Or so we are told by the always sensible, down-to-earth Mona Charen in a piece most butch-ly and intellectual-ishly entitled "Thoughtful Warriors." And of course Charen is an expert on sensible behavior, having patiently explained to us in the past that her support for torture is morally unexceptionable because she is not a member of Al Qaeda, as far as she knows; that Empirical Science proves Republicans are far, far more patriotic-er than Democrats; and that Barack Obama does not "love" America, but has merely sweet-talked America in order to have rough sex with it and then not return its calls as he starts dating Sweden — get your meatballs in my Cocoa Puffs, meatballs meatballs Cocoa Puffs, etc. (Sorry.) Anyway, here’s Charen:
Unlike some who shall, in the interests of comity, remain nameless — conservatives do not cry foul when they lose elections. They do not whine that the election was stolen, or secured through dirty campaign tricks, or otherwise illegitimately won. Instead, they ask themselves where they went wrong.
Bullshit tomorrow; "comity" tonight. Oh, what the hell. Bullshit tonight!
(Discussion of turkey-gore-related homophobia & Marxist genocide below the fold)
This is great fun. I am quite glad to learn that "conservatives" (like those at NRO) never really believed any of that that silly ACORN crap they were pushing. I’m even more excited that these ideas may even include something more substantial than buying lots and lots of guns in order to prepare for Obama’s Marxist Tyranny, although, clearly, this guy certainly qualifies as one of Charen’s "Thoughtful Warriors":
some things are more dangerous than a gun in the hands of a free citizen of a democracy. Like a Marxist Socialist in the White House… because Marxists have killed 100,000,000 human beings and are the most murderous politicians in world history, I believe. But an armed citizenry is a protection against mass murder by Marxist Socialist politicians – the most genocidal politicians on the planet, perhaps.
Food for thought. (Cheetos, specifically.) But it’s really on Charen’s level; I’m not sure what else to make of her recommendations for the GOP that, marvelously, fail to include dealing with the GOP-induced global financial meltdown but do seem to include making healthcare less accessible, as well as "shoring up the traditional family," or, translated, hating on gays. Brilliant! Thoughtful! Warrior-y!
In other "Thoughtful Warrior" news, noted assholes Jules Crittenden, Mark Steyn, and Tim Blair say that if you thought Sarah Palin looked like a freak giving an interview in front of a guy killing turkeys, you are a "nancy boy," a "panty boy," and just all sorts of gay homosexual.
No, I don’t get it either, but remember, these people are paid to communicate their thoughts to others, which might in and of itself tell you pretty much all you need to know about The State of Conservatism Today. Namely, that it’s run by morons.
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Thers!
Digg it right here!
What’s up, Thers?
thank you for not heading this post with a picture of Ms. Charen.
Heh. I actually heard a panel on what went wrong with Rs and what to do about it on cspan yesterday that was sensible. So don’t rest easy.
bullshit and assholes – the fuel of the cons
A Marxist Socialist? I thought he was a Islamofascist terrorist? Oh wait – he ran a ‘center-right’ campaign and will govern that way? Oh wait – he is a…nevermind. I can’t wrap my head around that.
real men watch turkeys die
WCBS (NYC) sez same sex marriage could boost CT economy. Out of staters coming in to get married.
Evening all.
good evening jayt, eCAHN, Suzanne, lokywoky
In the case of TIDOS Wankee, that gun is definitely a danger to himself and anyone else within 300 yards. To anything he aims at, not so much.
Somebody admitted that the Republican Party utterly fucked up everything it touched for eight straight years?
Hey neuro!
Have to say that Mona really needs to have a long talk with Coleman and the Minnesota Retug Party about that stolen election thing.
why does the name Charen make me think of Charon?
oh, I guess they sound alike
nothing to do with ferrying dead souls to hades
now there’s an analogy
Make that 30 years.
heya neuro!
EPU’d
Kids can be accessed through the social networking sites most easily (Facebook, MySpace, etc) but there are also blogs that cater to the ‘younger set’ as well. Just need to figure them out, get a list together and start posting stuff over there I guess.
no, that was Bill Clinton’s fault
and now it’s Barack Obama’s fault
My fav Repuke response is that Mark Ritchie is the ‘Katherine Harris of Minnesota’. Okay. So you just admitted that KH ’stole’ the election for Bush. Niiiiiice.
maybe they just think he wears too much makeup
No! They are NOT WHINING!
My children often assure me of the same thing also, as well as the fact that they are not sleepy.
Basically, yes. Such honesty I haven’t heard from that side of the aisle for a long time. Went thru geography, demograhics, competency, message (hate filled talk radio for example), the whole ball of wax.
Got that right. Obama is completely and totally 100% responsible for the stock market crash, the financial market bailouts and bank failures, and the auto industry going bankrupt.
