Answer: big-tenting is exactly what puts the evil in lesser evil. It's plain as Hillary's breakfast face that until all we left-votin' legionnaires shout "fuck the big tent or we fuck you" the so-called "progressive" caucus' bluff can't be called.
Now, when we scream at 'em "you measly back-street pimps, you're supping with Senator Gill-Man himself, the creature from the Bridgeport lagoon!" they reply -- with a calm and studied sanctimony -- "But folks! Our party is a big-tent party, 'cause big-tent parties are winning parties, and winning parties are... well... they win, you see. Don't you?"
Bullshit. You can't hide back there anymore, Barney and company. We want you jumping off that garbage scow, now! That's right, split, you bastards, split -- bust the donks back to also-ran status.
Recall Lyndon's line -- "Better we keep those fuckers on the inside pissin' out...."? Well, you dickweeds need to be "on the outside, pissin' in."
Comments (17)
"Big Tent Jackass Party"?
Am I the only one here who thinks this sounds like the title of an old Country Joe & The Fish album?
Posted by Mike Flugennock | February 2, 2007 6:43 PM
Posted on February 2, 2007 18:43
Is there a problem with winning? Some people think it's much better than remaining lost in the impotent whining of total purity. I know I do. Show me the perfect candidate and I'll happily vote for him. Until then, I'll work with what we've got in the real world.
Posted by Ellen1910 | February 2, 2007 6:45 PM
Posted on February 2, 2007 18:45
Ten minutes in the "purity" box for Ellen. Oh, and confiscate her stick, too.
Posted by ms_xeno | February 2, 2007 10:32 PM
Posted on February 2, 2007 22:32
Oh, now, be nice, Ms. Warrior Princess.
There are some pitiful desperate Democrats out there who insist on clinging to the "purity" excuse no matter how thin it wears, and, as such, are only more entertaining with each day.
I don't bother trying to talk sense into people like Ellen as they seem bound and determined to win that Political Darwin Award -- right on, let's thin out the political gene pool.
Oh, and by the way, just what the hell do they do at a Big Tent Jackass Party, anyway...become the political version of Steve-O, sticking a lit firecracker up his butt?
Posted by Mike Flugennock | February 2, 2007 11:54 PM
Posted on February 2, 2007 23:54
Show me the perfect candidate and I'll happily vote for him.
Vote early and vote often, please.
Posted by Reechard | February 3, 2007 1:04 AM
Posted on February 3, 2007 01:04
Hmmm. It seems to me that we just took back the legislature. Two more years of Bush and we'll take back the presidency. People are looking for a change for the better. You want good government? The Democrats have it.
I used to be a maximalist, but then I found out it was all based on spite. So much for taking the moral high ground.
Reechard, LOL! I love Mr. Peabody! But my real favorite is Secret Squirrel. Isn't Morocco Mole adorable?
Posted by Ellen1910 | February 3, 2007 2:33 AM
Posted on February 3, 2007 02:33
reechard ... may god bless u
and boy sherman keep u
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as to general jack d ripper's
purity of essence
recall:
"even if the heart is pure ..."
come a full moon nite
u can still become a were wolf
Posted by owen paine | February 3, 2007 11:49 AM
Posted on February 3, 2007 11:49
Mike, let's get one thing straight. This is a Xenophora. That's where the name is from. Not from some campy TV show so popular amongst today's young people. ;)
Personally, I think that Sam Smith of the Progressive Review would make an excellent candidate. But I don't think he's interested in running. At any rate, the demand for a "perfect" candidate to be submitted is a loaded question posted by a not-to-clever jackass who ought to know, by now, that "perfect" is neither the goal nor the point.
I wonder if we'll ever get a better class of detractors here ? Long-winded or short-winded, the ones who do show up always flog the same five or six bullshit non-points before skittering back to the Orange Football Stadium or wherever it is they come from. They all read from the same script, and it's a script even a trained monkey would be embarassed to produce. My debating muscles, such as they are, will never develop properly if this is all the lfiting I get to do.
