What if she gets a stomach virus again? What if she slips, falls, and gets a concussion again?
I dunno, maybe she'll barf on a prime minister like Bush and then get a fucking robot heart like Dick Cheney. If that doesn't work, she can always shoot someone to prove her virility, if the picture you included of her looking pretty damned hale doesn't do the trick.
Her health "would be a constant distraction." Sure: to people like this concern troll who would be paid to make it one. The Dems could nominate Jesus himself and the Republicans would complain that he was a bleeder.
What if she encounters the same White House pretzel that felled Dubya? Or tries to ride the same bucking Segway? Or gets attacked by a Thanksgiving turkey? Or hits her head trying to find that secret exit door in Beijing?
Gosh, if only there was another presidential candidate of advanced years, who's still doing fine* even six years after he lost, that we could compare Ms. Clinton to. I mean, c'mon, NRO writers: the dude lost, too, just like you want Clinton to lose!
I think it's gallant, that kind of honest concern about someone in her 60's. Makes you wonder, given their deep concern about the fragility of human health and well being why, exactly, they want to gut Social Security and Medicare. One would think, unless one was cynical that they don't actually care at all and are nothing more than soulless, shameless, hypocritical husks of skin.
Ugh. Comments over there are both revolting and amusing. My favorite:
Politics is generational, but it is cyclical. Democrats know it is the GOP's turn to win the White House. Fatigue with the Democrats is going to scare off younger candidates. My bet is Fake Indian runs as the anti-Hillary candidate, but she has seen many moons as well.
On the GOP side, all of the young hotrods will be in the race. They know this is the best shot to win. Even if they don't win the nomination, they will elevate their status and be on pace for a career as a party leader.
So...we "know" it's the Republicans' "turn" to hold the office that they have assumed for the past 35 years is theirs by virtue of birthright; voters are "fatigued" by candidates who are more focused on jobs, income inequality and education than by candidates who are focused on gays, guns, and fetuses; the clowns spilling out of the clown car (Rubio, Paul, Ryan, Walker, Jindal, et al) are the GOP "hotrods" (steaming dicks?), and they are looking forward to said Bozos taking over leadership of their sinking ship of a party.
To recap: Hillary will lose because it's the GOP's "turn" in the White House, and she will lose to some guy who has either made himself a laughingstock on national TV, Eddie Munster, or a homunculus.
Good to see that the brainpower on the right is as awesome as ever was, even back in the day of their senile hero.
Ed, I dunno how you do it. I got a paragraph into this shite, and...I can't. This is too pitiful for words. I know "divorced from reality" is a good description for much of what spews from NRO, but this is ridiculous. It does, though, point up especially well one of the RWNM's more bewildering traits. "What was" and "What's gonna be" are both far more important on the Right than "What is". Fuck, even Archie Bunker had a better handle on that...
The straight reading is "what about Hillary's health", but the concussion bit is a dogwhistle along the lines of "Hillary is a malingerer". It makes no sense in this context except as a wink and nod to the theory that she faked the concussion.
Yup, that's the size of it. Having seen - and still seeing - the outpouring of supposedly-exinct racism at Obama's election and tenure, I shudder to think of the pustule-explosion of sexism is going to be like if Clinton wins.
In my lifetime, the Republicans have managed to alienate everyone but white men and old people. Looks like they'll correct at least half of that problem in 2016.
And shoes. Always the shoes. Which is bittersweet for us chicks, as we are alleged to love them so. They fly toward our heads, and we're all "Ooh pretty!" and "This is an outrage!"
No, no. Vince Foster got Chelsea pregnant to give Billary a concussion when she found out so she could avoid testifying about the change in the WH travel office that caused her to not be in Benghazi at the time of the attack.
Oh exactly. And post-menopausal, which means whatever judgement and good sense she had has disappeared with her estogen levels. OTOH, if she were still menstruating she'd go crazy once a month anyway.
It only took the second comment at National Review to get to this:
"There shall be no Clinton presidency. The Dems are out after this catastrophe. Even if we must resort to civil war. Please listen Washington D.C. This could be your last term as the nation's capitol."
Wouldn't it be great entertainment if a truly progressive black woman won the Presidency - their heads would truly explode. You can just hear it - but her grandmother 6 times removed was a slave brought in from the Ivory Coast so she really not a true American and can't be President :)
Damn, I had to click through for that. Funny, in another comment, he's "too busy" for Operation American Spring. The most important thing EVER is to wrest power from the Kenyan Usurper... oops, gotta do laundry...
Oh, my, no. The nineties rehash is just getting started over Clinton, and it's all being stirred up by people who are still pissed about the Sixties. (Both 18- and 19-.)
Of course, the outcome would have been different if Zombie Vince Foster had had his own shotgun, now, wouldn't it? Soon, when Obama takes our guns (thanks, Obama) and everybody is able to kill everybody else, you libs'll be sorry.
My favoritest lunatics are the right wing fever swampees who suspect that Operation American Spring is a false flag operation aimed at luring patriots into one place where gubmint libruls can eliminate them with violence. Or you know, abuse them with ridicule. Same thing.
Well, the idea of it being someone's "turn" for the White House certainly does play out in the Republican primaries, so perhaps one could excuse them for thinking that way.
I never quite get what the catastrophe is. I can see calling this administration a bit of a muddle, but if you want catastrophe, I think you have to cast your net back another eight years...
As long as she stays hydrated, her immune system will eventually fight off the infection, just as in the case of millions of other people who get stomach viruses. But what if she catches a cold?
Presumably, given Senator Clinton's age, Democrats will take the precaution of nominating a carefully vetted, highly experience, utterly sensible politician as the GOP did then.
"Even if we must resort to civil war. Please listen Washington D.C. This could be your last term as the nation's capitol."
Hmm, lemme try to unpack this. First, as usual, you Real True Americans are going to win the civil war, even though you can't win presidential elections. Numerically speaking, how do you expect to manage that after all of Obama's gun-grabbing?
Second, once you do win, the nation's capital will apparently be relocated, which is not exactly common practice for the victors in civil wars, who usually seek to cement their legitimacy through occupation. Are you just going to destroy the USA and put nothing in its place, like the Constitution-loving patriots you are? Or are you going to move the seat of government to somewhere more authentically American, like Branson, Missouri?
(I suppose these points could be addressed if "the nation" is taken to mean "Confederate States of America"; i.e., secession rather than conquest. I wouldn't recommend Richmond this time around, though.)
