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Erick the Red State goes on the warpath:
RedState is pleased to announce it is engaging in a special project: Operation Leper.
We’re tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.
We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.
It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.
They’ll just have to be stuck at CBS with Katie’s failed ratings.
P.S. – Did I ever tell you how RedState was able to stock Gov. Palin’s campaign plane with twenty of these?. We were glad to. And we were glad not to mention it at the time. We are rooting for Sarah Palin. Don’t make us add you to our list. Do you really want to be next to Kathleen Parker in the leper colony?
I would strongly advise all Republican operatives to avert their eyes in shame and quake in fear. Once, you know, you quit rolling your eyes and making a jerk-off motion with a closed fist because Erick’s not fucking around! He got coffee mugs on Sarah Palin’s airplane. That’s right…coffee mugs, bitches, and she had Secret Service protection. Do the math.
You are so dead meat.
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How long before they lose interest in this? Do they really want to hitch their hopes for 2012 to Caribou Barbie?
And wow. Coffee mugs. Impressive.
I fully encourage this. Those Republican operatives better tremble in their boots! Palin 2012! 2016! Palin today, tomorrow, forever!
I’ll get them started: one has a name that sounds like “Hick-hole Walrus.” Attack! Wolverines!
One quibble: wouldn’t Joe the Plumber use a plunger or wrench?
Coffee mugs. I thought I couldn’t smile any more today, but that does it. These people are impressed at their ability to contribute twenty coffee mugs and proud now that they didn’t, like, brag about it at the time.
You can’t make up funnier stuff than this.
Michelle Malkin, the go to gal for smearing, stalking, and slander, is outraged. Uh huh.
Imagine coming to the defense of a grifter and a person who didn’t know Africa is a continent. Like Pam Atlas, Michelle has no meaningful life.
You have just put your finger on the reason why Joe wasn’t actually making $250K a year in the plumbing business, and didn’t actually have a plumbing license. He was a little. . . tool challenged. He should do great, though, in his new career as a country music artiste and charitable website entrepreneur.
I hope someone is preserving this stuff for the 2010 and 2012 elections, because they’re only going to get “better” with age.
Not to yank the rug out from under the bold Republican commissars at Red State or to dampen their plans for a purge or anything –shine on you crazy diamonds!–but aren’t all the people who worked on the “Crash” McCain campaign already political lepers? Didn’t they just lose a major campaign to a “socialist muslim community organizer?”
And this is only Day 1. I can’t wait to see what’s left of this awesome crusade by Day 852. I’m betting they’ll be threatening everyone outside the Red-State Castle with matching soap dishes and hand-towels. “Red State: Cleaning up for Bristol”
It was operation leper over there long before anyone dared to suggest that Palin couldnt name all the countries in North America.
I love Galaxy Quest.
Sarah Palin is the 100 Year Egg of politics.
Haven’t they got better things to do, like embracing their current crusade against the gays? After all, gay is the new
niggerblack.i love this comment, in a thread about why people in the McCain camp would’ve leaked this information:
yeah. who cares if the VP is a blithering idiot, dangerously unfit for the office? you don’t cross the Party!
CountryParty First!Didn’t Michelle Malkin also stock the Palin plane with Japanese Rising Sun Internment urinal cakes?
You are so wrong to scoff at the coffee mug placement. No one is more receptive to the accumulation of goods paid for by others than the Palin clan, and RedState knows it.
I’ll tidy that up a bit. And if they are lepers, what does that make the guy who’s been in the WH the last 7 years 9 1/2 months?
Don’t Saks and Neiman Marcus sell coffee mugs?
I’m sure this will turn out to be just the same shining success that their last great political project did – that “I AM JOHN DOE” thing.
I sent Deadhate an e-mail encouraging them to fully embrace the stinking cadaver of Palinism.
I hope that they run into her waiting arms, it’ll make them much easier to ridicule.
-G
God this is fun.
If the Red Staters had been aboard the Titanic they’d be lashing themselves to the anchor for safety.
