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Julian Sanchez | November 10, 2005

Jeff Taylor says the big lesson from Tuesday's elections is: There's no big lesson from Tuesday's elections.

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|11.10.05 @ 12:27PM|#

The big message there? That given a choice between politics and hot girl-on-girl action, America wins every time.

Amen!

|11.10.05 @ 12:29PM|#

Who needs girl on girl action when I can get a stiffy from checking out the guy's ass in the "Beware of Weight Training" Ad to the right?

|11.10.05 @ 12:42PM|#

Herrick--those ads freak me out...

|11.10.05 @ 12:43PM|#

Herrick, is there anything important about you other than your own gayness?

|11.10.05 @ 12:47PM|#

Re: the California propositions
Why in the world would a conservative trying to push some reform items in a blue state (I know, I know, it's not that blue, but it still trends that way) include hot-buttons like abortion and union dues? I don't know how much coordination there was, but to combine the teacher tenure, fiscal control and redistricting along with some of the feel-good liberal issues like abortion and unions pretty much guaranteed that the liberals and progressives and anti-GOPers in general would turn out to protect their sacred cows. I think a lot of people would have listened to the actual reform issues, especially to the redistricting issue, if there hadn't been the spectre of the Evil Republicans coming to take away your right to abortion and threaten the unions.
I know that some here have said that none of Arnold's props were all that reform-minded anyway, and I do agree to a point, but it would have been a start at least.

|11.10.05 @ 1:00PM|#

The only problem with the Carolina "hot girl-on-girl action?" Nobody got it on video!!!! What sort of half-assed country is this, anyway?

As a Virginian, I must say that the gubernatorial TV ads on both sides made me want to poke my eyes out. And I've acquired a reasonably high tolerance for such things.

|11.10.05 @ 1:01PM|#

Kaine's win in Va. should be disheartening for the Republicans for one reason. Mark Warner's credentials as a democrat that can affect elections positively for the dems in a substantially republican state puts him that much closer to being a viable candidate for Prez come 2008.
I think Republicans are hoping that the Dems run Hillary in 2008 because they know they can beat her. Mark Warner not so much.
My prediction - if the dems are smart enough to run Mark in 2008 (not likely, I know) they will get back the presidency.

|11.10.05 @ 1:01PM|#

Steven Crane,

Something tells me that Herrick just might be a caricature in the tradition of Juanita.

|11.10.05 @ 1:03PM|#

I heard a speculation that the outgoing VA governor will seek his party's nomination, as will one of the state's GOP Senators.

VA vs. VA? That would be interesting. I'd be living in the same media market as a swing state, so I'd probably see non-stop commercials.

|11.10.05 @ 1:55PM|#

The only problem with the Carolina "hot girl-on-girl action?" Nobody got it on video!!!! What sort of half-assed country is this, anyway?

Well, it is illegal to put a camera in the ladies bathroom. But if it makes you feel any better, they have been offered a deal by Penthouse.

|11.10.05 @ 2:29PM|#

thoreau, I can promise you, it is teh suX0r. During 2004's election season, I swear to dog I saw the Swift Boat ad in every. Single. Break.

|11.10.05 @ 3:02PM|#

But if it makes you feel any better, they have been offered a deal by Penthouse.

Big surprise there.

|11.10.05 @ 3:04PM|#

teh suX0r

Huh?

|11.10.05 @ 3:08PM|#

Sorry . . . ironic "1337 5p34k" (leet speak) for "the suck," or more properly, "it sucks."

5uX0r = suck
h4x0r = hacker
pwn3d = owned
. . . etc.

Viking Moose|11.10.05 @ 7:53PM|#

Mr. Crane:

Herrick IS Gerhard from 28 days.........

|11.11.05 @ 1:59AM|#

You know, i was just about to compare south democratic govenor Mark Warner's chances to becoming president to Carter in 76, but I don't think comparing a candidate you support to Jimmy Carter is a good thing to do.

Now Clinton on the other hand....

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|11.11.05 @ 10:55AM|#

J,
well Mark is a lot taller than Jimmy Carter. I think that is what they call the "confounding variable" that nullifies the similarities :)