I’m sorry: but when you’ve pushed Chris Christie, or written to praise Mitt Romney’s conservatism and electability, you pretty much lose any credibility with those of us who still believe in representative government. So it’s probably best not to try to pass yourself off as anything other than an establishment-humping book hawker. Because we aren’t buying it.
Just as we aren’t buying your books any longer.
So does it surprise me to learn that you have nothing but contempt for those who presume to circumvent a dysfunctional and constantly surrendering GOP Party apparatus in order to elect actual representatives of the people? Of course not. It only surprises people like the morons at the Daily Beast who, even after you pushed the most moderate, liberal candidates you could find as the very essence of conservatism, still think the TEA Partiers give a good shit what you have to say — or in any way speak for us.
For the record, Enzi made his Senate no vote a show vote (just as Cornyn did) — precisely because he’s being challenged. But before that, he was pushing his internet tax while the rest of us were a bit more concerned about living under socialized medicine. And that’s because he’s a corporatist.
Your schtick is old. I’ve defended you on plenty of occasions, because you have a perfect right to express your opinions. But beyond that, I’m not terribly interested in them anymore.
So. Please. Crawl back into a hole.
I’ve been mulling on this on and off for the last couple of days, and it seems to that, if anything, the Establishment GOP ought to want Boehner (and McConnell to a lesser extent) gone almost as much as we do.
Let’s look at it from Obama and Reid’s perspective: Boehner it seems can’t deal with his own caucus, so why should they make a deal with him?
If the Establishment was smart, they’d want to replace Boehner with one of their own more acceptable to the Tea Party/Conservative wing.
Somebody like Paul Ryan
Except that we’re already on to him.
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That’s what I love about Ann: always on the attack.
I am one of you! I am sane!
Ann Coulter wrote some fun books. Then she misread the tea leaves and pissed all over them. So sorry the whole ” ???????-> profit” followup part didn’t work out for you Ann.
Funny…….my dad who is an avid fox news watcher has always despised this twit.
Ann is a good New Canaan, CT girl. How else could this end? (I’m from New Canaan, and know whereof I speak.)
After her hysterical defense of Romney last year it wasn’t hard to predict that her next book would flop. Everybody saw this coming but her. It’s a nice dollop of schadenfreude.
That is one of the unfortunate aspects of the House vote. The lockstep Democrat support gave many House Republicans the ability to play pretend man-of-the-people.
rrpjr, is correct, this base bashing by Coulter is aimed more at currying favor with her publisher (Penguin, IIRC) than anything else.
We seem to have lost Jonah as well. Doesn’t have the stomach for Cruz’s boat-rocking.
“Fighting smart” = “Playing it safe” = “Risk aversion”
Not sure how you disagree with that math.
Since the whole justification for her Christie infatuation was “because otherwise we’ll get Romney, and he can’t win”, it always rang very hollow that Romney was the obvious second choice for her. It seemed a lot more of an establishment “Republican über alles” thing.
She absolutely savaged everyone else in the primaries once she went over to Romney. I could see some justification for voting for Romney, but I could see a whole lot more for not doing so. There was certainly no reason to be enthusiastic about him, let alone abuse your biggest fans with a series of appearances and columns trashing their beliefs.
Jonah’s mad at the wrong people and needs to have his attention refocused properly,
i.e., if you really think Cruz et. al. blew this, what does it say about McConnell and the gang that they couldn’t keep them in line?
Kind of like how if the way to win is by losing, the let’s hurry up and lose the House already!
Ann Coulter puzzles me. Ever since her arch-nemesis John Edwards faded away, she’s lost her focus. Perhaps his fall left her unattached, an Adam’s Apple bobbing in his wake, missing his snatching teeth.
“but when you’ve pushed Chris Christie”
Or touched whozits’s whatchamacallit.
Ann Coulter is very old school whereas Chris Christie exploits his soggy uninsured jersey trash constituents for ginormous pork infusions while our failshit little country is in hock up to its shriveled testicles to aggressively capitalist chinesers
Mitt Romney is best just forgotten
When Obamacare crashes and burns (as it’s busy doing even as we speak — when Ezra Klein and Kos Kiddies start to notice, it’s all over) Cruz is going to look like a prophet.
