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You are here: Home / Grover Norquist can see the future!

Grover Norquist can see the future!

by DougJ|  October 2, 20109:16 am| 36 Comments

This post is in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now

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This Nooner gem via Steve M. made me laugh:

The Democrats have begun what Grover Norquist predicted a month ago. They saved their money for the end of the campaign and have begun running negative ads.

Can you imagine that? That is only what every incumbent does in every close race.

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  1. 1.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 2, 2010 at 9:19 am

    Maybe Nooners should just walk on by …

    Seriously for a moment, did anyone *not* believe the Dems would ramp up their campaigning after Labor Day? Are such “water is wet, sky is blue” pronouncements all that it takes to be considered a serious pundit these days?

    That’s a rhetorical question, btw.

  2. 2.

    Wag

    October 2, 2010 at 9:22 am

    You know
    I can see the future
    And it’s a place about 60 miles east of here
    Where it’s light…..

  3. 3.

    cathyx

    October 2, 2010 at 9:25 am

    In Oregon and Washington, the republican ads have run all summer. The democrats ads just started ramping up. I’m already sick of seeing them on every commercial break and it’s still more than a month from elections. I think I’ll start a new book.

  4. 4.

    General Stuck

    October 2, 2010 at 9:35 am

    There is enough specious bullshit in this dopus to fuel a mission to mars, and back. And Jane Hamsher, teh base? And I loved the sly tying in of Norquist to the mix with Lady Jane. Fucking firebaggers, like rain on your wedding day.

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    beltane

    October 2, 2010 at 9:36 am

    Everyone knows the Republicans are complete and total strangers to negative ads. The Democrats should be grateful they are permitted to run any ads at all as political advertising really ought to be limited to RealAmericans such as billionaires, large corporations, and shadowy groups with ties to foreign governments.

    God, that Peggy Noonan is an idiot.

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    October 2, 2010 at 9:38 am

    Christ, what an ass she is:

    But this year, with some exceptions and for obvious reasons, it appears to be largely a Democratic game. At this point in history, with America teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, negative advertising is even more destructive, more actually wicked, than it was in the past.

    Yes, because the Republicans have been nothing but sweetness, light, and positivity over the last several years.

    On a related note, I am very disappointed. The Google ad-o-matic has coughed up a “Illinois early voting” ad with the slogan “Vote Early, Be Happy”. C’mon people, where’s your sense of Illinois history? Every Chicagoan knows that it is “Vote Early, Vote Often”.

    dms

  7. 7.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    October 2, 2010 at 9:38 am

    Dog bites man, water is wet and Wall Street is run by crooks.

    What’s new?

    @General Stuck:

    I saw Calamity Jane on O’Donnell’s new show and had to laugh at that. He keeps that up and he’ll lose me real fast.

  8. 8.

    Nick

    October 2, 2010 at 9:40 am

    @dmsilev: Just another example of “Republicans and Democrats play by different rules”

  9. 9.

    Sly

    October 2, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Surely the Republicans will be saved from this negative ad blitz by a coterie of Jesus-Dolphins.

  10. 10.

    c u n d gulag

    October 2, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Nooner’s is that ‘gin-soaked barroom Queen’ that the Stones sang about. Except she’s moved from Memphis to DC.
    I bet she had a plaster cast make of Ol’ Dutch Reagans semi-stiff little dick, and she strokes it as she writes her insipid screeds about how Republicans are manly men, and the women are womanly, yet manly, and how all Democrats are pussies whose only task in life is to prevent Randian Valhalla from rising above the Potomac.
    Have another double gin martini, you drunken old has-been hag. Or is 6 your limit for the morning?

  11. 11.

    Dennis SGMM

    October 2, 2010 at 9:58 am

    Noonan’s discovery of yet another dastardly Democratic plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids just screams “Pulitzer Prize.”

  12. 12.

    David

    October 2, 2010 at 9:59 am

    The Magic 8-Ball© told me the same thing!

  13. 13.

    Third Eye Open

    October 2, 2010 at 9:59 am

    @Sly: I like the way you think. But, I prefer to think of my savior expressing Peace Through Superior Fire-Power!

  14. 14.

    aimai

    October 2, 2010 at 10:01 am

    I particularly liked the evil implied in “they saved their money…”–I thought thrift was a very republican virtue? Wouldn’t it have been worse if they’d just been profligatly and liberally throwing their money away early in the election cycle? God, there’s just no pleasing some people!

    aimai

  15. 15.

    Dr. Squid

    October 2, 2010 at 10:04 am

    I predict that the GOP will get crazier as the month goes on.

    Now gimme half a million. Grover Norquist seems to get that for the same thing.

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    beltane

    October 2, 2010 at 10:06 am

    @aimai: This tells me that Noonan is worried the ads will be effective. Noonan’s concern puts a smile on my face.

  17. 17.

    Montysano

    October 2, 2010 at 10:08 am

    The news cycle is now so fast and furious, and the Murkin attention span so short, why even start campaigning until about 30 days out? Everything that happened previously is now lost down the Memory Hole.

