Negative Space: Election 2010
- Alvin Greene, political scientist?
- Al Greene talks less than most politicians. But slow isn’t always stupid. The wild card is the felony charge. The conventional wisdom is that Al Greene is more beatable than Vic Rawl. I think that’s wrong.
- The Case of the Criminal Crossdressing Congressman
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Harry Reid illegally copies Sharron Angle’s web site and then reconnects the forms so that people who think they’re on her site give him their personal information. Harry Reid: Both illegal and unethical.
- The coming crisis
- We know it. We just don’t know what it is yet.
- The continuing left-wing witch-hunt
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Tea partiers support people who think differently than they do.
- Cornering the wild government in California
- Watching the reaction of the cocktail party politicians and big-government leeches to this year’s political rebellion is a lot like watching a wild animal, cornered. The wild animal may yet win, but it’s lashing out randomly and without regard for who it hits. It just wants to get free.
- Don’t mess with the deck chairs, fix the boat!
- Advice for the incoming House. Make them deny it! And don’t try to fool us by changing the deck chairs.
- Doug Hoffman, Conservatives, and the Dangers of Unreasoning Partisanship
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Effective politics means supporting candidates who share your principles, not who share your party. If your support reflexively goes to a single party all the time, that party won’t care about your principles.
- End of media; to delete this media…
- There will be a crisis: but this time they got caught manufacturing their crisis. And it’s a crisis of a most despicable kind: falsely tying a candidate to child molestation.
- A fragile alliance
- The tea party and the Republican party alliance is a fragile one: it requires support on both sides. The media and tea partiers recognize this. Republican party leadership needs to figure it out yesterday.
- Greta Van Susteren calls out media on hypocritical misogyny
- Our media is a bunch of misogynistic hypocrites.
- Help Good Candidates Ride the Big Red Wave
- Looking for a candidate to spend time and/or money on? Someone who is fighting and for whom your support can make a big difference? I round up blogosphere profiles of underdog candidates and candidates in close races. Be the wave!
- I voted against it when I voted for it
- When “yes” and “no” have no meaning, we need to reform how DC does business. They’re creating a system where incumbents don’t have to answer for their votes, because the same vote can mean different things depending on who you talk to.
- Is religious faith a political sin?
- I’d be more afraid of someone who masturbates emotionlessly, than someone who follows Christianity’s teachings on adultery.
- My philosophy: stop, look, and listen
- When an election is close, just wait until the results are in. It’s not that hard.
- Nick Popaditch debates Bob Filner in CA-51
- Popaditch comes off as far more responsive to the needs of the community in this debate.
- No free shots
- The time-tested strategy when the establishment needs to take down a reformer are “free shots”: attacks made anonymously so that the “distinguished” candidate can keep clean.
- No room for reason in Alaska
- Jesus Christ, what the hell are the Republicans doing up in Alaska?
- Painfully thoughtless politics
- Televised debates discourage intelligent, thoughtful discussion in politics: a few seconds of thinking is ridiculed in DC.
- The politics of fear in Delaware
- I’m with Palin and the NRA in Delaware. We know how Mike Castle will vote if he wins, because we know his record. O’Donnell probably got the Palin endorsement on her own merits; but she got the NRA endorsement on Mike Castle’s merits.
- San Diego’s proposition D: tax first, reform afterward
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San Diego’s proposition D is an attempt to raise taxes and then reform—which is, of course, an attempt to raise taxes and not reform anything at all.
- Tax event horizon
- How close are we to a tax event horizon, where so many people’s income depends on complicated tax laws that they can never be reformed?
- Tea Party vs. the news
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What a difference between the traditional news media (Google News) and what people are actually talking about (Memeorandum)!
- There will be deception
- As their world falls apart, media liars will get better at lying.
- There will be lies
- The media takes a blunder by Coons on the first amendment—and outright changes what both candidates said to make it look like a blunder by O’Donnell.
- They will sow dissension
- Part I: They will sow dissension. There’s a war brewing at Fox! and Sarah Palin isn’t really a hunter.
For true?
More Information
- Election Day Tea Party 2010
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I heard about this web site on the Tammy Bruce show today. It lists “the top 50 races you can help to win”, and includes links to their web sites, twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and YouTube feeds.
If you’re looking for tea party-flavored candidates to support with your own time or money, this is a very good list. Find someone near to you, or someone who strikes a chord with your own experiences, and do what you can to make sure they win on November 2.
Remember also that this is an issue-oriented election. Coming close isn’t nearly as good as winning, but it can push the winner down more sensible paths than they might…
- Welcome, Senate Conservatives
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“Congratulations to all the tea party-backed candidates who overcame a determined, partisan opposition to win their elections. The next campaign begins today. Because you must now overcome determined party insiders if this nation is going to be spared from fiscal disaster.”
