Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

Anal sex?

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haha...ironically if Palin represents the greek democratic ideal she's a pretty good argument in favor of plato's attacks on democracy!

ie, the "people" will elect idiots!

fuckin' Ethan beat me to the K-Lo post.

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You like-a da juice, yeah? You like-a da juice...

<3

Your Papers, Please [Jay Nordlinger]

Have a friend who was in Riverside Park (Manhattan) with his baby daughter. A woman came up to him and said, “Are you a registered Democrat?” He said no. She said, “Well, you can register right now — it will just take a second. I have the necessary paperwork here.” He said, “No, actually, that’s not it — I am registered. It’s just that I’m a registered Republican.” He said that the woman gave him a look of hate such as he had seldom seen — sent a shudder down his spine. She walked away, still glaring, bitterly, without a word.

Now, the thing is, my friend’s not very political at all — he’s not like me and the rest of us NRO-niks. He just has a nice career (unrelated to politics), and a nice family, loves to play golf, likes to go to the movies, and goes about his business. And he thought, “Shouldn’t she simply have been pleased that I was registered? Isn’t political participation and good citizenship what it’s all about?”

Oh, no, no, my friend — not by a long shot. Come the revolution, you will understand. And that lady will give you a good long time in a camp to think about it.

I think the cornerites are secretly excited by the prospect of being persecuted and camps, etc. -- all of their bdsm fantasies will finally come true.

Not that that will happen, but they seem to spend a lot of time daydreaming over the prospect.

I discussed that point with a friend last night -- "Hugh Hewitt, Lopez, and Steyn really DO dream about worker camps and surrendering lots of their taxes, don't they?"

Yeah I imagine Rich Lowry yanks it to The Gulag Archipelago on the reg.

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***STARBURSTS***

I figure if Obama's tax proposal was 'yeah, I'm taxing and imprisoning all the Cornerites and their fellow travellers and everyone else gets a refund,' then everybody would be happy since all the collective dreams would come true.

everybody would be happy since all the collective dreams would come true.

Intriguing, Comrade Ned.

The Beauty of Consistency [Jay Nordlinger]

I loved a letter from a reader. Last week, I posted an item saying that Ronald Reagan was winning strange new raves for his intellect — because people were interested in demeaning Governor Palin. They were saying (in essence), “Palin is a complete non-reading nincompoop, as opposed to that combination of Wittgenstein and Einstein, Reagan: the Sage of Eureka.”

And that letter I loved? “Don’t worry. Some of us liberals are still consistent. I don’t like Palin and I didn’t like Reagan either.”

What a relief!

10/19 10:40 PM

This was me! I sent that letter that he loved! They love me!!

They are feeling little starbursts about you right now.

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One day one of them is going to stumble onto this thread. On that day, they will post about it indignantly on The Corner. That day will be loltastic.

Rich Lowry will give me sunbursted lolgasms.

I would not be surprised if Jonah was a longtime lurker.

Nordlinger is gold

Nordlinger and Mozart's juicy phrases

Derb, if you find this thread, let me save you some time.

how come this is the first time I've noticed alizee kinda has a five head? also more nordlinger/derbyshire google img bombs plz

Who's buyin' the first round?!?

"from rabid Sarah Palin fans to Andrew Sullivan" [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

He voted for John Kerry. He endorsed Barack Obama. It remains a mystery to me why Andrew Sullivan is described as on the Right or a conservative. That's not me being McCarthyite. I just think words have meanings.

Just a rabid well-fed theocon Christianist vent.

And I'm guessing Sullivan will not be doing as many post-election shots as I will be (meet you in the bar on the NR Cruise) if we don't make at least 40 in the Senate, either.

I look forward to the day K-lo starts posting drunk 24/7.

So... you're looking forward to two weeks ago?

No, I think that is her brain sober! Imagine how much worse it can get.

well-fed

no shit

is "well-fed" the new "fat"?

Dreber w/r/t NRO:

I would add that conversations I've had over the past couple of weeks with grassroots conservatives around here are kind of breathtaking in their denial of reality. I have heard conservatives talk about how all the polls are wrong, that the "silent majority" will be heard from, that Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric are evil for making Sarah Palin look bad, etc. And that anyone who claims to be a conservative who disputes any of this is a traitor to the cause.

Loves it!

In Case It Helps [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Poll suggests Kerry has lead in swing states
Last Updated: Sunday, October 17, 2004 | 9:15 PM ET

Sorry Dan, maybe she is already drunk.

For some reason I had a Washington roundtable show on yesterday morning and Newt was on one of them, warning about all of the things the Democrats were gonna do when they got the power, and one of them was the same thing that Steyn is talking about here, i dunno, i don't see it

"Fairness" and freedom [Mark Steyn]

If Obama wins and has Congressional coattails, I would expect a new "Fairness Doctrine" to be one of the first things the liberal supermajority will pass. John McCain, who is antipathetic to talk radio and whose birdbrained interventions in the area of public discourse have helped give us moveon.org and a 600-million-dollar candidate who could singlehandedly fund the national elections of the rest of the G7, is obviously not the best person to argue against it. But those Americans who object to government regulation of ideas and opinions ought to take this threat seriously. It applies not just to Rush & Co, but eventually to websites like this. (North of the border, I see, the broadcast regulator, the CRTC, is now moving on to swallow the Internet.)

