I have said this before, and I am saying it again.
Watch out for Newt Gingrich. In terms of sheer political ability, he is the class of the field as far as the Ratpubs are concerned.
Evidence?
Read on.
So…who exactly have they got?
This thoroughly proven den of thieves.
They have a nasty, waffling, spineless old man with skin cancer and God knows what other physical problems.
A complete buffoon of a candidate who is merely just another crooked lightweight blown up to national proportions by 9/11 and nothing else.
A robotic Mormon with the single worst hair dye job that I have EVER seen in public life.
And Newt Gingrich. The subtlest snake ever to climb down a tree since the apple-bearing version in the Garden of Eden.
He has recreated himself.
As only great politicians can.
(Don’tcha just LOVE the glasses? What a nice older gentleman he must be!!! Can you imagine how many pairs he tried on until he got that look?)
Make no mistake. Racist, homophobic, male supremacist, crooked corporate tool though he may be…he has TALENT.
Evidence?
Read on
Now I admit that in the following article he has as his stooge and willing dance partner John “Small K” kerry, who is either the dumbest smart guy ever to walk down the pike or a Republican mole as far as I am concerned, but what the hell…is kerry any worse than about 95% of the national Dems currently in office?
I think not.
Newt can beat them all in sheer political one-on-one infighting, if given a chance.
They will never know what hit them.
Excepting maybe Hillary Clinton, who has been known to shape-shift with the best of them when the occasion warrants.
When you see Hillary and Newt exchanging political high fives, then you are witnessing some world class hustle.
Bet on it.
Watch.
On with the Small K-Newt the Suit show as brought to you by the paper of broken record, the Washingtoon Post.
With translations.
As long as either a DemRat or a RatPub wins the election, WAPO’s franchise remains in good shape.
Just as it has always been.
Let the Coin-Flip Games begin.
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post
WASHINGTON – Tuesday’s global-warming debate between John Kerry and Newt Gingrich was, as the moderator put it, “advertised as a smackdown and a prizefight.” But those labels were too modest for Kerry.
“Welcome to our environmental version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,” the former Democratic presidential nominee told the crowd in the Senate’s Russell Caucus Room. “We flipped a coin, and I picked Lincoln.”
HA HA H HA HA HA HA!!!
Whadda card he is, this kerry guy.
Lincoln, eh?
If kerry had been running instead of Lincoln, slavery would now be written into the law of the land instead of the unwritten law of the land.
Waffle?
With SYRUP.
GOD I loathe this man!!!
Shape shifter extraordinaire.
Talent.
Beats kerry right there.
Game over.
BRILLIANT!!!
Stroke this stupid motherfucker.
Lovely.
Gingrich/Lieberman in ’08.
Kerry can be Be Secretary of State.
Or Defense.
Whichever is less important.
Gingrich will present himself as The Great Uniter.
Or the Great Untier.
Whatever works.
Shiftshiftshiftshiftshiftshiftshift.
Shaft.
Bullshit.
It never began.
They are BOTH owned by the same interests.
AWWWWW…!!!
ANOTHER great photo-op missed!!!
The PermaGov, DemocRatpublican Party in the flesh.
Too bad…
Right.
But..kerry is either the dumbest smart guy ever to walk down the pike or a Republican mole.
Oh.
I said that already.
Never mind. It bears infinite repetition.
Anyone have ANOTHER possible explanation for how he lost in ’04? And didn’t protest the vote theft?
I am fresh out, myself.
I usually look for a third alternative, but I cannot come up with one here.
Except…
Except…
Oh!!! Oh!!! HERE it is!!!
Small K is simultaneously the dumbest smart guy ever to walk down the pike and a Republican mole.
Yup.
THAT’S the ticket!!!
He is NOT unpredictable.
He is a shape shifter.
That is what shape shifters DO.
Shift shapes.
Duh.
Fortunately, WAPO is not unpredictable either.
