37.2 million people had never seen George W Bush in drag before. Of course they were gonna tune in.

High ratings don’t = support. The Patriots get high ratings too. But at least half the people watching (and probably considerably more than that) are watching in the hopes that they’ll go down in flames.

“That’s a hell of an act. What do you call it?”

And McCain says, “The Aristocrats!”

yes, 37 million people got to see her lie on national teevee. now all will know exactly what is being referred to in the upcoming week of fact-checking. enjoy your bounce repugnicans, its your last. obama is referring to her as an object of derision, excuse me, a nutbag. he’s shaping the narrative. the em-ess-em has no constituency to defend this nutbag. such is the risk of coming from nowhere.

Thanks, John. Thanks for pointing out that you and many of your fellow Republicans have zero personal integrity. Whatever lie needs be told, tell it.

I am glad he finally admits his party is full of morons who respond to anything at all pointless. Now the healing can begin among them.

“Without the hysteria surrounding Palin’s selection, her audience would surely have been reduced by as many as 13 million viewers, which would have put it at the same level as Joe Biden’s (24.4 million).”

“…and many of those 13 million would have used the time not spent watching Palin to perform forced gay marriages, slaughter orphans while giving chocolate eclairs to spotted owls, buried flag lapel pins in landfills, and pass new taxes on crippled old people. I know this is true because I just know it!”

High ratings don’t = support.

Seriously. Given how snide and fact-free she was that night, I wish even more people could’ve seen it.

“Choke on it”? Who the hell does this guy think he is, Danny DeVito? Oh wait…

They sit in the back of the class and hate, just hate anyone who seems to either have maybe done some of the homework or seems to have the slightest interest in the class whatsoever. And all they got is spitballs and ear thumps and whatnot.

And then we elect them President (or close enough) and give them all of Congress and the Supreme Court.

And then we seriously consider when they come in and say that they are going to clean up all these damn problems they just been making.

The ratings are a net win for everyone. As a life-long political junkie it’s exciting that so much more of the public seems to be tuned in this year. Although I’d point out one thing– I’ve read those ratings do not include C-SPAN or PBS. Nearly everyone I know watched the conventions on those channels so there is a strong possibility that the there was an undercount.

The choice between the two tickets was pretty clear– Obama and the dems spelled out a list of plans, attacked McCain’s record, and talked about buildig bridges. McCain and Palin’s convention was NASTY sarcasm and all about how McCain was POW (which everyone knew already) and didn’t mention the economy at all.

Obama is getting sharper on the campaign trail. The debates will matter more than ever and will probably get the highest ratings EVER. But it will come down to what happens in the next 58 days– Obama is favored to win but it is not guarenteed. We all have to do everything and anything we can to make it happen.

Yep, Sarahcuda got awesome ratings for her RNC speech.
So did the Special Broadcast of the Space Shuttle ‘Challenger’ blowing to pieces.
Considering the apparent electoral aftermath of Palin’s speech, that analogy isn’t very hyperbolic at all.

In recent blog-lurking, I’ve read more than one comment from people who’ve now switched from GOP to Democrat. She also helped make up some undecided’s minds – to vote against her & McCain. Making hardcore “27%’ers” even MORE rabid may have some cheap-thrill value, but I don’t think the backfiring that just happened here is quite what Podbot thinks it is.

When I caught wind of how effectively Palin’s bullshitfest fired up a Dem ticket with a mild case of campaign fatigue, I imagined McCain the next day, threatening to fire whoever recommended her to him & snarling, “that stupid little cunt should’ve turned me down & stayed in her fuckin’ igloo!”

I wonder if Romney or Pawlenty have sent him any “ha ha, tough shit, loser” telegrams yet.

Yep, Sarahcuda got awesome ratings for her RNC speech.
So did the Special Broadcast of the Space Shuttle ‘Challenger’ blowing to pieces.

Wrod. I was just about to say, there’s always a crowd of rubberneckers whenever there’s a horrendous auto crash on the highway. By wingnut logic, this means that the public fully supports more horrendous car crashes.

Heh… “wrod”… that’s a hybrid fish species, of a whitefish and a scrod.

(d’oh!)

Wrod.

if she’s named as a correspondent in someone’s else’s divorce, can we ask for trig to have a DNA test to determine who the real father is? sure, we can ask. loudly.

considering the pelt that podman is sporting, he should stay two-rifle-shot-lengths away from BearPawGratin.

