Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Pat brought this up again near the end of last Sunday night’s Jihadikiller Hour Show. On an earlier show, the night after Hussein named Biden his running mate, Pat said he was “astonished” that Hussein had made such a mistake, saying Biden was a loose cannon who was “a little crazy, kind of like the crazy uncle you keep hidden in the attic”. He predicted the worst, and by yesterday even the New York Times was backing Pat “always-ahead-of-the-curve” Dollard up. NYT:

As I said, I need one of our crack Constitutional savvy readers/commenters to look into any law that gives a cut-off time by which Obama can do just that (outside of a VP candidates sudden illness or obviously death … and even then the law may require the Presidential candidate run with the deceased’s name there, and go through the replacement procedure as if the VP had died while in office … I dunno). Let’s NOT forget how the democrats with the help of the democrat controlled State Supreme Court in New Jersey did some ‘illegal’ manuvering to get democrat Frank Lautenberg in when criminal democrat Robert Torricelli had to bow out of the Senate race … even after it was too late to replace him on the ballot … by law.

(Wiki)

Lautenberg unexpectedly returned to politics in 2002, when the other New Jersey senator, Democrat Robert Torricelli, withdrew his candidacy for reelection, because of corruption charges. It was rumored, however, that Lautenberg was the second choice to run, the first choice being former Senator Bill Bradley, who turned it down.

The New Jersey Republican Party challenged the replacement of Torricelli’s name on the ballot with Lautenberg’s, arguing that it came too late according to state election laws. The ballot name change was unanimously upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court[3], and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case. Lautenberg won the election, defeating his Republican challenger, businessman Doug Forrester, by 54% to 44%. That victory made Lautenberg one of very few who in recent times returned to the Senate after leaving it.

Anyhow, Sen. Joe Biden is proving to be the gaffe machine that keeps right on giving, and demands the Obama campaign staff run to Nancy Pelosi’s plastic surgeon for major Botox injections to ward-off deep, deep frown and wince lines in their foreheads every time he opens his yap in public, especially if a camera or recorder is around.

Rush Limbaugh has even addressed this on his radio broadcast today. Remember “Operation Chaos” during the democrat campaign to keep Hillary alive? Well, Rush is starting S.O.B. … Save Our Biden, in order to keep Joe trucking for the Obama campaign:

RUSH: Obama is the next target for a bailout, I am convinced. Now, let me set this up. I’m sure that quite a few of you who are spending any time at all on the computer have received what I have received a gazillion times. By the way, as a little heads up, those of you out there who receive things in e-mail, these flash blast e-mails that go out: If you think I haven’t seen it yet, change your mind. By the time you see it, I have seen it so many times, I have practically thrown the computer up against the wall. You don’t need to forward these things to me. I am a magnet for this stuff. Anyway, the latest going around is this flash e-mail sent by somebody claiming to have inside information at the DNC that the Democrat National Committee and Obama have gotten together and they have decided to get rid of Biden.

I’m first on the record with this. Now, I’m walking back into the studio and I’m talking about this with Snerdley, and Dawn overhears this. She said, “Has this ever happened before?” And I said only one time in our lifetimes, and that was 1972, when George McGovern had to get rid of Thomas Eagleton, who was a senator from Missouri, because it had been discovered that Eagleton had had electric shock treatment. Now, back in 1972, electric shock treatment is where you took Grandma if things weren’t going right in the bathroom or other places. It had an attachment to it that you take people to asylums to get this done. So poor old Eagleton, that’s the last time that I can remember that happening. ( … )

So now it’s almost sounding serious among the political talking and blogging heads circles.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

And the Media Worries about Palin’s Experience and McCain’s Age?

Victor Davis Hanson - (NRO)

I think in the space of about the last 24 hours, Joe Biden claimed that the AIG bailout was bad, but then said it wasn’t bad;

that we did not need to burn coal;

that his apology about the dirty McCain ad was, as they say, inoperative;

that FDR once went on television to address the nation after the stock market crash of ‘29 (that’s a twofer that trumps Obama’s Americans liberating Auschwitz);

and all but said that McCain took a $50,000 bribe.

Not a bad day’s work — encompassing terrible energy policy, flip-flopping, historical ignorance, and slander. And this comes on top of Palin the “good looking” “Lt. Governor” of Alaska, Hillary as the better VP pick than himself, the patriotism of paying higher taxes, and so on.

And those in turn come on top of the primary remarks about Indians in donut shops, and “bright and clean” blacks. And those in turn come on top of . . . (Well, go back to the pilfered speeches and made-up bios.)

Something is very wrong here. While most forgive the silly slip like “Barack America” or asking the wheel-chair bound to stand up, I think the Obama staff must have gone from amusement to embarrassment and now to serious concern whether Biden is up to the job.

Had this been Palin, the election would now be over.

And quite possibly when the ‘meltdown’ began over at Team O`Biden:

McPalin Rattles Team Obama: The double-team strategy is a winning one.

By Jonah Goldberg (NRO) - September 10, 2008

Barack Obama, a famous fan of pickup basketball, must recognize his plight: It’s two on one now. John McCain drafted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the star point guard from the Wasilla Warriors, to double-team Obama.

(McCain’s team doesn’t care if no one guards Joe Biden, who seems to spend most of his time yelling to the media, “I’m open! I’m open!” But when he gets the ball, all he does is talk about what a great player he is and dribble in place.)

