Archive for January 20th, 2010
PHOTOSHOP CHALLENGE: George Soros
Part of getting more people out there involved in hitting back at Liberals is discovering new artistic talent. In the last few weeks, we have been FLOORED by the mad skillz some of you out there have with photoshop and other photo manipulation software. It’s incredible. Many of you have the talent to become political cartoonists, and we hope we can help you get there.
Anytime you read an essay of ours that you think is screaming out for illustration, have at it!
We also want to keep posting these regular Photoshop Challenges to not only see what you can come up with, but get you all ready as a Rapid Response Team, which can spring to action when things are needed in the future on an immediate basis to take take advantage of an opportunity in the news to really lampoon the Left. Remember, the greatest weapon we have against these thugs and bullies is humor. Make them into jokes, and their power crumbles. Technically, they already are jokes, many living in their mothers’ basements, but we just need to get the general public to see this and laugh at them.
For the longest time, we’ve wanted shots of George Soros as a dinosaur/human hybrid. When we hear his name, “George Soros”, we think of it being spelled “George Sauros”, like some kind of creepy T-Rex, Triceratops, or other dinosaur with human features.
The Triceratops would be most fun…because the T-Rexes are overplayed, and Trikes were our favorite dinosaurs growing up. We picture “Sauros” in his lair, plotting and scheming, trying to crash our economy and impose socialism in this country. Like a real life James Bond villain, who is part dinosaur (and, at 80 something, hopefully not that much longer for this world).
Anyone with a great take on “Sauros”, email it to us at HillBuzz@gmail.com
One Year Into the Golden Age of Hope and Change
We’d do a recap of the failures, embarrassments, broken promises, outrages, and hubris of the current president, in office one year now today, but this whole site is a collection of those things. It would be like watching an annoying “Previously On” recap clipfest before a favorite show comes on.
Instead, we’ll just rerun what we wrote to George W. Bush as he left office, on January 20th, 2009, almost exactly as The Golden Age of Hope and Change began.
Perhaps this needs to be an annual tradition, so people can always remember what “Hope and Change” have really brought us, and how much “The Lightbringer” continues to falter and fumble where “Dubya” stood so tall and, in retrospect, certainly made us all very proud.
More than ever, we believe “Ya done good, Dubya”, and wherever you are, sir, we hope you know millions more each year agree with us and are sorry for the way you were so maligned.
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Reprinted from January 20th, 2009:
We’ve been thinking of what to say about former President George W. Bush, now that he’s officially a former president. Our first impulse was to write about the Florida recount and the time we spent down in Tallahassee in 2000, screaming and yelling like crazy people, demanding justice and fairness and the unalienable right for all votes to count, but considering we had to go to Washington DC on May 31st last year (for the Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting) to scream and yell for the Democratic party to count all votes in Florida and Michigan, any residual anger we had over Election 2000’s been squarely absolved.
Then, we thought we’d open this by complaining about how silly it was that Bush gave everyone from staff members to world leaders nicknames, and carried on like an old frat boy long expelled but still planning the next kegger, but then we remember the Obama fist-bumps and the “hip slang” (hey, do me a solid) the 44th president tries to work into almost everything he says, and suddenly calling Vladimir Putin “Pooty-poot” doesn’t seem so unusual.
And George W. Bush doesn’t seem so bad after all.
All things considered.
Last night, at Sidetrack here in Boystown, the largest gay bar in the Midwest (if not the US, as its owners claim), the bar was decorated haphazardly with flags and stars leftover from the Fourth of July beer-b-que. The ubiquitously creepy Obama “Hope” lithographs were out in full force (hopefully for the last time) — that haunting picture of himself he likes so much, staring forward and to the right, cast in red and blue silkscreen like something from the Bolshevik’s revoluntionary printing presses. Little cards on all the tables advertised the big Obama party the bar was throwing on Inauguartion Day, “to celebrate history” by mocking the outgoing president with classless, crass, unadulterated hate.
