Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

We still have time to mess this up!

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Republicans in disarray!

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

He really is that stupid.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

This fight is for everything.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

No one could have predicted…

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  2. 2.

    Joshua

    She sounds exactly Sarah Palin.

    Even if she doesn’t win, the type of rubes that vote for idiots like her do not go away. This country needs an informed voting public.

    We’re fucked.

  3. 3.

    El Cid

    Don’t forget that only 3 out of the 10 Republican Presidential nomination candidates in 2008 raised their hands that they didn’t accept evolution.

    That obviously means that Real Americans had to take back the party from those librul ay-leets.

  6. 6.

    beltane

    Funny, because evolution is not in conflict with Catholic doctrine and O’Donnell claims to be a Catholic. Maybe she is an apostate.

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    John Cole:

    O’Donnell also apparently denies evolution…

    Well, O’Donnell’s existence and her primary win are both evidence against it.

    .

  9. 9.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    So wait, is she now going to start campaigning against the invisible hand of the free market, because it makes you go blind?

    Or is that why it’s invisible, because you already did?

    These people confuse me so…..

  10. 10.

    SapphireCate

    O’Donnell makes me disbelieve evolution. No way in hell i’m the same species as her.

    I (and many of you BJ’rs) clearly evolved in parallel to our close relative the Bonobo. O’Donnell was made from Newt’s rib and some dirt.

  12. 12.

    beltane

    How long until we get O’Donnell’s former lovers coming forward to regale us with tales of their amorous escapades?

    She’s a super freak, super freak.

  13. 13.

    David Brooks (not that one)

    When I read this squib, it was followed by an ad urging me to vote for her. Yesterday.

    I love it. The campaign wasting advertising dollars at BJ.

    (hur, hur. He said BJ).

  16. 16.

    Tsulagi

    O’Donnell also apparently denies evolution

    Yeah, that rises firmly into the “No one could ever have predicted” category. Speaking of rising, I bet her nipples do when thinking of the Inquisition glory days.

    Science has a liberal bias. It’s in the Bible. Somewhere.

  17. 17.

    Sentient Puddle

    We’re lucky the primary season ends here. The tea party seems to have been operating under the idea that to make one candidate look more mainstream, they must make the next nominee even more batshit.

  18. 18.

    SapphireCate

    OT: listening to Frum on BBC radio 4 – he’s talking sooooo fast! He’s clearly primed for interuption and argument when the nice woman on the BBC just wants clear answers. US media = suck.

  19. 19.

    Mark S.

    First of all, they use carbon dating, as an example, to prove that something was millions of years old. Well, we have the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens and the carbon dating test that they used then would have to then prove that these were hundreds of millions of years younger, when what happened was they had the exact same results on the fossils and canyons that they did the tests on that were supposedly 100 millions of years old.

    Even for a creationist this is gibberish. Carbon dating can’t date things millions of years old. The rest of the nonsense is apparently based on some research done by the Institute for Creation Research.

    She may be dumber and less well spoken than Sarah. I didn’t think that was possible.

  22. 22.

    Steve

    Mitt Romney has already endorsed O’Donnell. Yay, another litmus test for all the 2012 Presidential contenders. I hope they’re enjoying themselves.

    First Read compares it to the “2006 Lamont-Lieberman litmus test,” which would make sense except the Lamont barely got a peck on the cheek from most leading Democrats. Obama’s support for Lamont was particularly lukewarm and he ended up doing okay, so as much as I hate to say it, I still think Republicans are crazier.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    I think Delawareans and Americans at large should step up and shake O’Donnell’s hand as frequently as they can.

    Their own palms covered in costume adhesive and hair.

    RayBans and service dog optional.

  24. 24.

    JRon

    I’m getting an O’Donnell ad right below this post. which is awesome.

    If you click it though, there’s nothing there but a ‘donate’ button. as noted in an earlier thread, apparently they haven’t figured out her new positions for the general just yet.

