Desperate people can be so silly

It seems that the Freedom-Hater party has completely abandoned any notion of trying to persuade the public on substantive levels such as issues and policy, or core principles, or basic logic.

No, these last few days before Tuesday are pure silly season.

How about this Hail Mary from Mary?

Most politicians pander to their constituents, praising them and talking about what an honor it is to serve them. Landrieu tried a different approach with just a few days left before those voters go to the polls — insulting them by telling Chuck Todd that they’re racists and sexists.

Isn’t this something one claims after a loss, and not before it?

HuffPo tried to make hay out of an arcane snit between Scott Brown and a debate moderator over the juxtaposition of some New Hampshire counties, and wound up eating crow for its efforts:

“I apologize that the exchange between Pindell and Brown ended up having to be clarified,” Huffington Post politics editor Sam Stein said in an email to Breitbart News on Friday morning. “I also apologize that we had to update our article with additional information. The fault is mine, not Sabrina’s.”

On Thursday night, as Breitbart News reported, the Huffington Post carried a story about the final debate between Republican Brown and incumbent Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. The Huffington Post headline claimed Brown: “Can't Get His New Hampshire Geography Straight.”

The piece from Sabrina Siddiqui was based entirely on a point that debate co-moderator WMUR’s James Pindell has since admitted he got wrong. In fact, he actually appeared on statewide television to apologize to Brown and voters for his error. The Huffington Post story was actually, as Breitbart News reported, published after Pindell owned up to the error by sending a tweet admitting he was wrong and Brown was right.

Normally, when a media outlet makes a mistake like the Huffington Post and Siddiqui did, it will issue a correction with updated text and apologize to readers for making the mistake. For hours on Thursday evening—and until Friday morning in this email to Breitbart News from Stein—the Huffington Post did not apologize for its action.

The apology from Stein on behalf of the Huffington Post comes not just after WMUR’s Pindell apologized on television but on MSNBC on Friday morning. National Public Radio’s Cokie Roberts said, “This is why people hate the press.”

“Having that little guy just sort of ask that same little question over and over again like that and he was just trying to be so smart, and I think he [Scott Brown] handled very it well,” Roberts said. “He didn’t go the Christie route and say ‘enough with Sullivan County.’ He said ‘no, with all due respect,’ and he didn’t get flustered by it. That was the point—the point was to fluster him and show him as a carpetbagger. I think that is the biggest strike against him [Brown]. But it ended up being a much bigger strike against the member of my trade.”

 

Harry Reid is not his usual blustery self just now:

Harry Reid is now "begging" for support. He made the comment in an email to supporters of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

The subject for the email from Reid, the Senate majority leader, reads: "I'm begging." Which is no wonder considering his job is at stake -- if Democrats lose the Senate, Reid will no longer hold his current leadership position.

One FHer state committee is going all Tony Soprano:

Democrats are telling voters that they had better head to the polls — or else.

The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.

“Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record,” the letter says.

“We will be reviewing voting records . . . to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014.”

It ends with a line better suited to a mob movie than a major political party: “If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not.”

The letter and accompanying post card was criticized even by party members, with one Democratic consultant saying it was the wrong way to inspire votes.

“It’s a threatening letter. It’s a scare piece that is unnecessary and inappropriate,” the insider said.

Brooklyn and Manhattan residents who received the note Wednesday were furious, calling it an attempt to browbeat them into showing up at the polls.

“I’m outraged. Whether I vote or not is none of your business!” said a Manhattan voter, who was so incensed that she complained to a local Democratic leader.

In the realm of race cards, Abortion Barbie sees Landrieu's  insinuation and raises her a direct accusation:

In a racially inflammatory ad, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis strongly implies that her Republican opponent Greg Abbott doesn’t want African-Americans to vote.

“Greg Abbot is bad news,” says the African-American narrator. “As Attorney General, Greg Abbott tried to overturn the Voting Rights Act. Guess who Greg Abbott doesn’t want to vote?”

Technically, Abbott only tried to overturn part of the Voting Rights Act, the part that required Texas to receive approval from the federal government before changing its voting laws. But the campaign ad, being a campaign ad, lacks that nuance.

The ad then goes through a litany of grievances against Abbott, including his opposition to the minimum, and ties him to Ted Nugent’s comments that President Obama is a “chimpanzee.” “So, if you don’t want Greg Abbott to do more damage to our community, you gotta get out to vote.”

That was amusing, but now it's time to get our grown-up on.  Anybody up for some free-market economics, Judeo-Christian values, and foreign policy based on what history tells us about human nature?