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Trojan Elephant?

I realize many sensible, sober, and pragmatic Republicans believe that President Obama is a “conventional liberal of a very familiar kind” — and they wish hyperventilating conspiracy theorists and language-raping Visigoths would just shut the hell up already with all their talk of coups and cabals and Marxist takeovers, because such nonsense rubs off on them, the good ones — but honestly: isn’t there just a little bit of doubt creeping into their collegial-minded cocktail-circuit heads by now?

And if not, why not?

86 Replies to “Trojan Elephant?”

  1. holygoat says:

    Because racism, that’s why.

  2. MarkO says:

    Obama is decidedly more virulent than any liberal with power in the country, ever.

  3. happyfeet says:

    Christie Todd Whitman is a bitter bitter upper-crust one-percenter slut what would like nothing better than to ass-rape this little country from ear to ear I think.

  4. B. Moe says:

    California is the 12th state to award Americans Elect a ballot line in the 2012 presidential race. The group hopes its ticket will appear on the ballot in all 50 states. To earn its place on the California ballot, Americans Elect submitted the signatures of more than 1 million registered voters..

    A party that doesn’t really exist and doesn’t have a candidate.

    Compare this to a Grand Old Party and a herd of dimwits that can’t figure out how to get everybody on the Va Primary ballot.

    We need to co-opt Will Rogers old line, “I don’t belong to any organized party, I am a Republican.”

  5. geoffb says:

    Super Pacs are the new Parties.

    Or how about Paul/Nader for the Libertarian line and Nader/Paul on the Green party one.

  6. Ernst Schreiber says:

    The appropriate reply to Williamson is conventional liberals have been socialist for a long time now.

  7. LBascom says:

    I only got this far in the first link, but come on…

    It is unlikely that those seeking a national act of electoral penance for having elected Barack Obama are going to get what they are after.

    Electoral penance?

    If we have to use religious language(and boy do we!), at least frame it properly. Here, like this:

    “It is unlikely that those seeking politicians that won’t sin against the constitution are going to get what they are after.”

    I’ll read some more, perhaps I’m being cynical.

  8. newrouter says:

    This formulation — whether Obama’s incompetence or his evil accounts for his destructive economic, foreign, legal, and social policy — invites readers to try and position themselves in it. Which is their understanding of the president and how does it drive their voting preferences? “Incompetent or Evil?” While Williamson’s dualism may be useful for some — it does not work for all.

    I’m not able to answer this question in a satisfying way. Forced I would say, “Both and neither.” Because Williamson is not factoring in the implications of the research and arguments his National Review colleague Stanley Kurtz laid out in the best book on Obama, Radical-In-Chief. Option 3 is what I’ve spelled out before: Obama is a Marxist. Or more specifically, as Kurtz demonstrates in exhaustive detail: an Alinskyite, Community Organizing Stealth Socialist. In the book Kurtz reconstructs with recently-discovered documents just when Obama embraced this political ideology: we know which socialist scholars conferences Obama attended in the 1980s, what was advocated there, how Obama put those ideas into practice when he then chose to become a community organizer, and how the techniques of this hidden school of American socialism remained useful for the administration during the Obamacare debates. Further, we understand Obamacare in the context of the Alinskyte community organizing strategy: this is a “non-solution solution” that is really just a stepping stone for a single-payer healthcare program at the federal level (as some are dumb enough to admit on camera):

    link

  9. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Well. That settles it for me then.

    Both Marx and Alinsky were evil.

  10. LBascom says:

    I am not such a Pollyanna (or so deaf) as to believe that the tone of the president’s skin is a complete non-issue among his most bitter critics

    Wow. It’s now pollyannaish to believe the TEA Party has no racist undertones. Nice.

  11. newrouter says:

    my allan this huntsman thing could split the mormon vote

  12. mojo says:

    Huntsman out, backing Mr. Inevitable?

    NYT twitter blab, lotsa salt.

    J. Coddington Van Voorhees III could not be reached for comment.

  13. Ernst Schreiber says:

    If he’s not out and aboard the Romney Juggeraut, and should these reports of Huntsman considering a third party run and a third party actively searching for a candidate considering such a run turn out to be true, then it seems to me, purely for the sole good of defeating Obama( or all else is lost), that the only pragmatic thing to do is to support Huntsman.

  14. newrouter says:

    john h wants to get on the romoney train

  15. LBascom says:

    k, dinners over. Where was I…

    If Paul Ryan, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell wish to send the White House a balanced-budget deal, a President Romney might have an easier time negotiating it than would a lightning-rod President Gingrich or President Santorum, because it will feel more like a piece of prudent fiscal legislation than like a partisan assault on all that Democrats hold sacred and dear.

    Oh dear God. Heaven forbid we appear to be assaulting what Democrats hold sacred.

    I’m starting to wonder if this guy has his tongue firmly in cheek.

  16. LBascom says:

    The smart way to repeal Obamacare is to revisit the legislation and to amend it in ways that remove the worst of its statist overreach and replace it with the best available free-market alternatives.

    Riiiiggghht. The smart move is to leave the structure in place, and tinker with the details. Genius really.

