He hired and surrounded himself with people who did this to their own veep candidate.
Now, maybe Palin really is a hot-headed shopaholic. But if you believe she really didn’t know Africa was a continent and not a country I’ve got a bridge to nowhere to sell you.
It was clear that McCain was running one of the worst campaigns ever. I just had no idea how bad. What a bunch of petty bozos.
Update:
Or, as Byron York puts it, what a bunch of losers.
No, not me. Them.
Update:
Or it might be me, if I have to actually listen to the heretofore unparodyable Maya Angelou.
Another Update:
That didn’t take long.
I’m going to update this post during the day as any silver linings come to light.
One, of course, is the big win for marriage.
In California, while stupid things like 1A and 2 seem to be passing, and 4 is sadly losing, at least it looks like 11 is winning. In terms of leverage to fix things in this country-sized insane asylum that could be huge. And one idiotic idea, 10, is losing. One of the best California silver linings is that Tom McClintock is ahead of Pelosi puppet Charlie Brown – but only by 451 votes. Absentee ballots still need to be counted.
Another California silver lining: Both Prop 7 and Prop 10 failed. Yay!
Update:
Yes, 11 won. That’s about the best I could hope for around here. Let’s hope it works.
I’ll use this post as a place to gather ideas on what to do next. If you have suggestions, please leave a comment.
The first thing that occurred to me is how vital it is to protect the integrity of the voting process, especially now that ACORN, the professional voter fraud organization, has their man in the White House. It’s just insane and suicidal how easy voter fraud is in this country. In many states, including mine, poll workers aren’t even allowed to ask for ID. So I think we should push, nationwide, for:
* If you can’t understand English well enough to vote a ballot, you don’t understand it well enough to understand the issues. And spare me any accusations of “racism”. Race has nothing to do with language. It’s a great advantage for people to be bilingual – all of us in my family are – but it’s a disadvantage for a country to have multiple official languages. Language is culture. And multiculturalism is death.
Jim Manzi writes of a two-day discussion on this topic happening at Slate.
Some good ideas there: Vouchers. Yes, a lot of the blame for yesterday’s debacle goes to public schools – or, as Lee Rodgers calls them – “ignorance factories”. If this country is to survive we have to get the NEA’s stranglehold off of our children’s brains. And don’t forget the universities:
Preliminary indications are that the youth vote (ages 18-29) was way up: an increase of somewhere over 2.2 million (maybe way over) from 2004 (a year in which it was very high), and as much as 13% over 2000. The Left’s dominance of the academy is now having a material impact on electoral politics. As we think about the future of conservatism, we ignore that at our peril.
Roger Kimball’s new edition of Tenured Radicals seems like an excellent starting point for that urgent discussion.
Ties in with this:
We’re getting beat on the ground, on campus, and in new technologies. Republicans should get as many smart 20-30 year olds in a room as possible ASAP and figure out how to mobilize people to spread Republican enthusiasm and use new technology (twitter, Facebook, text messaging, social networking, etc.) to do it. We also have to find a way to raise money and hit all 50 states.
Dr. Helen suggests working on getting more R’s in the Senate.
I wonder if Arnold Schwarzenegger might run against Barbara Boxer for her Senate seat…
Here’s one case where even a complete RINO like Schwarzenkennedy would be an improvement. There aren’t many senators to the left of Boxer, and one of them is moving to the other end of Pennsylvania Ave.
The good news: America has elected its first black president. The bad news: He’s a Marxist.
What to do?
For those inclined to make nice, which of the following Democratic agenda items are you prepared to sign on to so that you’ll get invited to the right parties?
- Employee Free Choice Act
- Fairness Doctrine
- Freedom of Choice Act
- Nationalization of health care
- Estate tax increases
- “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” (driver’s licenses for illegals)
- Capital gains tax increases
- Defense cuts
- Liberal judicial appointments
- Racial and ethnic preferences
- Income tax increases
- Bans on oil drilling
- Global poverty tax/Kyoto
These are but a few. Perhaps the most worrisome agenda items are those that will betray a fecklessness in foreign policy that could lead to a nuclear Iran, a vulnerable Israel, an imperial Russia, and an imploding Pakistan.
Update:
Michelle Malkin says Gird your loins, conservatives.
