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On political popularity

You know who was popular?  Corey Haim.  And now look at him:  dead as a suede boot and slowly learning what fresh hell he’s in. You know who else was popular?  Corey Feldman.  And now he appears bloodless, is reduced to hiring bored, scantily clad female party goers, and he wears a freaking cape. Madonna?  Yeah, that’s a role model.  Nothing like a ripped fifty-something pretending she has anything left

“Incoming RGA chair Chris Christie to SC Republicans: I want to help Lindsey Graham get reelected”

It’s an incestuous old boys club — and those who actually have the temerity, in the face of all evidence otherwise, to call themselves “conservatives,” simply do not realize that they are about to face a rebellion of epic proportions.   Or rather, they do, and they simply don’t much care. The GOP has stopped even pretending to support its base.  And now we have the “inevitable” Chris Christie doing as

Congrats, ladies! Some of you don’t vote with your female parts!

It’s both surreal and remarkably sad to watch Democrats break out their playbook for every election, and every election run on being “pro-woman” while painting the GOP as in a constant state of war against women.  This is, of course, absurd:  the question seems always to turn on accusations that are on their face bald-faced lies:   Cuccinelli, in this instance, wants to take away a women’s birth control access, as

Let’s face it: corporatist GOP insiders and their establishment puppets are who we thought they were

Not to reiterate my previous reiteration, but I will note that I was perhaps the first out of the box to predict the narrative forming around some of yesterday’s races:  a Cuccinelli loss and a big Christie win was to be framed as the need for moderate, bipartisan, compromising candidates willing to help rebuild the GOP brand (by, for instance, coming out for in-state tuition perks for criminals in the

#WarOnBoys [Darleen Click]

At least the parents did the right thing and pulled their 8 year old son out of this insane school Parents in Scottsdale, Arizona have removed their children from school after the headmaster threatened to expel their eight-year-old son for drawing pictures of potential Halloween costumes. The boy was a student at Scottsdale Country Day School when his parents were called to a meeting last week. The principal told the

There isn’t very much for me to say today, so I’m only going to reiterate

Today is the day when you’ll hear GOP establishment boosters rah-rahing it up for Cuccinelli, confident (at the highest levels, at least; many of the “pragmatic” followers of these manipulators within the consultant and leadership class believe themselves too savvy to believe any of my PURIST horse shit) they’ve done what they could — be it by omission (not matching the funding of the left groups, which outspent Cuccinelli 10-to-1;

“White House Takes on Elderly Cancer Patient”

And?  Take a pill, honey.  Time to die so that others might have some free shit.  Plus, it isn’t Obama’s fault that you’re going to have to take a dirt nap.  It’s that insurance companies simply refuse to make all the extra stuff they’re compelled to add to policies come in at price points cheaper than when they weren’t compelled to do so.  Or if you prefer, they are resisting

“Illinois University Proudly Displays Plaque Honoring ‘Democrat’ Abe Lincoln”

I’d say this is enormously embarrassing, but that’s to short shrift the amount of embarrassment that should be at play here.  But then, the progressive historicists and economic and social illiterates that populate many university Humanities and Social Sciences Departments haven’t the requisite shame to care — and beyond that, they’d merely shift into sophist mode and tell us that the Lincoln of the 1830s-his death is best understood as

“Democrats Blame Insurers for Obamacare woes”

See? The problem is never that socialism is an innately unworkable system steeped in an ideology that misreads human nature, eschews experience, and relies upon a totalitarian urged disguised as compassion. Instead, the problem is that it’s never been tried properly — largely because horrible, evil, greedy, capitalist pigs simply won’t allow the good people to do good things for the Greater Good of universal goodliness.  An explanation that is

“Biden frames Virginia governor’s election as race against the tea party”

Any doubt that some of the “conservative” media will try the same thing — and perhaps even write another post-mortem about it? We you to read Twitter today, you’d see many GOP boosters touting Christies potential 60% victory, which would outpace even Reagan’s victory margin in NJ and rank as the second-highest victory margin for a Republican in the state.  They’re also touting how well he’s performing among Hispanics. Amazing