Believe it or not, it’s debate night again, 9 p.m. kickoff, on Fox News Channel, live from Orlando. Yesterday I taped some discussion of the outlook for the debate with Fox Business News, and excerpts of that interview are airing throughout the day. To quote Yogi Berra, “It gets late early out there,” in that despite the fact that we’re in late September, and have about five weeks to the filing deadline in South Carolina (which would officially set the field) and about four months and change until the Iowa caucuses (though that could change), the window of opportunity is closing for most of the candidates in the field. Keep reading this post . . .
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Tonight’s Debate: Starting to Approach Crunch Time…
At the moment, the outlook for Republicans in the Kentucky governor’s face looks pretty grim : Gov. Steve Beshear holds a commanding 24-point lead over his challenger, Senate President David Williams, in Kentucky’s governor’s race, according to the latest Courier-Journal/WHAS11 Bluegrass Poll. Keep reading this post . . .
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State Employee Shakedowns in Kentucky?
Hey, readers, it’s been a while since I gave you a peek into the hate mail bag. Rest assured, all the progressives, moooderates, and No Labels “independents” have been busy little bees at their spittle-stained keyboards. Long live the Era of New Tone and Civility. As always: Language warning… *** Spell-check, please! DKFergsuon donnakay@netlink.net via gt89.reliablehosting.com This email was submitted from the Creators.com website at 20:10 07/18/2011 Name: DKFergsuon City: Pittsburgh State: Pa Email: donnakay@netlink.net Text: You are such a mean bitter old bitch, it’s a shame the Japs didn’t murder your parents before they came to the U.S. You have the intellect of that narrow minded touched up photo but it can’t hide your flat nose and buck teeth or your meanness. It’s easy to see why you love lhat twit Geo. Bush but even in his lack of perception and awareness he isn’t mean. Too bad we can’t send you back instead of Obama. I sure am sorry my dad died fighting for the likes of you to enjoy our country’s privilages because you don’t deserve any of the good things our country has to offer people that come here to make this a better place. You are not a conservatist, your a one subject radical. Even we independents can see through you. D Ferguson *** C-mail: Keeping it pithy! fuck off and die you worthless lying cunt from jeff nach momslikeuchoosejeff@yahoo.com to writemalkin@gmail.com date Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:08 AM subject fuck off and die you worthless lying cunt mailed-by yahoo.com signed-by yahoo.com – from Elena Conti elena_conti@hotmail.co.uk to writemalkin@gmail.com date Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:11 PM mailed-by hotmail.co.uk You stupid CUNT – from roger daltry golfsaticoy@gmail.com to writemalkin@gmail.com date Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:12 AM subject fox mailed-by gmail.com signed-by gmail.com you stupid fucking cunt, if you like war so much why havn’t you joined? shut the fuck up – from David Wallace daddio_1@yahoo.com to writemalkin@gmail.com date Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:48 PM subject bin Laden mailed-by yahoo.com signed-by yahoo.com So, when it comes to international laws, you expect the rest of the world to adhere to them but not America. You (and the rest of the brain-dead right) are the reason why the world hates America so much. You dumb cunt! – from Lou Typ faktory81@yahoo.com to writemalkin@gmail.com date Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM subject Hopefully your cousin dies you cunt and you never rest again mailed-by yahoo.com signed-by yahoo.com Every time you sleep I hope you wish you weren’t such a piece of shit. Maybe if you weren’t a cunt nothing would’ve happened? *** Feel the tolerance… Chris Modenbach cmodenbach@modernerarecruiting.com to malkinblog@gmail.com date Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM Dear Michelle-you racist gook Get out of my country-gooks-like you who disrespect our president are not allowed here anymore in the US. Go back to Viet Nam – from Katrina Davis littoxtrinie@yahoo.com to writemalkin@gmail.com date Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:08 PM subject TIP mailed-by yahoo.com signed-by yahoo.com Breaking news: Michelle Marie Maglalang Malkin is a racist BITCH! Oh, wait, I’m sure you know that already. LOL. By the way, you are not Asian. You are Filipino (pacific islander). You should be ashamed of yourself. I hope your children are ashamed of you too. If not, I hope you didn’t raise more racists. We don’t need anymore of your type in this world. What type of Christian hates on another race and speaks about it in public trying to get others to hate too. Isn’t Christianity about love and whatnot. You are a hypocrite. Stop what you are doing. Stop speaking ill about Asians or Asian-Americans or about poor people. Just because you are rich doesn’t give