..Now if we could convince Brian Schweitzer to leave Helena and join the team... oooh man would that rule.

Posted at July 7, 2008 3:41 PM in response to Webb: "Under No Circumstances Will I Be A Candidate For Vice President"

Well, as a resident of the Commonwealth, I have to say I'm not all that broken up about this.

I'm greedy. I want to keep my Senator, thanks. Especially when we're due for a new Senator Warner this fall as well.

The sound you hear is the Costco Sized Can of Whoop Ass being opened in the Senate come 2009... straight outta VA!

Posted at July 7, 2008 3:40 PM in response to Webb: "Under No Circumstances Will I Be A Candidate For Vice President"

Dear Barry,

If you want any more of my fat cash, stop acting like a f#@king pu$$y and get your head in the game.

In case you haven't noticed your leads in both MO and VA have shriveled up. I thought you moved the party to Chicago? Stop acting like its being run by Shrum and the rest of those cheeba monkeys who have the presidencies of Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry to brag about.

SeehwereImgoingwthis.

Otherwise my independent ass is sending my increasingly worthless dollars to the DNC where Howie might actually put them to some use. You know, kicking the right people in the nuts instead of saying you're sorry. My junior senator understands this. And no, you keep this up, you can't have him for your VP slot. I'm greedy and we have a lot of people in the Commonwealth who need to be kicked in the nuts - and the honorable junior senator is only too happy to oblige.

Love, peace, buckshot and bud light.
-Cracker Supporter from VA

Posted at June 30, 2008 1:39 PM in response to Obama Campaign Condemns Wes Clark's Comments About McCain

"The gun ban in DC has been good keeping handguns off our streets"

To parphrase Brick Top from "Snatch": In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary - come again? Really?

That 32 year gun ban came in real handy during the Crack Wars. Like a charm.

"DC doesn't exactly have the most responsive and proactive police or government."

AHAHAHAHAHA! Oh the subtlety is killing me. Let me be clear for those who don't know - DC Government is a festering hole of incompetence, laziness, inefficiency and criminal negligence.

The above statement is made all the more hilarious because your head is clearly not exploding from the cognitive dissonance generated by the latter statement's relation to the former.

And before you snark, yes, I am a former DC resident. I left for many reasons - prime among them was I didn't feel like paying out my anus every month for the honor of getting haranged, hassled or my s#!t jacked every other week.

Posted at June 26, 2008 3:52 PM in response to McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision

Well, it's about time.

I think the Democrats - well, not all of them - have smelled the bacon cooking on this issue for some time. As others have pointed out, D's have been making huge gains in regions where R's dominated for a long time and a big part of it is because they have dropped Gun Control like the dead fish it is (witness the success of Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Sen. Jon Tester and others in the Mountain West).

The national party is getting religion on this issue - the sooner the better.

Remember that none other than Gov. Howard Dean managed to land himself an endorsement by the NRA years ago - simply because he took the attitude that gun laws are a local government issue.

Good riddance DC Gun ban.

Posted at June 26, 2008 1:51 PM in response to McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision

It's in play baby.

Oh, and to answer an earlier query - I had fantastic, uninterrupted and FREE wi fi internet service during my stay at Anchorage's Ted Stevens International Airport. His staff must have been in the control room with plungers. Badoompssshh! Aaaah, thank you thank you.

Unlike Seattle, where you have to pay AT&T... cough cough. Sup w that Wash. State Delegation? Friggin' Microsoft in your backyard and can't give me some free wifi love?

Posted at June 26, 2008 12:02 PM in response to Obama To Campaign In ... Alaska?

Yeah, I'm surprised nobody else has deconstructed those Oregon numbers. The cross tabs stink like dead Klamath salmon. Three points back?! PLZ.

If Barry doesn't whoop up by at least six points in OR, I will eat a good shoe.

Posted at June 24, 2008 3:23 PM in response to Poll: Obama And McCain Tied -- In Deep-Red Indiana!

I have been waiting to use this quote for some time, and it seems appropriate for the McCain campaign now.

Inherit The Wind fans unite, for MATTHEW HARRISON BRADY! has come to town.

"I don't think about things I don't think about."
-Matthew Harrison Brady

Posted at June 6, 2008 10:55 AM in response to McCain Compares Obama To William Jennings Bryan

I have unearthed Europe's "The Final Countdown" on the jukebox, and send it out to Hillary R. Clinton - you fought well, but it's montage time! Some creative YouTube maven, get on it!

Da da daaa daaa da da dum dum dum... da da daaa daaa da da dum dum dum...

Posted at June 2, 2008 11:07 AM in response to Hillary Nabs A Super-Delegate

Nice. He trails in Florida in "double digits" in the Rassmussen poll - but has a four point spread in the second poll you post. I'm normally one to defend you guys, but that's just sloppy.

This just states what most rational observers have known for months - there's no dramatic remaking of the map at work, but Barry's going to pick up states where democrats have been outcasts for a long time: the Mountain West.

Colorado and New Mexico will flip for sure. Nevada will with a little leg work. A little further east, last I saw Barry was in the lead in North Dakota... effin' NORTH DAKOTA ppl! Every electoral vote counts. Throw Virginia on top of the heap and show's over - even without Florida! He's going to win PA, for sure and likely Ohio. Even without Ohio things look pretty damn solid.

The thing I enjoy most about this is giving the finger to Florida (apologies to all Floridians - misanthropic rant coming up).

That place is a mosquito filled, overpriced festering disaster filled with the cacauphonos blather of right wing cuban exiles, bad theme parks, emptying aquifers and the smell of slow musty death from a thousand retirement villages. Eff Florida.

It has long had an outsized sense of influence on the American political process that I for one will be glad to see erode as it slowly sinks into the ocean in the coming years.

Posted at May 29, 2008 2:44 PM in response to What's Obama's Route To The White House?