Donny Osmond is lecturing gay people on why they can’t be married.
THIS GUY!!!
Give me a break. Next thing you’ll have Charo explaining why we need to drill ANWR.
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That conservatives are still arguing with themselves about whether gay people should be allowed to adopt kind of tells me that they’ve already lost on the question at hand. Why is there even a movement where this up for debate? Children need loving homes, and the best thing is to send them into one. There [...]
As I noted earlier, I went to Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate. It was quite fun and I’ve got some pictures here. What was kind of interesting for me was the conservative influence on the place. It’s not overt by any stretch and doesn’t take away in any respect from the historical import and effect [...]
The right’s desire to have us all in blinders strikes again.
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Yesterday on CNBC conservative icon, activist and inside man Grover Norquist blamed the economic meltdown on the election of a Democratic congress. He did so with a straight face, apparently totally serious about it and in no way working in the employ of Ashton Kutcher for a wicked PUNK’D. He seems to actually believe it [...]
Sigh. Yet another black Republican writes lamenting the fact that her party has no interest in appealing to black people. Even before the candidacy of Obama, the GOP has made clear for several decades that it doesn’t have any interest in attracting the votes of minorities, especially blacks. I don’t know why black conservatives keep [...]
From their most recent email blast:
In a surprise ambush yesterday, liberal House Democrats unseated longtime chairman Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) from his position on the Energy and Commerce Committee and replaced him with Rep. Harry Waxman (D-Calif.). Waxman’s coup is alarming to many Democrats, who see the move as a rebuff to the seniority system [...]
Nate Silver discusses how the world of talk radio has hurt conservatism. It’s very true. The right has constructed an alternate reality, and been so succesful at creating this alternate reality that they choose it over reality.
I experienced this myself in conversation with one of my regular conservative readers who argued with me that Barack [...]
That’s conservative Daniel Henninger, in The Wall Street Journal. With that sort of intellectual activity is it any wonder that the right has run America and the world into the ground in a mere 8 years?
Democrats are mostly not interested in brining it back, but con talk radio is whipping up a frenzy about it.
That’s a lot! Detail here. (via)
You know, one of the things I like about being a liberal is that if you come into an issue with pre-assumptions and then the evidence contradictions your initial assumptions, well then you throw out your initial thesis or at least modify it (ask a scientist sometime about that). Conservatives, [...]
Nate Silver interviews the guy behind the dubious “How Obama Got Elected” smear campaign with predictable results.
ALSO, you should check out this profile of Ziegler by David Foster Wallace from a few years ago in The Atlantic.
This movie that is being pushed by right wing radio and blogs is exactly the sort of thing that will keep the conservatives and their party as a regional, minority, organization. They’ve cherry picked comments and commissioned a push poll in order to push the idea that it wasn’t a failure of conservatism and the [...]
Newt Gingrich is one of the people whose name is being bandied about as a savior of the GOP, which is pretty funny when you think about it, especially considering this is the petty yahoo whose temper tantrum was instrumental in the federal government being shut down. But that said, when the Gingrich goes around [...]
In the past, when Democrats lost Presidential elections in part from acting like GOP-lite on far too many issues, the conservative DLC would go after them for not being conservative enough. The DLC has of course tried to tout Sen. Obama’s victory as a victory for them, even though Obama is one of the most [...]
* 1950s-80s: Right feels put out by the “liberal consensus” and communicate via direct mail and media connected to the church, this becomes a considerable tool in fighting for Reagan and Bush I.
* 1990s: In opposition, con talk radio comes into its own led by Rush. Drudge joins in and Fox revs up.
* Early 2000s: [...]
Gun shops play off NRA fearmongering of Obama to scare up gun sales. Why do I feel the gun sales would match up well with the counties here who voted more GOP than in the past, mostly in the south. Or, The Rube Belt, as I like to call it.
Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich running for RNC chairman? On one hand, an odious public figure whose petulance led to the shutdown of the government, on the other hand a failed lieutenant governor and failed senatorial candidate (by double digits). SWEET. I wonder if rapist Mike Tyson will endorse Steele again?
UPDATE: Pam Spaulding had similar [...]
Con blogger Don Surber:
“Republicans tried moderation. It failed. Get back to conservatism.”
Now, the Republican candidate for president and his running mate just spent a month dancing around our televisions calling the Democratic nominee a socialist who pals around with terrorists, but this is supposed to be moderation.
Look, I’m not about to engage in the sort [...]
They get their asses kicked from coast to coast, and yet the yahoos at Powerline are not only offering Democrats advice, they’re advising Barack Obama to be like… George W. Bush.
I kid you not.
Here’s hoping he joins Darva Conger, Sanjaya, and William Hung in the circular file of history.
