A Matter of Wife or Death
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Tintin
Seems that part of the picture of McCain meeting Bristol’s soon-to-be husband is missing.
UPDATE: Uh, in case anyone is really stupid, the point of this picture is that Sarah Palin is enforcing a shotgun wedding between Levi and Bristol. The gun is not pointed at anyone else. It is political satire, not a threat against anyone. Sheez.
Hey, now the picture looks just like downtown St. Paul.
Oh, ouch.
The Republicans are declaring that all “attacks” on Palin are sexist.By that reasoning,their attacks on Obama must be sheer racism.Why do Republicans hate black people?
Golden, both the title and the p-shop.
And for some reason I imagine that both Bristol and McCain scurried off to wash their hands several hundred times.
Hey, now the picture looks just like downtown St. Paul.
Nah, that picture has way more Republicans in it.
Shitgun. Just saying.
I can tell that pic was photoshopped because Sarah is actually holding the rifle properly. The pictures I’ve seen of her holding a rifle isn’t very impressive.
About the only thing worse than a gun nut is a gun nut who doesn’t know how to use a gun.
McCain: “You’re a fine young trollop, Roundheels, er, um, Bristol”
Who’s she about to Cheney?
Her aim seems a little unsure.
Shit fountain!
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_08_31_archive.html#5751148147602375240
Did you the see video of this encounter? Creepy is such a gross understatement. huggy bear is so hands on it’s, well, icky. And you can tell the kids are creeped out by it. This whole mccain/palin thing is so unnatural and affected it’s amazing that the charade has held together as well and as long as it has.
O/T, but Palin is the gift that keeps on giving to the Dems.
The McCain campaign is trying to sue The National Enquirer because they were about to break a story about her having an affair with one of her husband’s business partners. Remember, TNE had the John Edwards affair and the rightwing nuts were foaming at the mouth that the media wasn’t investigating it further AND they’re actually the reason why the McCain campaign spilled the beans about Bristol earlier this week because TNE was going to print an article about that.
Via Great Orange Satan/CBS:
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/3/175658/0832/731/585071
Good timing. Just in from the AP:
Palin prepares to fire back with convention speech
Check out K-Load’s rationalization of the Nooners comments:
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
That’s a rifle, not a shotgun.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if tomorrow, photographic evidence surfaces of Palin fucking a moose.
Old Man?
The Republicans are declaring that all “attacks” on Palin are sexist.
That’s just the warm up. In a minute, it’s going to shift to, “All attacks on Sarah Palin are anti-Christian!” That way, they can stoke the fundie’s love of pretending to be the victim and wring votes out of it yet again.
Who’s this? Mommy Alaska!
Ummm…Gary, you slipped out of character. Please, try not to let that happen again.
The shotgun wedding that all of America attends.
Ummm…Gary, you slipped out of character. Please, try not to let that happen again.
I’ve been off work all day today. I’ll probably come back to work tomorrow.
I kinda feel bad for Bristol. She looks freaked.
Hmmm, that feeling didn’t last as long as I’d hoped for…
OMG, SCARY WHITE WOMAN
Great. So now, after the media has put Bristol Palin and her boyfriend/fiance through several days of vile and unnecessary scrutiny, the GOP is using them as props.
These are going to be two of the most screwed-up adults you’ve ever seen. Can we *please* leave them alone now?
That’s a rifle, not a shotgun.
According to Emily Post, the choice of firearm to point at the future groom is much broader for occasions such as “Meeting the Creepy Uncle-to-be” than for weddings.
Why do Republicans hate black people?
Umm, because they are Republicans? Is this a trick question? Am I going to be graded on this?
Tonight in her acceptance speech, Governor Palin will tell the nation the story about free milk and a cow. It’s all about the narrative.
“The honest truth is that no one in St. Paul knows how this is all going to turn out and Peggy Noonan’s comments on and off the record reflect that. ”
Um, yeah, K. But no one said that Peggy is predicting the future. You’re refuting something that no one on either side has said.
OR IS THIS THE CHEWBACCA DEFENSE? D’OH, I FELL FOR IT AGAIN!
So, McCain is now going for the pro-teen-sex vote? WTF?
What’s next? I’m out of snark. I swear, this campaign is like a bad Onion parody.
Well, If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit!
What’s next?
Well we already knew the McCain stance on adultery.
“If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?”
Shame?
Kid travels halfway across the continent to meet a presidential nominee and he can’t be bothered to put on a necktie? “Fuckin’ redneck” indeed.
Nice to meet you Bristol…
(whispers in ear) once that trollop c*nt of a wife I have dies, we can get together. I get her money once she kicks it, so we can have a great time. You are the one for me. Get rid of that loser hockey nut.
Kid travels halfway across the continent to meet a presidential nominee and he can’t be bothered to put on a necktie?
Now, now. They didn’t want him to have any way to hang himself to escape the horror.
Seriously. It’s getting to such dangerous levels that it will collapse into a point of singularity, ripping a huge parody hole in the fabric of the Universe that will spew forth copious amounts of snark radiation.
Great. So now, after the media has put Bristol Palin and her boyfriend/fiance through several days of vile and unnecessary scrutiny, the GOP is using them as props.
These are going to be two of the most screwed-up adults you’ve ever seen. Can we *please* leave them alone now?
I don’t know anything about Bristol Palin’s character. Perhaps she’s a fine, polite young lady. But her baby daddy Levi is a huge fucking d-bag. If he’s lucky, his future will be somewhere in the Federline neighborhood; if not, there’s always meth.
“Kid travels halfway across the continent to meet a presidential nominee and he can’t be bothered to put on a necktie?”
Hey, in St. Paul it’s Casual Wednesday. Lighten up.
> Kid travels halfway across the continent to meet a presidential nominee and he can’t be bothered to put on a necktie? “Fuckin’ redneck” indeed.
This is carefully planned out. It is part of the narrative the criminals are trying to get Americans to believe. That kid is just “one of the folks”, that you the viewer is supposed to identify with, and that the Evil Liberals are trying to tear down.
Remember, without victimhood, the criminals have nothing to get votes with.
My guess is that Todd Palin is the real motherlode of awesomeness in this deal. I mean, in the first few days they found out that he had a DUI, was a member of the Alaskan separatist party for ten years, and was one of the people emailing the state trooper guy to pressure him to fire Sarah’s ex-brother-in-law. There’s got to be a whole world of wackiness just waiting to be discovered beneath that hunky exterior.
Oh, and bonus: his mom doesn’t like Sarah (mom-in-law ran for mayor after Sarah, and Sarah supported her opponent), and probably will vote for Obama.
Mayberry Fucking RFD, y’all!1!
Sam,
That’s what I was thinking. Bet they took his shoelaces.
Pic caption:
McCain: “Bristol, imagine my relief when I found out your baby daddy isn’t a colored boy!”
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
Mothballs and a whiff of burnt motor oil that grows stronger the longer you talk to him.
I can’t wait until Sarah Palin removes her wig in the mirror and shows us her brain surgery scar. I hope they show that during sweeps.
“They didn’t want him to have any way to hang himself to escape the horror.”
Good point. Or maybe ties at the RNC are like colored handkerchiefs and he just didn’t want to send the wrong signal.
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
Well, the natron is odorless, so mostly frankincense, myrrh, cedar resin, etc…
Blue Buddha, I think the singualrity may be closer than we know (via Atrios):
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/03/politics/fromtheroad/entry4413030.shtml
And what’s that shit about mainstram outlet not paying sources? I seem to recall some stories about ABC or CBS doing that a few years back.
Wasilla, AK is the evil mirror twin of Cicely, AK. All the quirkiness and none of the charm.
who’s bettin the source for the affair story is the mother in law.
And about that speech…
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/putting_words_in_palins_mouth.html
Seems it was written before she was even chosen. That’s one way to get folks to know her.
I can’t wait until Sarah Palin removes her wig in the mirror and shows us her brain surgery scar.
I’m betting her face falls off.
Word.
This fucking sideshow is insulting to everybody – including the participants.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the average Republican voter (in response to the CBS story posted above):
I tell ya, the snark, she’s no match for this.
Hey, I wouldn’t put on a stinkin necktie for McCain either.
That said, I’m pretty sure this kid’s a piece o’work.
The only hope of him not saying outrageously offensive shit before november is for them to send him to Gitmo…
mikey
The right wing is regretting the mantle of legitimacy they granted to the Enquirer during the Edwards kerfuffle.
Galactic Dustbin: Would that make Fred Thompson some sort of Evil Ed?
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
The felt of a craps table.
He’ll be shouting “Michael Jordan! Michael Jordan!” tonight. You can bet on it.
Man alive, Handsy McGramps is creeping me the Hell out in that picture.
erm, Kashyyyk, not Endor.
Are we sure that she’s aiming for the boy and not pre-emptive fast-track promotion?
Republican Narrative: “Sarah Palin’s shooting of her running mate in the face is in the finest traditions of Vice Presidents shooting old men in the face. To not have shot this old man in the face would have sent a dangerous message to old men everywhere that they could get away with running for Office without the risk being shot in the face.
VicePresident Palin could not allow such liberal ideas to be fostered in a time of War.In his speech before the RNC John McCain apologised to Sarah Palin, and the nation, for being shot in the face. In closing he said ‘I am a POW. No, you don’t understand, I’m a POW’ before being ushered off the stage by party members.”
I’m in the “lay off Bristol and Bubba” camp myself. The dude’s seventeen, he may not even own a tie. He and the girl are a sad byproduct of the whole sordid affair (heh).
Sarah? Todd? Have at ’em and their wingnutty ways. In fact, given the amount of good-for-the-gander crap their party has already spewed at Obama that has funhouse-mirror parallels in the Palin story, I’m going to lay in an extra supply of popcorn.
Giant Geek said,
September 4, 2008 at 0:59 (kill)
erm, Kashyyyk, not Endor.
Never correct. Makes you look bad.
Ever get the feeling Johnny didn’t pick the guy that GE and Viacom approved?
My version of the McCain meets Levi:
http://heylookhear.com/UserImage/mctemper1
Galactic Dustbin: Would that make Fred Thompson some sort of Evil Ed?
Nope Fred is Holling. Married the blond young enough to be his granddaughter.
The Wik sez Palin’s mother-in-law is her stepmother-in-law.
I just feel really bad for them.
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
Desperation.
Fucking WordPress. Seriously you guys, straighten this shit out.
