I can haz Romnee?

Senior Republican Political Analyst Charles Johnson must be feeling a tad depressed lately, what with the near-certainty that John McCain will emerge from tomorrow's quasi-national primary as the GOP nominee. Hence, we surmise, his latest Silly Internet Poll™, which shows Mitt Romney with a commanding 50-point lead over John McCain among people with an inclination to vote in Charles' Silly Internet Polls™.

Call it Chicken Soup For the Lizardoid Soul, for today an undaunted lizard opined,


Better lizards, please.

LGF's candidate on the way out

Hey, learn to consistently spell President Giuliani correctly, you're going to be using it a lot in the future. - lizard operative 'anonymous' in our comments section earlier this month

So, Chuckie, what went wrong? All that shilling for Rudy doesn't seem to have carried much weight in Florida. How about excreting providing some more of your insightful political analysis a little closer to home and telling us who's to blame for this debacle?

Wishful thinking?

It's funny how transparent Charles can be in his partisanship for or against certain US presidential hopefuls:

When Ron Paul was dropped from the Fox debate, Charles responded with derision. When Duncan Hunter got dropped, suddenly it's "Duncan Hunter counterattacks".

When Huckabee won the Republican caucus in Iowa, Charles is so angry he can't bring himself to say anything much about the result (CJ previously described Huckabee as a "a leftist in evangelist’s clothing" - presumably like a white Jesse Jackson?). When Rudy Giuliani(who got a miniscule share of the Iowa caucus) is interviewed on PJMedia, suddenly the former mayor of New York is a "Top GOP Candidate".

A lot can happen in the next few months, but don't expect your insightful analysis of events to come from LGF. The folks there have an agenda (and who knows, they might even be making a little bit of money on the side promoting certain candidates...)

Premature ejaculations

With a scant 13 months remaining until the U.S. Presidential election, Republican blogger Charles Johnson is already busy deploying his full arsenal of partisan puffery. Yesterday Republican blogger Charles Johnson turned in a stellar performance, devoting no fewer than six posts to a Democratic debate -- excuse us, "'debate'", on MSNBC. Here you will find lizardoid tactics at their most puerile: intentional misspellings (e.g. "Democrat Party", painfully unfunny nicknames, straw men, libelous accusations of treason, "scare quotes," and copious but tenuous associations with whomever the latest subject of LGF's Two Minutes Hate might be (yesterday Huffington; today Soros; tomorrow - who knows?).

Frankly, we're a bit worried. What if Republican blogger Charles Johnson -- like the Presidential campaign of, say, John McCain -- peaks too early? What will Republican blogger Charles Johnson be left with next October, which is when most normal Americans will actually start caring about the election, if he blows his wad now (pardon the expression)?

And if we're reaching this level of invective now, what might the saurian horde be driven to after an entire year's worth of rhetorical escalation by the likes of Republican blogger Charles Johnson?

Dennis The Peasant picks on Charles.

And wins. Obviously.

....more importantly he asks this question.

At what point will my fellow Republicans and Conservatives begin the process of recognizing that there are sane approaches to combating the threat of Islamofascism and Radical Islamic Terrorsts and that acting like a bunch of unstable, paranoid morons is not one of those sane approaches? Nobody on the Right Side of the Political Blogosphere seems to have grasped this yet, but it ain't 2003 anymore: Moderate Republicans and Swing Voters seem to have come to the conclusion that railing against the "Religion of Peace" and pushing perpetual warfare in the Middle East might not be working out... So at some point people like Charles Johnson, Debbuh Schlussel and Pammuh Geller-Oshry need to be shown the door. Unless you're comfortable with eight years of a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress, that is.

Hint: I'm guessing it'd probably be best to start some time before November, 2008.

Actually Dennis, it would be best to start now. Whether it improves the Republican chances in the election is secondary to the overwhelming concern that hate mongers like Chuck, Pammy and Debs are actually being considered the 'voice of the right'.

Foreign Politician Tries To Influence U.S. Election

Remember, back in October 2004, when The Guardian urged its readers to contact voters living in Clark County, Ohio and ask them to vote for Kerry?

The reaction among the right-wing élite was was swift and unanimous: Foreigners, don't meddle in U.S. politics! "Guardian Tries To Influence U.S. Election," blared Charles' headline. (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=13128). Said one commenter,

I find the very thought that outside forces would have a hand in the US elections...disgusting.

What right do they have? Do they live here? Why dont they just influence their own foreign policy?

Does democracy not work in their sections of the planet?

Fast-forward 28 months... and now Charles is cheering a foreign politician who is meddling in U.S. politics. But because this foreign politician chose to repeat one of Charles' favorite slanders -- that the Democratic party is secretly in cahoots with Osama bin-Laden -- why, that's just fair dinkum, mate! (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24392)

And the lizards, needless to say, are all but unanimous in their praise for outside force John Howard, who despite not living in the U.S., seems to think he has a right to have a hand in U.S. politics.

Does democracy not work in his section of the planet?