I did!

UPDATE: Of course, I voted "present." Hope that counts.

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A paper explains why some of them may be misguided, but—as they see it—we are evil.

And D91 of AoS adds his own insights on how to appeal to those with liberal leanings.

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Reposted something she wrote several months ago that seems quite appropriate.

It just seems to me that within those little ideological spheres which are full of ideas, a president must be permitted to listen to ideas and debate them and perhaps even to choose portions of ideas from each position, left, right and center, in order to formulate policies which are best FOR AMERICA, and which address the concerns of all the country, not just “the party,” and which serve the whole citizenry, not just “the base.” The best recipes call for more than one ingredient. The best policies do, too.

If we are determined to shut out whole blocks of people because their thoughts are not ours, their ideas are not ours, their beliefs are not ours, then we’re doing democracy wrong - we’re turning it into something else. And I don’t think the “something else” is necessarily a good thing.

Thomas More, the patron saint of politicians, was a good and trusted adviser to King Henry VIII, but his faith and conscience took precedence over that fealty. When Rome refused Henry a divorce, Henry broke away and formed the Church of England. More could not go where Henry went, saying at his arrest, “I am the King’s good servant, but God’s first.”

I am by no means comparing President Bush to St. Thomas More, but it does seem to me that part of his problems within his own party stem from a similar attitude: Love him or hate him, he is the partyÂ’s good servant, but AmericaÂ’s first. And AmericaÂ’s good servant, but GodÂ’s even before that. Or, as I have written elsewhere,

It does not surprise me that he is a Christian man living a creed before he is a President, that he is a President before he is a Conservative. It seems to me precisely the right order of things.

Those priorities seem like good ones to me, and perhaps in a healthy society, they would be appreciated. But we’re not healthy right now - I doubt anyone would truly suggest we are - and in this society, sadly, the precedence of “the parties” and “the movements” over everything else is disconcerting.

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How can an undesirable candidate suddenly become an acceptable, good-faith alternative? I know there is a school of thought that says, “well, that will teach others and they’ll be more loyal to the party, next time.”

But thatÂ’s being too clever by half, isnÂ’t it? One of President BushÂ’s errors was in thinking he could sign a campaign finance reform into law and count on the Supreme Court to find it unconstitutional. The Supreme Court did not meet his expectations.

Signing off on this election while counting on people to “do the right thing” in the next one seems to me equally hazardous and just as likely to disappoint. And it feels a little bit like putting one’s ideology before all else, and trusting in it, alone.

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"Welcome to Hotel Orwell."

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I'm getting a lot more search traffic than usual for "Sarah Palin gaffes."

Who are you? Democratic operatives who still see her as a threat, or maverick loyalists who want to pin this debacle on the bitch who breathed new life into your, um, rather low-key campaign?

Let it go, boys and girls. You're just making yourselves look a lot worse.

But here you go. It's one of her worst misstatements ever.

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Purple Avenger's got it all scienced out.

Me? I plan on infiltrating the Republicans, and keeping them away from religious extremism and strange, paranoid theories about Obama.

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But sometimes I split my infinitives.

I've also been known to end my sentences with prepositions.

English is, after all, a Germanic language. We mustn't get too hung up on word order.

Naturally, this has led to ostracism from other English majors, who have started referring to me as an "EMINO."

Once again, I'm just not part of the club.

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she reminds me that even when we disagree—as we do so often these days—she's still The Original Goddess of Political Opinion. Watch the clip: she must be Irish; it was just too funny for her not to be.

(Okay, okay—Noonan's Goddessness would have to come after Susan B. Anthony's and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's respective Goddessossitude; for some reason those two are on my mind this week: the fighter and the intellectual. Kirk and Spock. I hate to break it to everyone, but they were both pro-life.)

Noonan footage via AllahP.

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. . . . Americans.

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. . . and what it says about modern-day feminism. ("The Clinton wound was mortal.")

Well, I don't think I know what feminism is—as with Art, I just know what I like. If men can be gentlemenly (perhaps even, on special occasions, gallant) without patronizing me, thas cool. and without it being this desperate endless striving to get to the door first, so he can be the one to open it for me: how about seeing which one of us gets there first, and he/she will hold it for the other?

If lesbians can stop pretending that I'm an idiot because I (as they say about polling data) "trend straight," that's a good thing, too. [After all--can we admit that some of the worst sexists out there are dykes, and a few tall women of miscellaneous orientations?]