If Maury Povich had done a paternity test on stage, as many as 74 million surely would have tuned in. That would be 37 million more than Obama, which would make it twice as much.

I believe the gentleman mis-quoted himself. The actual phrase he used was “Choke on it, bitch” and was used in an entirely different context.

“if she’s named as a correspondent in someone’s else’s divorce, can we ask for trig to have a DNA test to determine who the real father is? sure, we can ask. loudly.”

Last night I chatted with a woman who hosted a Women in Politics evening at an L.A. museum event in March. She invited someone I forget (a Dem), and Sarah Palin. This was, note, three weeks before Palin gave birth, or perhaps “gave birth.”

My friend, who stood right next to Palin and saw her the whole night, said there was no way that woman was pregnant. And when Palin and her baby went national, women who were also at the event called and emailed my friend to say, in essence, WTF?

I don’t know what it means. It’s as weird to me to think that Bristol had the first baby and then got preggers immediately thereafter as it is to imagine a totally svelte Sarah being pregnant, and then flying eight hours to AK and to that tiny town to deliver.

I need help–help that only a DNA test of the Downs baby can provide.

If what Mr. Wonderful implies is true, if Bristol got pregnant immediately after in order to cover her previous pregnancy. And… if the truth got out (if it is the truth) that Trig is really hers. Imagine the rage she will have for her mother. I feel very sad for her if any of this is true.

Earlier this week, I suggested that there was rough justice in the fact that those people who peddled the false and disgusting rumors about Sarah Palin and her recently born son Trig had made it possible for Palin to release the news of her daughter’s pregnany in a way that was actually far less damaging than it might otherwise have been to her standing.

Yeah, that was pretty amazing, wasn’t it? Why, that was as lucky for the GOP ticket as if some brilliant planner in the McCain camp, knowing the pregnant teenage daughter would come out eventually, had planned the whole thing and planted those “false and disgusting rumors” to enable just such a response. But surely no McCain adviser is that smart; such a genius would have to be an absolute turdblossom!

I need help–help that only a DNA test of the Downs baby can provide.

I’d be happy with an official copy of Trig’s birth certificate. After all the fuss over Obama’s cert and Palin’s Path of Lies, I don’t think it’s too much to ask, and it would settle the question once and for all.

Eh. My mum got pure-d disbelief that she was actually pregnant right up to the time I was born – about a month premature. I am not impressed by foaf stories saying “she didn’t *look* pregnant.”

Plus, Downs syndrome is much more prevalent among older mothers. It’s not impossible that an adolescent could have a Downs baby, but it’s not all that likely; while Palin fell into the “advanced age mother” category and the accompanying increased statistical likelihood.

Shorter: The Trig-is-Bristols thing is bullshit.

The only people enthused about Palin is Crazy Base World.

The only party Crazy Base World votes for is Republican.

So they were going to throw them the usual dried bone and try to pick up “moderates” like they did before. Back when the scam was still working.

Only this year those moderates are saying, “WTF! I got no money for gas after I’ve spent my whole paycheck on groceries! Let the gays marry if it will boost the catering section of the economy!”

So I saw this coming, only I thought they’d choose Huckabee, that affable, twinkly-eyed, squirrel eater. He’s a proven draw and would get the Xantians all frothy.

But I gotta admit, Palin’s got them foaming at the mouth and creaming in their jeans.

But have they gotten more votes? There’s more Xantians that will turn out instead of staying home, perhaps.

But this isn’t taking any votes from Obama.

I don’t understand what difference it makes. An internet rumor says that the baby is the child of Palin’s unwed teenage daughter, and they respond that this is impossible because her unwed teenage daughter is pregnant. Ha HAH! I couldn’t have murdered him officer, I was strangling a prostitute that night.

Yes, I realize that the cover up is more exotic, but who wouldnt lie to protect their child? The other version would only make her an even bigger supermom working class hero.

Don’t know what the real story is, and don’t really care. But announcing to the whole world that your teenage daughter is pregnant in order to advance your political career isn’t exactly “supermom” material.

And if they could have found a total abstinence advocate without a pregnant teenager, they would have.