Not that everything always ends well for prophets.
I tuned into Glenn Beck the other morning while she was being interviewed. She was insisting that the only RINO that should face a primary challenge was Graham – conservatives needed to leave the others alone, or the party would be hurt.
I didn’t need to listen any longer – that short bit told me everything I needed to know.
Not true about Romney:
What needs to be remembered about Romney is that Democrat-lite loses to Democrat. Every. damn. time. Just like the crazy Catholic guy said.
Because nobody likes light beer.
Not even the people drinking it because it’s supposedly “better” for them than the alternative.
The party needs to be hurt. How else are you supposed to get the elephant to move off it’s fat ass unlesss you cause it some pain?
They all have one thing in common. They are political. The problem isn’t political, however. The problem is mental; philosophical. Politics are just board moves.
Consider too the single-ended nature of this political (and philosophical) reality. There is never a balance where just enough communitarianism exists, balanced, harmonious, long-lived. It is all faulty and like a cancer, naturally it all grows.
Coulter’s and Goldberg’s politics, like the GOP’s and the Democrats, are still politics.
And in that reality one tribe succeeds by supporting its employer and the other only succeeds by opposing the same employer.
There you have it: Coulter, Goldberg, et al in the Press and opinion are also in the employ of a system that, should either resort to a full, complete, and sane analysis of the underlying ethicals and philosophicals of structure and power, would be first declared alien and then be put on the street.
It may be the final organ failure that kills you but it was the first malignant cell that calculated your demise. There is no eternal, perfect balance point in any inherently corruptible trajectory of existence.
i agree about the light beer
i really like the blue moon agave nectar ale
I cannot wait for the next presidential election, mainly because it means the country is still around for an election to be held, but, mostly for the black comedy aspect of the GOP nominating another “electable” candidate.
I like light beer, but I like dark beer better.
I brewed a light beer once that was everything that Miller should be, but isn’t:
-All barley malt
-Lagered
-Sugar (read: alcohol) content boosted by the addition of some orange blossom honey
It was awesome. It had flavor. It wasn’t wayfuckingoverhopped the way beers have trended lately, so it wasn’t annoying to the palate. It had just a touch of orange aftertaste from the honey, plus a bit of that honey “nose”. And it was refreshing as hell on a hot afternoon.
One day I’ll make a stab at that one again.
Light beers can be good; it’s lite beers that suck. Not to mention a whole lot of beers that don’t add lite to the name.
Mitt Romney is best just forgotten.
I think he’s totally down with that.
lite beer is just watered down beer isn’t it?
Which makes Democrate-lite Establican a watered down Democrat, right?
I dislike beer. It all tastes like soap to me.
But, that means for you guys.
*more* for you guys
“Perhaps his fall left her unattached, an Adam’s A”
Bravo! Well planted, that nightmare seed !
You’re fondness for tequila has been repeatedly noted leigh
and not just in men’s restrooms
“Perhaps his fall left her unattached, an Adam’s Apple bobbing in his wake, missing his snatching teeth.”
The saliva of Deimos himself would not scald my soul the way that image does.
“i really like the blue moon agave nectar ale”
Why not just cut some pulque with water?
OT: Looks like Stevo/Slaphead isn’t the only Oregander (or whatever they are) who’s still “talking it over with the little woman” before buying one of those “awesome” Obamacare policies:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/18/the-other-side-of-obamacares-oregon-success-no-one-has-bought-private-insurance/
Actual number who’ve purchased a policy: zero. Zero.
Talking to his wife is where short-bus went wrong.
We all know it’s Obama who knows what’s best for us.
Yeah – it’s vitally important that Republicans win elections so they can fight against Obamacare:
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/12/despite-tea-party-opposition-kasich-will-bypass-ohio-legislature-to-expand-medicaid/2/
I just finished (more or less) a Niall Ferguson take down of Paul Krugman that I saw Jeff had noted in his twitter feed earlier.
If you want to see what punching down petulantly (deliberately, I would guess) looks like
take a gander.
