Fred Thompson looks like a 4 day old corpse even with makeup.
Ooops. I indulged in lookism.
I gotta ask, is it discretion, lack of time, or just hearing about it that has kept y’all out of teh General’s recent adventures in upset not-men?

*just *not* hearing about it…
Here you go to the good time and trouble to put in auto-preview, n I still can’t remember to read it before hittin submit.

and joining Hillary Clinton and Gloria Steinem in launching VPGs (vaginally propelled grenades) at right-to-life gatherings.

Vaginally propelled grenades? {Insert Malkin ping-pong joke here}

N sorry to jump in off topic. Damn funny post.

brad — I can only speak for myself, but it’s the clusterfuck aspect of it. I feel bad for britney and for JG. they both messed up.

that said, I saw those threads, saw JG accused of being a misogynist and Maha accused of being a racist (and by the same person, and most predictable at flinging that sort of bullshit), and it made me want to take the nuclear option, but for right now i’ve held back.

Anyway, I think the post at Tennessee Guerilla Women is the most fair about the JG thing.

“The charismatic Thompson will officially announce his candidacy on the Fourth of July”
Welp, that just killed any hope I had that maybe Tommy wasn’t some show-boating buffoon. But those are the kind Republicans like, so this will spell trouble.

“many Republican voters sat home during the last election.”
I will bet a week’s pay that is either outright wrong, or the shady kind of unprovable statement.

“As in poker, the smart player knows when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em.”
I can’t tell if it’s absolute lameness of the PBBs in Navyfield, or that the 11″s are so fucking horrible, or if it’s simply the amount of vapid cliches in this article, but I’m getting a headache.

“The Grand Old Party has a chance to regain its place in the White House as the classy gentleman Fred Thompson tosses his hat back into the political arena.”
Point of Order: You can’t “regain” what you haven’t “lost” yet, sweety.

“Let’s put him into the White house, the ’shining city on a hill.’ Matthew 5:14”
…Uh, you do know that the White House is.. not… on a hill… right?

I like that, “the only reason we lost seats in 2006 is because we didn’t vote” thing. That’s like, “our team only lost because your team scored more points, no nyeh”, only more… headache inducing. Where’re my fucking Advil liquidgels?

“Plain-spoken intellect” ? Sounds like a namby-pamby PC term for “kind of a dummy”.

Oh. And thank god she took my advice to change that photo. eegah. This one isn’t perfect, there’s to much hair on the right side that makes her head look to big, and the make-up could use a little work, but it’s a large improvement over Tranvestitezilla.

Wowsers! MJ at her sultry best in looks, as well as in her own inimitable prose:

“Frankness and honesty dictate admitting that…”

That’s about what I figured. The charge of patriarchy penis oppressor just made it impossible for me to keep my big mouth shut. That familiar faces eventually appeared, and, funnily enough, instantly banned me from commenting on their blog for non-incendiary unsnarky honest questions.
But I have the advantage of no brand name to risk in such stupidity.

Jebus. This hash is stronger than I thought at first. I’m retarded tonight.
I’d finish the sentence but no real points were lost.

Shorter Marie Jon’: If they’d just hold a cup of water in front of Terri Schiavo, then we’d know if she wants to live.

The way Repub bloggers are gettin’ sweaty for Jabba the Thompson just proves how desperate they are for a new Big Mean Daddy to bash them around & make them feel *special*. I mean, Fred was a senator for whom Royko’s condemnation (of Gerry Ford) as “well known for being extremely average” would be a net improvement. Sure, he’s been on television, but so has Cheech Marin, and Cheech is a better actor.

