Well, now. That’s pointed, isn’t it?
Or is it? With the Rove group having been so thoroughly excoriated for its presumptuousness, and the GOP establishment comically looking to promote Jeb Bush or Chris Christie while keeping Rubio close as a VP candidate who can woo Hispanics and carry FL, perhaps the trick here is to join Paul and Rubio, in whatever configuration, and carry both the right and the moderates while freezing out the establishment.
Of course, this assumes Rubio is playing a very complex game. But I can certainly see him at the head of a ticket w/ Paul that would attract and invigorate the base — and leave the establishment in a position where it can’t really do anything other than throw its full-throated support behind that ticket.
That is, if Rubio’s willing to tease Bush or Christie right up until it’s time to kick them aside and emerge as a frontrunner rather than as a useful token.
Please, Tea Party people, make sure you tell him to look into the right camera.
In other news, I’m about done with the Snowpocalypse.
levin – rovester liar about steve king
How about reversing that ticket, Jeff, with Paul at the top and Rubio as the bait for the Hispanic vote (not that I think that vote is all-important, but it can’t hurt)?
battle lines being drawn
Dick Morris Wants To Moderate GOP: ‘I Showed Dems How To Move Center’ — Now It’s Republicans’ Turn
Would it be most helpful if all the ambitious conservative strivers compete with one another to best learn, in the first instance, then explicate in the second instance, what it is the United States must be, was intended to be in the superlative case, and to bring along their auditors and interlocutors as they go?
Like the playground chant: fight! fight! fight!
Compete, motherfuckers. Aim for excellence. Show us.
There’s time, though not an unlimited time, and much for these ambitious men to have learned and much to do, so it doesn’t seem as though presuppositions on personalities have a beneficial place in the effort to rebuild the country from the shambles it has fallen into. Who will step to the plate with the tools, confidence and capability to sway? Well, that’s what remains to be done.
Bring the verve, bring the truth, bring the reason, bring the story: we’ll listen, openly but critically, and only then we’ll judge.
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Let’s just run Ben Carson.
the rubio he can’t beat Hillary
the randpaul he can’t beat Hillary
what can beat hillary mostly is clots
ObaZma’s impending disaster will do for Hillary, I’d reckon.
baracky can beat hildebeast. but b(ig)g(ov’t)m(edia) will be a stink pile by 2016
BGM is already a stink pile, newrouter. By then they will require gas masks.
Organizing For America will beat Hillary and choose who they want to choose. Holder for Prez? Barry 3rd Term? Michelle? Who can tell the future? Who is the resistance? Rove? Bush? Meagan McCain? What difference, at this point, does it make?
By the next Presidential Election, my guess is that unemployment will be over 65%. We’ll be happy for an enclosure movement to sort out our belongings. Peasantry will out.
i hope so but i do not underestimate the stupidity and cowardice of the american people or the willfulness of the propaganda slut media
clots/rubio 2016!
Clots? Evil things. But worse are free-flowing aneurysms. Beg for a clot, you will.
for about two seconds
the “ruling class” is a 2014 election meme. ’68’ers ass asshats.
pichachu/palin 2016 yes yellow peeps
there’s an “are” dangling up there
Well, if we had a betting pool going, I’d say Liz Warren.
Steely Dan – Bad Sneakers
i think it’s hillary I think hillary has a date with destiny I think once elected hillary will pull the energy levers in her favor like the third world arkie trash bitch she is and then jack up extraction taxes, again just like the third world arkie trash bitch she is
so bam that’s the whole 2020 reelection campaign already taken care of
meanwhile rubio can go back to his susan b anthony pals and lecture them about bortions he’ll still be young enuff in 2024 to waste our time then
Obama shall appoint his successor. Won’t be Hillary, won’t be anyone anywhere near centered. If he could make it happen, it’d be Joe “Like My Puppet Strings?” Biden.
Steely Dan – Katy Lied (1975) Full Album
you be very concerned about abortion you got the plumbing?
