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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 08:52 PM

Crap! I hate it when...

Republicans and/or right wingnuts suggest that everyone who doesn't agree with them should "leave the country and go live in FILLIN THE BLANK".

But that outrage pales in comparison to the my reaction to someone purporting to actually be a Democrat suggests that if a tyrant, lunatic or corporate stooge is elected that they are going to leave the Unites States.... I know the author may not actually mean it but what statements like that say about ones willingness to fight (through the political process) to make America great and to live up to her ideals, and Democrats purported ideals, is disgusting.

If that's the way you feel then FU, go dig a hole in a melting glacier, I'm stay'n and fighting.

This is my country too God Damn it, not Exxon Mobile's or some small minority of religious freaks!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:46 AM

Its called being a sucker

I'd love to have the names of poeple who fell for this and actually voted the way they said they were because I have a lot of bridges to sell.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 05:17 PM
Original article: NRCC cuts off Bachmann

They blinked!

They always have to stand rigid behind their lies and BS, if not the whole right wing house of cards could collapse. It is very rare when the right wing will even indirectly acknowledge one of their own as a lunatic, too stupid to see her own sick and gleeful resemblance to Joe McCarthy.

Maybe Glen Greenwald is correct and right wing radicalism may be on the wane, naaaaaaaa, too good to be true.

Thursday, October 23, 2008 05:02 PM

My Jewish problem...

how can Sarah Silverman be so cute and gross at the same time!

Oops, gota go DVR her next gross-out show.

Friday, October 24, 2008 11:16 AM

John McCain is the one who should be charged!

I really feel sorry for that young lady and hope the cops take it easy on her.

She was just the stooge in this chain of events, and like most stooges she had no idea she was being so completely manipulated. How you say?

An impressionable young lady, who wants what she thinks is best for her country, is told repeatedly, with intensity and in all (fake) honesty by the people she works for and respects at the McCain campaign that Barrack Obama is a strange, foreign, Muslim, America hating socialist terrorist who will destroy our country. She naively believed that bullcrap.

Thinking that no less than the future of our country is at stake she pulls this stupid, dishonest stunt (I'm sure thinking that the folks she respects at the repuglican headquarters will consider her a hero.)

Now she's up the creek without a paddle and I'm sure the scum at the repuglican headquarters will now claim they never even heard of her.

The RNC and McCain are the one responsible for this, not a gullible young lady that bought their BS.

Friday, October 24, 2008 11:32 AM

@squalorholla

You may be right.

But when I read the article I immediacy thought of Lynndi England, the stooge of Abu Ghraib, who took the fall for the Bush administration's "wink and nod" campaign to promote torture.

Only problem when they got caught only the lowest man, or woman in this case, took the fall for all of those scum bags. Was Lynndi guilty... yes, was she most culpable? heck no. Those bastards got off scot free.

Friday, October 24, 2008 11:46 AM

Don't take sympathy for this stooge...

...as any type of call or suggestion that this be dropped.

This was no isolated act where a mentally challenged stooge lied to the police.

It was the end result of a multi million dollar campaign financed and carried out by the RNC and McCain to spread fear an lies. They bear a larger portion of the blame for this and that needs to be reported and those most responsible need to be called out and held responsible.

How long do you think it will be until an even stupider, more dangerous scumbag takes a gun and starts killing people who they think are not McCain supporters?

That is exactly where this right wing fear mongering and lies are headed.

Monday, October 27, 2008 12:41 PM

Elephantboy... you're back!

Whenever you disappear for a wile I fear you've been hunted down by your pissed off wing-nut buddies for helping convince them that choosing someone even dumber than W as McSame's running mate was a brilliant idea.

Glad to see you're staying one step ahead.

... and for God's sake, stop touching yourself.

P.S.(If you play your cards right you might be able to be Palin's chief deputy undersecretary of sanitation for some small Alaskan village. I think the job entails carrying Todd's helmet to snowmobile races.)

Monday, October 27, 2008 01:03 PM

"For about the sixth time on Salon, I am not the young guy who was the early proponent of Sarah Palin. Got it?"

Anything you say....wink wink.

You gotta keep a low profile, we understand.

Monday, October 27, 2008 03:58 PM

These are the same type of freaks that show up at Palin rallies.

real America my ass.

Monday, October 27, 2008 06:08 PM

What is this new attitude about would-be assins.

That if a would-be assassin is stupid, hi/she is therefore no threat and not to be taken seriously.

In 1914 an stupid and incompetent Serb pulled out a pistol and shot Franz Ferdinand starting world war one which ultimately horribly killed and maimed over 40 million people.

I would argue that the stupid, thoughtless assassins are by far the most dangerous.

Thoughtful assassins want power, they know just going on a killing spree is not going to further their ambitions... the idiot has no such perspective and therefore will act on impulse.

Monday, October 27, 2008 06:11 PM

errr, make that "assassins".

doh.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 03:41 PM

A republican who is not entirely corrupt?

... now that's a news story!

It is so interesting that the default assumption by republicans about other republicans is to assume that they will act in a corrupt manner.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:28 AM

Oh please God...

... let Sarah Palin be the repuglican presidential candidate in 2012 Pleeeeeeesssse!

And thank you elephantboy, wherever you are hiding. She is the gift that just keeps giving.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:38 AM

@R. Thompson

I'm sipping coffee reading your post while drinking from my Far Side "CAT FUD" mug!

Must be a good sign ; )

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 01:20 PM

UK is in Lexington Kentucky

Which is in the middle of one the "Centers of Stupidity" in Kentucky.

You have Democratic Louisville which financially supports the Repuglican rest of the state. Funny how the repugs are bitching about "share the wealth". If it weren't for those tax and spend Democrats in Louisville who actually work, build and invent, the repugs out in the state would have to sell their double wides and go back into growing pot and raising hogs...

wait a second, they do that anyway.

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