Subject: U.S. Presidential Election

• Sic Transit...

  It seem there might be a princess– princess in the sense of being the child of a European royal– somewhere in the Inland Empire. Albert Grimaldi, the ruling prince of Monaco (and one of the least inbred of Europe's royal relics, thanks to the genetic material of Grace Kelly), is reportedly about to acknowledged that he is the father of a 14 year old girl from Riverside County. Since Albert wasn't married to the mother, the girl will have no claim to the throne (given Albert's habit o

  June 1, 2006

• Dornan in '08

  I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but judging by this report from Drew Cline, editorial page editor of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader, the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination could prove to be very, very entertaining. Cline writes on the Union Leader blog: I just got off the phone with former congressman and talk show Bob Dornan, who is considering. . . a run for President. "I can't stand the thought of my party having as its three front-runners three open adulterers, N

  November 16, 2006

• Even John McCain Hates the Guatemalans

  Faithful readers of ¡Ask a Mexican! know that my favorite whipping boy is the Guatemalans. Turns out, according to Time magazine's blog, chapines also serve the same purpose for presidential candidate John McCain. Is the Mexican influencing national sentiment toward the Mayan menace?

  May 21, 2007

• Nixon called Warren Commission "a hoax"

  The vaults of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and John Lennon COMBINED got nothing on those fab Nixon tapes -- now on their way to Yorba Linda! Recent listenings revealed that: * The Dick referred to the Warren Commission report that concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone killing JFK as "the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated." * After Arthur Bremer in May 1972 failed in his attempt to assassinate presidential candidate George Wallace, Nixon told his chief of staff HR Haldeman and special

  May 15, 2006

• Obama Gets Extra Golden's Song of Approval

  Extra Golden chime in for Dem prez candidate Barack Obama. The Kenyan-American quartet Extra Golden have cut a song big upping presidential hopeful Barack Obama. You can check out “Obama” (which will appear on Extra Golden's Hera Ma Nono Oct. 9) here. Now that the Illinois Senator has this sonic backing, his chances of winning the Democratic nomination have increased dramatically. Right? I mean, listen to this song. How can you not be moved to get behind Obama's campaign after hearing it

  August 3, 2007

• Dennis the Not-Very-Menacing

  Ohio Congressman and looooong shot Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is coming to Republican-dominated Orange County later this month to rally some funds for his cause. During his visit he is expected to speak briefly and then, well, collect money. Here are some things Kucinich might touch upon in his speech: • The fact that he is the only vegan in Congress and he loves yoga • His support of a nationwide ban on public smoking • Wanting 16-year-olds to have the right t

  October 9, 2007

• Goodbye, Tancredo, and Take Morey With You

  Not to pick on Irvine Islamic "expert" Robert Morey any further this week, but I was reminded of his idiocies today, as I bide my time in Fort Collins, Colorado, before a book signing hosted by the Rocky Mountain Chronicle. The paper runs a great column called "Tancrazy Train," which monitors Coloradoan Republican presidential candidate (and Orange County darling) Tom Tancredo (R-Know Nothinglandia). Learning that Tancredo has recently announced he's calling its quits, I was reminded that he onc

  November 13, 2007

• Local Extremist Supports Ron Paul

  Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has some great ideas (anti-imperialism) and some stupid ones (deny amnesty and birthright citizenship to illegal immigrants), and it's this schizophrenic platform that has attracted sane folks (the editors of Reason magazine, Barry Manilow) and unrepentant wackjobs (neo-Nazis, Barry Manilow). Add to the latter's ranks one of Costa Mesa's blights: Mayor Allan Mansoor. The Daily Pilot reports today that Mansoor is officially endorsing Paul because he "tru

  December 5, 2007

• Why Does Hugh Hewitt Spin for a Liar?

  Heard about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's claim that his father marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1960s? The Boston Phoenix rips apart that claim nicely, then Hugh Hewitt tries to provide cover for his book boy--but it's just not enough.

