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Lipstick Idiocy

Posted by PoliProp on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:40:47 PM
Lipstick on a pig is a common retort and usually a funny one.  That being said to use it after Governor Palin's speech was not smart.  No, it's probably not sexist.  Both Senators Obama and Biden used it on the same day.  Can they really claim that it wasn't intended as an insult towards Governor Palin?  Their unwillingness to man up and say it makes them deserve what they got.  What was the cost to them you might ask?  I'll be happy to tell you.  The cost was two wasted days of the sixty or so that they have left.  Brilliant. 
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Huffington Claim on McCain. Who cares?

Posted by PoliProp on Friday, May 09, 2008 3:34:21 PM
The phony endorsement of your former rival after he beats you has never been a part of the political process that I've enjoyed.  In 2000 Senator McCain and Governor Bush waged a very spirited campaign where both camps played in the mud.  Why would Senator McCain have wanted Governor Bush to win?  Not only would it be personally satisfying to watch him lose, Senator McCain would have been able to run again in four years instead of eight.
 
Even without being in the primary a politician cares only about their own shot.  Does anyone think that Senator Clinton actually wanted Senator Kerry to win the presidency in 2004?  Nor will she want Senator Obama to win this year (unless she could force her way onto the ticket, a remote possibility).  And yet she'll campaign for him anyway. 
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James McDermott - the Democrats George Galloway?

Posted by PoliProp on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:46:23 PM
Do the Democrats have their own George Galloway on their hands?  I'm going to ignore David Bonior (MI) and Mike Thompson (CA). 
 
James McDermott (WA), who is mostly known for still owing Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) several hundred thousand dollars for leaking an illegally recorded conversation to the New York Times while a member of the House Ethics Committee, was one of three Democratic Congressman who allegedly went to Iraq on Saddam's dime.  It makes me wonder what else he might have leaked to the Times, but I digress.  I seem to remember Galloway getting some all expense paid trips to Iraq as well.
 
If McDermott starts calling everyone in sight a lickspittle this may catch on.  
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McCain and the MSM

Posted by PoliProp on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:05:23 PM
I would like to see John McCain take the opportunity offered to him by the MSM to call them out on their dishonest reporting. 

He could say "Well my friends, the networks and the NY Times and the wire services are insisting on calling my recent statements on Iran a gaffe.  They do so because it doesn't fit their carefully constructed, but very false premise.  You see they insist on saying over and over again that Shiite Iran will not cooperate with Sunni Al Qaeda despite much evidence to the contrary.  They say that Iran views Sunni terrorists, including Al Qaeda in Iraq, as their enemy and won't help them.  I say, and the evidence supports me, that they hate us more.  If MSM reporters spent half as much time reading and understanding reports instead of publishing misleading and false headlines our country would be in a better, more informed place.  Barack Obama mocks my understanding of facts on the ground.  A debate with the Nancy Pelosi-Barack Obama Democrats over who ignores facts on the ground is a debate that I welcome."   
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Local Flavor From New York

Posted by PoliProp on Monday, March 10, 2008 5:18:43 PM
Some of the national reporting I'm seeing feels off.  I've seen hints that Charles Schumer would be interested.  My take on that is that Schumer floated his name a few years back when the Democrats were in the minority in the U.S. Senate.  He said that he'd sooner do that than remain in the minority in the Senate.  This killed a few birds with one stone.  He didn't get along with then New York State AG (and then heavy favorite to become Governor) Spitzer.  He also used this threat (along with his his very good work running the DSCC) to get into the Senate leadership.  He has a safe seat for the duration.  He's not giving that up.

Spitzer's poll numbers dropped heavily during the Joe Bruno-Troopergate scandal.  Current AG Andrew Cuomo's people floated the word that he might challenge Spitzer in the 2010 primary.  While Hillary looked like a fair bet to become President and Spitzer set to pick her replacement in the Senate it was rumored that he would pick Andrew Cuomo for that spot and eliminate his only likely serious primary challenger.  Now Lt. Governor David Paterson could get two years to grow in the job and Cuomo may or may not challenge him.  Adding to this the possibility of Mayor Bloomberg or even Rudy Giuliani wanting the job New York's political scene will be full of heavyweights for the forseeable future. 
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Hillary and a new narrative?

Posted by PoliProp on Saturday, March 08, 2008 1:38:44 PM
Will somebody please explain why the Hillary campaign isn't screaming from the rooftops that they've won New York, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, and Michigan?  States that the Democrats need in November to win.  And that she won Ohio, Texas, and Florida.  States that a Democrat could put the race away with.  She can claim that if Obama can't beat her in those states he's much less likely than her to beat McCain there in those winner take all races on Election Day.  I know that the logic is nowhere near a straight line but it doesn't have to be to change the narrative.  It's not like something has to make sense for the AP or Reuters to stick a headline on it and go.  
 
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Chavez. Again.

Posted by PoliProp on Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:38:36 PM
Let me get this right.  Colombia kills a FARC leader.  We're told in Ecuador.  Hugo Chavez then sends troops to the Venezuela-Colombia border.  At some point he realizes that Colombia actually has a tested military that would seriously damage his less than stellar one.  Ambassadors get recalled.  He gets Rafael Correa, Ecuador's President (more on him later) to play along.  He sends 3,200 troops to Colombia's SW border.  The OAS is their usual helpful self and mainly wants to talk about how Ecuador's sovereignty has been violated.  President Bush backs Colombia at a press conference.  Chavez starts his usual talk of the how the U.S. and their lackeys will be responsible for causing a war.  Only this time it's a war that Chavez would lose.

Then Chavez starts to panic.  News comes out that Venezuela has been financing FARC.  A terrorist rebel group trying to topple Colombia's government.  Propaganda?  Who knows.  Wars have been started over much less.  Like all good propaganda it has the ring of truth to it.  Now old friend Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua's leader again) announces that Nicaragua is breaking all ties with Colombia.

It seems that Chavez has learned from his Iranian friends that even when you're really in the wrong just keep talking.   
 
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