Comments on: The Big Sophistry Of Low Expectations

By: ahem

ahem — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:50:24 +0000

A lot of them have finally swallowed the red pill and realize that Palin is a disaster

I disagree. I think a lot of them have looked at Palin and realise that McCain picked her because this is who they are. The cognitive dissonance is killing them. He picked one of their own. They adored the pick. And now they either hunker down like Instafuckwit or can’t bear to identify with her.

By: ahem

ahem — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:47:38 +0000

I don’t know if the title “Dr.” is being used here ironically, sarcastically, facetiously, pedantically, whatever.

Mistakenly. The proper form is ‘Ol Perfesser’ and ‘Dr Mrs Ol Perfesser’ for the one with the doctorate (and, the horror, a state board license) in psychology.

By: jgmurphy

jgmurphy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:17:46 +0000

C’mon, she’s only gotta go up against Joe Biden. Can you imagine the hysteria if she had to face, say, Al Gore?

By: Bina

Bina — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:27:51 +0000

He wants those clowns to receive a verbal spanking that leaves them crippled and incontinent for life?

Oh well, whatever floats his little dinghy.

Little dinghy? Hell, man, that thing’s a second navel! And not just because of all the cold water Reality dumped on it, either.

By: tensor

tensor — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:27:31 +0000

“Then Palin will die in a tragic accident back home in Alaska involving a drugged moose…”

Now, you have to clean up the tea I just spewed on my laptop’s screen!

By: BMACCNM

BMACCNM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:02:37 +0000

Legalize said :”I agree with those who think Palin will go out there and just repeat her convention performance in chunks at a time. She’ll mock community organizers, or say something about tax-and-spend liberal elites and soy lattes, and that will be about it….”

After this week, can they REALLY talk about them durn tax-and-spend libruls? They dug us a pit we can never get out of- and no one from the party of personal responsibility will fess up. I honestly don’t understand how anyone who has been active in the Republican Party at any time in the last 20 years can even show face now.

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:21:41 +0000

I would love to see TIDOS Yankee interview Bush.

Provided I could be there at the end of the interview and beat them both about the face and neck with a fencepost with a nail driven into it.

By: PaminBB

PaminBB — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:15:53 +0000

At this rather late date, I don’t see Palin leaving the campaign. However, I do think that if by some miracle she and McC win in November, she will resign prior to the inauguration to spend more time with her family.The McCain/Lieberman administration again rears its head – mavericky!

By: Legalize

Legalize — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:05:43 +0000

I agree with those who think Palin will go out there and just repeat her convention performance in chunks at a time. She’ll mock community organizers, or say something about tax-and-spend liberal elites and soy lattes, and that will be about it. Biden won’t have much to respond to and he won’t get any real responses from Palin. I don’t think anyone is counting on a substantive discussion of anything, which benefits Palin. We’re all just watching to see something wacky happen. Such is the entire point of McWacky’s campaign.

The wingers will cream themselves with delight. That’s all McCain can hope for.

By: Big Bad Bald Bastard

Big Bad Bald Bastard — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:21:28 +0000

D. Arisotophanes, are you a Pharynguloid? The Confurvatives were brought up by some bastard in a Pharyngula thread last week:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/09/this_could_be_trouble.php#comments

Nice to see they’re getting some net luv.

By: Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:04:37 +0000

I’d just like to note that healthcare reform is vital to the bailout– and it’s got to be all about job creation, too– and, uh, the Wall Street Journal!– That’s what I meant; I mean I read that, that’s what I read, when I want to be up to date on, uh, I think if Pakistan won’t cooperate we should attack, uh, Russia?

What do you mean the debate isn’t until Thursday?

Oh, uh, well, nevermind.

[McCain wanders on stage and begins to look around, befuddled]

Uh, John? John? I think you leave the stage over… John? John! I think you leave the stage over to the right-hand side, I… John? Oh, darnit. I don’t think he can hear me.

By: Confederate Wankee

Confederate Wankee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:53:41 +0000

Izzat yo culchun hay-tidge? Dat ain’t MY culchun hay-tidge!

By: Warren Terra

Warren Terra — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:48:10 +0000

Well, if the wingers do want to lower the bar and turn the Veep debate into a Limbo contest, the debate is already in St. Louis – and St. Louis is already set up with the Limbo bar the wingers think Palin should have to clear. And then they will applaud her stunning and unexpected success.
For the Limbo bar the wingers think Biden or Obama should have to clear, well, I’m sure they can find a gutter someplace.

By: Lawnguylander

Lawnguylander — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:37:18 +0000

I would just love to see Obama fielding a question from Confederate Yankee at a press conference but only if he stated his blog’s name first.

Obama: Before I answer your question would you please repeat the name of your blog? Because I thought you said it was called Confederate Yankee and that just can’t be right. Nobody would call his blog that who wasn’t straight up racist, simple and plain.

Or if he could get past the blog’s name maybe Obama could show up at TIDOS and address Wankee’s concerns there. Oh right, his comments would just get deleted.

By: g

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:22:51 +0000

Well, it really doesn’t matter what question Gwen asks Palin, because she never broaches the subject of the question when she answers.

By: dBa

dBa — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:21:57 +0000

I Think “turned to her advice many times in the past” kinda speaks for itself.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:20:23 +0000

So now Palin will win the debate because of two factors:

Also Biden will lose the swimwear portion.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:17:53 +0000

So now Palin will win the debate because of two factors:

1. Low expectations. If she seems to have an IQ even half a point higher than a 32-oz. Slurpee, she will have performed beyond all expectations, vindicating McGrumpy’s selection.

2. Biased moderator. Apparently, Gwen Ifill has written a book about how the political involvement of African-Americans is different now from before and during the Civil Rights era. Obviously, this means she is pro-Obama (also, she’s black, so she must be pro-Obama), and therefore, she will ask Palin to deliver a detailed explanation of the derivative securities markets, while asking Biden to tell us his favorite color. Thus, the entire debate is invalid ab initio.

Never mind that Palin probably couldn’t name a single color if asked.

By: J—

J— — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:17:11 +0000

Today was a strong day of polling for Obama. Time for another stupid political human trick from Maverick Thing 1 and Maverick Thing 2.

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:03:12 +0000

If McCain told me he sought Foreign Policy advice from Palin, after reading all these comments, I wouldn’t believe it.

Did he say he sought foreign policy advice from her, or just that he “turned to her” about foreign policy issues? If that’s what he said, he did indeed, at least in that joint hold-handing interview – he turned to her, told her what she thought, and then said he’d let her speak for herself.