by publius
Being a Mitt Man, I'm still too depressed to write about Florida. And though I don't really like quoting Steve Sailer, this seems spot on (via Corner):
So, are all the neocons who got jobs in the Giuliani campaign, like N. Podhoretz, Frum, Rubin, going to jump ship and join the McCain campaign? A lot of them supported McCain back in 2000. And will they be greeted with open arms by the McCain campaign, or will they be told they're losers -- as shown by the Giuliani steamroller -- and should stay away. My guess is the former, mostly because neocons are harder to kill than Rasputin. No matter how often everything they touch turns to ashes, they, personally, pop right back up with nice new sinecures in influential institutions.
Wingnut welfare strikes again!
Posted by: Anarch | January 30, 2008 at 02:21 PM
I think that's a much more likely nightmare than Jim Henley's.
Posted by: KCinDC | January 30, 2008 at 02:42 PM
Let's *hope* McCain embraces the crazies.
Posted by: Anderson | January 30, 2008 at 03:15 PM
You can't find anyone other than Steve Sailer that makes this point?
Posted by: crack | January 30, 2008 at 04:01 PM
Anderson, do you actually think his embracing the crazies would turn off a significant number of voters? How many voters even know who Podhoretz is?
Posted by: KCinDC | January 30, 2008 at 04:02 PM
If the eventual Democratic nominee plays it smart (and that's always a questionable assumption with a Democrat), they'll have Saint John's "hundred years in Iraq" quote playing in attack ads nonstop until November. That way, people will be informed that Saint John himself is one of the crazies.
Posted by: Johnny Pez | January 30, 2008 at 06:56 PM
... and they'll put this picture on every billboard from sea to shining sea.
Posted by: cleek | January 30, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Kevin Drum points out today that Bush has decided that Congress' law to prohibit funding of permanent bases in Iraq shall be ignored, via signing statement.
This, among three other laws that shall be ignored.
When did O.J. become President?
First question from the Democratic nominee to John McCain and his cadre of new McCainites:
Does anything go?
Second question:
How do you, John McCain, feel about taxation for war without representation?
We have a rogue Presidency and no one gives a crap.
Posted by: John Thullen | January 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM
OT - I would just like to note that in an internet cafe in Phnomh Penh there is an 8x10 color printout of the Kitty.
Carry on.
Posted by: Ugh | January 31, 2008 at 03:17 AM
How many voters even know who Podhoretz is?
I would think it would be the Democratic Party's job, via TV spots etc., to make damn sure the voters know exactly who he is.
But wait, that would be "campaigning." The Dems don't do that, do they? We just expect the electorate to read the correct blogs and make their political decisions accordingly.
Posted by: Anderson | January 31, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Being a Mitt Man,
Why? That is, what's good about Mitt that he should get one's support? (He's still a viable candidate and I might have to decide whether to vote for or against him in the general election, so it's not a rhetorical question.)
Posted by: Dianne | January 31, 2008 at 11:27 AM
That is, what's good about Mitt that he should get one's support?
"Easily defeated" is I think his charm for Democrats. Tho Matt Yglesias has argued he's the least obnoxious Republican - some level of competence, insufficiently ideological to get into serious trouble, a 3-digit IQ ....
Posted by: Anderson | January 31, 2008 at 11:36 AM
a mitt man ?!
Say it ain't so!
this has to be an "illegal fiction"
Posted by: michael todd | January 31, 2008 at 12:17 PM
"My guess is the former, mostly because neocons are harder to kill than Rasputin. "
But with much, much, much smaller penises.
Posted by: Jon H | January 31, 2008 at 10:51 PM