Ann Coulter : Meow meow Christie because mew meow Romney unelectable. Meow Meow Romney Inevitable . Awesome Meow! Meow Meow Narwhal. Tea party stupid meow. Coughck Hyuck hyyyyuck hyycccuuuuck. Excuse meow hairball meow. Ted Cruz idiot meow.
Paleo: Henrietta Pussycat does it better, with less snark.
That is one epic takesown, Ernst. Thanks for sharing.
“It only surprises people like the morons at the Daily Beast who, even after you pushed the most moderate, liberal candidates you could find as the very essence of conservatism, still think the TEA Partiers give a good shit what you have to say — or in any way speak for us.”
Stand for your principles and don’t win elections consistently or win elections and compromise your principles. That is where we are at. Remember, consider the audience–the electorate is center-right, not right.
??Furthermore, the issue with “true” conservatives is that they write blog posts and don’t run for office.
“But beyond that, I’m not terribly interested in them anymore. So. Please. Crawl back into a hole.”
Until Coulter is needed again. Dude, you’re a crack whore just like the rest of them. You helped to create this mess, now you’re disavowing it.
Stand for your principles and don’t win elections consistently or win elections and compromise your principles.
When was the last time we ran a principled conservative and won?
Except for Paul, Lee, and Cruz, I mean.
Stand for your principles and don’t win elections consistently or win elections and compromise your principles. That is where we are at. Remember, consider the audience–the electorate is center-right, not right.
No, they’re not. If the left can run a bald-faced commie and win, what have we got to lose by standing on principle? Hell, going with RINOs lost us the last two elections.
>Remember, consider the audience–the electorate is center-right, not right. <
sez an ass clown on the intertubes. and "right" is small fed gov't
>. You helped to create this mess, now you’re disavowing it.<
karltherovester opinines
eff bush, rove, rubio
Dude, drops in to school us. Then disappears.
About par for the troll.
“Furthermore, the issue with “true” conservatives is that they write blog posts and don’t run for office.”
Ted Cruz won. Rand Paul won. Carly Fiorina? Nuh uh.
” Stand for your principles and don’t win elections consistently or win elections and compromise your principles ”
What’s happened is that you compromised your principles and didn’t win fuckity shit. You poured big money into the hole and ddin’t win fuckity shit. You pissed on the base and didn’t win fuckity shit. Don’t lecture anyone about winning* when you can’t do it because the base won’t show up for your compromised principles.
*Well, McConnell won a 2 billion dam project for Kentucky.
Hey, who’d Rubio win by appealing to? Crist fans or tea party types? And when did his numbers drop off? When he started farting off about backing smart amnesty that isn’t amnesty because magic.
Inevitableness continues in the GOP huddle. Disgusting. And you tiny fucked up little gremlins call US the hobbits. We know who lives in a goddamned comfortable little political hole around here. We know who spends more time with their head in the political dirt.
Michigan also zero, even in Dearbornistan.
Rubio lol
When was the last time the Democrats compromised their principles (or anything else, for that matter) in order to win anything?
Anyone else ever notice that the only people who ever talk about “‘true’ conservatives” are GOP boosters looking to shame and belittle other conservatives into silence?
Seriously, when was the last time you heard Boehner or McConnell, or their supporters and enablers on the web, make a conservative argument for their positions instead of mocking conservatives who disagree with those positions?
Other than an election year, of course.
Coulter’s an airhead.
TRVE Conservatives are beginning to wake the fuck up and rub the meme from their eyes. Maybe.
I read an article today that posits “Wait a minute!” Maybe Cruz knew there was no way the ACA was going to be defunded and he really wanted to draw attention to the Leviathan.
Took them long enough and there are still way too many who don’t get it.
Link
Monday. Noon. Reddit. Be there.
