Comments on: Eliza Doolittle, Neocon

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:08:21 +0000

You may be right, but at the same time it sure looks like an era of resentment, social grudges, and some genuine hostility about social institutions is leaking out like battery acid into the public sphere.

It doesn’t take all that much to poison things.
This woman alarms me; she seems familiar and if she’s like a few other ‘moms’ that I’m thinking of she has a boatload of grudges, she’ll fight to her last breath, and she’s not interested in walking through nuance. This Presidential election just took a very, very ugly turn. I hope the GOP gets buried in November; if even I can decipher subtle racism in her speech –and she’s married to a guy who’s part Yupik — then all bets are off. This could get really ugly.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:34:58 +0000

But, but, but, Howard Fineman told me this was a rare unscripted moment:

e are about to see a true rarity in politics: an unpredictable, unscripted, scripted moment. Wednesday night, an unknown and barely tested woman from a small town in far away Alaska will make her debut as a would-be global leader in front of the Republican convention, the country and the entire world.

By: mkls

mkls — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:40:33 +0000

Yesss! Eliza Doolittle exactly.
But what happens when the Maverick’s maverick gets swelled head and decides to take off on her own (after all, all these folk are saying how they weren’t too jazzed to be at the Rethug convention but now, thanks to little old me, soccer Mom, they’re ecstatic) — how long before she ups and tells the Old Guy that she’s just fine without him, thank you very much.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:57:39 +0000

God’s “judgment of unbelief.”

It almost sounds like a real thing, doesn’t it!

Usually, bat shit crazy religious leaders refrain from attributing human endeavor to god’s wrath; they stick to ‘acts of god’ which is how they got the idea in the first place but hey, he’s got a cause - jews to convert to jesus - and gob bless him for that in the name of the father and of the …

Reminds of the good old days when the Gulf Coast was devastated by Katrina. Other Christian leaders explained, it was the gays settling down that brought that “judgment of unbelief.” Gustav? Not so much. Maybe God is taking a second look at the whole issue.

Now that “judgment of unbelief” includes man-made mayhem, what do you suppose we did as nation to deserve 9/11? Too many jews not for jesus? Sex before marriage? Birth control? Earmarks?

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:24:15 +0000

I think I am trying to say that Palin is perfectly capable of having a “stronger and deeper relationship with Israel” because of what Jeffrey Goldberg and Andrew Sullivan both noted today: no one calling themselves pro-Israel on the right has called this out yet. Even Abraham Foxman has been muted. So the Israeli government, noting that their primary relationship is with McCain, may not call it out. They may think that once Palin sees more of the world she will want to have a good relationship with them.

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:13:04 +0000

JTA: This was a sermon about their trip to Israel to convert people.

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:59:53 +0000

Also in bmaz’s general direction: Feh. Once Dunn was in the ondeck circle I knew it was over. Continues to shake head at blowing important opportunity.

By: stryder

stryder — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:30:54 +0000

kinda new wave Cyrano DE Bergerac

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:54:12 +0000

LOL… ;-))

‘Tis a bit much to see all the Victimhood kick in, however.
Putin and Osama bin Laden and anyone else fed up with the US must be laughing their heads off.

Uff.

By: brendanx

brendanx — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:51:39 +0000

Some worrywarts like digby are afraid that resuscitating Babymamadrama, as one commenter called it, is going to save the day. No, it’s over.

Question: Do Bristol and daddy have Foreign Policy Experience now that they’ve met McCain on a tarmac?