1 And he has Whitman up over Moonbeam convincingly: http://tinyurl.com/2v2mkkn

2 68 days till Nov. 2 Gabe

3 oh please! oh please! oh please! oh please!

Even though my vote is definitely for Fiorina I plan to watch the debate just for entertainment. If Boxer performs like I think she will those poll numbers will tilt like Guam with too many people on it.

oh please! oh please! oh please! oh please!

4 There are few words in the English language as tantalizing as "ex-Senator Boxer."

5 There are few words in the English language as tantalizing as "ex-Senator Boxer."

Posted by: Reiver at August 26, 2010 09:58 AM (64S5N)

She's working hard for that title.

6 We are 51 days out from the election and Boxer hasn't really made her move yet.

Where's she moving to?  Venezuela?

There's hope, yet.

7 The Boxer as Zardoz ad is nice. The fact that she is a beltway New York carpetbagger is a needed message...and also that Commiefornia only gets 78 cents back on every buck sent to Washington. Alaska gets about 7 bucks per dollar sent back. It sucks watching this once fine state that produced Reagan go to shit.

8 68 days, thanks Buzz. I thought I'd worked that out yesterday, but it turns out I'm a moron.

9 The other thing she has to look forward to is the President coming back to help her. Unlike the rest of the country, Californians haven't wised up.

Is this because they have basically legalized Mary Jane or because they know they need a federal bailout?

10 Pure Dem State going into a dead heat. AK is in a dead heat for a primary with a RINO incumbent who is acting like a Dem more and more. In fact, this from Redstate this morning:

http://tinyurl.com/fugqb

The absentee ballots will not be counted for a week or so. Already there are rumors of “found” ballots. Murkowski is refusing to go away quietly, even allowing her campaign to float the idea of a third party bid or write-in candidacy.

11 There are few words in the English language as tantalizing as "ex-Senator Boxer."

"Exiled democrats" does it for me.  I'd even buy them plane tickets.

12 There are few words in the English language as tantalizing as "ex-Senator Boxer."

Or "Federal Inmate #88374992, Boxer"

13 Thanks, Gabe. I needed a reminder of why I left CA, and you've delivered!

I feel sorry for some Californians, the ones smart enough to be embarrassed by the quality of their so-called public servants. The mere fact that Ahhh-nuld, Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer and the rest haven't destroyed the state completely (yet) is testament to what CA could be if properly administered.

But the mass of voters there will keep on supporting the leftoid loons until the state pops at the San Andreas and winds up as an island chain off the U.S. coast.

I don't think the public there is ready to be weaned off the Democrat teat yet. Polls to the contrary, I lived too long in that socialized hellhole to think Boxer, Brown and Pelosi won't maintain their hold on the reins (and pockets) of the state.

14

one term president obama

former speaker pelosi

former senator frank

15 12 The other thing she has to look forward to is the President coming back to help her. Unlike the rest of the country, Californians haven't wised up.

Is this because they have basically legalized Mary Jane or because they know they need a federal bailout?

Fewer Californians use the evil weed than you would think, and many refuse to accept that there may be any need for a bailout (although it would be "the duty" of the feds to do so if needed). Californians simply live in denial. You know how liberals refuse to see reality, seeing instead their vision of utopia always before their eyes? Yeah, that.

16 former senator frank

Bite your tongue!

17 "ex-law ObamaCare"

18 'Future Guantanamo inmate' is my preferred fantasy title for the lot of 'em.

19 former senator lindsey graham

20 'Future Guantanamo inmate' is my preferred fantasy title for the lot of 'em.

It would be a fitting end for them since they have been trying to turn the US into Cuba.

21

former senator  congressman frank

FIFY

22 former Californian sock puppeh

23 We are 68 days out from the election and Boxer hasn't really made her move yet. I haven't seen her ads much on TV or radio, except for the news when the President comes out to fundraise.

Boxer's own coming ad blitz is going to hurt her worse than Fiorina's ads hurt her, like Boxer's "Call me Senator!" demand.  Boxer is naturally annoying.  Her only chance is to hide for the duration of the campaign and hope that people forget who she really is.