  December 22, 2007

• Hugh Hewitt Announces Most Anticlimactic Announcement Ever

  Over the weekend, Orange County's own nationally syndicated yack-mouth Hugh Hewitt announced what everyone who follows the fool already knew: He'll be voting for Mitt Romney in California's Republican primary. Even crazier, Baby Hughie spouted off this gem: We need another Reagan. I think that is Romney. Where to begin...instead, let's leave it at this: ever since the publication of his Romney hagiography this past March, Hewitt has insisted his mind wasn't made up on the Republican president

  December 31, 2007

• Hugh Hewitt and His "Attempted Coup"

  Nothing is more schadenfreude than seeing a self-righteous loudmouth get schooled, and that's what's happening with Hugh Hewitt as we speak. His guy Mitt Romney lost the Iowa caucus yesterday despite spending mucho dinero. Baby Hughie will be on the radio in a bit--in the meanwhile, he's blogging like a teen girl scorned. For the sake of space, let's focus on this post. Hughie begins by claiming Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee's past record is "largely unexamined," a flat-out stupid statement

  January 4, 2008

• Ron Paul Liked Bill Dannemeyer

  In The New Republic's recent critique of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's old wacky newsletters, there's one disturbing Orange County connection, according to author James Kirchick: They frequently quoted Paul's "old colleague," Representative William Dannemeyer--who advocated quarantining people with AIDS--praising him for "speak[ing] out fearlessly despite the organized power of the gay lobby." Dannemeyer did more than advocate quarantine, of course. He once compared Nelson Mande

  January 8, 2008

• McCain Gets his Gooks

  We like Arizona Senator and Republican presidential candidate John McCain much more than his automaton flip-flopper (and Hugh Hewitt favorite) main opponent, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. But we've never been able to understand why Little Saigon's power brokers never asked McCain to apologize back in 2000, when he appeared before thousands in Westminster's Asian Garden Mall a couple of weeks after referring to Vietnamese as "gooks." McCain offered spin prior to appearing, explainin

  January 31, 2008

• Fired up for Obama at UCI on 01/31

  “Fired up!” yells Abraham Jenkins. “Ready to go!” respond UCI's Barack Obamamites. In the midst of their chant a faint “Romney!” is heard from the obnoxious kid holding the long board. Dude, it’s an Obama rally. Did you not get the memo? The rally hype began a week ago, with posters plastered around UCI. Obama’s vectorized face looked straight into the eyes of students debating whether to attend the Thursday rally at noon or grab lunch instead. The candidate's worried stare see

  February 1, 2008

• Stick it to 'em

  As we are sure you have heard by now from one form of media or another, tomorrow is Super Tuesday; a day that will play a gynormous part in determining who will go forth to the 2008 Presidential Slugfest. In order to ensure that your fighter makes it to the final round you must root for them at a local polling location. And thanks to the lovely folks at the OC Registrar of Voters, you can find just such a location by visiting ocvote.com (or click here) to find where to wave your ballot. Now,

  February 4, 2008

• Romney:Reagan = Hewitt:Smart

  Our beloved local conservative loudmouth Hugh Hewitt has spent the last half-year ranting about how Republican presidential candidate (and subject of his most-recent book) Mitt Romney is the next coming of Ronald Reagan to the point of nausea and idiocy. "Romney has reassembled the Reagan coalition and may have done so just in time to save the GOP from lapsing into its pre-Reagan days," Baby Hewie wrote last night, and doesn't the man just love to gnash the hands that fed him? You'll remember

  February 5, 2008

• Video: Stupor Tuesday in OC and LB

  I woke early this morning to vote and talk to some folks about their choices on Super Tuesday. I started in the City of Cypress, drove down to Long Beach and ended in Fullerton. The responses ranged from excited to downright apathetic:

  February 5, 2008

• Rock the Poor(man) Vote

  So who's our favorite bikini babehound, the Poorman, voting for? “I'm not positive yet. Originally I wanted Giuliani, but as time went on I found him non-dynamic. McCain scares me, but I bet his wife was hot when she was younger. Now I think Obama—I like the idea of change.” Informed that, as a registered Republican, he couldn't vote for Obama today, the Poorman seemed surprised. “Really? Okay, then Ron Paul. He's refreshing, but he's also scary. Maybe you should say I'm gonna write i

  February 5, 2008

• Myspace Bulletin from a friend in West L.A.

