Conservatives You Like

iirc, I was washing my hair at the time. Sorry. If it makes you feel better, I condemn that Andy fellow for his utterly laughable contentions about Franco. Who knows what he was smoking at the time?

I caught the Log Cabin Republican Nat'l convention on C-Span this morning and I'm thinking I might like Christine Todd Whitman. I vaguely remember her locking horns with the Bush Admin when she served at the EPA, but had kind of forgotten about her until today. Any Jerseyites around here have any strong opinions on her one way or the other?

O_O

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman#Racial_profiling_controversy

i own her biography (and have never read it)

i have a very clear memory of a car w/ an "impeach florio" bumpersticker on it (likely a whitman supporter) but was too young then to know what was up

as republicans go not too bad but a shitty gov even by nj standards

Right now on CNN the anchor is interviewing a Log Cabin Republican. The LCR dude is being reasonable and articulate, the anchor is being a real asshole. It's kind of lol but mostly sad.

I really dig Meghan McCain, mostly because she's stone cold liberal re: social issues and not politically ambitious enough to ever run for office and exercise her conservative views on other things.

I can't stand Meghan McCain as she reminds me of my country club Republican relatives. They, too, tend to be fashionably liberal with social issues but when it comes to their money and the right to be a boring, rich snob they hide behind right-wing rhetoric and will FIGHT for it. Spending any significant amount of leisure time with people like that is enough to bring out the spirit of '68 in anybody - trust me.

megan mccain got some big titties

― and what, Tuesday, September 2, 2008 3:19 PM (7 months ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/HankHill.jpg/250px-HankHill.jpg

parents of my son's best friend. they're great people, we've become good friends too, endless booze-soaked dinners where we discuss everything under the sun EXCEPT politics.

people on this thread like
John McCain
and
Boris Johnson

I don't like them

parents of my son's best friend. they're great people, we've become good friends too, endless booze-soaked dinners where we discuss everything under the sun EXCEPT politics.

― m coleman, Monday, April 20, 2009 9:38 AM (3 hours ago

When my kid was in a 1 through 8 private school I met folks like this. Now he's in 9th grade at a public high school, and I'm out of touch with those folks.

People on this thread liked John McCain 5 years ago before he rather publicly shat on all of his public goodwill with the worst Presidential campaign I remember seeing in my lifetime.

http://twitter.com/mileycyrus/status/1523053446

(oh wait, I'm supposed to like her? nevermind)

^^^

How awesome is that message against a backdrop of John Lennon fan art?

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/05/11/2009-05-11_meghan_mccain_a_real_pain_at_dc_dinner.html

The security guard sent her to talk to someone to sort out the situation, but Meghan got bratty and nastily told him, ‘We’ll just stand here then,’ like an insolent child,” our source said, adding that after dealing with the guard, “She muttered to her friends, ‘Does he even know who the f--- I am?’ ”

I'm feeling so self-righteous and justified right now for criticizing her a few weeks back. She's from the same young rich Republican club that houses people like Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. DO NOT WANT.

At least Ann Coulter is funny and makes for consistent entertainment.

At least Ann Coulter is funny and makes for consistent entertainment.

you know, i really don't understand people who think coulter is entertaining in the slightest.

At least one member of the GOP had fun. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin couldn’t make the festivities due to tending to her state’s flooding problem, so she sent hubby, Todd, who had a whale of a time.

Todd happily lapped up the attention from his tablemates and rarely left the side of his date for the evening, Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren.

The two became so close that we caught them hanging out together well past midnight at Capitol File magazine’s annual after-dinner bash.

oooh this is how rumors start

he two became so close that we caught them bhanging out together well past midnight at Capitol File magazine’s annual after-dinner bash.

no, this is how rumors start

Politico reporting van Susteren / Palin affair; photos on the way

You know old Todd wet his wick in some Greta pudding last Saturday night!

