Words and phrases I never want to hear again after next Tuesday
thrown under the bus
gaffe
Maverick
unrepentant terrorist
Joe the Plumber
bitter and clingy
Pfotenhauer
hockey mom
Joe Sixpack
The Bradley Effect
in the tank
First Dude
mentor
Lieberman
and RAAAACIST… unless it is applied to Michelle Malkin



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I would add:
You betcha!
Also
Joe the Plumber’s Country Album
and last but not least: My Friends.
add “socialism” and McCain’s dick finger airquotes to that list (i realize this is neither word nor phrase but if I never see him do this again, i’ll be happy)
actually, if i never see or hear McFail or Palin ever again I’ll be even happier.
Add:
Real America.
Nobama.
Game Changer.
The Reverse Bradley Effect.
And yes, Maverick must be flogged until all four legs are straight up.
And just for ol’ times: Heckofajob.
I should add that I’m ambivalent about:
Lipstick on a pig.
ACORN..except in a good way.
Preconditions.
And I’m not so sure about “Track”, even.
How the hell is “main street” not on there?! or “pals around with”?
Oh, and a CA specific item:
“its adam and eve, not adam and steve”
Pfotenhauer is fine with me. I like it when John Stewart says the P.
I know it’s a fifteen way tossup for the top spot but please, please, please move “in the tank” to #1. As a matter of fact, anything said on SNL, just nobody else say it, ok? None of us are funny, none of us are talented, just leave it alone. Except for you, T.
I intend to say “Pfotenhauer” at least ten times a day, myself. I dig the way it rolls off of my tongue.
Surge
My friends
Hard work
Elitist
Ladies and gentlemen (yeah, I’m lookin’ at you Joe B)
I plan to spend the next 5 days watching this. And the 76 days after watching this. Hold my calls please.
And after this:
“bailout”
I’d add “spread the wealth around” — with those dick-finger air quotes and that psychotic look.
Please add Jawbone
Redistribution
Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig
POW
Unfortunately, Pfotenhauer is not going away. Grampa McPain’s campaign has made her more visible than she’s ever been…
Oh, and the interrogative “Hanh? Hanh?”
No more “going rogue” to describe a politician talking rather than an elephant trampling a village.
I really hate “Take the gloves off.” Maybe if boxing weren’t fading into obscurity it would be different. That’s just one of the tiredest political expressions out there (imho).
Phrases I never want to hear after Tuesday:
President (or President-elect) McCain
Vice President (or Vice-President-elect) Palin
Proposition 8 takes effect
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman
Bradley Effect
Hmm, what’s this on your X-ray?
It can happen to anyone
Unfortunately, Pfotenhauer is not going away. Grampa McPain’s campaign has made her more visible than she’s ever been…
She’s slicker than catsup. She will be a guest talking head for the foreseeable future. She has great ability to frame right wing arguments and loudly speed talk over the host.
Cardboard is an excellent and cheap home building material.
While we’re suggesting words and phrases that we don’t want to hear anymore, may I respectfully ask that we rehabilitate the use of the letter ‘g’ on the end of gerunds?
Ya know, “I’m a strait talkin’ and proud walkin’ Joe Sixpack kind of real American…”
I grew up in Joe Sixpack’s house; Mr. and Mrs. Sixpack spent 18 years teaching me to pronounce words properly and fully so that I wouldn’t sound like a doofus every time I opened my mouth.
I would gladly continue to suffer the words and phrases — if only there were some way to delete, scrub, obliterate, purge, and otherwise remove all sight, sound, image, memory of, and reference to Sarah Palin from my own internal database and every external source of sensory information to which I am now or ever hereafter may become exposed.
“Straight Talk” has forever been ruined – it means nothing.
Great list and additions. My contribution: War Hero. Being shot down, crashing numerous airplanes and being BMOC does not a “War Hero” make.
Redistributor!
it means something, just not what it meant originally. now it’s shorthand for lying, selling your soul to the devil, despicable, flip-flopping, irresponsible, ugly, mean-spirited…. what did i leave out?
You forgot PUMA
Please, god if you are listening (we know she isn’t otherwise President Wreak Havoc would never have been foisted on the world twice), send Palin back to Alaaaaskah!
HI long time no see
Uh, I b’lieve “Tucker” belongs right up top.
Thank my lucky stars I don’t have to watch NC sleaze it is bad enough here in CO
http://www.scholarsandrogues.c…..#more-5081
kitchen table
game changer
“champ”
pie
si,se puede
Sarah
Palin
plumber
pallin’ around
associations
that’s not change we can believe in
end game
ground game
on the ground
in the field
And please, let’s put an end to ‘at the end of the day.’
Drill baby drill
Redistributionist
Snow machine
bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Islamofascist
People that want to kill us for our freedom
Surge
Timeline
Closet Muslim.
“bottom line”
The War Hero bullsh*t is one thing. Obama continues to lend credence to McCain’s tortured stance on torture. McCain grandstanded on the torture issue for political expedience, then he turned around and voted with the Republicans in favor of Waterboarding.
Waterboarding used to be called torture back when McCain did without health care or a roof over his head for 5 years. McCain is in favor (by default) of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.
McCain did not take a stand against torture as Obama insists.
Homeland
Best Yard Sign Yet
This picture is just too telling via A. Sullivan -
http://andrewsullivan.theatlan…..age001.jpg
Did anyone say kitchen sink, or throwing things that stick ?
Update. orange Co., FL. Hillary calls it ‘the battleground of the battle ground”.
