Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

After reading this about Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn, there are some other bits of advice that he might need before embarking on his next competitive endeavor:

Those pieces that look like horses can jump over other pieces
A flush beats a straight
The goalkeeper can use his hands
You can’t strike out on a foul
Those big dots […]

Ah, funny thing this politics.
The line from many pundits (and two Barack Obama supporters I talked to) is that Obama may not want Hillary Clinton to drop out yet.
The reason is her lead in West Virginia and Kentucky, two of the states which vote next week. Obama being beaten by active candidate Clinton in those states would be […]

The Tucson Citizen used to have an editor named Peter Bronson. His editorials were usually in that faux populist territory now also occupied by Bill O’Reilly and company. The thesis espoused in every one of his pieces was “Democrats are effete know it alls, as opposed to Republicans who are all working stiffs that throw […]

This is from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo:
NBC just reported that Hillary Clinton is holding no public events tomorrow. We’d earlier reported that she’d cancelled her morning show appearances. But that’s not that surprising. There’s not a lot good to talk about. But canceling all public appearances, if that’s what they’re saying, is a […]

The polls are closing in North Carolina and Indiana, so I guess that means all of this gets resolved tonight, right?

Do I have to weigh in on this gas tax holiday nonsense?
First off, doesn’t Hillary Clinton notice that she is agreeing with both John McCain and George Bush (who is “entertaining” the idea) on this? Wouldn’t that be an indication that this is not such a great idea? She’s agreeing with McCain, who admits he doesn’t […]

I read today that Barack Obama has secured the endorsement of Paul Kirk. The reports all say that Kirk was a former chairman of the Democratic Party. Of course, long time readers of DC Comics know that Kirk was The Manhunter. The cover-up of this is further evidence of the MSM Conspiracy.
No word yet on the […]

I was talking to a Barack Obama booster the other day, and he noted that if he had been struck as a Hillary Clinton delegate, he’d be ticked off given how many folks who got left on their list couldn’t be bothered to actually show up to run.
I was taken aback by a couple of names they […]

The other day, I gave y’all the gory details of the arguments given to the Bond Committee in defense of Rillito Downs Racetrack as a case study in how not to make a decent argument.
Here’s another one from Saturday’s State Party Meeting in Phoenix. The lesson: have a vague idea who the heck you are […]

There were two hububs at yesterday’s State Democratic Convention. One was over a definition of who actually could vote on national convention delegates. Chairman Don Bivens explained the situation and it seemed to be resolved. The worry was that the statewide delegates would not be seated due to a technicality. Now, the DNC wouldn’t do that, would they?
The […]

My vote for Vice Chair is obviously committed. But, my vote for the various delegates at today’s meeting is still up for grabs.
My vote will go to whoever works the phrase “$240 worth of pudding” into their stump speech.

I had more important things to do last night than watch the debate. I did, however catch the so-called highlights. Those of you who watched it: can you tell me if the two of them were asked any questions about, you know, substantive issues? I even caught an exchange about flag pins…
UPDATE: I caught this […]

Josh Marshall on the “bitter” kerfluffle:
This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours — watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political operatives from New York and Washington tell me how rural Americans won’t stand for this.

Barack Obama went bowling, yes bowling, with Senator Bob Casey. Ah, the things we will do when we are running behind in the Pennsylvania primary.
It looks like he got several gutter balls. As a Polish-American with family in the area, I have to say I am deeply, deeply disappointed, even offended.

I’d like to inform the folks who keep pushing for this “Super Delegate Caucus” that we actually already have one. It will be held in Denver this August and the votes will be binding. Maybe y’all have heard of it?
I was going to avoid writing about this thing, but the idea seems to keep getting […]

I’m hearing various theories about John McCain’s coattails here in Arizona. I’m not buying that he’ll have much of them. Even Barry Goldwater’s candidacy didn’t produce much in the way of coattails here (even though it did in the South). His friend Richard Kleindienst lost to Democrat Sam Goddard for Governor at the same time […]

Okay, we’ve all heard the news that Bill Richardson has endorsed Barack Obama. I suppose that stories of Obama losing massive support among the superdelegates are a bit overplayed.
A bit of Kremlinology: I think if Richardson shaves his newly minted beard close to convention time, it mean’s he’s the veep.

The keen among you have no doubt noticed that I have added a new blog to the blogroll, Mr. Super. This blog is anonymously written by a so far uncommitted super delegate. I am sworn to secrecy about who it is, but given that he has a “Mr.” in front of his name, y’all have […]

From Ken Layne of Wonkette:
Do you know how many presidents were elected after criticizing Sinbad? Zero, that’s how many.

I caught this article from Bloomberg this morning, and I picked up two interesting facts.
Barack Obama’s Secret Service codename is “Renegade” and Hillary Clinton’s is “Evergreen.”
Obama is of course named for the mid-90’s television program Renegade, staring Lorenzo Lamas.