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RandySF's JournalMoveOn sends ‘General Betray-us’ down the memory hole
Within the last few days — and possibly as recently as this morning — MoveOn.org scrubbed its website of the juvenile and offensive “General Betray-us” ad of 2007. Details here, and yes, they’re worth a good chuckle for the morning.
Back then, MoveOne described Petraeus as “a military man constantly at war with the facts.” He was, as the ad put it, “likely to become General Betray-us.”
The ad also said that “General Petraeus will not admit what everyone knows: Iraq is mired in an unwinnable religious civil war.”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/moveon-sends-general-betray-us-down-memory-hole#ixzz2ByVy2HsF
Man With the Iron Fists is fun.
Don't expect much in the way of great acting. Very corny at times and very bloody from beginning to end. However, if you were ever a fan of those Saturday after kung fu flick, you will have a lot of fun.
Texas GOP official: “Maggots” re-elected Obama
Peter Morrison, treasurer of the Hardin County Republican Party in Texas, suggests in his newsletter that the state should have an “amicable divorce” from the “maggots” who re-elected Obama.
Morrison posted on his Facebook page his post-election thoughts: “We must contest every single inch of ground and delay the baby-murdering, tax-raising socialists at every opportunity. But in due time, the maggots will have eaten every morsel of flesh off of the rotting corpse of the Republic, and therein lies our opportunity.”
“Texas was once its own country, and many Texans already think in nationalist terms about their state,” Morrison continued. “We need to do everything possible to encourage a long-term shift in thinking on this issue. Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government? Let each go her own way in peace, sign a free trade agreement among the states and we can avoid this gut-wrenching spectacle every four years.”
Reached for comment by Bud Kennedy at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Kent Batman, the chairman of the Hardin County Republican Party, said: “Wow.”
“OK, well — I guess I need to start taking a look at his newsletters,” Batman said.
According to Kennedy, State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy picked Morrison to screen the state’s public-school textbooks.
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/texas_gop_official_maggots_re_elected_obama/
How did Tester win? Big margins in cities – and some help from friends
HELENA — When the dust finally settled Wednesday morning on Montana’s epic U.S. Senate race, Sen. Jon Tester was the clear winner — despite having had a target on his back as a “most vulnerable” Democrat in a conservative state.
How did he do it?
It wasn’t because of any big mistakes by his chief opponent, Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, who ran a disciplined, focused campaign that cast Tester as a big-spending, tax-raising, regulation-loving acolyte of President Barack Obama, who isn’t the most popular guy in Montana.
For many reasons, the charges just didn’t stick — and Tester ran a pretty good campaign himself, rolling up huge margins in nearly all of Montana’s major cities and winning key groups of voters.
And while Tester was under relentless fire from TV ads by outside groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, he had a little help from his own friends – labor, environmentalists, women’s groups – who not only bought some TV but also ran an aggressive, widespread ground game on his behalf.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/reporter-s-notebook-how-did-tester-win-big-margins-in/article_e0d351c8-4b02-527e-aae9-4e11895637ef.html#ixzz2BuKXOIx2
Daily Kos: Alabama Joins the Secession Movement
In order to remove any doubt that Alabama is a backward, racist place to live, now a petition is being circulated at whitehouse.gov, seeking permission for Alabama to secede from the United States and form its own government.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
Alabama overwhelmingly voted for Romney over Obama by a 60/40 margin, elected disgraced former Chief Justice Roy "Moses and the Ten Commandments Monument" Moore back into the all Republican Supreme Court, and passed Alabama Statewide Amendment 6 to "prohibit any person, employer, or health care provider from being compelled to participate in any health care system". (Proposed by Act 2011-617) .
If I weren't unfortunate enough to live in north Alabama, I would say go right ahead, buh bye, and don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/11/1160280/-Alabama-Joins-the-Secession-Movement
Arizona still has 200,000 ballots yet to be counted.
PHOENIX -- Several thousand early ballots from this week’s election still have yet to be counted.
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell has announced that 44,788 ballots were tabulated on Saturday.
Purcell added that approximately 200,000 early ballots still have yet to be counted, along with another 122,000 provisional ballots.
