Normally, This Is Where They Plead With You To Vote...

...for someone, anyone. I don't want to insult your intelligence by saying that. You know from a quick scan down the page my opinion on the election.

Plain and simple, Barack Obama is exactly the wrong man.

From his tax plan that doesn't make any sense if you actually pay attention to it (because its not a tax increase if we just let the tax cuts expire!), to his left-wing judicial philosophy, to his seeming lack of concern about the threat of Islamic extremism, to his pie-in-the-sky plans to spend every dollar he can get his hands on, he's a nightmare candidate.

Let's not even touch on the cult-like devotion, the egocentrism, the Great Seal of Obamaland, et al.

John McCain isn't perfect. But I can guarantee you that spending won't go through the roof, that judges won't be making stuff up on the fly, and that the mullahs will be scared every time he gets on TV.

In a time full of uncertainty, it is not the time to be giving the Big Job to a guy whose main qualification for the office is that he speaks well.

I Must Be Experiencing What They Call A Disconnect

Let me see if I understand this correctly after reading this morning's Clarion-Ledger story on potential voting problems.

Jamie Franks Jr, the Golden Boy himself, spent twelve years in the state legislature. During that time, he was responsible, according to him, for everything that came down the pike. But during this time, he never once thought about working on the labyrinth that is our state elections system?

Per Chairman Jamie this morning:

"The cavalcade of confusing and conflicting statements from state officials would baffle every lawyer from Matlock to Perry Mason and could lead to a frustrating experience Tuesday for many Mississippi voters," said Jamie Franks, chairman of the state Democratic Party.

Twelve years in public office, ladies and gentlemen, and this year it became a problem.

Remember that post I made about the Democrat strategy for Mississippi this year? That quote is the first shot being fired. The ground is being prepared to lay every bit of the blame on Secretary of State Hosemann when the whole thing plays out Tuesday. Let's be 100% clear: the "state officials" are all going to be in the Secretary of State's office, not the AG's. The prediction of a "frustrating experience...for many Mississippi voters" probably won't apply in Madison, Rankin, or DeSoto counties.

I called it last week. This is the shot across the bow by the Golden Boy.

Just to Get You Ready...

McCain is going to lose Ohio. How can I tell this now, a month out? What poll has given me this insight?

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/01/oh-sos-rejecting-election-observers/

As Stalin is supposed to have said, It's not who votes that counts, its who counts the votes.

Obama Camp: You Are Racist If You Vote McCain

It's been all over the place this week.

There was the Kansas governor suggesting that. There was a poll out on MSN this morning which stated it. The Obama camp put out a Spanish-language ad saying McCain favored immigration restriction, which is laughable (sadly). Jack Cafferty of CNN says that the only explanation for opposition to the Messiah is racism. So did two Democratic reps in Ohio.

Yes, it can't be because Obama has no resume-forget experience, he's not ever done a great job at anything other than writing about his favorite subject, Barack Obama-or his connection with terrorists and various left-wing loonies, his underhanded Chicago background-getting his opponenets thrown off the ballot or having their private records unsealed-or because he speaks in vague self-help terms when he's not espousing outright socialism. It must be, has to be, racism.

I Noticed on MSN This Morning

That the headline read: Obama attacked over 'lipstick' remark, or some such triviality.

Because, of course, the whole issue here is that Obama is attacked, not that he might have called a woman a pig (How did Michelle ever resist this smooth-talking man and his many charming phrases?) and compared a senior citizen to an old fish.

Thanks, Matthews/Olbermann/Et al.

UPDATERY: Never throw your opponent a life preserver when he's drowning:

Barack Obama responded Wednesday to the John McCain campaign's call for an apology concerning his "lipstick on a pig" remarks, by calling the controversy "phony and foolish" and defending it as an "innocent remark" that was taken out of context.

Obama said his comment was meant to compare the policies of McCain to those of President Bush, and was in no way a reference to Republican vice presidential Sarah Palin.

