You may be interested to hear that Sarah Palin’s spokesperson is saying that the Troopergate investigation in Alaska is a partisan witchhunt just like the one Ken Starr conducted.

So do Republicans think that Americans have forgotten who was directing that partisan witchhunt, or as usual are they just going to throw this shit out there and hope no one makes the connection?

I also learned that John McCain was a POW, and he went through all sorts of horrible things which means that he deserves to be president because he has character.

So do Republicans think that Americans have forgotten who was directing that partisan witchhunt, or as usual are they just going to throw this shit out there and hope no one makes the connection?

Neither.  They do it to pre-emptively disarm the other side.  Because when they do stuff like this, the other side spends useless time trying to outline how one thing is different from the other rather than just telling them to fuck off and pounding the table.  They know their enemy quite well, and they know that the Democrat’s kryptonite is their desire to make rational arguments for everything they do.

Note that if the Republicans ever need to drum up another witch-hunt, they won’t bother trying to explain how their new witch hunt is different than any probe they’ve labelled a witch-hunt over the last few years - they’ll just pound the table.  That’s one of the differences between governing as a group of hyper-partisan hacks and governing for the sake of good governance.

They’re offering themselves up as Change Lite, the same way John Kerry tried to be Commander-in-Chief Lite in 2004. It won’t work, people take the real thing over an imitation.

Copy Reagan?  They’re going to raise payroll taxes and bomb Libya?

It doesn’t matter, John McSame is a POW and Sarah Palin has 5 kids.  Any attack on them is an attack on America, remember?

What the hell are these “issue” things you keep talking about?  They don’t exist.  And the Village Idiots will make sure the issues don’t exist by focusing on what John McSame’s wallowing in feces in a cage in Vietnam and Sarah Palin’s mighty uterus can do for this country.

Issues are for Democrats like Kerry and Gore, or haven’t we as progressives figured that the fuck out yet?

Both NonNony and Ms Kate win the internets.  Their comments are two of the most accurate and succinct descriptions of RW pathologies it has ever been my privilege to read.

They didn’t have to discuss the issues because they are proud Americans. Last night was an exercise in show your patriotism.  What they tried to do was brand the country to their party thus making any dissent un American.
I also found it to be a startling display of whiteness.  I kept watching the panoramic views of the crowd to see if I could spot bodies of color and shockingly enough there were very few in attendance. It seems to me that when this party speaks about conservatism what it really means is white hegemony.  it is quite obvious that that the power has largely been in the hands of white men since the birth of the nation and therefore what they seek to conserve is the power structure that grants some unearned privileges and other marginalization and poverty.  One of the things that the election really reveals is the invisibility of whiteness.  Obama is always discussed as the first black man to get the democratic nomination but McCain and the whiteness of his body is never discussed. What exactly does McCains whiteness mean and why do we feel comfortable not discussing it….Whiteness of his body is not an issue because it is considered a norm allowing him to make sweeping statements and achieve acceptance whereas Obamas blackness, must stand as representative for his race.

Remember, Obama listing multiple proposals and policies and things he would do is not being specific enough for America. Repeating “McCain is a POW” over and over as they read selections from his biography and attack Obama is “specific”. You probably were just too busy to remember.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

They only have two lines of attack left, folks—biography and KULTUR WAR.

Renee:

Whiteness of his body is not an issue because it is considered a norm allowing him to make sweeping statements and achieve acceptance whereas Obamas blackness, must stand as representative for his race.

Just once, I’d like to see a young, dynamic white male politician referred to as “articulate,” “well-spoken” and a “credit to his race/gender.”

re: “They’re offering themselves up as Change Lite, the same way John Kerry tried to be Commander-in-Chief Lite in 2004. It won’t work, people take the real thing over an imitation.”

Also, when your own party has controlled the executive branch for eight years, and you’re trying to make the election about CHANGE . . . that’s a weak argument, Grampy.

Check out this “hot mic” moment when Murphy and Noonan think they are off camera saying what they really think about Palin as a VP pick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg

Shorter version: Murphy says it is cynical and insulting to women, Noonan says the election is “over” for McCain!