The canvass of elections is scheduled for Monday. For more information and updates you can visit www.recorder.maricopa.gov.
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Several-thousand-early-provisional-ballots-still-to-be-counted-178473041.html
Romney's pollster should be chased out of the industry.
No Republican candidate for major office should ever hire Neil Newhouse again. We had fun this year watching Rasmussen inflate the voter ID in his polls. We rolled our eyes listening about unskewed polls, but at the end of the day, their polls are nothing but entertainment value. On the other hand, internal presidential campaign polls determine how valuable time and millions of dollars are spent. Yet Newhouse decided, on no objective basis, that the Republican share of the vote would be the same as 2004 or 2010 and that Obama would not be able to generate the same level of enthusiasm as 2008. Good pollsters don't make assumptions, they research and measure. And if the numbers don't look good, they are what they are. At least Romney would not have been spending time in Pennsylvania during the last week of the campaign. And they might have saved themselves the embarrassment of buying that firework display.
Black athlete having second thoughts about attending Ole Miss after election night riot.
A once solid commitment to the University of Mississippi, Carver running back Eugene Brazley, who on Feb. 25 pledged to play for the Rebels next season, is now having serious doubts.
Shortly after Carver’s 36-12 victory over South Plaquemines Friday in the bi-district round of the state playoffs, Brazley expressed concern with the predilection for racism in Oxford, Miss., and said he is now “looking around” and could decommit.
“Some of my people told me they had a riot because of (President Barack) Obama, and some of the players might be decommitting,” Brazley said. “I hadn’t really had a chance to look into it, but I’m gonna get in to it, though.
“I’m definitely looking at Arizona State right now and want to go check them out.”
Just after midnight, Wednesday, Nov. 7, University of Mississippi students gathered on campus near the Student Union to protest the re-election of Obama. The impromptu gathering, which reportedly began with 30-40 students and quickly grew to over 400, included appalling displays of racial intolerance and bigotry, with students yelling epithets and burning Obama-Biden campaign signs.
http://highschoolsports.nola.com/news/article/-1907007392258941081/carver-running-back-eugene-brazley-wavering-on-commitment-to-ole-miss-after-racially-charged-obama-protest/
RNC's Priebus leaning toward 2nd run
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will make an announcement next week about whether he’ll seek another term, but he’s leaning toward launching a second campaign at the helm, sources told POLITICO.
Questions about Priebus’s intentions come as the party starts to look inward after a shellacking at the ballot box in the presidential race, and in a wide swath of Senate contests last Tuesday.
Priebus is weighing his options and his preferences, and will make his desires known at some point next week, ahead of the Thanksgiving holidays. But he’s leaning toward running again for a seat he wrested from onetime ally Michael Steele back in January 2011, a senior Republican official said.
Despite the GOP’s deep losses on Tuesday, and off-the-record grumbling about Priebus and the future direction of the party from some Republicans, there is no apparent challenger in sight, according to multiple party sources.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83666.html#ixzz2BqeMQ4bn
Elections have consequences: New PA Att. Gen. to investigate Corbett over Penn State inquiry.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett turned the political tables Friday on Pennsylvania's newly elected attorney general and questioned the sincerity of her pledge to look into how prosecutors handled the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse investigation and why it took so long.
Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected to the office, is coming off a campaign in which she beat up on Corbett and soundly beat her Republican opponent whom she had repeatedly called Corbett's "hand-picked" candidate. She touted herself as the only independent prosecutor in the contest and seized on the passion surrounding the former Penn State assistant coach's case to say she would investigate why it took 33 months to charge Sandusky after the attorney general's office began looking into the case.
Asked about it Friday, Corbett said he never played politics with the investigation, which began under him when he was attorney general. Political adversaries have repeatedly questioned whether Corbett dragged out the investigation to ensure it didn't become public while he was running for governor in 2010 and, in theory, anger Penn State fans or alumni into voting against him.
But he maintained that he never told anyone to slow down the investigation and then he took a shot at Kane.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Corbett-questions-politics-behind-Kane-s-inquiry-4024693.php#ixzz2BqaJ1mZN
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