But when Mommy asks if she'd like to do it again in 2012, Piper says sure. I found myself asking: Why wasn't Piper home attending school, like the Obama daughters did most of the time? Was Todd Palin enjoying the campaign trail too much to stay home with the family?

Todd Palin is a creep, has killer's eyes, but I wouldn't blame him for their kids getting trotted out on the campaign trail. I think that was all part of Sarah Palin's Mommy Shtick -- a kind of "Legally Blonde" move, except replacing a little dog with her kids. Oh! A mom! Who's reactionary! Look at those Alaskan kids! She put her spawn on display as a campaign tactic, was willing to use them that way. Obama, to his credit, didn't do that. Sarah and Todd Palin equally share the blame for what they did with their kids on the campaign. Palin's got a long four years ahead of her, keeping her name out there. I feel bad for her kids.

The General Motors EV1. If GM's head wasn't up its ass, they'd have run hard with their EV1 and would already have over ten years on its competitors in the electric car industry. But, no; they went with SUVs, instead, banking the house on a fast-waning fossil fuel. They gambled, foolishly, and they lost. And, as ever, American taxpayers are socked with the bill for this? Bullshit.

The American automobile industry needs to rebuild itself from the ground up, or else get out of the automobile business, rather than the US bailing out yet another foundering industry, perpetuating the problems that caused their collapse to begin with.

And if/when this latest multibillion-dollar bailout occurs, are we then able to cry bullshit when the government (and the assorted public policy and insurance industry shits) complain about how expensive national healthcare would supposedly be? I'm sick of the government crying poverty and austerity when social spending is invoked (whether shoring up Medicare and Social Security or refusing to even consider single-payer healthcare), and then when another corporation cries that it needs a bailout, the government whips out the checkbook, asks them "How much?"

Who cares what P.J. O'Rourke's thinking about, anyway? I'm more curious about what P.J. Soles thinks about the election.

And they can return to their core beliefs and traditional messages of fiscal responsibility, a strong defense and traditional values.

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. I mean, yeah, those are their classic talking points, but they jettisoned fiscal responsibility the moment they had their majority, and while they are bullish on military spending and standing armies as the only Big Government they support (especially at the expense of the rest of the government), their wars of opportunity decimated the very military they worship, and traditional values? What the hell does that even mean? Pro-white, pro-rich, anti-poor, anti-gay, anti-diversity, anti-immigrant, anti-secular, anti-science? Winning stratagem, that.

Let the GOP whine from the sidelines, but their rhetorical jabs are so much hot air, when contrasted with their actual practice in power. So long as they were a minority party, out of power, they could throw barbs without the accountability of being in power, but now who'll be fooled by their talking points these days, besides the ones who will vote for them regardless of what they do?

After the events of the 20th century--national socialism, international socialism, inter-species socialism from Earth First--anyone who is still on the left is obviously insane and not responsible for his or her actions.

Nice bit of reactionary dickbaggery on PJOR's part, that, equating "national socialism" with actual socialism and Communism. A common right-wing trope. Fascism was certainly violently authoritarian, as was Bolshevism, but for entirely different ends, the former on the right end of the spectrum, and Bolshevism on the left. I know it's hard for reactionaries to cop to it, all these decades later, but "national socialism" was just a slogan the Nazis used to appear something other than they actually were. Comparing Nazism to Communism is like saying that Hitler and Charlie Chaplin were the same because they had the same style of mustache -- they were very different enterprises, those ideologies.

The left eventually repudiated Communism, but the Right basically denies that Fascism was, is, and always will be, a right-wing authoritarian movement.

New wrappers for the snake oil they're peddling? Lower taxes, more money for the already-wealthy, less-accountable/responsive government (aka, "smaller government"), no alternatives to fossil fuels (aka, "sound energy policy"), (Christianist) prayer in schools, still more military spending, no environmental laws, deregulation, privatize Social Security, more secret prisons, more torture, more endless wars of opportunity -- we get it, we get it, guys. We see what you're peddling, and we don't want any. Make the new wrappers as flashy and shiny as you like, I don't think it'll be flying off the shelves. You're better off seceding, truly. You lost.