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November 18, 2010
Savages take Poll on whether to Abort Their Unborn Child
Posted at 4:33 pm, in: Abortion
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I was just on Memeorandum and saw a story on Gawker. Now, it being on Gawker made me skeptical, at first. So, I went and checked out the website. If this is true these people are sick and she just abort themselves.

Apparently, there is a pregnant couple living outside of Minneapolis who are 17 weeks pregnant with a child and have a website called BirthOrNot.com where they are taking a poll to let the public decide whether or not they should abort their unborn child. Yes, they are taking a poll to decide whether or not to murder their unborn child, in the second trimester, at that.

This is the most disgusting thing I have seen in a while. Whether one is pro-abortion or anti-abortion, this should sicken everyone equally. These people should do us all a favor and just take themselves out. I am speechless. I have nothing to say. I can’t even blog about this because there is nothing left to say. The grotesqueness of these people and this poll speaks for itself.

What does it say about our society and culture that these people feel comfortable doing this and doing so publicly? Is this how little we value human life? I mean, they have 3-D pictures of the baby on the site. America needs to wake up to the culture of death that our society is drowning in. We are not talking about abortion for to protect the health or life of the mother. We are not talking about a victim of rape or incest. We are not talking about a child that will be born with some sort of health defect. We are talking about a healthy baby being aborted based on a poll of strangers taken on the Internet. This is where our moral cowardice on the abortion issue has led.

I admit, I don’t think abortion should be legal except in the cases of maternal health/life issues. Perhaps if the baby is found to have a disorder that would result in them being born dead or dying shortly after birth, as I know a friend who had to make this terrible choice about her unborn child who had a disease that ensured he would have died within hours after his birth. But, the rest is garbage. And, our acceptance of abortion in these limited circumstances has created our current cultural situation in which these savages feel comfortable taking a poll on whether to take the life of their own child based on what some people on Internet think.

This is so outrageous. Even if you don’t think abortion should be illegal, this certainly should be. These people should have their right to life revoked. And, no, I am not advocating violence against these people. Their judgment day will come. They will have to live with the regret that will consume them once they have seen the body parts of their child being pulled out and pieced back together on a table so the abortionist can ensure that all parts were removed. They may have convinced themselves, for now, that it’s not a human child growing inside her, but it is. I hope the psychological devastation the choice to take that life wreaks on them destroys them mentally and emotionally.

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November 15, 2010
Flying on November 24? Then celebrate National Opt-Out Day!!!
Posted at 2:47 pm, in: Terrorism
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It appears that the situation with the TSA has only gotten worse since I first wrote about the body imaging scanners at the airport. I was lucky enough to dodge the bullet last week, but I fly again on Friday and Monday. The game of Russian Roulette continues…

Meg McLain asked questions last week and was cuffed, had her ticket destroyed and was kicked out of the airport. Perhaps it was a stunt on the part of this “Liberty Activist,” but it’s the same stunt I’m contemplating. I don’t believe that our government has the right to force me to allow them to either take pictures of my naked body and post them on some computer screen where some TSA pervert can view them and decide whether or not I still need a more invasive “pat-down,” be subjected to what amounts to a thorough groping and borderline sexual assault or not be able to use air travel anymore. That’s just absurd. The question of, “Why did you choose to fly?” is a stupid question. Because it’s the quickest, cheapest way to get there. Duh!

Then there’s the story about the man who tried to opt-out of the machines and was willing to accept a pat-down but told the TSA agent not to “touch my junk.” I have to admit, I kind of like his response. He has posted the whole account here with audio/video footage.

One man is now pushing a national protest against these machines. To participate in National Opt-Out Day, scheduled for one of the busiest travel days of the year, November 24, 2010, just Opt-Out of the machine when you fly that day. I’ll be opting out in Florida when I fly back on Monday and, if Reagan has put these machines in since I was there last week, I’ll be opting out on my way down. Not flying is not an option as it’s a very long drive down to Orlando from here, so I’ll be opting to make sure that I opt-out and that everyone in line behind me understands what is going on.

Next week, though, when I travel to Connecticut for Thanksgiving I’ll be opting out completely by refusing to enter an airport and board a flight. I went online last night and bought bus tickets. Am I excited about the fact that it will now take me two buses and between 8-12 hours to make the same trip by bus that would have taken one plane and a total of 2-3 hours by plane? Nope. But, if being violated is the option behind door number two, then I’ll be going through door number one.

