It's no secret that the biggest problem facing the GOP in 2008 is that their party is run by, and supported by, crazy people. To illustrate. Here are some things the GOP faithful believe:
1. Partisan Democrat liberals run the teevee in manner of Evil Cabal or similar.
2. Saddam Hussein totally did too! have nukes and chemical weapons and WMDs.
3. Global Warming is a Fraud launched by False Prophet Scientists with sinister motives.
4. Homosexuals do not deserve equal marriage rights under the law for reasons of ickiness or something equally vague.
5. Barack Obama, like Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton, is a Marxist Communist. (Adding, Obama is an effete elitist latte & malt-liquor-swilling hardcore weenie gangsta rapper who wants to bang your sister, make everyone gay like him, & impose Islamofascism, because he's too smooth, too angry, too Ivy League and too South Side all at the same time.)
6. Torture is swell!
7. Despite its expensive pointlessness, we should drill drill drill! for oil that's not there that we need to wean ourselves off of anyhow.
I could go on. The surface is not at all scratched, itchy as it may be. But this brief summation should suffice to make the point that to be a true-believing GOP voter nowadays, you are required to swallow a lot of untrue, asinine crap.
And we all know this. But now, let us marvel at the sheer unbridled joy with which Greater Wingnuttia has greeted the nomination of Sarah Palin (see for example here, here, et passim), whose qualifications for the presidency, by the measure of the completely demented standards of Modern Conservatism, are restricted exclusively to the following:
1. She is female.
2. She believes a lot of crazy shit.
3. She likes to shoot moose.
And you know what? I'm not joking, even a little bit.
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You want crazy? How ’bout headin’ to the mouth of the Mississippi instead of the headwaters [Minnesota] right in the face of Cat 5 or close Gustav….
The Gambler’s reckless endangerment on display again….
Enough!
crap! g’evening thers
Bullwinkle!
This is what happens when you attempt to create your own reality, and believe in the results.
Let’s be clear, I don’t give a shit if he’s showing all the thought process of when he crashed those five planes, but I do give a shit about his political photo-op interfering with the emergency and law enforcement folks who need a political grandstander in their midst like…. well, words fail me.
Whenever a I see a picture of Palin I want to say:
“Nell!”
Digg it!
Evening, Suz.
Then again, maybe he’s headin’ down to play craps at one of Haley’s fahn Mississippi casinos….
Extended remarks at my homeblog….
And props to the FDL Team in the Twin Cities! The storm trooper story’s gettin’ coverage on MSNBC and CNN websites.
Evening, Thers, Suz, et al.
Whenever I hear “Palin” I think…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A
I posted a comment along these lines last night. That was a long time ago, let me see if I can dredge it up again.
Bullwinkle: “Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out my hat!”
Rocky: “Again?”
Bullwinkle: “Nothin’ up my sleeve… Presto!”
(BANG!)
John McCain: “Good shot, governor!”
Rocky: “That trick never works.”*
*last line courtesy of jayt, I think
#3 likes to shoot wolves and eat mooseburgers.
I’m having trouble with the video. *g*
duh - got this when i tried your digg neuro:
An unknown fatal exception has occurred
Bad Digg linky
lmao, i’ll pit blue 5 against red 1,2,3 any day ;)
On the plus side, she did knock down the Sun Sphere.
No… wait…
My man is home from working the game. Longhorns kicked some major ass. See y’all later…
Best summary EVER!!!!
Sunday morning’s Frank Rich on the media’s disconnect about Obama and Maureen Dowd on Vice a Go-Go are up for the viewing via this NYT Opinion link.
Happy reading, pups. That’s all I got….
T’anks.
below I was mentioning Jane’s twitter messages- and it’s interesting to see who is following them- CNN, NPR, ahem… Jane is a source!
http://twitter.com/janehamsher
My husband was in the Albania supermarket in Rancho Cordova today. The owners are born agains from Albania and have Jeebus on the teevee all the time. The lady said even though she always votes repug she thinks that McCain is an evil man. But it doesn’t matter cause Jeebus is coming to rapture her and her buddies soon. Ron didn’t say a word. He came home and told me. Jeebus F’ing X on a Stick. She should run for orifice.
Bush?
Digg IT?
Suz, what have you been feeding those enn ess aaa guys, anyway?
Try this
let me add last Jane message:
Women a bit suspicious of Palin — is it the Cohen Brothers beauty queen routine? #RNC08 http://tinyurl.com/668at3
evening thers.
howdy firepups.
