I couldn’t help but notice that Fountains of Wayne uses a Juno 6 keyboard.

Juno as in “Juno”?

Or is the Juneau six? The number of children in the Palin/Johnston family shrub?

Coincidence? There’s no such thing as coincidence!

“English, motherfucker, do you speak it?”

Gotta say, I can’t imagine how Alaska’s First Son-in-law could possibly fuck things up more than Michelle Bachmann or “spokesperson” (he really does that for a living and he ISN’T employed by the Obama/Biden campaign?)Tucker Bounds.

Or, of course, McGrampy or America’s Hottest Gov.

Josh Marshall makes a good point. Palin is such a wing nut that the McCain camp WANTS the focus to be on the daughter.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here. Overwhelmingly, reporters are pressing eminently reasonable questions — her role in troopergate, her lack of experience, her connections to the AIP, her history of earmarking and lobbyists, etc. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign is going absolutely non-stop about Palin’s daughter. It is unmistakable.

–Josh Marshall

Mama’s bristols have got it goin’ on…

I just finished dreading that as well gd, and he also links to this fascinating video clip of Schmidt and Nooners being candid on hot mics.

And JM nails it, there hasn’t been one print story about Palin’s baby, the McCain’s brought it up and now they want to screen Palin — who needs some screening now that the special prosecutor she appointed, wants to depose her — and scream sexism!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg

It’s in the Republican playbook: the Pretend Offense. They pretend they’re offended about one thing while trying to cover up something real.

You know I shouldn’t say this and, like McCain, I am better than this but I can’t help wondering if Cindy has to help Flippy turn over in the bed at night. He’s not very flexible. And we know he likes his “turnover” in bed.

That’s Just What I Said

This entire fiasco only reinforces my belief that the GOP isn’t a political party, but a long-term ongoing performance art project.

Back in the late ’70s, before he was president, the National Lampoon did a “diary entry” by Ronald Reagan which revealed him as a closet intellectual whose political philosophy and persona were an elaborate put-on just to see how much he could get away with, and for how long.

I’m increasingly convinced that wasn’t a work of fiction. America, you’ve been punk’d!

is shifting uncomfortably on a couch as several large deadly-serious gentlemen from the Republican National Committee explain to him

Nuh-uh! Levi already told us that if anybody messes with him he’ll kick their ass – and he wouldn’t lie about something manly like that.

I’m hoping that the young couple has a moment like this tonight.

So is it me or having hockey studlet on stage at the christofascist gathering a little weird. Are they celebrating abstinence failure? Or is this an aryan fertility rite? What? I hate rituals in Greek.

Okay, ReidMoore, my young grandson thinks I’m nuts, thanks to your comment. I haven’t had a good laugh like that for a long time.
The GOP should win kudos for carrying on such a convincing act, for sure!

moondancer, they’ll be celebrating the lack of abortion in the Palin extended family. Oh yeah.

The hockey aspect of it is completely fitting. The Xcel is a hockey arena for the MN Wild. MN governor TPaw is a hockey player too and had a Levi-style f-word screwup broadcast over the Xcel sound system one night:

All 30 National Hockey League teams were back in action Wednesday after a year of labor unrest. The script called for the governor to say: “It’s time to drop the puck. So everybody say it with me – ‘Let’s play hockey!”‘ It was the governor’s tripping over the word “puck” that provoked the snickers.

The only weird and out of place thing going on in the Xcel is the gathering of christofascists, and the outlying police state infesting downtown St. Paul.

I think this post is too harsh. Bristol Palin is younger than Casey and I feel like this post, and some of the previous posts, splash over on Bristol Palin. I feel nothing for her except vague good wishes and don’t want to say anything that tends to belittle her. As great a wordsmith as TBogg is, and as wise as he is, surely he can slap around the mother without hitting the daughter.

I don’t care that the Republicans are using Bristol Palin as a prop. The fact that they are slime who are using her in a stunt doesn’t relieve us of our obligation to treat her decently.

CarlJohnson: Levi is the one in charge of treating Bristol decently — he’s her main squeeze now, remember, whether he wants to be or not. It’s the law according to his mother-in-law, not some optional notion for him to consider. Nobody is bashing Bristol (just fyi, the entire post here is about Levi and Sandra — there’s no mention of Bristol at all, so cut the concern trolling already), we’re merely empathizing with her: she’s seventeen, her mom is a wing nut and her babydaddy is perhaps not the sharpest cheese on the cracker. And she lives in Alaska…

Meanwhile, the notion of the entire GOP being some drug-inspired piece of performance art is brilliant. Remember how moderate “concerned” democrats would claim for years (without bothering to do anything much about it) that Dubya really wasn’t as stupid as he appeared to be, that the clueless “nukular” persona was really the disguise of a terribly cunning man?

Well, bullshit. Dubya’s brain is as much stage dressing as his cod piece: all stuffing, no action. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t playing pretend, it simply means that hidden behind the goofy guy with the bulging pants and the macho swagger on the aircraft carrier hid a clueless idiot with a small dick… certainly still troubling, but scary in a different way.

Recently unearthed voter registration forms reveal that Jill Biden once belonged to the Delaware Independence Party, whose platform is based on the desire for Delaware to secede from the United States.

What, you haven’t heard about that?

The Gooper/MSM Noise Machine is harping on nothing else!

That story is easily dismissed as bogus. As “The First State” Delaware wouldn’t need to secede. They would just expel the subsequent 49 states.

I think I’ve discovered who McCain used to vet Palin as a potential veep nominee: the California School Boards Association

CSBA’s acting director Dan Walden refused to discuss the Emery search, but said that uncovering fakery wasn’t the firm’s job.

“It’s the candidates’ responsibility to be truthful in their application,” he said.

So, are we really reduced to the National Enquirer to save the nation? Link goes to their cover, I think tomorrow, or Friday?

http://media.myfoxphilly.com/s…..l-Shot.jpg