Archive for November, 2009
Anticipating Sarah Palin Going Rogue
If going rogue looks anything like this, we want it 24/7 for the next three years...right up to November 2012 and Inauguration Day 2013, baby.
Every time we think about Sarah Palin, we smile, because there’s just so much to like about the woman.
On this site, we advocated for her to be John McCain’s running mate starting in early June of 2008, around the time Hillary Clinton suspended (but, note, never ended) her presidential campaign. We’d love to say we were the firsts to back Palin (we weren’t), but we were still called crazy for, that early, saying she’d end up on the ticket.
What we liked about her back in June 2008 is what we still like about her now: the woman gets it. She’s a hockey mom, and for any of you who’ve ever picked up a stick and hit the ice, you know there’s just about nothing better in the whole world. We’ve got three words for you hosers:
Hockey. Moms. RULE.
One of the most exciting moments of our lives here was being woken up at 4am or so on the early morning of August 29th, 2009 by repeated calls to our cells from someone we knew at the top of the McCain campaign here in Chicago. We had been running DeMcCrats for McCain efforts with gusto since Hillary’s suspension in June, and had been advocating for Palin the majority of that time, too. When we finally woke up and took the call, we were told that a flight originating in Alaska had stopped in Phoenix and had a flight plan to some small airport near Dayton, Ohio. We were right. The VP pick was going to be Sarah Palin, and she’d be announced later that morning.
We had all of our talking points on Palin ready, and knew a good amount about her campaign for Governor in Alaska, where she ran as what she actually is, a hockey mom. Tough as nails with a servant’s heart and coupon-clipper’s attention to detail and budget. Her campaigns had malice toward no one, with frankness and honesty so lacking in just about any other politician we’d ever seen. We admired her for standing up to the entrenched bullies and con artists in the Alaska GOP, and respected her for extending her hand in friendship to all those she defeated once she was sworn in — because Sarah Palin’s smart enough to know that no good comes for constituents from politicians who wage endless political war to settle old grievances (are you listening, current administration in Washington?).
That Friday morning, we did a few local TV spots here in Chicago, where the reporters, all drunk on Kool-Aid, kept trying to hammer us for being Democrats excited about the Palin nomination. ”What do you know about her?,” they’d ask, soon regretting it, as we listed her experience on the Oil & Gas Commission and what she did to stop the insane Ted Stevens Memorial Bridge to Nowhere and Monument to Himself (which you can look up for yourself on the Internets, that series of pipes and tubes and dump trucks, in Stevens-speak). Living in Chicago, where we have massive boondoggle projects like Block 37 and the 2016 Olympics bid as well as an imperial mayor who makes egomaniacs like Stevens and our current president look like modest school girls, there has always been something about Palin’s budget cutting, fiscal responsibility, and hockey mom accountability that makes us stand up and CHEER.
We. Love. This. Woman.
And we told all of Chicago that, in our bright blue Democrats for Palin tees that we had ready for the occasion (as we thought, leading up to the announcement, there was at least an 80% chance we were right about Palin being Mac’s VP). The reporters here insisted the McCain camp astroturfed us, but to be perfectly honest, the McCain camp never led with much of anything in that campaign. We had to do all heavy lifting on our own…we had to go out and pull stunts and get attention for McCain here in Chicago on our own…we had to buy tees and buttons and placards and palm cards to distribute up and down the street and to every friendly-seeming house on our own. We organized canvassing trips and busloads to rallies in battleground states on our own. All because we knew very much who Dr. Utopia, the Democrats’ chosen candidate, was and what he would do to this country.
And we knew the only two people standing in the way of Dr. Utopia and the White House from which he could enact the most lunatic and socialist policies imaginable for four years were John McCain and Sarah Palin.
In one of those morning spots the day Palin was announced, one reporter kept trying to ask us how gay Hillary Democrats could support Palin because she was anti-abortion. We’d employ a trick we learned by watching Hillary Clinton herself for a year of campaigning: we’d just not answer that question and instead talk about something else. Because abortion is one of two culture war traps the media uses to derail discussion and rile emotions senselessly. ”How do you think Democrats that are women feel about anti-abortion Palin being the VP pick?,” we were asked. ”We’ll tell you what Democrats who are women are feeling right now…they’re feeling exhilerated that John McCain has picked as his Vice President a qualified and capable chief executive who has never once let any personal feelings of her own stand in the way of what’s best for her constituents. Sarah Palin is an effective governor of our largest state, commander of national guard units forever on 24 hour alert due to Alaska’s proximity to Russia, and negotiator of an oil pipeline deal decades in the making that could be a giant step towards this nation’s energy independence. She’s also a loving mother, a devoted wife, a daughter, a sister, and a friend to a great many. She’s who we wanted McCain to pick as VP and are thrilled today that he’s done so”.
After the few spots we did, we all walked down Michigan Avenue in our Palin tee shirts, to a lot of stares from the Kool-Aid Gang of delusional Obots in Chicago. In case you aren’t aware, anyone not wearing those creepy, Orwellian “O” buttons all over them, anyone who didn’t have either “Hope” or “Change” or “Unicorns” tattooed to their foreheads (in the mark of the Beast, 2008-edition), opened himself to being called a RAAACIST! on the street for “not supporting a black man running for president”. Now, wearing ANYTHING in any way, shape, or form actively backing either Hillary Clinton in the primaries or McCain/Palin in the general election just CONFIRMED what a “damn dirty RAAACIST” a guy must be. ”Oh, I don’t even know who that Palin is, but Palin’s not Obama and therefore you must be a RAAACIST because you don’t want a black man with no experience and who’s never actually accomplished anything or done anything to be president. RAAACIST!”.
We walked down Michigan Avenue revving up all sorts of lunatics, hurrying to get to the big video screens at the NBC studios near the Tribune Building so we could watch John McCain introduce Sarah Palin live in Dayton, Ohio (home state to one of us here).
Great Merciful Zeus, we’ve never been so proud of someone, at that point, that we’d never even met.
When Palin took that podium, we heard her speak for the first time…and we have not ever stopped being blown away.
When she took a moment of her speech to sincerely thank Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton for their monumental efforts towards shattering the glass ceiling, we teared up, pumped our fists in the air, and cheered louder than we ever thought we could cheer…drawing stares from all the scurrying Liberal elites aghast McCain had picked a woman as his running mate (and, thus, by their instant estimation, seriously changed the course of the presidential race…much to McCain’s advantage).
Huddled near us, watching Palin’s speech, were a group of Jewish women straight out of central casting. One had her requisite “O” button on. They were oddly quiet for most of the speech, but towards the end, after watching how well the crowd reacted to Palin and how great she was in her delivery, one of them said, “Oh s***. We’re in trouble now. Whoever she is, she’s damn good. We’re going to have to work hard to destroy her.”
Nearly every single day someone asks us “How can you support both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin when they are so far apart on the issues?”. It is the most loathsome, tiresome, intellectually solipcistic question posed to us on a perpetual basis. So much so that we had to create a special answer to it in our FAQs section on this site.
The Cliff’s Notes for you, since we brought this up here, boils down to the following:
(1) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin both love this country with their full hearts and would gladly lay down their lives to protect our liberty, freedoms, and soveriegnty.
(2) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin are both tough as nails, and have proved their mettle in grueling battles with lunatics entrenched against them for many years.
(3) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin both work hard, wake up every day to do their best for this country, and have never offered an excuse or asked for a free pass for anything.
(4) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin have both had every vile, sexist, misogynistic, disgusting attack lobbed at them imaginable. Both are mercilessly excoriated on a regular basis by the MSM in what passes for entertainment to these people. Both are relentlessly hounded by so-called feminists like Camille Paglia, and other jealous frauds who hate seeing women succeed without kowtowing to these self-proclaimed poobahs.
(5) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin are both painted as “polarizing” figures and extremists, when neither of them is extreme in any way, and neither has ever done anything to warrant that polarizing label.
That last one above is interesting to us because it’s that coded language the Race Industry, and delusional whackjobs like Maureen Dowd, loves to read into anything to make it RAAACIST! when talking in any way about a black person. People can see when Al Sharpton, Henry Gates, or the current president bend over backwards to twist whatever’s said into an example of RAACISM. The MSM will allow Sharpton, in particular, to create firestorms over cartoons and all manner of imagined pejoratives and insults. ”The Al Sharpton Race-Baiting Variety Hour” has been a long-running programming mainstay of every major network for decades now…and whenever a new episode of this tripe airs, most people can see through it, even if they aren’t brave enough to call it out for what it is.