  25. 25.

    slag

    I was at the zoo recently and saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said “98% chimp”. For the guy wearing it, that was probably just truth in advertising. For O’Donnell, that would be unwarranted flattery. Chimps are smart.

  26. 26.

    celticdragonchick

    @Mark S.:

    Even for a creationist this is gibberish. Carbon dating can’t date things millions of years old. The rest of the nonsense is apparently based on some research done by the Institute for Creation Research.
    She may be dumber and less well spoken than Sarah. I didn’t think that was possible.

    Yeah. I looked at that and shook my head.

    Geologic dating is generally done with Uranium isotope ratios or Rubidium/Strontium ratios.

    Carbon dating is used on relatively recent finds usually associated with anthropology/archeology.

    I know I am going to have to deal with this bullshit if I teach geology/earth science in the public school system.

  28. 28.

    SapphireCate

    @celticdragonchick: particularly as i’m in the midst of writing a lecture on the fossil evidence for human evolution… jumping back and forth between anti-evolutionists and bipedal characteristics of australopithecus fossils is a bit of a head trip.

  29. 29.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Joshua: This country needs one of those things that purge these kinds of people: Plague, war, the end of the USDA, etc. I realize that there will be casualties on both sides, but we might have to start thinking about those types of choices.

  30. 30.

    p.a.

    Could there really be any doubt about her bona fides?

    The nutter conservative movement has gone all in. Even fucking Karl Rove is being perp-walked to the self-criticism/reeducation camp. Hope he likes farming!

  31. 31.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Mark S.: She probably thinks it means that people are actually dating carbon. A la Santorum, a slippery slope from pleasuring yourself with the invisible hand of the free market, next thing you know it’s animals, pencils, who knows what.

  32. 32.

    mantis

    You’ll all be sorry when she wins and Jesus rides in on a dinosaur to thank her for ending masturbation once and for all.

  34. 34.

    adolphus

    and here I spent the morning masturbating while reading On The Origin of Species.

    People like me will be the first ones with our backs against the wall when their revolution comes for the Bastille.

  35. 35.

    celticdragonchick

    @beltane:

    How long until we get O’Donnell’s former lovers coming forward to regale us with tales of their amorous escapades?
    She’s a super freak, super freak.

    The Castle campaign had a field day with her fucked up history. She is a proven fraud, liar etc. She is on tape in numerous venues saying shit that can’t be said in most polite settings. They ran ads that would have destroyed any normal candidate. Conservative talk show hosts called her out on live radio for lies. The major state newspaper exposed every nasty, dripping detail of her financial irregularities.

    None. Of. It. Mattered.

    This is the triumph of grievance based tribalism over any other consideration. This is what Washington warned would eventually happen in his farewell address when he left office.

  36. 36.

    cyntax

    @Joshua:

    We’re fucked.

    Wait–what?!

    Candidates like O’Donnell and Angle aren’t going to win in the general–they’re saving our bacon (mmmm… bacon).

    Check out Larison’s take:

    I have been taking for granted that Teague was politically doomed in that district ever since his cap-and-trade vote. For those who don’t know, NM-02 is a district in the southern part of the state with major oil interests in it, and it has simply been assumed that Teague destroyed himself with that yes vote. If that isn’t true, and if Teague can win re-election, the Republicans will not only fall short of winning the House, but they will end up being embarrassed by how average their performance will be. Put another way, if someone with Teague’s voting record can win re-election in a district designed for Republicans in this environment, this election will not be a great pushback at all. In fact, it will barely be a half-hearted shove.

    It ain’t over yet.

  38. 38.

    celticdragonchick

    @adolphus:

    People like me will be the first ones with our backs against the wall when their revolution comes for the Bastille.

    I’m pretty well armed. You can hang out at my place. Our cooking is pretty good. ;)

    *I hope I’m kidding on this…*

  39. 39.

    ppcli

    @Camchuck: Great link – a must read. Best part for me was when Riehl stated that Rove’s performance on Hannity hurts his reputation as an “objective analyst”.

