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.
arguingwithsignposts
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.
Wag
You know
I can see the future
And it’s a place about 60 miles east of here
Where it’s light…..
cathyx
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.
General Stuck
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.
beltane
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.
dmsilev
Christ, what an ass she is:
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
Odie Hugh Manatee
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.
Nick
@dmsilev: Just another example of “Republicans and Democrats play by different rules”
Sly
Surely the Republicans will be saved from this negative ad blitz by a coterie of Jesus-Dolphins.
c u n d gulag
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?
Dennis SGMM
Noonan’s discovery of yet another dastardly Democratic plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids just screams “Pulitzer Prize.”
David
The Magic 8-Ball© told me the same thing!
Third Eye Open
@Sly: I like the way you think. But, I prefer to think of my savior expressing Peace Through Superior Fire-Power!
aimai
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
Dr. Squid
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.
beltane
@aimai: This tells me that Noonan is worried the ads will be effective. Noonan’s concern puts a smile on my face.
Montysano
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.
General Stuck
@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.
Mike in NC
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.
Admiral_Komack
“Noonan and Norquist: an awesome pair of frickin’ visionaries!”
Add Jane Hamsher and you’d have a threesome.
Linda Featheringill
@beltane:
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.
buckyblue
No one would have predicted…
agrippa
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.
GregB
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.
Anya
Noonan is a fake. Everything about her annoys me.
zattarra
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.
ThresherK
I hope Nooners has enough pearls left unclutched for the moment Grover realizes that Democrats spending money on ads results in excessive partisanship.
BGinCHI
Can we get someone to make a Grover Norquist plastic toy so that we can drown it in the bathtub?
ruemara
@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.
Michael
@BGinCHI:
Better yet, we drown Grover in a bathtub….
Midnight Marauder
Sometimes, it really is remarkable how truly horrid and vacuous American political discourse has become.
Uloborus
This has been another edition of: It’s OK If You’re A Republican.
BGinCHI
@Michael: I’m already working on my alibi.
Nick
@ruemara:
Oddly enough, those people running those ads, will likely not win.
Chris
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.
Corner Stone
@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.