But, the word “polarizing” when used against a woman — and it is ALWAYS employed exclusively against women — is never identified as a code-word. Essentially, calling a woman “polarizing” is really just saying “she’s a f***ing bitch we hate”. And hate for really no good reason. The media just hates her, and takes every opportunity it has to convince other people to hate her too.
We tell you repeatedly that we live in Boystown here in Chicago and are active in the LGBTQ community, which has probably the most low information voters of any in the Democrat fold (behind only black voters in terms of unthinkingly pulling the D-lever every election, no questions asked). If Anderson Cooper says Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin are polarizing, then every low-information fop in Boystown will parrot that for the rest of his life over Cosmos at MiniBar or Sidetracks for sure.
“Oh, she’s so polarizing.”
“I know, right.”
“Yah.”
“Anderson Cooper said that, and he’s smart.”
“Hot, too.”
“I’d do him.”
“Yah.”
“What’s polarizing mean?”
“Dunno. Don’t care. But if the Silver Fox says it’s bad, it’s bad girl.”
“I know, right.”
“Do you think Blake’s stripping at Lucky Horseshoe tonight?”
“It’s hot jock Friday over there.”
“Now, that’s what I call pole-a-rising.”
“Heh, heh, heh.”
For the record, the above is an actual conversation, jotted down word-for-word, overheard one night at Sidetracks in Boystown, where the VJs are fond of playing Tina Fey bits to mock Palin and Amy Poehler’s sendups to attack Hillary.
They have never once, not even ONCE, shown a single clip that mocks Dr. Utopia.
The montage of Bush hitting his head on things, dropping something, ducking the shoe thrown at him, and trying to open a locked door in Asia is in heavy rotation, however.
But not a single criticism of Dr. Utopia is allowed in the LGBTQ community, despite all of his many broken promises on HIV-AIDS funding, DADT, DOMA, and the most glaring slap of all, his refusal, for the duration of his political career, to ever march in a Gay Pride Parade.
Hillary Clinton’s marched in Pride…and promised to be the first sitting US President to do so. She would have kept that promise, too, in 2009.
Do we expect Sarah Palin to ever march in Pride?
No.
Why should she, when the low information fops would only boo her, and turn what’s already a circus into an absolute disaster for everyone. The LGBTQ community certainly can’t have it both ways on this one. They cannot try their determined, level best to paint Sarah Palin as the new Anita Bryant and go to great lengths to spew as much hatred and venom at her as possible and then ever complain about her not marching in a parade, when she clearly has never been treated fairly or shown the slightest bit of respect. You wear a Palin tee shirt in Boystown and you get a punch to the face. We know. We got one last November.
The LGBTQ community needs to ask itself why Dr. Utopia didn’t come to Boystown on June 29th, 2008 to march in the Pride Parade here…instead of getting his hair cut on the city’s Southside and playing basketball at the East Bank Club afterwards. If he is the person they hold up as “The One”, “The Lightbringer”, “The Savior”, then where are all the miracles he’s supposed to be working for the LGBTQ cause? The man’s got a Democrat controlled Congress and essentially a Democrat controlled SCOTUS as well. Where is the Hope, Change, and Rainbow Snarfing Unicorns?
In the Vice Presidential debate last October, Joe Biden had to admit that Obama/Biden had the same stance on LGBTQ rights that McCain/Palin did. Biden sure didn’t want to make the admission, but Palin forced him to. Either Obama/Biden was the absolute worst ticket Democrats ever ran for LGBTQ rights, or McCain/Palin was the absolute best Republicans have ever run. Dick Cheney — and we will shout this from the mountain tops for the rest of our lives — was the single greatest champion of LGBTQ rights to EVER BE ANYWHERE NEAR THE PRESIDENCY. If this is even possible, he was a better supporter and ally for the LGBTQ community than President Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton have been. And that right there, is like saying someone’s a better player than Gretzky or can eat more in one sitting than Oprah.
Dick. Cheney.
Champion of LGBTQ rights. Don’t believe us? Look at his record. Prepare to be stunned.
What’s Joe Biden done of use for anyone? Half the time he’s off stealing somebody’s ice cream, as if he was a cartoon rabbit after cereal. The rest of the time he’s got his foot in his mouth. Dick Cheney might have shot a friend of his in the face, but even that guy didn’t seem to mind all that much because, apparently, Cheney’s such a good man to have around that shooting you in the face doesn’t even make you want to badmouth him.
But, the LGBTQ community always will, because “smart people on TV” like Anderson Cooper say Cheney is evil or Bush is a chimp. Don’t you dare use that last word within five paragraphs of mentioning Dr. Utopia, “The Lightbringer”, lest you be branded a damn dirty RAAACIST and invoke the ire and opportunistic indignation of the Sharpton/Gates/Jackson/Holder/Utopia rapid response brigade.
The “smart people on TV” are all agenda driven Liberal propaganda tools. The American media is a defacto arm of the DNC. 2008 proved, more specifically, it’s a mouthpiece of the Liberal wing of the Democrat Party…and that it will blast its own moderate, centrist members, like the Clintons, if the choice ever comes between sane and rational moderates and crazed, Kool-Aid soaked Liberal socialists like Dr. Utopia.
Much of the “smart people on TV” chatter about Sarah Palin is that she could never run for, win the nomination, or be elected President because too many people are making fun of her, too many people are attacking her, too many people actively want her to fail. ”I can see Alaska from my house” is something the unfunny, bitter actress (and media darling) Tina Fey said, not Sarah Palin. But walk into any bar in Boystown and, of course, “someone smart” told them Palin said that and so that’s what they believe.
For 20 years now, the Right has been making up all sorts of nonsense about Hillary Clinton too. There are entire sections in libraries dedicated to the crazy things people have written about this woman.
As Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, hits shelves next week, we see clearly the publishing industry’s zeal to start filling a section up on her, too. 95% of it will be the same sort of shrill, crazy, demented ravings that have been printed about Clinton. This will become a new cottage industry…and “smart people on TV” like Anderson Cooper will parcel out catchy little sounbytes about how polarizing Palin is, or twist something she says so they can ridicule her for it.
But does that mean she shouldn’t run for President?
Because if that’s so, then no woman can ever run for President because the MSM intends to use this same Hillary and Sarah playbook on anyone simultaneously possessing a vagina and the audacity to want to occupy the Oval Office.
We hope Palin hits it out of the park in her book.
We hope she rips Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the MSM to shreds.
We hope she continues to be a force on the political scene the next few years and makes these people positively apoplectic when she officially kicks of her (what we believe is actually running now) presidential campaign.
And when she wins, we hope everyone mentioned two sentences above has a Tim Russert moment of their own, right in their own studios, and they all collapse on the floor from shock and never take to the air again.
We have no idea what Palin says in her book, but on Tuesday when we buy it we’ve already cleared the whole evening with hopes of live-blogging as we read it, hopefully devouring it in one night.
And we look forward to telling Palin in person someday what we thought of it…hopefully while wearing another Palin tee shirt…this time hopefully with some kind of a moose logo on it and a big PALIN 2012 on the back.
Democrats will regret alienating the Clinton Coalition in 2010 and 2012
Here’s a very detailed, big-thinking article over at RealClearPolitics that is well worth a read when you have time to sit down, take a few notes, and really contemplate it: Can the Clinton Coalition Survive the Age of Obama?
It’s FASCINATING…but very detailed, and we honestly had to re-read it a few times to fully appreciate the thousand or so important things that it said.
Essentially, the authors look at the Coalition Bill Clinton assembled in 1996 for his second term, bringing “Jacksonian Democrats” back to the fold. These are, essentially, the “Reagan Democrats” who ditched the party in DROVES after Jimmy Carter…the same people who, in 2008, Dr. Utopia, our illustrious current president, called “bitter, gun-and-religion-clinging, people who don’t like anyone different from themselves”. Or, in words his Liberal friends and fellow race-baiters would say, RAAACISTS!
Dr. Utopia was shellacked by Jacksonians in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and everywhere else in the 2008 primaries where Jacksonians recognized the Clinton moderate brand and wanted absolutely no part of Liberal socialist insanity by way of Dr. Utopia and his condescending “bitter clingers” remarks inside the Getty Mansion in San Francisco.
