Mark Kirk begging for an endorsement from Sarah Palin?

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 Mark Kirk, the erstwhile moderate Republican congressman from the Chicago suburbs, reportedly is pleading for an endorsement from Sarah Palin in his bid to succeed Roland Burris as the junior U.S. senator from Illinois.

 At least, that what it says HERE.

Wingnuts upset with Oscar the Grouch for alleged knock on Fox News

14 comments November 4th, 2009

Just when you think these people couldn’t get any sillier, they surprise you with something like THIS.

A right-winger dumps on anti-reason conservatives

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 In a piece written before yesterday’s elections, Rick Moran, a right-wing blogger from Algonquin, Ill., takes a SHOT OR TWO at those among his ideological brethren who target so-called RINOs.

 An excerpt:

 The recent Gallup poll showing that 40% of Americans see themselves as “conservative” was leapt upon by these morons as “proof” that their brand of anarcho-conservatism dominates the political landscape. Would that it were true. The fact that there are a dozen different definitions of “conservative” depending on where you live doesn’t seem to penetrate. And the pogrom they wish to carry out against “moderates” who agree with them on 90% of the issues they hold dear but fail their ever more spastic “litmus tests” guarantees Democratic dominance for the foreseeable future.

 POSTSCRIPT: Nitwit Eric Erickson of RedState.com is a perfect example of what Moran laments, as we see HERE.

I love mind-boggling stuff like this

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 This isn’t political, but it’s way cool:

 Light from a star that exploded over 13 billion years ago is just now reaching Earth. The star is about 13.1 billion light years away and sets the record for the farthest object in space to be observed, according to two separate studies in Nature magazine.

 The previous record-holder was a galaxy 150 million years younger than the exploded star.

 Read more about it HERE.

Jon Stewart’s priceless take on election coverage

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Check it out HERE.

GOP wins guv races in Va. and Jersey, but anti-RINO gambit in NY-23 flops

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 For 24 years now, the party that holds the White House has lost the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, and such was the case in Tuesday’s voting as Republican candidates carried both states.

 But in the 23rd Congressional District of New York, a far-right-winger who had chased a moderate Republican from the race, lost to a Democrat.

 This was a contest in which a passel of prominent ultra-conservatives — Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Dick Armey, et al — had skin in the game. This was going to be the first great test-case in a nascent campaign by the teabagger crowd  to rid the GOP of its so-called RINOs. And it failed — in a district that hadn’t elected a Democrat to Congress in more than 100 years.

 Republicans would like to think the voting in Virginia and New Jersey was a referendum on Barack Obama, but exit polls show that the president wasn’t a factor (see HERE). In fact, voters in both states said they generally approve of Obama’s performance in office (see HERE).

 Nor will the loss of governorships in Virginia and New Jersey directly affect Obama’s legislative agenda. Governors don’t vote in Congress. But the win in NY-23 gives House Democrats one more member than they had before this election.

 UPDATE: Ruth Marcus WARNS AGAINST over-analyzing the results in Virginia and New Jersey. Read it all. It’s worth your while.

 UPDATE II: Writing before all the votes were counted, E.J. Dionne CORRECTLY NOTED that Democrats need to do a better job of mobilizing young voters than they did this time in Virginia and Jersey.

 UPDATE III: The FUNNIEST STORY from yesterday’s political doings was the one about right-wingers jumping to conclusions over a flat tire on the vehicle of a poll-watcher in NY-23.