The Washington Free Beacon lists the five most amazingly Romney-endorsing "celebrities" of the 2012 cycle , and let me tell you, guys, these people are all somehow still alive, probably. 1. Lindsay Lohan The “Mean Girls” star and all-around party girl recently announced that she was voting for Romney. “I just think employment is really important now,” Lohan said to noted news network E!. “So, as of now, Mitt Romney. As of now.”
Some of us older assholes understand that "party politics" is actually the political system that the Framers left us, whether they intended to or not. As long as we continue to play by the rules they left, PARTIES are the the things that drive progress (or regress).
One consequence of this is that remarkable individual politicians <i>can</i> influence the course of history, but only by influencing the trend of their parties. Another consequence is that there are people who do not subscribe to the idea that parties are the blood-line of politics, and they will attach themselves to candidates based on, I don&#039;t know, polls, or random pundits. And, in the main, I imagine they think themselves quite clever to avoid the taint of &quot;party politics&quot;.
They are totally wrong, of course. With our current electoral system (which can be changed only by profound majorities, either at the state or Federal level), parties matter more than anything. But, some of the folks bailing out on the President are former bandwagon-jumpers who are now jumping off. These people are, in the long run, noise.
Unfortunately, in the short run, they can have a major effect. (See: Reagan).
Our challenge is to re-assert the fact that there <b>is</b> a fucking difference between the parties, irrespective of the fact that the Democrats may not be exactly what we would like in unicorn world.
I am a Democrat. I have voted straight D since I could, which was 5 November 1968 (I lost). I happily voted for Bill Clinton (sorry prommie), because he provided a way for the Democrats to regain the Presidency, and the control of SCOTUS nominations. Similarly, I happily voted for Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama, although in all these cases it was kind of irrelevant, since I live in California. I will again vote for Barack Obama, not because he is half-black, or because he is half-unicorn, or even because I detest Mitt Romney (although I do detest Mitt Romney); but because he is the Demoncrat (sic) candidate.
I must admit that my worldview even extends to supporting shithead blue-doggie Democrats in districts where blue-doggieness is unavoidable. It&#039;s always a choice. Sometimes the choice is between dickhead and intergalactic shit-for-brains.
Whoops. I&#039;m wandering.
There is nothing inscrutable in the flight of alleged supporters from the Prez. Some of them are bandwagon-jumpers, and some of them have been waiting for four years to find a good reason to vote against the (inconveniently Democratic) nigger.
OT but sounded last night like Jon Stewart has been reading Wonkette- he was featuring wingnuts on parade, including (of course), Todd Akin, Allan West, Hubbard, Joe Walsh and the Tammy Duckworth dress shopping scandal, and that wall of dead deer guy. So many old favorites!
Pardon me if Colbert&#039;s joke already appeared here, but Jenna Jameson is definitely a job creator.
Vote early and Mormon.
I&#039;m not sure, but I think Gene is just an asshole.
I happen to think Bat out of Hell was a really good album. After that, I don&#039;t give a shit about Meat&#039;s opinion, whatever it is.
She doesn&#039;t need porn anymore, just those sweet sweet capital gains.
Chuck who?
Um, no.
But then time rolled on, and, you know, what the fuck? Even in fantasy, I don&#039;t want to see my dick in a wringer.
Did he? Because he was saying a lot of pretty pro-O sounding shit last month.
I like this boycott, because it will accomplish all its goals if we just take a nap.
Fuck, Marshall is still alive, as far as I know. Retired isn&#039;t dead. (This is a particularly touchy point with me).
Oh, that&#039;s good.
Some of us older assholes understand that &quot;party politics&quot; is actually the political system that the Framers left us, whether they intended to or not. As long as we continue to play by the rules they left, PARTIES are the the things that drive progress (or regress).
One consequence of this is that remarkable individual politicians <i>can</i> influence the course of history, but only by influencing the trend of their parties. Another consequence is that there are people who do not subscribe to the idea that parties are the blood-line of politics, and they will attach themselves to candidates based on, I don&#039;t know, polls, or random pundits. And, in the main, I imagine they think themselves quite clever to avoid the taint of &quot;party politics&quot;.
They are totally wrong, of course. With our current electoral system (which can be changed only by profound majorities, either at the state or Federal level), parties matter more than anything. But, some of the folks bailing out on the President are former bandwagon-jumpers who are now jumping off. These people are, in the long run, noise.
Unfortunately, in the short run, they can have a major effect. (See: Reagan).
Our challenge is to re-assert the fact that there <b>is</b> a fucking difference between the parties, irrespective of the fact that the Democrats may not be exactly what we would like in unicorn world.
I am a Democrat. I have voted straight D since I could, which was 5 November 1968 (I lost). I happily voted for Bill Clinton (sorry prommie), because he provided a way for the Democrats to regain the Presidency, and the control of SCOTUS nominations. Similarly, I happily voted for Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama, although in all these cases it was kind of irrelevant, since I live in California. I will again vote for Barack Obama, not because he is half-black, or because he is half-unicorn, or even because I detest Mitt Romney (although I do detest Mitt Romney); but because he is the Demoncrat (sic) candidate.
I must admit that my worldview even extends to supporting shithead blue-doggie Democrats in districts where blue-doggieness is unavoidable. It&#039;s always a choice. Sometimes the choice is between dickhead and intergalactic shit-for-brains.
Whoops. I&#039;m wandering.
There is nothing inscrutable in the flight of alleged supporters from the Prez. Some of them are bandwagon-jumpers, and some of them have been waiting for four years to find a good reason to vote against the (inconveniently Democratic) nigger.
It&#039;s pretty obvious: NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER.
Sorry. I&#039;m drunk, and very intolerant of people that claim to be Democrats, but aren&#039;t.
for some reason mark mardell over at bbc thinks last night was a draw.
wtf?
OT but sounded last night like Jon Stewart has been reading Wonkette- he was featuring wingnuts on parade, including (of course), Todd Akin, Allan West, Hubbard, Joe Walsh and the Tammy Duckworth dress shopping scandal, and that wall of dead deer guy. So many old favorites!
After reading the list, and then Googling them, I found out I&#039;ve been retroactively boycotting them this whole time.
she&#039;ll end up in jail again prolly.