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I do loves me the smell of a wingnut circular firing squad in the morning.
First, Nooners unloads on Pitbull Palin:
…we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office.
…
She is not as thoughtful or persuasive as Joe the Plumber, who in an extended cable interview Thursday made a better case for the Republican ticket than the Republican ticket has made. In the past two weeks she has spent her time throwing out tinny lines to crowds she doesn’t, really, understand. This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine.
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In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It’s no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism.
It’s not "new", Nooners and it’s not "American politics." Palin is the perfect pick for your party since they made belief in biblical literalism a requirement for all candidates.
Meanwhile, Kathleen Parker thinks the Palin pick has exposed what the rest of us have always known about the GOP:
Like Buckley, I have enjoyed a decent fragging for suggesting that Sarah Palin excuse herself from the Republican ticket.
What gives here?
What does it mean that the right cannot politely entertain dissenting opinions within its ranks?
There’s never been anything nothing "polite" about a political movement led by Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and a party that has accused Democrats of being traitors while demonizing minorities — going on four decades now.
That Parker only sees it now is astonishing.
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I was going through some past posts and Emily68 asked at post 8 said “there must be some guy out there who name is Mickey Mouse”. Well I stepped over to ancestry.com and guess what? There are many people named Mickey Mouse and not just here in the US, but in Canada, Ireland and New Mexico. 19 and 1/2 pages of Mickey Mouse. Now these are obits which can be listed in more than 1 paper or more than one day, some are phone numbers and can be listed in various years. So I am saying these are not all individually different people but there are numerous people named Mickey Mouse in different countries.
http://campaignsilo.firedoglak…..n/#Respond
United States Obituary Collection
Butter?
Heh. Indeed.
Some of these people — not Noonan or Parker — are going to shift over to the far left, just as in the day, some ideologically lefties moved to the far right.
Let’s face it, when you scratch the surface of ‘respectable’ conservatism, the theorists I mean, you discover the rockbed belief in a social hierarchy ordained by God or the Bell Curve version of evolution. I’ve got nothing against people who are merely selfish and support the Republican party because it panders to that selfishness. Unless we are saints, we are all selfish in different degrees. A lot of times you can bring people around to social investment by showing that such investment is in their selfish interest. The people I have everything against are those who believe that the God of Israel or Evolution ordained that some people must be on top and others should serve them, and that is what Conservatism has been about since its birth in the middle of the seventeenth century. And it is what the American Revolution was against.
Parker is only able to see it now because the muck she has been wallowing in won’t be quite as lucrative in the next 4 years.
Hey Pups Digg this post from Blue Texan and for the Lake!!
Tommy! So good to see you
Well, better late than never. Now maybe we can get her to explore the predispositions of parties that crush all dissent.
“To bring the people to the will of the leaders is a simple matter..all you do is tell the people thay are under attack, and denounce the [dissenters] for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country…”
-Hermann Goering
I wonder how many real Mickey’s votes were thrown out just because of that name? I shoulod add that was 19 and 1/2 pages with 20 results on each page and most are in the United States, a few were from other countries.
can we get an Esten report? hope he is doing well these days, up and down as they may be.
hey, OT, but Todd “First Stalker” Palin’s makin’ the rounds of northern Minnesota sporting goods stores with Wayne LaPiere. So these appearances, do they constitute a corporate contribution to the McCain-Palin campaign? Anybody know?
“the base is a vast and broken hearted thing” – I love that. I not only am going to stock up on popcorn but think I will invest in it as well. :)
Hey, Tommy! How’s the family?
Nicely put!
Done. Thanks for the link.
Somewhat OT, but I just watched Andrea Mitchell interview kit bond of MO. At first she let slide a statement by bond that Obama’s plan was to raise taxes on small businesses. I don’t know if it was the ear piece telling her what to ask, but all of a sudden she grew a backbone and challenged him on everything he said after that. She was not confrontational or nasty, but it was obvious that she was not drinking the kool-aid. Sometimes she even corrected what he said. I have to give her credit for being a real journalist.
the electoral tide goes out, and thinking republicans see the wreckage on the sea bottom
It bears repeating that conservatism seems to require an almost pathological lack of empathy. Parker and Buckley were quite content to chuckle along with the wacky antics of the base until it turned on them.
