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Ladies and gentlemen, from Monday night’s New York governor debate, Mr. Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is Too Damn High Party. Enjoy the party website at your peril.

“Alaska Dispatch founder and editor Tony Hopfinger sits with his wrists in handcuffs after being arrested by Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller’s private security detail Oct. 17, 2010.”

That’s the caption from the Anchorage Daily News. We can’t improve on it.

Miller security guards handcuff journalist [ADN]

Well, Tucker Carlson was right — Colbert testified in character. And so did Elmo, for the record.

“ACORN may not exist anymore but 20% of Americans still think (or at least say they think) it will steal the election to keep Democrats in control of Congress this fall. That does represent a decrease from last fall in ACORN’s perceived ability to steal an election. In November we found 26% of people thought the organization had stolen the 2008 Presidential contest for Barack Obama.” [Public Policy Polling]

“Mr. Pearcy and other drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the [Arizona] Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats.” [NYT, via Political Wire]

I worked at a DC soup kitchen during law school – gotta love this guy.

Mirabile dictu, the Times scores an interview with the elusive Sharron Angle:

Q. Do you think that politically you are too conservative for this state? Obviously not for the Republican primary, but for this state?

A. People have always said — those words, ‘too conservative,’ is fairly relative. I’m sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

We’re not entirely clear what’s “conservative” about overthrowing a legitimate government and denying the divine right of kings. Nor are we sure what’s “socially conservative” about boffing all those fancy French ladies when John Adams isn’t looking.

Then again, boffing your own slaves? Nothing more traditional than that.

Interview With Sharron Angle [NYT]

[Image via Democratic Underground]