PSoTD

Maybe there's a good 2006 election reason for this. But if this is true, and if a good reason isn't provided (I haven't heard one), there's no way I'll ever donate money to somebody who indulges in such wasteful, dumbass overkill when others could use funding. Coattails? Not gonna cut it.

I don't disagree with Walters' viewpoint that the absentee vote campaign is a big deal, but honestly, journalists, editors and columnists have to quit cheapening the term "war". It's really a moral responsibility.

Dan Walters: Mailbox is today's war zone

Technically, Election Day is still nearly four weeks away, but voting begins this week as millions of absentee ballots are mailed out to Californians who prefer, for whatever reason, to do their voting at home. Within a few days, those ballots will start pouring into county election offices -- a phenomenon that has transformed the dynamics of campaigning ever since Republican George Deukmejian won the governorship in 1982 with the state's first large-scale absentee vote campaign while losing among voters who cast ballots on Election Day.

Politicians now know -- or should know -- that they can no longer wait until the last minute to make their big pitches, because by Election Day, it's entirely possible that half of the ballots will already have been cast. It's not a coincidence that the candidates for governor and hundreds of other offices, not to mention pro and con sides on ballot measures, are ramping up their media ad buys this week, or that the "slate mailers" that recommend votes on candidates and measures are beginning to show up in voters' mailboxes.

From an actual conservative blog:

The fate of this country lies in the conservatives. Too many are planning to sit home because they don’t have the fortitude to try anymore. If they cannot have their way the plan to punish those who stood by them all this time and allow the Democrats the opportunity to repeal all of Bush’s tax cuts, surrender Iraq to Al Qaeda and Iran, and close down the monitoring of terrorists communications to their contacts here in the US (while we work to get FISA warrants to cover ALL the communications of the people here in the US, not just the overseas ones to known terrorists). And to top it all off, the Democrats will have their investigations into everything Bush did, and will no doubt find surprising results that they cannot ignore, as they promised, and they will push for impeachment. All this because conservatives collapsed and quit on the movement.

The "Vote Republican, We Ignore Criminal Action" campaign has begun.

Put down the beat for Rappin' Father Stan Fortuna.

This is how rap is destroyed.