McCain campaign spokesperson Michael Goldfarb was interviewed by CNN’s Rick Sanchez yesterday with hilarious results. Sanchez was trying to push an “Obama hangs with anti-Semites” narrative by bringing up Obama’s purported relationship with Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi is a Palestinian scholar (and- oddly enough for a man accused of being anti-Semitic- a Semite) and the subject of a tape that the McCain camp has been throwing a hissy fit over because  the LA Times won’t release it (non-release was a condition of their source).
Though he disappoints by not mentioning the facts missing in …

Former Republican Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger has a last name that sounds like a dish served at a sketchy truck stop in the Appalachians- which is enough on its own to earn a small bit of affection from me. But his new found habit of bluntly stating what the American people have known for awhile- that Sarah Palin is incompetent- has warmed my heart so that he may be my new favorite card in my Heartthrobs of the Bush Administration: Vol. One deck. 
Lawrence Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of …

I wanted to give a Happy Halloween shout out to our readers from the staff here at Moue. We went all Google and did a holiday themed header. Enjoy your night dressing up like the Joker, a slutty (insert noun) or- as was the case with my 7 year old brother- Bumblebee from the Transformers.

The McCain/Palin ticket could use some couples therapy:
John McCain’s campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.
And it has decided on Sarah Palin.
In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”
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Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Mike Allen of Politico that Palin is “a whack job.”
Then again, if half the couple is already looking for greener pastures, is it too late?
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – With days still to go …

So it’s not exactly news anymore, but I think it bears examination nonetheless: the NRCC performed a little triage last week and pulled their financial backing from the Congressional reelection races of among others, noted nutjobs Michelle Bachmann (MN-06), Tom Feeney (FL-24), Joe Knollenberg (MI-09) and Marilyn Musgrave (CO-04).
It’s not as if all of these races are unwinnable; Bachmann and Knollenberg, at least, are rated by Pollster as tossups right now. As far as Musgrave and Feeney are concerned, despite the fact that both of these Winger poster children are …

Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) is running in a tight race against Democrat Kay Hagan. Attack ads aren’t surprising finds in any political battle, let alone one that is contentious. But Sen. Dole took a giant leap into Crazy Town by creating an ad alleging that Hagan is an atheist that ends with a Hagan impersonator saying “There is no God”. 
Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s latest advertisement suggests her Democratic opponent, Kay Hagan, is a godless heathen.
“A leader of the Godless Americans PAC recently held a secret fundraiser for Kay Hagan,” the 30-second spot …

I’m a little nervous writing about this paperie, because I can’t remember where I heard of them.  If I stole the original idea from one of Brandy’s Indie Retailer posts, please forgive me.  The Frantic Meercat makes absolutely charming pastiches of vintage text, images and sentiments.  Some remind me of the Anne Taintor line, but most ring true as their own personal spin on old-time ephemera or new-time sardonics.

get well, 7 x 5″ card for $3 (inside reads, “I recommend the worm cakes.  Get well soon.”)

I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet. I was visiting a relative in the hospital when it originally aired and have been really busy since. But I hear it’s good!

The guys from Five Thirty Eight have been on a road trip for these last few weeks of the election season, bringing readers the story from the ground. They attended John McCain’s rally in Miami (held at Everglades Lumber) and witnessed the kind of hate-filled aggression that has become typical of the McPalin Mob: 
After the rally, we witnessed a near-street riot involving the exiting McCain crowd and two Cuban-American Obama supporters. Tony Garcia, 63, and Raul Sorando, 31, were suddenly surrounded by an angry mob. There is a moment in …

Barack Obama’s chances of winning the election are strong enough that Republicans have been scurrying about for the past week preparing their resumes, pointing fingers and making up excuses that can be used after McCain’s loss to explain why it wasn’t really his (or the party’s) fault. 
The most recent excuse- formulated by NRO’s Lisa Schiffren- could be called the Scheme of the Street Dwellers. The SSD theory is built on the notion that thousands of American citizens became homeless in the state of Ohio in the hope that they’d one day …