But now Jeralyn has los it. Talk Left now sounds like Red State or Little Green Footballs. Today, Talk Left seems to be all about the hate…and that’s sad.

The viciously cynical contempt for idealism and enthusiasm over at Talk Left nowadays (http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/2/7/112248/5633 ) frankly makes me physically ill. Their frantically futile failed efforts to confect phony “scandals” around the Obama candidacy (including the absurd “wafflegate,” http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10187) make you want to cover your face with embarrassment when reading Jeralyn Merritt’s blog.

I don’t understand the hatred being unleashed against Obama by Merritt and the Hillary supporters. This race is over. Hillary has lost. She’s a good senator and a solid progressive Democrat and I would’ve been happy to have voted for her as president. Truth to tell, though, her time and Bill Clinton’s time has passed. The country no longer languishes in the thrall of the demented Reaganesque neocon-theocon lunacy that induced a mindless stupor in the electorate, and after Hurricane Katrina, people woke up and realized the gigantic evil of the senile sociopath Reagan’s Big Lie “government is the problem, not the solution.” And people want change.

Hillary is a good person, but she just isn’t that change we need right now. I have nothing against her. I hope when this is all over she goes back to being a senator and does as good as job promoting progressive legislation as she has done up till now. It’s not obvious to me why supporting Obama requires anyone to hate HIllary, or vice versa. We’re all in the together as Democrats and the big task ahead of us is to take back our country from the sadistic cabal of lunatics and thieves who’ve run it into the ditch these last 7 years.

BOTH the candidates are triangulators. Obama’s staff are as conservative as they can be. I’m amazed he garnered so much progressive support. With Edwards gone, Hill’s health care plan ought to have weighed more in the balance. It’s not her fault she looks and sounds like everyone’s highly effective, but scary, fourth-grade teacher.

But Jeebus, I sure as shit can’t see reading TL regularly, much less “tipping”, anymore. I hadn’t checked in with them in a while, what’s there now is… ah well.

Bastards also tore down the drive-in in my home town and put a fucking Borders there. Can’t stop progress. Not even on the innertoobz.

This is what Jerome agreed with. Not a stopped clock.

Part of the reason that that Talkleft post drives me to incoherent rage is that Brad was vague about what Karl Rove said, so this was my thought process:

“KARL ROVE?! HE’S EVIL! Wait… calm down, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Once a year Ace of Spades says something I agree with, and just because you agree with an evil person on one thing doesn’t mean you agree with them about everything. I don’t want to be like Jonah Goldberg and get angry just because of some Democrat doesn’t disagree with Karl Rove at all times about everything. I should really go see what he said. Probably something about strategy that’s arguably wrong but not completely unreasonable. After all, a liberal blog wouldn’t just pass along one of his patented contentless smears, would they?”

Yeah, I hear there’s a lot of ‘em around Brokeback, MT. ;)

It was Wyoming that ended slavery in 1929. Montana held out until 1952.

I never knew diary farmers were Birkenstock wearing latte sippers.

I’m not sure of what birkenstockers are but I suspect they were wearing latte SLIPPERS rather than “sippers” (I don’t even want to think about how that might be possible). Hey, by the way, who are these Log Cabin Republicans? They sound like folks that would be comfortable in my neck of the woods. There are log cabins everywhere here!

Anyhoot, was this original post a little nastier against Clinton supporters this morning? I seem to remember a different Update than the current one.

I still support Hillary and it does piss me off that anyone would use Karl Rove for anything other than a dartboard. It sucks. No excuses.

Would it surprise anyone here if she hired him to do opposition research or something?

I found another one, if you haven’t seen it yet. There’s an actual blog called Obama Watch. Packed full of posts, too. Obamaphobia is running amok! What a year….

I never knew diary farmers were Birkenstock wearing latte sippers.

Only rubber boots in the dairy barn! You have to be able to hose off the cow poo.

Matt:
If you claim to be a Democrat, why do you use right wing talking points? Do you consider Wisconsin to be full of coastal elites? How about Illinois? They tend to vote Democratic on the national level. Tell me something. How did a bunch of cow tippers and diary farmers elect one of the most Progressive members of the Senate? I never knew diary farmers were Birkenstock wearing latte sippers.

I like Howie Klein’s name for Graham. Mini-me.

If you’re looking for ideas, I don’t think there’s a good log-cabin Republican troll yet, but I’m kinda new and I might have missed something.

Ahem. Hel-lo!