Shorter NotKristol:
In the great tradition of "who would win in a fight between Superman and Mighty Mouse", Dick Cheney versus Barack Obama would have been wicked cool and afterward we could go back to what we are doing today: giving everyone a pass on torture. Cool beans!





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HA! All loaf…no meat.
Just think how much this 29 year-old with no real accomplishment, skill, or experience gets paid. Certainly much more than it would take to get Marcy Wheeler a full-time gig here.
It took a minute to make sure Douchehat’s excretion wasn’t tongue-in-cheek. I mean, DeadEye Cheney left office with a 13% approval rating (one poll said 9%):
http://nanovirus.blogspot.com/…..rcent.html
So bizarre.
So that’s what passes for conservative commentary these days. Just write whatever crazy shit you can think of, and somebody, anybody, even the NYT will run it as “serious” journalism.
Still Shorter Douthat: “I am stoned out of my fucking mind!”
Yeah, but just think. Instead of “Hail to the Chief” we could have the Darth Vader theme play each time president Cheney showed up.
Dum dum dum, dum dum dum dum dum dummmmmmmmmmm.
Then his pacemaker would give out, then Palin would be president and we could hear HER theme song:
Dumb dumb dumb, dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dummmmmmmmmmmb.
Sorry.
He writes like a man terrified of the Chunky Reese Witherspoon Succubus.
I could just about live with the Imperial March as the president’s theme if it was this version.
That fantasy camp election would have distilled the GOP to a purity rivaled only by the Club For Growth or the Shakers.
What’s the NY Times supposed to do? They want to show balance — which is a good thing. Is it their fault that finding conservative voices is difficult, that the best they can do is someone who produces tripe like this?
This puts conservatism in a bad light more than the NY Times. I am confident that Douthat’s ramblings will be as helpful to the conservative cause as David Brooks’ have been (is he even considered “conservative” any more?).
So shorter Douchehat is that if the Repubs ran Cheyney, it would have produced some sort of high colonic of self awareness, cleansing the bowels of the party and helping them leap forward? Please. Boener, Cantor, and the New and Improved Newt are out there shouting Move To The Right! and the lemmings are eating it up. The right won’t be happy until the party is reduced to three 92 year-old white guys sitting in lawn chairs on a corner in Mobile, Alabama waving confederate flags and making Freedom Poopy in their Depends.
Douthat might have a point if Cheney weren’t a repellent, widely distrusted public figure with a perpetual snarl on his face, who lacks the charisma of cockroach. If Cheney as presidential candidate had gone down to an even greater defeat than McCain last November, the hard righters would have blamed it all on Cheney’s persona rather than his policies. Lesson learned: Next time run that attractive hockey mom who’s governor of Alaska. But don’t change a thing about Republican ideas, because really, that’s the middle in American politics. Ignore the voters and the polls.
DoucheHat has managed the impossible. He makes Bloody Billy KKKristol seem sane and thoughtful by comparison.
My current Beatles-brain-virus is looping, “Because I told you before/No, I can’t Douthat…”
But before the Cheny v. Obama match could have gone down, we would’ve had to have the McCain v. Cheney primary contest. Senator POW against Darth Chickenhawk. That would’ve been so much fun to watch play out in the hinterlands.
And, of course, good for John McCain.
John McCain is one of triplets? Who knew?
I had highish expectations. I thought there would be a point. I read. I read again. No point. Whatsoever. Makes me feel sorry for the little fellow.
Hah! Me too.
Tripe is expensive these days, it’s a delicacy apparently. Unfortunately Douthat and people of his ilk think their big pay means they are big thinkers and good writers. Nah, just means their good suckers.
Actually, Douthat’s column was pretty good, as what he’s implying is that Cheney would have had his ass kicked and then the GOP wouldn’t be able to say the loss was because of McCain’s weak campaigning and that a “real Republican would have won.”
Kristol says Specter’s switch good for the GOP:
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…..inionsbox1
Hahahaha.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Wrong again, as always, Bill “the Legacy” KKKristol.
I couldn’t stop laughing while I read this piece. Remember kids, Douthat is the sane Republican pundit.
Douchehat was Steve Sailer’s buttbuddy for years and years before he got a sniff of the NYT job… and then he threw Sailer away like a piece of used Kleenex. Which greatly overstates Sailer’s worth, but points to the truth that Douchehat is all about ambition.
If you want a good laugh, check out Ross’s suck-up piece about skinny-dipping with William F. Buckley. Such vapid toadyism is a rare thing, but not for Ross.
I thought drugs weren’t legal in the US.
I-Doubt-It probably drinks grape-flavored Dimetapp for Children and achieves the same effect.
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And yelling at the “moderates” to “get off our lawn.”