Category: The 2008 Horse Race

In An Election Between a Squamous Socialist Abomination of Science and John McCain, I’ll Take Abomination »

You know, I’d accept a Democratic super majority in the Senate for the next two years if it meant getting John McCain out of there forever. I’m serious. If he quit right now and a patchwork monster made out of the putrescent remains of Karl Marx, John Milton Keynes, Jimmy Carter, and Woodrow Wilson took [...]

Dudes! I Just Like Totally Answered Eight Questions. »

Yet we know everything there is to know about Sarah Palin’s tanning bed.
Enjoy watching this video of Barack Obama taking slow pitch softball batting practice and getting miffed that they dont’ throw every pitch right down the center of the plate.

(via Fausta and Mary Katharine Ham)

Maybe She Can Get Maureen Dowd as Her Personal Valet »

Vicky Iseman became a household name when the New York Times printed a thinly-sourced front page piece that walked right up to the edge of accusing her of having an affair with John McCain.
Now she’s going for the jugular.

Washington lobbyist Vicki L. Iseman has filed a $27 million defamation lawsuit against The New York [...]

Conservative of the Year, Sarah Palin »

Sarah Palin: Conservative of the Year?
Yeah, sounds about right to me. Ann Coulter, who wrote the story, is as funny as she’s ever been and deserves a read somewhere where you can laugh out loud without disturbing anyone.
The interview with Palin is worth a read also. Stacy McCain pulled out one of the bits that [...]

A Housecleaning in Ohio: Jones-Kelley and Two Underlings are Out. »

Partial vindication for Joe Wurzelbacher:

COLUMBUS, Ohio—The director of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services has resigned, according to a statement released by Gov. Strickland’s office.
According to the statement, Director Helen Jones-Kelley said, in part, “…It is with sadness and clarity that I have decided to resign my position as director of the Ohio [...]

Another Sweet Takedown of John McCain »

I don’t think enough harsh polemics can be written about John McCain, his miserable campaign, nor the number of shivs he’s stuck in the back of Sarah Palin since Election Day. Pam Meister has written another one I recommend to you, not only because it is the sort of thing that would get a grumbled [...]

Time’s Person of the Year Is…Predictable. »

But of course he is.
The quote seen in the Politico is priceless.

President-elect Barack Obama has been named Time Magazine’s person of the year, “for having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off,”

You know, snake oil made lots [...]

Fire at Palin’s Church was Arson »

Friday night, Sarah Palin’s church in Wasilla caught fire with five people inside. The people were able to get out of the building without injury and firefighters put out the blaze, but not before a million dollars’ worth of damage had been done.
Now, the BATF says that the fire was intentionally-set.
There are no suspects tonight, [...]