Behold!  David Ignatius offers advice to Barack Obama as he moves on into his second term.  And… um… good lord the world of Punditry is insipid at times.

First off, we get this citation of the genius strategizing of David Plouffe as an example of how Obama should pursue his policy course.

Plouffe’s genius was to decide early on that the race depended on nine battleground states; if he could deliver those states by a relentless and sometimes ruthless assault, he would win the larger victory.

Yes.  This is Romney’s campaign strategy as well.  I suppose you can argue that Obama had an “Expand the Map” dictum in 2008 where at teh end of the day he pursued Montana and North Dakota and Georgia for the Hell of it, and in 2012 he contracted the map and threw away his chances at Missouri and Indiana and int he end North Carolina, but we’re still left at the basic premise that this is so broad as to be pointless.

After chiding Obama on his battles over Health Care (which, policy wise he won… politics wise he — lost and then won?  As, I may as well mention with reference to his Lyndon Johnson fixation — Johnson ended up losing politically where he won in that brief sliver of time policy-wise)… and on Israel — Palestine (Yes!  Solve that now.  Just like Clinton did for his second term!)
And on the quote from Lyndon Johnson “What the Hell is the Presidency for?” his suggestion on what Obama should do

 Mitt Romney’s generous concession speech Tuesday night opened a possible door, and the president should follow up his statement that he will “look forward to sitting down with Governor Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward.” The president and his new Treasury secretary (Jack Lew?) should take the next step and ask Romney to help close the budget deal the country needs.

What should he do with Mitt Romney now?  Question:  What the Hell is an Election for?

And on to foreign policy — where he will solve the Israel — Palestine problem (again — Good luck!  At least on the domestic front of the Health Care “five different president pursued it and failed” might be pulled off — that didn’t involve actual violence and people blowing people up if they didn’t get their way on things) — we have his Secretary of State pick…

John Kerry.  Who may or may not be a good pick, but the reasoning David Ignatius gives is … interesting.

John Kerry is an experienced man who thinks outside the box and is willing to take risks.

Granted, John Kerry did some interesting things during the Reagan years which can be called “taking risks” (spurred into the Iran Contra hearings). And he’s done things in the Obama Administration while most people weren’t looking which qualifies him … maybe… in that label.  But while he was in the spotlight in the 2004 campaign and just before that… it was kind of the exact opposite.  I’d think David Ignatius would have to clarify how Kerry fits the opposite mode of what his public persona came to be.

… And the Beat goes on.

Down goes Allen West.

We still have Michele Bachmann to kick around.

But they now have Alan Grayson to kick around.  (No, I’m not arguing an exact equivalency there.)

Syed Taj lost to Kerry Bentivolio.  Bah.

There’s a funny sad mixed funny ha ha twitter battle of fear and loathing between Ted Nugent and Donald Trump.  (More fun here.)

I had assumed that Mormon coat-tails of Mitt Romney would take down Jim Matheson in Utah, and brig in Mia Love — a “Tea Party” and the potential first black woman Republican in the House.  It didn’t.

Gay marriage passed in two, maybe three states.  That monkey is off the gay marriage back.  No longer do we have to hear that cry out of undemocratic process in “Every time it’s gone on the ballot, THE PEOPLE have rejected it.”

Watching CNN coverage, repeatedly zooming into the maps of Florida and Ohio, is fascinating and hypnotic, but not good for you.  THERE IS NO NEW INFORMATION.  The coverage at the sites of polling places is just kind of silly… that stuff should be shown on CSPAN, or maybe CSPAN-4.

I decided to walk past Pioneer Square to compare and contrast with the scene from four years ago.  No, there was no soggy singing expedition like four years ago.  I can point to a couple random car honks with someone shouting out the window “OBAMA!!!”, and one random guy cursing Obama.  There is a sense of what I like about this election of Obama over the one from four years ago:  the attitude toward it from supporters is more realistic.