Because interspliced with the lively showtune videos Sidetrack shows on a Monday night, cut into all the singing and laughter and good times, were nasty little jabs at President Bush that drove the crowd wild in a most childish way.
We were embarrassed in the way we are when our nieces and nephews run wild at Chuck-E-Cheese, coming close to lighting the animatronic rat ablaze with birthday candles, or we catch the little hellions making fun of someone who’s slipped on the ice or dropped their lunch tray, in that particularly chilling Children of the Corn way cold, unmitigated cruelty comes shockingly natural to some kids — despite their being sweet, chubby cherubs just moments before.
The VJs at Sidetrack whipped up compilation tapes of Bush tripping on stairs, flubbing lines in his speeches, dropping things, taking a wrong turn and trying to open a locked door, etc. All the things that any one of us does in the course of a week, or a day, but are mercifully never recorded doing (there’s a reason we don’t have a web cam, folks) — since we don’t have film crews monitoring our every waking moment, the way Bush did. For eight years, with zero personal privacy. So, with more than seventy thousand hours of footage from Bush’s presidency available for creative editing, a cobbled-together string of flubs and fumbles sent Boystown into hysterics, mocking the soon-t0-be-former president.
And the nastiness and hate that welled up in the crowd and lasered in on Bush was palpable and frightening, if not particularly shocking, considering where we were (this is the same bar, after all, where another favorite video compilation during the election was mocking Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, using Saturday Night Live’s greatest and most sexist hits — because making fun of women and babies is always a hit with some gay men).
It was ugly, in a world where not a frosted-tipped hair’s ever out of place and fawning over youth and beauty is the order of the day; it was cruel and clumsy where sensitivity and nuanced expression are normally prized; it was unbridled and irrational hellfire from people who stage whole parades to complain about religious people and Republicans’ unbridled irrational hatred of them.
Hello pot? This is kettle, welcome to fabulous — and to the Jekyl meets Hyde cocktail of Bush hate and showtunes at Sidetrack on a Monday in Boystown, where we very much realized we didn’t know where we belong anymore.
Because, as the Bush Administration ends, so too ends our days of believing Democrats are always good, Republicans are always evil, and gay men have a monopoly (or even firm handle) on what’s witty and clever. Democrats can be just as nasty and hate-filled as the insufferably vile Rev. Fred Phelps. Gay Democrats can be a room full of bitchy, malevolent queens, martinis in hand, oblivious to how petty and unattractive hatred of any kind truly is.
And this from supporters of “The One” who was sent to Earth by a God none of them believe in to bring us all together, heal the planet, and distribute unto us unicorns in fluffy rainbow parades of lemonade and pixie dust.
We were probably the only people in that bar who looked up at George W. Bush on the screen and instead of mocking him, raised our Pilsners and toasted a decent and gracious man who stood up to the challenges that confronted him, made tough choices and never shirked his responsibilities, and did the very best job that he could, every day, for the last eight years.
Oddly, it’s the same way we feel every time Madonna turns up on Sidetrack’s screens, in the train wreck that was Evita, pleading for Argentina not to cry for her, while we realize that yes, an untalented actress truly put her heart and soul into this part and did the very best that she could do with what she had to work with, and the script she received.
George W. Bush is a man we wish had never been president, the same way we wish today that Obama had never become president, and the same way we wish Madonna stuck to singing and dancing and left the acting to others. In Bush’s place, we would have rather had Al Gore or John McCain in 2000, and John Kerry (or even Howard Dean or John Edwards) in 2004. This year, we wanted Hillary Clinton, and then John McCain. But, things certainly worked out differently in all cases the last eight years (and there was just no saving The Next Best Thing, Shanghai Surprise, or Body of Evidence, regardless of creative retrospective casting).
