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Palin Derangement Syndrome Outbreak: There Are Still Five A’s in Raaaaacism

Posted on | September 4, 2010 | 91 Comments

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind

Some things are predictable — i.e., that the Palin-haters would decide it was a good time to recycle the old SPLC/LGF attacks on me in order to exploit my interview with Todd Palin for a guilt-by-association smear. When Rachel Maddow tried the same trick last fall — based on my friend Lynn Vincent’s collaboration with Sarah Palin on Going RogueI made a few points in my response:

I don’t have to explain myself or prove a negative. . . .
There is no obligation for me to speak a word in my own defense.

Earlier this year, I described the Left’s tactics in dealing with an LGF attack on Dennis Prager:

  • Bad Faith – The accusation that conservatives are motivated by bad faith (mala fides) is essential to the Left’s attacks. Stigmatizing and marginalizing conservatives is much easier than debating them. Cogent arguments about policy become unnecessary to advancing the Left’s political agenda if they can dismiss its opponents as racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.
  • The Ransom Note Method – By carefully selecting “evidence” of bad faith, the Left is able to present a distorted image of its conservative targets. Out-of-context quotes and controversial biographical data are cherry-picked and re-assembled (in the manner of a kidnapper assembling a ransom note) to present the target in the most damning possible light. This method is particularly effective against conservative talk-radio personalities who engage in polemic battle with leftists. This is why Media Matters devotes such enormous resources to monitoring talk radio in hopes of grabbing a 40-second “gotcha” sound-bite.
  • The ‘Links and Ties’ Method – More than simple guilt-by-association, the Links-and-Ties Method involves presenting a chain of incidental connections to suggest a sympathy of views that does not actually exist. To wit: Target A once spoke at Event B which was sponsored by Group C, co-founded by Person D who once made controversial statement E. By this method, it is implied that Target A actually endorses Statement E.
  • Telescoping and Telepathy – The actions, statements and associations of a conservative target acquire a trans-temporal permanence in the smear attacks of the Left. Once a target is associated (however incidentally) with controversy, this association can be repeated endlessly as evidence of bad faith, no matter how many years intervene. Furthermore, if the target is associated in Year X with a respectable person or organization that becomes controversial in Year X+5, that association can be cited in Year X+10 as evidence against the target – even if the target had no involvement in the cause of controversy. Finally, all evidence of bad faith accumulated by these methods is presented as indicative of the target’s deepest and unwavering personal convictions, as if the accuser were possessed of telepathic mind-reading abilities.
  • Deny, Denounce, Repudiate – The key to these attack methods is the presumption of the target’s guilt. The accuser, having carefully selected the evidence to be discussed in the manner of a prosecutor making an indictment, demands that the target deny the accusation, denounce the bad-faith views involved, and repudiate the persons and organizations to whom he has been connected by the links-and-ties method. As anyone who has been targeted by such attacks can attest, it’s rather like being accused in one of Stalin’s infamous Moscow “show trials.”

What is at the root of this game is the accuser’s moral authority to act as Grand Inquisitor. The accuser arrogates to himself the unquestionable righteousness to judge the accused, who is then expected to attempt to prove his innocence.

If you play that game, you’re accepting the accuser’s authority.

The idiocy of the accusation that I am a “white supremacist” ought to be obvious: What, exactly, does “white supremacist” mean in 2010? Have I ever advocated any such policy? Do I hatefully derogate non-whites or espouse some bizarre theory of racial superiority?

I do not, and never have.

Remember that it is not sufficient proof of such a serious charge to say that, over the course of a long career, I have occasionally made ill-considered statements or that I have associated with people whose reputations may be even worse than my own. In the first instance, I’ve written many thousands of words which my accusers never bother to cite — e.g., my 2008 feature about Lt. Col. Allen West or my April profile of Vernon Parker — and in the second instance, a journalist necessarily makes a wide range of acquaintances.

I don’t like being told what to think or what to say, and I don’t make a habit of letting other people decide who I can be friends with. Some of my conservative friends can’t understand why I’m friends with that horrible reprobate Dave Weigel, for example, while my liberal friends — and I do have some of those — are shocked that I’m friends with that nasty Dan Riehl fellow. (I may even be part of Dan’s “ilk“!)

Having many friends who can vouch for my bona fides — people of good reputation who know me personally and never once had cause to think of me as a racist hatemonger — I expect that many voices will defend me from the likes of Phil Munger, an instigator of this latest attack.