The whole thing really pissed me off because it showed how strongly (many) Americans hew simultaneously to some theory of blood quantum and a theory that races don't intermingle and there is no shared history between native americans and other races. People blathered on and on about how white she looked and also that she came from Oklahoma which, to New Englanders, seems like a really white state--they were completely ignorant of the forced resettlement of various Native American tribes or the fact that people moved in and out of reservations and in and out of white society out of necessity/fear/love/opportunity. As I read the story of her family it became obvious that the family itself hasd split over racism but interviews with the part of the family that preferred to stay pure white were used to impeach the part of the family that acknowledged the NA ancestor. The fact that it was dangerous to be NA or to clai an NA ancestor was completely ignored by current commenters who think that claiming NA ancestry is an unmixed blessing, a "race hustle" rather than an after the fact admission of a long held family secret.
Pretty much everyone commenting at the NRO agrees age is a bullshit issue, but they love it and plan to run with it anyway because liberals always play dirty, so why shouldn't the GOP for once? It's amaaazing.
There's also a hotpot of anger over Harry Reid's 2012 insinuation that Romney didn't pay taxes (which Romney refused to refute, iirc), and someone rational pops in to say Hey, look, Harry Reid didn't invent baseless insinuations, the question is do we really want that to be the basis of our politics. Of course, Mr Rational gets mowed down by the observation that, true, Reid didn't even insinuations -- Bill Clinton did!
Yes. The only time in modern history when they've nominated anyone when it wasn't his "turn" was in 2000, when the Bush Crime Family managed to lock down all the funding for the Idiot Son. Other than that....Nixon, Ford, Reagan, HW Bush, Dole, McCain, Rmoney...every single time, it's the guy who didn't get the nod the time before.
So say hello to the 2016 GOP nominee, Rick Santorum.
Heh. But XP was a decent operating system, so far as Windows goes. Maybe he's more Windows ME, or whatever came right before or after XP that sucked really hard.
Well, obviously, Obummercare has destroyed the economy, turned once-proud Americans into parasitic leeches without freedom, the president sided with the terrorist in Benghazi to kill Americans, he deposed all our allies (Mubarak I guess) and apologized to all our enemies for our existence, he destroyed the 10,000-year-old tradition of marriage, he made YOUR marriage meaningless in doing so, his class warfare has sought to take apart all American Success and put a stop to job creators, and his PC Gestapo, IRS, and the Black Panthers have worked in tandem to make it unsafe for white people to voice opinions, support causes, or vote. See? Catastrophe!
Oh also he STOPPED water boarding, but he KEEPS surveilling! He's a tyrant AND he commits treason. Plus Michelle wants to tell you what you can eat and turn your children against you.
And the thing is, I think the way she related it was just "there's a story in the family that great great grandmother so and so was a Cherokee." She didn't claim anything beyond that, she never described herself as NA on any application or aid forms in an attempt to "take advantage" of all the great things that come your way when you're a member of one of America's smallest and most abused and oppressed minorities, nothing other than contributing a recipe to a tribal cookbook which - horrors! - had been "plagiarized" from a newspaper.
This was the full extent of Elizabeth Warren's attempt to race hustle us on the basis of an invented ancestry, which clearly illustrates how unfit she is for office.
At the most the chat site had from 12-36 people and they were clannish to outsides.
At last, the loons have become so paranoid that they won't allow anyone who isn't them into the movement for fear they are all false flag operatives.
Reminds me of a joke I used to make about myself, who I described (and still do) as "organizationally impaired." I'd note that we had tried to form a self-help group for people like me, but no one could ever get their shit together enough to set up a meeting.
Like getting stuffed into coveralls, jammed into a fighter plane, and rocketed off to an aircraft carrier's deck to strut around under a "Mission Accomplished" banner. Karl Rove: Ultimate Concern Troll.
My mamma says Karl was trying to tell you that Miss Hillary has had a memo pause. To the dismay of some liberals, she can't be excused for starting a war in Iraq just on account of her monthlies. She'll need a real reason like there being WMD there or something.
Strangest thing: If Washington, DC, can be said to have a cheap hotel in its white quarter, it's the Hotel Harrington. A five-bed room goes for about $216 a night.
So you'd figure the advance teams might be there and incoming reactionaries would have booked whatever rooms are left just to have a place to kip and flush the tear gas from their pink eyes. Yet Harry's got great availability tonight and tomorrow night.
The patriots must be planning to sleep rough as they rev up this daring coup. Or maybe it's the six-bunk RVpanzers that will be cresting Arlington ridge at dawn, trumpets echoing down the K Street canyons as America is reborn...
Shoes indeed. I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration US speechwriter for George Bush (1950 - )Ms. Noonan can't quite differentiate between an actual foot & the shoe it's in, of course.
Yes, it's true. The intellectual titans of the right are a man whose entire philosophy was based on having been beaten up by a girl and one whose entire philosophy was caused by a horrific brain tumor.
Still is! And the MS hacker community will probably keep it unofficially updated. My sis may have to go 7 pretty soon, though, since her employer demands IE, and IE security patches for XP may soon come to an end.
Have you ever been around when I've reviewed my 2 degrees of separation from the Conway toe sucker? I've known not one, but two, count 'em, TWO victims/almost victims of said toe sucker.
I'd forgotten about its being his third go. And indeed, he was the last one standing, but it didn't look conclusive to me that his support had much staying power.
Yeah, but since when has that been a deterrent? Republicans operate on the principle of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. Once nominated, Santorum will sweep both the electoral college and the popular vote, if they just clap hard enough. And when he doesn't, it will be because he just wasn't conservative enough.
Well, it is a thing that people who don't really follow politics but think they're smart tend to do. I've heard plenty of people say "We just need someone new," etc.
270 electoral votes still > vague "Our time is now" sentiments, tho.
Yeah, that's of a piece with "government is too big!" which none of the Einsteins who repeat it have ever really thought through. So government is bigger than it was 50 years ago - and the population is something like 1/2 again as large. Are we to believe that a government adequately sized to serve a population of 180 million can serve a population of 310 million just as well? Those who do are Republicans, who wouldn't think twice about WalMart opening an additional MegaBigAssSupercenter in a city where the population had grown by 50%. Why, if they didn't, the only MegaBigAssSupercenter in town would be even more of a nightmare than it is now!
Then they bitch about the lines at the DMV and the post office.
She wrote a rather science-fictiony/quasi-religious column around the time that little Elian Gonzalez was to be returned to his father in Cuba, in which she asserted, more or less, that Divine Providence guided magic dolphins to rescue young Elian from certain drowning and guide him to America's golden shores, and how could the State Dept. thwart that?
They're always so damned worried about what the other countries will say about the US. You'd think the world's only superpower should be confident enough to scoff at malicious gossip (if I had a gazillion nukes at my disposal, you can bet your ass I wouldn't care what anyone thought of me! :P ), but, somehow...
I'm incredibly thick, but I only just realised this. The first female POTUS? The douchy good-old-boy misogynist will come out in force.
That will be bad.
