Hilarious.

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Time’s up, Mr. Wurtzelbacher.

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Matt Taibbi has a hilarious/penetrating post mortem on the election in Rolling Stone - a keeper for calling Palin “Pinochet in heels,” among other references.
But he notes how the fatal flaw in the McCain-Palin campaign might have been putting oil and water on the same ticket:
Sarah Palin would have been a brilliant choice as a […]

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Remember Joe the Plumber? Of course you do. But did you know he’s got a book coming out? And he’s got a Web site where you can join up for the “We are Joe” free membership, OR become a “Freedom Member” (I’m not making any of this up) for a mere $19.95, and get a […]

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Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker continues to surprise me, and in a good way - meaning right-wingers will grow to hate her more than they already do, particularly after they read this:
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and […]

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Via Sullivan, Steven Waldman notes that more evangelicals voted for McCain-Palin than for George W. Bush:
It seemed like 2004 was a high water mark for evangelical influence. They loved President Bush and helped sweep him into victory.
Well guess what: evangelicals made up an even bigger part of the McCain vote than the Bush vote.
Born again […]

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Fascinating. In a season marked by slimy negative ads - and the strange new public reaction against them - Liddy Dole in North Carolina aired what might have been the sleaziest, a piece that suggested her opponent, Kay Hagan, didn’t believe in God (based on her attendance at a fund-raiser hosted by a group advocating for […]

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Well, we got Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham in there as well, and Pat Buchanan’s been a pretty vocal Bush critic at times. But the pictures do indeed tell the impotent story.

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Philadelphia Inquirer notices how Obama made major inroads in Lancaster County:
Among 67 counties in Pennsylvania, Lancaster was the place where, percentage-wise, the Democrats made their biggest top-of-the-ticket gains compared with 2004.
Analysts said that was partly due to population changes in the fast-growing Pennsylvania Dutch region, partly due to voter alienation from President Bush (even […]

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Check out the NYT’s map of counties that voted more Democratic or Republican this year than in 2004.
What’s that single dark-blue county in Pennsylvania? Why, that would be - Lancaster County.

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A little bit of schadenfreude as we read of Dr. James Dobson wringing his hands in the wake of Obama’s election:
Dr. Dobson went on to congratulate Obama on “his stunning victory.”
“It was indeed a historic accomplishment, to be the first black man in American history to be elected to the highest office in the land.
“But, to […]

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Sullivan on Palin’s thinking Africa was a country, and the campaign that kept it quiet:
Now all I want to say here, ahem, is that they realized all this about this person within a few days of picking her and yet they went ahead for two months bullsh*tting us  … and risking the live possibility that she […]

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Oh. My. God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc

Palin didn’t know what countries were in NAFTA. You know, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
She didn’t realize Africa was a continent - thinking it was a country.
And then the story in Newsweek about how Palin spent way more than $150,000 on clothes:
While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what […]

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As someone who’s written at length about the need of this country to treat its gay citizens as actual citizens, I haven’t considered the California battle over gay marriage - Proposition 8, which passed, which now means gay marriage has been made illegal in California - as closely as I perhaps should have.
In part it’s […]

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Veddy, veddy interesting articles in today’s Era about the election here in Lancaster County. Out front, Tom Murse’s piece confirmed something we speculated about yesterday - that Obama, while not winning Lancaster County, was going to do very well in the suburbs:
Obama came closer to winning Lancaster County than any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson beat […]

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Matt Y. hits on something I’ve been thinking about a lot in recent days:
McCain barely even tried to take advantage of the fact that, when the race began, he wasn’t closely identified with the rotten GOP brand. Of course when he decided he wanted to be president, the first thing to do was to start […]

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Nothing makes me prouder of my country than this:
From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth — call it […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otA7tjinFX4

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Gracious. Not so much his supporters, though, who are still booing as McCain says he called Obama to congratulate him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcBt2a0LUyQ

The one thing that bothered me about Obama’s speech last night was that his supporters in Grant Park did not cheer louder for Obama’s words of praise for McCain. I did not like the campaign McCain […]

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Via Sullivan, a dead-on analysis from Rod Dreher:
1. The modern conservative movement began with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. The modern conservative movement ends with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. John McCain — who took Goldwater’s Senate seat upon his retirement — in the 2008 presidential […]

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