Worried about Alan Keyes’ poll numbers, Keyes Deputy Campaign Manager Dan Proft has taken a page out of the Bush campaign playbook. “The problem is we aren’t reaching enough undecided voters,” Proft said, “so it’s time to have more exclusive ticketed events.” Proft suggests tickets for events, perhaps augmented by having event goers […]
Phocion’s started a “Draft Vallas” blog, as in Democrat Paul Vallas for Illinois Governor, that blogger ArchPundit seems to endorse among others. Word is Vallas has started making the rounds in Chicago for support. Illinois Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich may have a lot of money, which helps, but money isn’t everything - […]
Pete Siekmann, Deputy Coroner was selected as the GOP candidate on Saturday, after Bill Maio, DuPage County Board Vice Chair, withdrew his candidacy, reading the writing on the wall. This is a victory for DuPage Republican chairman and State Sen. Kirk Dillard (Hinsdale), and a defeat for DuPage County Board Chair Robert Schillerstrom (Naperville), […]
While the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” (SBVT) attack ads on John Kerry’s Vietnam service may not have been as devastating as former National Guard member George Bush may have liked, they are a harbinger of things to come. The strategy in the Bush camp is simple: take Bush’s biggest negatives and […]
Somehow in my schooling and later reading I missed Walden by Henry David Thoreau. It is a big gap for me, though I’m familiar from discussions with friends and other reading of some of its content. While summer is almost gone, I think I’ll pick up a copy to read. Sometimes you […]
Wired News is reporting that a number of members of congress are looking into creating a Federal civil liberties commission based on the September 11 Commission’s report recommendations. An effective federal voice for civil liberties is well past due, but as Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) has pointed out, it needs real power if […]
The Bush Administration’s attack against Kerry as “losing his cool” is childish - kudos for the Kerry camp calling it so. It is long past time that Bush and his handlers ‘put away their childish things’ and address the serious issues and differences between their policy and Kerry’s in this race. With Americans […]
Salon magazine is reporting that comedian Joe Piscopo may run as an independent to be the replacement for scandal plagued outgoing Governor James McGreevey. This wouldn’t be the first time Piscopo was considered. Democrats talked about writing Joe in to replace U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli in 2002.
Piscopo actually does have a little government […]
Atrios draws the wrong conclusion from at least one Vietnam Vet that is angry with Kerry in “Swift Boat Liar Update.” First the source material from Atrios [with my emphasis]:
“Newly obtained military records of one of Sen. John F. Kerry’s most vocal critics, who has accused the Democratic presidential candidate of lying about his […]
ArchPundit is “at a loss for words” over Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes’ reparations proposal for African-Americans of slave heritage. I think the proposal is fascinating. It is one thing to talk about giving federal tax-free status for “a generation or two” to slave ancestors as a form of reparation, it […]
