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Shorter Bill Kristol
- I don’t even know what the fuck I’m doing anymore.
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Dan Someone said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:11
Sorry to make the first comment an OT one, but this ought to be causing wingnut cranial explosions all over the place.
javafascist said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:16
Anymore? Did you ever know?
Derelict said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:16
It’s a wonder there isn’t some kind of knowledge-anti-knowledge explosion with this douchebag sharing editorial space with Krugman.
Jim Jenkins said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:24
Shorter: The fact that they took my advice is proof positive that they are idiots who deserve to lose.
henry lewis said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:29
The NYT log-in page has a pretty good shorter of their own;
It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign. He needs to reposition himself as a serious but cheerful candidate for times that need a serious but upbeat leader.
I’m hoping this was an intentional poke.
cur said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:41
OK guys, its third and 27 …. lets punt. Couldn’t hurt and hey, they will never see it coming.
Smiling Mortician said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:44
Mister Poutyface is full of pout.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:48
Donald Luskin is busy crying into the beer he poured into his Cheerios™ this morning.
montysano said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:54
Shit, this is terrible.
If Kristol’s record holds (wrong about everything, all the time), then Obama is in big trouble and McCain will be revealed to be the Lex Luthor of politics.
dBa said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:56
More shorter Bill Kristol:
How ironic, I wanted The American People to shit their Pants for MCain in ‘08, but now I’m shitting mine.
The Brother's brother said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:57
If Kristol’s record holds (wrong about everything, all the time)…
I’m not sure it’d apply here, now that the situation is so glaringly obvious. The principle might be like a superstition my last boss used to semi-seriously hold – if she carried an umbrella, it wouldn’t rain. Unless it had already started raining by the time she went out, in which case the umbrella couldn’t stop it; it could only prevent rain.
SamFromUtah said,
October 13, 2008 at 15:58
Hm. That “The Brother’s brother” was me.
montysano said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:00
What the Brother’s brother said makes absolutely no sense at all, and thus succeeds at explaining Kristol.
Bill Kristol said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:00
You know what the McCain campaign should do? What Bill? I’m glad you asked Bill! I think they should, no I don’t think that, yes I do, no I don’t, it’s just…if they would only listen to me, then they shouldn’t have listened to the first thing I said and if only someone listened to the first thing I said they’d realize that I already realized that realization of the McCain campaign is that this is the right course of action to stop the first course of action that I never told them to do because they didn’t listen to me the first time and on top of everything THIS IS BAD NEWS…FOR OBAMA!
El Cid said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:08
I agree with the argument that McCain should fire his campaign.
What?
Oh, and then re-hire other people?
No, I’m opposed to that part.
His Grace said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:12
I’m not sure Kristol is being honest in his “advice.” While it might be that he is of the “try anything and everything” to prevent the coming epic fail on November 4, he’s also got his future to think of. Advising something incredibly stupid (and seeing as McCain has 3 weeks to turn this around he isn’t likely going to follow it) gives Kristol the opportunity to say “if only McCain had listened to me.”
Michael Bérubé said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:16
In a related development, McCain will announce to his supporters today, “My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.” No, really.
I think montysano’s onto something.
tigrismus said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:24
So is this a McCain campaign MacGuffin, or a mulligan?
handy said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:41
So in other words, McPOW transforms himself into Baghdad Bob right before our very eyes.
Brady's bum knee said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:42
I actually had a similar thought about McCain just trying to reinvent his campaign and was worried that he might still find a way to pull it off with an “I’ve seen the light and now I’m going to be positive” theme. Now that Kristol suggests it, though, I know it can’t possibly work. Fuck you, William Kristol. Go get a job, and leave us alone.
J— said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:44
If McCain does follow Kristol’s advice and fire his campaign, will Smut Clyde, in the spirit of transnational bipartisanship, do the same?
Righteous Bubba said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:46
Let’s imagine a McCain interview by Bill Kristol on some TV show. When Bill Kristol asks a particularly stupid question* McCain produces a cream pie and smushes it all over Kristol’s idiot face.
Do McCain’s numbers go up or down?
*Assumes McCain can identify a particularly stupid question. Earpiece required?
Marco said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:46
And to think, Kristol came up with advice after only two shakes of his Magic 8-ball.
Davis said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:48
In addition to his many, many other shortcomings, Kristol thinks that “media” is singular.
