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The nutroots don’t matter

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The Netroots are all about hate. Damn straight, hatred of Americans. Anyway its pleasant to see the left go crazy, I would prefer they went crazy over the implementation of certain gop policies, but it will still be fun to watch.

rob verdi on November 22, 2008 at 8:28 PM

How’s this for a new bumper sticker…
“Obama ’08
Face it NutRoots, ya’ got played!”

Catseye on November 22, 2008 at 8:35 PM

oh and I just heard Larry Summesr is Obama’s top economic adviser. The Clinton Takeover continues. Bill Clinton for UN Ambassador. Chelsea Clinton for Department of Education, Bruce Babbit for Interior, Change we can believe in!

rob verdi on November 22, 2008 at 8:42 PM

My favorite

Allow me to provide an answer. You don’t matter.

Entelechy on November 22, 2008 at 8:48 PM

Still, sitting in the Obama bus, or under the bus, they’d re-elect him with no reservations. Same for the media.

Entelechy on November 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM

They’re all nuts on the left, from the Spew Republic to the nutroots. I like the way they keep pretending that BHO ran a spiffy campaign,

“Equally important, he rejected the hyperventilating wing of the party tonally, as evidenced by the calm and systematic way he ran his campaign.”

Not quite. He had more marxist, nutty leftist quotes and off-the-cuff remarks than anyone with a brain would ever think of saying, only to have the MSM cover it all up for him. And as to the “calm and systematic” way he ran the campaign (the great myth of the idiot messaih), let these morons go relive the time after Palin was selected when the BHO campaign was imploding, only to be saved by the credit crisis and the MSM’s successful attempt to pin the debacle on the GOP and let the Dems, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, ACORN, … all skate free. BHO’s deer-in-the-headlights approach to everything is played to the masses as ‘cool’ and ‘calm’. What a total joke.

I just have no patience for these lying fools anymore. They got their coup. It’s just a shame that the destruction of our nation will be the legacy of the left. These people, all of them, will go down in history with worse reputations than Benedict Arnold, held in utter contempt by all rational people of the future.

As to BHO, he’s just too friggin’ dumb to even merit discussion.

progressoverpeace on November 22, 2008 at 8:54 PM

You mean mental deficient knuckle draggers like these ones?

Scott on November 22, 2008 at 8:55 PM

Why should he fear them? He’s been elected.

Blake on November 22, 2008 at 8:56 PM

Obama is going to consolidate his power and gradually take us down.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

winemkr on November 22, 2008 at 8:56 PM

Note to nutroots: You were lied to an used. Welcome to the club.

29Victor on November 22, 2008 at 9:44 PM

Summary:

Markos Moulitsas, while being screwed by the Democrat Party, shocked by his own impotence.

29Victor on November 22, 2008 at 9:59 PM

If the left-wing bloggers are irrelevant what does that make the right-wing bloggers? Remember when it was predicted here on HotAir that John McCain would win Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Colorado, and New Mexico, but he didn’t?

Nonfactor on November 23, 2008 at 12:17 AM

“He wasn’t sanctioned” I guess no decisions are to be made by the Dems unless they have been cleared with Kos. Who does this guy think he is–or rather was!

jeanie on November 23, 2008 at 1:08 AM

Oh!! Also, without George Bush(or some substitute)to hate the left wing blogs seem to be lost. Guess it’s true about “hate” being their tie that binds. For a while they had Sarah but all that’s left now is to attack one of their “own”. Any guesses as to whom they’ll choose?

jeanie on November 23, 2008 at 1:12 AM

“No matter what Joe Lieberman does,” wrote Jane Hamsher, proprietor of the popular liberal blog Firedoglake, “the people who are protecting him hate you much more than they hate him.” The Netroots are all about hate; its denizens are incapable of seeing shades of gray. (And Ms. Hamsher knows a thing or two about hate, having doctored a photo of Joe Lieberman in blackface during his primary battle against Netroots favorite Ned Lamont two years ago.)

Mistress of hate.

BTW, I saw about 20 plus protesters on a popular corner bearing signs “Obama FIRE Hillary Clinton” “End the War” and “NO STRIKES IN IRAN”

So much for that changy, hopey feeling.

Topsecretk9 on November 23, 2008 at 2:18 AM

I have been wondering this myself. I have asked the same question on about 10 different righty sites. Have the Nutrooters won any political battle? Have they ACTUALLY affected political victory? I can’t think of one.

Warner Todd Huston on November 23, 2008 at 4:57 AM

So all of a sudden Obama is now a centrist? Oh OK. Then I guess I was worried for nothing.

angryed on November 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM

If the left-wing bloggers are irrelevant what does that make the right-wing bloggers?

Self-aware.

Jim Treacher on November 23, 2008 at 10:12 AM

Affirmative Action Barry is still to the left of the nutroots.

He is not throwing them under the bus.

It is that he is so MASSIVELY unqualified for the job that his selections will please noone as he has no idea what he is trying to accomplish.

He is a one trick pony that played the race card all the way into the White House.

DeweyWins on November 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM

This is delicious. I love it.

Geronimo on November 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM

Nonfactor on November 23, 2008 at 12:17 AM

You make a leap in logic but I know you like it simple.

In the end OBAMA played you

Roflmao

Jamson64 on November 23, 2008 at 10:39 AM

The week before Tuesday’s meeting, Obama let it be known that he bore “no grudge” against Lieberman. Setting a positive tone so early after a hard-fought election, he is already making good on his promise to, if not end, then at least lessen the “petty partisanship” he decried in the campaign. Among the positive outcomes of this week’s abject lesson in letting bygones be bygones, it is reassuring to see that the leadership of the Democratic Party isn’t as petty, vindictive and small as its left-wing supporters.

Can’t let that whopper one go by

Obama needs Lieberman. Clue, Obama does not control the Senate with DEM votes alone.

That is why Lieberman got to keep his committee although a loyalist already had dibs

Lieberman, along with what is left of McCain, can continue to play the McCain gang game

As during so many past Senate performances, it is the gang of midgets who make the other side into giants and get rewarded in return.

For McCain, this election was a win-win. No he doesn’t get Air Force One, but the winning party supports most of his programs. He can make them kiss butt before he yields

McCain will not be able to get anything the winning party does not already support, but for McCain, that is winning

Meanwhile, I await his gracious defense of Palin

entagor on November 23, 2008 at 10:53 AM