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Well, that was really progressive of them. They weren’t going to get any of my money anyway. I, and many others, donated to Palin and that old guy she was running with. I’m done until someone worthwhile steps up again.
Are they going to invite David Frum? Perhaps Chris Buckley is available?
Nah, Meg McCain is already gonna like TOTALLY bring the party together. Here mom has this like AWESOME cocktail set that we can use.
Progressive Republicans in 2012!
(We are so fucked.)
Ought we start a betting pool on the day the NRCC gets a clue? Nyah, better not, since it could be decades and some of us may not live long enough to collect the winnings.
Okay we admit it, we are garbage. But we’re power mad garbage, so don’t expect us to change, you know?
Send your contributions to SarahPAC. Operators are standing by to take your calls.
Oh and as much as that dim wit, Hugh Hewitt, may think so this isn’t good for Mitt Romney either.
A good writeup on this at Conservatives 4 Palin.
And this one.
I do not think Sarah Palin is going to save the GOP (or be the 2012 nominee) but she can do a heck of a lot more good than Newt Gingrich. Sorry Newt, I like you, I have nothing against you, but if you think you are the GOP candidate for 2012, think again.
So the Republican party has made it clear it’s either them or Limbaugh, and either them or Palin. How you figure that’s going to work out for them?
Maybe Newt can score a Nancy Pelosi guest appearance. They can both lecture conservatives on the need to get behind programs that take away your freedoms under the guise of concern for the environment!
….loaded exit questions?
Hmmmm, is that question registered, and do you need a permit?
Oh and as much as that dim wit, Hugh Hewitt, may think so this isn’t good for Mitt Romney either.
As a dimwit, I resent that comparison. Hugh was rejected from membership with us. He couldn’t fill out the form, not knowing which end of the pencil to use.
Joe,
I might agree with you on that. The problem here isn’t Palin, though. It’s the GOP. They are terrified of new blood, the press and actual fiscal responsibility. No candidate that is not the same old same old will ever survive inside that party. They are the Democratic party now. We are fools if we don’t treat them that way.
Sorry League, I meant no insult. Perhaps I should have referred to his condition by it’s clinical name…cretinism
Sweet Jeebus on a stack of pancakes. This is just another sign that the GOP is truly moribund. The only things where they excel are losing elections and poorly imitating Democrats.
‘Cause, ya see, McCain just wasn’t moderate enough. If only he had adopted 90% of Obastard’s positions and weren’t old and white, he could have lost by a much narrower margin. That’s the sort of target that appeals to the GOP. And Newt? I mean, how can you keep your hands off such a fresh, sexy and smart icon of pragmatic conservatism? I’ll bet he would only lose to Obastard in 2012 by five points. Now that’s the GOP’s idea of progress.
Just keep them chillbillies out of here.
What’s bizarre is that even the “pragmatic” conservatives such as blowhard Michael Medved (who is a true nanny-stater when it comes to vice and sin taxes) don’t think Newt is much good for the GOP because he is damaged goods. Yet they want to stick with Pelosi’s eco-divan buddy with the silver hair and the clipped diction? Sheesh, the DNC couldn’t handpick a more incompetent crew to man the RNC. Every day is Christmas for the DNC now.
Or perhaps Kwanzaa.
Yeah, but thew RNC gives great twitter. Just like us. Young people love that.
Meanwhile, courtesy Ed Morrissey from ABC, get this:
Oh crap, I forgot to close the blockquote.
I think Newt is damaged goods and unelectable. However, he is now on the Language Hotseat because he dared “over-communiate” by using the word “Dictator.” And he is standing by his words. I applaud him because I agree, and because very few others with a national audience dare say the word. Listen, the left has a totalitarian impulse that has always concerned me. There is nothing they love better than a captive audience. That is why they love the public schools, a college classroom, endless hours bullying in required work-place sensitivity/diversity trainings, etc. There is not one bone in my body, not one, that doubts the comfort this administation would have (beginning with “Go-F***-Yourself Emmanuel) with a totalitarian regime. I know these same people at a grass-roots level. They are happy with having a Dictator because they are right. Scoundrels all.
That missing TARP mulah went right into an offshore account for Gordon and Obama to share after they’ve both left office.
They had better use protection, though. Safe sex guys.
How about a Palin/Gingrich ticket?
And, as he always does, Jeff beat me to it on the “The a fucking Newt Gingrich is a self-serving promoter of all-things-Newt.”
He was asked about the tax day tea parties, his answer: my idea
please insert sshole after a
Not in this climate, alp.
Actually George, it’s a one party country right now because that’s the way we want it. And by we I mean us…the Pragmatic Republicans.
Newt is about Newt. Using the dictator word just gets him more face time on cable TV.
Newt in 2012? Summon the Fail Whale.
So it looks like I have a long wait if I am supposed to save my admiration for all those non-narcissists in our political class to speak up. Newt used a bad word. Was taken to task. He did not back down. He backed up his thesis with a list of evidence. I want more people to do that. At this point as a nation, we can’t afford to expect a character litmus test out of these deeply flawed individuals.
This is easy: Ask the Democrats who they fear running against most, and then nominate the person who is the total polar opposite.
If you’re apportioning practical fault for the current horrors, Newt has to be high — maybe first — on the list.
The Class of ’94 didn’t do the shit they said they would. If they had, many things would be very different.
GOP strategists who want things to be different that way — and want to win a whole fucking bunch of elections — might note that it wasn’t “the middle” who voted all those guys in.
But that’s not their job, is it?
It’s this.
Pitchforks and torches is the only thing this administration will understand.
Newt is the Fail Whale.