In the article above, the authors note that in 1996, Bill Clinton appealed to not just these Jacksonian Democrats, but also to Independents in the suburbs who wanted law and order, good schools, safe streets, low taxes, and responsible government spending. These suburbanites are culturally and fiscally conservative, thinking family and entrepreneurialism first, with absolutely no interest in a sweeping Liberal agenda anymore than they wanted to jump into any Right wing religious zealotry.
If you notice, these people the writers talk about in 1996 as part of the Clinton Coalition are the very same people who stood with Hillary Clinton herself to the end in 2008. They also include many conservatives on the Republican side who, to this day, say they would rather have had a third Clinton term with Hillary in the White House than to have Dr. Utopia in office today.
We have not seen anyone else, ANYWHERE, make this realization yet.
Instead, for more than the last year, we’ve constantly been berated by the MSM that 2008 was such a historic election, that the “youth vote and the black vote” were phenomenally large and that Liberals have secured a permanent majority and hold on this country in a monumental landslide of an election. All of that is sheer and utter nonsense.
The “Clinton Coalition” article notes that 2008 was actually primed for a Democrat of the Clinton mold to win 60% of the national vote…while Dr. Utopia only won 53%. They claim Bush’s second term, in particular, had been perceived as an upper-middle-class independent voters’s personal nightmare: out of control social policies, massive spending, two wars spinning out of control, financial collapse of businesses and banks, etc. The authors note “the right Democrat candidate could have put together a massive Presidential majority” by building a new coalition of not just the urban elites, blacks, dyed-in-the-wool loyal Dems, but also the suburbanites and Jacksonians as well.
Dr. Utopia did not do that.
It’s apocryphal to call his victory a landslide, beacause it wasn’t. Landslides happened in 1920/1932/1952 and 1980, as the authors note. Hillary Clinton would have had a landslide victory in 2008, if you read what the authors are saying and factor in what we’ve told you about the primaries: she won all of the people the authors say did not vote for Dr. Utopia as they should have.
Another thing the authors don’t note but we have repeatedly told you: the only reason Dr. Utopia won at all in 2008 is because Republicans sat their butts home. If the GOP had managed turnout at George Bush’s 2004 re-election levels, President John McCain would be in the Oval Office today.
One of the things that makes us the most furious around here is whenever we read anything derogatory and dismissive of PUMAS on Republican sites. While Republican after Republican we knew sat on their fat lazy backsides in 2008, eating their fudgecicles and drinking their bourbons, claiming “Oh, McCain is not conservative enough for us, so we’re just going to not vote this year because that will teach the GOP a lesson…and Obama will be a new Carter and then we’ll get a new Reagan in four years, heh heh heh”, moderate Democrats like us went traipsing through most of the Midwest riling up as many Jacksonians as we could to vote Republican — most for the first time in their whole damn lives. We had dogs sicked on us, rocks thrown through our windoews, nonstop hate mail sent to us (to this day, as a matter of fact), because we were lifelong Democrats who knew what Dr. Utopia was, who clearly saw what he planned to do to this country, and who understood his term in office would be four long years of nonstop reckless spending on socialist/communist/radical entitities like ACORN (just as George Soros directed).
Read the “Clinton Coalition” article. The reason Dr. Utopia won by 53% and not 60%, as he should of, is because of PUMAS. The article calls us “Jacksonian Democrats”, and maybe that’s what we all were before 2008, but we’re PUMAS now and forever baby. The majority of us will never call ourselves Democrats again. Those of us here at HillBuzz are still weighing that decision, because being a Dem has been part of our cultural identity our wholel lives. None of us step into a church except for funerals and weddings, but we all still call ourselves Catholics. However, increasingly, the Democrat Party has done so many terrible things in the last two years that we now call ourselves “Clinton Moderates” more than anything else. That’s “PUMA” for short.
None of us can imagine voting Democrat in 2012 unless Hillary Clinton is the nominee. There are a lot of new readers here over the last few days who found us because of an article we wrote detailing our reappraisal of former President George W. Bush. We here at HillBuzz fully intend to campaign for the Republican nominee in 2012 so that Dr. Utopia gets only one term and there can still be time to save this country from the socialist cancer this terrible man has stitched into the fabric of our nation. If Sarah Palin runs for President, we will quit our jobs and move to Ioawa to ensure we do everything we can to stop Dr. Utopia from gaming the Caucus like he did to Hillary. We will relive the nightmare of the last two years’ of our lives, learning from everything Dr. Utopia and the DNC did last time and make sure they do not win again. Those crazy Leftists must be defeated so that, someday, the Clinton Coaltion of 1996 and the Hillary Dems of 2008 can take back the Democrat Party and boot the deranged Carrter/Utopia elements out.
The “Clinton Coalition”, while not touching on PUMAS, and not even mentioning the Republicans who sat their sorry asses home in 2008 because “McCain wasn’t good enough”, notes that Dr. Utopia won in part because he created such intensity in the liberal, urban, and racist black base of the party. That’s another thing Democrats and the MSM don’t like to talk about, but the biggest racists we have ever met in this world are black people. They came out in droves to vote for someone they knew absolutely nothing about, just because his skin was the same color as theirs. These same low-information racist voters are the ones who keep expecting the current president to send them free checks in the mail, or give them reparations and other prizes. Increasingly, we hear them grumble that their guy isn’t doing anything for them. Blacks are the most notoriously unreliable voters in the Democrats’ coalition. While they will ALWAYS turn out in big numbers for a black candidate, and will always abandon people who have been good to them, like the Clintons, if a black they don’t even know appears on the ballot too, they just might not be so eager to turn out in 2012 because Dr. Utopia is already president. There will be no impetus for them to “make history” as the MSM kept putting it. ”The first black president elected to two terms” is not a great motivator for these people. It won’t motivate the urban liberals too, or the LGBTQ community either. All of that magical mojo was used up in 2008, never to be repeated again.
We are telling you — and we hope to Heaven some of you listen — that Republicans will never, ever win the racist black vote, the delusional liberal urban elite vote, or the low information LGBTQ vote. It is a waste of time to even try, because none of these groups vote rationally and will always pull the lever for the Democrat — with the exception of blacks, who will vote for anyone else who is black, regardless of party, ability, or any other qualification.
2012 entirely hinges on three things:
(1) the GOP running a candidate who turns out their base, so that few idiots sit at home “to teach the GOP a lesson” because they believe the candidate is not conservative enough
(2) that candidate needs to talk only about creating jobs, lowering taxes, reining in spending, providing law and order, stabilizing the economy, securing energy independence for this country, protecting our citizens, and providing a solid education and path to a good future for our children. NO talk about social issues…no attacks on gays…no crusade on abortion…no fodder for the Race Industry
(3) balancing (1) and (2), the candidate needs to appeal to conservatives while standing tall and strong as someone Jacksonian Democrats, PUMAS, independent voters, and Clinton Moderates, whatever you want to call us, can get behind
Ladies and Gentlemen, that person is Sarah Palin.
If she goes for it, she’ll be the 45th President of the United States.
Read the “Clinton Coalition” article, because everything in there points to Dr. Utopia’s defeat in 2012. If Democrats are smart, they will convince Dr. Utopia to pull an LBJ and announce he has a medical illness (most likely Parkinson’s, which is sympathetic) and cannot seek a second term.
And then the Democrats should nominate Hillary Clinton.
But, 2012 will not be an automatic win for her in the general election as it would have been in 2008. Remember what the “Clinton Coalition” article said, about voters responding to Bush, the financial collapse, and everything else they blamed Republicans for. Well, in 2012 voters will be blaming Democrats for all of Dr. Utopia’s broken promises. On top of that, the reckless spending this White House and Congress are engaged in will have perhaps permanently ruined our economy by 2012.
The article notes that it took Bill Clinton’s controlled spending and budget surpluses to convince voters Democrats weren’t spendthrift loons after Jimmy Carter.
Three years from now, Dr. Utopia, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid will probably have put those old Carter terrors back into everyone. It honestly could be another 20 years before Americans trust Democrats with a budget again.
Hillary might very well be the Democrats’ only hope in 2012…because if made the nominee, at least she will have a shot, unlike Dr. Utopia…but he may well have done so much damage that she can’t win.
If everything continues to align as it is now, a woman will indeed be President in 2012, be it Hillary or Sarah…and we will work our heart and souls out for her on the ground whichever one it is who takes on Dr. Utopia because we just can’t let this man have a second term.
We honestly don’t think America would survive it.
Friday Open Thread: November 13th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Friday?
What stories are you reading that others should know about?
