Hug that millstone made of albatross tightly, guys, the undertow is a bitch:
RedState is pleased to announce it is engaging in a special project: Operation Leper.
We’re tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.
We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.
It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.
This is going to be great. The 2012 strategy of the newly deleperized Republican party will be, presumably, the one Palin’s crew wanted to follow: make sure every last American really knows that Obama is black. Really black. Terrorist noir . After four years in office, President Obama won’t be able to hide that fact any longer!
I love circular firing squads.
via everyone.
25 comments
November 6, 2008 at 8:35 am
Matt Weiner
The neocons won’t be lepers. Fundy/Neocon ’12!
November 6, 2008 at 9:10 am
Rich Puchalsky
Wasn’t Ericx2 the guy who said that ten-year-old Obama had had an “affair” with somebody? Yes, he was.
All right, I won’t make a tasteless joke about what happens when one leper punches another. But really, Ericx2 may not really have the stature to lead the circular firing squad that the historical moment demands.
November 6, 2008 at 9:15 am
ben
I won’t make a tasteless joke about what happens when one leper punches another.
Neither of them knows it. Leprosy doesn’t directly cause your extremities to fall off, it just numbs them, so you can stress them much more than someone with feel would, without knowing it—and that can lead to them coming off.
November 6, 2008 at 9:24 am
ari
Anyone ever read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever? A leper’s the protagonist. But that’s about all I remember.
November 6, 2008 at 9:50 am
Rich Puchalsky
“Anyone ever read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever?”
Maniacal laughter is the only proper response to that. See section 2 on “clench racing” here.
The series is an excellent introduction to masochism fantasies, however.
November 6, 2008 at 10:04 am
Ahistoricality
Anyone ever read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever?
A thousand pages of despair capped with a dozen pages of absurd happy ending. That’s the way I remember the first trilogy. It’s been over twenty years and I haven’t had any desire to either pick it up again or continue with the next two trilogies.
November 6, 2008 at 10:07 am
GreatGoblin
Covenant is an anti-hero and a complete jackass… if we’re going all ‘the land’ on this one i think i’d cast the freepers as urviles (they do seem to come at you in a wedge)
November 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm
urbino
Yeah, this should be fun. Disturbing, but fun.
It’s always interesting to see doctrine run smack up against reality. It’s like a particle collision — you get all these exotic, short-lived but extremely high-energy splinters flying all over the place.
November 6, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Jason B
If you’re very angry with yourself and you feel the need for dire punishment, reading Donaldson’s turgid, bloated, pointless epics would be an effective choice.
November 6, 2008 at 1:54 pm
ari
If you’re very angry with yourself and you feel the need for dire punishment, reading Donaldson’s turgid, bloated, pointless epics would be an effective choice.
Sold! I’m off to the library.
November 6, 2008 at 2:04 pm
AEP
Speaking of albatrosses (and political leper colonies): Ralph Nadar continues to be one around the necks of progressives everywhere. Waiting to see how people who have actually read Uncle Tom’s Cabin AND follow popular culture make of his latest on Obama. Counting on this brilliant crowd to weigh in! So what, can I ever love Ralph again?
November 6, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Vance
No.
(This has been another edition of ….)
November 6, 2008 at 2:10 pm
ari
You should have stopped loving him long ago, I’m afraid.
November 6, 2008 at 2:14 pm
bitchphd
I dunno, maybe we should be grateful to Ralph for being willing to step into the “most embarrassing so-called lefty” role now that Ward Churchill’s retired.
November 6, 2008 at 2:15 pm
AEP
Yes, I guess if we’re still not speaking after 8 years the romance is over. Sigh. I didn’t expect overt racism, though.
November 6, 2008 at 2:19 pm
ari
Breakin’ up is hard to do, AEP.
November 6, 2008 at 2:19 pm
bitchphd
There was some other racist crap he pulled during the campaign, I thought. Wasn’t there?
November 6, 2008 at 2:20 pm
ari
He tossed around the so-called n word in 2004. I’m not aware of anything since then. But I try to avert my gaze when he comes on the tv.
November 6, 2008 at 2:22 pm
bitchphd
Ah yes, here we go.
November 6, 2008 at 2:25 pm
ari
Charming. Now I have to find the eye-wash.
November 6, 2008 at 2:38 pm
AEP
Yikes. So this is what fully matured self-righteousness looks like–brought to you by FOX news. Ouch, my brain hurts from the irony of it all. And I kept hoping he’d been taking the wrong medication for the last decade and would snap out of it–take on melamime, or something.
November 6, 2008 at 5:45 pm
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November 6, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Jason B
Good criminy. I didn’t realize Nader’s a dick. I mean, he makes a couple of good points: “exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead.” Those are all good causes to rally around, but Jesus H. fucking tapdancing Christ on a popsicle stick–how does anyone in America, racist or not, say shit like “talking white” at this point?” Even if one is stupid enough to buy into that kind of shit, isn’t one smart enough to not fucking say it? Ugh.
November 6, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Rich Puchalsky
Nader is Lieberman. That got a “Nahh” from somebody on Berube’s blog, so I should explain further: just like Lieberman especially hates other Democrats who just won’t do what he says, Nader especially hates anyone at all progressive who’s making it. If Obama was Hispanic, Nader would be saying nativist things.
November 6, 2008 at 10:19 pm
urbino
I believe we call this pathological narcissism. I do, anyway.