The Colors We Wear in Our Dreams

Ben Domenech feels himself qualified to pronounce upon the morality of others. The reasons for this presumption remain obscure. Nevertheless we on the foulmouthed Left remain committed to a model of civilized discourse wherein even a famous fuckstick like Ben may be permitted to speak as long as he promises to amuse us by behaving like an absolute twat, because that shit is funny.  He does not disappoint in this regard.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers offers the following statement, starting where John McCain did today on his blogger call. Let it serve as a sign that Barack Obama's merry little nod toward the nice smiling folks down the street at Hamas, Inc. will not go unnoticed, and will absolutely be an issue in the general election campaign.

Some things John McCain isn't going to touch, but "Do you like me? Yes/No/Maybe" notes passed between terrorists and a presidential candidate? Yeah, that's a bit far.

Barack doesn't have anything to say about the fact that they like him, you know: those people, they did horrible acts, detestable acts, but he was younger then, and they're just in the neighborhood. He's just being nice! Like a senator should be! That's why he sat through all those Jeremiah Wright sermons, you know - it's basic human politeness not to stand up when a Reverend is talking.

Ben Domenech is telling you flat out that Barack Obama is on the side of the terrorists. Ben Domenech is stretching to link all sorts of insane bullshit to tell you Barack Obama wants to do what, fly a plane into a building?

Fuck you, Ben Domenech, you twat. And fuck you, John McCain, who is not above the fray in the same sense as a turd is not above the toilet rim.   

The funny thing, though, is that McCain has pretty clearly calculated that he doesn't need the Wingnuttosphere. They will be lickspittles, like Red State, or useful objects of contempt, like Malkin and Hannity --  those maniacs will smear his real enemies (Obama) anyway with no prompting, for free, so what does McCain owe them? Nothing. Let them rant, reap the benefits, rise above, and then shake his flappy jowls sadly at David Broder in gassy deprecation -- it's all good! And don't think he ain't loving it: Limbaugh's his bitch for at least the summer, and if you're into that kind of shit, I guess it's sweet.

I'd say it's unclear where Movement Conservatism goes from here, but on a practical level that's not such a mystery -- pointless counterproductive carnage in the Middle East and fatuous domestic policy fuck-you nihilism, which is about where they started. That 2008 movement conservatism as an intellectual formation (snicker) has ended up with John McCain as its standard bearer (double snicker) is just... yummy. Or gross. One or t'other. Do you want to vomit from the laughing, or laugh from the vomiting? Red State should poll that shit.

Good luck for you shitwhistles that David Broder is still stuck in 1979, or you'd be totally fucked. Ben Domenech, moralistic snarkmeister! Christ that's funny.

Comments

[Kevin Hayden]

So Obama is pro-terrorist? Who would have guessed? Since 1960, Democrats have been pro-communist, pro-unilateral disarming, and, for the past 7 years, pro-terrorist.

All 300 million Americans got the memo, for 48 years, we've gotten the memo. And not one instance has arisen of an actual Democrat coddling a terrorist, disarming the country, selling out to Communists, etc. Not one.

I do recall Reagan selling TOW missiles to Iran, though. And Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand. And Bush letting a certain terrorist into Florida. While lauding a new friendship with Gaddafi who killed hundreds of Americans over Lockerbie. And....

McCain's adopting so many strategies out of the Colson-to-Rove playbook that next week he plans to start a whispering campaign that Obama fathered two black children.

And Ben's going to be shocked when he discovers that means there's more than a stork and cabbage leaf involved in that.

[Tom Hilton]

And fuck you, John McCain, who is not above the fray in the same sense as a turd is not above the toilet rim.

Beautifully put. And to answer the question precisely nobody is asking (because everybody already knows the answer, but I'll give it anyway): no, the Washington press corps will not stop referring to McCain as a 'bipartisan' 'maverick' 'reformer'; nor will they start referring to him as a 'shameless hack with no fixed belief beyond the certain conviction that John McCain should be president', despite the mountain of evidence in support of that characterization.

(By the way, I posted my own snark on this at IIRTZ.)

[Tom Hilton]

'this' meaning McCain's comments, not Domenech.

[merl]

McCain killed 113 sailors in one day on the USS FORRESTALL. I think he was an NVA plant or something.

[Davis]

Does it occur to anyone that maybe Hamas knows that "endorsing" Obama helps McCain?

[aimai]

This is a thing of beauty. And to second tom's observation, it makes a great bookend with Tom's piece on McCain denouncing himself but only a little bit. I think between the two of you you've cornered the market between polite and impolite snark.

aimai

[Interrobang]

Kevin has a point, but forgot Republican in good standing (up to the point where all hell broke loose, that is) Dana Rorabacher, the Taliban's Friend...