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September 27th 2010

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Lisa Miller on the rise of the Mama Grizzlies:

“Fundamentally, the mama-grizzly phenomenon is not really a movement or even a political term that represents a fully coherent set of ideas. It’s mostly a marketing tool, meant to draw attention to Americans’ broad dissatisfaction with the way things are. Fair enough. Many people are dissatisfied, and they want to vent and they want to change Washington. But in the wild, real mama grizzlies are known to be aggressive, irrational, and mean. The issues facing the country are complex, and bears are not.”

Emphasis mine.

When real mama grizzlies attack national park visitors the normal go of things is to create a hunting party and kill the bear.

Posted at 11:47am and tagged with: I think we should tag all the mama grizzlies, palin,.

newsweek:

Lisa Miller on the rise of the Mama Grizzlies:
“Fundamentally, the mama-grizzly phenomenon is not really a movement or even a political term that represents a fully coherent set of ideas. It’s mostly a marketing tool, meant to draw attention to Americans’ broad dissatisfaction with the way things are. Fair enough. Many people are dissatisfied, and they want to vent and they want to change Washington. But in the wild, real mama grizzlies are known to be aggressive, irrational, and mean. The issues facing the country are complex, and bears are not.”

Emphasis mine.
When real mama grizzlies attack national park visitors the normal go of things is to create a hunting party and kill the bear.

May 20th 2010

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Žižek, Hegel, Palin | The Atlantic Wire

Posted at 6:39pm and tagged with: zizek, palin, the atlantic,.

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She has a “castrating” effect on her male opponents not by way of being more manly than them, but by using the ultimate feminine weapon, the sarcastic put-down of male authority — she knows that male “phallic” authority is a posture, a semblance to be exploited and mocked. Recall how she mocked Obama as a “community organizer,” exploiting the fact that there was something sterile in Obama’s physical appearance, with his diluted black skin, slender features, and big ears. Here we have “post-feminist” femininity without a complex, uniting the features of mother, prim teacher (glasses, hair in a bun), public person, and, implicitly, sex object, proudly displaying the “first dude” as a phallic toy. The message is that she “has it all” — and that, to add insult to injury, it was a Republican woman who had realized this Left-liberal dream…No wonder that the Palin effect is one of false liberation: drill, baby, drill!

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October 25th 2009

GOP v. Conservative Party - Round 1

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Two things:

1) I can’t even begin to describe how much fun it is going to be to watch the Republican party rip itself apart.

2) I didn’t know that Owens, the Democratic candidate, currently has no formal party affiliation.

It’s all very exciting. Rush-Beck might get their own political party filled with poorly educated FoxNews evangelists, and the U.S. may get a real conservative party that ideologically challenges the left-of-center majority with something other than FUD.

It might be painful to watch at first but you have to shake the nuts out of your party at some point.

Posted at 6:21pm and tagged with: ny-23, house, palin, owens, hoffman, Scozzafava,.

October 11th 2008

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McCain Draws Line on Attacks as Crowds Cry ‘Fight Back’ -NYTimes

Reading some of the comments from people in McCain’s audience I start having LSD like visions of daily life for some of our more mobile red state relatives. You know, the kind we don’t talk about when we are out to dinner with guests.

I assume diapers are involved. The very sight of fecal matter must trigger the fling response.

To his credit, McCain has done very little to try and stop the attacks aside from the few kind words in the article above. I say to his credit because when he tries to fix something it usually just gets at least a little worse. It’s almost as if he is learning.

That should be a campaign ad. Now, to just get in touch with them…

Posted at 12:18pm and tagged with: mccain, palin, campaign, election, crowd, obama,.

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At one point, after a voter told him he wanted to see a “real fight” at the debate and the crowd responded with a roar, Mr. McCain replied, “We want to fight, and I will fight, but we will be respectful.”

Then he added, “I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments, I will respect him.” The crowd interrupted Mr. McCain to boo, but he kept talking. “I want everyone to be respectful and let’s make sure we are, because that’s the way politics should be conducted in America.”

At that point, the crowd applauded.

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September 27th 2008

Palin “Clueless”

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The Huffington Post is reporting that some senior McCain campaign persons are freaking out. Apparently when vetting Palin they didn’t ask her to chime in with a word or two of her own. Sounds like McCain picked Ms. Teen USA to be VP…

I think the saddest part is that it took them this long to figure it out…

Posted at 6:02pm and tagged with: palin, mccain, huffington, clueless,.