DOUBLE duh!!!
“I agree entirely with whatever criticism the senator wants to make in general about the absence of American leadership,” he said
Brilliant!!!
I’m tellin’ ya…he’s got talent.
A big hug followed by a knife in the back.
That’s his gig.
Watch.
AG
How can we strip this guy of his cloaking devices?
Y’all want “something to do”?
Feeling all wore out?
Blogging gotcha down?
Seems as if we won already?
But…NOOOOOOOO!!!!
Take THIS motherfucker down, before he slithers right into the White House.
If there is ANY possible Rat candidate with a chance against Hillary and/or Obama, this is the guy.
I mean…he looks so HARMLESS!!!
Butter wouldn’t even melt in his mouth.
You know why?
BECAUSE HE IS A REPTILE!!!
Cold as ice.
Watch.
AG
why politicians are a breed unto themselves. Few people have the ability to reach across a divide and find a uniting theme, but the best politicians can without a doubt. Now Gingrich with his “Contract ON America” was something to behold early on, but he got jettisoned because he didn’t play the game rough enough even then for the smarmy kill till the last dog dies repubs.
He was on NPR talking about how the wash of money will actually hurt candidates because they will hire all the beltway so-called consultants with it who in turn will instill caution into the candidates which will kill the likability of the candidate. (Paraphrased a good deal.) Now I have to agree with him. I don’t like the DLCers, I don’t like Carville or his bride of Frankenstein, I haven’t seen a consultant that I thought was somebody a candidate should invest his/her whole heart and soul in. But all the time I was wondering “what is he doing?” “what does he have up his sleeve?”
Y’know…
Nothing he does would surprise me.
Third Party?
Sure.
Him and Lieberman.
The Great Uniters.
Declare as a Democrat? As some sort of Green? Hard to do but if anyone could pull it off, it’d be him.
Whatever.
He is as wrong as it gets.
Let us pull back his covers and see what lies beneath.
Roll back his rock.
Peel his cap.
That’s what the blogs are FOR.
Really.
Later…
AG
I think of Kerry as a big earnest sucker. He was suckered into Vietnam, probably suckered by his skull ‘n bones buddy.
It’s depressing that you can simultaneously despise Kerry and admire Gingrich. I prefer to do the opposite, replacing cynicism with sympathy.
I do not admire Gingrich.
I FEAR him.
AG
Come to think of it…I am somewhat angered by this reply.
Listen, Alice.
I have no idea what position you occupy in this society, but when I see thousands of honorable people scuffling to make their house payments or rent…and I say “thousands” because that is just about the number of people that I personally know in this siituation…while this politico-mariital gigolo skates on the blood of HUNDREDS of thousands (And that ain’t exactly Heinz ketchup we have been spilling in our various foreign adventures over the past 60 years. Including the one in which he claims to have so “honorably” served. A hero because he shot some people who were only defending their goddamned rice paddies? Come ON!!! he has been wrong from the GET-go.)…
When I see all of this…his skiing vacation in Gstaad while the Ohio vote fraud thing slowly sank beneath the newws cycle-generated waves, helped no end by his little “for the good of the country” and “healing” letter…when I see this, sympathy is not exactly the first thing that comes to my mind.
Rome during the post-Julius Ceasar era is more like it. A gang of gene sink-devolved patricians running a game on the plebes. And fucking up ROYALLY, as is their only real job in life.
Kerry, Gore, the Bushes…get rid of the LOT of them.
They are all in cahoots, under the skin.
No matter how thin it may be, blood IS thicker than water.
And they…consciously or by dint of subconsciously imprinted childhood memes…are thicker than thieves.
Bet on it.
I want them out, out, OUT of power.
NOW!!!
Sympathy?
They can kiss my royal irish ass. And so can you if that is where you are coming from.