What do you want to catch up on this weekend?
It’s Friday, go at it here.
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Roland Emmerich’s 2012 opens this weekend. There’s a slight chance we’ll be able to breakaway for some popcorn fun and check out the spectacle: it’s a giant CGI-fest about the end of the world as we know it, presided over by a black president who has no idea what he’s doing, from what we’ve seen in trailers. Technically, we could sort of just watch this for free on one of the news networks, anytime we want, and without so much CGI too.
Morgan Freeman played the President in Deep Impact, when a comet smacked into the Earth. At the end of that movie, one of the last scenes had Washington, D.C. being rebuilt, with Freeman giving a nice speech about the flood waters receding and life going on, with the disaster passed.
There was another black president presiding over a completely broken and destroyed United States in Idiocrity, an unfunny Luke Wilson-Maya Rudolph laffer, where the president is a combination thug, rapper, slang-talking, naive, in-over-his-head, dangerous egomaniac. In that movie, the president thought it was a good idea to take over all industries, change the way everyone did business, ruin healthcare, and start using Gatorade to water the plants, since “smart people told him” Gatorade has electrolytes in it and those are supposed to be good. He was also a Nobel Prize winner (which he wore around his neck, in the form of a large gold plate, like Flava Flave’s alarm clock or Mr. T’s dinner plate).
These are all, apparently, random thoughts we’re having right now about unrelated movies — with nothing at all to do with the current occupant of the White House, obviously.
But, we are wondering what impact the 2012 conspiracies and coming madness will have on the next presidential election. This is a major variable that could heavily impact not just pop culture, but the political world too.
This movie, opening today, is the first hit we’re going to take with this Mayan-calendar-ends-and-with-it-the-world business. There have been books in the fringe section of the bookshops out on the topic for a while, but these have now been moved to prominent endcaps and central displays at the front of the store, which is not a good thing in our opinion. The Y2K insanity was bad enough. After 9/11, the nation fell into a frenzy of hyper-patriotism (which wasn’t all bad) that became a collective national psychosis — as much as we love this country, and would gladly fight and die for it whenever she needs us, we never believe questioning the government or the president is EVER unpatriotic…and that’s exactly what was repeatedly said about anyone questioning ANYTHING government related after 9/11. That was crazy, and America’s emotional overreaction to the tragedy.
2008 was, obviously, another manifestation of national media-fueled mental illness. Anyone who didn’t support, and still doesn’t support, Dr. Utopia was called a RAAACIST. It was the ugliest, nastiest, most socially destructive presidential campaign ever run — with Democrats actually beating down their own traditional coalition with a racial cudgel, forcing into office a man few still know anything substantive about. Hope! Change! Plenty of Kool-Aid straight from the River of Lethe for everyone!
There could very well be another manifestation of mass hysteria and psychosis between now and 2012: if, as many believe, the current president does not stop a terrorist attack or Iran is allowed to build a nuclear bomb in the next three years, there will be another outpouring of raw national emotion, though we don’t know if it will be hyper-patriotism like after 9/11 again, or if it will more cult worship for Dear Leader like the 2008 campaign, or if it will just be crazed panic like the Y2K business.
But, there’s a lot of money to be made off the 2012 Mayan apocalypse panic. There will also be plenty of charismatic crazies who’ll, we’re sure, start numerous End of the World death pact cults in the coming years as well. Muslims might just pick up on all of this and start planning terror attacks to feed into it…the way they had events planned to feed into the Y2K hysteria, but thank goodness the government stopped all of those (the destruction of Los Angeles’ water supply, the bombing of LAX, taking out 8 Pacific flights mid-air, the NYC aquaduct and subway bombings, and the planned assult on Las Vegas).
It is widely known the current Justice Department under notorious race-baiter Eric Holder stays up late at night thinking of new ways to prosecute the CIA and US military for being too tough on terrorists — and that Holder is no rogue in the Administration and is, thus, doing exactly what Dr. Utopia wants him to do. That means if anything terrible DOES happen between now and 2012, we hope and pray the career CIA and military come forward and tell the world how it could have been stopped if only they had been able to do their jobs. Because this is Dr. Utopia’s watch, and if disaster comes on it, he needs to take the responsibility for it and not try to blame his predecessor(s) for any of it.
We don’t know how good this movie will be, but the next few years will be very interesting indeed, for sure.
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It looks like being a disgusting pig who wears diapers is going to cost David Letterman upwards of $300 million. His wife, Regina, has wised up and kicked him out of his mansion.
If there is any justice in this world, it will not be a quick divorce settlement. That way, Regina can get Worldwide Pants and CBS security footage in the discovery process — which she can then ultimately air in open court to reveal all the perverse things Letterman did to staffers at his nightly yawnfest. Airing that will allow hundreds of employees at CBS to sue for sexual harrassment, including male staffers, because establishing people were promoted who were having sex with the boss means those people had an unfair advantage people who were not promoted did not have. The male employees, absent the vaginas Dave coveted so irresistably, had no equal opportunity for advancement in that toxic work environment.
Could get very interesting, and very, very expensive for CBS.
It sure feels like this show is going to be off the air by this time next year, either pulled by CBS or ended when Dave has another heart attack…real or manufactured for a graceful way out. The stress of this divorce can’t be good for him…not that he deserves any good…and “heart attacks” and other illnesses like Parkinson’s are convenient excuses for men in deep trouble to bail out and save a lot of face.
And with that receding hair and giant mug, face may be the only thing Letterman’s left with in short time.
Three areas the GOP needs to focus on to take down Obama and his band of socialists in 2010
In the past year, we’ve interacted with Republicans for the first time in our lives, primarily through people we met via the McCain/Palin campaign and this website.
What we’ve found most interesting in that time is how different Democrats and Republicans see elections — which is something many of you out there might not even realize.
We grew up Democrat, and every day was a campaign day. The only day we weren’t campaigning for something was Election Day, in which case we were working our lists getting as many old people, drunks, homeless, and the sick to polling places as possible in Democrat controlled areas. Just about the only time any of us drive cars in the course of a year is polling day…and that’s to run shuttle services for people who would otherwise sit home and not vote Democrat.
The day after an election, Democrats start gearing up for the next one.
Republicans have a big Election Day networking breakfast, followed by a Watch the Polls mid-morning brunch, then a Polling Day buffet at the Union Club, followed by a Results Watch LIVE! cocktail party at the trendiest and most expensive bar in town.
Then, when they lose, they have a commiserating reception the next day on somebody’s yacht, where they break out the really good scotch and wonder where it all went wrong.
Nine months later, they decide to start thinking about the next election.
A year after that, they finally get around to picking a candidate, typically going with someone unwinnable, abrasive, terrible, zealous, fringe, or flat-out nuts (see: Pulido, Rosanna in Chicago’s last special election).
Another Election Day, another chance to mope and drink. That’s doing it the Republican way in Illinois.
MEANWHILE, Liberals are using ACORN, the Alinsky playbook, and George Soros’ commandments to install radicals as the Secretaries of State in most purple states, such as the vile Jennifer Brunner, ACORN accomplice, in Ohio. The DNC has a multi-faceted scheme for fraud and electoral corruption that counts on not only installing people like Brunner in the election process, but also depends on Republicans going to their cocktail parties oblivious of what’s going on.
Currently, things are starting to trend Republican in the polls for 2010, which is actually a counterintuitively bad thing.
Republicans’ worst vice is complacency. If they believe “it’s in the bag for us” in 2010, they will sit on their butts, or start party planning for the next election celebration. That is the last thing they can afford to do.
Here is what we would like to see happen on the GOP side so that Dr. Utopia, our illustrious current president, can be defeated in 2010 and removed from office in 2012:
(1) ACORN and all of its affiliates like the SEIU must be staked through the heart, dismembered, covered in Holy Water, eviscerated, cremated, and rocketed directly into the sun.
Even then, it will still be a threat.
It’s obvious to us Republicans still don’t realize what they are dealing with in terms of ACORN.
ACORN is a domestic terrorist organization and criminal enterprise.
If Al Capone was alive today, he would be proud so much of his organization is still intact, by way of ACORN. These people are criminals, and the new Capone, at large, is George Soros, whom too few Republicans know anything about.
Capone’s footmen and lieutenants ran neighborhoods, with Capone cells positioned every few blocks to control what the hapless souls in their areas did: who they voted for, where they spent their money, what they did for work.
