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Raw Links XII
R. Alex Whitlock
The Conservative Party -- Kerry's Democrats
I've figured for the past month or so, Sullivan was going to endorse John Kerry for president sometime in September. While Sullivan doesn't endorse Kerry in his latest column, he sets the stage for it perfectly by defining Kerry as the conservative and Bush as the liberal. He starts off by defining conservatism as "against change" and liberal as "for it," but outside of foreign policy he later defines conservatism as "agreeing with Andrew Sullivan" and liberalism as "disagreeing with Andrew Sullivan."
Kerry Iraq Documentary [via Chris]
A damning 12 minutes of footage of John Kerry's various takes on the wars in Iraq. Getting... headache... miss... Howard... Dean...
Morrison v. DeLay
Morrison Poll Numbers
Greg and Kuff are pretty excited about some new polls that have challenger Morrison down by only ten points. The problem as I see it is that ever after the ethics investigation and so forth, DeLay is still at nearly 50%. I'm not sure it can go down much further than that. Their best chance to take down DeLay is proving enough in court to make him resign or make Republicans want to distance themselves so far from him he'll leap over to punditry or (more likely) lobbying.
Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior [via Judd]
Bush is apparently a raving lunatic because a psychologist that never treated him says so and he's taking medication because someone told them so, an unnamed aide confirmed it, and they actually know the name of Bush's physician. Oooooooh!
The 100 Years (Bias) War [via Lex]
Rhetorica reproduces a report on media bias and adds some interesting thoughts. It's a pretty fair assessment, though Rhetorica's criticisms of it are worth noting.
My brief conversation with a McIntosh apple
My second brief conversation with a McIntosh apple
My third brief conversation with a McIntosh apple
My fourth brief conversation with a McIntosh apple
My fifth brief conversation with a McIntosh apple
I'm not prone to eating apples, but Ida eaten that sucker by now. Nothing's worse than tart-mouth fruit.
Observations
They're so funny when it comes to DeLay.
Keep in mind this was some internal poll leaked purely for the purposes of generating some attention for a hopeless compaign.
Look for more Chronicle puff pieces on that fellow who is challenging DeLay. They're pretty funny too.
Regardless, barring scandal reaching the level of indictment, he'll be in the mid-to-high 50s when the race is done, and that will be as quite possibly the second-most-hated conservative leader in the country. That's not bad in my view.
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