Actually, there isn't a Vail, New Jersey.
Which is why this post by Chris Cillizza's on the upcoming New Jersey Senate race is a must-read.
Hi-lar-i-ous!
Noted: A candidate knows he/she is in trouble when the WaPo isn't afraid to bring the snark.
The 3rd leg of the Rudy Giuliani Book Tour looks like it might be firing up.
Noted: We will drive Al-Qaeda from Albany, back across the boarder and into Canada!!!!
You heard it here first.
Snark.
We don't know a thing about Mr. Novick, or his U.S. Senate race in Oregon.
But his ad people are very clever.
Noted: Is it just us or does the Democratic Party seem to have a deeper pool of media talent to draw on than do the Republicans?
Tom Matzzie, the man behind MoveOn's "General Betray Us" ad, will play a key role in determining how the Democrats will spend soft money in the 2008 cycle, Ben Smith and Chris Cillizza report.
It's a big job managing $100 million dollars.
And, by hiring Matzzi, it's a job going to a tone deaf clown.
Matzzie is so blinded by his hatred of Bush (and by his self-perceived self-importance) that he's lost all sense of how to communicate effectively.
Question: Does anyone other than Matzzie and his merry band of morons believe that General Betray Us? was anything other than a colossal failure?
But hey, at least it's not our money.
Of 1966.
The day the NYT's entire editorial staff jumped out a window.
Snark.
GOP game players are already looking towards November 2010.
When there is the CHANCE that there MIGHT be a two party system again.
If the GOP can get its message in order.
H/T to our grandmother for the original newspaper. She has enjoyed a 50 year run in Washington DC. And never thrown anything out.
Ah the Democratic-controlled Congress.
What a mess!
We guess '06 campaign slogans are more difficult to transform into actual (useful) policy than some people thought.
Noted: We don't know why you're smirking Mr. GOP, your problems are even just a little bit bigger in '08.
Cillizza nails it:
Jindal ran on a reform platform and against the entrenched Democratic political establishment, a message that resounded in a state full of angry survivors of the 2005 storms. This just shows how different the state-level dynamic is: It's hard to imagine a Republican candidate running an effective reform campaign for federal office simply because the GOP brand has been badly tarnished by voters' increased dissatisfaction with President Bush and the war in Iraq, not to mention ethics scandals involving several GOP members of Congress.
The Politico's Mike Allen has a piece up on the "Fall Offensive" planned by House Republicans to combat the dire outlook of next year's elections.
It's a offensive offensive all right.
As we understand it, Team Boehner has a 3-pronged strategy.
Whatever.
Because the graph in Allen's story that's really telling is:
As a third part of the strategy, Republicans will unveil an agenda after January 2008 that Boehner has described as “innovative, dynamic solutions to the challenges Americans face every day. However, the GOP leader has yet to spell out exactly what those solutions are, and the promised agenda is already months late in being formulated.Translation: Come back later. We still have to talk to our pollsters because we're so out-of-touch with what Americans need/want that we don't have a clue what our message is yet.
But Al is running for the Senate.
The U.S. Senate.
Shouldn't that job mean more to Minnesotans than a guy who played a retarded Amtrak baggage handler in the 1980s Eddie Murphy flick Trading Places can produce?
Good God we hope so.
