Disconnect

I think Obama won the debate. But the most interesting conversation of the evening was the one we didn’t hear – the accusations of terrorist pallin’ and insinuations that Obama is somehow un-American that Palin has been peddling all week and that McCain has amplified in his appearances. This came as a big disappointment in National Review’s The Corner: Said Andy McCarthy:

Memo to McCain Campaign:  Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn’t; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he’s qualified for public office.  You helped portray Obama as a clealy [sic] qualified presidential candidate who would fight terrorists.

Good point. You can’t really have it both ways. You either go all-in with the Rovian sleaze, or you try to win on the issues. Contra the talking heads, I don’t think McCain held his fire because of an innate sense of decency. I think he simply realized he couldn’t pull it off in that format.

For that reason, I don’t expect a change in tone on the campaign trail; McCain and Palin will go back to sliming Obama with Ayers, Wright, etc., first thing this morning. But it creates a disconnect – a sense that McCain doesn’t have the balls to slime Obama to his face.  That may change in the last debate next week, but it could be too late then.

More hate mail for KP

Wingnut columnist Kathleen Parker, who enraged her readers recently by calling Palin the buffoon she is, will get another load of hate mail for her latest effort:

The McCain campaign knows that Obama isn’t a Muslim or a terrorist, but they’re willing to help a certain kind of voter think he is. Just the way certain South Carolinians in 2000 were allowed to think that McCain’s adopted daughter from Bangladesh was his illegitimate black child.

But words can have more serious consequences than lost votes and we’ve already had a glimpse of the Palin effect.

The Post’s Dana Milbank reported that media representatives in Clearwater were greeted with taunts, thunder sticks and profanity. One Palin supporter shouted an epithet at an African-American soundman and said, “Sit down, boy.”

McCain may want to call off his pit bull before this war escalates.

Don’t count on it, Kathleen. This is your new Republican Party. It’s no longer enough to paint your opponents as effete, tax-and-spend liberals. Now they must be accused of being directly in league with terrorists if not secret Muslim terrorists themselves. That’s what happens when your party declares a bankruptcy of ideas. 

Posted by Betty Cracker on 10/08/08 at 07:21 AM • Permalink

Nancy Girapffeneckenhauer was just on MSNBC spinning the Ayers stuff really hard, this time aggressively linking Ayers out one step further to Hugo Chavez.

I loathe these fucking people. November 4th will be one of the sweetest nights of my life if Obama really pulls this off.

Nancy Girapffeneckenhauer

LOL, I can’t stand her either. Nicolle Wallace is another sleaze merchant who drives me bonkers. I’ll be glad to see them banished from my TV soon.

Has Tucker Bounds completely disappeared from sight or what? Maybe he’s exclusively on Fox these days, which I almost never watch. But I haven’t seen him on MSNBC or CNN for ages.

Well, I think Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. Then again, I also think that angels follow me everywhere I go, that God loves me more than you, that if I’m really, really adamant in claiming Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and I repeat that mantra over and over again I’ll go to heaven to lounge around in luxury for all eternity.

Oh, I also believe that drilling for oil in my ear hole is a great idea too.

McPalin ‘08!!

Kevin, I’m shocked you haven’t already posted the video of Robert Gibbs taking Sean Hannity to the woodshed last night:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/robert-gibbs-c onfronts-ha_n_132842.html

He got so schooled he needed his buddy Alan Colmes to bail his ass out.

I’m becoming fairly confident we’re witnessing the agonizing, flailing death of the modern GOP brand.

Here are some cool variations on Obama’s campaign logo. I icked this up at the GOS ...

http://www.barackobama.com/people/

Maybe Kathleen Parker will go full John Cole?

Redemption is always possible.

Kathleen Parker is the same asshole who wrote a column in the lead-up to the Iraq War about how she wanted to drive her SUV over anti-war demonstrators. So if she really wants a more civil nation, she could start by, I don’t know, hooking up a hose to her SUV’s exhaust and offing herself. Because I really don’t give a shit about these late-converting jerkwads who are shocked, SHOCKED that the GOP is a party of idiotic hateful incompetent demagogues—particularly those who have gleefully slimed me and anyone else who isn’t on board with their kneejerk xenophobia as not a “real” American (though my “real” American tax dollars will be used to pay for their folly for years to come).

So, to recap—for those conservative hacks who are finally waking up to the Frankenstein’s monster you and your ilk have created, I have two pieces of advice.

1) Fuck Off!
2) Die!

1) Fuck Off!
2) Die!

Man, Kerry, you are harsh. But I like that about you.

Heh. I’m actually a putty-tat in person—most of the time. But these GOP hacks who think they’re so tough and straight-talking who turn into neurasthenic consumptive Victorian maidens as soon as anyone turns the harsh light of judgment on them just make me homicidal. Particularly when they’ve had no problems wishing death on their “enemies.”