24 In other good poll news: Kirk and Da Mobster are tied in Illinois, and Buck is up by 9 in Colorado.

http://www.politico.com/2010/

25

Here's the ketchup, Gabe.

Salt is on the way.

26 The ousting of the HP CEO and the subsequent rumors about employees saying he did a "piss poor job of running the company and made everyone unhappy" serves to contrast Carly and her having successfully run HP and positioned it to be where it is today.  Sure the investors were complaining about her when she exited but hey everything she did at HP turned out to be the right thing to do.  Plus the employees when Carly was running the place weren't anonymously posting about how unhappy they were.

27 I am not saying this for to jynx anything. However, if she looses I have "shanna nanna hey hey hey goodbye" recorded - and a payphone selected - and half a day free - would be funny if ... * whistles *

don't sweat it g. Math is for losers anyway.

28 California used to be a pretty good State in the 50s and early 60s. It was primarily an agricultural State at that time and farmers are normally pretty conservative.

It was the huge influx of liberals from out of State to the coastal strip that changed CA. Now there is a huge outflow from CA to AZ, NM, and NV and they are now changing those States.

Meanwhile CA has become Mexico-II from all the illegals pouring in. 

29 Saw this quote from Cillizza's column "The Fix" about poll numbers:

It seems she may be able to pursue a bid as a write-in candidate or possibly run under the banner of the Alaskan Independence Party. But a chairman for that party said that that the party would "absolutely not" consider giving Murkowski its nomination.

I think Cillizza read's AoSHQ as this is a near exact quote that Drew M. got.

30

Where's she moving to?  Venezuela?

I could just see her fellating Hugo Chavez.

That said, I am beginning to suspect only Kim-Jong-Il can save this state.

 

31 Posted by: Quilly Mammmoth at August 26, 2010 10:24 AM (9wR2s)

According to Redstate she is starting a Franken movement to find ballots in trunks.

32 Speaking of (T)Hugo...did anyone notice that Miss Venezuela left the stage carrying the _old_, pre (T)Hugo Venezuelan flag?  I think his days are numbered.  Hawt Freedom Babes always tell the tale.

33 Dear Ceiling Cat:
We can haz Carly, pls.
OKthnxbai.

34

Maybe one of you smart guys can help me with this:

I just can't seem to connect the dots on how Roger Clemmons is being indicted for lying to congress.  I mean I see how lying to congress is a bad thing, and all.

I just don't get how Barry, who will be given primetime on TV, and who will spend that time boldly and with a bald face, lying to the entire American population... What I'm saying is I don't understand how this isn't at least as bad as what Clemmons did?

And another thing I don't understand is how he is getting away with conning all of us into believing that this will be anything other than free political advertising.

What the f--k does he have left to sell anyway? 

A little help here, please?

35 May I offer ex-House Leader Reid as a tasty side dish to the California poke salad?

36 It's obvious, Hussein, Clemmons is a rich, white man.

37 Boxer is naturally annoying.  Her only chance is to hide for the duration of the campaign and hope that people forget who she really is.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 26, 2010 10:18 AM

More accurate to say: Boxer is naturally annoying to non-Californians. The locals still love that mix of drug-addled liberalism, access to the federal-money spout and Aimee Semple McPherson-like holier-than-thou 'tude.

38

Where's she moving to?  Venezuela?

I could just see her fellating Hugo Chavez.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 26, 2010 10:26 AM (ujg0T)

Only if he addresses her properly, "Call me 'madam'.  I've worked very hard for that title, rounding up groups of young girls to rent out to old men, like you."

39

"Likely voters."

Our likely voters are more likely to actually get out and vote than their likely voters.

40 29 The ousting of the HP CEO and the subsequent rumors about employees saying he did a "piss poor job of running the company and made everyone unhappy" serves to contrast Carly and her having successfully run HP and positioned it to be where it is today.  Sure the investors were complaining about her when she exited but hey everything she did at HP turned out to be the right thing to do.  Plus the employees when Carly was running the place weren't anonymously posting about how unhappy they were.


