November 24, 2004

BONKERSWACKOCRAZYMESUGHAH

John Podhoretz on Bush madness:

President Bush proved in his first term that he had a talent for provoking fits of madness in the brains of liberals who disagree with him. It appears his second four years will be no different. For a week now, you see, authoritative Washington pundit-types have been making a very serious and deeply reasoned argument about the president's new Cabinet choices for which there is only one possible word:

Bonkerswackocrazymeshugah.

Speaking of which, enjoy the latest bonkerswackocrazymeshugah tactics of MoveOn.org, sworn to remain idiotic well into the next presidential campaign.

Posted by Tim Blair at November 24, 2004 02:17 AM
Comments

"Sitting in circles under a canopy of leaves from a family of Australian umbrella trees named Rup, Ruppert and Ruppie -- and newcomer tree Bruno -- the activists planned."

Bonkerswackocrazymeshugah
alright.

Can't you claim copyright and deny them the use of Australian trees?

Posted by: yellerKat at November 24, 2004 at 02:27 AM

The "Tanya Schevits" who wrote the SF Chronicle MoorOn.org article has got to be Iowa Hawk or someone, right?
"Other ideas were more radical, including a boycott of all ATM machines from companies that produced the electronic voting machines, a national strike and changing the economic paradigm of the country from consumption and production by just "not buying anything." ??????!!!!!!!
roflmao

Posted by: max power at November 24, 2004 at 02:47 AM

But one thing was clear, moving to the center was not the way to go.

"Moving to the center is what took the passion out of the (presidential) campaign," said Mari Eliza, 54.

ROTFLMAO! First, passion doesn't win elections; God knows the 2004 campaign was passionate enough. Second, if they aren't willing to change, howinthehell do they expect to reach us ignorant Red Staters?

And I loved the "adopt a Red State City" idea -- what, are they going to send us shoes and coloring books?

Bonkerswackocrazymeshugah, for afact!


Posted by: The Real JeffS at November 24, 2004 at 03:00 AM

The combined denseness of the crowd created something like a black hole of the mind; no coherent thought can escape.

They are a bit late trying to find out why the voters voted the way they did in the last election as the 2008 election will run on its own issues.

Posted by: Mikey at November 24, 2004 at 03:18 AM

PLEASE make Howard Dean head of the DNC, pleasepleasepleasePLEASE....

Posted by: Bruce at November 24, 2004 at 03:34 AM

Speaking of which, enjoy the latest bonkerswackocrazymeshugah tactics of MoveOn.org, sworn to remain idiotic well into the next presidential campaign.

Into the next presidential campaign?!? I'd say, based on experience and observation, they'll remain idiotic for life, and there isn't enough Prozac in the world to alleviate that kind of mindset.

Posted by: Rebecca at November 24, 2004 at 03:42 AM

hosted by Camila Aguilar, 44, a writer, "rabble-rouser" and astrologer.. "they need to go out and adopt cities in the red states that voted for Bush."

Dear Carmen I hereby offer my hometown of Midland Texas as your adopted city. Only problem is that here you might actually have to get a freekin' job!

Posted by: Wallace-Midland Texas at November 24, 2004 at 03:45 AM

"We don't have a clear message and the team that won had three: anti-gay marriage, gun rights and God,"

Wha...? I thought they were claiming the election was going to be a referrendum on Bush's "illegal" war? They lost on that issue, so now they're groping for some more palatable excuse. If the SF freak show thinks they lost the election on "God, Guns & Gays, they'll have ZERO chance in 2008.

Intellectual black hole is right.

Posted by: Spiny Norman at November 24, 2004 at 03:48 AM

One of a piece with the Lefty mindset. "Values were important to voters. How do we fake some of that?"

Uh, Einstein, your boy DID fake values - he went about "goose hunting" and "drinking beer in bars" and "wearing flannel." So sorry, but you can't convince people you give a hoot about them. You have to actually give the hoot, or not. Either way, they'll notice.

In other words, until you want something more than your own power and advancement, you shall have neither.

Posted by: Nightfly at November 24, 2004 at 04:25 AM

"Values were important to voters.

Yes, values are important:

John Kerry manicure - $75

John Kerry haircut by Christophe - $75

John Kerry road bike, once he learns to ride the damn thing - $8,000

Posted by: Roger Bournival at November 24, 2004 at 04:55 AM

"and astrologer"

Nuff said.

Posted by: ak at November 24, 2004 at 04:58 AM

>"We don't have a clear message and the team that won had three: anti-gay marriage, gun rights and God,"

Let's see.

I support gay marriage

I do not own a gun

While a Catholic, I have not been to church in months.

I voted for Bush -- without even thinking twice.

(And according to Fundrace.org, I live in a very very deep blue neighborhood.)

Posted by: Anthony at November 24, 2004 at 05:33 AM

There's one photo from the SF Gate article where everything's tilted 45 degrees to the left.

Reminds me of the people who played cards in the first class lounge while the Titanic was going down.

