Nation
Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats: MalkinA Few Post-Election Thoughts: RWN
It was Historic: GWP
Racist Teabaggers Elect West, Haley, Scott, Rubio... etc.: GWP
Marco Rubio’s acceptance speech: Hot Air
Kaboom.: JOdysseus
No Retreat, No Surrender, No Compromise: The New GOP?: PJM
Running Updates --- Hand Count Coming In Alaska?: Hot Air
Turning Statehouses Red: Malkin
The Huge GOP Win: Hewitt
Bumped: When In The Course Of Human Events: Riehl
Oh God: Murky Probably Won: Ace
Democrat Vote Fraud
Harrah’s Puts Squeeze on Employees in Pro-Reid Effort: NRONew Black Panther Voter Intimidation in Houston: PJM
Mentally handicapped in MN forced to vote for Democrats: BlogProf
Economy
Steny Hoyer's Impressive Argument For Voting (D): RWNPresident Obama's Hollow Jobs Boast: IBD
The End Of U.S. Exceptionalism: IBD
Media
The Dialectic of Obama: LifsonPalin v. Rove and the Battle for the GOP's Future: AT
Is “separation of church and state” really in the first amendment?: MoneyRunner
Politico’s Michael Kinsley Goes Full Unhinged: American Not Greatest Nation Due To TEA Party Fools: RWN
NPR Shows Itself Terrified of Muslims: AT
Tina Brown's Beastly Delusion: AT
A Post-Election Resolution: AT
Diane Sawyer Nudges SEIU and ACORN So Hard She Breaks Their Ribs: Fill Those Buses!: Powers
Michele Bachmann to Chris Matthews: How’s That Leg Tingle Tonight?: GWP
World
Time for a Tea Party at Turtle Bay: RosettDurban III Set for New York City in September 2011: Bayefsky
Is $200 million dollars a day a good price for a vacation?: MoneyRunner
SciTech
LG Display snatches 'world's thinnest bezel' title from Samsung with new 37-inch LCD: EngadgetSophos Releases Free Anti-Virus Software for Mac Users: Switched
Star Trek's Enterprise now has an owner's manual: CNet
Cornucopia
Then and Now: the Sopranos: FoxRocky VII: The Italian Stallion vs. The Chicago Organizer: Powers
Giga-Pudding: Ace
Image: FWire.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fox News Interactive Election Map
QOTD: "As for compromise, the victor doesn't seek compromise, the loser does. To think otherwise is to switch places. Furthermore, compromise per se is irrational. You only compromise depending on what the issue is, and what the compromise means for the broader picture." -- Mark Levin
Bonus QOTD: "Tonight America leaned forward --- and crapped on the Marxist left (and legacy media, but I repeat myself)" -- Me. Just Now.
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ReplyDeleteNo more Speaker for you...
On another note, the mighty EIB is doubling down on the fashion.
As a DIDDOHEAD from 93, I have never seen RUSH ever, this lost without a reasonable path.
He boasts O'Donnell made Republicans in Delaware more Conservative? WHAT? O'Donnell actually weakened the Republicans and Conservatives in the East, perhaps in the rest of the Country as well. Delaware, and their Republican Base, is no more to the right or left because of a disastrous choice in O'Donnell.
Rush is trying the most simplistic sales pitch, about a generic "Reagan Conservatism". It is true this is the most sound political offering, but not the popularity IMAGE game he is selling.
Having Rush Limbaugh actually try to debase Karl Rove is about as dumb as it gets. He has chosen the Palin Identity game, and frankly it simply is not WFB Conservatism which is the strongest.
I expected Rush to be unable to be honest about it - not this garbage "it is what it is". He simply is too deep in his own egotism these days, to offer an objective product, and must rely on a narrative, instead of sound Conservatism.
If someone cannot admit, that most of the TEA PARTY EXPRESS Candidates were so weak, and enabled the Democratic Party. The only ones that did okay, were those in sound Conservative Arenas.
But this is so irresponsible of Rush, not to be honest, to continue this 'war' against the GOP. It really is juvenile, and reminds one of the delusional on the internet. Not quite as disturbed as Riehl, but truly in denial.
Conservatism is a winner for certain, the Democrats are a disaster. But this fluff of an Image movement, pushing a lack of substance, accomplishment, ability, etc., all based on some emotive concept of appearing like the most pure Conservative, is a weakening of the effort.
The Palin Franchise, the Tea Party Express, were utterly misguided to push O'Donnell at this time, and even the other choices, cost us a chance to take the Majority in the Senate, as well as those powerful Committees.
Case in point about Rush, he chastised everyone for making the obvious appearance of 'working together' which is simply good politics. He failed to mention Sarah Palin said the same things on FOX, playing a typical political game. Then Rush went on to associate Whitman and Fiorina with McCain from 2008, saying they lost because they are such vapid moderates. HELLO? Rush, Sarah Palin was the Maverick GOP VP selection. The McCain-Palin Ticket lost dramatically.
The reality is, those pushing a fashion are so contradicted, even the great Man behind the Gold Mic is writing hubris that cannot be cashed. Rush could easily have shown a little pragmatism. Could have embraced all, trying to inspire. He has the talent to unite and sway. Yet even the day prior to the big election, he continued to select a path that spent time demeaning the so-called Republican Establishment. He even ventured towards simplistic populism. It doesn't have to be like this, and in the end he is going to be further upset.
It reminds one of Obama, unwilling to bend with reality. One can get so stuck on a narrative, they are no longer in touch with reality.