Palin is still my favorite Republican right now, but some of her supporters are starting to creep me out. I mean, we’re not to Ron Paul levels, but it looks like it’s getting there. I can understand people being protective of her since she’s taken some of the most vile attacks I’ve ever heard any politician get, but nothing excuses freak outs. Not if you want to be called a conservative.
I’m seeing in comments now (not here at IMAO, mind you) where you got these little chihuahuas randomly nipping at everything they think is a threat. They’re attacking some of the most stalwart conservatives in the blogosphere as “RINOs” for questioning whether Palin resigning was the smartest move ever. That’s not being a conservative standing up for your own; that’s being a freak.
If you ever go to the Daily Kos and read the stuff there, if anyone disagrees with someone on one thing, they assume the person must be evil and disagree with them on everything. That’s how a liberal mind works. I don’t care if you can parrot the right things to say on taxes and support the right candidates – if you have a tendency to freak out over politics, you have a liberal mindset. As conservatives, we’re supposed to have too many actual problems to deal with in our real lives to have time to freak out over every little thing in politics. Also, we’re supposed to have more sense than to get than emotionally invested in a politician (I give an exception for Reagan since he’s dead; everyone else I’m prepared to disagree with).
When we rebuild the Republican Party, I’m all for getting rid of the squishes – or, at least, ignoring them – but we don’t need freaks either. If you can’t keep be rational or keep any perspective, then you’re not helping. You’re just scaring people. We need a Republican version of Daily Kos like we need syphilis. I have moons to nuke and dinosaur to arm; I need practical people on my side.
That is some really clear spot-on thinking Frank. Cheers!
Bravo!
Both freaks and freaking out are completely normal in today’s U.S.S.A.
Note the circus that is Jacko-The-Pervert’s funeral.
You’re setting the bar WAY too high, Frank.
Mitch Rapp
Thanks for saying what you need to say without turning it into a 10 page rant, like a certain “stalwart conservative in the blogosphere” felt the need to do yesterday. To argue against freak outs by freaking out isn’t so productive.
Unfortunatley, the whackos vote too. I’d rather have them vote Republican than democrat, even if they are neurotic, screaming lunatics. So, we need the freaks to vote Republican, but none of them should be allowed to run for office. Then we can have the Republican version of the daily kos, which will be a place to keep all the crazies away from the rest of society.
Then we’ll just need someone with a strong stomach to run the place and clean up all the poo.
I can’t concentrate on politics as I grieve for The King! I’m thinking about killing myself but the prospect of getting my paws on the Michael Jackson Memorial Quarter Collector’s Edition keeps me going! I’m also pretty sure there is going to be a joint Jackson/Mays Shamwow Towel that’s to die for…
You know who doesn’t need protection from us? In fact, he will literally eat your spleen if you try to protect him. That’s right; Fred Thompson.
I couldn’t possibly disagree more.
One of the reasons the democrats win elections and then continue to hold office AFTER massive scandals is that they support their own and don’t throw them to the wolves at the first sign of controversy. One of the reasons Republicans allow themselves to be falsely labeled as the party of “corruption” and continue to lose elections is that Republicans stand around all day questioning each other’s actions and motives instead of attacking their insane communist opponents.
Why on Earth are Republicans debating Sarah in the first place? We know that she’s good for the party, and we know that she’s one of the few conservatives that can energize the base. It’s enough that the good-ol’-boy talking heads (McCain, Romney, Graham, etc.) are attacking her every day, worried she’ll steal their TV face time and their titles as “representatives of the Republican party,” why are WE on our side wasting time questioning Sarah Palin’s motives? What are we going to do, throw her out if we decide we don’t like her political plan? Could it possibly be worse than John McCain’s election strategy? Yet, McCain is still here, and represents “the Republican view” on talk shows every single day.
The democrats are represented on a daily basis by a flaming queen who’s boyfriend ran an illegal prostitution ring out of his apartment. The same guy went on to almost single-handedly destroy the entire nation’s economy. Yet the dems stand behind him and the scandals go away, while “conservatives” sit around sniping about Sarah Palin executing a political strategy they don’t yet understand? OMG…this is why the Republican party is screwed.
Oh how I wish you had made this a comment where I post…I whole heartedly agree!!