As Mike Quill (The little street Irish pug who faced down Mayor Lindsay…ANOTHER Tory motherfucker, as far as I am concerned…in a NYC transit strike lo these many years ago.) said to the press of a judge who tried to sentence him to prison for daring to call a strike on behalf of working men and women:
“The judge can drop dead in his black robes.”
Allowing Gingrich to run his nicey-nice game again.
Kerry should go hide.
And they can ALL drop dead in their black robes.
VAYA!!!.
Goddamnit.
AG
I’ve watched Gingrich for a while. He starts off with a very reasonable and intelligent discussion. He keeps it up long enough for people to start thinking he’s not so bad as they remember. Then he slips in what he really wanted all along. Never let your guard down with him.
Isn’t that part of the witchcraft spell book.
Another possible explanation?
(Who is writing this shit!!!??? Charles Dickens?)
No WONDER he keeps coming back!!!
Maybe ol’ John McCain oughta have his cancer docs look into this.
I wonder if Small K and The Newt shook hands before the so-called debate.
Hmmmm…
Theoretically it is safe to handle newts provided one thoroughly washes one’s hands as newts secrete a toxin that is harmful if swallowed or if it comes into contact with mucous membranes. Newts also have the ability to carry the salmonella bacteria, though the bacteria is not usually present, which may cause food poisoning-like symptoms for several days.
Memo to Hillary…wear gloves.
And only air kisses if things get…demonstrative.
Please.
YOU know…
Like this.
Them Ratpubs kin get SO…affectionate.
(Come to think of it…maybe this is where they turned Loverman. Could be…)
Later…
AG
Expelliarmus!
Numerous one-line paragraphs is very bad writing style, and unreadable to many people.
Thank you.
SO much.
Where is that rule written, again?
I love this. I get one every so often. Used to get a LOT on dKos. Usually from people who move their lips when they read and subscribe to the People Magazine style book.
What is it exactly that makes this “unreadable”, sir?
Every idea is pared down to its essence, and then left hanging out there for your leisurely perusal.
So that you will not be so tempted to gloss over the content in search of a safe haven somewhere at the end of a paragraph.
Now…here is the above in NON-linear style.
I don’t know about you, Al ol’ pal, but me?
I like the first way.
And it is ME who is writing this.
Not you.
Lots of people seem to like what I write and how I write it.
If you do not…just go away.
Don’t go away mad.
Just…go away.
Thank you and goodnight.
(“OH!!! He is SO rude!!!”)
You bet I am.
There is a GREAT deal of content in this post.
Not a word about it from you. People are dying; trillions are being stolen; an entire culture is being trashed while these assholes run their Tewwdledum/Tweedledee games, and all you have to say is that the use of numerous one-line paragraphs is very bad writing style and unreadable to many people?
If I needed the Grammar Police, I’d go to a grammar school.
Get lost.
AG
Some writers like to get feedback. I was just trying to tell me that you lose me as a reader with your style. I find it very overbearing. I didn’t mean to suggest that there wasn’t a great deal of content in your diary.
If you think this style attracts readers and are happy with the response you get, all the power to you.
Well…get specific.
HOW is the use of short paragraphs “overbearing”?
Really.
Be specific.
Like this.
On a quick web search, I find several definitions of the word “overbearing”.
Here are a few:
bossy: arrogant and tending to order people around
unpleasantly overpowering.
1 : to bring down by superior weight or force : OVERWHELM
2 a : to domineer over b : to surpass in importance or cogency : OUTWEIGH
DISAPPROVING
too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant:
arrogantly dominating; dictatorial.
Synonyms lordly (2) , domineering , dictatorial (1) , despotic , imperious (1) , peremptory (3) , magisterial (2) , autocratic (2) , authoritarian (2) , bossy , high-handed
Crossref. Syn. dictatorial , arrogant
Similar Words tyrannical , arbitrary , commanding , arrogant
Related Words stern , bumptious , authoritarian , autocratic
As my friend 138th St. Papo is wont to say…”Das about enuf ob DAT shit!!!”
