I have nothing to add to this, other than to ask what Jonah Goldberg thinks.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
He really is that stupid.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
Only Democrats have agency, apparently.
Tick tock motherfuckers!
Let’s finish the job.
We still have time to mess this up!
They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
Come on, man.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
In my day, never was longer.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
kommrade reproductive vigor
Fxd.
Nothing to add except to note Ferraro has fallen pretty far if she’s sitting for interviews with the NYP. Next stop: An advice column in the National Enquirer called "Dear Clueless Shill."
Sgt. Troy Barlow
Stop speaking right now, Geraldine!
Crusty Dem
kommrade, you don’t have to ask if JG thinks. He doesn’t, he just references the Simpsons or Star Trek and copies and pastes (saying "mmm, paste") whatever Rich Lowry has to say.
I want a bracelet saying "WWJGD", on the other side, it’ll say "Nothing".
Oh, and Fuck Ferraro. She’s a worthless piece of shit.
MattF
Ferraro is just an idiot– I’ll admit that agreeing with her gives me a case of auto-schadenfreude, but I still think there must be better candidates out there. I think that New York should have an actual politician for Senator. Like D’Amato. Well, no, not like D’Amato– a liberal D’Amato. But not a Princess, not an apparatchik, not a ‘Jr.’ nor a ‘III’.
AhabTRuler, V
I had an occasion to go to the 1984 Vice Presidential Debate in Philly. I was a wee lad at the time, and I don’t remember much about Ferraro, although I thought it was really cool that a women was nominated. However, what I have always remembered clearly, is this:
kay
Geraldine Ferraro served for a total of six years in the House, ending in 1985. She lost two Senate primaries, and that comprised her electoral prowess for the decade of the nineties.
I just don’t know why she’s so sought after for advice and opinion.
When did she start weighing in on everything? Where was all this wisdom and political savvy from 1985 to 2008?
Mike
Having been brought up in a family of politicians, Caroline Kennedy might be really good at it. I mean Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr. good. Or she might be Pete Rose, Jr, George W. Bush good. I’ve never met the woman — how can I tell? That’s for Bloomberg to figure out, maybe by (wild idea here) interviewing her and making an informed decision.
Just Some Fuckhead
‘K, now I’m actively supporting the appointment of Caroline Kennedy to Senator. Before, I didn’t really care but felt it was important to nuke mysogyny masquerading as informed debate.
kay
@Mike:
Well, Geraldine Ferraro did all right and she went from working as a prosecutor straight to the House, then next in line to the Presidency…
If she was ready on Day One…..
The Grand Panjandrum
yummmmmmmmm … cheeseburger.
Grendel72
Exactly. Just like the PUMAs, Ferraro means nothing to anyone outside of FOX News or the Post. And even there she doesn’t merit a full wingnut welfare post for life.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
Did you know that this World’s Worst website has a nice feature, in that if you type a swell post and are using a new browser that doesn’t have a cookie for your name, your post is lost as soon as you hit the Submit button? Try it, it’s fun.
That feature makes me feel just like I do when I think of CK getting that Senate seat. I saw her relative on tv yesterday telling us why CK should get the job: Woman, money, woman. Oh, and don’t forget, money.
Bush cronyism and dynastic chutzpah? I got your Family Affair right here. Those Bushes have nothing on the Kennedys when it comes to looking into a camera and saying any damned thing with a straight face, I tell you what. What a braload that little appearance was yesterday. The upshot was, are you serious? Questioning a Kennedy’s right to this seat?
Yeah, don’t start with me. I was putting up Kennedy signs and going to the Dem convention in 1960. I don’t need any information about them, I have seen the movie, and the sequels. Just make it end. What sin did I commit that makes me have to be in a party with these awful people, plus Al Sharpton? I have never skull fucked a puppy.
ThymeZoneThe Plumber
Instead of CK for that senate seat, how about the gal who wrote your moderation filter? It would give her something to do for six years.
Just a thought.
ThymeZoneThe Plumber
I won’t even try to write the story behind this post.