By the way, is he also one of those pundits who say that how a candidate runs a campaign foreshadows how he would run his administration?
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:53
McCain has succeeded spectaculary in choosing the worst people possible to advise him both on the economy and on foreign affairs.
In between Bill Kristol and Phil Gramm, you have 16 tons of EPIC FAIL.
Thanks for destroying the GOP, Senator McCain. It’s a dirty job, and someone needed to do it.
Lou, Lou, the Dancing Panda said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:55
“My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
Yeah, John, in leather boots and fishnets, whipping the ever-loving shit out of you.
Lou, Lou, the Dancing Panda said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:57
Though he should be commended for speaking so clearly with a ball-gag in his mouth.
J— said,
October 13, 2008 at 16:58
“My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
“I’m winning, Spongebob!“
Clem said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:03
It now seems wonderfully appropriate for Kristol to have appeared (as a talking head) in Frank Miller’s execrable “Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again.” Neither Miller nor Kristol gives a flying fuck. If Miller were inking this campaign, right about now is where he’d show McCain and Palin fucking in Earth’s orbit. I mean, why not? What has McCain got to lose? He’s a
shittypilot and he might even enjoy it.ice weasel said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:08
“They’re happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free.”
has Kristol even bothered to watch either st.bbq or mooseburg slim campaign? Happy they ain’t, not by a longshot. And the only time they get a reaction from the crowd is when they start tossing out the resentful, victimized talking points. That gets the crowd, the crowd they have carefully cultivated and indoctrinated, going.
Fueled by hate and resentment. Even if we acknowledge that Obama, for political reasons, should never have uttered this;
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
There’s no question it’s not true and the only fueling the rethug ticket right now.
ice weasel said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:08
Excuse, last line, there’s no question that Obama’s statement isn’t true, it is. Just to be clear.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:11
I’d like to see McSame drop the puck at a Flyers game.
Mr. Wonderful said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:13
“McCain might want to volunteer a mild mea culpa about the extent to which the presidential race has degenerated into a shouting match.”
“…and a hearty uck-fay oo-yay about the extent to which its degeneration is entirely the fault of him, his running mate, and the troglodytes at his rallies who have now replaced the press as his–oh, the irony–’base.’”
WereBear said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:21
I find it amusing that none, NONE, of the conservative pundits have a clue what to do.
It’s a perfect storm of talking point meltdowns.
I mean, I believe in Karma, and I knew it would happen one day.
I just didn’t know it would happen in the space of a few weeks.
Mac G said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:22
What a Fn Dbag. Is Kristol ever right about anything?
handy said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:27
What a Fn Dbag. Is Kristol ever right about anything?
No.
This has been another addition of SATSQ.
Bitter Scribe said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:29
Memo to McCain and Palin: Forget this”happy warrior” bullshit. There’s only one way you can win: Go after the haters. Get the bigots stoked. The GOP has been successfully appealing to racism for nearly half a century, and racism is the only thing that will save you now.
Of course, you’ll tear the country apart and make it impossible to govern, but hey, we all know winning elections is the be-all and end-all, right?
Michael G. said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:29
I do take solace that even as my finances are shipwrecked, the idiots who orchestrated this whole thing now have to sputter and wheeze about how it isn’t their fault.
The McCain campaign has been a bizarre thing. Remember those primaries? Each wing of the party found something to hate about the other wing’s candidates, leaving McCain, positioned as the moderate, as the nominee. But he wasn’t conservative enough, so his campaign remade him. In the process, he distanced himself from moderate voters, but more importantly, he jumped on the S.S. Conservative just as she was sinking below the waves.
God. Mittens, Ghouliani, Sen. L&O, Huckabee … and Dr. Paul. Those were good days.
Coach Urban Meyer said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:31
Badoodle-boo-yeah, it’s Boss Bill with some solid advice for the McCainiacs! We’ve been smeared and defamed by Obummer and the loony libs here at Sadly, No!, and it’s only conservative of us to turn the other cheek! I like this man’s style, folks, and you better believe that we’ll kill ya with kindness all the way to a sweeping victory in Nutty November!
Ding dong dilly, libs! You just got served a SPREAD of TRUTH from the Cool Coach and Boss Bill Kristol! Urban out.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:37
I want some of whatever Kristol’s smoking.
I suspect it’s pretty good shit. I bet it doesn’t take much of it to get really high.