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
Liverwurst and High Karate.
L’Aire du Merde
I just feel really bad for them.
Me too. Let’s hope they’re getting an enormous payoff out of this because they deserve compensation for it.
L’Aire du Merde
Hey! No French on this here American blog. We’re callin’ ’em Freedom Farts now.
…so the blog is based in Germany. Whatevs. Central to my point.
The thing is Palin can bring out the hypocrisy voter. If it looks like a tie going into the vote then that 2 percent they steal every time will do the trick.
I think it’s time to knock it off on the kids.
Governor Palin will tell the nation the story about free milk and a cow.
What does “why buy the cow when you can get the sex for free” have to do with anything?
Sweet christ, you know that by this point it’s gotta be really uncomfortable for everyone present when McCain and Palin are sharing the same airspace. You just know McCain has to be simmering with barely repressed rage for the c*** who has put the Straight Talk Express into the ditch. And Palin’s gotta know how he feels and has the extra bonus of having all her skeletons pulled out into the light of day thanks to the McCain campaign’s lack of due diligence. If they don’t already hate one another, I’m sure they already dislike one another – and I would guess the feeling is strongest on McCain’s end.
I don’t see how they can keep her on the ticket. On the other hand, I don’t see how they can get rid of her. Either way they will lose. You know how it is when things go south between two people, for whatever reason and whatever their relationship may be. It gets harder and harder to keep a civil public face on things as time goes by. Imagine how much worse this is going to be between the two of them by the time November rolls around. To be sure, a ticket where both candidates hate each other is prime for a lot of fuckups.
Pass the popcorn!!!
Kathleen: I feel bad for the kids. The grasping, sociopathic ambition of the Palin parents and their high-flyin’ enablers? Not at all. In fact, as far as McCain and Palin are concerned, I’m enjoying it way more than is seemly.
Governor Palin will tell the nation the story about free milk and a cow.
speaking of free milk and cows…
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/29/19444/2791
…maybe ties at the RNC are like colored handkerchiefs and he just didn’t want to send the wrong signal.
You can bet between the landing and when he goes on stage he’s going to have gotten a pretty stiff lesson in RNC signals, whistles, and body language. He’ll be wearing a brand new MN-bought suit too. So glad to see that RNC boost to the local economy.
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Never correct. Makes you look bad.
Especially when the correction isn’t, errrm…correct.
the story about free milk and a cow.
I was watching Gozu last night… I really did not need to be reminded of the cow-head free-milk scenes….
I haven’t looked at Shakesville recently. Has Palin become a feminist hero over there yet?
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
Old Spite?
Doug said,
September 4, 2008 at 1:41
I haven’t looked at Shakesville recently. Has Palin become a feminist hero over there yet?
I’ve restricted my investigative blogsnorting to TGW, where they were happily
repeatingexaggerating rethug lying points from thegitmoget go.They point out sexism.
When it rears its ugly head.
Palin is not a feminist. Nor is she a humanist.
She is an opportunist.
Quite good at it, too. Most of us would quail at throwing our pregnant teenager and new baby into the blender to get ahead.
Feel sorry for the kids? Yeah, I guess.
In a kind of detached, “oh well” kind of way.
It’s like any other heartless policy, when big ideas and boundless ambition find themselves in contact with real human lives.
You get kids dead in the rubble of apartment buildings.
You distraught, heartbroken sons who can’t think of any better solution than to put on a vest filled with explosives.
You get the antiseptically described “missile strikes” and an argument whether you killed 20 innocent civilians or 100.
You get a veto of the S-Chip bill, and millions of parents who have to decide if two of their kids have to go hungry so one of them can see a doctor.
You get hundreds of little, unreported heartless horrors every day because greedy men have power and lust for more.
Sorry, Bristol. Suck it up, Levi.
You’re collateral damage now…
mikey
Of course not. You’re going to condemn her and then stay home.
Really, we understand.
The original is creepier than the ‘shop.
I haven’t looked at Shakesville recently. Has Palin become a feminist hero over there yet?
I stopped reading Shakesville a while back. The current state of that site is one of the biggest tragedies of this political season, frankly.
Sweet christ, you know that by this point it’s gotta be really uncomfortable for everyone present when McCain and Palin are sharing the same airspace. You just know McCain has to be simmering with barely repressed rage for the c*** who has put the Straight Talk Express into the ditch.
What are you talking about, Jennifer? They’re soul mates!
If Fred Thompson smells of Old Spice, what does John McCain smell of?
Look at this picture.
Tell me you’re not afraid of that scary old man.
Hmmmm, unfamiliar with the joke context you are. Watch South Park you should, yes.
I’m hoping they’ll have a white wedding at the convention. It would help the ratings, and Dobson could officiate.
Tigermus: Natron! Good one!
Jennifer “I don’t see how they can keep her on the ticket. On the other hand, I don’t see how they can get rid of her.” Well, she may quit to “spend time with her family” or she may be indicted, or perhaps she’ll trip and break her neck in the shower…you never know.
Excerpt from Palin’s speech as written remarks, via Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic:
Hmm. “Actual responsibilities,” I guess, like, submerging your town of 5500 into $22 Million in debt. Like, trying to fire the librarian ’cause you think some a’them books in thar is durty. Like, firing the police chief cause he tried to change the late night bar hours. You know. “Actual responsibilities.”
Ok, here’s the solution.
For the 2012 campaign, the parties have to agree in advance what constitutes “experience” and “qualification” for national elected political office. If you want it to be multiple motherhood, say so. If you want it to be a minimum of one year statewide office, say so. If being elected a representative to congress by your constituents, say it.
The fact that they get to keep changing their minds about what makes THEIR candidate qualified and the other candidate “inexperienced” just makes them all look stupid and opportunist.
If they had to go public with their criteria, they would actually ultimately be glad, because it would prevent them from throwing stupid shit at the wall to see if it sticks. Shit like “Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard”.
Hell, I’m pathologically terrified of spiders, and I just went hand to hand, or vacuum to arachnid if you will, with a big nasty fucker. Does that mean I have the experience, judgment, temperament and courage to be commander in chief?
Sheesh…
mikey
Did somebody say Small Town™³³?
John
CougarMooseburger Mellencamp!Within two sentences she whines about being looked down upon as a small town mayor by liberal elitists and then lshe, in turn, looks down upon goody-goody, liberal community organizers. If nothing she is efficient.
This is worth putting popcorn on, to just sit back and watch the failure-fest unfold before our eyes.
Levi doesn’t look like the kickin’ ass type to me…
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© – Johnny Cougar rocks…don’t hate on the little bastard because he kicks ass
Lets Go Hoosiers!
Well, mikey, when the giant spiders attack, we know who to call upon!
And all our liberal scientists will work on a really big shoe…
Yeah, but is she a tranny?
I think McTaint’s feel-up of Bristol is still not *quite* as creepy as staring at Sarah’s ass during her acceptance speech while fiddling with his wedding ring.
Syd B, I agree with your analysis, which is why I posted the video.
I disagree with plutocrats trying to use the message, that’s me point.
Good Lord, the NE’s been sued more times than McCain’s had hot dinners. This can only lead to one thing:
McCain Desperate to Stifle Palin Partner Sex Rumors.
Bad p-shop of McPOW and Palin looking startled.
What, what? Rumours that McCain engages in erotic asphyxiation? That can’t be good.
We know what that leads to!
Wetsuits.
Dildos.
And dancing.
Smut Clyde said,
September 4, 2008 at 2:55
What, what? Rumours that McCain engages in erotic asphyxiation? That can’t be good.
It would be irresponsible NOT to speculate on the number of wetsuits involved.
If God controls the land and disease
Keeps a watchful eye on me
If He’s really so damn mighty
My problem is I can’t see
Well who would wanna be?
Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Well who would wanna be?
Who would wanna be such a control freak?
Well all that icing and all that cake
I can’t make it to your wedding
But I’m sure I’ll be at your wake
You were talk talk talk talkin’ in circles that day
When you get to the point
Make sure that I’m still awake, ok?
Went to bed and didn’t see
Why every day turns out to be
A little bit more like Bukowski
And yeah, I know he’s a pretty good read
But God who’d wanna be?
God who’d wanna be such an asshole?
It would be irresponsible NOT to speculate on the number of wetsuits involved.
It is unhealthy for that guy to degenerate any further.
Mitt Romney is going to tell us that Washington hasn’t been controlled by conservatives, but finally needs to be tooken away from the dang libruls. It’s all been an illusion:
You know — because John McCain has bravely and totally fought all the damn big gubmit libruls like George W. Bush Jr., he never once voted with that weird liberal Crawford dude. In fact, John McCain was more Ron Paul than Ron Paul!
As Digby said, Conservatism can never fail — it can only BE failed.
Mike Huckabee, for his part, is going to call Barack Obama a damn gay foreign French European elitist:
Arugula!!! It’s from Rome!!!
Rudy Ghouliani is going to argue that you can tell McCain is ready to lead by looking at him:
Hmm, Mitt wants schools that are free of pornography.
Aw, crap, now I’m gonna have to re-write my application to open a charter school of Porno Education.
What’s the over-under on KLo orgasms during Mittster’s speech? No matter. I take the over.
Bubba–Yeah, just heard that….is he actually saying these words?!? The Mitt-Bot is in full swing. Did the Dems ever once bash conservatives and tout their liberalism in Denver? Sheeeesh…..he’s like the male robot Ann Coulter up there. Oh boy, here’s the “islamofascism” part of the speech….
We need change all right – change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington!
Wha…Huh?
Ok. I gotta know. What would this theoretical “Conservative Washington” look like. I’m thinking it would be prisons. Couple million people behind bars. A hundred thousand to keep them locked up, but with regular purges to make sure those guys aren’t getting any, you know, liberal thoughts in their heads.
And of course the leadership. Untouchable, and beyond the law. Except as the palace intrigues play out, with ambitious young players denouncing the as traitorous liberal scum those who stand in their path for advancement.
Oh goody. We’ve made it all the way back to the fifteenth century…
Yay?
mikey
And now I must go bleach my mind for even thinking that.
Barack Obama’s excellent adventure to Europe
Says the man who spent the Vietnam war as a (highly unsuccessful) missionary in France.
This GOP convention is an extravaganza of epic fail.
