So argues R. Emmett Tyrrell in the American Spectator. And yet, the commentators seem not to believe him — the reason being, I suspect, having much to do with the fact that the GOP establishment has been fighting the TEA Partiers in Congress, in the media, and, finally, during the GOP primary. Reducing them to caricatures. Dismissing them as naive, unhelpful, dangerous, and an embarrassment. Hairy-footed Hobbits who simply don’t

Bitch has never worked a day in her life, and she’s married to a weird rich Republican guy. What they hell would she know about what women care about? Authentic women, that is — you know, the kinds who can’t afford the luxury of being stay at home parents. Or, like, the luxury of being pampered cancer survivors. Or MS sufferers. Some women, even after being punished with a child

According to Senior Fellow at the Carleson Center for Public Policy, Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, and General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union Peter Ferrara, who served for both Reagan and Bush I, the reason is really pretty basic: Obama isn’t a terribly bright guy to begin with, and juxtaposed with Ryan on issues of the economy and tax policy, his light dims

Amazing how a braying mob, political intimidation, and the word “racism” being thrown around, makes the evidence for guilt so much more compelling and convincing. This isn’t the country we’ve been taught to believe it is. Hell, maybe it never was.

I suspect it was the lack of berets, Burberry military jackets, and unholstered billy clubs that did them in. Denying the vote to other humans is unfair. And probably racist. And if it takes inventing prosecutorial powers and locking up some uppity honky mutherfucker to crystalize the points, than that’s something we should be prepared to live with in this, the United States of Benetton. (h/t JHo)

I’ll say it:  were the industrial revolution to try to take place today, we’d all of us still be living in log homes and crapping in ditches. CNS The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory “environmental projects” on a school bus contractor for “excessive idling,” and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick up children

And here I thought the “moral anus of the universe” was Newark. (via TRS; thanks to strangernfiction)

Why do I get the feeling that, could we see Karl Rove’s private whiteboard today, it would look something like this: 1. Get Romney the nomination by wiping out the conservatives, painting the small government message as extreme and fringe, and by manufacturing a sense of inevitability in his candidacy* 2. ?? 3. Profit!       4.  Snack cakes!  x3!

Not bad. But I think they should have gone with yellow Stars of David. Why mess with a classic, amiright? Jude! (h/t sdferr)

Here. Meaning, they can’t be defended.  Meaning, the conclusions he draws from the studies, etc., he cites — that is, from the evidence he uses to build his case — can’t legitimately be drawn from the studies, etc., he cites.  Meaning, one cannot use probabilities as a predictor of probability, particulary if the probability predicted isn’t a priori approved as “defensible”.  Meaning, math itself is now “indefensible” if that math