My favorite Steely Dan tune was their admonishes to Rikki. On Pretzel Logic, I’m thinking.
the dark days are as unending as the sea of debt in which our little boat struggles Mr. serr8d
people’s lives are forever raped and their kids’ lives and their kids’ lives
and as far as arresting any of this goes Team R is useless as tits on a nun
beaware of big gov’t pichachus? they fool you with salsa
they’ll always have their porky porky chris christie jersey trash welfare bills though and the hopes of a Sacred Definition Marriage Amendment to keep them warm
but me and my trusty dog boodles we just wanna fly under the radar til the good lord calls us home
check out the other tunes. fagen/becker were a really good tuneful sort
I’ll probably always say, “Our Republic peaked and started to decline after the summer of 1969.” Apollo 11, apogee.
i still blame the complicity of average regular old fascist workaday propaganda sluts like the Steve Inskeep and the Carol Costello
Seen ’em with Michael MacDonald some 6 or 8 years ago. Last concert we saw at Starwood Ampitheater before it economically imploded in ’07. MacDonald sweats like a pig nowadays.
racist
you can sell them teef for cash I saw a sign
Hillary isn’t Arkie, she’s Chicago and Wellsley. She pit stopped down south because it was convenient.
ok you got me on that one
but if you say wellesley trash everyone thinks you’re some kind of lesbian hater
and that is not me I love em they’re my sisters in christ same as all god’s daughters
oh noes lick away
that’s the lick that’s the lick
the lick of love
“third world arkie trash bitch”
Hillary is from Chicago.
well I got the third world part right at least
Sarah Palin in 2016. Fuck the establishment.
the whole bitter clinger thing is supposed to be wholly ironized by now Mr. LaRoche
let it go
letitgo dot org
Take your own advice.
you go first
That song was written for Rikki Ducornet, who is a novelist and poet that I studied under at one time. Fascinating woman. Believe she was at Barnard with those guys.
speaking of letitgo
where’s mr. geoff?
here’s some spooky separated at birthness
I’m kinda about due for to watch the whole series from the start again… and then read the comics, which I maybe have on a disk somewheres
but I think I’ll wait… maybe do Downton or whatever…
I just haven’t been in the mood for stories
Looks like Karl can project with the best of them.
The pikachu has chirped, the debate has ended. Go in peace and obey the word of the electric rodent.
today is the day I throw out all of my hair conditioner!
Karl can project
That’s what made him useful in the first place, so yes. Thing is — and this is the question raised — is he even qualified to define conservative? While he may make the claim (that yes of course he’s qualified!), we only have to notice he never performs the act, which is to say he never goes so far as to reveal his grounds in anything greater than the most inadequate terms. He’s a slicker though, and has gotten away with this pretending for so many years now that the once fooled are inclined to think themselves all the more justified to back him, since, why look only how long Karl’s been taken for a conservative.
Obviously it’s a silly circular merry-go-round, but then in politics generally speaking, truth is an afterthought.
You use hair conditioner ? Do you fret over, design, and hang window dressings too? #PertPlus
Karl, there are no real Conservatives in the ranks of the GOP elite. You are epitome of the insider GOP elite.
Another way to test your true TEA Party Conservatism? Repeat this line, and mean it:
“Sarah Palin is the best possible candidate to put up against the Democrat’s 2016 nominee, be it Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, or worse.”
no my hair is too short my sister accidentally bought the hair conditioner for me two christmases ago to go with the shampoo I think she thought she was buying shampoo actually … I’d bought all the organix line of shampoo cause of it smells like candy plus it’s kinda decorative to line up on the window ledge above the shower but for now I’m just using stuff I have stocked up in the closet and anyways I’m not a conditioner person
next question
We’re through here I’m thinking. )
some people just have a deeper more textured relationship with consumer packaged goods than others
Just I don’t want to do walkabouts smelling like a Willie Wonka scratch’n’sniff.
heh, “that vain”. That’s a good one, even if only an Amie Parnes inadvertence.
Amie Parnes writes at Vainity Fair ?
he’s stupid cause he’s some kind of retarded Harvard trash lickspittle, this William Galston
food stamp’s inaugural wasn’t a fighting speech it was an inducement for Team R to take an adversarial pose
food stamp needs adversaries way bad so he can blame them when the jobs are discovered lying naked in a ditch with bleeding rectums and severe dehydration
Speaking of fighting speech, that looks to qualify.
here is what I mean Mr. sdferr the hotairs just postered this
What I see, over and over again without fail, is voters never looking to blame themselves. If ever there were a source of shit for policy, that would be it, I think.
the self-appraisals on the part of Team R have been pretty hollow and silly I think
the self-appraisals on the part of the food stampers have been non-existent
be I won’t vote for people what don’t stand for individual liberty any mores never ever
this is a new thing, unless you count me not voting for Romney, which was mostly a matter of challenging logistics/had better things to do
*me* I won’t vote for people I mean
And to think that Steely Dan wrote those lyrics years before PJ Media appeared…..
