Eeeenteresting:
Nine of 12 targeted Republicans running in the most competitive Senate races this fall are either skipping the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., or have not decided whether to attend.
As noted by Chris Bodenner over at Sullivan’s place, make it 10 - Liddy Dole has “a busy week scheduled.”
You don’t think this has anything […]

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Well, not really. But maybe you’ll find your reason.

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In these trying times, movement types try to claim it’s a yawning chasm. Kevin Drum is having none of it:
Nonetheless, now that the Republican Party has been brought low, an awful lot of conservatives are jumping ship, claiming that it really doesn’t represent them at all. But look: when the GOP made common cause with […]

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We’ve lived in a political culture where, for the past seven-plus years but really longer than that, Republicans have defined themselves - and then been defined by popular culture - as strong and aggressive. Democrats, by contrast, were weaklings and whiners.
Boy, how things are changing.

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People sometimes wonder where the bit about ”The Leader” or “Our Leader” or “Teh Leader” comes from. Above is one example.

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Teh Funny:
House Republicans turned on themselves yesterday after a third straight loss of a GOP-held House seat in special elections this year left both parties contemplating widespread Democratic gains in November.
In huddles, closed-door meetings and hastily arranged conference calls, some Republicans demanded the head of their political chief, while others decried their leadership as out […]

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RS sends me a bit this morning, regarding the special congressional race in Mississippi yesterday, where a district which once voted for President Bush by a 25 point margin instead elected a Democrat, Travis Childers, by an eight-point margin.
This is one of the many tea leaves which suggests that as competitive as we think the […]

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Via Jay at Atrios (himself via Matt Stoller), we get a clue to Obama’s success - and how this is the wave of the future for sure:
Money: MyBarackObama.com: With 1.5 million donors, this campaign has blown away anything we’ve ever seen in terms of grassroots fundraising. The technology is all centralized, so Obama knows […]

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Or, why I’m not buying the line that the drawn-out Democratic Primary is good news indeed! for the GOP:
Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.
The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican […]

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I hadn’t called Shawn the drummer for months, and I felt cheesy about it. With the class and the kids and everything else there’s just no time to rock and roll, but my stuff - an amp, microphone, various stands, etc. - were still at his house. So I dropped him an e-mail: Uh, I […]

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This one’s pretty funny, or would be if Dumeyer wasn’t serious:
Republicans are busy plotting strategies to recapture the thousands of voters who switched their party registration so they could vote in the Democratic primary.
Area Republican officials plan to convene next week to decide what their message should be, according to Lancaster County GOP chairman Dave […]

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So the Republican Party in North Carolina is running this ad:

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

And of all people, John McCain is asking that they pull it:
From the beginning of this election, I have been committed to running a respectful campaign based upon an honest debate about the great issues confronting America today. I expect all state parties to do […]

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The incredible shrinking GOP:

The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles.
In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of […]

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See, I’m not opposed to this, I’m not opposed to this at all:
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel writes in a new book that the United States needs independent leadership and possibly another political party, while suggesting the Iraq war might be remembered as one of the five biggest blunders in history.
Well, yes on both the former […]

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Drudge’s headline story right about now is a WaPo piece about how Huckabee’s national chairman, Ed Rollins, gets so angry and Romney that he wants to knock out the Mittster’s teeth.

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So in addition to fending off right-wingers here on this site, I also do quite a bit of fending off via regular old e-mail. One group in particular for some reason decided to include me in all of their local right-wing clubhouse e-mails; I’ve come to know the guys, they’re musicians, I’ve downed a few […]

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Heh. We’ve discussed how wingers sort of embrace the Republican Party as the “daddy party” - “Daddy, please save us from the bad Islamofascist bogeymen!” - while the Democrats are the girly-men mommy party, wussies like John Edwards who spend $400 on their hair.
Kurt Andersen suggests, though, that the country is beginning to realize the […]

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Ramesh Ponnuru over at the Corner, wondering if the Craig business isn’t indicative of something beyond one man’s demons/perversions:
There was a period in the 1990s when every few months you’d read about some British Tory politician found dead of autoerotic asphyxiation, or somesuch, and of course it was right after the Tories had started a […]

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…is “none of the above.”

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Orders Harriet Miers to defy House committe subpoena and not even show up to invoke privelege today. Josh Marshall tipster suggests the Leader may be leaping from the frying pan into the fire.

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