Thursday, October 18, 2007

Tumultuous Thursday closes with a poll reset and praise for Sam Brownback.

Sam Brownback’s withdrawal from the Presidential race requires a poll reset.

When a candidate drops out, it seems conversation frequently turns to their political future. Some have suggested that Sam would be good Attorney General or gubernatorial candidate in Kansas. I’ve also heard a Brownback gubernatorial run is Sam’s next plan. I sure hope not.

Sam Brownback remains among the most articulate of conservative messengers. If his joint appearance with Joe Biden was more than a campaign stunt, and I think it was, Sam also demonstrated the ability to assert legislative leadership in a legislative chamber that badly needs new leadership.

It would be a shame to waste such talent in a bureaucratic role, like Attorney General. While I know that a governor’s mansion is the resume` line that most likely gets the promotion to the big white house, and Sam surely would still like to be President, a United States Senator has far more influence on the national debate than does the Governor of Kansas.

Sam, please remain in the Senate and provide that new leadership the Senate badly needs.

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

Except for one small detail. Sandy Berger isn't just a former National Security Advisor - he's also the only National Security Advisor in U.S. history to be convicted after stealing and destroying classified documents.

Anonymous said...

I did not have sex with that woman not a single time.

Anonymous said...

Ted:

Would you please put Mark Klein back on your poll and take that goofy bastard up on his bet? $1,000.00 will buy an ass-load of beer for the going away party we can then throw for that shit-heel after he fails to materialize his so called "supporters". Come on, Ted!

Anonymous said...

I am shocked-SHOCKED-that apologizing for slavery did not deliver the South to Switchback.

Anonymous said...

In Chinatown:

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton's campaign treasury.

In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.

Anonymous said...

Like many who traveled this path, most of the Chinese reported as contributing to Clinton's campaign have never voted.

Many speak little or no English. Some seem to lead such ephemeral lives that neighbors say they've never heard of them.

Anonymous said...

The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community.

One-third of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.

Anonymous said...

ya know the nuckle draggers all got yelled at by hillary after obama raised more money than she did. she sure wasn't going to let that happen again. They literally had sacks of cash from the chinese dropped off at the whitehouse for bill's re-election.

Is Bill's money man in charge again?

Anonymous said...

With respect to slavery...let's not forget it was the democrat party that was all for slavery and wanted to sustain it. It was democrats who createdd and sustained the Jim Crow south. It was democrats in Arkansas that blocked the entrance to the schools and a Republican who sent in the national guard. It was a democrat governor in Alabama, George Wallace, who publicly enforced his racism by not integrating schools for his personal racist reasons.

The republicans were always opposed to it and started the party to eliminate slavery in the democrat south.

So...Brownback has nothing to apologize for and neither do any republicans.

It is the democrat party that has ALL the legacy of racism and slavery in their past. It's democrats who hold back blacks. It's democrats who do not have any black cabinet members. It is democrats who think that blacks require special rules to compete because they fundamentally believe black can't compete otherwise.

It's shocking to me that blacks cannot see that.

Anonymous said...

The effort is especially pronounced among groups in the Fujianese community. More than a decade ago, Fujianese cultural associations ran gambling operations and, more ominously, at least one was home to a gang that trafficked in illegal Fujian native immigrants.

A crackdown by the FBI's organized-crime task force led to the indictment of more than 20 Fujian native traffickers. Today, the problem has substantially dissipated, says Konrad Motyka of the FBI's New York field office, who participated in the investigation of the Golden Venture.

Although Motyka is wary of the havoc wreaked in the past by Fujianese organized crime, he said: "I welcome signs that the community is participating in politics."

Anonymous said...

A man named Liang Zheng was listed as having contributed $1,000. The address given was a large apartment building on East 194th Street in the Bronx, but no one by that name could be located there.

...beneath the Manhattan Bridge, is a building that is listed as the home of Sang Cheung Lee, also reported to have given $1,000.

Trash was piled in the dimly lighted entrance hall. Neighbors said they knew of no one with Lee's name there; they knocked on one another's doors in a futile effort to find him.

Anonymous said...

Salespeople at a store on Canal Street were similarly baffled when asked about Shih Kan Chang, listed as working there and having given $1,000. The store sells purses, jewelry and novelty Buddha statues. Employees said they had not heard of Chang.

