A few thoughts on last night’s New Hampshire primary…
- We’ll freely admit it: Even us cold, cruel rape-pillage-and-burn conservatives felt a twinge of sympathy for ol’ girl before last night.
- How could the polls get it that wrong on the Democrat side while pretty much nailing the eventual Republican results? A quick perusal of the message boards revealed a majority opinion: Fraud!
- Huckabee was supposed to be in trouble in New Hampshire because the Granite State was allegedly all “no tax, no government”. So to confirm this point, the voters go out and give McCain 37% of the vote and the victory….? Then again, since none of the Republican candidates outside of Fred (who didn’t campaign there) have been espousing anything resembling a coherent conservative message, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at the results.
- Sean Hannity is a tool. We find Fox’s house lib, Alan Colmes, infinitely more likeable than that smug little punk.
- Laura Ingraham is a babe.
- We think Brent Bozell and NewsBusters serve a useful purpose but, honestly… why bother when you have completely unabashed, unashamed admission like this.
- So… Is Iowa wrong, again?
- Back to our 2nd point… How does this happen? Everybody was in the tank for Obama, it was Obama 24/7 for the past week, it was all but a foregone conclusion, a double-digit walk-in-the-park for the Dem's "rock star".… people writing Hillary’s obits… only a few people like Dick Morris and Bob Shrum (Bob Shrum!) were saying she still had a shot. How? How did it happen?
- If you haven’t seen it, here’s the “tears” felt across the nation. The YouTube clip doesn’t do this justice. The lighting is perfect, the audio crisp, the camera angle and close-up flattering and Hillary has this weary but warm glow about her. We saw it in HD last night and we were absolutely mesmerized. And this was supposed to have been an unscripted moment captured by a free-lance photographer? Right. Classic. Clinton.
- We brought up a while back (here) how Hillary was going to play both sides of the gender coin and be successful doing it. Whenever it suited her, she would play either the tuff chick or the vulnerable lady. A few people who will go unnamed, doubted the effectiveness of this strategy. She played the road-weary but idealistic lady on Monday, knocked it out of the park and walked away with the New Hampshire primary. How do ya like her now?
- For posterity’s sake: We don’t ever remember primary season being this fascinating, this compelling, this entertaining and this downright fun… and doggone, if Democracy can’t be fun then what’s the use?
- We’ll freely admit it: Even us cold, cruel rape-pillage-and-burn conservatives felt a twinge of sympathy for ol’ girl before last night.
- How could the polls get it that wrong on the Democrat side while pretty much nailing the eventual Republican results? A quick perusal of the message boards revealed a majority opinion: Fraud!
- Huckabee was supposed to be in trouble in New Hampshire because the Granite State was allegedly all “no tax, no government”. So to confirm this point, the voters go out and give McCain 37% of the vote and the victory….? Then again, since none of the Republican candidates outside of Fred (who didn’t campaign there) have been espousing anything resembling a coherent conservative message, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at the results.
- Sean Hannity is a tool. We find Fox’s house lib, Alan Colmes, infinitely more likeable than that smug little punk.
- Laura Ingraham is a babe.
- We think Brent Bozell and NewsBusters serve a useful purpose but, honestly… why bother when you have completely unabashed, unashamed admission like this.
- So… Is Iowa wrong, again?
- Back to our 2nd point… How does this happen? Everybody was in the tank for Obama, it was Obama 24/7 for the past week, it was all but a foregone conclusion, a double-digit walk-in-the-park for the Dem's "rock star".… people writing Hillary’s obits… only a few people like Dick Morris and Bob Shrum (Bob Shrum!) were saying she still had a shot. How? How did it happen?
- If you haven’t seen it, here’s the “tears” felt across the nation. The YouTube clip doesn’t do this justice. The lighting is perfect, the audio crisp, the camera angle and close-up flattering and Hillary has this weary but warm glow about her. We saw it in HD last night and we were absolutely mesmerized. And this was supposed to have been an unscripted moment captured by a free-lance photographer? Right. Classic. Clinton.
- We brought up a while back (here) how Hillary was going to play both sides of the gender coin and be successful doing it. Whenever it suited her, she would play either the tuff chick or the vulnerable lady. A few people who will go unnamed, doubted the effectiveness of this strategy. She played the road-weary but idealistic lady on Monday, knocked it out of the park and walked away with the New Hampshire primary. How do ya like her now?
- For posterity’s sake: We don’t ever remember primary season being this fascinating, this compelling, this entertaining and this downright fun… and doggone, if Democracy can’t be fun then what’s the use?
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How is it possible that Hannity is so popular? You could run out the Microsoft voice synthesizer and have it read Republican talking points over and over and over again and have the same content as Hannity's show.
Dean,
Thanks for jumping in with some primary coverage. I have to admit that I had deep dismay over the outcome of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. I was surprised at the depth of the antipathy I felt for Mme. Clinton. I tried to give it some time, but the loathing just kept coming. I don't know if it's the hubris, the phoniness or the sanctimony or the bewitching combination of all of the above. Clinton embodies for me the nagging, busy-body nanny state. I just know she's going to have the police make sure I eat my broccoli, stop me from having a beer at the beach and generally make my life miserable. When she's crying, she's says, "I see what's happening." She sees what? It's just an excuse to meddle. This is a great country, capitalism is working, the price of an HDTV has come down far enough to tempt me. So leave me alone and don't raise my taxes. There, now I feel better.
One more thing, Hannity is someone else whom I have come to loathe; who does damage to the good name of conservativism. It's always personal attacks and demogoguery with him. He can mangle a perfectly good argument for limited government and score points for the left with his grade school approach.
It could have gone the other way with the crying game. I was thinking it may be kin to Howard Deans famous heeeeeyaaah!
Voting in a primary in NH is extremely EASY. There were record number of last minute ballots and reports of parking lots with an inordinate amount of Massatooshits and Vermont license plates.
Hannity is a boob! Michele Malken is a bigger babe than Laura!
'Dawg, that is perhaps the most reasonable explanation as I understand that New Hampshire has rather, ahem, liberal voting standards.
If it is as you say it is, then Obama the Innocent just got taken to the cleaners by Clinton Inc.
Re: Tears. For what it's worth... An interview with the woman that asked the now famous, "How do you hold up? How do you do it?" question to HC came up with these two nuggets: 1) She voted for Obama, and 2) She complained Hillary talked to much, taking literally 15 minutes to answer each question. She answered only 5 questions over an hour and a half period.
Re: Granite State ballots. You can't have it both ways. If Clinton got to the top by fraud, then we're also saying that Mac vaulted to the top the same way. And I don't think anybody is going to doubt the integrity of McCain. HC's NH victory was clean. What we all got another lesson in on Tuesday was the New Hampshire decides who will be their President... and nobody else.
New Hampshire: Live Free or Cheaply!
Mongo
Mongo, I don't understand the nexus between Clinton and McCain. Why would they both have to have won "the same way" - why are they inclusive of one another.
And its the Obama people that have been screaming "fraud" (them and your random Ronulan). As I understand NH voting standards, "vectoring-in" people from out of state, though ethically-challenged perhaps, may not necessarily be illegal, hence no "fraud".
Reasonable man theory: Knowing what we know about Clinton Inc., why wouldn't they encourage Mass. citizens to make the drive north for the evening to vote.
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