Things Only A Republican Can Believe

[Lindsey Buckinghmof]

I don't feel sympathetic. Republicans like Inglis and Tom Campbell really talk the talk, but when the votes roll around in Congress? They vote like the money and hate radio tells them to vote. So fuck'em. I actually can't stand that flavor of hypocrisy.

[mo]

I would feel sympathy even for Bush, if he were to lose to a teabagger. Anyone, really. To lose that race is losing to idiocracy. I can't put it in words. It has nothing to do with Inglis, his history or beliefs or stance on the issues - I know little about him, and what I read in that article wasn't very flattering. It's just that to be beaten by such a group is so degrading.

[Lindsey Buckinghmof]

I've just spent the last day or two cruising Fark threads because I hate myself and I hate humanity. And ... it's justified. THERE IS SO MUCH STUPID. AAAAAAAH. I mean consider this: WHIDBEY is the only funny and insightful poster I've seen. WHIDBEY!

Anyway, there's a chode in every thread. And they make the teabaggers look like, hell, I don't know, Earl Warren.

[random axe]

WAT.  I make tons of jokes over there.

Also get into a lot of arguments.    But it's good for the circulation.

[dogbone]

How are terror babbys formed?

[random axe]

  Someone I know was recently amazed and horrified at the report that allegedly 8% of babies in the US have at least one illegal parent.

I was like "How does that compare historically?"

Oh, er, hmm.  Yeah, he didn't know if that's actually more or less than usual.

Anyway, he wanted to do away with the Born Here rule, so I said, OK, when you graduate high school, you take a citizenship test.  Oh, that's not a good idea either?

Picky!

[dogbone]

A denizen of another site regarding the terror toddlers story: "The fucking GOP is like a crackhead; always looking out of their blinds thinking someone is coming to get them."

[dogbone]

I will abandon my support of the mosque near Ground Zero when those against said mosque agree that the church where George Tiller was murdered should become a Burlington Coat Factory.

[random axe]

So . . . now the House GOP is going to unveil a "Pledge to America" that explains what they promise they'll do if they win back control after this election.

Uh-huh.  I guess the real question is whether or not their base is stupid enough to forget when they did this before as the "Contract with America" . . . and stupid enough to forget that it was a huge, fat lie.

This is really sad.  They've abandoned Karl Rove to go back to Newt Gingrich?  Come on, man.  The Democrats are in worse disarray than ever, the Tea Party is making the Right Wing look moderate, and THIS is the best you can do?

It's not that I want them to win.  It's just that if they do win, I'd like to be able to believe they have some small sliver of competence, but I guess I won't have that luxury.  Hoping harder than ever that they lose . . . .

[Psidefect]

Not sure if only a republican could believe that we've created mice with human brains, but this one does:

Christine O'Donnell ~ Mice with human brains!

The fact that people actually listen to this moron is the most disturbing thing.

[random axe]

She's not exactly a Republican, but . . . yeah, a moron.

A lot of people I know got much too excited over the actual research, which just showed that you could suppress a particular gene and improve cognitive plasticity in mice.  They learn a little faster and seem to remember longer, although it's too soon to tell if they're effed up in some other respect.  Several people have told me they're eager to try the same therapy.

But, I mean, seriously, Flowers For Algernon, anyone?  It's like exactly this.

[Psidefect]

Wait, she's not exactly a republican?

She's still running as one, though, right?

[random axe]

The GOP's attitude is that she's an annoying insect who probably can't win the election, but they'll back the only horse they have in that race, if not entirely graciously.  The 'real' Republican she beat in the primary refused to endorse her.  She's a (former?) Fox News employee and Tea Party darling, but she's a radical nutbag, and the party knows it.

Frankly, I think a lot of the GOP insiders would love to see her -- and most of the Palin and Tea Party candidates -- get beaten like a bag of rented chumps.  In the first place, they want to obstruct Obama, not steer him, since they don't want get blamed for being in charge during these ugly times.  Beyond that, it's so much easier to sabotage and then lay blame than to actually fix things.  If the Teabaggers get into office in a big way, then suddenly the GOP will be expected to get big results, which is difficult at best and probably unrealistic.

In the second place, these people aren't much more popular with the mainline Republicans than they are with anyone else.  The Teabaggers attack the GOP mainstays much more viciously than the Dems would ever have the backbone for.  And they're hard to control and have unworkable goals.  They're no one's friends, really.  And for similar reasons, not many people in the GOP are big fans of Sarah Palin, either.  Every time she endorses some juicebag who fails to get elected, there are as many GOP senators celebrating as Democrat, I guarantee it.

[Psidefect]

Gotcha.

And I agree. She just seems to me to be within the insanity envelope for the GOP these days.

I guess it pretty much boils down to who's definitions you go by.

[random axe]

There's some bitterness over all of this in the GOP, and while it's sort of justified, it's also really stupid.

Time and again, there are people who stir up a riot with the rather naive assumption that they'll also become its leaders and beneficiaries.  When it turns out that, gosh, it's hard to control a riot, and the revolution picks other crazy heroes, the original instigators who presumed too much are always indignant and surprised.  All the way up to the guillotine, I'm sure.