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Conservatives Hit Panic Button After Debate Disaster

11:52 am EST September 23rd, 2011 | Conservative | 62 Comments

THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s official reaction to last night’s Republican presidential debate: Yikes.

Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative policy types and GOP political operatives later last evening and this morning, we know we’re not alone. Most won’t express publicly just how horrified—or at least how demoralized—they are. After all, they still want to beat Obama—as do we. And they want to get along with the possible nominee and the other candidates and their supporters. They don’t want to rock the boat too much. But maybe the GOP presidential boat needs rocking.

The e-mails flooding into our inbox during the evening were less guarded. Early on, we received this missive from a bright young conservative: “I’m watching my first GOP debate…and WE SOUND LIKE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!” As the evening went on, the craziness receded, and the demoralized comments we received stressed the mediocrity of the field rather than its wackiness. As one more experienced, and therefore more jaded, observer wrote: “I just thought maybe it’s always this bad…they’re only marginally worse than McCain and Bush.”

Now there are some legitimate excuses. With nine candidates on the stage, and answers restricted to one minute, it’s hard to really show your stuff. And two of the candidates—Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney—did provide respectable performances. But no front-runner in a presidential field has ever, we imagine, had as weak a showing as Rick Perry. It was close to a disqualifying two hours for him. And Mitt Romney remains, when all is said and done, a technocratic management consultant whose one term as governor produced Romneycare. He could rise to the occasion as president. Or not.

Kristol doesn’t even note the crowd booing a gay soldier. These debates are an excellent source of opposition research, that’s for sure.

Attack Watch: Latest Made Up Thing For Conservatives To Whine About

2:50 pm EST September 14th, 2011 | Conservative | 61 Comments

Conservatives seem pathologically incapable of attacking President Obama on real issues, even when they have legitimate gripes about him or his policies. Today’s example is the GOP bitchfest over the AttackWatch website.

The site is designed for Obama supporters to send in various pieces of misinformation, lies, etc. and then have them debunked. Obama ran a similar site in the 2008 campaign called Fight The Smears.

Simple, right?

Nooooo. Conservatives are now pretending as if this is an example of Big Brother. They now claim that a web form is on par with egregious violations of civil liberties. I mean, how dare Obama solicit links via e-mail????

Obama has been president for over 2.5 years now, and conservatives/Republicans have yet to attack him with anything that is actually real. Instead we’ve got one made-up thing after another, from “apology tour” to “death panel” to a supposed lack of exceptionalism from a President who regularly extols the exceptional values of America.

It’s all very childish and nonsensical of the right, but it is just what they do.

Judge Can’t Figure Out Why Deadbeat Dad Rep. Joe Walsh Won’t Appear In Court

2:28 pm EST September 14th, 2011 | Conservative | 6 Comments

Family values.

A judge in Chicago issued a preliminary ruling Wednesday against U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh in the Tea Party favorite’s child-support dispute with his ex-wife, ordering him to explain why he appears to be $100,000 behind on child-support payments, the Sun-Times is reporting.

Cook County Circuit Judge Raul Vega also wanted to know why Walsh wasn’t in court for the hearing — the McHenry Republican’s ex-wife, Laura Walsh was — and said he expects him to show up at the next hearing, in November.

Walsh’s new attorney, Janet Boyle, asked Vega “for what purpose” he wanted the congressman in court.

Vega gave her a puzzled look.

To which Boyle responded: “Mr. Walsh is a U.S. congressman.”

“Well, he’s no different than anyone else,” the judge said.

Dick Cheney Lies In New Book

11:14 am EST August 30th, 2011 | Conservative, Republicans | 57 Comments

The whole point of a Dick Cheney book is to lie about what happened so that the future misremembers its history and looks on the worst vice president in US history in a kinder light.

Topic: Dick Cheney

Living Up To Parody, Conservatives Begin Earthquake Blame Game With Obama

4:33 pm EST August 23rd, 2011 | Conservative | 65 Comments

Like clockwork.

Following the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the D.C. region this afternoon, conservative media figures have responded the only way they know how: by twisting it into an attack on Obama’s vacation in Martha’s Vineyard.

