This is why the Republican establishment sought to “annoint” Giuliani: they knew that he would keep the Fundievangelical™ wingnut “base” home on Election Day. He was to be the sacrificial candidate; Tancredo, Thompson, and Huckabee were to be the ones who’d fake sympathy for these folks, then quietly drop out. Except that Huckabee managed to pull off that win in Iowa. Given that Giulani flamed out and crashed and burned in Florida, McCain is the back-up. There is just one little problem here: McCain isn’t so “liberal” as to scare off the wingnut base. He did, after all get an 82% from the American Conservative Union, and how “liberal” does that make him? So now they have to convince us all that McCain is some sort of closet liberal to cut off the support. Unforch for the establishment and its plans, McCain just might blow it and win. McCain’s wanted this his whole life, this is his absolute last chance, and he’s not gonna play ball with the GOP establishment. He doesn’t care if the GOP gets caught holding the bag when Iraq and the economy both go pear-shaped, probably by this spring, but certainly some time in the next four years. What does he care? He’ll be in a nice, quite grave in the not too distant future, and it won’t be his problem anymore. The GOP establishment can’t do anything to him and they know it.

All that’s left is to convince the wingnut base that McCain is a “liberal” in the hope that they’ll stay home come this November.

Panel 2: Are you sure? I could have sworn he was as soul-less as the rest of us. Do you think? Could he be hiding his true nature behind an Rx-induced haze?

Panel 3 L: Leonard Pierce: “Did you know that Jonah Goldberg is not actually made of dough?”

Panel 4 R: Gasp!

Second Panel: And for the finale Ann Coulter is going tho scull-fuck McCain with a strap-on.

Third Panel: I am ready for my close-up
Third Panel crowd: That’s no strap on!

Do let’s. Start with yourself.

One thing to keep in mind though is that if you don’t comment very often and you jump in and start criticizing you are going to be perceived as “not of the group” and possibly a troll. That is just the nature of online communities. It has happened to me, I don’t post much, I just don’t have the time, but I’ve had comments of mine interpreted as trolling. It happens ::shrugs:: waddayagonnado?

Thanks for the series from CPAC Leonard, I enjoyed it.

Pictures of Kool-Aid Men in You
Mirages of Kool-Aid Men in You
All I ever see is them in you

after tracing he has to remove all the robot tentacles from the relevant orifices.

So the first step to creating a Day By Day is for Muir to insert robot tentacles into his orifices? That sounds about right.

OHHHH YEAAAAAA!

You’re welcome for the deflate. And, I hope you return the favor if you ever see that I need some deflation.

Ciao, encore.

And mind you, I’m not buying into the ‘straight-talk express’ – McCain’s a panderer, just as bad or even worse than the other GOP candidates because he has had *more* integrity to sell out, and he’s sold all of it and is running his soul on credit.

They’ve really bought into “You’re either with us or against us”. The worst part of it, I’m guessing, is that he’s off the reservation *and* he’s a war hero. And that just causes the kind of cognitive dissonance which shatters the conservative worldview, leaving the underlying fear and greed exposed like raw frayed nerves.

And also, McCain is symbolic of the fact that the hard-core conservatives are not running the GOP this election. And they’re really, really upset and crankly about it. And they really would rather lose than win with a candidate they can’t convince themselves they like. Which kind of explains how their candidate has done so much damage in the last 8 years – he’d rather destroy everything than admit he could possibly be wrong.