It was a test:
1. Can I shove the Speaker around and buck the minority leader in the senate. (Answer: Yes.)
2. How much support can I get? (Answer; A non trivial amount.)
3. Who’s with me? (Answer: Now Known)
4. Who’s against me. (Answer: Now known.)
5. How long until the current coalition blinks: ( Answer: a few weeks.)
6. Did the American people notice and respond? (Answer: Hell yes they did.)\
7. Can the President and Senate Majority Leader be goaded into saying unacceptably intemperate things that they regret? (Answer: yes)
Well the opposite of a true conservative is a bullshit or counterfeit one or a poser. The opposite of a pure one is a corrupted or soiled one, or, if you prefer, a weaker watered down one. They chose these terms in mockery but they are uncomfortably apt. It’s rather typical stupid party rhetorical work if you ask me. Tell your opponent how to best attack you in a sad attempt at deflecting the anticipated attacks with scorn.
hmm, the left, in the form of stupidsteve and pragmatic repbulicans, in the form of gcm2, have hit pw in the last few days.
Interesting.
Cruz/Palin 2016.
TRVE = faux in this iteration, palaeo.
We know who we are and don’t need to sneer about it like they do. Nome sane?
“What’s happened is that you compromised your principles and didn’t win fuckity shit. You poured big money into the hole and ddin’t win fuckity shit. You pissed on the base and didn’t win fuckity shit. Don’t lecture anyone about winning* when you can’t do it because the base won’t show up for your compromised principles.”
Learn the lesson–the American public skews center-right, not hard right.
“Hell, going with RINOs lost us the last two elections.”
No, having poor candidates lost “you” the election.
“Cruz/Palin 2016”
Third party candidate, sure.
RINOs are de facto bad candidates for conservatives. If I wanted to vote D-light, I would.
I would like a citation on your assertion that the country leans center-right and not right-right, since you have asserted it twice now. Repetition doesn’t equal fact.
Palin won’t run for office she won’t even serve the ones she won
Cruz is not presidential material even *if* Team R were to adapt the lowered bar standard set by the sorosfuhrer
even food stamp understood you have to hide your actual agenda until the public school-educated food stampers are dumb enough to vote your job-raping ass into the oval office
Cruz has been entirely too transparent. He threatens not just this piggy piggy trough or that one. He threatens almost all of them.
At best he’s an articulate and effective gadfly… but even at that… we already know that porkpuppet Peter King is going to run with the singular purpose of teaming up with our propaganda slut media to throw sand in his face.
A governor though still has a chance as long as it’s not a stammering doofus like Perry, a scrawny awkward lifeydoodle exorcist or a slimy butterball like Jeb Bush.
Pork-lovin Jersey trash need not apply.
Scott Walker, then?
Maybe that hooch from New Mexico?
Not really my problem.
*adopt* the lower standard set by the sorosfuhrer I mean
I don’t believe Cruz wishes to be president. He’s in the senate to right the path from destruction.
Palin is too damaged and isn’t a good candidate, imho. (I know some of y’all feel differently and that’s your right).
Me? I stand with Rand.
I like Mr. Rand in an if-i-had-to-pick-a-whore-senator way
Who else is there? she asked rhetorically. I love him.
Waitin’ on that citation, I am, gcm2.
Shirley you can copy and paste something.
Palin won’t run for office she won’t even serve the ones she won
let’s see what 2014 looks like without – mcconnel, corker, boehner, graham et al 1st?
the establishgop be facing a beating next spring
i’m in
truffle oil stinks up your house I don’t care who you are and if people aren’t familiar with it they think someone farted
“Learn the lesson–the American public skews center-right, not hard right.”
Except when they vote and then the “winning” center right candidates shit the bed.
“No, having poor candidates lost “you” the election.”
Poor center right candidates who followed advice to moderate their message and distance themselves from the base. Karl Rove got what 2 of seven of his picks elected?
Palin is too damaged and isn’t a good candidate, imho.
sounds like a bunch of like minded folks who are committed to a cause. maybe thinking larger than self
people what’ve been caught on video in the audience of a live taping of “dancing with the stars” are not often accused of thinking larger than self
but I guess maybe it happens sometimes
she did take a selfless lil highway to the danger zone for to assure us all that Orrin Hatch was the rizzle dizzle
…
or *did* she?
I suddenly find myself wrassling with doubt and cynicism
of “dancing with the stars” are not often accused of thinking larger than self
hi michelle O!