*g*
Dugg your Digg Neuro!! Hows the weather out there in Kansas?
not to mention that whole terrorist thing
Nah, they said that along with accusing him of fraud (the 32 trunk ballots) and mismanagement of the voting process and favoring the Dem and having horns and a tail among other things.
hey, nahant. it’s drifting inexorably toward winter, I’m afraid. was 51 today but 39 now and headed for upper 20s tonight
I really don’t mind living here, except for the weather
And he shot JFK, too.
is he secretly aligned with ACORN? and Bill Ayers?
And he is responsible for everything that Barney Frank has done or said since he was born (much before Obama was).
are we thoughtless wimps since we are not part of mona’s thoughtful warriors fantasy? i bet she reads all those naughty books with fabio on the cover
at a remarkably early age, also
In the 20s here with 20 mph wind. Furnace going on frequently even with house temp set at 62.
Let us take up a collection and send them some hankies, teething rings and rattles.
Well, I certainly don’t think Bill Ayres, but he most certainly is an ACORN plant!
Who was on the panel?
Cheer up. High here today was 39 and same predicted for tomorrow.
We all know that it is true! It is he ran for the office of the president that the markets tanked and all those Financial geniuses on wall street got so greedy and took all the tax payers so they could pay their execs big bonasses!! Yep it is all Obama’s Fault that all those jobs were lost and Bush couldn’t do anything about it!…. RIGHT!!
and we must include Cheetos
oops, did I forget the Cheetos…
That’s how evil Obama is. He doesn’t even care if he causes a temporal paradox in the pursuit of his wicked schemes.
And Mountain Dew and Red Bull, so they have something to cry in.
Suz! Everyone knows libs don’t think. We’re knee-jerk bleeding-heart socialist-commie types who just don’t understand how the world works.
although they might choke on the Cheetos…..let’s include them.
Good enough of a reason to move to California… Was cool today made it to 70 but will be in the 40’s overnight… I will keep our Buck wood stove going tonight.. Hate paying PG&E anything! Reason we are going Solar!
Further proof that he actually is the Anti-Christ.
You talking to me? I’ll have to search for it on cspan’s site. But it was some sensible people. Moderator was a IN woman who’s a pollster. She said that “drill baby drill” worked for the short period when oil prices were peaking, coinciding with the R convenstion, but was not an energy policy. Just to give you a flavor.
Of course we all know that Obama has command of time and space…
evening thers! howdy firepups.
howdy, Thers & Firepups!
I used to work with someone who was convinced space aliens were capturing people and implanting chips in them that made them into bizarre robots. I used to laugh at him (behind his back of course!) but I think the laugh is on me. Space alien implanted chips is the only way I can make sense of ReThug mouthpieces since the election – they do seem like they have a few fried chips, no? And I’m not talking cheetos or doritos.
Well, he has done that more than once you know. He really is veeerrry evil. It’s no wonder that we’re in such a mess – he has caused a rift in the time-space continuum with his nefarious activities.
I wish that he would just leave our space-time continuum ALONE!
and britney, too
Suz we are going to be eating some of that salmon my son caught up your way… He brought it all home and gave us two of the fillets… I have to visit my oldest son again and teach him again just how to fillet a fish… he is a dam butcher when filleting them…
Dugg and I mean DUGGGGG DEEEP!
simply brilliant, Thers.
Thank you so much!
wouldn’t it be nice if the wingnuts would engage in some genuine, honest introspection and discover that in fact they are just really awful people?
Denial is not just a river….
It is waaaaaaaambulance time again in the old town tonight.
Wingnuts do not do honest or genuine.
A good 12-Step program maybe?
Well, that would be impossible since wing-nuts are by their very DNA not introspective. And if suddenly that trait managed to emerge – there would be a bloodbath of exploding heads that would make that Palin/turkey slaughter look like a Sunday ice cream social.
Hey Tex! Fancy meeting you here!
no, a bambulance
Wingnuts do not do honest or genuine.
But they are genuine assholes.
Are you freaking kidding those kind of people just KNOW they are RIGHT! You ahve meet those kind they are always RIGHT about everything on the planet from soup to nuts(the kind they lock up)!
Maybe we could set up the conundrum analysis that destroyed HAL? Don’t even have to manufacture a conundrum since wing-nuts are walking examples of that in every aspect of their lives.
ooh exploding heads, I like it.
Thanks. The online conservatives surely are not learning any lessons.
Given that the GOP has for decades farmed out its GOTV apparatus to the religious right it may all be a moot point though. Can’t win a national election without GOTV, & who’s “sensible” & going to be doing that for the GOP except the religious right?
I can’t see how they get around this. Fortunately it’s not my problem….
I will have you know that you just managed to scare the bejeebus out my poor unsuspecting kitteh with that.
ACORN kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
ACORN was responsible for New Coke.
People who have the need to be right, right, right are usually hiding something from themselves.
Like-Oh my god, what am I doing in this closet.
Or-Mommy loved me best. Mommy loved me best.
This is hilarious!
Was responding to eCHAN. Weird, the automated Reply thing is not working for me…
question – would the hugely inflated head of your basic wing-nutty repub *fit* up the huge assholes also possessed by said nutty-pubs?
Yeee—uke.