The famous red streak map — Leafing over state wide returns, I can suggest it will probably exist in the same form this time out.  Ie: West Virginia and Arizona’s totals have fallen further from Obama.

The Tea Party effect in the Senate is mixed.  On one hand, the Democrats picked up — all indications are 2, count them two seats — remarkable considering it was a map of 10 Democratic seats against 23 Republican seats, off of the 2006 landslide.  But if you consider the make-up of the Republican caucus — the departing Republicans are Richard Lugar in Indiana, Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Olympia Snowe in Maine, Kay Bailey Hutchinson in Texas — the least conservative members — along with Jeff Flake of Arizona.  The incoming members are Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Ted Cruz in Texas.  The Tea Party did its job of defeating the Real Enemy, their supposed “RINO”s…
The Democratic side is more mixed in the “polarization” effect.  Outgoing it’s the most conservative members of Ben Nelson in Nebraska and Kurt Conrad in North Dakota… harder to peg Jim Webb in Virginia… everyone knows Joseph Lieberman in Connecticut, and there’s partyliners Herb Kohl in Wisconsin and whoever it is that fills New Mexico’s seat.  They’re replaced by blue dogs in terms of Heidi Kleitcamp in North Dakota and Joe Dannaly in Indiana, your strangely Liebrmanesque figure of Angus King in Maine, and the step to the left appears there with Chris Murphy in Connecticut, Tim Kaine in Virginia, Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, and apparently Martin Heinrich in New Mexico.

Claire McCaskill’s strategy of nudging her opponent to a primary victory then leaving the stage and letting him talk worked brilliantly.  Joe Dannaly’s similar strategy worked as well.

Actually I think Albert Gore did quite well in Mississippi, with his 40 point 4 percent.  He bested Obama, right?

Preliminary third party results:
Johnson (Libertarian) 0 0 1,139,562 1.0%
Stein (Green) 0 0 396,684 0.3%
Barr (Peace&Freedom) 0 0 48,776 <0.1%
Anderson (Justice) 0 0 34,521 <0.1%
Goode (Constitution) 0 0 3,553 <0.1%
The Libertarians may just have snuck into single digits.

Nate Silver wins some weird pissing contest over stats versus “I don’t like your stats”.

Dateline Tennessee… Mark Clayton fires away at the national media…
The Tennessee Democrat running for U.S. Senate fired back Thursday at this week’s Washington Post story that said he may be “2012’s worst candidate.”
Mark Clayton, the surprise August primary winner who has been linked to a Virginia anti-gay group, told Nashville’s News 2 the newspaper is “not a credible news source.”

Wait.  This next line is what sells you on this candidate.

He went on to question the Post’s investigation of President Richard Nixon in the 1970s which led to his eventual resignation.
“We would call on the Washington Post to return their Pulitzers until we find out what really happened,” responded Clayton while sipping ice tea at a restaurant near his rural Nashville area home. 

Well… You can’t always win.

Clayton said he refused interviews with the Washington Post and claims the reporter from the newspaper recently “jumped out from behind a bush asking him if he would beat Bob Corker.” 
When asked the same question about beating the incumbent Republican senator, Clayton grinned saying, “of course, of course.”

See too:

In an email to reporters Saturday, Clayton said he’s planning to win Tuesday’s election.
“I’m expecting victory because we have reached four million Tennessee voters, and most Tennesseans know that Bob Corker betrayed them,” he wrote.
But Corker, traitor to the people or not, is welcome to stop by his old office on Capitol Hill and share a little advice. The Republican senator might even prove useful:
“I congratulate my opponent for a great race in advance.  Former Senator Bob Corker could be of assistance to our staff because of his institutional knowledge and be a great asset to help our senate office staff.  I will allow my staff to continue to consult with him throughout my tenure, and both he and his staff will be welcome to stop by any time.

Maine:  I wonder what the future holds for Cynthia Dill, the Democratic candidate who the Democratic Party wasn’t running with?

Nevada:  Your classic “I know you all but what am I” defense to Ethics charges.

