Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

YES IT WAS!

So excitable, are we?

Kookman: Why don’t write a book for Republicans on what they need to do to win elections, you could call it What Every Pinko Would Like To See Happen To The Repuglican Party, If It Were Up To Us.

We could put it in the Self Help section.

Or even better, in the Fiction section.

Bwa.

By getalife

November 16, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

“GOP Sen. Chambliss Refuses To Testify In Sugar Company Fire.”

Fire him.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

Now I’m curious, what Conservative could possibly be stupid enough to take advice from a hardcore left wing radical about the direction we should take our party in?

It’s almost as though kookman thinks we are dimwit AJC readers or something.

Just imagine if you will, some God fearing real American reading this column and saying to themselves, uh yeah, need to kill babies so that thee libs will like us, uh-huh.

Ridiculous, ain’t it?

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Let’s see here, cartoon boy attacks the governor of Alaska with a sicko, disgusting toon and kookman is on a 3 a day “help save the Republican Party from Conservatives” column writing spree like some psycho Ann Landers, you tell me, are they not terrified of 2012?

By "The Corporal"

November 16, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Conservative Republicans have to understand that the policies and rhetoric that make them all giddy and weak in the knees just don’t have the same effect on the rest of America

THEN WHY don’t you just let us die on the vine? Isn’t that tactically the best plan so you will never have to face us again? Isn’t that what you want?

No, instead you want us to become just like you because you fear this nation’s return to common sense, morality and a strong America and too many of us out here will assure that!

And that return to our conservative roots will happen because you know it is just one super economic, moral, and/or terrorist crisis away. When one or more of those happen, the youth vote will coming running back to Mom & Dad and the demograhphic vote will see the light.

We’ll see, won’t we ……..

P.S. I will quit repeating this post when you quit repeating your rhetoric.

By getalife

November 16, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

“Georgia Runoff: Bill Clinton Joins Campaign”

Hire Martin.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Just imagine for a moment if Boy Wonder turns out to be a one term failed president, in the grand tradition of Dhimmi Carter, after all the pomp and bluster that the pinko media has conjured up on behalf of this little socialist dimwit?

Not only would what ever miniscule bit of credibility that the pinko media has left be entirely gone, so will the entire democrat party.

So they attack and spin, whine and moan, shriek and wail, even though the election is over and “the one” who would “make EVERYTHING BETTER” has been elected, go figure.

The libs are telling us something and that is that Old School Traditional Conservatism will kick their behinds and they know it.

By @@

November 16, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

“McCain, who is a proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver’s seat.”

Still trying to save us from ourselves, jay?

I’ll share this…..a dear friend of mine campaigned heavily for McCain while holding his nose. In the end he voted for Obama. Why?

Because he wanted democrats to experience the pain that an Obama presidency would bring. “I want it done and over with” he said.

Since you mentioned George Soros being in the driver’s seat……have you checked out his latest acquisitions in the market? Wal-Mart, lots of energy stocks both foreign and domestic (oil to be specific) AND coal.

A couple of telecommunication companies too.

By AF

November 16, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

No. It wasn’t McCain’s fault. He was the most acceptable of the Republican candidates - he at least seemed like an honest and sincere person with good experience in Washington, someone who would break ranks when his party was doing the wrong thing.

My problem was that McCain moved too far right and, ultimately, had no policies to offer that were in any way different from the Bush/Republican policy failures. (I really thought “The Maverick” would have some maverick ideas - big disappointment.) He might have been a more honest president than Bush and he might have been someone who could reduce pork barrell spending and clean up shoddy contracting - good things to do. But, compared to Obama, McCain’s vision of the world and his approaches to the issues are last century.

“Last century” is how I see the Republican policies.

By Abomi Nation

November 16, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

I think AJC/DNC is correct! Let the Republicans stick to being Republicans.

There is a very big stage being built right here in Georgia, our Senate run-off election. Its time to tell the nosy, arrogant, election winning Democrats to mind their own business.

I propose we use this upcoming stage as a campaign to show America that us Republicans haven’t changed one bit.

We need our current governor, Sonny Perdue to come out from under his rock and help Chambliss with his campaign. Keep that GODLESS McCain away. This is Georgia’s race and should be done with Georgians in mind NOT yankee’s or Hollywood liberals.

I propose a “Pray For Rain/Chambliss for Senate” combo prayer vigil. Kill two birds with one stone. Its been a year since the first “Pray For Rain,” we need a refresher. We also need a conservative in the Senate as our country’s moral reservoir runs dry, just as those holding our water have already done.

The reason Republicans lost is because there was not one mention of Family Values this election season not one.

Lets show America the path to redemption.

How about it. We want a Chambliss/Rain/Bulldog Football Prayer Vigil. The new Republican path to winning elections and football games, and possibly ending global warming.