Obama accused the McCain campaign of "lies and phony outrage” and "Swift-boat politics." He said the "made-up controversy" was "cat nip for the news media."

Someone should tell him that a good, "Huh. Whatever," would go over tons better. On second thought, don't. I love watching them flail.

What An Awesome Story

Pictures included. Touching stuff.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090908/content/01125113.guest.html

With a Big Doff O' The Cap...

I link to you Conservative Belle, who chimes in with zingers to Jamie Franks Jr.:

http://conservativebelle.blogspot.com/

Its amazing how in a week Obama and his surrogates have taken to comparing a VP candidate to their standard-bearer and Messiah. John McCain's qualifications are now unassailable.

Dare I say it: Mission Accomplished.

I Am In Awe of Sarah Palin.

You, ma'am, are made of awesome.

He Speaks Again

Did I mention that the Democrat party making Jamie Franks Jr. its state chairman was made of awesome?

On Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's experince in this mornings Clarion-Ledger:

"(McCain) wants voters to elect a former part-time mayor of a town of 6,715 people - a person with absolutely no foreign policy and national security experience - to be a heartbeat away from the presidency," he said. He said Sen. Joe Biden, Obama's running mate, has much more foreign policy experience.

Yet just one year ago, we were asked to elect a back-benching, do-nothing, self-aggrandizing, Osama-suing state legislator with no experience as an executive (or even experience in the state senate!) to the office of Lt. Governor. (Does anyone outside of Mooreville-Mr. Franks hometown-know that its not even an incorporated village? It's an unorganized community! You're bashing a woman for being from small-town America and you live there!) And now they're asking us to elect a part-time Senator and full-time Media Celebrity President.

Left unmentioned is the fact that Sarah Palin, as a mayor and governor of Alaska, has more executive experience than Barry or Plugs Biden. The foreign policy jab is hilarious-yeah, let's have that debate. Let's debate Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience when compared to, say, the top of the Democrat ticket. Unless throngs of screaming Germans is your litmus test of foreign policy experience, we can have that debate all day long.

In the famous words of Kevin Bacon...

A poll out today in the New York Sun puts Obama ahead of McCain.

By eight points. In New York.

Maybe the poll is an outlier. Maybe they got a bad sample. Maybe Obama's just had a bad couple of weeks.

Because the alternative...

Obama...Not Like The Rest

Senator Messiah's latest stump speech includes a line about how he doesn't "look like all the guys on the dollar bill." A subtle dealing of the race card? Of course. Remember in 2006 when Dems peed themselves over Bob Corker's ad making fun of Harold Ford's propensity to hang out with Playboy Bunnies? Apparently, we on the right are trying to bring Obama down by tying him to...Paris Hilton? (And if you haven't seen McCain's latest ad, get it on youtube. Good stuff).

Now, perhaps they're in a tizzy over the same thing: An implication of miscegenation between a white woman and a black man. But anybody who's trying to defend the chastity of Paris Hilton is sadly several years too late. If you don't believe me, you can go to the videotape.

Today, they're saying he's different because he doesn't come from inside Washington, that he's young and fresh, and that's what he meant. Flack Mike Glover says:

"Obama himself didn't make clear what distinctions he thinks McCain is likely to raise regarding the presidents on U.S. currency – white men who for the most part were much older than Obama when elected."

Well, let's take a look at the stats.

Washington was 56 when elected; Jefferson, on the near-extinct $2, was 57. Lincoln was 51. Obama will turn 47 next week. Andrew Jackson was 61. U. S. Grant was 46 when he assumed the presidency. I guess that kind of throws out the 'much older' part, huh?

Maybe he was referring to some of the bills completely out of circulation: McKinley on the $500 was 54 when elected, though, and Grover Cleveland on the $1000 was 48. James Madison was 58, he of the $5000 note. The other figures on bills-Hamilton (49 at his death), Franklin (84), and Salmon Chase (65, the $10000) were never president. Of course, the likelihood that he's ever seen one, much less held one of those is pretty low.

