Wonkette
- Barack Obama is the unofficial president of North Carolina. [News and Observer]
- Republicans agree they need fresh, new leadership and an infusion of novel ideas, and they look to popular governors like Sarah Palin to show them a way “out of the wilderness.” [FOX News]
- John McCain decided in July that he needed to “shake up the race” by suddenly running a completely conventional Republican campaign. [Washington Post]
- The Republican base didn’t turn out on Tuesday. [ABC News]
- California’s newly passed gay marriage ban immediately faces legal challenges. [Los Angeles Times]
- The Bank of England and the European Central Bank both cut interest rates, reflecting a continued concern that the British economy is struggling. [New York Times]
The Republican base has been shooting its guns into the air, trying to kill the Muslin God that could let this happen. That, and eating Baconators.
When are they going to call South America? Sarah Palin wants to know if she and McCain won that state.
hobgoblin of little minds: Isn’t South America the old Confederacy?
Looks like Reaganomics didn’t just create huge financial deficits for US America. It also created a leadership deficit in the Repub party. Sorry folks, looking for intelligence among the Reaganite ranks is like looking for a chocolate bonbon in a mountain of bullshit. Even if you do find it, do you really want to have it?
What? I thought California was filled to the brim with buttsecksing libtards? How does a state filled with “those ones” vote to ban gay marriage, which is like basicaly regular marriage to the gays?
For Sale: NASCAR recliner with refrigerator built into base. Motor on refrigerator burned out due to flood of bitter, bitter tears.
4tehlulz: It’s the next Bush residency.
Old Confederacy? Hell, they were recruiting volunteers for Pickett’s Charge Part Deux just down the block yesterday. Hooray for Dixie!
Oh, please let the GOP decide to follow Palin’s leadership. This will guarantee comedy gold for Wonkette for YEARS and will keep the GOP base restricted to conspiracy nuts, Klan members, and openly deranged.
It’s not that the Republican base didn’t turn out, it’s just their plan called “Trickle Down Voting” wherein a lot of them vote in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, etc. and that trickles down to the rest of the country. Just give it time, it will work.
Special Agent Jack Mehoff:
A lot of Obama/Yes-on-8 voters? The Associated Press exit polls show that African Americans and Latinos backed Proposition 8 in good numbers. Details here from AP:
California’s black and Latino voters, who turned out in droves for Barack Obama, also provided key support in favor of the state’s same-sex marriage ban. Seven in 10 black voters backed a successful ballot measure to overturn the California Supreme Court’s May decision allowing same-sex marriage, according to exit polls for The Associated Press.
More than half of Latino voters supported Proposition 8, while whites were split. Religious groups led the tightly organized campaign for the measure, and religious voters were decisive in getting it passed. Of the seven in 10 voters who described themselves as Christian, two-thirds backed the initiative. Married voters and voters with children strongly supported Proposition 8. Unmarried voters were heavily opposed.
The wilderness? They should sent Sarah Palin back to the wilderness.
Moses listened to a burning bush and wandered for 40 years in the wilderness; we listened to a Bush and wandered in the wilderness for eight.
rubybuckaroo: It’s funny that you mentioned the latino vote, because the “Blacks did Prop 8″ meme is starting to gain traction in places like AmericaBLOG and Sully (no surprise there).
How dare Obama supporters vote to ban same-sex marriage! Where do they get these wacky views from? Have they been listening to the wild, anti-gay-marriage views of politicians like Barack Obama?
WaPo: [Steve] Schmidt was with Palin, watching on a JetBlue charter’s in-seat television screen with growing horror.
The cable news networks had a split screen: On one side was the tanking stock market, already 700 points down. On the other were Republicans, whining about how the economic stimulus package had been defeated because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had given a partisan-tinged speech.
“It was a moment of pure disaster,” Schmidt recalled thinking. “The Republican Party was making the argument that we tanked the economy because Nancy Pelosi was mean to us. It was devastating.”
Barney Frank for the win. Take that, fuckers.
“Our law allows us to say who the unofficial winner is,” Bartlett said, “but you know we have a formal process in which we audit records.”
The county canvasses are Nov. 14, and the state is scheduled to certify the results Dec. 1.
Can I just go ahead and note that if Obama’s victory depended on the outcome of North Carolina I’d be a fucking nervous wreck right now and would likely die of alcohol poisoning before Dec 1st? But Allah is merciful and ensured that Obama would be named Caliph by a wide enough margin that the results were known by 11:00 pm, Tuesday.
Terry: Win, though snark aside, all this stuff coming out on how clueless Mooselini is shows that the knives are out. Which is smart, they must terminate her early, if you’re the GOP. What we can hope for is that the base is nutty enough to keep her hopes alive. Something like it’s okay for Tammy Faye Bakker to have expensive clothes and look like a tart since she was doing the Lord’s work.
So far we are finding out two things: 1) crazy base is still enamoured with Palin; 2) the knives are already sharpening against her from some angry McCain quarters. This means Republicans will engage in a civil war the like we have not seen in decades. I guess we know who benefits – our Wonkette!
4tehlulz: Blacks did Prop 8, but who did Prop R? The pro-sewage lobby?
Cali voters killed abortion initiative.
Oh, I’m SO glad the right to marry the one you love is seen as frivolous! If it’s so damned frivolous then that attorney wont mind giving up that right himself then, hmm? (I probably should be bringing the snark but I’m too damned angry).