(DISCLAIMER: We ‘are not’ advocating for rain on game days.)

(RECLAIMER II: We ‘are’ advocating for rain during the gay pride parade.)

Palin/Warren 2012

By Jay Kookman, self-appointed Conservative shrink (Mad As Zell)

November 16, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Oh, I get it, Jay. Your on this divide and conquer thing when it comes to Republicans and Conservatism. Oh yeah, now that Jay Bookman has become the unofficial shrink of the right, Conservatives will be logging on and better yet, flying into Atlanta by the thousands to get “useful” advice on how to save Conservatism and RIGHT the Republican Party from a self-described “moderate” like Jay Bookman. Jay’s plan is to have so many conservatives line up for his “expert” political psychological advice that he has to get a couch and start making appointments. All out of the kindness of his little “moderate” heart, since Jay “loves” Republicans so, so, so, so much.

By "The Corporal"

November 16, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

We conservative Republicans will work very hard to again become a:

Super Majority

If that fails a Majority

If that fails a strong influence

If that fails a thorn in your side

If that fails then, and only then, will we become what should have been because at that point the United States will be what should have been.

Deo Vindice

By It's Really That Simple

November 16, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

Campaign Finance Reform didn’t restrict the other national and local races. The GOP lost elections at ALL levels, not just the Presidency. So do we need to blame George Soros and campaign funding for the GOP getting its collective butt handed to them, or do we blame the American voters who are sick and tired of a party that represents lobbyists, corporations, and Wall Street instead of the voters?

The answer is really that simple….

By GTJohn

November 16, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Obama could be the last President this country has and that is not meant in a good way. I personally think we need a couple of people similar to Sarah to actually clean up Washington as well as Wall St, big business and unions. It is all corrupt and no longer fixable. We have 10 simple rules to live by but for some reason we can’t seem to understand that and now we see the consequences. McCain is no more of a Republican than Hillary and that is why he was not elected.

By Jay hearts the GOP (Mad As Zell)

November 16, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Corporal @ 2:01 pm: We’re going to be more than a thorn in the side of Marxist Demockrats. In 2012, the GOP will be a chainsaw to the face of liberals and put socialism to rest on these shores once and for all. Four years of The Ayatollah and his insistence of forcing leftist facist-marxist policies down the throats of the American People will send 90% of Americans running to the right for cover!

Palin/Jindal ‘12

By Abomi Nation

November 16, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

I think some of you “conservatives” are overreacting.

Jay has shown absolutely no malice towards Republicans. Its kinda like that “love the sinner, hate the sin” mantra the moral Republicans like to use.

Jay, in the words of that great Republican Guckert/Gannon from Talon News, how are you going to work – you’ve said you are going to reach out to these Republicans – how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

By @@

November 16, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

An interesting look at America.

Left of center?

By GodHatesTrash

November 16, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

DeMint speaks the concerns of many in the GOP:

Chatter among white supremacists on the Internet has increased throughout the campaign and since Election Day.

One of the most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members the day after the election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an AP count. The site, stormfront.org, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of the overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day. On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, “I want the SOB laid out in a box to see how ‘messiahs’ come to rest. God has abandoned us, this country is doomed.”

Cranky cranky.

It is not surprising that a black president would galvanize the white supremacist movement, said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who studies the white supremacy movement.

“The overwhelming flavor of the white supremacist world is a mix of desperation, confusion and hoping

Sounds like Bookman’s rightwingnuts!

that this will somehow turn into a good thing for them,” Potok said. He said hate groups have been on the rise in the past seven years because of a common concern about immigration.

By Jay hearts the GOP (Mad As Zell)

November 16, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Abomi Nation @ 2:23 pm: Jay Kookman is fooling no one. Every since The Ayatollah supposedly “won” the election (see ACORN), Jay and the staff of the Al-Jazeera Constitution have been doing cartwheels and acrobatic backflips through the halls and up and down the streets of Downtown Atlanta (save for Jim Wooten, who the AJC only keeps around as both a punching bag and whipping boy token conservative to make the lefties feel good about themselves and their out-of-touch brand of socialism). Jay and the rest of the lefties are so giddy right now that they can’t even attempt to contain their glee. Jay is just writing these “Conservative self-help” articles under the guise of a “caring moderate” as a way to kick Conservatives while were supposedly down. What Jay and the staff really do is put on their liberal cheerleading outfits and cheer on the demise of everything traditional and conservative, but looks can be deceiving especially when voter fraud is accounted for because we all know that most honest-to-God, hardworking real down-to-earth Americans are not that brainless enough to vote for a hard-core rabid marxist like The Ayatollah! Register enough brainless idiots and anyone, even Bookman could “win” an election. After four years of brainless socialism, the GOP will be back with a vengeance and a mandate because America is a Conservative nation with values at its core and always will be. The Demoncraps just got lucky this time around and found a way to steal this election to install their dream marxist, The Ayatollah.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

We believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventive medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs must be developed to give all Black and oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide our selves with proper medical attention and care.

