(Uh . . . not you, Andy.)

The boy is just having too much fun . . . he sounds like the look on Clinton's face when he got deposed about that damned cigar:

Rasmussen: McCain Leads Obama in Ohio By "A Shitload;" Trends Predict Possibility of "A Serious Skull-Fucking"

I think that's what it said, anyway. So, I skimmed. Sue me.

It's 51-44, actually, if you're a "Numbers Fag."

This month, McCain enjoys a solid 58% to 32% among unaffiliated voters in Ohio. That is a major improvement from the five-point deficit the Republican received from this demographic a month ago. Among men, McCain leads 59% to 36%, but the Republican trails among women 50% to 45%.

Okay, enough with the polls. We see which way this trainwreck is heading.

. . . . . . . .

Eagleton Scenario? Under/over: I say Palin drops out by next Monday.

Bank on it.

Drudge Slug -- NYT TUESDAY: FAR FROM CERTAIN OBAMA WILL MEET AMBITIOUS FUNDRAISING TARGET... DEVELOPING....

Now it's just starting to feel dirty.

Not even good-dirty.

Honestly, the posts I want to write now are along the lines of: "Obama wasn't a bad guy. He probably meant well. And I do understand the excitement about electing our first black president; I could get excited about that too, were the candidate in question simply [not] so far to the left of me on so many issues..."

Honest[l]y, that's what I want to write. I feel bad.

He sometimes has this jolt of remorse toward the end of his posts—not enough to actually edit the term "skull-fucking" out of his headline, but remorseful remorse nonetheless.

That's pitch-perfect Ace, right there. And it is magnificent.

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"Um, no," I reply. "I'm just looking at my SiteMeter stats."

"How many times does that make, today?"

"I dunno. Can't count that high. Are you accusing me of ego-surfing?"

"Yes. Yes, I am. 'Who's reading my blog? How popular am I? Who likes me today?' It's like being in cyber-high school."

"Maybe," I tell him.

He leaves the room, and I mutter under my breath, "except even I wasn't getting thousands of hits a day in high school. And I was cute back then."

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succumbs, and lets the Palinmania wash over him like the water from a natural hot spring deep in the woods of the Northwestern wilderness:

I'm not in this for analysis. I'm in for gloating. And I need to be winning to be gloating.

You ever try gloating when you're getting your ass kicked? It doesn't play.

It's been a while since I could really, genuinely, deeply gloat.

Thank you, John McCain and Sarah Palin, for once again letting me laugh.

And thank you, too, liberals. DKM (Daily Kos Media). Barack "Community Organizer" Obama. Power Glutes Andi. Keef Olbermann. You have played no small role in elevating my spirits and bringing joy into my life again.

In fact, to be honest, it has relatively little to do with McCain or Palin and almost everything to do with you.

You shit-for-brains clown-nosed jerkoffs are just about the best thing I've got going on in my life.

You are the wind beneath my wings. I . . . . I think I love you guys.

Was that too forward? I don't want this to get weird. Let me take back the l-bomb and just say: Don't change. Don't change a blessed thing.

After that, the post gets ugly in a hurry. But the soaring rhetoric above? It was so sweet, so . . . beautiful. I nearly cried.

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. . . so you don't have to. Don't follow the links back, though! (Patterico didn't get the memo on that.)

My favorite Andrew Sullivan contradiction WRT Sarah Palin is that the public supposedly needs to see Trig's birth records, to verify that the baby is her own—but he's apparently appalled that Trig was present last night, used "as a prop" for Palin's campaign. Can't we make up our minds about whether Palin's family life is something that needs to be endlessly discussed in the public sphere?

Veep candidates usually bring their families to conventions. Deal. Next, we're going to be hearing about how awful it is that Bristol isn't wearing a scarlet "A" on her maternity dresses.

Though I think it would be awfully nice if we could lay off of Andrew on the gay thing. Were any of us making a fuss about that when he supported the War on Terror? It's beside the point for most of us, and you know it, Boyz.

h/t: A tweet from Flap.

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1 I don't know about the Moron-in-Chief, I really don't. He sounded pretty damned serious to me. But OK, never mind ol' Ace. You were asking about Patterico. I've got an idea Patterico's pretty much fairly incensed at AS right about now. Treating Sarah Palin's children they way he did, plus calling them 'fair game', I suspect Patterico lifted a page out of Ace's handbook and decided that AS's, erm, ass, is 'fair game' too. Hence the 'Glutes' remark. Could be worse. The post you linked to didn't have Patterico write about the 'milky loads' in the main body. So, not complete all-Acey, if there's such a term. And Beldar's kinda mad at AS too. I won't lose too much sleep over it. It's just your bog-standard juvenile name-calling; just so happens, the facts are documented on Excitable Andy, is all. Thing is, I never knew (read) a pre-crazy Andy Sullivan. So it's kinda hard for me to judge, you know? I'm just going with the flow and buying me some Pringles, since popcorn doesn't work out all that well in a muggy climate. Sarahcudda rocks! is what I think But the rain washes out my DirecTV and Vista's networking troubles rears its ugly head again

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2 I don't believe Ace is really anti-homosexual. I don't believe Patrick is, either. They are both royally pissed off at Sullivan, but it seems to me that this comes about as a result of reading Andrew Sullivan, which is one's first mistake. Of course, if Patterico didn't have such a strong stomach, he couldn't read the Los Angeles Times and critique it as thoroughly and ruthlessly as he has over the years. So I'm glad that . . . someone's doing it. But Ace, anti-gay? Doubt it. Patterico, anti-gay? Absolutely not. They're just fighting dirty--that's all.

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3 Argh. I dunno if my post got eaten or not. Stupid argle bargyle whrgrbl Streamyx broadbandmyass connection. Just in case it didn't get through, yeah, I read it pretty much the same way. Anti-Andy more than anything else.

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Teenaged Maddy will be podcasting today on BlogTalk Radio about the crisis in Darfur (possibly with her twin sister, Amanda). The girls' channel is here, and they will be taking calls and broadcasting live starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 p.m. Pacific (those of you in Flyover Country—Illinois or whatever—will just have to do the arithmetic . . . 'cause you know me and the adding/subtracting thing).

The idea for this very important podcast is to promote the work that Teens for Peace do on behalf of Darfur and other war-torn areas.

Anyway, Maddy is very bright and engaging. Please listen in tonight, and call in with your questions about Darfur, and what the average person in an industrialized nation can do about the situation there.

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See Dubya will be leaving Malkin's site, or at least taking a sort of hiatus.

He's one of my favorites; I hope his new gig makes it all worth it!

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. . . than my straight male SoCon readers are. If that's possible.

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Just got response to a question I sent to some new-media friends and colleagues: Is it time for bloggers to boycott Andrew Sullivan in a more formal way now, given the salacious and destructive nature about his speculations regarding the Palins' family life?

I heard this from a gay conservative political activist I know:

He [Andrew Sullivan] is hurting himself more than anyone else with his juvenile rants. Had dinner today with another gay writer, also a conservative, but more sympathetic to Andrew that I. This is it for him. He won't even read Andrew's stuff any more.

Yup. Yet another gay conservative, a friend, once remarked that Sullivan was "an important voice" in the 6-12 months after 9/11. It's been sad to see Sullivan's analyses degenerate over the years, to the point that I'm not sure the National Enquirer would hire him now.

But, given that, the man's writing does not belong in the pages of The Atlantic. Not next to Loh, Hitchens, Steyn, Fallows, and Rauch.

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