The new faces of the left

From The Hill:

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) threatened Friday to filibuster any attempt to seat Democratic Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken next week.

The newly minted National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chairman said he had not whipped votes in the GOP caucus, but added that he could not imagine any members defecting and seating Franken without a certificate of election.

Franken will not have that certificate as long as the election is challenged in the courts — a likely scenario, with Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) legal team already attacking the credibility of the recount process.

Good for the Republicans. The Democrats are hardly even bothering to pretend that this is anything other than a stolen election. The GOP must go on record challenging and protesting this. To do otherwise would be to, in effect, become an accessory after the fact to the Jackass party's criminal behavior.

And that will be fatal in 2010. The Republican party has a bit less than two years to draw a clear and meaningful distinction between itself and its opponents. The GOP must learn the lessons of the 2006 and 2008 elections.

One, despite the very high profile takeover of the legislature in 2006 most Americans on election day, 2008 still believed that the Republican party was in control of both houses of congress! The single-digit congressional approval numbers hurt the GOP despite the fact that they were not setting the agenda in either chamber.

Two, the GOP's embrace of "me-too Republicanism" (led by George W Bush's big-government "compassionate conservatism") and abandonment of its core limited-government values blurred the distinction between the parties so badly that B. Hussein Obama (a man whose disagrees with Karl Marx only on the topic of Marx's atheism - and nothing else) was actually able to campaign to the right of his "Republican" opponent in the last election on fiscal issues!

Which brings us to the third and most important lesson for the GOP. Don't nominate someone who has built his reputation on stabbing you in the back. If our candidate is someone who is most proud of all the ways in which he has helped the enemy do things which hurt the country we should not even consider him for the office of president.

Now on a related story I bring this to your attention:

New York (CBS) - New York Gov. David Paterson says the search is ongoing, but two people close to him tell The Associated Press they believe Caroline Kennedy will be appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate.

Following continuing criticism of Kennedy, Paterson on Thursday threw down the gauntlet. Though Kennedy appears to be the front-runner to replace Clinton, Paterson said the next junior Senator from New York will have to win re-election on his or her own.

The Governor of New York has the right to appoint anyone he wants to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat and there is no provision in the NY State constitution that the person be qualified in any other way than the age and citizenship requirements set forth for any other Senator.

The fact that she is a woman of no accomplishment, no political skill and apparently only a very limited intellect is not a legal obstacle to her appointment.

The GOP should publicly note the fact that this woman's only qualification for office is her maiden name, so we'll be on record as warning New Yorkers that this is a bad idea, and then step out of the Democrat's way and let them appoint her.

The fact is that the more dim-bulbs the Democrats have in congress the better it will be for the GOP and the United States.

The time when smart Democrats would oppose their party's more idiotic lurches to the left are long past. Now it is the Democrats with the highest IQ who are leading the charge leftward with all the concomitant losses of liberty and prosperity that socialism will bring.

The less intellectual firepower the left has to push its poison agenda the better. I am convinced that one of the principle reasons for the collapse of the mainstream media is the sheer stupidity of so many of its leading figures. Think about it, if you were a liberal would you want to read Maureen Dowd or watch Keith Olbermann and be reminded every day of the fact that all the most brainless morons seem to be attracted to your cause?

So get out of the way and let this half-witt "Princess of Camelot" become the face of the Democrat party. And we should not grieve overmuch if the Democrats do manage to seat Franken in the US Senate. A man like Franken, who cannot conceal his true nature for long, being seated in an openly stolen election will do nothing to help the Democrat party in the long run.

Let them both become the new face of the Jackass party and 2010 will be a very good year indeed.