Oh God, why would I hitch myself to the falling star of Katie Couric when I could be in the good graces of the
millionshundreds of thousandsthousandshundreds dozens of Red State denizens?Speaking of teh awesome right wing community, whatever happened to the groundswell support for the #dontgo movement?
Remember: “#dontgo is positioned to be the event that at last restores Republicans to where they should be in the House.”
So said Patterico back in August. It’s was to be the Last Stand of the House GOP against all the evils of cheap energy or something like that. It looked more like a slumber party, but…
Since August, however, they’ve pretty much had the “botox” announcement (“#dontgo Movement is going through a face lift and modification to prepare for the next stage of the online movement. ACTION CENTER COMING SOON!.”) notice on their site.
I guess the wingnut braintrust decided that handing out free coffee mugs to Bible Spice was a much more efficient and kick-ass way of sticking it to the man.
Galaxy Quest reference FTW!
And, you know, I am just very slightly tempted to get one of those mugs, in the best “Dewey Beats Truman” tradition. If only it said “Vice-President Palin” on it…
I love the sound of wingnuts hyperventilating and self-destructing. It sounds like victory!
PaulBeard:
God, I hope so. Cause that’s gonna be comedy nirvana.
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This is Malkin in fine form:
[Palin] vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy.
Hear!-Hear!
Nothing speaks to the sanctity of life like a vigorous defense of that which ends it.
Nah, they’ll threaten the proper way: with the COMFY CHAIR!!!
Dontcha just think that perhaps the “charity” that received some of those missing clothes bought on DEMAND by Palin with staffers credit cards might just be Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Laura N-Gram, and Pammy Atlas.
BTW I heard that “JoeThePlumber.org” is now a charity…he likely got some hand-me-down Bruno Maglis from Todd on that shopping spree.
We need to encourage them on this “purging” of the party. Like a crazed bulemic they will continue to expel any diversity and somewhat rational elements from their party until they stand alone and isolated in the wilderness. That’s not to say that they won’t need to be watched…as they are likely to get violent at some point, as frustrated wingnuts often do.
Too funny. I actually wrote the following 14 months ago but didn’t publish at the time. Seems specially relevant in lieu of both the attempt to ‘brand’ honest people who see through the Palin bullsquat as lepers. My suggestion is, as my thoughts at the time wil show, to brand the REPUBLICANS as the LEPERS…to wit:
W
thetimchannel.com is up and running.
Enjoy.
Look on my coffee mugs, ye mighty, and despair!
This is going to look like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge with more conservatives falling as the definition of purity becomes more rigorous. At the end, they’ll be expelling anyone with a high school diploma.
“Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away”
Teh Stupid, it burns!
Yeah, good luck with that – but more power to ya!
I want to know more about the tracking – I hear radio collars are effective, or maybe subcutaneous RFID tags…
The title to the post almost made me snort my coffee out my nose. Great stuff!
The actual quote from “Galaxy Quest” starts “By Grapthar’s hammer…” Perhaps TBogg left it that way as a sign of his personal integrity…or not.
They’ll go to war against those candidates, WAR I tell ya! As long as there’s no guns or enlistment or actual danger involved, but it will be WAR! WAR! They aren’t kidding this time!
[yaaawwwwwnnnnn].
Hey, I’ve heard this one before; it’s the RedState rendition of
MuddMugg Clubb:Imagine the angst going on in the career guidance office down to Regent University! Word is that our President-Elect actually is going to hire people with real, actual qualifications. No more Johnny B. Goodlings!
I did pause before I shelled out for several 17-ounce glasses with the Obama logo that Buzzflash was selling as a fund-raiser. Just had a feeling that those glasses would be around until they all got broken. Now that Redstate has made the Mug Club, I can announce that my Obamaware is the official Big Gulp here at Casa Biscuitbarrel. Look upon my glassware, ye righties, and despair!
“These few”? Don’t be modest, Eric. This kind of epic fail took more than just a few operatives to pull off.
so RedState teabags Kristol. who knew ?