Um....that's not my experience. I was with HP in 2001, and she was a nightmare. She's messed up everything she's touched, from Lucent to McCain, and her employees hated her. That said, my right ass cheek would be better than Boxer, so mox nix.

41

Where's she moving to?  Venezuela?

I could just see her fellating Hugo Chavez.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 26, 2010 10:26 AM (ujg0T)


Nope, that's our job.

42

Speaking of (T)Hugo...did anyone notice that Miss Venezuela left the stage carrying the _old_, pre (T)Hugo Venezuelan flag?  I think his days are numbered.  Hawt Freedom Babes always tell the tale.

Evo Morales cannot be reached for comment.

Honestly, I see 2013-2021 as a replay of 1981-1989 for Latin America, where we will have to undo the damage the Demunists have done to allies down there. I see "Contras 2.0 versio'n para Venezuela" and I see the same Commiecrats, and a new generation thereof, fellating the Chavez goons just as they fellated the Sandinistas in the 1980's.

43

What the f--k does he have left to sell anyway? 

A little help here, please?

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 26, 2010 10:30 AM

To be really crass, what Osama Obama has -- and it's the only thing keeping him out of prison, IMO -- is the fact that he "doesn't look like all those other guys on paper money."

In short, like Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others of their kind, he is a race-hustler who has found the weak point in the character of weak-minded Americans.

Take race out of the equation, and not one of them would be above the poverty line. They sell the only thing they have to sell, and guilt-riddled supporters keep buying.

All that said, he's damn good at it.

44 Posted by: . at August 26, 2010 10:33 AM (gQLr2)

Hmmm sorry you had a bad experience with her.  I've only had people tell me that in comparison to "the hurd" she was great.  Maybe "the hurd" was just that bad that I'm misunderstanding.  Now, I will clarify.

45

"California used to be a pretty good State in the 50s and early 60s. It was primarily an agricultural State at that time and farmers are normally pretty conservative."

Not to mention the huge aerospace comapnies that were located in Southern California up until the early 80's. I was born and raised in Orange County and nearly all of my friends dads were somehow connected to aerospace and most was very conservative politically. Even UC Irvine was primarily an engineering school in the early years that helped to support the industry.

46 Damn, my hash has changed.
Jox6, what does that mean? I wear jockeys and have a 6 inch penis? Only if I fold it in half. LOL.

47 I don't know but I'd be happy if BO took roids. The guy is a twig and it's nationally embarassing. He's even to shy to show his man tits to the camera, or something... according to him.

48 Speaking of (T)Hugo...did anyone notice that Miss Venezuela left the stage carrying the _old_, pre (T)Hugo Venezuelan flag?  I think his days are numbered.  Hawt Freedom Babes always tell the tale.

Maria Conchita Alonso, who despises Chavez like no ones business, and has been a very loud and welcome voice against him, was a former Miss Venezuela.

49 Maria Conchita Alonso, who despises Chavez like no ones business, and has been a very loud and welcome voice against him, was a former Miss Venezuela.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 26, 2010 10:39 AM (Qp4DT)

Absolutely, she's awesome. Looked good in Running Man too.

50 Sure the investors were complaining about her when she exited but hey everything she did at HP turned out to be the right thing to do.  Plus the employees when Carly was running the place weren't anonymously posting about how unhappy they were.

Let's not rewrite history just because an election is coming up.  Carly looks great in comparison to Boxer, but she was a nightmare for HP's shareholders and widely despised by employees who absolutely were anonymously posting about how unhappy they were. 

51 To be really crass, what Osama Obama has -- and it's the only thing keeping him out of prison, IMO -- is the fact that he "doesn't look like all those other guys on paper money [the dollar bills]."

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 26, 2010 10:37 AM (Ulu3i)

Yep.  He hides behind his very thin skin, which effectively serves to scare too many into submission.

52

Not to mention the huge aerospace comapnies that were located in Southern California up until the early 80's. I was born and raised in Orange County and nearly all of my friends dads were somehow connected to aerospace and most was very conservative politically. Even UC Irvine was primarily an engineering school in the early years that helped to support the industry.