  17. happyfeet says:

    i like it when Huntsman drops out of the race

  18. newrouter says:

    allan forbid if any rethuglican calls a demonrat idea/law/policy effin’ stupid. hey there be cocktail parties peeps.

  19. LBascom says:

    And what do we call the 35 percent of Americans who support a Canadian-style single-payer health-care system? Insurgents?

    I call them folks who should move to Canada. Come on Baldwin, you promised!

  20. newrouter says:

    “And what do we call the 35 percent of Americans who support a Canadian-style single-payer health-care system?”

    stupid, fringe?

  21. newrouter says:

    romney’s got the mormon vote!!11!!

  22. happyfeet says:

    the ever-expanding mormon vote you mean

  23. bh says:

    And what do we call the 35 percent of Americans who support a Canadian-style single-payer health-care system?

    Good rhetorical question. Allow me to ask one. What do we call someone who shrinks from answering that honestly?

  24. newrouter says:

    “What do we call someone who shrinks from answering that honestly?”

    andy “the beagle” sullivan

  25. happyfeet says:

    in the girl with the dragon ball z tattoo you get to see what happens to someone’s face when it gets smashed with a five iron

    ouch

  26. happyfeet says:

    **spoiler alert**

  27. bh says:

    With Steyn and Williamson on the same pages they get the chance to promote National Review as two periodicals in one.

    Who the hell edits NR again?

  28. LBascom says:

    As the original campaign consultant put it, the critical thing in every battle is to know your enemy, to know yourself, and to know the terrain. That means, among other things, refusing to tell yourself fairy tales about how everybody is really on your side and just waiting to discover the fact.

    This dude misses all three critical things in this battle. He thinks the enemy is the same as any other, a very familiar kind of Democrat. He thinks he’s smarter than your average anti-Romney voter, and he thinks the next president will be able to bridge the partisan gap in this country.

    And then has the gall to use words like “fairy-tail” and “Pollyanna”. Sheesh.

  29. newrouter says:

    andy news

    A Massachusetts legal blog called The Docket carries an odd story: a federal judge wanted to hold Sullivan to account for marijuana possession on a national seashore, which after all is only a misdemeanor and $125 fine, and other people are prosecuted for it all the time in his very court. But the U.S. Attorney’s Office insisted on dropping the charges, to keep Sullivan’s record clean so his immigration can go through.

    Are bloggers getting VIP treatment at the federal level now? The magistrate hearing the case, Robert Collings, certainly thought Sullivan was:

    Collings says he expressed his concern that “a dismissal would result in persons in similar situations being treated unequally before the law. … persons charged with the same offense on the Cape Cod National Seashore were routinely given violation notices, and if they did not agree to [pay the fine] were prosecuted by the United States Attorney … there was no apparent reason for treating Mr. Sullivan differently from other persons charged with the same offense.”

    In his day, newspaper columnist and radio host Walter Winchell enjoyed a close, favor-trading relationship with FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover; according to Neal Gabler’s biography of Winchell, this mainly involved the funneling of confidential information. But his special relationship with the Justice Department eventually became public knowledge and helped turn him, in the public eye, from the scrappy underdog into a dangerous media baron. If anything, the blogosphere has bred an even stronger distaste for special treatment than the tabloids did; which is why Sullivan, heretofore tight-lipped about the incident, will probably issue some sort of plausible explanation for the whole affair posthaste.

    link

  30. happyfeet says:

    marijuana-on-the-beach crimes are even gayer than andrew sullivan

  31. bh says:

    Better to avoid retarded stuff like that, ‘feets. Sorta the opposite of art.

  32. happyfeet says:

    avoid which stuff I’m confuzzled

  33. happyfeet says:

    personally I hardly ever smoke the marijuana cause it makes me unsociable and hungry

  34. bh says:

    Re-interpretations of schlocky Scandinavian sub-literature.

  35. newrouter says:

    “marijuana-on-the-beach crimes are even gayer than andrew sullivan”

    you don’t like british sharia?

  36. bh says:

    Nah, pot is fine. It helps you play Madden, enjoy music, and get rid of the leftovers in the fridge.

    Bad Scandi novels, on the other hand, just bring our brows ever lower.

  37. happyfeet says:

    oh… I’m a sucker for anything with wintry scandinavian landscapes I thoroughly enjoyed this I can’t tell you how much even

  38. newrouter says:

    andy “the beagle boy” is one corrupt bastard. hope he finds an italy based boat.

  39. LBascom says:

    If marijuana on the beach is wrong, five million lawyers, cops, prison guards, parole officers, foster parents/social workers, and judges don’t want to be right.

  40. happyfeet says:

    i never read the book the last scandi thing i remember reading was a small collection of Isak Dinesen short stories

  41. bh says:

    I hope we’re not paying those five million people too much.

  42. Pablo says:

    Pot on the beach laws are teh suck, especially if you paid the price and Mr. Power Glutes gets a pass because he sucks Obama cock.

  43. bh says:

    Think I’m drawing a blank on Isak Dinesen.

