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Republicans Firmly Committed To Losing More Elections

Meet your new ReaganRepublicans have made the only conclusion possible about their party following the electoral repudiation of an ancient war hero who ran on the “not a Negro” platform and chose as his running mate a proud religious nutjob ignoramus with a bubble of methane where her brain should be: they have decided their party keeps losing because they aren’t conservative enough.

Libtards, cast your minds back to the elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004, and your bewilderment about why people didn’t vote for Democrats. “It’s because we aren’t principled enough!” you wailed. “It’s because we’re doing all this Clintonite middle-of-the-road waffling instead of proudly standing up for mandatory gay marriage and compulsory state-funded abortions and a complete liquidation of the military!”

Set aside 2000, because who knows what was going on there. But in ‘02 and ‘04, people were scared and they liked Bush’s war talk so they voted Republican. Similarly, in ‘06 and ‘08, people were sick of Republicans and ready to put the running of government back into the hands of people who do not profess to despise government.

So naturally, over half of Republicans have decided that the extremely conservative, intellectually useless Sarah Palin can revivify the party so that they can get back to hating/running government again.

Coming off a shellacking at the polls in November, the plurality of GOP voters (43%) say their party has been too moderate over the past eight years, and 55% think it should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the future, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 24% think failed presidential candidate John McCain is the best future model for the party, and 10% are undecided.

Only 17% of Republican voters say their party has been too conservative, and 30% say its actions and positions have been about right, with nine percent (9%) not sure.

Ha ha good luck LOZERS, you will be out of power for another generation.

Republicans Like GOP’s Conservative Direction, Democrats Don’t [Rasmussen Reports]


3:52 PM on Mon February 2 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. After they get sick of eating Hobo beans and living in pyramids MADE of used hobo-bean tins, maybe only THEN will they realize that they should for once just mind their own fucking business, pay taxes and shut up.

  2. user-of-owls says at 3:57 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    a bubble of methane where her brain should be

    That’s an insult to inert gases everywhere.

  3. PortlandSmartAss says at 3:57 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Thus guaranteeing the continued survival of comedy shows across the nation.

  4. Their biggest problem is CLEARLY the fact that they still haven’t reached out to Ron Paul or bought Truck Nutz for all Americans.

  5. lenorecutie says at 3:58 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    I was worried when they voted for a somewhat moderate chairman for the RNC, but shit. I’m all for them going for the crazy wingnut vote.

  6. madtowngooner says at 4:00 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    That’s the “Not a Magic Negro” platform. Also.

  7. Mad Farmer Manifest says at 4:00 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    On an unrelated note, the solution for too much sunshine is too cut down as many trees as possible. And baldness can be cured by shaving your head.

  8. user-of-owls: I’m not sure that word means what you think it means….

  9. ManchuCandidate says at 4:03 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Stupid is as stupid does.

    user-of-owls:
    Hey! Sienze Nerd here. Methane burns thus not inert.

  10. Well, a plurality of insane wingnuts can’t be wrong.

  11. The new leader of the Republican party should not be Sarah Palin.

    It should be the fetal child of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.

  12. freedomfrieswidat? says at 4:07 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Wait, what’s that I hear? Ah yes, the delightful pitter patter of tiny lemming feet. Run, little lemmings, run.

  13. Crazybroad says at 4:08 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Um, why is She Who Shall Not Be Named and Yet Refuses to Go Away dominating the left-hand side of my Wonkette comment view?

    As for the post: Republican minds are clearly de-volving back to the primordial slime ooze from whence they came. Oh that’s right, they don’t believe in (de)volution. Go on not believing and the Democrats will take over the universe in 2 generations.

  14. NotNotLickingToads says at 4:08 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    “Similarly, in ‘06 and ‘08, people were sick of Republicans and ready to put the running of government back into the hands of people who do not profess to despise government.”

    I love that…the whole “let’s entrust running the government to the people who think that government can’t do anything right and should be dismantled and then act shocked when they fuck shit up” thing.

  15. Crazybroad says at 4:09 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Fawxer: Horrors like that are why I am pro-choice.

  16. Did you mean a “bubble of methane” or “a bubble of crystal meth” where Sarah Palin’s brain should be? I think either analogy would fit quite well.

  17. LordPretzel says at 4:10 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    The link below the article is missing an “h” at the beginning of the “http.”

