Are you on the Tea Party Sucker List?
This article from the Washington Times (I know!) is a must-read!:
The pattern indicates the presence of valuable “sucker lists” containing broad swaths of tea party donors, many of whom eschew the party establishment and are new to politics, who will respond to generic attacks on liberals without careful scrutiny of where their money is going. Those lists then are rented at great expense.
It details fund raising among many rightwing groups, and goes over some of what we already knew, that many of the rightwing groups do nothing but fund themselves and donate nothing to candidates or causes. But the rise of the Tea Party has given rise to a whole new class of suckers, born much more often than once a minute. Several of my fake online personas have become put on some of these lists, even though my fake personas don’t donate anything. I’ll have a Teabagger MLM update as soon as I get enough free time to type it all up. Expect things to ramp up even more as we enter 2012 and election fever!
Categories: #astroturf, #culturewar, #elections Tags: Fund Raising, Wingnut Welfare
Herman Cain PAC keeps it classy…
In the same breath that conservatives wonder why accusers don’t come forward more, they call them vile names like below:
Categories: #culturewar, #elections Tags: 2012, Herman Cain
Now is the time for action!
I so hope he’s the nominee.
Categories: #elections Tags: 2012, Herman Cain
Hahn’s Homeboyz
Nothing I say will be as ridiculous as this ad from Turn Right USA for CA-36, described as Willie Horton on Steroids. Don’t forget to visit the accompanying website Hahn’s Homeboyz.org
CA-36 features Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn (D) against Teabagger businessman Craig Huey.
Categories: #culturewar, #elections, #shameful Tags: CA-36, California, Craig Huey, Hahn's Homeboys, Janice Hahn, Teabaggers, Turn Right USA
Categories: #culturewar, #elections Tags: Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, South Carolina
Yada yada yada election results
So things turned out rather mixed-to-bad on Tuesday. The Republicans sweeped into the House, while control of the senate remains in Democratic hands thanks to some awful, awful candidates fronted by the teabaggers. Granted, a few teabagger senators did get elected (Rubio and Paul). We survived eight years under the Bush regime, we can survive two years of Speaker Boner and the No Squad doing nothing. Expect subpoenas on all sorts of things to waste our time and money, including the Black Panthers, ACORN, and Obama being a secret Kenyan Muslim. The best news of the night was the passage of Prop B in Missouri. That was the Puppy Mill Prop, which you may recall meant some puppy mill owners were posting in the comments here not too happy. I bet they are even less happy now, but the puppies win, and Politisink will always support protecting puppies from the forces of evil. A bold stance to take, I know.
But Politisink will still be here to go over the crazy things rightwing idiots do, teabagger craziness, and general awfulness of conservatives, because there’s gonna be a whole lot more of it! And soon he 2012 election season will begin, with Sarah Palin going to run until she fails badly and then quits again. And I think that awful governor from Mississippi wants to run for president, which will also be fun when he starts burning crosses. Let’s not forget that this was only a warmup with corporate cash going into political funding, by 2012 the process will be perfected and you will never see a non-political commercial on tv again.
The face of victory!
Categories: #elections Tags: War on Puppies
It wasn’t a Republican victory
Pro Publica has a good story on how the “Blue Dogs” got slaughtered last night. 22 of them lost re-election and there’s good reason to believe that it says more about them than it does about their opposition. That accounts for a third of the Republican gains.
The NYT editorial on this is far less terrible than I would have expected:
Voters in Tuesday’s elections sent President Obama a loud message: They don’t like how he’s doing his job, they’re even angrier at Congressional Democrats and they gave the House back to the Republicans. The Republicans spent months fanning Americans’ anger over the economy and fear of “big government,” while offering few ideas of their own. Exit polls indicated that they had succeeded in turning out their base, and that the Democrats had failed to rally their own.
Americans who voted described themselves as far more conservative than they did in 2006 and 2008 — and than the population as a whole. More than 4 in 10 said that they supported the Tea Party movement. But more than half of the voters said they have an unfavorable view of the Republican Party.
So we have some acknowledgment there’s a little more going on than Red Team vs. Blue Team. Thomas Ferguson and Jie Chen did an analysis of the first “victory” in Massachusetts that predicted what would happen last night pretty well. The following chart plots towns towns by median income on the x axis and decline in voter turnout between 2004 and 2006 (green dots) and between 2008 and 2010 (blue dots).
You can see that turnout in poorer towns declined much more in both periods, but to an even greater degree in in 2008-2010. So we have a one-sided drop in turnout resulting from less than inspiring leadership rather than a “shift” towards Republicans.
Ferguson and Chen concluded:
Quite like a hurricane, this tempest has a clear dual structure. Our study suggests that in the eye of the storm – the old Democratic base – an ominous, unnatural calm is settling in that displaces the near-millenarian enthusiasm of 2008. We have seen how the surge in overall voter turnout in the 2010 Senate race disguised a drop in turnout in lower income towns that previously voted heavily Democratic. Recalling one more time the problems with inferences from aggregate data, we think it is safe to conclude that our data are consistent with the claim put forward by the Democratic campaign’s chief pollster, that Obama administration’s unwillingness to face down the banks and slowness in dealing with the recession have demoralized and outraged the party’s electoral base. The disconnect between these disaffected Democrats and the administration and party leaders looks to be deep.
