Fraters Libertas

United We Stand

Reader feedback on Fraters Libertas posts from yesterday.

Regarding the Ana Voog feminist manifesto gift guide, Vox Day offers advice to those who may be on the receiving end of such a present. Excerpt:

There are so many things wrong here that it would take too long to list them, suffice it to say that if you receive a book like this for Christmas and you're still dating her by New Year's Eve, you might as well make like the Welsh fan and snip your testicles off with a pair of pliers.

As always with a Vox Day post, be sure to check the comments section, where the unbridled debate continues.

On the other hand, the debate usually ends when Jim Styczinski writes a comment to us, such is the definitive nature of his arguments. So it is with this word about the legacy of Walter Mondale, and my comment that Jimmy Carter may be the only man who could ever threaten his record of losing a statewide election in all 50 states.

Nice post on Mondale. His record of losing a statewide election in every state is safer than you think. In addition to Georgia, Jimmy Carter would have to lose elections in Maryland, Rhode Island, Hawaii, West Virginia, and Minnesota to tie Mondale's record. I would say the record is unbreakable, but that is what they said about Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak before Cal Ripken.

Ah yes, I forgot the 1980 Democratic ticket debacle had a few more hold outs than Carter's home state of Georgia. Still, reviewing that electoral college map, it's amazing to think there was a time when people in New York and California, Texas and Utah, and almost all points in between, got together, linked arms, and marched forward together to stamp out any possibility of four more years of Carter and Mondale.

That kind of bipartisanship makes me weepy just thinking about it. Democrats, I implore you for the sake of national unity, renominate Carter and Mondale in 2008.