For all their attempts to claim we were cheering on Gustav, the plain fact is that if god really loved the GOP, Gustav would have been big enough to shut down their convention. Instead, Gustav’s been dumping 6″ of rain on me here in Arkansas for the past 2 days, and lord knows, there’s no good photo ops in that, and no good excuse to cancel out. Though Gustav did do them the not-inconsiderable favor of cancelling Bush-Cheney night, it’s just not enough.
So the fail goes on….
He wants evolutionary biology AND that damned porn out. And the drugs. Fucking Mormon robot.
Oh, did I mention that I really hate Palin? Puke down her throat kind of hate? Just had to add that.
Ahhh, it’s good to be back. Greetings all. And on what a night….LOL.
Fox
Cox
Box
Rox
Fox in socks.
Cox in box.
Socks on fox with cox in box.
Oops, Huckabee said that, not Mittens. Curses, foiled by reality AGAIN.
The fact is, we do need to change Washington from liberal to conservative. The American people made this loud and clear in the 2006 mid-term elections.
Y’know, I was in public school a long time ago. But I guess they’ve changed quite a bit. We had some weed and some whites and some beer and I quite frequently had a gun in my locker, that was a real yawn, but we never had pornography.
Honestly, I had to got to asia to find out what females actually were hiding down there. And I’d had sex. Just wasn’t allowed to look….
mikey
On the other hand, It’s about who can answer that crisis call – yes, Hillary, at 3:00 in the morning? Dude takes Ambien, even if you turn the ringer up loud enough to wake him he wouldn’t be ready to answer it.
We need a CONSERVATIVE Washington DC. Not full of liberals like George W. Bush Jr. and Tom DeLay and the like. We need to make sure that each and every Senator and each and every CongressMAN and each and every Supreme Court Justice is, in fact, a James Inhofe clone.
Only then can AMERICA truly advance.
The hesitant, faint applause after “We believe who you hang out with does matter,” was … well. Perfect.
Many pictures of McPOW hugging Bush to follow.
And this:
Sure buddy.
We need change all right – change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington!
psssstt….hey Mitt, so what you’re saying here is that even when the voters gave you guys everything you’ve been saying, for the past 30 years, that you really needed to “clean up the mess in Washington”, by giving you complete control of both Congress and the presidency and every department of the bureaucracy – the conservative Washington you’re telling us will fix us right up…what you’re saying is that even when you had that, you still couldn’t make things work. What you’re saying is that your party doesn’t know how to govern. But that if we will just elect you again, this time…this time… you’ll do it right.
/Office Space/ Riiiiiiggggghhhhhttttt. /Office Space/
Thanks for the clarification, Mittens.
If you take ambien, they warn you about sleep walking and, swear to gawd, sleep driving.
But I’m thinking that sleep-starting-WWIII is probably a much more serious consideration…
mikey
He should have said that he wanted schools that are bursting at the seams with pornography. Dripping with it, slathered with thick globs of it, throbbing with it as sweat drips from the rafters. McCain could easily capture the horny youth porn vote.
What? No porn at school? You Americans are weird.
Yeah, I went to school in the pre-internet days too, so we had to go buy dirty magazines. Plenty of those around.
ahh, memories..
now I’m gonna have to re-write my application to open a charter school of Porno Education.
You could always teach comptrolling.
McCain could easily capture the horny youth porn vote.
A winning strategy for sure. You can alwys rely on the youth vote, especially the wanker kind.
If it weren’t for that doll-gummed purnographie, Sarah Palinz’ dawter would still be pur.
Those folks don’t vote: too busy*. I hear.
*I almost said “hands too full” but figured I’d better hold myself back. Don’t want to blow my wad.**
**I’m so sorry.
How much more of a douchebag could Hucklebee be? “The only soap we had in our house was Lava”?! What a dickhead.
“My father worked hard. He lifted heavy things.”
Thanks, Huckster. Hope his hernia’s better.
Oh jaysus, Huckabee’s using the Lava line again….
oh, and he didn’t wait for the government to rescue him…he became a minister so he could fleece people more effectively than the government….
“Every human life has intrinsic worth and value.”
Except for those fookin’ Mooslims.
John McCain was in teh COCKpit!!!!
OMG, John McCain was a POW!!!!
POW! POW! POW! POW!
Huckabee and this whitey-white RNC crowd are like parody. It’s like a National Lampoon movie. Where’s Randy Quaid?
Huck looks a little too much like Jim Nabors for my taste. “Gollllllllleeeee!!!!!!!”
Good god, fighting in Vietnam protected our school desks? Sweet christ, what drugs are they handing out at the door there?
I’m so glad the GOP has decided to honor veterans this year. Whatever happened to the purple heart bandaids from 2004?
Is anyone watching this? I overdosed on snark earlier and need to pace myself.
I can’t believe he said that shit about Lava again.
Lava is not the low-dollar soap.
Out of the national brand soaps, Ivory is. People who have ever been poor know this.
That’s right. I’m here. Worship me.
Umm, excuse me.
Quick question here.
How do you square “Every human life has intrinsic worth and value” with “We need to substantially increase the size and capability of our military”?
Umm, dude, you do know what those soldiers do, right? You do understand what tanks and bombers and missiles and SP Guns DO, right?
This is the largest, most extensive deployment of strategic hypocrisy I have ever even thought about. The least self-aware assclowns ever.
But then, if they weren’t so proactively self-deluded, their speeches would be more along the lines of: “Um, yeah, well, y’know, I’m gonna vote for Obama. You do what you want”…..
mikey
Ivory soap is for sissies. Huckabee showered with actual lava instead, to toughen him up for the true, patriotic region of the nation which is the American South.
Umm, dude, you do know what those soldiers do, right?
Well, Mikey, it all depends on whether you think the creatures the soldiers are doing it to are human.
Good god, fighting in Vietnam protected our school desks? Sweet christ, what drugs are they handing out at the door there?
Jennifer: Obviously you are not old enough to remember the grave commie threat of the early 60s that forced millions of American schoolchildren to practice taking cover under their school desks in case of nuclear attack. This is why we had to go to Vietnam and, uh, make sure dominos didn’t fall over, and like hurt those school desks and stuff. The End.
MzNicky said,
September 4, 2008 at 3:47
Good god, fighting in Vietnam protected our school desks? Sweet christ, what drugs are they handing out at the door there?
Jennifer: Obviously you are not old enough to remember the grave commie threat of the early 60s that forced millions of American schoolchildren to practice taking cover under their school desks in case of nuclear attack. This is why we had to go to Vietnam and, uh, make sure dominos didn’t fall over, and like hurt those school desks and stuff. The End.
Also, Negroes and Hippies. Dirty Ones.
The End.
Lava is not the low-dollar soap.
No, but Lava is the manly man soap cuz it has bits of volcanic pumice in it or something. It’s the rough tough soap for manly men who work with their manly hands.
Huckabee is a soft-handed preacher.
And short-fingered vulgarian.
“Clean as a volcanic vent, but I like it, too!”
Looks like they found a coat and tie for young Levi. Got him a haircut too. Cleaned him up nice. Got him sittin’ there with Bristol and the baby who totally is not hers because she’s pregnant now. God in heaven when will this end?
And what’s with these fuckers shouting “zero”?!
It’s the rough tough soap for manly men who work with their manly hands.
You know who didn’t have rough soap for 5.5 years? My benefactor back when he was a POW.
Yeah, fuck you Delaware!
Obviously you are not old enough to remember the grave commie threat of the early 60s that forced millions of American schoolchildren to practice taking cover under their school desks in case of nuclear attack.
I’m cowering under my desk even now. Tell me when this is over.
Oh sweet Jesus, now Cindy McSame is annoying those poor children.
Why, God? Why?
Showered with lava? Bah! Luxury! We were so poor we showered with broken glass.
wtf was with Huck’s deal with the desks? The military supplies schools with desks? You have to earn a desk, wait, no you don’t because McCain earned one for you in Vietnam? I though my parents taxes already paid for the desks?
Oh fuck…it’s fucking Rudy fucking Giuliani.
There’s a man who knows a thing or two about laying pipe.
Over a minute and he hasn’t said 9/11 yet. He’s slipping.
Left-wing media? For fuck’s sake. Where?
Oh, we used to dream of showering with broken glass.
Rudy’s up and I’ve run out of scotch for the 9/11, POW drinking game. Dammit.
They’re keeping a four month old baby out of bed for this? Cue the Talking Heads .
Who stole his neck?
POW POW POW POW POW POW
Y’know, I’m really glad you folks are live-blogging, in a way, the show.
And that’s my fill of it for the night. I can’t watch these idiots any more than I can host a cocktail party for them.
I’m gonna watch some MythTV. I think there’s some Sopranos re-runs from A&E. At least those guys admit they’re crooks and scumbags.
Apparently the young Sire’s name is Levi*. My mom was hoping that he was a Russian Jew, I was rooting for a Canadian Muslim. He’s probably Mormon, though.
Question: if Palin’s kid’s kid is such private family business, why is McCain meeting with them? Golly, you don’t think they’re…. POLITICIZING this, do you? HORRORS!
*Personal Note: Can someone smack this little punk-ass around until he learns to KEEP HIS FUCKING COLLAR DOWN?! It’s a mother fucking polo shirt, and your ass ain’t Fonvi.
John McCain’s campaign threatened legal action against the National Enquirer today for running a story about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, allegedly having an affair with her husband’s business partner.
What business would that be? The car wash?
America cums first because he’s a selfish prick.
gbear said,
September 4, 2008 at 4:04
They’re keeping a four month old baby out of bed for this? Cue the Talking Heads .
I love that song. Can’t ruin it for the gooper suckfest.
DAMN these people suck. Maybe they’re replicants from outer space?
I never knew he had a lisp! Or else he took a drink in rehearsal whenever he said POW or 9/11…
NIG-GER! NIG-GER! NIG-GER!
“Every human life has intrinsic worth and value.”
Except for those fookin’ Mooslims.
In GOP-Land, Mooslims ain’t human. Nor are DFHs, Lie-brals, Demon-crats, the melanistically gifted, and whichever other bipeds appear on this week’s Ten-Minute-Hate list.
I’m pretty sure the Secret Service had to show young Levi Johnston pictures of Gitmo — and not the newspaper-friendly ones, either — to get him up on that platform. I’m also predicting the poor bastrd is due for a fulminating case of olive-drab fever between now and Halloween. If President Obama wants to start off his National Reconciliation program on a high note, he should offer both Levi and Bristol spots in the federal witness protection program… probably on opposite sides of the continent.
