Kausmentum Fail….
This is sad:
There is sad news though: birther queen Orly Taitz was viciously trounced in her effort to become California Secretary of State, losing the Republican nomination 3-1 in favor of former NFL player Damon Dunn. (I know.) And yet? Orly Taitz got 368,316 votes in that race. In the Senate race for the Democrat nomination, against Barbara Boxer, Slate blogger Mickey Kaus received just 93,599.
This tragic result could deprive us of the ridiculously entertaining spectacle of the Kaus Senate “campaign”, UNLESS some enterprising Californians come together to form California for Kaus. It’s not surprising that Mickey’s “in your face” ideas would find little fertile ground among the radical leftists and illegal immigrants who constitute 94.7% of California Democratic Party primary voters, but it would be a disaster of epic proportions if Mickey let this minor setback prevent him from continuing to bring his message to the people….
UPDATE [SL]: Last night, the Kaus Kampaign sent me an email reporting that “[t]urnout is reportedly extremely low. That means the Boxer regulars aren’t bothering to vote. If our supporters turn out, we can CATCH THEM NAPPING!” I guess Mickey’s supporters were hibernating, or perhaps in a drunken stupor…
Or perhaps the Kaus voters were in another universe. If you’re a proponent of the many worlds interpretation, then you would say there must be a universe somewhere out there where Mickey Kaus won the Democratic primary. Luckily for us, it is not this universe. There is also a universe where I am a 3 time Cy Young award winner, but unluckily for me, it’s not this universe either.
Didn’t follow the link. But you have to love the use of “Democrat” as an adjective.
I’m guessing it is every bit as accidental as when President Bunny Pants did it.
That was from Choire at The Awl…I’ve read him for years and I’d say it’s highly unlikely he did that intentionally.
Choire certainly does have his particular shtick–see his take on that Lady Gaga video, and this tasty little morsel.
I guess Mickey’s supporters were hibernating, or perhaps in a drunken stupor… Or long dead and unaware that they’d been registered to vote? Perhaps as citizens of Tel’aran’rhiod they’re unable to vote in this waking world’s elections?
Oily Tits slides to defeat.
Turns out goats can’t vote, I guess.
Still, I’m sure that Kaus will claim some vindication from his hundred-thousand votes, thus proving that Democrats need to bash immigrants and unions.
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My thoughts exactly
[...] Robert Farley laments the “tragic result” of both Orly Taitz’s and Mickey Kaus’s losses last night and that we will all be deprived of the “ridiculously entertaining spectacle of the Kaus Senate ‘campaign,’” but he has a solution. [...]
Obviously, receiving one-quarter the votes of Birther Taitz provides him with unassailable moral high ground.
He lost, and he lost big, and his platform was ridiculous. However, much like the protest and vanity campaigns of other journalists (used here as a highly elastic term) I have to offer a grudging respect for his having undertaken the exercise in participatory democracy. I can hardly wait for his book about this experience.
But he didn’t “undertake the exercise in participatory democracy”. He didn’t undergo the degradation of incessant fundraising, he didn’t wear himself out knocking on doors and giving speeches. He apparently had a couple of dinner parties in friends’ houses, he filed some paperwork, sent out a few press releases, and he got some ignorant schmucks from the media to write unbalanced profiles about him.
And, of course, he launched this desultory effort not for city councilman or local school board, but to be the Senator for 60 million Californians. It was one big self-aggrandizing joke, an opportunity for him to get on TV and in the papers a bit more explaining that all true Democrats know we have to attack immigrants and unions.
[...] Robert Farley laments the “tragic result” of both Orly Taitz’s and Mickey Kaus’s losses last night and that we will all be deprived of the “ridiculously entertaining spectacle of the Kaus Senate ‘campaign,’” but he has a solution. [...]
What does it say about the merits of your candidacy when you have to pin your hopes for success on the sleeping habits of the opposition’s voters?
Mickey Kaus lost almost 2:1 to Brian Quintana.
“Who?”
You know, Brian Quintana – “the producer best known for his Lawsuits against actress Stefanie Powers and co-producer Jon Peters” (NY POST)… Ouch.
Oh well. At least he raised his issues and raised awareness… about… something… about… unions… maybe? (I can’t find it on his campaign website.)
Huh, why didn’t all his close, personal goat friends rush to the polls? Were they blissfully dozing?
This loss must be awfully hard for Mickey to swallow…
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I doubt Mikey’s were hibernating. I think it is much more likely that they were having a very difficult time getting themselves dressed, finding the shoes with the velcro because they don’t know how to make bows, and then wandering the streets aimlessly hoping to accidentally stumble across a polling place. Being distracted by a butterfly, stopping for a grape slurpee and finally asking a nice policeman to point them in the right direction again. Once there time had to be spent explaining how to use a pencil and that there were no ‘wrong’ answers, getting a new ballot when they realized they had filled in the circles to make a smiley face.
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