. . . Before It Swells.
We're taking advantage of tomorrow being our day off, and the Duchess and I have been refreshing ABCNews's real-time New Hampshire stats with monkey-feeder-bar like intensity. Three things have been bouncing around in my head:
1. The expectations game is going to bite Dean hard. All week he succesfully spun a recovery, and raised the expectation bar to a squeaker loss. Now that it's a double-digit blow-out, he's in serious trouble.
2. Kerry? The Dems will probably soon know what I experienced with Dole in '96. Okay, he's our nominee, he's a respected senior figure. But he's so. . . DULL. How do you get excited about having Kerry for your nominee? It's like staging a romantic comedy with Woody Allen -- sure, he's funny, but does anyone want to see him kissing Diane Keaton? (Oh wait, bad example.)
3. Polls. . . One more miscall like this, and John Zogby should change his last name to Trelawney.
Oh, I said three things, but it's actually four. I noticed that Lyndon LaRouche has pulled in 64 votes so far. The Duchess and I have been regaling the hamster, Vinnie Pukh, with our rendition of "LaRouche, LaRouche, LaRouche is on fire!", to the tune of the 1984 Rockmaster Scott classic.
Posted by Discoshaman at janvier 28, 2004 03:07 AM | TrackBack
64 votes? GW got over 100 in NH. And he's in the oppoing party.
Posted by: Paul Baxter at janvier 28, 2004 06:51 PM"We don't need no water, let the fascist, conspiracy-mongering, convicted felon burn!"
I found this on one of his apologist pages:
"...he opposed the economic and related policy-matrices of the administrations of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, and Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Bush (most notably). Today, inside U.S. domestic and foreign-economic policy, his commitment is typified by intractable opposition to the relevant policies of Henry A. Kissinger, of Robert Bartley's Wall Street Journal, and also the neo-malthusian doctrinaires generally."
I know LaRouche usually runs as a Democrat, but he sounds to me like a guy a paleocon could love...
Posted by: John R. at janvier 28, 2004 07:05 PMDiane Keaton? Put this in your rolling papers and smoke it, Disco.
A bad example indeed. Or an utterly unflattering picture; I never used to think of her as unattractive. Or Skeletor's older sister. Or whatever.
Sheesh, these photographers can all but murder a gal.
Posted by: Tim Berglund at janvier 28, 2004 08:47 PMPaul-
But GW is SANE. 64 votes isn't bad for a deranged guy. As a side note though, GW also beat HILLARY in the write-ins section. Quelle bummer for her.
Tim-
That's terrifying. She looks like a piranha in a wig. I was thinking of Annie Hall though. A GREAT romantic comedy, even if it does have Woody Allen kissing people.
John!
That is awesome... The Duchess and I both chortled. Nay, belly-laughed. Much better than the version we were singing. :-)
Posted by: Discoshaman at janvier 28, 2004 10:24 PM3. Polls. . . One more miscall like this, and John Zogby should change his last name to Trelawney.
Love it! How many people are gonna catch a semi-obscure reference like Sybil Trelawney? :-)
Posted by: Chris at janvier 29, 2004 07:31 AMChris-
Heh, thanks! Though I'm such a Potter-junky that none of it seems obscure to me any more.
I'm serious about Zoby though, I think he had Dean only 3% down right toward the primary day.
Posted by: The Duchess at janvier 30, 2004 08:35 PMAck, that was me. . . Not the Duchess. She's aggrandizing the comment window. :P
Posted by: Discoshaman at janvier 30, 2004 08:37 PM