This will cause feminists to spend eight years dancing around in gleeful outrage, screaming in wrathful rapture about how this proves that they were absolutely right about absolutely everything and anyone who says otherwise is lending aid and comfort to the douchy good-old-boy misogynists.
That, from my admittedly limited perspective, will be worse.
Okay, okay, positive thoughts, positive thoughts... Maybe having an actual woman in actual charge will restore some sanity. Once everyone sees that a female politician is every bit as capable and every bit as fallible as a male one in the role of leader of a nation, that should...
... no, I just can't see it. All I can see is eight years where every criticism of the President is met by "YOU ONLY SAY THAT BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN, YOU SEXIST PIG!!!" and where the entire Republican party helpfully feeds that reaction by pouring outrageous hatred over the President and having it transparently obvious that yes, it really is only because she's a woman.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Clinton getting elected, because she seems to be the best candidate at the moment and anyway, it really is about damn time there was a female POTUS. But ohhhhh, this is gonna hurt...
I remember when the argument was that "Electing Obama as president might give mortal offense to all those islamic theocracies if they classified him as an apostate; and we care so much about what those theocrats think, so best you protect their delicate sensibilities by voting for the senile war-monger with Rage Virus, instead".
"All I can see is eight years where every criticism of the President is met by "YOU ONLY SAY THAT BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN, YOU SEXIST PIG!!!" " Yup. And as surely as the sun rises, every time Limbaugh calls President H. Clinton a slut or a broad or a hag or a slutty-broad-hag it will, of course, somehow magically be "proof that the dummycraps are the real sexists". Their ridiculous, endless wurlitzer-of-cadaver-farts would be slightly more bearable if at least it was novel, funny or, forfuckssake, remotely insightful. .
The problem Santorum or any other Republican will face is surviving the primaries. The level of outright insanity demanded by the base primary voters turns any Republican president candidacy into two distinct and mutually self destructive parts.
Part 1: The candidate must adopt and loudly espouse position to the right of even the most extreme right-wing things in the national party platform. And, nowawdays, the candidate also has to sprinkle in enough glibertarian pixie dust to win over the Fonzie of Freedumb.
Part 2: Having secured the nomination, the candidate must now run vigorously against every position held during the primaries to convince "normal" voters that he or she would NOT return the US to the goldstandard, would NOT push legislation mandating grade-school children carry loaded guns at all times, would NOT want to bring back segregation, and so on.
For Santorum, he can please big chunks of the base, but there's nothing he can do to persuade the normal voters that he's not nuts. Nor can he convince anyone (even his most ardent supporters) that he's smart enough to do much more than be a manikin.
They bitch about the lines at the DMV and Post Office, whining that's usually accompanied with "Why don't they just hire more people and open more windows!!!"
Also, too, those of us paying attention have noted that the biggest increases in the size of government have all come under Republican administrations. From Nixon and the creation of the EPA through Reagan's dramatic expansions of the "black" side of government (CIA, NSA, NRO, DARPA, etc.), to the Shrub's creating DHS and TSA--the size of government goes up under presidents who spend most of their campaigns complaining about the size of government.
It's been my observation that men who chew out subordinates, fire people, cut salaries, and generally make life unpleasant for everyone around them--these men are called "effective managers" and rise to the top in most corporations.
A woman who does the same is called "a bitch" and shuttled out the door as quickly as possible.
Some of us remember the shitstorm Obama caused in the first few months of his presidency when he went to Florida and spoke before a bunch of school kids.
HE URGED THEM TO STAY IN SCHOOL AND GRADUATE!
Folks all over the Right went ballistic over it--even as they realized how stupid they were sounding by essentially coming out publicly AGAINST kids getting any education.
So, yeah, with that as background, Obama's presidency has been cataclysmically bad for the right. They have had to take stands againsteverything from education to drinking water to reading books and owning dogs.
I can't stop looking at that phrase and giggling. I just imagine the same usual gang of idiots that have shown up at the GOP debates for the last two cycles, with a couple of fresh faces (Rand Paul, Cruz), in jump suits with sponsor patches (Koch Bros. prominent among them), lining up facing the camera sideways, grinning and giving the thumbs-up. "May the best man* win!"
*Because even they can't pretend that they really want Bachmann to win.
Contrast Sarah Palin and family, who were happy to take advantage of health care for Native Americans (on the basis of Todd's grandmother) while Bible Spice denounced Obamacare.
Many of their supporters are of the same general age, and they're perfectly happy to divide folks into them that deserve the entitlements (themselves) and them that don't (everyone else). Cognitive dissonance: it's what's for dinner.
Because even they can't pretend that they really want Bachmann to win.
Hmm, remember how Alan Keyes got the nod to be the last-second replacement for Jack Ryan, because that would help "neutralize" something something about Obama? Remember how Cain was briefly a "Not Romney" contender in the eyes of a party stuffed with racist shits? Maybe, with Ms. Clinton as the likely Dem candidate, they'll consider nullifying her advantage by running a woman too. Granted, it's a woman who's dedicated to eradicating women's rights, who thinks women shouldn't receive equal pay for equal work, and who has taken a proudly incoherent stand against a National Women's History Museum. Yeah,that'd show Hillary.
... Nah. Bachmann was born in Iowa, got into the game of courting the theocratic whackaloons there early, is a down-the-line deranged fundamentalist Protestant dumbfuck ... and she came in sixth in the Iowa caucus, behind a charismaless Catholic, a Mormon suspected of insufficiently severe conservatism, Ron "Who cares about Israel?" Paul, a serial adulterer, and Rick Perry. Rick Perry. The GOP base might have loved jerking off to Sarah Palin posters, but too many of them won't tolerate the idea of a woman actually wearing the Prez Pants(TM).
Same thing as giant urban assault vehicles and a full armory in one's home - it's a dick thing.
Damn I feel bad for those poor guys. Just because they have tiny peckers they have to buy cars, guns and thermonuclear weapons. I couldn't afford the lifestyle.
Unrelated to dolphins, but nevertheless illuminating as to Peggy Noonan's imaginative capabilities, not to mention as a means of measuring her value in the political discourse, do not forget her assessment of Hillary's character way back on June 29, 2006, in her Wall Street Journal column:
"....She [Hillary Clinton] does not seem like someone who would anguish and weep over sending men into harm's way. And in this, as president, she would be deeply unusual. LBJ felt anguish; there are pictures of him, head in hands, suffering. Bush the Elder wept as he talked, with Paula Zahn, about what it was to send men to war. Bush the Younger would breastfeed the military if he could. Hillary is like someone who would know she should be moved but wouldn't be because she couldn't be because . . . well, why...."
Hey, it's perfectly possible to be amongst the penes piccoli, but just not be insecure about it. Or at least be insecure about it in a way that doesn't involve firearms or overpowered automobiles. Now, if you'll excuse me, I suddenly have to run to the bakery for some enormous baguettes.