Black Panthers^^, showing their concern for white health.

Shall we go down this road, Trash?

By GodHatesTrash

November 16, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Poor @@. If only ground could vote, McCain would have won.

But it doesn’t work that way.

By How to undress before bathing (Had to Tell)

November 16, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

It’s not McCain’s fault that he’s a moderate. If the Republicans didn’t want a moderate to vote for, then they should have picked someone else. Maybe they should have put Palin at the top of the ticket. Then again, maybe they needed a little more diversity than what she brought to the table. That’s it. The Republican party needs to diversify their gene pool. They need to get a black person on their ticket in 2012. That’ll do it. Better yet, they could get a black female on the ticket. Now that’s a winning ticket for sure. Now, who to pick. Hmmmmm. Someone that’s educated, conservative, experienced in dealing with other countries, female, black — no one is coming to mind yet. Think. Think, man, think. There’s just got to be someone.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Every since The Ayatollah supposedly “won” the election (see ACORN)

could you explain this, please?

exactly what nefarious actions by ACORN, in your view, gave the election to Obama?

ACORN registered both Democratic and Republican voters.

Questionable registrations were flagged, and reported to the Dept. of Justice.

One thing that may help you guys on your road to recovery is to stop repeating and making up urban legions.

Perhaps you should start dealing with reality?

By "The Corporal"

November 16, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Did anyone who watched the Greta/Governor Palin interview notice the big black moose light switch on her kitchen wall? That is going to look so cool in the White House someday.

By Jay hearts the GOP (Mad As Zell)

November 16, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash @ 2:51 pm:

So in your warped leftist brain, anyone who disagrees with the socialist policies of the Obama Administration is a racist white supremacist? How classy.

GodHatesTrash, such an appropriate name for you. Tell us, does God hate you?

By Midori

November 16, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

oops - that’s urban legends

By Abomi Nation

November 16, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Sen Vitter(R) asks “Why change?”

Larry “The Plumber” Craig/ Rev “The Plumber” Haggard- 2012

(For those that speak Republican, “Tap ‘Tappity’ TapTap / Rev ‘Tappity’ Tattap- 2012.”)

” Tappy Canoe and Haggard too.”….’12

…Meanwhile, Mad as Zell asks Sen Vitter (R) “Pampers or Huggies?”

By GodHatesTrash

November 16, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Black Panthers are just some of the many vewwwy scawwwy bogeymen that the cowardly and craven rightwingnuts think are hiding outside their windows…

Boo!

By How to tell a liberal is lying: their lips are moving! (Mad As Zell)

November 16, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Midori @ 3:03 pm:

I doubt that ACORN registered that many Republicans (especially 73 times, like some democrat voters were registered), needless to say not many Republicans named “Minnie Mouse” probably were registered to vote thru ACORN. ACORN is just but one example of how Democrats perpetrated fraud and dirty tricks to steal this election. The Democrats were out registering every homeless bum, drug addict, convicted felon and vagabond on the face of the earth and YOU know it.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

The Democrats were out registering every homeless bum, drug addict, convicted felon and vagabond on the face of the earth and YOU know it.

so, all of these homeless bums, drug addicts, convicted felons and vagabonds on the face of the Earth showed up on Election Day, identification in hand, and voted for Obama?

ooooooooooooooook!!!

you know, you just might want to alert the Justice Department of your theory.

These days we could all use a good laugh.

ACORN is just but one example of how Democrats perpetrated fraud and dirty tricks to steal this election

The only fraud and dirty tricks I’ve read about were instigated and perpetrated by Republicans.

By How to tell that a liberal is lying: their lips are moving! (Mad As Zell)

November 16, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Midori @ 3:31 pm: You think that anyone who disagrees with liberals is up to “dirty tricks”

By Midori

November 16, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

no, Zell — you are wrong again.

I think Republicans who did these things are up to “dirty tricks”

By "The Corporal"

November 16, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

The difference between conservatives (notice I didn’t say Republicans) and liberals is easy:

Economy: work vs. get

Taxes: increase vs. decrease

Security: strong vs. weak

Morality: more vs. less

Education: teaching vs. indoctrination

Freedom: real vs. imagined

The list is endleess ……………..

By Abomi Nation

November 16, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

I think it was the conservative bloggers who lost the election for the Republicans. They were over-matched. Its pretty obvious.

Back in October, just as Americans started paying attention, McCain’s numbers started to drop. The Ayers nonsense was the beginning of the downfall. Conservative bloggers were being manipulated badly. The bloggers became more outrageous with their ‘stories’ than Joe “Israel” The Plumber. Way more.