    What an odd world those people live in.

  40. 40.

    mantis

    @cyntax:

    I think the “we’re fucked” referred to general intelligence of the American body politic, not this election. He may be right.

  41. 41.

    Violet

    @slag:
    Thanks. I couldn’t remember who said it. It’s perfect.

    Where is O’Donnell’s Virginity Certificate? And not the short form. The long form with the raised seal! Where is it? Since she’s not married it’s totally reasonable to expect she has a Virginity Certificate from an approved doctor to prove she’s un-deflowered. Where’s her certificate? If she doesn’t have one, why won’t she go to a doctor and get one? All True Virgins must be prepared to prove it.

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    @celticdragonchick:

    Carbon dating is used on relatively recent finds usually associated with anthropology/archeology.

    I thought that O’Donnell disapproved of Carbon Dating because 14 is too young to start dating.

  43. 43.

    Steve

    @JRon: I assume the national party is going to do with O’Donnell what they did with Sharron Angle, i.e., parachute in a couple of national consultants to take over her campaign and try to invest her with a smidgen of credibility. It should be entertaining.

  45. 45.

    EEH

    @Steve: Mitt Romney has already endorsed O’Donnell. Yay, another litmus test for all the 2012 Presidential contenders. I hope they’re enjoying themselves.

    This is not surprising in the least considering that the Mormons have a huge preoccupation with masturbation and its prevention.

  46. 46.

    cyntax

    @mantis:

    Only if more people start buying what the teatard hucksters are selling. Let’s not forget that 25-27% of the country still liked George Bush at the end there, so one in four were already a lost cause.

  47. 47.

    mantis

    @Violet:

    Holy shit, she’s not married? An unmarried, 41-year old chastity pusher? Oh, you just know there’s some juicy stuff hiding out there. This is going to be fun.

  51. 51.

    Violet

    @mantis:
    Yep. She’s not married. And by her own standards, she should still be a virgin. At 41 years of age.

    There’s got to be some juicy stuff out there. Impossible there isn’t, with her level of teh crazy.

  53. 53.

    celticdragonchick

    @cyntax:

    The point was that even if the most extreme candidates do not win, the voters and organizations backing them will not go away…and the rightward lurch of the GOP into race baiting authoritarian extremism is far from over. It is picking up speed.

    The voting populace has little to no education on civics, and no interest. History is literally being re-written as we speak for school children in Texas…and thereby many other states as well.

    This is the triumph if ignorance, grievance, tribalism and fear…and we are one terrorist attack away from outright dictatorship according to at least one retired General.

  54. 54.

    Violet

    @cleek:
    I agree. If the Democrats don’t take O’Donnell seriously they could have another Scott Brown situation develop. I hope Dems have learned from that, but I’m not holding my breath.

    OTOH, it was Republicans who voted for her in a primary. Democrats couldn’t vote in the primary. So the teabagger influence will be put to the test against the larger population, which could mute it slightly.

    What were the raw voting numbers? How many actual votes did she get? And what percentage of registered Republicans and the total likely voters is that? That’s where you really want to look.

  55. 55.

    New Yorker

    I just want to point out a couple things. First of all, they use carbon dating, as an example, to prove that something was millions of years old. Well, we have the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens and the carbon dating test that they used then would have to then prove that these were hundreds of millions of years younger, when what happened was they had the exact same results on the fossils and canyons that they did the tests on that were supposedly 100 millions of years old. And it’s the kind of inconsistent tests like this that they’re basing their ‘facts’ on.

    What. The. Fuck. This is sub-Palinite in its gibberish. What in holy hell does Mt. St. Helens have to do with evolution? Since when is radiocarbon dating used to date geological formations? I seriously have no idea where she’s going with this. None. Even with Palin, you could at least get an idea of what her gibberish was supposed to mean, but here, I have no idea.

    Also, as has been pointed out, if she’s a Catholic, then she’s acting against the Church’s teachings on evolution.

