Late Night Games

19 Comments

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   BooMan on November 24, 2008 at 10:29 pm

   1. it’s a ‘he’
   2. he’s a moderate on immigration
   3. campaigned with Sarah Palin
   4. big fan of Jeb Bush

   Mel Martinez?

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     no3reed on November 24, 2008 at 10:45 pm

     Oh, Boo, you’re no fun.

     This is just like watching a game on TV, seeing the AFLAC trivia question come on, and hearing the analyst — who is, incredible as it sometimes seems (depending on the analyst), paid for knowing more about the game than the viewer does — blurt out the answer in about three seconds.

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     liberaljournal on November 24, 2008 at 11:54 pm

     this game where you ask the question and then proceed to answer it is not fun.

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       no3reed on November 25, 2008 at 12:00 am

       I think he was trying to start a discussion by tossing out his best guess in order to encourage others to respond in kind.

       Either the audience is not as challenging as he’d hoped, his best guess was too good, or both.

       That’s what I figure, anyway.

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         liberaljournal on November 25, 2008 at 12:25 am

         his guess was too good. Well, at least Boo saved me the embarrassment of exposing who I was going to guess.

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           no3reed on November 25, 2008 at 12:29 am

           now you have to say! Who?

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           liberaljournal on November 25, 2008 at 12:42 am

           haha, no. it’s sooo wrong in retrospect. the guy I picked isn’t even that moderate of a Republican. The secret will die with me.

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           no3reed on November 25, 2008 at 12:50 am

           Not soon, I hope!

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     Sawgrass on November 25, 2008 at 12:20 am

     On MTP on November 9,

     [F]ormer Governor Jeb Bush last week made a comment that if Republicans don’t figure it out and do the math that we’re going to be relegated to minority status.  I’ve been preaching this for a long time to my colleagues within my party.  I think that the very divisive rhetoric of the immigration debate set a very bad tone for our brand as Republicans.  
     […]
     The fact of the matter is that Hispanics are going to be a more and more vibrant part of the electorate, and the Republican Party had better figure out how to talk to them. … [T]here were voices within our party, frankly, which if they continue with that kind of rhetoric, anti-Hispanic rhetoric, that so much of it was heard, we’re going to be relegated to minority status.

     Yep, Martinez.  

     His statements on MTP echoed a couple other key themes also mentioned in the Politico interview. Put the two interviews together and it shows a certain pragmatism by Martinez that I didn’t know existed.

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       no3reed on November 25, 2008 at 12:33 am

       Pragmatism is to resounding defeat as mushrooms are to humidity.

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     robertdsc on November 25, 2008 at 12:36 am

     John McCain.

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       Steven D on November 25, 2008 at 5:31 am

       Or his evil twin!

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   sleepy on November 24, 2008 at 10:46 pm

   I think it’s no one, just a journalistic rhetorical tool.

3. 

   supersoling on November 24, 2008 at 11:01 pm

   Lieberman

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   scottso on November 25, 2008 at 12:02 am

   Arlen Specter?

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     no3reed on November 25, 2008 at 12:05 am

     That’s the spirit!

     Interesting.

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   Mum on November 25, 2008 at 2:11 am

   I guess I really wasn’t wondering as much which Republican senator it was as I was trying to think if his statement about Clinton invading Iraq was just some sideways criticism or some insight into Clinton’s thinking to which he had been privy.  But now that Martinez’s name has been broached, I can’t think of anyone else it could be.

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     Joyful Alternative on November 25, 2008 at 3:49 am

     Clinton is so not dumb enough to come up with the idea of invading Iraq. Not smart enough to avoid voting for it, though.

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   on November 25, 2008 at 7:41 am

   George Voinovich, Ohio.

   Moderate, reasonable, one of the few GOP center-right types left.  He’s not a wackadoodle.