Comments on: Your Move, Mr. Donkey

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:50:33 +0000

I’m just a Brooklyn boy who’s closest encounter with wildlife was at the Bronx Zoo, but dat ain’t no moose. Caribou maybe?
No matter, she’s got my vote!

By: IsraelP

IsraelP — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:47:55 +0000

FoxFan – That 1964 comparison was Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post. She worked way to hard to make a point that was not really valid. (Follow the link here.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:47:16 +0000

“It makes me wonder how many of the best and brightest we don’t get in politics just because they don’t want to put themselves and their families through all of the pain.”

If Palin succeeds, I guarantee a lot more will step up. Strong families know what to do with pain; its futility they’re not much interested in.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:24:18 +0000

Yeah, that’s no moose. Moose are huge. But never mind. She has the right attitude.

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:58:21 +0000

Robert, you may well be right.

Somebody find us that damn moose picture, please.

It still looks like it would be good to eat.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:44:05 +0000

Looks more like a caribou than a moose. Moose tend not to have pointed antlers.

By: zenpundit

zenpundit — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:34:33 +0000

It would be a very good idea to draw from GOP historical memory and revive T.R.’s Bull Moose icon and associate it with McCain and Palin – suddenly they are the insurgent force now.

By: FoxFan

FoxFan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:15:04 +0000

There have been some interesting comparisons between Obama and Palin over the last 24 hour news cycle. The AP did a break down year by year with both…but the most interesting comparison was the Michelle vs. Sarah that looked at it in through the prism of the year both were born. I can’t recall where that 1964 comparison was done but I found it on obamatracker.com

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:33:52 +0000

Don’t forget W with Cheney and Rumsfeld.

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:51:09 +0000

Eric, right on.

And George Washington had all the heavy hitters in the room.

By: Eric Scheidler

Eric Scheidler — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:48:55 +0000

Lex writes: “Real leaders have the stones to surround themselves with the strongest people in their own party. JKF took LBJ, Reagan took Bush I, Clinton took Gore. That is how the pols with balls do it.”

And Lincoln took Seward and Chase — and later Stanton, who wasn’t even in his party, but was the right man for Secretary of War.

By: Dan from Madison

Dan from Madison — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:09:44 +0000

Awesome moose! They are quite tasty, I can tell you from experience.

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:07:57 +0000

“The strategy all along …”

McCain/Palin are WAY inside Barack’s OODA loop right now.

Even Axelrod’s public response was so lame — Yes, Barack DID TOO sponsor some legislation! — he shouldn’t have said anything. This shows they are simply flailing.

A perpetual drumbeat of mob-sourced fact-checking and criticism of Barack by the Base can be the guerilla screen while the official McCain/Palin campaign can be the conventional Leviathan landing the heavy blows.

The MSM is so ideologically fixated and so detached from ordinarly American reality that I expect the very ugliness and brutality of their next wave of attacks, driven by fear, to boomerang, outrage swing voters in relevant states, and work to the benefit of McCain’s team.

American democracy is the ultimate major league sport, and the only one with consequences.

God bless America.

By: zenpundit

zenpundit — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:47:19 +0000

“The planned ritual execution of the Old White Guys before the coronation of His Holiness Barack I is now officially not-going-as-scheduled.”

Bingo! The strategy all along was running against two, elderly, white guys – preferably with elderly white guy#2 being a colorless, humorless, out of touch, tight-ass. I wonder how much $$ the Obama campaign sank in scaling up to a national level the new computer modeling demographic voter pattern analysis pioneered by Bill Foster for his congressional district, based on that premise.

If they did, a lot of money and time just was flushed down the crapper. What’s the fallback ? Ummm, go negative and hope the GOP doesn’t hit back effectively.

McCain needs to keep Obama off balance by throwing in more variables then they can deal with before they can adapt to Palin. Right now they are just blindly emailing attack “fact check” alerts that themselves play very loose with facts. They are ripe for independent counterattack too.

By: Dan from Madison

Dan from Madison — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:35:18 +0000

You are right Lex, it is going to be horrible for that family. I don’t have the stones to put myself or my family through what will undoubtedly be a very nasty sixty days.

It makes me wonder how many of the best and brightest we don’t get in politics just because they don’t want to put themselves and their families through all of the pain.