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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
But Palin can't answer tough questions, can she?
The only way to deal with "the filter" is to ignore it while suggesting that it - this "thing" which is everyday American reporters - is something dark and menacing to people "like us."
Glenn,
Shouldn't the Senate graph reflect the fact that in 2001 before Jeffords became an independent, the Republicans controlled the Senate, because of Cheney's tie-breaking vote? During this period, the original Bush tax cuts were enacted and some despicable people such as Ted Olson were confirmed.
I mentioned this on another thread, but it's about the winking and other cutesy stuff.
I've seen salesreps turn on the cutesy, flirty factor sometimes to the point of it being ridiculous. One pretty salesrep rolled her eyes at me (behind my boss's back) at him falling for her antics, to let me "in" on the joke. Pretty good trick actually, she managed to bond with both of us.
Sarah's not letting us in on the joke, I can't quite get who she's supposed to be appealing to. She has the evangelicals, they were never in question. Her base would love the other Sarah from 2006 with just as much fervor.
Steve Schmidt maybe isn't the "genius" he's made out to be, he is just following an old successful script that only worked when circumstances were very different.
Dirigo, honey, no saddles in my household, we do gardening not equestrian. Even if we were inclined to play pony games here, no one would want to consent to wear the saddle, and no one's been able to put a bridle on me my entire life. ;-}
So, the burr on my pantsleg, isn't Palin so much as the people like Punctuationally Challenged who insist that the midwest isn't smart enough to see through her staged crap.
Her "Aw shucks, do we really have to let go of Michigan?" whine, as the McCain campaign tucked their tail and slithered away, just buttresses my point. The fact that she had to find out about it by reading the newspaper after it was a done deal, tells you what the McCain campaign really thinks her role is.
Clarion calls indeed. :-)
I believe you are daydreaming here. Where were Mr. and Mrs. Rational-substance-based in the lead-up to Iraq? How do you account for more than a few thousand Republican votes in any given national election?
The confused pundits are right on this one. The American Voter is conflicted over who can best return their entitlement to BigMacs-in-the-SUV-towing-the-new-speedboat, U.S. Strength, and DisneyWorld summers versus a regressive pull toward a fantasized family with a war-hero daddy and fuckable mommy who are Right with the Lord. They are sincerely torn.
Indeed, there is a chain of restaurants based solely on the flirty factor. Its called Hooters.
Wish I'd stayed outdoors. O well. at the wheel?
Yes, a beautiful fall day. Time to dig up the red-leaved bananas, pot them up and bring them in. There's a chill in the fall air, a clarity that makes the colors crisp and vivid.
Like the political landscape, the leaves are turning.....I find the new colors refreshing.
Tickle your granddaughter's chin with a grass-seed stem.
Is it time to carve pumpkins yet? Let's do one of Old Timer and watch while it slowly decays and collapses in on itself as the days of October pass.
What really happens to GOP voters when they watch Palin? This pretty much covers it for those who aren't as self-deluding as our lovely trolls:
http://tinyurl.com/499l77
Grubs in your yard?
What I want to know is whether McCain will have to "let go" of Ohio? That would be big news indeed.
Fair enough about Hooters. But it targets a pretty small demographic. I thought McCain wanted the disaffected Hillary block, and they were a large group, and I can't picture them partying at Hooters. (g)
She sure got Lowry though, him I can picture at Hooters where he believes all the waitresses who are nice to him like him because he's so manly....
But Palin can't answer tough questions, can she?
Exactly. That's why we heard that new meme for an old RW canard.
My question to them: If she can't handle Katie Couric, then how will she handle Putin? I seriously doubt a wink and 'you betcha' will work.
What I want to know is whether McCain will have to "let go" of Ohio? That would be big news indeed.
Well, to paraphrase a well-known sentiment, "Osmosis happens".
So we'll see, we'll see. ;-}
I believe you are daydreaming here. Where were Mr. and Mrs. Rational-substance-based in the lead-up to Iraq?
Have you ever heard of people changing their minds about things? Learning their lessons?
Americans were overwhelmingly in favor of the war. Now they're against it.
Americans were overwhelmingly supportive of Bush. Now they hate him.
Americans were overwhelmingly voting for Republicans. Now they identify as Democrats.
If they're such irrational simpletons impervious to the outside world (in contrast, of course, to you), then how do you explain those changes?
How do you account for more than a few thousand Republican votes in any given national election?
Millions of Americans care about things you probably don't care about -- they care about abortion and cultural issues and gun rights and the like and thus get convinced that Republicans serve their interests better. You can disagree with their views all you want, but the fact that someone has different priorities than you doesn't make them dumb and irrational and you smart and rational.
The confused pundits are right on this one. The American Voter is conflicted over who can best return their entitlement to BigMacs-in-the-SUV-towing-the-new-speedboat, U.S. Strength, and DisneyWorld summers versus a regressive pull toward a fantasized family with a war-hero daddy and fuckable mommy who are Right with the Lord. They are sincerely torn.
The polls don't show them torn. They show the young, previously-unknown, skinny black male from Chicago winning decisively over the white conservative war hero.
I watched the debate on CNN, and was fascinated by the remarkable enthusiasm of the men in the audience for Palin (as measured through the dial do-hickies graphed on the bottom of the screen). Women apparently responded to message, but the men seemed only vaguely aware of that intellectual stuff at first. Those man dials rose hard to almost explosive levels when the little vixen simpered and twitched for her audience. It was kind of embarrassing; I imagined living rooms across America where men might soon have to beat a hasty retreat to “freshen up” while the wives stayed behind, glowering in the light of their television screens.
Then, thank God, Sarah went too far and narrowly saved the institution of marriage from yet another affront. It was innocent enough: she was just trying to show the folks what a reg’lar gal she was. First she winningly referred to the women as Soccer Moms (and the meters showed those men were still mighty pleased). But then, darn it, she mentioned old Joe Sixpack, so beloved of pundits and pollsters. Who’d a known? It appears the mighty American male voter, though maybe he still has a hankerin’ for those sixpacks and trucks, falters in his manhood when he’s publically patronized by a “babe”. The dials suddenly and utterly deflated (check it for yourself if you think I’m making this up), and I’ll be goldarned if those first early moments of passion never fully returned.
That republicans despise the majority of Americans is obvious, and given events of the past 8 years, who can blame them? On the other hand, eventually (after hundreds of thousands of lives, a tanked economy and a gutted city, not to mention an increasinly hostile world) folks are sure to wake up ‘cause they’re better than that. You betcha.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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