Denial, pure and simple.
Well, for Peggy and Kathleen, it was ok and all appropriate when they were seemingly on the side of the attackers; they did not ’see’ it; it is only when the have gotten on the receiving end of things that they have woken up to the fact that ‘the mob’ got created and it has turned on them. They have yet to grasp the fact that they had a role in creating that situation.
OT: Just saw that Jim Himes is now leading Christopher Sha-Shays accoring to SurveyUSA today. Man, this would be a fantastic win for Blue America! Go Maura!
http://www.swingstateproject.c…..aryId=3486
voted…sealing the secret ballot envelope….
incredible how many reich wing shills like parker and noony are distancing themselves (or trying to) from their beloved GOP in the face of the repug electoral shellacking anticipated on 4 nov…
OT but very very cool:
Telco immunity faces first court challenge
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1017.html
Noonan and Parker want to continue to make money in the parts of America that Sarah Palin doesn’t deem to be part of America….
Same with Brooksie, Will and the rest of the cocktail set wing of the lunatic fringe. They don’t want to spend the next 4 years in the Fox News/Glenn Beck Bitter-Ender Asylum ranting and raving and foaming and frothing.
Despite my personal feelings about Colin Powell, if he does indeed support Obama on MTP this Sunday, it will be another gigantic spike in the Palin/McCain/Bush/Cheney coffin.
-G
Republican Party meets the Donner Party.
Good Lord, McCain lying with more oomph now.
Taxes! ACORN! Small business! Oh my!
I wonder how many real Mickey’s votes were thrown out just because of that name?
heh. I’ve got a feeling that anyone saddled with that name has grown a pretty thick skin by now.
Think A Boy Named Sue.
Noonan and Parker are soooooo late to the party. I give a lot of credit to people like John Cole (who switched to D) and Andrew Sullivan (who definitely did not)–they at least call BS when they see it.
Wow! I didn’t know Kathleen Parker met my family!!!
:P
I have to give her credit for being a real
journalistpolitical schizophrenic..ymmv
I’m finding it curious that Gov. Palin is consistently being called “Mrs Palin” by the conservatives that are talking about her.
It seems to undermine the pseudofeminism they’re trying to mine, or am I just not up on current journalistic style guides?
Philly radio jock Michael Smerconish has endorsed Obama.
-G
These “people” certainly don’t keep their jobs because of the wonderful insight, expert knowledge, or writing skills. These are brown-nosers in the most classic sense. They simply hitch their wagons to whoever happens to be in power in DeeCee, and that’s why we’re seeing a mass shift of Iraq Invasion cheerleaders over to Obama. That’s how they keep their jobs and remain relevant, since Ruturd Murdoch and the American Enterprise Institute can’t hire all of them!
Colin Powell has a long history of this as well, and if he does back Obama, I suspect this is why. Colon-blow is an executive now with some venture investment firms, so it’ll be very useful for him to have Obama’s ear and trust.
McCain “live” on CNN with Cindy and Lieberliar flanking him.
Time to go look for the car keys….
SURPRISE!
akshuly not
Heh, he is starting to take on the “Weekend with Bernie” look, isn’t he?
oh yeah
ACORN has apparently infiltrated all the polling companies in America as well. And with rumors going around that Obama had a $100 Million month last month, ACORN must have some massive money laundering scheme going as well. ACORN fraud is why Obama’s gonna win!!!
Yahoo! I knew he was impressed with Obama, but I didn’t think he would actually endorse him. Wonder if Scarborough will, ‘cuz he also sounds pretty impressed! I doubt it, but there’s always that chance, and it doesn’t hurt that he has already said some complimentary things. Every little bit helps, if you ask me!