J— said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:39
Kristol:
Yes, please do this. And as thunder says, more puck drops, coin tosses, and first pitches.
The Goddamn Batman Will Punch A Tribble Right In Its Little Tribble-hole said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:40
Man, that picture reminds me that one time that me and the sidekick were watching Star Trek and they had those fried-egg nerve parasites and one landed on Spock, right? I says to Dick, I says, “Tell you what, anything like that lands on Earth, you let Clark handle it. That shit is right off the fucking hook.”
Anyway, Kristol, what a fucking tool. Krugman is going to have blonde Swedish Nobel groupies arm-wrestling to see who gets the next beard ride, and Kristol will be trying to convince McCain that he’s got this genius plan to win the election, and also a penis growth formula that really works, here let me show–BLAM BLAM.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:45
Allegedly unsafe for work.
I wouldn’t know, because I’m not at work.
Columbus Day off, Beaches!
Michael G. said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:52
Yes, don’t talk about the economy or anything. No one is nervous about that. Let’s get back to the “likable idiot” campaign of the previous administration.
Also, the arc of politics is amusing. Everything is going great -> elect and idiot. Foreign affairs crisis -> stick with the idiot. Domestic crisis -> need someone good.
bad person said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:55
finally, finally, finally…I’m seeing the ads criticizing the mcmansions health care plan. taxing people’s health care benefits was the stupidest fucking idea and he deserves to lose because of it. he deserves to lose for many other reasons too, but the incredible ‘tone-deafness’ of his campaign, and of the republicans running it, ensure that we will be able to kick them for a long time.
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 17:59
Fire the campaign and start from scratch with three weeks to go. Yeah, that’s the ticket, Bill. That will win the confidence of the American people. Maybe Sarah can import her Alaskan machine to the national scene. How can the Times keep this buffoon on the payroll?
He somehow is able to admit that the organization Obama has built totally outmatches McCain’s Keystone Cops constabulary. Bill, does it not occur to you that that is a tacit admission that Obama is a vastly superior leader to McCain?
Krugman is going to have blonde Swedish Nobel groupies arm-wrestling to see who gets the next beard ride, and Kristol will be trying to convince McCain that he’s got this genius plan to win the election, and also a penis growth formula that really works
Amen, GD Batman
Susan of Texas said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:01
At least we don’t have to put up with the douchebag Robert Novak any more. Maybe Bill Kristol will self-destruct too.
He’s looking more and more like Katherine Helmond in Brazil.
Loneoak said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:08
Hey, let’s be fair, Kristol has been absolutely right about at least one thing: Wingnut Welfare is the only way to fly for someone who is always wrong.
McCain’s only chance is to hire David Axelrod.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:08
Maybe Bill Kristol will self-destruct too.
Well, to be accurate, Novak developed a brain tumor.
Which kind of surprised me. I thought it was pus.
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:10
… but more importantly, he jumped on the S.S. Conservative just as she was sinking below the waves.
and he brought Palin, Gramm, Davis, the Professor and Mary-Ann on board to punch holes in the life boats and bail water into the engine room.
StringonaStick said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:11
Oh yeah, they are some seriously cheerful happy warriors. Every time I see Bible Spice talking. she looks like she just smelled something really awful but can’t run off the stage because everyone will then know who dealt it.
MzNicky said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:13
In addition to his many, many other shortcomings, Kristol thinks that “media” is singular.
Thank you Davis. I thought I was the only person left in the English-speaking world who understood “media” to be a plural noun. I was beginning to doubt myself.
Susan of Texas said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:15
Brain tumor–or brain cells committing seppuku? The world will never know.
cowalker said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:17
I hope they take your advice, Bill. The American people will be overjoyed at having the opportunity to vote for a person apparently suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
How exciting it will be for us to wonder who will show up to meet with Putin and negotiate over the Russian presence in Georgia on any given day! Will it be the Happy Warrior, the Heroic Crusader Against Terror, the Pragmatic Aisle-Reacher-Acrosser, the Complacent Companion of Lobbyists, the Fatalistic Hero or Gramps Who Doesn’t Remember that Czechoslovakia Isn’t Anymore?
tigrismus said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:18
Coach, you just keep on turning cheeks and we’ll let you know if you ever get to one that interests us, then you can serve your spread. Go ahead and hold your breath, it surely won’t be long.
Michael G. said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:19
“the Pragmatic Aisle-Reacher-Acrosser”
Reach ACROSS, not reach AROUND. That makes all the difference.