As October passed Republican bloggers started freaking out even more. At the same time progressive and liberal bloggers seemed far more mature and composed, and yes much smarter.

“Obama will be our last ever President, not good” blogged one hysterical Republican blogger after another” “He’s a socialist” they would ALL chime in at the exact same time. “He hates America.”

Yep, the conservative blogger proved to the American people that the Republicans have no ideas, and suffer from short term memory loss. I think they call it Mass Stupity Syndrome, it really starts to snowball.

Guess what everyone? “I hear Obama has Restless Foot Syndrome,” they blog. “How can we trust a President that has Restless Foot Syndrome,” they demand!

It was probably a conservative Blogger that suggested we lengthen day light savings time a couple years ago. Remember that, the last big policy idea from the Republicans, unless of course you count “He’s a commie.”

America witnessed the conservative blogger freak-out and took a pass.

Blog on conservatives. Blog on.

By TW

November 16, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

The volume on the rightwing bwa is deafening.

It’s real, real simple. What did they offer the American people?

Nothing.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday the House would provide aid to the ailing U.S. auto industry, requiring that the industry meet new fuel-efficiency standards, produce advanced vehicles and restructure “to ensure their long-term economic viability.”

More of the same failed nonsense.

Pelosi, D-Calif., did not disclose the amount of funding House leaders intend to seek for the industry-Yahoo

And we don’t even know the sick part yet.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Corporal,

you left out one crucial difference: lack of taste

Liberals would NEVER decorate a room with a tacky moose head. Got to be a conservative thing, huh?

By Midori

November 16, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

a gift for Mad As Zell

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

So what explained the anomaly? GISS’s computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious “hockey stick” graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new “hotspot” in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.

Ahahahahahah, busted.

NASA has been lying about rising temperatures so they could whine about “global warming.”

This is the second time they’ve been caught, who knows how many others there are.

Is it physically possible for a lib to open their mouths without a lie emerging from it?

By swolf

November 16, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Boy all these Republi-nuts are gonna be SOOO disappointed if Obama does turn out to be a great President….

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Aahhh, yes, and here I thought the Magnificence of thee Boy Wonder would “save” us all-

By looking at what we know about how society and commerce would slow down, and how people respond, it’s possible to envision what we might face. Unlike the 1930s, when food and clothing were far more expensive, today we spend much of our money on healthcare, child care, and education, and we’d see uncomfortable changes in those parts of our lives. The lines wouldn’t be outside soup kitchens but at emergency rooms, and rather than itinerant farmers we could see waves of laid-off office workers leaving homes to foreclosure and heading for areas of the country where there’s more work - or just a relative with a free room over the garage. Already hollowed-out manufacturing cities could be all but deserted, and suburban neighborhoods left checkerboarded, with abandoned houses next to overcrowded ones.-Boston.Com

Even the libs know what’s coming and it’s not like they didn’t tell you, so don’t be racist about it.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Enter Palin, who was embraced with a bear hug by the party’s conservative base. All of a sudden, cultural conservatives were thrilled at the chance to put “one of their own” in the White House. In fact, of the 60 percent of voters who told exit pollsters that McCain’s choice of Palin was a “factor” in their final decision, the Arizona senator won 56 percent to 43 percent.-Washington Post

And that coming in spite of the biggest slobbering goony attack kkkampaign against her in all of recorded history.

You go girl!

By soothsayer

November 16, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

In a perfect world we would be offered a candidate that would embrace the best positions from all sides of the political spectrum. Unfortunately, in this election, we were offered two candidates which had to cowtow to the worst constituents of their respective “sides”. Obama is now beholding to the far left and to the labor unions. He got huge quantities of money, both legal and illegal, from them. When power is bought with money, ultimately, when elected, the candidate is placed into a weakened position. The best we can now hope for is that Mr. Obama will lead and will be willing to buck his own party, even if his political capital is jeopardized. That is the defintion of a leader. If he follows lockstep with whatever Pelosi, Read and the Unions tell him, we are in trouble. And so will he be in 4 years.

By AmVet

November 16, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Jim DeMint, the ultra -winger believes McCain is the problem with the GOP???

John Birch was probably too liberal for him.

And to be fair the man the National Journal rates as the most “conservative” has also proposed some good legislation. But given the nation’s overwhelming distaste for Republican religioushysters in the past two elections, he appears to be one of the least logical to advise them on turning the Titanic around.

He believes openly gay individuals and single mothers should not teach in public schools.

He favors banning all forms of abortion.

He strongly endorsed Romney.

He strongly supports allowing school prayer and has introduced legislation that would allow schools to display banners reading God Bless America.