What did one cannibal say to the other when they ate the clown?
"Does this taste funny to you?"
Sorry.
D-Chance.
Whatever, with Ted almost feeding the worms, I guess they need to weasel the name back into the Senate somehow… may as well be Carolina, since the boy in the family got himself killed doing his little cocaine run.
Comrade Jake
I think the best response to Geraldine is to ignore her. Whenever I read about her I always think about that Long Island hag screaming about Obama being an "inadequate black male" after the DNC hearings on the MI/FL ballots didn’t go HRC’s way.
Cain
Offtopic, but this is a total win
Our boy, Levi has a little family trouble. Apparently, his mom has been arrested for 6 felony counts of a controlled substance.
I’m sure this is slap in the face to all women including Ferraro. Perhaps she can comment!?
cain
ps see how I molded the current topic with what I wanted to say? :-)
The Other Steve
I am opposed to both Geraldine Ferraro and Caroline Kennedy.
for entirely different reasons. Ferraro was the Democrats Sarah Palin back before Palin was Palin.
And Caroline Kennedy ought to go find some work and stop trying to live off the family name.
The Other Steve
I feel like I’ve been given the shaft.
John Cole
@Cain: I hate that that story is making the news. Why does everyone in the country need to know about her personal problems?
Just Some Fuckhead
@John Cole: I blame her. If she’d have raised her son better, he wouldn’t have ejaculated into the spotlight.
Of course, even if she had managed to keep her sordid personal failings out of the news, it’s possible her asshole brother would have blogged it anyway, so whacha goin’ do?
AnneLaurie
Mr. Cole: I’m waiting for the rumor that Governor Palin’s goons busted Mrs. Johnston as an excuse to call off the fake wedding. Or because Levi insisted on a paternity test.
The Other Steve
It’s not enough to toss Sarah Palin an anchor.
We have to drive a steak(*) through her heart.
(*) I’m assuming she’s a Vegan and this will kill her.
Jeff
Can we stop calling her a Democrat and change the initial after her name to B. You choose what it stands for.
The Other Steve
Actually do we have any evidence she didn’t abandon her son at a young age to be raised by wolves?
The Other Steve
Barada?
Reverend Dennis
It would be irresponsible not to speculate. Until she comes with definitive proof, including affidavits from every wolf in Mat-Su, a cloud of suspicion will hang over her head.
Bob In Pacifica
Okay, that’s it. I officially withdraw any concerns I may have had about Kennedy. Ferraro convinced me.
Libby Spencer
RE: this comment. At the risk of pissing off John, who hates the story, I’m not really interested in it myself except I correctly predicted what the controlled substance in question was.
Tymannosourus
Are we this bereft of brilliance, competence, and courage in America that the only people available to us for public service are those that come from American royalty (viz., the Bushes and Kennedys)?
I would think that Obama has taught us to look outside the palaces for our leaders, and that the strongest public servants are self-made men and women who weren’t handed a thing.
Luddite
I’m sure this is slap in the face to all women including Ferraro. Perhaps she can comment!?
Oh Puhleeze! That sour Bitch Ferraro went to see the "Valley of the Dolls" when it came out and thought it was a biography about her! Sadly, she needs to take lots more "dolls" to calm her spiteful, bitter ass.
TheFountainHead
I submit the following reasons:
1. McCain asked Sarah Palin to be Vice President.
2. Sarah Palin had the gall to accept such a nomination.
3. Sarah Palin trotted out her family on the stage (literally and figuratively) as an example of everything wholesome and small-town esque.
4. Acting as hypocritical as any Republican in 50 years, they acted as though Bristol’s pregnancy didn’t at all fly in the face of their otherwise overtly hateful "values".
5. They forced the kid to marry her for political reasons.
Comrade Stuck
Velly, velly interesting Watson. Please get hold of Agent Mulder and teh Lone Gunmen.