What if she gets a stomach virus again? What if she slips, falls, and gets a concussion again?
ReplyDeleteI dunno, maybe she'll barf on a prime minister like Bush and then get a fucking robot heart like Dick Cheney. If that doesn't work, she can always shoot someone to prove her virility, if the picture you included of her looking pretty damned hale doesn't do the trick.
Hillary needs to haul out Reagan's snark about his opponent's age being an issue at a debate.
ReplyDeleteI think if she shot Zombie Vince Foster with a shotgun, the heart attacks would be had by others.
ReplyDeleteHer health "would be a constant distraction." Sure: to people like this concern troll who would be paid to make it one. The Dems could nominate Jesus himself and the Republicans would complain that he was a bleeder.
ReplyDeleteYou can count on hostile states spreading rumors of ill health and mental impairment in the international arena.
ReplyDeleteThey needn't bother. You've got that covered.
It's so confusing. I thought the Gooper meme was that Hillary faked the concussion to get out of testifying about BENGHAZI! Sort of like how Reagan faked being president to get out of testifying during Iran-Contra. Or something like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat if she encounters the same White House pretzel that felled Dubya? Or tries to ride the same bucking Segway? Or gets attacked by a Thanksgiving turkey? Or hits her head trying to find that secret exit door in Beijing?
ReplyDeleteThe presidency is fraught with hidden dangers.
Gosh, if only there was another presidential candidate of advanced years, who's still doing fine* even six years after he lost, that we could compare Ms. Clinton to. I mean, c'mon, NRO writers: the dude lost, too, just like you want Clinton to lose!
ReplyDelete*As fine as he ever was, at any rate.
The RomneyBot still boots up.
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I guess the dictionary got a restraining order along with logic, reason, and common sense.
ReplyDeleteSHE GOT A CONCUSSION FROM FAKING HER CONCUSSION.
ReplyDeleteSilly libtards just can't get it.
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I think it's gallant, that kind of honest concern about someone in her 60's. Makes you wonder, given their deep concern about the fragility of human health and well being why, exactly, they want to gut Social Security and Medicare. One would think, unless one was cynical that they don't actually care at all and are nothing more than soulless, shameless, hypocritical husks of skin.
ReplyDeleteBut... But... She's a chick!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWouldn’t Questions About Hillary’s Health Continue Into Her Presidency?
ReplyDeleteKnowing the RWNM, they'll continue after her death...
C'mon, he's a RINO and they were never really that into him anyway, and a true conservative would have whupped that Kenyan's ass fer reals.
ReplyDeleteThey're so concerned.
ReplyDeleteUgh. Comments over there are both revolting and amusing. My favorite:
ReplyDeletePolitics is generational, but it is cyclical. Democrats know it is the GOP's turn to win the White House. Fatigue with the Democrats is going to scare off younger candidates. My bet is Fake Indian runs as the anti-Hillary candidate, but she has seen many moons as well.
On the GOP side, all of the young hotrods will be in the race. They know this is the best shot to win. Even if they don't win the nomination, they will elevate their status and be on pace for a career as a party leader.
So...we "know" it's the Republicans' "turn" to hold the office that they have assumed for the past 35 years is theirs by virtue of birthright; voters are "fatigued" by candidates who are more focused on jobs, income inequality and education than by candidates who are focused on gays, guns, and fetuses; the clowns spilling out of the clown car (Rubio, Paul, Ryan, Walker, Jindal, et al) are the GOP "hotrods" (steaming dicks?), and they are looking forward to said Bozos taking over leadership of their sinking ship of a party.
To recap: Hillary will lose because it's the GOP's "turn" in the White House, and she will lose to some guy who has either made himself a laughingstock on national TV, Eddie Munster, or a homunculus.
Good to see that the brainpower on the right is as awesome as ever was, even back in the day of their senile hero.
Ed, I dunno how you do it. I got a paragraph into this shite, and...I can't. This is too pitiful for words. I know "divorced from reality" is a good description for much of what spews from NRO, but this is ridiculous. It does, though, point up especially well one of the RWNM's more bewildering traits. "What was" and "What's gonna be" are both far more important on the Right than "What is". Fuck, even Archie Bunker had a better handle on that...
ReplyDeleteDon't forget predatory swamp rabbits.
ReplyDeleteAlso too, like we should give a shit?
ReplyDeleteWould it be irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.
ReplyDeleteAnd Manson Family members, and guys obsessed with Jodie Foster.
ReplyDeleteAnd a zombie. I can see 'em on the talk shows now. "He's dead, Jim"...
ReplyDeleteAnd being force-fed cherries and cold milk. And theater tickets.
ReplyDeleteAnd textbook warehouses.
ReplyDeleteThe straight reading is "what about Hillary's health", but the concussion bit is a dogwhistle along the lines of "Hillary is a malingerer". It makes no sense in this context except as a wink and nod to the theory that she faked the concussion.
ReplyDeleteYup, that's the size of it. Having seen - and still seeing - the outpouring of supposedly-exinct racism at Obama's election and tenure, I shudder to think of the pustule-explosion of sexism is going to be like if Clinton wins.
ReplyDeleteIt's not even a real "What was," either. You've seen what happens if you bring up the fact that Reagan signed tax increases.
ReplyDeleteIn my lifetime, the Republicans have managed to alienate everyone but white men and old people. Looks like they'll correct at least half of that problem in 2016.
ReplyDeleteAnd shoes. Always the shoes. Which is bittersweet for us chicks, as we are alleged to love them so. They fly toward our heads, and we're all "Ooh pretty!" and "This is an outrage!"
ReplyDeleteIt's her own fault for being a woman.
ReplyDeleteWho the hell is this "Fake Indian?"
ReplyDeleteNo, no. Vince Foster got Chelsea pregnant to give Billary a concussion when she found out so she could avoid testifying about the change in the WH travel office that caused her to not be in Benghazi at the time of the attack.
ReplyDeleteOh exactly. And post-menopausal, which means whatever judgement and good sense she had has disappeared with her estogen levels. OTOH, if she were still menstruating she'd go crazy once a month anyway.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention Necromancers bringing Vince Foster back to avenge his murder.
ReplyDeleteWarning, will raise blood pressure.
ReplyDeleteIt only took the second comment at National Review to get to this:
ReplyDelete"There shall be no Clinton presidency. The Dems are out after this
catastrophe. Even if we must resort to civil war. Please listen
Washington D.C. This could be your last term as the nation's capitol."
and this is why Hillary should re-evaluate her position on abortion.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for Newt Gingrich to chime in. The Oval Office is a lot like a foxhole.
ReplyDelete"Next up, is Hillary Clinton still dead? For more on this story, we take you now to . . ."
