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Now, I'm not one to make the obvious assertion about the stupidity of wingnuts, but had it not occurred to them that in Electoral Politics, the basic mathematical principal that Less < More? Thus, making the downside obvious.
They're right. This is more of a Diaspora than a civil war.
A civil war would involve the two sides fighting over the future of the party. Instead, the moderates are simply abandoning the party to the extremists.
Golly gee!
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Palin says voters irritated by robocalls
A significant number of the NRO columnists believe that the problem in 2008 is that McCain is not conservative enough and is too gracious toward his socialist, baby-killing opponent.
I do not exaggerate when I say that some of their bloggers believe that the ticket would be doing better if Palin were on the top.
Everyday's a pizza party and dodgeball games abound, but they're fucked when they get to the Standardized Test section of the year.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Remember when the Republican campaign was making fun of Biden for being prone to gaffes?
No, blame your education system and the isolationist culture it is partly responsible for fostering. Even people who today live in former soviet or communist countries are familiar with the concept of socialism being applied in first world capitalist economy nations, such faraway unheard of paradises like Switzerland and Canada. They say there is a strange lager swilling tribe that feasts on "salt and vinegar crisps" who are experimenting with socialized medicine as well.
They're actually more referring to the pundits than the masses. And to a point, they're correct - the majority of pundits are sticking around and praising McCain and Palin as the Last Best Hope for Humanity or whatever. But every time someone bails or speaks ill of McCain/Palin, they get dismissed as irrelevant. And we're not talking Bob the Blogger, we're talking Buckley and Noonan, Brooks and Will. Some fairly big names who've been reliably conservative for just about ever.
Sarah Palin- single handedly strangling McCain's campaign since she was chosen.
"You betcha Joe Sixpack! Check out these hot pics of me by the sea!"
God damn it, direct quoting palin is like reading a comment page. You feel stupid knowing a real person said that.
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Also, this interview with Mark Salter, McCain's chief aide/best friend/ghost writer, is fascinating and a bit bizarre.
That she's got little to no say in a campaign with her name on the ticket. At least, that's what I got out of it.
o_O
She makes Quayle look competent.
There's NO CIVIL WAR. The dissent is lessening as the others are leaving the area. Next up will be a surge in negative advertising that WILL HAS BEEN WORKING.
Honestly, there's just a group of people who cannot cope with being Wrong. Thus never learn from mistakes, and will cling desperately to their views no matter what happens. It's the same crew that needs us to be victorious in Iraq because our people cannot have died for no reason. Completely missing that even if we WIN, there still wasn't a reason to GO.
It sounds almost like she sees the writing on the wall and is trying to distance herself from the shitty way in which her campaign is being run. I'm not sure if I credit her with enough political acumen to come up with that on her own or not, though.
Ok at this stage they are just making bullshit up and not expecting to get called on it.
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It took me a second, but when it hit me, I burst into laughter in a middle of a crowded office. Thanks a lot.
Granted it's PPP and they have a slight Democratic lean, but I'm pretty sure they're based in NC and have a reputation of getting that state correct.
Obama 51, McCain 44.
In North friggin Carolina.
I'm also referring to the pundits. I could see Noonan, Brooks, and Will brand themselves as true Independents rather than moderate Republicans if the GOP swings any more toward the hard right.
In particular, the more the Republican brand becomes synonymous with fiscal irresponsibility (and Palin's mayoral record, at least, seems to put her firmly in this camp), the more I expect the David Brooks of the world to walk away shaking their heads.
Americans are used to shit on TV between shows.
Americans passed a law to keep us from getting called at night by random fucking machines trying to sell us shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luGPbkKqTE4
It certainly wouldn't be a conventional Civil War. But the intellectuals on the right are all bailing, and the remaining members of the Right's punditocracy would do well to realize that's going to have repercussions. Problem is, they don't see it as the thoughtful guys leaving, because every one of them down to Kathryn Jean Fucking Lopez fancies himself a great thinker.
Oh shit, I just got it too. Subtle but brilliant. I'd report it for awesome, but the plebes wouldn't get it.
Actually Democrats have a huge registration advantage in North Carolina. A lot of them are Dixiecrats/Reagan Democrats though and don't actually vote for Democrats at the Presidential level. Remember John Edwards was elected to the Senate from North Carolina 8 years ago.
OH, SNAP!
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Years after i escaped from the desert island i was shipwrecked on, it still brings a tear to my eye when i remember.
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I think you're right. The 2004 exit polls reported a 39-40-21 (Dem/Rep/Ind) split in party affiliation. There will be some change in that this year, but probably not that big a change.
Because he's a conservative? Not sure what this means...
Godwin!
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