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January 29, 2009
By: Hilzoy

The RedState Strike Force Strikes!

Erick Erickson of RedState has a message for the RedState Strike Force about their latest triumph (and may he enjoy many more victories like this one):

"Persevere. And relish victories like we had last night - the House Republicans heard us and stood united against Barack Obama's socialist stimulus plan."

He seems to be a bit more concerned about Mitch McConnell, though, and so he has come up with a new plan of action for the Strike Force:

"So here's what we need to do. I've said he lost his testicles and is now spreading a cancer of capitulation throughout the Senate Republican Conference. We need to send Mitch some balls.

Seriously.

We're teaming up with the Don't Go Movement to do just that. Go here and send Mitch some balls. The House GOP can hold the line. Mitch and the Senate GOP should do the same and oppose the stimulus bill.

Mail the balls to Mitch's Louisville Office (...)

The Senate GOP Leadership needs to stand up for the GOP, not kowtow to the Democrats."

The DontGo Movement is more colorful about what sorts of things people might send to Senator McConnell:

"These items could be golf balls, novelty items (think Spencers, eBay, Amazon for inspiration), or real items such as various "dried scrotum" products found in grocery stores (make sure we can actually ship this sort of thing first)."

I'm trying to imagine the look on one of Mitch McConnell's staffers' face when he opens the package, takes out a shriveled bit of skin or desiccated flesh, tries to figure out what it is, and realizes that it's a bit of dried genitalia. What, I wonder, will he say to Senator McConnell? "Um, Senator, in addition to these letters from your constituents, you also received eight dried scrota, three cans of prairie oysters, twenty-six golf balls, eighteen ping-pong balls, two basketballs, and one testicular tumor preserved in formaldehyde. They're from people calling themselves -- let me check -- 'The RedState Strike Force'. No, I don't know what it's about, but I've called security to be on the safe side."

That should really win McConnell over.

Still, the general concept is not entirely devoid of interest. Do you think we should start a campaign to send Erick Erickson a clue?

Hilzoy 11:16 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (31)
 
Comments

Love to have an O/Z of what ever it is your are smoking.

Posted by: EC Sedgwick on January 29, 2009 at 11:42 PM | PERMALINK

Honestly. I really wonder how people can actually be this stupid. It's so frightening that such categorical ignoramuses are not only abroad in the land, but are taken seriously by "some," that I sort of wish it was all Performance Art. I mean, I get the blogging part - masturbation of the mind, if nothing else -- but the fact that he has acolytes?

Posted by: Hemlock for Gadflies on January 29, 2009 at 11:45 PM | PERMALINK

Did I read the wrong news yesterday? I mean, the House GOP didn't "hold the line," did they?

Posted by: Aaron S. Veenstra on January 30, 2009 at 12:03 AM | PERMALINK

Send Erick "a clue"? How about a penis! Get it? He's a dick, so we could send him penises! It could be anything -- painted toilet paper tubes, dildos or other such "novelty items," even dried shark penis, which can be found at any specialty grocery store (although we better make sure we can actually shipthis sort of thing first).

Posted by: Rachel on January 30, 2009 at 12:03 AM | PERMALINK

Someone should tell Erickson that it would likely never get to Mitch's office. Or doesn't he remember the new postal rules since the Anthrax attacks?

Posted by: Joe Klein's conscience on January 30, 2009 at 12:09 AM | PERMALINK

We could send him a clue, but he obviously wouldn't know what to do with it.

He may, in fact, be allergic to them.

Posted by: biggerbox on January 30, 2009 at 12:11 AM | PERMALINK

Morons. Fortunately for the country, at least some of them will be distracted from hassling Snowe or Collins or Specter.

Posted by: PeakVT on January 30, 2009 at 12:14 AM | PERMALINK

The Redneck Strike Farce is nothing if not amusing.It would be difficult to generate that level of dopey unselfawareness intentionally -- and yetthey make it look so easy.

Posted by: trex on January 30, 2009 at 12:23 AM | PERMALINK

Make that "Redneck Stroke Force." It's more fitting.

Hey, we're not the ones offering our balls to Republican politicians.

Posted by: trex on January 30, 2009 at 12:28 AM | PERMALINK

Oh, what the heck... They're doing their bit to keep the economy and the PO going. Let them have their fun, however immature.

Posted by: exlibra on January 30, 2009 at 12:34 AM | PERMALINK

Do you think we should start a campaign to send Erick Erickson a clue?

No. You should just leave him alone and let the RSSF do their thing.

Posted by: Kiril on January 30, 2009 at 1:04 AM | PERMALINK

Given Red State's broad reach, I'm guessing McConnel will get a package of golf balls and 2 or 3 things he can't identify. He'll be gratefull for the golf balls and confused about the rest.

Posted by: JoeW on January 30, 2009 at 1:35 AM | PERMALINK

All you'll do is torture some poor intern who has to sort the mail. That stuff never gets beyond them. The Senator would have no idea anybody was sending anything like that to him.

Posted by: formerintern on January 30, 2009 at 2:00 AM | PERMALINK

It's just the price we pay, to support the free speech rights of assholes like these.

Posted by: rbe1 on January 30, 2009 at 3:39 AM | PERMALINK

The stuff will end up in a warehouse in Virginia, picked over by various law enforcement agents. A tour of the warehouse would make for a fun ducumentary comedy. Large numbers of people sending Erikson a Clue might help Milton Bradley stock, but wouldn't accomplish anything else.