For a very long time, we found ourselves firmly in the company of Bush-haters, though we never rose to the level of nastiness we saw on display at Sidetrack last night (a level on par with the worst of the Clinton-hating and gay-bashing the right’s ever put forward). There was a spell when we refused to even refer to Bush as the president, instead calling him “Dracula”. Some people found that hard to follow, as they never knew if we were talking politics, or oddly referencing Bram Stoker while delving into energy policy. Those oil-vampires from Texas, just wanting to get their fangs into Iraq, up to their nefarious schemes, out to get all of us, such evil people.
Evil was a word we threw around pretty lightly, ascribing it to everything in the Bush Administration, the Bush family, and the Republican party in general. Because we lived in an isolated Democratic little world of our own, of course we were never corrected on any of this — far from it, we were always encouraged. Bush is stupid. Bush is a drugged out drunk. Laura Bush is a murderess (for accidentally killing her friend in a high school car accident). The Bush Twins are out of control. Barbara Bush is Lady MacBeth. Dick Cheney shot a man in the face (well, actually, this one is true).
One of the reasons it’s been so hard to put together our thoughts on Bush as he leaves office is because, honestly, we feel badly about the way we’ve treated him, about the things we’ve said about him, all these years.
Because George W. Bush is a decent man with a servant’s heart who did the best damn job he could. He kept us safe for seven years. He stood up to the bullies and terrorists and scoundrels of the world and said with Texas gumption and flare that America under his watch would kowtow to NO ONE.
Maybe too much Texas for the likes of us city slickers, and maybe a lot of his personal style and flare was hokey or unrelatable to urban elites, but even his loudest critics would be hard-pressed to argue the man didn’t always show his heart — a larger than life heart, beating strongly with a love of country and its men and women in uniform.
That’s what we’re thinking about today: what an excellent Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush was, and how he respected and revered all those who serve the nation, in every way under the sun. There’s a lot of things Bush did wrong, but he was good to our troops, and the military obviously loved him, and that’s mighty impressive in our book.
It’s also impressive Bush never cut funding to AIDS charities, and instead INCREASED funding to unprecedented levels, in terms of both treatment and scientific research into a cure.
All those men screaming and yelling at Bush on the screen in Sidetrack’s, making fun of him, laughing at a tired Bush flubbing a speech — and not one of them stopped to think about the simple fact that if this man was truly as stupid and evil as they claim, and if he was TRULY deserving of all that hatred, then why on Earth didn’t he cut funding to AIDS charities and other LGBT resources as president?
No one has an answer for that.
Obviously, Bush knew the gay community hates him, and that he’d never win their votes. So, why didn’t he divert all those millions to causes that would have won him more independent and conservative voters? Why waste all that precious capital on people who hate him, who want to destroy him?
And yet, Bush never lifted a finger to harm us…he never cut funding to the LGBT community…he didn’t lash out at those who made him their enemy.
He really and truly was a compassionate conservative after all — and a kind and decent man who exercised his power with great restraint.
After 911, with media cheerleading behind him and an acquiescent public, Bush could have declared himself Emperor and enacated anything his heart desired. He could have used the cover of tragedy and the unprecedented free hand he was given in its aftermath to do any number of crazy things. He could have seized control of the entire government and forced through any number of draconian measures, sticking it to the left every way he could.
But he didn’t.
His response to crisis was measured, restrained, and even-handed.
Yes, we booed and laughed along with all our liberal friends at Bush sitting in a classroom reading about a pet goat while minutes ticked by on the screen in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911. We ridiculed the president for just sitting there, like a fool we thought, seemingly not knowing what to do.
But, today we see that day differently. After spending two years on the campaign trail for Clinton and then McCain, after doing countless interviews and writing on this site every day, we realize Bush was responding carefully and deliberately to a situation unfolding before him — the way a responsible public figure does. THINKING before ACTING. Not wanting to terrify children needlessly, not wanting to create panic by abruptly getting up and running from the room. What was the man supposed to do as the Secret Service established its plan to get the president to a secure location, and Bush waited the mere minutes it took to arrange a successful and well-executed plan to calm the nation in a catastrophic crisis?
