US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

RedState.com editor Erick Erickson will join CNN as a political contributor

Just what CNN needs...

http://twitter.com/ewerickson

Good point from the sermon this morning in church: there is no such thing as an atheist. People either believe in the real God or an idol.
12:54 PM Mar 14th via web

deep thought

calling souter a goat fucker is... pretty bad. but offering his services to mark sanford to blog affectionately about him to combat the "rumors" of his infidelity is way way worse. not that he's ever pretended to be a real news guy but come on.

cnn lost amanpour? nooooooo

not official yet but abc offered her a job hosting this week

hey remember back, like, in May '09 when the conservative movement in this country was in "shambles" ?

it still is

yyyyyep

only difference is the liberal movement is also in shambles

actually that isn't really different either

GOP behind in fundraising, less than a 3rd of the voting populace identifies as Republican, rife with internal divisions, lacking in candidates with national presence, approval ratings at all-time low, etc.

xp

y'all are probably right. sometimes it's hard to see past my own surroundings.

less than a 3rd of the voting populace identifies as Republican, rife with internal divisions, lacking in candidates with national presence, approval ratings at all-time low

all very true, but I'm pretty sure another third is 1) upset that GOP isn't "conservative" enough and willing to hold their nose and vote GOP & 2) independents with buyer's remorse who may very well be willing to hold their noses and vote GOP

this TX textbook thing is utterly depressing.

The diff, of course is that the GOP generally stands for something (idiocy and evil) and the Dems don't, but will go along w/ most idiocy and evil cuz THAT'S THE REAL WORLD

I guarantee you a third of america isn't upset that the GOP isn't 'conservative' enough.

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The diff, of course is that the GOP generally stands for something (idiocy and evil) and the Dems don't, but will go along w/ most idiocy and evil cuz THAT'S THE REAL WORLD

so OTM

it's cuet that you guys think the GOP actually stands for something

I guess it does in the acronym sense

The GOP is much more convincing at presenting its batshit vision of America, iatee.

I agree w/ that, but it's been considerably less successful at living up to its stated princples

iatee it should be noted that you also believe the GOP stands for "idiocy and evil" except when you're I guess reflexively disagreeing with the dudes you disagree with

i think the onion had it right in the our dumb century book, carter vs reagan '80 is "let's talk better gas mileage" vs. "kill the bastards"

which nb was what morbs said they stood for, not "the principles they state as their principles"

only today it's more like "let's talk better gas mileage (ps. kill the bastards)" vs "kill the bastards (ps. niggerniggerniggernigger)"

kill the bastards (ps. niggerniggerniggernigger)"

quoting Patti Smith?

i'm a little bit sorry i wrote that tbh

this close to changing my screen name

iatee it should be noted that you also believe the GOP stands for "idiocy and evil" except when you're I guess reflexively disagreeing with the dudes you disagree with

which nb was what morbs said they stood for, not "the principles they state as their principles"

I mean okay, this sorta implies that they are a bunch of dudes who are self-consciously dedicated to evil. I don't think that's true - I think that republican politician X does have a set of 'principles' (limited government, states rights, etc.) that he does actually believe in, and he very much fails at living up to them.

i'm a little bit sorry i wrote that tbh

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erick erickson isnt sorry when he writes that, every day, and now he has a job at cnn

Michelle Bachman is rather unambiguously self-consciously dedicated to evil.

btw I just went to Redstate.com and taking every headline there and imagining the story associated reads "kill the bastards (ps. niggerniggerniggernigger)" is kind of hilarious

The GOP Leaders Speak

kill the bastards (ps. niggerniggerniggernigger)

"I think that republican politician X does have a set of 'principles' (limited government, states rights, etc.) that he does actually believe in, and he very much fails at living up to them."

I'm reading that tell-all book by that ex-Bush speechwriter, and according to him, these principled Republicans are in the minority, and often ineffectual precisely because they live by those principles. Also, Ann Coulter is secretly a nice person.

wait, waht

she's a stealthy satirist

Also, Ann Coulter is secretly a nice person.

I've heard her whole shrill attack dog thing is a shtick but I can't say whether that doesn't make me despise her more. What's worse an earnest and malicious idiot or an opportunistic demogogue?

She loves the Dead. There's nothing nice about her.

The thing about satire is that if it's TOO stealthy, it's kind of self-defeating (IOW becoming the thing you are lampooning usually = a bad thing).

I guarantee you a third of america isn't upset that the GOP isn't 'conservative' enough.

yeah that wasn't really clear on my part. i meant to say that if approx. 1/3 of the pop. identifies as GOP, then another 1/3 is likely split between angry angry teabaggers who by & large don't think GOP is conservative enough - and independents etc who may think the far right is nuts, but go on letting people like Scott Brown win in Mass.

idk... don;t mind me. i'm just bummed that fag-hating gun nut TN governor hopeful Zach Wamp is at my office today doing a meet & greet at the behest of one of the guys whose name is on the door of my office.

I don't think that's true - I think that republican politician X does have a set of 'principles' (limited government, states rights, etc.) that he does actually believe in,

principles which, if you weren't bent on going "lol ur wrong!", you would happily describe as wrong/evil/select-word-that-means-"I-think-these-principles-are-wrong"

you don't actually disagree w/Morbs's assessment, you're just being a dick to him & me for no reason

There's a very good reason; it's Tuesday, which is universally accepted as being "Be A Dick To Ppl You Totally Agree With Day"

oh fuck my bad

hey Dan I disagree with you & the Cure are terrible

also I saw them in '85 but I bet they skipped Minneapolis lol

;_;

I'd say something about Amy Grant but even in the name of joeks that would be too far

the rule is no trolling on political threads unless you are morbs or are high fivin' morbs

I preordered the new Amy Grant this morning btw so it's a banner day for me

high fivin' morbs

found my electro-bluegrass stage name

LOL the Cure did not skip Mpls in 1985, my best friends from HS were on stalker duty for two days.

They totally skipped MPLS in 1989, I was pissed as SHIT about it (and my parents wouldn't let me road trip to Chicago, gee I wonder why).

u can watch me do "Love Cats" karaoke sometime

^^^ will contribute to the fund that makes this happen

does it even matter what GOP pols believe? or any pol? not really; what matters is the people they serve. i think the tribal loyalties and passions always come before any statement of principle. "principle" is a nice way to expressing those loyalties and passions, imo. "my people are good, what my people want ought to be law" is the beginning and the end of it, all this other stuff about "limited gov't" or "states rights" is window dressing.

of course there are conservative thinkers that hash out those ideas, and most GOP folx are true believers to some level, but it doesn't matter. or, it matters at the level of day-to-day argument but not much beyond that. this back and forth of "they are evil" "no, they really believe" "what they believe is evil!" runs into unresolvable territory pretty quickly. of course nobody considers himself to be serving evil, i don't see how it's "being a dick" to point that out. for ex "social justice" sounds wonderful to me, but i gather this actually means totalitarian control?? boy, i had no idea i was an evil person.

i think this kind of tribe-principle disjoint is worse for right-wingers but i'm a liberal so i would say that wouldn't i.