comment #1

Devin Faraci says ...

Some days I feel like these Republicans are the face of the ignorance and hate that is holding but the entire human race.

comment #2

Devin Faraci says ...

*holding BACK, not but

comment #3

Piper71 says ...

There are lots of videos from this rally. All of them show a large group of people who are scared, uninformed, idiots.

Karl Rove is responsible for this mess. He has taken his scare tactics too far and the Republican party will pay dearly for it. It will take a long time to set this ship right again.

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cinefan says ...

I try to avoid thinking about people in Europe who are going to see this video and begin stereotyping everyone in this country as an idiotic, backwards jackass. Palin has already done a lot of damage in this regard since many in the European media are treating her like some kind of circus freak: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/europe.palin.oakley/index.html

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Howlingman says ...

Are things that bad that Republicans are practicing ritual mutilation too?

comment #6

Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

Piper71 - that ship is sinking.

I think you are seeing the signs that a third party is about to explode out of the earth and build like a volcano, comprised of moderate conservatives. Again and again conservative friends have told me how disgusted they are with the party.

The fact that too many in the GOP are breathlessly talking about Palin's future with the party suggests it would take a giant battle in order to wrest control away from the neocons and mouthbreathing base.

It sounds a lot like the bitching progressives did before we latched onto Obama's campaign. I predict they will take over the Libertarian party (most call themselves that anyway) in the next year.

Otherwise, the GOP is dead nationally. It will end up acting like the RNC does here in California: the base will nominate far right candidates like Palin that the general population will reject.

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Pinko Punko says ...

Is Supercut hair the next "low thread count" jape of the HE comments?

I can't wait.

I can't bring myself to watch the vid. I'll likely get enraged.

comment #8

moviesquad says ...

Both parties are overflowing with lunatics these days. I'm highly suspect of anyone who's excited about voting for either McCain OR Obama. These two characters confirm the downfall of our country after the disgrace of the Bush administration.

comment #9

joncro says ...

cinefan, what with George Bush, the Jerry Springer show, Desperate Housewives etc people in Europe are mostly stereotyping everyone in the USA as an idiotic, backwards jackass.

I try to argue sometimes but it's not easy.......

comment #10

frankbooth says ...

"I think you are seeing the signs that a third party is about to explode out of the earth and build like a volcano, comprised of moderate conservatives."

That would be cool. It would be like having a Republican Nader in the race, year after year, splitting the conservative vote.

comment #11

cinefan says ...

Point taken, joncro, but Sarah Palin certainly doesn't help things. I believe that Obama, on the other hand, because he's so different from Bush, would do a lot to undo the negative anti-American sentiment that's emanating from so many parts of the world.

comment #12

frankbooth says ...

I just watched it. This can't be real. These people are extras from Central Casting.

How else do you explain that EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM embodies Wells's most extreme stereotypes of what a McCain voter looks and acts like? It's like an overbaked, cartoony Alan Parker film -- Las Vegas Burning.

comment #13

Jack Price says ...

Only a little more than a week from now, and we can all marvel at Fox News' final transformation from Pro-American White House mouthpiece to venemously anti-government hellhounds.

comment #14

huntermdaniels says ...

Actually, this is interesting etymologically. Listen to the way that the catch phrase springs from one mouth and is then refined from another and another, ect ect.

It's actually pretty fascinating.

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Anonymous says ...

So this is what they say once they take George W.'s cock out of their mouth? Wow, I'm shocked.

Here's an idea. Let's allow the whole goddamned state of Alaska to secede from the U.S. under the following conditions:

1. All right-wing wacko Christianists must immediately relocate to Alaska where they will be free to worship their Chosen One, Fraulein Sarah Palin, and await the Rapture that is sure to come.

2. An armed, electrified and razor-topped wall will be built along the Alaskan border.

3. It will be illegal to export any drugs derived from embryonic stem-cell research -- say, cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's -- to this New Alaskan Theocracy.

comment #16

frankbooth says ...

This happened in Vegas, Clark.

However, I'm for your idea, and have been advocating something similar for some time. Give Texas or Alaska to the fundies, and let them form their own theocratic country. Everyone in the US who hates our traditional values, like the separation of church and state, can emmigrate to this new nation, which I imagine would be something like Iran or the future depicted in The Handmaid's Tale.

It'd be hell for the kids growing up there (we could grant asylum to any who can escape) but at least we'd finally be rid of these lunatics. Think of the progress we'd make if they were removed from the voter pool.

We'd take away their nuclear weapons and regularly send inspectors, of course.