On a day none of us was prepared for, that seemed lifted out of comic books and bad movies, when the federal government moved rapidly to respond to the worst thing to happen on American soil in half a century.
Because he’s affable, because he tells jokes, because he speaks with a twang, Bush is mocked as stupid and slow while others in his place would have been considered careful and even-keeled.
But, none of the men who’ve made it into the White House are stupid (all men so far, unfortunately, but that will change soon enough if we have anything to say about it). And some are better under fire than others.
With seven years to look back on 911, we have a lot to say about the intelligence failures that allowed a preventable event to scar the nation, but we will, until the day we die, be forever grateful to President Bush for being the resolute and honorable Texan who stood up that horrible day and grabbed that bullhorn at Ground Zero and told the world in a loud clear voice that America would soldier on, would prevail, and will rebuild.
That was no weak kumbaya moment. That was George W. Bush at his finest, saying what we all in our hearts wanted a tough Commander-in-Chief to say.
Yes, any president would have said those things.
Yes, any president would have received massive approval ratings in response to an attack (that’s what Americans do, we rally around the president in times of trouble).
But, would President Gore have struck that perfect note? Would he have been the testosterone infused Commander-in-Chief in the body of an average man we needed and wanted that day?
We don’t know. Maybe.
But, Bush sure held the world together that day, when he was just what we needed, when we needed him most.
AND WE WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. We moderate, gay, Hillary loving, Boystown-living, lifelong Democrats will always hold a special place in our hearts for Dubya and his bullhorn. We were proud to be Americans on that terrible, terrible day — and proud of our president who led us with such clear conviction and courage. We didn’t vote for the man (either time), but were sure glad he was on duty on a day we’ll never forget.
What followed in his presidency was a mixed bag in our eyes — with more missed opportunities than we can recount. If only Bush had asked Americans to enlist in the military, Peace Corps, or Americorps instead of telling them to go shopping to help the economy. If only he had taken our friends and foes in the world up on all of the help they offered after 911, when everyone from France to Cuba extended hands of friendship and wanted to join America at that terrible hour. If only we had found a way to carry those sentiments of “We are all New Yorkers now. We are all Americans today” forward in the months and years ahead, instead of alienating so many with what was perceived as a failed go it alone, it’s us or them mentality. If only he had pushed to rebuild those towers, taller than every, in record time — so seven years later, we wouldn’t still have a big hole in the ground in New York where a phoenix should have risen, as indelible and resolute as our nation itself.
The last eight years is a presidency of if onlys, buffered up against one we believe will be the disappointments of “what might have been” and “we were promised” (we hope Obama proves us wrong and that changes, but that part is squarely up to him)
The loud chorus of angry voices in Boystown claim Bush will go down in history as the Worst. President Ever. We think those cocktails went down too fast last night, because that’s ridiculously far from the truth.
Bush, in our opinion, will be judged much better than Jimmy Carter, just a touch above his father, George H. W. Bush, but below Bill Clinton — all somewhere in the middle of US Presidents when the rankings sort out in thirty years of proper retrospect and dispassionate evaluation that will come.
Iraq some day will be a new Germany and Japan, a once hostile nation so firmly democratic and pro-American we’ll never be able to recognize it if flung into the future from today. Regardless of what you think about the case for war, or the merits of invading Iraq, Bush will one day get credit for creating the future, prosperous Iraq, and all the benefits Americans will enjoy from that. Part of us wishes strongly he had gone to war with Iran instead, because that’s a true threat the world could do without, and is a continuously proven sponsor of terrorist operations against Israel and American interests, but that’s a whole other topic of debate.
Though we never in our lives thought we’d say this, we truly do look forward to some day soon meeting former president Bush, shaking his hand, and thanking him for his service — whatever history will end up thinking of him.
That’s something we couldn’t imagine back in January 2001, when we spent Inauguration Day muttering about Dracula this and evil that and cursing the Supreme Court and that idiot Donna Brazile (for botching the Gore campaign).