Not a very pretty picture, but at least Gil Scott Heron understands:
Categories: #elections Tags: american democracy, blue dogs, gil scott heron
We’re all suffering from a bit of election burnout!
But the good news is that it’ll all be over tomorrow*! Please go to your local polling place on November 2nd and vote in your local elections.
**Potential election results include: tight races reporting ‘too close to call’ spin out of control into burgeoning year-long recounts, Sarah Palin announces her bid for the presidency after Sharron Angle, Marco Rubio, Joe Miller, Rand Paul, and other Tea Party-backed candidates win in their respective races (and thus officially begins the longest presidential campaign in history), Andrew Breitbart getting so angry he throws a chair during his election night coverage gig social media participatory role on ABC, Tea Party poll watchers are rushed to the hospital by the dozens as activists try to paint themselves the victims of ‘voter intimidation’, and CNN’s Election Matrix 2010 become sentient and millions of viewers are horrified by the evening’s coverage (and Roland Martin’s choice of ascot).
Good luck politicians!
Categories: #elections Tags:
Drain Clogs – 10-29-2010
- So the curbstomper guy is Tim Profitt, a (now former) Bourbon County coordinator for Rand Paul. He went on camera (hiding his face) demanding an apology from the girl whose head he stomped on! In order to respect Profitt’s wishes to hide his face, don’t look at this photo of him I’m posting:
Here is his video demanding an apology from his assault victim:
- Between Tim Profitt’s curb stomping, Joe Miller’s goons “arresting” a journalist, a Democrat getting arrested at an Eric Cantor event, and a man assaulting another young lady in Washington named Christie Stordeur over her protesting Rossi’s senate bid, Teabag America looks to be a land where goon squads run free to beat and arrest whoever and whatever they want.
- No, there was not thousands of black Confederate soldiers.
- Millionaire Terry Forcht is too busy dropping tons of cash to American Crossroads to bother to fix up his nursing homes so they aren’t abusive horror houses, especially since Jack Conway is running for senate and also the guy prosecuting Terry Forcht for having such horrible nursing homes.
- A guy who makes money off of fear of Islam that also promotes fear of Islam? Capitalism wins again!
- Black people voting in your precinct? Report them with the new Voter Fraud App!
Think I was kidding about that? Read on…
- Two older white women are going around visiting elderly black voters who filled out absentee ballots and grilling them on if they had help filling out the ballots. They are NOT doing the same to elderly white absentee voters.
- A McDonald’s franchise owner in Ohio named Paul Siegfried left a note with his employee’s paychecks saying they ain’t gonna get any raises or benefits unless Republicans with the election. This is voter intimidation, so this guy is in real trouble.
- Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs, #elections Tags: Alaska, Eric Cantor, Joe Miller, Kentucky, Rand Paul, Teabaggers, Washington
Curb Stomp Teabaggers
So now the Teabaggers have moved to actually assaulting people at their rallies. In case you haven’t seen the news, some of Rand Paul’s supporters decided it would be a good idea to beat up a woman named Lauren Valle and stomp on her head at one of his rallies. Video below:
Rand Paul is taking the high role, in that he hasn’t bothered to condemn the assault and isn’t helping identify the attackers. That’s the free market teabaggers for you! From now on, make sure you wear a motorcycle helmet if you see teabaggers nearby!
Luckily, the crazy nuts on the message boards we watch will totally condemn this attack…..NOT! More like they’ll blame the victim then bring up all sorts of imaginary assaults by liberals.
First up is FreeRepublic.com:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2614612/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2614679/posts (this one is entitled “Activist stomped outside Paul-Conway debate (Suspected terrorist tries to approach Rand Paul)“)
Anyone know what the “murder” is he’s talking about?
First of all she was PAID to do this by MoveOn and secondly, they felt she was a threat to Rand.
You know, for two years now we have had to endure the violence on the left, (finger bites, beatings, and even one murder) but someone overreacts and put his shoe on her to stop her from getting up and the internet is all a twitter over it. How much can a person be pushed?
16 posted on Mon Oct 25 2010 22:21:56 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by CowHampshire (NH, Tea Party, Banking Elite, Obama, Cloward-Piven, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Taxation)
The pot should be boiling really good before this week is over!
We are as close to civil war as you can get without shooting.23 posted on Mon Oct 25 2010 22:47:18 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: tlbWhew… That thing should have had her face stomped on.
42 posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:16:14 AM by Lancey Howard
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LibLieSlayer is a truly awful human being.
Clearly a case of assault with intent… this bitch was a hit bitch from soros. I hope she suffered some sort of permanent damage.