So we're left with him using the race card. Hey, Barry, it's in your deck. You might as well use it. After all, it's not like David Hampton is rushing to his computer to write a column or blog about your less than factual accusations. Which brings us to the funny (cause you know, we love the funny). McCain has said no such thing. It exists entirely in the mind of the Bus-Drivin' Messiah.

The Wheels on The Bus

The latest casualty of the Obama International Bus Tour is none other than rapper Ludacris, whom the Bus-Drivin' Messiah had met with and had discussions about 'empowering youth' in late 2006.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15972471/

A recent bit of poetry from the Sage of the Dirty South:

Said I handled his biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers

Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer

Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president

Hillary hated on you, so that b**** is irrelevant

The Bus-Drivin' Messiah's flack today retorted:

This song is not only outrageously offensive to Senator Clinton, Reverend Jackson, Senator McCain, and President Bush, it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values we hold dear. While Ludacris is a talented individual he should be ashamed of these lyrics.

Ah, that's the Barry we all know and love: A guy whose use for someone extends only as far as their usefulness to him. The wheels on the bus, once again, go round and round. I believe, Luda, you'll find Mrs. Dunham, Rev. Wright, Trinity Church, 2/3 of the Veep selection committee, several advisors...ah, you get it.

Marty Russell, Comedian

Today Marty Russell says that John McCain is old. Cue the laugh track.

McCain may not respond to your e-mails! Just like his grandma! He's ancient! Hahahahaha!

Because Obama always personally responds to e-mails...as long as Scarlett Johanssen or Jessica Alba or Jessica Biel is writing them.

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/06/scarlett_obamas_email_pen_pal.php

(Barry is over in the corner begging that nobody tell Michelle.)



You know what's funny? McCain is actually pretty good with a BlackBerry from what I've read. Don't tell Marty, though-that's just not funny enough for that regular Will Ferrell over on Green Street.

Don't Hold Your Breath

While the Obamessiah is having his photo taken around the world and ignoring the man who designed our counter-insurgency strategy, and buffing up his foreign policy credentials by giving a speech or two (not to mention giving a speech in front of a monument to Prussian militarism), some have speculated that this would be the week that Senator McCain would name his running mate. Hate to break it to you, folks: It ain't happening this week.

You don't vet a candidate in a week. George McGovern didn't vet Tom Eagleton, and look where that got him (okay, it was his utopianism and dovishness that lost him the election, not his veep choices). And with McCain's negatives-let's face it, he's never going to be most people's favorite Republican-he doesn't need a similar episode. And while I'm sure most of the guys in the running haven't got electro-shock therapy in their pasts like Eagleton, their does need to be a weighing of the strengths of each of them. First, let's eliminate some of them.

Bobby Jindal is too young (though let's face it-he's more accomplished than the Democratic nominee, and he's what, nine years younger?) and frankly he's the next star of the party, but he's been in office a short time and Louisiana needs its reformist governor in the worst way. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a new mother of a son with special needs (and she's a better basketball player than Barry Messiah, too). They do bring youth to the equation but frankly, they'd be a nice tandem in a future election. The same with Eric Cantor, the Virginia rep.

Who are some bad candidates? Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Joe Lieberman, and maybe Charlie Crist. Each of them is too in lock-step with McCain, and frankly the idea should be to maximize the base turnout, not turn them off. Which makes me wonder if they won't be the pick. Ugh. An open-borders guy, a guy to the left of Jamie Franks on economics, a hawkish liberal, and a squish. Color me unimpressed.

From the crank files, Condi Rice, Tom Ridge and Colin Powell. Yeah, they all bring something to the table-a big negative from the Bush years. While Ridge has the least negatives and might be good for bringing PA into play, he's to the left on abortion. Rule one for Johnny Mac: Don't antagonize the base. Since all three are to the left of Mac on the issue, rule 'em out.

