California and the democratic party could do a lot worse.
And if nothing else it gives Stacy “The Maryland Fedora grabber” McCain a chance to put up yet another photo of Alyssa Milano.
Archive for March 2, 2010
My comment on Mickey Kaus Democrat for California Senate…
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in electionsTags: blogs, primary election
Coffee Party, Air America Redux
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: coffee parties, instalanche, media malpractice, MSM, reality, shameless blogwhoring, tea parties
I’m sure there are more than a few tea party types who are a tad annoyed at the NYT and Washington Post coverage of the “Coffee parties”
it took the two biggest papers in America less than a week after the new site started posting in earnest to catch lefty grassroots Coffee Party fee-vah. (Their Facebook page has been up since last month.) Fancy that.
The actual Times story is here, I would suggest that we Tea Party types should be laughing very hard.
First of all, we are supposed to be upset that the New York Times and the Washington Post treat liberals differently than conservatives? They have been doing it forever. I’m certainly not going to get my knickers in an uproar over that. I’ll mention that is it media bias but all I can do is smile.
Because I remember when they gave that same coverage to Air America rollout. Every network, every morning show, every talk show it was painted as the alternative etc etc etc.
The only result of this is going to be a greater marginalization of the left wing media. It is very easy to run into someone who has attended a tea party. They are your neighbors.
When you are drawing 15 people and it is a “better turnout than expected” you are basically a modern version of the people’s front of Judea.
When they paint it as something it is not people will know it, they are much more experienced in this matter. The only way these guys are going to draw folks are to pay them.
It took less than a decade for it to fall apart. It will be fun watch that happen again.
Update: Weird and wonderful developments are happening.
Update 2: Glenn notices the Air America reference in Bill Jacobson’s comments a mere 4 hours after I made it the subject of my post. Apparently like Miss Attila and Stacy I am instalance deficient Then again I’ve already had more instalances this year then I did all of last year. And that’s still two instalances more than a certain little green blogger has managed since Aug 09.
Harold Ford on Morning Joe…
Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in UncategorizedTags: abortion, harold ford, morning joe, primary election
This should be interesting.
“We would have won a primary”…”the notion that liberals would have rejected me is wrong.”
Joe: “Why did the establishment want to beat you up.”
Harold: “At the end of the day I’m a democrat and the last thing I want to see is the seat going republican…this seat could decide the senate…if you can’t hold Massachusetts…” blah blah blah.
He isn’t answering the questions. Joe puts it succinctly, the party is painting him as a right wing nut, but then again playing games with his “evolving” gay marriage position to tailor it to New York. Apparently it is no longer “Gay Marriage” it is “Marriage equality”. When you start changing the names of things that means you can’t win the argument otherwise.
Joe goes about how insane it is to care about the abortion issue. this speech could have been made about the Slavery Issue in 1850. Why should we obsess about Slavery when people are hurting about the Tariff?
The Nation’s representative now says it’s about Racism, of course. Morning Joe has become a full employment program for people from the Nation magazine. They might be nice people but they are so far left that they would never be out there otherwise. This is a bone to their base far left Niche market.
Abortion is again being painted as “reproductive rights”. Again sanitizing things.
The reason why Abortion is such an issue because it is a basic issue of right vs wrong and evil vs good. People may not like to hear it, but that’s the way it is.
The idea that we should “divide” ourselves we should put aside social issues, religious issues and make them not a part of ourselves. That is not the way humans are, and if a person does do that they become well false to themselves.
Joe: “If you are prolife and a democrat in NY you can’t win” and of course if you are a republican in Massachusetts you can’t win Ted Kennedy’s seat.
Isn’t this the same argument that we’ve heard over and over again here that has been proven wrong over and over again? When conservatism fights it tends to win or inspire.
Ford’s bottom line is any primary winner would be too bloodied to win. Personally I’m glad he pulled out. I thought the move to NY was even more cynical than Hillery Clinton’s. I think he let his position on Morning Joe go to his head and make him think he could win. I think he really need to look in the mirror and examine himself and decide what he wants to do personally and what he wants to achieve.
This entire conversation paints a false choice. There are plenty of leaders out there who are pro-life and against gay marriage who are leaders and good ones. To pretend that people don’t want leaders is ridiculous, but it is the MSM that constantly paints people who disagree with their liberal outlook as kooks, who can’t lead.
That abortion love-in this morning was disgusting, I don’t know how many people sitting there were Catholic but if any were and kept silent they ought to be ashamed and more importantly worried.
If Joe and company want to see what leadership is I suggest they broadcast from one of the April 15th tea parties and see what kind of leaders the average people bring up on their own. It was leadership enough to stop an administration with Supermajorities in both houses.
Update: The Lonely conservative is disappointed.
Every time I plan to finally get started on the Taxes something comes up, so today I am determined. Before the day is out My Son’s taxes will at least be finished and I will work on the initial hit on my own.
Of course this year I’m likely going to owe for the first time ever so that might have something to do with it.
Although I am a “tech guy” I absolutely refuse to do my taxes online or via a program. I much rather have paper and pencil. It’s a lot harder to copy and paste sheets of paper than a data file.
One other oddity I have at taxtime is letting them sit. Once I finish my taxes and double check them I always let them sit for a week. You’d be surprised how many thing pop into your head after the fact. Giving your brain that week of rest really makes a difference.
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