True enough. They should dial the freakiness down a little: maybe like you with Fred Thompson. 🙂
She can’t afford the lawsuits any more. So she’s goin’ fishin’ and everyone can enjoy their freak out or get a life.
I’m with SOB. We don’t need the Dhimmicrats to throw Republicans under the Bus, the Republicrats do that just fine. I agree that saying a person is above reproach when they are not, is a tad much, but when attacked, you Republicans needs to start protecting your own until all that is left of your Party is the Republicrats.
Me, I left the Republicrats since I didn’t want to be associated with a party led by such self-destructive, back-biting, patrician fops. Until Republicans start remembering AND ACTING like Lincoln, Reagan and the like again, theywill continue to be owned by effete wastrels like the Dhimmicrats and Republicrats.
“you Republicans needs to start protecting your own until all that is left of your Party is the Republicrats.
I meant to say, “… or all that will be left…”.
I’d like to see Ann Coulter and the pseudonymous David Kahane co-author a book.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU=
“…think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.”
(Perhaps this is why the Treason Party always sides with Hamas) ;D
The Republicans need to use every play in the Dimocraps playbook and start fighting dirty. When the Dimocraps start getting a taste of there own medicne it’ll break em down. Dimocraps can dish it but not take it. Then the Repubicans could crush them like a cockroach.
#13 – Tim S,
Bless you!
I heard ‘some guy’ mention that article on ‘some radio show’ today and gave it a view when I got home from work.
But I wasn’t able to make out the link address with my squinty old eyes.
Thanks.
I suppose an Ann Coulter/David Kahane book called “Criminal Organization Masquerading As a Political Party” would fit right in with her other titles, “Slander”, “Treason”, “Guilty” and “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”.
Right On FJ.
#16 4 of 7
Ordo Esoterica Asinus: Shining A Light on the Most Ruthless Criminal Organization in American History by Ann Coulter and David Kahane.
The movie based on it practically writes itself. It starts out with an idealistic young liberal moving to 1980’s Hollywood to write the Great American Screenplay. Cut scenes to show the passage of time as our hero works his way up to moderate success. One night, our hero is attacked by gang members. Charleton Heston happens to be driving by and rescues him with a combination of acrobatic gun fu and stern looks. While driving the young man home, Heston explains how a “living Constitution” inevitably becomes a dead one.
Having finally shed the last of his ideological blinders, he can see that several of the people running Hollywood have nictating eye membranes and long forked tongues. Badly shaken, our hero hurries home to find a pair of inhuman monsters waiting for him with leprous skin and tentacles sprouting from their faces and hands!
A raspy voice, in a New York accent (professional analysis might narrow it down the the fifth Congressional District), screams out from the ether, “He has seen us! Destroy Him!” One monster gargles out, “Screenwriting credit. Next Uwe Boll film.” Our hero screams in terror and runs for his life. The monsters pursue him into a grocery store.
Just when all seems lost, our hero is rescued by a tall, statuesque blond woman who wears a black cocktail dress and matching high heels and carries a pistol that would make Dirty Harry feel like a eunuch. She takes him to Heston’s secret HQ where he is taught the Way of Wire and the Way of John Woo. From there, our hero and heroine blaze a trail of gunfights, car chases, and explosions through Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. and finally reveal to the whole world that the entire Democrat Party leadership is made up of willing mutant servants of Slimy Critters from Beyond Space and Time. The country is united again. Nobody is taken seriously in America as an intellectual unless they read and comprehend the works of Locke, Adams, etc.
And George Lucas is finally freed of the alien parasite controlling him and allows more talented people to remake Star Wars Episodes 1-3 without his input.
I’m seeing in comments now (not here at IMAO, mind you) where you got these little chihuahuas randomly nipping at everything they think is a threat. They’re attacking some of the most stalwart conservatives in the blogosphere as “RINOs” for questioning whether Palin resigning was the smartest move ever. That’s not being a conservative standing up for your own; that’s being a freak.
IMAO
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Frank,
You make assertions about comments & then label them as “being a freak.” No examples are given by you to qualify, quantify, clarify and define what measures up to being freakish other than a reference to Dkos. Most of the people I know avoid those kind of sites. That makes your assertions a shallow effort at best and lowers any of the intentions of you being persuasive to anyone other than your loyal followers. You are a funny guy Frank but when funny people like you attempt to show their serious side by an empty point and name calling, everyone loses. What is measured as being freakish? Who made you a judge concerning issues others feel strongly about? You say that it isn’t how conservatives behave, right? Usually comedians like you are rarely taken aback and find humor in them instead. So here is where we are at now, no examples were given by you to support your argument and calling other commenters names. I consider your assertions to be a paper tiger and a poor one at that.