This would be not a "long march through the institutions" (as terrorist educator William Ayers would say), only a quick and easy stroll. But it would be (in Colin Powell's word) "transformative". In Canada, for example, I'm told by leftie critics that I should be satisfied because "the system worked" - that's to say, after three investigations, a wasted year and a ton of legal bills, a government agency has, in effect, retrospectively granted me permission to say what I said. Gee, thanks. Today's Calgary Herald editorial - "Canadians Are A Censored People" - has implications down here, too:

In supposedly free societies, government has no business having an opinion on whether a book [or a radio show, or a website] is true, false or has merit.

Like Canada's "human rights" commissions, the new "Fairness Doctrine" will be framed in fluffy feelgood terms, starting with that Orwellian name, and it will serve the same purpose - to pre-emptively stifle free speech.

10/20 03:18 PM

I think that's a part of their persecution fantasies.

Every time they state their fears about being put in a camp for dissidents, I think, "if only."

One Day in the Life of Hugh Hewitt would be singularly boring reading.

Steyn actually believes his opinions are dangerous. That's gotta be the funniest thing about his Canada case. His opinions are about as dangerous as Kevin MacDonald's. They are distasteful, gross, and RONG, but no one takes him seriously.

For some reason I had a Washington roundtable show on yesterday morning and Newt was on one of them, warning about all of the things the Democrats were gonna do when they got the power, and one of them was the same thing that Steyn is talking about here, i dunno, i don't see it

"This Week With George Stephanopopopoluffagus." I'm pretty sure Donna Brazile shot him the Scowl of Death too.

Not specifically Corner-related but with crossover and worth a read. My two favorite parts:

When I ask Frum about the apparent class overtones of the anti-anti-Palin argument, he deems it a mere “rhetorical trope.” What he hears instead is the sound of defeatism. “The people who defend her have already given up any serious thought of Republicans’ wielding governmental power anytime soon,” Frum says. “They have already moved to a position of pure cultural symbolic opposition to a new majority. The people who criticize her do so because we have some hope that we could be in contention in 2012, and there’s some risk that she could be the party’s nominee, and she’d probably lose—and even if by some miracle she won, she’d be a terrible president.”

...

Few people understand better than Buckley just what that might mean. “My dad kicked off conservatism in 1955, Goldwater ran in 1964, and then Reagan was elected sixteen years after that,” he notes. “So the Republicans could be looking pretty good around, oh, 2032!”

You might think that Buckley is kidding here, but you would be wrong. Conservatism, he thinks, is facing nothing less than an existential crisis. The events of recent days may have given him less of a stake in the outcome than before, but still he offers a friendly word of advice for those who care to listen. “The smart ones in the movement should get together right after the election at the Greenbrier or the Homestead, you know, where they typically have these kinds of get-togethers, and have a long dark night of the soul,” he says. “And I’ll tell you what the conference should be called: Conservatism—What the Fuck?”

Oh, the world resource skirmishes to come will come far sooner than 2032 and will bring out things far worse than anything even the most anti-Dem or anti-GOP person can fear, but oh let Republicans think their party is doomed in the meantime.

More and more delusional the closer this election gets to the wire:

The Palin Effect? [Jonah Goldberg]

From a reader:

Dear Mr. Goldberg,

Y'all have written clearly about the oft-confused Bradley Effect in the Corner today, but you have failed to mention the newest Silent Majority - those who are going to vote for McCain/Palin because of Sarah Palin, but are too embarrassed to admidt it to a pollster. It's huge, man.

As for me, as I tell everyone - I'm voting for Sarah Palin and that while-haired dude she's running with. Trust me, I get lots of knowing nods.

Color me dubious about the statistical significance of the Palin effect (how many gung-ho Palin supporters are really embarassed to say they're voting for McCain to a pollster?), but I hope I'm wrong.

Jonah discounts this theory, but if the dude had sent this to K-lo she probably would have been drunk enough to buy into it.

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzBjMzc0ZmRhMzI4OTY0ZTg1MmNjOTBkYTBlYTkxZTU=

loooooooooool

UPDATE: I am floored by the fact that the white pages for Albuquereque, New Mexico has a listing for "Duran Duran." Mea culpa.

I am dying here.

Burning the ground.

i'd like to report some fraud i saw a name listed on the ballot as "barack hussein obama" thats gotta be fake right

Not really American.

kathleen parker, ew

To McCain's credit, he has tried to correct his audience -- when, for example, a woman said she couldn't trust Obama because he's an Arab. Gosh, wonder where she ever got that idea? But the McCain-Palin bad cop-good cop routine is what it is. The hot babe lathers the crowd; the noble soldier hoses them down. This isn't a campaign; it's a sideshow.

crosspost to nailin palin thread

are too embarrassed to admidt it to a pollster. It's huge, man.

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