Bring It On! Election 2008

Wake up Dems, it’s a simple choice. A vote for Hillary puts the White House in play. A vote for anybody else makes it a cakewalk. Don’t hand your opponent weapons.

Graphic by Gallup

Fred Thompson has an airtight political machine, one that hums along as a single unit, presenting a unified face…

Huh? Karen Hanretty, one of his top aides? Oh, yeah that.

“It’s time to put America first and make Iowa go last,” Karen Hanretty wrote in the Hill’s pundits blog on August 10. She recently joined Thompson’s presidential campaign as deputy communications director.Hanretty’s primary beef with Iowa lies in the “politics of ethanol,” as she puts it.

“Imagine there’s no first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus,” she wrote about the state’s unique status as being the first to cast a vote in the presidential nominating process. “No need to pander to corn farmers. No politicizing ethanol for votes. No pressure to support hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded ethanol subsidies.” — CNN

That ought to go down real well in Iowa. Maybe they can run with that in Nebraska, too. Surely those farm boys there think the Corn Huskers moniker is just tongue in cheek. Snerk. I think Freddie needs to hire 10 more just like her.

Politics used to be a competitive sport. Nowadays, it’s akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Except, the fish keep shooting themselves.

I can’t believe I missed this gem from Mitt Romney. Courtesy of the AP

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that if terrorists detonated a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city while he was president he would retaliate “in a very dramatic and clear way.”

Posed that scenario while campaigning Friday in this early primary state, Romney said he didn’t want to say much more.

“The answer is you would retaliate and you’d retaliate in a very dramatic and clear way. I don’t want to be terribly more specific than that,” the former Massachusetts governor said.

File this under Duh!, No Shit, Common Sense, Master of the Obvious, and Who Wouldn’t.

Heh.

Just go.

Two things I ran across today bode ill for the elephants. Not that I’m fussed, mind you. “Mr. Con? Mr. Kharma’s on line one…”

First, this little round up on who is the Republican of record these days.

Longtime Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio conducted a major survey of his party’s voters this year, and compared it to a similar one in 1997. He found his party had gotten much older and more conservative in the last decade.In the current survey, 17 percent of Republicans are 18 to 34 years old, down from 25 percent in 1997. Republicans 55 and older constitute 41 percent of the party - up from 28 percent a decade ago. By 53 percent to 42 percent, Republicans say the party “has spent too much time focusing on moral issues” rather than economic ones. — CBS

Hmm, maybe GOP stands for Growing Outta-touch Party.

Second, from a favorite site of mine, this little synopsis of the state of the Senate. Looks pretty rosy for the Dems, with a potential 11 republican seats in play and only 2 democratic seats. The spectre of 60 looms.

So RNC and the gang, please, bring out all those craptastic moral issues and beat them in public some more. It’s a loss with half your base, and if they stay home, it’ll be a really special day for the down tickets.