Unfortunately, there will be times when I am forced to fly and, therefore, will be forced to loudly let the TSA and other passengers know that this is a gross violation of my rights as an American citizen and I will not stand for this. Are we really that scared as a country that we are willing to allow our government to do whatever they claim is necessary to prevent another terrorist attack? Even if those measures being taken are widely believed to be ineffective at best and unconstitutional at worst?

Oh, and the one group that seems to have produced every terrorist who has tried to blow up a plane so far? Well, they can use their First Amendment Freedom of Religion rights to get around the whole thing. Fantastic job, President Obama! Can I just start calling you President FAIL?

UPDATE: And, then there’s more. This picture was taken at a security checkpoint at Indianapolis International Airport. Effing hilarious!

More stories coming out about overly enthusiastic TSA agents inappropriately groping women and children. Shocker! More and more power-starved perverts will be attracted to these jobs, now, too. And, they’re federal employees, which means it will be impossible to every get rid of them because they’ll file complaints and lawsuits and be protected by the unions. What an awesome situation!

To top it all off, scientists are coming out and saying that they aren’t good for our health, either. Really? Radiation can be hazardous to my health? Who would have thought that?

People, have we gone too far, yet??? No American should allow themselves to be subjected to this. Wake up, people! Wake up and fight back!

UPDATE II: I like this idea, which is basically what I’m doing. Unless I have to fly for work, I am not flying. If the airlines want to stay in business they can use their significant political power and financial clout to lean on the politicians to back off and find another way:

For many of us, it will be a sacrifice to stop flying. But sometimes liberty requires sacrifice, and simply refusing to fly is hardly the equivalent of the great sacrifices that were made on our behalf by our Founding Fathers and our fallen soldiers. The tea party began on Dec. 16, 1773. In like spirit, let the National No Fly Zone begin on Nov. 24, 2010. Don’t just opt-out, America, refuse to fly until the TSA removes its machines and agrees to keep its hands to itself.

And, here is a great idea, why doesn’t the First Family go through as their patriotic duty and set the example for the rest of us? Ha, not going to happen:

A National Opt-Out Day is planned for Nov. 24. Passengers are urged to opt out of the scanners and demand the pat-down.

People have the right to refuse the scan. Passengers that day, and any day, are urged to keep a record of how they’re treated and report problems to the blogs, the airlines and the TSA.

Others are urging people not fly at all until the scanners and the aggressive pat-down are eliminated.

Is there a plan for elderly or infirm passengers?

With these new rules, many elderly parents and family members will just refuse to fly.

And what about children? Will TSA pat-down infants in carrier seats or their mother’s arms?

Will toddlers be subjected to the scanner radiation or will they be subjected to the trauma of having total strangers, in uniform, touch their private parts?

Don’t parents teach kids not to allow strangers to touch them?

Imagine: Uniformed strangers wearing funny gloves, will be allowed to rub their hands on children’s bodies, including their private parts – but their own teacher can’t hug them!

What about adolescents – just developing sexually? They’ll have to endure strangers touching their breasts and running hands up their legs, thighs and genitals.

Let’s have the Obama girls go through that – and Mommy and Daddy, too. Let the first family be a good example as we lose another battle in the war against Islamic militancy.

Oh – CAIR already has told Muslims their women cannot be subjected to the scan or the pat-down. It’s against their religion, don’t ya know.

And, another horror story from an actual passenger.

I know that the people who know me think I’m overly political and don’t get why I get so upset sometimes, but this isn’t one of those times. Every American should be beyond upset and well past outraged over this. This is not about protection. It is about power. The Christmas Day Crotch Bomber was just the crisis that Obama didn’t let go to waste.

UPDATE  III: Jimmie Bise, Jr. has this up from a couple of days ago. I think I just might print out this section and hand it to each TSA agent that pisses me and I piss off right back:

Here’s the deal. You are not allowed to yuk it up about what we carry in our bags, or how we dress, or what we say to our children ever. You remain polite and professional because that is your job and if you can’t manage that, then go find another one better suited to your lack of impulse control.