Hate is against my religion. If I am commanded to pray for my enemies, why then should I hate entire races of people whom I’ve never met and who have done me no harm?

If I do not hate, neither will I fear. There are important stories I need to be covering, and I’ve got better things to do than to seek vengeance on a bunch of pissant “progressives” whose only claim to fame is their vicious obsession with the Palins. I’m past caring what such people think of me, but if I am called on to fight in defense of the good name of the Palins, I’m prepared again to invoke the war oath of Clan Cameron:

Chlanna nan con thigibh a so’s gheibh sibh feoil! 

“Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh!”

And there are still five A’s in raaaaacism.

UPDATE: Linked by Jehuda the Rhetorican — thanks! BTW, if you don’t know who Phil Munger is, here’s a reminder:

Within hours of her death, [Rachel] Corrie was transformed from human being to sacred symbol, an icon revered by the “Blame Israel First” crowd. She was subsequently glorified in a cantata composed by a University of Alaska professor (who has since become a notorious anti-Palin blogger) and in a play that ran for 48 performances on Broadway.
Exploited to advance the anti-Israel cause, this symbolic Rachel Corrie functions in death as the real Rachel Corrie functioned in life, scapegoating Jews and acting as a human shield for terrorists.

Yeah: Munger composed the St. Pancake Cantata. He’s one of those anti-Israel types who constitute the Sirhan Sirhan wing of the Democratic Party. He doesn’t believe in the Book of Genesis, you see, so he doesn’t take Chapter 12, Verse 3 seriously.

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE III: Let’s see, I went to Wasilla on Thursday and two days later, Joe McGinniss decides he’s moving out? Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

UPDATE IV: Linked by Rich Crowther at Conservatives for Palin, Joe at Valley of the Shadow, No Sheeples HereSissy WillisGathering of Eagles, Pirate’s Cove, and Dan at Gay Patriot

Dave C at Point of a Gun reminds us of the liberal argument: “Shut up!

Now a thread at Memeorandum.

UPDATE V: Linked by Patrick at Political Byline and by Da Tech Guy who describes me thus:

[H]e is an interesting passenger to share a car with, he is on perpetual hyper-drive, smokes like a chimney and is a coffee vampire.

“Coffee Vampires for Palin” would be a great blog name.

UPDATE VI: Piece of Work in Progress is also a great blog name.

Comments

91 Responses to “Palin Derangement Syndrome Outbreak: There Are Still Five A’s in Raaaaacism

  1. section9
    September 5th, 2010 @ 1:43 am

    Well put, Stacy.

    But I thought you had figured out that Phil picked up the meme from Sir Charles?

    Phil Munger couldn’t start an internet meme if Downfall Hitler was his target.

  2. section9
    September 4th, 2010 @ 9:43 pm

    Well put, Stacy.

    But I thought you had figured out that Phil picked up the meme from Sir Charles?

    Phil Munger couldn’t start an internet meme if Downfall Hitler was his target.

  3. Robert Stacy McCain
    September 5th, 2010 @ 1:45 am

    But I thought you had figured out that Phil picked up the meme from Sir Charles?

    Of course, but there’s no need to mention him, is there?

  4. Robert Stacy McCain
    September 4th, 2010 @ 9:45 pm

    But I thought you had figured out that Phil picked up the meme from Sir Charles?

    Of course, but there’s no need to mention him, is there?

  5. Grimcargo
    September 5th, 2010 @ 1:49 am

    Stacy, Hen is not going to come anywhere in the flesh. He and all his muslim and communist friends are nothing but cowards and small frenzied animals. If Hen calls anyone racist,wear it with pride for it means naught…zero..

  6. Grimcargo
    September 4th, 2010 @ 9:49 pm

    Stacy, Hen is not going to come anywhere in the flesh. He and all his muslim and communist friends are nothing but cowards and small frenzied animals. If Hen calls anyone racist,wear it with pride for it means naught…zero..

  7. Jennifer H
    September 5th, 2010 @ 1:55 am

    You fri**en rock sir, so glad I found you on the blog O sphere.

    Once again, please email me an alternate to Pay Pal as I will gladly contribut to your efforts. I asume that you have my email as it is a condition for posting. When last I proposed this I did not recieve a response.

  8. Jennifer H
    September 4th, 2010 @ 9:55 pm

    You fri**en rock sir, so glad I found you on the blog O sphere.

    Once again, please email me an alternate to Pay Pal as I will gladly contribut to your efforts. I asume that you have my email as it is a condition for posting. When last I proposed this I did not recieve a response.

