Right on!

The GOP strategists evidently have studied the MO of various AxisII personality disorders (or maybe they didn't need to because it was innate)

Nevertheless, speaking as someone who once had a raving BPD in my life, they play it to the tee.

BPD, NPD, SPD all have one thing in common. They are professional victims. They are also seductive and charming (to those from whom they hope to benefit). They also live in a parallel universe. Have any of you ever been kept up all night by a raging BPD because they were trying to make you "get it"? These people are deluded, tireless and relentless. They NEVER give up, and they NEVER EVER take responsibility for ANYTHING.

I belong to a listserve for survivors of BPD relationships, and whenever I hear anyone from the right spewing their usual crap, I get the same ghastly sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach that I used to get when my BPD SO went off on another tear. It is the same reaction I get when I read about the experiences of others with BPD mates. Many of swear that "we must have all married the same person" because their behaviors are all so similar.

What Glen is talking about is also revealed and amplified by much of what has been published on the topic of Axis II personality disorders. Do a little googling and see for yourself.

I Have a Feeling

That she might play her as a robot short-circuiting.

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You mean, like at the end of the first Stepford Wives movie?

[cue bleep-bleep sfx]

"I thought we were friends! -skip- I thought we were friends! -skip- I thought we were friends! -skip- I thought we were friends! -skip- I thought we were friends!"

It's more like Salon's way of damning with faint praise.

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Sarah Palin exceeds expectations -- and still loses

Which is Salon's way of saying "Oh, crap. She won".

-- Poco

...that her pronunciation of 'Nucular' was intentionally encouraged by her handlers?

Some possible reasons:

1- appeals to the GWB-worshipping dead-enders.

2- baiting the "effete elitist corp of impudent snobs" into clobbering her with that- you know where that will go...

3- American voters love "dumb-like-us" candidates.

Good to see ol' Barney so adroitly raising BO's alcohol pressure. With luck, someone will eventually trigger a fatal aneurysm.

Oooh... did I really say that? Shame on me!

Geez, Louise!

Of COURSE they believe in a personal, inteventionist god who hears their prayers and those of the other Kool-Aid drinking adherents to this particularly odious brand of theology.

What the dickens did y'all expect??

...I'd like to add one teensy piece to your most excellent and insightful post:

Marketing 101

The GOP, being the party of business, after all, understand how marketing works, and use it better than anyone. It's in their DNA.

Think about it- Marketers have succeeded in getting the sheep to buy mountains of useless shit they don't need and can't afford by managing to tie their already tenuous sense of self-worth to how many shiny baubles they own. That's how the whole country went broke while eating themselves stupid.

The whole enterprise works below the concious- the messages go straight to the Lizard Brain.

Now, most people with a functioning frontal cortex are, in varying degrees, able to distinguish naked manipulation from a presentation of actual substance and facts. Furthermore, people with a concience, in varying degrees, regard the marketer's profession with a certain amount of disdain and disgust- as an unsavory way to make a living.

Now you can see where that has gotten progressives- who, by definition, regularly excercise their frontal cortex AND concience. When I think of a progressive pol trying to sell their message using the tricks of modern marketing, I throw up in my mouth a little. What to do?

My wish for America is to see the return of the kinds of teachers I had in public school (Long Island, NY 1966 - 1979).

I remember how one in particular (an english teacher who also taught a video production class) attempted to illustrate how advertising works. He gave us an assignment to watch a television commercial- preferably one for a soft drink. Our task was to analyze it and report back everything that was said about the product, itself. The look on his face was priceless as we all came back the next day with empty sheets of paper, wondering if maybe we missed something.

My fondest memories of my greatest teachers are of the ways in which they challenged us to think for ourselves.

Does anyone do that anymore?

Sigh...

Obama = American Apartheid: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!!!

If Obama wins Whites will be living in a reverse apartheid situation...

　-- azintp

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You mean, like this?

(Warning- not to be taken seriously by pinheads like azintp)

http://www.heretical.com/miscella/rcnoa.html

art G. silly-goof-huh.

hee hee hee. he ho ho ho. hoe...

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Thanky, thanky

got no soft fluffy hanky

for wipey up nasal-coffee-joe

soggy keyboard must heave-ho

"Why the Press Disparages Sarah Palin

By now everyone has become aware of the effort that ABC's snooty and supercilious Charles Gibson..."

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Yeah! Goddamn effette impudent snob! What a nattering nabob of negativism!!!

"I DO have a valid vote I intend to use..."

Good. Please use it to vote yourself off of our island. Thank you.

... about the hapless missionary who insults a tribal village.

So what is your plea, Mr. Corsi?

Death?

or

Badunga?

SO, Mr. Corsi, what punishment do you choose?

Death?

or

Badunga?

BACK???!!!

Nice of you to punch in. You can take the rest of the day off.

"I've got a right to my opinion" is probably the most common defense of indefensible views. My rejoinder to that is generally a variation on "Sure, but that doesn't include a right to be taken seriously."

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Nor does it include the right to one's own FACTS.