Archive for the 'voting' Category

New Hampshire

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

I can’t shake the feeling that Big Media has gone to a lot of trouble to give HRC the rope-a-dope comeback concoction to beat all just now. After kicking her in the nuts every day since Iowa, New Hampshire has been made into some sort of transcendent turn in the narrative that everybody can marvel at. You have people like Brokaw and Russert declaring her victory tonight one of the biggest upsets —if not the biggest upset— in American electoral history. Well, that’s fucking absurd. But it’s no surprise: they recognize that fluffing Obama may make for great political theater, but that he can’t get elected right now. Better to go with the Clinton Machine — which knows how to play at the liberals’ heartstrings, but without committing this country to the unvetted Leftism of the “Yes We Can” crowd.

The Republicans may have a problem with McCain locking horns with the Christian Right, but there are a lot of Obamists out there tonight who really hate the Clintons. I don’t know which split will be uglier in the end, but it should make for some entertaining days to come.

Democratic Emotionalism

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Wolf Blitzer is a ridiculous man with all this nonsense about Hillary breaking up today in front of a New Hampshire audience. Could it be more oversold? I broke up worse yesterday at my little brother’s 30th birthday party talking about my first memories of holding him.

But, yeah: Hillary’s worried. Not a blubbering mess, but worried. She believes in her own destiny and it may or may not unfold for her as she has long wished. It’s potentially humiliating, no doubt. You’d have to willingly suspend your disbelief to think otherwise.

What’s vastly more ridiculous is this interview Wolf’s doing with Bill Bradley. It’s another chance to run the tape of Hillary “breaking up,” but Bradley really wants to talk about Obama in messianic terms that make me queasy. Obama reflects the light of those around him? He’s a bridge-builder and blah, blah, blah?

The Democratic Party is nuttier than a fattened squirrel on Viagra. Is it really possible that they’re so scared of Hillary that they’d hand the car keys over to Barry Obama? Suicidal lust and all that.

Caucusing

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Hillary thinks she’s above showing a little leg, but she’s wrong. Get feminized, woman, or forget about the Oval Office.

It’ll be funny if the Democrats actually make an essentially unknown black man their nominee just because he’s opposed to a war that he and they don’t have sense enough to recognize as historically positive for Arab/Muslim democracy and for American business. Wouldn’t that be something like conceding the bankruptcy of their position on this war and going ahead with a choice that says, “Look at us! We stood by our convictions and made a minority our nominee just so we could look ourselves in the eye again.”?

The System won’t let Hillary lose this nomination. Bill won’t allow it.

The Presidency

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Because the Election of 2008 will be the next election to matter as none have ever mattered before, I will vote in the Republican primary. There is someone to vote for, not against, so no protest vote in the Democratic primary from me.

I don’t have a particular favorite, although I usually find myself rooting for Giuliani. I think he’d be a fine choice, but there’s a lot of negativity from some about his personal life. It may be a drag on him in the general.

I’d vote for Romney, if need be. McCain, certainly. In fact, I don’t know why McCain fell so far out of favor if it wasn’t the immigration thing. I trust him with my country, though. But candidates like Thompson, Paul, and Tancredo are not serious. And I’d never vote for Huckabee.

There are no Democrats I’d vote for in the general with the possible exception of Dodd. The rest of them are either communists, incompetents, or mentally ill. Can you imagine having to listen to Joe Biden for the next four or five years? Yecchhh!

The Eleven Percenters

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Do you know what a shit-eating grin is? I don’t know if that’s a Southernism or an Americanism or what, but some of us know a shit-eating grin when we see it.

I know I do. Like when I see today’s headlines at the various Big Media sites quoting yet another major poll to the effect that President Bush is at an all-time low approval rating of 24 percent. Then comes —usually— the less remarked-upon approval rating of the Democratically-controlled United States Congress: eleven percent.

Eleven percent? Is that what they call an outlier —or some harrowing glance into the Robespierrean abyss of the electorate’s disdain? I mean, the Elections of 2006 were all about the Democratic Mandate, right? So what the fuck? Lost so soon? Talk about King George’s sorry numbers all you want, but the Congress meets the approval of eleven percent of the people and it’s something to downplay. Well, that either shows the inadequacies of the science of polling or it bodes ill for The Hegemon.

But what such numbers definitely mean is that Big Media won’t tell you about them half as much as they’ll tell you about Bush’s supposedly Nixonian standing with the public.

Because it fits the narrative better that way, see.

Identity Politics

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

This story is in tomorrow’s New York Times:

WASHINGTON, April 10 — A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times.

Instead, the panel, the Election Assistance Commission, issued a report that said the pervasiveness of fraud was open to debate.

Isn’t that somehow perverse? To imply in the lead of a news story on the degree to which voter fraud exists that a government panel is distorting the truth by reporting to the public that a case can be made either way? It’s a worthless conclusion in any event, but why is this news?

The revised version echoes complaints made by Republican politicians, who have long suggested that voter fraud is widespread and justifies the voter identification laws that have been passed in at least two dozen states.

Democrats say the threat is overstated and have opposed voter identification laws, which they say disenfranchise the poor, members of minority groups and the elderly, who are less likely to have photo IDs and are more likely to be Democrats.

So, basically, what makes this a news story is that a panel of probably conservative —although that is still open to debate!— government commissioners disagreed with a panel of probably liberal experts and decided to issue a report that said something that the New York Times finds to be yet another example of Bushitler’s crushing of dissent.

Never mind that it is a widely-shared perception in all phases of the political spectrum —from normal patriotic citizen to degenerate studbrow— that voter fraud is a problem. When I hear about voting early and often on campus up in Madison and a precinct chair buying the votes of the homeless with six-packs or some rock, I figure there’s a problem with voter fraud —and I’m not wrong to want to see it end.

The only sure way to stop fraud is for people to identify themselves as themselves. This crap about how it’s wrong to expect someone who’s come to vote to prove that he or she has the right to vote is a stupid and immoral position to take. Voting matters. It should matter to those who believe this to take seriously the process of voting. If you do not imbue the process with standards and regulations, you absolutely devalue the worth of voting.

Every state, county, city, and hamlet in this country needs to take care of the process. You’re not going to merely sample the public like some anonymous count of heads, you fucking enemies of the individual, and issue an edict on where things stand among The People; you are going to insist on accountability through these perfectly reasonable measures of identifying voters. That’s what is right and that is what is happening, whatever the so-called experts and the New York Fucking Times say about it.

Liveblogging Die Götterdämmerung (Part Four)

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Bob Menendez wins in New Jersey, but the guy is dirty. He’ll be a great punching bag for people wanting to talk a lot about corruption in the Democratic Party of that state.

Liveblogging Die Götterdämmerung (Part Three)

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Holy crap! Santorum is getting absolutely shredded up in Pennsylvania.

That’s what you get for fetishizing the dead, moron.

Liveblogging Die Götterdämmerung (Part Two)

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

It’s only a small percentage of the precincts reporting, but damn! Chris Bell, Democratic nominee for the Governorship of Texas, is only seven points behind the incumbent Rick Perry?! Wow. I am surprised.

Liveblogging Die Götterdämmerung

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

What happens when the dog finally catches the car?

Nancy Pelosi becomes the Speaker of the House of Representatives.


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