NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

Stuck in a stairwell for Santorum needs to be used as a porn title.

Wait, Santorum's a vampire hunter?

Sequel to Trapped in the Closet?

That would be epic.

Is Rick Perry Rufus?

"I was stuck in a stairwell for the first half of the debate"

You've got to
Get yourself together
You got stuck in a stairwell
And you can't get out of it
Don't say you
Missed the first half of the debate
You got stuck in a stairwell
And you can't get out of it

Concern trolling writ large!

http://www.redstate.com/thomas/2012/01/11/to-our-friends-at-the-national-review/

Christ, Ned, that was painful.

It's like being stuck in a stairwell -- oh wait.

Hahah.

thanks to that article for this hilarious link, which i dunno if we talked about before but where we get to watch what happens when the wretches the gop's been bribing with homophobia and religion for forty years get an eentsy bit annoyed that the people "enjoying the growing wealth created by free markets" and the people feeling "the pain, uncertainty and risk that they involve" (these quotes from this handy re-explanation of capitalism) are not necessarily the same people: the Champions Of Regular Folks immediately flip out. out come the claws:

Over and over, Romney defends and explains capitalism. And he’s supposed to be the RINO and squish in the race? That’s what I read in the conservative blogosphere, every day. What do you have to do to be a “real conservative”? Speak bad English and belch?

They have no appetite to defend capitalism, to persuade people, to encourage them not to fall for the old socialist and populist crap.

:(

WHY ARE THE RUBES MAD AT US

(Subsequent posts will be cooler, maybe even like Jamaican breezes in springtime.)

This guy is both the uncle with the clown nose and a moron.

in come the trade winds:

Remember when “wealthiest one percent” was a buzz-phrase in our politics? Incredibly annoying.

In the off-season (as you say), conservatives are interested in economic winning, and so the mechanisms of capitalism are more welcome. But in political season, they're interested in political winning, and sometimes that consists of appeasing the economic losers. Perhaps a conservative can do so with his hand holding his nose, regretting that it must be done. But it's depressing to see that so many don't even notice the smell.

the real problem is that NRO is no longer smart enough to trick dumb ppl into doing what they want

Rush and Red State are sniping at NRO today, it is fun.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287933/santorum-even-after-new-hampshire-lisa-schiffren

amazing and very very sad

Did the Wrong Side Win?
By Peter Robinson
January 9, 2012 9:03 A.M.

Andrew Roberts discusses the challenges faced by German soldiers during WWII.

no fucking way, you made this up

Santorum does not believe that the categories associated with “class” are useful in discussing how well the American economy is working. Economically, he is correct, since income is fluid. Socially, culturally, it’s a different matter. In our time, I’ve seen precious few cases of gentlemanly Episcopalians with august family trees, significant inherited wealth, and the expectation of political success who really grasp the degree to which life is a fight, and politics is war, let alone at the elemental level where that instinct needs to be lodged. The Bushes never got it. Their twin, Mitt, though technically not old school WASP by dint of being Mormon, doesn’t get it either. How do I know this? Even after prolonged exposure to the media, and other adversaries, from Kennedy to his GOP competitors, he expects to be treated with respect. That’s charming. But it’s a weakness.

i mean, shit

god help me i've listened to those conversations with andrew roberts. 'uncommon knowledge' my eye, the bracing insights are like entry level ww2 fandom. the german generals were really smart? german equipment was better than everyone else's? the americans didn't lose as many people as everyone else, but threw lots of money at their allies? hitler and stalin made stupid decisions based on their ideology? 4 out of 5 dead germans was killed by a russian? you're really blowing my mind here duder.

or else the guests imply that the Germans and Soviets won great victories thanks to their authoritarian regimes whereas the West was soft and democratic.

eh i think if anything he shades in the opposite direction: what the democratic allies did was a standup proper war while the axis and stalin were engaged in crazed mindlessness

He's losing his grip then

tbh I haven't listened. difficult listening hour is the fan. I gave up last year after leaving the office to vomit on seeing another reaction shot of Peter Robinson in open-mouthed faux dismay.

