Weekends are clearly made for trivial blogging

In a lot of ways, I'm a total girlie girl. I like having painted nails, wearing skirts, rocking the high heels. But upon closer inspection, you'd learn that I choose my manicurist based on her speed, find skirts easier, and more comfortable, to wear than pants and my high heels are Aerosoles--it's practically cheating.

One thing that I can never seem to girl up for is the handbag obsession. I have three hand bags in my rotation.

There is the black Gucci bag that I wear to work. My brother bought it for me in Italy three years ago (that's like 15 years in the lifespan of other clothing items) particularly because he felt I lacked a good bag.

Then there's a velvet Prada bag that has had the straps fixed and refixed so often because it too is something like 3-4 years old.

Finally, my favorite bag: a small white one with Billie Holiday's face on it. I love it, despite the fact that it fits hardly anything, certainly not my blackberry AND my cell phone, because it's so different and I've never seen another person carrying it.

Anyway, it's time for a new bag and I've been surfing EBAY. I just can't do the typical Christian Dior saddlebag or the cheesy Louis Vuitton pochette. I likely wouldn't want a Balenciaga, even if I could afford it, because everyone and their mother has one (although I've never seen anyone carry one like this).

So, ladies reading Alarming News, what do you recommend? I like simple, black, without the designer name all over it and it can't be worn by every third girl on the upper east side of Manhattan. Whattya got?

Sorry Ben and Azi, I have a new favorite local politics blog....

Early&Often quotes my favorite celebrity of all time, Vincent Gallo, about Jeanine Pirro "spanning time" with her husband Al. It's subtle and you have to be both a Gallo fanatic who has seen "Buffalo 66" and a political observer to get it. Clearly, as I am both, I love it.

They then go on to quote the Notorious B.I.G/Lil Kim song "Another", with the line "What do you do if your man is untrue?", also about Jeanine Pirro. Clearly, you "cut the sucker off and find someone new" and not try to hire Bernie Kerik to wiretap him.

Blogroll Update

My blogroll policy is to link interesting, informative and funny blogs that I'd like to visit again.

In addition, I link pretty much everyone that comments with any regularity.

I'll also blogroll any NY conservative, poker-playing conservative or hip-hop or indie-rock listening conservative. Conservatives, in the American sense, who live in Britain are also sought out.

If you fall into one of these categories and I'm missing your blog in my blogroll, drop me a line.

Everywhere:

Discourse DB- The new political wiki site started by Yaron that I mentioned the other day.

New York Politics:

Daily Gotham- We've got Urban Elephants on the right and Daily Gotham on the left.

Early and Often- New York Magazine's new local politics blog. There's hardly anything going on politically in NY, yet these local blogs attached to mainstream publications keep popping up. We'll see who is left after the election.

NYC:

Eta-Ta- I met Tatyana at the blogger party last year. Her blog is mostly in Russian but she wrote about her recent camera scuffle in English.

Grade-One Gadfly- Another blog from a NY-based rightleaner, bringing our total to like 12 (yes, sarcastic, yes).

Yaron is writing- Mr. Daily Lunch is writing.

America:

Elephant State- Online networking for American conservatives.

Up For Anything- Have I already mentioned how much I love poker-playing conservatives? 'Cause, I'll say it again....

And I'm only semi-ashamed to admit it

I love Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack". Love. It makes me start dancing every time I hear it. "She'll burn it up for me and that's a fact." It really is.

Get yer sexy on.

Bastards

I don't even play online but I despise everyone connected to this bill:

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 passed Congress last night, after being attached to a Port Security measure that was sure to pass.

Hat-tip Tom the funky pundit.

(Cross-posted on "I Had Outs" which, if you're not reading for the poker content you should be reading for the hilarious trip stories by Dawn. Did we really get lured into a stranger's hotel room with the promise of a party? Did Dawn really double-fist Amaretto Sours and Vodka Red Bulls? Did someone demonstrate how he was going to make sweet Mexican love to me...on Dawn's leg? It's all there at "I Had Outs". Come for the poker, stay for the drunken trip reports)

UPDATE: CJ at Up for Anything writes "What today has ensured for me is that I will never, ever vote for Bill Frist for anything. In fact, I will campaign vigorously against him." I agree and I'm in on the vigorous campaigning against him.