We’re not asking you to play Officer Happy all day long. We are telling you, in ways subtle and overt, that you serve us and not the other way around. Would a little commiseration kill you? Would it be that much an inconvenience to keep a few cheap lollipops around to give the kids who feel just a little bit uneasy that you’re groping Mommy in a way they never even see Daddy do?

I’ll let you in on a little secret or two. If you acted like you understood how much the routines you must put us though degrade us, then we wouldn’t see you as an unthinking, uncaring tool of the know-nothing bureaucrats who created those routines. If you learned a sense of humor, figured out how to laugh with us and not at us, you’d find that we all are more than wiling to cut you some slack. A small amount of pleasantness can go a very long way toward making all our lives easier. You deal with the public all day. Empathy and social skills are cheap; invest in some.

This is what these TSA agents don’t get. We are not there to serve them. They are there to protect us. Drop your effing attitude and stop acting like the power-drunk reject that you so clearly are. It’s an uncomfortable situation that no one wants to be in, yet you act like we are inconveniencing you when the reality is you are sexually assaulting me. If you don’t like your job, quit it and find something else to do with your life, but don’t take it out on me.

Another brilliant idea for National Opt-Out Day, go “commando” and wear a kilt:

By the way, it is the official position of Goldblog that everyday is opt-out day. There’s no need to wait until November 24th. But come November 24th, here’s an idea you might try to make the day extra-special. It’s a one-word idea: Kilts. Think about it — if you’re a male, and you want to bollix-up the nonsensical airport security-industrial complex, one way to do so would be to wear a kilt. If nothing else, this will cause TSA employees to throw up their hands in disgust. If you want to go the extra extra mile, I suggest commando-style kilt-wearing. While it is probably illegal to fly without pants, I can’t imagine that it’s illegal to fly without underpants.

I am fully supportive of making TSA agents as uncomfortable as they are making us. Any other ideas on how to do this should be left in the comments section, because I would love to be able to do my part when I fly this weekend.

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November 9, 2010
The TSA and Full Body Image Scanners
Posted at 8:58 pm, in: Terrorism, Uncategorized
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I dont’ know why it has taken me so long to blog about this, because I had meant to do it last week, but the week got away from me. It feels like every week gets away from me. But, that’s what happens when you live the life of a rock star, I suppose.

Anyway, I was down in Florida last week for work. Tampa to be exact. I tried to hang out with Stacy McCain, but as I was only in town one night and he was on the other side of the state…well, we decided we would meet back up sometime when we were both around the DC area.

Although, as I stepped into the security line at the airport and saw that a full body image scanner was in my immediate future a sense of panic overtook me and I thought, “Why didn’t I make Stacy pick me up and embark on a wild road trip up the east coast? Yes, I would probably fund the rest of the trip. I might die in a car accident. Hell, he might head the wrong way down a one way road (he has done this with me in the car before). The trip back might end up taking three days instead of three hours! But, all of that just might be better than having random federal TSA employees looking at scanned images of my naked body in some backroom where I don’t know who they are or what they are doing with those images!”

It didn’t help that just that morning I had read an article about a TSA worker pulling pranks on unsuspecting passengers by putting a cocaine-like substance in their bag and then pretending to bust them for cocaine possession. Hahahaha! That’s so funny! And, these are the same people I’m supposed to trust to violate me in the most personal way the government has yet to think up to violate me? And, all because some Muslim terrorist decided to sew explosives into his underwear? You’ve got to be kidding me! Effin terrorists! Always ruining it for everyone else!

At this point I’m overwhelmingly enraged, which happens at times because I have serious rage issues coupled with violent tendencies. Immediately, I knew, I would not be walking through that scanner. So, I had two options. I could walk behind the security guy who checks my ID and go to the lane to the left with no body image scanner. I could walk through the line I was in and hope they sent me through the normal metal detector instead of the full body scanner and if that failed I could openly and loudly refuse, while pointing out the violation of my privacy and civil liberties and force them to do a thorough pat-down (which would consist of some seriously uncomfortable groping), which I had decided would be more preferable than the idea of TSA perverts sitting in a back room looking and doing who knows what else to virtual images of my naked body.

