To Ron Radosh at PJM, who's lackey isn't doing his job

His piece is here:

http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2010/09/23/why-republicans-will-not-win-the-senate/

A taste:

Now consider today’s Republican Party. At a moment when it is poised to present meaningful conservative alternatives to the stale bromides of a bankrupt liberalism, far right activists who demand ideological purity and rigidity on all issues dominate the activist base, and seemingly are succeeding in producing a conservatism that is both not electable and far removed from appealing to the disappointments that are driving so many away from the Democratic Party.

My comment, and now response (since whoever there moderates comments couldn't be bothered) here at this august blog:

The center-right has been successfully demonized as being “radical” and “far-right” so long now that people, like you Ron, take it as conventional wisdom, which is definitely conventional, but rarely wise.

We need to redefine what “centrist” actually means. I believe it is not merely someone who sits in the middle between left and center-right, as that implies a center-left mindset – and that satisfies no-one. Not the 20% self-described “liberal” and definitely not the 42% of the electorate who claim “conservative”. Even the 35% who currently claim “moderate”, when push comes to shove, will abandon that and go one way or the other. And that will almost invariably end up with a majority of “conservatives” in the electorate. So someone tell me why we should have a party that panders to that middle group and leaves the larger “base” unfulfilled instead of embracing the base and reaching out to the “moderates” and convincing them that their agenda most meets their needs? After all, the moderates are the ones that need convincing and they put themselves there to be convinced. Besides, do you really think a “centrist” party is going to peel off any part of the 20% of “liberals”? When a self-identified group gets near those numbers, it’s the hard-core true-believers. they can’t BE convinced to vote for you.

In essence, Ron, you’re advocating the same policies the GOP has run for nearly ever – chase the “moderates” by being “centrist” and throw a couple bones to the conservatives but generally ignore them as they will always be there. Which was what Bush and the Republican leadership have done since Gingrich was ousted, and continue to try to do this year with neglect and active hostility towards conservative challengers in Florida, Delaware, and Alaska. Basically, be “Democrat-lite” and manage the disaster that liberalism is creating instead of actually averting it. What did that get them in 2006 and 2008?

Oh, yeah, the people will vote for the actual Democrat or Republican rather than the pale imitation.

Let's give the people an actual party for which to vote.

Amy Schumer Advertises Herself Out To Be An Easy Date

Thanks to Da Tech Guy by way of the Hot Air quotes for the day.

At about the 3:58 mark, Amy Schumer lets it slip that she's had sex with about a "Baker's two dozen". So about 26 guys for a woman who isn't in her thirties yet.  Out of everything she said, that could have been the worse thing that came out of her mouth.  During that clip, obviously.



What irks me is how she feels it's somehow incumbent upon herself to attack Crowder's position about abstinence. Because she's been around the block more than a few times somehow makes her more wise than Crowder. She assumes that Crowder is the naive virgin with rose colored glasses and it's her duty to remove them.

She couldn't even muster up enough self esteem to give him a pat on the back and say, "Good job. Won't work with me because, you know, I'm kind of a gutter trollop myself but if it works for you. . ."

Note to Amy, being flat on your back doesn't make you world-wise. Only world weary.

Anyone else could have traded in their level of fame for some chick who was ready to trot but he hasn't. There's something to be said about the willpower and character of Crowder.

A Visual Representation Of How It Use To Work With Voters And GOP RINOs

The chimp on the left was the RINO. The chimp on the right use to be the voters.

Christine O'Donnell beating noted old guy and RINO Mike Castle was one of the first of many slaps to the hand.

Thanks to BuzzFeed for the photograph.

Fucking A Right This Belongs Here

Thanks to Carol over at No Sheeples Here for a terrific video. She answers the rather childish video put forward by the 'Fuck Tea' party. . . Or whatever their name is this week. Coffee, cocoa, loose stool, you know, their preferred drink instead of Tea.



I'm not sure but I think this is how a video starts to go viral:

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Charlie Crist Takes A Well Deserved Break From Campaigning.

Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.

Kim Kardashian Cloned*

Or standing with her wax double? It's up to debate which on has had more work done.

*Alternative title was Kim Kardashian Kloned in an effort to make Charles Johnson tilt at hidden windmills.

Moe has it right here

I fucking despise Communism.

And he can't say it at RedState, for obvious reasons. But he sure can say that here!

I agree with him. for all the reasons there are. Historical, economic, individualist. Whatever. There is nothing, in my opinion, that communism has to show for itself, except pain and grief. And dedicated fans in the prosperous West, who don't or won't recognize that they can't have what they have now if they get the regime they want.

Moe and I are roughly the same age with just as roughly similar backgrounds (Union and Democrat parents), we were born in the midst of the Vietnam war and grew up in it's aftermath. We both were taught by teachers who cut their teeth on the "peace" and "antiwar" movements. It WAS the '70s and '80s after all. He got much more of it than I - he went to college and got "a liberal arts major with a degree in English lit and some grad school work in library science". I joined the Navy. We both came out alright. I think he had a harder time of it, though. Much more to wade through.

He makes the point that communist countries can't even feed themselves, and therefore they are by definition illegitimate. This is true. Many of us who are our age and older remember Carter's wheat sales to the USSR, and we wondered then, why do they need our wheat, if they are this huge country pledged to our destruction? Why can't the feed themselves? Why do we need to feed them so they can kill us?

But it's more than that. Communism killed the soul of those it let survive. Everything for the state, no individuality please, thank you. That's why they had cars like the Trabant (and were grateful for it) and not cars like the Syrena Sport.

The West, relatively (and more in some places than others), was a "work hard, play hard" kind of place. And it let you play hard, if that was your wont. Behind the iron curtain, it was "work harder" and all glory was to the state, prole, be happy you are furthering the glorious revolution! Isn't that what you want? To be part of something larger than yourself?

That last sentence is key, I think, to the mindset of those who were caught behind the curtain and those who hold nostalgia today. We ALL want to be part of something larger than ourselves. It gives us meaning and a sense of belonging and purpose. I joined the Navy for that very reason. But I think those that fetishize communism and socialism feel the same way, that they are furthering a cause. That makes them dangerous. They're not doing it for themselves, you see, but for humanity. And nothing, not even human bodies, are too high a price for human perfection.

But Moe, you, and I know that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

MrMaryk out.