Posted By: what's good for the goose... | May 11, 2009 at 04:49 PM

you know, i really don't understand people who think coulter is entertaining in the slightest.

She's entertaining in the classic adversary intellectual sense. She knows the exact thing to say to cause her political opponents to anger, and she's usually witty about it on top of that. (Her improvised reply to Joy Behar on Larry King Live last week was great television)

In that sense she's in the Tucholsky and Mencken (perhaps German?) tradition of being, if being nothing else, a great hater. To say you don't like her or her opinions, or that you think she's hateful, is to miss the point entirely.

i think shes ugly

I agree w/stevie, that she is not entertaining, and it is bcz I do not enjoy the sort of humor that is 'riling people up for the lulz' from anyone of any stripe.

Tempted to start a "who is ILX's Ann Coulter" thread but that would just be a bad bad bad idea

You wld have to ban yourself.

Ann Coulter was entertaining in a "is this person for real?" sense, but it's pretty damn tired these days. Meghan McCain has always been pretty annoying and I don't understand why people really give a damn about what she has to say post-campaign. I guess she's become the voice of the young, modern, "moderate" republican or something, but... fucking gag.

Cunga on the shortlist xxp

"They, too, tend to be fashionably liberal with social issues but when it comes to their money and the right to be a boring, rich snob they hide behind right-wing rhetoric and will FIGHT for it."

this seems otm

There's a continuum. "Bitchslap you with [his or her] brain" at one end, mindless chopbusting at the other. Coulter is clever, but I have never, ever, seen her definitively son anyone. She is either insufficiently ruthless (unlikely) or insufficiently bright.

coulter's dull as fuck, deathly predictable, and if i actually believed that she believed half the shit that she spouts then i would wish her ill (and maybe whether she believes it or not doesn't matter). if you are entertained by coulter then you have huge buttons that are easy to push, mang.

i don't really think she is clever, tbh. opportunist and quick to talk, but she talks bullshit. i do love to watch her get riled and lose the plot though.

full disclosure: i await her eventual and inevitable downfall with a hunger i reserve for rush, glenn beck and hannity

I wish everyone wld say Rush Limbaugh or Limbaugh bcz I keep getting distressed at all these ill-wishes of a perfectly harmless Canadian band.

if i cut geddy lee, does he bleed like an ordinary guy?

Well, Coulter is a bit like Bill Maher. Maher can be funny sometimes but even when he's not he still plays the role of "100%-willing-to-offend" villain tremendously. Some people don't tolerate that type, quite understandably, but they can be fun to watch in small doses. At least that's what I think.

http://gone-hollywood.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/meghan-mccain.jpg

most of the film was rather pointless and knee-jerky, but one of my favorite Bill Maher moments is in Religilous. He hits up one of those de-homo-ification camps, run by wouldn't you know it a "formerly gay" dude. Bill kind of starts flirting with the guy, and the guy gets totally flustered and blushy.

yeah gay people who don't want to be gay any more are so funny

sorry OT, but the post above had me thinking about the relative worth of Bill Maher

yeah gay people who don't want to be gay any more are so funny

When I see them trying to walk macho, I point at them and laugh.

Ted Nugent.

he might annoy me even more than ann coulter, but i haven't actively chosen to watch much ann coulter so

x-post true, or when they start talking

bill maher that is

yeah gay people who don't want to be gay any more are so funny

yeah you know it was actually pretty fucking funny

guess i'll have to take your word for it!

Mel Gibson

Not really him or his politics or his alcoholic anti-Jew rants. Just his badass performances as Mad Max.

yeah you know it was actually pretty fucking funny

whoa ^^^ sounds snide & wasn't my intention : /

more like it probably doesn't read funny, but i certainly chuckled at the time

is mcwhorter really conservative? does that rest mostly on his not liking hip-hop and his belittling coolio on TV?

"Coolio, why haven't you made another 'Fantastic Voyage'? Did your nuts die?"