Comments on: SexyBack

By: discoclark66

discoclark66 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:43:05 +0000

I guess I’m out of it, but why “the alternative” link to the “To Wong Foo, From Julie Newmar” movie website?

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:05:56 +0000

Well, this just tells me that we as individuals need to be doin’ some edumacation of our fellow travelers, so we can KEEP them as fellow travelers. Fight back against the noise machine!

By: cowalker

cowalker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:28:01 +0000

Oh yes! Yesyesyes!!!! Say earmarks again. Say it low and sort of growly. Oh Yes!! Then say “trickle down,” and say it like you meant it! Then say “women’s health” with your eyebrows raised and don’t forget the sarcastic air quotes. Do it again! Doitagaindoitagaindoitagain!!! Then tell us how same sex marriage will lead to people marrying dogs and box turtles. Oooooh, that’s so sophisticated!!!! Oh, Republicans I cannot resist your sexy sexiness, your exciting, daring perspective on life, your impetuous embrace of all the big issues that will determine whether America solves its problems or sinks into a country dominated by a rich few but populated mainly by poor and desperate people on a globe dying from pollution.

By: littlestgator

littlestgator — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:18:09 +0000

conservatives are romanticizing Regan the same way that liberals like car-evil mcawful and paul nose picker romanticized Clinton.

By: gmoke

gmoke — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:56:30 +0000

Oh, the “liberals” will help bring the Republicans back.

Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster, was at Harvard recently and mentioned a poll question he used which posited that eliminating FAW (fraud, abuse, waste) would balance the budget. I objected to the premise of the question, pointing out that over half the Fed budget was military, another good portion was Soc Sec and Medicare, another good portion was debt service, and what was left was all discretionary spending, probably less than 10%. Everybody in the room knew this was true and everybody in the room laughed at me when I brought it up. The economist Richard Parker exclaimed, “Everybody knows that 60% of the budget is foreign aid!” and Hart used the old saw about Adlai Stevenson (”Oh, Mr Stevenson, all the smart people will vote for you.” “Unfortunately, Madam, I need a majority.”) to counter my objections.

The political establishment, the academic establishment have bought into Republican ideas and are not really interested in facts and objective reality. That’s much too hard to deal with.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:47:15 +0000

The triumph of symbolism over substance. That’s the beauty of marketing.

By: Ferrari

Ferrari — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:41:16 +0000

Begging pardon, but how exactly does an ideology that fears and loathes sex and sexual identity make itself sexy?

By: MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel

MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:26:22 +0000

This gives me enormous sympathy for my son, editor of a Great Big College Newspaper (not Ohio State’s), that occasionally runs piece-of-sh*t stuff like Justin’s. I have assured him that this is preparation for a career in the MSM–why, just look, my son, if you can bear it, at Bill Kristol!

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:38:18 +0000

There is a phase in the failure of every great business enterprise when the geniuses in marketing get put in control because hell, nothing else has worked yet so might as well try this.

I am so enjoying this.

By: TheRealityBasedDave

TheRealityBasedDave — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:19:48 +0000

Ya beat me to it, but I don’t mind being redundant.

We don’t have to dumb down our agenda or abandon our principles for populist rhetoric,…

#1-It is impossible to make the republican agenda dumber.
#2-They don’t have any principles.

In addition, the republican party was only “sexy” in the way a 90yr old millionaire geezer is sexy. Or, sexy like a reviled sports team that starts doing well. Everyone is a fan of the winner.