It's a bad, bad year

Congressman Foley (R, FL) Submits Resignation to Congress

He was sending sexually explicit emails to a 16-year old male page.

URG.

They like me?

Bouldin over at Daily Gotham (think Daily Kos on a local level) did an overview of New York blogs. He spelled my last name wrong (whatever, who doesn't?) but wrote:

There's Karol Scheinlin over at Alarming News, whom I tend to disagree with, but who probably stands as the best writer among bloggers when style is considered.

Thanks! And to those who don't know, compliments will always get you a link. ;-)

Where are the headlines?

Bush cracks 50th percentile favorability.

Quote of the Day

(That will make sense only to people who speak Russian and live in Brooklyn):

"I love that hat sasat.com. And I love that there is no sasat.com. It's like the ultimate sasat!"

-Dawn Summers

Yes! Yes! Start with Texas, please. Stop looking at Colorado and Pennsylvania.

"We are going to take back Texas. And we're going to do it before we take back other states we've lost the last 15-20 years,"

-Howard Dean

"You're one in a million, yeah that's what you are"

Michael Parker points out that in something like 5 days I will have surpassed one million visitors to this site (although I did have a blog in another space with another sitemeter before now, a million is still a nice number to celebrate).

What should I give the millionth visitor as a prize?

On to my third choice (Houston does have that cutie David Carr)

I'm a Jets fan but, since the Jets suck, I have Dallas as my back-up team. It's mostly because my good friend SMVP is a Dallas fan, and also they are, after all, America's team. My back-up team, however, may need a back-up team:

Police Report: Owens Hospitalized After Suicide Attempt

Remember

I stole this picture off of Ms. Esther's flickr page:

I remember when Gilad Schalit was kidnapped and I had all this hope that Israel wouldn't wuss out, would level Gaza and Lebanon if they had to to get their boy back. The fact that Gilad is still out there somewhere, maybe, speaks volumes to the kind of control Islamofascists have over the world. They kidnap Israeli soldiers, murder civilians, slice throats of Dutch filmmakers, riot and burn over words and still get insulted when Islam is tied to violence. Somehow the west is still wrong, somehow we're the insensitive ones who don't get it.

Well, I get it. Gilad is still missing and Israel had the capacity to burn the whole place down but didn't. Maybe some people feel some kind of pride over this, though the fact is that leftists still think Israel went too far, but I just feel like we're suckers.

This Yom Kippur, as Jews all over the world atone for their sins, remember the soldiers in the poster. But most of all, remember that what he didn't get here, to the year 5767 by the Jewish calendar, by letting ourselves get killed while the world sympathizes with our killer. If we will survive, we must fight back and never backtrack. This year I pray for leadership that will understand that.

Attention feminists

I know you will all jump to Ann Coulter's defense. Right? Right?

Anti-Semitic Olbermann

Ed R. in St. Louis sent me a beautiful email saying he was insulted by Keith "dumb as a rock" Olbermann calling Chris Wallace a 'monkey'. Wallace is apparently a descendent of Russian Jews, and it seems Olberidiot was making some kind of 'macaca'-like insult at us. Ed writes "Jews were ritually called monkeys in Austria, Germany, Occupied Poland and elsewhere. We know what happened to almost all of those who were unable to flee. For a man of Jewish ancestry to invoke such a term just days after The New Year (Shana Tova to all!) is a disgrace." Allah's got video.

UPDATE: Texas Hold 'Em Blogger writes (no, I didn't find him because of the poker blog, I found him trackbacking to Allah) "Have to feel a little sorry for Olbermann. His ratings over at PMSNBC are miniscule. Need a microscope to see him, he’s so jealous of O’Reilly.

Begging the question: if a moonbat gives a rant and nobody sees it, does it make a sound?"

I know better....

I deleted the meme. I think it's my first time ever purposefully deleting a post. I just felt a little sick whenever I looked at it. Sorry.

Wikipolitics

One of my favorite bloggers has always been Yaron at Daily Lunch. Yaron has a new project called Discourse DB, a wiki site that will serve as "a database for notable political opinions". It sounds really cool:

Opinions, whether they come from newspapers, magazines or notable online sources, are all included; they're indexed by author, source, date, and, most importantly, by the political stance they take on various issues. You can think of the site as similar to rottentomatoes.com, except that it's political decisions of all stripes that are reviewed, as opposed to movies. This is, as far as we know, the first-ever attempt to categorize political thought in this way: we hope it provides a useful addition to the current political-commentary landscape.