The convention has become more redundant and annoying then the last three “Highlander” movies.

you can pretend this is radioactive all you like, but when gawker went all jenna’s-preggers it didn’t hurt them at all. that a fecund (feck-oond!!) teenager could get pregnant again just three months after delivering is not uncommon. that revealing bristol’s current pregnancy was somehow beneficial to Ms AwardWinningMooseStew, is total horses**t. that the PolarBearBlackWidow might’ve cheated on her husband and didn’t reveal that to mcmansions’s team is probable. that there is nobody willing to squeal in alaska, that bastion of gun-toting hard-asses…well, we’ll see. the thing about being a big fish in a small pond is that there’s just no telling who saw what when.

This is so not my style, but has anyone considered who the father of l’il trig might be?

DNA profiling would be a good idea at this point, just to clear things up.

…… and who said there was no such thing as a “Seamonster” —- *see caption photo

Even before McCain invited Ms. Mooseburger to be his VP candidate, we had been talking about how the GOP exploits the innate craziness-stupidity-spitefulness (“Teh Spite”, for short) of Americans to win elections. And here:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-is-not-hockey-mom.html

we see the concept expressed as a hockey analogy. For the most part, it works really well. Who doesn’t feel smug and smirky when a member of the home team delivers a well-aimed elbow when the ref isn’t looking? But when a member of the visiting team does the same, oh, the indignation!

Ms. Mooseburger clearly doesn’t have the skills to play on the first line with players who can really skate and shoot. Her paycheck depends on her ability to instigate trouble to annoy and distract the other team, and get them off their game.

Also, the home crowd is also the referee in this analogy. In fact, the home crowd is comprised of American voters. We’re the ones who determines who goes to the White House and who goes to the penalty box. What we are seeing here is that the GOP is betting that it can continue to use cheap shots to recruit enough voters afflicted with Teh Spite to send their team to the White House.

If enough of the American public are Teh Spite-ful enough to fall for the Republicans’ shenanigans, there’s not much we can do. “With Teh Spite, the very gods struggle in vain, as Schiller might say.

But I have to wonder whether or not the GOP really made a smart bet. Their tactics used to work in congressional races as well. They didn’t work in 2006 and they aren’t working in 2008. The Democrats are looking to pick up an additional 5 Senate seats and 10 House seats this election cycle. Is it the end of the line for Teh Spite in the presidential race as well?

Sorry to bore you – back to our regularly scheduled comedy.

And if they could have found a total abstinence advocate without a pregnant teenager, they would have.

Assuming the Kinsey ratio of 10%, odds should be 50/50 that at least one of her five children is gay. Science seems to have a sense of humor when it comes to Evangelical families, however, so I would say that it approaches 100% certainty.

Righteous Bubba drops “The Aristocrats!” – Fantastic description, just spot on. I mean, you’re disgusted, but you can’t look away waiting to see what’s next.

“It appears 37.2 million people tuned in to watch Palin’s speech last night, only a million shy of Barack Obama’s total last week — making it the second most-watched convention address in history.”

A car crash will draw a crowd, you know.

Conservative spite orgies are kinda like those nudist camps that cater to middle-aged people. The participants really enjoy themselves, but — the rest of us? Ew!

The results are astonishing. It appears 37.2 million people tuned in to watch Palin’s speech last night, only a million shy of Barack Obama’s total last week — making it the second most-watched convention address in history… Unbelievable!

Once again, a car crash will draw a crowd, you know.

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Speaking of John Podhoretz, was one of his parents a Furry or something?

This thread wins for fugliest men evar. Yes, that’s lookist.

Not thread — totality of men on current page. garrgh.

Oh yeah, you know who’s not good looking at all? James Carville. But he does use some really great expressions, so he’s sort of okay folks.

was one of his parents a Furry or something?

It could be Midge, it can’t be his father.

Mommy Midge once wrote an essay about homosexuals, and she included a bit about how she was grossed out when she saw guys on the beach with hair on their backs, which description Gore Vidal famously took apart in one of his essays.

So we know that neither parent has the phenotype for great amounts of body hair, if yuh know what I mean.

The other explanation would be, as we all know from folklore, when a pregnant woman is subjected to some physical shock or stress, said shock/stress is reflected in her infant, so perhaps it was unwise for Midge to take a day at the ocean that fateful summers’ day…………….

Nope, you have it backwards. Midge was disgusted by the *smooth, hairless* homos on the beach. So John-boy is just all right with her.

O yes, what Obama did has no presedent in the records and will be remember quite some time.

Well, before saying he is a savior, let’s see how it goes during the first year as a president.

Thanks, John. Thanks for pointing out that you and many of your fellow Republicans have zero personal integrity.