Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007, Mitt Romney’s unofficial shill in the right-wing blogosphere Hugh Hewitt declares: “McCain Campaign On The Rocks”.
Of course, most observers will realize that Hewitt has no idea what the hell he’s talking about, and in fact if you were a betting man or woman you should put money on John McCain as the GOP nominee based on Hugh Hewitt’s ability to predict the political future (and people are).
Track Record:
Whatever the reason, the optimism among Republicans about their improving prospects is as real as the GOP’s momentum. Both houses of Congress could go either way, but Democrats are beginning to understand what it meant to a Browns fan to hear, “Elway in the shotgun as the clock begins to tick down…”
The bottom line: Good momentum in most places,a surprising surge in Michigan, hope for Santorum and DeWine. Much much more. Listen or read.
Signing off for the night as I will be up early looking for the first wave of Beltway-Manhattan media machine reports of doom for the Republicans and waves for the Democrats.
Don’t believe a word of it.
That’s why the wind changed, btw: The GOP remains the mostly serious party and the Dems the almost always silly party. Voters have always known that, but as the election approached, began to consider what control by the mostly silly party would mean. The GOP has always pushed the “elections are a choice” theme, and the reality of that perspective’s impact is seen in the numbers Mehlman cites.
I’m alone no longer. Geraghty the Indispensable, responding to Obi Wan Kenobi’s prodding, also senses the oncoming Republican wave. Add to Obi Wan’s poll analysis an unprecedented GOP GOTV effort, and I’m feeling really good.
Of course, homegamers will remember the results of Hewitt’s predictions:
Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans Wednesday with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994, as NBC News reported that Democrat Jim Webb was the apparent winner.
Totally, completely, wrong. In the run-up to the election Hugh Hewitt either chose to believe his own b.s. over the evidence available in poll after poll, or was just making sh*t up. Either way, a clear sign of momentum for Old Man McCain is Hewitt saying the opposite.
Good research, so his compass points south?
John “LLoyd Dobler” McCain, he’s standing outside your house holding up his boombox playing “In Your Eyes”.
I am curious who the wingnuts on this board support. I know they hate not having a single, strong leader to line up behind — not having clear marching orders has got to be killing them.
At any given moment, PowerLine, Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt have no fucking idea what they’re talking about.
Hooray for the silly party. The serious party has been seriously deranged lately, or as they like to call it, “faith-based.” You know, like the inquisition.
I don’t know what you’re talking about but it sounds like a very, very minor tryping errot.
It really shows the weakness of the right when you guys have to resort to typo lames, tyfuck, to counter evidence of substantive dim-bulbitude from your fellow goosesteppers
Oops! Did I type “tyfuck” instead of “tyfoc”?
My bad.
Someone get Hewitt a T-shirt that reads “If only these were brains”
Oh yeah, you’re an sasolhe, tyfoc.
Tyfoc went all out for the greatest foreign policy error since Vietnam. Apparently, having a gigantic glass house gives some people all the more reason to throw stones.
“Or perhaps you are no closer to perfect than those you criticize for their punditry.”
buzz buzz little fly
Yes, clearly my typo at 4 in the morning totally validates Hugh Hewitt’s cavalcade of wrongness. Of course, unlike Hewitt, I don’t pretend to have the ability to see the future.
A GOP pundit making predictions for and within his own party.
Man, when has that ever happened before??
“Man, when has that ever happened before??”
and when have they ever been right, despite the ‘insider view’ they are paid for.
PD, I actually read that as “asshole”. One of those things where the brain reads the bunch of letters and figures it out rather than reading each individual letter. Cool.
Hey he got this part right:
“what it meant to a Browns fan to hear, ‘Elway in the shotgun as the clock begins to tick down’”
Can someone tell me what Odub’s typo was? Looks like it’s since been corrected.
Either he put “Nov” where he meant “Jan” or he typed one too many ones. SHOCK
Looks like it’s since been corrected.
Nothing to see here, folks. Please move along.
I typed “1″ where I should have typed “11″, for that I must be punished.
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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
0718 AM EST FRI JAN 26 2007
…RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT KENNEDY…
A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 9 DEGREES WAS SET AT KENNEDY TODAY AT
647 AM. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 9 SET IN 1994.
does this mean you are wrong about TEH WARMENING? Can we expect an apology from Al Gore?
Except this year is still on scheduled to be the hottest ever, breaking last years record, and the year before that.
Oliver maybe you should go ahead and get that bachelors degree…
The weather isn’t “scheduled”. It varies, and tends to vary around an average. Just remember that scientists twenty years ago were predicting another ice age. Twenty years is literally a blink of the eye in geologic terms. Once the weather guessers give me a good explaination for why the vikings were growing wheat in greenland back in the middle ages without internal combustion engines, maybe I will buy off on it…
You probably don’t even know why you’re so dead set against the concept of climate change. It’s just a Talking Point so you have to have an Opinion about it, and it has to be the Officially Sanction Opinion.
Live for the military industrial complex. Die for the military industrial complex.
Pedro was so excited about his meaningless data point he had to hijack a thread to post it?
Elementary science, doctor: individual data points are meaningless void of context. One warm day doesn’t make an argument for global warming, one cold day doesn’t make an argument against it.
I feel no pressing need to get a bachelors when there are so-called doctors as misinformed as you. My best friend is a doctor, yet he doesn’t hang around on blogs all day long. He’s got these things called “patients”. Real doctors tend to have them.
Doctor of Mixology, nipping at his own medicine.
Please. McCain is reviled by the republicans as much as Hillary is by democrats.
The clueless media has already deemed them the winners and basically tell us why vote in the primaries or even have primaries as they have been crowned king and queen by the media.
What they cannot understand, or will not, is both are equally on people’s shit list and not the oppositions alone.
Thank you wilbur, that was exactly my point. OW looks outside in the winter and sees a warm day…decision made. And yea Ollie, please don’t bother to develop a sound foundation for evaluating data. Just repeat after the ideologues like Gore, who drop in from their G5’s like one of your comic-book heroes and tell you what to think…Brilliant. In the meantime work hard in your cubicle….but understand that if the dems make it to the WH, they won’t have much use for you in one of those cushy political appointments without a degree…
Pedro looks outside in the winter and sees a snowflake…decision made.
You’re arguing over whether the sky is blue simply because Al Gore says it is. You’re an idiot.
Sorry, Pedro, guess I should have been more specific when speaking to a scientific ignoramus like yourself:
Your one datapoint means nothing against the growing scientific consensus that global warming is real.
When Oliver points out instances of strange weather, they are anecdotal to be sure, but they still have value in reminding us of the reality of the global warming phenomenon (and the increasingly urgent need to do something about it).
I don’t expect that you’ll understand any of this, but it still needs to be said. Others with a bit more on the ball than you might be listening in.
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