Michael Connell — founder of Ohio-based New Media Communications, which created campaign Web sites for George W. Bush and John McCain — died instantly after his single-prop, private aircraft smashed into a vacant home in suburban Lake Township, Ohio
"…I have reason to believe that the alternate accounts were used to communicate with US Attorneys involved in political prosecutions, like that of Don Siegelman," said RAW STORY’s Investigative News Editor, Larisa Alexandrovna, on her personal blog Saturday morning. "This is what I have been working on to prove for over a year. In fact, it was through following the Siegelman-Rove trail that I found evidence leading to Connell. That is how I became aware of him. Mike was getting ready to talk. He was frightened
. He apparently ran out of gas, something I find hard to believe. I am not saying that this was a hit nor am I resigned to this being simply an accident either.
Warren Terra
What The Other Steve said in #18. In fact, exactly what he said:
Although if I were writing my own comment I might add some vituperation about Ferraro, as she is a despicable human being while Caroline Kennedy is just an overprivileged celebrity with a sense of entitlement.
Johnny Pez
Does this make Levi Johnston the American Prince Charles?
demkat620
I don’t think they are married yet.
Fencedude
I still think people are worrying too much about who gets appointed to that senate seat.
Senate Appointments have a terrible record of being re-elected.
MikeJ
Huh. The argument from other people seems to be she’s bad because she *has* been out earning a living and didn’t run for the Senate the day she turned 30.
Comrade Jake
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Absolutely perfect turn of phrase. Well played, sir.
Chuck Butcher
I am no a fan of dynasties, but I also am no fan of disqualifying a person because of their heritage. I have nothing for or against CK beyond the obvious calculations involving 2010.
Ssgt. White
I thought we left the monarchy in England.
Cain
It’s really nothing personal against Palin or her family. Everyone’s got their problems. But everytime these things occur I really want to use the issue to beat it over the heads of our evangelical opponents and their habit of choosing some totem and feeding it with power.
I know it’s petty, and probably won’t change minds and only make them retreat further into group think. But well, they really need to pull their collective asses out of their asses. Currently, it’s so far up, they talk through their nostrils.
cain
Perry Como
@Comrade Stuck: He accidentally the whole plane.
Mike
Me too. That she has a tenuous connection with someone I don’t much like doesn’t lead me to want to shit all over her. I wish more people felt that way.
John Cole
@Cain: How do we even know if she is a Republican, let alone a conservative?
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
She can’t be. She’s in jail fer chrissakes.
Republicans don’t go to jail for drug offenses.
Cain
@John Cole:
Does it really matter? I don’t particularly care.. Battering the message of family values as a wedge issue using such idiocy. I’m not outraged that she’s go ta bad drug problem.
Hell, for all I know the damn campaign could have caused it. It could have been a symptom of the whole thing. Woman was probably under a lot of pressure. For that I’m sorry. But hey, at least I can see that. Our 101st keyboardist didn’t even have that decency to admit straight out that it’s a political move but wrap themselves in values. Meh.
Now time to put that nice beef (!) stew on… it’s a lovely snow day and there is nothing like having some heart warming stew to eat with lots of veggies. Mmm..
cain
Jay C
Geraldine Ferraro: a trailblazing pioneer, who seems to have ended up like most trailblazing pioneers: dead, sans scalp, in an anonymous grave*. Her main problem is that having been touted (correctly, fwiw) as "Archie Bunker’s Congresswoman" for all those years, she forgot that Archie Bunker was a fictional character: and that her "tough" blue-collar shtick would get really old, really fast. That Gerry’s been reduced to spouting her bitter crap in interviews in fishwrap like the NYPost is only fitting: the best comment I’ve seen was the title of the first comment on the Narconews post:
not literally, but in political terms, the same thing.
harlana pepper
Caroline Kennedy and do/have whatever she damn well pleases.
mapaghimagsik
Like race and sexual preference, a person’s last name doesn’t matter when getting a job or running for public office. Success in America is truly merit-based.
oy.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s
Gosh. I don’t remember Geraldine talking about how the seat was virtually empty the last two years while Clinton was running for President? It’s a temporary appointment. It can’t be any worse than having nobody there.