  18. pat robertsons personal trainer says at 4:10 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    yeah, we were way too moderate under our greatest. president. ever. he should’ve flown back from Crawford at twice supersonic speed to sign the schiavo bill then personally flown to florida to feed her like a bird feeds its young. morans. also. when are we going to start teaching kids about how moses rode dinosaurs? also.

    the longer these dumbshits keep following Queen Rush right off the cliff of stupidity, the more irrelevant they become. you can almost hear the world whizzing right by them. i was thinking that nothing that scat-muncher* says will get him kicked off the air, but i then i realized that’s a good thing. as he alienates more & more people with even a faint sense of logic, all that’ll be left of the “true conservatives” will be the bachmann/palins of the world.

    *copyright to bill hicks, r.i.p.

  19. NunnaTheSOBs says at 4:11 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    The “American Idol”:
    a telegeninc, untalented, non-entiy:
    One joke that made the rounds in ‘08
    was that we should pick political leaders
    the same way that glorified Karaoke Contest
    awards recording contracts. Count on
    the effin’ GOPers to actually DO it.
    The ONLY thing this woman has going for
    her is that she is one fine lookin’
    piece of 44 year old ass.

  20. user-of-owls says at 4:13 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    jbd: ManchuCandidate: No, it used to burn, but then it got laid off and so now it’s inert. Or idle. It’s an idle gas. Bloody layabout.

  21. I note that all the rupublogreed governors in our great country are saying “Screw you Congress! We want that bailout money!” It is to laugh. Tax cuts indeed!

  22. StephanieInCA says at 4:17 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Perhaps a better strategy would be for Palin and her ilk to continue producing human litters until they physically create a, uh, “moral” majority.

  23. loislane1939 says at 4:18 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    I hope they know that Alaska has medical marijuana, and decriminalization, and can only afford to screw around the way they do because of their socialism and oil deals. Haha. I am not sure what Sarah Palin’s America looks like to those people, but it’s a fake dream that will never happen. I know politics doesn’t like to exist in the real world, but that’s kind of fucking stupid. It doesn’t matter what they want anyway, Independents are most likely going to be the ones that decide the elections in all future times.

  24. Coming off a shellacking at the polls in November, the plurality of GOP voters (43%) say their party has been too moderate over the past eight years

    I’m sorry, I got to this part and I couldn’t stop laughing long enough to finish. What does the rest of it say?

  25. I’m a’gonna donate to her election campaign. Twice. She makes me joyous.

  26. I think the Fuck Me Boots stategem will capture a certain niche:

    http://thesuperficial.com/2009/02/sarah_palin_adds_fck_me_boots.php

  27. sarcasticusername says at 4:20 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    the nightmares are real aren’t they? she’s really not going away.
    if one didn’t hate john mccain before, he gave us all more reasons than we could ever need, the day he gave us sarah palin. there has to be a special kind of hell for that kind of crime against humanity.

  28. SayItWithWookies says at 4:22 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Of course, this is a survey of people who still identify as Republicans. Most of them also believe that Orlando will be hit by a meteor during the next Gay Pride Festival, that trees cause air pollution, and that our government is now in the hands of an Indonesian Muslim. It’s surprising that fewer than half thought the GOP wasn’t conservative enough, but then the surveyors probably discounted those answers that were given in tongues.

  29. 55% think it should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the future

    I for one look forward to the time when all Republicans everywhere will end every sentence with a huge wink and butt wiggle. Come on Boehner, McConnell, etc.! Your constituents demand it!

  30. Kev-O-Tron says at 4:23 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Anyone else catch the Anger Bear’s little “shout out” on the SuperBowl last night? I saw the dingbat all dolled up with her expensive hair and makeup about twenty minutes before kick off.

    Gosh she’s just so darned folksy and wholesome it makes me poop Stouffer’s Stuffing in my overalls, also!

  31. actor212 says at 4:26 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Sarah Palin, the gift that keeps on giving, even after her Chapstick runs out.

  32. Kev-O-Tron says at 4:28 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    sarcasticusername: That fuckwits responsible for the Anger Bear, Joe the Played Out Idiot and Tito the Wannabe Played Out Idiot. I say skip the judge and jury and get straight to the execution of all four of them.

  33. NunnaTheSOBs says at 4:29 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    WendyK:
    maybe we could do a threesome
    with her. we could ALL be joyous.

