Too legit to quit
First, Ron Paul’s “honest rape”, now Akin’s “legitimate rape”. These aren’t anonymous commenters on Red State, it’s Senate nominees and reasonably high-profile presidential candidates. So, fuck yeah,...
View ArticleJust to learn to be a puppet and recite a silly rule
I don’t know whether Sullivan is right about this, but if he is, it only increases my contempt for Ol’ Blue Eyes. I’ll take cynical career operators over Ayn Rand’s teen-age fan club any day. I don’t...
View ArticleNow I try hard not to become hysterical
So the right-center establishment consensus on Ryan is that “hey, you might not like the details, but at LEAST HE HAS A PLAN”. Remember the last time we were told that there was a big threat and that...
View ArticleYour famous friend, I blew him before you
My favorite from that horrific Brooks-Collins conversation you all so kindly summarized for me: I have enormous respect for Ryan and I regard most of the commentary I’ve read about him by people...
View ArticleDon’t it make my brown eyes blue
The idea of a Paul Ryan presidency—he could be only a heart away, as the kids say—makes me sad. But…two more months of post titles about blue eyes makes me happy. So let’s do an open thread of song...
View ArticleReflections in a golden eye
Reader PZ recently pointed out to me that the Bill Taggart wedding speech that Paul Ryan loves so much isn’t just an endorsement of gold-backed currency, it’s an endorsement of gold coingage; it...
View ArticleDominant bucks
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but wake me when it’s over. Said Ryan: “Bowhunting is my passion. Studying the strategy, preparing food plots, the strategy of where a dominant buck is...
View ArticleI’m no school boy but I know what I like
I don’t know whether to give Will Saletan credit for admitting he’s been a giddy school girl around Paul Ryan or condemn him that much more for not being ashamed of it: I hate to admit it, but Krugman...
View ArticleKrugthulhu Versus The Timestream
Krugman explains how Paul Ryan knows President Obama is responsible for closing an auto plant in his Wisconsin district before the President took office (as Ryan again told the completely bonkers lie...
View ArticleLet me step into your erotic zone
My favorite idiotic description of Ol Blue Eyes’ star turn last night: With a solid delivery of a well-crafted address, Ryan was able to touch conservative erogenous zones on President Barack Obama’s...
View ArticleAlways, Always, Always the Victim
Actually, the only coordination was when the RNC worked with the media to allow Ryan to speak before a nationally televised audience. As predicted, he then spent his time in the limelight lying his...
View ArticleOpen thread
I have not watched a single second of this Republican convention. I usually watch more or less the whole thing. It seems to me something has changed, that it’s now just a silly exercise in telling...
View ArticleMarathon man
There’s something weird about Paul Ryan to me. Maybe some of the P90X 6% bodyfat bow-hunting bullshit is true, but it seems at least partly made-up, as if they’re covering for something. Could be the...
View ArticleRunnin’ With the Devil (just not the details)
Turns out DougJ’s spidey sense about Ryan running a marathon in under three hours was correct: Slate and Runner’s World investigated. Questions were raised, given the questions about Ryan’s honesty in...
View ArticleLet it loose
Clive Crook has always struck me as an establishment wanker, but damn: The other day I said I thought Paul Ryan’s convention speech was politics as usual—evasions and misdirections rather than...
View ArticleBoys will be boys
There’s something just so weird about Ryan’s super-masculine reg’lar guy routine (from the Hugh Hewitt marathon interview): HH: I got so much email when I referred to it as Miami University of Ohio,...
View ArticleI’m the man on the mountain, come on up
So awesome (via): Why does it matter that Paul Ryan is a mountain man, at home above timberline on the fourteeners? Because there is no better index of character. It tells of someone’s backbone under...
View ArticleAbout to get banned from twitter
Self-indulgent but fuck them all, honestly: @jack_welchhurry up and die, you incontinent impotent sociopath— Doug Johnson (@DougJBalloon) September 7, 2012
View ArticleIt’s not really words, it’s just the power to talk
Steve M and Atrios both flagged this excellent Dave Weigel piece on the incoherence of Republicans’ attacks on Obama: The Obama campaign seizes on Romney statements, like the ones in the “47 percent”...
View ArticlePicking your battles
I’m not here to wank about my ideas of how campaigns should be run, but it seems obvious that a lot of winning an election is about making the election revolve around issues where your side has the...
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