Do check it out and make sure to add opinions as you find them.

What not to do

Remember when I said 'do not engage' the 9/11 conspiracy crazies? Cake or Death found himself burnt out on blogging because of his constant interaction with the nuts. He's back now, thankfully.

On a slightly separate note, a friend of mine who works deep in the black ghetto in Flint, Michigan (supposed home of Michael Moore) says that the idea that 9/11 was an inside job has become accepted fact to most people with whom he interacts. Personally, I see it as just another way that white liberals keep black people down. No matter how loud the conspiracy theorists get, the great majority of Americans will roll their eyes, hard, when confronted with their idiotic 'arguments'. How're you ever going to get up out the ghetto if you keep believing dumb shit like that? Who is ever going to give a job to someone prone to believing things that make no sense?

File under "no duh"

Pakistan 'War-Gamed U.S.,' Concluded Would Lose

Quote of the Day

"Right now there are hordes of angry people all over the planet chanting "Death to America!" and burning our flags. They want to kill you, your mother, and your kids. Those are the folks that our federalies should be rounding up and intimidating, and not guys and girls like you and me."

-Poker blogger Pauly on the online poker crackdown (link contains some 'not safe for work' images.)

Holy smokes!

NJ actually has something resembling a race for U.S. Senate. The Republican, Tom Kean, is currently leading in the polls. If you're a New Yorker who feels like I feel about our own U.S Senate race, perhaps we should think about adding a helping hand to our Joisey neighbors.

Meanwhile, CJ at Up For Anything thinks that Ahmadinejad and Chavez's insanity at the UN last week is good for Republicans. I'm sort of pessimistic about the upcoming midterms, but I hope he's right.

Eh?

I go away for the weekend and come back to find out that Osama was dead on Saturday but back to being alive on Sunday. What the hell.

A short list of not-so-random thoughts

1. I'm sort of shy. Who knew?! I did not know.

2. It's only week 3 of football and I already miss the fellas.

3. The psychic Cleo has come out as a gay faux-Jamaican. Only the gay part is news.

4. I know the conservative punk thing was done to death during the '04 election, but this is really funny. Via UE.

5. "You remind me of myself when I was your age"- Said to me by a friend of my brother's who didn't realize he is younger than me.

Six Feet Right

Rightwing Trash is a great site, written by J.R Taylor, which celebrates "conservative thought in film, music, literature, and other lowlife pursuits." In a recent post, he finds rightwing themes in the now-defunct Six Feet Under:

The big surprise was Claire’s growth from high-school rebel to art-school student. The series delighted in goofing on all kinds of Sensitive Artists, and never spared their pathetic politics. Claire’s personal arc is too complex for this to count as a spoiler, but be warned, anyway: Her final happiness is earned when she’s cast into corporate America, where she meets the sensible Republican who becomes her true love.

The political parts of the show used to kind of bug me, but I do see his point. If you were into Six Feet Under, read the whole thing.

Happy new year!

Happy 5767 to all the Jews in the house.

Reagan and poker

I'm spending this Jewish holiday weekend in Pennsylvania, and as Atlantic City is half-way between here and my NYC home, we made a stop for a few hours of poker play last night.

My favorite place to play lately has been Resorts, despite the fact that their games are sporadic and the room is atrocious. It just has my favorite players in all of Atlantic City. On a Thursday night, however, there was no No Limit game going so we went next door to the Taj Mahal. I asked for a 1-2 table and the floor man showed me to my seat, then pointed where I could buy chips.

I was walking to the table with my rack when I saw that they had sat me near a guy in a Che Guevara shirt. "Great", I thought to myself, "I have to sit next to this doofus." As I got closer though, I realized it wasn't a Che shirt at all, it was Ronald Reagan. Still unconvinced this young man was wearing a Reagan shirt, I took my seat and looked him over, looking for the "...was an idiot" or "...wasn't my president" ending. But there was none.

I said to him "I love your shirt". He looked at me like he thought I was joking and I momentarily feared he was wearing the shirt ironically. When he realized I was serious, we had the usual mutual appreciation moment when two outnumbered conservatives meet. I gave him the name of this site, so if you're reading this Reagan guy, drop me a line. There are more of us out there, believe it or not.