Missouri  Todd Akin:  Beheadings and Nazi Germany.  Oh My!
In summary of how this race is expected to turn out:  it took two flubs for Akin to sink himself and Claire McCaskill to hold on.  Also this will prove to be a source of acrimony in the coming Republican Party squabbles.
Bemusing comment:   As for the larger context, if Akin is elected tomorrow, he’ll have one of the more extensive criminal records of any U.S. senator in history.

Minnesota.  Kurt Bills doesn’t believe in Climate Change.  He’s also teaching our children stuff.  Be afraid.   Be very afraid.

Michigan 11: Stay classy, Republican Ron Paul acolyte.
 As the race enters its final days, the focus has been more on the candidates’ personal qualities than the issues. Democrats contend Bentivolio is a right-wing extremist and mentally unfit to serve, while Republicans say Taj is a radical leftist with suspicious foreign ties.
And…  we get this.
Politico.com reported Nov. 1 that the brother of Republican candidate Kerry Bentivolio told Michigan Information and Research Service (MIRS), a subscription-based news service, that his brother is “mentally unbalanced”. Phillip Bentivolio also claims his brother owes him $20,000; Politico.com quotes Kerry Bentivolio as saying his brother has “serious mental issues.”
The comments section vouches for and debates this point.
See more superpac ad fun here.
Corsi hits Taj with his patented brand of innuendo and outright lies, taking a quote in which Taj noted that his election would bring the total number of Muslims in Congress to three—thereby allowing them to form a caucus—as proof that Taj wants to “advance Muslim power in America.”
… to advance the cause of , if the spam allegations go forth… single payer health care.  Heil to Muslim Power, I suppose.

Washington –4:  The Comments section to the Yakima Herald Endorsement of Doc Hastings all come out against the endorsement.  It’s where you go when you are a frustrated constituency in a district that is sorely the other way, I suppose.

Oregon State Treasury.  The Willamette Week failed to mention him.  The Oregon only quickly brushed over him.  But Cameron Whitten is interviewed on Iran’s Press TV.

Presidential candidates who went to sleep Election night believing they’d won, only to wake up in the morning to find out the opposite.  Charles Hughes 1916 and Thomas Dewey 1948.  Dewey, when he woke up, cursed “that son of a bitch” Truman and later drank himself into a stupor — at least that’s how I remember the story.  The opponents — Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman …

Truman, doing the opposite of his 1946 act where as the mid-term debacle played out on the radio had the radio turned down, disclaimed interest, and went back to his poker games… in 1948 he found the early returns he was looking for to indicate victory and ditched his residence… leaving his daughter to come out as the Media buzzed about on the coming stunning upset with the “Truman has left the Building” esque message.

Wilson  1916 and Roosevelt 1940 both came as America was not in a World War.  Wilson drew up a contingency plan where he would appoint Hughes Secretary of State and resign alongside his vice president, to forego his lame duck session.  This example was most recently cited in 2008 on what some commentators wished Bush were able to do (lines of succession have changed since then, and nobody is aching for a President Pelosi) — and I am guessing that if you look back you can see it cited in 1932, 1952, 1968, 1980, and 1992… maybe even in 1960 and 1988.

Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 saw some early returns that boded a likely defeat for him, and sequestered himself alone into an empty room to brood over the future of a world imperiled, with a Republican Party in the White House that whatever else was true of Willkie was still beholden to Isolationists.  He emerged buoyed and in good spirits when returns fleshed out that he would win.

The Drama of Election Night 1876 — and Hayes and Tilden were two other candidates who went to sleep believing one thing only to wake up to find out another — echoed through 2000 — remember Gore’s phone call concession retraction to Bush?  John Kerry waited the night in 2004 to concede defeat against the backdrop of provisional ballots –a perfect vehicle for electoral disenfranchisement as election prognoses kick in to shape popular conception.  Supposedly John Edwards held the hard line against conceding, but I suspect that this was an appeal for liberal votes going into the 2008 primary.  While these candidates shut down and disclaimed all grass-roots activism on this subject, Nixon in 1960 conceded carefully, and let his activists carry on in Illinois and Texas and nurse their grudges along with him.

