More Salt for Mark Thompson’s Wounds

25 thoughts on “More Salt for Mark Thompson’s Wounds”

1. +1 for the tag Dead Ferret Stapling.
   Its the little things that matter.Report

   1. Seriously.Report

      1. Trump could afford to have me killed, scalped, my body quietly disposed of, my family/friends’ silence bought, and my own hair grafted onto his noggin using the latest surgical techniques.

         Why does he persist with that hair? Is it a business intimidation/distraction tactic, in that you’ll agree to whatever terms he sets because you’re totes distracted by THAT THING on his head?Report

2. Wow.
   Just: Wow.

   I can’t imagine anyone asking Dick Morris to speak.

   I can’t imagine the man’s own mother being that kind to him.

   I feel a vortex of some sort.Report

3. Asking Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, and Dick Morris to speak indicates how unserious an intellectually bankrupt CPAC is. Not that it comes as a big surprise.Report

   1. Politics as entertainment for those entertainingly challenged.Report

4. I’m convinced that CPAC is a liberal plot to make conservatives spend money on listening to pointless blather.Report

5. Will Dick Morris ever shut up? The only reason the Clintons ever tolerated that little toe-sucker was because he was a sounding board, the rattles on the bottom of the Snare Drum of Stupid.

   Even Fox News is sick of Dick Morris and has given him the heave-ho. It’s a bit late to say “We Were Wrong” — after you lose the election. Though everyone remembers Karl Rove’s incredulity in the face of the Obama win, for those of us who were watching Fox at the time, Dick Morris leading the second line, confidently predicting a Romney victory.

   The only cure for Dick Morris is to boil his head for half an hour. Render off about twenty pounds of ugly fat.Report

6. Tell me which is weirder:

   -Donald Trump being treated like a serious person in any capacity at all, even with regard to business sense. Things he actually has more than name to do with tend to collapse, & it’s not like he’s self-made or anything.
   -Donald Trump (despite having donated to Dems & previously endorsing single-payer) being treated as a more serious “conservative Republican” than Christie because Christie didn’t tell Obama to Fish Off over disaster relief. Is being a Real Conservative as simple as being a rich white guy open to race-baiting? Even if Christie hates Obama’s guts, he has stuff to actually do.Report

   1. The sooner Donald Trump and his ego explode in a big ball of fire the better.Report

7. Meanwhile, over at The American Conservative, Daniel McCarthy has some words to warm the uninvited Christie’s cockles. He left out Ferret Stapling, but conservatives are slow to catch on to trends.Report

8. He’s not even trying to hide his racism any more, is he?

   Though this isn’t exactly salt in my wounds – instead, it’s almost the perfect encapsulation of my point: the movement conservatism that has dominated the Right for at least the last 30 years, and which has been incoherent for about the last decade, has rendered itself completely irrelevant.

   Something is going to have to replace it – politics abhors a vacuum.Report

   1. After a recent Tuesday post by the Good Doctor on tear-jerk movie scenes, you’re provoking visions of a Demon on a motorcycle hunting Arizona.Report

   2. How did Pat C characterize it? The victory condition the Tea Party has set for the GOP is self-immolation? Sounds about right.Report

   3. Something is going to have to replace it – politics abhors a vacuum.

      I mentioned this in the other thread but here’s the list of speakers from CPAC 2001 and 2002: Brent Bozell, Wayne LaPierre, Ann Coulter, Charlton Heston, Sean Hannity, David Horowitz, Allen Keyes, Grover Norquist. That was when talk of a permanent majority was considered serious, do you see a big difference between CPAC now and then? I just don’t think it’s a very good indicator of the party’s direction.Report

9. Salt for Tod Kelly’s wounds:

   http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-gop-keeps-getting-whiter-20130314

   http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/15/1729331/cpac-slavery-minority-outreach/Report

   1. That second one? Wow.

      That’s so “wow” I can’t help but wonder if the guy isn’t pranking CPAC. If he isn’t, then… wow.Report

      1. “Terry maintained that white people have been “systematically disenfranchised” by federal legislation.”

         What the who?Report

      2. I think such pranking does occur and I sometimes take some reports with a grain of salt (particularly when it’s a guy with a shirt or a sign).

         I don’t think this is one of them.Report

         1. He does seem to have been putting a lot of effort into being a white supremacist to be performance art.Report

            1. I tried to link to the guy’s actual blog and words for you but apparently linking it is forbidden.

               This isn’t performance art, he’s just your average CPAC attendee.Report

      3. Maybe I am just lazy but that seems like way too much of an effort for the sake of a prank.Report

   2. Ugh. The douche bag in the second story hails from my state. Gaah!Report

   3. People like him are why I left the Republicans, and gave up on their ideas. People like him are also why I don’t believe anyone who claims to be a conservative and not a racist any more.

      They kicked a black guy out because he was targeted by one of Breitbart’s fatass racists. http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/cpac-black-man-tossed-out-after-breitbReport

10. If I wasn’t such a partisan hack Dem this’d be depressing.

    Actually I take it back, this is depressing anyhow.Report

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