She’s the talk of the Sunday shows, even though she canceled appearances on Fox News Sunday and Face the Nation yesterday. She’s adored by the Tea Party, loathed by the Republican establishment, and is the object of scorn on the part of the media.

He’s the Architect, a Fox News contributor, and a crackerjack analyst of election data. And he doesn’t much care for her.

So… GOP civil war? Or intra-party transformation? (more…)

It is only right and just to let the Majarushi have the last word on today’s Topic A — last night’s Delaware primary between Christine O’Donnell and Mike Castle, and the emerging schism between the Washington establishment and the heartland conservatives, a split that is pitting Rove, Dana Perino, and a sizable chunk of the conservative blogosphere against the major talk-radio hosts (Limbaugh, Hannity, Mark Levin) and the rest of the right-wing blogosphere:

Over to you. (more…)

One look at circulation and ad sales and it’s plain to see that this kind of advocacy journalism is killing the New York Times:

The Senate primary in Delaware on Tuesday was prompting anxiety among party officials, who feared that a victory by Christine O’Donnell, a candidate backed by the Tea Party, could complicate Republican efforts to win control of the Senate. Republican leaders rushed to the aid of Representative Michael N. Castle, a moderate lawmaker and former governor, as internal party warfare — including accusations of a death threat — intensified on the eve of the primary.

I must admit, after several years of shamelessly open bias, it’s good to see the Times getting back to its more subtle ways of old. It managed to belch out two key DNC talking points for the November elections and almost make it look like real reporting.

Talking Point #1:

“Those crazy Tea Partiers will be the death of the GOP!” You see, according the think-inside-the-boxers (pun completely intended), if Tea Party fave Christine O’Donnell wins, the GOP has no hope of taking back the Senate. Because Mike Castle is mucho electable. But he’s afraid of losing to Christine O’Donnell. It all goes through the looking glass after that.

Talking Point #2: (more…)

The president of the United States is a “light-skinned” man “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”  That, at least, is the carefully considered opinion of soon-to-be-former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, quoted in a forthcoming book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change, about the 2008 election of Barack Obama.  The thing is, Hapless Harry meant it in a good way.

At least he did until now, when the news of the explosive statement found its way into The Washington Post and Politico.  Already reeling in his hopeless, doomed-as-Chris-Dodd campaign for re-election this fall, the Sage of Searchlight no doubt thought he was being complimentary in his usual clueless, white-guy-of-a-certain-age way.  After all, when Harry was growing up, “Negro” was the polite term you used to show you weren’t a racist, and as for light-skinned, well, we all knew what that meant.  Why, the next thing you know, Unhorsed Harry will be describing Obama as “a credit to his race.”

The authors write: “Reid was convinced, in fact, in fact,that Obama’s race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.”  Gee, that sounds a lot like what Geraldine Ferraro said, and her reward was practically being drummed out of the Democrat Party.

This isn’t the first time the scrappy little Mormon boxer has found himself on his keister over race.  He had some ‘splainin’ to do when the seat-warming, monument-building senator from Illinois, Roland Burris, explicitly charged him with racism for trying to block indicted Gov. Rod Blagojevich from appointing an African-American to replace Obama in the senate.  Watch and listen to Harry dance as David Gregory grills him on Meet the Press:

But there’s bigger game afoot than one pathetic little man’s attempt to cling to his rapidly diminishing power.  With Dodd and Byron Dorgan having defenestrated themselves, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, two of the nastier people in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, are busily greasing the skids for obvious Democrat losers like Reid, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu and other endangered-species types. (more…)