Here’s a photo of Jimmy Carter accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m adding it to Ways to Get Out the Conservative VoteTM If Carter had any decency, he wouldn’t accept the prize from the whiny anti-American Nobel committee that awarded it to him to give president Bush a “kick in the leg.”
In 1972, after Richard Nixon beat George McGovern in the biggest landslide ever, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael was stunned. “How can that be?” she said. “No one I know voted for Nixon.” In 2002, the liberal cocoon is alive and well. Witness this rant from a salon.com columnist: I said that I...
Trent Lott has clarified the tenor of his remarks and even Tom Daschle understands the context: One Democrat, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, defended Lott on Monday, saying he had spoken with Lott and had accepted Lott’s explanation that he hadn’t meant for the remarks to be interpreted as they were. “There are a...
I’ve called John Edwards a “wildly gesticulating, empty-headed, pretty-boy trial lawyer.” Democratic insiders now seem to agree: All the hype has a downside, however. There is a growing chorus of Democratic activists and others who have seen Edwards in person for the first time and come away feeling he doesn’t live up to the...
Defend Trent Lott! Supposedly conservative media bastions, like the blogosphere and talk radio are attacking Trent Lott for his comments about Strom Thurmond. This proves, yet again, that conservatives are decent honorable people and liberals are not. After all, how many liberals criticized the Wellstone “memorial service?” I am what would have been called...
Affirmative Action in all its naked glory: But like other colleges, Rice says it remains fiercely committed to having a diverse student body, so in the years since, it has developed creative, even sly ways to meet that goal and still obey the court. Thus the admissions committee, with an undisguised wink, has encouraged...
The Consequences of Landrieu’s Victory Mary Landrieu’s narrow win in the Louisiana Senate run-off will have consequences for the 2004 election cycle among Republicans and Democrats. Here they are. Consequences for Democrats: 1. This will give Democrats a little more confidence after their poor mid-term showing. Democratic senators, especially those up for re-election in...
Why Mary Landrieu wonIn the end it comes down to this: Landrieu is a far better campaigner than Terrell and had more advantages. Terrell had the following advantages: 1. The D next to Landrieu’s name. The Democrat label is proving increasingly toxic in the south. 2. The Bush factor. As I’ve said before, I’m...
Looks like Mary Landrieu has very narrowly won the race against Suzie Terrell. I’m not going to spin this. It’s a GOP defeat and I was wrong. Tomorrow, I’ll have a post about why, nevertheless, it’s surprising that this race was this close. I’ll also have a post about the implications of this race...
The GOP’s newfound backbone in the Senate may be for real. After Orrin Hatch made clear that he intends to push through judges and deprecate “blue slips” on the judiciary committee, Trent Lott is pressuring business groups to give their campaign contributions more lopsidedly to Republicans.
You can check the Louisiana run-off results here. Voting ends at 8 PM Eastern. Funny column about how Louisianans would like to re-run the Terrell-Landrieu race once a month: House Speaker Charles DeWitt also pointed out the national media attention focused on the race has raised the state’s profile. “On Meet the Press, Tim...
TV news is full of Iraq. No one’s talking about the Louisiana runoff, much less Paul O’Neill’s resignation or Pearl Harbor Day. I’m afraid the Iranian student demonstrations will get lost in the chatter.
Click here to see one of the few positive ads running in the Louisiana Senate runoff. It shows Suzie Terrell’s daughters talking about how she’s a good working mom. It’s not a bad ad, but it’s the sort of ad you’d run if you were a Washington insider and wanted to counter that image....
Trent Lott has set off a firestorm by saying that the country would have been better off if it had elected Strom Thurmond to the presidency in 1948, when he ran on a segregationist platform: Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Sen. Thurmond (R-S.C.) in the Dirksen Senate Office...
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