Why oh why must the same smarmy people keep popping up doing the same smarmy crapola? Wendy Long is the legal version of Barbara Comstock. Ugh.

christy, another thing they are doing is –

glenn beck used a quote from her yearbook, a quote about excellence by norman thomas, ‘prove’ she is a socialist…i wrote an oxdown about it..can’t find the clip anywhere. yet..gotta go, sepnt the morning writing the diary and trying to find the clip..
it was the most absurd thing yet, to me.
just wanted you to know about it, haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere.

Well, I once quoted Socrates for a paper in college on political philosophy. Wonder what that makes me? *g*

Why? Because it’s in their nature.

A scorpion needed to cross a stream, and tried to convince a frog to carry it across the stream. The frog demurred, saying, “You’ll sting me and kill us both.”

The scorpion pointed out that it did need to get across the stream, and that while it wouldn’t mourn the frog’s death at all, the scorpion had a great interest in surviving.

The frog thought it over, and finally agreed that the scorpion’s argument made sense. The frog invited the scorpion onto its back for the trip across the stream. Midway across the stream, the scorpion stung the frog. The frog cried, “Why did you do that? Now we’ll both die!”

The scorpion said, “Because it’s just my nature.”

It’s simply their nature to do these things, and we forget it at our peril.

He llo Christy.

Has anyone thought of aggregating some of the Palin defense talking points from some of these same cretins?

I mean I am sure it would be stunning to see what they all had to say about sexism, classism, education levels and job qualifications and the like and do a compare and contrast. I don’t seem to remember Death Camp for Newtie talking about affirmative action hires when it came to the Palin pick.

-G

Well, we all know that socialists never had any good ideas at all.

That could be a very fun post or Oxdown diary, frankly. Good idea. I haven’t seen it done yet — but that doesn’t mean someone else hasn’t already done it. Been a bit busy here of late…

Sadly, that is all too true.

well-read.

: )

Let the goopers keep talking. They are losing Hispanic votes every time they open their stupid mouths. Even the Cubans in Florida will probably get a tad angry about this.

lord konws they can’t use any ideas except the ones they’re told to use.

well, we are finding out that if something isolates itself long enough, it becomes extinct.

bbl.

Please don’t ask for empathy!

-G

ROFL

I dunno — did the nasty immigration language make any dent in the GOP Cuban support? I can’t remember. If the vile spewings from some corners on that issue didn’t make them a tad uncomfortable, I’m not certain the same spew on Sotomayor will do it.

Seems to me the split-off in support in that crowd is more generational than political turn-off. Thoughts?

It seems to me almost impossible to tell the difference between “a vast right-wing conspiracy” and a lot of like-minded individuals acting in concert.
Hillary was right.

cracks me up, that they don’t ‘get’ that.

omg

and what they are missing is that the people who ‘do ‘get’ that’ are leaving.

bbl, thanks for the post.

Here’s a link to the quote that is under so much criticism. In case you don’t want to give the traffic to gawker: The quote itself—-”I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won.”

One of the key factors for me is delving into the interconnected network of “wingnut welfare” recipients, donors and donor outlets. It’s amazing how incestuous the whole thing has been — and how so much of this dried up in tiny areas where folks like Sheldon Adelson used to be the primary source. But there’s always another donor ready to step up and get the glory, I suppose.

did the nasty immigration language make any dent in the GOP Cuban support?

Here in FL, I think it definitely did. Not a huge dent, but a significant one. I think what we’re seeing is a combination of anti-immigrant rhetoric combined with the generational split you mentioned.
I’m sure that’s good for Republicans.

Swift Boaters I knew it now we need to get some MSM coverage John Kerry a Navy Seal denouncing the lies these folks told about him would be good.
We have a record of their lies lets use it. We have records of who fronts them cash.
We have the MSM’s lousy coverage and parrot reciting of their lies with no fact checking to harp on.
Lets see if the MSM will expose this if we complain.

Department of Redundancy Department.

May I help you by helping you?

The ability to think analytically is a quality that appears to be subject to atrophy

Kerry wasn’t a SEAL. He was a Swiftboat commander.

Off on the business of the Queen. See all later.
(((Christy)))

The generational split is definitely there. They old “remember” Cuba – the young have never even been there and their lives are here. Everything takes time and I think maybe the young would like to see for themselves and meet relatives there. Obama is reaching out to Cuba and that is all good.

Maybe some people have an of/off switch? *g* Selectively on/off, I mean…

Thanks for the post Christy.