The man is a poster child for Ike’s 2102 campaign…

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

And yet, there is surprisingly little indication, from the results of either the 2006 election or this one, that the low repute in which the GOP is held translates into broad support for the Democratic party. According to the website Pollster.com, the approval rating of the Democrat-controlled Congress fell from 27 percent on election day 2006 to 15 percent just before election day 2008, a drop of 44 percent. And while, as we have seen, the GOP’s partisan identification numbers tumbled by five points, or 13 percent, between 2004 and 2008, Democratic partisan identification rose by only two points, or 5 percent.1 In other words, voters who ceased being Republicans outnumbered voters who became Democrats by two-and-a-half to one.

The national exit poll on November 4, whose raw data skewed wildly in favor of Obama voters,3 still showed self-described conservatives outnumbering self-described liberals by 12 percentage points.-Commentary

Imagine that, Conservatives outnumbering liberals.

Too bad we didn’t run a Conservative for president, know what I mean?

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

A whopping 91 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of her, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, and she is the runaway favorite when they are asked to rank possible contenders for the party’s 2012 presidential nominee.

Elsewhere, however, the savaging of Palin continues. In The New York Times, Maureen Dowd devotes yet another column to bashing Alaska’s governor (“a shopaholic whack-job diva”). The popular Washington blog Wonkette, characteristically crude, pronounces her “human garbage.” At TheAtlantic.com, an obsessed Andrew Sullivan calls her “deluded and delusional … clinically unhinged” and describes her as a nitwit with “the educational level of a high school dropout” who “regards ignorance as some kind of achievement.”

I think we found our candidate!

I suspect that the loathing of Palin by so much of the opinion elite is driven not by contempt for her brainpower but by fear of her political potential. She is cheerful and charismatic, an unabashed and likable conservative who generates extraordinary grassroots enthusiasm.-Boston.Com

Uh, you reckon?

By GOP is gone

November 16, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

The only way that Palin broad will ever live in the White House is if she paints her cabin up in Wasilla white or buys an igloo,

By Van

November 16, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management,

Why don’t you take some initiative and get a web domain and start your own political blog rather than spending all your time leaching off Bookman’s?

I have never in my life seen anyone with so much disposable time as to spend hours upon hours copying and pasting to an obscure political column blog.

Really, man up and go do something useful with your life.

By GodHatesTrash

November 16, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Please, please Br’er Fox, don’t run Gobernoor Palin in 2012!

By GOP is gone

November 16, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

Van,

His mom might object to the use of her credit card and kick him out of the baasement.

By Roqad Scholar

November 16, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC: The quote of the day from your attack of verbal diareha is “Now I’m curious, what Conservative could possibly be stupid enough to take advice ..”. You know it all, regardless of the subject. Why do you subject yourself (and all others) to the pain and anger you have for all people who may not agree with your views? Why do you continue to post your venom to people who do not adopt your views?

Keep doing the things you are doing, repeating any action right or wrong. Don’t listen to advice; don’t change your perspectives. (Sounds like Bush) Yes there are more conservatives than the far left, but when compared to your distorted opinions, most conservatives are to your left in the middle, something you, McCain and Palin fail to grasp.

McCain lost due to an ever changing message, poor organizational skills, and surrounding himself with people he didn’t truley believe in.

Did you notice how the Republican Governors critiqued the election and the results and ignored Palin recently? Or were you wallowing in self pity and anger that blinds you from seeing another point of view? Others are correct, your existence on the blogs should not be acknowledged.

GTJohn: I liked your quote:”We have 10 simple rules to live by but for some reason we can’t seem to understand..” or remember what they are!

By DB, Gwinnettian

November 16, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

GOP is gone @ 5.12, it cost nothing to start a political blog on Blogger. com, so parental credit-card oversight issues for “AJC/DNC management” ought to be moot.

Presumably, the sort of person who would insult a host with every post (which is what this troll does every time he insinuates that Mr. Bookman’s employer is in league with the Democratic National Committee) is more interested in irritation than in enlightenment.

Such individuals are best left alone, difficult as it may be at times.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Van: Why don’t you try something besides whining about everything?

You know, “change” we could count on?

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

Dear whiny little personal attacking liberals- Do, when you get an opportunity, look up at the subject of this discussion blog^^ and then reread the majority of my posts which offer a counter argument to said subject.

I know that you have no idea of this concept, civil debate, discussion of ideas and the calm, thoughtful presentation of your views of the issues, but do try to refrain from whining about me so much, if you could.

The week before the election, the Obama campaign ran a television commercial attacking the Republican candidate for vice president. To my knowledge, this had never been done before.

In a Rasmussen poll taken the day before the election, 71 percent of Republicans said Ms. Palin was the right choice for vice president, but only 65 percent said Mr. McCain was the right choice for president.-Post Gazette

I’ve articulated these views of this author myself many, many times and bringing the facts into the discussion only furthers it.

