Tim Blair

I like Rove.

i'll buy him a cheesburger

Well, if there was ever any doubt ( not this gal) of the unsuitability of a Kerry presidency, here the proof in black and white. And I've long believed THK was off her rocker, imagine the embarrassments we would have to endure and explain for 4 years! I like Rove, too, and LOVE Cheney! Such smart and capable grown ups!

After reading the first chapter, I am almost prepared to reverse my belief that Kerry is some sort of cyborg created at MIT. Almost.

Wow. A new masterpiece of surrealist fiction!

Just like hot dogs. You just really don't want to know how they're made.

check out the new humanist's new map of north america.

Interesting that none of these stories came out until now, except the ones about Rove. Gee, you don't think the media didn't want to make the Kerry campaign look like the depraved chaos kingdom it truly was, do you? It reminds me of CNN pretending to report the news from Iraq in order to keep on Saddam's good side so they could continue not reporting the news from Iraq.

That map was cute. But I wonder, why wait for the re-drawn borders? Liberals should just pack their bags and move there. Gov't health care, high taxes, gun control - it's a liberal's wet dream of a country. Just move. Simple.

Rove made little attempt to hide his feelings. Poking his head into the crowded press cabin on Air Force One during a trip on a frigid day in January, he snarled, "Weenies!"

As Reader's Digest, or maybe it's the New Yorker I'm channeling, would say, ``Words we doubt were ever snarled.''

greg,

check out the new humanist's new map of north america.

Spiney Norman. That's the type of "pixel composite" I'd like to see on Fat Boy's website!

This quote was my favorite:

Dean had always been a loose cannon. In the summer of 2002, his aides had been relieved that no cameras had captured the would-be Democratic nominee, in full cry at a gay fund-raiser on New York's Fire Island, shouting out, "If Bill Clinton could be the first black president, I can be the first gay president!"

Except Kedwards kicked his tuchis at that, too.

Looking at the county map, for California I see the following blue counties/areas:

San Diego
Los Angeles (aka Hollywierd)
Santa Barbara (aka Hollywierd's Bedroom)
Monterey/Santa Cruz
San Francisco/Marin (aka The Flake Zone)
So-napa-noma (plus Yolo and Sacramento)
Humboldt (aka The People's Republic of Eureka)
Lake Tahoe

Regarding that "United States of Canada" map, apparently the oh-so-clever authors haven't kept in mind that British Columbia is sufficiently conservative that they probably also would vote for Bush over Kerry if given that choice. But hey, why let reality get in the way of a good polemic, especially if you can include a putdown on all those Jesus freaks?

PW, Don't forget Alberta (aka North Texas) too. Anyway, shouldn't that be the "Democratic People's Republic of Canada"?

Here's why you didn't get to hear all these nuggets until now. This paragraph is from the first installment on Newsweek's site:

"For more than a year, NEWSWEEK followed the presidential campaigns of both men from the inside. Beginning in mid-2003, a team of NEWSWEEK reporters detached from the weekly magazine to devote themselves to observing, recording and shaping the narrative that follows. The reporters were granted unusual access to the staffs and families of both candidates on the understanding that the information they learned would not be made public until this Election Issue—after the votes were cast on Nov. 2."

But now that it's all coming out, all I can say is, "Thank god Bush won."

"Looking at the county map, for California I see the following blue counties/areas:

San Diego"

Better look again; San Diego county (as well as Orange and Riverside counties) are Red. That's Imperial county that's Blue.

As a San Diegan, I'll thank you not to impugn my town.

~Steve

Regarding that "United States of Canada" map, apparently the oh-so-clever authors haven't kept in mind that British Columbia is sufficiently conservative that they probably also would vote for Bush over Kerry if given that choice.

And additionally, I think the addition of several million anglophones would be enough to have Quebec succeed.

So, let's see, British Columbia, and Alberta join the Bush states, Kerry states join Ontario, Quebec goes solo.

I read the whole thing in the bookstore this afternoon. Fun articles. The only thing that really, truly surprised me (except for my continued non-dislike of Teresa Kerry - damn it, I just can't hate her for some reason :)) is that fact that Kerry's daughters came across as such whiny little b*tches. "What if the Republicans steal the election?" and getting all huffy after Lynne Cheney objects to their father's using Mary Cheney as a propl. (One of the daughters said something like "I'd cross the street if I ever saw her!" meaning Lynne).

Now, I know they didn't ask to have a father who was a presidential candidate, and that they were not entirely in control of their new-found public figure status. But I had to keep reminding myself that these women are in their late twenties/early thirties. They sounded a good ten years younger - Barbara and Jenna's age, in fact. Except that the Bush twins seemed to be more about the partying and less about the b*tching.

Oh, and I would have paid cold hard cash to see that Teresa Kerry/Howard Dean debate. A shame it never happened :).

My favorite anecdote from Kerry's campaign was when Tayrayza had a migraine and John's response was to point out the Condors circling nearby. Nothing like highlighting the scavengers to make a sick person feel better!

There was a similar story in todays Australian

Some highlights:

As he watched the Bush press conference with his strategists, Kerry exclaimed: "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot."
...
[Teresa Heinz Kerry] drove her Secret Service detail mad with her chronic lateness and constant demands for attention, including from her husband, who seemed to tread on eggshells when around her. She even sent him off on errands, such as fetching bottles of water. She continually clashed with campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill -- and Kerry was caught in the middle.
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Kerry was so obsessed with getting advice from a multitude of rival advisers that one aide confiscated his mobile telephone.

Remember Kerry's sister. She visited not only Australia but a number of countries promoting Kerry. However, if you read what she was saying her words were pure anti-war and anti-American. She was trying to turn people away from America.