Just the opposite. Jonah supports them.

“Okay, so…like…I know we’ve had 8 years of near-total Republican dominance of the government. I know that our current President has basically turned out to be, well, an incompetent moron. I get all that. But I just think, I really do, that we’ve all got to go out and vote for this really old and cranky guy. I know we all criticized him to death for being a maverick until about 18 months ago, but forget all that. I mean, don’t forget about the maverick bit, but forget that we hated the maverick bit. Look, with any luck he’ll kick off early and be replaced by the pretty lady. Okay, she’s not really ready to take office and she doesn’t know anything, but I just don’t think that matters. I grant that the last time we elected an inexperienced know-nothing it didn’t matter so well, but this time it’ll be better. I really think so. After all, she shoots moose.”

Shorter Wingnuttia: But this is different!!11!

(she has many trials ahead)

Perhaps – but one in particular seems to stand out.

It’d be kind of surreal if she was forced to step down as Governor, yet stayed on McCain’s ticket … but I wouldn’t put it past someone who’s convinced that this is historically accurate.

Nonetheless, I have to admit that when I read Jonah’s column this morning, it did seem less idiotic than normal. Partisan, sure, but absent the glaring absurdities he regularly twists himself into. I didn’t gain any respect for him but, for once, I didn’t mutter “I can’t believe the LA Times gives this guy a column.”

About a minute later my mind caught on to what Vic so succinctly noted above. Jonah masterfully captured his own game as only someone awash in that perspective can. Did he just use his own bio and do a search and replace on “Goldberg”/”Biden”?

I’m sure next column, when he goes back to a topic other than himself, it will be the type of trainwreck I’ve come to expect.

Uh, they adopted it when they nominated Palin. Had they gone with Lieberman or whoever instead, they could’ve captured the swing voters who were nervous about Obama’s experience, disliked the Repubs, but were willing to see McCain as “different”. He flipped ‘em the bird. So it goes when you’re a maverick, I guess.

Well, he’s always come across like that, but I do agree that it’s worse now. Have pity, though. Think about what the current Republican position has to be:

“Okay, so…like…I know we’ve had 8 years of near-total Republican dominance of the government. I know that our current President has basically turned out to be, well, an incompetent moron. I get all that. But I just think, I really do, that we’ve all got to go out and vote for this really old and cranky guy. I know we all criticized him to death for being a maverick until about 18 months ago, but forget all that. I mean, don’t forget about the maverick bit, but forget that we hated the maverick bit. Look, with any luck he’ll kick off early and be replaced by the pretty lady. Okay, she’s not really ready to take office and she doesn’t know anything, but I just don’t think that matters. I grant that the last time we elected an inexperienced know-nothing it didn’t matter so well, but this time it’ll be better. I really think so. After all, she shoots moose.”

Reading Jonah now is like watching a man drown. He’s spent and struggling and going under, grasping at imaginary straws, beating the water with his hands.

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Anvils! Get your red-hot anvils here!

Ah, he’ll be fine if Obama gets elected. Everytime a brown guy looks at JoWad he’ll shit two columns about how President Obama has caused a rapid deterioration of race relations in the U.S.

Palin is easily the most popular Republican in the country …

This just in: Every Republican voter in the U.S. has been placed on round-the-clock suicide watch.

…at least among people inclined to vote for the GOP.

Huh? Looks like Jonah Sixtubs is further dividing the political landscape. Not only are there Republicans but there are Repubs who might be popular among Democratic and Republican voters (Chuck Hagel, h8, h8!) and Repubs who are only popular among Republican voters.

I do hope Camp McPOW adopts the “Screw the Swing Voters” statergery.

I wonder if they’ll object to my Doughy Pantload reference.

Of course, Neanderthals were intelligent, altruistic, and capable of using stone tools.

On balance, I feel more for Neanderthals.

Overwhelmingly, the professional political class proclaimed that he blew her away on “specifics” and “knowledge” and “seriousness.”

Yeah. All that “debate” type “stuff” that people who actually “know” things fall back “on.”

For good or ill, going forward, Palin is easily the most popular Republican in the country, at least among people inclined to vote for the GOP. That may not last, of course (she has many trials ahead), but the instant decision of Beltway blowhards to push the Palin-as-liability fable says a lot about how little they understand much of the American electorate.

The people are idiot dupes!

Last Thursday’s vice presidential debate was the most revealing, and depressing, event of the entire campaign because it showed how irredeemably fraudulent America’s political class is and how superficial the voters who will decide this election are.

Confidential to Jonah, re: bellbottoms/lame jokes.

Biden thinks he knows foreign policy better than his answers show he does! Also, he’s old! These devastating truths are really going to bring folks into the McCain camp.

I bet you’re right. I’d be pretty surprised if the RNC didn’t start getting some mysterious 10-figure donations, too.

these gadflies do very well when they’re the political underdogs

Channelling my inner moonbat:

Bailout = nefarious diversion scheme to top up wingnut welfare fund for the next eight years.

These tinfoil hats are kind of loud.