But instead of that blunt "I didn't love her," Silky would have been better off with "I had tremendous respect for her"—instinctively moving his hands forward, as most of 'em do, like heat-seeking missiles—"frontal lobes. I mean, she had a first-rate intellect. That's why we don't need a paternity test: the child just doesn't seem vain enough. No sitting in front of the mirror, trying on various hairstyles. What a waste of money that would be."

Actually, I liked Breck boy, because he just wasn't ever afraid to kind of brainstorm about ideas for what we could do to improve the country. I didn't agree with most of 'em, but I liked the fact that the wheels kept turning.

Likewise, I have a soft spot in my heart for a politician who's been caught out in an affair that's tawdrier-than-average (when one's wife is diagnosed with cancer isn't a great time to go clitting around), and yet he admitted that Universal Truth in a way I hadn't ever heard Clinton articulate, and doubt even Ted Kennedy has ever put into words. "I thought I was special."

Does everyone have moments of sociopathy? More, perhaps, than might want to publicize that fact. Edwards scores lower on the sociapath scale because he admitted it.

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. . . has turned into that Monty Python skit, "Blackmail." At least, according to Iowahawk.

Via Dan Collins at the Protein Pub.

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. . . . when you're at war with the White House; that takes a lot of energy, you know.

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It'll be interesting to watch Clinton's Senate career for the next 12-24 months.

If she stays in the Senate—and I think she should—it might be Obama who has to come to her, hat in hand, to get anything done over the next few years.

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. . . would be from Florida, of all places?

(Yeah: I know there was only one Ronald Reagan. But for the next set of economic and national security challenges, we can do even better. Lt. Col. West is a true-blue conservative with crossover appeal—someone who can be popular without having to resort to populism or pandering. Whether he wins or loses this immediate, upcoming contest, watch that man.)

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Not the Kennedys. Not the Clintons (Hillary will still be active for years, and Chelsea my become a Tsunami when she gets older—particularly if she combines her mother's talents with her father's).

I'm not sure Jeb Bush has the interest (or the strong stomach) to seek Federal office. But his son, George P. Bush, may well be unstoppable in the future.

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. . . for prime time.

Hat tip: Memorandum.

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You've got six more deadly sins to go; please get back to us in a timely fashion.

—The MSM and The Blogosphere

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I mean, really.

It isn't like my governor . . . . Oh, shit. Never mind.

Carry on.

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people are going to start mixing up the McGreevy and Spitzer scandals. Which would lead to some who are only sort-of paying attention to believe that Spitzer is gay.

And that McGreevy was the worst hypocrite on planet Earth.

And that Mrs. Spitzer had three-way sex with her husband and "Kristen."

And that Mrs. McGreevy really didn't know her husband was seeing prostitutes.

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How much time did I spend, in my twenties, trying to get it out of my boyfriend why it wasn't gay for us both to hop into bed with another woman, but it would be if we got into bed with another guy?

"If there are two men in the same bed, it's gay," he told me. "End of story."

Thank goodness Governor McGreevy didn't see it that way. Oh, wait . . .

Via Insty, who's downright tabloid-ey lately. Oh, wait . . .

P.S. Did you see the pix? Bunk.

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1 And New Jersey still voted Democrat.

Posted by: BillyHW at March 16, 2008 09:23 PM (FhMJq)

2 - Your b/f's contentions were manifestly silly. Manage can run the table in preferences, depending on how many cards of the same suit, and which doors swing in how many directions. - I, of course, am only repeating what I've read, and have not a shred of first hand knowledge on the subject..........?........really.......well its true! - Good day to you Miss!

Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at March 17, 2008 04:33 AM (k9TnY)

3 Little Miss Attila: Your rather self-absorbed boyfriend meant it wouldn't be gay FOR HIM to be in bed with two women. Best regards;

Posted by: Ruy Diaz at March 17, 2008 04:37 AM (ffrsX)

4 I don't know about other guys' problem with MFM three-ways, but my problem with them is the fact that our reproductive organs are both protruberant and delicate. The rest of the man is markedly less so, and real life sex (as with real life violence) is far more confusing and complicated than any carefully choreographed scene you ever see on TV or in the movies. What you end up with is either a very careful but boring sexual tryst, or at least one set of mashed nads. You milage may, of course, vary.

Posted by: Tatterdemalian at March 17, 2008 04:55 AM (j8zCH)

5 Because we don't like to share our women, but we want as many of them as possible. Gay is just an excuse for the above.