LLS
24 posted on Tue Oct 26 2010 07:53:51 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
Would you “feel” that way if the award had been a .380 or a small 9mm semi auto? We cannot take chances and these media planted rubes need to know that our candidates are protected. Try this stunt with a group of aflcio thugs and get back to me… oh wait… there would be no you left to get back to me. I have no pity and no such regrets.
LLS27 posted on Tue Oct 26 2010 07:57:17 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
I’d have shot the b**** and been done with it.
L58 posted on Tue Oct 26 2010 09:23:12 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
Now wtc911… I made absolutely no personal or derogatory remarks about you… I just disagree with you on this article. Why is it so usual for me to get something wrong? In tens of thousands of posts that I have made, there are literally only a handful of posts where I made a mistake… and I corrected those mistakes and apologized if needed. Can’t we debate this without slipping into personal attacks? Expect none from me.
rachael corey is another one of these leftists that got what she deserved. This woman would have been flogged 200 years ago. America has grown soft… dims and al qaeda have taken notice. Some of us are not so soft… and you will need all of us one day. Mark my words.LLS
66 posted on Tue Oct 26 2010 10:28:28 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
If you go in to enemy territory next to people who are passionate enough to get out of their homes and attend a political meeting, regardless of party affiliation, expect to NOT get a warm welcome when you crash the scene.
This is not a political thing, it’s a social thing. If someone did this in a church, wedding, school, funeral, you can bet they will provoke some kind of reaction which was the woman’s intent.
If you are going to go to jail for assault, at least do it right. The woman seemed to walk away with little harm done and mission accomplished. The news is all about her and nothing about the candidate or meeting.
This will now encourage loons everywhere to try this. Next time, send her out in an ambulance and strike some fear in to the hearts and minds of potential interlopers. That would put a stop to such foolish behavior.
81 posted on Tue Oct 26 2010 10:50:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by texan75010
Here is Resistnet crazy person rel find who posted this all over Resistnet.com:
Woman who instigated the scuffle in Kentucky was from movon.org She later admitted that she was disguised-posing as a Paul supporter to get close to him and cause an incident
She was from movon.org and had a wig-disguise on.
She admitted that she was posing-faking just like all dishonest; libs-Dems-ACORN-SEIU-NOW-MALDEF-ACLU, political activists always do, to try and cheat-mislead-lie-steal for votes during election time.
She admitted that she was wearing the disguise and that she had lied about being a Paul supporter, in order to get close to him in that crowd-gathering, so that she could get right next to him and get a picture taken of her giving him some kind of mocking-satyrical award.
The woman, appearing to pose as a Paul supporter and wearing a platinum wig, was stopped from carrying out her moveon.org lib-Dem scam by Paul supporters.
The woman, Lauren Valle, told police she was with the highly politcally active liberal group MoveOn.org. She says she wanted to give Paul what appeared to be a mocking “satirical award” and have her picture taken with the candidate.
Valle said, right before it was found out to be a lib-Dem movon.org scam,
“We are excited to give Rand the employee of the month award because he has been so good at diversity and unemployment solutions,”
Valle told 27 NEWSFIRST she drove to Lexington from Washington, DC. So here we go again with the; lib-Dem, moveon.org, ACORN-SEIU-NOW-MALDEF-ACLU type political tactics.
Rand Paul had nothing to do with whoever was trying to turn back this woman who is a Conway supporter, from harrassing him and the crowd of supporters.
A few people might have overreacted and they shouldn’t have, but … She lied and said she was a Rand Paul supporter to get up close to him and pull some kind of obnoxious politically motivated harrassment move.
She was there looking to start trouble and mangaged to instigate this whole thing, on purpose. It’s not anyone elses fault but the woman who out of the blue took it upon herself to instigate the whole unexpected incident,
amongst a crowd of highly charged-defensive political supporters in the midst of a very contentious election race, very close to the election. She drove all the way from Washington DC to carry out her lib-Dem, ACORN-SEIU-NOW-MALDEF-ACLU type, moveon.org scam-plan.
Anyone associated with any of the above anti-American groups, and who is involved in a high-profile troublemaking incident such as this one on their own, is a highly suspicious character.
Most likely an operative of one or more of those anti-American groups, who was given the plan and marching orders, which she carried out willingly-deceptively-deceitfully, as the libs-Dems-ACORN-SEIU-NOW-MALDEF-ACLU-moveon.org, political activists always do around election time.
It’s time we had a change from the same old tactics from the anti-American-libs-Dems-Conway.
Vote for the right kind of change, pro-American Conservative Rand Paul !!!
This is the curb stomper guy, and his ironic button about not wanting to be tread upon:
via Balloon-Juice, I was not aware that there was a big woo-hoo over some columnist using “curbstomp” in his column, to the point where he had to apologize. And then a real life one happened committed by the same side that was so offended!
Categories: #elections, #freerepublic, #resistnet Tags: #resistnet, freepers, FreeRepublic.com, Kentucky, Rand Paul
