You wrote:

"The GOP will be back."

For your benefit I will iterate the prediction I made in these pages earlier this year:

In approximately 6-7 years, the GOP will cease to exist.

Mark the words, boy, mark the words.

Hey Norbit!

Another inconsequential snipe?

Killed any puppies lately? Hey, how 'bout we crush the hopes and dreams of millions of people by electing a republican. Good idea?

Your withering comeback:

"You're projecting rancey."

No, Norb, a projection is what you do when you pretend to know my mind. What I do is called analysis.

What I do is read all your malicious spew, evaluate your cock-eyed worldview and note the incredibly foul demeanor with which you conduct yourself.

Then I reach a conclusion. And my conclusion is that you're a world-class, A#1 jerk. Aw, let's be generous and call you a jerk-and-a-half, you've earned it.

That's my conclusion, my analysis.

P.S. Also, please note the first two syllables of the word analysis. In referring to you, such an embedded etymological referent is entirely appropriate.

In mere moments the Troll Parade will begin. Grab a good seat everyone!

Norbit Boy, tiberian, ElfantMan, turkoy, Mr. Tax, Teleological, Seen2006, Zoltan Dewberry, shooter007, they'll all be here, emerging one-by-one from their little clown car!

They'll all ne singing the same hymn: Nuh-UH! McCain and Palin are just stating the obvious, what EVERYone knows. Libruls are negative, Os(b)ama's a terrist, who-da-clown-YOU-da-clown, Runt Spreckle!

Myself, I had better things to do today but I went to the doctor yesterday and he lanced my boils. So maybe I'll just sit back and grin.

I know your heart's in the right place but "secessionist" is a big word. Too big a word.

Refer to the playbook, please:

"Todd Palin is a traitor to our country".

That's how it goes.

You keep talking to the wind, son.

After the bankruptcy of your impotent worldview comes to full flower, maybe when I see you downtown on that street corner I'll stop and buy an apple from your apple-box.

As the kids say, good luck with that.

Wait, wait, wait. So you're saying that you're not a jerk? That I'm projecting that you're a jerk.

But Norb, I've read all yer huffins'n'puffins and you quite clearly are a jerk. An ill-informed, venomous cad and bounder, to wax anachronistically.

And don't try and weasel out of killing the puppies, dude, I've seen the pictures.

He wants Alaska to secede from the Union. Traitor.

Doesn't it get lonely where you live? Don't you get tired of your own bitterness?

What kind of spiritual incapacity, or lack of soul if you will, infects you so that you continue with your pointless postings?

Come in from the storm, in here where it's warm. We'd welcome you as a member of the community of people who care about their country and wish to improve it.

For everyone.

You wrote:

"For my own part, I loathe and distrust Obama for the same reasons that I loathe and distrust Al Gore and John Kerry. Which doesn't have much to do with race, obviously.

Loathe is an incredibly strong word, a word of hatred. I loathe no one, I cannot sustain that kind of energy in my life, it would wither me.

How is it you loathe?

What is wrong with you that you keep coming here? What has damaged you so? You can bring as many fat little books of facts with you but the point-of-view from which you dispense your factoids negates your stance every time.

You loathe.

Like I said.

Still spewing, still wrong.

Let me ask, as I've asked before, as I will ask again and again and again...

What can you possibly contribute? Why are you two here?

The answers are NOTHING and NO ONE KNOWS.

As the great Was/Not Was sang: "Woodwork creaks and out come the creeps, oh yeah..."

Honk it's horn too but I'm not getting on.

I was personally staggered by the Reagan Revolution and so missed out on all the latte-swilling. I've had my eyes wide open for the last 40 years and have been doing what I can to fight the power.

You wanna stand in the mirror and intone a pompous "We're ALL to blame" then you go ahead.

Count me out. I'm gonna hang with the folks trying to make a difference.

Rich Lowry is a lot like David Brooks and William Kristol. Media careerists who picked the conservative train due to age and inclination and in Kristol's case, nepotism.

Sometimes well-intentioned but, as events show, seldom right about most anything, they have risen to the tops of their profession and now have no where to go.

Perhaps now they'll go there and spare the rest of us their blather.

Where ARE all my buddies? I still owe tibby a kiss for labeling me a troll a couple of weeks back. All I was doing was trying to harass him back to the Stoneage from whence he came.

I know, I know, how undemocratic of me. How un-free-speech-like.

My bad. I think I'll pull a trick-or-treat on myself for penance.

Yeah, right. not.

Let's not forget about whom we're talking. The Republicans have been such egregious assholes it's been tough to top, but face it, the Democrats en masse are easily as big a circus and corporate shills as the Republicans, they just aren't as authoritarian and shrill.

But they're just as dunderheaded, vain and corrupt. PLENTY of fodder for good humor, you won't be disappointed.

A child of privilege and no exceptional talent who just might do the right thing and get out of the way.

Kudos to djr41den for the coinage "Bible Spice". The hits just keep on coming!