  56. 56.

    jibeaux

    @cleek:

    The thing is, you’re absolutely right it’s premature to celebrate. Weirder things have happened. But it’s hard for me to see a sure R win morphing into a likely D win as anything but good. Castle is still a Republican, and I assume would have voted with Republicans and against Democrats the majority of the time. Yes, she’s a lot crazier, but in terms of counting votes I don’t see how we’ve lost anything.

  58. 58.

    celticdragonchick

    @Steve:

    :

    I assume the national party is going to do with O’Donnell what they did with Sharron Angle, i.e., parachute in a couple of national consultants to take over her campaign and try to invest her with a smidgen of credibility. It should be entertaining.

    The State GOP is suing her for illegal out-of-state campaign donations (Tea Party Express parachuted in from California) and the national level NRSC has washed their hands of her. The GOP leadership knows she is head trauma effing crazy.

    The barking moonbats at Hannity.com are having fits of apoplexy about the NSCR decision.

  59. 59.

    cyntax

    @celticdragonchick:

    The point was that even if the most extreme candidates do not win, the voters and organizations backing them will not go away…and the rightward lurch of the GOP into race baiting authoritarian extremism is far from over. It is picking up speed.

    Well, it remains to be seen if this rightward lurch will pay off at the ballot box or if it will take things too far for everyone but the 25%ers.

  60. 60.

    Joshua

    @celticdragonchick:

    The point was that even if the most extreme candidates do not win, the voters and organizations backing them will not go away…and the rightward lurch of the GOP into race baiting authoritarian extremism is far from over. It is picking up speed.

    And it won’t stop even if the GOP flames out in November. In fact it will probably pick up more speed. The GOP doesn’t do self-reflection. After the 2008 disaster all they did was rebrand their old, failed, shitty ideas. And it worked. They will have lost because of the RINOs, not because of the lunatics.

  62. 62.

    Bokonon

    BTW – Mitch McConnell is doubling down on tax cuts, and just proposed a set of EVEN BIGGER cuts that would total $4 trillion over the next decade.

    All the while, McConnell piously claims that he is worried about the deficit. Yessir.

    This all reminds me of a cheesy 1950’s movie about the fall of Rome I saw years ago, when competing politicians bid on the loyalty of the army by promising bigger and bigger bribes …

  65. 65.

    Origuy

    @New Yorker:

    What in holy hell does Mt. St. Helens have to do with evolution?

    Follow along with me; this is going to get complicated. The formation of coal is one point of evidence for an old earth; the conventional theory is that the accumulation of plant matter over many years forms peat, which under compaction eventually turns into coal. Under some conditions, this can happen relatively rapidly, in geologic terms.
    After the Mt. St. Helens eruption, Spirit Lake filled with dead trees and other plant matter. The creationist claim is that this is forming a layer of peat at the bottom of the lake. In a few years, this will be coal. Since this “proves” that it doesn’t take thousands of years for coal to form, evolution is false. Q.E.D.

    This 15-year-old web page explains why this is nonsense.

  66. 66.

    Marc

    @Steve:

    I think they’re trying to deflect the crazies by formal support and practical non-support. She has run and been trounced before, and at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Castle endorsed the Democrat.

    And the GOP could end up a third party in New York…

  67. 67.

    cmorenc

    @Steve:

    Mitt Romney has already endorsed O’Donnell. Yay, another litmus test for all the 2012 Presidential contenders. I hope they’re enjoying themselves.

    The devolution of Romney from his earlier governor-of-Massachusetts days c. 2003-2006, when he was the epitome of sane, moderate, even the tepidly progressive version of Republicanism, to his opportunistic wingnut suck-up self of today is both disturbing and tragic. Disturbing, because of the way it has revealed over the past three years or so that his core character is little more than opportunistic naked personal ambition clothed in the costume of whatever political positions seem momentarily most marketable with whomever he thinks he needs to convince to get to the next step along the way to his Presidential ambitions. Tragic, because only four to six years ago, he seemed the epitome of the kind of Republican who could benignly, even beneficially, take one of the GOP’s periodic turns occupying national office, perhaps even the Presidency. Not that we would have preferred him, but the Romney we thought he was back then was so infinitely preferable to the Bushes or Reagan or Cheney that we would have instantly agreed to trade Romney for Bush in the oval office back in say, 2004.