That’s what Soros-fueled ACORN does today…and it’s all part of a massive Get Out the Vote effort that keeps putting radicals and liberals into office.
We tell you as often as possible what we saw ACORN do for Dr. Utopia during the primaries and general election last year. In Iowa, we saw ACORN bus in hundreds of people from Chicago to Ioawa caucus sites, where ACORN supporters ran the check-in tables and allowed non-Ioawans to vote for Dr. Utopia in the caucus. ACORN pushed and shoved old people, told them they were in the wrong caucus site, and insisted if they didn’t vote for Dr. Utopia they would tell all their friends and neighbors they were RAAACISTS.
It was the most vile thing we had ever seen…until we went to Ohio, Texas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and other states where we campaigned first for Hillary Clinton and then for McCain/Palin.
ACORN, teamed up with the SEIU and Black Panthers, blocked polling places so non-Utopia voters couldn’t cast their ballots. “You’re going to vote right, aren’t you?”, these thugs would say to old people in particular, telling them they would know if they didn’t vote for Utopia and there would be consequences for voting “wrong”.
In Chicago, we don’t know how it’s done, but the local Aldermen really do know who you voted for. We seriously are baffled by how they do it, but we’re repeatedly told by property owners that if they call the Alderman’s office after they didn’t vote for him or her, there’s a pause on the phone as it feels like their names are looked up in a book. If they didn’t “vote right”, then no one will come pick up their garbage. If they did vote right, the City workers can’t move fast enough to get things taken care of.
We didn’t believe this until we watched it in action one day, with two different people, both living in the same Alderman’s district, calling about the same parking issue. One of them voted for him, and the other didn’t. They called the same office, just hours apart. The one who voted for him got what she wanted…the one who voted for the other guy got the shaft.
It was stunning.
And when you hear stories about what Helen Jones-Kelly, Obama operative, did in Ohio and what Jennifer Brunner, Ohio’s Secretary of State, did to get as many fraudulent votes and fake voter registrations through in 2008, you have to wonder how much ELSE is going on that you never hear about.
As much as we love Glenn Beck, Andrew Brietbart, Anita Moncrief, Hannah Giles, and the rest who’ve been in the forefront exposing ACORN lately, we’re afraid of that Republican complacency creeping in again.
Congress passed a bill to cut ACORN’s funding…but ACORN is suing to get the funding restored. They will most likely win.
Funding ACORN is like putting Al Capone on the national payroll. It must be stopped.
George Soros is running a systematic campaign to put ACORN loyalists like Jennifer Brunner into Secretary of State positions in all 50 states if he can. He must be stopped.
We have only from now until 2010 to hit ACORN with everything we’ve got so the Liberals can be driven from Congress…with the larger goal of using 2010-2012 to make sure ACORN is completely eliminated before the 2012 elections, so Dr. Utopia will not have his greatest field asset available to him.
(2) The Five Horsemen of the GOP 2012 Apocalypse must be discredited and marginalized before the MSM can push them as the 2012 nominee.
See above where we talk about Democrats fighting future elections while Republicans are sipping martinis at cocktail party meet and greets and networking events.
Democrats are pushing five men to be Dr. Utopia’s opponent in 2012, all of whom are sure to lose against him:
(a) Mitt Romney — who conservatives will be lukewarm to, no one can get excited about, and whom flip-flops on just about everything so much even he doesn’t know what he stands for. That’s more fatal to his candidacy than his Mormonism is — because, like it or not, there are a lot of Americans who are openly hostile towards and prejudiced against Mormons. It’s not fair, but unlike with Islam, speaking out against Mormons is socially acceptable and highly encouraged by the MSM. Romney would make an excellent Treasury or Commerce Secretary in the next administration…but he is a very nice, bland man who should not be a Presidential or Vice Presidential nominee. Ever.
(b) Mike Huckabee — a very nice and likeable man who is exceptionally entertaining. He’s also very useful for Democrats because he was an excellent spoiler for Romney in Iowa in 2008. Democrats used Huck to take Romney down there, as Romney would have been a bigger threat in 2008 than McCain was. Democrats plan to use Huckabee again in Iowa in 2012, possibly to take down Sarah Palin or Fred Thompson, if the two of them decide to run. The MSM would treat Huck with kid gloves as long as he’s damaging other, stronger national candidates: he will appeal to conservatives and force his peers to get into social issues Republicans would be smart to avoid if they want to keep Independents in the fold. All Independents want to hear about are jobs, the economy, jobs, scaling back the overreach of government, jobs, and turning back Dr. Utopia’s encroachment into their private lives. Oh, and jobs.
(c) Tim Pawlenty – less exciting than watching paint dry. Plus, there has never been a good photograph taken of this man, not even by people who really like him and have tried for hours to take such a photograph. He always comes off looking droopy eyed and jowely, tired, and vaguely used-car-salesman. Like it or not, that’s going to matter when the media revs up to full blast to give Dr. Utopia a second term. You need to understand that the MSM bet everything on this man, and they will lose everything if he’s a one-term Carteresque failure. Tim Pawlenty does not have what it takes to be the Presidential nominee…though he might, just might, be a good VP pic. He’s more interesting and photogenic than Joe Biden, at least.
(d) Charlie Crist — someone else who would be used by the MSM like Huckabee, but who will ultimately be outed by the MSM when they are done using him to take down stronger candidates. Everything Crist did at the Green Iguana will one day be made public. It is only a matter of time. No amount of weddings can do Crist any better than they did Rock Hudson, Tom Cruise, or John Travolta. Charlie Crist might as well be a candleabra toting pianist for as believable he is as a heterosexual. Just like with Aaron Schock, another darling of the MSM for the GOP, Crist is a timebomb who keeps being built up by people who are eager to one day out him when he can do the most damage to the GOP.
(e) Jon Huntsman — the most interesting of all the Horsemen on this list, Huntsman was removed from his governorship and sent to China by Dr. Utopia, with Rahm Emanuel calling him a threat to Utopia’s second term. That’s like the Harlem Globetrotters talking about how much they dread playing the Washington Generals. Huntsman is a delusional fool. He will more likely than not indeed be encouraged to run in 2012. No doubt the DNC and large Democrat donors will fund his campaign. He is the candidate Democrats want to run against in 2012, more than Romney even, just as Dems wanted to run against John McCain. Republicans should stop talking about Huntsman as a contender immediately.
Pursuant to all the above, with our mind still on (1) as well, the GOP needs to come up with some way to keep the Democrats from gaming the 2012 nomination process and selecting whom they want to run against. We have no idea how to do that.
ACORN, if not defeated by then, will help Dems pick their favorite opponent. Dems will be encouraged to switch party affiliation so they can vote for Romney or Huckabee instead of someone who will actually beat Dr. Utopia. Dem donors will flood weak candidates with as much money as possible so they can cannibalize the vote and ensure the worst possible GOP standard bearer emerges.
Their plans are crystal clear in this…and we have less than three years to stop them.
What can you do to make sure the GOP nomination is not gamed next go round?
(3) Republicans need to give Independent and Moderate voters an excuse that lets them admit voting for Dr. Utopia was the dumbest thing they have done in a while.
We suggested this the other day, when we suggested a grassroots campaign should be started to “Blame Oprah” for all of this. We’ve found, anecdotally, here in Chicago that people are more likely to admit what a disaster Dr. Utopia is if they don’t also have to admit how stupid they are for having fallen for all of Utopia’s lies.
BUT, when we’ve suggested to these people that Oprah tricked them, and that they never would have backed Utopia if Oprah hadn’t told them to, then suddenly they speak freely about what a promise-breaking, lying, socialist embarrassment the current president is.
You might think this is ridiculous, but we swear it works. Even here in Boystown, where people were so drunk on Kool-Aid and deranged for Utopia that they once believed he really was the Second Coming. Then, they went through a period where they were quiet and disillusioned. Now, the majority of them unemployed (and never receiving any of the unicorns or stimulus money they believe they were promised), they’re starting to get angry.
What’s KEEPING them from speaking out, from taking to the streets, from having a Network “not going to take it anymore” moment, is the simple fact that they’d have to admit they were wrong first.
And that does not happen in the LGBTQ community. Pride isn’t just a festival at the end of June…it’s the thing that gets most often in the way of rational thinking.
Oprah is key to this roadblock. There should be tee shirts that say, “It’s all Oprah’s fault”, “Oprah’s ‘One’ means we’ve all lost”, etc. Someone out there will think of a really great slogan in this meme, we’re sure.