After we watched the 747 formerly known as Air Force One wing into the air and bank right towards Midland, Texas this afternoon, we were struck by just how bizarre it is that a bunch of Democrats who positively hated this man eight years ago were proudly a little teared up to see him off to retirement. That’s a fairly good measure of a man right there, if he can, without knowing or trying, change strong opinions of him in the most unlikely of places.
And you can’t get much more unlikely than the lot of us, here in Boystown, wishing George W. Bush a heartfelt and gracious goodbye — and thanking him, from the bottom of our big gay hearts, for doing the best he could, every day, for each and every one of us (whether any of us liked or voted for him or not).
So, channeling him for a moment, “Ya dun good, Dubya. Best ya could. And we’re grateful!”.
The Red, Blue, Green, and Gold: January 20th, 2010 Edition
Consider this a work in progress that we will refine in the coming days, but it felt like an effective way to get action items out to people during the Brown for Senate campaign.
Every day, we’ll post four things we’d like to see done in the political world, all working towards several longterm goals of ours, which include:
(1) Driving every Liberal from office, like the snakes from Ireland
(2) Destroying ACORN once and for all
(3) Driving the Race Industry into the ground
(4) Marginalizing the SEIU
(5) Eliminating voter fraud in this country
(6) Reforming the presidential nominating process on both sides of the aisle
(7) Defeating Dr. Utopia in 2012
(8) Teaching regular Americans what it takes to stand up to Liberals
(9) Using the Left’s own tactics against them
(10) Putting this country back on a course towards prosperity, energy independence, limited government, sound financial policy, lower taxes, and massive job creation
Some of thes goals lend themselves to more fun than others. All of them are things we could never dream of accomplishing without your help. But, so many of you read us every day, and write in to say “I’m ready to work, just tell me what you need!” that we feel called to put these action items out there for you to act on.
We know everyone has a different skillset. You all have different time commitments, and different limitations and boundaries. Not everyone wants to go down to some elected officials office and tell them how terrible they are in person. But, there are those of you who take glee in calling Ben Nelson a Slut! whenever you see him in person (and you people have a special place in our hearts, fo shizzle). LOVES THAT. Because he is a slut. And he is not going to get away with what he did in the week before Christmas. Not. On. Our. Watch.
We want this to be your watch, too. So, we’re continuing the Team concept we started with Scott Brown’s race. You can join as many of the teams as you want. You can be one team today, and another tomorrow, or do all four teams one day and not do any ever again. We hope that doesn’t happen, because we want you to become involved, and our great hope is that we find this nonthreatening and easy way for you to take those baby steps from person reading about politics on the computer to nascent activist taking on increasing leadership roles in your communities. The Left has George Soros funding all manner of troll caves and goblin mines, where paid “activists” sit around all day dreaming up new ways to advance the Liberal agenda through fraud, thuggery, and corruption.
We will always be a ragtag Resistance Movement, but we’re the real grassroots. Moderates, like us, and the conservatives and independents who come here to share, learn from each other, get involved, and stand up to the Left.
Here’s today’s Team Assignments to get us started. No matter how much effort this takes on our part, or how tired we are each day, or how much else we have to do, we promise to have four team assignments up every day in the Open Thread. Report on your progress in that thread. Take pride in your team. And let’s see what we can do collectively to take back this country from the Liberal-Socialist Democrat party hellbent on driving it into the ground and usurping our freedoms.
RED TEAM – Today you need to put pressure on your electd officials, telling them they need to seat Scott Brown immediately. You need to call your Senators, your Representatives, your local Mayor, your local Alderman/Councilman, etc. For the Senators, call both the Republicans and the Democrats, because those Senators can be influential with their peers across the aisle. For the rest, just focus on Democrats in office. Put the Holy Fear of Voters in them, let them know you are watching what they are doing, and demand they tell the DNC and members of the Senate that Scott Brown must be seated. Immediately. Psychologically, you need to make these people know the public is angry, involved, ready to act, and has them on speed dial. Red Team will be the daily telephone team, calling someone like this every day.
