Don't believe me? Ask noted Super-Genius Joe "My IQ is higher than yours" Biden. He'll set you straight, God love 'em.

Dontcha just love the new math? It explains how Obama can claim 95% of America will get a tax cut!

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The auxiliary speakers are starting now. Up first is Ric Tyler, a local radio personality. There are thousands of people here. I'm terrible at estimating crowd sizes, but the line was at least a quarter-mile long. Now the GOP Chair for Maine, Mark Ellis, is up.

And he's still talking. Wish I could upload pictures, but because I'm a moron, I forgot to bring the cable. So crappy, blurry pictures will be available later.

There were protesters of course. The signs were the usual: "McSame/Failin," something about sending Palin back to Alaska on the back of a dog sled, and the usual Obama-worshiping stuff. Yawn.

The national media isn't here yet, so unless you live in the immediate Bangor area and get the local channels, you're unlikely to get a live national broadcast.

Shocker...the crowd seems happy, friendly and free of the hate we've been told to expect at these events. Go figure, huh?

So far, the only media here are the local papers, television stations and a local politics blog. Speaker talking about Barack Obama. The crowd is booing. Oh, the racism.

And she's here.

Lee Greenwood is up. Just sang the national anthem. He said "I suggest that the next time CNN has a poll, they poll the patriots here in Maine." Press guy near me snarks "What's that mean?"

I'm going to try to record part of Palin's speech with my crappy camera. Be back in a bit. Olympia Snowe is still talking - and Republicans are cheering for her. Sarah Palin is a miracle worker.

There have been a number of shout-outs to Joe the Plumber. Go, Joe. She's riffing a bit off the debate last night and as those of you watching can hear, the crowd loves her.

Media watch: I think all of them have blackberries. They're mostly ignoring the speech - checking email, other websites, etc. more...

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Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 05:33 AM | Comments (35)
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He really did.

So donate to worthy Republican House challengers, and the 527s running ads that can seriously move votes.

And wipe that arrogant little smirk off his face.

Video by The Nose on Your Face by special request.

I did the tags, though. Which I'm understandably proud of.

PS? Maybe tip the bloggers you read and email about the insurrection post?

This isn't about link-whoring; I pretty much have finally achieved my traffic dream* and don't care about it anymore. It's about getting everyone on the right side of the blogosphere to donate to the 527s whose ads might just turn this thing around.

* First time ever: 100,000+ weekly average uniques. That's about what Instapundit was getting when I started, and was always my goal. Just to hit it once. I finally did.

So I'm done.

And: Thank you.

Posted by: Ace at 09:48 AM | Comments (51)
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I'll bet.

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Bumped. Donate to American Issues Group and Let Freedom Ring.

Oh by the way: Tell them to stop running ads on Fox. These ads are not helping; they only encourage donations to them. All ad buys must be on other networks. Anyone who watches Fox does not need to see these ads.

I've been told to stop grousing about McCain's self-defeating refusal to fight back on the main issue this election -- It's the economy, stupid! -- and do something constructive.

Well. That's not half bad advice. So here's a constructive post.

The insurrection has three elements:

1) Donate to 527s hitting this issue with TV ads in swing states. They are carrying this issue as well as their limited funding allows -- let's give them more money to play with. more...

Posted by: Ace at 11:30 AM | Comments (171)
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It was inevitable. No, not that I would write a post on Zombie cats, as if the occasional undead article were all I were good for.

Ok, that much is true.

Be that as it may, it was inevitable that the Zombie menace would threaten our lovely LoLCat Community.

Below the fold is my ground-breaking, ahem, essay on this latest undead vector.

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Because life isn't just about defeatism competing with Stalinism.

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Since you guys don't believe me. Believe the focus group. Please watch the clip below the fold.

Let me quote: "This tested the highest ever of any negative ad in this entire campaign."

Surprise: Negative ad that hits Obama on Fannie and Freddie proves highly effective

How long has the righty blogosphere been screaming at the RNC to go nuclear on this? No ad we’ve posted this year got as much grassroots buzz as that “What Just Happened?” dynamo that leveled the Dems on this same subject. Why McCain’s made Ayers the centerpiece of the attacks instead, I’ll never know, especially with Democratic voters reacting almost as well to this spot as Republicans did. Presumably, Team Maverick’s own focus groups are populated with nuts like these, who acknowledge The One will be a terrible president but long nonetheless for the golden days of Reagan in which, er … the government took over Wall Street? No wonder communists are stoked.

I was going to post McCain’s newest ad here too — it’s okay, albeit no world-beater — but reposting the “What Just Happened?” spot is probably a more productive use of our bandwidth so let’s do that instead.

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Tonight's debate was definitely an improvement over last week's. We finally got to hear the candidates talk about abortion and the courts. Unfortunately, except for two glancing mentions by McCain, immigration, guns, and voter fraud were still missing.

The following table is in the order in which the questions were asked. The typical format was for Bob Schieffer to introduce the topic with a question and to then give the candidates some leeway to go at each other in turn. Schieffer didn't spend much time chastising the candidates for going over their allotted time; in fact, he seemed happy to encourage the candidates to continue addressing each other. If the table seems longer and a bit more cluttered this week, that's because it is. The candidates covered quite a bit more ground in this format and without Brokaw squawking every two minutes about the timer.

I have tried to be fair in cutting each candidate's responses down to a manageable size (not always successfully). I used the candidates' own language as much as possible, but have paraphrased occasionally. A ‡ symbol at the start of an issue marks the candidate who spoke first; a ‡ symbol at the end denotes the candidate who spoke last on that issue.

A rush transcript of the debate is at CNN; watch out, at the time of this posting it isn't entirely accurate. more...

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