but but.... LIPSTICK!

As much as I don't want to give NRO the traffic, I feel like I need to read this article.

National Review is so precious. Almost as precious as when I canceled my subscription, when I was 15. Without WFB they are simply a whining rag with no view for the future; except that liebrals are fascist terrorists who want to rape and eat us.

It's the most intelligent thing I've ever read at NRO.

Unfortunately, it's a letter from a reader in Finland.

B..b...but Charles Krauthammer said the Dems are PANICKNG!!11

He said that Palin's vacuous celebrity will trump Obama's vacuouc celebrity!11

[sticks fingers in ears]

LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

NewportBarGuy: National Review The Republican Party is so precious. Almost as precious as when I canceled my subscription membership, when I was 15. Without WFB Communism they are simply a whining rag political party with no view for the future; except that liebrals are fascist terrorists who want to rape and eat us.

But but ...Sarah exemplifies the ideals of the conservative base! She's their dream come true, one of them getting her shot at the big time!

Frum has been right about this since Pain was announced. He's the only person on the right who has any intellectual honestly on this. Gotta give the man credit.

But...but...Tina Fey is hot!

Self-delusion takes its toll. It's not easy to deal with cognitive dissonance, and eventually it will tire out those who are determined to keep from making an honest analysis of the republican ticket.

submitter: ...choosing an almost totally inexperienced "celebrity" as his running mate"

Fault in the argument: Palin isn't a celebrity.

The only reason why I'd even heard of her was because she was mentioned in a couple of Fark threads last year (hottie governor, I'd hit it, etc.).

The furor over her has been:
1. A WTF/who? reaction.
2. Bloggers speculating over her personal life
3. Democrat-loving kool-aid drinkers finding any reason to hate any Republican candidate (and try to convince you to agree with them)
4. Republican machine marketing her as a brand/image. The "purchase" is your vote.

Earguy: Fault in the argument: Palin isn't a celebrity.

What planet are you living on?

Click on my profile and donate to the Obama campaign via the link. Every dollar helps.

Earguy: Palin isn't a celebrity.

LOL

Well at least we know you're not a fundy. She is a celebrity with the base that matters most to McCain. The Moneyfundies own the Republican party and they were lobbying heavily for a Palin VP slot.

Yeah, Viking rec'r didn't have possession of that TD pass.

Earguy [TotalFark] Quote 2008-09-14 01:13:32 PM
submitter: ...choosing an almost totally inexperienced "celebrity" as his running mate"

Fault in the argument: Palin isn't a celebrity.

She is as much of a celebrity as Barack Obama is.

Although I'd argue McCain (who spends his time going on shows like The View, Rachel Ray and Jay Leno and has done so for decades) is a much bigger celebrity than the other two.

Earguy: Fault in the argument: Palin isn't a celebrity.

The only reason why I'd even heard of her was because she was mentioned in a couple of Fark threads last year (hottie governor, I'd hit it, etc.).

And 4 years ago I'd never heard of Miley Cyrus. Let me introduce this idea to you: people who were once *not* celebrities *turn into* celebrities.

Weird, I know.

Earguy: Yeah, Viking rec'r didn't have possession of that TD pass.

Dude - you may have just posted a political troll in some football thread...

quickdraw: Earguy: Palin isn't a celebrity.

LOL

Well at least we know you're not a fundy. She is a celebrity with the base that matters most to McCain. The Moneyfundies own the Republican party and they were lobbying heavily for a Palin VP slot.

Why?

Last I read, McCain wanted Lieberman and selecting Palin was a big F-you to the party bosses that stopped his first choice.

Last I read, McCain wanted Lieberman and selecting Palin was a big F-you to the party bosses that stopped his first choice.

How is it an "F-you" to pick the person your party bosses wanted?

Picking liebermann anyway would have been the F-you

Earguy: Last I read, McCain wanted Lieberman and selecting Palin was a big F-you to the party bosses that stopped his first choice.

How is Palin a f-you to party bosses? Seems like she's exactly what they want. The party base loves her.

quickdraw: Earguy: Yeah, Viking rec'r didn't have possession of that TD pass.

Dude - you may have just posted a political troll in some football thread...

Whoops.

Honestly, I wasn't trolling with my "Palin isn't a celebrity" comment. She may be hot now, but she wasn't when she was selected. In my opinion.

Earguy: She may be hot now, but she wasn't when she was selected. In my opinion.

How is this relevant?

Honestly, I wasn't trolling with my "Palin isn't a celebrity" comment. She may be hot now, but she wasn't when she was selected. In my opinion.

Sure, but when people attack Obama for being a celebrity they mean he is a popular personality and are insinuating he doesn't have real political talent or experience.

