{"id":1143,"date":"2006-07-11T05:24:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T05:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:49","slug":"man_do_i_feel_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Man, Do I Feel Slapped&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>[Update:<\/b> My bad on getting the wrong commenter. It was Walter&#8217;s Ridge, <b>not<\/b> Hypocracyrules, who thought I got a <i>righeous beeatch-slappin&#8217;<\/i>. I just suck with names, there&#8217;s no other excuse. Apologies to Hypocracy&#8230;<b>]<\/b>  <\/p>\n<p>So Red Dan, from DailyKos was polite enough to post a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2006\/7\/10\/23023\/0005\" target=\"browser\">the diary he did on my Lieberman article<\/a> &#8211; surprisingly, he didn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p><u>Walter&#8217;s Ridge<\/u> <strike>Hypocracyrules<\/strike> sees his article as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/008778.php#c12\" target=\"browser\">a righteous beeatch-slappin&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Most likely win? Based on what? One poll taken in May\/June? Based on assumptions and assertions about the CT demographic and voter makeup? How about this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All Connecticut voters disapprove <b>72 &#8211; 24 percent<\/b> of the job President Bush is doing. Voters disapprove <b>73 &#8211; 23 percent<\/b> of the way the President is handling the Iraq war and say <b>63 &#8211; 33 percent<\/b> that going to war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was taken from the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/x11362.xml?ReleaseID=922\">June 8 poll (Quinnipiac)<\/a> showing Lamont starting to cut into Lieberman&#8217;s lead in the primary and gaining significantly in a three way race for the Senate. That poll was followed up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/2006\/State%20Polls\/June%202006\/connecticutsenate06162006.htm\">this poll from Rasmussen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/2006\/State%20Polls\/June%202006\/ConnecticutPrimary.htm\">Another poll from Rasmussen<\/a> both showing that not only is Lieberman losing ground in the primary, but he is losing ground in the Senate election race itself. And those polls were in early June.<\/p>\n<p>\nMr. Danziger, please tell me what that says about the chances for Lamont to win should he get the nod in the Democratic Primary.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let&#8217;s click through to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/2006\/State%20Polls\/June%202006\/ConnecticutPrimary.htm\" target=\"browser\">Rasmussen poll #2<\/a>. read along, and we get to this gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the General Election, Lieberman wins handily as either a Democrat or an Independent.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I <b>keep telling people<\/b>, a) you have to read the whole thing; and b) you have to assume people will actually click through on the links you post, so they can&#8217;t blow away the claim you make for them.<\/p>\n<p>What did <u>Walter&#8217;s Ridge<\/u> <strike>Hypocracyrules<\/strike> say? &#8216;<i>a righteous beeatch-slappin<\/i>&#8216;&#8230;yup, I feel slapped all right. One of these days someone will do it with a fact in their hand, and it&#8217;ll hurt.<\/p>\n<p>But until then, one key thing needs to be remembered:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about the war. In response to the list of comments by Andrew Lazarus, our buddy Hypocracyrules, and Walter&#8217;s Ridge, I&#8217;d like one simple thing from the Democratic Party &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/008233.php#c6\" target=\"browser\">#1) Figure out a strategy for dealing with Islamism that doesn&#8217;t involve a) super-ninja warriors who will, undetected, identify and mysteriously kill bad guys without disturbing anyone else or b) NUKE THE BIYATCHES;<\/a> I&#8217;ve made a small shedload of proposals as to what that might be, and as to areas where GWB is leaving the door open and someone ought to shut it. I think Bush is vulnerable to all kinds of challenges, but sadly, as poor a hand as it may be, you can&#8217;t beat a pair of twos with nothing. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably time to review them and set them out in a post, but that&#8217;ll take a few days.<\/p>\n<p>In November, we&#8217;ll see who gets &#8216;a righteous beeatch-slappin&#8217; and then we&#8217;ll settle down to the hard work of building a party that can will and will be able to do something good for the country once it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Dan from Daily Kos stops by, says the polls show Lamont gaining fast on Lieberman. Armed Liberal clicks through, is puzzled. They say Lieberman &#8216;handily wins&#8217;&#8230;he thought winning was the goal in politics, not losing by less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}