Political Notes from the Arkansas Blogosphere
One of our periodic check-ins with our friends and colleagues in the Arkansas blogosphere:
At the Think Tank, Blake Rutherford has an end of the day political round-up that brings together all kinds of dandy Election Day scraps for all you political obsessive-compulsives out there. Includes a guide to who’s hosting watch parties where on Tuesday night in Little Rock.
Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times blog notes that a Time magazine political watcher tagged Arkansan Clint Reed, former state GOP director and now a Republican National Committee campaign honcho, as one of the “Five Most Important People in American Politics Not Running for President.” Ha! Suck it, U.S. Senators!
The Tolbert Report is tracking Gov. Mike Huckabee’s campaigning in Florida, with some good video.
In the Griffin Room, Tim Griffin writes that former Sen. Fred Thompson’s name is being bandied about to serve as the next RNC chair. He’s no doubt being cheered on by the same delusional lunatics who thought that Thompson would make a fine presidential nominee, a ridiculous fantasy that faded quickly in 2007. Yeah, that worked out great. Can’t wait to see what he has in store for the RNC.
Finally, Lance Turner of Arkansas Business ponders the question, “Will the youth vote matter?” Oh, great, this again. We’re always having to talk about “the youth vote,” and it drives me nuts. Because there’s nothing stupider than a young person, and the younger they are, the stupider they are. I mean, like, babies and little kids. Have you ever talked to a baby or a little kid? They’re totally stupid. I can’t even carry on a conversation with one, so they’re boring, too. And they frequently don’t smell very good.
I’m going to go ahead and say, “no, the youth vote will not matter in Election ’08,” and we’ll see if the numbers bear me out. But regardless of what happens tomorrow, believe you me, we’ll have to have the same damn discussion about the youth vote in 2012, because every four years is the election when the damn youth vote is really, really, really going to break out, and we really mean it this time. Don’t get me started on the damn youth vote.
And I would have gotten away with it too, if weren’t for you meddling kids!
“Stupider” is not a word.
Young people don’t vote unless the question on the ballot is, “Which would you rather watched while stoned;
1. Ren and Stimpy
2. Aqua Teen Hunger Force”
If that was on the ballot they’d vote in droves. It would also make Jerry Cox blow a fuse. He wouldn’t know who to campaign against. But don’t you know Jim Lendell would lead a campaign for Ren and Stimpy. He would. He may even take the time to comb the nits out of his beard for that sort of thing.
So, here’s the deal, lets start a ballot initiative to determine the answer to this fundamental question. And the youth will vote and Jim Lendall (is it Lendall or Lendell? I don’t know, so I’ll use both) will be lice and nit free for a season.
Now if we can only do something about that crazy hippy guy that works for the Free Press and had that horrible cable access show.