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I have to go now, you know, to that place where you say the “freaks are” and continue in the struggle to stop what I consider to be the true freak in the oval office who is trying to destroy the country I love.
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Keep being funny Frank, I really enjoy your work.
Frank, I would have to agree with everything that you’ve said. I would, however, like to add one point. That anyone who disagrees, disparages, questions or even looks at Sarah in an askew manner is, by definition, worse than Hitler. SARAHPALIN!
For what it’s worth, her explanation sounded beyond reasonable to me; as a human being, a mother and a concerned citizen I see no reason to criticize her for what is extremely normal behavior. I wish it hadn’t come to this, but it did. We’ll find out her plans when she figures out what she’s going to do and does it. It’s just what she felt she had to do, and on a human level I don’t see how anyone can blame her for it. We shouldn’t be pinning all our hopes on just one person (ok, except for Fred Thompson) anyway. Certainly not this early in the game. We just might have to start from square one and raise people up from the ground floor and local levels in order to get ANYONE in Washington who is ACTUALLY conservative. So it might be a long, hard, horrific fight with a lot of suffering in the meantime. We might not luck out of this with a new Reagan reformation.
It could also be the end of our constitutional republic – there is always that possibility. Free republics have fallen in the past. Or heck, it could be the beginning of the end of the world for all I know. We’re just gonna have to do the right thing individually, and wait and see how it all comes out.
Did I mention, I’m with you frank? And I’m not a freak either. At least, not about this 🙂
I am kind of a freak about Fred Thompson though. At least most people should be able to understand that.
Hopefully I don’t come off as a Palin freak. As a mother and wife I can understand her need to protect and nurture her children. As a someone who has a conservative work ethic I understand not wanting to be paid for a job I can’t do (due to circumstances beyond my control). As a woman I’m tired of all the “she’s too folksy” crap we’ve had to deal with, if she were like Hitlery everyone would complain she’s too elitist.
I would really like to find a candidate we can all rally behind. Some one not afraid of the religious right and someone willing to give up their integrity in order to get elected. I’d also like to find one politician able to keep the “kilt snake” leashed. Seriously guys, keep your zipper zipped, it’s only 4 years.
1) The DailyKosKids have syphillus-induced dementia. 2)When rebuilding the Republican Party, the first requirement is that they have a spine (no Mr. Loopners), jellyfish need not apply. 3) ‘Republicans’ that refer to Palin’s resignation as governor as ‘quitting’ should be aerially-hunted via helicopter. 4) Fred-heads are just as creepy as Ronulans, but they shoot to kill, so they have that going for them.
If you leave out the middle mushy voters the conservatives won’t get the votes it needs to win. So I suggest we just all out eat the moderates. Zombie Conservatism. Works every time it’s tried, because, just do the math.
Over at another blog, when Frank made a comment that was mildly critical of Palin, the freaks in question started jumping up and down and screeching that Frank was a RINO. He’s a big boy and can defend himself, but I posted a comment calling those people batshit crazy, which they are. This country just elected someone whose followers believe that he can do no wrong, despite the country crumbling around them. We don’t need head up the bottom dipsticks like that on our side of the aisle; no politician should be above criticism, no matter how much you love them. You’d have to search a long way to find a bigger fan of Sarah Palin outside of her family than me and I question some of her moves, not because I’m an inside the Beltway RINO Republicrat, but because I’m someone with a functioning brain.
Logic, reason: these are our tools in trade, or should be. The relentless poo flinging and urine drinking groupthink? I believe that we should leave that for our comrades on the left.
physics geek – You sir, are worse than Hitler.
#18 – Tim S,
OK …. I was thinking more of something like a book … say, about 350 pages, with footnotes and stuff, cronicling the decline and corruption of America’s political class going back as far as say, Tamanny Hall, into the incestuous, cannibalistic, morally-bankrupt, hive-minded exclusionary elitic clique that it has become.
You can let them have tentacles if you want.
Sarah! We’ll wait for you!
