Look at McCain. He went out of his way to not personally attack Obama.
stunned by this, tho it was true -- to some extent -- in the immediate shadow of election day (when it was clear that mccain was in trouble and maybe looking for higher-ground upon which to be judged historically).
but still: lol/smh.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
just trolled that post. we'll see how it goes. "trolling" = saying something halfway reasonable...
― slandblox goole, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've posted stupid derogatory things which get approved and intelligent ones that don't, so good luck!
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
<i>stunned by this, tho it was true -- to some extent -- in the immediate shadow of election day</i>
Yes--McCain turned gracious the last week, when it was pretty clear he was going to lose. There was at least a month before that of people shouting out disgusting stuff at rallies without any reaction from McCain or Palin, both of whom would excuse such stuff with a) Bush got just as bad, and b) it was only a tiny percentage of the people there--both true, and so what? The idea that he was this beacon of integrity all the way through is preposterous.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
risible, even
― M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
there was a famous moment of a woman at a Q&A starting to say something about "that arab" and mccain grabbing the mic back and chiding her!
i have no idea what was in the man's heart but he did not ride that particular tiger very well, whether it was conscience or incompetence or some sense of strategy who knows.
― slandblox goole, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_prsrr3FvvGA/TMm5lNy2MII/AAAAAAAAAA0/ccc67PLZlO0/s1600/Snagglepuss.jpg
"Risible even!"
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
How's this for a speculation: if Newt still leads after Super Tuesday, the very fact that he might be able to grab the most powerful job in the world will temporarily sober him enough that he'll curb his mouth until the election, allowing the powerful rightwing media machine to project a new public image for him that is more presidential and acceptable to MOR independents. He'll lay low, play along, keep on message like a good lad, and only blow up in January of 2013.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
are you hard
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
I just can't see Newt being able to do that
― M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this was in the last month of the campaign or so. woman said something about her not being sure if Obama was an American and maybe he was a muslim and McCain took the mic away from her and said "no, that's not true."
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. I mean what are you basing this scenario on - when megalomaniacs get a taste of power they get MORE megalomaniacal, not less
Snagglepuss A+
― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
I love that American and Muslim are mutually exclusive to that oaf.
― M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
um no we all love Snagglepuss
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7lApgjW-Q
― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Re: newt. When the toad feels the arrival of spring, he cannot help but engorge himself with air and croak, eh?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
Three months after Super Tuesday, and a week before the Republican convention, Newt's handlers allow him to conduct a three-minute press conference:
http://nikijay.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/9877148551e445a308517127bb43f0ec-image-276x300.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
various reiterations of mccain's laziness at turning righteous itt are v otm - it frustrates me to occasionally hear him lauded for his good conduct when he let that shit run on for a long time, & corrected the woman in the crowd when it had got ridiculous & was a sensible political move to stand up against.
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
offering to suspend the campaign didn't get the traction he wanted and then the economy went haywire and his base just totally lost their shit and he was as clueless as anyone on what to say to them.
It reminds me of Alfred's statement to his parents about Huckabee
― M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
later that same day, mccain sternly disabused an elderly woman of her notion that barack obama was made of titanium, with a robot brain controlled by the ghost of joseph stalin.
a sensible response!
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
mccain didn't say shit himself cause he had sarah fucking palin ffs
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still w/Sullivan in thinking that not adequately vetting his Veep basically cancelled any seriousness he might have claimed. It was a really dumb move.
― M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
He was never serious, just old.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
sarah fucking palin
"that's my name, don't wear it out"
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C5fsqBNluRQ/TffBsv8pI0I/AAAAAAAAEl4/0mJUILL2df0/s1600/11Sarah-Palin.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
It's okay for Sully to believe it because he's a nominal conservative.
she signs it that way, like ice motherfucking cubexp
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I dont get the 'no personal attacks on obama in 2008'. what was all that bullshit about his pastor we had to hear about for like 6 fucking months?
― mayor jingleberriez, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
The equivalent of swift-boating, grandson to red-baiting.
― M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA&feature=youtu.be
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
what is up with that guy?
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
gay+drunk
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
there's something wrong with this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate christmas
omg
― the deli llama, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
he's at .7% on intrade right now...that's a pretty decent gamble.
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
... who said our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas
I mean, the stores certainly seem to be encouraging the celebration of everything
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
It's the War On Christmas all over again! Will this horror never end?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
but our kids can't openly celebrate christmas
LOL, this reminds me of ppl who misrepresent the 1st Amendment
― M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Sully linked to this:
Rick Perry opposes the swift and meaningful U.S. responses to human rights abuses of LGBT persons abroad. And he would never ever engage International Organizations in the fight against LGBT discrimination. Again, Perry sympathies with the abuser, not the victim.
Ideologically, it’s difficult to conceptualize a greater enemy to gay people. Santorum, perhaps. But never has there ever been in modern times a President who held the level of personal animosity that Rick Perry has for you. Not Eisenhower, not Nixon, not Johnson, not Reagan, and neither Bush. It is inconceivable that Perry could have the personal gay friendships of Reagan, the gay appointments of the Bushes, and certainly not the supportive views of Carter, Clinton, Ford, or Obama. None of the other credible GOP candidates, Romney, Gingrich, or even Bachmann would be worse.
We very seldom use the term “hate” to categorize a politicians views. It seldom is accurate. But I concur with Jim completely: Rick Perry hates you. Deeply.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
re: that video, man what a prick
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Apt metaphor.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
I think open celebration of Christmas is appalling. I would, perhaps, sign on to a don't-ask-don't-tell policy with regards to the celebration of Christmas.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
just how awful do you want to be while you stroll up a hill in a jacket we can all relate to, what an asshole. i feel like the particular field of misrepresenting positions in ads & debates is its own little corridor of human awfulness
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
the day after he's sworn in for his second term, pres. obama will sign two executive order, banning christmas celebrations -- anywhere -- and outlawing christianity -- everywhere. it is written in the stars.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Sad Erick Erickson is sad. (Keep in mind that for all his apparently heartfelt blather this is a guy who seems to use his Christianity as a get-out-of-jail-free/'we're all bad and I confess this every week at church!' card when he calls people goatfuckers on Twitter so if anything he should be sympathetic to Newt, really.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
And by the way DARK HORSE.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
In all honesty and candor and recognizing we all fall short of the glory of God, I do not know that I can support a man who is on his third wife having cheated on his two prior wives. It is very much more the adultery than the marriages. Many of my friends have marriages that do not work out.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ the pining for Jeb Bush btw
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
The chatter about potential new entrants include former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, businessman Donald Trump, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint.
lol strong candidates here.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
but i like the jeb bush idea!
the idea that the nation as a whole is not completely soured on the Bush family is hilarious
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link