I.  I had from the start understood “fall” as the latest incarnation of revenire, retour, ace, friend… but it was hard to really care or draw any attention to the postings.  So I waffled on on pointing out one jarring line of absurdity, and decided to skip at the movement.  He claimed to have “heard” or “seen” Summer Shields at a deployment in So-Cal.  This line of misdirection came right off the heels where the LYMers had verified the notable disappearances of members.
I have one thought on the repeated call from the disingenuous Larouchie’s call for contributors of “Why We Left” to post at factnet:  I wouldn’t.  There may be something to gain from working out differences with someone of recent LYM membership who holds it as true overall but with exaggerations or overly dramatic fluouishes of emphasis, but there isn’t any in tangling with concerted denialists of the whole affair.

Other odd factnet posting… a claim that “there have been low level members” who’ve left due to WWL followed by the insistence that there’s been a sole one.  Interesting.  This brings us back to the “If I reach just one, it’ll be worth it”, except that even that doesn’t matter much – or matter to be the most important aspect of “Why We Left”.  It’s a witnessing, and one chapter written in the history of the org.

II.   Also out of factnet … The image of Larouche Planet… “Those are good people” “not deserving of” this.  Well, it can’t really be helped.  These deployments are the primary point of contact the public has with this political organization, and unless there’s a request to … say… photoshop over the faces a generic face (two dots for eyes and one line for mouth within a circle) — it’s apt political commentary to place them on a Martian surface.  What wouldn’t fit is if you were to photoshop Hitler Mustaches over their face — though even that would have its slim advantage in the “I know you are but what am I” focus.

The latest PO Tour Stops…

The final word on the elderly woman who knocked over the signage...

they’ve disappeared from Oly too. Used to a weekly occurence at the downtown PO. Idiots.
How in the hell are they going to discover sex? If they do, there’s no way it’s consensual.
Seriously, almost as annoying as Randites.
They’re on Whidbey Island . . . and the locals are not liking that.
They had their protest tables on Bainbridge Island’s Town & Country market last Saturday. They were baiting motorists by yelling “Shame on you!” as their troll tactic. Annoying fucks. I bet they also have big Romney photos with Hitler mustaches ready just in case he becomes president.
They used to hang out at the post office on 145th and Aurora. I got into it with them more than once, but the best thing I ever saw was the elderly Jewish gentleman with his concentration camp numbers on his arm berate them over their signs and shoving those numbers in their faces.
Never see them in Utah though….
They set up at 23rd and Jackson by my apartment a few times in the spring/early summer. Then one day there was a fistfight over it. Took the police like an hour to sort the whole mess out.
I haven’t seen them since.
My conservative friend once insisted to me that the Tea Party doesn’t have a racism problem. According to him, the people with “Obongo” signs are all just LaRouchies hanging out with the Teabaggers.
I once took all the reading material on a Larouchebag’s table and threw it in the busy street.
A difference between this lady and the goobers who generally steal or deface signs: She took her lumps for it. She dared them to find her, got arrested, and didn’t whine about it. She accepted the consequences of her actions and didn’t run away and hide like a coward.
she’d just had it, dammit! ladouche has been running for president since she was a little girl, and she’s just so fucking sick of him.

Nancy Lack… Charges Dropped.  See here and here and here and here.

The people who took the time to create horrible posters such as these, have minds that are clouded with hatred, anger and fear. They just want to spread their warped sense of politics.
News 8 asked Lack what made her so angry, and she said, “Hitler and the fact that they would do that to the President, the standing President.”  A passion was born out of her experience living through World War II as a child, the rations here in America, the fear of attack, Hitler.
“What an evil monster this was,” Lack said.
if it was a Bush sign she would have got life in the slammer.

