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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Friday Night Music

Friday, September 14, 2012

Yet another song the Republicans have been told not to use, and yet another mystery as to why the party of conformity would want to use it. You have to assume that they don’t listen to lyrics. If the song title seems to fit, that’s all they need to know. I’m posting two versions of […]

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Tough guys

Friday, September 14, 2012

Ed Kilgore reports: In a poll done by Langer Research Associates for Esquire and Yahoo that was pre-released yesterday, when asked which presidential candidate “would win in a fistfight,” 58% chose Obama and only 22% picked Romney. Maybe all the conservative yammering about “Chicago politics” and the victimization of Mitt Romney has backfired. (via Political […]

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A tired meme

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Could it be that the Republican party is having trouble keeping young and up with the times? This is the party that for the last 40 years has beaten the Democrats so well at messaging that they manage to win their fair share of elections even though they (including the sainted Reagan) pretty much destroy […]

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Murphy Commercial

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Chris strikes back against Linda. It strikes me that the reaction to Romney’s negative campaigning may tarnish Linda as well. Yesterday someone showed me a mailing from Linda in which she used Susan Bysiewicz’s picture and passed on Susan’s inaccurate charge (Susan admitted she had mixed up her Murphys) that Chris was taking big time […]

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Romney Jumps the Shark

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Apparently Romney is being rightly condemned by almost everyone for trying to make political hay out of the killings in Libya, but I can’t agree with the argument made by Kos, (which may be tongue in cheek) that Romney had no choice but to attack. If you’re losing, you don’t intentionally go out and do […]

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News Flash: Romney Flips

Monday, September 10, 2012

It is, perhaps, a measure of the extent to which Romney perceived the Democratic convention as a success,that he felt the need to try to pander on health care. He was, wasn’t, was, and then wasn’t again for preserving the ability of people with pre-existing conditions to get health care, until he finally settled to […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, September 7, 2012

As much as I might be tempted to play “Don’t Stop Thinkin’ about Tomorrow” in honor of the Big Dog, who gave a heck of a speech, though I will refrain from remarking on the Simpson Bowles reference, I am going to stick to my announced plan to feature songs that Republicans have been told […]

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Rightward drift

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Eduardo Porter of the New York Times takes notes of the rightward drift in the location of our political center: Interestingly, Americans say their political ideology has changed little since the late 1970s. The share of voters who defined themselves as liberal was 20 percent in 2010, up slightly from 19 percent in 1980, according […]

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Mitt: Profile in Courage

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

CNN gets it right: “In 1968, France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American,” Borger says, “but Mitt Romney was right in the middle of it.” (via Mediaite) Not too many now remember the deep seated fear that we all had of going to France in ’68. I remember. The mass protests, […]

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All that’s necessary

Monday, September 3, 2012

Abe Lincoln was a smart guy, but I was reminded, while reading this in a Kos post, that he could sometimes get it wrong: Romney wants to test one of this nation’s most famous political maxims, as he attempts to fool all of the people all of the time. (via Daily Kos) Abe was right, […]

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