  34. V572625694 says at 4:30 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Reagan was an idiot too, mouthing empty conservative memes about eliminating corporate income tax, privatizing TVA, etc. So the voters resoundingly rejected him, right?

    Palin + better handlers + more money + more time = Reagan

    Palin-as-Reagan vs. Democratic incumbent + recession or inconclusive military action = eight years of Reuglicans in charge again.

  35. During the Bush years, I and many progressives considered leaving the US for a more tolerant, enlightened land. There are many of these - Canada, most of Europe.

    But where would the Republicans go if they can’t deal with an inclusive, intelligent, secular, forward-thinking Obama America? There is no developed country more conservative.

    Therefore, given the Republican infatuation with Sarah Palin, these Republicans should be encouraged to actually MOVE to Alaska. They can take their moose guns, scary churches, and cruisy toilets. They can drill for oil all they want, deny global warming, and keep an eye on Putin for us, when he “rears his head.”

    Then, we can just ignore them from a distance.

  36. Kev-O-Tron says at 4:34 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Fawxer: The word around the nuttier conservative blogs last November was Australia.

  37. snideinplainsight says at 4:34 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Sarah Palin cummings i-i-i:

    The “American Idol”
    telegenicy , un-talented, non-en-titty:
    One joke that made the rounds in ‘08
    the laziest sea of self
    was that we should appoint appointeys

    her sensles heartland blather
    a lucky phipps of you
    turns people into eaches
    and blohards into grow

    the same way that Karaoke Contest
    awards recording contracts. Count on
    the ephhin ’ GOPers
    who are so all and oneful
    to ONLY watch her DD.

    The ONLY thing this woman bee
    is that she one fine lookin’
    piece of old ess.
    See is threw sea so sky
    she is threw me so why

  38. SayItWithWookies says at 4:35 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Fawxer: There is no developed country more conservative.
    Where else but the paradise they’ve built, and are so rightfully proud of — Iraq?

  39. undermedicated says at 4:39 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    V572625694: Now you’re scaring me. And here I was all thinking we should donate to SaraPAC ‘n stuff.

  40. NunnaTheSOBs says at 4:39 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    snideinplainsight:
    well her DD ain’t so bad to
    watch. i only wished her
    iq matched that “dd”.

  41. BlueCarp says at 4:40 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    I can’t wait for all my free stuff now that the Dems control the federal government.

  42. Atheist Nun says at 4:40 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    It’s so cute how the republicans keep flapping their gums, thinking they are relevant… it’s like watching a junkie rolling around on the floor, clawing at his face, convinced he’s covered with invisible bugs. We don’t see the bugs, assholes, because they are not really there!

  43. Texan Bulldoggette says at 4:42 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    If Palin thinks Mike Huckleberry is just going to shrivel up & blow away (ha ha–funny imagery), she’s dumber than even we think. The good preacher man has been doing his Fox news show polishing up his conservative bona fides & biding his time. I eagerly await the death match between these two biblical farts. Oh & throw in the Mormon Mittens–good times ahead!

  44. Kev-O-Tron: Is Australia MORE conservative?

    SayItWithWookies: Good call.

    Either way it’s fine with me.

  45. wickedlittledoll says at 4:46 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Well she is puuurty lil thing.
    http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/

  46. BadKitty says at 4:46 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    On Fox News Sunday, Michael Steele said he wants the GOP to reach out to candidates who support gay marriage and are pro-choice. Steele told Fox’s Chris Wallace that it was “important” to reach out to those voters.

    So basically, they are completely out of touch with their base. I wonder which will end up being their voice going into 2012. The bigotted asshole bible thumpers or the rich bastards?

  47. What does it even mean, to be “more like Sarah Palin”, or more properly, more like Sarah Palin in what respect, Charlie? Does anybody know a thing she stands for, other than shopping at Nieman Marcus and dropping retards all over the landscape?

    Fawxer: It’s been tough for them, since the Union of South Africa folded.

  48. hobospacejungle says at 4:57 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Tra: “I for one look forward to the time when all Republicans everywhere will end every sentence with a huge wink and butt wiggle”

    Sarah Palin + Butt Wiggle = ewww gross. She is not purdy. She looks like an insect, a bug which needs to be squashed. Somebody please squash her. After 2012.

