November 26, 2008
iRONY
Karl Rove doesn't own a mirror.
Q: Do you have any advice for him? You already criticized Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s new chief of staff, as a sharply partisan choice.
Rove: I raised a question as to whether this would be the best use of Rahm Emanuel’s talents. If you’re trying to work through a big legislative priority, it is sort of hard if you have a guy who has a reputation as a tough, hard, take-no-prisoners, head-in-your-face, scream-and-shout, send-them-a-dead-fish partisan.
Dead fish? When a horse head can't be easily acquired.
November 11, 2008
Looking forward
Rumor has it that Bush looking to capitalize on Obama's popularity by publishing his memoir as "The Audacity of Dope".
November 06, 2008
November 05, 2008
October 30, 2008
The Gipperette
The meme appears to be Palin = Reagan. I can see it, if by Reaganesque they're focused on bad acting, only able to work if scripted, focused exclusively on the top earning tier of the nation and willing to completely overlook uncomfortable facts. However, they actually seem serious.
I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind.
I was wrong!
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she.
On his best occasions, Reagan had this same quality, but it was more muted, more of a twinkle from behind his carefully maintained stage presence. With Gov. Palin, it's nearly continuous and much more obvious. And I think that's a big part of why she inspires the same harsh counter-reactions from political opponents that Reagan did — the same desperate need to ridicule and belittle, to delegitimize. (You'll see it in the comments to this post within minutes after it goes up, of course.) She has to be shouted down and scorned, because if people are allowed to listen to her, that damned joy might turn out to be ... contagious!
I thought Governor Palin was Ronald Reagan in a dress.
Aside from former President Reagan, only Winston Churchill could stir me to the degree John McCain's running mate did last night.
"Sarah Palin is the next Ronald Reagan," Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said.
"In less than a week, Governor Sarah has captured the heart and soul of this convention, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement. She brings together social conservatives, and economic conservatives and libertarians, and people who are fed up with the Culture of Corruption that infests our nation's politics," he said.
"From this moment forward, there's no limit on where Sarah Palin might go," Viguerie concluded.
Isn't that heartwarming. A campaign who after flailing with catchphrases and adapting to the need for change, they're looking over their shoulders at the past for comparison and inspiration.
Palin however, has her little eyes on 2012 and seems just fine with dragging the McCain camp into the mire simply to create herself another stepping stone. Fascinating statements are now being made about her behavior as going rogue, when the definition's not too different from that of a "maverick". Were they just simply not paying attention?
Given that Palin can't even quote Reagan properly, expectations and masturbatory fantasies should be more restrained.
October 29, 2008
Empathetic Apathy
It's as though David Limbaugh was a soothsayer with 20/20 hindsight.
His words, changed ever so slightly as though they were written in October of 2000 rather than 2008.
I am sincerely worried that if Bush wins, the checks and balances incorporated into our Constitution may not be enough to prevent a radical and irreversible diminution of our individual liberties because a confluence of factors has emerged to create a climate conducive to fundamental change.
These factors are: a shockingly unknown candidate, whose mysterious past and numerous shady alliances are deliberately left unexplored by a corrupt, supportive media; the candidate's charismatic qualities that inspire a cultish loyalty; his intellectual trappings that create a fascination and allure among the intellectual elite, including some hypnotized conservatives; a major financial crisis that exacerbates the people's fears and uncertainties; a largely manufactured cloud of negativity placed over America by the media and a grossly partisan Republican Party that places its self-interest above the national interest; and an apparently discredited Democratic Party and liberal movement that have been blamed for our actual and perceived problems.
All of these could lead to entrusting this man with unprecedented power, giving him a license to operate with minimum scrutiny and an opposition party effectively impotent to oppose his radical blueprint for America.
More than ever, perception is trumping reality. An unprincipled Republican Party, aided by a morally decadent media, has demonized President Clinton, the Democratic Party and America itself with distortions and polarizing propaganda designed to dispirit and divide Americans on the bases of race, class and gender. Just look at the domestic and foreign policy picture they have painted the past eight years.
Absolutely clairvoyant
October 23, 2008
May I buy a clue, please?
Not only is she underinformed as to the scope of the job she's applying for, but she's apparently unaware that Donkeys represent her opposition.
wow.
October 16, 2008
Not the Bush
MCCAIN: Yes. Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. I'm going to give a new direction to this economy in this country.
REALLLLLLLLLY?
October 15, 2008
From a small acorn a large oak grows
Why is it that bad names on voter registration for those who'll never show up at a poll is criminal and worthy of debate but obvious fraud and direct impacts to counties by improper filings doesn't register a blip?
With no blinkin' and a little winkin'
Are you ready Governor?
October 09, 2008
Fairness Doctrine
If the McPalin ticket can continue unchallenged by the media and their own conscience to play up the degrees of separation game with Obama and Ayers... everything now, becomes fair game.
Therefore, with McCain we get to discuss ad infinitum, the Keating scandal, his involvement as well as its relevance to today's economic crisis. We are allowed to question equally, the "gaffes" that makes us question whether he's mentally fit to hold the postion he seeks.
We get to holler from the rooftops that Todd and Sarah Palin's ties into the Alaskan secessionists puts them within 1 to 2 degrees of separation from Iran. This either is a sign of inherent bad judgement, a preexisting thought pattern regarding government or the Palin's are, at heart, true sympathizers and thus per the government's terminology, terrorists.
Palin cannot effectively continue behaving like the kid on the playground who pisses off all the other kids, incites a mob, hops a cross town bus screaming insults from the window and the once out of site disparages the kids to the other riders for being mean. Eventually, the bus will stop.
October 07, 2008
eu de flopsweat
If you're content free, fearhate the media, vapid and unwilling or incapable of speaking intelligently and articulately on the issues of the day. Smoke some red herring and keep your Bush clone in a managed bubble.
CLEARWATER -- Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?'' and turn the person around.
When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility.
The negatives speak for themselves... no sense in tempting fate.
When you own multiple glass houses, throwing stones might not be such a splendid campaign strategy at this point.
Definitions
Because parity isn't required.
If you happened to serve on a board of directors with someone who behaved violently as a radical in the '60s, you're associating with terrorists.
If your husband was a card-carrying member of a secession organization and you were directly and indirectly aligned with him and its members, you're a maverick.
October 03, 2008
...and gosh durn it, people lak me
Well Jo Jo, what'd we learn?
* Sarah Palin is tolerant of gays.
* There will be no more sit-down interviews possibly even less access by any of the press.
* She can stay on message even when it's irrelevant to the question.
* She can obfuscate like a mofo.
* She's a maverick and so is John McCain even when examples cannot be cited.
* Hi Mom!
* She wants more regulation and less government. Separate but equal? Still parsing.
* Cheney's not done enough to expand the office of the Vice President and she'll continue his legacy.
* Global warming is real, not man-made and the solution is to drill ANWR.
* You can't look back, the past doesn't matter... even when the past to which you refer is the present.
* There have been blunders in Iraq, but none since the surging?
* John McCain tapped her...
Still not ready for prime time.
