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by Soonergrunt|  February 10, 201210:12 pm| 14 Comments

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I don’t have a lot to talk about, but I’m sure some of you all do.

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  1. 1.

    Raven

    February 10, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    Good night

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 10, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    Figured I’d throw you a comment after the big guy stepped on you, cause otherwise you’ll get nothing.

  3. 3.

    Soonergrunt

    February 10, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    :)
    Open thread–not like I was actually saying anything.

  4. 4.

    Chuck Butcher

    February 10, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    why the hell Ralph Reed, Abramoff’s hit boy, is on my TV opining about anything evades me, especially as he tries on the morality bullshit.

  5. 5.

    Linda Featheringill

    February 10, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    Brimelow, white supremacist of VDare, spoke at CPAC yesterday I guess. I had never heard of him but that doesn’t prove a whole lot.

    Anyway, I poked around a bit on VDare’s website and got some opinions from folks like Southern Poverty Law.

    Not a nice guy.

    Why is CPAC opening up to these guys? They are actually more than run-of-the-mill racist pigs. Some of them are no longer protofascist as they have already crossed the line.

    Is CPAC playing with fire? Or making a contract with the devil?

  6. 6.

    gnomedad

    February 10, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    The Prez helps a 8th-grade science fair winner shoot his marshmallow air cannon across the State Dining Room.

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 10, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    @Linda Featheringill:

    First, thanks for the open thread, SG, even though JC stomped all over you like Obama on the USCCB today.

    Apparently (and Charles over at LGF is on to this) they’ve decided to just say “fuck it” and embrace their not-so-inner outright racist. Just end all pretending that they are not precisely that.

  8. 8.

    David Koch

    February 10, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    PPP says Santorum tops Mittens in new national poll.

    Wingers can’t get enough of santorum.

  9. 9.

    Suffern ACE

    February 10, 2012 at 11:19 pm

    Oh lonely thread. I feel your pain. So open, yet stomped by the crowd. I will stand by you. For a site so devoted to pets, there is no love for the underdog thread. I’ll rad some Sylvia Plath to cheer you up.

  10. 10.

    ExurbanMom

    February 10, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    @gnomedad: The still photo of that, with a wide-eyed Obama clearly enjoying the show, is a keeper.

    I love that our president loves talking science with kids.

  11. 11.

    Viva BrisVegas

    February 10, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    @Linda Featheringill:

    Why is CPAC opening up to these guys?

    In wingnutspeak the c in covert is silent.

  12. 12.

    dead existentialist

    February 10, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    @gnomedad: He’s gonna use that sucker on Newt

  13. 13.

    piratedan

    February 10, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    @Chuck Butcher: Ralph Reed, aka Senor Sweatshop

  14. 14.

    Maude

    February 10, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    The House passed an Insider Trading bill that says if a Republican does it, it’s okay, but if a Democrat does it, it is against the law.

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