Can’t wait for the court date. This is going to make the Simpson trial look like community theater.

If Jennifer don’t fit, you must acquit!

I think he may be remembering a time when he sat on the floor, part of a circle comprised of himself and admiring younger conservatives, and heard them chant, “Pull it, sir! Pull it, sir.”

“I happen to believe that was the primary factor in my decision in 2008.”

And while anybody is entitled to their opinion, he’s in a better position (after playing it over, and over, and over, in his head) to say what the hell caused him to do what he did. So as absurd as it sounds, he “happens to believe” it, because otherwise, he would have to pull down the garage door and turn on the ignition.

So, I guess in Ben’s mind, Jimmy Carter went along on the failed Iran rescue mission, ordered subordinates not to bother him with any complications learned after the initial approval, and only thus thus deserved full credit/blame for the results of the mission. Shapiro’s concept of leadership must come from Ben Stiller movies.

I’m sure Fallon will invite legitimate candidates Romney, Paul, and Gingrich (who will have to accept the offer quickly). But since Romney now supports the Obama position on student loan interest rates, should’t the opposite point of view be espoused in a slow jam with Virginia Foxx?

Scowcroft’s article in the NY Times, at the time all the trumpets were sounding to invade Iraq, provided one of the few sane voices arguing that the new Bush doctrine made no sense and would prove disasterous. It included the theme, “I don’t know Dick Cheney” anymore. Scowcroft was a salmon going up-stream against the invasion and, I took him to be speaking for the elder George Bush against the fact that his idiot son had been kidnapped by neocons.

Keep up the good work Tbogg. I appreciate you and your regular commentors very much.

When Romney was in Mississippi, trying to be “down with” southerners, and said he “had cheesy grits,” I thought he meant that Haley Barbour had visited him.

“Nothing turns off young people more than pretending to be ‘down with the youth’ as it were.”

And I feel pretty sure youth were turned off by Jonah trying to be “down with” them, even when he was one. I’m sure he’s pretty much shunned by any group he pretentds to be “down with” to this very day. Romney may be also, but doesn’t know it and doesn’t care except to the extent it effects his immediate goal.

Continetti always impressed me as one badass hombre; the kind of guy who probably has a bullet thumb drive. I can visualize the ceremony when Kristol issued Matt his bullet. Now he’s got something to put in his bandalier.

His cars are people too, my friend.

We dont need “daddy” corrupt political party and their corrupt fake politicians to brainwash us and play us for fools. We can think for do it to ourselves.

And when you ask where the sun rises and sets and how many seasons there are in a year, you get the same answers, over and over. And no matter how many times you ask for the results of the McCarthy, Ted Kennedy, and Nader purist campaigns, the answers will be Nixon, Reagan, and Bush. But, we’ve gotten used to it. Every time there’s a post providing an opening for the comparative adjective arguments (good, better, best), you people come speeding through with your red-flagged purity trains and rouse the few sad, never-learn wretches to stand in the snow, raise an arm, and yell, “Strelnikov!” I hope you enjoy it, because the sanctimony is your only reward.

I used to commute 40 miles on the interstate with a friend. Once, when a crazy driver weaved around us at 80+ mph, I said something to the effect that we would probably see them again, as a smear on the highway, a few miles up the road. My friend just nodded and said, “Natural selection.”

Thanks for hanging in there Tbogg. I sometimes wonder if the progressive purists aren’t actually just wingnut provocateurs. They certainly have the same effect. Unfortunately, they recall the old racist joke about breaking up a race riot by tossing in a basketball. If the 2012 election becomes primarily about race or guns, we can all look forward to President Romney.

There is some hope that the absolute idiotic and reactionary position of Republicans on this matter might serve to throw cold water in the faces of independents and others who don’t follow issues but feel some absurd obligation to vote. Just maybe, some of them will begin to take a look at the equally absurd Republican positions on the issues you mention.

Okay, you may not be a misogynist, but I’m guessing you were not a flat chested girl living across the hall either.

I don’t think either you, Eric, or sixgill get it. The Palin picture, like those of George Bush in college, depict two shallow, lazy, mean spirited, narcisists who either almost were given the nation to play with, or actually were. Neither of them changed. They remained the same arrogant, lazy self-seekers they were in their youths. It has nothing to do with the middle class or the Ivy League. It has to do with what may be a structural defect in our eductation system that has created a big segment of the voting population which can’t tell the difference between life and a reality show.

Back in the mid sixties, I was stationed in South Carolina and drove the route home to Texas and back on leave a number of times. Most of the route had billboards depicting Martin Luther King sitting at a desk. The huge caption was “Martin Luther King in Communist Training School.” (Interspersed were “Impeach Earl Warren” billboards.) The Neanderthal 20-30 percent of the populace hasn’t changed much in 50 years. I guess they will always comprise a sufficeint following or market for demogugues and scoundrels.

For my part, I’ve always found it best not to say anything at all under these circumstances. That was my policy in the cases of Nixon, Atwater, Falwell, and the fat ugly rat that used to scurry around the septic tank. So, I will forbear comment.