As luck would have it, they told me to go through the normal metal detector. Now, me being me, I was kind of disappointed. At that point in my day I was sober (so, unlikely to be arrested for public drunkness or disorderly conduct) and I would have loved to have made a scene and maybe inspired everyone else to revolt against, and refuse to participate in, this gross violation of our privacy and freedom.

I hate to break it to the TSA but I’m clearly not a terrorist. I know the sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, Catholic religion and round trip tickets might scare them, as well as my lack of knowledge in the area of explosives and my lack of desire to be “rewarded in heaven with 72 virgins,” but I’m not a threat to any airliner or the United States of America.

As I got to the other side and the three people who had just been violated by our government stood there waiting to hear back their results and find out if the TSA worker was going to have to get know them better, the last girl who went through the machine asked what had just happened. “What did that machine do?” she inquired.

At which point my blood boiled to a point I almost exploded causing the biggest terrorism scare ever: “Non-Muslim female explodes at airport after being bypassed for full body image screening machine! Suspect may have held explosives internally. TSA announces full body cavity searches for all passengers starting immediately!”

I turned to the idiot uninformed citizen and said, “They just scanned your entire body and a virtual image of your naked body is being viewed by some TSA worker in some backroom. How could you stand for that and not even know it?” To which, the TSA worker flashed me a frowny face, “:-(!”

As the look of shock and horror took over her face, I knew that she had no clue. Frantically, she looked to the TSA worker who had ushered her through, “Is this true?”

And, sadly, she was told that it was true. But, her humiliation and violation weren’t over yet. It turns out the machine had discovered something (that turned out to be the under-wire in her bra) and she was then publicly patted and groped by the TSA worker who had first ushered her through without explaining what all of the fluorescent green pictures on the signs meant and then confirmed to her what most women don’t want to hear: there are some “workers” sitting in a backroom viewing her virtual naked body on a computer screen.

This whole situation bothers me because I can’t just hold “the government” and the TSA responsible. People should be following the news and know what’s going on. How could you just walk through this machine without asking questions first? I know, it’s a matter of intimidation and trust in an authority figure. Plus, since September 11, 2001 we have given up one liberty after another for the privilege to fly on planes so that our government can continue the fallacy that it is not young Islamic men trying to get on our planes and harm us.

It amazes me that our government can get away with this. How scared are we? Or is it just ignorance? How do average Americans think that this is OK, constitutional or will even work? Terrorists don’t care if they get killed in the attack. In fact, that’s usually their goal. How long before one tries to hide explosives where even these machines can’t see? And, after that, are Americans going to allow the government to tell them they have to arrive at the airport four hours early and submit to full body cavity searches before they can get on a flight?

The terrorists seem to be keeping one step ahead of our security and intelligence agencies. The Christmas Day Crotch Bomber didn’t fail because our government succeded. It was by the grace of God. Every terror or attempted terror incident we have heard about in recent times has not be a story of success for our government, but a failure on the parts of the terrorists.

I will continue to fly until the searches become more intense than inmates experience at a maximum security prison, but I will openly and loudly refuse to have images of my body displayed and stored on government computers. Where is the outrage over this? Where are the women’s groups who talk about keeping the government off our bodies? I just don’t get it. Do we have to wait for some perverted TSA workers to be caught with images that weren’t supposed to be saved or able to be copied and reproduced? Yeah, because that’s only a matter of time. But, what does it say about the majority of Americans if that’s what it is going to take?

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November 8, 2010
In Defense of The Other McCain: Go ‘head Kinsey! Shake what yo mama gave ya!
Posted at 4:08 pm, in: Uncategorized
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It looks like Stacy over at The Other McCain has gotten himself in some trouble, again. He thinks the women aren’t going to defend his latest blunder, but I will. I think the common sense reality of what he says speaks for itself: people like to look at young attractive people and Stephen Kruiser over at PJTV was smart to hire 25-year-old HOTTIE Kinsey Schofield. Stacy is not arguing that her attractiveness is the ONLY reason she was hired, but there isn’t enough evidence of her supposedly superior writing capability to judge her writing talent. Her looks on the other hand are right out there for all to see and judge. It goes without saying that this played into the decision to hire her.