But, the idea is to give people an out…let them say, “I trusted Oprah and look what her candidate did to the country. I would have never bought into this nonsense if Oprah hadn’t sold it to me, like “The Secret” or Nate Berkus. Oprah did all of this.”
We’re telling you, it would work. Especially in the suburbs.
If not Oprah, then MSNBC.
CNN.
The New York Times.
The entire Mainstream Media.
All of them, collectively, personified in Oprah, sold America a bill of tainted goods for which we are all suffering now.
They should be blamed for all Dr. Utopia has wrought…and in blaming them, many millions of people would suddenly have the freedom and clarity to admit what a colossal mistake 2008 was.
A mistake that needs correcting in 2010.
But that’s only going to happen if Republicans ditch the cocktail parties, leave their yachts, and get engaged in the elections NOW, and not wait until a few months before in 2010, like they usually do.
Jennifer Brunner and Helen Jones-Kelley need to be talked about repeatedly in Ohio
Jennifer Brunner should be in prison.
Helen Jones-Kelley should be her cellmate.
A year ago, the MSM was crowing that Voinovich was stepping down and essentially handing the seat to Democrats.
Some of us here are from Ohio, and knew Voinovich when he was Mayor of Cleveland. One of us even used to work out with his niece Melissa, back when Voinovich was still being considered a VP pick for Bush back in 2000. We’ve been proud of how well he’s served our state in various capacities through the years and hope he’s headed for a well-deserved retirement. He has always been one Republican we’ve long supported, because of the personal connections in Cleveland.
But, we’ve been disgusted by the state of Ohio since 2008, when the antics of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and former Director of the Department of Job and Family Services Helen Jones-Kelley came to light.
Brunner worked hand in hand with ACORN to commit voter fraud in Ohio; the woman should be in federal prison, not running for the US Senate. She deliberately and purposefully manipulated voter registrations to do everything she could to throw the state to Dr. Utopia last November…and went above and beyond her partisan duty in that regard. Brunner is a true disgrace to a state that deserves so much better from someone in charge of the fairness and accuracy of elections. There are no words to describe how mortified we are at the state of affairs in one of our home states: with Brunner at the helm, we have more confidence in the fairness of voting in Paraguay than we do Columbus or Cincinnati.
What a corrupt disgrace she is.
And that brings us to the absolute worst person in the state of Ohio at the moment, and that’s Helen Jones-Kelley, serial Muppet skinner and Dr. Utopia’s favorite minion in the state. This is the vile toad of a woman who abused her bureaucratic authority to misappropriate government resources and spy on Joe “the plumber” Wurzelbacher in the closing days of the 2008 campaign when Joe asked Candidate Utopia an impromptu question about his socialist agenda at a Toledo campaign stop. Dr. Utopia fumbled when called out on his socialist leanings, and so Wurzelbacher needed to be punished by the DNC and Utopia campaign.
Enter Helen Jones-Kelley, she of the bougie felt wardrobe and dearth of professional ethics.
It is embarrassing to the nth degree that slime like this had the power to pull government records on a private citizen and release them to the news media, in an effort to shame and discredit someone whose honest question embarrassed an unprepared, bumbling, socialist candidate.
As much as we love Ted Strickland for his undying support for Hillary Clinton in the primaries, we have to honestly say we’ve never felt right about him since the Wurzelbacher incident, either. He should have immediately fired Jones-Kelley, having her physically picked up by burly Teamsters and tossed out of the building on her bougie ass, if not dumped into the Cuyahoga or one of our other picturesque, sometimes-flaming rivers in the state. It took Strickland several months of “investigations” before finally asking for Jones-Kelley’s resignation.
Her golden parachute was the White House’s efforts on her behalf to land her a cushy, well-paid position on a charitable board, where she now sits (in ugly periwinkle felt, no doubt).
Shameful.
In 2006, Democrats in Ohio roared back to life because of the chaos and corrupt ineptitude of the Republican Taft administration in the state. If people like Jennifer Brunner and Helen Jones-Kelley are allowed to run wild abusing their authority and deliberately utilizing the tools and public trusts of their office to further the causes of Dr. Utopia and his agenda, then we think it might be time to clean house in Ohio again…and hopefully install good Republicans in office to fix what ills bad Democrats like Brunner and Jones-Kelley have wrought.
If Democrats lose control of Ohio again in 2010, it will be an earthquake-level repudiation of Dr. Utopia and his socialist corruption that even Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC couldn’t ignore.
Republicans need to take Charlie Crist down now before he does any more damage to Marco Rubio
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Charlie Crist is playing the Race Card in Florida, apparently, according to an article in RedState talking about the latest sleazy attack ad Crist is running against Marco Rubio — an ad that talks about the color of Rubio’s skin and calls him Cuban.
What’s most interesting about the RedState piece is that it’s the first time we’ve seen a Republican site even hint at Charlie Crist’s escapades at the Green Iguana in Tampa.
During the 2008 campaign, the MSM pushed Crist as a VP choice for McCain, wanting him on the ticket so they could spectacularly out Crist and reveal everything he did at the Green Iguana in Tampa.
All the things he wore.
Pretty things.
Nicer dresses than anything the current First Lady of the United States wears.
And that’s quite a feat, too, considering orange is such a hard color to match anything to.
Crist has run one of the most shameful, underhanded, and despicable primary campaigns we’ve ever followed. He created a bogus video attacking himself that he then alleged the Rubio campaign put out. Then, his operatives whipped up an astroturf site to hammer Rubio for making the video that Crist himself engineered.
What’s stunning to us is that a man whose entire life is a giant, orange lie dares to do such shady, nasty things to his opponent.
If we were him, we’d be terrified of being outed.
Marrying the heiress to a joke and novelty beard mail order fortune (no lie, he really did that), doesn’t irrefutably establish a man’s heterosexuality any more than marrying Katie Holmes or posing bare-chested with a bossomy, bikini-clad constituent does (shout out to Tom and Aaron).
There are four men the MSM is pushing HARD to be the Republican nominee in 2012, because the MSM knows Dr. Utopia can easily beat these four fatally-flawed candidates: Charlie Crist, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal.
We’ve met Romney and Huckabee and can tell you, honestly, we think they are good men at heart, but that they just won’t win against Dr. Utopia. Romney is too much of a flip-flopper and is too Ken Doll, boring, white bread. Huckabee is entertaining as all get-out, and he will certainly fire up the base, but he’ll alienate Independents and possibly make them sit home, since he’s perceived as too religiously zealot.
The exorcism Jindal was involved in is his fatal flaw, for anyone who can get passed his lackluster performances on TV and the ease with which he’s parodied as Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock.
Rudy Giuliani could get away with dressing up in drag and still be a credible candidate for national office.
Charlie Crist, oh he of the Green Iguana, cannot.
The quicker Republicans take Crist down and get behind Rubio, the faster you end this delusional timebomb’s national ambitions, the better it will be for everyone.
The only person we see on the field being able to take Dr. Utopia down in 2012 right now is Sarah Palin, so while you’re making your decisions about Crist, you might as well start getting behind HER too.
Sorry, Charlie, but the only President Americans want to see in a dress is an actual woman. You should count your lucky orange stars the Rubio campaign’s been kinder and less revealing about you than Democrats are (or would be in a national election).
Thursday Open Thread: November 12th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
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Many thanks for everyone who helped us get into the Bill Clinton events here in Chicago yesterday. We have a full report in the works, with much behind the scenes tidbits. It’s a busy day for us this Thursday, so we’ll get the piece up as soon as we can. We really appreciate all the support and hope we can always be your eyes and ears on the ground here in Chicago for as many interesting things as we can.
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Also, many thanks and hellos to everyone new who’s found their way here in the last two days. Every once in a while, a piece we do or a story we tell resonates with a new group of people out there…and we’re happy if something we put together here at Buzzquarters made people think or inspired them in ways we never expected.
During the campaign this happened, too, when Rush Limbaugh read a piece of ours on the air (and kept calling us “those Hillary babes at HillBuzz”, even though we are a bunch of 30-something gay guys (Hillary moderates all) in Boystown, Chicago…so we still chuckle about that one, because there are no women writing here). It’s nice when people outside our usual readership stumble upon us – because we hope you see that politics is one thing, and we can be on opposite sides on many small-picture issues, but at the end of the day what’s happening to our country should be paramount to all of us.
As we keep saying, we should be Americans first, partisans last.
