does that make HA a “moderate Republican” website

Actually “Common Sense Republican” is the better term, because

we have no problem discussing the merits and faults of our

candidates and elected officials.

- The Cat

Her nightmare in the event of a U.S.-Iran war replete with terrorist attacks is that it might tilt the election?

Great point, Allah!

Jim, I think you’re thinking of an origami tiger. Kos kids are made with purple construction paper and safety scissors.

(Pssst… that was my point.)

In order to serve its intended purpose, a paper tiger would have to be constructed with a lot of thought and skill. So, no.

Jim, I think you’re thinking of an origami tiger. Kos kids are made with purple construction paper and safety scissors. There tends to be a lot of glue involved too, but it isn’t entirely clear why. They sure are sticky though.

And they absolutely love stickers. Little sparkly “Impeach Bush” stickers are suddenly everywhere when the nutroots show up. Hateful little fairies sprinkling pixel dust on everyone.

“Stinkerbell? Is that you? Everyone, clap your hands if you BELIEVE! We’re off to Never, Never Land! C’mon, Stinkerbell, let’s fly!”

Are the nutroots a paper tiger?

Only in the sense that they’re on fire and concealing a pile of crap.

As Confucious say: “Paper tiger stalks like stone tiger, it is easily defeated by walking away.”

and

“Paper tiger makes for an unsatisfying meal and be sure you don’t get any on you.”

So, clearly, Confucious wasn’t all bad.

Exit question: Are the nutroots a paper tiger?

In order to serve its intended purpose, a paper tiger would have to be constructed with a lot of thought and skill. So, no.

at the end of the day, there will be heavy internal nutroots pressure to keep the heavy guns aimed at the permanent dictator Bushitleroilwar even though said dictator will have voluntarily given up power, handed it
to Hillary, and gone back to Crawford to face 15 years of screaming hippie nutbars lining the road to The Ranch.

the nuts will also reckon that they’re gonna want a second term for hillary, so no real smackdowns.

people are fooling like kenyon dooling if they think that if Hillary is elected POTUS next year, the nutroots will give her unholy hell once she’s in the WH.

forget that. never happen. if god forbid Hillary wins in November, by January, every nutrooter from Bangor to Balboa Island will be cheering both Clintons to the rafters, calling them the greatest political figures who ever lived, and they will be killing each other over tickets to Hillary’s Hoedown’s come inauguration week.

Mike D. on August 8, 2007 at 6:40 PM

I strongly disagree. I can almost guarantee that a Hillary presidency – especially if troops remain in Iraq a day past her inauguration – would lead to Democrat in-fighting like you’ve never seen.

I think she’d take a thousand times more heat from the Kos/DU faction than she would from Republicans. Remember what they did to Joe Lieberman? This would make that seem like a nice game of Parcheesi.

I think that it just might fracture the Democratic Party completely.

Most importantly, I think it’d make great entertainment. In some ways – especially the entertainment value – I think a Hillary presidency might be a very good thing. It might finally expose the truth about liberalism, and either end the Democratic Party or at least begin healing the festering boil of Kossite fascism that now controls too much of that party.

It would be immensely fun to watch.

Assuming we all survive of course. And the economy doesn’t tank. That’s sort of the downside. :)

It’s not like its some logical imperative. Maybe – just maybe – Democrats would do a little better if they’d quit worrying about wars being hypothetically started to make people vote Republican … and addressing whatever it is that makes people trust Republicans more on national security.

Democrats have their priorities on this exactly backwards. And I don’t think it ever even occurs to them.

forget that. never happen. if god forbid Hillary wins in November, by January, every nutrooter from Bangor to Balboa Island will be cheering both Clintons to the rafters, calling them the greatest political figures who ever lived, and they will be killing each other over tickets to Hillary’s Hoedown’s come inauguration week.

Is this becoming common? Is it now standard for Democrats to publicly (and off-handedly) mention the very thing they once swore they didn’t think even to themselves – the thing they denounced us most for accusing them of?

Interesting.

Think about it: What issues do Teamsters, homosexuals, blacks, teachers and pornographers have in common?

The answer is that they have absolutely NOTHING in common – except the ginned-up class warfare hatred engendered by the constant broadcasting of warmed-over Communist agitprops. Without that, the Democrat Party would fall apart like a house of cards.

The insane rhetoric of the ultra left is not a liability to the Democrat Party. Without the frenetic energy of the extreme left-wing activists, there would BE no Democrat Party.

The candidates are flattering the netroots like any other special interest group in order to secure their favors in the form of financing. In the case of Hillary, I would expect that her pandering is due to the belief that it is unwise to make unnecessary enemies and to siphon sources of financial support from the other campaigns. Howard Dean proved that perceptions of “electability” outweigh netroots fervor in democrat primaries. The netroots would probably be better desribed as a paper loud nuisance animal.

In the New York Sun, Howard Husock takes us back to 1967, “the 40th anniversary of the political campaign which transformed the Democratic party — the presidential candidacy of Eugene McCarthy”, that would launch the “new left” and ultimately cost…

does that make HA a “moderate Republican” website? I’ve always thought it is but I suspect the left would impolitely disagree.

Yes to that. Any blog which is even-handed with its criticism, as I find to be true here, is moderate. Criticizing Bush, Cheney, or any Republican for wrong things they have said or agendas they have pushed is not something a “nutroot Republican” would do.

As to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s comment–it is only horrible in that the major concern she seems to have about a terrorist act, from Iran here, but presumably from anywhere just before an election, is that it would adversely affect the Democrats in said election. 9-11 and other attacks are NOT political attacks, but it is true that a more (conservative) Republican response is what the country wants just after.

Yeah, she’s an conspiracy-idiot, don’t get me wrong. Now I get you. She’d be perfect for SOS in the Obama-Edwards admin.