Even in defeat, they think they’ve got the upper hand.
Oh, look, conservatives are still dumb. Folks like Michelle Malkin and Ed Morissey are hopping mad over the presidential transition website at Change.gov. I’m sure they were similarly outraged back in 2001 at BushCheneyTransition.gov that was soliciting donations for Bush/Cheney. Right?
Right.
It seems that the top topic on conservative blogs is about the Fairness Doctrine. Nevermind that the issue hasn’t been brought up by any Democratic leaders - especially President-elect Obama - but its sort of telling that the first thought in conservative minds is “We have to defend Rush, Laura, and Hannity!”
That sort of priority [...]
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Conservatives, quit trying to say that Barack Obama didn’t kick your asses from coast to coast. McCain lost by 6%, twice Bush’s winning margin in 2004. Also, the margin of victory is near 7 million votes. And you lost by 176 electoral votes (and likely 15 more when North Carolina is officially called).
You lost in [...]
Remember, Rush Limbaugh starts at noon, Hannity is at 3, and Oreilly comes on TV at 8pm EST. Tune in!
This just keeps getting juicier.
Fox News correspondent Major Garrett shot back in defense of Barack Obama against the network’s morning show’s effort to suggest that he has ignored Fox News throughout the campaign. In an internal email obtained by the Huffington Post, Garrett — who has been Fox News’ correspondent following the Obama campaign — [...]
Watch the McCain operatives and conservative pundits on TV. The hope they are peddling in these last few hours sounds a lot like the Democrats in the past with happy talk about turning out the vote among young people (cue Terry McAuliffe in 2002). Your Fred Barneses, Bill Kristols, and the like are now pushed [...]
Republican pollster Frank Luntz on Media Matters:
At the least, the organization has succeeded in proving nettlesome to Republicans, as well as the mainstream press at times. “I think they are one of the most destructive organizations associated with American politics today,” said Frank Luntz, a pollster for Rudolph W. Giuliani and Newt Gingrich who this [...]
Cons are now unabashedly yelling “Palin not Hussein” at McCain/Palin rallies. What an odd cultural artifact they’ll be in less than 70 hours.
In the likelihood of an Obama win, this will be the most dominant wing of the Republican party - likely much to the chagrin of the Junior Rove Society at TheNextRight.com.
Seriously, why would anyone take either of those “news” sources seriously?
>> That Zogby Poll
>> John Zogby
>> Drudge, Lowry revived falsehood that Obama didn’t vote to condemn MoveOn Petraeus ad
>> Drudge highlighted Financial Times quote echoing false rumor about Obama’s religion
But the Freepers and the gang at Hot Air are positively giddy. Coming down from [...]
This ludicrous bit is now floating around the con blogosphere and Free Republic:
Here is what he ["Carl from Ohio"] says the GOP internal state by state polling is showing for last night:
NJ M - 48, O - 43, U-7
MI M - 44, O- 42, U - 10
CA O - 44, M - 43, Barr - [...]
In the heat of this election’s back and forth, a lot of nutty stuff comes over the transom. There is credible stuff, and stuff that simply isn’t credible. Any blogger with more than one visitor gets this stuff and its up to he or she to choose whether to go with it. That’s why it’s [...]
Conservative blogger Dan Riehl:
Anyone watch the afro-mercial last night?
Yeah, really.
They use the same playbook, they just update the players.
The braniacs of the right continue to illuminate our world with their nonsense. No wonder it is so easy for the right to wipe their butts with the constitution - they have no idea what it actually says.
If you see increased stupid in the comments here, its because Charles Johnson has sent over his readers - who have referred to Arabs as “sand ticks” - to defend the indefensible. Johnson:
as bad as segregation was (and it was terrible), to compare America during the time of Brown vs. the BOE (when we were [...]
When Sen. McCain led in the polls after the RNC convention, were conservatives as skeptical of the polling as they are now? I’m just asking.
Matt Drudge has finally lost his damn mind.
So, in this public radio interview that is now the right’s lodestone for deciphering who Barack Obama “really” is (just think what this generation’s Clinton Chronicles will be), Sen. Obama discusses this:
“…just to take a, sort of a realist perspective…there’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, that judges essentially have to [...]
Nope, no intellectual honesty there. Fish. Barrel.
Did you ever think that the entire conservative movement would be reduced to pointing to chopped up audio on a Youtube video as their lodestone pointing to the secret communism on the left? Well, that’s where they are today.
The right is now going to be reduced to howling that every time we try to do [...]
Elisabeth Hasselbeck was at a rally for Sarah Palin. That pretty much explains it all.
That odor you smell, ladies and gentlemen, is the whiff of desperation emanating from the Republican party and the conservative movement. Josh Marshall has some more on the backstory.