>she did take a selfless lil highway to the danger zone for to assure us all that Orrin Hatch was the rizzle dizzle<
that whole section of rinodom is going away in 2014
_she did take a selfless lil highway to the danger zone for to assure us all that Orrin Hatch was the rizzle dizzle_
ann coulter
Learn the lesson–the American public skews center-right, not hard right.
Then Romney should have won fairly easily.
The base are more likely to vote when inspired and to stay home when disgusted.
The base contributes more when inspired and withholds when disgusted.
The base spreads the word and builds up momentum when inspired and sits still when disgusted.
When the base turns out, we get Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
When the base stays home, Romney loses.
So the LESSON is that an inspired base is worth a helluva lot more than “non-spooked” moderates.
The Dems always keep their base inspired and NEVER fret about alienating the middle. The Dems keep their base inspired in part by pretending to be moderate in the campaign but then in office they obey the base.
The GOP pretends to be conservative during the campaign and then in office they despise the base.
See the problem?
Cruz has been entirely too transparent. He threatens not just this piggy piggy trough or that one. He threatens almost all of them.
See my last: the conservative base is inspired by Cruz’s adherence to our principles and his willingness to endure the rage and contempt of his peers.
The conservative base is NOT inspired by wink-wink-nudge-nudge on the campaign trail.
that whole section of rinodom is going away in 2014
Orrin was up in 2012 and won. He says he’s retiring at the end of this one.
As evidenced by how boldly he’s showing his true colors. I don’t think Palin would vouch for him now.
“Orrin was up in 2012 and won”
Ditto McVain.
As Levin points out, it’s almost impossible to oust an incumbent, they win 85% of the time.
The 17th needs to be repealed, it’s the only way to wrest some control back from the establishment.
>The 17th needs to be repealed, <
1st thing monday morning on the telephone to state reps & senators. and you? art v conv.?
That’s some half-assed sleight of hand right there. Those “poor candidates” you speak of, McCain and Romney, were the only Republican candidates who were “electable.”
I mean, that’s what the media assured us and everything.
So either you think moderates suck and conservatives suck ass,
or you think “electable” is a euphemism for “acceptable to Mediacrats.”
I’m amazed the same milf-fed tut-tutting congenital losers who tie themselves in knots to disguise their lack of nerve, consistency, or competence still believe that I take them for smart, wise, impressive, successful and in control of anything. I had my doubts in 2006 but I lost faith in 2008. I cheered my lungs out in 2010 for NOTHING and I gave up all hope in 2011. I did vote for Romney in 2012 because I suddenly realized that not only do we lack a foreign policy but the people in charge were too stupid to realize that they had no foreign policy. And that was my last moment with my head in the sand. The GOP is a ridiculous, deluded, useless, back stabbing, disappointment and a total shitshow. It has nothing to teach me or offer me. I have nothing to offer it. I have given up on the brand and the slack-jawed, greedy, quick to flinch louts that hide behind it.
milf-fed was supposed to be milk-fed. I don’t use or like the term milf much.
2006 was the year the GOP split.
Or rather, the long standing divide between the conservatives and the moderates could no longer be papered over.
What we’re fighting over now is who is schooling whom.
2006 was when the crack became visible to the naked eye or at least my naked eye. Now creep has widened the crack and some local or catastrophic structural failure is imminent. And we don’t yet know if the fracture will be brittle or ductile because we don’t know what the party was made of. Or maybe it’s more like the supporting fiber being stripped from the resin and the party was a composite the whole time?
“truffle oil stinks up your house I don’t care who you are”
Most of it doesn’t even have any truffles in it. If it cost less than, say, $50/ounce, it doesn’t.
I don’t know how they get away with selling it under that name — the fake vanilla people have to tell you it’s fake, but the “truffle oil” people don’t. The vanilla guys must have a better lobbying group.
“Most of it doesn’t even have any truffles in it. If it cost less than, say, $50/ounce, it doesn’t.”
Here is a rant on truffle oil.
Sounds made to order for an LA hipsters cooking needs. Artificial and pretentious.
Truffle oil has been around since the 90s. It’s awful and is the ruination of any dish it comes near.
It’s also tremendously expensive and lures in the easily gulled and the pretentious alike.