BLUE TEAM: The Blue Team will be the letter writing, faxing, emailing, and link posting team. This is for people who do not want to make calls on the phone, but like doing things at the computer, enjoy writing and research, and who can spread the articles we write here far and wide. Today, write letters to the Democrats in the Senate telling them they must abandon Dr. Utopia’s push towards socialism and turn their back on the Liberals who have been pulling their puppet strings. Chastize them for ramming legislation through at breakneck speed without considering what their constituents want. Remind them that what happened in Massachusetts will be happening in Indiana, Arkansas, California, and all points in between. We’re writing a letter to Evan Bayh today that we will post for you as an example. In the meantime, get to work on letters of your own. Email, fax, and send them in the mail. If you can afford it, FedEx a letter to them, because they pay extra attention to FedExes, since they are what the most important letters come in.
GREEN TEAM: This team will focus on the fundraising aspect of politics. We believe the fastest way to derail and cripple Liberals is to cut off their funding. We need to identify the big Democrat donors, not the corporations, the private individuals, and start writing, calling, emailing, and faxing them to politely ask them to stop donating to the 60 Liberals in the US Senate. With anything in life, we need to pick our battles. For the moment, we are focusing on the Senate, and specifically the Liberals there. More specific than that, to be effective, we want to focus on the following people, and convince all of their rich supporters to abandon them: Evan Bayh, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Barbara Boxer, and Dick Durbin. Bayh is crucial, because he’s no dummy. He wants to be re-elected, and it’s going to be a tough fight. If anyone can get the Democrats to put the brakes on their madness, it is Bayh. Claire McCaskill is our prime target for defeat in 2012, so it’s never too early to give her some comeuppance. Nelson and Lincoln need to feel the heat for their Healthcare Rationing vote. Taking Boxer down would be a dream come true. Durbin’s most likely the next Majority Leader once Reid is defeated in November, so he needs to understand just how angry Americans are. Since all of these people ignore regular citizens, the only way to get through to them is to put pressure on their donors…and the donors will then report back to their fundraisers telling them they aren’t comfortable funding their madness any longer. Watch them change their habits lickety-split at that point.
GOLD TEAM: Think of this as the troll slayer team, or counter-troll team. This is a chance to have some fun. It’s been proven the Left employs armies of trolls, concern-trolls, Eeyore breeders, and “purists” to lower morale amongst moderates, conservatives, and independents, getting people on our side to just give up, sit down, and mope. The Left has monopolized the psy-ops field of politics. Well, it’s time to end that monopoly. We need to use the trolls’ Alinsky methods against them. Encourage them to keep doing the things they do that voters don’t like. Tell them to keep pushing the Healthcare Rationing madness. Rev them up about Global Warming, Cap & Tax, and everything else that the public hates hearing about — make it so the Left only talks about things normal people don’t want any part of. The trick is to just goad them into doing what they already want to do, so that they destroy themselves by just being themselves.
We’ll get much more specific in the days ahead, just as the Left is very specific and targeted with its own action items.
Together, who knows how much impact we could have.
We’re willing to put the time and effort into the strategy, if you’re willing to put a few minutes every day into one or more of the teams.
About the Illinois Senate race
Now that the Massachusetts Senate race is over, many of you have asked us if we are going to focus ourselves on the Illinois Senate race to fill retiring Roland Burris’ seat.
The answer to that is, we don’t know.
It’s complicated.