As for the Shining City (up)on a Hill title, Boston got first dibs on that one back in the Mayflower days, literally, although soon-to-be-Governor Winthrop was probably on the Arabella when he claimed it. Washington DC is Foggy Bottom, representing (I can only assume) the state of mind most common among its Pundit Clarses, and the anatomical region out of which they pull their “ideas”.

i like “these” united states way better than “those” united states–you know, the gay islamic abortion ones. fred thompson would suck at being the president of those united states, which may also be referred to as “france”.

ps unless you spend all your time being snarky, sarcastic, and ironic on a website, and i mean pretty much all the time, stay away from irony, or snark, or sarcasm. or warn people–“normally i’m a straight shooter, but i am so kidding here”. this has been true since the usenet, and since the first e-mails started flying to and fro. it’s a bad place for that shit unless you are by default a bunch of fucking wiseacres like a certain website i won’t name (cough sadly no cough).

You know, if you had put Noonan’s picture up and said he wrote this, I would have believed it. These people are really interchangeable. Is there a “Republican Rhetoric for Dummies” book out there that they all plagiarize from? This poor girl reads like she’s headed for a nervous breakdown. She’s looking at Fred as the Party saviour. Wait till Fred declares; his best days will be behind him. Reality is gonna be a pisser in 2008.

How do you know so much about gambling, Marie? Don’t tell me you learned that from the Kenny Rogers song. Me thinks a certain lovely and supposedly wholesome Christian girl has been going to the casinos!

Well, I’d guess she’s been two-timing you with that Bill Bennet fellow. I hear he knows his way around a casino!

Anne Laurie: I thought the second part of “Foggy Bottom” had something to do with Jeff Gannon, surely?

Innocent Bystander: You’re talking Mark Noonan, not Peggy, right?

just for the record, i am stressed to distraction by the ‘.

soon you could be experimenting with lesbianism

You wish.

The White House is not even a fucking city. Never mind the hill.

Thanks for the shout-out, HTML Mencken. The JG/Brittney Gilbert fuckup has us bummed out every which way.

(Sorry to go off-topic.)

He is a lawyer who served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1980-1981.

He belongs to the Washington Speakers Bureau. He is an analyst for ABC News Radio. He also publishes a daily blog and podcasts over the Internet on an ABC Radio website. Thompson is an excellent communicator and public speaker.

Sweet blood of Jesus, it’s like a dull fourth-grader’s assignment to write a short bio of someone. Has she never heard of a comma, let alone a semicolon? Has Renew America (I’m cancelling my subscription to that particular resurrection) ever heard of editing (or rewriting)?
And is that truly her picture? Any one ever seen her in person, or in photos w/ others? Or is that tiny shot all that’s ever been seen of her, in true blog-o-style?
I was even more dumbfounded when I made the mistake of peeping at a couple of her other pieces. Damn. Why do people like this think they can write? Has the story of the apostrophe (‘) ever been revealed?
Last ignorant question: Did she possibly mean “Reaganesque” for “Reaganest”? Makes no more sense that way either, but…

Meanwhile, how do Thompson’s policy positions differ from the rest of the clusterfuck? Why’s he the savior? She gushes about him as if he’s fundamentally better.

At least if he gets elected he can’t rant about the evils of Hollywood ….

I think I’ve figured out what happened to Apostrophed Marie’s headline! She just was trying out different ideas and languages!

Let me explain:
“Factoring in Fred Thompson” makes kind of a good headline – exactly the type of media-esque statement which kind of makes sense and sorta sounds good. Then we have “Reagenest appealing”, which makes no sense until you split it up into “Reagen est appealing” and remember your high school French [hint: ‘est’ means ‘is’ in French]

Et voila! You have two sentences which kind of make sense in a really stretching kind of way and, although they have nothing to do with each other, evoke two icons of wingnuttery, one current and one past.

What could be more obvious?

exactly the type of media-esque statement

“media-est”, shurely.

Reagan, Reaganer, Reaganest. Or is it some weird Latin conjugation ritual?

Many Republicans are stressed to distraction over certain issues.

Such as admitting in public to their shameful Republicanismestnessness.

Unfortunately, too many of them have withdrawn their support from the GOP and President Bush during a time of war.

Correction: “Unfortunately, too many of them have withdrawn their support from the GOP and Preznit Pretzel during a time of complete and unmitigated clusterfuck.”

