Probably Erick Erickson’s best tweet ever (h/t reader A):
What’s worse than the Obama as is that some people really like it. We do live in a fallen, depraved world destined for the fire.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 25, 2012
He means “ad”, there’s some new Obama ad he hates.
me
Erick fell in to a burning ring of fire.
The Other Chuck
Sweet sweet wingnut tears.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Basically the same thing we say about Romney and his followers, though we have evidence to back up our claim. They have the “he raised taxes” “he reduced oil drilling” “he’s taking our guns” “his birth certificate is fake”.
beltane
Do we condemn the Obama as is or the Obama that is to be?
This must be a great ad, can’t wait to see it.
Democrat Partisan Asshole
Nothing left, like I said on the last thread, save for self-pity, a used-car salesman as their shining hope, and racism.
And the car up on blocks in the front yard.
I envy them nothing. Soon once again they’ll be the losers that they always have been and always will be, as progress and the march of history shall not be denied.
Jeff Spender
Are we sure he didn’t mean “ass”?
I mean, really sure?
geg6
Heh.
Mark S.
Are you saying that Obama didn’t come with a warranty?
PsiFighter37
He’s right. I’ve lived an incredibly depraved existence since January 20, 2009. Don’t think I’ve been praying hard enough to Richard Mourdock’s God.
me
This is the ad. Apparently, EE is a self-righteous, humorless fuck.
JoyfulA
@pastordan has already delivered a sermon of rebuke to ee.
Baud
For the GOP, it’s fire; for us, it’s the meteor. I’m sure there is some significance there.
Left Coast Tom
It’s a shame that literacy has passed by Erick Son Of Erick. I wonder what CNN thinks of their on-air employees being illiterate.
Realist
Romney will win. Quite possibly going away, baby!
Comrade Mary
It’s this ad with Lena Dunham. I like it.
But the Freepers have downvoted it a lot, so, hey, throw an upvote its way if you can.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Some of the responses to that particular tweet by the usual suspects were funny as shit.
Meanwhile, apparently a storm will hit here next week at full moon AND high tide. I’m the third house in from the harbor.
Time to pack, just in case. Be safe, Eastern-seaboard Juicers.
beltane
@PsiFighter37: You really do not want to attract the love of Richard Mourdock’s God. They say he likes to rape those he loves and force them to bear his progeny, kind of like Satan in Rosemary’s Baby.
Culture of Truth
enough with the sexy talk
Realist
RUMOR: Purple Strategies polls tomorrow in VA, CO, NH, OH, and WI will show surprisingly good results for Romney/Ryan.
Culture of Truth
It’s like the beginning a Dan Brown novel.
piratedan
yeah, maybe Erwick would move to a place more in line with his ethic and moral coda, like Albania or Communist China.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
It is apparently okay for wingnuts to call the president a retard and claim he’s the anti-Christ and all sorts of other vile things. Oh, but if it’s a Republican in office, then we all must respect the office and blargh-blargh-blargh. Can you imagine if — supposing the worst — Romney wins, and then on day one some high-ranking Dem declares it his job to make sure Romney is a one-term president? Oh, the outrage, the horror!
Culture of Truth
Some say the world will end in fire, some say with mice.
Anya
Erick Erickson is such a disgrace and a symbol of how far CNN has fallen.
geg6
@The Other Chuck:
This is what I think. Erick von Erick is just getting ready for the wailing we’ll hear from his general direction on 11/7.
Meanwhile, I really think the whole radio silence strategy by Mittens at this point of the campaign may be a big strategic mistake. Yeah, he’s out on the road but, again, he’s pissing off the Villagers, looking cowardly to all but the nutjobs who are voting for him no matter what, and cutting himself off from the chance to convince the twelve undecided voters left in America that they should vote for him. Is the Mourdock thing the last thing he wants those people to remember when they go to vote?
Spaghetti Lee
These Republicans are just constantly offended by everything, aren’t they? It’s always ‘disgraceful’ this and ‘shameful’ that.
Tonal Crow
With luck, it’ll be Erick’s Precious that goes into the Fire.
kc
No, he meant the Obama, like such as …
fuckwit
What consoles me is what Michael Moore said in the early chapters of his book “Stupid White Men”: the viciousness and bile we’re getting from the FAUX-mongers is the last, desperate, murderous howl of a cornered and dying animal.
Demographics. Straight, white, christian men. On the way out. Demographically consigned to No Longer Being The Boss Of Everyone.