ReplyDeleteAh Jesus. They never ever let anything go, do they?
ReplyDeleteSpite's the only thing they conserve.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be great entertainment if a truly progressive black woman won the Presidency - their heads would truly explode. You can just hear it - but her grandmother 6 times removed was a slave brought in from the Ivory Coast so she really not a true American and can't be President :)
ReplyDeleteJindal, probably. Although he's a true Indian, just a fake Christian, in the spirit of party unity.
ReplyDelete"...he wrote, during his break from writing TPS reports for that smug liberal manager of his."
ReplyDeleteSocialist redistributer, pro Caesar tax paying, soft on crime and "confirmed bachelor" if you know what I mean (wink, wink)
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Warren
ReplyDeleteThey won't have to wait until 2016. Apparently that guy hasn't heard about Operation American Spring. The revolution begins tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteAnd going to train stations, and shaking hands at Pan-American Expositions.
ReplyDeleteBut Reagan was protected from traumatic brain injury by the fact that with chronic brain dysfunction he couldn't experience it.
ReplyDeleteTypical "NRO Time To Replenish The Coffers Test Turd Balloon"
ReplyDeleteYeah, that didn't work out so well for them:
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/_liberal_fave_e.php
Damn, I had to click through for that. Funny, in another comment, he's "too busy" for Operation American Spring. The most important thing EVER is to wrest power from the Kenyan Usurper... oops, gotta do laundry...
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that 29,999,983 of the thirty million patriots that were going to show up are going to be too busy.
ReplyDeleteOh, my, no. The nineties rehash is just getting started over Clinton, and it's all being stirred up by people who are still pissed about the Sixties. (Both 18- and 19-.)
ReplyDeleteOf course, the outcome would have been different if Zombie Vince Foster had had his own shotgun, now, wouldn't it? Soon, when Obama takes our guns (thanks, Obama) and everybody is able to kill everybody else, you libs'll be sorry.
ReplyDelete"But...Bones...Bo-o-o-o-nes...he's been...resurrected."
ReplyDeleteMy favoritest lunatics are the right wing fever swampees who suspect that Operation American Spring is a false flag operation aimed at luring patriots into one place where gubmint libruls can eliminate them with violence. Or you know, abuse them with ridicule. Same thing.
ReplyDeleteHas a point, though. No planning's gone into this thing other than some stupid online chest-thumping.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, you can still fight in the War of Ideas at Home.
ReplyDeleteOh, dear, I'm going to have to miss it. I have a hair appointment.
ReplyDeleteWell, the idea of it being someone's "turn" for the White House certainly does play out in the Republican primaries, so perhaps one could excuse them for thinking that way.
ReplyDeleteWell, being in the White House can be dangerous. I mean, there are threatening pretzels lurking everywhere, ready to leap out and choke a President.
ReplyDeleteI can haz nationally syndicated radio show?
ReplyDeleteIdeas don't stand a chance!
ReplyDeleteI never quite get what the catastrophe is. I can see calling this administration a bit of a muddle, but if you want catastrophe, I think you have to cast your net back another eight years...
ReplyDelete>What if she gets a stomach virus again?
ReplyDeleteAs long as she stays hydrated, her immune system will eventually fight off the infection, just as in the case of millions of other people who get stomach viruses. But what if she catches a cold?
Presumably, given Senator Clinton's age, Democrats will take the precaution of nominating a carefully vetted, highly experience, utterly sensible politician as the GOP did then.
ReplyDeleteEh, it still makes more sense than Sarah Palin's take.
ReplyDeleteDamnit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a theologian!
ReplyDeleteIts going to be like the Ebola/Plague Buboe explosion of all time.
ReplyDeleteI'd vote for Barbara Lee in a heartbeat.
ReplyDeleteShe said she is part Native American but she is only 1/16th so she is a "LIAR! LIAR!
ReplyDeleteThey also serve who stand.
ReplyDelete"Even if we must resort to civil war. Please listen Washington D.C. This could be your last term as the nation's capitol."
ReplyDeleteHmm, lemme try to unpack this. First, as usual, you Real True Americans are going to win the civil war, even though you can't win presidential elections. Numerically speaking, how do you expect to manage that after all of Obama's gun-grabbing?
Second, once you do win, the nation's capital will apparently be relocated, which is not exactly common practice for the victors in civil wars, who usually seek to cement their legitimacy through occupation. Are you just going to destroy the USA and put nothing in its place, like the Constitution-loving patriots you are? Or are you going to move the seat of government to somewhere more authentically American, like Branson, Missouri?
(I suppose these points could be addressed if "the nation" is taken to mean "Confederate States of America"; i.e., secession rather than conquest. I wouldn't recommend Richmond this time around, though.)
"I would revolt tonight, but they haven't got a shitter there."
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing really pissed me off because it showed how strongly (many) Americans hew simultaneously to some theory of blood quantum and a theory that races don't intermingle and there is no shared history between native americans and other races. People blathered on and on about how white she looked and also that she came from Oklahoma which, to New Englanders, seems like a really white state--they were completely ignorant of the forced resettlement of various Native American tribes or the fact that people moved in and out of reservations and in and out of white society out of necessity/fear/love/opportunity. As I read the story of her family it became obvious that the family itself hasd split over racism but interviews with the part of the family that preferred to stay pure white were used to impeach the part of the family that acknowledged the NA ancestor. The fact that it was dangerous to be NA or to clai an NA ancestor was completely ignored by current commenters who think that claiming NA ancestry is an unmixed blessing, a "race hustle" rather than an after the fact admission of a long held family secret.
ReplyDeleteI want anoint the feet of this comment.
ReplyDeleteYeah, ever since Jonah the Fail wrote, "Even though the dictionary says I'm wrong [about the definition of fascism], it's central to my point."
ReplyDeleteOr sit on a very soft cushion.
ReplyDeletePretty much everyone commenting at the NRO agrees age is a bullshit issue, but they love it and plan to run with it anyway because liberals always play dirty, so why shouldn't the GOP for once? It's amaaazing.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a hotpot of anger over Harry Reid's 2012 insinuation that Romney didn't pay taxes (which Romney refused to refute, iirc), and someone rational pops in to say Hey, look, Harry Reid didn't invent baseless insinuations, the question is do we really want that to be the basis of our politics. Of course, Mr Rational gets mowed down by the observation that, true, Reid didn't even insinuations -- Bill Clinton did!
The catastrophe is that there's a Black Democrat in the White House. And on top of that, he's Black, besides his being Black. And a Democrat!
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonder the Earth hasn't spun out of orbit and headed straight for the Oort cloud!
You, me, and lotsa other people I know!
ReplyDeleteThe Black Panthers and ACORN have commandeered all the port-a-potties and trucked them off to Area 51.