Very true, this. One of the ironies of the end of the Cold War was that the reliable Republican patriot bastion of aerospace evaporated. Add to this the shift in computing from real business and defense oriented hardware to "creative" (and teh ghey) software, and another reasonably solid Republican voting bloc evaporated.

Meanwhile, the tenured radicals in academia kept festering....

53 Clemmons was "under oath" and they are saying he lied. Thatis why the Republicans raised hell when the Dems bring in a Dem to interrogate they never put them under oath so they can lie with impunity.

Really, the whole idea of congress having subpoena power and able to interrogate people under oath is ludicrous to begin with. It was never intended to be that way and only a liberal court ruling gave them that power.

54 To say nothing of the Commiewood entertainment industry.

55 The closing of military bases also hurt CA's economy. The bankrupt city of Vallejo was plush when Mare Island Naval base was open, but never learned how to manage its economy without it. Growing up in Sacramento just about everyone either was employed at one of the local bases or lived next door to someone who was.

56 Yeah , uh ".", ditto about perfect being enemy of good etc etc hush plus 6yr term moy importante etc etc. Go dodgers!

57 To say nothing of the Commiewood entertainment industry.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 26, 2010 10:42 AM (ujg0T)

That industry was okay, and pro-American/pro-Western, even, until the blacklisting stopped.

58 did anyone notice that Miss Venezuela left the stage carrying the _old_, pre (T)Hugo Venezuelan flag? 

Pics???  Please??

And Hussein the Plumber.  Clemens was under oath.  That is bad when you get caught.

I am looking forward to Disgraced Former President Obama myself.

59 By the way guys, his name is Clemens.

60

The closing of military bases also hurt CA's economy. The bankrupt city of Vallejo was plush when Mare Island Naval base was open, but never learned how to manage its economy without it. Growing up in Sacramento just about everyone either was employed at one of the local bases or lived next door to someone who was.

Like I said, an irony of the end of the Cold War. And all three Sacto area bases are gone.

Interestingly enough, while Sacramento proper is weenie Left, the burbs around it are rather staunchly Republican, often made up of "Bay Area Exiles" who were either priced out by the Eco-Weenie Anti-Development Elite Left, or fled the ghettoey areas that remain there, thanks to the Ethnic Tribalist Criminal-Coddling Racist Hypocrite Left. I should know; I am one of them.

Indeed, the real split in California politics is NOT North vs. South, it is now Coast vs. Interior. The most Republican county is no longer Orange, it is now Placer (Sacto suburbs)

61

I am looking forward to Disgraced Former President Obama myself.  Posted by: CUS at August 26, 2010 10:45 AM (wOGfT)

 

That's the Grail alright, but Pelosi's puckered pelt tacked to the outhouse door would suffice until then.

62

That (entertainment) industry was okay, and pro-American/pro-Western, even, until the blacklisting stopped.

I so wish for more people in the GOP to have the guts to state that Tailgunner Joe, despite his alcoholism, was spot-on. The evidence from the Soviet archives has decisively spoken.

And yes, Sean Penn's dad was a blacklisted Communist. These Commiewood Leftists aren't rebelling against Mom and Dad; they are pleasing them.

63 The betting line at Intrade still has Boxer ahead 60-40 Rasmussen had McCain winning as late as Sept 0f 2008

64

That's the Grail alright, but Pelosi's puckered pelt tacked to the outhouse door would suffice until then.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at August 26, 2010 10:50 AM (pcJe3)

That would scare away the raccoons, for sure!

65

My father was offered a job with Lockheed in So Cal in the 70's after they had closed their location in Louisiana.  My father went out there for a 2 month stint and subsequently turned down the job.  He told me later that the reason was he did not want to raise his family in that enviroment.  I don't know what he meant exactly but I assumed it was because he thought it was too liberal.   

Culturally, it has always been rather rootless and transient. This was especially true for the massive population influx of the 1950's to the 1970's, who left behind their extended family back in the Midwest or East. Various immigrant waves from Asia and Latin America also severed extended family ties. Add to this the "lib" movements of the 1960's and 1970's, which the rootless population was hard pressed to resist.