you the right to hate on poor people and how they spend their money. I make 12,000 a year and just bought myself two Louis Vuitton purses. So what? So what if i decide to donate money to a campaign? Who are you to say where I can and can’t spend my money? Who are you to judge? Actually, you should stop doing public appearances in general. If I see or hear you one more time, I think i might just puke. If I see you, your husband, or your children in public I’m definitely going to give you’all a piece of my mind. – from Gregory Dowdell dowdellgregory@rocketmail.com to writemalkin@gmail.com date Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:41 PM subject Do you know who you are signed-by rocketmail.com I saw you for the second time in as many weeks on Hannity’s show, and it seems to me that you have something against black men.On your first visit you had negitive things to say about President Obama,the next time that you were on that show you did likewise to the rapper Common.You seem to be having an identity crisis.I have no problem with white people acting like you beacuse their just being who they are, and I deal with them on their level.You on the other hand seem to want to be them so bad that you,ve become a kiss ass,even though white people have never shown any love loss over you oriental people.In fact if it were not for the struggles of black people you could not enjoy the freedoms that you now have.You would still be called a chink or gook,my advice to you is to wake up and take a long look in the mirror and become what it reflex,back at you,a proud oriental. – Richard rick@paddorlaw.com via gt89.reliablehosting.com to Michelle This email was submitted from the Creators.com website at 06:28 06/24/2011 Name: Richard City: Los Angeles State: CA Email: rick@paddorlaw.com Text: Ms. Malkin: Heartless bitch. You never have a pleasant word come out of your mouth. Try it some time. – from Angelokennedy5@aol.com to writemalkin@gmail.com date Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM subject General mailed-by aol.com Asian trailer trash. Political prostitute for the FOX NEWS CHANNEL. – Public service warning: Don’t drink and e-mail… from jaquillard@sbcglobal.net to writemalkin@gmail.com date Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:58 PM subject politics signed-by sbcglobal.net He is a news tip bitch way don’t you go back to Chine or JAPIN were you come from you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about half the time you are stupid and nuts most Americans do not what to here your bullshit and lies that you till you are a nut job live this untied states go home you are just like the rest of those nut jobs on fox and friends you guys will all be taken drown just like glen beck all of you can go to hell take all your friends with you . *** Update: 1:11pm Eastern Look what arrived in my email-box this morning…Full header included… Delivered-To: writemalkin@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.154.85 with SMTP id n21cs123005bkw; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.251.134 with SMTP id ms6mr5457358qcb.158.1311089857934; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from outbound001.nyc1.bluetie.com (outbound001.nyc1.bluetie.com [206.65.164.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n12si4695084qct.18.2011.07.19.08.37.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 206.65.164.140 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of cmodenbach@modernerarecruiting.com) client-ip=206.65.164.140; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 206.65.164.140 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of cmodenbach@modernerarecruiting.com) smtp.mail=cmodenbach@modernerarecruiting.com Received: from emta3.nyc1.bluetie.com ([10.102.1.14]) by outbound001.nyc1.bluetie.com with outbound001 id 9rdc1h0070J7qBN01rdc39; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:37:36 -0400 X-CMAE-OUT-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=DAC5w8B7TtlnenI1xiNwpRjG02PqOeisG+SzBRp1RYg= c=1 sm=1 a=yzxE-GIMy_YA:10 a=BotFriHS34YA:10 a=tzRRqHN_cDMA:10 a=NNkWQZX5nFyiL/+BHIG88Q==:17 a=H6NBHewQAAAA:8 a=1MhejUtsAAAA:8 a=frjbhRCUpqUDiK5HoYMA:9 a=cmah1vZ_tH9c2PcvYvcA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=NdmASB3fUdUA:10 a=jhdJCy7nTzwA:10 a=yMhMjlubAAAA:8 a=SSmOFEACAAAA:8 a=nUuTZ29dAAAA:8 a=UNe-bSQysxIA1FwNQGMA:9 a=2hyeqiO5dDHE6XmHHXEA:7 a=gKO2Hq4RSVkA:10 a=hTZeC7Yk6K0A:10 a=bIpfiZevh8TQWWqcgQ8Vuw==:117 X-CMAE-OUT-Score: 0.00 Received: from ChrisPC (unknown [107.47.8.215]) (Authenticated sender: cmodenbach@modernerarecruiting.com) by emta3.nyc1.bluetie.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9E51E2DAFF4 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:37:34 -0400 (EDT) From: “Chris Modenbach” To: Subject: Chris Modenbach/Modern Era Recruiting-Pending Lawsuit Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:37:39 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”—-=_NextPart_000_00B9_01CC4608.45606650″ X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcxGKcqDwUVrnIHESdimgQ+FVZfh+w== Content-Language: en-us This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ——=_NextPart_000_00B9_01CC4608.45606650 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Sir/Madam: I suggest you remove the cmodenbach@modernerarecruiiting.com rant-it was never sent by me and I have contacted my attorney. 