In a nutshell, here’s how things stand:
(1) We know too many of the people involved in this race, on both sides, so no matter what we do, we’re going to make people mad at us more than usual, and since we live here in Chicago, the risks are higher for us to get involved than they were with Massachusetts. One of the Democrats in the race, Giannoulias, is the scion of the mob banking Giannoulias family. Clearly, that gives us pause before drawing targets on our backs. The Chicago machine is also behind Giannoulias, and, honestly, at this point in our lives we can’t afford to have Daley and his henchman mad at us more than they already are over our involvement in the Stop the Olympics campaign. On the Republican side, we know too many of the people backing Mark Kirk — many of whom we like, but we think they are all delusional for running a man we don’t think has a chance in Hell of winning. So, that’s awkward. They don’t want to listen when we tell them Kirk will lose. They don’t think his traitorous vote on Cap & Tax will be remembered, and yet people we know literally foam at the mouth when they talk about how angry they are at Kirk over this. It is never, ever going to go away for him. And that’s on top of all the other problems his candidacy will have once he’s secured the GOP nomination. It’s sickening, but Giannoulias will win the Dem nomination and waltz into the Senate and we don’t believe there’s anything we can do to stop it. All parties involved are just so stupid or corrupt, we feel it would be a waste of time to try to stop them, and would thus put us at risk here in campaigns we can’t even help win.
(2) The Giannoulias Family is worse than the Kennedys. They have more money, and the mob are their enforcers, instead of just the regular Democrat thugs like ACORN or the SEIU. Giannoulias himself is a mean-spirited and vengeful punk. He holds grudges longer than anyone else in this city besides Mayor Daley himself. Somehow, Giannoulias and the Chicago machine engineered the perfect set of primary candidates for Giannoulias to win the nomination. There’s Cheryle Jackson, who is being run so she takes the black vote, since blacks in Chicago race-vote, and only care if a candidate looks enough like them to warrant going down to the polling place on election day. Someone prodded Jakob Meister, a gay man, to run, so that the LGBTQ community’s vote will go to him. Second only to the black community in identity voting is the LGBTQ community. Everyone we know here in Boystown is voting for Meister, just because he is openly gay. “We need to support our own and get more gays elected to office,” is what we hear day in and day out. No one is concerned with the fact that Meister is a paranoid idiot, who thinks people are plotting against him, spying on him in bushes, and that other candidates getting married and having children is somehow a homophobic slam against him. That’s not a joke, though we wish it was. Meister actually accused fellow candidate David Hoffman of being married, with children, just to “rub it in (Meister’s) face”, since a gay man can’t get married in Illinois. That’s just moonbat crazy. Meister should appear at every debate in a tinfoil hat to get better reception from whatever mental patient in BizarroWorld he’s channeling. Hoffman is the candidate we want to win, but he’s running a terrible campaign that’s beyond salvation at this point. A lot of former Hillary Clinton campaign staffers are helping Hoffman, and the reports they’ve given us from the inside don’t bode well. Hoffman is the heart-breaking collision of a good man who would be great in the job with the reality that good men who would be great in the job more often than not don’t know how to effective campaign for those jobs. The end result of all of this is that Giannoulias uses the mob, the Chicago machine, and his connections to the various ethnic communities to power through a win in the primaries. With stacks of ammo on Kirk ready to go once Kirk’s coronated as the Republican nominee, Giannoulias will win this race in a walk.
(3) We have only so much time in a day, and tend to go where our hearts and passion lead us. We’d actually rather spend our time working to defeat Barbara Boxer in California, for a host of reasons, but also because it still gnaws at us how poorly she treated a General testifying for her in a Senate hearing. She looked down from her dais, glaring, and scolded a man in uniform for respectfully calling her Ma’am, as military men are wont to do. “Call me Senator. I worked hard for that title,” she menaced, lowering her glasses, so full of herself. That’s something a Kennedy would do. It’s what happens when Democrats spend too much time in a seat and think it’s their royal right to hold that. Boxer makes our blood boil. That California Senate seat needs to be returned to the people. So, you can tell in one paragraph we have more passion for that race than we do for what’s going on in Illinois. Also, Boxer irked us in 2008 when she went back on her promise to support whomever won California’s primary on Super Tuesday in the nomination contest between Hillary Clinton and Dr. Utopia. She went back on that promise, and did nothing to help Clinton through the rest of the primaries. We haven’t forgotten that. Payback should be a bitch for her. She, and pompous asses like her, should be taught a lesson at the ballot box.