Conservatives should not automatically dismiss or hate people like us because we’re gay Hillary moderates. Don’t change who you are to appease moderates…and don’t pander to the LGBTQ community either, beacuse you are never going to win Boystown, people (no matter how good you might look in that Speedo). Just dial the vocal hate down to zero, advocate low taxes and limited government intrusion into business, and show the LGBTQ community that voting for Moderates and Republicans could actually do much, much more to help gays start and keep their own businesses than voting for socialists ever will.
If we can be a bridge in things like this…and maybe help the right see not ALL moderate Independents and former Dems are bad…and help our own ranks see that not ALL Republicans are right wing zealots, then we all have a chance of stopping Dr. Utopia from getting that second term the MSM has already crowned him with.
There are many things we won’t ever agree on, we’re sure.
But we all seem to want to stop voter fraud.
We all want to eliminate the domestic terrorist organization and criminal enterprise known as ACORN.
We all want to stop Dr. Utopia’s thugs from gaming the caucuses and primaries in 2012 to pick the opponent he wants to run against.
We all want to see the Politically Correct police and Liberal Fascism crushed in the next three years.
And we are all sick and tired of the Race Industry and the antics of race-baiters like Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Henry Gates, and all the rest who scream RAAACISM! at the drop of the hat for their own personal, opportunistic gain.
There are a lot of battles to fight, people. Divided over social issues and the old cultural wars, the Liberals always win. But, if Clinton Moderates, Independents, Former Dems, and Republicans can come together, we could decimate Liberals for another generation or two, solidifying Dr. Utopia as the new Carter…while paving the way for the first female president in 2012.
Be she Hillary Clinton…or Sarah Palin.
As long as we defeat Dr. Utopia, America wins.
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This is completely on tangent, but we stumbled upon a photo of Nancy Reagan having lunch with Mrs. Utopia on June 3rd …which would be right around the five year anniversary of former President Reagan’s death. We hadn’t realized Mrs. Reagan was in Washington at that time.
While Mrs. Reagan looks lovely, and we are so happy to see her in the White House again, it’s always a little disappointing to see her in anything other than Nancy Reagan Red. Just like Barbara Bush Blue, Jackie Kennedy Pink, or Laura Bush Cream. When we think of Mrs. Reagan and her time in the White House, we think of her in those stunning reds she always wore. They were so flattering for her, and she looked so good in what she was wearing that she always gave the impression she cared enough about the event and the people around her to take the time to look her very best — while mindful she was ALWAYS representing the people of the United States in all that she did while living in the People’s House.
One of these people is dressed lovely...and the other looks like she's twelve feet tall.
Mrs. Utopia needs to learn many lessons from Nancy Reagan and all the women who’ve come before her in the role of FLOTUS.
Like Reagan, she should pick a signature color of her own — or at the very least, limit herself to either a pattern, stripes, or texture at a time, and not a hodge-podge of all three.
“Scowling” is not a color, no matter how ubiquitous it is for her or how much she would like it to be.
What we THINK happens in the morning when Mrs. Utopia dresses is that she picks out one piece of “outfit”, her daughters pick out one piece each (in Claire McCaskill style, they “bug her” to wear this or that), and then either an impossibly straight Secret Service agent or a randomly chosen member of the public selects the last piece of “outfit”.
All of this is done in the dark, everyone blind-folded if not sedated, with the people picking items in separate wings of the building, never allowed to communicate with one another.
That’s the only explanation we can think of for why the current FLOTUS perpetually wears these mixed-but-not-matched ensembles to once-in-a-lifetime occasions when we, personally, would have strived to look our very best.
Because, honestly, YOU ARE HAVING LUNCH WITH NANCY REAGAN. On the anniversary of her husband’s death. There are just six of your predecessors in the entire world alive today, each one deserving of your respect, especially the ones in their 80s who rarely make appearances in Washington anymore.
We say this repeatedly here, but the nicest Mrs. Utopia ever looks is in canary yellow, medium-range purple, or leopard print (and the most appropriate and prettiest she has ever looked, sadly, was in her Halloween costume last month…while her normal everyday clothes are what look like sad, rejected costumes).
If she made any of the above her signature color (or just wore that Catwoman outfit everyday, as it’s the nicest things he owns) and wore her hair nicely like in the photo above, stopped wearing those dowdy pearls (which have looked nice on other FLOTUSES, but look artificial and forced on Mrs. Utopia), and had the instinct to be seated in photos when next to someone who is not only older and shorter, but seated herself, then these little photo ops could be absolutely stunning keepsakes for the current residents of the White House.
Moments like this are so fleeting and rare…and it’s a shame they’re so Barnum & Bailey costumed when they could be simple and chic with minimal effort.
Michelle Obama Purple, Michelle Obama Yellow, Michelle Obama Leopard…any of those would be marvelous.
And, knowing how much this individual loves attention and kudos, perhaps Crayola could even NAME that particular shade after her. ”I’m now proud of crayons for the first time in my adult life,” she could say, and we’d be thrilled for her as long as she stopped dressing herself like this.
The latest ridiculous attack on Sarah Palin in Chicago: Oprah's audience complains they didn't get any free books
Dear Schaumburg Oprah Audience Members: the reason you did not find this book under your seats is because it has not been released yet. Grow up now, please.
Seriously, of all the ridiculous things that are said about Sarah Palin, this one takes the cake.
Sarah Palin was in town today to tape her appearance on Oprah, which will air on Monday of next week.
Next TUESDAY Palin’s book, Going Rogue, drops in bookstores.
Apparently, Oprah didn’t explain that to her studio audience…which are largely women from Schaumburg who root under their chairs at Harpo Studios for freebies like hounds after truffles…or Oprah on the scent of a Twix bar in an old lady’s purse.
Today, we must have heard 25 times already how “cheap” Oprah’s audience has been complaining Palin was not to give them any free books. Uh, those would be the books Palin’s not allowed by her publisher to pass out until the contractually mandated street date.
For people who claim they hate Palin so much and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE their Oprah, the residents of Schaumburg sure seem conflicted here: why would they have wanted copies of a book none of them claim they want to read?
To sell on eBay before the drop date, maybe?
The NBC affiliate here in Chicago, NBC-5, is one of the most worthless stations on the air. Watching it is like sitting through a kindergarten production of the news, done as farce, and stage-managed by someone in a coma.
They ran a litle blurb about Palin being in Chicago, with some idiot on the street saying, “Oh, I saw her! I saw her! She was here! Oprah asked her if she was going to get a talk show too and Palin didn’t deny it! Then Oprah asked her if she was going to run for President in 2012 and Palin said she didn’t have that on her radar! And then she didn’t give anyone any of her books! Then she drove away in a big car!”
Please.
And the reporter came back on to stress that Palin didn’t give anyone any books.
Then she made this pouty face, like Palin had just spoiled everyone’s Christmas.
This is the same kind of crap that’s been done to Hillary Clinton for the last 20 years. Neither she nor Palin can ever win with these people.
Why can't Jill Biden take Mrs. Utopia shopping sometime?
One of these things is not like the others.
Jill Biden might be married to an ice cream snarfing, ridiculous man-child, but the woman, in her rare public appearances as Second Lady, is second to none in her attire. She is always appropriately dressed, never wears Halloween costumes other than October 31st, and, to our knowledge, doesn’t actively try to make herself look enciente with bastions of bulbous belts.
For the record, she also doesn’t pal around with grown-ass women who think they’re Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz…whose bright red shoes seem inappropriate for an appearance at Arlington National Cemetery.
Honestly, we’ve said this before but will say it again, one of the biggest breaks Mrs. Utopia caught in 2008 is when Mr. Blackwell died. That man could have filled one of his Worst Ever lists with things the current First Lady has worn this week, alone.
Not even in the heart of the Klingon Empire itself would today’s getup be appropriate. That hair. That belt. Those boots. That coat. bachHa’!
What’s really sad to us is that this is a woman who could look very pretty if she only had better people dressing her. People who don’t hate her.
For an appearance at Arlington on Veterans’ Day, appropriate attire would have been a long black coat, black shoes, her hair nicely combed, with perhaps a red, white, and blue scarf of some kind to add some patriotic color.
Somber events and funerals are not the time for “Lookit Me!”, no matter how much Mrs. Utopia wants them to be. This isn’t quite as bad as the Sophie Theallet giant bow dress she wore to get extra attention at Ted Kennedy’s funeral this summer, but it’s up there.