How bad is it? This story from “The American Thinker” (I know, right?) about “signs” pointing to McCain winning is being taken seriously in the conservative blogosphere. [...]
Conservative blogger Gateway Pundit:
The RNC should keep throwing mud at the wall this week… Some of it is starting to stick.
National Review’s Mark Hemmingway thinks that the skit making fun of John Murtha’s stupid comments will “dominate” the news and “be inescapable” in his district.
It’s a skit on a comedy show. Not reality.
This madman rant from Mark Levin says yes.
Should Sen. Obama be elected president, the right is going to make the conspiracy theories about Bill Clinton seem like quaint bedtime stories.
A federal judge in Philadelphia last night threw out a complaint by a Montgomery County lawyer who claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was not qualified to be president and that his [...]
So the story on the cover of The Weekly Standard this week is all about how the right is standing with McCain/Palin versus “the juggernaut”. That’s right, kids, the right is now setting itself up as the little guy versus us Democrats. This is a story almost four years to the day after the election [...]
Another McCainiac has a brush with the law.
An Ohio man has been charged with making a death threat against the state’s top elections official.
The State Highway Patrol says Dana McArtor was charged Friday with intimidation in a telephoned threat to the office of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.
Good job.
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not [...]
Again.
Watching these conservative comics is akin to watching Fox News fumble their way through a horrible Daily Show with Jon Stewart rip off. An even better football simile would be that watching the above set, as Dennis Quaid in Days of Thunder put it, is like watching ‘a monkey fucking a football.’ I’ve always wanted [...]
If Sen. Obama wins, and Democrats increase their majorities in the House and Senate, will conservatives/Republicans still incessantly try to lecture those of us on the left about what “real” and “patriotic” Americans believe? I honestly thought they would tamp it down a little bit after the “thumpin’” of 2006, but they still lecture us [...]
Unless you believe that suddenly this country has a 44% evangelical population, you can probably drop the AP/GfK poll in the same circular file as Zogby’s polls.
The conspiracy theories about polling are getting wackier by the moment. You’ve got whole swaths of conservatives that now seriously believe that the media is working in concert with [...]
Conservatives are highlighting this recent statement from SNL creator/producer Lorne Michaels:
I think Palin will continue to be underestimated for a while. I watched the way she connected with people, and she’s powerful. Her politics aren’t my politics. But you can see that she’s a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first [...]
Jim Geraghty, of National Review
Of course, if Obama’s non-campaign backers start touting this, then they’re saying that al-Qaeda’s thinking of the American national security, economic, and geopolitical situation is accurate, and that their opinion is something this nation’s voters should consider when going into the voting booth. Really, voters? Take all your advice from al-Qaeda [...]
They also hacked the official website.
Ms. Brunner, a Democrat, said her office had also been assaulted in recent weeks by a barrage of phone calls and e-mail messages containing ‘menacing messages and even threats of harm or death.’ Last week, a suspicious package covered with threatening messages and containing an unidentified powder was mailed to [...]
All the polls are wrong. Why? The pollsters are headquartered in blue states.
If/when Obama wins the alternate reality these guys are going to create is going to be awesome.
ALSO: What diabolical game was being played by the blue-state pollsters in 2004 when they showed Bush in the lead?
For Michael Barone, the polls are always suspect when Democrats are ahead.
Michael Barone, 10/22/08
Can we trust the polls this year? That’s a question many people have been asking as we approach the end of this long, long presidential campaign. As a recovering pollster and continuing poll consumer, my answer is yes — with qualifications
Michael Barone, [...]
The Republican party fully supports the Bull Connor/George Wallace agenda.
McCain supporters heckle early voters
Photographer Joe Eddins and I headed over to the closest one and found a steady line of voters hoping to cast ballots early. Most seemed to be Obama supporters and several had come from the rally. Nearly all the voters were black. [...]
Like Rush, con talker Mike Gallagher can’t conceive of any reason other than race why Colin Powell would endorse Obama.
It’s good for a wider audience to see the sort of bile Limbaugh produces on a daily basis.
Deak with it, losers.
Michelle Malkin draws parallels between seizure of property in Zimbabwe and Sen. Obama’s fiscal policy. Cause, you know, they’re all black and we blacks all share the same thought process.
Hey look, it’s the base on the attack again. She must live in the real America of McCain/Palin where its sane to destroy a sign on someone’s private property.
You know the Powell endorsement is of significance if Rush Limbaugh rushes out an email to attack it on a Sunday. And of course he goes right for the racial attack.
Hey Rush, I hear they’re selling Oxycontin in bulk.
Racist e-mails and hateful phone messages advance the prominence of haters in the Republican party.