So go cry yourselves to sleep, if you must.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Van,

that is one of the all time quanderies of the Universe.

It just doesn’t make sense.

By Taxpayer

November 16, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

By AJC/DNC Management November 16, 2008 5:25 PM

Van: Why don’t you try something besides whining about everything?

You know, “change” we could count on?

Jay, you have to admit that this one coming from Andy is Hall of Fame material. Come on Jay. Make a special list of classic posts along with an explanation of what makes each so “special”. Besides, I’ll bet Andy would love you forever for the extra attention even though it is hard to imagine him loving you more than he already does.

By Soixante huitard

November 16, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

After this year’s (and ‘04’s) trouncing it’s clear:

There is no longer enough meat in the idea of ‘conservative’ ‘to carry a major party in the American political system.

Conservative is no more than a faction and any claim to the contrary should not be taken seriously.

Conservative is a distant, wispy notion and as a viable plan and political programme — essentially vacant.

By AmVet

November 16, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Amnesty for illegals?

Everyone remembers the firestorm of grassroots opposition to McCain’s support for the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.

(Introduced by Sen. Arlen Specter [PA]. Co-sponsors, who signed on the same day, were Sen. Hagel [NE], Sen. Martinez [FL], Sen. McCain [AZ], Sen. Kennedy [MA], Sen. Graham [SC], and Sen. Brownback [KS].)

What a diverse group!

I thought it was one of a very few positions that the RINO and the President supported, that made some sense.

And we know how that turned out.

The GOP leadership completely backed down and gave into their dwindling, xenophobic base.

The proposal was very complex, and there was MUCH controversy. But it did have many pragmatic aspects to it. One interesting provision - Makes it unlawful to knowingly hire, recruit, or refer for a fee an unauthorized alien.

Hmmmm. Are they implying a very large number of American businesses actually look the other way and hire illegal aliens, so they can pay them less than citizens and/or pay no taxes?

But calling that bill amnesty is deceitful. And the oft-repeated but totally false dominion of the uninformed, the unthinking and the unhinged.

And their parrots…

By Soixante huitard

November 16, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

I know that you have no idea of this concept, civil debate

We’re its inventors.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

I’d like to know how calling names, slinging mud and promoting vicious lies translates into discussion of ideas and the calm, thoughtful presentation of views of the issues.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