Legalize said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:26
Is that ….
Is that ….
Is that the filling of a Cadbury Cream egg on Billy’s face?
Malaclypse said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:31
Off-topic, but you can see people’s heads exploding over Krugman at http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/10/paul-krugman-wi.html#comments
MaineMan said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:42
Is that the filling of a Cadbury Cream egg on Billy’s face?
I was thinking more like splooge, but you could be right.
MaineMan said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:44
How exciting it will be for us to wonder who will show up to meet with Putin and negotiate over the Russian presence in Georgia on any given day! Will it be the Happy Warrior, the Heroic Crusader Against Terror, the Pragmatic Aisle-Reacher-Acrosser, the Complacent Companion of Lobbyists, the Fatalistic Hero or Gramps Who Doesn’t Remember that Czechoslovakia Isn’t Anymore?
As I understand it, Putin happens to like all that in an American President.
maya said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:48
The bigger question is: When will Rupert,( Gary, too), cut their losses short?
robert green said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:48
it’s the pivot that makes me crazy. “i’m for A” followed two days later by “A is a disaster for this candidate” followed by an “A sure seems to be working, just as i thought it would” quickly replaced with “A. all those involved should be put up against the wall.”
ad fucknitum.
william kristol is as dishonest a human being as i’ve ever seen in the public sphere. he should be physically intimidated wherever he appears in public.
Michael G. said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:50
“As I understand it, Putin happens to like all that in an American President.”
Especially the last. The less the president remembers about all those post-soviet states that spun out of the USSR, the better!
John Sidney McCain III, POW said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:52
My fellow prisoners, we’ve got them right where they want us.
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:57
Off-topic, but you can see people’s heads exploding over Krugman at…
It’s all over the intertubes. They’re all going, “First Gore, now Krugman, I am done with you forever, reality and your liberal bias!”
PeeJ said,
October 13, 2008 at 18:59
He’s looking more and more like Katherine Helmond in Brazil.
I see it more like he wants to be Jack, the (Michael) Palin character but he’s actually Sam, deluded as all fuck.
Katherine Helmond was fabulous in Brazil. Just fabulous.
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:01
My fellow prisoners, we’ve got them right where they want us.
I keep thinking of a groggy, charred, smokey Daffy Duck, right after being blown to shit saying, “I’ve got him right where he wanths me!”
e_five said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:01
NYT ham-handed attempt at “balance”: A Nobel Prize winner and Bill Kristol on the same page.
Unree said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:03
Krugman is going to have blonde Swedish Nobel groupies arm-wrestling to see who gets the next beard ride, and Kristol will be trying to convince McCain that he’s got this genius plan to win the election, and also a penis growth formula that really works.
I want to agree, but anyone else not so sure what a beard ride is? I checked Gazoog and urbandictionary.com, too.
Vic said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:09
Best shorter ever.
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:11
I want to agree, but anyone else not so sure what a beard ride is?
I just assumed it was something from the world of academia, like the oral exam.
J— said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:13
Kristol speaking at Harvard in December 2004 (pdf).
jim said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:14
It’s a photo-finish to be sure, but I think
serious but cheerful
(as in “As of 0700 hours Washington time, I’ve ordered pre-emptive tactical nuclear strikes on all major Russian missile sites & submarine pens – & gosh darn it all, I think this is the best idea I’ve had all week! Being President is WAY easier than they said it would be! Who wants fondue?”)
is slightly more moronic than
serious but upbeat
(as in “Mr. Jones, the tests show that you’ve got 4-6 months left to live, but HEY, wasn’t that a lovely morning, what with the sun & the nice warm breeze? You couldn’t've asked for a better day for a fatal-disease diagnosis, huh?”).
PeeJ said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:15
Unree – you might have better luck Googling “mustache ride.”
D.N. Nation said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:19
I’ve always been a fan of the Confederate Wankee one that was just I need attention.
J— said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:19
Silver puts some pieces together. Plus, color-coded graphic!
MaineMan said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:34
J-
So, is this the start of the flipside of some cycle? The Rethugs “1968″ comeuppance? If so, that means it’ll be around 2038 before I have to worry about . . .
Wait. I’ll be dead or seriously deep in dementia by then.
Legalize said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:36
“”it’s the pivot that makes me crazy. “i’m for A” followed two days later by “A is a disaster for this candidate” followed by an “A sure seems to be working, just as i thought it would” quickly replaced with “A. all those involved should be put up against the wall.””