  44. leigh says:

    Ima watch Smilla’s Sense of Snow tomorrow which is Dutch, so not quite Scandi, but in the neighborhood.

  45. LBascom says:

    Nah, I’m sure all them work for altruistic reasons, not cash. What’s worrisome is when they let the thieves go ‘cuz of the overcrowding.

  46. LBascom says:

    marijuana on the beach laws account for 6% of all parsley sales.

  47. bh says:

    Heh. Probably 4% of all oregano sales.

  48. LBascom says:

    Or is it oregano? Sometimes it’s hard to tell the herbs apart.

    Especially in the dark on a beach.

  49. LBascom says:

    :-D

  50. happyfeet says:

    you mostly know her from writing Out of Africa then

  51. happyfeet says:

    they made a movie starring Meryl the Streep

  52. leigh says:

    Gad, that was a dull movie. Almost as boring as The English Patient.

    I’m with Elaine Benes, “Just DIE already!”

  53. bh says:

    Oh, yeah, okay.

  54. happyfeet says:

    I never saw either yet but if i had to pick between the crispy patient and the notebook which one should I do first?

  55. bh says:

    Here’s a very short story about me and my ma. We walked out of both Out of Africa and The Color Purple in the theater because they were so boring.

    She probably just needed a cigarette though. And I shouldn’t have been watching movies with rape subplots when I was 11 anyways.

    That was a story about me and my ma.

  56. leigh says:

    It’s up to you, happy. Three hours that you’ll never get back? I’d toss a coin.

  57. leigh says:

    bh, your ma sounds like my cousin Margaret. Sorry, dude.

  58. bh says:

    It wasn’t all bad, leigh. For instance, movie theaters had air-conditioning. That was pretty awesome.

  59. happyfeet says:

    The Color Purple was very America all my life I had to fight

    plus bonus girl on girl action involving whoopi goldberg

  60. bh says:

    The Color Purple was very America all my life I had to fight

    Yes, and Oprah had her very own rape subplot and still became a very rich person. Similarly, no one in my family has neck tattoos yet.

    Hope remains.

  61. leigh says:

    I keep hoping tats go the way of polyester leisure suits. Never to return.

  62. happyfeet says:

    tats and facebook both

  63. Jeff G. says:

    I like tattoos. I’m going to get a Gadsden flag on my forearm. Or maybe on my neck, and an anchor on my forearm. Like Popeye.

    Right now all I have is the Celtic dogs I had done when I was in Galway.

  64. B Moe says:

    Before I die I am going to get “Please store in a cold, dark place” tatooed on my ass just to fuck with the undertaker on my way out.

  65. leigh says:

    You’re going to have to stay buff forever. My 80 yo uncle has tats he got in Japan. That hula girl is showing her age.

  66. bh says:

    Don’t get the one on your neck, Jeff.

  67. geoffb says:

    B. Moe lost his picture and his dot.

  68. motionview says:

    You’ve heard of link-bait? How about serr8d-bait?Maybe Tina Brown misses serr8d too?

  69. B Moe says:

    It must have auto logged me in under my old account, weird.

  70. B. Moe says:

    Yep. Word Press continues to fuck with my head.

  71. bh says:

    When you can’t even follow the loose tattoo rules of a parole hearing you should really consider the possibility that you’re making a mistake. Keep them under the sleeve. Keep them under the collar.

    Neck tattoos? This is madness.

  72. geoffb says:

    I’m beginning to suspect that there is one more profession that has been stealthily taken over by those with sympathy for the progressive side of politics. Campaign consultants. It would explain a lot both this year and in 2008.

    Perhaps a law that when they run a losing campaign they get that fact neck tattooed, or lose a finger.

  73. JD says:

    I wish I could get rid of my tat.

  74. happyfeet says:

    oh I forgot also there’s a tattoo in the girl with the dragonball z tattoo

    several, actually

  75. happyfeet says:

    ***spoiler alert***

  76. geoffb says:

    Three headlines at The Corner.

    Huntsman Endorsed by Largest Newspaper in S.C.

    Out of the Hunt

    Huntsman to Endorse Romney

    Should be an interesting editorial meeting going on.

  77. Wm T Sherman says:

    Huntsman 3rd party would primarily be a magnet for disaffected Democrats.

  78. EBL says:

    S.E. Cupp has one of the funniest articles I have seen in a long time: Newt Gingrich, Natural Woman… Ouch!

  79. EBL says:

    Now smart money is on Perry being next, after Huntsman, but Newt may just surprise us by imploding sooner.

  80. Jeff G. says:

    You’re going to have to stay buff forever.

    That’t the motivation, yes.

  81. McGehee says:

    Newt’s implosion is underway, seems to me.

    If only he’d managed to achieve it on time and under-budget.

  82. mojo says:

    I’m strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach.

  83. Slartibartfast says:

    Gad, that was a dull movie. Almost as boring as The English Patient.

    My favorite most boring movie ever was A Passage To India. But to be fair, I might have slept through some exciting bits.

  84. leigh says:

    Any work directed by Kevin Costner would fit right in there, Slart. Talk about a man in need of an editor.

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