The serious candidates should be Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, former Rep. John Kasich of Ohio, and, yeah Mitt Romney. The big issue is the economy, and that's where Kasich and Romney separate themselves for me. Both of them understand it and give it more concern than Mac. Kasich was a budget guy in Congress and Romney has the reputation of fixing things. Yeah, Romney's a new convert on abortion, but since when did we stop accepting converts? If we didn't accept people converting to conservative positions, Ronald Reagan would have been a man without a party.

They both could speak more effectively and definitively on economic realities than Obama, whose main subject interest, Charles Krouthammer noted in is recent column, is Barack Obama. And unless he chooses Robert Rubin as his Veep candidate (not gonna happen-while liberal, Rubin's too much a free trader for Obama), his running mate would be at a distinct disadvantage, much like lightweight John Edwards was to Cheney.

Don't discount geography, either-Kasich is from Ohio, and Romney's father was governor of Michigan. I think they're both strong candidates who bring a lot of positives to the table on an issue McCain admittedly isn't an expert on. Jim Geraghty has thrown Carly Fiorina's name in for the same reason. Whoever he picks, Johnny Mac doesn't have to do it this week. This week is for Obama's attempt to make himself credible on an issue that McCain has sewn up. Let him make his gaffes-Geraghty has a good list going so far.

But it better be good.

Curses

Barry Messiah had a good month fundraising. So did the DNC. This brings them roughly to parity with our guys.

We can probably take comfort in the fact that they will burn through their money a lot faster than McCain and the RNC will. The Obama burn rate since he started getting thumped by Clingy Bitter People has been about 115%.

I have to wonder if the "begging" video and the holdback on their numbers wasn't a cute trick to pump the July numbers. I guess that's the way you have to operate when you're trying to run as the outsider underdog when you're the uberdog.

Aint Too Proud to Beg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mNKEslXZ4w

Feeling the pinch, Dave? Did the June numbers not come in to your liking?

I Was Wrong, Senator Cochran

Clearly, you were preparing the way for us to grasp the fear that Latin American thugs have for John Sydney McCain III. How else can you explain the FARC operation just hours after he touched down in Columbia? The mere presence of John Sydney McCain III (isn't it nice to be able to use a candidate's middle name without people accusing you of being racist or xenophobic?) in their country gave the Columbians enough gumption to pull off their rescue operation. The guerilla drug lords know better than to mess with John Sydney McCain III.

Top that, Barry.

The 11th Commandment

Ronald Reagan (May Peace Be Upon Him) once said that the 11th commandment was, "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." It served him well-one of his harshest critics in the 1980 primaries was George H. W. Bush, who later became his Vice-President and close ally.

So it boggled the mind when Senator Cochran told the Sun Herald that Senator McCain had grabbed a Nicaraguan thug-I mean, associate of dictator Daniel Ortega-and tossed him around during a diplomatic mission in 1987.

(My first thought was, since I'm very familiar with Senator McCain's disability, does this pass the smell test? After all, Senator McCain can only raise his arms so far due to his torture in Viet Nam-it's why he 'reaches out' to the crowd instead of waving to them traditionally.)

Really, is this the kind of thing that we need during the general election? I don't know what the purpose was-I know Senator Cochran opposed Senator McCain in the primaries. Maybe the purpose was to show that he'll stand up to a band of murderers, and has fight in him. I suppose this is a minor blip, at best-it's pretty well known McCain has a temper. I just don't understand the logic of it, is all.

Susan Sarandon will leave the US

If McCain is elected.

Another reason to pull the lever for McCain. I wonder if she'll visit Alec "Bobby DeLaughter" Baldwin wherever he is.

Edited to add: Sarandon says Canada or Italy. The Italian people recently rejected the Candidate of Change for a conservative (and there are no Communists in their parlaiment for the first time in the history of the Italian Republic). Canada is governed by Stephen Harper, Conservative.

Oh Barry, You Do Irony So Well

I know that he just didn't slam McCain for 'building a reputation by occasionally disagreeing with his party' (typing from memory) when the Secular Messiah votes with the majority of his party more often than Harry Freaking Reid.

We have met the enemy, and he doesn't live in reality.