NRA member, friend to Big Oil.
And now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks. - tom moody 8-29-2008 4:32 pm
Also a believer in "creation science." - tom moody 8-29-2008 6:39 pm
According the AP, McCain tapped Palin. I can go so far as to believe he mighta wanted to. - mark 8-30-2008 5:07 am
At lunch, I had to educate a co-worker who I thought was smart enough to know better what a freaking war monger McCain is. I bought up the creationist thing, and I think the whole creationist bit will be a big turn-off for so-called libertatians.
- mark 8-30-2008 5:11 am
Oh, and she's got her own trooper gate. Based on that she's got the mix of hubris and mean-spiritedness that makes Jr. so charming. - mark 8-30-2008 5:14 am
Does anyone have a link to something proving the creationist thing? I believe it but I need the facts to convince someone else. - jim 8-30-2008 5:33 pm
I got it from Kos who got it here. Sounds like she backpedaled from saying teach both (science and crap) to saying crap should be allowed to be discussed in the classroom as an "alternative view." No it doesn't--that's ridiculous. - tom moody 8-30-2008 7:57 pm
It's like saying "I think astrology should be allowed to be discussed in astronomy classes as alternative view." - tom moody 8-30-2008 8:00 pm
The Flying Spaghetti Monster told me that astrology stuff is totally bogus.
For me, any politician advocating superstition instead of science is completely outside the pale, no matter how VILF-o-riffic some people thinks she is. My argument against it to the rubes: by teaching fairy tales instead of science to America's children, we will be overrun by 2 billion Indian and Chinese who will give their children a proper education. If that's how the American empire has to come to an end, I'm okay with that, but most of the rubes of this country aren't.
I was making that same comparison last night, to Jr., she reminds me of him in some ways. Her cool confident delivery of ridiculous subject matter and the confidence with which she refutes certain fundamental facts. - jimlouis 8-31-2008 8:22 pm
does anyone think mccain will have to drop her at this juncture? is it too late for that? i cant find any published rumblings but the repub elders have to be in a fit. - bill 9-02-2008 2:10 pm
If ever someone needed to resign in order to "spend more time with her family" (and her defense attorney), now would be that time for Gov. Palin, but I, for one, would really miss what she brings to the campaign... - elisabeth 9-02-2008 3:12 pm
I'd just love to see the Biden-Palin debate. She may not last that long. I hope this amalgam of Miers & Quayle is just the ticket to sink McCain, one way or another. And I really look forward to her having her own card in the "Roaring Aughties" edition of Trivial Pursuit. - mark 9-02-2008 4:11 pm
LOL, I'd miss her special gifts to the Republican ticket as well.
I think TPM Josh probably has it right that even if some want her gone there would be massive pressure against doing it. He doesn't put it this way, but it's the same sort of I can't admit I did anything wrong that always plagues the right (think Bush and Iraq.) McCain is a gambler so I think he'd rather just "let it ride" than to go with a second choice. Just not his style.
On the other hand, if Blumenthal is right she was just the result of the Rove (who wanted Romney) vs. McCain (who wanted Lieberman) battle. So if she did drop out would it make McCain more likely to say "screw you guys" and pick LIeberman, or would it be a strike against McCain's judgement and force him to accept The Architects pick after all?