I don’t think this is really “pivoting” per se, but rather merely a reflection of Kristol, as a paid GOP apologist, having no fucking idea about how to do his job, which is to get out the winger message and convince people of its appeal. That Kristol has retained this job, despite his abject failure and penchant for getting everything he talks about wrong, is bizarre.
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:36
Silver puts some pieces together. Plus, color-coded graphic!
Comedy gold at 538!
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:40
I don’t think this is really “pivoting” per se…
It’s thrashing. On the floor, drooling, head banging on concrete, thrashing.
comsympinko said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:48
One last shining ray of hope out of the dessicated corpse of the NYT:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar, New York Times columnist and unabashed liberal, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect international trade patterns.
We’ve got Krugman and Stiglitz (Nobel Prizes-2 Failed Economies-0).
They’ve got Paulson and Bernanke (Nobel Prizes-0 Failed Economies-2. They both own it).
Our guys are, like, four better than their guys.
And people still aren’t convinced?
I will now commence banging my head repeatedly to try and make the real pain stop.
PeeJ said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:50
Hmm. 1924 to 1929 = 5 years. Georgie needed 7 to wreck the country this time. His record of incompetence continues unabated.
comsympinko said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:54
Also, isn’t the framing of his politics just fantastic? “Unabashed” liberal.
I guraran-fucking-tee you you’ll never see the word “unabashed” precede the word “conservative.
Prominent. Outspoken. Opinionated, even.
But “unabashed?” No way. That would imply shame. And only DFH liberals should be ashamed.
Like knowing enough about economics to win the Nobel Fucking Prize might turn you against the government that fucked up the best economy in history is not smart politics, or something.
I will now recommence banging my head.
Susan of Texas said,
October 13, 2008 at 19:55
Heck, they’ve all been repudiated. Bush, Greenspan, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice. All wrong, all the time. And their little dogs too, in the media and the noise machine.
Peace over war, prudence over debt, empathy over selfishness. It’s not that complicated.
D.N. Nation said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:03
This. It’s not just that Kristol is a lousy analyst (though he certainly is). It’s that he’s a lousy partisan, even, making his side out to be the ridiculous ad hoc dopes we know them to be. If he had any talent at all, he could at least hide it.
Also, he’s a fairly crappy writer.
FuriousGeorge said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:07
So, OT, but this is where it starts to get really weird – Hitch, Hitch, endorses Obama.
El Cid said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:08
How come them damn Swedish anti-Americans didn’t come up with a Nobel prize for War-Mongering? Huh? I thought so. What about for Right Wing Douche-nozzlery? Hmph. Libruls.
N__B said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:08
I guraran-fucking-tee you you’ll never see the word “unabashed” precede the word “conservative.
Staunch. Republicans are always staunch. As in “staunch the bleeding.”
Signor Bari, emminent one-legged tenor said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:22
I guraran-fucking-tee you you’ll never see the word “unabashed” precede the word “conservative.
Not so. One usually sees it used by a conservative with the implication that to identify as such is an act of extreme bravery. Which it might actually turn out to be.
eidos said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:35
One usually sees it used by a conservative with the implication that to identify as such is an act of extreme bravery.
Yeah, “I’m an unabashed conservative” as in “I am courageously a conservative in spite of all the persecution, victimization, sexual deprivation and physical danger that entails.”
Snorghagen said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:45
It’s to the point where I’m half expecting Obama endorsements from Dick Cheney, Adam Yoshida, and McCain’s mother.
erlking said,
October 13, 2008 at 20:51
Okay, a minute ago on NPR Kristol just admitted that his fire the campaign and be a nice guy bullshit “probably won’t work, frankly.” Completely validates today’s shorter, that’s for sure.
J— said,
October 13, 2008 at 21:28
MaineMan: I’m just hoping Kristol’s first question (“is it the end in the sense that now it all falls apart?”) is proven prescient.
Smut Clyde said,
October 13, 2008 at 21:30
will Smut Clyde, in the spirit of transnational bipartisanship, do the same?
In Socialist New Zealand, campaign fires me!
Smut Clyde said,
October 13, 2008 at 21:37
“Anymore” is not a word.
The charitable explanation is that Brad used it in the Shorter as a hat-tip to the singular-noun status of ‘media’.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 13, 2008 at 21:39
Istoo.