Mr. McCarthy:

I happen to think the Supremes are going to uphold Obamacare — not that they should, but that they will (for the reasons outlined in the aforementioned column). That won’t mean Obamacare is good policy; it is disastrous policy. It will just mean that Obamacare is one of the many suicidal things our Constitution allows a free people to do to itself. But when the Court’s ruling comes down, the GOP will have done nothing to lay the groundwork for what should be the far more consequential political battle to repeal Obamacare — indeed, by doing nothing and nominating Mitt, the GOP will be saying, implicitly, that it is fine with most of Obamacare, perhaps with a few Washington-style modifications. The Supreme Court decision will thus hit in July — the campaign stretch-run — and, if it comes out the way I think it will come out, it will be a crackling political victory for the Obama campaign.

I mean tbf SCOTUS probably will uphold ACA and it probably will be good news for Obama; this McCarthy dude knows the GOP have a limited amount of time to try to kill ACA because once the exchange provisions kick in in 2014 it will start becoming popular because hey, more people will be insured.

ACA is already popular with me, I get to stay on my parent's insurance until I'm 26!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288218/let-freedom-ring-mark-krikorian

5 comments so far, all killer, sure to be a hit

Hoo boy, those comments:

Henry Ford did vastly far more good by opening up a world of living-wage jobs to both black and white sharecroppers, and by helping the workers AND THEIR WIVES to learn the organized ways of the middle class.

that is just a total failure at making an argument.

Lovely:

[Approved commenter] Ed in Cary
: 01/16/12 17:03

As a Southerner with our love for lost causes, I sneer at MLK day. I will never respect or honor it in the least.

I used to admire King as having been the essential man at the critical moment....the case that Mark has made. And I do not disqualify him from the pantheon of great men because of his moral failings. I disqualify him, because he was a communist.

better red than ed

The Iron Lady and the Jews
By Jonah Goldberg

lol nope

― caek, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:56 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Jews, she said, were being made to scrub the streets. For Thatcher, who believed in meaningful work, this was as much a waste as it was an outrage.

Perry’s Exit

By Kathryn Jean Lopez
January 19, 2012 11:34 A.M. Comments

You’ve got to respect him for getting out, having seen no clear “viable path forward” for his candidacy, as he just put it.

I’m always grateful for those who are willing to put their names forward, with all the sacrifices that come with it.

My sense is, much like Fred Thompson in 2008, he was recruited into this race, wanting the best for his country, being told he was the man to lead the way. But I’m not sure recruits get elected president.

Fred Thompson, when he walked for president

shuffled uneasily tbh

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288706/how-mitt-romney-taught-me-gang-lingo-jonah-goldberg

wow

holy lolz

Jonah's been killing it:

Part of it is just me. When I lose my temper at someone, when I’m convinced they’ve done something bad — never mind close to the most despicable thing I can imagine — it stays with me. I suspect the same is true with Gingrich. So when he (and, I believe, Callista) ran over to do the post-game chit-chat, it struck me that the term “post-game” isn’t just an expression — it really was a game. I have to hope at least some of the people who gave Gingrich a standing ovation for his theatrical outrage recognize that.

I am in tears over "shock collar".

Goldberg Bait
By Daniel Foster

An exciting new study:

Do People Become More Conservative as They Age?

In fact, research shows that seniors become more tolerant and more open-minded in their later years.