Dateline Guilford
“We’ve got to keep fighting the fight,” says one activist. […]
They seem to be getting mixed reviews from the cars passing by. Some honk in agreement and give a thumbs up signal to the activists. Others shout angrily out their windows in protest, using some choice words not suitable for print.

Magaret Fairchild and Pete Zuppardi chime in the comments section.

Thom Hartmann forum discusses the “Impeach Obama Movement”.
I ran into a man representing this cause outside the Post Office, and found myself in a heated debate.  He presented conflicting arguments and wasn’t familiar with the Citizen’s United Decision
Wow, I wondered if LaRouche had finally gotten his space ship for his crew of loonies.  But, he’s back and now it is to “impeach Obama.”  He is crazy enough to try to out Tea Party the Tea Party.
I would be on board with impeaching Obama… as long as they impeach the ghost of Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Cheney/Bush first…

Hm.  I saw people holding Lyndon LaRouche signs as recently as last week. I think we’re in for a surprise.

III.  Elections 2012.  On the eve of another Presidential (and many a down ticket) election, we get word that…
 He did it in 1976.  Now he’s holding another one in 2012.  An election eve press conference.  The cult runs in circles.  It occurred without incident.

Also noted, Larouche has declared Romney the lesser of two evils.  More or less.  No call to vote for him, though.  No small hope that a Romney victory would bring with it the small hope of the Larouche org reaching his administration for advisement, or the sudden appearance of Glass Steagall on the dias.

Diane Sare, sure to remark on Chris Christie touring storm devasted New Jersey with President Obama in tow.  Or, I suppose the line is that if you think that the storm was devastated, wait until we get THERMONUCLEAR WAR.

It looks like Kesha Rogers is on the verge of victory, if you just judge the online commentary.

No. I don’t agree with him, doubt you do either. However it wouldn’t surprise me a bit that you agree with someone his polar opposite.
 I can’t possibly imagine what the polar opposite of Lyndon LaRouche would be.

I go through and pick them each individually. This time I had one Green to vote for as well because we had a La Rouche follower as a dem candidate against Pete Olson (Rep -22). Olson will win easily but I still refused to vote for her – she went around hanging up those Hitler photos of Obama.

One, you know who I will endorse, except for the loney tunes of Kesha Rogers, the LaRouche cult candidate running as a Democrat, and a couple of others, but for the most part no one is on pins and needles waiting for an endorsement from me.

Washington Monthly blogger posts on the Tennessee Senate candidate, and we get this:  The Texas Democratic Party is similarly in bad shape; the House candidate running in my open district (Ron Paul’s seat) is a Lyndon LaRouche ‘Democrat’ who thinks Obama should be impeached. Up until now, I’ve lived in fairly safe ‘blue’ districts; I hate not having a House candidate I can support.  Personally, I don’t think of these people as jokes, but as dirty tricks. My gut tells me that Alvin Greene (the dud who ‘beat out’ Vic Rawl to run against Jim DeMint in South Carolina) was a successful ‘dirty trick’.
Peter C, the LaRouchie who’s running as a (D) is in TX-22, Kesha Rogers, is going for the seat currently held by Pete Olson. The (D) candidate for Ron Paul’s seat (TX-14) is Nick Lampson, who represented this area before the district lines were redrawn in 2003.
That said, Kesha Rogers is a real piece of work. This is her second run for the seat, having now twice won the (D) primary. Here she is (on the right, with the Obama-as-Hitler poster, in 2010. There’s a lot of “operation Chaos”-type crossover voting going on there, just to fnck with the local Dems.
I showed up at the polls during the primary expecting to vote for Lampson, and luckily I’d also looked at Rogers and George, so I voted for the person who better represents my views. I think I’ll write in George this time around, and start building a pocket of sanity for next time. At least, I’ll ensure that the voters in my precinct know ahead of time what their primary and general election options are. I think this is a case of having to become the Democratic Party in my locality.

