Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

"bitter unmarried bloggers"

BUBs?

the female Lindsey Graham.

― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:12 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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JUST ONE OF THE GIRLS

Looks like an outtake frame from The Shining

^^HA!
Losers [Byron York]

There are a lot of things you can do when you finish a losing campaign. You can sleep for 30 hours straight. You can get drunk. Your can reflect on what went wrong and why your side lost. Or you can immediately dump every unflattering tidbit you know — or think you know — about your colleagues to the press.

That is the route some McCain campaign staffers have decided to pursue with regard to Sarah Palin. Within hours of McCain's loss, they were dishing on everything Palin did or didn't do, everything she did or didn't know, and why they, the staffers, bore no responsibility for anything that went wrong.

Did Palin once answer a knock on her hotel room door dressed in a bathrobe? Get it out there!

The question here is not whether Palin was a good or a bad choice for vice president. Reasonable people disagree on that one. It's about the character of the McCain campaign. There is no doubt that it included some fine people who, whatever their opinions, wouldn't be involved in this kind of behavior. But it also, obviously, included some who would. John McCain ran for president, to some large degree, on the character he had displayed throughout his life. Not so for some of those around him. What a bunch of losers.

"The question here is not whether Palin was a good or a bad choice for vice president. Reasonable people disagree on that one."

No they don't.

"Reasonable people disagree whether reasonable people disagree on that one."

What a bunch of losers.

Arizona is huge because Arizona was the only state ever to reject a marriage amendment in 2006. This year, Arizonans decided to correct that anomaly, bringing to 30 the number of states that protect marriage in their state constitutions.

And also: giving marriage a perfect 30 out of 30 record of victory at the ballot box.

Um....

zona got a mulligan

giving marriage a perfect 30 out of 30 record of victory at the ballot box

gosh my wife of 19 years and I are so relieved, our odds for making it to 20 are so much better now that gays can't get married too

LOL divorce rate

Palin . . . and the Vice President-elect [Michael Ledeen]
The continued trashing of Sarah Palin — IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four — is very disappointing, and the rash of unseemly whining from the McCain camp just shows once again why so many of us were depressed when he won the nomination. The stuff from the left is understandable; they fear her, and they want to drive a stake through her heart. But the trash from the McCainiacs is beneath contempt. So much for "elegance in defeat."

The worst of it is that very little attention is devoted to the actual VP-elect, Joe Biden of Delaware, a man with no executive experience, who invents 'facts' many times a day, who is the walking definition of narcissist, and who will, for the next four years, be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

11/06 11:18 AM

hahahaha

Hillary Clinton is much closer to being "the walking definition of a narcissist" than Biden, who is actually "the walking definition of a big doofus".

not the corner, but too good not to post

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/erick/2008/nov/05/operation-leper/

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

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P.S. - Did I ever tell you how RedState was able to stock Gov. Palin's campaign plane with twenty of these?. We were glad to. And we were glad not to mention it at the time. We are rooting for Sarah Palin. Don't make us add you to our list. Do you really want to be next to Kathleen Parker in the leper colony?

wow full fledged vendetta - u go redstate!

btw I am all for these douchebags marginalizing themselves like this; perhaps that will allow rational conservatives who understand the concept of compromise to take back their political control

IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four
IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four

well prob see more lunification of the gop before we see that - most of their moderates have already been axed xp

I'm waiting to see if Ledeen's head explodes if the rumors I've read about Bush partially normalizing relations with Iran before he leaves office come true.

i'm tellin ya, most people in this country have always hated this part of the GOP, and now that "terrorism as issue #1" has passed on by in large part, the extreme right has lost their ace-in-the-hole. i think they didn't recognize that their own influence has always been marginal, a total mirage, and people sided with the gop despite them and not because of them.

i think the dems need to do as a party (w/r/t this part of the gop and their pundit attack dogs) what obama did with mccain in the debates: remain cool and calm in the face of the aggression and negative stuff, because it will only make them look worse the less they react to it.

^^^^^^^

Nasty in the Senate [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

A statement from Harry Reid:

Today Senator Lieberman and I had the first of what I expect to be several conversations. No decisions have been made. While I understand that Senator Lieberman has voted with Democrats a majority of the time, his comments and actions have raised serious concerns among many in our caucus. I expect there to be additional discussions in the days to come, and Senator Lieberman and I will speak to our caucus in two weeks to discuss further steps.