As the result of not seeing the full picture regarding the War on Terror, many Republican voters sat home during the last election.

Because if we’d shown them the full picture, the real pictures, they’d have puked their entrails out and then rushed out to vote for a Democrat.

They refused to vote for the betterment of our homeland.

And no matter what I do, I can’t get them to sing “Eusa uber alles”.

Extremists within Islam takes note of what we do. Some of them live amongst us.

So the extremists are within Islam, but also within us? Doesn’t that mean that (a) we are within Islam; (b) Islam is within us; or (c) we are Islam? Has this woman never heard of set theory? Is her mathematical knowledge so paltry?

Oh, I meant that to be a ‘c’ in brackets, not a clever copyright symbol. Just sayin’.

This is a pivotal time in our country’s history; it isn’t the time to spank the GOP[.]

Just the monkey.

I’m so embarrassed that I said that. My most fulsome apologies.

You know, I admit freely to being totally on board the Ron Paul bandwagon.

That being said, I just don’t get all this Fred Thompson love.
Seriously.

Is it *really* Ron’s stand on the war issue that is the reason so many so-called conservative’s are ignoring him ?

AFAIK, every point in Fred’s favor goes double for Ron – IF you assume the conservatives mean what they say.

Obviously, they do not.

You know, I admit freely to being totally on board the Ron Paul bandwagon.

So, you’re some kind of nut then.

I’m surprised there aren’t more Republicans who are head-over-heels in love with Ron Paul — after all, he’s their kind of people.

Righteous Bubba, I don’t consider myself a nut. I consider myself somewhere in the classical liberal, small-l libertarian camp, with a LOT of sympathy for anarchism, and left-libertarianism (yes, that exists).

I have studied economics as a hobby and so some of Ron’s ideas which SEEM nutty are either distorted by his critics or make more sense in context.

Wally, I don’t have space to refute that whole article but some of his views, like I said, are not nutty. Secession for example. The constitution says nothing whatsoever about it.

Ron is not perfect. But his enemies (on the Right as well as the Left) are doing their best to paint him in an unattractive light.

I think you meant to say “the world’s onliest sexy wingnut”. Sexy as that picture is she doesn’t have any competition that I know of for the sexiest wingnut title. Tacky aside. He makes me want to go out and catch teh gay.

And that JG-NIT flame war. Holy shit. What a fucking drag. HTML put up a post a little while back asking what was the best flame war ever. Well this one definitely wins the award for the worst. What would have been so hard about her admitting she should have been more careful or for JG to back off a little once it was clear that she had just been careless rather than evil? And then there’s the Pinyesque opportunism of that Cat Pants person. Yuch.

Ron Paul: enemy of social security.

“Socialist Marxists�?? That’s the best redundancy I’ve seen since Duran Duran! Lemme try to top it: Republican wingnuts! No. Okay, stupid wingnuts! No (but better). Ok, I got it. How about, fascist wingnuts!

It’s like you’re just teasing me into a pedantic geek-out, aren’t you?

Not all Socialists are Marxists….Fabian Socialists or Fourierists are Socialists who are not Marxists, for instance.

Also, not all Marxists are Socialists…Marxist-Leninists are not Socialists (and some might argue not even Marxists, but I think my geek is spent out now).

The point, however, that dear MJ’ wouldn’t know a socialist from a socialite remains. I expect to see her any day now in front of the jail where Paris Hilton is being held demanding that Hilton be put to death for bringing godless communism to America.

Freddie is the kind of guy who’s at his best when someone’s written a script, and he has several takes at something.

Hence, his video riposte to Michael Moore rather than, you know, actually debating the issues.

Actually, the wingnuts love them their Freddy becasue as the rest of the candidates become exposed, none of them are able to win, or even appeal to the InsaneBase. Since Fred is still unknown, he fulfills all their fantasies in a way that only an unopened Christmas package can.

Here’s a somewhat flaky-looking Ron Paul round-up.

Nut.

sarah said,

just for the record, i am stressed to distraction by the ‘.

