davidl on January 5th, 2008

Michelle MalkinLord knows we love her.   Michelle Malkin live-blogs the debates.

Round One:  Republican.

Round Two:  Democrat

Memo to Ron Paul:  Get off the stage.

Memo to Ronbots:  Shove it

Good night for Red Bull.

Addendum:

‘Rat food fight, Breck

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Eric Florack on January 5th, 2008

I note with some amusement the flack Jonah is getting form the Left… such as Matt Stoller and Glenn Greenwald…for example, over this:

Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I

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davidl on January 5th, 2008

The Joe Gandelman, Moderate Voice has gone snarky:

It is often been said that former President Bill Clinton is Senator Hillary Clinton’s closest, best and most astute political advisor. If that’s the case and a recent statement he reportedly

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Eric Florack on January 5th, 2008

We’ve already spoken to the Republican side of things, last night. So now on to the Democrats.

As we noted, the other night, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden dropped out of the race, not even bothering to wait for the

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davidl on January 5th, 2008

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, is confused by what Mike Huckabee means by his term ‘vertical” politics.   Josh does a real good job documenting Huckabee’s use this baffling term.   In the end, Josh concludes

The more I look at

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davidl on January 5th, 2008

Mrs. William ClintonMatthew Yglesias, Atlantic,  seems as confused by Mrs. Clinton’s recent campaign maneuver as I am.    Mrs. Clinton has accused  Barack Obama of being too liberal.   Thomas Edsall, Puffington Post:

Hillary’s aides point to Obama’s extremely progressive record as

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Eric Florack on January 4th, 2008

Was installing a new screen in my Palm Pilot, tonight. While working, I had a chance to mentally break down each candidate with respect to Iowa.

Some notes in no particular Order:

Mike Huckabee;

Huckabee did about as well as

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davidl on January 4th, 2008

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, asks a simple question:

Dear Iowa Republicans,

I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?

The news coming out of Des Moines

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davidl on January 4th, 2008

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“Iowa plays an important role, but look, fewer people participated in the two caucuses than the number of people who vote in Witchita, Kansas. Fewer people participated in the caucuses than vote in Dakota County, Minnesota, and I’ll bet most

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Eric Florack on January 4th, 2008

Dodd has dropped out. So has Biden. Most didn’t know they were running at all. THe results were so bad for them they apparently decided not to wait the few days to New Hampshire.

The State of IowaHillary Clinton, meanwhile, will be

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davidl on January 4th, 2008

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Mrs Clinton’s dais has one message on it, change, her props, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark and B.J. Clinton sends another contradictory message,  Clinton administration redux. 

Mrs. Clinton has a choice, neither particularly attractive.   Either she can run on a third

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davidl on January 3rd, 2008

Mrs. William ClintonMrs.  Clinton, the clueless one, who is billed by her husband, as some sort of “World Class Genius” , and calls herself tough, finally found somebody  she was had the backbone which to stand-up against..

Mrs. Ciinton stood-up to Micheal

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Eric Florack on January 3rd, 2008

Peter Robinson at The Corner

The latest news from Iowa? According to Zogby’s latest—and I quote: “Sen. Fred Thompson…has seen a late-breaking surge.” (Rich notes the same poll below.)

What’s going on here? My guess is that there are

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davidl on January 2nd, 2008

Christopher Hayes, in Nation, writes of “Return of the Swift Boater:”

More than three years after John Kerry’s bitter defeat, at the dawn of what looks like a far more promising campaign cycle for the Democrats, the

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Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2008

Well, let’s see.

Mike Huckabee spent his day fighting back against Rush Limbaugh, who says Huck isn’t a conservative. He then went on to detail several new government welfare programs.

John McCain battled the age issue, saying at Age

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