And some of them– particularly those of the 1% rich variety– hate it. Hate, with all the violence it entails. They do not want to give up the reins of power. They will fight as hard and as dirty and desperately as they can.
But the future is clear: it is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, nonreligious, gender-neutral world.
This is their last election. Expect them to pull out ALL the stops. Don’t let them get away with it.
Villago Delenda Est
Prime example of the fallen, depraved world we live in:
Fuck Son of Fuckerson, himself.
Unsympathetic
I assume by “fire” Erick means “Democratic presidential terms” – and I’ll not change my assumption until I see ten years of Romney’s tax returns!
magurakurin
As predicted down below, “the well-tanned and rested” meme of skewed polls is back just as Silver’s 528 has Obama at 72%. Who needs MSNBC, CNN or any other pundit when you have the most prescient commentators evah, right here.
Rmoney Memo Unskews Ohio Poll
Mark B.
I don’t see how people with a world view like that can even get out of bed in the morning. Why doesn’t he just get therapy for his serious emotional issues?
Mark S.
@me:
Jesus, that ad is what is destining us for brimstone? I’m sure erickson didn’t get that worked up when it came out that we were torturing people.
Villago Delenda Est
@Realist:
I’m going to enjoy your pain come November 7th, asswipe.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Speaking of ads, they’re re-releasing the 47% ads, perfect timing, IMHO.
@Spaghetti Lee: You see some nutbag OH state rep introduced Romney by calling Obama “disgusting“. Sarah Boxer. I’m guessing no relation to Barbara.
Tonal Crow
@me:
That had me laughing out loud. What a great ad!
What Republican is not?
Comrade Mary
@Culture of Truth:
God gave Noah the rainbow sign
“No more water but fire next time”
Pharaoh’s army got drowned
O Erick don’t you weep
Realist
Shorter @fuckwit:
SOON WE WILL BAPTIZE ALL AMERICA IN THE NAME OF THE RISING MULTIRACIAL WORKER’S WYMNQUEERSPIRIT!
Mike in NC
@The Other Chuck: I hope these clowns have a good supply of crying towels to use after November 7th.
Warren Terra
The ad’s not really to my taste – some of the extended metaphor is a bit too much for me – but it’s hardly the end of the world.
I was just a bit disappointed that Lena Dunham doesn’t seem to be related to Obama. Does Obama have any first cousins on the Dunham side? We saw a little of his great-uncle in 2008, and really nothing from anyone else in his family.
MikeJ
@magurakurin: Didja see the big laff of the morning? The unskewed polls guy predicts Romney getting 360-something EVs. Which is about 190 off.
James Gary
DougJ: As ever, just letting you know someone picked up on the lyric reference (G. Parsons/Flying Burrito Bros. in this case.)
(Or else, everybody noticed it and they all consider it too obvious to bother commenting. Hard to tell these days, what with the Google and all.)
Realist
@magurakurin:
You mean the same meme Democrat hacks have been pushing for the last three weeks?
Warren Terra
@Realist:
Dude, there’s trolling us with your pro-Romney burbling, and then there’s ranting in allcaps about miscegenation and the Gay Menace, which your last comment seemed to at the very least get awfully close to.
Mark B.
@me: That’s actually kind of a sweet ad. Attractive young woman too, although I don’t know why young people have so much ink these days. And get off my lawn!
Redshift
@geg6: Maybe they finally figured out that the more people see of Romney, the less they like him. Hiding him won’t make things better, but it may keep them from getting worse. I doubt they’ve thought of anything to make up for that, since UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH doesn’t seem to be doing the trick.
Jeff Spender
@Mark B.:
I’m a 24 year old geek/nerd who loves the young ladies to have some ink.
That’s some sexy stuff right there.
Realist
@Warren Terra:
THE TRANSWYMYNSPIRITZ IZ RISING!
Amirite?
Baud
So Erick found out Cole’s got a new ladyfriend, eh?
Warren Terra
@MikeJ:
It’s simple, you see:
1) There are 538 electoral votes.
2) Nate Silver predicts Obama will get 290 of them.
3) Ah, but those are Black electoral votes, and only worth 3/5 of real electoral votes.
4) 3/5 of 290 is 174.
5) 538-174=364
6) QED, we have your guy’s prediction, to within a ~1% margin of error.
redshirt
“I can’t tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues, and a preacher on the Old Time Gospel Hour, stealing money from the sick and the old.”
