VPFL 2008 draft today 3 PM central

I still haven’t heard from TheMadItalia (Silver Spooners) or p-dawg (Black Mouth Curs) yet so I’ve gone ahead and created their teams and selected their keepers. I won’t be at the draft, unfortunately, since I’ve got a party to attend. Also, don’t get bent out of shape about the draft order’s failure to switch between rounds three and four as it’s an artifact of Yahoo’s keeper system. The real draft begins at round four; the first three rounds are merely placing everyone’s keepers on their teams. The order is worst to first among the old school, then worst to first among the new school, the entirety snaking from round to round. It’s worked quite well in the past; it’s not as if Nate picking first every year has helped him at all.

If p-dawg and The MadItalia will email me, I’ll install them as co-managers and then remove myself as a manager from the Curs and the Spooners. If they don’t do so within a week, we’ll add two new managers.

Posted by Vox Day.

Less than zero

Fresh from their unsuccessful attempt to enforce a radio speech doctrine, a spokesman from Obama campaign manages to insert his foot in his mouth so deep that he bloodied his nose with his knee:

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.

“The Obama campaign, on the other hand, offers the opportunity to put a man with no experience of any kind outside of law school and the legislative branch even closer!”

I find it hard to imagine that Sarah Palin will hesitate to remind people that Alaska borders Russia either. I don’t know what sort of border issues they’ve had there lately, but I’d be very surprised if there hadn’t been a few. And I cannot believe that this marketroid was dumb enough to openly diss small Alaskan towns in the name of the guy who is still trying to recover from doing the same thing to rural Pennsylvanians and West Virginians.

I expect the Obama campaign will drop this theme very quickly indeed.

Posted by Vox Day.

Finally got one right

Or so it appears:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a self-styled “hockey mom” who has only been governor for a little over a year, is GOP Presidential candidate John McCain’s choice for Vice President, CNBC has learned. According to a Republican strategist, Palin is the nominee, though McCain’s campaign has not comfirmed this.

It looks like McCain thinks he can win this now, as Palin is the choice of someone who is actually trying to win. It will help nicely in defanging the “historic” nature of the Obama campaign; among other things, she’s actually 100 percent woman. And just to show how bad political bloggers are at predicting these things, I was one of just four of the 65 bloggers surveyed by Right Wing News who correctly anticipated the Palin selection… and this is the first thing I’ve gotten right this presidential election cycle. (I had Hillary as the Dem nominee and George Pataki as the Republican… however, I did make my picks long before the cycle got rolling.)

UPDATE – it’s quite humorous to read the innocently optimistic reactions of devoted Democrats, such as those that inhabit Whatever. They apparently believe that John McCain has no experience outside of the Senate – what is this Vietnam of which you speak so strangely? – they assert that the totality of Hillary’s electoral appeal lies in her stance on the issues, and they genuinely think that Palin’s selection will somehow prevent McCain from hammering Obama on his near-complete lack of experience.

Worst of all, they fail to realize that attempting to belittle Palin by pointing out that Alaska is not a large state and Wasilla is not a big city is not exactly the most tenable position for a candidate who is already perceived as a too-effete elitist by the residents of many small states and cities across America.

UPDATE II – This is why Palin was a brilliant choice for McCain and why Biden was such a stupid choice for Obama: “Ah so, it’s going to be a woman. I’m hearing this for the first time at 8:37 Central Time. I will reveal that, instantly, a chill ran through my body when I heard that, and I have broken a sob or two as I write this.”

Yes, Virginia, a significant percentage of the female electorate really is so shallow and stupid that they will vote for a woman simply because she is a woman. It’s the same reason that more than 90 percent of the black electorate is going to vote for Obama. This isn’t rocket science.

Posted by Vox Day.