  8:39 p.m. "I know it's Super Tuesday and all, but it would have been nice if I could have watched Jeopardy & Wheel of Fortune when I got home from work like I planned."

  February 5, 2008

• OC Vote: Final count

  Well, the votes from all 2076 precincts have been tallied. No huge surprises, but here are the final numbers in the presidential race: Democrats:Hillary ClintonBarack ObamaVote Count: 141,668Vote Count: 96,967 55.47.9% Republicans:John McCainMitt Romney Vote Count: 117,333Vote Count: 109,877 39.77.2%

  February 6, 2008

• Romney Drops Out, Cites Rick Warren Badly; Baby Hewie Cries

  In Mitt Romney's rambling, scary speech announcing he's dropping out of the Republican presidential campaign, the flip-flopper uttered this curious line: Americans love God, and those who don’t have faith, typically believe in something greater than themselves—a “Purpose Driven Life.” Wait a minute, Mitt: your deliberate use of the term "Purpose Driven Life" is a specific reference to Saddleback Church's money cow, the multi-million-selling book of head pastor Rick Warren. Last I check

  February 7, 2008

• John McCain in OC Tomorrow

  Republican presidential candidate and war-lover, John McCain, will be in our neck of the woods tomorrow to rub elbows (raise money) with the rich folks whom he will help make richer if he takes office in 2008. McCain's meeting with the GOP big bucks will take place at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach where they will drink wine, eat bite-sized pieces of cheese and discuss whether McCain has discovered the difference between the Sunni and the Shi’a yet. Our money is on no. Meanwhile, OC's Y

  March 24, 2008

• Baby Hewie Attempts Stupidest Smear in History

  With his book subject Mitt Romney (thankfully) out of the presidential race, Orange County's own nationally syndicated yackmouth Hugh Hewitt is desperately trying to remain relevant in this year's presidential race by trotting out the lamest smear attempt since Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama's middle name. Here and here, Baby Hewie tries to make an issue of Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. "It has to be the most unusual book ever by a presidentia

  March 25, 2008

• Devil Dean Calls Obama "Bin Laden"

  Most people know Dean Singleton as the owner of the Denver-based MediaNews, Inc., a man who loves to buy newspapers like the L.A. Daily News and Long Beach Press-Telegram so that he can slash salaries, bust unions, earn huge profits, and generally quicken the destruction of print journalism. (His effort to buy the OC Register a few years back failed, but now he's using their copy to allow him to lay off his own reporters). But did you know that Singleton also happens to be chairman of the boar

  April 14, 2008

• Orange County Entering Bizarro World

  Dan Chmielewski over at The Liberal OC posted that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama will hold a $2,300-per-plate fundraiser at Newport Beach's Balboa Bay Club but doesn't mention how much of a wrench it is to the county's political cosmology. Read the above again. Barack Hussein Obama. Holding a fundraiser. At the Balboa Bay Club. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD?!?!?!?!? The Balboa Bay Club represents all that's reprehensible with the old Orange County, where GOP men spen

  July 3, 2008

• Hey, Barack Obama: Don't Come Back to Orange County

  A few of you might have heard that Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, arrived in Orange County on Sunday, held an exclusive fundraiser for wealthy contributors at the Republican-dominated Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, and left. Some local Democrats gloated about the idea of Obama grabbing money on right-wing-nut turf, but who of substance cares about empty theatrics? You wouldn't have known anything about the visit because Obama restricted press access,

