Tim Blair

Moore is doing this get-out-the-slacker-vote tour for MONEY?? Committed ideologue Moore will help the Dems in their hour of desperation if he gets paid?? Moore is going to get off his ample rear and go shill for a fortune??

At least that last one's the American way.

If California is suddenly a "swing state", the Senator is in much more trouble than even I thought.

For $46,000 I guess Moore is willing to call it a swing state. How unusual for him, letting crass commercialism affect his decisions...

Kerry is so metrosexual about sports that he's probably one of about twenty males in the US who _hasn't_ buffed the bishop to thoughts of Kerri Walsh.

Uh, was that out loud?

In Michigan, the Ohio State Buckeyes are not "dreaded". They're despised. The feeling is mutual in Ohio toward the Wolverines.

How many people are likely to show up at the "undisclosed hall"?

Well, everyone who sold their bikes to pitch in for those $46000, for one...I'm sure Mikey appreciates it just as much as Dean did. Probably going to be just as, erm, worthwhile an investment too.

Lambert Field is the old name of the St. Louis airport. I'll give him a pass. The last one Favre through in Philly, not McNabb's 4th-and-26.

These are probably the swing states Moore means:

A new crop of polls in six Democratic-leaning states released Monday showed that John Kerry has a lead in Michigan, while running neck-and-neck or trailing President Bush in five other states.
Most electoral vote strategizing begins with the assumption that Kerry would be able to hold all or nearly all of the 19 states Al Gore won in 2000. He could then add some of the states Bush narrowly won four years ago in order to get the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

But the new polling data from Iowa, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin indicate that Kerry has much work to do on Democratic turf in the six weeks that remain before the votes are counted on election night.

With only 41 days of campaigning left, every day Kerry spends bolstering his support in states that Gore won in 2000 is a day he can't invest in the states Bush narrowly won, such as Nevada.

C'mon Moore - get campaigning in New York, your boy's behind!

Most of the $46,000 probably went towards hiring a hall large enough to contain Moore.

Nonsense Paul, halls are cheap. It's the rider that blows out the cost - flash fried buffalo don't come for free.

That's the arm he used to lob grenades at the 'cong, which probably explains the Purple Hearts.

Kerri Walsh?....Jennie Finch for mine.

If any Dems read this, I'm willing to preach the Dem hatred for $45,000. Less if necessary. I'll provide my own transportation.

Thank you.

A bit of a stretch to see Moore as a GOP plant but not so hard to imagine that he might just be another of the Hilary cheer squad who have infiltrated the Kerry camp to "help' his campaign.Either way Bush must love the obese grub.

Moore should rename his tour from "Slacker Uprising Tour" to "Stupid Loser Uprising Tour" or "SLUT" for short. With Moore, it's all about the money, and he knows that sluts can make good money. Actually, I guess Moore would be the pimp - that's where the big money is.

A local state school here in Utah shelled out $40,000 for Moore to appear. The move by the student government there has raised an outcry in conservative Utah. So now they're looking at bringing Sean Hannity too, who says he'll speak for free.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595093061,00.html

A local state school here in Utah shelled out $40,000 for Moore to appear.

What a waste of money. I'd come and give a rabid left-wing speech for half that. Plus I'm better looking...

:)

I for one am thrilled he's doing the tour. Anything that works to get more voters out to the polls is fine by me.

It would be more "thrilling", Gayla, if he did it for free. Since he feels so strongly about this election and the nation, I mean. I don't see $46,000 as a expense reimbursement.

Otherwise, I have this nagging feeling that Moore is just separating fools from their money.