Redshift
@Baud:
Preference for religious vs. secular explanations?
aimai
@Culture of Truth:
I love you.
aimai
JoyfulA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sarah Boxer was the CBS reporter who tweeted the story.
NonyNony
@me:
Well yeah, but we already knew that didn’t we?
He’s a conservative talk radio host. One of the prerequisites for having a conservative talk radio show is that you have to be an unfunny, self-righteous asshole. Erickson is a humorless, self-righteous asshole, which is close enough for anyone looking for their 10 minutes of hate.
MikeJ
@Warren Terra: I would like to state for the record that he is in no way, “my guy”.
Redshift
@beltane:
“I’ll pray for you.”
“Whatever you pray to, I don’t want to be brought to its attention!”
geg6
@Redshift:
That, to me, is the shocking thing about this election. The UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH! seems to not really have had the effect that the wingnuts on the SCOTUS thought it would. Most likely because it was so badly used. No strategy at all. And the really cheesy sub-Sham Wow one is the worst of all. And Rmoney’s team seems to not understand what “ground game” means. Which warms the cockles of my heart, I must say.
elmo
@fuckwit:
The clinical term for it is “extinction burst.”
JCJ
I have actually received some polling telephone calls this month (I am old and have a land line.) One of the questions was for whom would I vote to which I replied President Obama. The next question was how likely was I to change my vote. I replied that I would only change my vote if I suffered a massive head injury with significant brain damage and was no longer able to think coherently. Well, I didn’t suffer such an injury and voted today for the president as well as Tammy Baldwin.
magurakurin
@MikeJ:
missed that. 360? Christ, these jokers don’t even try to make plausible lies. Don’t they know about the EV interactive maps online. If we give Rmoney all nine of the “swing” states(I don’t really believe WI is in that group) we still need to give Rmoney, MI, PA, MN, NM, and ME to get to 356. Where do we get the last 4? VT(oops that’s only 3)? OR? RI?????
Yutsano
@Warren Terra: I honestly would like to have seen more from his sister. She actually is a great advocate for her when she sits down and speaks about him. She is, however, entitiled to her private life.
Michael G
In his defense, the existence of Honey Boo Boo does make me agree with his second sentence.
Tonal Crow
@Baud:
If you’re talking the end of human civilization, then I’m betting on mass starvation from anthropogenic climate-change induced drought.
If you’re talking the end of humans, period, then yeah, meteor-induced instant climate change.
If you’re talking the end of earth, then you’ll have to wait for the sun to go red giant.
Otherwise, two words: heat death.
kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Sarah Boxer is the reporter who tweeted it.
The state reps name is Lynn Watchman. He’s famous for introducing an anti-abortion bill that Right to Life opposed. It was too radical for them.
He’s also famous for owning a water bottling company and pushing thru a bill that would destroy Lake Eirie (and violate a treaty with Canada) because it allowed huge water withdrawals for industry.
THAT was so radical Kasich vetoed it.
Romney’s friend is a an anti-abortion crusader and an absolute crook. He was absolutely pilloried for the Lake Erie bill, becausevit so obviously benefitted his own bank account.
magurakurin
@Warren Terra:
LOL
very witty Wilde…very, very, witty
Brian R.
I like how the guy who called David Souter a “goat-fucking child molester” is tut-tutting about poor manners.
Realist
Obama will bring us into a glorious future of gender-neutral bathrooms, transgender elementary school teachers, taxpayer-funded sex change surgery, abolition of all racial and sexual boundaries…right guys ? Is that your glorious bright future?
fuddmain
@Realist: Works for me.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
I believe the “data” realist is talking about will show that Romney is only behind by 180K votes, rather than the expected 190K votes. Obama will be doomed for sure.
Beth in VA
All this shows is that the Repub’s minds are in gutter. Consider: it could be a first kiss, a first date, a first husband…
Brian R.
@Realist:
Wow, your flopsweat is delicious.
And nice job barely concealing the racism.
piratedan
well this morning, Joe Scar was doing his “realistic” breakdown, giving Romney the following: Fla, NC, Va, NH and Colorado but couldn’t see his way clear to offer up Ohio, Iowa and Wis…naturally Chuckles the Toad indicated that Republicans are confident that their collective momentum is a real thing because they believe that it is so, essentially reinforcing the right echo chamber theme.
