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LIGHTNING ROUND.
- With the last week's NIE revelations undercutting the profitability of Rudy Giuliani's promising to be mean to Iran, he has apparently decided that being mean to illegal immigrants is the next best thing. The formerly pro-immigrant Giuliani says that if he thought the INS could have deported all of the city's illegal immigrants "I would have turned all the people over. It would have helped."
- The Politico reports that the IRS has received several complaints from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State about political activities of several churches on behalf of Mike Huckabee. The pastor of one of the churches, Rev. Wiley S. Drake, of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif., "responded [by] urging followers to pray for the deaths of... the Americans United officials who filed the IRS complaint." The Lord was not available for comment.
- Nice photo, guys. Come on, you know? Seriously.
- In an endorsement upset, the editors of National Review magazine go for Mitt Romney. While many had predicted that Giuliani's promises to bomb the living hell out of everybody would secure the NR's backing, according to the editors, Giuliani's belief that the state should not be empowered to force women to bear children does not meet the Republican Party's "moral standards," making Romney, who has been a strong, principled pro-lifer for almost 20 minutes, "the most conservative viable candidate."
- Proving that there are things more annoying than telemarketers, voters in Iowa will be receiving hand-written letters from Ron Paul supporters in the surrounding states, asking them to vote for their candidate.
--Matthew Duss
COMMENTS (14)
I find it unbelievable you'd consider a hand-written letter more annoying than a telemarketers' call. Or is it just a veiled smear attempt?
Posted by: AK | December 11, 2007 5:43 PM
Gawd, Ron Paul's 17 supporters are everywhere you look.
Posted by: Steve | December 11, 2007 5:50 PM
In all fairness, hand written letters are not like telemarketers. You don't have the pressure of a stranger forcing personal interaction without your consent, you don't have the interruption to your daily life that may or may not be important necessitating going to the phone, and you can simply toss it away if it's an issue.
Hell, I'd take the time to read a handwritten letter. Wouldn't convince me to vote Ron Paul, but to write a handwritten letter nowadays is still a novel and heartfelt gesture.
Posted by: Zephyrus | December 11, 2007 6:05 PM
I'm pretty sure I remember something about Howard Dean's supporters doing something similar to Ron Paul's in 2003.
Don't get me wrong, Paul is a white supremacist while Dean was a centrist technocrat. I'm just saying.
Posted by: rws | December 11, 2007 6:06 PM
Paul is a white supremacist?
Nonsense.
I agree with Zephyrus. Writing a letter by hand takes effort and is very nonintrusive. I'd read a handwritten letter from anyone. I'd hand up on a telemarketer.
Posted by: C. Wesley Fowler | December 11, 2007 6:14 PM
Rev. Wiley S. Drake, of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif., "responded [by] urging followers to pray for the deaths of... the Americans United officials who filed the IRS complaint."
Pussies. Jesus would have hunted those folks down and killed them with his bare hands!
Posted by: Seitz | December 11, 2007 6:24 PM
voters in Iowa will be receiving hand-written letters from Ron Paul supporters in the surrounding states, asking them to vote for their candidate.
Shades of the Guardian urging its UK readers to write to random Ohio readers in '04 asking them to please vote for Kerry.
Should work just about as well, too.
Posted by: Gee | December 11, 2007 6:29 PM
You gotta be kidding! Handwritten letters? Don't these people know that citizen involvement in government is So Yesterday?
Posted by: Rick | December 11, 2007 6:29 PM
Oh, the horror that we should be meanies and enforce our laws, thereby hampering the MexicanGovernment's attempts to profit from sending us people, the FederalReserve's and bank's goals of profiting from indirect illegal activity, corrupt businesses' goals of profiting from illegal activity, and also thereby reducing border deaths.
Let's be "nice", just like the Democratic Party.
Posted by: TLB | December 11, 2007 7:32 PM
I do so love it when a nutcase provides a self-fisking comment, requiring nothing in response because the comment is so obviously insane and/or moronic.
Re: TLB -- Q.E.D.
Posted by: PaulB | December 11, 2007 8:12 PM
Shades of the Guardian urging its UK readers to write to random Ohio readers in '04 asking them to please vote for Kerry.
Hey, that worked like a charm...oh wait....
Posted by: Col Bat Guano | December 11, 2007 11:30 PM
Hand-written letters are a nice touch actually. Lot better than someone calling when I'm trying to eat dinner.
Call me crazy but I think they are starting to get to me. The guy(Paul) actually makes a lot of sense.
Someone please stop me b-e-f-o-r-e I v-o-t-e r-e-p-u-b-l-i-c-aaaaa ARGH!
Posted by: Neo | December 12, 2007 12:09 AM
Yeah, me too. I am getting this weird feeling making me want to vote for Paul. I can't seem to control it. I have resisted but his extreme views are seeming extremely correct. What is happening?
Posted by: oneman | December 12, 2007 3:11 AM
"Paul is a white supremacist?
Nonsense."
Yeah, the generic smear is so 1995. A law was passed requiring liberals to turn on their brains again. If you don't think so, just give it another 15 minutes.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 12, 2007 12:02 PM