Palin is 100% a personality pick. She has a horrible record as Gov and mayor and even more so a record that clashes with McCain's main arguments (she has no foreign policy experience, she was the earmark queen, etc.)

She is much more of a "celebrity" pick in that sense than Obama.

DamnYankees: Earguy: Last I read, McCain wanted Lieberman and selecting Palin was a big F-you to the party bosses that stopped his first choice.

How is Palin a f-you to party bosses? Seems like she's exactly what they want. The party base loves her.

I stand corrected. Palin was foisted on McCain when he wanted Lieberman. (pops)

Earguy: I stand corrected.

Bill Kristol ^ apparently had a lot to do with it.

quickdraw: Earguy: I stand corrected.

Bill Kristol ^ apparently had a lot to do with it.

You'll be happy to know I resisted a Bill Kristol/Billy Crystal joke.

Earguy: You'll be happy to know I resisted a Bill Kristol/Billy Crystal joke.

Why? Lets hear it!

quickdraw: Earguy: You'll be happy to know I resisted a Bill Kristol/Billy Crystal joke.

Why? Lets hear it!

Because it was lame self-deprecation designed to make me seem as though I didn't know the difference between the two. Besides, I think you and I are the only ones left here.

quickdraw: Earguy: You'll be happy to know I resisted a Bill Kristol/Billy Crystal joke.

Why? Lets hear it!

They have both watched women fake orgasms?

DamnYankees: Frum has been right about this since Pain was announced. He's the only person on the right who has any intellectual honestly on this. Gotta give the man credit.

Palin's new slipup in is now Pain?

McCain/Pain 08!

Earguy: Besides, I think you and I are the only ones left here.

Oh no it hasn't hit the main page yet. Then there will be barrage of posts responding to your original Palin/celebrity comment and they will never read the part of the thread where you corrected yourself.

You may as well drink a beer or light a pipe or both.

BladBoy: quickdraw: Earguy: You'll be happy to know I resisted a Bill Kristol/Billy Crystal joke.

Why? Lets hear it!

They have both watched women fake orgasms?

Hey they were lucky to get that much! Seems like most farkers make do watching camwhores fake orgasms.

/you guys know I keed, right? Right?

quickdraw: make do watching camwhores fake orgasms.

While most camwhores fake it, Princess Blue Eyes certainly does not! I know because she told me in her email reminding me that my membership fee was due. So there!

Well, Noonan once told the truth about how she felt about Palin, which led to the most hilarious spinning of the election season so far by a talking head...jusssssst edging out Hannity's "HE WAS A POW!!!!!11" in response to Colmes growing nuts and saying "McCain cheated on his wife."

Skleenar: B..b...but Charles Krauthammer said the Dems are PANICKNG!!11

He said that Palin's vacuous celebrity will trump Obama's vacuouc celebrity!11

[sticks fingers in ears]

LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

What ELSE are they going to say? "We see you guys are mobilized, and we're worried that Ron Paul will break away some of the base"...?

Of COURSE they're going to lie their asses off. What else do they have?

Bill Frist: Earguy [TotalFark] Quote 2008-09-14 01:13:32 PM
submitter: ...choosing an almost totally inexperienced "celebrity" as his running mate"

Fault in the argument: Palin isn't a celebrity.

She is as much of a celebrity as Barack Obama is.

Although I'd argue McCain (who spends his time going on shows like The View, Rachel Ray and Jay Leno and has done so for decades) is a much bigger celebrity than the other two.

And he has a theme tune: Raisin' McCain.

Which mentions his name. Eleven times.

Happy Days' theme tune didn't mention The Fonz ONCE.

But... Palin made Craig Ferguson an honorary citizen of the U.S.

DamnYankees: Earguy: Fault in the argument: Palin isn't a celebrity.

The only reason why I'd even heard of her was because she was mentioned in a couple of Fark threads last year (hottie governor, I'd hit it, etc.).

And 4 years ago I'd never heard of Miley Cyrus. Let me introduce this idea to you: people who were once *not* celebrities *turn into* celebrities.

Weird, I know.

It's like you're suggesting there are people we've never heard of. Then they become famous and people talk about them all the time. Polls show them as being very popular. But after 2 months of having their no-talent face in our homes, people get sick of them.

If that's the case, I discovered this name in my research: Sanjaya Malakar.

Is it like him? People loved that guy. There were websites and everything. Then he just disappeared after eight weeks. One day he's top of the world, the next he's ...where IS Sanjaya?

OMG! Some guy in Finland doesn't like Palin. We're screwed now.

Maybe if the Republicans put their unexperienced celebrity on the top of their ticket she can go head to head with the unexperienced celebrity on the top of the Democratic ticket.