i r o diM: Your next post that doesn’t attack someone will be your first post that doesn’t attack someone.

~~~~~

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we wingnuts call insane:

The upsetting news for our imaginary jihadist is the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. This wasn’t supposed to happen, in al-Qaeda’s playbook. Their aim was to draw the “far enemy” (meaning America) ever deeper onto the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“Even in the Arab world, Obama is very popular,” explains Jean-Pierre Filiu, a French scholar of Islam. “The global jihadists leaned toward McCain because they hoped the confrontation would get worse.”

In other words, surrender is good.

Well, maybe not-

So here’s the challenge for Obama: Seize the moment; “turn a page,” and thereby transform the intellectual battlefield; keep the military pressure on al-Qaeda’s hard core, but discard the “war on terrorism” rhetoric; remind the world that al-Qaeda’s victims have been overwhelmingly Muslim, and that its brutal jihad has brought only ruin.-David Ignatious, WaPo.

In other, other words, keep doing exactly what Bushie is doing, except call it something different.

Yeah, “change” you can count on, unless, of course, you are a Code Pinko.

bwa

By TN Gelding

November 16, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

McCain lost because of his demeanor.

He probably would have lost anyway, but it could have been closer.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

Jay

I’m real sick of Andy calling me names, and I request that you say something to him about civility

Andy — If I have to post that 1000 times I will.

Until you stop it.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

i r o diM: How do you know I’m addressing this post to you?

Are you just assuming?

Who am I talking to anyway?

By @@

November 16, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this

GHT:

Poor @@. If only ground could vote

Groundswells do. A tsunami of ACORNS took this round, but the map shows……

we can force you into the Pacific, Canada, the Gulf, the Great Lakes, the Atlantic and the North Atlantic.

Everywhere else? We’ve got you surrounded.

Prepare yourself for the Republican Revolt.

Now ‘scuse me while I go hold my head over a eucalyptus vapor. Aahhplszzzzttttt!!!!

By @@

November 16, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

O-:MG!

Jay

I’m real sick of Andy calling me names, and I request that you say something to him about civility

Is this a joke?

By Soixante huitard

November 16, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this

Watching Obama right now on 60 Minutes.

Wow.

I’m even more impressed with this man that I was when I punched the ballot for him.

Just think: One of the proudest moments yet in this nation’s history — and we’re living in it.

By Dusty

November 16, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this

Soixie,7:55

Obama makes a nice speech, no doubt about it. But, if you don’t mind, would we withold the great moments action until we see how his presidency goes. Right now, it looks like it is going to be a Clinton repeat. Not a happy thought.

60 minutes gets a little sugary here at the last, with the “you’re so great!” …”NOooooo, you’re the greatest!!” with Michelle and Obama. Now it is mother-in-law talk with grins. Now it is a long speech about football. I hope we don’t subsidize Football!! Anyway it was a pleasant chat (as it was supposed to be) and next we will have pictures of the smallest little daughter crawling under the desk in the Oval Office (a la Caroline Kennedy). Yes, enjoy the sweet and light days. The REAL time is yet to come.

By BDAtlanta

November 16, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Mgmt is like the little yappy dog that yaps on and on and on and on and on and on and on

and on and on and…

By Soixante huitard

November 16, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this

You’re right Dusty.

But, if you don’t mind, would we withold the great moments action until we see how his presidency goes.

100% fair. I only speak as someone who supported him — for those who doubt, they have every right to be less enthralled. The proof will be in the proverbial pudding.

Right now, it looks like it is going to be a Clinton repeat.

Lots of truth to that. For some that’s good, for others it’s nothing to jump and shout about (which, don’t forget, includes a few folks on the left).

But as Obama pointed out, this is a unique historical moment. Any attempt to simply replicate anybody who’s come before - whether FDR, Reagan, or Clinton — is likely to be crushed to bits. Obama has to find a response that fits the conditions of today, borrowing from those names at times if it helps, otherwise he’ll fail.

By GAinTX

November 16, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

Every (sic) since The Ayatollah supposedly “won” the election (see ACORN),

So…you’re suggesting that ACORN, the group that reported itself for the registration activities of its own employees, somehow masterminded and manufactured an 8 million/7% vote deficit…

It’s truly amazing…I always knew that far-right wing zealots could perform mental gymnastics worthy of the ‘84 Olympic team to rationalize their persecution complex, but I had NO idea that you were so…well…simple-minded.

But then, what do we expect out of people who suggest that someone can be both a facist and a communist at the same time…College education in political science and economics FTW!

Let’s not even get into the almost overwhelming lack of education and rational thought that would lead you to continually refer to Obama (and any other progressive) as a Socialist, a Marxist, an Ayatollah, etc. etc. etc.

Looks like we skipped all the classes in college - assuming you even got that far, and just learned to call people names without substance.

By getalife

November 16, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

You betcha dusty.

At least they did not attack him like rush.

“And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents
and military equipment to Saddam Hussein, and why? Because Saddam allegedly gassed a
few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a
war criminal or commiting crimes against humanity is the same old thing - liberal hate speech.
And speaking of poision gas, I say we round up all the drug addicts and gas them.” — Rush Limbaugh, November 3, 1988

Dude.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

I have been called on my behavior in the past, and I am committed to keeping with the rules of this blog.

And I have every right to request that others be held to those rules as well.

Andy - that you can’t make a simple argument or comment without first resorting to childish name calling speaks volumes about your lack of basic communication and vocabulary skills.

I feel sorry for you.

By Dusty

November 16, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

Yes, Soixie,

It is a unique moment. Actually, every new president is a unique “moment” because everyone is different. But you refer to race, of course. And, if for no other reason, I hope he will be a credit to the country and to those who feel he represents them uniquely.

I would like to feel that no president is so unique that he favors only his likeness (Hitler, of course). Obama shows no such signs and I would hope that you would not either.