ReplyDeleteWe need to get one of the classic Mad Magazine guys to come up with a sound effect, like Al Jaffee's "BLEERT!" or Don Martin's "SkweeBeeDeeBeeDAP!"
ReplyDeleteAn accepting nod and a self-effacing grin, followed by a pledge to be every bit as reasonable and reality-based from now on?
ReplyDeleteYes. The only time in modern history when they've nominated anyone when it wasn't his "turn" was in 2000, when the Bush Crime Family managed to lock down all the funding for the Idiot Son. Other than that....Nixon, Ford, Reagan, HW Bush, Dole, McCain, Rmoney...every single time, it's the guy who didn't get the nod the time before.
ReplyDeleteSo say hello to the 2016 GOP nominee, Rick Santorum.
Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
ReplyDeleteMy wife is 1/16th NA and points it out any chance she gets.
ReplyDeleteFYI, Romney is one year older than Hillary. Is he too old to be President?
ReplyDeleteDidn't the Weather Underground (Bill Ayers!) blow up a toilet at the Pentagon once? The plot thickens.
ReplyDeleteWas it over when the Germans tipped over the Port-O-Lets at Pearl Harbor? NO!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt runs on Windows XP though, no more updates.
ReplyDeleteExcept when he's not really black because he's half white.
ReplyDeleteHeh. But XP was a decent operating system, so far as Windows goes. Maybe he's more Windows ME, or whatever came right before or after XP that sucked really hard.
ReplyDeletePoke them with the soft pillows!
ReplyDeleteWell, obviously, Obummercare has destroyed the economy, turned once-proud Americans into parasitic leeches without freedom, the president sided with the terrorist in Benghazi to kill Americans, he deposed all our allies (Mubarak I guess) and apologized to all our enemies for our existence, he destroyed the 10,000-year-old tradition of marriage, he made YOUR marriage meaningless in doing so, his class warfare has sought to take apart all American Success and put a stop to job creators, and his PC Gestapo, IRS, and the Black Panthers have worked in tandem to make it unsafe for white people to voice opinions, support causes, or vote. See? Catastrophe!
ReplyDeleteOh also he STOPPED water boarding, but he KEEPS surveilling! He's a tyrant AND he commits treason. Plus Michelle wants to tell you what you can eat and turn your children against you.
ReplyDeleteOh, there's lots. What HASN'T he done?
And the thing is, I think the way she related it was just "there's a story in the family that great great grandmother so and so was a Cherokee." She didn't claim anything beyond that, she never described herself as NA on any application or aid forms in an attempt to "take advantage" of all the great things that come your way when you're a member of one of America's smallest and most abused and oppressed minorities, nothing other than contributing a recipe to a tribal cookbook which - horrors! - had been "plagiarized" from a newspaper.
ReplyDeleteThis was the full extent of Elizabeth Warren's attempt to race hustle us on the basis of an invented ancestry, which clearly illustrates how unfit she is for office.
Dessert AND a floor wax!
ReplyDeleteInsinuations began
ReplyDeletein 1993
(which was rather late for me)
Between the end of the "Goosebumps" ban
And Wu Tang's first LP
The important part is to flush all the porta-potties at exactly the same time.
ReplyDeleteAt the most the chat site had from 12-36 people and they were clannish to outsides.
ReplyDeleteAt last, the loons have become so paranoid that they won't allow anyone who isn't them into the movement for fear they are all false flag operatives.
Reminds me of a joke I used to make about myself, who I described (and still do) as "organizationally impaired." I'd note that we had tried to form a self-help group for people like me, but no one could ever get their shit together enough to set up a meeting.
There is no place for movements in the movement.
ReplyDeleteJust give me a minute, I think I have an appropriate GIF filed away somewhere...
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is how they plan to overthrow the government, with a few million thousand hundred dozen people shitting on the Mall.
ReplyDeleteLike getting stuffed into coveralls, jammed into a fighter plane, and rocketed off to an aircraft carrier's deck to strut around under a "Mission Accomplished" banner. Karl Rove: Ultimate Concern Troll.
ReplyDeleteSo, the only thing that can stop a bad Hillary with a shotgun is a good zombie with a shotgun?
ReplyDeleteMy mamma says Karl was trying to tell you that Miss Hillary has had a memo pause. To the dismay of some liberals, she can't be excused for starting a war in Iraq just on account of her monthlies. She'll need a real reason like there being WMD there or something.
ReplyDeleteStrangest thing: If Washington, DC, can be said to have a cheap hotel in its white quarter, it's the Hotel Harrington. A five-bed room goes for about $216 a night.
ReplyDeleteSo you'd figure the advance teams might be there and incoming reactionaries would have booked whatever rooms are left just to have a place to kip and flush the tear gas from their pink eyes. Yet Harry's got great availability tonight and tomorrow night.
The patriots must be planning to sleep rough as they rev up this daring coup. Or maybe it's the six-bunk RVpanzers that will be cresting Arlington ridge at dawn, trumpets echoing down the K Street canyons as America is reborn...
So National Review authors are now overtly allying themselves with hostile states? Me = shocked.
ReplyDeleteThe baggers are revolting.
ReplyDeleteSome truths cannot be denied.
I voted for Shirley Chisholm in my 9th grade straw poll.
ReplyDeleteShoes indeed. I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration
ReplyDeleteUS speechwriter for George Bush (1950 - )Ms. Noonan can't quite differentiate between an actual foot & the shoe it's in, of course.
Not true. He nailed 'a'.
ReplyDeleteThat's Comment Of The Week there, Moz.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's true. The intellectual titans of the right are a man whose entire philosophy was based on having been beaten up by a girl and one whose entire philosophy was caused by a horrific brain tumor.
ReplyDeleteI wonder. Was it as clear last time who the runner-up was? It was more like a game of musical Not-Romney chairs.
ReplyDeleteVista. Ew.
ReplyDeleteJesus, we could run McGovern's ashes and win...
ReplyDeleteHydrated? Hydrated?! My God, Michelle Obama secretly rules the world!
ReplyDelete"So you hear, decadent Yankee capitalist president-lady, she has flu."
ReplyDelete"Mwahaha! Victory is ours!"
RON PAUL 2016!
ReplyDeleteJesus, we could run McGovern's ashes and win...
ReplyDelete... except in the south.
Flash-forward to 2016:
ReplyDeleteBlitzer: "...and, with Ohio's votes going to Hillary Clinton, she has won the electoral college."
Rove: "But...it's our TURN!"
Take that, Al Gore!
ReplyDeleteSantorum was the last one standing wasn't he? But even if not, he's got dibs because this will be his third try.
ReplyDeleteConsidering how Porta-Potties operate, that would give rise to the Mother of All Giant Sucking Sounds...
ReplyDeleteFor want of a can, a revolution was lost...