She has to start practicing “real journalism” again so that she’s prepared when a D administration is in office.
It takes some practice, just like baseball Spring Training.
The only reason these two twits even give a damn about the damage their precious GOP/conservative movement inflicts is because they felt the sting of getting hate mail and having people talk shit about them. Oh,now it registers with these geniuses that being called a traitor(and heaven knows what else)and an enemy might be a tad scary? That maybe being hateful and spiteful and mean to everybody leads to evil? And these are considered intellectual lights of the right? Ack.
This is a disease of the soul,it really is. They hate Americans,and yet they claim to love this country? Yeah,ok,that makes just a STUNNING amount of sense.
Wow, he leans to the right.
What does it mean that Parker thinks that politely entertaining dissenting opinions should be limited to within our ranks.
It’s a giant, humongous, gay, liberal, terrorist conspiracy threatening to tear at the very fabric of our democracy!
By the way, could the posters please identify whether they come from a part of America that supports America, please.
I think that McCain’s performance at the Al Smith Dinner was his admission that the race is over and that he’s just playing the part.
The cynical part is that he’s letting Palin self immolate.
-G
My secret ballot envelope was already sealed from the humidity. Gonna turn it in and vote at my regular polling place on 4 Nov.
From Smerconish:
“I have never met Barack Obama but I think I have a good understanding of his background. It’s a far cry from McCain’s pedigree, but it is a similarly uniquely American story. I find the Internet lore spread about him to be despicable. The more untruths anonymous spammers spread about him, the more inclined I am to defend him. There are certainly aspects of his limited experience and his associations that are game for analysis and criticism, but he deserves a fair fight.
While some look at Obama and question his love of country, I see a man who is a great source of inspiration to many. I was in the audience for his speech on race in Philadelphia, and was part of the crowd at Invesco Field when he accepted the Democratic nomination for president. His popularity is an attribute not a liability. I too want a leader who is respected and admired at home and internationally, and yes, I am anxious to break the barriers that have heretofore prevented a woman or African American to serve as vice president or president.
Back in June, the final paragraph of a lengthy New York Times story had a quote from him that hangs with me. He said; “I love when I’m shaking hands on a rope line and”- he mimes the motion, hand over hand – “I see little old white ladies and big burly black guys and Latino girls and all their hands are entwining. They’re feeding on each other as much as on me. It’s like I’m just the excuse.”
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe he can do a world of good by bringing people of diverse backgrounds together. There is a quality about him that I find genuine, and I think he is unquestionably of fine intellect.”
-G
OT I Can’t Help Myself
Levi Stubbs RIP
Are all these people humourless? He had some good lines written for him and just couldn’t pull it off. Obama, otoh, was much better with the one liners. Hillary looked as if she’d had a couple to loosen her up and was having a grand ol’ time.
I agree that McC came close to closing the campaign at the dinner. He looks and sounds defeated. Sarah, well, Sarah is in a different place entirely, but who knows where.
Oh, are you really asking? I’ll answer if you are not being rhetorical.
I just have to share this. Just before I left work a guy came in and was talking to one of the realtors. He was driving a pickup with a gorgeous dog of some sort. Dog kept honking the horn. Guy came out and told the dog to cool it. Said, “I should have never taught him that trick. He honks it all the time he’s in the truck. Even tries when I’m driving.” Meantime the pooch is just honkin’ away. Too funny.
Being rhetorical
You’re right! That is just too funny!
HA! Sign that dog up for Letterman. Way more entertaining than John “I screwed up” McCain.
Mystery solved
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..newsletter
I laughed all the way to the credit union and back. I told the guy that he was out of luck tryin’ to unteach the dog a trick he’d taught him in the first place. Still laughin’. Made my day.
McCain came out swinging today in his speech. gah.
d’oh! glad I asked! :]
I thought you were going to make an analogy about Palin. Like McCain was trying to unteach her from those talking points. She just can’t stop.
too little, too late – JMO
Wish I could just sleep through the rest of this thing but I would miss all the funny and great things said here. Oh, well….