Hope springs eternal, and Harley Schlanger describes the Kesha Rogers campaign.
Outside of the Obama-Romney campaign, there is almost no visible presence of any campaigns in the Houston, Texas area, as the Nov. 6 election draws near’except for that of LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers, the Democratic nominee in the 22nd District. Rogers’ campaign has been everywhere in the district, from boisterous rallies at well-traveled intersections, to door-to-door deployments in the suburban neighborhoods, which make up the bulk of the district. Organizers for the campaign are finding that many people are familiar with Rogers and her fight to remove Obama, though awareness that she is on the ballot is not yet universal, especially as this has been historically a “Republican district,” and many of the voters mindlessly pull the voting machine lever for a straight Republican ticket. That is changing, as the Rogers campaign has made clear that the issue this time is much larger than party loyalty.

Wikipedia Request for Page Protection.  Damned Kesha Rogers!  I don’t see any recent vandalism, but whatever is necessary.

a semi-endorsement of Kesha Rogers?

And. There really weren’t any competitive races on my ballot. I’m pretty sure I live in *the* most conservative zip code in America. I was in Ron Paul’s district but starting next year I’ve been redistricted into another one and I have no respect for the incumbent (R) but his opponent is absolutely insane.
Holy crap, I see what you mean about Kesha Rogers. She’s the democrat candidate? Wait, what?
What are LeDouche Democrats? Like, Douches, but Le New? Holy Fuck do I miss living in Texas. The weirdest and most awesome state in the union.
Yea, the campaign signs are fun. Half of them just say “KESHA ROGERS – LAROUCHE DEMOCRAT.” I laugh every time—who the hell knows what a LaRouche Democrat is?

There’s also someone here going around cutting the middle of campaign signs out and replacing them with these:
Re-Elect Guns and Tacos for Mayhem! I’d get behind the food portion. #Dunlavy #Westheimer by kalebdf, on Flickr

…. The other race to watch in a Kentucky State Senate race that amounts to… this Bottom line:  Perry Clark may be an embarrassingly bad state senator but Chris Thieneman is embarrassingly worse.  There are residential issues at stake with Chris Thieneman.  He may lose even if he wins.
Worth noting, Perry Clark takes a more “Progressive” stance on the issue of marijuana policy than the larouche org and…  Marijuana politics being deployed by Thieneman.  Interesting.

In retro election memories… The problems of running a third party campaign, 1986.
But Stevenson’s Solidarity Party candidate for secretary of state received just 17 percent against the LaRouche Democrat’s 15 percent.
See too here.

The Green Party has a lesson to learn from the Larouchies, says this blogger.
The followers of Lydon LaRouche, with their “President Obama as Hilter” shtick, manage to keep themselves enough in the public eye that many people can tell you they’ve seen them, even if they don’t know exactly who they are. While I’m not advocating that the Green Party sink to the level of the LaRouchies, surely they can mount a more active and effective public outreach campaign than posting flyers outside of a Seattle bookstore.

Commenting on Joss Whedon’s “Romney Zombie Apocalypse” youtube sensation:  I did as well, now what happens when LaRouche wins?  Never too early to consider 2016… listed as  Possible 2016 candidates.  Nope.  He’s done with the runnings.

To Ohio Voters: the countless highly credible, intelligent, responsible people who’ve spoken up about their concerns on this to be whacked-out Larouchies and UFO cultists

The final question… the final point within the Larouche Slate elections… how will Kesha Rogers do against Pete Olson, and how will it compare to 2010?  Will the inclusion of former Ron Paul voters in the redrawn district attract votes to Kesha Rogers?  Or will the more partisan advantage off-set this theoretical gain?  We will see in a couple days.