Posted by: seguin at March 17, 2008 07:44 AM (NXtju)

6 Oh, please. Everyone knows that women aren't "gay", they're "lesbian". That's why it's "gay and lesbian association." So two women together can't be "gay". :-)

Posted by: Greg at March 17, 2008 10:23 AM (tyA9D)

7 ......let alone the fact that a dude seeing another dude's ballsack from astern would surely require years of therapy, or a well-lit twig thrust into the cornea just so. Unless of course, the seer was, well, you know, gay.

Posted by: alppuccino at March 17, 2008 11:00 AM (YknXf)

8 Well yeah, your boyfriend was right, that's just the way it is. Just as there's really no such thing as a male bisexual (he's gay); or a man who's bi-curious (he's gay), or a guy who "experiments" in college (totally gay). And whereas randy girls these days will often snog with each other at a party or on the dance floor to impress the guys, you'll note that MEN most certainly don't do this (unless they're gay).

Posted by: Mike at March 17, 2008 11:42 AM (nM6k1)

9 Gay!

Posted by: Attila Girl at March 17, 2008 11:47 AM (Hgnbj)

10 Latest research - men are hardwired AC or DC, women aren't (it's social conditioning). Therefore men are either straight or gay, but women are inately bisexual. That explains it all.

Posted by: bud at March 17, 2008 12:20 PM (nv1SZ)

11 Am I the only hetersexual male in the world who is turned off by the concept of trying to satisfy two women at once? And girl-on-girl action doesn't do anything for me either.

Posted by: Lev at March 17, 2008 12:24 PM (0suEp)

12 "And girl-on-girl action doesn't do anything for me either." Definite sign you may be gay.

Posted by: JD at March 17, 2008 12:38 PM (SJqd2)

13 Lev: There's one other guy like that. My high school sweetheart was bothered by lesbianism. He sort of had this fear that it would affect the . . . supply line.

Posted by: Attila Girl at March 17, 2008 01:03 PM (Hgnbj)

14 I bet I've done two men and a woman 3-ways 40 to 50 times in my life, and I never, never, never touched or kissed a man, let alone had sex with one. Never wanted to, never talked about it, never considered it. In fact, the idea makes me want to puke. But, there were instances wherein a woman wouldn't "do" me or a buddy alone, but was delighted to have us both, and that was fine by me. And I've found that the fantasy was common and intense in a significant number of women. I was happy to be a part of that fantasy. I don't give a damn about seeing some guy naked (hell, I've spent half my life in gyms), but sending some babe up a wall has always had a powerful appeal for me.

Posted by: Kevin at March 17, 2008 02:24 PM (ihRHS)

15 Well, Kev--according to some men, if you care about the woman's pleasure, that's gay, too. I assume that this apparent paradox is hashed out somewhere in the world's locker rooms . . .

Posted by: Attila Girl at March 17, 2008 02:43 PM (Hgnbj)

16 A man's boner should be between him and his woman/women. Another dude seeing your boner is gay.

Posted by: alppuccino at March 17, 2008 05:04 PM (BYezr)

17 Well, Kev--according to some men, if you care about the woman's pleasure, that's gay, too. Uh oh...

Posted by: Desert Cat at March 17, 2008 05:13 PM (B2X7i)

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Posted by: Attila Girl at March 17, 2008 07:14 PM (Hgnbj)

19 What do you call a man and two women? Menage a trois. What do you call two men and a woman? Gang bang. Gay gang bang. It's gay for a naked man to be in bed with another naked man, no matter who else is present, UNLESS: the bed is very, very large (large enough so that the men rarely even glimpse each other), located in the Playboy Mansion, and has many, many women on it.

Posted by: jb at March 17, 2008 09:30 PM (HrVHr)

20 P.S. It's gay for two women too. Good gay.

Posted by: jb at March 17, 2008 09:30 PM (HrVHr)

21 Have you noticed how much your traffic (at least as measured by comments) has increased since you stirred the pot last week? There's a lesson in here somewhere...

Posted by: Desert Cat at March 17, 2008 09:47 PM (DIr0W)

22 Yeah. It seems to be something like "get in the gutter and stay there; you'll end up there anyway." Actually, I think my little mini-blogwar on gender and bodybuilding is incidental to today's traffic, which is of course due to the Instalanche--and subsequent links at Protein Wisdom, Ann Althouse, and Ace of Spades. A cynical person remark that "there's no such thing as bad publicity." I myself, however, am not a cynic--only a skeptic. So I'll reserve judgement

Posted by: Attila Girl at March 17, 2008 10:17 PM (Hgnbj)

23 Swordfighting bad. Donut-bumping good.

Posted by: John at March 18, 2008 06:13 AM (UBPMC)

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