In this thread I will predict the Democrat meme in the months to come...

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

"Don't blame ME! I was going to vote for McCain until he picked that idiot Palin!"






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There is still a sense about Mr. Obama that he needs George W. Bush in order to give his presidency full shape and meaning. In this he is like Jimmy Carter, who needed Richard Nixon, or rather the Watergate scandal, which made him president. ... Mr. Carter needed to be able to point at Nixon and say, "I'm not him. He dirty, me clean. You hate him, like me." Carter's presidency was given coherence and meaning by Nixon, Watergate, and without it that presidency seemed formless. Mr. Obama, in the same way, needs Mr. Bush standing in the corner like Boo Radley, saying "Let's invade something!" But Mr. Bush is wisely back home in Texas finishing a book, and the president never sounds weaker than when he suggests his predicament is all his predecessor's fault.
Peggy "Better Late Than Never" Noonan

 

[firespin]

"Don't blame ME! I was going to vote for McCain until he picked that idoit Palin!"

Innovative spelling there.

I voted for McCain even after he picked that "idoit" Palin.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Well, don't blame me, blame my iPad!







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With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and Playstations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
Barack Hussein Obama

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I blame YOU!




You could have voted for Bob Barr too...

 

[firespin]

Well, don't blame me, blame my iPad!

Mocking conservatives is built in to the operating system now?

That would be a real time saver for most media outlets.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You think Jobs is a Republican?




He might become one now that his company is number one...

Bill Gates quickly became a very devout Democrat once he learned he needed protection.

 

[firespin]

I blame YOU!

You could have voted for Bob Barr too...

Yes, there was that option, if I wanted a guy who:

- grew up in Malaysia, Pakistan, and Iraq

- graduated from an Iranian high school

- was a member of Young Democrats for America, and then (while still in college) the Young Trojan Republican club in college

- is a lawyer

- worked for the CIA

- was a federal prosecutor

- never smiles

- was actively opposed by the Libertarian party in the 2002 House elections

- lost two races for the House and one US Senate primary

- voted for the PATRIOT act but now opposes it

- sponsored the Defense of Marriage act but now regrets it

- was against medical marijuana before he was in favor of it

- two-time divorce who had his wife have an abortion

- is a member of the ACLU

So, what's not to like?

Imagine what it feels like to to be the guy who finished second in the running to be the Libertarian party candidate, knowing they preferred this weasel.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You voted for the Marxist too...

 

[firespin]

You voted for the Marxist too...

You voted for a guy who goes to high school reunions in Tehran.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You voted for a guy who goes to high school reunions in Tehran.

You voted for a loser too...




At least my vote was based on a principled strategy. Maybe if the Republicans didn't let the press pick their candidate for them in their desire to placate the Democrat Party who was openly running a Marxist and double-dawg daring John McCain *WAR HERO* to call them on it, BUT HE WAS TOO FUCKING CHICKEN and too afraid of what the press would say about him (racist)...

 

[unregistered]

 

[firespin]

You voted for a loser too...

At least my vote was based on a principled strategy. Maybe if the Republicans didn't let the press pick their candidate for them in their desire to placate the Democrat Party who was openly running a Marxist and double-dawg daring John McCain *WAR HERO* to call them on it, BUT HE WAS TOO FUCKING CHICKEN and too afraid of what the press would say about him (racist)...

McCain surely ran a sucky campaign. I'm not sure that he wanted to win there at the end, he certainly didn't act like it, and tanked in the debates.

But seriously, to reference Bob Barr in the context of a principled strategy is laughable. The dude is an hypocritical, opportunist slimeball who wouldn't know a principle if it bit him in the ass. He couldn't wipe Ron Paul's private parts when it comes to principles, and you know it.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I didn't vote FOR Bob Barr.





I voted AGAINST McSame and Obama, the Red!

That's principle; not holding my nose and picking the lesser evil!



I voted for the lesser evil and all I got was this lousy old BUSH!

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You have the day off?

ME?



Yes. Princess is in KANSAS riding horses across the Flint Hills.



Firespin might be unemployed...

 

[firespin]

I didn't vote FOR Bob Barr.





I voted AGAINST McSame and Obama, the Red!

That's principle; not holding my nose and picking the lesser evil!



I voted for the lesser evil and all I got was this lousy old BUSH!

Not voting would have been a principled strategy, too.

Voting for Bob Barr, not so much. Unless you really wanted him to be President. Tell me you're not THAT stupid.

 

[firespin]

Firespin might be unemployed...

Keeping the dogs company until a meeting in a few minutes.

You'll have to find somebody else to abuse you then.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Not voting would have been a principled strategy, too.

Voting for Bob Barr, not so much. Unless you really wanted him to be President. Tell me you're not THAT stupid.

A no vote indicates apathy.

A vote for an absolute loon is a shot across the bow...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

HEY!




I got important stuff to do too!

I need to go water the gardens and clean the pool...

 

[RobDownSouth]

I didn't vote FOR Bob Barr.
I voted AGAINST McSame and Obama, the Red!

Well, at least that's true to character.

You've never been FOR anything in your life, you've always been AGAINST something.

You've never given us a coherent argument explainin' why you support something, you continually rail against the sins (real and imagined) of your political opponents. That's how you can tell someone with a straight face that 130% of one dollar is 77 cents.

You're a non-factor.

A lying, clueless, weasel of a non-factor, but a non-factor nonetheless.

 

[zipman]

A no vote indicates apathy.

A vote for an absolute loon is a shot across the bow...

No, a vote for an absolute loon is plausible deniability which is all you really want. The ability to bitch and moan and then say "hey, I didn't vote for that guy."

 

[unregistered]

 

[MeeMie]

No, a vote for an absolute loon is plausible deniability which is all you really want. The ability to bitch and moan and then say "hey, I didn't vote for that guy."

You did and I DIDN'T!




Here's something that could make for some awkward exchanges at the cash register this summer:

http://images.politico.com/global/click/100629_obama_tax_card_522.jpg


The "Obama Tax Hike Exemption Card," which (in theory) exempts "Americans making less than $250,000 from any form of tax increase signed into law by President Barack Obama."

"This card a tangible reminder that Obama has deliberately broken his central campaign promise not to raise any form of taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.

If you'd like to give one of these cards a test run, here's how it works:

If you make under $250,000 and find yourself facing any of the new taxes highlighted by ATR ("Tax on Indoor Tanning Services," "Medicine Cabinet Tax," "Special Needs Kids Tax," etc.), you present the card and, if challenged "politely ask, 'Excuse me, but are you calling President Obama a liar?'"

No guarantees, of course.