Palin’s plane was Jet Blue? I should have thought it was one of those all-smoking airline planes, probably upholstered in mustard, with no tv screens. And a purda in back for the females.
Dreamer: This still does not excuse them from the comfort handjob I have not received but was promised.
Serolf Divad: The results were known a full month ago by the math-fucking nerds at T’ree-Fitty-Eight, where they stole the blueprints to CNN’s MAGIC HOLOGRAM SMART BOARD OF MATH except made it from unstable uranium and the souls of the damned, making a horrible haunted math machine that correctly predicted how every US citizen would vote. After the election it was destroyed before it fell into the wrong hands.
Tommy Says Soooo:
I predict that Mooselini will be a one term governor. That stuff with McCain staffers taking over the governor’s office during the campaign did NOT go over well.
Tommy Says Soooo: They always persecute the righteous….
mattbolt: Looks like the locals decided that it wasn’t worth $50K in be reminded of the shithole that Bush has left us in. You can get that for free by going out for a walk.
Which Republican base is this that they speak of? The Jebus loving, gun toting, Walmart shopping, gay bashing one; or the Jesus loving, gun toting, Neiman’s shopping, gay bashing one?
Or are they talking about Chris Buckley and the others that can actually rub two thoughts together?
mattbolt: “Many Bothans died to bring us this information.” Then a bunch ewoks blew it up.
Tommy Says Soooo: Speaking of fine dining, Barack Obama wins the election and McDonald’s immediately brings back McRibs. Coincidence? I think not.
whiteasasheet: Why doesn’t McD’s salute our new Hawaiian Sun God by reviving the Hula Burger?
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1219018
The GOP re-grouping will be comedy gold. It’ll be something akin to the Engulf & Devour board meetings in Mel Brooks’ “The Silent Movie”.
“Ms. Palin had been advised by Nicolle Wallace, a senior McCain aide, that she should buy three new suits for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September and three additional suits for the fall campaign. The budget for the clothes was anticipated to be from $20,000 to $25,000, the officials said.”
Good Lord. Even before Palin blew the budget, this was out of control. The planned to pay $20-25K for 6 suits? I could go to Nordstrom or even Needless Markups and do better without even going near the sale rack.
mattbolt: Nate Silver is an anagram of Hari Seldon.
Terry:
You starting to understand now why these people are shocked that Obama thinks $250k annual income is a lot of money?
Terry: 6 suits?
Anyone suit jockey knows all you need is 2 suits and 6 ties.
Serolf Divad:
I’m thinking that Palin got a look at Cindy McCain’s wardrobe aimed high, not realizing that La Cindy sells a lot of brewskis to pay for those clothes.
Reading the comments of wingers regarding Sarah Palin’s demonstrated ignorance is absolutely hilarious. It used to be chilling — before Hopey was elected — but now it’s just funny. RedStaters simply don’t beleive Fox regarding the latest revelations. And they don’t beleive that she couldn’t name any Supreme Court cases or newspapers — she just didn’t feel like it. Ha ha ha ha. Cognitive. Dissonance. Oh man, she’s going to be a lodestone hanging around the neck of the GOP for a long long time. Even Fox can’t amputate that gangrenous limb.
I’d say the belief that Africa is a country, not a continent, would definitely qualify as a new idea. Palin in 2012!
Nicole Wallace - like I said, Detective Robert Goren warned us!
4tehlulz: Sully (no surprise there).
Yeah, why does Mrs. Sullivan hate teh darkies so much?
Vewol Mevemont: That’s sort of like cat people saying that the reason cats won’t do tricks is just that they don’t want to. Morans.
rubybuckaroo:
It’s unfortunate. We’ve allowed the GOP to divide us for so long, we’ve long forgotten the meaning of “solidarity.” The country needs to work on that. The left really needs to get back to the whole “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” ideal and remind people that the only way the little fish will ever stand their ground against the big fish is by schooling together and looking out for each other and fighting for each others’ rights. Yeah I realize that sounds like hippy dippy bullshit, but don’t forget that it was hippy dippy bullshit that saw the civil rights struggle through and helped end the Vietnam war.
Terry: As opposed to now, when it is composed of …..?
Serolf Divad: YES !!
Serolf Divad: Beautiful.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not
the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but
the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
John F. Kennedy
Vewol Mevemont: hahaha srlsy those libtards at Fox news aren’t fair and balanced enough to CariBible Spice Cunt.
Will someone please tell me why Michelle Obama wore a bar-b-q apron in front of a million people?
Palin leading people out of the wilderness? No, I think she’d lead them into a blind cul-de-sac. After that, there’s just the shootin’, the skinnin’, and the trophy takin’.
They’re actually counting provisional ballots in NC?! This is an outrage!
LOVE the COunty Bubbles map NYTimes today. County Bubbles was also my favourite at the Old Tip-Top Inne…
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html
ALL marriage is pretty gay, if you ask me.
Kinbote: mattbolt: Naming that plant after Chimpy would have really been unfair. Consider: sewage treatment plants are reasonably unattractive, sometimes a bit smelly, and provide an essential public service. Whereas Prez Chimpy is reasonably attractive, probably smells fine, and did every fucking thing he could to destroy New Orleans, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the English language, and two or three nations.
Ca votes to discriminate against gays, but hey, that Sarah Palin sure is stupid, eh?
they better not take away my choice to have hot man-on-man-buttsex just because i’m not biologically “gay.”