I don’t understand why everyone is getting all worked up about this. Based on her publicity picture the girl recognizes her own hotness and markets it well. What’s with the upset? It reminds me of that old joke, to get a pretty girl into bed you tell her she’s smart, a smart girl that she’s pretty. Perhaps Stacy’s comments is perceived as an insult because he said she’s pretty and people think he is saying she is not smart, but there are smart and pretty girls out there. Although rare, those qualities are not mutually exclusive.

In college, I remember at the beginning of the year Jason (AKA Big Sexy) and I would get a table outside of the cafeteria in the Student Union to attract new members to the College Republicans. I would dress in heels, some fitting jeans, and a nicely fitting shirt with my hair and make-up did. our professor thought that this was absurd and was yelling at me and Jason for it. She asked Jason, “Is that all of you think of Monique? She’s just another pretty face? What about her intelligence?” To which, Jason responded that the male freshman walking through that door weren’t going to stop by the table to check out my brain. But, once we got them to the table based on my looks we could hook them into going to a meeting and becoming a part of the club from there.

I know that Jason respects me for my intelligence. But, I also know boys and marketing. Boys want to hang out with hot chicks, even if that means attending a College Republicans meeting! And, girls want to associate with cool, hot girls because they either a) think they are a cool, hot chick themselves and will demand equal quality in their friends, or b) they have always wanted to be with one of the cool, hot chicks. And, to be fair, Jason isn’t so bad looking himself and I’m sure some of those young women were just as willing to attend a College Republican meeting to meet him as they were to hang out with me.

I don’t know how smart or talented Kinsey Schofield is. But, her publicity photo speaks for itself. The girls is HOT!!! Clearly, this played into her getting hired for the job. How is that insulting or degrading? I’m not saying it’s the only reason she got the job, but I’m sure it was a factor. I think Stacy is just acknowledging this obvious truth.

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November 4, 2010
Don’t blame Washington, political parties, and politicians. Voters need to start blaming themselves!
Posted at 10:44 am, in: Uncategorized
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Unfortunately, due to work travel, I was unable to get on a computer, yesterday. That might be a good thing because I was pretty worked up.

I live in DC and I am disgusted with the whole city, as are the couple of people I talked to at the bar yesterday morning at the airport. And, people wonder why airports are one of my favorite places? It’s the only place that makes it completely acceptable to be drinking no matter the time of day. An airport bar always has patrons and Patron!

All of the DC incumbents were re-elected. My boy Jim DeMartino, who I’ve met a couple of times, was defeated. And, of course he was. The few people in DC who actually go out and vote just click whatever box has a D in it. They probably don’t even know half of the people on there. They just vote for the party that they rely on for their welfare benefits. It’s disgusting and disappointing. As I tweeted to someone, yesterday, if ignorance is bliss DC is the most blissful city!

Speaking of “Tweeting,” I’m finally starting to catch up to this technology. I know, I’m a little slow and behind the times. My boy Jimmie Bise says he’ll show me the ropes, though, and I look forward to working with him in the future. His is one the five blogs I read on a daily basis. Good stuff! You should go check it out, NOW!

And, I started following Meghan McCain on Twitter. She was getting ready to go on Leno last night to talk about politics and the election. With the exception of one race, which is still in question, every single one of her predictions was wrong. My 3-year-old niece could have randomly predicted those races with more accuracy. This leads me to question, why is Jay Leno having Meghan McCain, of all people, on to talk about the election and politics? She clearly doesn’t know anything about, either. Oh yeah! That’s right. I forgot, she got booked on the show the same way she gets everything else in life: By being John McCain’s daughter!

What ever happened to The Other McCain? Well, I checked him out last night to see where he is in Florida, since my own travels have brought me to this glorious state that apparently doesn’t believe in Splenda. Well, at least the hotel I’m staying at the convention center I’m working at doesn’t seem to. I know it’s a little pricey, but it’s not that bad if you buy it in quantity at the local Sam’s Club. WTF?

It appears Stacy is on the other side of the state from me, so there will be no late night partying for the two of us down here, but we will meet up on the other side when we return to the swamp that is our nation’s capital. Fun times ahead!

So, to the election. I’m not surprised by the O’Donnell loss. As much as I don’t like polls, she had been trending downward for weeks and the actual numbers confirm that trend. She had high name recognition but not a high “like” factor. I wanted her to win, but it is not shocking in the least that she didn’t.