Yeah. Actually the ‘ kinda turns me on.

But that’s just me.

I didn’t mean to hijack the topic away from Fred Thompson and his appeal – my original intent was to point out that most Republicans, wingnuts especially, are total hypocrites – they are more concerned with a candidate’s chance to win than how closely that candidate follows the allegedly important Republican positions.

Righteous, in an interview posted TODAY, at LRC, Ron said the following:
(“Dennis” is a reference to Dennis Kucinich)

“But I think Dennis and I usually come down on the same side of it. That is, if you don’t want the war you quit the funding, and that’s our responsibility and it’s not the president’s authority to do what he wants because we have the purse strings, so you have to vote against the spending. So we get along very well on that, and since it’s such a major issue I think I will continue to work with him the best we can. And you know, take some of the liberal welfare spending that Dennis might support more than I. But you know, I’m not hostile toward that. If I can save the money from overseas, put some of it against the deficit, end up with a net reduction in the size of the budget, at the same time stopping a war, I may well be very open to funding some of these programs. Because I’m not out to gut some of these programs that have taught people to be very dependant on the government, like medical care. I mean, that’s not my goal. I’ve never run for office with the goal of slashing [those programs] even though philosophically I don’t think it’s the best way to deliver services and prosperity to poor people.”

full interview here – http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/davis4.html

He also said recently (on Tucker Carlson ? not sure) that cutting those programs is not a priority for him.

I’m dying with anticipation to see the lovely Mrs. Fred Thompson hit the campaign trail! She’s gonna be great against Mrs. Rudy G.

Finally figured out where Marie Jon’ learned her “writing” “style”:

http://www.tokyotales.com/blog/japlish/index.php

Extremists within Islam takes note of what we do. Some of them live amongst us.

Students within sixth grade takes notes in English classes. Some of them has subject-verb agreement.

You know, when I was teaching English to foreign students, I emphasized communication, telling my students not to stress out over their grammar unless it was so bad it was confusing or distracting. Marie gives us a fine example of “bad enough to stress out over”.

And the headline…

Factoring in Fred Thompson, Reaganest appealing

Because I’ve lately been proofreading in languages I don’t actually speak (don’t ask), I’ve gotten a weird “intuition” into meaning (it helps if you look at it sideways), and I think I may actually have a guess at she meant:

“Factoring in Fred Thompson’s ‘Reaganesque’ appeal”

I think Marie may have just used up all her apostrophe’s in the text and did have any left over for the headline.

Is Pastor Swank ghost writing Marie Jon’s columns now?

Fred Thompson will be no Reagan III (Bush Jr. was Reagan II, at least, he used to be back when all the right wingers and most pundits thought he was God + Reaganus Maximus incarnate).

That’s because Reagan I and Reagan II (Bush Jr.) actually had a degree of a movement behind them.

That movement is dead. Gone. Killed. Rotting. Blowing away. Thanks to the complete ruination of the Reaganist illusion by the absolute power held by the Bush Jr. Republicans.

Good-bye, Reagan, and Reaganism!! Weren’t nice knowin’ ya, but glad to know it was one a your boyz what killed ya!!

He also said recently (on Tucker Carlson ? not sure) that cutting those programs is not a priority for him.

Well no, but he’s happy to take shots at those programs when the opportunity presents itself, like, you know, a vote on them. And he votes in an unpleasant way.

But, as the Republican anti-war candidate, maybe he’s the best of a bad lot, despite being into controlling a woman’s uterus and messing with the constitution to allow prayer in schools.

Meanwhile, how do Thompson’s policy positions differ from the rest of the clusterfuck? Why’s he the savior? She gushes about him as if he’s fundamentally better.

Obviously she thinks he’s the Reaganest. Unfortunately he’s going to have to run against someone who’s the Clintonest.

When it comes to poker and Marie Jon, I may be short-stacked, but I would definitely go all in…

Not to flog a dead horse or nurse a grudge, but note the author of this. It might prove amusing to those with long memories.

Heh.