So what are the grounds for bringing legal action against a newspaper that has allegedly libeled a completely different person? Can anyone sue the National Enquirer too? I would hate to miss out on the bonanza.
Wow, what an asshole.
Rudy Fucking Giuliani – the very epitome of a celebrity mayor.
Fuck you, you fucking asshole.
Maybe they’re replicants from outer space?
They’re actually Cylons.
This is going to suck so bad, because Palin will do amazingly well, and will be far more popular around the country than most liberals want to admit.
And it’s going to be a real serious threat — and none of the actual problems with her may matter — as she only has to play this role for 2 months.
And that’s not even including the fact that this is the closest that our Talibangelical population has ever had to taking the White House, and unless she commits a major, major, major (in Republican eyes only) faux pas, the fundies may be organizing for her with much more energy than even in Bush Jr’s case.
Sorry. But I’m not the only one who sees this.
Clean as a volcanic vent…
Clean? They are not called “black smokers” for nothing, Tigrismus.
Terrorists and nature have not been good to Republicans, but now they will be.
Change is not a destination Mitt Romney!
Um, this is the kind of photoshopping job that could turn out badly.
The Secret Service tends to frown on pictures that seem to imply threats to, say, presidential candidates. It’s not particularly clear that the person holding the gun is Palin.
Every vote she gains for McCain causes another to go. Relax. And then send Obama some money and make some calls. We lose if we get complacent.
Is Rudy’s speech actually working on tv?
Cause on the radio it sounds like he’s just making shit up as he goes along.
Has it occured to these numbnuts, even by this late date, that no one under 40 really remembers Reagan? Or that no one under 30 remembers the cold war?
Count the white heads in that audience. It’s like a fuckin’ snowbank.
All their base are belong to the Grim Reaper, soon.
And it’s going to be a real serious threat — and none of the actual problems with her may matter — as she only has to play this role for 2 months.
But McCain has to play his role, and he’s not so good at that any more.
Wow – a bunch of white people chanting “Drill Baby Drill!”
Why am I reminded of “American Psycho” all of a sudden?
We need John McCain to save our economy because, uh, well that one just slipped out.
And that’s not even including the fact that this is the closest that our Talibangelical population has ever had to taking the White House, and unless she commits a major, major, major (in Republican eyes only) faux pas, the fundies may be organizing for her with much more energy than even in Bush Jr’s case.
Teh Village Idiots are fond of sucking up to the Talibangelicals in order to further the interests of the Tycoonites (because thems the ones that sign the pachecks).
But Teh Village Idiots aren’t actually fond of the Talibangelicals (see Huckabee run for preznit in primary).
And you need the Village Idiots to catapult the
propagandacat poop.That’s my story and I’m sticking to it until I’m crying and almost passed out in a rainy gutter in Ohio on November 5.
DRINK UP!
9/11! 9/11! 9/11!
It’s not a bad speech for this convention. The crowd is deathly silent when not obeying their cues.
We gave up on Vietnam too. Move on.
Oh, Smut, smokers may be smelly, but they aren’t always dirty!
The Village Idiots are 100% likely to accept John McCain’s worshipers excuse that the VP will just be there ‘in case’ and to attend funerals, forgetting that she would be going in there to take over Cheney’s office with all of its magic, unaccountable “Fourth Branch” powers over the entire government, in complete secrecy, with zero oversight.
McCain didn’t just select her because he wants to win the election: he selected her so that she can do in power exactly what she intends to do in Cheney’s office.
And the punditocracy will accept the “buh the VP don’t do nuthin” excuse completely and then will whine in bitter shock when they see that Apocalyptica Jane is actually intent on using her Bush Jr-created power.
Elect John McCain so we can go to war with Russia!!!!
“If I were Joe Biden, I’d want to get that VP thing in writing.”
Way to go, Rudy. You just cut off all means for McCain to escape from his poor choice of Palin.
USA!! USA!!
#
commie atheist said,
September 4, 2008 at 4:03
Over a minute and he hasn’t said 9/11 yet. He’s slipping.
Just caught his first “Sep-TEM-ber the e-LEV-enth, two THOU-sand ONE!”
Wanker.
OMG – Cindy’s trying to kill Sarah’s baby!!!!
Palin is every suburban mom that I can’t stand. The Palins of the world are why I post here now. Argggghhhh……
Ive think that I have the RNC figured out: play “Destroyer” by the Kinks over whatever spew crap taey are spouting on the screen – Rudy! slammin hius fist on the podium to “and it goes like this” worked awesomely.
Now its Blondie (Atomic) Crowd dequie “oh your hair looks beautiful… tonight…”
drum solo flash to Rudy!
drum rolls
“The Democratic Party had given up in Iraq” (real quote) ‘
Tonight make it magnificnet, tonight, maybe tonight’
your hair is beautiful maybe tonight…
Atomic love….. Atomic….love….
“Obama promised to take public finanicing before he broke his promise”
Early New Order cuts in – No Love Lost)
Little white screeens… no life at all in the house of the bells.
It’s remarkably effective. I’m waiting for a Gang of Four cut: “At Home He’s a Tourist,” and it will all make sense.
And now we’ve had instant replay in baseball.
And they got it wrong.
You don’t wreck tradition in order to suck in front of everyone.
It’s like the republicans have taken over everything…
mikey
Sarah Palin for President!
The Village Idiots are 100% likely to accept John McCain’s worshipers excuse that the VP will just be there ‘in case’ and to attend funerals, forgetting that she would be going in there to take over Cheney’s office with all of its magic, unaccountable “Fourth Branch” powers over the entire government, in complete secrecy, with zero oversight.
I don’t know if I buy that. Palin is not polished and may come in and trash their town in the way they think Clinton did. She is an outsider and is unlikely to be toadied to unless she magically barbecues the contents of an Alaskan forest.
I think Palin did pretty well with cutting taxes in Alaska because in Alaska there is no state tax. Instead, she taxes oil companies and socializes it with a big fat check handed to Alaska’s citizens.
I see you there
Your long black hair
Your eyes just stare
Your mind is turning
You know I’ll laugh
And I won’t take it back
I’ve seen your eyes
I know what your thinking
And one by one
We’ll shoot our guns
We’ll have our fun
Don’t ever doubt it
And when I say
Fare thee well
My only friend
Oh how the days go
Your setting sun
Your broken drum
Your little drugs
I’ll never forget you
Never forget you
Way to go, Rudy. You just cut off all means for McCain to escape from his poor choice of Palin.
Heh.
Rudy’s son is a volunteer for Obama, btw.
And doesn’t talk to him.
OG.
Having a cocktail tonight?
Right there with you m’man.
Think I’ll have another…
mikey
Oh heavens, I was checking on the Pamela take on Palin and it appears that she is at the convention live-blogging….”Big ideas not big brother…”….unless they’re Muslim I suppose. That was one of the MottBot highlights I suppose.
Mikey, I don’t think they care what they wreck just in order to suck in front of everyone. Seems oxymoronic, but there it is.
Would you?
mikey
Now we get to see if teleprompters are to be made fun of.
Rudy just kicked Dr. Laura out of the party.
wth, where did my contents go?!
I’m waiting for a Gang of Four cut: “At Home He’s a Tourist,” and it will all make sense.
For Rudy I’m thinking “Outside the Trains Don’t Run on Time” works, too.
The problem of leisure
What to do for pleasure
Ideal love a new purchase
A market of the senses
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Remember Lot’s wife
Renounce all sin and vice
Dream of the perfect life
This heaven gives me migraine
The problem of leisure
What to do for pleasure
Coercion of the senses
We are not so gullible
Our great expectations
A future for the good
Fornication makes you happy
No escape from society
Natural is not in it
Your relations are of power
We all have good intentions
But all with strings attached
Repackaged sex your interest
Repackaged sex your interest
Repackaged sex your interest
Repackaged sex your interest
Repackaged sex your interest
Repackaged sex your interest
The problem of leisure
What to do for pleasure
Ideal love a new purchase
A market of the senses
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Remember Lot’s wife
Renounce all sin and vice
Dream of the perfect life
This heaven gives me migraine
This heaven gives me migraine
This heaven gives me migraine
M’man Oregon Guy needs a hug…
mikey
Holy fucking laughfest.
Okay, he would rather lose an election.
Pundints?
(Lex) Palinobotomy (Azagthoth) said,
September 4, 2008 at 4:28
Oh heavens, I was checking on the Pamela take on Palin and it appears that she is at the convention live-blogging….
From the floor, Lex. She’s blogging from the floor.
Harder to be a POW than President. Really?
Hockey mom’s on now.
He’d rather use an erection?
Our son Track is saddled with a goddamned hippie name.
…and she hits the ground running, beating the war drums all the way.
She dropped her son’s name, saying he’s about to go to Iraq. My wife is commenting from the other room, “he looks scared!”
OregonGuy, if you’re feeling all in take some aspirin
Or some paracetamol.
Tonight I’m drinking Rushbombs: 2 tabs of oxycodone with some muscle relalxers and some Ambien to take the edge off. Ain’t workin really – other than to drive me into my vault of post-punk mp3’s. Eh. Somehow it works. I feel like a really mysanthropic Ralph Steadman. There was a bottle of beer around here somewhere…
She’s really bad, I had to change it.
Ooh, face-scrunch at “advocate”. That’s worth imitating Tina Fey.
Yay! Proud union member!
Uh oh — someone at the RNC mentioned (quickly) yoon-yuns? And in a good way?
Special Needs family haz special needs.
If you’re Iraqi, your family needs to be bombed. Specially.
Praise Jesus!
Wattsamatter, you don’t like to hear your elderly senator talk about sex? I had seeeeeeex.
No paracetamol – what’s the aspirin do?
“All makes for quite a package” oh my!
Yay feminism! Except for actual feminism!
Thunder, yeah, I saw that. Funny, emails stop, you miss that someone is stepping into the den of evil. Ahhh well. I keep looking for her though now. Trying to guess which sign.
Wow, Welcome to the Palindrome. Why does “Sympathy for the Devil” keep getting in my head? And what’s with those Palin kids’ names? Track? Trigg? WTF?
Oh boy, husband and “his Eskimo ancestry”….keep trying those unprivileged tag-lines. What, you probably also make less than $5 million a year. Know how many houses you have. Shitbags Palins.
I really don’t think she gets the nuance. She has no wingnut mouth yet she must scream.