In any case, I think McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, which is just fine with me. - jim 9-02-2008 4:13 pm
- dave 9-03-2008 5:10 pm
hard to say they made the wrong decision based on that performance. if george bush is the measure of competency for the republicans she would seem likely to raise the bar at this point. that mccain looked like her smelly old doddering father did not reflect well on him. - dave 9-04-2008 4:24 am
Well, for five long years, McCain didn't have any MILF ass to stare at. - mark 9-04-2008 6:49 am
this is going to be ugly. mitts speech was off the hook wingnut. - bill 9-04-2008 1:58 pm
Yeah this is scary. If she doesn't implode (& nothing so far is close to a deal-breaker for mainstream USA) she really is a good choice market positioning-wise. And I think Obama's inexperience (more than hers) will be a significant issue for many voters. If McCain wins she'll be set up as a presidential candidate and the perfect tool of the far right (though she’ll have plenty of time to screw up before then.) - alex 9-04-2008 3:56 pm
in retrospect its too bad he didnt go with lieberman. hed be the first vp candidate in history to drag down both parties. - dave 9-04-2008 4:04 pm
Draft Lieberdude! - mark 9-04-2008 4:39 pm
""The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Governor Palin and John McCain want to define 'change' as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that's their choice, but we don't think the American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change."" - bill 9-04-2008 7:29 pm
Mom asked if the speech was good. I said, "She knows how to read." - mark 9-04-2008 8:01 pm
my mom referred to her as "trailer trash." good old moms. - bill 9-04-2008 8:06 pm
i thought you liked trailer trash? only in sepia photos and sitcoms? - dave 9-04-2008 8:18 pm
that was my moms. to me a stranger is just a friend i havent met yet.
Just saw the McCain speech. Turns out he was a POW. Learn sumpin new every day. - mark 9-05-2008 4:12 am
..and palin "works with her nose." (?!)
- bill 9-05-2008 2:06 pm
"Turns out he was a POW."
LOL.
The opening part where the Law and Order guy was reading (I guess) from McCain's book was down right spooky. "I spent five years in a box!" Doesn't that make you think you don't want someone who must have gone insane being president?
And it's not like that was the end of it. It was all military all the time. He even encouraged people to sign up for the military! That played well to the home crowd, but subconsciously I think it scares people. ("He doesn't mean, like, me, does he?") Still, given the weakness of content I think he delivered it pretty well compared to what I would have guessed. I mean, he didn't obviously screw up anywhere.
But the screen in back of him was not well thought out. McCain's head was in front of a blue or green screen the entire time. Let a million video mash ups blooms! - jim 9-05-2008 2:38 pm
- dave 8-29-2008 4:12 pm
NRA member, friend to Big Oil.
And now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks.
- tom moody 8-29-2008 4:32 pm
Also a believer in "creation science."
- tom moody 8-29-2008 6:39 pm
According the AP, McCain tapped Palin. I can go so far as to believe he mighta wanted to.
- mark 8-30-2008 5:07 am
At lunch, I had to educate a co-worker who I thought was smart enough to know better what a freaking war monger McCain is. I bought up the creationist thing, and I think the whole creationist bit will be a big turn-off for so-called libertatians.
- mark 8-30-2008 5:11 am
Oh, and she's got her own trooper gate. Based on that she's got the mix of hubris and mean-spiritedness that makes Jr. so charming.
- mark 8-30-2008 5:14 am
Does anyone have a link to something proving the creationist thing? I believe it but I need the facts to convince someone else.
- jim 8-30-2008 5:33 pm
I got it from Kos who got it here. Sounds like she backpedaled from saying teach both (science and crap) to saying crap should be allowed to be discussed in the classroom as an "alternative view." No it doesn't--that's ridiculous.
- tom moody 8-30-2008 7:57 pm
It's like saying "I think astrology should be allowed to be discussed in astronomy classes as alternative view."
- tom moody 8-30-2008 8:00 pm
The Flying Spaghetti Monster told me that astrology stuff is totally bogus.
For me, any politician advocating superstition instead of science is completely outside the pale, no matter how VILF-o-riffic some people thinks she is. My argument against it to the rubes: by teaching fairy tales instead of science to America's children, we will be overrun by 2 billion Indian and Chinese who will give their children a proper education. If that's how the American empire has to come to an end, I'm okay with that, but most of the rubes of this country aren't.
- mark 8-31-2008 2:11 am
more from kos (?!)
- bill 8-31-2008 4:40 pm
- dave 8-31-2008 8:08 pm
- dave 8-31-2008 8:12 pm
I was making that same comparison last night, to Jr., she reminds me of him in some ways. Her cool confident delivery of ridiculous subject matter and the confidence with which she refutes certain fundamental facts.
- jimlouis 8-31-2008 8:22 pm
colberts report
- bill 8-31-2008 9:07 pm
does anyone think mccain will have to drop her at this juncture? is it too late for that? i cant find any published rumblings but the repub elders have to be in a fit.