  9. Tide
    September 5th, 2010 @ 2:02 am

    Stacy we all know your just an Alabama cracka !

  10. Tide
    September 4th, 2010 @ 10:02 pm

    Stacy we all know your just an Alabama cracka !

  11. Tide
    September 5th, 2010 @ 2:03 am

    Also ask Weigel how that JournalOlist is treating him , also Pro Actin has great TV ads *hint for Davey Poo

  12. Tide
    September 4th, 2010 @ 10:03 pm

    Also ask Weigel how that JournalOlist is treating him , also Pro Actin has great TV ads *hint for Davey Poo

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    September 4th, 2010 @ 10:18 pm

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  14. MrPaulRevere
    September 5th, 2010 @ 2:23 am

    Re. Phil Munger, here is the money quote from Todd Palin: “Todd: Lots of articles, huh. That doesn’t mean anything.” Keep on doing what you do and do it fearlessly Mr. McCain.

  15. MrPaulRevere
    September 4th, 2010 @ 10:23 pm

    Re. Phil Munger, here is the money quote from Todd Palin: “Todd: Lots of articles, huh. That doesn’t mean anything.” Keep on doing what you do and do it fearlessly Mr. McCain.

  16. No Sheeples Here
    September 5th, 2010 @ 2:37 am

    Cross-posted at No Sheeples Here.

  17. No Sheeples Here
    September 4th, 2010 @ 10:37 pm

    Cross-posted at No Sheeples Here.

  18. Mwalimu Daudi
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:18 am

    What is at the root of this game is the accuser’s moral authority to act as Grand Inquisitor. The accuser arrogates to himself the unquestionable righteousness to judge the accused, who is then expected to attempt to prove his innocence.

    Actually, the Grand Inquisitor has already decided that you are guilty, and the only thing left for you to do is to confess your sins and accept your punishment. Remember that denial equals incontrovertible proof of your culpability, and trying to introduce evidence in your favor only magnifies your guilt.

    Most liberal journalists and bloggers give the distinct impression that the one job they really aspire to is to be the concentration camp guard who is in charge of gassing the “racists”.

  19. Mwalimu Daudi
    September 4th, 2010 @ 11:18 pm

    What is at the root of this game is the accuser’s moral authority to act as Grand Inquisitor. The accuser arrogates to himself the unquestionable righteousness to judge the accused, who is then expected to attempt to prove his innocence.

    Actually, the Grand Inquisitor has already decided that you are guilty, and the only thing left for you to do is to confess your sins and accept your punishment. Remember that denial equals incontrovertible proof of your culpability, and trying to introduce evidence in your favor only magnifies your guilt.

    Most liberal journalists and bloggers give the distinct impression that the one job they really aspire to is to be the concentration camp guard who is in charge of gassing the “racists”.

  20. Charles Johnson
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:34 am

    I am feeling marginalized. The tide is turning again, but like Andrew Sullivan, I am beyond switching again. The left does not trust me. I have betrayed the right. My followers are mostly losers and pathetic and I hate them…almost as much as I hate myself.

    My heart was broken by Pam Geller. So I will break her. And anyone who she is friends with. She rejected me. I cannot tollerate rejection.

    I will not be ignored.

    My only friends, if you could call them that, are Kilore and Cato. And they have the charm of Brownshirters and the cunning of high level morons.

    So I go out and accuse my detractors and those I am jealous of of raaaaacism.

  21. Charles Johnson
    September 4th, 2010 @ 11:34 pm

    I am feeling marginalized. The tide is turning again, but like Andrew Sullivan, I am beyond switching again. The left does not trust me. I have betrayed the right. My followers are mostly losers and pathetic and I hate them…almost as much as I hate myself.

    My heart was broken by Pam Geller. So I will break her. And anyone who she is friends with. She rejected me. I cannot tollerate rejection.

    I will not be ignored.

    My only friends, if you could call them that, are Kilore and Cato. And they have the charm of Brownshirters and the cunning of high level morons.

    So I go out and accuse my detractors and those I am jealous of of raaaaacism.

  22. 1389AD
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:38 am

    Mwalimu Daudi, you got that right. 🙁

  23. 1389AD
    September 4th, 2010 @ 11:38 pm

    Mwalimu Daudi, you got that right. 🙁

  24. Charles Johnson
    September 4th, 2010 @ 11:42 pm

    Did I hit send?!!! WTF!!! Call it back!