I bet they warsch the blood off their hands with Lava Soap.
We;;, the crowd seems to love her, but you’d expect that from the party faithful. She hasn’t said anything compelling so far, but the “I’m just a little mom” act is going over well.
This election is going to be the ultimate intelligence test of the American people. Are we capable of making decisions or is it just “stimulus…response…stimulus…response”?
Again with the loving your country shit. Always delivered with the implication that the rest of us don’t. God, I hate these people. (Cue “The Truth”, to tell us, “see??? Liberals are so full of hate!”)
I switched over after the Yankees beat the Rays in time to hear her say they’re “Always Proud of America”. How stupid would you have to be to be unquestioningly “always proud of america”?
What about when america does something really awful? You still “always proud”?
Cause, well, that would make you an ignorant psychopath…
mikey
Now she’s trying to get in some digs at Obama. The monkeys are going nuts.
Wy wife is from a small town in MN – what that town involves is tons of guttless corrupption. Kind of like Wassilla.
Why does “Sympathy for the Devil” keep getting in my head?
I dunno, why does “White Wedding” keep getting in mine?
took the aspirin. the beer will be the finale.
Bittergate!! Community Organizers!!!
It’s a GoF lyrics quote, from “Pane of Glass”. Sorry, I flashed back to High School. It must’ve been the cheerleader running the pep rally on TV.
John McCain hasn’t actually been the same man recently…
All right! The obligatory San Francisco bashing! I’m so proud that I live here.
The PTA scares me. As well as anyone who wants to take part in it.
OK, it’s official, she’s a cunt. A bitter gun-clinging-Cindy-McCain-hairdo-sharing cunt. Had to get that out.
hahahahahahahahaha
she’s declared war on the Heathers.
Good luck with that
…to serve the people of this great country THAT OPRESSES INNOCENT ALASKANS!
Just came back in to see little Piper or Pooper or whoever lickin’ down the baby’s hair. Then they dragged some woman out who was givin’ the peace sign.
Holy fuck, St. Sarah sounds like she thinks she’s the prez candidate. Her aw-shucks routine is adorable!
“I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this great nation!” Except the San Franciscans, of course.
The Dems had a convention. The GOP is play-acting an Ann Coulter book! This is wingnut mania!
What’s Palin’s lapel pin? It’s definitely not a US flag.
Wendy Pepper was a mom, too.
Leave nation better than she found it.
Wassilla $20M in debt with a $2M budget
Alaska – God knows what their budget is doing
Shorter Sarah Palin: Math is hard
Zoiks. She has thrown down the gauntlet to the reporters and the commentators.
Tell me when its safe to look, I can’t stand gore.
Oh my yeah, ’cause if there’s ANYTHING I want representing my interests in these challenging and complex times it’s a PTA “Hockey Mom”, because educated, thoughtful, experienced people all suck dick…
mikey
J Neo, no not you. Of course not. Get it? She won’t care about you unless terrorists fly planes into your city.
Who do they think they’re fooling? They’re running against the “status quo”. Ummmm, you ARE the status quo. You’re running against yourselves!!! Like I said, this is the ultimate American intelligence test. I still smell a big pile of Fail, but holy shit, what if these people won?
Bridge to Nowhere lie…easy commercial material.
Wendy Pepper was a mom, too.
Heh. Watching the PR I recorded earlier right now. Don’t give it away!
Mikey, you’re killing me. I’m almost not puking over this speech just because of you. Bless your little America-hatin’ soul.
Wait, she did want the bridge……
Relatively speaking she’s doing fine. She’s not a great speaker and has funny tics that will be devastating when imitated.
If the little tyke comes early enough they can even set up a photo-op of McCain pulling him out of her vagina. Gustav is a nice name for a baby, don’t you think?
She got rid of the state jet because she’s got a plane
She can;t cook either
They have a surplus?
(check that fact)
suspended laws thanks but not thanks on bridge to nowhere again
something about breaking up oil company power
and then…..PROFIT!!!
This pipeline will be a magic pony of alaskan petroleum.
We need more magic ponies – theres lots of ponies up here, ya just gotta look I tells ya!!
Jan Hooks would do a great Sarah Palin.
Wow. I — I think I really hate her. I’ve known her all my life. She’s the one who power trips off being the Girl Scout troop cookie chairperson. Who organizes sleepovers for her daughter, down to who gets invited and who doesn’t. The one who told her kids they couldn’t sleep over at so-and-so’s house anymore because her mom came out as a lesbian. The one who parks her Mercedes in the handicapped parking space at the mall so she can “just run in for a second.” The one whose house I quit letting my kids stay overnight at because she’s never there and her pervy husband enjoys telling racist jokes. Yeah, that’s who she reminds me of. I thought she looked familiar.
John McCain hasn’t actually been the same man recently…
He is under the influence of an Native American shaman, currently being reborn as a fetus inside the growth on his left cheek.
Palin going after Obama’s record is like the Monkee’s calling the Beatles a boy band.
Ive think that I have the RNC figured out: play “Destroyer” by the Kinks over whatever spew crap taey are spouting on the screen
I recommend Preservation Act II for this:
“I have waited a long long time
Biding my time and waiting on the sidelines
Watching it all go wrong,
Witnessing the disintegration
Rubbing my hands in anticipation”
or
“Down with sex and sin!
Down with pot, heroin!
Down with pornography, down with lust,
Down with vice, lechery, and debauchery!”
OMG…who else saw that old man with the “Hoosiers for the Hot Chick” button on? I’m on CNN. It was real, I swear! Now THAT’S feminism! Awww shucks, those GOPers!
This speech is fucking terrible. GFY, you fucking idiot.
Operation THE LAST 7.5 YEARS OF REPUBLICAN RULE NEVER, EVER HAPPENED continues apace. Now, Phase II.
Nuh-uh. Cashmere Bouquet is cheaper and the smell, oh my God. It smells exactly like you’d expect something with a name like a Cashmere Bouquet to smell. I’m pretty sure perfume makers send their swill to the CB factory.
were gonna be layin pipe
and all that green crap too
And obama is just a literate jigaboo!
He keeps victory for himself’
he wants to make govt bigger
takyer money
‘reduce strebgth
he wants forfeit
‘terroroists want to buy him allletinisz
ZMG civilrts blearcgh
Yeah, that’s who she reminds me of. I thought she looked familiar.
Kitty Farmer from Donnie Darko?
“Laying Pipeline”? Classy.
Wow. I — I think I really hate her. I’ve known her all my life. She’s the one who power trips off being the Girl Scout troop cookie chairperson. Who organizes sleepovers for her daughter, down to who gets invited and who doesn’t. The one who told her kids they couldn’t sleep over at so-and-so’s house anymore because her mom came out as a lesbian. The one who parks her Mercedes in the handicapped parking space at the mall so she can “just run in for a second.” The one whose house I quit letting my kids stay overnight at because she’s never there and her pervy husband enjoys telling racist jokes. Yeah, that’s who she reminds me of. I thought she looked familiar.
MzNicky–you hit the nails all on the head. Please do it literally now. Pretty please? She is all that and more. She’s the women I am surrounded by. (VOMIT)
Righteous Bubba said,
September 4, 2008 at 4:52
Relatively speaking she’s doing fine. She’s not a great speaker and has funny tics that will be devastating when imitated.
As long as you don’t count the fact that the actual ‘facts’ cropping up like little couch raisins in her speech have already been debunked, she’s doing fine.
P.S. Couch raisins: I used to have a cat that like to play catch and retrieve with grapes. This led to couch raisins.
When will it end?
You mean, John McCain had no truck with the Washington lobbyists, maybe because they were all on his campaign staff???
Just turned it off in rage. Gloves are off. I hope Joe Biden de-hee-hee-hee-stroys her.
All I can say is after watching this is: Go Sarah go. Smug worked so well for Hillary.
OK, her voice is annoying as all fuck.
“We’re going to stay in this meeting until we’ve thoroughly discussed every single issue on the agenda with just a few dozen digressions that I initiate and then snap at everyone to stay focused.”
Although I would pay good money to hear her say “I want you to know, that this is going down, on your permanent, record.”
Oh come ON!
We all know who she is.
She’s that ditzy wackjob babe that got engaged to our little brother, or that friend of the family, or uncle bob after the divorce.
You SO wanna tell them, “dood, this babe is NOT wrapped very tight”, but you can’t even get started before bobby or uncle bob starts sobbing and telling you that their life was shit, SHIT I tells ya, until sistah mentalcase came into his life, and now there’s hope, and you’re thinking, dood, this is many things, but hope is not one of them.
And of course, it all unwinds and ends up in a gunfight in a one-bedroom apartment, and all you can think is, “dammit, that shit sure coulda been a LOT worse”…
mikey
Sarah Palin’s “affair” is not even remotely interesting and important. After all John McCain had an affair. And he left his wife.
What I find interesting is Andrew Sullivan’s angle that nobody at RNC ever said that John McCain was tortured… Could they be so shit scared of criminal charges?
Why is there an open mic competition on all the Network channels tonight?
Did they cancel the GOP convention again tonight?
Whoops, teleprompter crawl taking her off guard I think.
It’s official. I no longer consider her cute. Ughhhhhh.
The fact is, I relish the fact that McCain and Palin will be our next executive team. They will almost be as good as Bush and Cheney. I like that the liberals here are so bent out of shape and angry. Typical. I can’t wait to stick it stick it stick it in your face in November that once again WE WON YOU LOST
Small towns! Yay! War memorials! Yay!
“I want you to know, that this is going down, on your permanent, record.”
Heh.
I note that her skin hasn’t peeled off to reveal a writhing snakeball yet. Success.
Every small town deserves a big budget deficit.
That’s AMURKA, Y’ALL!
McCain was a POW?
Torturous!
Where is Mrs. Palin staying tonight? I’m just curious.
The fact is, I love it. She stands for everything you lunatic libs hate, which is America. Which is us. While, guess what, we aren’t terribly fond of you out of touch eleitists. But there arent many of you, and we will win.
big talking point
some politicians use their careers to promote change, others
user their careerss of crashing 5 naval aircraft and nearly sinking the USS Oriskany almost single-hended to effect chage.
Pandemonium ensues, 3 minute hate
SHort people aint got no reason
there us only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you by fighting to impose US imperial policy in VietNam, and he wasnt very good at it , nearly sinking a fleet aircraft carrier, BUT HE IS THE KIND OF MAN YOU WILL FIND ON WAR MEMORIALS BECAUSE HE WAS THE SON OF AMERICA’S HIGHEST ADMIRAL.
