Monthly Archives: March 2008
Veepstake Monday: The Inside Line – 03.31.08
Time to place your bets again, ladies and gentlemen. Who is going to be the 47th Vice President of the United States, and who is going to fall a hair’s breadth or a country mile short and be back to … Continue reading
Filed under Veepstakes
Unincumbered
If you’re the type that follows Presidential campaigns, you may have noticed something unusual about 2008, aside from the fact that Sean Hannity’s skull seems to be getting larger in some Barry Bonds sort of way (Republican steroids, perhaps): There … Continue reading
Filed under History/Herstory
Surge Protectors
Well, it’s been five years and our war’s growing up. John McCain is promising to defend the surge and protect our right to remain at war over the liberal wetnoodlery of those two peaceniks, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. George … Continue reading
Filed under GOP Candidates - Not Entirely Doomed
McCain’t Touch This
In the absence of a winter Olympics this year, the greatest skating story this season has been the solo exhibition of Senator John McCain, who has glided across the ice of this 2008 Election Year unjudged, unaccosted, and unchallenged. It’s … Continue reading
Filed under GOP Candidates - Not Entirely Doomed
ObstiNancy
The spectacle of two sexagenarian women slugging it out isn’t something anyone should see, and isn’t something you do see outside of two grandmothers in fisticuffs over the last $19.99 Fry Daddy at a Des Moines Wal-Mart. Unless of course … Continue reading
Filed under Democratic Candidates - Female
Sleazing With The Enemy
I can only imagine it would have been like James Brady sitting down at Cheesecake Factory for lunch with John Hinckley. They’d exchange a few pleasantries, talk about their respective lives, a little small talk, and just get to know … Continue reading
Filed under Distractions
“I Ain’t Afraid Of No Gays!”
Aww, Jesus. Not this crap again. Didn’t we get past this four years ago after the anti-gay hysteria of the 2004 election? I thought when the Republican J. Crew overreached with the Terri Schiavo debacle, and their favorite sons started … Continue reading
Filed under Limbaughts Amok
Enemy Liar
Ever since her now-infamous red phone ad, Hillary has been working overtime to prove that she’s the tested leader for a dangerous world. She might not be there at 3:00 AM to answer the phone, but she’ll get the voicemail … Continue reading
Filed under Pants - On Fire
Chill Whitey
Well, it’s been five days and the reviews are in on Barack Obama’s Reverend Jeremiah Wright repudiation address (I was hoping for a defiant, race-baiting debacle so it could enter Presididential lore as “The Crackers Speech”). Many were similar to … Continue reading
Filed under Campaign Mea Culpas
Bill of Rights
Well, there’s a guy who knows how to ruin a party. After Bill Clinton gave up that most prominent of Man Days, Super Bowl Sunday, to be the New Mexico Governor’s date and to pitch his best woo to his … Continue reading
Filed under Democrats - The Dogfight