Oh no! Incredible talent. Especially liked him as the voice of the plant in “Little Shop of Horrors.” Feed me, Seymour! It’s hit me especially hard this year having so many names that were such a part of my life growing up die. Really starting to feel older. Odd how such a big part of living is dealing with death.
Hitler made a better case for Republican/fascism than JTP.
I would say the intellectual right’s Bible is Plato’s Republic. These ideas come directly from Plato and his “chicken hawk” lover.
And also, don’t you know, am offended by yr liberal east cost media headline, also. Because all “pro-American-Americans” know the “Straight (read heterosexual) Talk Express” is NOT a train, but a bus.
In fact, think of it as a Greyhound Charter Bus driven by a “post union” driver without a proper certification (’dem ole silly gobment regulations), driving seniors to the casino (I live in Merlin, and our nasty ballot prop is whether to legalize the one armed bandit form of robbery), but instead of getting them to Atlantic City, he takes them into the Atlantic by driving said bus off the bridge. Oh, I forgot to mention, he’s 72 years old and had to take this job because his pension was invested in the housing market & he’s also paying for the body armor he bought for his grandson that’s stationed in Iraq.
The Republican Party is nothing more than the legacy of Lee Atwater, the amoral consultant that thought nothing of destroying someone if it would win his client and election. Oh, by the way, does anyone know what time Joe the Plumber sitcom is on Fox?
Now look at it this way, McCain already knows he lost the election before he picks Palin. His real fear is that Barr/Baldwin/Paul … types pull 7-10%. Just look at how many republicans bolted on the bailout. We all know the social conservatives don’t like him. So he does a Geo. I and picks a crazy wacko from Waco-land to keep those types from bolting. He’s just trying to keep the party together. And at the edges, we see how frightened the old boys (& girls) network is getting about this tact to the anti-intellectual (& truth challenged) wing. The way it has worked these past 30 yrs is that the party has been run by the “smart people” while pandering to the wackos. Think about it, first they came for the East Coast Establishment, nobody cared, next they…
you get my drift.
Save the party, lose the election, screw the egg heads, that’s the McCain plan.
as I said in correspondence with my best friend:
From my friend:
I could go on, but I’d had enough of thinking about Peggy, or David, or any of ‘em.
Let’s thank Rove, Schmidt, Davis for the exiting, stage left, of the evangelicals.
Sweet.
However, Romney.
still.
exists.
“To bring the people to the will of the leaders is a simple matter..all you do is tell the people thay are under attack, and denounce the [dissenters] for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country…”
-Hermann Goering
This has been a Republican tactic since the late 60s. Bush and Cheney polished it up bright and shiny. It’s the main reason the Dems and the media didn’t make more of a squawk against the Iraq invasion. They lacked the courage to be branded unpatriotic, especially so close to 9/11.
Mean people suck. And these are some really mean dudes.
BEAR COUNTRY @17
Somewhat OT, but I just watched Andrea Mitchell interview kit bond of MO. At first she let slide a statement by bond that Obama’s plan was to raise taxes on small businesses. I don’t know if it was the ear piece telling her what to ask, but all of a sudden she grew a backbone and challenged him on everything he said after that. She was not confrontational or nasty, but it was obvious that she was not drinking the kool-aid. Sometimes she even corrected what he said. I have to give her credit for being a real journalist.
She may not have been drinking anything, but Kit probably was. A very nasty drinker who made a fool of himself during the 2000 or 2004 election claiming voter fraud in St. Louis because the polls had to be kept open by court order to let a lot a black voters vote. There were not enough machines in black precints….what else is new?
Bond is a jerk and a problem drinker who really looks it. He is also a Bush lover of the first magnitude. One guy I will certainly help retire in 2010.
OT I Can’t Help Myself
Levi Stubbs RIP
Too bad Levi couldn’t have made it another month. He’d have found out it not “The Same Old Song”.