    Unfortunately, Romney’s either revealed that he was a slimy lizard all along (and we earlier misjudged him because he was momentarily wearing more progressive skin-of-convenience in the relatively more progressive political environment of Massachusetts), or else his ambitions to become President have metamorphosized him into a most repellent creature.

  68. 68.

    New Yorker

    @Origuy:

    Hmm, so how long do we have to wait for the “peat” at the bottom of Mt. St. Helens to turn to coal?

    I know we’re talking about creationists here, so facts and logic don’t matter, but how does one make an argument based on the evidence presented in future events?

  69. 69.

    Rosalita

    @Violet:

    Yep. She’s not married. And by her own standards, she should still be a virgin. At 41 years of age.

    no wonder she’s nuts

  70. 70.

    singfoom

    Well,

    She doesn’t believe in evolution. She doesn’t believe in masturbation and she’s 41 and unmarried. Here’s hoping she never reproduces and her threat to our gene pool is removed.

    But who knows, maybe there’s a Tea Bagging man out there that just can’t wait to court her. He’ll ride up to her house on a red white & blue horse covered in tea packets and she’ll swoon.

    Of course, courting might be difficult if you’re as repressed as she seems from her statements and news reports. I bet she’s got more than a couple wetsuits worth of skeletons in her closets.

  71. 71.

    singfoom

    Well,

    She doesn’t believe in evolution. She doesn’t believe in masturbation and she’s 41 and unmarried. Here’s hoping she never reproduces and her threat to our gene pool is removed.

    But who knows, maybe there’s a Tea Bagging man out there that just can’t wait to court her. He’ll ride up to her house on a red white & blue horse covered in tea packets and she’ll swoon.

    Of course, courting might be difficult if you’re as repressed as she seems from her statements and news reports. I bet she’s got more than a couple wetsuits worth of skeletons in her closets.

  72. 72.

    Roger Moore

    @singfoom:

    Of course, courting might be difficult if you’re as repressed as she seems from her statements and news reports.

    I don’t know about that. Maybe she’s just dying to be swept off her feet because that’s the only way she can finally have sex. Or maybe she just has a low sex drive and thinks it should be easy for everyone to give up any kind of non-marital, non-procreative sex because she has no interest in it herself.

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    @p.a.:

    Even fucking Karl Rove is being perp-walked to the self-criticism/reeducation camp. Hope he likes farming!

    He ain’t called Turd Blossom for nothing.

  74. 74.

    singfoom

    @Roger Moore:

    Agreed. I don’t claim to have any real insight into her mind, it just seems that way to me from her statements and what I’ve seen of her.

  75. 75.

    wilfred

    So O’Donnel is a stupid, fucking c**t. Got it. Her stupid fucking c**tness will now be the subject of hundreds of blog posts; she may even overtake the reigning stupid fucking c**tin posts referring to stupid fucking…ah, but I repeat myself

    Yet:

    There are two parties here: the party that does what the banks and DuPont wants, and the party that loses. Castle was the undisputed leader of the first party.

    Three cheers for the stupid c**t.

  76. 76.

    New Yorker

    I hate to admit this, but I think O’Donnell is kinda cute. I mean, I never had the kind of starbursts about Sarah Palin that Rich Lowry did (it saved me some money on my dry-cleaning bills), but O’Donnell actually is attractive to me.

  78. 78.

    RalfW

    John Cornyn has collapsed into a mass of quavering jello in the face of Tea Party scorn, offering an “embrace” and, importantly to all the GOP candidates out there, writing a big fat check to O’Donnell.

