Andrea Harris at Twisted Spinster:

Bridget Johnson wonders why there has been no outcry from the Hollywood crowd against the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by Islamic terrorists. Just off the top of my head I’d say that unlike disgruntled Christians, Republicans, and law-abiding gun owners, Islamic terrorists will actually kill you if you piss them off, and for all their spouting about “free speech” and the “chilling effect” on Tinseltown of four more years of Bushitler, actors and screenwriters and so on are simply afraid of dying. Of course since their mere existence has already pegged them in fanatical Muslim eyes for the Big Sleep they are in a sense living on borrowed time, so the only solution to Hollywood’s buttheaded insular assurance that Appeasement Is the Only Way is to sit back and wait for the killings to begin. After a few big name celebrities are sent to kingdom come by exploding limosines and the like maybe we’ll see some changes in perspective.

Nah. TheyÂ’ll just screech that itÂ’s all Hitler McChimpyÂ’s fault for not protecting them better. TheyÂ’re hopeless.

So there's two depressing thoughts in a row.

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Via Michael J. Totten comes this picture of Rudy G in drag:

Micheal would love to see him as the GOP nominee in '08—enough to register GOP and vote in the primaries.

I still like Condi, because I think she'd energize the Republican base a little bit better. OTOH, Giuliani comes with automatic crossover (and crossdressing) appeal.

That would be a tough choice for me, really, if they both ran in the primary. Very tough. Michael:

James Dobson, Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Fallwell would finally, at long last, get the political nightmare they've deserved for a long time - a cosmopolitan socially liberal Republican president. IÂ’d love to see them form their own party where they can talk to themselves about how godless, decadent, and depraved everyone else is.

Yes. Ditto.

Giuliani is neither red nor blue. HeÂ’s purple, like most of America. I canÂ’t think of anyone (except perhaps for Barack Obama or John McCain) who would be better able to rally the country. Unlike George W. Bush he really is a uniter.

I'm not sure whether Bush's failure to "unite" the country has everything to do with his policies or actions; some of it is just the fact that he's continually demonized.

And John McCain? He never met a civil liberty he didn't want to abridge. If he were running I'd break my arm to make sure I didn't vote for him by accident. Between his temperament and his troubled relationship with the Bill of Rights, he's got to be the worst possible choice. I'd rather vote for a roast beef sandwich.

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is the kind of thing that makes us like George W. Bush:

The President intervening in an altercation between his own security detail and that of the Chileans. He pulled his primary agent away from the fracas and into the dinner being held for world leaders.

Normally, the President must have two Secret Service agents near him at all times, but in this instance the second agent had been whisked away and was being manhandled (to which he did not, apparently, react). But the primary agent, whom the President likes a great deal, was fished out of the crowd and pulled along.

(Trying hard to imagine a President Kerry rescuing one of his Secret Service agents.)

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has the goods on Democratic racism. You follow the links, and are just shocked that anyone would dare portray Dr. Rice in these awful ways—based on the color of her skin.

Of course, I've never been much of an Aunt Jemima woman myself. Plain old Bisquick does it—with lashings of Mrs. Butterworth syrup, the libertarian choice.

So perhaps that's one less thing to worry about. I guess.

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. . . the next President of the United States.

(What? You don't want Condi to be CiC? Then don't nominate another Northeastern liberal—male or female. Give yourselves a fighting chance.)

It would be interesting to have two women jockeying for the White House. And Condi is simply an astonishing woman: switchblade-smart, and (the straightened hair notwithstanding) amazingly beautiful. She turned 50 the other day, and it just doesn't show.

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has a lovely story about an anti-war protest in San Diego, inspired by our Fallujah offensive.

Initially, he, da Goddess, and others were counter-protesting as usual with the other Protest Warriors.

Then a few Marines from Camp Pendleton wandered by. Seeing the point-counterpoint on the sidewalks of San Diego, they called their friends. Soon they had a righteous counter-demonstration of their own going on.

Go read the whole thing; Smash has pictures!

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And here's her blog.

Via the King of Felines, Desert Cat.

(Oh, come on, my liberal friends. Even you like to see pictures of pretty young women with large guns. You must—deep down.)

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Has a small, public exchange with one of my favorite writers, Jonathan Rauch, right here. Subjects: the degree to which the U.S. has turned to the right, and the level of danger that the conservatives within the GOP will overreach (I'll take the middle ground on that one: moderate to high).

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Sean Hannity is running a map created by USA Today on his web site: it shows which counties voted for Bush, nationwide.

It's time for Manhattan, Hollywood and SF to wake up and realize that they and their chosen party will have to cooperate with the rest of the country if they aspire ever to be in power again.

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1 Miss Attila? I'm confused! ...The red part is "Middle America," right?

Posted by: Zoot at November 05, 2004 05:59 PM (yvtyP)

2 aka "Flyover Country"

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Sondra K offers us one good reason not to be "good sports": a portrait of George W. Bush composed of pictures of dead American soldiers. According to one Freeper, it's tucked away on an obscure part of the Michael Moore web site, so presumably it's "yet to be released" as an official part of Lord Pork Pork's electronic presence.

It's disgusting, and inexcusable. If I had lost a family member in the War on Terror, I'd be livid. As it is, I'm pretty furious.

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