I really wish that the DNC had run a few ads reminding folks of the unprecedented R obstructionism, hanging them on their own words… McConnell declaration that Obama being a one term president, the utter lack of any jobs bills, the tactic of higher unemployment now meant continued failure of Obama’s attempts to fix the economy, making him look bad being paramount to the wellbeing of the people.
Something like that might have helped in the task of taking back the house
Yutsano
@fuddmain: Not feeding the troll (directly) but that’s not a bad pluralistic society honestly. Worked pretty well for the Romans for quite a time.
elmo
@Realist:
Okay, now I’m sure it’s a spoof.
Bobby Thomson
Plagiarism!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JoyfulA: @kay: D’oh!
Democrat Partisan Asshole
Anyone notice that, right after the veep debate, the Romney campaign has quietly stuffed Paul Ryan into a box and sent him to an undisclosed location?
Haven’t seen Screech anywhere since then. Course, I ain’t looking too hard.
The Dangerman
@Realist:
Abolition of all pies?! WTF?!
geg6
@Realist:
With a few tweaks, sounds good to me.
Brian R.
@Realist:
That’s just so unbelievably retarded I wanted to repost it for posterity.
It’s like someone took Free Republic, filtered it through a vial of LSD made out of Human Events’ editors tears, and then mainlined it into the John Birch Society. Just pure, uncut conservative paranoia.
Tonal Crow
@Realist:
And public goat-fucking. Don’t forget the public goat-fucking. Oh yeah, and plagues of locusts, and golden hemorrhoids, and seas turning into blood, and blood turning into water, and snakes, lots of snakes. And lakes of fire, too also too! Don’t look back, or you’ll be a pillar of salt!
Yutsano
@The Dangerman: You can have my pie when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
/Charleton
daveNYC
It’s an OK ad. Goes a little long, like an SNL skit where we’ve already gotten the joke but they’re going to keep flogging it for another five minutes. The harbinger of our civilization’s doom it isn’t.
I’m not sure how effective the ad is though. It’s not exactly a GOTV vibe going on, but I’m not sure that the Girls demographic is one that needs to be convinced to vote for BO (as opposed to getting off their duffs and just voting, period).
magurakurin
@fuddmain:
ditto.
burnspbesq
@James Gary:
I’m waiting for a photo of Doug in a green mohair suit.
Second verse is kinda eerily prescient in light of what we know about climate change.
chopper
man, this as by the blah guy is really pissing me off.
Hill Dweller
@Democrat Partisan Asshole: Maddow had a segment on Ryan flying under the radar.
Apparently, Ryan is attending a fundraiser with Glenn Beck and Dick Cheney in Texas tonight.
Why is the Willard campaign still holding fundraisers at this late date?
some guy
@Realist:
sounds good, especially the abolition part.
ranchandsyrup
@Hill Dweller: Always be griftin’.
redshirt
At this point anyone could register a new name with a different email address and pretend to be Taco.
TRACK ROMNEY BOUGHT ALL THE VOTING MACHINES!
Higgs Boson's Mate
Erick is preparing the market for his line of Conspiracy Crying Towels – Pre-order yours today!
The wingers like losing almost as much as they do winning. Winning leads to embarrassments like G.W. Bush. Losing opens the door to four years of babbling about stolen elections, secession (FSM, please!), and Second Amendment solutions.
geg6
@Democrat Partisan Asshole:
Oh, he gave a big speech about poverty yesterday. I refused to read about it because, well, seriously? Who needs to hear the deep thoughts of Paul “Ayn Rand’s Pool Boy” Ryan on poverty.
Yutsano
@Hill Dweller:
Because they’ve been fudging their numbers. All those big fundraising wins included money raised for the RNC and the various Congressional committees but not funds Willard had direct access to. Since they’ve been blowing their wads (eww) on expensive ads and nothing else they have massive fundage to make up for the final push.
some guy
why has the wave of UNLINMITED CORPORATE CASH produced an Ohio electorate that prefers the blah guy by 5+ points?
Redshift
@geg6: Well, it’s hard to know how much effect it had, because we don’t know where we would have been without it. Romney really is a terrible candidate, so it’s possible it’s only close because of Citizens United.
However, I think it’s more likely that it’s a combination of saturation, bad strategy, and the fact that a SuperPAC isn’t a political campaign. I’m also surprised that all that money seemed to go for nothing but ads. You would think that even with having to pay for salaries and overhead, they could have bought a decent ground campaign, but that seems to have been undermined by nearly every Republican campaign-support company being run by grifters.
