Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Bizarro World

This is the best (and shortest) comment about last night's debate between Brown and Coakley in Massachusetts for, wait for it.... "Kennedy's seat" Here's the great takeaway quote:

"Note how easily [debate moderator David] Gergen reached back for what he thought was a blazing fastball — “You’re going to sit in Teddy Kennedy’s seat!” — and discovered that it was a hanging curve that [Senate candidate Scott] Brown knocked over the Green Monster at Fenway, where it’s still bouncing around somewhere on the Mass Pike."

http://bigjournalism.com/mwalsh/2010/01/12/does-the-kinsley-rule-apply-to-journalists-too/#more-5194

One of these days, folks are going to look around and realize the new GOP conservatives running for office this year (Brown, Rubio) are the epitome of the Dems they have always thought they were voting for (cool, young, hip, smart) and the Dems are the Dinosaurs, old fogies and racists they have typically associated with Republicans ("Negro dialect" Harry Reid, Botox intoxicated Nancy Pelosi and the assorted crooks from Chicago currently running loose in DC spending our money like drunken sailors....