IV.  Media Appearances.

Jeff Steinberg pops over on CSPAN.  As mentioned with Cliff Kincaid doing a bit of connection on an Obama appointee — who spoke to a US-Arab policy center, as did Jeffrey Steinberg once.  A fairly random and recurring theme:
LaRouche is considered the intellectual author of the 9/11 Truth movement because he questioned whether Arabs or Muslims had staged the attack.  Considered by whom?  Though this is the one bit I’ll go with:
This panel discussion with Steinberg was covered by the C-SPAN television network, but the moderator of the panel did not mention the more controversial parts of Steinberg’s biography.
If he did, Steinberg probably wouldn’t be there in the first place, so toxic is Larouche.
From “Window on the Real World”, Real World defined by the likes of Cliff Kincaid.

Webster Tarpley appeared on Alex Jones on October 18, 19th… did not bring up Larouche.
Harley Schlanger appeared on a Pro-Silver podcast to promote our doom and demise.

William Jones on Press TV.
Lawrence Freeman gets coverage in Russia TV.

Press TV interview with Michael Billington.

edward spannaus on iran’s press tv.  Linked again here.

And then we have:  Dennis Fetcho, aka “The Fetch”, is an American ex-patriot living in Amman, Jordan.  He is the author of the Illuminatus Observor, a blog regarded by many as simply the finest Hermetic Qaballa blog in all of blogdom.  The Fetch also has a second site called”Inside The Eye Live.com“
Intelligent media for the politically aware.
Guest: Harley Schlanger of LaRouche PAC

 Justin Raimando:  The Arbabsiar “plot” to kill the Saudi ambassador is such a transparently phony conspiracy theory that not even Lyndon LaRouche would touch it with a ten foot pole.  Sure, but mostly because it doesn’t fit into his political narrative.  I do find it fascinating that Raimando  linked to the alex jones interview disparangingly.

A disgression from David Lindsey.
I don’t understand this post from Howie G.  Who the heck is “We”?

V.  Other commentary.
Synarchism.
I’m waiting for LaRouche’s people to start demanding that countries base their currency on the Tungsten Standard.
On Donald Trump stunt making  He was probably in league with the British Royal Family. —Lyndon La Rouche. Reply. GhostBuggy October 23, 2012 at 4:02 pm. Holy shit, don’t even mention him. The LaRouchites will be in here like lightning, and that’s an infestation that
Some actual history of NAWAPA.
On the Occupy Wall Street Forum  Why are any of you even talking to this LaRouche nutcase?
Discussing Nero  Regarding Nero, Obama had a dream early in life which always remained with him. He was being pursued by a leopard and ran into a forest> When he turned around to face the animal, he had transformed into a frightening being – faceless. Larouche and varous other prophets have made this connection between Obama and Nero. It is interesting. It is not frivolous stuff however.
On Libertarians.  These people need a cult to join. Are you listening, Larouchies?
On Tea Party thing.  “We know who the Larouchies are.  They’re Democrats.”
And one more note, from factnet… Kathrine discusses her experiences in the French org.  Worth a gander.

Got myself a one dollar bill inscribed with the words, in marker “Obama Sucks”.  I guess we have here the final attempt from the Romney campaign. If he wins, we can attribute the victory to this final campaign tactic.

It must be how Dick Morris could decide Oregon would go to Oregon.  He was privy to this coming campaign push.

Nebraska.  It is startling, but there it is.  Bob Kerrey’s initial positive internal polls showing him closing in on Deb Fischer has been corroborated by other polls and by a “Crossroads” GOP shadow organization ad buy dump.  Given that this is the state that the state Republicans held a kind of “Don’t blame me.  I voted for McGovern” esque pride in the fact that it was the last state visited by President Clinton — and in his second term — the current campaign tour of Clinton doesn’t do too much good.
So we get this instead.  Chuck Hagel Endorses Bob Kerrey.
Kerrey may be the least frustrating of the “Red to Purple State” running on “bridge party lines” campaigners.  He has done a bit of “Brutal Truth telling” campaign in the mode of “Nothing Left to Lose” — coming out for gay marriage and lecturing state voters on Global Warming.  And his political calculus may be something in the line of assuming he’ll be out after one term.  If I had to choose between Kerrey beating tea party Fischer or … oh, North Dakota’s (oil drenched) Heidi Heitkamp picking off old garden variety Republican Rick Berg… I’d choose Kerrey.
The Weekly Standard chimes in with a reminder.  He’ll be backing Reid for Senate leader.  Well, yeah, that’s always the trump card in pushing for a wide partisan skewed voting electorate.

