He enthusiatically endorsed Sarah Palin – someone he agrees with on, well, nearly zero issues.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The revolution will be supervised.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
Fear or fury? The choice is ours.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.
Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.
Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.
You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
Human rights are not a matter of opinion!
Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!
The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.
The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.
the 10% who apparently lack object permanence
Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.
Dreggas
All we need to know about Joe Liberman can be learned watching droopy dog.
Dusty
Leave Droopy Dog out of this.
PC
I look forward to being ruled by our right wing militia overlords.
Michael D.
I was gonna say…
David
He’s always reminded me more of Kermit the Frog, which is an even bigger insult to a beloved childhood entertainer.
Michael D.
I will say that the GOP convention is not nearly as well produced as the Democratic convention.
I will also say that I like Laura Bush. It’s too bad she has to have that last name. I’m sure she would have been a fantastic first lady if she had a decent husband. I feel bad for her.
SGEW
Am I a bad citizen because I completely blew off watching any RNC coverage, and just came here to B-J in order to find out how it went?
Eric
You’d think that being hated by both political parties would be a really bad thing for a politician to work towards. I hope pruneface has his resume dusted off.
rawshark
McCain puts country before party?
I have three words in response; Pro. Jek. Shun.
Is there a criticism of the right that they haven’t deflected by saying it’s a property of the left?
r€nato
I couldn’t do it either, SGEW. You all who could watch it are a lot better than me.
Or, a lot drunker.
Thankfully, Joe Lieberman’s 15 minutes are nearly up. When the Dems get their 60 seats this fall, they can finally tell Holy Joe to go fuck himself sideways.
tomjones
Not only do they disagree on the issues, but if you Rev. Wrighterize Gov. Palin, you get this (h/t Andrew Sullivan):
Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity.
SpotWeld
Liebermen is slowly turning into the Connecticut version of the Chupachabra or some similar crypto-politico-zoological entity. (Current legend is that he is a renegade melonhead.)
Glocksman
Don’t count your chickens so soon.
The nightmare number is 59.
That’s enough to end filibustering only if Holy Joe stays on board.
So they’d have to kiss his ass even then.
I’d rather see the Dems with 55 seats and kick Holy Joe to the kerb than have then with 59 and still held hostage by this asshole.
SGEW
As I said in a previous thread, you can’t compare Palin’s preacher with Obama’s.
One of them is a batshit crazy, pathological nutjob who is a danger to themselves and others, and who shouldn’t be allowed out of the methadone clinic.
The other one is black.
See? Obama’s pastor is news! Palin’s is just “mainstream evangelical,” what with the end times (and Alaska’s peculiar “refuge” status during Revelations) and the “sacrificing your life” in the war against “invisible enemies” and being automatically damned for criticizing President Bush’s response to Katrina and all.
xephyr
What with all of Leiberman’s effusive praise for McCain’s magical ability to reach across the aisle and unify the parties, he couldn’t even pull off his first choice for VP… which of course was Leiberman. Yup, some really great unity creds there.
Warren Terra
The incompetence of the stagecraft puzzles me, especially after 2004. There was some nitwit repeatedly screaming “yeah!” right next to the crowd mike, they couldn’t manage to leaven the audience with any significant number of people that weren’t 50 and very white, the speeches were mostly about the politics of resentment in a way that won’t reach beyond the base, when Joementum tried to add some centrist window dressing (by flatly lying about everything in sight) the crowd didn’t have the wit to sound enthusiastic, and that giant screen behind the speakers might have worked if it hadn’t been monochrome blue almost all the time. And they managed to get Dubya on video for a flatly lousy speech; at least if he’d been there he might have sounded enthusiastic, but they managed to taint the night with him without gaining much.
matt
Speaking of which, do we know yet where she stands on the Iraq war? The only thing I’ve seen is her commenting on the surge, but even that wasn’t a “for it or against it” statement.
croatoan
How did the crowd and enthusiasm level compare to when Obama spoke at the same venue earlier this summer?
TenguPhule
Followed by the Bestseller How to Forget about Joe Liberman with Beer
SGEW
Ezra nails it:
L. Ron Obama
I believe her official position is “I haven’t thought much about it.” We should know more as soon as her campaign staff tells her what her stance is. So I guess by her speech tomorrow.
Ninerdave
???
It took Andrea Mitchell a good 5 minutes in an interview to get him to utter her name, come on now. I’m no fan of Joe, and maybe between the car and my TV I missed something, but…I heard no ringing endorsements.
SGEW
I suspect her stance will be: “John McCain knows how to win wars!”
Just a guess.
Clio
All that needs to be said about that traitorous slime lieberman is that he accepted barack’s help in getting reelected to the senate and then went to the floor of the republican convention and knifed him in the back. That’s character you can believe in!
Ninerdave
That’s the modern GOP. You can only work with what you have.
Ninerdave
…and to add to my last post, this was extremely, and annoyingly apparent on the radio.
KRK
I know you mean well, but statements like this really annoy me. Laura Bush might be a good wife, but she’s an enabler as far as the horrors of this administration are concerned. She doesn’t get to smile and keep quiet and be a supportive wife for eight years and come out the other side with any integrity.
SGEW
Yep. It’s like my old joke about John Paul II: Great guy, too bad about the whole Catholic orthodoxy thing.
Clio
Also i have to say that the irony of watching the same party activists who defend torture as practiced by bush and co tear up and look horrified as thompson described mccain’s treatment in vietnam was almost comedic. I really dont know how these people can live with themselves, it must be nice to live a life completely divorced from reality. I guess its only torture if the victim is white.
Soylent Green
Palin on June 8:
Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.
Does that help any?
Michael G
The question I’ve always had was how, exactly, did George end up meeting a librarian? I mean, how is it possible that their paths crossed?
SGEW
Righto. Change my earlier guess to: “
John McCainJesus knows how to win wars.”lucslawyer
The problem with Joe Lieberman is that he cares more about Israel than he does about the United States…
zuzu's petals
Taint. You said taint.
Sloppy tipsy laugh.
Zuzu + 1.
Darkness
Anything to stick it to his colleagues and his party. Nothing can stand in his way of that.
Zell!
MBL
That’s more an indictment of Obama’s judgment than Lieberman. You can’t say the guy didn’t have plenty of warning about who he was getting into bed with– hell, if *I* knew Lieberman was going to stab Barack in the back eventually, there’s no excuse for Barack not knowing it himself.
Bedlam UK
Cant get out of my head Jesus starring in Arnies role for
‘Commando’ as he dons his war paint and belts of ammo.
“Jesus, he can win the war !”
Notorious P.A.T.
He’s a jerkoff, alright.
How fitting that one of the worst vice presidential picks in recent history should endorse THE worst vice presidential pick in recent history.
Notorious P.A.T.
She’s the nicest murderer a president has ever been married to.
NonyNony
Well, if you’ve always had that question, you could try looking in Wikipedia:
She met George W. Bush in 1977 at a backyard barbecue at the home of mutual friends, John and Jan O’Neill. After a three-month courtship, he proposed to her and they were married on November 5 of that year
Her parents were real estate developers in Texas, which is probably how she ended up with mutual friends with the Bush family.
b. hussein canuckistani
Amateur psychology hour: If you were a sulky, neglected teenage daughter of a fundamentalist control freak hyper-ambitious mother, could there be any revenge more delicious than publicly fucking up and costing your mother the Vice-Presidency?
Just sayin’.