And let us not forget:
- Cutting taxes never causes deficits, and the massive borrowing and spending by the Bush Administration is somehow the fault of Democrats
- In fact, everything bad that’s happened in the past year and a half is all the fault of the Democrats, because the president doesn’t really have much power at all, which makes it vitally important to elect another Republican as president (my boss got this email from his wingnut relatives.)
Sorry it was suppose to be a reply to Prairie Sunshine at 1
i’ve not been - they’ve been cut off
maybe that is why my wifi suddenly went down last nite…
You so rock, Thers. You summed it all up just right and swell.
Oh — and there’s also this. I mean, baby wolves? That is somehow less icky that, um, Teh Gayh?
Good evening everyone…… things are a little better here in AZ since Ariz. ballot campaign on affirmative action ends
They found over 150,000 fraudulent signatures….. Wahoo…
Palin’s pic with McBush makes me think she and Lurita Doan were separated at birth.
OK, someone is really messing with me. I have had two comments disappear. That never happens to me.
Nahant, I Dugg your Digg.
Palin’s position on global warming: Even though she asserts that her State (Alaska) will suffer the most from global warming, she does not wish to consider any scientific evidence that indicates that it is man made. Because she does not believe that.
Palin is a certified wingnut. Similar anti-logic is employed by all wingnuts.
nothing in the filters - is there a white van parked outside your place with feed me blaring on the stereo?
TURD! I thinks that describes quite well
It would never by the way have occurred to me to hunt out of a plane. That happens…?
I’m in pretty rural upstate NY, and there’s a lot of hunting, but never from airplanes…
Still the best MSM columnist in the US, IMO. Thanks for the link.
I’m almost afraid to look. I’m just glad I don’t live in the Twin Cities right now…
Two comments lost, and Digg went crazy on me
She is prolly suspicious of people who read…like….books.
My ex used to say that the easiest way to hunt was with an old buick.
Hey Neuro how was your trip to Denver? I hope no one was picked up by the thought police just cause they were thinking contrary thoughts like they have been doing on Minnesota /S
Best they got!
Palin’s pic with McBush makes me think she and Lurita Doan were separated at birth.
*Another* Palin birth controversy?
She’s a one-woman never ending reverse sex-scandal….
They want better donuts than the heat in MN are gettin’.
I’ve been perusing the Winger websites today. Many posters there “enraptured” over the idea of a “true Christian” being picked by McCain.
Many Neanderthals vowing to emerge from their caves on Nov. 4 just to vote for her. It’s scary.
My ex used to say that the easiest way to hunt was with an old buick.
He never passed this along to Dick Cheney by any chance?
Well yeah….Secular authors? Bad for the inner Republican Jesus.
I can personally attest that it’s a bad idea to hunt armadillos with a Saturn.
I don’t have a link, but my wife told me she saw an article online that said Palin went running…in the Alaska winter…you know, with ice and snow and stuff?…while supposedly late in her pregnancy…
What does the Palin pick say about John McCain’s judgment, even if Sarah is not a pathological liar?
What does that story say about her judgment? Imagine her getting the famous 3 a.m. phone call…
“Tapas in MN with Glenn Greenwald, Arianna, Mario Ruiz.”
Hello Jane!
http://twitter.com/janehamsher
If I drive you to the top of Loveland Pass, and kick you out of the the truck bollock-naked, and you bring me a moose or an elk back to Denver; that’s hunting. Anything else is murder.
Dick Cheney’s Secret Service name is “Old Buick.”
At a dollar a pop that’s a lot of cemeteries to cover.
wasn’t aware that one hunts armadillos.
Barack on SNL.
And they believe in “black helicopters” and “jack-booted thugs”
~ but think that hunting wolves and polar bears by helicopter is a mark of hunting prowess and
~ that using Blackwater in national emergencies is a smart thing.
Pretty amusing eh? Never know what you’ll discover by poking around the web!
Jesus was a republican????????
Many Neanderthals vowing to emerge from their caves on Nov. 4 just to vote for her. It’s scary.
She’s soon gonna be so wrapped up in controversy that McCrazy will look good by comparison….
You have weird parties out there….
i have the link and the video but ct will make fun of me and eureka springs will start asking me how often i blog whore if i actually link to it. but you can probably find it pretty easily ;)
Trip was good and bad, saw family and had a good time in Denver but couldn’t get into the Convention even though I had a ticket.