In any case, we shouldn’t assume that we’re safe. We won’t always have a candidate with massive fundraising pull, and the Dark Side may well learn from this experience.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Hill Dweller:
So they can pay Romney’s sons some monster consulting fees in the last days?
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
The far-right pundits, politicians, and pin-heads seem to all by trying to out-do each other in rage and offensiveness. I think they know that Romney is going down and the rage is just spilling out unchecked. It’s actually interesting theater if you can not get too upset about the things they say. The question is, will we see some right-wing domestic terrorist go off a la Terry Nichols? Scary times….
TexasMango
Good God. The troll has changed its name twice in one day. It is persistent.
Jamie
apparently we’re gonna have to suffer through a never ending plague of self righteous Christianist pricks.
some guy
@Hill Dweller:
Because Ryan’s position on rape and rapists and the babies they and God create is pretty much the same as Akin and Mordor-orc, so keeping him on the down low may be the best thing to do right now.
Democrat Partisan Asshole
@geg6:
@Hill Dweller:
Like I said, I wasn’t looking too hard. Thanks, guys.
elmo
@Hill Dweller:
You’re seriously asking why Mitt Romney is taking advantage of the final days of a limited-time opportunity to snap up wads and wads of readily available cash?
You’re new here, I take it?
MikeJ
@magurakurin: Here’s his map. Sorry I don’t recall who posted it this morning.
He has Orygun going 52-46 Romney. A state Obama won with 57%. Also too, he thinks Washington is within 2 points. The closest poll I’ve seen is 9, then Rasmussen at 12, then local TV station has it at 20.
muddy
@Democrat Partisan Asshole:
There was the fake washing of kettles at the homeless shelter. In an apron so clean and white it would near blind you. Possibly the apron was a racial metaphor.
Anya
@Yutsano: Here’s a nice video of Maya talking about her brother.
This is another sweet video. She’s a beautiful woman. But most of all she seems very authentic.
Scott S.
@Realist: Don’t be afraid of your blossoming sexuality.
Democrat Partisan Asshole
@TexasMango: What does everyone expect? They keep feeding it.
Just like a cat. You feed it, you own it.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Okay now THAT’S funny. Willard trying to win in the People’s Republic of Seattle? Comedic gold.
Redshift
@geg6:
You can go read Steve Benen on Maddowblog if you want a quick summary of the lies and misrepresentations. IIRC, it was the usual round of “I care about these things and I’ll neglect to mention that I’m against government actually doing anything about them.”
It’s kind of weird how much they kept it under wraps, though. Maybe they’re trying a last-ditch effort to resurrect the old pre-video, pre-Internet strategy of saying different things in different places and hoping no one connects the dots.
Soonergrunt
It’s the Lena Dunham ad for Obama.
different-church-lady
@me: He went down, down, down, and the flames went higher…
(WTF people? 112 comments and nobody does the response to #1?)
redshirt
I, too, am down with the hipping and the hopping.
Joseph Nobles
The son of Erick is so scandalized by this ad, he’s now retweeting parodies of the ad that make the same joke, essentially.
Hey, Erick, I believe hypocrisy is covered in Romans chapter 2.
David Davidson
The more I see Erick on TV, the more I think he looks like a hydrocephalic tomato.
Brian R.
So the Republicans are going to call attention to how much they’re out of step with young women, especially when it comes to issues of sexuality?
Yeah, that’ll work out well.
NonyNony
@geg6:
Yeah, well – I don’t think that’s all there is to it.
Let’s imagine, for a moment, that you are a typical Republican operative. You’ve been raised since you were a young College Republican in an environment where the surest way to the top of the heap is to be the biggest liar and the sneakiest cheat. In an environment soaked in the ideology that you take what you can when you can, that Randian Supermen deserve what they have and that if you can grab it it’s yours. Let Natural Selection churn for a while and watch what comes up to the top.
Now give those guys control over large heaps of money that have almost no oversight.
Yeah. That sounds like a REALLY GOOD idea, doesn’t it? I wonder where all of those piles of money have gone now….
fuddmain
@Soonergrunt: We’re going to burn for that? I was expecting, at the least, a little nipple action. Totes disappointed.
elmo
@different-church-lady:
I WAS TRYING TO KILL THE EARWORM GAAAHHHHH
That’s it, I am never going to get to sleep now. I *hate* that song.
muddy
The thing with the young people and their ink is that they just can’t imagine a day when their skin won’t fit regardless of how fit they are.