So after the halftime show of the political conventions, to strain the sports metaphor a bit further, it looks as if the change-up in strategy has Team Obama rattled and in danger of choking. Polls — the closest thing we have to a scoreboard — show that McCain, at least temporarily, has taken the lead. On Tuesday, the Real Clear Politics average of national polls showed McCain ahead by a razor-thin (and statistically meaningless) 2.9 percentage points. The USA Today-Gallup poll had McCain leading by a whopping 10 points among likely voters (and four points among registered voters), though that’s almost surely an overstatement.

The McCain-Palin convention bounce also all but closed the ticket’s gender gap. According to Rasmussen Reports, Obama had a 14-point lead among women; now it’s three. According to the latest ABC/Washington Post poll, McCain now has a 12-point lead among white women.

Still, there’s a lot of pressure on Sarah Barracuda. Called up from the political minors, she could yet wilt under the hot lights. But that’s looking less and less likely.

The outrageous attacks on Palin out of the block (She banned books! She opposed family planning education! She’s a creationist!) are untrue. And the eagerness of the mainstream media to go after her family life has backfired as well. For instance, Hanna Rosin wrote sneeringly in Slate magazine of Palin’s “wreck of a home life.” Would Slate say that Obama, conceived out of wedlock to a teen mom, comes from a “wreck” of a family? I somehow doubt it.

Palin’s more sober critics, mostly on the right, worried that picking her would undermine McCain’s claim to “experience.” Almost the exact opposite has happened. Thanks to the double-team strategy, Obama has found himself in the awkward position of sounding as if he’s running against the GOP’s vice presidential nominee. When Obama compared his own experience to Palin’s tenure as mayor of Wasilla (leaving out her current job as governor), he ran right into the pick the McCain campaign had set, leaving McCain a clearer path to victory.

The more Obama has to explain why being a community organizer — or a state legislator, or a one-term senator with few accomplishments under his belt — is better preparation for the presidency than being a mayor or governor, the more he volunteers his own shortcomings when compared with McCain.

Besides, on paper, Obama doesn’t stand up very well against Palin. All of the mythic themes of Obama’s political narrative — the ethics reformer, the bipartisan, the new kind of politician — look like press-release material next to Palin’s accomplishments. Obama voted the Democratic Party line more often (97 percent) than McCain voted in accord with President Bush (90 percent). In Washington, Obama’s supposedly “sweeping” ethics reform — which forces congressmen to eat lobbyist-provided meals standing up instead of sitting down — and his feckless reforms in Illinois make him look the Bambi to Palin’s Godzilla.

Obama’s idea of ethics reform is to mandate clean sheets in the brothel. Palin’s is to tear it down.

The most unsportsmanlike conduct in the days to come will be the search for Palin gaffes, of which there undoubtedly will be many. The media will call fouls on her that they never call on the other candidates. Over the last week, Obama misspoke and referred to his “Muslim faith” on ABC’s This Week and told a rally how excited he was to be in “New Pennsylvania.” Perhaps that’s one of the 57 states he once claimed to campaign in?

And let’s not forget Biden, whose gaffes are the unavoidable byproduct of his limitless gasbaggery. Biden could shout on Meet the Press, “Get these squirrels off of me!” and the collective response would be, “There goes Joe again.” But if Palin flubs the name of the deputy agriculture minister of Kyrgyzstan, the media will blow their whistles saying she’s unprepared for the job.

Fair or not, that’s how it works in the pros. But so far, it still looks as if the MVP title is hers to lose.

Me: I was going to include videos of Biden Gaffes … but there are just too many.

Oh geez (In best Archie Bumker voice) … And then there’s this:

Oh, That Joe! (No. 17 in a Series) — First Thing We Do, Let’s Retain All the Lawyers

by Jake Tapper (ABC)

September 23, 2008 9:33 PM

“I think we’re going to be up very late counting votes,” Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., told a kettle of lawyers Tuesday night at a fundraiser for the Democratic Victory Fund hosted by the American Association of Justice in Washington, D.C. “And so, your help means a big deal. The last help we need you for, is you’re the best legal minds in the country. We’re going to need you going into election time, because we’re going to mobilize thousands of lawyers to make sure they don’t steal another election.”

Standing near Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Biden also said that if “one more national commentator talks about what a great debater I am, all Claire is gonna have to do is make sure that Sarah Palin, when she’s walking on the stage, doesn’t trip, and she’ll win.

“One of the debates I’ve had and finally won within the campaign, Claire, is — we talk about how John McCain’s ‘changed,’” Biden said. “He hasn’t changed a bit. John McCain has not changed one single solitary bit from the day I met him 34 years ago.

“He has never, never, never, never, never, never, never shared the values set that you share,” Biden said. “He’s an honorable, decent man, but John McCain truly believes, truly believes that you are corporate America’s problem,” he said to the trial lawyers. “And thank God you are.”

Biden said that he’s “done more than any other senator combined” for trial lawyers.

“There are two people — you’ve heard me say it before — two groups that stand between us and the barbarians at the gate,” Biden said. “It’s you and organized labor. That’s it. That is it. So, mark my words, mark my words, if we lose this election, you are going to continue to see a continuation of the onslaught on everything we care about. For real. For real. So, I’m not only thanking you for your help. I would think you’re all absolutely brain-dead if you didn’t help. And I mean it.”