Posted by hillbilly on December 31st, 2007 in Elections, Politics General, Republicans
Not a very original title but then I usually don’t.
Fred’s last message to Iowa is all of 17 minutes long and well worth the time to listen. For once I’m going to link to the YouTube video instead of embed it, not because of the length but because there are at last count 703 comments [...]
Posted by hillbilly on December 21st, 2007 in Politics General
I’m signing off for the extended weekend. See you after the holiday!!!!!!!!!
Posted by hillbilly on December 20th, 2007 in Elections, Media's Political Role
but didn’t realize even the Politico could sink so low as to outright lie but they did. To further compound the lies that have made the rounds over the blogosphere, Simon claimed an email to the Waverly Democrat resulted in Anelia Dimitrova stating that Thompson :
“was so vague that I would be hard-pressed to write [...]
Posted by hillbilly on December 20th, 2007 in Bill of Rights/Civil Rights, Democrats, Elections, Media's Political Role, National Security, Republicans, Tennessee Politics
Yesterday, I tried a slightly humorous and highly sarcastic approach on HRP dealing with the Huckabee furor over his Christmas ad. It didn’t go over as planned. I’ll stick to being ultraserious from now on. I guess people just don’t get my brand of dry humor. The ad did exactly what it was meant to do. [...]
Posted by hillbilly on December 18th, 2007 in Congress, Democrats, Republicans
Congress would win the pig calling contest at any fair any day of the week.
Republicans Blast ‘Misguided’ Omnibus Spending Bill
(CNSNews.com) – What can you say about a 3,500-page appropriations bill that stands more than a foot tall? Nothing good, according to Republicans. But Democrats are spinning the spending bill as a step in their much-talked-about [...]
Posted by hillbilly on December 17th, 2007 in Elections, Media's Political Role, Republicans
And the MSM is silent, unless you count an MSNBC blogpost that initially got it wrong. Michelle Malkin reported it at 10:27AM EST. It’s now 7:31AM EST and the MSM is still silent.
Posted by hillbilly on December 16th, 2007 in Politics General
If celebrity endorsements are essentially worthless for the long haul, does that mean newspaper endorsements put a candidate in the red?
Consider: Des Moine Register endorses McCain and the Boston Globe endorses McCain and Obama.
Given the growing mistrust of the media, in my mind, these endorsements are like the “kiss of death”. Given that premise (which may [...]