There are a thousand little ways in which our vocabulary is irreducibly liberal. It’s one of the reasons I continue, years later, to be greatly bothered by Stephen Colbert’s bit at the White House correspondents dinner about how “reality has a well-known left-wing bias.” It’s a funny bit. But it obscures the fact that while reality may not have a liberal bias, much of the language we use to describe it does.

whining about ≠ refuting

I just

"shock collar"

I mean, really?

oh well, at least you can all thank Jonah for getting to ditch the orgasm explosion display name

RightEveryTime 01/23/12 14:51
The Left has co-opted much of the language, and that gives so many normal words political meanings. Tolerance, for example, doesn't mean what it used to mean. It was neither conservative nor liberal to "tolerate" a thing. But now it is made to mean "acceptance" and more specifically "acceptance" -and- "acquiescence" to anything not Conservative.

has this guy ever used a dictionary?

tbf the latin root means "to endure"

we should start using "toleration", has a nice 17th century ring

that would make you sound like you fell out of the chorus of Mary J Blige's "Family Affair"

whining about ≠ refuting

we could have done with you on the bullying thread

blast from the past

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289145/terri-was-woman-brain-injury-and-simply-needed-be-fed-through-feeding-tube-kathryn-jea

[Approved commenter] ds
01/24/12 15:41

Kathryn, this is irresponsible. Let's not relitigate this. People with extreme brain injuries can be taken off life support by their spouses. What happened in the Schiavo case is that certain elements of the GOP decided to literally make a federal case out of it. It was gross and irresponsible at the time, and it's irresponsible of you to be giving the poor woman's grieving and utterly incorrect relatives a venue here.

facetious because it would require a new amendment in the usa, which isn't going to happen, but i would support it. proportional representation now!

(i see that the majority of the senate of senegal was appointed by the president, so it was a totally useless organization anyway.)

What these guys have been reduced to writing about:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328482/turkey-school-lunch-stanley-kurtz#comments

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328642/love-other-mark-krikorian

Enh, that's just dumb.

"but it’s clear that many of Obama’s supporters want him to be a Muslim, want him to have been born in Kenya."

It's clear you are an idiot, sir.

"clear"/"clearly" may be the word of the obama years

what is with the comments, now? have they switched off of disqus (again?)

i wake up every morning praying that our long national nightmare will be over and that the president will turn out to be a muslim who was born in kenya

Fox and Friends
By Mona Charen
September 27, 2012 4:33 P.M.
Comments
1

I’ll be on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning at 8:15 to talk about press bias.

http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/tmp/cover_121001_toc.jpg

lol

By Kathryn Jean Lopez
September 28, 2012 2:05 P.M.
Kate Trinko has just made clear that President Obama’s transformative work on us has yet to be completed. The reeducating of American thinking, to understand that abortion, contraception, and female sterilization are basic health care has yet to stick. She probably still believes, like the people who the New York Times has polled and the swing voters the Susan B. Anthony List has discovered, that people have the freedom to not cover such things, that their religious freedom includes the right to believe and practice such sick thinking. She does not yet know what is best for all, and the true meaning of freedom: having fertility suppressed, drugged as if it were a disease. Four more years and she might get the hang of it.

It's kinda amazing they still let KLO write for them.

I genuinely worry about what will happen to her if Obama wins re-election.

depends, is she allergic to cats?

lmao

If you got your information from the mainstream media — I wish there were a better term — you would never know Romney is an impressive man. You would never know he has been successful in most everything he has ever done. You would never know he was bright, experienced, or capable. Or warm, decent, and charitable.

You would think he was a moron. And a jerk, to boot.

You remember those “ordinary people” at the Republican convention who told about the extraordinary acts of charity Mitt Romney has performed? If Obama had performed those acts, they would be famous. They would be legends, they would have entered the national lore. Schoolchildren would be instructed to sing about them.

That's got to be Nordlinger.

Did you hear that Obama tithed 10 percent to his church? We must build a statue so that future eras may know.

Schoolchildren would be instructed to sing about them.

I bet he chuckled as he typed. "Can't wait for Rich and Kat to read this!"

Pareene's last take on Klo rings true; that she seems a deeply sad person who's only happy or fulfilled when attending Mass and that's about it.

Should we close this one, mods? It's election season!

let's send it out on top, then:

Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood — the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum and it’s no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their “safe house” in Benghazi.

ah, yes, finally someone has made clear the straight line between Sesame Street and being the victim of a ghastly murder.

there were no murder victims prior to sesame street, fyi.

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