Missouri, for instance.  The group’s ad is less than a ringing endorsement: It focuses on winning Senate control and defeating incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and asks voters who “don’t agree with everything he says” to back Akin anyway.  You know… that thing he said about Rape.

Minnesota.  The great thing about the Internet is you can look over and see commenters from deluded true believers.
 Sen Klobuchar is embroiled in the billion dollar Ponzi schemer Tom Petters mess andKurt Bills is getting a lot of TV interviews about it. Fingers crossed, MN is now in play
I take it this random Internet commenter read the Dick Morris “Romney landslide” piece.
Or maybe… just maybe it’s more like this.

Mississippi.  Letter to the Editor promoting Albert Gore for Senate.
Which brings me to what I like best about Mr. Gore: His independence. No lobbyist, no party insider, no media figure will be able to sway Mr. Gore from doing what is best for our state.
And from the Wicker Campaign we get this:
According to a Twitter from United States Senator Roger Wicker, “To understand the world your must first understand a place like Mississippi.” After initiating that message he wished Nobel Laureate William Faulkner a Happy Birthday.
Here’s the totality of the campaign news.   Good to finally see Albert Gore on the same platform as Roger Wicker.  Pity to the Reform candidate, who gets the “Also running” after the Republican, Democratic, and Constitution candidates.

California.  Elizabeth Emken does the “splice together a youtube debate” thingy with Feinstein.
I really would like to see sillier things coming out of Feinstein’s mouth with these things.

Delaware.  I could care less about anything else in this story (for the conservative blog/newssite that’d be pro-Wade), but this sentence…
Kevin Wade’s rebuttal, “The Senator is no parasite,” drew the loudest applause of the evening.
Beyond that, the story is curious on its emphasis on seat placement.

 Michigan.  Pete Hoekstra (Pre Tea Republican) calls a few countries stupid for investing in clean energy.

New Jersey.  The Daily Caller reported Thursday that two prostitutes from the Dominican Republic have alleged that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) paid them for sex this year. The two women claim that Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts while the senator was visiting the Caribbean island this year – however, they allege that Menendez only paid them $100 each.
The real scandal here would be the underpayment, of course.

New Mexico.  I have nothing snarky to say about it, but it is interesting politics… which way the Navajo Nation is splitting.

North Dakota.  The former president told a packed house at the Fargo Civic Center Monday that the Coen brothers flick was a favorite cult film on Air Force One during his second term in office.
Just the kind of pandering you expect from political pros like Clinton.

West Virginia.  Will Joe Manchin vote for Barack Obama?  Apparently not.  Such a story espouses hope in the Republican blogosphere and… hm.  Seeing that the Democrats are expected to hold onto the Senate, better wait for 2014.

Wisconsin.  “one happens to be straight and one happens to be a lesbian.”

Maine.  It is rare when the Democratic spoiler potential is the nominated Democrat.

Tennessee.  Mark Clayton’s got his supporters!  Bonnie Hudgens, 73, was one of the supporters on hand. If nothing else, she said, Clayton has the support of many in the Whites Creek neighborhood.
“He’s a good human being, and it really made me angry how they said he was with a hate group,” she said. “We don’t like the way he was treated. That’s why we’re all sticking with him.”
I hate it when that happens.
 The crowd began to thin after a few people finished their meals and headed toward the door. One supporter lingered to thank Clayton for the invitation.
Considering that it started with a dozen people, “thinning” seems an oddly forced word.

Utah.  The Democratic candidate accidentally called everyone at 6 in the morning.  That dooms him even further.