House of Eratosthenes

I know I’ve been linking to Kate at Small Dead Animals a lot, there’s a reason for that. You really should make it a regular stop if you aren’t doing so already.

Some of the things you’ll not find elsewhere — this bit of cognitive dissonance.

An online petition declaring this week “Ignore Sarah Palin Week” …. has attracted more than 32,000 signatures.

Nothing to add.

“Ignore Sarah Palin Week”

Week? I thought I read somewhere it was “month.” But an Ignore Palin Month is STILL too short. How about we go for decade? Mo betta: millenium. I’d get behind that.

I read that Newt MIGHT have an announcement of some import tomorrow. Which is kinda cool, coz my sidebar needs some redecorating. Heh.
- bpenni | 03/02/2011 @ 09:31
Great choice! All of the “like pushing a rope” reliability of John McCain…and if he runs, the same result.

Newt has many positive attributes, but lost me here. Do let me know when that woman you’re not talking about, does something similar. I will say this though, the Professor does look good sitting on a couch.

You should use a still from that one for your sidebar redecoratin’. And then go sign that petition.
- mkfreeberg | 03/02/2011 @ 09:51
Palin 2012: How Can You Ignore Me If You Won’t Go Away?
- Rich Fader | 03/02/2011 @ 10:58
…but lost me here.

There was nary a doubt… not ONE… in my military mind as to what your response would be, Morgan. You’re nothing if not predictable.

It’s a shame the Second Coming won’t… or doesn’t appear to… coincide with 2012. Coz you appear to be looking for the PERFECT candidate. Which causes me no great amount o’ confusion, seein’ as how you’re backin’ the Thrilla From Wasilla. But, Hey! I understand the attraction of a good pair o’ legs coupled with knee-jerk right wing rhetoric. You betcha! 🙂
- bpenni | 03/02/2011 @ 13:35
And the deal-killers you have cited with regard to the snowbilly — let me just say, I find them equally reasonable. 😀

But in all seriousness. What’s your attitude toward the couch problem? Are you dismissing that entirely, or do you see it as the tip-off it is? Are you conceding it’s a huge red flag but Newtely somehow has some glittering features to help make up for it?

To me, it’s like…horse-trading. You have an agent, the agent goes in and makes a deal with the guy who’s trying to rip you off and steal your stuff — he comes back and says “okay, let’s give a little on this one thing here, it don’t matta.” And I’m like — WHA???

So no, I’m not looking for the “perfect” candidate. But I don’t see a great pair of legs as a disqualification. Making shady backroom deals with people who fly around in 747s while telling me I need to cut carbon — that is a disqualification. Can’t come back from that one.
- mkfreeberg | 03/02/2011 @ 13:47
Everyone makes mistakes once in a while and I’m hopin’ Newt backs off on that one. But overall? Newt has the horses and the policy positions, that Pelosi debacle aside, that makes him the front-runner in my big book of possibles. Go read a lil bit on his website. Granted, it’s not Facebook… but I consider that a plus, not a negative. YMMV, of course.

And besides that? I’m fond of old white dudes. 🙂
- bpenni | 03/02/2011 @ 16:27
Well, of course if everyone had the same opinion about everything it would be a boring world. It’d probably work a whole lot better as long as I was the guy people agreed with, but it’d be boring. Still, I can’t help wondering what conversation we’d be having if Newt was the one confusing his Koreas on a teevee interview, and Palin was the one making a commercial with San Fran Nan, on that couch. In those legendary running shorts of hers.

Eh…that’d be Palin wearing those, not Nan. Thought I’d clear that up. You’re welcome. 😉
- mkfreeberg | 03/02/2011 @ 17:09
You know, I like Newt, I think he’s a good guy, a smart guy, an interesting thinker. And taking down the Democrats after forty years is something that can never, ever be taken away from him. But after his time as Speaker…I don’t know that I see him as presidential material. I think he and the party and the conservative movement would be better off with him as an elder statesman and advisor than as president. The thing with Pelosi was just the coup de grace.
- Rich Fader | 03/02/2011 @ 19:13
Yeah, that’s pretty much my thinking. Before the couch thing, I still had my objections to Newt but they were all about likelihood. As in — if Newt had what it took to go up against a compassionate, lovable, charismatic democrat, the polling on “government shutdown” would’ve come back and said people were blaming Clinton. Really, that was the test.

And you know maybe it’s not fair of me because I can pretty well promise you a House Speaker Freeberg wouldn’t have done any better. But jeez, what a thunderous failure that was. The democrat prez says raise the debt limit so we can spend money we don’t have…the GOP speaker says no…polls come back, America blames Republicans. Because of what? Is there any hope then?

Looking back, it was a preview of the non-existent P.R. effort of the Bush White House during the Iraq war. Just going through the motions…oh well, here we go up against those fun democrats…oh well, here we are, got our butts beat, everybody loves them and hates us…don’t know why, we compromised on lots of things, but there ya go.

We’ve already been on this track for a lot of years. Time to get off.
- mkfreeberg | 03/02/2011 @ 20:19
Running an old white guy against Obama, regardless of qualification, is a very bad idea in 2012.

It’s one more reason to back Palin. Young, female, dynamic, powerful, takes-no-prisoners.
- cylarz | 03/03/2011 @ 00:32
Have you noticed nobody has yet circulated a petition to “ignore” the likes of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Lamar Alexander, or the RINO sisters of Maine (GOP Sen’s Collins and Snowe)?

Why not? Because none of those people threaten the Left’s hold on power the way Palin does, the way her supporters do, the way the Tea Party does. Were it not so, there would be no talk of ignoring Palin – they would just go ahead and do it. Individually, without the need for coordination or petitions.

They’re afraid of her – and rightly so. She will utterly destroy them. Already has done substantial damage by being a major player in the movement which unseated a bunch of their friends in November, and that movement is just getting warmed up.

You don’t ignore things that you’re scared of. You run away from them, or try to eliminate the threat. That’s precisely what fear is – the notion that something-or-other is out to get you, or has potential to harm you and your ambitions…coupled with the realization that it has real potential for doing so. That description holds true whether they’re afraid of Palin, afraid of cancer, or afraid of the monster from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video.

They can’t ignore her even if you reject the fear argument. The observation would still remain that she annoys the crap out of them. Hard to ignore that, too.
- cylarz | 03/03/2011 @ 01:15

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