I doubt it as they are tightasses….
The Rethugs are in serious trouble right now. There is a deep rift between the money boys and the social conservatives and the latter are pushing to seize control of the party. If this results in a split it will permanently relagate both groups to the twilight zone. The money boys simply do not have the numbers – hard to win elections with 10% or less of the population. The social conservatives, while long on zeal and numbers, do not have any cash (or at least enough). I can hardly believe that the money boys will stay in if the social conservatives take over and the latter will not stay unless they actually get to start deciding real policy.
howdy farm grrrllllllllll
But of course it would… with lots and lots of bar grease!
Rethugs are nature’s human klein bottles.
Very clever.
The money boys really fucked themselves by not sharing. Ha! (as tweety would say)
Bob Altemeyer wrote an e-book entitled, “The Authoritarians” that explains rethug thinking and behavior quite well. Sorry I don’t have a link, but you can google, worth a read.
Suz – that was side-splitting funny! I wonder if the 911 guy fell off the chair to keep from laughing his head off!
Damn the Internets are slow 2-night for me.
More broadband for rural areas, Preznit Obama, stat!
That’s just it, the Rethug money boys never share. That is the entire basis of their politics: “It’s mine, all mine, and you can’t have any!”
True dat. I’m fine here in Missoula, but you get outside of the city (sic) and fuggidaboudit. Montana has huge expanses with very few people, no cable, and little access to high speed internet.
everyone has better and cheaper internet than we do here in the good ole usofa.
That is a 911 classic, and I speak for all 911 dispatchers (cuz I am one) when saying that :-)
I think we should just nationalize the net. Feds then provide best and fastest connections like they have in Europe and charge maintenance costs.
Another area where the US is lagging far behind the rest of the developed (and even some of the developing) world. Their broadband speeds are twice to three times ours, when we can even get any. And they have 95% coverage everywhere.
Sucks to be us sometimes.
I know but now that all the money is concentrated in the top 1% or so there are far fewer repugs to vote for the wealth ticket. Since we do still rather live in a democracy they need the numbers to keep the agenda afloat. They got what they wanted and killed the party at the same time. These people are some myopic fuckers.
((((LL)))) How you doing? Long time no see.
just as they should do with health care
usofa?
ucouch!
Hey, Betsy!
Yes. Same idiot assholes that trashed the financial sector and have been committing slo-mo seppuku with the auto industry for 30 years. Not a gram of brains in the entire 1%.
Yep.
Mona
She’s Not There
She graces most every Sunday Op-Ed section here iin Northwest Arkansas… not sure why.
;~P
howdy margot!
((( DrD ))) Doing fine here, thanks. How about you? Still corrupting those young minds? *g*
I don’t know why they’re all whining about Marxist genocide when they should rightfully be talking about how the US is now Europe. Eek!
Sorry all, this is taking me forever to refresh, just gonna go ta bed…
Rethugs no like brains, brains bad, might have. to. think. ouch.
g’nite thers
sleep well.
LOL
That’s gonna make my email list happy;)
Ah, we’re not quite there yet. Have to take over a few more industries and the health care system and raise taxes about 100% over where they are now.
But by all accounts, the Europeans are much happier than we are *g*
Yep. Turned cold here, but not too bad. Semester is winding down. Turkey Day this week, then one more week of lecture and finals week. Three weeks off and then back in for the 3 week Winter session.
Night, Thers.
G’night Thers, and thanks.
Night Thers
DrD, it got really cold here this weekend — highs in the mid 30’s, and windy. Wondering what this winter will bring.
supposed to get down to 38 tonight – its already 40 and still dropping. won’t get as cold here as it will inland.
Suz, I’ll be interested to hear about your first winter up there.
Hell, that was just about our high today. Dropping down to the mid-20s tonight. Already at 31.
i’ve discovered heavy fleece jammies (in the men’s section). and socks with bots dots kinda things on the bottom made specifically for walking around in the house.
Take lots of vit. D. Happiness pills for overcast climates.
Hey Suz! Wearing same jammies but I was given cashmere socks!
Love them, they are so warm.
vitamins and i drink lotsa milk.
baby girl sent me two pair of the bots dots socks for my birthday last month.
good night firepups. time for me to get some sleep
Comity, thy nameless name is Kathleen Parker.
Also, K-Lo.
kirk upstairs
Night, Betsy.
G’night Betsy, rest well.
Comity, another Rethug word for date rape.
Think I will head to bed. Take care all.
Oh very nice youtube, thanks dr.b
Jeez, that’s what I need.
My local paper had a story – front page, main story – about people buying guns in the wake of the Obama victory.
I really wonder if they will run a similar story in 1 year when the blacks don’t take over and the liberals don’t take everyone’s guns away. Just kidding, of course I don’t. They are paranoid psychos, but it’s important to mock them when their paranoia turns out to be lunatic fantasy.
I might buy guns soon – but only because the psychos are stalking [sic] up.
/this watch is your birthright
I strongly support the marriage of Mona Charen and Sarah Palin.