How precisely is my use of single sentence paragraphs “overbearing”, Alexander? Inquiring minds want to know.
Now…I can be somewhat overbearing sometimes. Passion will do that. And I am indeed passionate.
Hot, even.
Forgive me.
It’s genetic.
But short paragraphs?
I suppose you could say that they boss you around by making you read in a way that is different from the way that you normally read.
But…hey…THAT way is bossing you around, too. You just don’t know it. You are used to being bossed around THAT way. YOU know…like the way TV tells you how to act? Oh. What’s that? You said that you DIDN’T know that? Sorry. Nevermind. Skip to the next paragraph if you are feeling a little …overborne. Sorry.
However…in my own extensive experience with grammar nannies on the web (Thank you for the term, Chris.. I call the whole generic group of non-content critics Granny No-Nos, but this is certainly a subspecies that demands its own label.) it has been my observation that they REALLY simply do not like what you are saying (or to some degree the manner in which you are saying it) but either do not recognize that fact or are too middle-class/well bred/weak to MENTION it. Now that I am getting a little more specific about what I am guessing is your real problem…how’s about it? Do you feel any better now that I am writing longer paragraphs? Having more fun reading?
Hmmm…
I thought not.
Later…
AG
P.S. Just on a whim…for whom did you vote in ’06?
Does it…maybe…start with a small “K”!!!???
(Betcha.)
Hmmmm…
In normal writing, in which one-sentence paragraphs are the exception rather than the rule, placing a sentence in its own paragraph serves to emphasize that sentence. So, by using almost exclusively one-sentence paragraphs, it’s like you’re emphasizing every sentence, which comes across as shouting to me. And yes, I find people that can’t help shouting when they talk overbearing.
But I don’t want to get in an argument with you about this. Like I said, no one is telling you that you can’t write any way you want to. And simply expressing one’s irritation is not the same thing as being a “nanny”.
As for the content of what you wrote, the one thing I find objectionable is that you suggest that Clinton is better than Kerry.
“…the one thing I find objectionable is that you suggest that Clinton is better than Kerry.”
She is SURE as hell a better politician.
When was the last time the Clintons lost an election?
Against a totally incompetent asshole.
AG
I guess you are right in your claim that she is a much better politician. Obviously, Hillary and Bill have taught each other a lot. As for Kerry, he didn’t listen enough to Teresa.
It’s interesting to ponder what would have happened if Hillary had been positioned to run in 2004, so that she would have been the Dem nominee challenging Bush. She would have triangulated better then Kerry, and would have been surer on her feet. But would she have beat Bush? I don’t think so. That is because, in her triangulating, she wouldn’t have come out sufficiently critical of Bush—the same mistake Kerry made.
I didn’t find your one-sentence paragraphs bothersome this time around. I was in an irritable mood when I made my original post on your thread.
You write:
She purposely did not run in ’04, because she thought that it would be hard to beat Bush amdist the war hysteria. That’s what I think, anyway.
She is very farsighted, and so far she has been right.
I don’t believe that she saw Obama coming, though.
AG
Oh, cool! A grammar nanny! I’ve been looking for one. My last one left me in a snit. He said something about not liking me telling him to go fuck himself all the time. Hard to find good help these days. Maybe, if I’m really super nice and super lucky, Alexander will nanny me if I ever start posting again.
“Kerry, Gore, the Bushes…get rid of the LOT of them.
They are all in cahoots, under the skin.
No matter how thin it may be, blood IS thicker than water.
And they…consciously or by dint of subconsciously imprinted childhood memes…are thicker than thieves.
Bet on it.
I want them out, out, OUT of power.
NOW!!!
Sympathy?
They can kiss my royal irish ass. And so can you if that is where you are coming from.”
My favorite part of your rant. You can throw my part-Irish ass to be kissed in there as well.