A Week (or so) of Tweets

Posted By on October 29, 2012 at 10:00 am

  • Work-wise, today has consisted of naught but major suckage. Soooo glad it's (almost) over. ->
  • RT @Stranahan: I stand with @StevieJWest : or whatever other convoluted body position she finds herself in. Support. Maybe I should stic … ->
  • RT @scrowder: Am now following those who RT "LENA DUNHAM: #MyFirstTime parody!" http://t.co/fFzBf3ql #MoreFreeCrap ->
  • Good. I want him voted out fair and square. // RT @foxnewspolitics: Source says Reid 'okay' after car crash in Vegas http://t.co/xuJ6uq2Q ->
  • RT @Doc_0: If only Obama protected our people in Benghazi the way he protects subsidies for billion-dollar puppet shows. ->
  • #MyFirstTime was Ronald Reagan. It was so good I had to take up smoking shortly thereafter. ->
  • The lads had their checkups yesterday. Kismet was a *very* good boy. Packet, OTOH… oy, such yowling. He definitely doesn't like the vet. ->
  • Gloria Allred is a hemorrhoid on the body politic, and had been so as long as I can remember. I'm 50 years old, so she must be, what, 900? ->
  • New blog post – Thus Spake Russ: Scapegoating – http://t.co/XHC3joYo ->
  • The fun thing about doing a spellcheck on a blog post is that I can tell it to ignore "Obama." ->
  • Thus Spake Russ: The original "Band of Brothers" – http://t.co/aczBVLuK ->
  • I hate having to wake up an hour early just to make sure my laptop will boot up in time for work. Really hate when it works the first time. ->
  • The only thing lamer than the Prius is the ad campaign for the Prius. ->
  • And Miss Reardon Drinks a Litre #misspelledtheater ->
  • Got some dimmable LED light bulbs I ordered a the other day. $$$, but what I need. But maybe I should have checked the size first. Oops. ->
  • RT @iowahawkblog: Idea: let's put Gloria Allred and Donald Trump in a steel cage death match with tire irons, and ignore whoever survives. ->
  • I'd turn in my *best friend* if I knew he belonged to this group: http://t.co/IQvLyjuu I'd turn in my *brother.* No excuses. #tools ->
  • RT @DRUNKHULK: COURT RULE THAT LAP DANCE NO ART! EXCUSE DRUNK HULK FOR MINUTE! NEED TO UPDATE RESUME! ->
  • Call: vet had an emergency surgery, won't be making housecalls until noon. Yay. So glad I stayed up. Now… where's that 5 Hour Energy….? ->
  • The vet is coming in an hour to do checkups, give vaccinations, etc. The furry lads are in for a surprise. Think "thermometer." ->
  • "Life of Pi" is a movie? What, "First, there was 3. It became 22/7, then 3.14, before maturing to 3.14159. At the end, it was irrational." ->
  • RT @ExJon: I'm not sure what Donald Trump has, but it'll be the classiest October surprise ever. ->
  • Just made a donation to Mia Love is Running for Congress https://t.co/Ej7qr1KH ->
  • So… did Dick Morris *really* say Romney would take Ohio… and PA, MI, and WI? ->
  • For the record: I remember bayonet training *very* clearly. We'd just bombed Libya, so it was a good day to feel aggressive. ->

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Scapegoating

Posted By on October 25, 2012 at 4:07 pm

Team Obama is showing signs of desperation, and the blamecasting has already begun. First target? Rather surprisingly, it’s Bill Clinton.

[T]here is one crucial way in which the 42nd president may not have served the 44th quite as well. In these final weeks before the election, Mr. Clinton’s expert advice about how to beat Mitt Romney is starting to look suspect.

You may recall that last spring, just after Mr. Romney locked up the Republican nomination, Mr. Obama’s team abruptly switched its strategy for how to define him. Up to then, the White House had been portraying Mr. Romney much as George W. Bush had gone after John Kerry in 2004 – as inauthentic and inconstant, a soulless climber who would say anything to get the job.

But it was Mr. Clinton who forcefully argued to Mr. Obama’s aides that the campaign had it wrong. The best way to go after Mr. Romney, the former president said, was to publicly grant that he was the “severe conservative” he claimed to be, and then hang that unpopular ideology around his neck.

Interestingly, it’s Mitt Romney who has taken the 1992 Clinton campaign’s most memorable axiom and put it to work: it’s the economy, stupid.

Which, given my opinion of Obama’s intelligence, may be somewhat apropos.

(Link via Ace.)

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