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….The Howling Silence Here   

  Versus The Michigan Traffic Jams.

If Jokes Could Track? 

The Coltons Point Times is unafraid to link the Palin email breakin to the toxic legacy of the Nixon era, breathlessly inquiring if Obama did it.  

The evidence:  lack of original thought, and statements of the obvious:

“In watching the various liberal media outlets comment about the stolen emails they used almost the exact words as Obama campaign representatives dismissing the seriousness of the theft and turning attention to the fact Sarah Palin had a private email account. Then insinuating she must have had the account to hide things from the State of Alaska. How stupid is that? Nearly everyone in America has a private email account including most members of the media…Why did the liberal media and the campaign spokespersons have the exact same script? Why did they raise the exact same issue? Why weren’t they outraged by the invasion of privacy? And why did they keep looking at the emails in their possession? If the Obama campaign was involved in the theft or any of these following actions it is the most serious breach of faith possible to the American public and would only demonstrate that a secret agenda must be driving them, one called Big Brother, where the right to privacy will no longer exist.”

Faith in CPT’s iron logic is, shall we say, undercut by his nut-ball flair. His searing indictment starts out”Privacy in America is guaranteed by the Constitution… ”

…when of course all true sons of the soil know this “right” was invented by Supreme Court Marxists to allow the proliferation of filthy birth control devices.

“We shall await the results of the federal criminal investigation.”   Watch the skies!

It Girl

The McCain campaign practice of repeating lies even in the face of their refutation  has spread to their apologists.

Even after National Treasure Thomas Frank blew up Sarah Palin’s Truman-homage-via-quoting-a-nut-who-wanted-FDR-dead, The Weekly Standard claims that “”So far no one has picked up on the significance of Palin’s invocation of Harry Truman in her convention speech.”

It’s all about the rise of natural aristocrats.  Steven F. Hayward deploys a little Founder-Rama genuflection to Adams and Jefferson,  then honers Truman [and Palin, in this alternative universe]  by wheeling out one of the mustiest of nineties cliches:

Gettin’ It.

“Her reference was more than just a bridge to a heartland-versus-Beltway theme. Truman, recall, was the only president of the 20th century who was not a college graduate…In retrospect it is clear that Truman “got it.” He didn’t need any more “experience” to master the job. “

Pass the corn.

Name In Vain 

Hope Arkansas’s Second Son Mike Huckabee graced the stage at the Republican convention’s Wednesday session, offering up democrat and  god fearin’.

Sadly the Arkansas Augustus has been caught out making up a Lincoln quote, the gist of which is to make Old Abe an enemy of big government. It’s been attributed to much of the Founders pantheon, but it’s really just a Gerry Ford line from the 70s.

The whitest Republican convention in forty years remains eager to drop Lincoln’s name, the latest being both Cindi and John McCain Thursday night.

  You’d think she might shy away from the word Lincoln.

Mount Up & Ride  

It’s come to this: Vaseline-lensed Ronald Reagan nostalgia mobilized as the bridge between the today’s grim reality and yesterday’s failed successor, who spun tales about the Republican nominee to be.

Right Said Fred  

  President Bush managed to scrape up a satellite link to the Republican convention, Reagan weaved his magic from beyond the grave, and then spirits sank in the jowly presence of one of the party’s legion of New Reagan burnouts,  Fred Thompson.

What was the source of Reagan’s special magic? He was a Maverick!

“…the media despised him,  they called him an outsider.”
The convention video also pointed to President From The Future Reagan prophesying McCain’s provocative “Country First” slogan,  as demonstrated by jaunty hat usage while serving stateside in the great war.

   CNN’s thoughtful John King swooned that “for any American watching it was a nostalgic trip back in time,” building on the great media tradition of getting all dreamy at the mention of Reagan.