Jere, to you, the price of gas is a political issue. It's something you can use to hammer the incumbent party, and you know that your coalition doesn't give a damn, because the Obamessiah only thinks it's a problem that gas went up too fast and The Al Gore thinks that higher gas prices are just great (just read his book!) because it'll save the world. To me, it's a real problem-I don't have people lining up bundling millions of dollars for my travel expenses.

I laugh at Nash sometimes. It's like he fell asleep in 1999 and woke up in 2007. I laugh at his and Hampton's complete ignorance of the principles of supply (which we don't have enough of) and demand (of which there is a great increase due to the developing world). And I laugh at all the 'well, it'll be five years' talk when drilling comes up-because if we'd done it eight years ago, we might not be in this situation!

Edited to add: All of a sudden, "War for Oil" doesn't sound so bad, doesn't it?

Over at Salter's Blog

He has a gripe with GWB about the traffic flow in Rankin County during the Presidential visit. Fair enough. He's wondering whether or not this could tip the election to Musgrove.

I wonder what Sid had to say a couple of years ago during the Saints/Colts preseason game at VMS, where traffic in downtown Jackson was an absolute disaster. How many people swore they'd never go to a Saints game again? Was Sid one of them?

Absurd, Sid. You can do better than that.

So Awesome I Wish I'd Done It

http://exurbanleague.com/2008/06/30/obama-unveils-new-campaign-bus.aspx

Hat Tip to Mark Hemmingway.

In Case the Thought Police Are Reading

This isn't a Spam Blog.

http://bloggasm.com/whos-responsible-for-shutting-down-a-number-of-anti-obama-blogspot-accounts

No, the Obama supporters are not a cult. Nosiree, nothing to see here.

I'm so anxiously awaiting the tearful, sad, piss-and-vinegar blog post from David Hampton about why this is evil and wrong, much like he did the 'racist' and 'xenophobic' things he found in his inbox. Naturally, I will not hold my breath. I'd hate to be unconscious when the thought police get here.