Metrosexual Manichean Monster DougJ
@James Gary:
Thanks!
Democrat Partisan Asshole
@MikeJ: I saw that on Unhinged Voting this morning. I posted about their methodology, or more accurately their lack of anything resembling one. It was the Oregon thing that really got me. Oregon for Romney? That is never going to happen. I’d have been more likely to believe Washington state. But Oregon? Christ, might as well predict San Francisco will go for Romney as well. None of this half measures shit. Smoke ALL the fucking crack.
beltane
@Brian R.: Those young ladies should just shut up and obey their fathers until they are married at which time they should just shut up and obey their husbands.
magurakurin
@MikeJ:
that’s absolutely delusional. In what conceivable alternate reality would Portland, OR go red but in the same election cycle Portland, ME is blue?
They might as well just go full-Mondale and give Obama only Illinois…or better yet just Hawaii.
sad and pathetic.
Cacti
@Realist:
Your preferred candidate wears magic underwear.
different-church-lady
@elmo: I have no sympathy for you: today I heard “All The Girls I’ve Loved Before” for the first time in 20 years and it WILL… NOT… GO… AWAY…
Ring of Fire seems like harps and halos by comparison.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
@Democrat Partisan Asshole: Has Political Observer changed his name to Realist? I haven’t seen PO pop up in a day or so….
Mark S.
@MikeJ:
I really hope somebody interviews that unskewed poll guy after the election.
Soonergrunt
@fuddmain: I know, right? You’d think the guy who called a SCOTUS Justice a “goat-fucking child molester” would have a little bit more…well…balls than that.
different-church-lady
@muddy: I kept trying to listen to what she was saying, but I my brain kept going, “What the hell is that thing on her arm?”
NonyNony
@Democrat Partisan Asshole:
You know, given how Romney’s team seems to actually believe the bullshit ideas that wingnuts fling around like monkeys with their poo, I wonder how much it would take them to become convinced that Oregon is “in play” and to spend some energy and money buying up ad time there.
Romney has already shown he’ll believe anything if it gets onto Fox News (see the debates).
Cacti
20-30 years down the road, Rmoney will be seen as the Nadir of the Reagan era Republican party, as it was in its death throes.
A yankee, Mormon that had literally nothing in common with confederate America, who they supported for the mere fact that he was white.
var
Hey wait, everybody. John Sununu got even closer to the Ni-Clang event horizon tonight. He even got Colin Powell in on it!
thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/25/1094211/romney-campaign-chair-colin-powell-endorsed-obama-becau…
freelancer
@MikeJ:
Holy shit that Electoral Map is funny. Like Delusions of Grandeur funny. Like don’t take the brown acid funny. Like the time the wingnuts had a forum about an an RPG wargame where Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Breitbart and a pantheon of conservative media “stars” were actually leading divisions in a military civil war against the liberals.
Anybody else remember that?
muddy
I looked at that map and laughed until I felt tired. I’m still chortling. Oh dear, I can’t stop I may be hysterical. It’s ridiculous when you get the “stop stop my belly hurts” and you are alone in the room. Kind of.
Mark S.
@Joseph Nobles:
Erick probably wishes his first sexual experience was with Ronald Reagan.
TheMightyTrowel
@Anya: 2nd video made me cry. she’s so proud of her brother!
Democrat Partisan Asshole
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.): He’s been through not one but two names since yesterday, when Political Observer died in a hail of buttsecks and transgendered bathrooms, and then his successor got killed while walking in front of a bus, because traffic signals are tools of Evuul Big Government and it’s a patriot’s duty to ignore them.
Villago Delenda Est
@Hill Dweller:
The election may be lost, but there’s still grifting to be done.
NonyNony
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):
I think PO got skewered when he pulled his bullshit in an actual informative post that Kay put up instead of in one of the usual snark-fests where trolls are more tolerated (or more to the point cultivated – fed and watered and treated with just the right amount of abuse to keep them coming back for more). I dunno if he got hit with a ban-hammer or if he just slunk off to change his pseud because he realized that Kay might hunt him down and eviscerate him. But PO seemed to disappear after that and some new names started cropping up with his schtick (so I assumed he’d been ban-hammered).
gwangung
@Brian R.: 11-dimensional chess move, no doubt.