As I watched the returns coming in on Election Night and polished off a bottle of vodka, while smoking a pack of ciggies, and yelling at the TV I was once again reminded of the importance of the 10th Amendment. See, if our Congress did their jobs and stuck to what is specifically their jobs, I wouldn’t have to worry so much about who these morons in other states are electing. But, since our elected officials have taken it upon themselves to obliterate any restrictions on their powers as granted in our Founding Documents, I have to worry about the fact that idiots in Nevada voted in Harry Reid.

I understand that major gains were made, but I just don’t get what some people are thinking when they vote. These are the same people that want to vote for change for the sake of change (think 2008), yet when they have an opportunity to really vote in change they go for the person who has been screwing them and the rest of us for decades. No one likes the current situation and it’s not one party or the other that has screwed us. We have screwed ourselves because we continue to elect the same people who have created our current situation.

When is it time to hold the voter’s responsible for their votes? I mean, we can blame the system, or Democrats, or Republicans, or whatever, but when does the time come when we look in the mirror or we look to our left or right and blame ourselves? We hold the power and we lavish it on these undeserving, power-corrupted morons and then complain, complain, complain about the results. They only have the power that we grant them. Yet, we keep granting them more. I just don’t get it.

I’m sick of hearing people say that politics isn’t their thing or they just don’t have time. That’s bullshit! Politics touches every aspect of your life. You can’t make time for that? The government regulates EVERYTHING, down to the zippers on your jeans and the water tank in your toilet. How did the government get so much power? Because, all of these people who “don’t have time” to pay attention. Perhaps they are getting what they deserve, but must they take the rest of us down with them?

I understand that people have kids, work, school, and a million other responsibilities, but it is your number one responsibility as a member of this great nation to become informed about the candidates not through 30 second political ads paid for by someone’s opponent but by doing some research yourself. I didn’t vote for anyone that I didn’t do some research on. If that’s how you’re going to be, then don’t vote. And, while you’re at it, shut up!

I’m sure you have time to watch Dancing With the Stars or baseball or football every week or whatever else numbs your mind, but you can’t set aside one hour to hop on a computer to find out more about who you’re voting for? About the person you are choosing to represent you and wield power over every aspect of your life? That’s taking laziness and stupidity to a whole new level. Everyone has time for politics! It is your duty as a member of this society to make the time because when you vote your choice doesn’t just affect you, it affects us all because that is the power that we as a society have unwittingly allowed our elected officials to take, in direct contradiction and in direct violation of the limits placed on them in our Constitution.

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November 2, 2010
My Election Night Prediction: I’ll be drinking.
Posted at 2:40 pm, in: Uncategorized
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It’s election day. Finally! My friends don’t know what to do with me. I’ve tried to warn them, politics is my sport of choice. Elections are my Super Bowl. I’m sure my roommate is going to be amazed at how much I scream at the TV tonight, considering how I’m always trying to calm him down when he’s yelling about how the Steelers are handling the ball.

I don’t know what to say is going to happen tonight. I’m not going to predict this many seats or that. I’m not going to call out any race and say what is going to happen. The truth is, with all of the polling and data available, we still don’t know. I took a polling class in grad school because I thought polls were garbage and if I only understood the “science” behind them maybe I would believe in their validity a bit more. Nope. That class confirmed what I’ve always thought. Polls are garbage, especially if you know nothing about polling. And, the more you know about polling, the more you realize how much garbage they can be. As Stacy McCain points out, polls are not elections! So, sit tight because it’s going to be a long night!

I’m going down to vote for Jim DeMartino. That’s all I got. I don’t know of any other candidates running for office in DC that I want to vote for, so I’ll vote for the one candidate that I think deserves a chance and leave the rest blank. Maybe I’ll vote for myself for mayor because I certainly think I can do a better job than Vincent Gray.