Clinton is pissed.....

...at the suggestion that he didn't try to get Osama. He says he did try, and failed. I've never seen him lose his cool like that. Watch the clip.

Best. Idea. Ever.

McDonald's may start having all-day breakfast.

No, actually, Bush calls people who are evil evildoers

Rosie O'Donnell says Bush calls people who disagree with him evildoers.

Question for Robert George

Um, Robert, is there something you forgot to mention when I saw you last night? Or do you normally have 10 minute conversations with ex-presidents?

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, etc.

Drudge is reporting that Charlie Rangel is defending Bush against Chavez's attack and saying that an attack on Bush is an attack on all Americans. Wow. If I made a list of people who I could never see making that argument, Charlie Rangel would be near the top. Good on him for proving me wrong.

Back in 2003, I wrote on the idea that attacks on Bush by foreigners are attacks on Americans:

And it does matter that Europe violently hates these leaders. I will vote for George W. Bush in 2004 (barring some unforseen circumstances). To call him stupid is to call me stupid. To call him evil is to call me evil. It's not that hard to understand.

Even if you didn't vote for him, as Rangel obviously didn't, there's a lot of truth in what Rangel is saying:

'You do not come into my country, my congressional district, and you do not condemn my president. If there is any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not. I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president, but do not come to the United States and think because we have problems with our president that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our Chief of State'...

When I told Dawn what Rangel had said, she said "yeah, baby, Americans always stick together". As it will likely be another 20 years before I agree with another word that Rangel says, I take this opportunity to applaud him for what is, honestly, a courageous comment.

UPDATE: Um, did someone do a poll on Chavez's comments or something? Nancy Pelosi calls Chavez a thug.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Allahtchka has video.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Ace thinks the responses from Democrats are being coordinated. I'm ok with that, as they're saying what I want them to say.

AND ANOTHER UPDATE: Not all Democrats got the memo.

Public

Tatyana saw some Muslim missionaries and decided to snap some photos of their table. This is what she got:

"Piktoores prohebeted! Stooupid wooman! against ze law! my table! miss, you ar stooupid!no piktoores! I say, go out! stoopid biiitch "(into my back).

All my efforts of explaining that taking pictures on a public street is not against the law; that I have to ask permission only if I intend take pictures of people - and he doesn't interest me enough that I'd take his picture, etc etc - fell on deaf ears and more high-pitched insults and intimidating gestures.

And now I'm thinking...should I take my camera again, go out and take more close-ups of this attempt of soliciting religious propaganda in public place? And if he'll try to stop me again, call the police so he will be familiarized with extent of American laws as they are, and not as he wants them to be?

She left but couldn't put it out of her head:

And I realized - if I will keep quiet and let it pass, there will be more of the same, and of the more hostile nature. And that I wouldn't be able to respect myself.

I don't like to be called a stupid bitch. And I don't like to be forbidden to take photographs on a public street in American city.

Read what happened next. And if you're a lawyer, go over and give her some advice.

Dorian Davis is Spectacular

Republican Spectacular- Occasional guest-blogger Dorian Davis has started a monthly, online magazine for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered) Republicans. If you know Dorian then you know it will be fun and controversial.

Check it out.

A very short list of not-so-random thoughts

1. If you tell me your parent had a prominent position in the Reagan White House, expect me to say 'wow' for something like two days. Hi, I'm a geek, nice to meet you.

2. Ladies of Midtown, Manhattan: if you're into the 'bad boy in a suit' look, and, really, who isn't, I suggest getting your lunch at the Cipriani cafe on 42nd street just off of Lex (it's actually hardly a cafe, in Russian we'd call a tiny place with 3 tables a 'zabeegalafka', not sure what to call it in English). In addition to the food being amazing, the men in there are all just superb looking and not in a corporate drone kind of way.

3. My love song of the week is "I'm So Into You" by Fabolous. That's right, Fabolous. Don't judge me.

May he do as well as he did at the DNC

Terry McAuliffe says he will have a prominent role if Hillary runs for president, and thinks you're a dummy if you thought otherwise.

Wait, what?

Can someone explain to me why the movie based on the life of Idi Amin is called "The last king of Scotland"?

