Sarah Palin will never hold national office, nor will any Republican at the presidential level for a long time to come. Why? Because America has uneducated jerks in it but is not a nation of uneducated jerks. The Republicans are done, hoisted on the petard of their own “southern strategy.”
“The greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.” So says psychology professor Robert Altemeyer, who provided Wateregate whistle-blower John Dean with forty years of study on the authoritarian personality type that roughly 28 percent of Americans proudly call their modus operandi. John Dean: During the 2008 presidential campaign, …
Just watched the Obama 30 minute ad, and to be honest, I have to say I had a hard time identifying with it.
Evolution? Nope. Sarah believes in Creationism. That means she believes that Noah had a little fruit fly cage aboard the ark, where he kept a pair of fruit flies, right next to millions of other little cages with pairs of insects in them. But. Sarah is clearly jealous of the little critters. They’ve been to Paris; she hasn’t.
So this is how it’s gonna be. President McCain has said that Palin is qualified, and his way of “assuring the nation” is to let Vice -President Palin run the Joint Chiefs Staff. The first meeting got off to a volatile start when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates tried in vain to explain to Vice-President Palin why it is innapropriate …
Gonna go see Barack in Denver tomorrow. But I’ll betcha I don’t see any of the assholes in this video there. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vagD-4AH4Vc&eurl[/youtube] (H/T to Driftglass; the guy is everywhere.)
Use the force, Darth; use all the force you want. (Click it.) Going through yesterday’s junkmail, I notice one piece that proclaimed, “This is the Story of William Ayers. . . Terrorist. Radical. Friend of Obama.” On the flip side: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” The “quote” was sandwiched between a 1968 booking photo …