EV totlas for 2004
Dem 37,604
R 25,595
Other 16,003
TTL 79,202
EV totals for 2008 (thru Wed 10/29)
Dem 53,539
R 20,146
Other 17,041
TTL 90,726
Their turnout will almsot certainly exceed EV 2004. I think it’s good, not great news. More peopl;e have voted every day than the day before. R’s are closing the gap. Ratio of us to them used to be 3-1 but I didn’t think that would hold up. (When I say “us” I mean dems, although the number of “us” who voted for McSame is anybody’s guess. And who knows how the ‘others” are breaking?) Good turnout. Hoping lots of college kids come out on Tuesday. they haven’t so far.
“John McCain”
“Sarah Palin”
“Republican”
Diva
Whack Job
That’s hilarious!
Mayor Sarah
“Circular firing squad” needs to be replaced with “wood chipper”
Great sign. People are wising up.
Broder
Yes , and like all good humor it’s grounded in truth.
yea but that is business speak, not election speak.
namaste
Diva
Whack Job
how ’bout we just put those two in storage?
I have a feeling we may need ‘em again one of these days…
McCain campaign is finally getting it’s act together:
http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..ain-event/
Beware the juggernaut.
Bush (George, George, Jeb, Barbara or any other incarnation)
Cheney
Rumsfeld
Wolfowitz
Condi
Mukasey
Gonzalez
Feith
Khalizad
McCain
Palin
McConnell
Tom Delay
I only want to hear these names if they are in the process of being indicted.
lol…you are right!
I voted on Tuesday. It took about 20 minutes. In and out. There were two black citizens out of 60 voters in the room.
A friend voted on Monday (took over an hour) and another friend voted yesterday and neither saw any blacks voting. Hopefully, many blacks are simply waiting to vote in their precincts on Tuesday. I hope they can all fit.
There are no touch screens in Volusia County except for one at each precinct for blind voters.
Now, this is funny.
http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..-advisers/
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I want to add to the list of things I don’t want to hear;
“fundamentally”..most overused word of the year
In orange, blacks exceeded 2004 a couple days ago. Hispanics too. That turnout has been good. R votes have been chipping away the last 2 days.
same thing in orange re: touchscreens. but all you have to do is say you’re handicapped and they let you use it.
Read your list: From your lips to God’s ear. May I add one? If no one ever accuses me of drinking the “Obama Kool-Aid” again on some comment board, I will be able to die in peace.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri (CNN) – In an effort to address voter concerns that she is not prepared to step in as commander-in-chief, Sarah Palin will meet Thursday in Pennsylvania with a group of the campaign’s national security advisers.
That’ll help. /s No questions will be allowed by reporters. Only the photo spray will be permitted.
Incidentally, Cape Girardeau is the birthplace of one of the world’s biggest Oxycontin and housekeeper abusers – Rush Limbaugh.
Bomb Iran
I mean to say I hope to never hear Bomb Iran again.
Just to be clear.
Thanks TBogg.
digg
I have to run turn the TV off when I hear that. Drives me crackers off a cliff.
For shame, TBogg, stealing material from Res Ipsa Loquitur at Rising Hegemon.
Historical interest only
I would add to your list of phrases we don’t want to hear at all, a list of phrases that we hopefully won’t ever have to hear again ever except for historical interest:
Southern Strategy
Silent Majority
Vietnam War
Values Voters
My fondest hope is that we will be able to inter all of these concepts on November 5. Then we can get down to all of the people’s business that these ideas have kept from being transacted the past 40 years.
My humble offering:
Pundint (seems to be gaining popularity) beyond irritating. Both Stephanopolis and Ellen used it this week.
Pro-abortion (Somebody needs to point out that there is no such movement)
McCain–and all the variations thereof
Seriously, what the hell is a “snow machine?”
Is that some type of hillbilly snowmobile?
There are Rednecks For Obama signs at my local Obama office.
Presser, and not Jackie. Anything or anyone that “rears its head”. Cindy. South Carolina 2000 black love child Karl Rove.
winning in Iraq
goshdarnit
doggonit
get ‘er done
Bad grammar sentences that include a subject and then an extra pronoun as in “John McCain…he.”
Well, kinda . . . that’s what they call snowmobiles up in the Republic of Government Payments (Checkistan? Subsidyland? Eastern Siberia?). Don’t know why. Something in their deep well of history (all 50 years of it) might reveal the secret.
Hey buddy, if you wanna give this post a few more legs, turn it into a meme or something, send it Matt Groening — he publishes a list of banned words every New Year’s. I just wish he’d collect ‘em in a modern American cultural linguistic desk reference or something. With a little luck, maybe Shakira will make the 2009 edition!
Shakira’s Ass will get you for that, Walter..er, um, Mary.
There have been some horribly dishonest, bigoted and mean-spirited people throwing around nasty inferences over the last years. If I ever hear any of the following again it will be too soon:
Bill O’Reilly
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Dittoheads
and all of their ilk
The Maverick, acting as mentor to the Hockey Mom, has had Joe the Plumber thrown under the bus for palling around with the unrepentant terrorist known as the first dude. The bitter and clingy Pfotenhauer, believed to be in the tank for Joe Sixpack, cited the Bradley Effect to describe the syndrome of Joe Lieberman screaming “Raaaaacist!“
I just had to give you that one last time.
add .. ‘the bottom line’ to that list .. eh ??
ohhhh.. give me a home where the buffalo roam .. where the deer and the antelope play …
One More Thing:
George W. Bush.
Please add Chalabi to that list for me.