Posted by: Mike at November 24, 2004 at 05:39 AM

There's a reason -- well several reasons, actually -- why we never give the keys to the car or the liquor cabinet to these people.

Does anyone think that people who respond to losing an election with public temper tantrums and nervous breakdowns would be capable of dealing with Al Qaeda or Kim Jong Il?

Posted by: Cosmo at November 24, 2004 at 05:52 AM

Too bad Puce wasn't at the meeting. He would have been the voice of reason.

Posted by: Michael at November 24, 2004 at 06:33 AM

Yes we are all delighted that the lefties went down the tube in the presidential election. In the second term are we expecting a roll back of big government, reduction of corporate welfare and retrieval of civil liberties lost under the Patriot Act?

Posted by: Rafe Champion at November 24, 2004 at 06:47 AM

Well, Rafe, those things would be nice. But they're not the reason I crossed the aisle and voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in my life (and I'm 44). I am more concerned with the people who are bent on destroying Western civilization, and who reduced the World Trade Center to rubble just to make sure we knew it. In his second term, I expect W to kick their asses. Anything else he may accomplish is a gravy -- if he saves the free world, that's good enough for me.

Posted by: Harry at November 24, 2004 at 07:19 AM

In the second term are we expecting a roll back of big government, reduction of corporate welfare and retrieval of civil liberties lost under the Patriot Act?

Somehow, I get the impression from you, Rafe, that anything President Bush does is not going be what you expected. That would fit the pattern of the people displaying this attitude over the past 4 years.

Posted by: The Real JeffS at November 24, 2004 at 07:25 AM

i liked the old dear who brung her own chair to the meeting. i dunno why...

Posted by: rosceo at November 24, 2004 at 07:32 AM

Sure, Rafe. I'm all for a roll back in the size of government and corporate welfare.

And as soon as it occurred (hat tip: JeffS), we'd get whining from all the usual quarters about how cutbacks in government services by evil conservatives hurt the little people, and news features about the impact of job losses in industries incapable of supporting themselves without government life support. By all means, let's do it -- just no carping from the Left along the way.

As for the Patriot Act -- the bogey man under the bed of people who have no idea what a police state is really like -- I'm with Harry. Let's get the war over with, or we'll be dealing with something far more serious that the right to parade around with papier mache puppets.

Posted by: Cosmo at November 24, 2004 at 07:57 AM

retrieval of civil liberties lost under the Patriot Act?

And which civil liberties would those be?

Posted by: Robert Crawford at November 24, 2004 at 08:00 AM

Robert Crawford, you DO have a knack for cutting to the chase.

Posted by: Cosmo at November 24, 2004 at 09:00 AM

Well, I was very heartened by the article. Especially the part about a Web site to mobilize people to respond to "injustice". That means Darfur and a houndred other similar areas have been fixed. A half-million children will no longer go blind each year because the hysterical left has given up its grudge for genetic treatment of foods in the "third world". The UN is now acting in a moral manner. What's not to like? Ah, the lack of perception and context by the left is just.......#2$^&.

Posted by: YoJimbo at November 24, 2004 at 10:28 AM

"and astrologer..."

And these guys call themselves the "Reality-Based Community"?


I'm picturing Marg Downey's "Marian" from Kath and Kim here.

Posted by: Uncle Milk at November 24, 2004 at 10:56 AM

Cosmo -- "people who respond to losing an election with public temper tantrums and nervous breakdowns would be capable of dealing with Al Qaeda or Kim Jong Il?"

Those people are Al Qaeda and Kim Jong Il...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at November 24, 2004 at 11:15 AM

Michael,
I'm sure they would have been gratfal for Puce's advice.

Posted by: Michael Lonie at November 24, 2004 at 12:02 PM

As long as these people continue to think that 'clever' t-shirt slogans are a form of political activism, conservatives are going to rule for centuries to come.

Posted by: cuckoo at November 24, 2004 at 12:39 PM

"But one thing was clear, moving to the center was not the way to go.

'Moving to the center is what took the passion out of the (presidential) campaign," said Mari Eliza, 54.'"

Moveon.org thinks that the answer is to move further to the left??!! They think the reason they lost is because they were to close to center??!! Oh boy, go left, go left!! Whopee!!

My husband and I are cracking up. This whole article is so gut-busting funny. They still don't get it. Duh, gee. "They had three messages [they got 'em wrong] and we didn't have any."

"Gee Blue, I think we should protest by not buying anything at all!"

Think you for this link. It's better than The Onion. Political Darwinism at it's best.

Posted by: Catracks at November 24, 2004 at 12:40 PM

Rafe, the Patriot Act gives Law Enforcement the powers it has actually had for some years.


For Drugs and Organised Crime.

As for Darfur, no amount of activism will change anything, arming, and training the Dafur people to resist the Janjaweed and the Government will change things.

Posted by: Sheriff at November 24, 2004 at 09:32 PM

Well watching the MoveOn and their ilk over the next few years will provide us with lots of entertianment. Do they not realise that the shriller they get, the more we laugh?

Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at November 25, 2004 at 12:05 AM