  25. Charles Johnson
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:42 am

    Did I hit send?!!! WTF!!! Call it back!

  26. TR Sterling
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:45 am

    Mr MW Daudi brings to mind the Bob Dylan song. Unfortunately there is no free verison (Bob is no fool). Gotta go to your old Highway61 revisited album and let her roll.
    2nd to last verse:

    At midnight all the agents
    And the superhuman crew
    Come out and round up everyone
    That knows more than they do
    Then they bring them to the factory
    Where the heart-attack machine
    Is strapped across their shoulders
    And then the kerosene
    Is brought down from the castles
    By insurance men who go
    Check to see that nobody is escaping
    To Desolation Row.

    Desolation Row = Stacy’s laptop office, lol

  27. TR Sterling
    September 4th, 2010 @ 11:45 pm

    Mr MW Daudi brings to mind the Bob Dylan song. Unfortunately there is no free verison (Bob is no fool). Gotta go to your old Highway61 revisited album and let her roll.
    2nd to last verse:

    At midnight all the agents
    And the superhuman crew
    Come out and round up everyone
    That knows more than they do
    Then they bring them to the factory
    Where the heart-attack machine
    Is strapped across their shoulders
    And then the kerosene
    Is brought down from the castles
    By insurance men who go
    Check to see that nobody is escaping
    To Desolation Row.

    Desolation Row = Stacy’s laptop office, lol

  28. Adobe Walls
    September 5th, 2010 @ 4:02 am

    I don’t think they’ll gas us it lacks the personal touch.

  29. Adobe Walls
    September 5th, 2010 @ 12:02 am

    I don’t think they’ll gas us it lacks the personal touch.

  30. Dave C
    September 5th, 2010 @ 4:28 am
  31. Dave C
    September 5th, 2010 @ 12:28 am
  32. Estragon
    September 5th, 2010 @ 4:30 am

    I would only add to the analysis that once an association is declared or label affixed, the truth of the situation can no longer be considered. The accusation itself becomes the evidence and verdict of guilt. Also, the only possible path to pardon is to turn on the right with vicious vigor.

    ~~~~~~~

    One would hope that by the 21st Century all sentient beings would be aware that the SPLC is Morris Dees’ personal piggy bank. He spent three decades convincing guilty white liberals that he needed their money to “track the Klan” during the period when Klan activity had been pretty well quashed by the FBI. Since nobody has seen an actual Klansman in years, he has had to branch out to covering all manner of “white supremacists” . . . but Dees does nothing at all. He issues occasional press releases touting how hard he is working and sends out regular fund-raising appeals to the suckers on his list. The man has no credibility.

    Unfortunately, we are beset with ignorance and some still don’t get it. For instance, a majority of voters elected a failed community organizer to the highest office in the land. This was not the result of informed intelligence.

    ~~~~~~~~

    I’ve followed RSMcC off and on since he hit the intertubes, and never saw a hint of any racial animus at all. He’s no “supremacist” by any meaningful definition of the word.

    Oh, he’s nuttier than a PayDay™ Bar, but it’s a sort of Sharron Angle nutty, not Lester Maddox nutty. Besides, them hoods wouldn’t fit over the fedora . . .

  33. Estragon
    September 5th, 2010 @ 12:30 am

    I would only add to the analysis that once an association is declared or label affixed, the truth of the situation can no longer be considered. The accusation itself becomes the evidence and verdict of guilt. Also, the only possible path to pardon is to turn on the right with vicious vigor.

    ~~~~~~~

    One would hope that by the 21st Century all sentient beings would be aware that the SPLC is Morris Dees’ personal piggy bank. He spent three decades convincing guilty white liberals that he needed their money to “track the Klan” during the period when Klan activity had been pretty well quashed by the FBI. Since nobody has seen an actual Klansman in years, he has had to branch out to covering all manner of “white supremacists” . . . but Dees does nothing at all. He issues occasional press releases touting how hard he is working and sends out regular fund-raising appeals to the suckers on his list. The man has no credibility.

    Unfortunately, we are beset with ignorance and some still don’t get it. For instance, a majority of voters elected a failed community organizer to the highest office in the land. This was not the result of informed intelligence.

    ~~~~~~~~

    I’ve followed RSMcC off and on since he hit the intertubes, and never saw a hint of any racial animus at all. He’s no “supremacist” by any meaningful definition of the word.

    Oh, he’s nuttier than a PayDay™ Bar, but it’s a sort of Sharron Angle nutty, not Lester Maddox nutty. Besides, them hoods wouldn’t fit over the fedora . . .

