Charlie Cook: Where Wolf? There, There Wolf. Where Castle?
October 25, 2006 at 10:08 am
We learn from Dana Milbank’s profile of Charlie Cook in today’s Washington Post:
Cook’s well-rehearsed speech includes …an allusion to the movie “Young Frankenstein.”
And what is the “Young Frankstein” gag to which Cook alludes? A source tells Extreme Mortman it’s when Igor (Marty Feldman) mistakes an abnormal brain for Abby Normal’s brain.
To which I think I speak for Mel Brooks fans everywhere in pleading with Charlie to switch to something from “Blazing Saddles.”
I Dream of Genie said,
October 25, 2006 @ 10:25 am
Here’s my prediction:
If and when the Charlie Cooks, the Larry Sabatos, the Bob Srums, et al are proven right about the GOP loss of the House and Senate, they will be on the talking head shows like flies on, er, ah, like white on rice (imagine that, Condi!) touting their brilliance.
If and when — and certainly against the “Always bet on black” conventional wisdom — they are proven WRONG and the GOP retains the House and Senate: you won’t be able to find them in the dark with a flashlight.
The GOP (or POG — “Party of God”) WILL retain both “bodies” and will go on to beat the pants off of either Billary or Obama Mamma in 2008.
You read it here at Extreme Mortman first.
Thank you, master.
Bob Smith said,
October 25, 2006 @ 10:38 am
Don’t believe that the “MSM” — the mainstream media aka Democratic Operatives hiding behind the First Amendment — is getting the jitters that they have been “Bushwacked” again?
Try the following from NBC’s “First Read”:
“White House officials aren’t the only ones making few solid arguments these
days, but Democrats only need to make one. If they do take control of at least
one chamber of Congress on election day, it will be more because Republicans lost
than because they won. How much Democrats recognize this, or not, could affect
the longevity of their newfound majority.
As in previous wave elections, to the extent that the bums really do get thrown
out, voters will be rejecting what they see as an entrenched majority that has accomplished
little in the past year and has appeared, through example after example, to be more
interested in looking out for themselves than in looking out for the American people.
Add to that an ever less popular war in Iraq, and you wind up with a majority party
that is trailing the minority in the generic congressional ballot test by double
digits. Virtually all Democrats have to do to succeed in this climate, it seems,
is not be Republicans.”
Translation: If the Democrats lose — again!– it will be Bush’s fault, not theirs, and we did the best we could to skewer the election.