  18. 18.

    General Stuck

    October 2, 2010 at 10:09 am

    @beltane: She is smart enough to know the shadow of George Bush is still about, and all dems have to do is open the blinds to see it cast upon the thoroughly vacuous wingnut revival.

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    Mike in NC

    October 2, 2010 at 10:13 am

    Noonan and Norquist: an awesome pair of frickin’ visionaries! Without that sweet wingnut welfare they’d be sharing a cardboard box in a Georgetown alleyway, knocking back Thunderbird and swapping memories of The Gipper.

  20. 20.

    Admiral_Komack

    October 2, 2010 at 10:21 am

    “Noonan and Norquist: an awesome pair of frickin’ visionaries!”

    Add Jane Hamsher and you’d have a threesome.

  21. 21.

    Linda Featheringill

    October 2, 2010 at 10:39 am

    @beltane:

    This tells me that Noonan is worried the ads will be effective. Noonan’s concern puts a smile on my face.

    And maybe somebody figured out that the Republicans were ahead of the race because they started running before anyone else did.

    What’s with those people who thought you could predict a political race months before the actual election? A lot can happen during a political campaign, and it usually does.

    We’re just getting started. And yes, we’re going to fight.

    Edited for clarity.

  22. 22.

    buckyblue

    October 2, 2010 at 10:49 am

    No one would have predicted…

  23. 23.

    agrippa

    October 2, 2010 at 10:54 am

    There is an election in a month. One must expect a lot of tub thumping. Some of it may be interesting or amusing; some of it may be negative.

    Two amusing examples of negative, from the election for President of Texas:

    Houston called Burnett a “hog thief”. Not a horse thief, a hog thief. Says a lot about Burnett.

    Another: Better Houston drunk in a ditch than either Lamar or Burnett sober.
    I would like to hear more of that; make the campaign more interesting.

    Norquist and Noonan and Hamsher [ objectively speaking, a republican] will do their fair share of tub thumping.

  24. 24.

    GregB

    October 2, 2010 at 11:04 am

    Peggy’s base has been running around mocking Obama’s children, Michelle Obama’s rear-end and President Obama’s patriotism, citizenship, manhood and loyalty for two fucking years and she’s now upset about meanies?

    What a fucking asshole.

  25. 25.

    Anya

    October 2, 2010 at 11:14 am

    Noonan is a fake. Everything about her annoys me.

  26. 26.

    zattarra

    October 2, 2010 at 11:20 am

    I made the mistake of clicking over to the comment section of the article. Oh my. It is amazing the amount of disconnect there. How do you comment about the mean, crass liberals and their poor tone and discourse in such language. Something seems to be missing in the logic string there.

  27. 27.

    ThresherK

    October 2, 2010 at 11:52 am

    I hope Nooners has enough pearls left unclutched for the moment Grover realizes that Democrats spending money on ads results in excessive partisanship.

  28. 28.

    BGinCHI

    October 2, 2010 at 12:45 pm

    Can we get someone to make a Grover Norquist plastic toy so that we can drown it in the bathtub?

  29. 29.

    ruemara

    October 2, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:
    Have you watched Rachel Maddow for the past 2 weeks? She seems to believe that Democrats should be out there matching dollar for dollar ad buys with the far more flush with cash Republicans. I love her lots, but she’s sometimes part of the problem. Currently, she’s marveling that we have ads running that are combative and it’s under the headline that “Democrats may want to win”. Unbelievable.

  30. 30.

    Michael

    October 2, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Can we get someone to make a Grover Norquist plastic toy so that we can drown it in the bathtub?

    Better yet, we drown Grover in a bathtub….

  31. 31.

    Midnight Marauder

    October 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    Sometimes, it really is remarkable how truly horrid and vacuous American political discourse has become.

  32. 32.

    Uloborus

    October 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    This has been another edition of: It’s OK If You’re A Republican.

  33. 33.

    BGinCHI

    October 2, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    @Michael: I’m already working on my alibi.

  34. 34.

    Nick

    October 2, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    @ruemara:

    Currently, she’s marveling that we have ads running that are combative and it’s under the headline that “Democrats may want to win”. Unbelievable.

    Oddly enough, those people running those ads, will likely not win.

  35. 35.

    Chris

    October 2, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    “The Democrats have begun what Grover Norquist predicted a month ago. They saved their money for the end of the campaign and have begun running negative ads.”

    Can you imagine that? That is only what every incumbent does in every close race.

    Yeah, but when *Democrats* do it, they are being uncouth.

    Peggy Noonan just keeps walking that fine line between pearl-clutching concern troll and complete fucking dumbass.

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    October 2, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    @Michael: Besides the implicit moral issues with violence, the problem becomes that there are a lot more crazies on the other side just waiting for an excuse. And sometimes triggering that excuse themselves when they can’t take it anymore.
    IOW, to be worth it, we’d have to get a damn good lead.

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