Reason #4019384 that the UN is a joke

Hugo Chavez loses the plot during his UN speech, calls Bush "the devil", crosses himself, gives book advice.

UPDATE: Oh, snap. Governments 'like that'. I love Bolton:

The main U.S. seat in the assembly hall was empty as Chavez spoke. But there was a "junior note taker" there, as is customary "when governments like that speak," the U.S. ambassador to the U.N said.

Ambassador John Bolton told The Associated Press that Chavez had the right to express his opinion, adding it was "too bad the people of Venezuela don't have free speech."

"I'm just not going to comment on this because his remarks just don't warrant a response," Bolton said. "Serious people can listen to what he had to say and if they do they will reject it."

Don't think Bob Mould would approve

Dr. Vinnie Huskerfan at My Pet Jawa has a novel way of fighting Islamic terrorists who are pledging to kill Catholics over the Pope's remarks: unleash the IRA on them.

Just wondering

While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in NY, does he leave his hotel? I was just imagining being in a restaurant and having him walk in. Or running into him at Prada. That would be weird.

"You know the type, loud as a motorbike, but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight" (I may make this a continuing series on France talking a big game but never backing it up with any action)

France says Iran doesn't have to stop enriching uranium before talks can commence:

The French President is the first European leader to state publicly that a freeze by Iran is not a precondition for opening talks. The concession to Iran seems to be linked to events in Lebanon, where there had been concern that French soldiers may be targeted by Iran’s proxy militia, Hizbollah, over France’s previously hardline stance in the nuclear negotiations.

While the cat's away....

....the military will have a coup and depose his leadership:

Thai leader overthrown while he attends UN meeting in NY.

We love John Howard

John Howard tells Australian Muslims to "move on" and get over the Pope's comments. Allah writes: "In case you didn’t know, Australia will be playing the fantasy role for conservatives in the next presidential election that Canada played for liberals in the last one."

Ohmig-d, Ohmig-d, Ohmig-d.

There might be better pictures forthcoming, but I geeked out to the fullest last night when I met the one writer I had been dying to meet since I was about 18 years old, Peggy Noonan:

I was standing across the room with Julia Gorin when I saw Ms. Noonan talking to James Taranto. James graciously introduced us and I stood there completely starstruck for the first 5 minutes or so. Then I babbled something about abortion rates in Russia and how Peggy was a big influence on my becoming a pro-lifer (though ex-blogger Oschisms gets the lion share of that credit). Then I asked Robert George to snap our photo with my camera phone. He also took one with his camera which apparently came out better but he's yet to send it to me. I'll post it when he does. The last time I dorked out in such a fashion was when I met William F. Buckley. Peggy "What I saw at the Revolution" Noonan. I can die happy.

UPDATE: Slightly better shot though I do have my eyes closed. Thanks, Robert:

"Throw the Jew down the well."

"Jew" as accusation by a reporter in a US Senate race. Nice.

Food porn?

Busy day but should have some stuff up soon.

I went to Clemente's, the crab place in Brooklyn, again and loved it. There is something really primal about ripping the crab apart with your hands and eating the meat. Yum. They were having an all-you-can-eat pig roast at the time too. I sent this picture to (the still blogless) Tom Elliot to make him jealous he wasn't there, but I'm not sure it worked.

Blogroll Update

Two of my favorite NY-based writers have moved on to bigger things.

Philip Klein is now at the American Spectator blog AmSpec while Ryan Sager is now at Real Clear Politics (both in the "Here, There and Everywhere" section).

Ryan also has a book out called "The Elephant in the Room" about the battle of libertarians and the Christian conservatives for the Republican party, which I plan to check out post haste.

When both sides are retarded

I agree with Dawn Eden that bloggers are wrong to crack 'intern' jokes at Jessica Valenti, the blogger from Feministing who was photographed with Bill Clinton. Ann Althouse is completely out of line with her comments, and sadly the one good point she makes (why do feminists give Bill Clinton a pass?) get lost in her ridiculous argument about whether Jessica was posing and whether Jessica uses her breasts to increase hits to her blog.

Of course, as is often the case when one defends liberals, Jessica makes me regret it in her very next post:

"It was a nasty personal attack—one that’s ridiculously indicative of the way that young women are treated, especially by conservative assholes.

...