Translation: I am a bully and will make Joe feel pain.

She seems almost calm posting that. Must have switched meds.

"Fabulously Wrongheaded Prediction"? [Jonah Goldberg]
So says Salon about what I wrote on January 4, 2008:

"I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee — and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. Forget Hillary's inevitability. Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he's denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid."

Not only do I stand by that, I know a significant number of liberals who've said pretty much the same thing to me personally (not to mention some of the nutjobs who wrote that there would be a race war if Obama lost). I stand by that entirely.

I never heard anybody, liberal or conservative, say there might be riots if Obama lost. the only "segments of American political life" who became "completely unhinged" were those loudmouth jerks at the Palin rallies.

Speaking truth to Salon.

the only people who thought we would have a "race war" on our hands were chicago cops, and even then it wasn't clear if they thought it would be only if he lost...

can we get uncle shavedlongcock in here to clarify?

ps did everyone see that endorsement of obama by the neonazi that sullivan quoted? fucking bizarre elexion we just had yall.

I'm waiting to see if Ledeen's head explodes if the rumors I've read about Bush partially normalizing relations with Iran before he leaves office come true.

seem to me like w takes things way personal, and if someone got in his ear with "those crazy ex marxist neocons FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED you!" enough he might do some sensible shit to piss them off.

*thinks* well dreams are free ppl

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[If Obama loses] I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged.

this part may have been partly true

I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008.

this is the part that's fabulously wrongheaded. people are voting for O because they're scared of what will happen if they don't!! lol

not to mention some of the nutjobs who wrote that there would be a race war if Obama lost)

fanmail from charles manson

I don't get Jon's reader-mail LOLs, as both of these things are unobjectionable and well put:

- millenials, in general, have a lot of conservative tendencies. They believe in the private sector. They aren't cynical. They believe in the family, community, service, and social responsibility; but I think that Republicans are losing them based largely on outreach and perceived problems with tolerance and diversity.

2. - I fundamentally believe our ideas about free markets, individual liberty, etc. could be enormously appealing to (ethnic minorities), but we aren't seeking to engage these broad communities as much as we should.

Haha whereas in actuality the main thing the GOP has done lately to bring young people and minorities into the fold has been massive expansion of military service

Well, many of the lols for item #2 surround the fact that people are greedy, ergo people without money get completely screwed over in free markets.

really i think all the gop needs to do to be competitive again is ditch the racism. softening the social conservatism isn't a bad idea either. a general no-handouts get-your-shit-together message always has resonance in the US of A, but if you're a party of angry christian white southernern country people, good luck selling it.

i have no doubt they will not be ditching the racism anytime soon.

I agree with Sullivan that the Republicans are going to go way right-wing after this and pull a Tory party. I think the most alienating aspects of their party are going to blow up.

They ain't ditching the social conservatism either. The day this party softens this stance on abortion/gay marriage/prayer in schools/drugs in schools/etc is the day it becomes as irrelevant as the libertarian party.

drugs in schools should be drug decriminalization haha.

^^^^ this

there's already a no-handouts get-your-shit-together party in the US, without all the damage of the GOP brand, and all they could get was a couple million paultards

i have no doubt they will not be ditching the racism anytime soon.

apparently it run pretty deep:

Actual Conversation I Overheard While Waiting for a Train to Massachusetts This Morning [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
"Good morning, how are you?"

"Wonderful. Who isn't after Tuesday?"

"That was good news!"

"Better than good. He's going to change the world."

"America likes us for once! It will only get better."

don't think she was quoting this approvingly.

well that's the problem for them innit, the palin-head demographic is becoming a smaller and smaller slice of america, but still occupies a huge place in the GOP coalition. a politician can't win without them, but the party can't win with them.

xp god damn that disgusting woman

A train to Massachusetts? But...they're liberal there.

Wonder who the "us' is in that post?

Who wants an invitation to next year's cruise?

Fred Bleg [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Feeling a little like I should channel Tim Russert, I am interviewing Fred Thompson on the cruise Sunday morning. Anything you have been anxious to ask him? I'll let you know the answer if your question is asked on the cruise. And no doubt tempt you to join our next one this summer . . .

sir are you now or have you ever been alive?

are you gonna eat that?