ReplyDeleteStill is! And the MS hacker community will probably keep it unofficially updated. My sis may have to go 7 pretty soon, though, since her employer demands IE, and IE security patches for XP may soon come to an end.
ReplyDeleteWasn't that El Rushbo's tag line a while back? He'll sue...
ReplyDeleteAnd the bullshit rationalization is even stronger.
ReplyDeleteAw, you think that because of all the Conway shoe seller smellers we read about here.
ReplyDeleteoh, nicely done. I like the fast ending, rather than the 'res...urrected' delivery I was thinking of.
ReplyDeleteSomehow I doubt Mr. Math will be at Fox Ground Zero for 2016. Call it a hunch.
ReplyDeleteOne of those doughnut jobs.
ReplyDelete"...and that's the *whole* bass! No muss, no fuss..."
ReplyDeleteAnd he's not even a real half-black, because he's Kenyan or Hawaiian or something.
ReplyDelete"PMS is the time of the month that women act like men do every day of the month"
ReplyDeleteBile.
ReplyDeleteWhen has incompetence ever been a disqualifying factor for Fox?
ReplyDeleteHave you ever been around when I've reviewed my 2 degrees of separation from the Conway toe sucker? I've known not one, but two, count 'em, TWO victims/almost victims of said toe sucker.
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten about its being his third go. And indeed, he was the last one standing, but it didn't look conclusive to me that his support had much staying power.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who watched Reagan's Iran-Contra testimony knows that Alzheimer's had already taken hold before the Gipper left office. Res ipsa loquitur.
ReplyDeleteSecretly?
ReplyDeleteYeah, but since when has that been a deterrent? Republicans operate on the principle of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. Once nominated, Santorum will sweep both the electoral college and the popular vote, if they just clap hard enough. And when he doesn't, it will be because he just wasn't conservative enough.
ReplyDeleteAnd won't that be fun to watch?
ReplyDelete"Mmmm-mmmmm!!! That's some delicious bass!"
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/GijH0j7FbhI
ReplyDeleteWell, it is a thing that people who don't really follow politics but think they're smart tend to do. I've heard plenty of people say "We just need someone new," etc.
ReplyDelete270 electoral votes still > vague "Our time is now" sentiments, tho.
... effectively bursting the pipes and making the entire American military complex higgledy-piggledy.
ReplyDeleteHiggledy-piggledy means a real mess.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's of a piece with "government is too big!" which none of the Einsteins who repeat it have ever really thought through. So government is bigger than it was 50 years ago - and the population is something like 1/2 again as large. Are we to believe that a government adequately sized to serve a population of 180 million can serve a population of 310 million just as well? Those who do are Republicans, who wouldn't think twice about WalMart opening an additional MegaBigAssSupercenter in a city where the population had grown by 50%. Why, if they didn't, the only MegaBigAssSupercenter in town would be even more of a nightmare than it is now!
ReplyDeleteThen they bitch about the lines at the DMV and the post office.
Unless it's a dolphin fin, of course.
ReplyDeleteCan someone tell me what the Noonan/dolphin in-joke is? It must be from before I was a regular.
ReplyDeleteShe wrote a rather science-fictiony/quasi-religious column around the time that little Elian Gonzalez was to be returned to his father in Cuba, in which she asserted, more or less, that Divine Providence guided magic dolphins to rescue young Elian from certain drowning and guide him to America's golden shores, and how could the State Dept. thwart that?
ReplyDeleteOr words to that effect.
They're always so damned worried about what the other countries will say about the US. You'd think the world's only superpower should be confident enough to scoff at malicious gossip (if I had a gazillion nukes at my disposal, you can bet your ass I wouldn't care what anyone thought of me! :P ), but, somehow...
ReplyDeleteDon Martin's SPLOOT! would work if you printed it big enough.
ReplyDeleteAllow me:
ReplyDeletehttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OzC2cL_Mv_k/UiRTm1E42qI/AAAAAAAANEc/QF4opBtwnEw/s1600/bloom.JPG
... aw, shit.
ReplyDeleteI'm incredibly thick, but I only just realised this. The first female POTUS? The douchy good-old-boy misogynist will come out in force.
That will be bad.
This will cause feminists to spend eight years dancing around in gleeful outrage, screaming in wrathful rapture about how this proves that they were absolutely right about absolutely everything and anyone who says otherwise is lending aid and comfort to the douchy good-old-boy misogynists.
That, from my admittedly limited perspective, will be worse.
Okay, okay, positive thoughts, positive thoughts... Maybe having an actual woman in actual charge will restore some sanity. Once everyone sees that a female politician is every bit as capable and every bit as fallible as a male one in the role of leader of a nation, that should...
... no, I just can't see it. All I can see is eight years where every criticism of the President is met by "YOU ONLY SAY THAT BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN, YOU SEXIST PIG!!!" and where the entire Republican party helpfully feeds that reaction by pouring outrageous hatred over the President and having it transparently obvious that yes, it really is only because she's a woman.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Clinton getting elected, because she seems to be the best candidate at the moment and anyway, it really is about damn time there was a female POTUS. But ohhhhh, this is gonna hurt...
I remember when the argument was that "Electing Obama as president might give mortal offense to all those islamic theocracies if they classified him as an apostate; and we care so much about what those theocrats think, so best you protect their delicate sensibilities by voting for the senile war-monger with Rage Virus, instead".
ReplyDeleteOh, don't exaggerate. He's a million fifty years old at MOST.
ReplyDelete"All I can see is eight years where every criticism of the President is met by "YOU ONLY SAY THAT BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN, YOU SEXIST PIG!!!" "
ReplyDeleteYup. And as surely as the sun rises, every time Limbaugh calls President H. Clinton a slut or a broad or a hag or a slutty-broad-hag it will, of course, somehow magically be "proof that the dummycraps are the real sexists".
Their ridiculous, endless wurlitzer-of-cadaver-farts would be slightly more bearable if at least it was novel, funny or, forfuckssake, remotely insightful.
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Dah! Must to strike while fever is hot!
ReplyDeleteThe problem Santorum or any other Republican will face is surviving the primaries. The level of outright insanity demanded by the base primary voters turns any Republican president candidacy into two distinct and mutually self destructive parts.
ReplyDeletePart 1: The candidate must adopt and loudly espouse position to the right of even the most extreme right-wing things in the national party platform. And, nowawdays, the candidate also has to sprinkle in enough glibertarian pixie dust to win over the Fonzie of Freedumb.
Part 2: Having secured the nomination, the candidate must now run vigorously against every position held during the primaries to convince "normal" voters that he or she would NOT return the US to the goldstandard, would NOT push legislation mandating grade-school children carry loaded guns at all times, would NOT want to bring back segregation, and so on.
