My God! Bazillions of commonsense conservatives!1! Waiting overnight1! For Sayrah Palin!1!1

Also. Ben Bernanke.

Sweet jeebus, do these people have velcro on their shoes? Shoelaces must just continually confuse the fuck out of them.

Grew up in Grand Rapids. Was smart enough to leave circa 1982. Dunno how TBogg tolerates San Diego.

Go to hell TBogg, every lefty poli-blog I read has that goddman abomination front=paged and I aint gonna fucking watch it. No way, no how, because I gots me some goddamn commonsensical.

Isn’t “Clueless Sarah Palin Supporter” redundant?

I stopped the video right after I heard the words “She was by far the most qualified to hold that office today.”

Did Noron drop the mic after that or did she clobber him with it?

“See all those people lined up to buy Mama’s book, Triggy? Well you’re smarter than every one of them.”

EssJay, I got out of GR around 79. For. Evah. Grew up in a Dutch Reformed neighborhood. Oy. What a bunch of f**k*d up wankers. Thousands lined up to see Sarah Palin? Not surprising.

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“She’s a fresh breath of air.” Uh huh.

Btw, I take it the dude means he’s mouth breathing Sarah Palin.

Michigan’s employed worked. Michigan’s unemployed looked for work. Michigan’s unemployables lined up for Palin.

The MSM have gone all Faux Noise in their ubiquitous, wall to wall, non-stop , bring the stupid coverage of this untreated borderline personality.

Many of the people who cover MSNBC and CNN during the day are mentally in sync with Palin.

I’d put her chances of winning the Extremist party primary right up there with the Titanic, Nixon, and David Duke.

She does show though, that you can be compellingly stupid and still make some money if you tap into a compellingly stupid fan base, even if you have to pay Harcourt Brace $7.5 on the top to get some wingnut twit to write your fictional novelette.

And but also.

I guess they were lucky to find two out of the millions waiting in line that were able to answer those really really hard liberal elite media gotcha questions. Commonsense Wolverines?

Noron’s internal monologue near the end:

Jesus Christ, I can’t believe I agreed to do this. These people are about as sharp as a bowl of lime jello. With extra bananas in the middle.

Now officially done with anything related to this topic. It’s like a mental carpet-bombing campaign, I’m digging deep and going fetal.

This makes me long for an extinction event, like a large meteor hitting the planet. The only other time I felt this way was after watching a TV show about child beauty pageants.

“like a nun, with her head in the oven”

One man’s breath of fresh air is another man’s stench of rotting middle american culture.

Yep. “[...] You get a sense of some of Sarah Palin’s supporters here. [...]” As in: wouldya lookit these mouth breathing cretins and just marvel at the fact that they are even able to stand upright.

I loved that clip. Made me feel really smart. Made my pet rock feel like goddamn rocket scientist…

Stop! My brain is leaking out my ears!

As Lennie Briscoe would say – “These folks couldn’t pick the winner in a one-horse race.”

Hooray for live TV!

It’s like “The People of Wal-Mart”– only with chunks of dead trees under their arms, instead of gallon jars of dill pickles or 12-packs of Twinkies.

The Onion has a great piece on people who think they know the Constitution:

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
http://www.macnn.com/reviews/photo-mechanic.html

Folks like this are entirely defined by what liberals double-dog-dare them into doing.

Liberal: Surely you don’t support cutting taxes for the richest 1% when so many of the rest of us are struggling.

Republican base: Oh yes we do!

Liberal: Our military is stretched really thin. Don’t you think we should roll back the aggression and try more diplomacy with North Korea and Iran?

Republican base: Diplomacy is for pussies. Bomb ‘em all!

Liberal: But you don’t support torture, right? No civilized people can support torture.

Republican base: We can! Torture is great! And it’s not torture anyway!

Liberal: Sarah Palin has a certain charm, but wow. She’s not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, is she.

Republican base: Sarah Palin for president!

Liberal: Oh well, we won’t even mention gun control, then.

Republican base: OBAMA’S TRYIN’ TO TAKE OUR GUNS!!! BUY MORE AMMO!!

I wonder if O’Donnell wants to ask: “If it were PROVEN that you are wrong about any of this, would you change your mind?” Such a question might slap them upside the head like a Zen koan and strike them as “not making sense,” but it would be fun to watch.

I haven’t seen that many old white people in one place since the last time I wandered into a Dennys before 6pm.

