Yes! That’s us, you crazy bastard!

How many useful idiots came to their senses and became conservative…?
Ronald Reagan, Whittaker Chambers, Tammy Bruce.

In other words, they were no longer useful: one quality remained.

PS CPAC was AWESOME !!!..especially Ann Coulter

Works for me.

now there’ll be no talking to him.

So, wait. The USO doesn’t exist anymore?

BWAHAHAHA.
That guy looks exactly like someone I used to beat up on in elementary school.
I like the haircut and those squeezably chubby cheeks. I just wanna grab those cheeks like my aunt selma used to do and go “Who’s a cutesy wutesy little wingnut? Who’s that wingnut? Is it YOU? Is it YOU? YES it IS and we loves you oodles and oodles of noodles.”

“Tsk! Such dastardly ad hominem attacks are like hot knives plunged into my sensitive soul. And if you don’t agree, you’re as stupid as that big stupid head Jonah Goldberg, who we all think is stupid! Right, fellow SN readers?”

Actually, I think that was a bit more convincing than the real Derek’s protestations.

This kind of thing is what I call a “preemptive hate”. Basically what the strategy requires is that the hater forcibly, and perhaps a little crazily, accuses people more or less at random of not hating the people they hate. Because the hater looks crazy, they will probably not disagree with him very strongly, but will nonetheless get a message that if they don’t hate who he hates then they might get hurt.

This happened to me when I was a young thing back in Minnesota. I was sitting peacefully in a bar, not even very late in the evening, when a man at the table turned to me and quite angrily accused me of being a “n***** lover”.

Since I was naïve at that time, I explained to him that I didn’t even know any. This was not good enough for him — he took my calm explanation as proof that I was what he said I was.

Preemptive hatred should not be allowable in any society. The people who use it ought to be treated as though they had just put on the tinfoil hat or the Kaleidoscope glasses. They certainly shouldn’t be allowed a place at the table of discourse.

Noni

Longtime listener, first-time caller.

Leonard Pierce is my motherfucking hero. Seriously.

Teeee out and about in DC today, I was having so much fun picking out the people who are in town for this clusterfuck. Scarily identical, blonde, almost-hot, heavily-made-up sorority twins in black-pants-biz-casual over here. Trenchcoated dork with a ponytail sidling along next to a 400-pounder with a goatee over there. If I didn’t know what was going on, I’d swear that the lead in the local water supply was making me hallucinate.

What’s a Canada? Please remind me.

I dunno how you took down Chris St. James in that hotel bar without getting thrown out, or did you just watch him whip it out and start slapping it until *he* got thrown out? Either way, we want pix!