I denounce myself.
hugh hewitt got creepy clutch cargo mouth
newt looks like he just got woked up by big softball
wiffle-ball bat
i’m voting 4 sarkozy wife #3
with both hands
Newt Gingrich is one of those climate change pansy retards what cheats on his wife and those Republican jagoffs aren’t getting my monies that way. As if. Backwards is right. Also, ineffectual patronizing clueless [insert thor rhetoric here except more vile and hateful].
And I’m hardly a Sarah Palin fanboy.
I wish we could cap and trade Republican fucktardedness.
I totally agree. The GOP is a lot like Roger Simon and Pajamasmedia, not edgy, not really thinking, just boring. Meanwhile the left is out to destroy any new blood in the GOP knowing that dinosaurs like Newt are basically no threat.
Cut, pasted, preserved and will polish like a gemstone. Thanks, hf!
Isn’t that very fucktardedness already taxed to a fair thee well in national ruin? Jes seems like plopping another one on it would be like redundant or something.
Pete Sessions what heads this feckless NRCC mickey mouse club thinger, his daddy used to run the FBI. Here is something what I did not know about his daddy…
There’s a picture here. Also, the whole fam damnly is Eagle Scouts (read “dorks”). I can see how a dork would prefer Newt the climate change fairy to someone what is new and interesting.
I’m pretty sure they’re getting ready to sell a bunch of fucktardedness offsets. A fundraiser!
If you’re apportioning practical fault for the current horrors, Newt has to be high — maybe first — on the list.
?The Class of ‘94 didn’t do the shit they said they would. If they had, many things would be very different.
I gotta disagree on that. They did quite a bit of what they were promised, they didn’t start going downhill until after the media chased him out.
And they really started sucking when the media chased Tom Delay out and gave us Denny “Hey, you can’t search a Congressman’s office” Hastert and then, that was all she wrote.
Throw in some George W Bush, and you have a perfect storm of leftward movement by the GOP.
Palin/Newt ’12
I’m already printing the bumper stickers
“Snowbilly/Satan in 2012”
Closed primaries would help this to happen.
“Also, the whole fam damnly is Eagle Scouts (read “dorksâ€).”
hf, I know a whole lot of Bronze and Silver Star winners who would consitute a rather large refutation of that… I’m just sayin’.
I know. It’s controversial. Still, it’s a misspent youth what ill-prepares you for pursuits not involving bravery or good character. Like, say, politics.
OT:
“…After P’brain endlessly mocked and humiliated thor’s Dad â€
You’re a fucking liar, you genital wart.
Prove it.
FUCKING PROVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fucking liar.
oh- the lonely tenderfoot..
must get swimming merit badge…
must …get… swimming.. badge..
oh-ha- basket weaving too!
my buddy taught it…
if i had one booktwould be boy scout feild manual
thanks
webelo
I went to the Fieldbook web page and those uniforms still weird me out. I don’t get that website. I get the feeling it might be something some kid did for one of his badge thingies. While wearing a kerchief around his neck just so.
Well, I just disinvited the NRCC from receiving any money or support from my broke dick ass.
I think it’s about time for Palin to join the AIP for real and take it national. American Independence Party. They won’t even have to change the initials.
I’m not sure what page you have there ‘feets. Here is the Boy Scouts page.
I spent 5 good years running my son’s Cub Scout Pack. Lots of work but lots of fun too.
Nope. Many conservatives, aka Classical Liberals are Democrats for whom the Party left them.
oh. The Boy Scouts will be 100 years old next year. That is older than Meghan’s daddy. This [pdf] is their 2006-2010 Strategic Plan. It says…
It doesn’t say anything about new uniforms, but this was written before they did the marketing study. I would really like to see that data. oh. Here it is (pdf) and they didn’t ask about the uniforms. Ok. Here in the accompanying ppt there’s some research on the uniforms from the focus groups they did.
Interestingly they also say that the uniform contributes to an impression that scouting is expensive. And the on slide 17 we learn specifically that…
on slide 25 from the African-American focus group we learn…
okey dokey. I’m bailing on this right about now I think.
And *then* on slide 17 I meant.
the whole fam damnly is Eagle Scouts (read “dorksâ€)
Turtlewater, hap’!
ok I take it back. Scouting is nice and we’ll leave it at that. It’s just kind of too nice nice.
Newt said “dictator”?
Why, that’s just irrational!
Newt jumped the shark with the whole global warming thing. He’s in the same folder as McCain, as far as I’m concerned.
Scouting is… kind of too nice nice.
Suppose they had a “Hippie Kicking” Merit Badge?
#55 is depressing to me. Also makes me feel the years as I attended, as a young Boy Scout, the 50th Anniversary Jamboree in Colorado Springs in the Summer of 1960.
Happy, it is nice. And, in our day and age when kids grow up way too early, it’s a good thing to put them into Geeky organizations.
My boys scouted for a few years, but it didn’t really take. Prolly because the troop didn’t really do enough stuff.
Correct, the Republicans still don’t get it. Guess what? They’re not going to get it. They never get it. REAGAN WAS AN ANOMALY, a one-off who put freedom first. Hell, we elected his Vice President after him, and look what did we get? Kinder, gentler, Murphy Brown, flag burning, read-my-lips tax increases, blah blah blah. His son was no better, other than at least knowing how to fight a war.
The Republicans are never going to get it, and the next question is “now what”?
Sarah Palin was the only reason I voted for John McCain, and I’m a Goldwater democrat. When are the Republicans (or the democrats) realize that we are fed up with the Bozos in DC. Give su a decent alternative.
boy scout story
one of them wiry 5 foot 2 guys
was visiting our troop
yrs ago
and he said.. i can kick all ur asses with both hands tied behind my back…
so we tie hims hands…
throw blanket over his head
and 16/ 20 scouts proceeded to beat the shit out of him…
it’s funny what memories stick after..all these years
we beat him good..
i’m still laughing