Florida Results

On New Year’s Day, I was listening to the Capitol Steps, and their song “McCain’s Campaign Is Plainly In the Drain” (to the tune of “The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain” from “My Fair Lady”).

I think they might have been a bit premature in that assessment.

I had previously called for a McCain win, but narrowly. With 74% reporting, that lead is 5 points — McCain has 36% to Romney’s 31%. That exceeds the spread I had predicted, if the numbers stay that way.

The madness of Ann Coulter

One of my favorite fellow bloggers once referred to Ann Coulter as “the worst thing to happen to the Republican Party since Watergate.”

I agree completely. A real-life friend of mine has remarked that he really can’t talk about Ann Coulter with me. I get that her whole column is about trying to irritate people. I understand that completely. THAT is exactly my problem with her. Her column isn’t about persuasion or argument, it’s about beligerence and irritation. It bothers me that that passes itself off as worthwhile writing.

Fun with the State of the Union

I said in my previous post that I wasn’t going to make fun of the President, since I thought that he did give a pretty good speech (for his standards).

However, my wife and I were having some fun with his pronunciation of certain words. We all know about his inability to pronounce “nuclear,” even he’s made fun of it before.

He’s very proud of some place called “Amerca,” wherever that is.

He made mention of some place called “Zimbawe,” which I assume was supposed to have been Zimbabwe. This led my wife and me to think of things we’d stick in Bush speeches if we were on his speech writing staff.

President Bush’s Final State of the Union Address

For one thing, my wife and I were sitting around a crackling radio (lousy reception in our area) listening to NPR … that’s something. For those of us with nostalgic streaks, that was a nice thing.

Check out the transcript here.

President Bush opened by talking about the challenges over the past seven years, and mentioned that it is an election year (just in case you hadn’t noticed). He encouraged cooperation between the parties and mentioned that what they do will be important for years to come.