smays.com // My name is Blanche. I'm a 12-year-old girl living in Karachi where I am forced to maintain this website for a wealthy American who has too much time on his hands but not enough to maintain one more blog. Please help me.
"With Going Rogue, the 2012 reality show has already begun. As brainless political theater, she can’t be topped. It’s just too bad for conservatives that she happens to be unsustainably divisive and, asNewsweek points out, a really good bet to permanently marginalize the Republican party by reducing it to a pissed-off, semi-coherent mob that repulses independent voters on a visceral level. To paraphrase John Doman’s Deputy Ops Rawls character from The Wire, she’s “brilliant — fuckin’ shame it’s gonna end our careers, but still.”
"I read Newsmax and the Frontiersman and Wall Street Journal and everything online. I absorb the news via many, many sources.
I, on the other hand, absorb the news via many, many orifices.
Great conservative apparatchiks, whether Lee Atwater or Ralph Reed or others, knew well how to manipulate undereducated, rank-and-file conservatives. It's not hard, since many of them aren't that smart.That's not to say they aren't God-fearing or hardworking or good parents or fine citizens. But they just aren't that intelligent when it comes to matters of policy or politics. They're not sophisticated enough to have much of a view on anything outside their own community, so they tend to focus on things that can be understood simply and easily - things like morality, a morality often imparted by a local church and taken as gospel without any kind of intellectual questioning.They don't understand foreign policy or trade policy or tax policy or the kinds of economic matters the GOP power players are interested in. But they do get gay marriage and abortion and school prayer. So for a generation, the GOP talked about the latter in an attempt to gain enough power to influence the former. (N.B. Democrats do this bait-and-switch too, but I'm not talking about them right now.)Today's conservatives, however, aren't in on the joke. Politically, they came of age hearing these paeans to Christian fundamentalism, without understanding that these were simply techniques of convenience used to sell other parts of the GOP agenda.
This is an old post (July 2009) from somebody who calls him/herself "The Recess Supervisor."
I resisted posting this because I have a bit of a thing about people who hide behind some made-up name. I think we can stipulate the person who wrote this is a lefty pinko fag (what would we do without labels?). In the end, I decided to stick it here but not link from smays.com or my Twitter feed or anywhere else.
I'm parking this here because I want to be able to find it again. So go dry swallow a couple of beta blockers and turn on Beck. This is for me, not for you.
An associate of Sarah Palin tells Mark Halperin that her memoir, "Going Rogue," will "include some score settling with McCain aides she believes ill-served her (names will be named)." But those aides will have to buy the book to find out what Palin has to say about them. One source tells Halperin the book does not include an index.
another test
Palin defied rational analysis by making a primal connection with the subterranean resentments of white middle America, which is apparently so pissed off now at the rest of the planet for not coddling its hurt feelings in the multicultural age that it is willing to embrace any politician who validates its insane sense of fucked-overness.