So, by the end of the day, will she blamed for the Swine Flu outbreak?

Well, we all know that “they” eat a lot of pork. (You know it’s coming, don’t you? *g*)

Goopers have a problem. The problem doesn’t involve blocking Sonia, that won’t happen. The problem involves whether or not to savage her as their rascist base desires..

If they savage her, they keep the rabid 20% of the population they already have, and diminish their chances (approaching zero as a limit) of winning a portion of the rapidly growing hispanic vote.

The new “genius” position is to split the difference. Let the “independant contractors’ inside the party attack her and let the elected officials say “Well we are going to look closely at her”.

They may end up pleasing no one with this strategy Hispanics will blame the hate ads on goopers anyway, and the crazies will be incensed by any gooper who votes to confirm.

The GOP does know that everytime they get a Hispanic to run as a GOPer we will bring up there crazy Sotomayor rants and ask them how can they run with a group that creates *cough* independent attack groups that say such things about Hispanics.
We will ask them if they have any Pride.

They really have painted themselves into a very ugly corner of their own making in so many ways, haven’t they?

Kristoff with an interesting op/ed at NYT in which he discusses new research on conservatives. Conservatives are characterized by an overwhelming respect for authority and a very sensitive “disgust” mechanism. They can be disgusted if they suspect that they drank out of someone else’s drink, for example, or touched a door handle recently touched by another.

Well, we all know that “they” eat a lot of pork. (You know it’s coming, don’t you? *g*)

“they” as in goopers of course! (*g)

Linking the Crazies to the National GOP and the Tea Baggers is key we need to show that these groups are not independent and we need to use the Crazies to smear the GOP.
Gays, African Americans, Hispanics sooner or later a hate crime will be done and the connections to the GOP, Tea Baggers, Right Wing Hate Media will be to big to ignore.
We can then bankrupt them like we did the Klan. Assuming Fox News does not go belly up all on its own first.

Hi Redd,

Yep

It has to do partly with the nature of their “base” I suspect. The base is only pleased by violent and irrational attacks on “they”. They can’t please the base and appear rational at the same time- it’s logically and emotionally impossible.

The lizard brain rises up and seizes control. How apt.

That seems a bit unfair to lizards! When was the last time you were mindlessly attacked by a lizard?

Speaking for cold blooded creatures everywhere, most of the senseless killing is done by mammals- and the vast majority of THAT by one species-

Well, we all know that “they” eat a lot of pork. (You know it’s coming, don’t you? *g*)

It’s already here. Heard a wingnut Cuban on WMNF the other day saying that swine flu was a bio-weapon released by Castro to wipe out the anti-Castro Cuban population in Miami. I’m sure the GOP can adapt the message.

“Man is the only animal that blushes–or needs to”

Mark Twain

Lizard attack because they are hungry its rational. The GOP attacks because they are hooked on anger and like being angry all the time.
Emotional responses I assume come from the lizard brain. Maybe in evolution the attack response got wired up to anger, adrenaline, and the brain’s pleasure centers.
Do humans overload their pleasure centers in various ways because we have the opportunity too? Or perhaps because we might be more able to over load them?

The only other mammals I can think of who kill for sport are orcas and cats.

Extended piece of tipica style salsa music (youtube), from some of New York’s finest, most of whom are Nuyoricanos. The title is all I have to say to the likes of those swiftboaters.

Sonaremos el tambor (We Shall Sound the Drum)

There is a mechanism in humans that encourages us to turn differences in opinion, belief, lifestyle, etc. into “moral issues” which conveniently turns one’s opponent from “misguided” to “evil, dirty, loathsome, and disgusting”..This mechanism allows us to treat them in ways that we would never support without the happy little mechanism.

A darwinian view would probably posit some survival value in the mechanism that allows us to dehumanize those with whom we disagree. It allows those with the gene to savage and destroy competitive tribes and expand their “habitat”.

and the left wing judges will let them out of prison so they can do it again…

These arguments against Sotomayor are getting ridiculous.

This clip and subsequent post prove that those who are most vocal, are the ones who really have no idea what they are talking about.

http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=1416

Thanks Ann!!
I left you a comment in the comments section of the diary.

Found it, and again, you’re very welcome.

Totally OT, but a very interesting read, Jeffrey Toobin has an 8 page article up at the New Yorker on Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts:

No More Mr. Nice Guy
The Supreme Court’s stealth hard-liner.