Don’t know about the thought police, but I am sad to report I did not see a single demonstrator…don’t know where Recreate 68 was hiding, maybe they were all locked up in the Free Speech Cage, which I did not see.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To show the possums it could be done.
It says that John McCain has shitty taste in women. He likes ‘em dumb and dumber.
Perhaps more accurately, it was hunting me…
baby possums are born dead on the side of the road.
the armadillo was driving a saturn?!?
Really? My Comcast DVR thingy says repeat, with Brian Williams.
No he lived in a commune with 12 guys
It’s hot being naked at 11,000′
that’s what’s on here :(
Should we be asking who will McCain’s second choice be?
I think they consider it the equivalent of a buffalo-hunter working from horseback. “John, you wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to shoot racoons, but the pilot of the copter closed to twenty meters before I opened up with the semi-automatic rifle. Bagged the whole group!”
TR would be turning over in his grave that this is “hunting”.
Is it too soon for music?
And you laugh at their wiliness…
Or - Insert favorite roadkill here
Oy, wear a scarf!
Just saw him do the itro with my own eyes. Can’t tell if it’s a rerun, tho.
It was Micky Mouse, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton….. ya know they are common names don’t you……
They are still paying a dollar I was getting that over ten years ago for signatures in Oregon.
Oh my, you go, TB!
Theres a link somewhere on FDL that leads to ire.com or similar. That takes you to a video link wherein a guy meets with Palin in February (allegedly 7 mos. preg) and they go for a brisk walk from her gubmint house to her gubmint office in Juneau.
He brings her a cup of gourmet (apparently not decaf) coffee. They chit chat as they walk briskly. He asks her about running and hiking, palin says that she loves to run and names a jogging trail that she prefers. Not once is it mentioned that she is expecting. Neither does she appear to be pregnant.
roadkill
And too bad Tina’s not still around to shred Palin.
Should we be asking who will McCain’s second choice be?
Victoria Jackson?
never
never too soon for music here on the dark side of the lake, mary mcc
What kind of seasoning do you have?
Now you come out to play, Suz! Aloha, Thers!
Ok. I don’t care if it is too soon for music. New Orleans is evacuating. Here is Andrei Codresu and the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars. Scroll down to listen to “Molly’s Window”.
So the family portrait of the Palin family, with Sarah showing no sign of pregnancy a couple of months before the birth, but teenage daughter obviously pregnant, that someone posted here last night, was mysteriously removed from the Internet today (i.e. the link that was in FDL comments last night no longer works). But you could still find it via Google Images, the last time I checked…
not “favorite” but most familiar.. I guess it depends where you live. ;)
She’s nuts enough but doesn’t have the requisite two years of experience to be CIC.
There just weren’t that many of them. We went to the demo on Sunday, met Cindy Sheehan, who is very pleasant, sort of like yer mum, and there were about 1000 people there. My bro-in-law biked over to Guernavaca Park, where they were camped out, he said they were pretty thin on the ground.
I think they may have seen sense and gone to Minneapolis, which is where the enemy actually is.
saw dat
d r i f t g l a s s
rocks!
Loserman, a proven failure as a vice presidential candidate
Good One. IIRC, she is a Republican. Perfect.
Oh, Katrina by Anders Osborne
Niiiiice.
Hagee!
So why am I sitting here watching some scary movie on HBO where there is real life out there that is so much more scary?
I’m not convinced the daughter was pregnant. Eating a moose can cause some serious bloating, especially when you get to the antlers.
I’d be all for it if you had to shoot and fly the helicopter at the same time.
The only seasoning you’ll evah need!
ZOMG!!11!!11
Republican National Convention 2008
ST. PAUL, Minn. — President Bush is unlikely to make it to the Republican National Convention, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) may deliver his acceptance speech via satellite because of the historically huge hurricane threatening New Orleans, top officials said.
http://www.politico.com/news/s.....13013.html
707!
Didn’t she also win “Miss Congeniality”?
She’s nuts enough but doesn’t have the requisite two years of experience to be CIC.
I have it on good authority that she dated a guy once who was in the reserves…
c’mon, that’s enough, right?
It is NEVER too early (or late) for music.
click my name
Heh!
sorter GOP - we can’t give away these forking tickets
By the way, had a text message from madmommy. She and the madkiddies, mad MIL, and madpets are all at madgrannies, 6 hours north of New Orleans. But madhubby’s job requires him to stay in the city. Will post more as I hear more.