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Saturday, October 4, 2008 01:47 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

I just wish someone would ask Bible Spice these questions:

If marriage is between one man and one woman and McCain is one man who's had countless women, what word describes his relationship with Cindy?

Have you ever attended the "wedding" of someone who was previously married, aka a Biblical adulterer? Did you love those two sinners, but hate their sin? Did you give them a Bible with highlighted passages about how remarriage is adultery? Why or why not?

Do you believe, as the Bible asserts, that a sin contemplated is the same as a sin committed? Follow up: have you ever admired Brad Pitt?

If you ever see the tortured Jesus, are you going to share that you belonged to the Party of Torture?

Do you believe in Golden Rule? If so, since there's oil in Alaska, do you want some country to invade and occupy Alaska?

Saturday, October 4, 2008 02:11 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

In the coming Depression, American children and old people...

...will go hungry because of Bush voters and Palin voters, who believed that being folksy merits office.

Bush and Palin haven't even mastered this:

Subject.

Verb.

Predicate.

Electing Palin is madness and will mutiply the suffering.

Saturday, October 4, 2008 02:14 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

Kerr Mudgeon clucks about the alpha male husband of Bible Spice.

He's likely that husband.

Saturday, October 4, 2008 04:32 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

@ HankT27

It's not just you, HankT27. I too have noticed the swarming of Republican operatives. They...:

1. ...are often first and ONLY time posters.

2. ...never respond.

3. ...are likely members of Palin's church or family.

4. ...probably bleat about morality when they aren't practicing obfuscation.

5. ...vote for the Torture Party in the name of Jesus!

Saturday, October 4, 2008 05:07 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

@ HankT27

Lee in LA is a textbook example of the first (and likely only) time, Republican operative, Palin-lovin' poster. It would be funny if it weren't for the deep disingenuity.

In plainer terms: lyin'.

I keep urging Salon to track their ISPs. I assume that they come from the same locations and that Lee ain't in LA.*

* And Lee ain't likely Lee either.

Saturday, October 4, 2008 06:55 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

With McCain tacking to the far right via Palin, here's an article about a centrist quitting the party:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/magazine/05Davis-t.html?ref=politics

Saturday, October 4, 2008 08:00 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

Hey, Bush voters! *

Freedom's on the march!

And they hate us for our freedoms!

So, enlist! No more posting at Salon while you can march for freedom and protect our freedoms and freely free our freeish, freelish freedoms!

* AKA McCain/Palin voters

Saturday, October 4, 2008 09:06 PM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

@ Anduril

Iraq.

Hurry.

Freedom's on the march.

Sunday, October 5, 2008 07:39 AM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

All Republicans put down your keyboards and report to your nearest Marine Recruiter!

You voted for Bush twice, which means you voted for an oil war twice. Some quotes:

Republican Senator CHARLES HAGEL: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are. They talk about America's national interest. What the hell do you think they're talking about? We're not there for figs." (Speaking at Catholic University, Sept. 24, 2007)

Former Federal Reserve Chairman ALAN GREENSPAN, in his book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World: "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil."

Democratic Senator JOHN TESTER: "We're still fighting a war in Iraq and people who are honest about it will admit we're there over oil." (Associated Press, Sept. 24, 2007)

General JOHN ABIZAID: retired commander of CENTCOM: "Of course it's about oil, we can't really deny that." (Speaking at Stanford University, Oct. 13, 2007)

Your love of oil, war, and jingoism demands that you fight the bad fight. You can vote for McCain and Palin over there, wherever they happen to dispatch you on America's coming third and fourth wars, should you manage to elect the latest duo of imperial warmongerers (in the name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, of course!).

Sing along: "Over there, over there, send yourselves, send yourselves, over there, say the Bush voters are coming, the McCain voters are coming, and you won't come back (ever), since it's (never) over over there!"

Sunday, October 5, 2008 07:48 AM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

Oh, I can just see terkoy in Iraq!

An M-60 in one hand! An M-1 Abrams in the other!

"You hate me for my freedoms! (The freedom to kill, the freedom to torture, and the freedom to financially and morally bankrupt America by voting for Bush/McCain/Cheney/Palin.). Well, freedom is on the march! Die, ragheads, die!" he'd roar.

Afterward, he'd be interview by Stars and Stripes Magazine.

"Heck, that was nuthin'," he'd say, "you should have seen me when I was stateside, fighting with just my keyboard. If you're going to pin a medal on me, you should give me ten for blustering about socialism when I voted for the guys who gave hundreds of billions to Wall Street. Now, I've got to go. I know, I know, mail call is coming, but that's postal socialism. And I can't fight for the Marines anymore, because that's military socialism. I'm going to be an Army of one. Literally."

Sunday, October 5, 2008 11:36 AM
Original article: The dumbing down of the GOP

@ tjwombat

Great post.

Sunday, October 5, 2008 11:42 AM
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@ maureenodonnell

You often post about elite schools. What's your backstory? I assume you were rejected by an Ivy school and thus your superfluous syllabication. You're the Magellan of circumlocution. In every post, you strain to remind people that you're clever, but you're a steaming heap of same old, same old, as in your preceding post where you compared Palin to Churchill. You necons tried that with Bush. And you tried to compare the Intergalactic War on Terror to WWII.

My suggestion to you and your ilk is, as always, enlist. Join Blackwater. Became a mercenary.

You.

Iraq.

Hurry.

Sunday, October 5, 2008 11:56 AM
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@ vaporland

Even the story about Palin, the "outdoorswoman," is a lie. She's likely as much an outdoorsperson as Cheney, who slaughters birds kicked out of cages, one after another after another. My assumption of yet another Republican canard is a photo I saw of her in a fishing boat with an UPSIDE-DOWN fishing reel. She was a beauty queen and like most people, as she ages, she becomes more and more of what she was: she's still a beauty queen, picked for her appearance.

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