Nothing to see here, move along

Yesterday’s “Count Every Sour Grape!” rally in DC: If you squint, it looks like 10,000 people.

[Please note: If you’re unfamiliar with what went down in DC yesterday, you may want to start here.]

I guess one thing I should make clear is that when I make fun of “rabid anti-Obama Hillshills,” I’m not referring to a vast majority of reasonable, well-intentioned Clinton supporters or folks who voted for her in the primaries just because they thought she was the better candidate.  I’ll admit most of my friends are Obama supporters but one of my best pals from college and my younger brother are both backing Hillary and that’s perfectly fine with me. I’m referring to an exceedingly small percentage of Hillary supporters (or as this pro-Hillary Daily Kos diarist refers to them, “supporters") who have been gorging 24/7 on a way-too-steady diet of wingnut-like-and/or-sourced, anti-Obama posts on blogs like HillaryIs44, No Quarter, MyDD and Taylor Marsh and then angrily ricocheting around the relatively minute “Krazy Klinton Korner” of the blogosphere cross-commenting (sometimes using different aliases) at such a feverish pace that they make the mostly-extinct relentless Ron Paul Revolution howler monkeys, who you couldn’t escape anywhere before the Paul blimp pulled a Hindenburgh, look like Quaalude-quaffing church mouses.

If the media did their job, they would have accurately reported that the poorly-attended rally yesterday was a clear indication of how small the “Hillary or Die” screecher subset really is instead of writing articles with wildly inaccurate titles like “Democrats Come Together To Tear Their Party in Half.” A more truthful headline would be have been “A Ridiculously Tiny Group of Delusional, Dumb-As-Dirt Dead-Enders Make Utter Fools of Themselves.” What we witnessed yesterday in DC wasn’t some massive, well-coordinated movement destined to take down the Democratic party, it was a pathetic and unpopulated cry-for-hell from an oddball smattering of attention-starved, politically-unsophisticated, teeth-gnashing lunatics. The rally was a phenomenal failure and their behavior during the meeting was embarrassing and self-defeating. The “children” in the gallery who supported Obama were on their best behavior while the “adults” who were backing Clinton sputtered, booed, yelled uncontrollably and even hissed. Here’s an example of what went down yesterday:

After months of uncertainty, the morass of the Florida Democratic primary has been resolved.

The Rules and Bylaws Committee approved a measure unanimously that would seat every delegate—pledged and superdelegates—from the Sunshine State but grant them only half a vote at the party’s national convention.

Both Alice Huffman and Harold Ickes, backers of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) on the RBC, spoke in favor of the motion before it was voted on.

Huffman insisted that the vote would leave the party more united than it was when the meeting started, an assertion that was greeted by one attendee as “lipstick on a pig”.

That boorish and disrespectful “lipstick on a pig” yelp, delivered while Hillary-backer Alice Hoffman, a kind woman who was obviously and painfully digging deep within herself to graciously call for a compromise on Florida after her motion for a full seating had just been defeated, didn’t come from one of the alleged “millions” of anonymous outraged Clinton voters we’ve been hearing about for weeks, but from a member of the miniature teed-off party of over-amplified, anyone-but-Obama banshees a few of us have been shining a spotlight on for months. This poorly-placed dick-spasm came from a Hillshill who uses the alias “Mawm” and was covering the RBC meeting for the post-Kos-strike, take-ball-go-home refuge The Confluence. Here he is yesterday in all of his, ahem, “glory”:

“I keep trying to put lipstick on it, but it won’t stop jabbering.”

I’m sure if anyone had bothered to poll participants in yesterday’s “Count Every Vote or I’m Really Gonna Act Like an Asshole” rally and the ill-mannered pro-Clinton douchenozzles who gained entrance to the meeting, they would have been able to adhere a Hillshill-associated internet alias to a lot of those in attendance and found that a vast majority of yesterday’s temper-tantrummers were frequent visitors to the diminutive number of faux-Democratic, anti-Obama blogs where the shameful and scorn-worthy behavior they exhibited in public yesterday had previously only been on display in some of the most spittle-flecked and fucktarded comment threads ever to unravel in the history of the blogosphere.