  49. NunnaTheSOBs says at 4:58 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    WadISay:
    She inspires loyalty in
    GOPers of a certain age
    the same way that viagra
    restores potency to the
    same cohort — a big fat
    mindless hard-on ready to
    fuck the first opening
    that it finds.

  50. ManchuCandidate: user-of-owls: Methane is produce by rotting vegetation and bovine flatulence, also.
    Therefore, SKS’ statement is an insult to cow farts every where.

  51. PsycGirl says at 5:06 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    In reference to the link, I think Democrats should LOVE the Repub’s conservative movement. The humor! The electoral victories!

  52. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Evangelical Christians say that teen girls should practice saddlebacking in order to save themselves for holy matrimony.

  53. CivicHoliday says at 5:11 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    I hear she’s building yet another bridge to nowhere. Obviously, she chatted with Obama at the Alfalfa dinner and got on board with the public works part of the stimulus package. Also.

  54. GlennBecksFelch says at 5:12 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Republickans.

  55. chascates says at 5:14 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Republicans will begin stating that they need to return to their basic values. And pay attention only to:
    The Father (Limbaugh)
    The Son (Coulter)
    and the Holy Ghost (Kristol)

  56. That facial expression of hers just screams to me “it’s time for the money shot at the RNC convention Bukkake event.”

  57. Gorillionaire says at 5:17 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Mark my words, in four years this woman will look like Dana Carvey as The Church Lady. Will act just like him too.

  58. Diogenes McGillicutty says at 5:30 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    @ Texan Bulldoggette

    THAT is what I’m looking forward to. Fuckabees vs Bible Spice vs Mittins is gonna be like some crazy Wrestlemania bullshit. There will be accusations of Unrighteousness thrown at Fuckabees and Magical underwear talk at Mittins and we may see some nude photos of Bible Spice before it all ends.

    It’ll be a lot like three komodo dragons, wacked out on thorazine, mdma and crystal meth trying to eat and hump each other. It’ll be somewhat like the end of a Palahniuk novel. It’ll slightly resemble that bit in Super Mario World where you’ve got to fight the three firebreathing rhino things while on a spinning platform…

    And then Obama is going to stomp a mud hole in the ass of whoever wins the nomination. Because whoever manages to seduce the wingnuts is going to have to go so far to the right that comparatively sane people will never even think about voting for them.

    (As long as he doesn’t fuck things up horribly.)

  59. Splitters!!

  60. If the RNC keeps up this whole campaign of alienation…
    in 2012 the DNC’s new slogan should be
    “All your voting base are belong to us.”
    Also.

  61. El Pinche says at 6:12 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    LEEVE SARA PALLIN ALONE, SHE”S A CRISTIAN AND A MOM AND WE NEED MORE OF THAT IN OWR GOVERNEMEN ALSO YOU GODLESS LIBS WAN TO SEE THIS CUNTRY FAIL INTO RECESHUN AND HIGH JOBLESNESS THAT BEYONCE AND LUDICRISP HAVE CREATED.

  62. WadISay:
    What does it even mean, to be “more like Sarah Palin”, or more properly, more like Sarah Palin in what respect, Charlie?

    “Not elected?”

    And here I thought we would never find common ground …

  63. user-of-owls: Methane is hardly an _inert_ gas. Give the governor some credit.

  64. Dashboard_Buddha says at 7:51 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Fear not, Children. God has not spoken yet. Note thee well that Wasilla is merely 120 mile (approx) from Mt. Redoubt.

  65. snowblind says at 8:08 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    user-of-owls: If only methane was really inert–all evidence is to the contrary–Palin’s VP run, that terrible Wasilla dumpster smell, and the seemingly random methane explosions occuring everyday in our nation’s hobo trash heaps.

  66. chascates says at 8:14 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Ha! Wolf-lovin’ Hollywood-types take on Gov. Palin’s wolf killing hobby:
    http://eyeonpalin.org/

  67. There is a huge Sarah P.over on the left who musta et the Annthing I saw earlier. I need a drink or a pill.

  68. Jesus Christ! The contradictions. They’ll fight tooth and nail against any governance except, of course, that which is decreed by their Utopian church-state from a twisted and purpose-driven interpretation of Jeebus’ bestseller. The desecration of God’s/Godess’ dominion is of no importance because Lush Rimjob told ‘em it was a God-given right. However, the goings-on in America’s bedrooms IS a state matter and subject to it’s laws. In other words, you may kill, maim, or destroy what you want, but not fuck who you want. This is freedom!?
    Since their ‘rights’ only apply to the people of their choosing ( Wonder bread ), then shouldn’t ONLY those same people be solely subject to their laws?
    Why not just let ‘em have their goddamned Confederacy? Perhaps their imminent collapse will open their eyes to the farce that is their world.
    No leaders amongst the Republicants, just followers. And their proud of it. (?)

