Comments on: Pin the Tail on the Stupid, Part Eleventy-Infinity

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:04:28 +0000

Well, the way I see it, if a right-wing Astroturf group is paying for them to go around saying, “Hey, Alito isn’t really so conservative at all!” then, well, why would a right-wing Astroturf group be wanting to get that message out, except to try to fool people?

Because if Alito isn’t so conservative, then why on Earth would they be…?

It gets fractal. But once you stop to figure it out, they quickly send another one zooming past you.

So I think it’s mature and rational to assume that anyone associated with a right-wing stealth group is a stupid, dishonest ugly evil liar who’s bad and smells.

Because you never get in trouble that way!

By: spencer

spencer — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:03:18 +0000

kathleen –

It’s not that they shouldn’t be speaking out, per se, but that perhaps they lack a certain perspective about Alito because they are close to him personally.

Maybe he is a nice man with a brilliant mind. But none of that matters if he’s got a reactionary agenda he’s trying to keep hidden until he’s confirmed. And that maybe these two should step back and think a bit more about just who and what it is they’re cheerleading for.

At least, that’s my read on it. Gavin’s probably differs significantly.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:11:12 +0000

I see your point Gavin, but seriously who else is going to pay for it?

or is the point that they shouldn’t be speaking out in those forums (fora?) at all?

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:42:15 +0000

Well, if he’s sincere (and I don’t doubt that), then the word, ‘pwned,’ applies.

When a right-wing group offers to pay expenses for a PR junket, one ought to think a bit carefully about the issues, no?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:10:23 +0000

Weirdly, I actually know Jim Goneia and he isn’t just self-describing himself for some evil purpose; he is being honest. While I don’t personally agree about supporting Judge Alito, he is definitely doing it sincerely and not with the goal of providing token “liberal” support. He is a really nice guy.
so take that with as much value as you would give to an anonymous internet comment.
That is all.

By: mmm...lemonheads

mmm...lemonheads — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:48:57 +0000

Churchill said the price of greatness is responsibility.
Bush said fool me twice…won’t get fooled again. So the parallels are there, you just have to wash them down wit da kool-aid.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:19:30 +0000

What IS it with these people? Democrats are bad, lying commie terrorist sympathizing atheists fags!! Clinton was the most evil liberal socialist blowjob-getting sumbitch in HISTORY!!

But then, every time they find a “Liberal” who agrees with them, they say, see? This reasonable human being with whom we will agree to disagree on many issues agrees with us on this!!

Why do they think that’s a persuasive argument? If liberal democrats are all the things they routinely say we are, why wouldn’t our agreement with them on ANYTHING not cause them to reconsider THEIR position?

mikey

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:04:12 +0000

Sure, I found a few cites that way, but Progress for America is a Bush-propaganda steamroller. The term is ‘Quisling,’ right?

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:37:25 +0000

Do a little Googling on James Goniea and it looks like he and his wife are actually pretty liberal and are just supporting Alito’s nomination because they like and respect him tremendously. It’s too bad they’ve turned themselves into show ponies for the astroturf organization Progress for America, but they come off as sincere in the reports and interviews I’ve read.

By: Brando

Brando — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:25:03 +0000

Yes, and like many heirs in English history, Bush is an ineffective, petty, genetically mutated, inbred incompetent. Can I get a huzzah?

By: John Protevi

John Protevi — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:55:50 +0000

Woman: Mr. President, you’re drunk.

GWB: Yes, madam, but tomorrow when I wake up I will still be stupid.

By: Edmund Schluessel

Edmund Schluessel — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:48:51 +0000

George W. Bush may be drunker than Churchill…

By: moonbiter

moonbiter — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:03:47 +0000

I consider myself a long-time dyed-in-the-wool fundamentalist Christian neo-conservative. I think George Bush is an evil man, and the worst president ever, and that our Iraq policy is teh sucxor!!!

Wow, that was easy!

By: celticgirl

celticgirl — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:33:11 +0000

“George W. Bush is Churchill’s heir in our century.”

Whoa. If that’s the case, our century is INCREDIBLY LAME!

By: djangone

djangone — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:48:46 +0000

Oh thank god. I come back and you’re off the schneid. I was close to digging out the old Shecky Green albums for my humor fix.

By: Ron Mexico

Ron Mexico — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:40:18 +0000

Man, that’s some powerful stupid.

By: Alexander Wolfe

Alexander Wolfe — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:11:40 +0000

“Stupiding”…I love it.

By: teh l4m3

teh l4m3 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:48:50 +0000

And of course, Saddam is Hitler, Kerry is Neville Chamberlain, Hugo Chavez is Mussolini, and Amy Grant is Edith Piaf.

I see no problem with this analogy.

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:05:20 +0000

I love the self-describing. I consider myself s staunch family-values conservative. Oh, gotta run! I’m late for the zoo orgy.