Mean people suck

Republicans \ ree-PUB-lih-cəns , noun:

1. mean people.
2. hypocrites.

Those cold and unfeeling Republicans

Ann Althouse points out that the shitstorm (pardon me) brought on by the Romney dog story evokes the long-standing meme that Republicans are heartless.

Isn't it quite standard to plant the idea that Republicans lack feeling? I was just reading this review of a biography of Condoleezza Rice ("Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power," by Marcus Mabry). The reviewer, Jonathan Freedland, tells us the reader feels "oddly estranged" from Rice, not through any fault of the author's, but because of the "chilly steel he finds" in her heart[.]

Yes, the heartless bastards have no feelings, yet they're also irrational and emotional.

It's a paradox, I tell you.

RNC slashes staff

Fires 65 telephone solicitors, who blame a drop off in fundraising for the cut backs. But a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee says fundraising is going strong.

"Any assertion that overall donations have gone down is patently false," RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt wrote by e-mail yesterday in response to questions sent by The Times. "We continue to out-raise our Democrat counterpart by a substantive amount (nearly double)."

Miss Schmitt said terminating the phone solicitation staff "was not an easy decision. The first and primary motivating factor was the state of the phone bank technology, which was outdated and difficult to maintain. The RNC was advised that we would soon need an entire new system to remain viable."

She also said that "the changing ways in which people choose to contribute" meant that the RNC's in-house phone bank "was simply no longer cost effective, although unfortunate."

This sounds very, very bad.

Thompson still leading the pack

Fred Thompson's moving on up