At least she didn’t wear her favorite dress again, though:
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UPDATE: We’re surprised to see this bit on AOL today, in the Style section, where the author, clearly an Obot, also criticizes Mrs. Utopia for that Klingon death belt…there’s a vague reference to the tourquoise being out of place at a Veterans’ Day event, but the author quickly points out that she, herself, loves tourquoise…even if nobody else around you for miles is wearing bright colors.
The author cannot, however, explain or excuse away that hideous belt. Try as she wants to.
Republicans would be smart to blame Dr. Utopia on the Media — and in particular, Oprah
"Did I do that?"
Here in Boystown, we’ve noticed people are loathe to admit they were wrong about most things unless they have somoene they can blame it all on. They need a convenient scapegoat who “tricked them” in some way, or else they’ll just keep defending whatever bad decision they made — lest they be forced to admit they were just plain stupid.
Over the months, many LGBTQ have come to realize electing Dr. Utopia was an enormous mistake, though they aren’t ready to admit it yet. But their feelings on him have changed markedly over the last year:
* During the general election campaign, low-information fops repeated the MSNBC/CNN/NYT talking points that anyone who didn’t vote for Dr. Utopia was a damn, dirty RAAACIST and anyone who thought McCain would have been a better president might as well have been in the Klan
* Between November 2008-January 20th, 2009, the same fops insisted that anyone who didn’t drop to their knees and praise The Great Spaghetti Monster for delivering unto us “The Lightbringer” and wasn’t so excited by the “Inauguration of the first admittedly part black president” that they were in serious danger of spontaneous combustion was just a damn dirty RAAACIST
* From January 20th, 2009 (the day all Race Cards expired, we must note) to this summer, the fops insisted “there’s not enough time to judge him…give him time, he will keep all his promises, we swear”. Anyone who didn’t believe that was, of course, a damn dirty RAAACIST
Most of you out there don’t realize this, but the “Gay Year” pretty much ends and begins again at Pride, which is the last Sunday of June. So much effort is put into the Pride festivals and Pride parade that, literally, the Monday after 2009′s Pride ended planning started for 2010. Psychologically, the gay community, at large turns the calendar ahead at the end of June and starts looking forward to the next year (just as many of us start designing next year’s Halloween costume on November 1st).
A lot of gays were boy scouts…and we like to plan ahead (if not still try to squeeze into those old khaki uniforms for at least the aforementioned Halloween).
During most of 2008, a theater company we used to love here in Chicago called GayCo was, like the MSM, an extension of the Obama campaign. The actors, writers, director, and tech crew were largely Obots…of the most low-information variety, we have to tell you. These are the kind of people who would say things like, “Nyu-uh, oh no, it doesn’t matter that Obama didn’t march in Pride, and has never marched in a Pride parade, it just matters that he says Hope and I like Hope. It sounds like soap and I like soap too. I eat the soap.” In response to anything critical of Dr. Utopia, their Savior and Lightbringer, including his atrocious record on LGBTQ rights, the GayCo gang would get severely flummuxed and say, “Oh, yah, yah, well McCain’s a RAAACIST and you’re a RAAACIST Republican because you just don’t want a black man to be president!”. Then, they would stomp off in a big flurry of glitter and farts and seek comfort in a corner of a bar where they “didn’t have to think about anything anymore”, so convinced that Dr. Utopia was really going to give them their unicorns.
Well, post-2009 Pride, GayCo has opened it’s new show this week, called “The Audacity of Nope”, all about Dr. Utopia’s broken promises to the LGBTQ community. The subtitle of the show is, “How we fell for a pansy scheme”…a riff on Bernie Maddof’s ponzi scheme, which is also worked into the show, we assume. As soon as we have a chance to see the production, we’ll tell you all about it, we promise.
If you are in Chicago, go see this at Strawdog Theater on Halsted (near the I-Hop and Grace), every Friday and Saturday until December 12th, 2009
It’s heartening for us that GayCo has come to its senses because we really and truly do think they are the best theater troupe in the city…and it was painful to watch them relentlessly shill the Kool-Aid last year. We lost a few good friendships over the 2008 campaign, all from gay guys who were so upset we campaigned for McCain/Palin that one of them actually threw a drink in our face (which was funny, because that single martini at MiniBar cost more than everything we were wearing at the time, so the drink may have been on us, but the joke was solidly on them).
Cleve Jones, LGBTQ activist, friend of Harvey Milk, and originator of the Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was in Chicago not long after Pride 2009 and he flat-out called gays idiots for blind voting Democrat and believing Dr. Utopia was going to keep any of his promises. You should have seen the looks on people’s faces when he said that: since the LGBTQ community largely parrots what they hear “smart people on TV” say, and Cleve Jones was presented to them as “a very smart person who was not only on TV a lot but also was played by cutie Emile Hirsch in a MOVIE”, they just didn’t know what to do with themselves when he told them to stop blind-voting Democrat and proclaiming Dr. Utopia their savior. All the little squirrels in their exercise wheels inside their heads started doing major Pilates over that one. Some people were so confused they forgot their own names while trying to grasp the concept. “Brendon! BRENDON! BRENNNNDON! It’s okay bro. You’re Brendan, and you are totally a bartender at MiniBar who completely ROCKS OUT in his suspenders and tight, elongated v-neck tee. You’re just thinking too hard, buddy. You need to just focus on Chase Crawford or something and you’ll be all better in no time, baby. No time”.
During Halloween, we went to a lot of costume shops and saw people trying on, but never buying, Dr. Utopia masks, wondering how many of them would go as “our first partially black president” to costume parties. While observing various people trying on their masks, we accidentally on purpose overheard many conversations about the current president. ”He hasn’t done a damn thing!” “That Nobel Prize is the biggest joke since Tom Cruise married poor little Katie”. ”I am still waiting for my Hope and Change. Maybe I can pay my rent with it when it finally shows up”.
We think more people would be riled up against Dr. Utopia if they had someone to blame for their own stupidity in supporting him.
If there’s one thing that’s bigger than naked porn star Twister at Steamworks in this town, it’s the blame-game.
“Brendan! You TOTALLY bought last month’s new Ipod when this month’s new Ipod is silver and Sting and January Jones says it helps the Rainforest or sharks or something, or shark forests, so you totally f***ed it all up again, Brendan!”
“No way…I only did it because Leighton Meister told me to buy the red one because she had it on Gossip Girl and I am TOTALLY NEVER WATCHING THAT SHOW AGAIN NOW. Bitch.”
Whether it was also buying the wrong kind of designer mutt (“Cockapoos were so 2007, Brendan, what were you thinking?”), drinking the wrong soy latte (“Nobody goes to Starbucks anymore, BRENDAN, everyone’s going to Intelligentsia now, unless they are dead and stupid”), or working out at the wrong gym (“Balley’s doesn’t even have towel service and they don’t have a steam room you can get doing anything that would make them throw you out for, BRENDAN”), Liberals in Boystown love having someone else to blame for any mistakes they make, since “denial of all accountability” is intrinsically grafted onto the fabulous gene.
We surmise this pervades all of Liberaldumbdom, and not just Boystown.
It would, thus, be interesting if somehow Republicans could strategically make every disaffected Liberal believe the only reason they voted for Dr. Utopia was because Oprah told them to.
This frees them up to see Dr. Utopia for who he really is, because they would no longer have to invest so much energy into defending their choice to support him. As it stands now, absent a scapegoat, Brendan has to keep insisting he really believes Dr. Utopia will keep all of his promises and deliver unto Boystown a cavalcade of unicorns.
If Brendan had someone to blame for his vote — someone in the shape of an insatiable, world-devouring, Greek sea monster like Lake Michigan’s very own Charybdis, Oprah Winfrey — then he could do what every other gay guy typically does, and pass the buck onto her.
“Yah, that Obama is such a liar. He never keeps any of his promises and his wife wears clown clothes. That damn Oprah told me to vote for him and I listened to her. This is all her fault. I hate her. She’s fugly.”
“Yah, you tell ‘em Brendan. Yah.”
“Yah. I know.”
“Yah.”
You have no idea, tragically, how little of this is satire. Spend an evening at MiniBar, Scarlet, or Spin and see for yourself.
Find a way to remind voters of Oprah’s historic endorsement of Dr. Utopia as “The One”. Give them this out, and let them all say that Oprah hoodwinked them…that none of this would have happened if not for her…and then just watch all the Brendans in the Liberal fold come forward with their disappointment and anger in him.
Yah.