These sore losers’ numbers are few, their influence is vastly overrated, their politcal acumen is virtually nonexistent, their common decency has become uncommon, and their cringe-inducing and destructive self-importance is as inexplicable as it is abhorrent. They’re this year’s “9/11 Republicans” and going forward they should be treated with the same disdain my fellow lefty bloggers used to reserve for the likes of Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon. Some of the rabid anti-Obama online Hillshills are now waving around their way-less-than-considerable leverage and claiming that Barack supporters now have to “kiss their asses” in the interest of party unity.  Let me be the first to say, without a hint of regret and a great deal of unadulterated joy, “No, motherfucker, kiss mine.”

MORE: Ummmm, “GO HARRIET”? Really? Ummmm, it’s like the Holocaust? Really? Seriously, could someone tell me why I would ever want to talk folks who are this delusional and vapid out of campaigning for McCain? Hell, give me their addresses and I’ll personally send them meticulously hand-crafted “McCain ‘08” placards for them to hit the streets with.

MORE: I guess I can just send this guy’s McCain placard c/o the Cartoon Network…

Posted by Kevin K. on 06/01/08 at 01:45 PM • Permalink

Here fucking here.

Hey Kevin,

Thanks for the post… it has done a lot to lift the spirits in our house this morning.  I gotta say one thing that really ticks me off is the “count every vote” and the “women count too” signs… Are you fucking kidding me? The votes were counted in Florida 1.75 mil of them and an embarrassingly low 600,000 for Michigan.  The RBC were there to decide on the proportion of delegates these votes would represent as the States that did not comply with DNC election rules. This whole “count the vote” meme is a CROCK, either people are being disingenuous or they’re fucking stupid.  It may seem like a nit picky little point but it goes to the message they are putting out there.  “Count every vote” is about Al Gore and Florida, not about the apportioning of delegates.  I mean come on how many of them got fired up after watching “Recount” and headed on down there!  And as for “women count too”, I feel like turning in my v-jay jay right now rather then being associated with this idiocy.  Did the DNC stop women from voting? No. Are our votes given less weight? Give me a break, there is no gender issue here! The screams of suffrage and disenfranchisement make my hair curl! Can you imagine a suffragette talking to these people. It would be like “Ahhhh.... I don’t think so, dear...how about a cup of tea?” It is these hysterical overstatements that I find not only infuriating and intellectually lazy (or inept) but utterly disgusting. 

By trying to equate themselves with the great human rights struggles of our time is to either misunderstand what “struggle” means or to minimise it. When I was growing up my mother used to say “stop your crying or I will give you some thing to cry about” (not the most progressive parenting) But I agree… you wanna push aside black people and say “we are the victims now and this is our human rights struggle”, I say “Get me the fire hoses!”

I think I’ve seen more people lookee-loo at a multicar accident on Interstate 15 during rush hour.

You’d think this all was a reprise of Chicago ‘68.  In reality it’s a reprise of no dessert if you don’t eat your supper age 3.

It was really slick of Obama to let Hillary die with dignity. She thinks it was close. Her “supporters” think she got shafted. Even smart people like digby think it was a photo finish. And yet any sensible observer knows it was over a long time ago. Damn Obama is good.

Ally, right on.

Pop, christ, I tried reading that Digby post and got too depressed.  What happened to her?  The old Digby would have been righteously indignant if Democrats in ‘04 were actively recruiting other Dems to vote Bush in for a second term.

Amen! The media went to absurd lengths to pretend these braying jacksasses represented a sizable portion of the party, which is absolutely ridiculous. I too invite them to kiss my ass and take their illiterate, racist placards and screeds to McCain Campaign HQ.