Big Ol' Smitty

I'm getting suited up again. I'm thinking of shooting reindeer from a helicopter a la Palin this year. Or maybe just breaking into homes and shitting in children's stockings. Ya know, gotta fight the good secular fight.

EFA Seriously. The question of what's going to happen with the Republican Party came up in my National Security Policy class Wednesday. My take was that, while I would prefer to see the Republican Party become a socially moderate to liberal, fiscally conservative libertarian type party (since I loathe social conservatism, but am at least sympathetic to fiscal conservatism), I simply don't think that's going to happen. The party is becoming increasingly Southern and increasingly hard right. The only region of the country that McCain won was the South--Obama easily won the Northeast obviously, but also pretty handily won the West and Midwest--and the South is not the place where a libertarian message is going to be successful. Furthermore, most GOP moderates in Congress have been picked off by Democrats in the last two elections. So I see the party moving further to a more Mike Huckabee-esque direction as I don't think there's much of a market for fiscal conservatism. People may like the idea of low government spending in the abstract, but when you talk about actually cutting entitlements or the military budget, the two biggest components of federal spending, you're generally not going to get very far.

Like the English missed the Bubonic Plague.

Speed of a baboon and strength of a warthog, eh? That's some killer imagery.

The same context wasn't applied to McCain's voting record, was it? Panthermatt still rarely posts anything other than tu quoques.

Seriously, that's sort of like the double reverse version of this circa 11/04: h/t to my dawg Marney

Oh man, I wish I could bottle that guy's frustration and drink it next to a pool with one of those little umbrellas in it.

JHawk pwns noobs.

Thx for the update, bro. Really interesting story.

Everything in Milky's last post here was the worst advice ever.

RE: Bush's golden years My hope would be that he focuses on development in Africa--which, in my eyes, Bush probably had the best Africa policy of any president in modern history, specifically with PEPFAR and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

from http://corner.nationalreview.com/ CORRECTION (imagine that, the National Review got something wrong) Real exit poll results for Prop 8 here; http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#CAI01p1 Spoiler:

from http://corner.nationalreview.com/

In addition to everything else, you're also reallllly boring.

FYI, Marvin, we'll be sending a team over later to confiscate your Crocs and HDTV to be redistributed.

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Heh, I wish I had stats in high school. I'm in a graduate stats class right now, so I have all this shit on the brain.

This makes me want to retroactively vote for McCain.

You better rest up for the riots tonight.

With 95% confidence, Slayer's suck lies in {balls, donkey dick}.

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