Jesus, but feminists make me dislike feminism.

I’ve lately been proofreading in languages I don’t actually speak

Heavens to Betsy, I’m NOT the only person in the world who’s done this. I feel less alone now.

It is odd how one can get a sense for how a language looks on the page well enough to notice when something is wrong.

But anyway. I first thought that title was Marie waxing poetic when she should stick with her eyebrows. Then the comment on “Reagan est” made me think she might of meant “Reagan ECK“, as in Ronnie, the Sound and Light of God.

(Warning: The link may start your journey into a modern-day Reformation of sorts, the theses here having been nailed to L. Ron Hubbard’s door. And so funny that the Wikipedia page is flagged “This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.” Also, http://www.geocities.com/eckcult/chapters/tmsma2.html.)

Jillian said,

Jesus, but feminists make me dislike feminism

That is not the first time I have read you saying that Jillian. What do you mean?

“Hillary Clinton and Gloria Steinem in launching VPGs (vaginally propelled grenades) at right-to-life gatherings.” wins for most terrifying mental image of the day.

Actually Jody, I kinda like the idea.

Maybe it’s just me.

Hmm. Marie looks…tousled. And…sultry. I think I’ve been hanging around the intratubes too long. This is not good.

I’ve finally figured out the reason behind her awkward writing style.

The original pieces are all done in perfect Chinese, then translated into English by the first-year students enrolled in a 5-year post high school language program. They rotate their assignments between MJ’ and the operating instructions for various consumer electronics. The wingnuttery is just to distract us.

MJ’ is actually several people, none of whom know or speak a word of English, and all photos of her are PhotoShopped scans lifted from People and Us magazine.

True story.

That said, I’m totally into the idea of a lesbian thing. Women loving women, and men enjoying watching.

Love her new photo! Has she gotten even hotter? That’s my only take on her column.

Aw, crap. I can’t get past “in these United States.” Is she taking cues from Reader’s Digest humor columns?

At least if he gets elected he can’t rant about the evils of Hollywood ….

I got two words for ya, buddy-roe: Ronald Reagan. That sonofabitch wouldn’t even have made it in politics if it weren’t for his stint on “Death Valley Days”, for cryin’ out loud, and the only reason Fred Thompson is getting any traction a’tall is because he plays a gruff, no-nonsense guy on television. Image is all that matters to these people, remember. The fact they’re rootin’ for the very thing they claim to despise isn’t really anything new (see Gingrinch, Newt, for more).

And there’s another reason Ron Paul’s a nutty nut nut. Back in the ’90s, Big Ron put out a newsletter, under his name (The Ron Paul Report or some such like), that was chock-full of anti-government screwballery. He’s claimed he’s had nothing to do with it, even though it was published for like 10 years or so under his name. Straight talk, my ass.

He’s also big with the Dixie reconstructionist crowd. That should tell you sometime, notably, that one can sometimes go so far right that one occasionally dips one’s toe into the left side of the pool. Nothing worse than a whackadoodle who won’t own up to it, though.

It’s beyond parody.

WRT Ron Paul, of course he’s crazy — he’s a Republican, after all. But I think that for every wingnut that splits from the main and supports Paul, for whatever noxious reason, some poor Iraqi smiles.

Yes, he’s bad, but all in all he’s better than the others (as if they aren’t supported by racists as well!). Retreat from Empire is a good thing, and how ever many wingnuts come to embrace the position is nothing but a bonus to us.

Just for interests of strategy, if it were up to me no Lefties would criticize Paul. I’m not saying don’t, I’m just saying, I’m not gonna.

I look at it kinda like this. The Iraq War was so awful that I didn’t give a shit who showed up at the anti-war demonstrations, so long as they were anti-war. I think Justin Raimondo has a lot of nutty beliefs, and of course Pat Buchanan is despicable, but I would have had no problems with signing somethign they signed against the war, or joining them on a march.

In a crisis you accept the odious to oppose the even more odious. That was a crisis. So is 2008, though slightly different in that we have a better choice (a Dem). But for those who refuse to make that choice, Paul is the best of a bad lot.

