Are you kidding me??? The whole clown circus that has been the GOP primary has given me ladywo … ummm … has piqued my interest all season!! You had Huckabee who is WAAAYYYYY too Christian, you had Giuliani who wasn’t Christian enough, you had Mitt who sways with the breeze, and now you have “Maverick” McCain who NO ONE LIKED in the glitterati that is the GOP punditocracy.

It has been Christmas-Birthday-4th-of-July-barbecue all wrapped up in one watching these buffoons eat their own.

Cynic that I am, I give it 72 hours, max, before the Bloviatorati are congratulating each other on having supported Bold John since April 2003. And after a day or two of sulking in his ‘Straight Talk (Gay Action)’ tent, John will welcome the newborn McCainiacs by ceremoniously flushing the script of Coulter’s “I’d vote for Hillary over You-Know-Who” oration down the memory hole. Given the tenor of recent Repub events, said memory hole will promptly back up and leave all parties involved ankle-deep in sewage, but then, anybody’s who’s spent time around Karl Rove has been exposed to even less salubrious atmospheres.

I noted that McCain rejected Fed matching funds, even though he’s millions in debt and broke. That means the GOP money machine dropped by and genuflected. I wonder if McCain is up to the knife-fight ahead if he faces Billary. I doubt it.

I was listening to the exit poll bloviations on NPR in the car last night, and they were talking to an eighteen-year-old (didn’t that used to be draft age?) “independent” who couldn’t decide between McCain and Obama, but finally came down for McCain. Republican primary voters appear to know who he is. Independents, not so much.

It has been Christmas-Birthday-4th-of-July-barbecue all wrapped up in one watching these buffoons eat their own.

It really is. And I’m lovin’ it.

Doesn’t mean that McCain won’t go on Oxy’s show in a month. Oxy’s an old professional and can take it up any orifice you like.

I’m just copying down everything AnneLaurie said and maybe printing it out and putting it up on my wall.

aimai

“Doesn’t mean that McCain won’t go on Oxy’s show in a month. Oxy’s an old professional and can take it up any orifice you like.”

I would kill for McCain to publicly tell El Rushbo to shove it. Just tell him: “I don’t need you — you drug-addled, lying, hate-mongering, anal-cyst on the butt of America. Ditto Hannity, Ingraham, Coulter, et al.”

I swear if Johnny Mac called em’ out, I’d be tempted to vote for him. I wouldn’t do it, but he’d have a special place in my heart.

“Ladywood”?
MrsPBen’s got a wide-on!!!

I hate to be the one to put saltpeter in the punch bowl, but I haven’t seen anything from the surviving Dem candidates to convince me that they won’t find several ways to run a fucked campaign and lose in November.

Exhibit A – Mark Penn still works for Hillary.
Exhibit B – Obama can’t seem to take a hint that his “feud” with Paul Krugman is actually a sign that he should rethink his positions, or at least stop using right-wing talking points, on healthcare and Social Security.

But Romney has won by a landslide in the Celestial Kingdom.

If the idea of that doesn’t give you an erection lasting four hours (or ladywood as the equipment dictates), I don’t know what will…

Priaprism? Not as much fun as folks might think. No, seeing these losers have their asses handed to them is like seeing a mean dog get run over; you’re relieved, but it’s still kinda gross to watch. Besides, you know that they’ll claim to find hithertofore-undiscovered veins of conservativism in Johnny Mac’s stump speech, and that he changed his spots for them, not the other way around.

captphealy,

agree: after getting rid of that pesky closet progressive, Edwards, the two of them are clamoring to get on Fox News — the cynic in me can’t help but see this as the beginning of the end of any principled stand in defense of values like integrity with which they might have toyed if only ever so briefly in an attempt to pander to the lefties out there.

Now that we’re left picking our preferred gender-and-race variation of a moderate-to-right-wing democrat, it’ll be business as usual: “sure I claimed I’d work for change and a more equal society with health care and all that good stuff; but see here, my over-priced consultants tell me that I need to pander to the rethugs even though I’ll never get their votes. So how about I thump this bible and wave this gun while I promise to eviscerate any remaining civil rights you might have? It’ll alienate the true base of progressive voters, and of course, I know full well that it *still* won’t get me the GOP vote, because — duh — there’s a genuine GOP candidate for them to support; but since when have moderate Democrats grasped the simple fact that the best way to win as a Democrat is to do what’s right for the vast majority of American people, not what pundits and incompetent political mercenaries like Begala and Penn believe will work in their sad sack fantasy world?”

