Nightly Ramble: Captions,Cease Fires,Chuckles,Clintons, And the Mobius

• I’m going to have to post a really good quip someday. Meanwhile, your humble webmaster got himself another Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest.
• I said it last night; I had my doubts that Sadr was going to break

• So, now we see that Mike Huckabee has been eliminated from the race, numerically. The result of the Patomic Runoffs is exactly that; Huckabee has no chance.  Byron York wrote about this yesterday at NRO:
  

  The time is coming

Joyner has started to note what I predicted…

When I saw the headline “McCain Adviser Won’t Fight Obama,” I surmised that a challenge to duel was being declined. The real story is actually even more bizarre.

A top adviser

Are you in love with a staffer on Capitol Hill, someone who works at a think tank, or just a plain, old political wonk? Well, then today’s your lucky day because you can show them that you really do understand

John Hawkins, over at Right Wing News, looks at the list of possible VP’s that McCain is likely to chose from. Some interesting choices.  It’s my view that who he picks, in the end will matter only as

• John Hawkins points out MSNBC‘s David Shuster isn’t alone.
  

  We all know by now about the controversy surrounding MSNBC’s David Shuster and his allegation that Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped” by her family in order to drum up support

I see John Hawkins as an interview up with the good doctor. It’s a great read, as is anything to to with Dr. Sowell.

Bad news, Bit,another year, another CPAC and another year without  the CPAC Blogger of of the Year award.  Well I’ll let  Gabriel Malor et al, Ace of Spades HQ, break the news:

Well, the Moron-in-Chief won the Blogger of

Lots going on as regards John McCain, and people’s perceptions thereof. I see Jonah Goldberg essentially saying ‘he’s not so bad’. I see also, by way of Billy Hollis at Q&O that he’s joined a group of folks saying

• McQ puts up a few telling comments about Identity politics, in the context of the ever increasingly irrelevant “National Origination for (Leftist) Women. Not much of a shock that we both draw the same conclusion about NOW in particular… but

John Hawkins deals with a reader’s question about why the ‘sphere hasn’t been more effective in this campaign:

First of all, it is correct to say that the blogosphere’s two favorite candidates have been Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson, both

John Hawkins calls my attention via mail to two vids I’ve not seen, yet.

The subject of both: Fred Thompson.

Addendum: (David L) While I very much enjoy John Hawkins’, Tom Clancyized version of Fred, I have have no

John Hawkins emailed a bunch of right siders within the last week or so and asked a series of questions aimed to judging where we are on the presidential election, and specifically the Republican nomination. Among those responding:
The Absurd

Ann Coulter on her father:

The longest baby ever born at the Albany, N.Y., hospital, at least as of May 5, 1926, who grew up to be my strapping father, passed away last Friday morning.

Hat Tip:  John Hawkins,

John Hawkins, Right Wing News, has his list of the most annoying liberals of the year, and Mrs. Pelosi is only number four.    John’s list is studded wth quotes and videos, including my favorite Fred video.

Hat Tip:  Memeorandum