Comments on: Angels drop a buck for Huck, plus: Romney redefines “with”

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:04:35 +0000

Thanks for the info WB.

By: Weldon Berger

Weldon Berger — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:13:06 +0000

Joe, on Charlie Wilson's War, the answer seems to be mostly, but with a few core exceptions.

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:51:19 +0000

I firmly believe that the people who are likely to vote for any other candidate beside Ron Paul, is lazy, or not that enthusiastic, and because of this, on the January primaries and on Super Tuesday, when its cold and likely to be very very cold, they will not go, or just go home becaue its too cold to wait in line, or too much snow on the road or whatever. I bet us Ron Paul supporters will go to vote, even if theres a blizzard like never before seen on those days.

What will give us the win is our enthusiasm!!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:21:17 +0000

Paulites, who btw seems to include Glenn Greenwald, remind me of the passion of Deanaics. How’s his presidency going?

I do wonder why he doesn’t just caucus with Republicans (bad enough) but isn’t an I. ala Rep. Sanders. His independence on executive tyranny and Iraq would seem to justify that. OTOH, some coverage of his um not so ideal views on certain issues (see, e.g., Orcincus’ website, on BTC’s blogroll), might explain it.

On Rachel Maddow tonight, she noted that Romney’s camp said “marched together” was meant to be um a sorta metaphor. As to Huckabee, I saw part of a campaign event (on C-SPAN) which he seems to say that the afterlife includes hunting.

BTW, anyone know how loyal Charlie Wilson’s War is to the book?

By: Weldon Berger

Weldon Berger — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:11:44 +0000

Marcelo, Evan: you have a point about the polls, and if Paul breaks out of single digits anytime soon I’ll reconsider. I suppose he’s in an analogous position to the Huckabee of a few months ago, who was an obvious dark horse pick because of the uneasiness Giuliani and Romney inspire in much of the religious right.

I have to say that the analogy with Kerry falters because Kerry was very much an establishment Democrat; the situation was reversed, really, with the outsider, Dean, taking off early and then imploding (with considerable help from the press).

Marcelo, no, I’ve never had anything like that sort of response to anything I’ve written about other candidates, most of which has been unkind. I have seen more influential and heavily trafficked sites swarmed in response to candidate stories, especially on Clinton and Obama. But there isn’t a candidate on the Democratic side whose supporters are as uniformly enthused as Paul’s.

On a completely unscientific note, one of the reasons I’m skeptical about Paul’s chances is that when I was looking at the little site meter map showing recent visits yesterday, almost none of the ones I could associate with that post were from early primary states. Of course if the strategy is to weather the early primaries and triumph in the later ones, that wouldn’t matter too much.