Pitney's Long Shot Scores

By Jesse Blumenthal CMC '11

Today’s announcement by the McCain campaign of the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee reminds this news reader of CMC’s Prof. Pitney’s prediction back in November of last year. Granted, Prof. Pitney went 1/4 (incorrectly choosing Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton to grace the tops of the tickets and Evn Bayh as the Dems. VP) still, it is laudable that CMC’s resident prognosticator foretold of the selection of one of the darkest horses of modern history. (CJ's note: In fact, just 23 hours ago, he thought it was a "tossup between Pawlenty and Romney.")

Claremont Conservative covered Prof. Pitney’s Picks here and though our editorializing at the time disagreed with the call we say kudos to Jack Pitney for being one of the few to foresee the selection of Sarah Palin!

We are not the first to note Prof. Pitney’s picking prowess (please forgive us for being alliteration happy, but it seemed to easy to pass up) and we offer our congrats, and eagerly await the CMC PR department’s announcement.

Hilarious Leftist Logic from Brian Nadler

I know Charles likes to keep the comment wars inside the comments section, but sometimes you just don't get a more telling remark from the other side that let's you know how seriously they consider the arguments. Here's Brian Nadler, a frequent troll on the blog, drawing an amusing parallel in response to David's post on abortion:

Well, I think there is a difference, if you're being sarcastic. I'm against abortions, but for a woman to have the right to choose.

It's kind of like how most Republicans are against gun violence/murder, but oppose gun control laws citing that we "have the right to bear arms".

Normally I'd have to wip Nadler for his inconsistent, Stephen Douglas-esque relativism as he tries to oppose abortion even as he favors choice. But let's set that aside for a moment and just laugh at the rest of the post.

You really can't pay someone expose their ignorance so freely. Nadler confuses the tool with the act itself. Perhaps a more apt comparison to the 2nd Amendment would be an attempt to ban surgical equipment. And just to be clear, most conservatives I know don't think you have a right to "choose" murder. We--and I may be drawing a broad brush here--tend to favor strict penalties, sometimes even death, for such use of your firearm.

Now speaking of payment, I'm against extortion but I'm for blogging, so if you'd ever like a political career, perhaps you could pay us a ton of money to take this post down.

(And if you want a career in writing, start putting the period inside the quotation mark.)