Posted by ms_xeno | February 3, 2007 12:47 PM
Posted on February 3, 2007 12:47
"My debating muscles, such as they are, will never develop properly if this is all the lfiting I get to do "
amen sis
make my day net god-ess
send em...our way
btw
i just want quantity mz X
so for me
please send in
a whole school of kosified mackerel
i'll haul em up just for the tonnage
whilst for our dear lady send us
a few real challenges
she prefers to fly fish
for the rare demanding sport catch
Posted by owen paine | February 3, 2007 1:46 PM
Posted on February 3, 2007 13:46
Our prayers are answered, Brer Paine. Scruggs has some intriguing links to Stan Goff's October defense of strategic Democrat voting, over at UFO.
I don't buy Goff's defense, but at least he's capable of talking to his opponents, not down to them...
Posted by ms_xeno | February 3, 2007 3:50 PM
Posted on February 3, 2007 15:50
http://stangoff.com/?p=393
stan goff
lets play eighteen holes of goff
ready to rumble !!!!!!
the above stoopenheimer
is declared target zero
a digital logo krieg
is here by declared on
utter bovine stan goff
one step demonstration:
" ..RACE is inescapably one of the elephants in every electoral living room. GENDER is the other, of course, especially in these warlike times. These two elephants take up so much room that they squeeze CLASS right out. The reason this is important this time is that, while people of color, women, and LGBT folk have a great deal to fear from both parties, there is little doubt that the Republicans represent a very serious and immediate threat that can not be ignored."
hyper scriberal hysteria
dessert:
"The same holds true for the working class (even those who still think they are in the “middle,” ha ha), but the sheer political and ideological force of white nationalism and patriarchy remains an effective prophylaxis against any kind of class solidarity here in the good, old US of A."
PURE BRAIN POISON
pull that prophylaxis over your fuckin head stan
a dog should lift his leg over your shoe
twice a day
----------------
peaceful people of valley jobstein
the call must go out !!!!!!
for the klass avengers
ride forth
wang the merciless gang
and
the red bards
and
the fire chiefs of prole hell
this geefer must be
dunked
flunked
debunked
and rolled like a possum
down a steep and long sided hill
Posted by owen paine | February 3, 2007 8:39 PM
Posted on February 3, 2007 20:39
ellen you phantom gad flea
u need a redesign too
like secret sq
the gore ville
tall dark putznik look with bangs
no longer becomes u
i suggest you become a 6 pack of mcnuggets
Posted by owen paine | February 6, 2007 2:22 PM
Posted on February 6, 2007 14:22
I have no problem with winning. It's why I don't support people who are opposed to everything I want.
I'm sorry, what was the question again?
Posted by et alia | February 7, 2007 12:19 AM
Posted on February 7, 2007 00:19
Well, et alia, my questions are threefold:
Where in blazes have you been ?
How are the cats ?
And
What the hell did you do with Scruggs ? I'm not buying his marriage defense.
Posted by ms_xeno | February 8, 2007 2:05 AM
Posted on February 8, 2007 02:05
So much for taking the moral high ground.
Oh, Ellen. Can't you pick one page of the script and stick with it ? First you're upset because we're too pure and then you're upset because we're too tainted. Spite ? Oh, please. Listening to the people who either condone or cheer the shennanigans that got Nader demoted to write-in status all over the place in 2004 (and who did the same for challengers at the local level in 2006, too;So much for their ever-specious claim that Nader should have started at the bottom of the electoral pile if he wanted their candy) is priceless. I mean, incredibly priceless. Like Bill-Clinton-slaps-around-welfare-mothers-for-their-immorality-while-being-unable-to-keep-it-in-his-pants-funny. What a bunch of pathetic fucking bullies you hang with, Ellen.
Don't you have to run off to MyDDDDDDDD now and help them govern, or pretend to stop the war, or whatever it is they do? Take a comfy cushion with you in case Reid and Pelosi need their shoes polished again. Bruised knees probably aren't much fun.
Posted by ms_xeno | February 8, 2007 2:15 AM
Posted on February 8, 2007 02:15
Where in blazes have you been ?
camping tents
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