Despite their poor showing...

The MSM have decided to stay in the presidential race for the long hail :-)

Dave Barry Reporting From NH: Huckabutt and the Democrat Dinner

If we didn't have Dave Barry reporting on this race, we would be missing insights into the campaign like these. He goes where the MSM refuses to go:

Speaking of warming, the crowd was warmed up by a blues-rock band called Mama Kicks, and when Huckabee surged into the gym he picked up a bass and joined in playing In The Midnight Hour.'' It was a little rough at the start, and Huckabee turned around and bent over to fiddle with the amplifier, so for a few seconds the crowd was basically looking directly at the Huckabutt, which is a view you rarely get of a leading presidential contender, fortunately. But then the band got it together and did decent versions of Twist and Shout and Mustang Sally, rocking the house New-Hampshire style, with people keeping time by rhythmically thrusting signs that said ''HUCKABEE'' and ''MAKE GLOBAL WARMING A PRIORITY'' into the air.

Then Huckabee introduced Chuck Norris, who broke an IRS agent in half with his forehead. No, I'm kidding, although that would have gone over well. Chuck did say he was unhappy with the IRS, as well as the status quo in general. He is for education. Then Huckabee got up and said he was also against the IRS, and in favor of freedom. The crowd was polite, but I think they were more fired up when he was playing bass.

After that I drove through 293 million cubic miles of picturesque snow to Milford, N.H., where 3,000 Democrats had gathered for a big dinner in the New Hampshire Dome, a big inflatable structure with a plastic roof held up by the air emitted by a guy on the podium introducing every New Hampshire Democrat, living or dead, in the history of the world.

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Until you have heard major Democratic contenders, you do not realize how many times it is possible to use the word ''change'' in a single speech. They're in a big fight over who will be the best changer. At one point, Clinton, sounding like a veteran toll-booth attendant, said, ``I've been making change for 35 years.''

In early polling...

Thompson was third!! :-)

Chuck Norris vs. Huckabee's record

According to Allahpundit, it's a Romney ad:

She blinked!

I think Obama won this staring contest.

Brody spoofs Huckabee's ad

With a floating cross and Bible.

Nurse Ratched Parody

Lampooning the Republican debate moderator here. Pretty scary stuff!

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William Shatner Plugs World of Warcraft

Here I Go Again

So, I wonder about the back story. They're all sitting around one night making cookies and cutting up pineapples and someone says, "Let's all pile into the den in front of the computer and make a video to put on YouTube."

What's weird is that I actually think it works somehow.

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The Urban Chicken Controversy

Rages in Missoula where the city council is set to settle the issue. Should city-dwellers be allowed to raise chickens so they can be self-sustaining or will their neighbors, who have to live with the smell and the noise without the benefits, prevail. Here's a video of the controversy (it's slanted in favor of the chickens :-). Go watch it because it's pretty funny and very well done (the creators definitely have a future in PBS type programing -- they might want to apply to Frontline).

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What If "24" Were Set in 1994?

Hehe! How did we get anything done?

It's a Ron Paul world

I didn't heed the warning and now it's stuck in my head. Don't click here if you don't want the song to be stuck in your head all day.

More from the humor impaired

So quick to bury Thompson over a joke! Sheesh! Lighten up people. The words of a humorless AOL political blogger:

Forget Macaca. Forget the Dean Scream. Fred Thompson's admission that he doubts he'll win the presidential race is a political gaffe that tops them all.

Ah, hyperbole! Don't you just love it?

Thompson supporters, vote in the poll when you follow the link.

Adviser’s Criminal Past Shows Thompson Is Lazy

Typical :-)

Diet Water?

Because regular water is just too fattening?

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John Edwards' campaign ad is brilliant!!!

A major round of applause to the Edwards' campaign for this ad, it's incredibly effective for demonstrating Hillary's tendency take two sides of an issue.

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More please!

Colbert's presidential run has ended

The Democrats rejected his application:

South Carolina Democrats squashed Stephen Colbert's fanciful White House bid on Thursday. His campaign ended on the Republican side as well.

Colbert, who poses as a conservative talk-show host on the Comedy Central cable network, filed to get on the ballot as a Democratic candidate in his native South Carolina. His campaign paid a $2,500 filing fee just before the noon deadline, said state Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler.

They didn't think he was a serious candidate (I wonder were they go that idea). He failed in his bid to run as a Republican because he didn't make the filing deadline. Probably because the price to run as a Republican is so steep: $35,000! Sheesh! Republicans really are the party of the rich.

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Stephen Colbert is Running for President

TNR: Democrats don't have what it takes to govern?

Yeah, I agree :-)

"Forget 'liberal': Given a few more weeks like the ones congressional Democrats just endured, and the dreaded L-word they'll be struggling to shake is 'losers.' Children's health care, government spying, the atrocities of the Ottoman Empire, the toxic ramblings of Representative Pete Stark -- you name the issue, Dems managed to get their clocks cleaned in the p.r. battle with a fractured Republican minority led by a lame-duck president only marginally more popular with the American public than Chinese toy manufacturers.... [W]hat in God's name is wrong with congressional Dems? It's one thing to lose all your battles when you're the beleaguered minority crushed beneath the boot heel of a well-liked commander-in-chief and a power-mad congressional majority. But, when you can't manage to win even one lousy spin cycle under the current politically felicitous circumstances, voters are going to start wondering if you simply don't have what it takes to govern -- if perhaps you really do deserve that 25 percent approval rating" -- from an editorial in the latest New Republic magazine.

Impeach Bush Socks

Not very effective but I bet it makes them feel better. They let everyone know how they feel and that's the important thing.

Put Congress on a Constitutional Work Schedule

I agree! That sounds like a good idea, they wouldn't be so tuckered out and could get a real job in the mean time.