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The Dean campaign just passed its record third-quarter fundraising total of $14.8 million and may well pass $15 million before the day is up! That is, of course, more money than any Democrat has ever raised in a single quarter.
Meanwhile, John Kerry is having a disastrous fundraising quarter.
As I’ve been saying for several weeks, Weasel [...]

Despondent Texas Democrats have yet to put up a single candidate for statewide races in 2004. The deadline for filing is Friday. Texas Republicans have won every statewide race since 1994.

So, what are my predictions for 2004? Well, I see no reason to change the predictions I made over a year ago, on November 7, 2002:
I’ll do the obvious stuff first, that will play out in the next few weeks and months. Democrats in congress will now fight a bloody civil war within their ranks [...]

Here’s a New Year’s resolution worth making: I resolve to get off my butt and do something to help stop Democrats like Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy.
Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, I ask my readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign.
If you’ve already donated and volunteered for the Bush [...]

According to the Brazilian government, fingerprinting and photographing applicants for US visas is “absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis.”
As a recent legal immigrant, I suppose I should be shocked and outraged that BusHitler’s FBI took my photo and fingerprints when I applied [...]

Howard Dean’s Christmas message included no mention of… Christmas!
(Thanks to James Taranto for pointing this out.)

When they’re handing out dumbest-2004-prediction awards, this one by E. J. Dionne will rank near the top:
Here’s what’s interesting for 2004: The conventional wisdom, fed by shrewd Republican operatives and commentators, is that Democrats, so out there in their antipathy for Bush, will push their party into an extremist wonderland and lose white men, security [...]

The decision by John Ashcroft to recuse himself and turn over the Wilson/Plame investigation to a special counsel is stupid, stupid, stupid! I’d always thought the whole Wilson/Plame thing would amount to a big ball of nothing; but Washington Republicans seem determined to prove me wrong by giving Democrats everything they want.
This is just another [...]

SNL does Gore-Dean.
(link via InstaPundit)

“They are beginning to really gouge this guy. Look at Howard Dean and, as a Republican, think about the advertising we’re going to run.”
— Republican pollster Bill McInturff, savoring the idea of using Dean’s Democrat rivals’ comments in a Bush-Dean matchup.

“Melt in a minute?” Mickey Kaus has alternatives. My entry: “He’ll crash like a blog on BlogSpot.”

Says Mark Steyn:
Usually in this spot each year I do an insufferable gloat-fest on the amazing accuracy of my columnar predictions from the last 12 months. But to be honest my heart’s not in it this year.
Hmmm… maybe I should follow Steyn’s lead and spare my readers a list of the innumerable prescient predictions they [...]

The Dean campaign says it’s already raised at least $14 million this quarter (there are still three days left in the quarter.) That should put to rest rumors that Dean was having difficulty matching the previous quarter, when he raised a blowout $14.8 million.
Meanwhile, watch for the dropping shoe I’ve been expecting for several weeks [...]

The slow holiday news cycle continues. Skip the news and read the Media Research Center’s invaluable media bias primer.

Things are getting testy between Gephardt and Dean:
In the style, if not the spirit, of the Christmas season, the Gephardt campaign penned a letter to the North Pole from President Bush. Dear Santa: “Could you please make sure Howard Dean is the Democratic nominee?” it asked. “I know this is asking a lot, but it [...]