PADEMONIMUM FOR EX-POW SAD SACK
Boy its a good thing we don’t torture other peple they way they tortured McCain, right?
They’re coming to get you, RB!!
McCain was a POW?
What the? She may elaborate.
And she’s white, too, right Gary?
The fact is, the truth, facts, freedom and patriotism are to a liberal like holy water is to a vampire. You are all melting, from your hate and rage. Come on, hate the heartland some more, show it. See how it helps your Saviour, The One,, the Big O win elections…. not.
Yeah, let’s hear about Vietnam vets. You know, I was one. Anyone know yet where Palin is partying tonight?
They nominated the bitchy 2nd grade teacher who tried to hold me back a grade because I was too rambunctious, despite maxing out all their stupid tests.
BIG FLAG SEZ WHITEMAN MUST VOTE FOPR MCCAIN/CONCUBINE
They’re coming to get you, RB!!
I’M JUST LIKE THAT GIRL!
Levi: “”Wooh! Fuckin’ cool.”
I think Gary’s drunk. He knows it’s over, just like Peggy.
We have to win. We have to. For fuck’s fuckity fucking sake, I can’t take four to eight years of that woman’s whiny pierce-through-steel voice. I’d rather listen to Grampy McCain give a speech, and his voice makes my ears long for the ability to stab themselves with an awl.
I can’t wait to stick it stick it stick it in your face
Not on the first date, Gary.
Hey. Sarah and her PopPop are on stage together. How cute.
Night of the Living Dead indeed.
Travis. I dunno. I’m just kinda restless tonight.
Here’s forty bucks. Let’s just ride around.
Y’know?
mikey
Swarthy person! ALL RIGHT!
I think that Mitt Romney must have written that speech.
DN, oh yeah. I feel your pain. I’m about to do the same. And oh yeah, Biden will destroy her.
This is ALL they have though. Bashing Obama as much as they can, playing dirty (guess McCain learned that from Bush, eh?) and jabbing at Obama as much as humanly possible. If they’re even human, that is.
Oh boy, that’s a night. And no McCain, not a beautiful family. Not at all. Gaaag..gag…gaaaaaaaggggggg……
Wolf: “She hit it out of the park, not only here but for millions of people around the country.”
Boy, that’s some fast polling from the folks at CNN.
Off to the Enquirer. Refresh…refresh…
Oh, here’s McCain. He looks bad. Really bad. He can barely stand up straight, wobbling faintly. If these fools get elected, this man won’t last a year. If the country wasn’t in such grave danger, I’d feel sad for him. I hope the “undecided” morons get a look at this spectacle.
SO IS THERE GONNA BE A BART WHERE HE HIKES HER SKIRT FROM BEHIND AND HAS HER WAY WITH HER, STICKING HIS TONGUE DOWN HER THROAT? I HAVE BEEB CHANNELING RALPH STEDMAN FOR THE LAST 1/2 HOUR AND IT WAS PROFOUNDLY UNPLEASANT.
The fact is, you liberals are done now. Real USA is going to swarm over your boy Obama and bury him.
Yep, she did great. I want to congratulate her myself.
I told you. I would say it doesn’t matter that Democrats and liberals didn’t like her — but it does. That’s the point. Republicans, all the dumb-asses who fall for the fake Republican “elitism” dance, and above all the Talibangelicals are going to love her, unless somehow she loses it big time over the next 2 months.
OMFG it’s so loud in there, thank DOG they found a tiny enough arena to hide most of the empty seats!
Mustache dude on CNN: “Most macho speech of the evening was given by a woman..”” (interrupted by Walt Frazier, Elton John and Michelle Bachman singing National Anthem).
Here comes the modern commercial country interlude. What I’d give for some Waco Brothers right now.
When the guy goes “one nation, under GOD”, you can hear the vomiting contempt in his voice when he spits out “God”. What is up with that???
It was a speech. There’s more to it than that, and there’s plenty of good footage that can be used against her.
Didn’t know Elton John was a GOP country singer.
Bobo Brooks on PBS digging the Applebee’s down-hominess.
The fact is, most real Americans love Palin because she makes the liberals so nuts! Good enough for me!
Excuse me, I was told there would be a rock ’em, sock ’em speech tonight. I saw nothing of the sort.
I don’t think I need to watch another S. Palin public performance. She’s not very good. I’ll just read the transcript or the excerpts, as I do with her running mate, the guy who came on stage and looked like he wanted to get off right away. He kept giving that “Well?” shrug of the shoulders to her.
New did not look happy tonight.
Spanish speakers have a saying: “Small town, big hell.”
El Cid said,
September 4, 2008 at 5:16
I told you. I would say it doesn’t matter that Democrats and liberals didn’t like her — but it does. That’s the point. Republicans, all the dumb-asses who fall for the fake Republican “elitism” dance, and above all the Talibangelicals are going to love her, unless somehow she loses it big time over the next 2 months.
Cid, those are the 27 percenters. The pukes need them, AND a buncha the dumfuks who are busy watching American Idol, just to get close enough to steal.
That’s why Magical Dolphin Lady is depressed.
It’s certainly not because she no longer believes that Zombie Reagan will come back and ravish her some day.
Palin going after Obama’s record is like the Monkee’s calling the Beatles a boy band.
adb, I’ll be stealing that, if you don’t mind.
Newt, as in the guy from Georgia.
The fact is, our founding fathers founded America as a Christian nation. You can spin and spin all you want, but it’s true. We all know it here in the Heartland.
Excuse me, I was told there would be a rock ‘em, sock ‘em speech tonight. I saw nothing of the sort.
Her task was to not melt like the Wicked Witch while reading. Mission accomplished. It could certainly have been worse.
Yeah, this ain’t gonna convince independence to vote for four more years of Republicans in the White House. And even if the yahoos on the right get fired up and turn out a little more in November, it still ain’t gonna be enough.
The fact is, one nation, under….
GOD!
Choke on it, libs.
Yahoo! isn’t feeling the love. First story under the main news box:
“Report: Palin sent emails to state officials criticizing trooper”
SEXISTS!
SEXISTS!
Nothing energizes the Republican base like calling out sexists.
The Monkees managed to make some good records in spite of it all, which is more than Palin will ever do.
Her task was to not melt like the Wicked Witch while reading. Mission accomplished. It could certainly have been worse.
Yeah, she had a nervous, relieved look when it ended. The rock ’em, sock ’em was a quote from a McCain spokesperson.
Look, “Gary.”
I do the fucking parody trolls around here, every fucking one of them. And right now, I’m not in the fucking mood. So if you’re trying to steal my bit, you can fuck right off.
Sarah Palin is now who Ralph Reed wanted to be.
If in the remote – remote, but don’t get complacent – chance that McPOW and his Stepford wife win, I’ve got to find a nation to move to that doesn’t have too many natural resources.
Because if they get in, every country that has anything of value will be “liberated” by American troops and their massive military. The next generation of robotic planes, tanks, and even semi-soldiers that the US is building is scary in the hands of fascists like republicans.
Unless, of course, China calls in its IOUs. Then the people who voted for republicans can re-learn the meaning of “subsistance farming”.
The fact is, one nation, under….
GOD!
Choke on it, libs.
what a lovely way to show your Christian love.
The fact is that Sarah Palin is more qualified than Barack Obama.
The McCain/Palin team has been a team bringing change, and that makes a lot of liberals uncomfortable because liberalism has corrupted America for 70+ years. And McCain/Palin is here to make America better than ever.
Sarah Palin is one of America’s greatest reformers. She took on special interests. She takes on overspending. She even took on the biggest corruption in America, the genocide of American.
John McCain WILL be the next President. I guarantee that.
I think I’ve got a shorter Sarah Palin (to be read with nostrils pinched shut):
“Ya’ll are so stupid you’ll believe me when I say Republicans haven’t been anywhere near D.C. for the last eight years.”
For Peggy Noonan, or close enough anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdd5xI9l7Ns
“Gary,” I already told you. I do the fucking fake trolls around here, and right now, I’m in the mood. So suck one.
Er, NOT in the mood. Very not.
read this blog or we’ll kill this presidential candidate.
She didn’t fall down and she said some mean things about Obama.
Like Wolf Blitzer says “A star is born!”
Is it me, or is this one just a whole ‘nother level of maturity and seriousness compared to the Dem convention?
Abortion is the biggest genocide in the history of the world and Sarah Palin stands firm against that genocide.
What are you, some kind of elitists?
Don’t bet real money on that … when Palin’s OTHER fuckups start to get top billing, the bloom will come off that rose plenty fine. Watch & see. I think a lot of the Hallelujah Contingent are desperately trying to convince themselves that they haven’t just been sold yet ANOTHER pig in a poke – & that this loony-tune Alaska lady is some kind of Divine Intervention & not a walking talking time-bomb … but it’s not 1980 anymore. Trying to cold-start the Glorious Culture War is going to go over like a lead balloon. I think maybe a lot of them still remember what asshats they were seen as the first time around, & won’t be totally Gung-Ho about becoming political cannon-fodder yet again. The jig is up.
Many thanks for the running commentary. Damn – I’m missing out on the ENTIRE marathon of ebullient wholesome fun that is the 2008 RNC circle-jerk. What can I say, life just isn’t fair at all sometimes. My heart truly bleeds purple wee-wee.
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
But those words aren’t going to go down without a fight.*
*Shit. That “fight” link is pooched, but if you cut-&-paste http://twitter.com/fakesarahpalin into a fresh tab, you’ll see what it was supposed to go to. Fun will ensue, I promise you, my friends. Gimme a break here. Is it MY fault I couldn’t find any more baby goats to sacrifice on my WordPress Altar Of Compliance? Stupid baby goats …
what a lovely way to show your Christian love.
I still prefer the fucknozzle who went onto a subway and challenged all present with “Merry Christmas” and lost his shit when someone replied “Happy Hanukkah”.
That’s not a shotgun, that’s a small caliber smooth-bore rifle.
D’oh!
That’s not a shotgun, that’s a small caliber smooth-bore rifle.
It’s not a wedding, either – see above.
Bridge to Nowhere lie…easy commercial material.
Right there in the prepared text. She did drop the positive reference to Senator Clinton. I wonder why.
