‘Stunning The Halibut’

[BlueStateSaint]

This is in Newsweek. 

They're scared.

‘Stunning The Halibut’

If the Democrats think things are bad now, wait until Sarah Palin grabs them by their bleeding hearts.

When Democrats and progressive pundits start whining about how we’re having an anti-intellectual moment, it can mean only one thing: they just got their butts handed to them in an election. It’s not often you see the lefty New Republic and the righty National Review use the same Obama quote on their covers to describe anything, but they did after the Nov. 2 midterms: “Shellacking.”

It may be good news for the Democrats that many people didn’t seem to get the word about this big event, or even exactly which party is in charge. According to a Pew Research Center poll released last week, “Fewer than half (46%) know that the Republicans will have a majority only in the House of Representatives when the new Congress convenes in January, while 38% can identify John Boehner as the incoming House speaker.” Nancy Pelosi should just keep showing up every day as if nothing has changed, like Milton Waddams in Office Space. She can go cubicle to cubicle asking if anyone has her red stapler, and see how long it takes to get tossed out on her ear.

Then again, you can be sure that a lot of the fired-up Tea Partiers know exactly what they accomplished this election cycle. So some of the 54 percent who don’t understand must be Democrats who aren’t paying close attention, which is one of the reasons the party finds itself in this electoral mess. The paying-attention wing of the party is left to ponder what—to it—are seemingly contradictory thoughts among the voting public. According to a Rasmussen poll last week, slightly more than half of Americans (51 percent) say it is possible to achieve a balanced federal budget without raising taxes. But many Democrats believe raising taxes is an absolute necessity to balance the budget and dig out of the $1.4 trillion annual hole we’re in. An increasing number of Americans just don’t trust them to do it right, and with good reason. Most people think the government wastes money.

The Republicans played to this “we can slash our way out” sentiment when they unleashed YouCut this spring, a Web site designed to let citizens weigh in on what budget items should be axed. The New York Times did them one better with its “You Fix the Budget” online puzzle last week. It turns out it’s a lot harder than it looks, and not that fun because you can eliminate farm subsidies only one time.

And if the revenge of the Tea Party people weren’t enough to drive Democrats mad during the election, now it seems that the group’s tentacles have reached into the sacred world of reality-TV dance competitions. On Dancing With the Stars, Bristol Palin survived far longer than expected. It’s been whispered—and yelled—that she made it as far as she did only because the Tea Party voted in droves to keep her in the competition. Which brings me to that other reality-TV star and author, the big Mama Grizzly herself. As each day counts down toward the 2012 election, it seems more and more possible to me that Sarah Palin could be president of the United States.

Blue's note:  Newsweek didn't highlight the last line in the original.  I did it, for the lurkers.

The rest of it is in the link below.  Thing is, it's only two paragraphs.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/26/why-sarah-palin-might-become-president-in-2012.html#

They are scared shitless of her.

[Eupher]

Hmmm. Steve Tuttle's been with Newsweak since 1987.

Is he their token conservative?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Sarah may not be the best possible candidate, but we could do a lot worse, too.  Romney seems to me to be more of a Democrat than most Democrats in this part of the country are, for instance.

[Eupher]

I still maintain that Palin should replace Steele as chair of the RNC. Steele is ineffective and exhibits little to no leadership.

The Republican party should not be resting on its laurels. As Boehner said, "We have a lot of work to do."

I think Palin could rejuvenate and otherwise light a fire within the party, even at the expense, perhaps, of the Tea Partiers, but the RNC needs to become stronger as a party in order to oust Zero in 2012.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I agree she would be a great replacement for Steele, and it would serve both her and the party better than having her run as the principal candidate since the media would fellate themselves to death going after her...depending on who DOES run, though.  Fred Thompson was the one I liked most in the 2008 primaries but he just didn't seem to be extending himself to fight for it. 

I don't think I could handle it if McCain blundered into it again, seeing him selling the GOP as Dem-lite (Complete with a plan to save the Polar bears) or watching his bubblehead daughter on TV every other morning dissing the Tea Partiers nonstop could probably get me to stay home this time.

[JohnnyReb]

I agree she would be a great replacement for Steele, and it would serve both her and the party better than having her run as the principal candidate since the media would fellate themselves to death going after her...depending on who DOES run, though.  Fred Thompson was the one I liked most in the 2008 primaries but he just didn't seem to be extending himself to fight for it. 

I don't think I could handle it if McCain blundered into it again, seeing him selling the GOP as Dem-lite (Complete with a plan to save the Polar bears) or watching his bubblehead daughter on TV every other morning dissing the Tea Partiers nonstop could probably get me to stay home this time.

NO, NO, don't stay home....write in Bugs Bunny if nothing else.

Wait a minute...touch screen voting machines ...I guess I could scratch a name in the screen with my pocket knife.

[DixieBelle]

Palin should head the RNC.

[NHSparky]

I agree she would be a great replacement for Steele, and it would serve both her and the party better than having her run as the principal candidate since the media would fellate themselves to death going after her...depending on who DOES run, though.  Fred Thompson was the one I liked most in the 2008 primaries but he just didn't seem to be extending himself to fight for it. 

I don't think I could handle it if McCain blundered into it again, seeing him selling the GOP as Dem-lite (Complete with a plan to save the Polar bears) or watching his bubblehead daughter on TV every other morning dissing the Tea Partiers nonstop could probably get me to stay home this time.

Or still worse, Romney.  Sorry, FL--he's just not conservative, no matter how you try to paint it.

[Eupher]

Or still worse, Romney.  Sorry, FL--he's just not conservative, no matter how you try to paint it.

The upshot is, the current pool of evident or probable Repub candidates is seriously lacking for one reason or another.

Absolutely concur with Sparky about Romney - I saw that guy in action in Utah and he was as phony as a $3 bill. And then came Massachusetts and RomneyCare.  

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, I can't stand the plastic-haired SOB either.

[Splashdown]

I'd love to see Palin run the RNC.

I don't want to any of those who ran in 2008 as our nominees. There are other good, strong conservative possibilities out there.

Seriously...McCain? Huckabee? Newt? Rudy? Romney?

No thanks to all of the above.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Stunning hte halibut?

How does that work?

Do we dress the halibut in a full-length red evening gown with sequens and a plunging neckline?

"Halli! Baby! You look thsimply thstunning!"

[Chris_]

The last time I went halibut fishing, we just whacked them with a wooden club once they got into the boat.

Much easier than paying for dinner and a movie.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Well, that's how most people do it Chris, but I guess MSB has gotten some ideas from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where the wascally wabbit drags out, lipstick and all, so maybe he has a very different plan for dealing with them...

 

[DixieBelle]

Yeah, I can't stand the plastic-haired SOB either.

Or Governer Goodhair.