- bill 9-02-2008 2:10 pm
If ever someone needed to resign in order to "spend more time with her family" (and her defense attorney), now would be that time for Gov. Palin, but I, for one, would really miss what she brings to the campaign...
- elisabeth 9-02-2008 3:12 pm
I'd just love to see the Biden-Palin debate. She may not last that long. I hope this amalgam of Miers & Quayle is just the ticket to sink McCain, one way or another. And I really look forward to her having her own card in the "Roaring Aughties" edition of Trivial Pursuit.
- mark 9-02-2008 4:11 pm
LOL, I'd miss her special gifts to the Republican ticket as well.
I think TPM Josh probably has it right that even if some want her gone there would be massive pressure against doing it. He doesn't put it this way, but it's the same sort of I can't admit I did anything wrong that always plagues the right (think Bush and Iraq.) McCain is a gambler so I think he'd rather just "let it ride" than to go with a second choice. Just not his style.
On the other hand, if Blumenthal is right she was just the result of the Rove (who wanted Romney) vs. McCain (who wanted Lieberman) battle. So if she did drop out would it make McCain more likely to say "screw you guys" and pick LIeberman, or would it be a strike against McCain's judgement and force him to accept The Architects pick after all?
In any case, I think McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, which is just fine with me.
- jim 9-02-2008 4:13 pm
- dave 9-03-2008 5:10 pm
hard to say they made the wrong decision based on that performance. if george bush is the measure of competency for the republicans she would seem likely to raise the bar at this point. that mccain looked like her smelly old doddering father did not reflect well on him.
- dave 9-04-2008 4:24 am
Well, for five long years, McCain didn't have any MILF ass to stare at.
- mark 9-04-2008 6:49 am
this is going to be ugly. mitts speech was off the hook wingnut.
- bill 9-04-2008 1:58 pm
Yeah this is scary. If she doesn't implode (& nothing so far is close to a deal-breaker for mainstream USA) she really is a good choice market positioning-wise. And I think Obama's inexperience (more than hers) will be a significant issue for many voters. If McCain wins she'll be set up as a presidential candidate and the perfect tool of the far right (though she’ll have plenty of time to screw up before then.)
- alex 9-04-2008 3:56 pm
in retrospect its too bad he didnt go with lieberman. hed be the first vp candidate in history to drag down both parties.
- dave 9-04-2008 4:04 pm
Draft Lieberdude!
- mark 9-04-2008 4:39 pm
""The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Governor Palin and John McCain want to define 'change' as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that's their choice, but we don't think the American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change.""
- bill 9-04-2008 7:29 pm
Mom asked if the speech was good. I said, "She knows how to read."
- mark 9-04-2008 8:01 pm
my mom referred to her as "trailer trash." good old moms.
- bill 9-04-2008 8:06 pm
i thought you liked trailer trash? only in sepia photos and sitcoms?
- dave 9-04-2008 8:18 pm
that was my moms. to me a stranger is just a friend i havent met yet.
- bill 9-04-2008 9:09 pm
SP vlog #1
SP vlog #2
- bill 9-05-2008 1:48 am
- dave 9-05-2008 2:18 am
Just saw the McCain speech. Turns out he was a POW. Learn sumpin new every day.
- mark 9-05-2008 4:12 am
..and palin "works with her nose." (?!)
- bill 9-05-2008 2:06 pm
"Turns out he was a POW."
LOL.
The opening part where the Law and Order guy was reading (I guess) from McCain's book was down right spooky. "I spent five years in a box!" Doesn't that make you think you don't want someone who must have gone insane being president?
And it's not like that was the end of it. It was all military all the time. He even encouraged people to sign up for the military! That played well to the home crowd, but subconsciously I think it scares people. ("He doesn't mean, like, me, does he?") Still, given the weakness of content I think he delivered it pretty well compared to what I would have guessed. I mean, he didn't obviously screw up anywhere.
But the screen in back of him was not well thought out. McCain's head was in front of a blue or green screen the entire time. Let a million video mash ups blooms!
- jim 9-05-2008 2:38 pm