    AKA “How John Cornyn learned to quit worrying and love the bomb.”

  80. 80.

    Cain

    @New Yorker:

    I hate to admit this, but I think O’Donnell is kinda cute. I mean, I never had the kind of starbursts about Sarah Palin that Rich Lowry did (it saved me some money on my dry-cleaning bills), but O’Donnell actually is attractive to me.

    me too, maybe I just am attracted to crazy people.

    cain

  81. 81.

    Cain

    @RalfW:

    AKA “How John Cornyn learned to quit worrying and love the bomb.”

    They have created a monster that is unstoppable.

    cain

  82. 82.

    artem1s

    O’Donnell also apparently denies evolution, which, I guess, given some of her viewpoints, is kind of understandable predictable.

    fixt. NOT understandable.

  83. 83.

    lol

    @mantis:

    Any bets on when the video is going to make it out and what’s going to be on it?

    My guess is two days after she loses and it features her getting double-teamed by pre-op transsexuals.

  84. 84.

    Citizen Alan

    It’s possible that the funniest thing about this (to me at least) is Mitt Freakin’ Romney racing to be the first person to endorse the 41-Year-Old Virgin after her primary victory. He really has descended into self-parody at this point. As someone once said about McCain, if Romney thought it would advance his political career to become a pirate, he’d show up at interviews wearing an eyepatch with a parrot on his shoulder.

  85. 85.

    New Yorker

    @Cain:

    Given that I had one ex-girlfriend sue me in small-claims court and had another who dumped me out of the blue only to cheat on her current boyfriend with me 2 months later, I may have that problem too.

  86. 86.

    Midnight Marauder

    @cleek:

    which is why i wince at all the celebrating i see here.

    Honestly, I don’t understand this position. We’re talking about a closed Republican primary in Delaware where a frothing band of nutjobs had the power to knock off the presumptive winner. That’s it. In the general, Coons has Castle voters breaking for him by 44%. More importantly, name me a race with a bonafide tea party republican that didn’t instantenously swing the prospects to the Democratic side? Jack Conway is running anywhere from down two points to dead-fucking-even with Rand Paul. Harry Reid is getting his living dead on via a 17 point swing to lead in Nevada. Ayotte and Lamontagne pretty much dragged each other down to the point that Hodes runs equally well against both of them. Meanwhile, Karl Rove has the base coming after him for a lack of deference for not fluffing the batshit insanity that is Christine O”Donnell.

    You goddamn right it’s time to celebrate. We’re going to have like 65 seats in the Senate after November. Fucking awesome.

  87. 87.

    Cain

    @New Yorker:

    Given that I had one ex-girlfriend sue me in small-claims court and had another who dumped me out of the blue only to cheat on her current boyfriend with me 2 months later, I may have that problem too.

    Noo, don’t have that problem. Although I did have a bit of a crazy gf. She saw racism everywhere and lied about whatever convos she was having wtih people. She had a physical disability which I think affected her mentally.

    cain

  88. 88.

    Cain

    @Midnight Marauder:

    You goddamn right it’s time to celebrate. We’re going to have like 65 seats in the Senate after November. Fucking awesome.

    I would love to see that. Anything to get Ben Nelson off the headlines. God, that guy makes me angry and his constituents make me angry too.

    cain

  90. 90.

    Anne Laurie

    @cmorenc:
    __

    Unfortunately, Romney’s either revealed that he was a slimy lizard all along (and we earlier misjudged him because he was momentarily wearing more progressive skin-of-convenience in the relatively more progressive political environment of Massachusetts), or else his ambitions to become President have metamorphosized him into a most repellent creature.

    Did you never see any of his gubernatorial campaign ads/interviews, or read any bios? Willard Romney is the classic sociopath, a nicely-dressed monster with a warm handshake and a great smile. There’s a reason his wife and kids all have the glassy-eyed stare common to political prisoners under totalitarian regimes and similar abuse victims.

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