Obama only won the nomination due to sexism, and now it’s time for him to pay.
the Women of America know that it’s time for them to stand up against the liberal paternalism and to stand with one of their own.
Is it me, or is this one just a whole ‘nother level of maturity
Yes, it’s a whole ‘nother level of elderliness.
Simple political problem.
Simple political QUESTION.
Do they think that there are enough votes among the hardcore right wing and christian base to elect McCain? Because that seems to be the bet they’re placing.
I thought they were going to compete for the “center”, those undecided voters who tend to lean toward the repubs but who look at bush/cheney and ask WTF??
But they’ve decided to dive into the dead-enders end of the pool, and there ain’t 40% there for them.
So when Obama takes 58% of the popular vote and raises his hand to take the oath, are they gonna recognize that this imaginary population of seething hatred and fearful xenophobia doesn’t actually exist?
Or will they instead set out to create it?
mikey
She did drop the positive reference to Senator Clinton. I wonder why.
Because she got BOOOd big time for mentioning Clinton at their first rally after her introduction. The crowd wasn’t having it at all.
What jim said.
And Gary? If that IS you, Gary? Eat shit and die.
Josh Marshall points out they had to skip the Palin infomercial because Giuliani got inspired.
They do if they can weaken turnout enthusiasm for Obama, and if they can screw up enough local voting systems. Yes. In such a case, they win.
I’m up one minute, I’m down the next. I look at this freakshow of a convention and think there can’t possibly be enough dumb and crazy religious people in this country to elect these clowns. Then I think about people like the guy who heads up the program my partner is involved with; guy is a hater of agencies such as OSHA with all his shriveled up little Grover-heart, wants to drown government in the bathtub and doesn’t care if he has to get in bed with god-botherers to do that . . . Who knows what these dumbfucks and selfish pricks might do come November?
I’m just going to try to maintain cautious optimism, and a fairly high blood-alcohol level.
Because she got BOOOd big time for mentioning Clinton at their first rally after her introduction.
Zombie armies are both a curse and another kind of curse.
The fact is, eat it. Eat it LIBS. GOD is back. America is back. Pride in country is back and it comes FIRST. America hate is no longer fashionable, neither is socialism and all the lies and death that go with it. Media bias is over soon, time to call it straight down the middle like FOX NEWS does. You are loosers.
I Hammurabi, the mighty, who again laid the foundations of Sippara; who clothed the gravestones of Malkat with green; who made E-babbar great, which is like the heavens, the warrior who guarded Larsa and renewed E-babbar, with Shamash as his helper; the lord who granted new life to Uruk, who brought plenteous water to its inhabitants, raised the head of E-anna, and perfected the beauty of Anu and Nana; find the speech wanting.
This tavern-keeper, who will not accept corn according to its gross weight, wants to be king? This maid-servant, who has born only one un-afflicted son for her master, wants to rule?
I will show you a campaign speech.
There is no wisdom like mine. Edicts which I have enacted will root out the miscreants and criminals from this land, and grant prosperity to my subjects.
133. If a man is taken prisoner in war, and there is a sustenance in his house, but his wife leave house and court, and go to another house: because this wife did not keep her court, and went to another house, she shall be judicially condemned and thrown into the water.
155. If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he (the father) afterward defile her, and be surprised, then he shall be bound and cast into the water.
May Ea, the great ruler, whose fated decrees come to pass, the thinker of the gods, the omniscient, who maketh long the days of my life, withdraw understanding and wisdom from this maid-servant’s master, lead him to forgetfulness, shut up his rivers at their sources, and not allow corn or sustenance for man to grow in his land. May Shamash, the great Judge of heaven and earth, who supporteth all means of livelihood, Lord of life-courage, shatter his dominion, annul his law, destroy his way, make vain the march of his troops, send him in his visions forecasts of the uprooting of the foundations of his throne and of the destruction of his land.
Righteous Bubba said,
September 4, 2008 at 5:30
For Peggy Noonan, or close enough anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdd5xI9l7Ns
Everybody needs a porpoise in life.
Suck it, libs, we’re gonna WIN!!!!!
Josh Marshall points out they had to skip the Palin infomercial because Giuliani got inspired.
I could practically here Giuliani thinking 2012, 2012, 911, 2012
Or will they instead set out to create it?
I think this assumes a sincere belief that the yokels are an ideal. They’re not, they’re the patsies.
They’ll just adjust their possible set of patsies to encompass more patsies. It’s the way Bill Clinton did it.
Shorter Some Gary: God is coming, and is he pissed!
yawn . . .
The fact is, WE WIN, YOU LOSE. America is BACK, the PRIDE IS BACK, I feel so energized by the patriotic convention after the biased self-hating DEMON convention. McCain / Palin all the way, can’t wait till they show the world in a crisis what USA is capable of, no more handwringing, just BOOM! BOOM! Awesome power of freedom.
> You are loosers.
We are looser. But you republicans are losers.
> GOD is back. America is back. Pride in country is back and it comes FIRST
So what you’re saying is that the republicans, who have run this country for the last eight years, took God and pride out of America.
Just wanted to get that straight.
The fact is, WE WIN, YOU LOSE. America is BACK, the PRIDE IS BACK, I feel so energized by the patriotic convention after the biased self-hating DEMON convention. McCain / Palin all the way, can’t wait till they show the world in a crisis what USA is capable of, no more handwringing, just BOOM! BOOM! Awesome power of freedom.
Make sure you keep a rag nearby, you’re close.
On the plus side, if the hard Talibangelical right is now fully engaged, and they throw everything they got into it, and they still lose, that’s one less excuse Republicans can give for why they lost this year.
Bring it on, fundies!!! Obama, you better be serious about that “ground game” I keep hear people raving about — and you better spend every last damn dime you raised.
just BOOM! BOOM!
Don’t you mean BOOM! BOOM! P.O.W.!…?
I bought these for all of my friends in the Heartland:
http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/obama-typical-white-person-sticker-bumper/243583086
The Anchorage Daily News with an update on the commander of the Alaska National Guard and her weighty decisions. Cambell is Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, service commander of the Alaska National Guard.
The next time my cat gets himself stuck in a tree, I’m calling the Florida National Guard. If they don’t respond and get ‘er done, I’ll know Charlie Crist is not fit to lead this great state.
The next time my cat gets himself stuck in a tree, I’m calling the Florida National Guard. If they don’t respond and get ‘er done
I hardly think the FNG is going to fuck your cat in a tree.
Gary Ruppert said,
September 4, 2008 at 5:15
The fact is, you liberals are done now. Real USA is going to swarm over your boy Obama and bury him.
And I take it that you, Gary, are one of those “real” swarmers who still calls non-totally-white-bread men “boy”? You are a racist jerk. The America you claim to love is the place where people like you, 143 years ago, were defeated for being thieves (of other people’s productive work) and rapists and traitors. So STFU.
It’s fake Gary.
Real Gary has to wake up early and take out the garbage.
BOOM! BOOM!
ZOMG Gary Ruppert is Pat Travers!
We’re all fake Gary now!
I didn’t have the stomach to watch tonight’s evil clownshow. Josh Marshall’s take on the evening’s highly partisan bloviating – including Gidget of the North’s speech – is that the McCain campaign has decided to blow off appealing to undecided centrists and to instead concentrate on revving up The Base into a reactionary frenzy. If that is indeed their strategy, they’re idiots.
Man, I don’t see any bump from this at all.
Lisa Schiffren’s high standards
IThe Most Impressive Woman Speaker I have ever heard, was Sarah Palin, tonight. (Always excepting Thatcher.) It took Hillary 16 years in the public eye, and she never quite got there. The speech was brilliantly written. It gave Palin room to introduce herself, to be funny (the difference between hockey moms and pit bulls — lipstick!), to be strong, to be charming, to be tough, and to display amazing political talent. She backed down on nothing. Her pokes at Obama were masterful. She wielded the knife with a smile on her face. Who knew that the response to his gibes at small town Americans being bitter was to put a small town mayor out there to defend the honor of normal Americans?
God and guns never looked better.
Later on, Lisa said her favorite food is McDonald’s French Fries and Lee Greenwood is the coolest music guy ever.
Wonkette transcript.
Night folks. The dark umbra of würk will haunt my dreams, or something.
Hillary Clinton is a far better speaker.
Man, I don’t see any bump from this at all.
No bump!?!? Don’t tell me: Bristol is now faking a pregnancy for Sarah!?
sorry, couldn’t resist.
bayville said,
September 4, 2008 at 6:08
Lisa Schiffren’s high standards
Shoter Lisa Schiffren: HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Shit Sammich! Want Some?
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> that the McCain campaign has decided to blow off appealing to undecided centrists and to instead concentrate on revving up The Base into a reactionary frenzy. If that is indeed their strategy, they’re idiots.
When republicans have to choose either acting sane or their SOP of hatred/anger/fear/cowardice/racism, they just say “I can’t quit you! Why can’t every American have as much hatred as I have in my heart for America?”
I just thought that was some sad-ass “cringe” up there tonight.
Candy, that was terrible !
I know, Tim. (hangs head low . . . )
Now all you libruls understand how Sarah Palin became Commander In Chief of the Alaska National Guard / 49th Missile Defense Battalion, in her never-ending fight to make sure marathons were properly guided and to avoid Islamo-erosionism in the soil.
For the most part, I’m not sorry I avoided watching this mess. It sounds as if Palin wasn’t really very interesting, which is about what I expected. But I do regret missing Giuliani’s rant.
Talk about “signs, wonders, and miracles;” First, Obamma the Antichrist struts in front of the masses with his wicked promises to suck our lifeblood dry by taxing the elite 5% of wealth leaders. Immediately following, John McCain, who God was obviously beaten out of in Viet Nam, makes a choice for vice president that even he seems surpised at. Obviously God was working through him without his knowledge. Now, God is working hard to populate our country with children and grandchildren of this beautiful godly woman, Sara Palin, who had her last child on an airplane, so she could be closer to God, I think, although he may have cursed her due to it turning out retarded, but now she gets a do-over. And so does our dear George Bush, with this hurricane hitting New Orleans. He has done so much to spread Christianity, I knew God would give him a chance to beat the devil in New Orleans, where he is so very strong.
I kind of like the new fake Gary, he’s either high, or fapping off, or both, its amusing in a ‘retarded puppy’ kind of way.
See if “they” manage to win, I’m really am gonna go “coo-coo for Coco Puffs”.