Smut Clyde said,
October 13, 2008 at 21:55
Gesundheit.
Hoosier X said,
October 13, 2008 at 22:03
McCain’s got all the racists and the bed-wetters (Hi, Troof!) in his corner, but unfortunately there aren’t enough of them, showing that America is not quite the hive of ignorance and cowardice that the Republicans thought it was.
If he tries to change his tone to make conservatism look appealing to honest, decent people, he risks losing the nitwits and the American Taliban.
What to do, what to do …
I don’t think seeking out Bill Kristol’s advice would be on the list, even if it was a long list.
J— said,
October 13, 2008 at 22:21
What isis, what ain’tain’t nothing.
justme said,
October 13, 2008 at 22:44
Is it actually, mathematically possible to be more wrong than Kristol? Would it take some sort of topological contortions unavailable in four-dimensional spacetime? Can you be more wrong than when you’re so wrong that you’re even wrong about admitting that you were wrong about something you were actually wrong about?
Wrong starts to lose objective meaning with this idiot. Like the sound and spelling of the word “lawn-mower” repeated forty times too often in a row, the sheer familiarity makes it seem out of place and uncomfortable, though it is the only possibility.
It would be nice if I could wish for some benign roadblock to stanch any further output from this walking bag of gummy lighthouses, but since I can’t, I’l just continue hoping that he gets hit by a bus.
jim said,
October 13, 2008 at 23:26
Hitch endorses Obama
- & the diving-board that hath been hastily erected on the prow of the “S.S. Republican” threatens to burst into flame, so fiercely doth it vibrate with the frantic cascade of exiting rats. Oh, but how sweetly doth the poor overworked thing twang with each new parabolically launched lump of bald-tailed ejactamenta!
Peace over war, prudence over debt, empathy over selfishness. It’s not that complicated.
Unfortunately, there are oodles of people whose sole source of income consists of needlessly complicating things. Positions like “market analyst” & “consultant” spring to mind, just for starters. The critters we now call “journalists” have long since joined their ranks.
Things WILL eventually become much simpler … but I don’t think we’re going to enjoy how we get there from here very much.
“Anymore” is not a word.
I very much want to agree with you – but these guys beg to differ.
Unree said,
October 14, 2008 at 0:37
It’s to the point where I’m half expecting Obama endorsements from Dick Cheney, Adam Yoshida, and McCain’s mother.
I could so see Roberta McCain opposing JiSM3. There’s at least one precedent (though I don’t think WP will like my link): a hundred years ago, W.H. Taft’s mother said she didn’t think her son had any business running for president.
Dr Zen said,
October 14, 2008 at 0:43
Keep the campaign. We’re enjoying it. Fire Kristol.
Matt Drudge said,
October 14, 2008 at 0:50
I stood up a little straighter in my chair after looking at that picture of Billy Kristol if you know what I mean. Thanks Brad. Hugs.
krassen said,
October 14, 2008 at 1:18
A small point, but hilarious nevertheless:
what is with this fixation on “town-hall-meetings”? As in “no more ads, spend all the money on town-hall-meetings”? These people don’t seem to get it that the only reason the “town-hall-meetings” worked in the primaries was because McCain ran against the universally despised Mitt “The Nit” Romney. I suspect that a “series of strip-poker parties” would have also worked against Romney.
Hey, guys, sorry to break it to U, but McCain really sucks at town hall meetings.
MzNicky said,
October 14, 2008 at 3:58
McCain’s got all the racists and the bed-wetters (Hi, Troof!) in his corner, but unfortunately there aren’t enough of them, showing that America is not quite the hive of ignorance and cowardice that the Republicans thought it was.
Epigraph for the McInsane 2008 presidential campaign: “Even the fucktards were insulted.”
lobbey said,
October 14, 2008 at 6:29
Hitch endorses Obama
You can almost hear the bedwetters over at LGF’s head explode on hearing this news.
Strangefate said,
October 14, 2008 at 8:50
This is a tough spot for McCain. Having already taken Kristol’s advice to devastating effect, he is now being told — by Kristol — to do something else and stop listening to those responsible. It’s practically a logic puzzle. Or an illogic puzzle given the parties involved.
sagra said,
October 14, 2008 at 18:20
Part of Kristol’s gimmicky proposal is that McCain stop unveiling gimmicky proposals. Will that work? You betcha!