Live from #CA2NV headquarters in Las Vegas, it's Saturday afternoon...
- This is what the "unskewed polls" guy has to say about Nate Silver:
Nate Silver is a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the “Mr. New Castrati” voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program. In fact, Silver could easily be the poster child for the New Castrati in both image and sound. Nate Silver, like most liberal and leftist celebrities and favorites, might be of average intelligence but is surely not the genius he's made out to be. His political analyses are average at best and his projections, at least this year, are extremely biased in favor of the Democrats.
Conservatives are such nice people. Of course, when Obama wins the electoral college as Nate Silver is predicting, it will only mean that the aforementioned "thin and effeminate man" will have given him a solid ass-kicking. Playground bullies, the lot of them.
- Mitt Romney (the 2005 model, anyway) on gay parents:
The following year, 2005, Romney spoke to conservative voters in South Carolina, as he trained his eye on the presidency. "Some gays are actually having children born to them,'' he said. "It's not right on paper. It's not right in fact. Every child has a right to a mother and father.''
Does it really matter whether his actions and statements were motivated by Romney's authoritarian Mormon faith or were a pander to evangelicals as he sought the presidency, or both? That he could be so zealous, cold-hearted and cruel should alarm everyone about the prospect of Mitt Romney becoming president.
Real Romney? Pandering Romney? Who cares? The end result is the same. And the Log Cabin Republicans STILL endorsed the guy?
- No, really, it took you this long to figure it out?
Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists."
Retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson made the comment in response to Mitt Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu's suggestion on Thursday that Powell's endorsement of President Barack Obama's re-election was motivated by race. Wilkerson, who served as Powell's chief of staff when the general was secretary of state during the first George W. Bush term, told Schultz that he respected Sununu "as a Republican, as a member of my party," but did not "have any respect for the integrity of the position that [Sununu] seemed to codify."
Would have thought that was clear since the days of Nixon and Atwater. Better late than never, I guess?
- Nate Silver responds to the above:
- Harry Reid was in a car accident yesterday afternoon, but is doing just fine.
- digby, on the whole Lena Dunham video uproar:
I feel faint. In fact, I think I might just keel over if I don't have a small glass of sherry and tiny drop of laudanum immediately. What kind of sex fiend would ever say something like this in public?
“I know what it’s like to pull the Republican lever for the first time, because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute and then it feels just great.”
That statement is so despicably obscene I think I might just take to my bed and expire. Like Eric Erickson I must protest: “If you need any further proof we live in a fallen world destined for hell fire, consider the number of people who have no problem with the President of the United States, ridiculing virgins and comparing sex to voting.” Oh yes indeed.
Who is this horrible degenerate who would bring sex into a political campaign in such a vulgar manner?
The Washington Post reported on Nov. 1, 1980: Ronald Reagan.
See, it's just fine for men to compare sex to voting and encourage people to lose their voting virginity, provided that we're talking about voting Republican. But if a woman compares sex to voting and encourages other women to lose their voting virginity on behalf of a black Democrat, well...in the words of Erick Erickson, HELL FIRE! In other news, how the hell is Eric Erickson still a CNN contributor? Some things boggle the mind.
- Consumer confidence is at its highest level since April:
Consumer confidence last week reached a six-month high as U.S. households became less pessimistic about the economy.
The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index rose to minus 34.6 in the period ended Oct. 21, the eighth gain in the last nine weeks, from minus 34.8 the previous period. Americans’ views of economy were the brightest since early May.
This could be another reason for the President's rising poll numbers: people thinking the economy is actually on the rebound, even as Romney runs around preaching doom.
- Meanwhile, tea party jackasses are doing everything they can to prevent that economic recovery from taking effect:
Congressional Republicans have acted shocked and offended at Democrats’ suggestions that they are intentionally sabotaging the economy to try to win back the White House in 2012. Republicans have refused to pass President Obama’s jobs plan — which experts estimate will create at least 1.9 million jobs — and proposed an alternative plan that Moody’s says “will likely push the economy back into recession.”
Now influential Tea Party leaders are throwing caution to the wind and openly lobbying business owners to stop hiring in order to hurt Obama politically. This week, Right Wing Watch picked up on a message Tea Party Nation sent to their members from conservative activist Melissa Brookstone.
So, you're going to hurt your own economic interests to damage the re-election chances of a president who you say is...hurting your economic interests. Yeah, that makes sense.