What I see is the failure of the Right to properly learn how to ‘Community Organize’.
Case in point, in the newest social media, Twitter. An abrupt fellow named Todd Kincannon launches a ‘Twitter Gulag Defense Network’, #TGDN, inviting right-minded people to join and network with each other, ostensibly to protect from Twitter Gulag, a function of Twitter that allows abusive sorts to Block & Report an account for spam. Of course, left-side twitterers started using that as method to silence their opponents: gather a bunch of leftists to block & report one individual, triggering Twitter’s automatic suspension dealio.
Kincannon is the first I’ve seen to ever! try to organize the Right. Immediately, some big names (@BrooksBayne &c.) attack him for whatever reasons.
In response, the Left created #UniteBlue. I read just yesterday that they’ve managed to make 500,000 new connections in just a week. Overwhelming the puny efforts of #TGDN.
We, the right-minded, just can’t get together. There’s too many minor differences of opinion, too many egos that just won’t join and speak with one voice.
We are truly fucked because of it.
people like to take 3rd order issues like the abortion and the gay marriage and the immigrations and make them first order litmus tests
we call these people “the base”
this would be the same “base” what’s useless as tits on a nun when it comes to winning national elections, and so they actually end up getting more more more of what they say they want less of
more abortions and more brown people and more support for them committed relationships what are abominations in the eyes of teh Lord can i get an amen
and they get it good and hard
and they seem to like it like that cause it’s how they still be rollin
I know! why does the dem base so love the baby-killing, corn-holing and foreigners sneaking across the border to suckle off American generosity?
It’s a puzzler.
i think mostly they seem to heart having the presidency and getting to appoint all those judges
Yeah, pretty much…
Seems to me Ben Carson has the ultimate aim of fostering a sort of unity in mind in the address he gave at the prayer breakfast, while still allowing for serious disagreement in the process. Be that as it may, I believe his judgment of the order of priorities is decently on the mark as he presents those priorities, both for the long and the short runs of categories of “problems”. Or perhaps to say instead of problems, questions pertinent to our circumstances in the United States, both on the level of civil society and on the level of politics in the narrower sense.
Whether anyone takes up his suggestions as to this prioritization is to be seen. But then, he’s just one man among many who see this general scheme of priorities, so he will have allies who may be able to come to his and their own aid.
yes and in real life his biggest action item personally is education it seems
Bang for the buck, at least in part, but also precisely consonant with his life experience. Whereas Barry? He wants to run the world after never running anything. Who’s more likely to find success?
yes it’s like the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Anne Hathaway
Would that I had any relevant knowledge of either lady, outside kenning somehow that their both endowed with tits.
oops, they are, I meant.
hint: one of them went to vassar
Its the nature of the beast. If we were interested in groupthink and communal action we would be statists. I don’t even bother with twitter.
What we should be focusing our attention on is reforming government away from the statist beast it has become and returning to the individual protecting nature the founders intended.
It doesn’t matter who you elect if the basic structure isn’t sound. Rand Paul isn’t going to change a fucking thing.
Anymore these days my knee jerk response (and granted, it’s a stupid response in many respects) to learning someone went to an ivyschool or one of the sevenladyparts schools is: so much the worse for that poor soul. Then I’m reminded. In modern times we’ve learned there is no setch thang as soul.
no that is a good point
a very good rule of thumb really
Anne Hathaway went to Vassar and managed to graduate? Or did she just attend?
The fact that she went to a Seven Sisters school and didn’t become a lesbian or a feminist is heartening.
just attend… she was swept away by the fame and also the fortune
and now look at her she’s almost at that point in her career arc where she can have a sammich
She’s naturally slender and then went on that crazy diet before she shot Les Miserables. She’s probably gained some of it back since her face doesn’t look so hollow.
She’s supposed to be getting married, too. So wait till the babies start coming and she’ll have nice round cheeks.