Meghan McCain posted her predictions last night. She’s made some interesting picks:

  • Sharron Angle against Harry Reid in Nevada–And, I hope that she’s right on this one. But, a lot of people are predicting this and I actually lean toward an Angle win, as well. Harry Reid was one of the first politicians I disliked and I think it’s time for him to go.
  • Charlie Crist against Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek in Florida–I think this is just wishful thinking on her part. Minus the polling data, I think that Rubio is going to win. I mean, we all know Meek isn’t winning and in this three-way race that’s the least we can hope for, but I think Rubio is going to be victorious.
  • Christine O’Donnell against Chris Coons in Deleware–I can see this happening, but I wouldn’t be so bold as to predict it.
  • Lisa Murkowksi against Joe Miller and Scott McAdams in Alaska–Meghan is predicting a Murkowski win, which I could see but I don’t think is going to happen. I think Miller is going to take this one.
  • Meg Whitman winning against Jerry Brown in California–which, I think she is wrong about because Whitman is a flawed candidate and California is a flawed state with a flawed electorate. I mean, it’s California. Need I say more?

What Meghan apparently doesn’t fully grasp and understand is the divide between the whole Tea Party phenomenon and the Washington, DC estblishment. When predicted Christ as the winner in Florida she wrote:

Charlie Crist, an independent beating Marco Rubio, throwing a wrench in the Tea Party and extreme right winners of the night. I think what will be more interesting than his likely win is how exactly the Republican purists and the rest of Washington will treat him. It is a lonely place for independents in Washington and groupthink rules the roost, sentiment seems to be particularly harsh against former Republicans. Just ask Jesse Ventura or Joe Lieberman.

First, we’ll note how she lumps Tea Partiers in with extreme right wingers (at least, I assume she meant wingers where she wrote winners), but Meghan is liberal and so we know that anyone to the right of her father and herself are considered extreme right wingers, so at least half of the electorate! I don’t know who I consider an extreme right winger, but I don’t consider the Tea Party extreme at all.

Secondly, what bothers me the most about her statement is the last two sentences, “It is a lonely place for independents in Washington and groupthink rules the roost, sentiment seems to be particularly harsh against former Republicans. Just ask Jesse Ventura or Joe Lieberman.”

This is a ridiculously absurd statement on two levels: the Republican establishment in DC wants these “independents” to win so they can smack down the Tea Party and all that it stands for. It was the Republicans establishment in DC that supported these candidates until they lost their primary battles–or quit and left the party as that punk Crist did.

Secondly, why would we ask Jesse Ventura and Joe Lieberman about the insider’s club and particularly harsh sentiment against Republicans who sold their own party out because they couldn’t win the party’s primary and instead are now actively working against their party’s candidate in order to hold onto their own power? Jesse Ventura was a Reform Party candidate and a governor; not a Republican and didn’t spend his time in Washington as a Senator or House Rep would.

Joe Lieberman was booted out by the Democrats in CT, when those intelligent Democrat voters supported anti-war candidate against Ned Lamont. And, the Democrats have still been pretty friendly with Lieberman. But, since Lieberman did speak at her Dad’s presidential convention and shares the same political views as her and her father, maybe she doesn’t realize Lieberman is an independent because his party left him, and a Democrat politically and philosophically. No matter what, he’s not a Republican and definitely not an outside in DC. But, let’s move on.

Tonight should be an interesting night and I hope not to stay up too late, but am sure I will be glued to the TV. There are too many races I am interested in and the ones mentioned above aren’t even on my list of the most interesting. I can’t wait to see in the places deemed so safe that there hasn’t been any polling and a severe lack of media coverage. Yes, there are those races out there.

I’m hoping that Sean Bielat ousts Barney Frank (D-Mass.) if for no other reason than to not to ever have to hear Barney Frank speak, again. That guys voice is funny for about two seconds, then it’s just ANNOYING! Also, is Linda McMahon going to beat that lying scum Dick Blumenthal up in CT??? What about Alvin Greene? No, I’m just kidding about that last one. But, I love political surprises and that might just be the best one EVER! I would totally move down there to start manufacturing his action figures.

I mean, could Steny Hoyer lose tonight? Jimmie Bise over at The Sundries Shack seems to think it’s a possibility and since this race hasn’t been watched there’s just too little we know, right now. What about Ruth McClung, rocket scientest, out in Arizona???

Well, I’ll be glued to my TV tonight, except when I’m outside smoking ciggies on the balcony because I smoke a lot more when I’m drinking and I know I’ll be drinking tonight! I’m not trying to steal Vodkapundit’s niche, so I don’t know how much “drunkblogging” I’m going to do, but we’ll see.

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