But Obama’s lack of experience and his former friends and his extravagances worry me. Did you notice on 60 minutes when asked where the money would come from to pay off the hard hit auto industry, Obama said it was more important to support them than it was to worry about the money.

Yes, I know we are WAY in debt already but HE IS SUPPOSED TO BRING CHANGE. That’s CHANGE?? So you see, I worry!!

By Dusty

November 16, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Don’t quote Rush Limbaugh to me. I have never listened to him. He means nothing to me. Obviously, a lot to you.

By the way, 60 minutes only “attacks” Republicans. I thought you knew that. I don’t watch them too often either. Andy Rooney is the only one with some sense.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

I ran across that quote from Rush today.

Amazing, isn’t it?

By TN Gelding

November 16, 2008 9:13 PM | Link to this

Dusty

November 16, 2008 8:28 PM

A combination of the Kennedy and Clinton years.

Camelot and Hope, Arkansas, with a little Chicago ward politics.

Happy days are indeed here again!

He’ll need a lot of Solomon and Job mixed in as well. Not to mention magic and luck.

By getalife

November 16, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this

Midori,

rush is always dead wrong but what is amazing is Americans actually believe what that drug addict spews.

The Secret Service will end up telling him to STFU.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 16, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this

By Midori November 16, 2008 8:55 PM I feel sorry for you.

i r o diM: Oh, now you’ve gone and did it.

I think I’m going to cry.

Wait a minute, no I’m not.

By Soixante huitard

November 16, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

Dusty: But you refer to race, of course.

Not at all! I meant that in terms of the economic challenges we face.

You say: But Obama’s lack of experience and his former friends and his extravagances worry me. Did you notice on 60 minutes when asked where the money would come from….?

The lack of experience is an issue — but I think his studiousness and articulateness in speaking about the challenges we face mitigate that fear somewhat. But I realize that’s because I am generally sympathetic with him. If you’re not - well you have the right to your skepticism.

We’ll see what happens when the rubber hits the road.

As to his vagueness on the auto industry crisis — how can he not be a bit vague. No one has a solution to it yet - by definition, it’s a crisis. The important thing is he showed a sense of what’s at stake:

Obama: For the auto industry to completely collapse would be a disaster in this kind of environment, not just for individual families but the repercussions across the economy would be dire. So it’s my belief that we need to provide assistance to the auto industry. But I think that it can’t be a blank check.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

one of these days, Getalife.

One of these days.

And many of us will relish the silence.

By Midori

November 16, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

with each of your posts growing more angry and childish, the sorrier I feel for you.

By Greg Mendel

November 16, 2008 10:20 PM | Link to this

Nitpicking over what kind of “change” Obama will bring is pointless. “Change” came early. It occurred throughout October — brought to us by the inattention of the current administration. The Bushies never anticipated or reacted to the Iraqi insurgency, or the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. It’s no surprise that they dozed through the symptoms and alarms of the financial meltdown.

“Change” isn’t the theme anymore, and it wasn’t on November 4. The operative word is “rescue.” Rescue from the “change wrought by George Bush. Obama will be a miracle worker if he can even keep the nation afloat.

Regardless, George Bush will leave office as the political twin of O. J. Simpson. Everybody knows Simpson murdered his ex-wife, but he was never officially nailed for it in criminal court. Bush was never impeached, so his tiny band of sycophants pretend to look for the “real killer” of the economy.

By U.S. VETERANS FOR MARTIN

November 16, 2008 10:43 PM | Link to this

SAXBY must be DEFEATED to protect our country.

By Dale Gribble's GOP

November 16, 2008 11:52 PM | Link to this

Management,

In a previous post I suggested you get a dog. On behalf of all dogs everywhere I withdraw the suggestion. You are truly awful.

Ick!

Yours truly, Dale

By AJC/DNC Management

November 17, 2008 5:26 AM | Link to this

The government will do “whatever it takes” to revive the economy, Oblami said.-60 minutes

In other words, he has no plan.

We really are gonna just “hope.”

That means we shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after,'' he said, adding that in the short term,the most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession.”

Government spending a.k.a. Bushie, great.

“Changing” the names of the failed Bush economic policies and then put them to work.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 17, 2008 5:30 AM | Link to this

An American hero:

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, Repug, said Saturday that Congress was not told the truth about the bailout of the nation’s financial system and should take back what is left of the $700 billion “blank check” it gave the Bush administration.-Tulsa World.

So let’s get it back.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 17, 2008 5:36 AM | Link to this

I know liberals aren’t that smart but do they really believe that oil producers would fill in the Grand Canyon so they can drill in it, like the Urinal makes it seem?

Drilling into U.S. landmarks? Oil, gas industry: Bush administration puts parcels in national parks up for sale.

Scare mongering on behalf of environmental terrorists.

By drew

November 17, 2008 5:56 AM | Link to this

Damn, Jay…you toss out some good advice to the losers and they act as if you p** on ‘em. And it just tickles me to death to hear them talkin bout Palin 2012. BWAH!! They just don’t get it.

By Pat

November 17, 2008 7:29 AM | Link to this

Hey, AJC/DNC Management, the Colonel and crew - Most of us won’t say this to you, but: Oh please, pretty please, keep right on getting more and more conservative, more and more right-wing. We’d beg, but it’s unbecoming. Much easier to let you follow your own inclinations into political oblivion. Thanks.

By G

November 17, 2008 7:37 AM | Link to this

I’m still waiting for McCain to be arrested and prosecuted for claiming to know the whereabouts and the means to get bin Laden all these years, and not sharing the knowledge.

McCain is very much a criminal, and extremely cruel and heartless.

By Copyleft

November 17, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this

You’ve touched a nerve, Jay. Nothing gets the far-right ideologues raving and screeching like the suggestion that the GOP is losing elections because they’re still listening to the nuts of the whacko right.

Their tiny little minds can’t process such a thing. They’re convinced, in their black little shriveled hearts, that all of America is just like them—desperate for a chance to vote in “true fascist-I-mean-conservative values”, and forced to stay home from the polls wheneveer a moderate is nominated.

“Silent majority,” anyone? (snicker)

Keep up the good work, Mr. Bookman!