2008 USP(G)ET pt. II: counting the days to 2012 primary thread 1

wait, who are these people who act as though anyone cares about O NOES COMMUNISM in 2008? srsly if you haven't personally hired Pinkertons to smack up some Wobblies just stfu.

Palin's use of her Alaskan life to defend both her international experience and how she is just like everyday Americans certainly displays an ability to bend space/time, even if this is just in her own mind.

Nordlinger's a very weird voice on the Corner. I had been under the impression that he's been posting there for years, just not very often until recently, and that he's gone way off his meds. But is he new(ish)? His posts stand out in their breathless jabbery-ness.

Jabberitude, no?

Haha the Economist worldwide electoral map: I was wondering where McCain's last three EVs came from after counting Georgia and Macedonia. It appears he's up 53-47 in Andorra!

WTF Macedonia

My aunt came back from Greece last week and she said everyone there are "obamalovers", so maybe the Macedonians are just being contrarian

old ppl in the mediterranean

parking lot 2

its amazing how simple questions like when did you first hear abt sarah palin freak these weirdos out

I enjoyed this insane fever dream:

lol "Kathy...stop."

those questions seem dumb. it wouldnt be hard to get them to say something stupid but instead hes busy catching them in a fake gotcha! about obama being a terrorist, why did obama stand on a stage with him

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The one from yesterday was better because he kept going at the "when did you first hear about Sarah Palin" angle.

waht

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that cover is kind of awesome

i dont think this got posted yesterday:

McCain voted for the Bear DNA; told lame jokes about it

Dear news magazines,

New cover ideas, plz.

Thx.

those questions seem dumb. it wouldnt be hard to get them to say something stupid but instead hes busy catching them in a fake gotcha! about obama being a terrorist, why did obama stand on a stage with him

Yeah, I hated that guy's line of questioning.

why did mccain stand on stage w/ him i mean

its not like getting these ppl to say something embarrassing would be that hard. this guy is no borat

i thought he was kinda brilliant using their own pseudo logic against them

Re the Time cover: dealing with the economy will turn you white.

DID YOU KNOW that AS WE SPEAK secret operatives of ACORN are driving homeless people to the polls so they can vote, and then to your house so they can rape your children??? FACT

I blanched

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"I have seen shit that'll turn you WHITE!"

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really happy to see these people lose, but i'm worried about how their festering hate will manifest itself over the next few years. they can now see themselves more easily as disenfranchised and so more can justify to themselves their fantasies of liberal elite commie queers running the country. and then form mobs and the like.

I'm interested in the special report on why people vote the way they do. I want to see how many pages they can stretch out "you either vote like your parents did or you vote opposite of how your parents did".

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I think the time cover is supposed to read left to right ("black and white" to "full color", uh) but visually it doesn't scan that way, it is pretty dumb

Everyone should be worried about that. These fuckers are scary. That said they've been around for a while and feel persecuted regardless of electoral representation so I'm not sure there's really that much greater a threat here.

youtuber guy comes off as a way bigger dick in the 2nd one. i'd say shit just as stupid as those ppl if some asshole was coming at me with a camera asking retardo questions like that.

o rly?

rent, i already brought up the possibility of a resurgence of ruby ridge / waco / unabomber / tim mcveigh type shit and yeah, i'm pretty resigned to the fact it's gonna happen again

maybe we will get lucky and polygamist mormon enclaves will turn on the evangelical deep militia folks

I like to think of it as a logical conclusion to the Southern Strategy. The GOP wanted them, they got 'em. Enjoy.

at the same time, it is a losing cause at this point for them. that element will always be there, but it seems to be getting more isolated, with obama maybe drawing off some of the moderate, borderline wackos. having said that, the persecution complex is probably inversely proportional to the size of your group, so they might just become more...potent.

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lmao

i think the uber rightwingers have won occasional battles but i really do think they're slowly losing the war. look at this country now compared to thirty, forty years ago w/r/t tolerance. i think the fire-breathing assholes have become louder as their numbers have dwindled.

its a demographics battle and they are doomed to lose

trains otm

i caught some of Rusty Humphries yesterday (the Wrinklepaws of the conservative talk radio crew) and he was playing clips from the audio book of Dreams from My Father, specifically ones where obama is dealing with being a black kid growing up in a white world and all the antipathy for he had for white culture. His argument was literally "we can not elect a man as racist as this to the presidency"

he also took a caller who was raised Muslim but is now Christian but claims to be able to have muslim raydar ("just like gays have gaydar") and he can tell that Obama is a muslim. He didn't challenge this caller, he coached him along to this conclusion.

i've been thinking -- the fact that mccain continues to appear alongside palin for public events & interviews shows how much he needs her association to appeal to the base, and how the campaign can't send her off untethered lest she make some ridiculous mistake -- strategically, they ought to be able to go their separate ways for weeks at a time and cover more ground but they are locked together in some sort of tandem free-fall.

they're like romeo and juliet, except with no plan

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so who will the Repugs run in '12? Fuckabee? Mittens? Newt?

Huckabee has to be a contender, I think.

no way.

Southern, religious, media-savvy, seems like an affable guy...

Southern, religious, media-savvy, seems like an affable guy...

― Michael White, Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:24 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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