Weeeeeee doggies! Pass the popcorn.

Kettle corn? Milk Duds? Anyone?

:D

Randy Scheunemann quickly weighed in, taking Kristol's side, and blasting Schmidt's "congenital aversion to the truth."

That's just precious. Now the difference between good and bad Republicans is whether the aversion is congenital.

Nuts to popcorn - I'm mixing margaritas!

I'm not in a position to say who's...or who's right.

Ummm, I'd say whoever thought Palin was nowhere near ready for the job and never would be is unquestionably right.

The only thing that would be better is records of Sarah Palin flying to Buenos Aires when Mark Sanford was there.

Sarah Palin isn't, and never will be, qualified for anything but as a target for parody.

I'm not in a position to say who's telling the truth, who's lying, who's leaking, or who's right

The problem for most Republicans is that they've been lying, distorting, and living in an alternative reality so long that they don't know either.

Nuts to popcorn - I'm mixing margaritas!

O so last millennium. I'm whipping up the Scooby Snacks. Scoobydoobydoo!

I guess I'll send the DCCC and ActBlue another donation today in honor of the VF article. We need to make sure these folks have to find alternative careers somewhere outside of the US government. I don't just disagree with them; I don't like them. They're not good people. Their core beliefs are deluded. Their thinking is undeveloped, and their loyalties are pathological.

What were they thinking every day when they got up and looked in the mirror? "Gee, let's work hard to mislead the American public into thinking that the people we work for are capable of running the country?"

Revenge is the dish that must be served...

"in the business of ad hominem insults and criticism"

A fine synopsis of republican politics...
Lacking only an awareness of republicans ability to hold grudges and settle scores across years.

Which I think, explains Benen's bemusment and observation:

As it turns out, I expected more of this late last year, when the finger-pointing made more sense. The full-blown intra-party civil war never came to fruition, but it seems there's some pent up hostility among leading figures.

They are Republican political professionals. They are all lying. The fact that they ever entertained the idea that GOP political handlers could prepare Palin (or anyone) for VP in a few weeks like you would cram for a Trigonometry final shows that each and every one of the people involved in this story is a shallow asshole. These noodleheads are all arguing over who has the best recipe for turd sandwich. The lesson here is that turd sandwich sucks. Bill Kristol and co. are still arguing about which garnish makes it taste delicious. Good luck with that!

No links? I feel like I'm missing all the fun!

(I have read the article, it's the rest I missed.)

Obama is to blame. If he had only engaged in personal attacks, the Republican party would have stayed united.

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Good article, but there was nothing in it that wasn't already known 6 months ago or more.

I have long maintained that McCain blindsided a sizable chunk of his own campaign staff when he annouced Palin as his running mate. There is no evidence that McCain's people were doing any background work on her or even had anything more than cursory communication with her prior to 1-2 days before she was annouced.

By late summer they had already been in contact with staffs from the other canidates for the job and had gotten to know them well. They had developed strategies for each of them. If other words they put in a lot of leg work only to have all of it go away when McCain announced someone most of them probably never heard of.

The simple method by which McCain selected Palin proves he was unfit for President.

clonus @ 11:08
Exactly.

What is really jaw dropping is there are those who would say Sarah had leadership skills. Previous posts better explain this, especially KazooGuy. And I'm clean out of popcorn but don't want to get into the liquor cabinet yet, because even better times are coming.

Looks at the list of PNACers espousing support for Palin. I think it's quite clear the neocons have made her their standard bearer, and it's for all of the same reasons we abhor her: her ignorant, incurious nature makes her easy to control and her tabloid life makes her a media distraction.

She is the perfect candidate for warmongers.

I read it, and it certainly, ah, takes some of the sparkles off of Palin's political persona.

Also, what ckelly and qwerty said.

I switched from popcorn to raw veggies months ago. No one warned me that Republicans in implosion could be so dangerous to my jeans size.

her ignorant, incurious nature makes her easy to control and her tabloid life makes her a media distraction.

Zackly. Plus she's belligerent, won't pick her fights and has a vicious streak a mile wide. Like you said, a warmonger's dream.

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Just thought you'd like to know.

Joe the plumber is not running for office, God told him not to at this time, but told him to keep his options open in case he is called on to lead.
Just thought you'd like to know.

God could save a lot of heavenly time by sending a group email to Republicans in which S/He opines on which governor should finish his term, which loudmouthed loser should not run for office, etc. Perhaps S/He already does.

Yes, the RepuGs should spend less time checking their various boy-girl-whateveroys g-strings and start checking their G-Mail.

Purdom told Chuck Todd, the reason he didn't use explicit quotes, is because he was writing this for posterity. He wanted people to look back a few years from now and judge the accuracy. He mentioned, that as so many in journalism know, the system does not fall into the neat useage of quoted on the record sources.

It's that saying: victory has a thousand fathers, failure a thousand spectators.

Don't know who's lying, huh. That one's easy. When both sides of an internal GOP dispute accuse the other side of lying--they're both being truthful and accurate.

"But reading about all of this reinforced one unshakable observation: I'm awfully glad these folks aren't running the country right now."

Amen, brother.

A great line from the Vanity Fair article: "...[Sarah Palin] has the good fortune to have traction within a political party...whose rank and file often demands qualities other than knowledge, experience, and an understanding that facts are, as John Adams said, stubborn things."

So true.

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