Category: Awards

Von Hoffmann Award Nominee II

"Who are these pro-McCain Democratic voters?  They overwhelmingly tend to be former Hillary supporters.  Perhaps the most well-known of these voters are the "PUMAs" – which stands for Party Unity My Ass.  These are Hillary supporters who are adamantly opposed to Obama.  Let’s not forget that during the Democratic primaries – real elections, not polls – Hillary crushed Obama among white working-class and middle-class voters in such key states as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.  If a meaningful number of these voters end up voting for McCain, as I predict  they will, then Obama’s smooth road to the White House is going to run smack into a brick wall," – Steve Warshawsky, American Thinker, October 25, 2008.

Von Hoffmann Award Nominee

"As I wrote  last December, "[t]he pundits can talk until they are blue in the face about Obama’s charisma and eloquence and cross-racial appeal.  The fact of the matter is that Obama has no chance of being elected president in 2008."  I am more convinced of this conclusion than ever," – Steven M. Warshawsky, American Thinker, August 11, 2008.

Malkin Award Nominee II

"So, Kathleen Parker has determined that getting rid of social conservatives and shelving the values they fight for is the solution to what ails the Republican Party (“Giving Up on God,” Nov. 19). Isn’t that a little like Benedict Arnold handing George Washington a battle plan to win the Revolution? Whatever she once was, Ms. Parker is certainly not a conservative anymore, having apparently realized it’s a lot easier to be popular among your journalistic peers when your keyboard tilts to the left," – James Dobson.

Tell it to these guys, buddy. Notice the reflexive equation of dissent with treason. It gives you an idea of how fundamentalist patriarchs view political movements.

Malkin Award Nominee

"If Israel is to be browbeaten into committing suicide, however, it is essential that the fingerprints of the Israel-haters are not found at the scene of the crime and that it is carried out instead by someone with impeccable credentials as an Israel supporter. That person may well be Hillary Clinton who, if appointed Secretary of State, will be expected to finish the job her husband failed to do and force a Palestine state into being," – Melanie Phillips, who appears to have gone off her rocker.

Von Hoffmann Award Nominee IV

"When he is forced to fight, Sen. Obama’s inexperience shows. His record, slight as it is, is tough to defend. He’s got a glass jaw, and he will fall into the trap of identity politics. In fact, he already has. The "could we beat Obama?" conversation is purely academic. It’s over. The Clintons have defeated him already, because he is leaving South Carolina as "the black candidate." He won’t win another state. Even worse, in November Hillary will carry 90 percent of the black vote, despite their cynical, race-based campaign against the first viable black presidential candidate," – Michael Graham, January 26, 2008, revealing why NRO had such a good year.

Von Hoffmann Award Nominee III

"This year’s primary results show no sign that Obama will reverse this trend should he win the nomination. In West Virginia and Kentucky, as well as Ohio and Pennsylvania, blue collar white voters sent him down to defeat by overwhelming margins. A recent Gallup poll report has argued that claims about Obama’s weaknesses among white voters and blue collar voters have been exaggerated – yet its indisputable figures showed Obama running four percentage points below Kerry’s anemic support among whites four years ago… Given that Obama’s vote in the primaries, apart from African-Americans, has generally come from affluent white suburbs and university towns, the Gallup figures presage a Democratic disaster among working-class white voters in November should Obama be the nominee," – Sean Wilentz, Clinton tool, May 23, 2008.