The Iraq War was so awful that I didn’t give a shit who showed up at the anti-war demonstrations, so long as they were anti-war.

Rare, but I have seen actual anti-semites at anti-war demonstrations (they had a sign that said, “Down with ZOG” or some shit like that, and a pic of a star of David-cum-swastika. No, they were not just anti-Israel, “ZOG” is a neo-nazi term.)

I am passionately against the occupation of Iraq and the entire idea of the “War on Terror”. I will need to think about this paleocon thing deeply.

some weird Latin conjugation ritual
Those Latins have all the fun.

Just for interests of strategy, if it were up to me no Lefties would criticize Paul. I’m not saying don’t, I’m just saying, I’m not gonna.

WE CAN’T LET RON PAUL WIN BECAUSE HE WILL STOP US FROM CROWNING A HOMOSEXUAL KING AND FORCING WHITE WOMEN TO HAVE ABORTIONS!

Rare, but I have seen actual anti-semites at anti-war demonstrations (they had a sign that said, “Down with ZOG� or some shit like that, and a pic of a star of David-cum-swastika. No, they were not just anti-Israel, “ZOG� is a neo-nazi term.)

Yeah, and they suck, are awful people. And you had ANSWER and the Free Mumia weirdos and so on, but who cares? Going to the same rally and having a single common cause with these people doesn’t mean that one endorses all their beliefs.

Dishonest assholes like Glenn Reynolds tried to use those types to discredit the whole anti-war movement. Sadly, instead of telling assholes like Reynolds to fuck off and die (the proper response), many good hearted people instead insisted on a purge and focussed their energy on a ‘decent Left’ anti-war movement. Naturally, this meant banning the Chomskys and the Socialists, too. In the hopes that this would sway the Oliver Kamms and Christopher Hitchenses and so on: the Liberal Hawks. The effort was foolish and counterproductive because the Liberal Hawks wanted their precious war no matter what, and distasteful elements among the anti-war protestors was just a stick to use to beat the whole movement. IOW, the Liberal Hawks acted in bad faith, and everyone should have seen it. Alas, some did not.

IOW, the Liberal Hawks acted in bad faith, and everyone should have seen it. Alas, some did not.

Yeah. Some people are chumps down to their marrow. Amazes me sometimes.

Though, you know, ANSWER has done a lot of good things. I don’t really get the whole Anti-ANSWER sentiment.

does she mean reaganesque? oh well, it’s still incorrect

Hey, Jillian, how exactly do you get that Leninists aren’t socialists? What’s not socialist about Leninism?

I got the perfect role for Marie Jon’. She could be–should be–the hot foreigner in “Hostel Part 3” who lures innocent backpackers siren-like to their doom. It’s perfect! “Let’s go to Slovakia! It’s Europeanist appealing.”

I know the stupid can hurt. But isn’t a little pain worth it. She is so EFFEN Hot!

Har! Poor, simple Marie Jon’. She’s gonna be sooooooo disappointed when Freddy [vs. Jason] Thompson drops outta teh race, oh, I dunno, around December [Merry Christmas… idolator!]. Hee hee! It will all be the fault of those meddling kidz Democrats, of course. Curses, foiled again!!1!

Well, Leninism adds some elements that don’t necessarily belong in a socialist framework – like, say, the whole idea of a “revolutionary cadre”. I suppose you could argue that a cadre can fit within socialism – I just think that there’s an equally good argument to be made that it cannot. “What is to be Done” provoked a lot of outrage when Lenin first wrote it, and if it were *that* uncontroversial a topic, I doubt that would’ve happened.

You, guys are so funny.You are an extremely witty writer. Thank you for the post. Let the best person win the race in 2008. May the Almighty God continue to bless America.

Love In Him,
Marie Jon’

PS Take care of those allergies Retardo.WINK!

Hey Marie!

Thanks for stopping by and saying sweet stuff about us!

Stay away from those casinos, my biscotti. WINK!