I couldn’t watch the whole first video.  I actually started to break out in a rash.

Piper is on the road with her mother instead of in school?  For the second year in a row?  I guess in that family, book-learning takes a back seat to learning the ways of the grifter.

I just can’t, it’s just to early. Let me get some food on my stomach and I might give it a try.

Thank you. This is a perfect response to the “re-write the constitution to follow the bible” post I saw on Facebook this morning.

It’s a Klan meeting in drag.

Am I the only one who thinks we’ve entered some new, bizarre phase in our country?

Am I the only one who thinks we’ve entered some new, bizarre phase in our country?

No, definitely not.  The whole over-the-top patriotism/nationalism we witnessed after 9/11 was, at the very least, understandable. This is just a mess o’ unfocused outrage. Tagging it as “populism” is an insult.

Am I the only one who thinks we’ve entered some new, bizarre phase in our country?

Nah, you just don’t have to put your name on any creep-tacular mailing lists to learn the Paranoid Fantasy du jour.

I live in Ohio (shut up) and this is just what people are saying. I work in an area where the women are Conservative Catholic, white, middle-aged and seniors and this is what they are saying. They are the Followers of Beck, of Limbaugh, and of O’Reilly, and they believe whatever of that nonsense they hear. They repeat it, verbatim.

Ohio will probably never vote blue again. Sarah, whether the GOP finally lets her represent them as a candidate or not, is a big symbol for people like the ones in line to sign her books. They don’t know much about her, but by God she’s patriotic and she’s against Obama, so what else do they need to know?

Don’t worry Donnah,

These are the same people who won’t vote by the time the next substantial elections come around.  They have no ideas, no critical thinking abilities.  These are the ‘highly motivated masses normally employed for ground work.  Even if they were highly motivated to do poilical work they don’t have the accumen or resource/support to even persuade people within their bubble to volunteer or bring votes.
They are simply boiler plate phrases and anecdotes that can not stand up to serious debate past their brain.
Every woman interviewed seemed like a clone of Pallin, especially in the ‘pull from my wealth of knowledge to answer an unscripted and straigt-forward question.  These people don’t read, so they don’t really know what they stand for.  And why are Christians so good at playing the martyr?  At least crazy muslims take the term seriously…and not because Dennis Miller tell you that it is every American’s god given right to monopolize Holiday Ads and school plays.

Ugh.  This is White Nationalism.

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I’m from Ohio too.  Yes, there are a lot of these folks out there, but there always have been.  It is one of the reasons that Ohio has always been such a toss-up state.  They are just in a phase of being louder than before, but that doesn’t mean that the state will be “turning red” again anytime soon.

This is a state where they economy has always been a top issue.  Jobs matter. Let’s see where the economy is 10 months from now. If it is on the uptick at all, democrats and incumbents have a good chance.  If not, expect incumbents to get tossed to the road.

I’m also from Ohio. My recollection is that Southwestern OH had largely merged with Dixie, while the Northeastern (Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown) region had begun to shake-off some of the Buckeyes’ corn-fed rural towneyism by the late 1970s. Not sure what happened after industry began to collapse, but I’m sure it hasn’t been pretty.

Incidentally, am I the only one who caught the J4H clones in the first video? I’m beginning to think there may be an entire mutant race of Jennifers that escaped from Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson.

I hope you’re right, G. We just lost our Democratic mayor to an Independent who was backed by the Republicans. People here are not willing to wait to see how the economy goes. They think things are supposed to change around immediately and they are still reeling from the fallout from the disastrous Bush administration. How quickly they forget!

“We need good people like her that aren’t afraid to speak up for reality” she said as she clutched her giant teddy bear to her bosom.  Heaven help us.

Interviewer: “So there won’t be enough white votes on one side to get a candidate through.”

Generic white dumbfuck: “No way.”

Guy didn’t blink or skip a beat. Sarah’s problem will be there aren’t enough decent white folk to overcome Obama’s swarthy hordes in 2012.

Good to know.

When the two biggest names coming out next year are Rob ‘Who?’ Portman and the mortal remains of John Kasich, I doubt there’s any real threat of Ohio going back to red.  Still the darker hue of purple we all know and love.