I’ll celebrate when the reanimated corpse that passes for repub “value” stops twitching and begins to visibly molder.

I hate to be the one to put saltpeter in the punch bowl, but I haven’t seen anything from the surviving Dem candidates to convince me that they won’t find several ways to run a fucked campaign and lose in November.

Exhibit A – Mark Penn still works for Hillary.
Exhibit B – Obama can’t seem to take a hint that his “feud” with Paul Krugman is actually a sign that he should rethink his positions, or at least stop using right-wing talking points, on healthcare and Social Security.

Yeah…and now it seems I’m going to have to physically show up at this weekend’s caucus for Maine’s handful of delegates (never got my absentee ballot for Edwards in).

Last poll Rasmussen (I think) had McCain beating HRC by 8 points and Obama by 7. HRC’s policy ideas seem marginally better than Obama’s, but a return to a Clinton White House would mean I would have to see Terry McAuliffe’s face again and lots of others that I am happy to live without. Plus there was that shitty, craven war vote.

lobstakilla,

They’ve both got armies of skeletons in their closets: Obama swept into office and proceeded to vote for Biden’s CC industry bailout package of a bankruptcy “reform” bill; Hillary went waay out of her way to rave about Condi when she was confirmed as Sec of Stace, etc.

I don’t think the national D vs. R polls mean much at this point in time, but it would certainly be nice to see Obama & Hillary try their respective hand at airing out some of the dirty republican laundry and show us just how good they are at playing hardball. They’ve done the kiss-and-make-up with touchy-feely talk about unity etc. Bully for them. Now let’s see how well they each do with the kind of bare-knuckle politics the way Rove and his spawn are going to have it played for November.

Is Obama so busy reaching out across the isle that he’ll let them rip his arm off, or can he flip them the bird and poke ‘em in the eye, too? Is Hillary all about Hillary and what serves her best when push comes to shove, or is she willing to stand firm on principles that matter even if her ego might get a bit bruised?

But what we all really want is…change

“independent” who couldn’t decide between McCain and Obama, but finally came down for McCain.

That kind of shit just blows me away. Either Obama is a hell of lot more conservative than I want to believe, or perhaps McCain’s “I left my brain in ‘Nam and I’m a better man for it” warped sense of compassion has a perverted appeal to a subset of middle-of-the-roaders and clueless voters.

Hillary vs Obama a tough choice for many? Sure. But, c’mon: trying to decide between Obama and McCain as if they’re two shades of the same grey?!? For the love of all things sane, can we please have some more informed voters sometime soon?

Has anyone else noticed the following: a tornado touched down in five states Super Tuesday evening (AR, MS, AL, TN, KY), tragically killing 52. Of those five states, three had primaries: AR, AL, TN.

The Republican candidate who won the primary in those three states was Huckabee.

Isn’t he the bonehead who attributed his unexpected win in an earlier primary to the fact that God had ordained it?

I can’t wait to hear how he spins things this time around.

Fours hours? Pfffft – I’ve been a walking priapism since Coultergeist announced her support for Hillary.

They’re just going to have to have McCain killed this time, since those damn Vietcong didn’t do it right last time.

Or they could go double coyote. When McCain goes looking for all the one armed conservatives they’ll chew off the other arm so he can’t find them.

The HRC fishbone in my craw(and its been there a while) the fund raising dinner she accepted from Rupert Murdoch. That and six years at Walmart tells me all I need to know.

Is Obama so busy reaching out across the isle that he’ll let them rip his arm off, or can he flip them the bird and poke ‘em in the eye, too?

Yup….this is what I’m trying to figure out in the next couple of days.

Me too!

I assume they’re deciding based on who seemed cooler on The Daily Show. And yes, more informed voters would be nice. Then the republicans would never win, and even the democrats might have to try harder.