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Op-Ed Columnist - Hey Liberals, Don’t Worry
Op-Ed Columnist - Hey Liberals, Don’t Worry
Barack Obama will probably win the 2008 presidential election. If he does, we conservatives will greet the news with our usual resolute stoicism or cheerful fatalism. Being conservative means never being too surprised by disappointment. But what if John McCain pulls off an upset? I’m worried ...
Op-Ed Columnist - Franklin Delano Obama?
nytimes.com — Suddenly, everything old is New Deal again. Reagan is out; F.D.R. is in. Still, how much guidance... does the Roosevelt era really offer for today’s world? The answer is, a lot. But Barack Obama should learn from F.D.R.’s failures as well as from his ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Franklin Delano Obama?
Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Agenda
Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Agenda
nytimes.com — Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever.... If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Agenda
Op-Ed Columnist - The Republican Rump
Op-Ed Columnist - The Republican Rump
nytimes.com — Maybe the polls are wrong, and John McCain is about to pull off the biggest election upset... in American history. But right now the Democrats seem poised both to win the White House and to greatly expand their majorities in both houses of Congress. Most ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - The Republican Rump
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... William Kristol: hey, what if McCain lwins? Let me show my compassionate side and worry about you liberals. We grown-ups will be just fine (pass the Jack Daniels.) ...

WIN OR LOSE, THE LEFT WILL REMAIN DYSFUNCTIONAL
Dr. Sanity — I'm with Bill Kristol: Barack Obama will probably win the 2008 presidential election. If he does, we conservatives will greet the news with our usual resolute stoicism or cheerful fatalism. Being conservative means never being too surprised by disappointment. But what if John McCain pulls off an upset? I’m worried about my compatriots on the left. Michael Powell reports in Saturday’s New York Times that even the possibility of an Obama defeat has driven many liberals into in a state of high anxiety. And then there’s a young woman from Denver who “told her boyfriend that their love life was on hold while she sweated out Mr. Obama’s performance in ...

The Crying Game
N/A — A day before the election? Just wondering who will be crying most the day after? And who might be happiest?  Sad?  Happy?  Sad and indignant at the unfairness of it all? And then what?

Hugh Hewitt: The Catholic Vote In PA and Ohio
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — Bill Kristol notes that McCain could thread the electoral college needle. (HT: RobinsonandLong.com.) PowderTracks Blog e-mails me that the IBD-TIPP poll shows 11% of Catholics nationwide are "undecided," which is extraordinary given the amount of effort Catholic leaders have put into instructing their faithful this year on the paramount importance of the life issue and Obama's abortion radicalism. If IBD-TIPP remains, as it was in 2004, the most accurate poll in 2008 and the race does emerge as the close and possibly upset contest IBD is predicting, the great untold stories --among many untold stories by the MSM-- will be the decisive ...

Hugh Hewitt: The Catholic Vote In PA and Ohio
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Bill Kristol notes that McCain could thread the electoral college needle. (HT: RobinsonandLong.com.) PowderTracks Blog e-mails me that the IBD-TIPP poll shows 11% of Catholics nationwide are "undecided," which is extraordinary given the amount of effort Catholic leaders have put into instructing their faithful this year on the paramount importance of the life issue and Obama's abortion radicalism. If IBD-TIPP remains, as it was in 2004, the most accurate poll in 2008 and the race does emerge as the close and possibly upset contest IBD is predicting, the great untold stories --among many untold stories by the MSM-- will be the decisive ...

What if John McCain Wins?
(Obsolete Feed) — ... And then there’s a young woman from Denver who “told her boyfriend that their love life was on hold while she sweated out Mr. Obama’s performance in Colorado.” Well, what if Obama loses Colorado? Or the presidency? As a compassionate conservative, I’m concerned about the well-being of that boyfriend — and of others who might be similarly situated. I feel an obligation to help. So let me tell liberals why they should be cheerful if McCain happens to win. Click through and watch Kristol turn liberal spin on its head. Join the Blogs of War ...

Shorter Bill Kristol
Martini Revolution — The master of always wrong pens another classic: Hey Liberals, Don’t Worry There’s been a certain amount of pop sociology in America … that says that the Right will have an extreme reaction should Barack Obama win the Presidential election. There’s almost no evidence of that at all, other than a few plots to assassinate Obama, and various statements from the Right claiming that Obama is a communist, a muslim, not eligible to be President, hates white people, secretly covets the destruction of Israel, is BFF with Ahmehenijad, and is the secret love-child ...

Of Course John McCain Will Lose
PoliGazette — In his latest column for the New York Times, hyperpositive Bill Kristol argues that Sen. John McCain could very well win tomorrow. This while McCain is trailing in just about every single important poll in every single important state. Although Kristol’s column may encourage some McCain supporters to stay home Tuesday to go vote nonetheless, I agree with Robert S. ‘the other’ McCain that he and people like Kristol are unlikely to help their own party and / or ideology and are living in a fantasy world. Rationally, one will have to assume that Obama wins, unless God would suddenly intervene. In other words: ...

The most ridiculous thing Bill Kristol ever wrote
Newshoggers.com — By Cernig Bill Kristol, always wrong, today wrote: Barack Obama will probably win the 2008 presidential election.  If he does, we conservatives will greet the news with our usual resolute stoicism or cheerful fatalism. Does even Kristol believe that? There's going to be a ...

Brainster's Blog — Around the Horn Why liberals should cheer a McCain victory. 1. It would be a victory for an underdog. Liberals are supposed to like underdogs. McCain is a lonely guy standing up against an unprecedentedly well-financed, superorganized, ExxonMobil-like Obama juggernaut. A McCain upset victory would be a classic liberal happy ending. Another moron Obamacan claims that Obama is the "real" conservative: Social Security has long been considered one of the most ...

Deep Thots
Jules Crittenden — [image] « De Tocqueville Learns How To Say G’Day Deep Thots And a few shallow ones rounded up for your mulling as the fatal day draws nigh. Here’s Kristol at NYT , cheerfully, with helpful hints to libs on how to look on the bright side of a McCain win. Unstated subtext … it’s a growth opportunity: how to lose without being whining, conspiracy-theorist babies or destructive vandals about it. You know, the way they ran their race:   [Obama+vandals+at+work.jpg] Down the street from Uncommonly Sensible ’s house. OK, conspiracy theory … the McCainist homeowner or one of his neighbors did it to make conservatives look bad! A Conservative Reckoning ...

Get ready for the right's post-election delegitimization drive
Crooks and Liars — ... that rob citizens of their legitimate voting rights. Republicans have been doing that too. Facts don't matter to people like the Putz and Fund, though. They're only interested in propagating right-wing bullshit. These guys are setting the table for after Tuesday. We can count, I'm sure, on four years of hearing how Obama stole this election. After all, the one thing they can't stand is to admit they actually got their asses kicked. Bill Kristol says they'll greet the news with "with our usual resolute stoicism or cheerful fatalism." Yeah, right, Let's not forget their usual ...

hope springs infernal
skippy the bush kangaroobill kristol is a cock-eyes optimist: so liberals shouldn’t be too upset at the idea of mccain winning. could it happen? it’s possible. what if the polls, for various reasons, are overstating obama’s support by a couple ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: john_murtha) Hey Liberals, Don’t Worry - Bill Kristol Barack Obama will probably win the 2008 presidential election. If he does, we conservatives will greet the news with our usual ...

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