(4) We wish more than anything that we could get through to people here in Illinois and get voters to nominate David Hoffman on the Democrat side and Patrick Hughes as the Republican for Senate. Illinois would be well-served with either of these two winning. There is not a bad thing to be said about either of them. But, at this point in time, we don’t see how either Giannoulias or Kirk can be stopped from being the nominees. Democrats are helping Kirk win the nomination, so that they can collapse his campaign and deliver an easy win for Giannoulias. Kirk is so stupid and full of himself that he doesn’t see what’s coming. He really thinks he can lie and run out the clock to election day without his dirty laundry being aired. His staff is delusional too. More than anything, it just frustrates us that the GOP in Illinois can’t get its act together. They won’t open their eyes to look hard and cold at the reality before them. Democrats run circles around these people, and the Democrats involved aren’t even all that smart. Getting involved in all this would just be bad for our blood pressure.
We are highly tempted to mount an effort for Patrick Hughes, though. If we can’t stop Giannoulias in the primaries, the least we can do is help give Republicans a fighting chance in the general, so that we do our part to stop Democrats from setting Mark Kirk up for a Jack Ryan-esque fall. Heaven forbid the GOP needs to bring Alan Keyes back into the state to run at the last minute once Kirk goes down in flames.
It’s like Groundhog Day every day here in Illinois. These people never learn any lessons. Republicans keep putting terrible candidates on the ballot and then wonder why they lose. “But, it’s his turn!”, they say. When is it going to be someone good who can actually win’s turn, we ask.
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The Silence of the Trolls
Spooooooooooky.
The trolls are all silent tonight, and have been since it was clear around 7pm CST that Scott Brown was going to win “The Kennedy Seat” in Massachusetts.
It became clear ages ago that these trolls are all coordinated, and that most of them are either paid, or are interns somewhere. They all follow the same script…and when there’s no script ready, or new strategy is being planned, they just fall silent.
En masse.
In Massachusetts. Or Chicago. Or somewhere beneath the White House, wherever they are living now. Hera knows the current president doesn’t deign to bowl, so maybe they’re all set up in one of the lanes at 1600 Pennsylvania.
They remind us of those idiot robots in the awful Star Wars prequels, the ones the Japanese-accented bug people in the golf ball space ships rolled out of tanks on dry cleaner trolleys, activated, and then sent off to battle.
If the wrong button was pushed in the giant golf ball, all those robots would deactivate, crumple to the ground, and stay there until someone typed new orders into the mainframe.
It is exactly what happens with trolls in service to the DNC and Soros agenda. They go strangely quiet until they get their new text, email, or message board update. Somewhere, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are writing new copy for their minions…which will go into effect sometime this morning.
In the meantime, everything’s quiet for a few hours while the Left reboots and figures out where to go next.
Has anyone else noticed this?
MUST SEE TV: Post-Election Focus Group in Massachusetts
H/t Michelle Malkin
This is stunning, so much so that we need to reserve most of what we say until later today when we are fresh and can analyze everything that is going on.
The Cliff’s Notes is that Democrats are in deep, deep trouble…because they allowed the party to be taken over by radical Alinsky socialists and America has realized exactly who’s in the White House and what the people around him are up to.
What happened to Martha Coakley is going to happen to Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Blanche Lincoln, and every other fool Democrat unless they start focusing on job creation and abandon all attempts to inflict socialism or any part of Dr. Utopia’s personal agenda upon this nation.
They need to stop spending.
They need to forget about telling Americans what they have to buy.
They need to stop apologizing for America’s exceptionalism and parading around the world as effete, bowing “global citizens”.
They need to take medication, if necessary, and come to grips with the fact that the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming is just a giant cult.
They. Need. To. Get. Real.
Listen to the people. Do what the people want. Create jobs. Then create some more jobs. Then create more jobs on top of that.
No more socialism.
No more craziness.
No more propaganda or calling people RAAACISTS just because they know how crazy you are and want to stop you.
