House of Eratosthenes

Liberal gadfly Zossima, commenting at Rick’s place…oh, by the way the subject under discussion is Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush. That’ll become relevant.

I believe conservatism is common sense. Tell me what is “conservative” about running up trillions of dollars in debt? What is being conserved when we outsource jobs and depend on foreign oil that depletes natural resources? What is being conserved when the president issues signing statements and executive orders that are unconstitutional? What is being conserved when we have our military in the wrong war?

I could go on and on.

Whereupon, I wisely pointed out…

“Popcorn”; that’s my new name for you.

Because when the heat gets too much, you explode into this puff-ball of talking points about unconstitutional blah blah blah trillions dollars debt blah blah blah.

You’re cornered, and you cannot stick to the subject. All that butter makes you slippery, I guess.

To which ~~Zossima~~ Popcorn retorted…

Huh, lesseee. Morgan stated conservatism is common sense. I used facts to say that it is not. That means I can’t stick to the subject. Morgan quoted Obama to say that Obama is unqualified. I pointed out that his “logic” would mean that Palin is more unqualified. Again, apparently, that direct response is not sticking to the subject.

And here we have it, the GOP brain at work. Can’t address the real issues? Call names. Someone actually arguing with indisputable facts? They must be changing the subject. It’s just a bizarro world of propagandist relativism over here.

Call me whatever you want. You still haven’t made one single positive statement about why Palin is qualified to be Vice President of the USA. Pathetic.

And at that point, I had to set ~~Zossima~~ Popcorn straight.

Can’t address the real issues? Call names.

As worthy as the public debt may be for further discussion, along with outsourced jobs, foreign oil, signing statements, et al, may be — they are off topic, Popcorn.

Someone actually arguing with indisputable facts? They must be changing the subject.

Signing statements being unconstitutional, is certainly a disputable “fact.” I believe if we were going to pursue it, it would be up to you to cite what controverts the Constitution. And what part of the Constitution that would be. Which you can’t do. Popcorn. But that presumes it’s got something to do with the subject under discussion. Which it doesn’t, Popcorn.

Call me whatever you want. You still haven’t made one single positive statement about why Palin is qualified to be Vice President of the USA. Pathetic.

There’s nothing to address. She’s the governor of the LARGEST state in the entire nation — she is a highly successful one, too — and some of our very best Presidents have been Governors. Republican or democrat, they make the best Presidents. That’s because being a Governor has to do with executive decision making, whereas being a Senator has to do with legislating, which is ultimately pandering. It’s John McCain’s hidden weakness. He mitigated it appropriately by bringing someone to his ticket who actually has experience running things.

Barack Obama augmented his ticket by bringing someone into it who’s just another Senator. More legislative experience. More pandering. Thirty-five years worth. A lifetime spent in the good ol’-boy club. And that, there, is an indisputable fact, Popcorn.

I have no intention of demeaning Palin. (Nor can you point to a single demeaning thing I’ve said.) It is not demeaning to say she isn’t as qualified as other women. It’s just fact. This is no matter of opinion.

So you can’t tell the difference betwen the two. No news there, Popcorn.

I think my wife is the best mother in the world, but she is not qualified to be vice president. And if anyone picked her to be veep over those more qualified women, I’d be saying the same things. Please, develop some common sense and a spine to deal with this thing the rest of us call FACT. McCain and the GOP and YOU! are exploiting Sarah Palin. Own up to your exploitation of women and we can talk.

There’s nothing to talk about, Popcorn, because the FACT of it is Sarah Palin has shown herself to be a strong, dynamic, experienced and principled leader. She has shown, word for word, and articulately, how her ideological preference soundly addresses the problems our country has to face. Liberals cannot do this, because liberalism has to do with solutions to things that do not work. Even worse — it has to do with solutions to things that have been tried, and proven not to work. Palin lives what she believes.

And if you’d bothered to go reading my link and inspecting what you found there, from top to bottom — it’s not one of my more abbreviated pieces, so I knew you wouldn’t do this, Popcorn — what you’d find is that I agree with you that Palin is inexperienced at some things, and this inexperience is an asset. She does not piddle on peoples’ shoes and tell ’em it’s raining, like you do, Popcorn. She doesn’t do that because she has no experience doing it. And the truth of the matter is, if she was nine hundred years old and the option had been available to gain “experience” doing this, she’d pass it up. She does not care to learn how to sell ice to the proverbial Eskimo. She does not want to learn how to say it’s a sunny day outside when it’s stormy, or vice-versa. This simply isn’t her schtick. It isn’t what she does, it isn’t what she’s all about. She’s keepin’ it real.

Go on, Mister Reality Guy. Try to tell me the same thing about Joe Biden with a straight face.

Here’s the truth: The United States of America is a glorious, wonderful country. If we had to pick and choose which countries on the globe are worthy of an impassioned, deadly defense — and we do not — the US of A would be at the top of the heap. It is worth a lethal defense, a terrible defense, a patriotic defense. McCain/Palin agrees with that. Obama/Biden does not. And so, they will lose.

Popcorn.

Now, coincidentally — or not, depending on your point of view — Jim Ryan delivers an amateur psychological diagnosis that is most apropos to the situation at hand…which I thought was interesting…

Hating Sarah Palin

If you are animated, excited and indignant at the presence of Sarah Palin, if you wish for her candidacy to crash and burn in a shameful spectacle, then you resent and hate Sarah Palin.

This is a problem for you. It’s a problem within you. You are hypnotized by an impulse to rage against people who stand up to you politically and morally and who are calm, confident, unafraid of you, unashamed of themselves, and aware of your own craven state. She shames you. This feeds your rage. It’s a vicious circle.

The reptile brain within you, the part of the brain responsible for stupidly driving you forth in rage an resentment, is running the show within you. The higher-order intellectual faculties, those responsible for formulating political and moral stances, are beholden to your reptile brain’s bidding because you have relinquished control of the ensemble. You have relinquished control because you are stricken by your anger and resentment and have allowed those impulses to control you. You are mesmerized by them. You don’t realize this, on one level. On a deeper level, of course, you do. You mourn the loss of your composure and decency. The pain of this mourning feeds the resentment, unfortunately. You are left angry, unhappy, and dimly aware that things are not right for you.

I think it fits pretty well. Over the last week, I have yet to see anyone, anywhere, cheerfully attack Sarah Palin’s experience. It seems to be a thoroughly miserable enterprise, embarked upon by thoroughly miserable reptile-like people.

I’m already going to Hell. So, I will point out cheerfully that Mrs. Palin is not the best, most experienced person for the job. Ms. Rice and Mrs. Thatcher are ahead in that line, also perhaps, Mother Teresa, and Mary, Mother of God, once we get past the being dead thing(If only I was a Democrat in this regard!).

Dang, that was easy, what do I win?

Of course, I am a nasty, sexist Right winger. I don’t have to convince myself that Hilliary’s MRS degree is worth anything. And it must suck to get out of bed when you have to convince yourself “Jam yesterday and Jam tomorrow” while never getting any, you know, jam……. Bill and Ted are feminists! No, really! Now here comes a candidate a feminist can be proud of, and she has to be attacked, because the democrats paid you off with a comfy little government post…… Of course they’re miserable, who would be happy to find out how cheap their soul was?
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 09/05/2008 @ 22:33

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