Entries from August 2006

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

This Is Me Being a Smart Alec Fanboy

In today’s Tucson Weekly, Jim Nintzel has a profile of the CD 8 candidates. When mentioning independent Jay Quick, he said:
Jay Quick, an independent whose name makes him sound like he’s a member of the Justice League of America
Jim may be thinking of Johnny Quick, who is in fact, at least in the post-Crisis DC [...]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

The NRCC Cavalry Arrives?

The first ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee has gone up on local stations. When I first saw it, I thought, wow, Steve Huffman has decent ads now. There is no flashlight to be found. Then the “Paid for by…” came up at the end and I realized why the ad was good: Huffman’s [...]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Republican Candidate Forum/Debate/Chill Session/Whatever

I had a buddy named Dan at an old job who loved watching Republican Presidential debates, particularly when they were in the south. He loved the answers to the inevitable question about the Confederate Battle Emblem, in which various candidates would trip over each other to trump one another’s claims of pride in “Southern Heritage,” [...]

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

My Opponent Is a Lying Cheat, But I Mean That in the Most Positive Way

Dear Patty Weiss: protestations that you are not running a negative campaign are a bit more believable when they are not preceded by an attack on your opponent’s character and credentials.
Shortly into last night’s candidate forum/debate/Pride Fighting Championship, Weiss launched into an attack on Giffords’s previous party registration (yawn) and then attacked her for only [...]

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Where’s Stevie?

It may be because he is stalking the borderlands with a flashlight, but many people both here and on our more conservative sister blogs have noted that Steve Huffman has been scarce at many candidate fora (you like that? That’s the proper plural of “forum”). The wags over at Sonoran Alliance have even noted that [...]

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

South Tucson Machine Backs Weiss?

The day after the Tucson Weekly released its poll, Patty Weiss’s campaign put out a press release announcing the endorsement of South Tucson Mayor Jennifer Eckstrom.
It would be easy to dismiss the endorsement, Eckstrom leads a small community outside of the district. But this may indicate something else: it may be a tacit endorsement [...]

Monday, August 28th, 2006

What He Doesn’t Tell You Is That Only People Named “Huffman” and “Moreno” Were Polled

Steve Huffman’s minions are touting an internal poll that shows that he is only seven points behind Randy Graf. Well, that still makes him behind, doesn’t it?
Ever notice that a candidate’s internals are always good? They are usually even better when they don’t show you the numbers.

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Jimbo Within Striking Distance?

The Wall Street Journal has a poll out showing Jon Kyl at 48.3% and Jim Pederson at 44.2%. Nice.
I would link it, but they want you to pay and stuff. Bunch of plutocrats.
Of course, I look over at the AZNetroots page and instead of celebrating, there is carping that Pederson hasn’t been running ads. Geez. [...]

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Stepping in the Macaca

I didn’t make any comments on the George Allen “Macaca” stupidity a few weeks back. I only bring it up now because we have a new conservative meme: it’s okay that Allen said it because it means “clown” in whatever Romance language is convienient.
First Rush Limbaugh claimed this on his program, saying that a Spanish [...]

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Last Night’s KUAT Debate

Just a few little observations:
Did Bill Johnson really regret the fall of whites-only governments in South Africa and Rhodesia? Hmm…let me check the debate out again…
…yep, he did. Keep talking that way and you can stop wondering why some of us throw the word “racism” around. Oh yeah, and your call for deporting Muslims and [...]

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