For Santorum, he can please big chunks of the base, but there's nothing he can do to persuade the normal voters that he's not nuts. Nor can he convince anyone (even his most ardent supporters) that he's smart enough to do much more than be a manikin.
They bitch about the lines at the DMV and Post Office, whining that's usually accompanied with "Why don't they just hire more people and open more windows!!!"
ReplyDeleteAlso, too, those of us paying attention have noted that the biggest increases in the size of government have all come under Republican administrations. From Nixon and the creation of the EPA through Reagan's dramatic expansions of the "black" side of government (CIA, NSA, NRO, DARPA, etc.), to the Shrub's creating DHS and TSA--the size of government goes up under presidents who spend most of their campaigns complaining about the size of government.
It's been my observation that men who chew out subordinates, fire people, cut salaries, and generally make life unpleasant for everyone around them--these men are called "effective managers" and rise to the top in most corporations.
ReplyDeleteA woman who does the same is called "a bitch" and shuttled out the door as quickly as possible.
Some of us remember the shitstorm Obama caused in the first few months of his presidency when he went to Florida and spoke before a bunch of school kids.
ReplyDeleteHE URGED THEM TO STAY IN SCHOOL AND GRADUATE!
Folks all over the Right went ballistic over it--even as they realized how stupid they were sounding by essentially coming out publicly AGAINST kids getting any education.
So, yeah, with that as background, Obama's presidency has been cataclysmically bad for the right. They have had to take stands againsteverything from education to drinking water to reading books and owning dogs.
Personally, I will always wonder at William Casey's extremely timely and convenient death from brain cancer.
ReplyDeleteThe opinion among neurologists was that Reagan was already gaga before he *entered* office. Apparently that is what the voters wanted.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Hillary Clinton the same age as the guy the Republicans nominated last time? And younger than the guy they nominated before that?
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected and will not go through paroxysms defending my otherwise indefensible position. I guess that makes me a liberal.
ReplyDeleteGotta take my wife to the doc. Go ahead and start without me; I'll be along later. Promise!
ReplyDeleteWoodstock - music + guns.
ReplyDeleteHey, it's a serious question.
ReplyDeleteall of the young hotrods will be in the race.
ReplyDeleteI can't stop looking at that phrase and giggling. I just imagine the same usual gang of idiots that have shown up at the GOP debates for the last two cycles, with a couple of fresh faces (Rand Paul, Cruz), in jump suits with sponsor patches (Koch Bros. prominent among them), lining up facing the camera sideways, grinning and giving the thumbs-up. "May the best man* win!"
*Because even they can't pretend that they really want Bachmann to win.
Contrast Sarah Palin and family, who were happy to take advantage of health care for Native Americans (on the basis of Todd's grandmother) while Bible Spice denounced Obamacare.
ReplyDeleteMany of their supporters are of the same general age, and they're perfectly happy to divide folks into them that deserve the entitlements (themselves) and them that don't (everyone else). Cognitive dissonance: it's what's for dinner.
ReplyDeleteBrain and brain, what is brain?
ReplyDeleteModern America's asshole-centric capitalist reward structure does make it difficult for those not of the asshole persuasion.
ReplyDeleteGood grief. And I wondered if you'd remember the reference...
ReplyDeleteBecause even they can't pretend that they really want Bachmann to win.
ReplyDeleteHmm, remember how Alan Keyes got the nod to be the last-second replacement for Jack Ryan, because that would help "neutralize" something something about Obama? Remember how Cain was briefly a "Not Romney" contender in the eyes of a party stuffed with racist shits? Maybe, with Ms. Clinton as the likely Dem candidate, they'll consider nullifying her advantage by running a woman too. Granted, it's a woman who's dedicated to eradicating women's rights, who thinks women shouldn't receive equal pay for equal work, and who has taken a proudly incoherent stand against a National Women's History Museum. Yeah,that'd show Hillary.
... Nah. Bachmann was born in Iowa, got into the game of courting the theocratic whackaloons there early, is a down-the-line deranged fundamentalist Protestant dumbfuck ... and she came in sixth in the Iowa caucus, behind a charismaless Catholic, a Mormon suspected of insufficiently severe conservatism, Ron "Who cares about Israel?" Paul, a serial adulterer, and Rick Perry. Rick Perry. The GOP base might have loved jerking off to Sarah Palin posters, but too many of them won't tolerate the idea of a woman actually wearing the Prez Pants(TM).
Same thing as giant urban assault vehicles and a full armory in one's home - it's a dick thing.
ReplyDeleteDamn I feel bad for those poor guys. Just because they have tiny peckers they have to buy cars, guns and thermonuclear weapons. I couldn't afford the lifestyle.
"She just dropped in
ReplyDeleteto see what condition
her concussion was in..."
I guess it's a good thing that you have an abnormally huge penis, then.
ReplyDeletewurlitzer-of-cadaver-farts
ReplyDeleteNow there's a graphic nasal sensory image. Bravo!
I forgot "community organizer"
ReplyDeleteYes and yes (Romney is one year older)
ReplyDeleteUnrelated to dolphins, but nevertheless illuminating as to Peggy Noonan's imaginative capabilities, not to mention as a means of measuring her value in the political discourse, do not forget her assessment of Hillary's character way back on June 29, 2006, in her Wall Street Journal column:
ReplyDelete"....She [Hillary Clinton] does not seem like someone who would anguish and weep over sending men into harm's way. And
in this, as president, she would be deeply unusual. LBJ felt anguish;
there are pictures of him, head in hands, suffering. Bush the Elder wept
as he talked, with Paula Zahn, about what it was to send men to war.
Bush the Younger would breastfeed the military if he could. Hillary is
like someone who would know she should be moved but wouldn't be because
she couldn't be because . . . well, why...."
Sorry: I already used all the brain bleach.
The first vote I ever cast was for Shirley Chisholm.
ReplyDeleteThe NRO bumming for change will begin in 5 minutes.
ReplyDeleteIf only Barbara Jordan were still with us...
ReplyDeleteDon't be silly. He's a man, and we all know that men age better than women.
ReplyDeleteCan't have a revolution without adequate bathroom facilities!
ReplyDeleteNot when you're that full of shit, anyway.
Hey, it's perfectly possible to be amongst the penes piccoli, but just not be insecure about it. Or at least be insecure about it in a way that doesn't involve firearms or overpowered automobiles. Now, if you'll excuse me, I suddenly have to run to the bakery for some enormous baguettes.
ReplyDeleteOh, God, this like watching "Patton" for the first time!
ReplyDelete"When you put your hand into a bunch of goo ..."
Why, thanky ma'am!
ReplyDeleteWingnuts do love a tabula rasa hero.
ReplyDelete"that one day ago used to be the Golden Corral Early Bird special..."
ReplyDeletewhat if she chokes on a pretzel, smart guy? then what??
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