Believe it or not, there are still a few honorable Republicans out there. As of today, any chance North Carolina Senator Elisabeth Dole had of being on such a list just evaporated. Dole is in a fierce fight with a Democrat named Kay Hagan, and has just chosen to cross that uncrossable line into religious-hate mongering. I showed this ad to my wife who at first refused to believe that it could even be real (but it absolutely is) -
I don't care if you believe in God or not, this is just waaaaaaay over the line. If you don't think so, take a moment and substitute "Jewish Americans", or "Muslim Americans", or even "Catholic Americans" for "Godless Americans" and see how it sounds. I was so deeply offended I went over to the Kay Hagan campaign site and made a contribution, and then I wrote the Dole campaign to tell them about it.
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My dear Los Angeles friend Maria has changed her middle name to "Hussein" and taken the month off to go to Nevada to work as a full-time organiser for the Obama campaign. She's blogging about it daily on her blog What Happens in Vegas. She's a wonderful writer, and it's a great read.
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If you haven't yet spent ten minutes on the hysterically funny 'Palin as President' website, go there as soon as you can! All you have to do is run your cursor over the picture, and whenever it shows a link, click. He updates it with new material when new things hit the news, which makes it a place you can go over and over (not that, um, I waste any time there, nosirree..., not me.) Just don't click the red phone when it rings. Really, DON'T. (Also, don't click Bambi when he shows up in the doorway- you'll be very, very sorry if you do...).
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For political junkies who need one more fix, there's a great poll website called fivethirtyeight.com, which aggregates each day's polls and then comes out with broader projections. Nate Silver, the site owner, is a full-time baseball analyst-geek and uses the same computer projection techniques for the campaign that he uses to calculate a player's projected home run totals and batting average. The site is heaven for the real politico-geek, not that I visit more than, oh, nine or ten times a day. Well, ok, this past week maybe a dozen times a day, but who's counting?
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Six days to go. Geez- then what are we going to talk about?
9 comments:
Nice stuff, Colonel.
I too love fivethirtyeight.com and spend wayyy too much time there.
What I love is when I heard Elisabeth Dole spent hardly anytime in the state she is suppose the represent. Come to think of it where the hell is old Bob her husband anyway? A couple of Viagra commercials and I haven't seen him since.
Catalyst: I've become a 538.com junkie. what will we all do next Wednesday???
Beach: I think he's dead in that damned bathtub.
I've just heard "70% of Australians think that Obama would made a positive difference in the world" (I'm watching the news while reading blogs). I would say - so can we get the vote - except I'm feeling hopeful you guys will take care of it.
Cissy, with all due respect- what the Hell is wrong with the other 30%???
(tha's ok, 22% of Americans *still* think Dubya is the best thing since sliced bread).
That Dole ad just reeks of desperation. It's horrid. And how the hell had I missed Maria's blog before this? I knew she was in Vegas, but somehow missed that she'd been blogging. Thanks for the link.
Arggghhh...this election may kill me yet.
I have never seen so many stupid people acting like republicans in my life. If this is not the absolute end of the republican party, I think it is going to be the end of America. Good God almighty the tactics they are using.
Palin as President rocks, it has been on Kongreate for a month
I used to respect Elizabeth Dole, who spoke at my daughter's graduation from Villanova in 1991, 25 years after I graduated from there, but no more, no way.
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