  69. CaliforniaMike says at 8:53 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Them ‘publicans say all their problems are solved now that they’ve got their own Magic Negro.

  70. rocktonsammy says at 9:20 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    No wonder Todd goes for 10 thousand mile snow machine rides.

  71. Neon Trotsky says at 9:41 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Crazybroad: Well, either somebody thinks Wonketteers are avid Newsmax readers or we’re just willing to click on a photo of Sarah Palin with an American-flag-emblazoned moose lapel pin…

  72. CaliforniaMike says at 9:56 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Caribou Barbie has her own secret strategy for campaignin’ when she’s at the top of the ticket.

    Braless till the weather gets a little warmer, then topless.

  73. wildeoats says at 10:09 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    How can she run for prezdint of Murrica — wasn’t she “palling around with terrists” at the Alfalfa dinner?

  74. Bearbloke says at 10:49 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    ph7: and the not-wearing-panties thing will capture houseflies…

  75. Bearbloke says at 10:54 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    NunnaTheSOBs: Yew betcha’!

  76. I don’t think y’all should make fun of strong, intelligent, beautiful, tasty soda pop, PRO BABIES!, wonderful woman because you are jealous and afraid of her power. You bitter liberals just can’t leave poor Sarah alone because you’re scared of her love for babies while you hate babies and want all babies to die because you gave Satan a foothold and want to live without God also.

  77. Bearbloke says at 11:42 pm, February 2nd, 2009

    Trace: Strong - like a moose; intelligent - like a moose; beautiful - like a she-moose! Palin/Plumber 2012!!!

  78. Shmucky DeFukhed says at 12:22 am, February 3rd, 2009

    With the Republicans running Palin and the Dems running Obama, it looks like no one is going to win the next election.

  79. BetterDaysAreComing says at 1:14 am, February 3rd, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: That’s “Indonesian Muslin.” For the love of Reagan will you get in right next time? Sheesh!

  80. wickedlittledoll says at 2:03 am, February 3rd, 2009

    You betcha she’s gonna be the sexy new Prez of Real America one day. Then she won’t have to venture into Fake America to drop thousands updating her rustic Wasilla look to something more presentable to modern society. She can wear all the pink tutus she wants!
    http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/

  81. iolanthe says at 11:18 am, February 3rd, 2009

    Servo: I agree, Servo. Raise the issue of secession — *THEIR* secession. They want Jesusland, let ‘em have it! We don’t need to have a bloody civil war about this. How about a semi-amiable divorce, the kind where you pay your partner off and gently shove them out the door, with a tender “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass” and “Never contact me again, ‘K?” Sell this separation to them with Biblical rhetoric about what a “jewel” their new country can be, what a perfect *beacon* of Christitude, and the old “city on a hill” line. Tell them how great the contrast will be between their Christ-centered country and all us pagans over here in America.

    And then, use that time-honored Conservatarian meme about the Goodness of a System: see which way the traffic wants to flow over the border. I know for *sure* which way it will flow every Saturday night!

    I’m semi-serious. Let ‘em take the South, or a large chunk of the Midwest. Let ‘em have it. They’ll be bankrupt in no time.

  82. iolanthe says at 11:20 am, February 3rd, 2009

    Trace: Wow! I think I’ve talked to *you* on YouTube comments!

  83. Bearbloke says at 1:05 pm, February 3rd, 2009

    iolanthe: They can have the South, with its lousy weather and crumbling infrastructure - I enjoy Minnesota far to much to surrender it to those douches!

  84. Joey Ratz says at 5:57 pm, February 3rd, 2009

    WadISay: Austria’s still full of unreconstructed Nazis, not to mention crappy music, fatty food and ugly people. The GOP refugees will fit right in.

  85. iolanthe: You probably have. I’m so troll that when I troll around, I REALLY troll around.

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