Another listed donor, Yi Min Liu, said he did not make the $1,000 contribution in April that was reported in his name. He said he attended a banquet for Clinton but did not give her money.

Anonymous said...

PUT QUACK KLEIN ON THE POLL!

We U.S. Americans need the national quack!!!!!!

PUT HIM ON THE POLL!

QUACK KLEIN rEVOLution!!!!

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Mark Klein is a gutless fink. That drip chooses to hide behind that liberal Register rag, where attacks against his mindless horseshit (and outright lies) are editted out, instead of blogging in here where it's a bare knuckles brawl. There is some joker on the Reg that tears Klein's ass up, "The Iguana", I think is the screen name.

Come on Ted, take the fucker's bet.

Anonymous said...

Bob,

The Quackster is gonna win.

Join the winner...

Mark Motherfuckin Klein!

Klein 08!!!

Anonymous said...

Don't deny the enevitable. The Quackman is going to carry the poll, carry Iowa, and carry the election next year. Jump on now and don't get left behind.


How good is Quacky?? Quack Klein can slam a revolving door shut--Fuck Yea!!

Anonymous said...

Maybe Ted's reluctance to put me back on the straw poll is his fear the "hot wife", as he described her recently on this blog, will recircumcize him, or worse, for very publically losing the $100? A psychiatrist I'm fully familiar with psychodynamics of castration anxiety.

Anonymous said...

I got Quack Klein fever---and the only cure is more cowbell!!!

Anonymous said...

We talk like men in here Klein, you fink. So strap on your maxi-pad and hang on, baby, the ride is just beginning.

Anonymous said...

WAR finks!

Anonymous said...

ya know..the quack klein obscenities are getting old. Please clean up the language a bit. Make fun of him if you wish, but stop with all the fucking f bombs.

Anonymous said...

Peggy Noonan always gets it just right. This snippet from her most recent column about Shemale Hillary.

...she doesn't have to prove she is a man, she has to prove she is a woman. Her problem is not her sex, as she and her campaign pretend. That she is a woman is a boon to her, a source of latent power.

But to make it work, she has to seem like a woman.

No one doubts Mrs. Clinton's ability to make war. No close or longtime observer has ever been quoted as saying that she may be too soft for the job.

Instead one worries about what has always seemed her characterological bellicosity.

She invented the War Room, listened in on the wiretaps, brought into the White House the man who got the private FBI files of the Clintons' perceived enemies.

Anonymous said...

.....MORE from PEGGY.

It's always high drama with her, always a cauldron--secret Web sites put up by unnamed operatives smearing Barack Obama in the tones of Tokyo Rose, Chinese businessmen having breakdowns on trains after the campaign cash is traced back, secret deals.

The question, actually, is not whether America is "ready" for a woman. It's whether it's ready for Hillary. And surely as savvy a campaign vet as Mrs. Clinton knows this.

Who, of all the powerful women in American politics right now, has inspired the unease, dismay and frank dislike that she has?

Condi Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein? These are serious women who are making crucial decisions about our national life every day.

They inspire agreement and disagreement; they fight and are fought with. But they do not inspire repugnance. Nobody hates Barbara Mikulski, Elizabeth Dole or Kay Bailey Hutchison; everyone respects Ms. Rice and Ms. Feinstein.

Anonymous said...

FINK

Pronunciation: \ˈfiŋk\

Function: noun

Etymology: origin unknown

Date: 1903

1 : one who is disapproved of or is held in contempt

2 : Mark Klein, M. fucking D.

Anonymous said...

The letter is, in fact, an important historical document, representing an attempt to silence the single most prominent private citizen critic of the Democratic Party, written on official stationery of the Majority Leader of the United States Senate and bearing the signatures of the vast majority of his caucus, including the front-runner and other candidates for the Party's presidential nomination.

The mainstream media have taken a beating in viewership and readership and in credibility the past two decades that Rush Limbaugh has been on the air, and the Democrats are perpetually outraged that he dominates the entire medium of talk radio, while no liberal host has ever been able to mount a halfway comparable performance on the public airwaves.

Anonymous said...

i wonder how many democrats will do a Mikulsky and continue to tell this lie. it's a highly proven lie started by the Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid and Clinton and Obama lied too by signing it. This is the democrat leadership...lots of great big fat lies by great big fat liars who want to be President.

This is how the Democrat Congress spends their time.

Do democrats feel this was good use of their time?

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