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After I've been screaming "Kaine!" all day, I now see the Netroots getting all gushy about Joe Biden. TNR's Jonathan Cohn summarizes the gush.
OK, your funeral, Netroots. Maybe it's because I'm an old guy, I find it impossible to take Biden seriously. The two things I most associate with Biden are hairplugs and plagiarism. But if Democrats think "gravitas" when they think of Joe Biden -- i.e., an old guy to function as Obama's Dick Cheney -- maybe that makes sense. If you're a Democrat.
The difference between Biden and Cheney, however, is huge. Cheney had an extensive record of executive-branch service and had been Secretary of Defense. Biden never been anything more important than a senator from Delaware, which isn't very important at all.
The mention of Caroline Kennedy in the Drudge item, however, reminds me that Biden's a Kennedy crony, which would be evidence of a sort. Maybe Obama's spending Wednesday and Thursday in Virginia as a sort of consolation prize to Virginia for not choosing Kaine.
So if the Netroots borked Bayh and the Netroots love Biden, then why shouldn't the Netroots president have a Netroots running mate? Biden, maybe.
But the PUMAs are going to hate it. Bad.
Help the poor illegals! Marianne Budde lives in $2+ million colonial
mansion with 6 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms
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Marianne Budde is your typical, hypocritical limousine liberal.. She loves
to go on and on about how poor illegal aliens
The post Help the poor illegals!...
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Mr. McCain,
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone read your blog? Just scanning through your latest offerings and there is nary a comment.
Maybe your regular readers are unable to type?
Just curious.
Chubby Parker
It's the comment moderation.
ReplyDeleteI read, but if I can't immediately see what I write, I'm a lot less likely to leave a comment. (Which probably suits the host just fine.)
Ben may have a point about the comment moderation. But I've had plenty of posts with 20+ comments, it's just that in putting up 250+ posts monthly, most posts don't get comments.
ReplyDeleteIn general, one will note that conservative bloggers get fewer comments than do liberal bloggers. I think conservatives use blogs more for information-gathering, and less for discussion.
And your 20+ comment posts would probably have had 50+ comments with no moderation.
ReplyDeleteWhich, again, isn't necessarily a bad thing -- there are blogs where the posts are nice and serious, but the comments sections are real cesspools.
Of course, there's a very easy way for us readers to guess at the readership (or a part of it, at least) -- the sitemeter. (That misses the people who read it via the XML feed, but it gives you a minimum, at least.)