  July 14, 2008

• Barbara Coe's Thoughts on the Obama New Yorker Cover

  Seemingly everybody and their political consultant has opined on this week's New Yorker cover that mockingly shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim imam giving a fist rap to wife Michelle, who's dressed a Hezbollah warrior princess. Even old, wretched Barbara Coe, head witch of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. On Monday, Coe sent off a graphic of the cover to her email list, with the thought, "Is this a 'parody' or did The New Yorker share the TR

  July 16, 2008

• Baby Hewie's Website Approaches Bizarro World

  Hugh Hewitt will stop at nothing to ensure that Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama fails to become America's president. He's hawking a pamphlet titled "Letter to a Young Obama Supporter" (I'd love to review it, but no way in hell I'm giving Hewie moolah) and blogging incessantly about the Illinois senator. Hell, Hewie's even allowed his own writers on Townhall.com, where Hewie serves as executive editor, to smear his old boss, Richard Nixon. In an email sent out today by Townhall.com, c

  July 23, 2008

• Will Rappers Cost Obama the Election?

  Please, Plies, come out in support of Sarah Palin Young Jeezy's brief flirtation with John McCain on the set of Saturday Night Live aside, it's clear rappers favor Barack Obama by a wide margin in this election. (Check out this survey, for starters.) Though emcee after emcee has supported Obama with endorsement tracks, the big-ups at this point are likely doing more harm than good. Witness the negative media reaction to Ludacris's Hillary/McCain/Bush-bashing "Politics as Usual" cut, which cause

  September 29, 2008

• The Religious Right Stuff

  March 25, 1999

• Obama Wins Presidential Election Thanks to Baby Hewie!

  The New York Observer is reporting that Orange County conservative yackmouth Hugh Hewitt unsuccessfully tried to sell a book proposal involving Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin. We'd usually laugh at any Baby Hewie gaffe--the proposed title was How Sarah Palin Won the Election ... and Saved America, and ain't that a bit pompous?--except that his failure means hope for Democrats, as his infatuation with Palin might have provoked the Hugh Hewitt curse. Don't know about it? Read our w

  October 10, 2008

• Quiet Riot

  March 16, 2000

• Presidency by Numbers: Orange County Edition

  Gramps is just gonna rest his eyes some... Orange County Democrats are justifiably happy today as their presidential candidate will be sworn in on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2009. And they can take some pride in the Barack Obama-Joe Biden Democratic ticket's 401,605 votes being only 28,755 votes shy of the John McCain-Sarah Palin Republican ticket's 430,360 votes in decidedly red Orange County. Democrats secured a higher percentage of the Orange County vote in 2008 than in any national electio

  November 5, 2008

• Moneyopoly

  Who are the OC players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?

  January 24, 2008

• Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake Believes He Still Has a Prayer of Unseating Barack Obama

  December 18, 2008

• Presidential Candidates Vie (And Pander, Plead) for Kevin Costner's Heart and Mind in 'Swing Vote'

  July 31, 2008

• A Bluer Shade of Orange

  The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

  February 7, 2008

• Magical History Tour

  September 28, 2006

• Shoot a Republican: The Sequel

  March 10, 2005

• Down With George Bush The Usurper

  November 18, 2004

• Burning Bush

  August 26, 2004

• Burning Bush

  August 5, 2004

• Deja You

  February 26, 2004

• Graham Drubs Dubya

  June 5, 2003

• Point and Laugh!

  November 21, 2002

• On the Brink

  November 16, 2000

• 'Hello...Is This Thing On?'

  September 28, 2000

• The Partys Over

  August 24, 2000

• The Weekly's Week in Review

  November 19, 1998

• Move Over, OC, Placer County's Now Bastion of Conservatism

  Thomas Shaller of FiveThirtyEight--a website that takes its name from the 535 electoral college votes as it crunches polling data and other numbers--makes a compelling case that Placer County in Northern California is the new Orange County when it comes to bastions of conservatism.While Orange County is credited with giving root to Barry Goldwater's turning-point presidential campaign of 1964 and proceeding to deliver strong Republican majorities for four decades, "[n]o such political treatments

  June 19, 2009