I wonder where Crazy Ranty Blonde Lady is these days. Was she waiting in line at one of these bookstores, wearing all of her Palinalia? Was she waiting in line at all of them? Was she banned from being within 1000 yards of Palin after repeatedly mailing Sarah her unwashed underwear? Or did she have a moment of clarity and either kill herself or dedicate her life to making up for being a national bozo? One wonders.

Nice work y’all.

Oh, but we are so smart, unlike those poor schmucks in San Diego (or Grand Rapids). How can they even tie their shoelaces? they are a bunch of no-hopers.

In the meantime, our progressive ass gets kicked from here to sunday and we wonder what happened.

It is one thing to pick on dickheads like Erick Erickson, gun-counter Gomer and Jonah – they are truly pricks with pretentions of intellect. But the people standing in line to hear Sarah Palin? they are no more smitten by her than the folks who camp out overnight for a ticket to a U2 concert.

These are ordinary folks who have been told that people like us are slapping them down. And here we are, re-inforcing our oh so superior intellect by calling them names.

I just saw this video for the first time, but this morning I was listening to Glenn Beck and he was ripping Noron to shreds for this interview. So I’m thinking, wow, Noron must have really been ignorant to the folks. Now that I’ve seen it, WTF?

Obviously, the new rule is: if you are interviewing Bible Spice or any of her supporters, do not ask policy questions. If you do, you are one of those hateful libruls in the drive-by media. Just that simple.

When the right-wing stops ridiculing me, as a liberal, and stops blaming liberals for everything that is wrong with this country, despite the last 8 years under Bush/Cheney, then I will stop calling them stupid. Maybe. Okay?

Here in Eu-taw, we just had…[drum roll...] Joe the dipshit! That’s right, he is still coasting on his 15 minutes of fame, and as could be expected, he was welcomed as a hero, at least by the arch-disciples of wingnuttia (of which there are a lot in Utah). Here’s the link to the article:

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_13816690

complete with pictures of one woman–herself a gun-lovin’, gawd-fearin’, gay-hatin’ wingnut, Janalee Tobias–holding a sign saying “Joe is my hero!” He was here to stump for a reich-winger woman who is challenging Sen. Bob Bennett in the rethug primary for re-election, because Bennett is–I kid you not–too liberal. The repube primaries in Utah are a black hole of wingnuttia, so very dense with self-righteousness and anger and victimhood and Jeebus that they suck the very light out of the sky.

Concern troll is concerned.

Then I must be a concern troll, too. Your retort strikes me as very juvenile. cynick is making a very good point. Civil discourse is not a contest to see who can insult our neighbors the best.

We can’t even make nice with Palin’s supporters? Expressing concern for the effects of our name-calling makes one a troll? How childish this seems to me.

I just read this piece by John Pilger. Imagine the magnanimity of Israelis who seek to make peace with Palestinians, even after losing a child to a suicide bomber. And we can’t even try to understand our political opponents?

Excerpted from “The Last Taboo,” June 07, 2006 By John Pilger
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/3769

Rami and Nurit are among the founders of the Parents’ Circle, or Bereaved Families for Peace, which brings together Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost loved ones. They include the families of suicide bombers. They jointly organise educational campaigns and lobby politicians to begin serious negotiations. When I met Rami, they had just placed one thousand coffins outside the United Nations building in New York, each draped in an Israeli or Palestinian flag. ‘Our aim’, he said, ‘is not to forget or forgive the past, but to find some way of living together.’

I asked him: ‘How do you distinguish the feelings of anger you must have felt as a father at losing your daughter from the feeling of wanting to reach out?’

‘Very simple. I am a human being; I am not an animal. I lost my child, but I didn’t lose my head. Thinking and acting from the guts only increases an endless circle of blood. You have to think: our two peoples are here to stay; neither will evaporate. We have to compromise in some way. And you do that by the head, not by the guts.’

‘Have you made contact with the parents of the suicide bomber who killed Smadar?’

‘That was tried once; someone wanted to make a film about it, but I wasn’t interested. I am not crazy; I don’t forget, I don’t forgive. Someone who murders little girls is a criminal and should be punished, and to be in personal contact with those who did me wrong, it’s not the point. So you see, I sometimes have to fight myself to do what I’m doing. But I’m sure what I’m doing is right. I certainly understand that the suicide bomber was a victim the same as my girl was. Of that, I am sure.’

How’s that for generosity of spirit? How’s that for defeating hate with compassion? The pettiness on this thread amazes me.

Palinites are still our fellow Americans, still our neighbors, despite our fundamental disagreements. Hating on them just fights arson in our own house with arson.