And this whole boobgate bullshit isn’t just about Althouse and her mean-spirited attack. It’s about how young women are routinely reminded that they’re only good for one thing—consumption. "

Well, it wasn't a conservative asshole who treated Monica Lewinsky and countless other women as only good for consumption--it was the liberal asshole standing behind you in the picture, jackass. Way to make your point.

Roh-roh

Al Qaeda warns Muslims to leave NYC and DC

Violence to protest being called violent

Nun murdered in Somalia.

Anglican Church in Gaza firebombed.

Two West Bank Churches Firebombed over Pope's Remarks (Sidenote, I get asked a lot by friends abroad why Christians support Israel--here's why, Jews don't firebomb their churches).

Meanwhile, "Responding to remarks by Pope Benedict XVI that Islam is violent Saudi Arabia's Mufti, Abdel Aziz al-Sheikh, said on Sunday that Jihad (Holy War) is God's will."

The Pope has semi-apologized. He did one of those "I'm sorry it offended you" apologies although he did say he was just quoting text and those weren't his opinions. I suppose he can't say "I said that Islam inspires violence and raging Muslims around the world made sure to prove me right."

Odds, ends and random thoughts

1. Saturdays are made for laying around and listening to Leonard Cohen. I can't tell if I ultimately want a man like the one in "I'm Your Man" or the one in "Waiting For a Miracle".

2. Dear new French place on Second Avenue, if you insist on French-quality service, we'll have to insist on French-quality tipping.

3. My father thinks I dress so badly that he's going to take me shopping. Despite the fact that I'm almost, you know, 30 (ok, still 7 months to go but anyway) . Oh and he thinks this because my style is so bland and my clothes are "boring". Have we met? The worst part is that my mom agrees.

4. I'm going to that crab place again tonight. Seriously, if you live in NY, get over there before the season is over.

Oh, oh, one more: 5. It's going to be 84 degrees in NY tomorrow. I think it is the absolutely last day of summer weather for 2006. I'm going to the beach, Long Beach to be exact.

Quote of the day

"The whole idea that one should be a feminist these days in America, is almost like campaigning for the rights of oppressed Muslim men in Iran or Saudi Arabia..."

-Ivan Lenin.

Sad

I really want to go to Atlantic City this weekend but my partner in insanity is in LA.

My Spacing for the Right

If you use "My Space", I just started a group for Republicans who work on campaigns across the country called "Campaigners for the Right". I frequently get requests from people looking for campaign work or campaigns looking to hire talent so this will be a one-stop-shop for both. If you work on campaigns and are a My Space member, do join.

Rioting over words

Turkish lawmaker compares pope to Hitler

Pakistan's Parliament Condemns Pope

Pope's remarks recall cartoon crisis

The terrorists have won just a little bit today

Oriana Fallaci dies in Italy

One easy way to burn a dozen bridges

In July of 2004, I had my heart completely broken by politics. Herman Cain lost the Republican primary for U.S Senate in Georgia. I had never felt that way about a candidate before (or, honestly, since). I saw him as the future of Republicans, as this amazing leader I would follow anywhere. I had spent my time in Georgia just mesmerized by him. He said everything I've ever thought but said it in this booming voice with concise, brilliant language and connected with people in a way I’d never seen before. He was a star. I couldn't sleep the night he lost, I couldn't believe it was over.

If you've read my blog for awhile you've probably read all this before. Herman remains my political hero, and the example of everything I think candidates should be. But I write all this now not to gush over Mr. Cain, though he always deserves my gushing, but as a set up for what I want to say about the current political situation in NY.

Johnny Isakson won that night in July and became the Republican candidate for U.S Senate. Though the campaign had gotten ugly in the days before the election, I still wanted Isakson to beat Denise Majette and be the representative of the Republican message through the rest of the election. If I was a Georgia resident, Johnny Isakson would have had my vote in November.

I do not feel this way about John Spencer, the Republican candidate for U.S Senate in NY.

This man gives me a serious case of the icks. I literally feel embarrassment that he and I are in the same party. K.T. McFarland lost the election to him, it's done. This isn't about that, it isn’t about her. It's about him and how I will never support him, ever, and how I've never felt about another Republican candidate the way I feel about him.

Spencer conducted his campaign as if something was owed to him. His on-the-record comment when he heard KT had entered the race was