And thank you Travis, if we can only have one wingnut from Clownhall, let it be my BFF, Kathleen Parker! She actually had an opinion here. A totally demented fuckwit opinion, but still. I think she’s finally coming out of her shell.

Wow. It just gets better and better.

Almost every RW bumper sticker slogan I’ve seen, squeezed into a jacked-up, 16-line tirade.

Just keep saying the mantras, long enough, often enough, and loud enough.

That should keep away the “demons.�

One day, you’re going to meet your soul.

And won’t you be surprised.

With my credentials as a registered commentator at Daily Kos, I would like to announce my candidacy for Senate in the state of New York.

You know, since random commenters actually control the Democratic party right now, I figure I should be a shoo-in. By your rationale, the borderline retards who post at Powerline and LGF are running the Republican party.

Stalin also tied his fucking shoes, but that doesn’t make shoe-tying “Stalinist”. Please mediate for a while on the distinctive nature of Stalin’s regime, and you may yet grasp the meaning of the word. And why it doesn’t apply to someone in a democracy stating their preferences on certain issues of the day, or which candidates they’d prefer to see elected.
You want disingenuous? Look in the fucking mirror. Look closely- you’re breathing… just like Stalin used to do!

Michael Moore–fat-wa.

Huh huh huh.

Obviously, a lot can happen in the next three months, but these are hopeful signs. Unless you’re the GaryBot, in which case you are ecstatic, because the numbers clearly show that the Republicans are merely lulling the Dems into a false sense of security on the road to a massive GOP victory.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh, wait, it’s Jose Chung. You were serious.

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Gary, dammit, you forgot to post your birthday. Now that the idea is in my head I won’t be happy until we have Talk Like Gary Ruppert day.

Also, I’m trying to figure out how McCain has a nine point lead over Clinton. Not that It matters, but the math doens’t make sense to me. It looks like they messed up and switched the numbers?

Gary, would you vote for a candidate Michael Moore and Al Franken and Bill Clinton endorsed?

I’ll never understand why, when it comes to the evils of partisanship, it’s the democrats who are at fault while the republicans suggest metaphorically castrating them, point out that bipartisanship is date rape, and say things like “to the victors go the spoils”.

What, are we not compromising hard enough until we vote for who the GOP tells us to?

Great. You love him so much, you take him. But, of course, you only “like” Lieberman now because you’re hoping he’ll split the Dem vote. And because apparently your only goal in life is to spin EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS as a REPUBLICAN WIN!!!1!!

August 13, 2006 at 2:14

“Also, the Democrats are the ones who show their opposition to Democracy because they want Joe Lieberman to leave the Senate despite the fact that a majority of people in Connecticut approve of the job that Lieberman is doing.”

Gary, if the majority of people in CT approve of the job that Lieberman is doing, why did so many fail to get off their collective asses and vote for him? The closest thing to a “vote of no confidence” we have in this country is when a substantial percentage of voters don’t even bother to show up at the polls.

Unfortunately, she neglected to cite the portions of “Moore’s manifesto� that call for mass firing squads or forcible resettlement in the gulags of the North Slope for “dissidents from The Party.

They always follow the minor purges.
Always.

Ok, maybe not “ALWAYS” . . but Stalin didn’t openly tell the 1920′s Bolsheviks “Vote for me for General Secretary…. I’m planning on killing almost all of you in the next 2 decades.”

Unfortunately, she neglected to cite the portions of “Moore’s manifesto� that call for mass firing squads or forcible resettlement in the gulags of the North Slope for “dissidents from The Party.

They always follow the minor purges.
Always.

K. Now, when you get us to see how Michael Moore threatening to work actively within the democratic system for candidates of his choice is ‘Stalin-like,’ you’ll have made some sort of point.

Thats kind of disingenuous considering that Stalin was not made dictator in some divine miracle, but rather got to the top by manipulating the democratic procedures within the Bolshevik party.

Stalin GOT to power using ostensibly ‘democratic’ methods within the party. Specifically, he made excellent use of the “democratic” methods of enforcing party discipline – he would engineer it so a rival was on the ‘losing side’ of a vote and then engineer another vote to censure, or expell, those people who had voted “wrongly”. He brought down Bukharin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev (and, more importantly, their supporters in the party) by doing this repeatedly – it started slowly but each public admission of “idealogicol error” they made chipped away at their reputation and was accompanied by purges of their lower-level supporters (who naturally agreed with their ‘incorrect’ position). Eventually, they had no more supporters in any positions of power and could be easily killed without much fuss.

Democracy and Witch Hunts are hardly incompatible. Absent safeguards for the rights of the minority democracy can suck a fat one. Of course, I dont see Lamont-Lieberman as a witch hunt at all .. but whenever a real witch hunt does happen there are always plenty of scum willing to praise the “democratic” nature of the whole thing.

Fatwa? No, I’ll not be distracted. Here’s the point:

Jose, it’s not all crystal-clear as you suggest. KP paints her red-baiting portrait with a very broad brush, jumping from talking about CT voters to talking about high-profile individuals like Moore. She sandwiches her most bosom-heaving hyperbole (“What else can one call the message now being telegraphed to Democratic leaders? You either stand with us against the war in Iraq, or we take you down“) between appalled statements about the vote in Connecticut and indignant accusations about Moore. You think she’s not trying to put out a message linking those voters who dared to say no to Joe to Stalin? (ooh! Joe. Stalin. nevermind). And then there’s you, begging the question that somehow it’s OK to call Michael Moore a Stalinist because he — wait for it — has the audacity to express his political opinions?

Good try, Jose, but nobody’s buying it.

Moore’s manifesto, through which he may have lost a few grammarians, is straight out of Stalin’s playbook under ‘P’ for purge. Like Stalin, the operatives who ousted Lieberman are determined to remove dissidents from The Party.

Unfortunately, she neglected to cite the portions of “Moore’s manifesto” that call for mass firing squads or forcible resettlement in the gulags of the North Slope for “dissidents from The Party.” This oversight weakens her point slightly. (She also somehow failed to mention that Michael Moore is fat, thus compeltely undercutting her argument.)