Gov. Sarah Palin, who excellently stole all of North Korea’s Fourth of July “fire” and kept America’s focus on where it belongs that day–on America: “Really, we’ve just got to put first things first. And first things first, as governor, I love my job. And I love Alaska. And it hurts to make this choice, but I’m doing what’s best for Alaska. And I have explained why, though I think of the saying on my parent’s refrigerator, a little magnet that says, don’t explain, your friends don’t need it, and your enemies won’t believe you anyway. But I’ve given my reasons. It’s no more politics as usual.”
IMAO’s Frank: “I have moons to nuke and dinosaur to arm; I need practical people on my side.”
Sarah and Frank: Two of the way coolest people on the planet right now.
Unfortunately, freakiness has been part of “politics as usual” since at least the 1970s, and probably earlier, some time in the ’60s. If she hadn’t stepped out of the governor’s office now, then we’d be seeing this explosion of freaks of all flavors near the elections, when it would be really distracting. Right now, they’re all just burning themselves out in the wilderness, so to speak. Waste cases, all of them. They’ll get extremely bored and shut up after she writes her book and campaigns for Republicans and does other adult things that are going to really help the heart of the GOP. Just gotta wait ’em out, that’s all.
“They’re attacking some of the most stalwart conservatives in the blogosphere as “RINOs” for questioning whether Palin resigning was the smartest move ever.”
Call me a questioner. But that is because I don’t know the answer. It might have been political suicide. I might have been a brilliant play of Nixonian caliber. I don’t know… and won’t know for a few years.
It is wise to question. What is UNWISE is for so-called conservative Republicans to trash talk Palin and run around the cocktail circuit lambasting her for ending her career. The important thing is to look at each pundit out there and question their “question” about Palin:
Are they stating uncertainty? Are they expressing concern that a possible mistake may have been made? Sounds like a sincere question by someone worried about the movement.
Are they questioning her sanity? Are they questioning her marriage? Are they questioning whether or not Palin is pregnant or about to be indicted? Sounds more like calculated attacks by closet liberals who were happy to see Obama get elected and would be happy to see Obama beat Palin in 2012.
Frank,
Right on. Zealotry, whether it’s from the Left, Libertarians, Ron Paul zombies or regular Republicans is both annoying and destructive. Sarah Palin is a great Conservative and of course I’d support her in any political endeavor she chooses to embark upon, however, there seems to be a number of people who’ve put her up on a pedestal. It’s for a couple of understandable reasons… Conservative women finally have a nationally-recognizable face to the fact that exist, are strong, do think for themselves, etc. So, this is a big boost for Conservative feminism. On the other hand, I think that some of the more emotionally-driven Conservatives have allowed themselves to fall into mentally perceiving Palin, her opponents and all of the surrounding politics from the perspective of a person looking through a coffee stirring straw.
I have a friend here in Los Angeles who decided to join forces with me to try and help get McCain and Palin elected for President and Vice President in November. We’ve kinda sorta been in touch ever since, but when we had another calling, she was no where to be found. Where was my friend? Ranting and raving about being pro-Sarah Palin, and in-your-face about not being willing to to allow anyone to besmirch her character, qualifications, and on and on and on… Meanwhile, I was calling on her to help me save the dying city of Los Angeles, of which she is a resident, by helping to get a viable Conservative elected as mayor.
He didn’t win and maybe, he didn’t stand a chance. But the point is, Conservatives have a tendency to be so overly committed to the ideal, that they feel they’re better than, or too good to, or somehow above the on hands-and-knees work of banging out campaigns for Republicans who aren’t their perfect model of a Conservative. I’m not talking about selling out for losers like Arlen Specter or Arnold Schwarzenegger… I just mean when you have a chance at someone who knows what they’re doing, they have credibility, they make sense when they talk, etc… Drop the protest signs for Sarah Palin, or Ron Paul or whoever else makes your private parts warm at the mere thought of them…and do the work of getting Conservatives or even mostly Conservative Republicans elected.
All politics are local. We can either sit around blogging our prayers we’re saved by a magically Reagan’esque Republican who will sweep the nation, and transform Obama-sheeple by storming onto television in a radically hip ‘n cool P.R. campaign that’ll never happen (partially because the GOP are really slow to catch up on that sorta thing)… OR, we can tell the party leadership to come up with the money and the man-power to find QUALIFIED candidates for Local elections, and support them.
The choice is ours.