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It’s not that big news breaks every time I’m on solo dad duty; it’s just that I remember every time that I’m away from a computer for long stretches and an earthquake shakes the political world — like the time I missed the arrest of Rod Blagojevich sitting in a pediatrician’s waiting room with lousy cell-phone reception. The Monday Morning Jolt , heavy on reaction to Mitch Daniels’s decision to not throw his hat in the ring. Daniels Won’t Be Around; He Will Be Mitched By Some Glad I didn’t get started on some 15,000-word profile of Mitch Daniels. You already know what you thought of Daniels. I found him a fascinating guy, a potentially strong president and a perhaps fatally flawed candidate; any governor who can keep his state’s budget balanced when almost all of the others are facing budget crises warrants a look. The weaknesses? Well, he looks a little like Frank Purdue, he comes up to my shoulder, and he’s a true policy wonk, prone to talk in detail. While I think I get what he meant with the “truce on social issues” talk — our economic and foreign policy/national security crises are so pressing, they’ll eat up 90 percent of the time and energy of the next president — he managed to articulate that sense of prioritization in a manner that maximized the suspicion and distrust among social conservatives. And in interview after interview, he offered hint after hint that he just didn’t want to deal with the epic family emotional turmoil that accompanies any big-time presidential campaign. Pejman Yousefzadeh was an early and vocal fan: “I certainly understand and appreciate his concerns regarding his family, and how they may have been affected by a Presidential run; much of Daniels’s supposed ‘dithering’ has in fact been deliberation and care in trying to decide whether a campaign would have been right for his family. Others appear to like having their preferred Presidential candidates jump into the race with both feet, without much care or concern over whether the initiation of a candidacy is the right thing to do under the circumstances, but as per usual with Daniels, he decided to be more intelligent and thorough in the process of making a decision. I applaud his outlook, and his healthy sense of humility — not to mention his appreciation of the gravity of the decision he had to make. I only wish that the decision had been a ‘yes.’ I don’t know what is in the future for Daniels; he is term-limited in his current job, so next year, there will be a race for Governor of Indiana that will not feature him as a candidate. I can only hope, however, that this highly intelligent, conscientious, substance-oriented patriot will somehow find himself in a position where he can render service to the country.” . . . It seems Robert Stacy McCain has a new crusade: “You see the pattern: Barbour quit, Trump quit, Huckabee quit and now Daniels quits, while Herman Cain — the man who all the pundits say can’t win — just keeps going and going.” Hugh Hewitt thinks the field is set, and the field is strong, and doesn’t understand why some complain: “[Neither Chris Cillizza] nor his fellow MSMer at the New York Times Michael Shear nor anyone at Politico, and certainly not lefty Jonathan Martin , seems to have considered that the reason various candidates are taking a pass this year is that the top two contenders — Romney and Pawlenty — have essentially locked up the campaign talent and the money commitments necessary to mount a traditional campaign, and that insurgent candidates are already in the hunt in the form of Bachmann, Gingrich and Santorum. Jon Huntsman also presents himself as an unusual sort of candidate taking even more space from the idea of a later entrant. Though the circle of MSMers keep saying the GOP longs for another candidate, that is a Manhattan-Beltway media elite meme. The Republicans I know have picked candidates and begun raising money for their choices. They are quite satisfied with the field, except for Sarah Palin’s many fans, and many of them are content with Michele Bachmann as a substitute.” Bill Kristol comes from the opposite perspective: The field is wide open, and will remain so for quite a while: “It would be unfair to call the current field a vacuum. But it doesn’t exactly represent an overflowing of political talent. And insofar as politics abhors even a near-vacuum, others are bound to get in. I now think the odds are better than 50-50 that both Rick Perry and Paul Ryan run. I also now think they (and others — Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, John Bolton) may not feel they have to decide until after Labor Day — or maybe even until October or even November. The field could well remain open and fluid until Thanksgiving.”
