“…when he picked Sarah Palin, he told the United States of America to go fuck itself.”
Yeah, pretty much.
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“…when he picked Sarah Palin, he told the United States of America to go fuck itself.”
Yeah, pretty much.
by Tim F| 61 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Stupidity
Words can’t describe the feeling of watching Republicans madly stabbing each other in the back while their party goes down in a tidal wave election. It’s like the last scene of a crappy cartoon like Thundercats where the stupid villians spend their last miserable moments pointlessly attacking each other. Apparently a six year old can’t feel as good about hating the designated bad guys if they show some dignity at the end.
To put it another way, victory + schadenfreude = win.
“Lashing out at past Republican Congresses instead of Pelosi and Reid, and echoing your opponent’s attacks on you instead of attacking your opponent, and spending 150,000 hard dollars on designer clothes when congressional Republicans are struggling for money, and when your senior campaign staff are blaming each other for the loss in The New York Times [Magazine] 10 days before the election, you’re not doing much to energize your supporters.
The fact is, when you’re the party standard-bearer, you have an obligation to fight to the finish. I think they can still win. But if they don’t think that, they need to look at how Bob Dole finished out his campaign in 1996 and not try to take down as many Republicans with them as they can. Instead of campaigning in Electoral College states, Dole was campaigning in places he knew he didn’t have a chance to beat Clinton, but where he could energize key House and Senate races. I think you’ll find these sentiments shared by MANY of my fellow Republican strategists.”
It won’t last. President Obama will give the rightwing a focus for their hate and fear. Even better, unlike us they won’t have to defend anything the government does. Every housefire and treed cat will be more evidence of Democrat perfidy. It will be, and I’m dead serious about this, wingnut blogger heaven. When stupid people to have their ideas put into practice, they have to explain why it failed (see vouchers, invading Iraq, privatizing government). In the future, with the Dems in charge of everything but the Idaho State Senate there won’t be much danger of that.
Meanwhile we liberals will discover that don’t all want the same thing. Your priority list won’t look like mine. Some people whose priorities conflict with some other people will declare that the other guys are as bad as the Republicans! 1!1!one!. Some bloggers will defend Obama’s inevitable bonehead moves, some of us won’t.
Thank god for the prospect of a very busy Obama DoJ.
This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Stupidity
The opening shots in the circular firing squad can be found here. Enjoy.
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by John Cole| 41 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Stupidity, Clown Shoes
About voter fraud:
John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states, it has emerged.
As the McCain camp attempts to tie Barack Obama to claims of registration irregularities by the activist group ACORN, campaign finance records detailing the payment to the firm of Nathan Sproul, investigated several times for fraud, threatens to derail that argument.
The documents show that a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party, made the payment to Lincoln Strategy, of which Mr Sproul is the managing partner, for the purposes of “voter registration”.
Mr Sproul has been investigated on numerous occasions for preventing Democrats from voting, destroying registration forms and leading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to leach the Democratic vote.
You could probably hear the primal scream as you read that- “B-B-B-B-UT WHAT ABOUT ACORN!!?!!”
Blow it out your hindquarters, wingnuts. Only one arrest this election cycle for fraud, and it just so happens to be a guy paid by the McCain/Palin campaign. Funny that. Presumably these crimes were only committed in the pro-America parts of America.
by John Cole| 19 Comments
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Apparently there are some Tunch imitators out there. Here are two of them:
I suppose you think they are fat, too.
This post is in: Election 2008, Previous Site Maintenance
Ponder the beauty of this whilst you wait for something more substantial to come along:
Update: The graphic, for those who cannot see it, shows the race between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin in Georgia. Saxby Chambliss leads Jim Martin approximately 45.5% – 45.0%.
by Tim F| 117 Comments
This post is in: Media, Republican Stupidity
What the hell happened to Pat Buchanan? He used to speak awkward truths that other Republicans kept to themselves. By contrast, tonight was just embarrassing, like somebody replaced my usual coffee with Sean Hannity. Either Buchanan genuinely loves Sarah Palin or else he has some deep-seated problem with Barack Obama that he’s not coming to terms with. I think we can rule out choice #1.