Bill Frist: Honestly, I wasn't trolling with my "Palin isn't a celebrity" comment. She may be hot now, but she wasn't when she was selected. In my opinion.

Sure, but when people attack Obama for being a celebrity they mean he is a popular personality and are insinuating he doesn't have real political talent or experience.

Palin is 100% a personality pick. She has a horrible record as Gov and mayor and even more so a record that clashes with McCain's main arguments (she has no foreign policy experience, she was the earmark queen, etc.)

She is much more of a "celebrity" pick in that sense than Obama.

Alaska is the Welfare State.

Palin is The Welfare Queen.

As opposed to the DNC choosing an almost totally inexperienced "celebrity" to run for President ?

When are you guys going to stop comparing a No.2 pick with a No. 1 pick ?

Somebody writes a letter to the editor and that means the "Kool-aide is wearing off"? I'd say the Kool-aide is in full effect in subby's system.

Lets clarify here: elections are (ironically) Natural Selection based. I hate Palin, but if it's McCain/Palin or a Democratic presidency, I would prefer McCain/Palin. She is a cheap gimmick, but this election is so close that neither side can afford NOT to take the cheap shots. If they don't, they are assured defeat.

This is, unfortunately, not an election in which anyone can afford purism and ideological fidelity, or they will lose those crucial swing voters to whom dumbass things like vaginas and "mere community organizing" count more than ideological identity.

HulkHands: NewportBarGuy: National Review The Republican Party is so precious. Almost as precious as when I canceled my subscription membership, when I was 15. Without WFB Communism they are simply a whining rag political party with no view for the future; except that liebrals are fascist terrorists who want to rape and eat us.

That too.

Jackpot777: Bill Frist: Honestly, I wasn't trolling with my "Palin isn't a celebrity" comment. She may be hot now, but she wasn't when she was selected. In my opinion.

Sure, but when people attack Obama for being a celebrity they mean he is a popular personality and are insinuating he doesn't have real political talent or experience.

Palin is 100% a personality pick. She has a horrible record as Gov and mayor and even more so a record that clashes with McCain's main arguments (she has no foreign policy experience, she was the earmark queen, etc.)

She is much more of a "celebrity" pick in that sense than Obama.

Alaska is the Welfare State.

Palin is The Welfare Queen.

Per capita? What is Obama's earmarks in total dollars? Since dollars = dollars it makes sense to keep avoiding the total dollar figure of Obama's earmark, and keep shouting, "lookit the per capita!!!!"

Palin steals $50 from 1 person and Obama steals $10 each from 10 different people. OMG! LOOKIT THE PER CAPITA!!!!!

Earguy: quickdraw: Earguy: I stand corrected.

Bill Kristol ^ apparently had a lot to do with it.

You'll be happy to know I resisted a Bill Kristol/Billy Crystal joke.

Did it involve a homosexual from Connecticut with an invisible step-father, an uncle who murdered a tennis pro, and a cousin who had a demonically possessed baby?

jjorsett: Somebody writes a letter to the editor and that means the "Kool-aide is wearing off"? I'd say the Kool-aide is in full effect in subby's system.

Hey JJ, do you think rove is a lying sack of shiat or not?

I'm tired of hearing this lib smear that Palin doesn't understand foreign policy. She saw Russia once! YOU CAN SEE IT FROM AN ISLAND OFF OFF ALASKA! Do NONE of you libs get that?! WAKE UP SHEEPLE.

JQPublic: Jackpot777: Bill Frist: Honestly, I wasn't trolling with my "Palin isn't a celebrity" comment. She may be hot now, but she wasn't when she was selected. In my opinion.

Sure, but when people attack Obama for being a celebrity they mean he is a popular personality and are insinuating he doesn't have real political talent or experience.

Palin is 100% a personality pick. She has a horrible record as Gov and mayor and even more so a record that clashes with McCain's main arguments (she has no foreign policy experience, she was the earmark queen, etc.)

She is much more of a "celebrity" pick in that sense than Obama.

Alaska is the Welfare State.

Palin is The Welfare Queen.

Per capita? What is Obama's earmarks in total dollars? Since dollars = dollars it makes sense to keep avoiding the total dollar figure of Obama's earmark, and keep shouting, "lookit the per capita!!!!"

Would you rather a politican who spends $200 per head, or $200,000 per head? If Alaska gets $10 million and Illinois gets $20 million, and Illinois has twenty times as many people in it, who is spending more taxpayer money for less benefit?

JQPublic: OMG! Some guy in Finland doesn't like Palin. We're screwed now.

Maybe if the Republicans put their unexperienced celebrity on the top of their ticket she can go head to head with the unexperienced celebrity on the top of the Democratic ticket.

Well, "some guy in Finland" seemed to make a good enough point that David farking Frum saw fit to repost his letter.