Jamey
@me: @Realist: The farther away he goes, the better. (Like maybe to Kolob.) … Just as long as he takes you.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
@Soonergrunt: I like it! I think the ad will resonate with a lot of the college-aged people! Thanks for the link!
redshirt
@Democrat Partisan Asshole: LOL. Crosswalks = OBAMANATION! Don’t Jaywalk on Me (Bro)!
Jamey
@Mark S.: Instead, it was with Donald Regan. Dude never even took off his wing-tips.
NonyNony
@Cacti:
I’m saving a link to this comment. So that four years from now I can dredge it up and ask you if you REALLY think that Romney is the nadir.
The nadir of the Republican Party led by the ghost of Ronald Reagan is like Peak Wingnut – theoretically possible but not likely in my lifetime. The Mess That Reagan Left Us isn’t going to hit rock bottom until it crashes and splinters into a thousand pieces. It will survive this election and inflict someone even worse than Romney on us next time around.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So… the MSM has to notice, now, right? As always, I have to note for the record that I have little use for Powell, but he’s the Jed Bartlett of the Village, the President That Should Be.
Somewhat ironic sidenote: Tweety, who may know what he’s talking about here, says this hateful troll is barnstorming for Willard because he wants to be Ambassador to the Vatican.
Peej
@NonyNony: hookers and drugs, of course.
clayton
Clinton campaigning for the Dem seeking to take Ron Paul’s seat is delicious.
Don’t count Texas out yet — we may sway the popular vote.
i can dream. right?
NonyNony
@Peej:
Too banal. We’re talking Republicans here after all – less hookers and drugs and more wetsuits and dildos.
magurakurin
@freelancer:
Did it go down like this blast from the distant past, epic fail Youtube video
goddamnit Leroy
Cacti
@NonyNony:
There could be someone more wingnutty than Romney, but Mittens has been a unique politician in my lifetime.
I’ve never seen anyone some completely devoid of scruples, principles, or loyalty to any cause other than his own ambition to be POTUS, than one Willard Mitt Romney. The “God Party” has nominated a man with no soul to top their ticket.
I hear he’s a throwback to Nixon, but I’m a Ford Administration baby, so I wouldn’t know.
Lurking Canadian
@Realist: You’ve finally found something on which we agree. I think Romney could make a lot of people happy by going away. You should go with him.
Democrat Partisan Asshole
@Cacti: For all of his faults, there was one thing I loved about Nixon.
He absolutely hated the rich. He was born poor and he never forgot it.
Plus, save for the criminality, he was a pretty competent president. I do not believe that Romney would be anything but the same bumbling incompetent we’ve seen for almost a decade now.
Jewish Steel
I have read that tweet 7 or 8 times and still it fills me with mirth.
Hawes
Is the Obama like the Hustle or the Twist? Can I learn it quickly and at my age? Will I look silly doing the Obama?
joel hanes
@clayton:
the Dem seeking to take Ron Paul’s seat
Rob Zerban.
It’s beginning to look as if he has a chance.
I donated here.
You could too.
Wouldn’t it be great if Paul Ryan lost two races in the same election ?
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Cacti:
Nixon had a genuine empathy for the rest of us. Democrat Partisan Asshole was correct; Nixon came from a fairly poor home and he never forgot it.
Nixon’s proposed ACA went further than the current HCA.
His own venality and insecurity tripped him up.
Ash Can
I’m sorry, you guys, but RealIst has been awesome in this thread. Purple Haze polls? Hallucinogenic RW talking points? I still think it’s actually DougJ or SPT, and I do agree that when it gets to be too much of a distraction a time-out is entirely called for. But man oh man, this was some funny stuff tonight.
tBone
@NonyNony:
When they finally dig up Reagan’s moldering corpse and wire it up Weekend at Bernie’s-style, that’s when we’ll have hit the nadir. Maybe.
Michael
@Realist: RUMOR: Purple Strategies polls tomorrow in VA, CO, NH, OH, and WI will show surprisingly good results for Romney/Ryan.