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Set Field? Open Field? Either Way, It’s a Field Without Mitch
Time for another scarefest, via our alarmists buddies at Treehugger Time Out, London’s weekly events-listing magazine, has asked experts to describe the impact of great catastrophes on the capital city. Many are related to climate change and the outlook is not good. A scientist outlined the effect of global temperatures rising by 4C,
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Good News, London, Climate Change Will Destroy You
As a follow up to yesterday's post , Rebecca Mansour, communications director for SarahPAC, sends along even more uses of the term “blood libel” in a non-traditional context: MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle: John Kerry Underwent A “Blood Libel By The Swift Boat People.”
I try not to quote too much from the Jolt — otherwise, you have no incentive to subscribe! — but a lot of readers wrote in saying they liked this section: A Palin Theory That Pales Under Scrutiny Did any one figure cost the Republicans the Senate? That’s a theory that’s tough to swallow. Something went wrong for Ken Buck in Colorado, as well as Sharron Angle in Nevada, resulting in the pair dramatically underperforming their polls. You could see the outlines of a theory here, positing that these staunchly conservative candidates ran too far to the right for their purplish states. But Carly Fiorina fell surprisingly short in California, and the outlook is grim for Dino Rossi in Washington, too, and their experiences don’t seem to fit that narrative. Is Linda McMahon a Tea Party candidate? Not by most definitions; in the end, her professional wrestling past was too much dead weight for an otherwise hard-hitting campaign. But one GOP member of Congress – representing, I believe, the most heavily Republican district in the country, the R+29 5th 6th district in Alabama – offered a simple theory, and I’ll bet he’ll come to regret it : “Shelby County’s congressman, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin likely cost the Republican Party control of the U.S. Senate. Bachus made his remarks on Nov. 4 at the monthly luncheon meeting of the South Shelby Chamber of Commerce, held at the Columbiana United Methodist Church. “The Senate would be Republican today except for states (in which Palin endorsed candidates) like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware,” Bachus said. “Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate.” He said Tea Party candidates did well in U.S. House races, but in the U.S. Senate races, “They didn’t do well at all.’” Er… except for Rand Paul in Kentucky, and Marco Rubio in Florida, and Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, and Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania. All of this, of course, raises the question of what, precisely, makes a candidate a “Tea Party candidate.” Is Rob Portman definitely not a Tea Party candidate? Because there’s little doubt he’s conservative. Kelly Ayotte? Roy Blunt? Does a candidate’s ‘Tea Partiness’ factor stem from policy positions? Lack of previous experience or association with Washington? A willingness to appear at Tea Party events? Palin fans are not amused. Ian Lazarian, writing at Conservatives4Palin.com , concludes, “Governor Palin
What weird results at this hour. I'm hearing great nervousness about Toomey, which I would not have expected, yet the Republicans are doing quite well in the House races in Pennsylvania. A similar story in Illinois, where Mark Kirk is trailing, but the outlook in at least four House races is looking
