I wouldn't hold my breath...

Posted at August 28, 2008 6:46 PM in response to Greek Revival = Democracy

FDR actually accomplished a thing or two. Reagan showed the American people that as far down as you think people can go, there is always someone that can go lower - thus paving the way for GWB.

Posted at August 28, 2008 6:44 PM in response to Why Reagan?

If all you know is what you wrote, then maybe you shouldn't have written it. Why didn't you give Carville a call and ask him about it? Or wouldn't that be sneaky enough for you?

Posted at August 28, 2008 6:00 PM in response to James Carville Hasn't Changed; He Was A Spy for Bush in 2004

No, Blackwell was smart enough to rig it before any votes were cast.

Posted at August 28, 2008 5:59 PM in response to James Carville Hasn't Changed; He Was A Spy for Bush in 2004

Well thanks, Artappraiser. I remember when Sleeper was for the Iraq war...before he found out how unpopular it was. At least Wilentz never has to apologize for being a neocon.

Posted at August 28, 2008 5:55 PM in response to Another One Bites the Dust

That's the extent of Rosenberg's "evidence". People think Carville's a big mouth. That proves he's a spy for the republicans, of course to people like Sleeper and Rosenberg, anyone who isn't willing to cut and run from his convictions when the wind changes is a spy and a shill for someone, somewhere...they just have to be, because that is what they would do.

Posted at August 28, 2008 5:13 PM in response to James Carville Hasn't Changed; He Was A Spy for Bush in 2004

This is overkill and whenever you see it, you know it's personal.

Posted at August 28, 2008 4:44 PM in response to Another One Bites the Dust

Another excellent and concise post from Lux.

Posted at August 28, 2008 3:32 PM in response to Big Dog -We Love You - We Will Always Love You

This makes absolutely no sense. The provisional ballot mess in Ohio was challenged as early as the beginning of October and was being litigated as late as October 27th '04 and continued being litigated until 2006. Secondly, Ohio didn't have even a preliminary count of votes cast because not all the counties had reported totals until later in the day on Wednesday, like New Mexico, Ohio still did not have a vote total in the early morning hours of Wednesday Provisional ballots are not counted by the State of Ohio until several days after the election, so there would be no way of knowing how many would be challenged or even if they favoured Kerry or Bush. They had yet to know how many provisional ballots had been cast. The major problem faced in Ohio was not provisional balloting, but the voter irregularities in the rural counties where the vote tabulation didn't match the voter turnout rate and in most cases far exceeded the turnout and always favoured Bush.

The concern of the Kerry campaign was that the exit polling was not matching the vote count that was being reported by precincts as the counts came in and the "found votes" that were being reported as totals came in that favoured Kerry, tipping the vote for Bush.

The idea that Carville tipped the vote or acted as a spy is absurd to any thinking person. The voter fraud in Ohio started long before Nov. and the litigation is there to prove it. The Bush campaign would not have been worried in the least that Kerry was contemplating challenging provisional ballots - the totals were such that they would not have made any difference in the count anyway and both campaigns knew it. The only reasonable estimate was less than 3% of votes cast that tuesday were provisional ballots.

You remind me of David Horowitz who uses the same exact tactics to destroy people - find some "troubling" accusation made thirdhand by someone less than reliable (and a republican at that) and then fling it against the wall hoping it sticks. It doesn't matter to you in the least that you're ruining someone's reputation or his livelihood over a remark that you didn't even bother to confirm - it's "troubling" to you, so you're just going to make sure that it gets out there in the ether and then let someone else suffer the consequences and clean up your mess. What this does to the democrats cause doesn't even concern you because like most tunnelvisioned, shortsighted politburo hacks, it's enough to ruin today's enemy - what happens tommorow or in the future is not your concern. You disgust me.

Posted at August 28, 2008 3:30 PM in response to James Carville Hasn't Changed; He Was A Spy for Bush in 2004

How long are you going to keep this personal grudge against Wilentz going - all this over a rejected book review from how many years ago?

If you really have to be this vituperative, you might want to control your propensity to steal others' thoughts, especially if those others' thoughts come from "The National Review" article of May 22, 2006 entitled "Sean Wilentz is the Modern Arthur Schlesinger". The other comparison you lifted "Sean Wilentz 'is a Japanese soldier found on a desert island in 1946' " was in the Washington Post just a few days ago, as being bandied about by Obama supporters at the convention as a barb at Clinton supporters.

Jacob Heilbrunn summed up your own motivation the best, "Jim Sleeper, a former traveler of the neoconservative movement who bashed away at affirmative action and political correctness has now reinvented himself as a man of the left bashing away at moderates such as...Sam Tannenhaus for allegedly being neocons."

At least Wilentz has the courage of his convictions and doesn't as Jacob Heilbrunn said of some, "can change them as easily as they change clothes".

Posted at August 28, 2008 11:53 AM in response to Another One Bites the Dust