I’m imagining McCain giving Palin some backstage coaching right before she walks out:
“Just go out there and lie your sweet, sweet ass off.”
Snorghagen, I tried hard to miss it, but with the teenager watching and laughing in the living room and the partner watching and laughing in the back room, I couldn’t help but overhear some of it.
There was a moment of precious hillbilly-ness I wish I would have seen: The P. says the little girl licked spit onto her hand and smoothed the baby’s hair with it, in a way that indicated to the P. that it is probably an accepted action in the Palin family. Kids learn such things by observation That’s the kind of thing “country” folk did in SE Iowa when I was a kid growing up there. It was considered gauche, even by SE Iowa standards.
Come to think of it, Sarah’s hair looked like it might be spit-laquered. It’s probably a family tradition.
Ok, fine, call me one of those big-city of Ottumwa elitists.
On that note, I think I’ll go to bed.
“The P. says the little girl licked spit onto her hand and smoothed the baby’s hair with it, in a way that indicated to the P. that it is probably an accepted action in the Palin family. Kids learn such things by observation That’s the kind of thing “country” folk did in SE Iowa when I was a kid growing up there. It was considered gauche, even by SE Iowa standards.”
totally happened, witnessed by better half here in Topanga, CA.
Candy: That moment went over big with the crowed, who all simultaneously said “Awwww” when the little kid did it. And she was a really young girl, so, yeah.
> That’s the kind of thing “country” folk did in SE Iowa when I was a kid growing up there. It was considered gauche, even by SE Iowa standards.
Davenporter here. You?
Math Dept.: Ottumwa growing up, born in Des Moines and lived here the last 25 years or so except for some time in Seattle area.
I’m waiting for Sally Quinn’s offer to host High Tea for the Palin brood.
One day in, oh, ’83, I had a big problem with about four Colorado state police in Greeley. I limped out of town and got on my scoot and rolled east on hwy. 76. When I got to Julesburg, I really had this strong sense to keep going. 80 east to Lincoln and on into Iowa. At this point, I really wish I had.
But all my comfort zone was west, Idaho or Nevada or Arizona, and I was hurting and pissed and wanted to be with friends, not strangers, so I horsed that bike around and headed back west on 80.
So Nebraska and Iowa would have to wait for another time. And I lived the west of the rockies dream…
mikey
I missed it entirely, having to be at work tonight. I hear she spent a lot of time trashing Obama. Klassy, ain’t she?
I thank our halibut comrade Eric for his endorsement, & am in awe of such adept typing & punctuation from someone with fins – there, you see, Bush was right: man & fish CAN live together in peace & harmony!
Sorry, dude. Barn door open, horses long gone. It’s a fringe but it’s real enough, & you don’t need to go to Stormfront to find it anymore – just turn on a TeeVee or a radio. All the nationally-syndicated hate-pimps are going to make their previous psychotic mania look like naptime at a kindergarten when November 6 rolls around. Stock up on Gravol.
Aye, there’s the rub.
When their little micro-Nuremburg mutual-reacharound is over, there just won’t be enough of a payoff – this event needed to be a real bombshell, & it sounds to me like it was kind of a dud … they sort of got jerked around by their own deity, what with His waving Gustav in their face & everything, though keeping the Bush & Cheney demons at bay was a backhanded bonus of sorts … openly admitting that Palin didn’t write a single damn word of “her” speech beforehand couldn’t’ve been a huge bonus either.
Bonus Question: you think either McCain or Palin can keep their designer footwear out of their cakeholes between now & the debates? They’ll have to, if they’re actually in it to win. I still wonder if they’re not intentionally throwing this contest because they know what’s next, & just how fugly it’s going to get in a year or two.
One of the managers where I work took his wife to Washington state so she could do some gambling in the Skagit casinos, & he said the only people there gambling were Canadians & Japanese … Yanks just don’t have any extra to throw around … he kept saying over & over, “God, those poor Americans” – so, now you know what Bush has done for your nation. You’re going right back to where you were right after 9/11, recipients of the world’s sympathy & concern – just for much different reasons now.
The GOP has Hammurabi on their ass now, too?
Oh man, they are SO fucked.
He doesn’t just write the laws – he IS the laws.
Nobody messes with the H-Man. NOBODY.
Candy: As I always tell my friends, the best people come from IA. I’m sure you agree. I’m in NYC now and for the past 20 years.
Enough of the personal ad stuff. Your posts here are pretty damn good. I’m looking forward to more.
Failin Palin’s speech energized me. Donations in the mail tomorrow for Barry, and perhaps some volunteer time.
so I wonder how the Republican community activists (if there are such things) are going to feel about Sarah’s take on community activists not having any responsibilities?
and isn’t the theme of the Republican convention “Service?” Sounds like Sarah Palin isn’t really familiar with communities in need? Kind of out of touch for someone who wants to lead the country…
A song for Bristol and Levi, because abstinence-only education worked out sooooo well for them:
Intersting reading this email that’s been circulating about Sarah Palin –
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
So she’s such an “experienced executive” she was forced to hire a real manager to actually do the work of running it – and this for a town of 5000 people and some 50-60 employees.
So when Obama takes 58% of the popular vote and raises his hand to take the oath, are they gonna recognize that this imaginary population of seething hatred and fearful xenophobia doesn’t actually exist?
Or will they instead set out to create it?
Mikey, they’ve been working on that project since (at least) 1968. In fact, I get the impression that the RNC wanted this convention to represent the Bizarro-World 1968 Chicago Dem disaster — this time with the noble, outnumbered
jackbooted thugsprotective security forces holding back the deranged DFH armies as rewritten-Greatest-Generation-War-Hero Old John McCain joined hands with Sister Squeezeyerkneeshut to lead the Pasty Faithful to a promised land free of gubmint inner-fear-ints and non-Walmart shopping options. So far the oratory has not inspired the citizens of St. Paul to a Damascean reversal where they eschew their natural tolerance and respect for other peoples’ choices and start burning crosses, but just… you… wait… until tomorrow night’s Big Reveal!!!!!eleventy-one!!!Meh. What’s the difference between a self-styled ‘hocky mom’ and a pit bull? You can housetrain a pit bull.
Or, as Mr. Twain said, “If you take a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; this is the difference between a dog and a man.”
Skipping ahead…
I’m watching Ghouliani on MSNBC (hey, fambly life comes first, even for a DFH) and what strikes me is how they’re laying traps for themselves with their baiting of Obama.
I keep asking (yes I’m talking to my Teevee…) “Do you REALLY want to go there Rudi? Do you want to talk about flip flopping? Do you want to bring up elitism? Do you want to talk about failure? Really?”
Playin’ my bass and drinking Canadian blend doesn’t hurt either.
so I wonder how the Republican community activists (if there are such things) are going to feel about Sarah’s take on community activists not having any responsibilities?
G, it was “community organizers” Sarah was trying to turn into the new Rethug swearword. “Activists” the Zombie Talibangelical Twenty-Eight-Percenters are all in favor of, especially when said “activists” are firing librarians, attempting to introduced creationism into the public schools, or using public office to harrass their exes. “Organizers”, on the other hand… if the RNC knew from “organized”, Miz Seeruh would still be in Juneau hectoring the moose.
“Activists” the Zombie Talibangelical Twenty-Eight-Percenters are all in favor of
Unless, of course, they happen to be judges.
I’m just going to try to maintain cautious optimism, and a fairly high blood-alcohol level.
Better yet, find a Rethug on election day and help *them* maintain a high blood-alcohol level. Preferably before they vote. A couple crushed Vicodin in the shotglass probably wouldn’t hurt either.
Irony?
You want some irony?
I got your irony right here.
The fact is that that would so totally not look good on my Prius.
San Francisco (Values)
I am your typical white person who’s not falling for Obama’s line of crap.
Stomach too full of JiSM?
The BBC this morning was practically raving about Palin. Maybe it got better after I had to turn off the suck, but I reeeeally doubt it.
For 5 1/2 years, McCain had no say in what cologne he wore. It was Hai Karate every stinkin’ day.
it would have been less confusing if it had been a snuffy-smith-type lookin’ shotgun, not something with a scope.
Using it for a child’s bath would be borderline child abuse.
“You do understand what tanks and bombers and missiles and SP Guns DO, right?”
Compensate for a small penis?
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Men are basically insecure about the size of their dicks and so they go to war over it. You don’t have to be a political scientist or a history major to see the bigger dick foreign policy theory at work. It goes something like this…”What, they have bigger dicks? Bomb them!!!”
And of course the bombs and the bullets and the rockets are all shaped like dicks. I don’t understand that part of it, but it is part of the equation. So I agree with that abstract. That man… men…males have pushed the technology that just about has this planet in a stranglehold. Mother Earth raped again, guess who…”hey she was asking for it.”
– George Carlin
Whoops, teleprompter crawl taking her off guard I think.
Called it: http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/The_teleprompter_did_not_break.html?showall
“The fact is, one nation, under….GOD!”
God sure do seem to have a hankering fer hot anal action.
You should get rid of that picture. Not funny.
If you want to make a shotgun wedding joke, use a picture of someone holding a shotgun (Cheney, Harry Whittington?), and preferably not pointing it at anyone (unless it’s Cheney pointing it at Whittington, then that’s ok because it happened already).
Just my two cents.
No, but Lava is the manly man soap cuz it has bits of volcanic pumice in it or something. It’s the rough tough soap for manly men who work with their manly hands.
Using it for a child’s bath would be borderline child abuse.
BAH! Child abuse????
In MY family, we used real lava, fresh out of the caldera, to wash up!
Lava? Luxury. I spent my formative childhood years washing up in larva, until my mother realised her mistake.
Just the one?
I spent my formative childhood years washing up in larva, until my mother realised her mistake.
Paradise. When my mother realised her mistake I was given back to the tribe of fuching ferrets she rescued me from.
Lava? Luxury. I spent my formative childhood years washing up in larva, until my mother realised her mistake.
HA! Larva? WE had to lavage the lesions of OUR larva!
Sorry, multiple larvae.
The bait shop never did work out why we needed so many meal-worms.
Do NOT try a Google Image search on “dermestid beetle”, by the way. DO NOT GO THERE.
Luxurious Paradise.
When I was growing up my mother used to bathe me using Layla.
Oh wait. That wasn’t so bad. You guys win…
mikey
Oh, so you didn’t have to use the same sad, shriveled up larval vestige for your entire child- to young adulthood? LUXURY.
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