Over at Princeton Election Consortium:
LMAO.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
@Cacti: I agree, Cacti. And I also don’t think the Republican party has reached its nadir yet either. I think they’ll tack still further right. Steve King, Michelle Bachmann, Coulter, Beck, Limbaugh, et al — I don’t think it’s even possible to truly communicate with them anymore. When your opponent (Republicans) thinks that everything your believe and represent is evil, corrupt, and sinful, there’s no way to achieve any common ground. I don’t see the conservatives of this country putting forth a semmi-enlightened candidate again. Crap, I could even respect McCain for a little while till he picked Palin and I started to pay attention and learn that much of his biography was pretty much make-believe. Still, I could sort of respect his decorated war vet status. The crop this time around: Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Romney, Gingrich… Just imagine what buffoons they’ll trot out in 2016.
jibeaux
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: that’s a damn shame, because I doubt O is going to make him ambassador to the Vatican.
pseudonymous in nc
@piratedan:
You can’t run modern presidential campaigns that call out the fuckwittery of Congress. I wish it were so, and you could do it in the past, but when you have debate questions about how the president sets the price of gasoline, it’s fairly clear that the presiding narrative is that the chief executive of the republic is to be regarded as a supreme and absolute ruler.
pseudonymous in nc
@Yutsano:
And relying on dirty money superPACs, who get charged the full ad card and not the official campaign discount. One thing barely noted about the Obama campaign is that its budget is run as tight as a gnat’s sphincter, while the Rmoney-GOP-SuperPAC nexus blows it like Wall Streeters with fresh bonuses in a room full of coke and hookers.
Origuy
@different-church-lady:
I hate you now. I worked one summer in the office of my uncle’s auto parts store. The office manager liked country music and that was the summer when that song was a hit. I heard it four or five times a day.
Anya
@TheMightyTrowel: I know, right! That adoring look when she’s in the audience at the DNC listening to her brother’s speech is so moving. Aside from Michelle and the girls she’s the closest person to the president.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
@different-church-lady: How weird; I heard that damn song today, too. I think it may be my least favorite song ever. I think it was Julio’s crooning in particular that bugged me and the obnoxious lyrics. The whole song sounded like two guys bragging about all the women they’ve shagged and thinking, “Hey, chicks will dig how sensitive and appreciative we are!”
J R in WV
@Realist:
Actually, there have been gender-neutral toilets in public spaces for years now, so you can help your 4-y-o daughter, or your 70-y-o wife in the bathroom.
I actually am in favor of hiring elementary school teachers without regard to their gender.
Health care insurance should cover most health problems, and having the characteristics of the wrong sex sounds like a health problem.
Why do you think any normal person would be against any of the things you listed in your remark?
We did away with racial and sexual boundaries years ago, but you are in substantial denial, which is why you still can’t believe that the most important leader in the world is an African-American black man.
I don’t know why you’re so filled with hate, but sometimes electro-convulsive therapy can help people who have serious mental problems. Have you considered it? It might make you a happier and more balanced person.
Also, @joel hanes: Rob Zerban called me a year ago to ask for a donation. When I told him I couldn’t, because my wife was in ICU and I didn’t know if I would be bankrupt when she got out. He proceeded to talk with me for 20 minutes about how she was doing, how long we had been together (40 years) a regular conversation.
So then two months later, The candidate himself calls me to see how my wife was doing. She was home, with nurse visits each day because she still had a chest tube, which they never send someone home with, but they didn’t want her exposed to hospital-levels of infection. We talked for a while, he
wasis a great guy.Once the bills all came, and the insurance paid most of it, I was able to make a contribution, and he called and thanked me personally.
I’ve contributed a couple more times, he deserves all the help you guys can provide. Ryan is such an a-hole, and Rob Zerban is such a mensch, the people of Wisconsin don’t deserve Ryan, when Rob Zerban is willing to take the job.
I wish my vote would make more of a difference, but my state isn’t going to be a part of the national Democratic coalition this year. So I do what I can to help candidates who deserve my help, and who I think will benefit from it.
M. Bouffant
@freelancer: Wasn’t that a comic book, w/ imaginary world Sean Hannity?
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Ash Can:
Hell no. It’s not me. I keep dreaming of banning the fucker every time he appears just so we can see what names he comes up with. I may give in and do it in the week prior to the election.
Calming Influence
This old earthquake’s gonna put me in the poor house; it seems like this whole thread’s insane…
cactusjackwallace
@freelancer: I do in fact remember that. The Michelle Malkin brigade was my favorite part of the game. Maybe it would lead to Tbogg posting the video again!
SFAW
@Sarah, Proud and Tall:
Yeah, pretend like it’s not really you doing it. We know the routine/scam.
Next you’ll be trying to tell us DougJ doesn’t troll the wingtards and the neo-lib sites.
We’re onto you, kiddo.
Hugs!
Chris
Cause we got our recruits, in their green mohair suits……
TenguPhule
Please don’t give the GOP ideas.