Ooooooh, now you’ve gone and done it! Right now, Rand is stomping his little tootsies and biting his cuddle blanky cuz everyone is being mean to him.

Another “liberal” journalist tsk-tsking Dems for playing hardball, while the GOP/Teabagger bloc continues to revile our Islamo-homo-commie-Kenyan president.

Fuck you, Chait.

The trouble with Conway’s ad is that it comes perilously close to saying that non-belief in Christianity is a disqualification for public office. That’s a pretty sickening premise for a Democratic campaign.

Sure. But it’s the litmus test for Wingers.

That, and declaring that precious human life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Yeah, and probably the litmus test in KY. Can’t say I’m keen on Conway’s approach here, but god RP is slime, and for some reason off-limits for journalistic interrogation, so I hope Conway hits home with this. Anyone else catch Matthews tonight, worried about Conway and the constitution’s no-religious-test clause? Idiot can’t distinguish the strictures the constitution poses on the state from those it (doesn’t) pose on citizens, including candidates.

Chait’s heard worse around the office. And he knows that if he doesn’t like it he can marry his own heiress and buy the damn magazine.

Are you sure about that ‘not really’ part? I can see KY from my house and some people say Rand covers himself from head to toe in mud when he worships the Aqua Buddha because he believes no one can see him when he does that. That’s the reason they hold their ceremonies near a creek, so’s they can wash off afterwards.

No one who works for Peretz has is allowed to say anything about anyone else’s supposed religious bigotry, ever. Of course the ad in question is not about religious bigotry, but rather about Rand Paul’s religious hypocrisy and lying to the rubes.

Conway is not saying Christian belief is a requirement for office, just calling bullshit on Paul’s claims of being a devout Christian, when he is in fact a Randian with contempt for all other religions.

And I’m not saying that he did. I was just pointing out the simple truth that to get the R(etards) to vote for a candidate, there is a religious test (Protestant, extra points for evangelical). And come to think of it, there is a race test in most cases, too. Oh, and even a raped 12 year old would have to go full term in their viewpoint.

No, there is no Christian belief requirement in the Constitution. We all know that. But the Crazies want their candidates to drink the kool-ade from the dixie cup under a burning spotlight, swearing on a New American Standard Bible as they wave their misspelled signs. Just before they reboard the bus chartered by Dick Armey.

The only religious attack ad that would have any appeal to me would be “Don’t vote for that religious motherfucker! He’s religious!” So I don’t have a dog in this jesus v aqua-buddha fight. But I sure hate Rand Paul, so have at him, Conway, with whatever it takes to send him back to his eye charts.

Chait normally writes decently on economic matters, but the rest, umm….

Also, backtracking to an earlier post he links, here’s Chait:”To me, a candidate whose worldview was shaped by Rand is exactly tantamount to a candidate whose worldview was shaped by Karl Marx.” Yes, because Galt’s Gulch is just as real as a boss exploiting a worker, which has never happened in the history of the world, either.

RP is slime, and for some reason off-limits for journalistic interrogation

The reason being he won’t talk to them any more.

And I saw Matthews today. Had to shout at the tee vee about what an ignorant clown he is.

The purpose of this blog-post comment is to affirm my confirmation of the poster’s essential point. Thank ewe.

Somewhere the Aqua Budda and Flying Spaghetti Monster are playing cards, drinking banana daquiris, and laughing, laughing, laughing, at us silly humans.

I’d agree with Chait on that one in the narrow sense only: that both belief systems require a lack of understanding about human nature. Both require everybody to be good actors. That’s why only folks with faulty brain wiring need apply (at least honestly, anyway. Both belief systems provide magnificent bases for con men).

That’s why checks and balances (back when we had such things) works sooooo much better.

Conway is a poodle to whichever Sears shopper has a bitch if it gets him a vote. He’s a suck-up to the police rackets. His own latest ad shows him as an incompetent and a slave to managers. His original gameplan was to ride to the US Senate on the issue of The Meth Labs Epidemic Oh My.

Paul called BS on the issue. Conway gets stuck in permanent huddle. Finally issues an ad befitting lowland Scotland of 1680. Ultra-Dem Chris Matthews threatens Conway with the clown pole on teevee. To be continued, be it ever so fucking over for Conway heh-heh, the mincing puke.

PS. Nice oblique, muddying things with the neocon links a bit. :-)

The trouble with Conway’s ad is that it comes perilously close to saying that non-belief in Christianity is a disqualification for public office. That’s a pretty sickening premise for a Democratic campaign.

Notice the qualification: “for a Democratic campaign”. It’s par for the course for very many Repig campaigns, but you’ll wait a damn long time for anyone in the Village to criticize them for it. Repigs are like the feral dogs that everyone expects to behave badly, but Dems are expected to be nice and polite while they get mauled.

I agree with that narrow sense you describe – the silly notion that any system with unaccountable power will work well, whether or not those in power claim to be working for the common man and woman, the glory of Mother Russia, etc. But the power dynamics are what’s important, not the rhetoric. While Marx largely fails at the prescriptive game (Naomi Klein’s described this well), as a diagnostician he still has value. Chait does favor more progressive (responsible) economics from what I’ve seen, but that line bugs me for several reasons. One, it smacks of the usual false equivalencies by the “serious” centrist-to-conservative chattering class. Two, most of the people who demonize Marx the most tend to be zealous champions of exploitation, just as long as they call it capitalism and they’re in power. Three, it’s horrendous that economic policies to the right of Eisenhower, Nixon and in some cases even Reagan have been demonized as socialism. So often, it’s a major battle just to get to a reality-based discussion of policy, let alone implement good, common sense measures. (Incidentally, Gingrich has attacked Obama as a socialist and also praised China’s economic approach – no irony there, no sirree!)

So we can assume that you believe Randy Pandy is an unabashed galtard übermensch who deserves to win because it’s right and proper for a galtard übermensch to lie to the dumbfolks of Kentucky about being a God-fearin’ true believer?

Gotcha.

Seriously. What the fuck is up with his hair?
I think Star Trek covered that in “The Trouble With Tribbles”