I remember feeling odd in grade school in San Jose because my parents were *not* divorced. And I credit my "Ma and Pa Kettle" (with affection), who actually look a lot like the farmer and his wife in the American Gothic painting, for what stability I have.

Growing up I had two oddball neighbors on my street who illustrated this. One couple was into New Age crystal channeling, which always amused my old man, who had a "rockhound" hobby of collecting crystals but thankfully had no such delusions. Another family seemd to plunge into every self-help fad from Dianetics to est.

66 SF bay/ LA basin and the coastal counties will NEVER trend republican and anyone claiming differently is a fool.

San Diego > Watsonville > Santa Cruz> Stinson Beach > Crescent City > Mammoth > Lake Tahoe = Dem

Vs Central California

Orange > Bakersfield > Sacramento > Redding > Fort Bidwell (25 votes) = Rep


Keep on effin' that chicken.

67 67 These Commiewood Leftists aren't rebelling against Mom and Dad; they are pleasing avenging them.

Fixed for improved accuracy.  (Funny how it never sinks into their heads that they'd have never had the lives they have now if the early vanguard had its way.  I guess it's true, if Hollywood disappeared, the average American IQ would jump about 20 points...)

68 The most Republican county is no longer Orange, it is now Placer (Sacto suburbs).

Butte and Modoc counties.

69

SF bay/ LA basin and the coastal counties will NEVER trend republican and anyone claiming differently is a fool.

San Diego > Watsonville > Santa Cruz> Stinson Beach > Crescent City > Mammoth > Lake Tahoe = Dem

Despite cutbacks, San Diego is still, and will always be, a military area. That area trends better. San Jose is also reasonably sane and at least salvageable.

But you are correct about the rest of it. Increasingly I feel like those psychic guys in "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes". Four small atomic bombs--detonated on San Francisco, Oakland/Berkeley, South Central LA, and West Hollywood--would do the trick. Maybe Oakland/Berkeley could be bathed in "the holy fallout" from an SF Bomb.

Come on Kim Jong-Il, you pudgy pygmy.

70 Rasmussen hasn't adjusted his party self-identification ID to reflect voter enthusiasm. In terms of enthusiasm, there is NONE for Boxer this year. Its all on Fiorina. In terms of turnout, record primary turnout in the Central Valley, San Diego, I.E. and Orange County for Republicans is indictive of that regions voters ACTUALLY waking up. In the Survey USA poll, Fiorina CRUSHES Boxer in OC/SD, Inland Empire, and the Central Valley. Better, she edges boxer in LAMetro- 45-44. Republicans usually get crushed here. This was before the wonderful traffic jam by the way.

71 Woot, woot!

72 I can't see Fiorina beating the Sea Hag. This is the land of the LA Times: s**t mongers extraordinaire. They will do anything to keep their dog on a leash. Get ready for the Fiorina corporate-greed scandal to float by like a turd in the LA river.

73

I can't see Fiorina beating the Sea Hag.

That's an even better image for Boxer than the Wicked Witch Of The West.

74

@79

Get off that Wicked Witch of the West theme. We sent her to be Secretary of HHS!

75

Kansas isn't "west". I consider the Rocky Mountain watershed to divide between west and not-west.

But Kansas does have the Oz theme going for it, so you might get a pass for that much.

76

Kansas isn't "west". I consider the Rocky Mountain watershed to divide between west and not-west.

But Kansas does have the Oz theme going for it, so you might get a pass for that much.

And the Sea Hag didn't melt either. Did Popeye punch her out even?

77 But Intrade has Boxer up by 20%!!!!!!



The betting line at Intrade still has Boxer ahead 60-40 Rasmussen had McCain winning as late as Sept 0f 2008

Posted by: denny crane at August 26, 2010 10:55 AM (I+7Zv)

Oh, dammit. That's what I get for being busy trying to work for a living. Missing the Intrade preemptive strike.

78

<em>A conservative group with ties to former Bush adviser Karl Rove announced Wednesday they have Barbara Boxer in their <strike>sites</strike> </em> sights.

There, now it's fixed. Someone should tell the twit that wrote that article that they should at least learn how to use the correct words.

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