Posted by: Tim H on January 30, 2009 at 4:26 AM | PERMALINK

What manner of "clue" would you like me to send Mr. Erickson? I could send him a pair of women's underwear, garroted around a nice 8-by-10 glossy of himself and suggesting that "his panties are in a knot"---or I could send him a plastic toy hand grenade with instructions on how to pull the pin and stuff it down his pants (as if there's really anything down there for the dickless wonder to "blow up" these days)---or maybe a spent, shredded shell-casing with his mane etched into the brass, accompanied by some literature describing the medical diagnosis of chronic premature ejaculation.

I could send him a box of condoms---with a nail punched through the middle of the box---or maybe a package of tampons and a bottle of tomato ketchup.

Would it be illegal to mail Mr. Erickson a dead goldfish? Pet stares are constantly having to throw dead goldfish away.

There is an opportunity here to mount an offensive against the offensiveness of Mr. Erickson, and call into public question the validity of his gender in such a manner as to ridicule that validity in the public eye....

Posted by: Steve W. on January 30, 2009 at 4:55 AM | PERMALINK

Was it Sun Tzu or Napoleon who said "never interrupt your adversary when he's in the process of screwing up by the numbers?"

Posted by: BruceK on January 30, 2009 at 6:19 AM | PERMALINK

What on earth is a grocery store dried scrotum product? Haven't seen any in my grocery stores!

Posted by: clem on January 30, 2009 at 6:42 AM | PERMALINK

Awesomely awesome. That's what I posted on Brad DeLong's blog yesterday, that Obama's courting of Congressional Republicans is simply a maneuver to split the Republican caucuses down the middle. Senators have to represent the whole state, and most statewide electorates approve of Obama so far, so the Senators have to accommodate. The surviving House Republicans on the other hand cater to the recalcitrant right, the ones that get a heart attack every time they hear "liberal" or "socialist", so they have to oppose and obstruct at every turn. Looks like the maneuver is working already....

Posted by: ogmb on January 30, 2009 at 7:06 AM | PERMALINK

How about a copy of "Heaven's Gate"?

Or is that too subtle?

Posted by: Chris on January 30, 2009 at 7:23 AM | PERMALINK

These are grown men. Just keep reminding yourself of that. Grown men with military fetishes who just can't quite find the time to schedule actual military service, so they send golf balls to politicians instead. Feel the power!

Posted by: shortstop on January 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM | PERMALINK

I think if we just sent them one "Clue" board game, it would pretty well shut them down.

Given their reasoning skills, it might take the rest of Obama's term to finish one game.

Along the way, they'd decide Professor Plum seems kind of gay, and they stop to organize a (mostly unnoticed) boycott of the game maker, all stores who sell it, and plums. They'd adopt a house rule - no two male characters can be alone in a room.

Next, they'd decide Miss Scarlet really shouldn't dress in such a provacative color being single and all. Some RedStater would try and solve the mystery as Miss Scarlet in the Bedroom with an Abortionist. Rich Lowry would confess that Miss Scarlet makes him sit "straight up" on the edge of his sofa because she winks at him.

They'd waste hours getting all indignant whenever anyone accused Colonel Mustard of wrongdoing, and threaten to waterboard them for treason. Then they'd claim the player who just picked up the lead pipe was really going to use it in a cetrifuge and declare them part of the axis of evil.

Before they could finish, most of them would decide they like Monopoly better. The rest would retire for the night with kleenex and their Sarah Palin action figures.

Posted by: zeitgeist on January 30, 2009 at 8:49 AM | PERMALINK

Do you think we should start a campaign to send Erick Erickson a clue?
Heck no! He's comedy gold.

Posted by: Robert on January 30, 2009 at 8:53 AM | PERMALINK

Y'know i've been pondering the idea of folks sending the Democratic leadership in both houses some "feck" (just a postcard or note with the word "feck").

"Donate your surplus or unwanted feck to the feckless. Won't you help, today?"

Eh? Just a thought, but not so funny out loud?

Posted by: RuSs on January 30, 2009 at 9:04 AM | PERMALINK

The RedState Strike Force Strikes Out

Fixed.

Posted by: Gregory on January 30, 2009 at 9:07 AM | PERMALINK

How is it that American businessmen have such a deep-seated hatred of socialism, but have absolutely no problem hiring socialists when they can be had at 1/4th the salary of capitalists?

Posted by: BW on January 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM | PERMALINK

Remember folks, Republicans are morally superior to us, always shaking their fists about how sexually filthy we all are. That's why they talk about sending balls to Mitch, why Rush Limbaugh talks about bending over and holding his ankles, and why social conservatives love underage boys a little too much.

Posted by: Franklin on January 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM | PERMALINK

OK, I don't think I've had enough coffee because, God help me, I just googled 'dried scrotum' in a misguided effort to figure out just what in the fuck these idiots are ranting about. I don't recommend it.

Posted by: tb on January 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM | PERMALINK

I really don't wish to look like a fawning groupie--that would be the RSSF's role with Dubya--but zeitgeist, that was hilarious.

Posted by: shortstop on January 30, 2009 at 10:26 AM | PERMALINK

aw, now you're gonna make me blush.
glad you enjoyed it.

Posted by: zeitgeist on January 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM | PERMALINK

I gotta agree with Shortstop, Zetgeist wins the thread! That was damned funny.

Posted by: Dee Loralei on January 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM | PERMALINK




 

 
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