He’s not kidding? Tell me he’s kidding because no adult could not be that juvenile.
I prostrate myself in awe. I have seen any number of spectacular snarky comments all over the internets toobz but this may be the best. Short, concise, and funny enough that my insurance company may have to sue you to pay for the doctor who’s going to have to use an endoscope to get the beer out of my sinuses… BRAVO!!!
You need to remember that their reps in Congress have “seersucker Tuesday” – or whatever day it is. “G”
Well, actually it’s “seersucker Thursday” and there’s an honest to gawd reason for it. Of course the most recent lot turned it into shit, just like they turned everything else they ever were within 150 yards of into shit…
If Sarah runs in 2012, Obama can sit out the campaign and get on with the main monkey business.
/Doffs hat
Thank you!
You’re more than welcome! (Living where I do I actually have a summer seersucker bedspread.)
I think we all need to start praying to whatever deity we may be minimally familiar with that not only does Sarah run in 2012 but that she picks [DRUM ROLL] Joe The Plumber as her Veep pick.
Erick got mugged on AirPalin.
Everyone had those when I was growing up in the south and I loved them. I think the Vermont Country Store has them.
The reason I insisted on one is because I had one as a child in the summer in NYC without air conditioning. I got mine from Orvis because I think they may have been a buck or two cheaper… Love it, love it, love it.
funny, when I hear ‘mug’ and ‘Palin’ in the same sentence, my first association is something along these lines.
No spew alert? And me with a beer mug in my hand? For shame….
be the first on your block to get a Palin 2012 bumper sticker.
sorry, didn’t know you had any beer left after the brilliant Titanic anchor.
OOOOOOHHH….. Fabulous!!!! All of my Christmas shopping is now taken care of!
I recover quickly, and I didn’t have a mouthful then!
blogging beer bongs!
ohhhhhhhh tbogg!!!!
you never fail to make me laugh..
from your post–red state says–Don’t make us add you to our list. Do you really want to be next to Kathleen Parker in the leper colony?
ummmmmm, how many of them aren’t going to be at the leper party? the 20 with the red state mugs. and their full of fear leader.
and tbogg, been gone a while, has anyone mentioned that joe the plumber got out of a speeding ticket in toledo? cops were afraid it would cause a backlash if they gave him a ticket, no kidding, was on the columbus news the other night..more perks for the fear-mongering faithful.
These Goopers aren’t broken people for nuthin’. Gawd this is SO FUN!
Everyone should jump on the Palin bandwagon. Organize, post blogs, troll conservative sites that don’t see the wisdom of Fraulein Palin and wise them up and editorials all praising her as the only salvation of the republican party. Hell register as Repugs and make sure she’s the ONE chosen in your district. If they want to beg for rope to hang themselves we should only be too happy to oblige. Is there anyway FDL could make some dough with a classy Palin 2012 mug and fund causes around the country.
The “slow learner” in the 12-step program?
Best part about RFID tags is that you don’t even have to hunt the wingnuts down and implant the chips to track ‘em; just wait until they stock up on liquor at Wal-Mart, then tap into their frequency!
The Vermont Country Store has everything, I swear. And if they don’t, write them and they will get it for you. Half-forgotten perfumes, regional candy, extra-long socks… I really hate to go shopping and over the years have bought thousands of bucks worth of stuff from them, including such essential minutiae as shower-curtain hooks.
They recently started selling Lemon-Up shampoo. I bought some, opened it, and it was 1971 all over again. I was much better able to handle it this time around.
Lemon Up shampoo!~Thanks, I loved that stuff.
The best part about those mugs is how they managed to screw up a three-word sentence. Comma before a direct address is basic, basic stuff. It’s how we distinguish between “Eat, my friends” and “Eat my friends”. It should – of course – be “Congratulations, Governor Palin”
Or maybe you’re supposed to read it as “Red State Congratulations Governor Palin”, in which case they just invented a new verb.
Either way, it shows their firm command of the English language. Not unlike Palin’s, come to think of it.