Stanley Kurtz Has A Fail: Rick Perry Edition

1:52 pm EST August 22nd, 2011 | Conservative | 4 Comments

National Review writer Stanley Kurtz is a promoter of fake stories about President Obama. Today he provides us with some humor, writing:

I’ve been reading Rick Perry’s book, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington. You should read it too. A thoughtful argument for reviving federalism and taming our out-of-control welfare state, Fed Up! also helps makes sense of Perry the man and the phenomenon. The book provides enough context to defuse what are sure to be a long line of bogus attacks on Perry, while also setting up a legitimate argument about the size and purpose of government. Fed Up! is going to help build Perry a mass following. It’s certain to ignite a series of bitter anti-Perry attacks as well. More than your typical campaign book, Fed Up! is going to play a role in the 2012 presidential election.

Unfortunately for Kurtz, Rick Perry seems to have a different POV about Rick Perry’s book. From a couple days ago:

But since jumping into the 2012 GOP nomination race on Saturday, Mr. Perry has tempered his Social Security views. His communications director, Ray Sullivan, said Thursday that he had “never heard” the governor suggest the program was unconstitutional. Not only that, Mr. Sullivan said, but “Fed Up!” is not meant to reflect the governor’s current views on how to fix the program.

The issue bubbled up Thursday, when a gaggle of protestors confronted Mr. Perry outside a café in Portsmouth, N.H., accusing him of trying to destroy Social Security and Medicare. Mr. Perry didn’t respond when one of the protesters inside the café accused him of believing the Social Security system was unconstitutional.

In an interview, Mr. Sullivan acknowledged that many passages in Mr. Perry’s “Fed Up!” could dog his presidential campaign. The book, Mr. Sullivan said, “is a look back, not a path forward.” It was written “as a review and critique of 50 years of federal excesses, not in any way as a 2012 campaign blueprint or manifesto,” Mr. Sullivan said.

Spider-Man Writer Michael Bendis On Pissing Off Glenn Beck

12:18 pm EST August 22nd, 2011 | Comic Books, Conservative | 6 Comments

Michael Bendis is the writer behind Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man, and he enjoyed Glenn Beck’s freakout over the new multiracial Spidey.

The announcement that Miles would be the star of Bendis and Pichelli’s new Spider-Man series received a lot of media attention, far more than Bendis had foreseen. “The media stuff has been crazy surreal. Like I said, Joe [Quesada] saw it coming a year ago, but I don’t see how we control any of that stuff. We hit a slow news day twice with the death of Spider-Man. It was really cool and I’m very grateful, but this one was surreal,” Bendis said. “We pissed off Glenn Beck, and that was amazing. I don’t think Glenn Beck is an idiot because he’s a conservative. I literally think he’s just an idiot. Regardless of his belief system, he’s just a lunatic. So that was hilarious. Not that I’m going out of my way to find ways to piss people like that off, but boy is it so nice when you do it by accident. I told my wife that she doesn’t have to get me anything for my birthday because nothing will make me happier than this made me. I was happy all day.”

(via)

Topic: Glenn Beck

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Destroys The GOP’s Class Warfare

10:58 am EST August 22nd, 2011 | Conservative, Economy, Republicans | 5 Comments

I wish we had Dem politicians and liberal pundits with 1/3 the mojo of the Daily Show. In this clip Stewart, with precision, rips apart just how full of excrement the GOP’s bellyaching on class warfare is. Bonus points for pointing out the Heritage Foundation’s vile attempt to claim rich people have it good.

Racist Rush Limbaugh Says New Oreo Cookies Are “Biracial”, Will Be Called “Or-Bam-eo”

2:55 pm EST August 17th, 2011 | Conservative | 99 Comments

No, he’s not racist. Just when he’s a racist.

Topic: Race, Rush Limbaugh

Fox News “Concerned Parent” Was GOP Official … Then Had DUI Crash

12:24 pm EST August 9th, 2011 | Conservative | 7 Comments

A few months ago, Fox News’ Fox & Friends hosted a Wisconsin mom named Amber Hahn to tell us just how horrible those liberal unions are. Well, what Fox didn’t tell you is that Hahn is a local GOP official.

And it gets worse. What’s Ms. Hahn been up to?

The chairwoman of the Republican Party of Columbia County resigned Friday after a drunken crash with her three children in her car.

Amber Hahn, 35, of rural Poynette, said she crashed her car Thursday night while driving drunk, but that no one was hurt and that no other vehicles were involved. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene from the OnStar alert in her car, she said.

Remember this when these people lecture you like they’re your moral betters.
(via Wonkette)