  34. GayPatriot » Why They Demonize Conservatives
    September 5th, 2010 @ 1:24 am

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    September 5th, 2010 @ 1:36 am

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  36. Danel
    September 5th, 2010 @ 7:17 am

    One sad thing about leftists is that they are only willing to listen to people who think like themselves. Everyone else is dismissed as unreliable for being a racist,or being greedy or just being unsympathetic to the poor.

    They refuse to listen to others, but without listening, they are miraculously able to discern the sinister motives and conspiracies behind what they will not hear.

    We tend to view them as arrogant twits, but we should actually rejoice, because their attitude leads them to make all sorts of stupid blunders.

    Our President is the worst victim of this attitude. For months he regaled us, almost every night, with speeches telling us about the wonderful things Obamacare would bring, though the bill creating it did not yet exist, and his assurances therefore could not be true.

    These empty speeches bored and disgusted their audience which audience dribbled away.

    He then began to focus on fund raising for his party and campaigning; never mind that a president should be president of all citizens, not just of his party.

    When not campaigning he relaxed by playing golf, or basketball, going out to dinner, or being entertained.

    Then he started on vacations.

    Apparently he leaves governing to his czars, and cronies, many of whom have records of not paying all their taxes.

    When he speaks out, he often puts his foot in his mouth, as he did with the mosque issue. I did not understand why that was his business.

    The real problem with his cronies is that many of them are marxists.
    As marxists, they do not like jobs in the private sector. (In the Soviet Union, any private person or entity that offered someone a job was thereby guilty of a felony, sometimes punished by death.) They do everything to interfere with job creation, (by sowing uncertainty, raising taxes on prospective employers, heaping regulations and red tape at them) and then wonder why private sector jobs do not magically appear.

    I have a dream. It is only a dream and will not happen, but I still enjoy daydreaming over it. The dream is that every single Democrat candidate for house and senate loses in November.

    Please try to make it happen!

  37. Danel
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:17 am

    One sad thing about leftists is that they are only willing to listen to people who think like themselves. Everyone else is dismissed as unreliable for being a racist,or being greedy or just being unsympathetic to the poor.

    They refuse to listen to others, but without listening, they are miraculously able to discern the sinister motives and conspiracies behind what they will not hear.

    We tend to view them as arrogant twits, but we should actually rejoice, because their attitude leads them to make all sorts of stupid blunders.

    Our President is the worst victim of this attitude. For months he regaled us, almost every night, with speeches telling us about the wonderful things Obamacare would bring, though the bill creating it did not yet exist, and his assurances therefore could not be true.

    These empty speeches bored and disgusted their audience which audience dribbled away.

    He then began to focus on fund raising for his party and campaigning; never mind that a president should be president of all citizens, not just of his party.

    When not campaigning he relaxed by playing golf, or basketball, going out to dinner, or being entertained.

    Then he started on vacations.

    Apparently he leaves governing to his czars, and cronies, many of whom have records of not paying all their taxes.

    When he speaks out, he often puts his foot in his mouth, as he did with the mosque issue. I did not understand why that was his business.

    The real problem with his cronies is that many of them are marxists.
    As marxists, they do not like jobs in the private sector. (In the Soviet Union, any private person or entity that offered someone a job was thereby guilty of a felony, sometimes punished by death.) They do everything to interfere with job creation, (by sowing uncertainty, raising taxes on prospective employers, heaping regulations and red tape at them) and then wonder why private sector jobs do not magically appear.

    I have a dream. It is only a dream and will not happen, but I still enjoy daydreaming over it. The dream is that every single Democrat candidate for house and senate loses in November.

    Please try to make it happen!

  38. JSF
    September 5th, 2010 @ 7:35 am

    RS,

    Something else to consider, why did the Democrats hold Congress for 40 years before 95 and now, under the modern leadership, they will be losing it all?

    Two reasons:

    1) Unlike the D’s of yore, they looked upon Conservatives and Republicans as opposnents not enemies.

    Case in point: Liberals cheered Ahmadnijad and Chavez because they opposed Bush too, and the left also cheered Joe McGuinness for invading palin’s privacy (let’s not even talk about te slide AS gets by the liberals for his theories)

    2) Know-it-allism: The Democrats of the 40 year majority were not humorless scolds (there is an upside to drinking and smoking) like today’s libs.

    Using the intellectual arguement against Palin and Conservatives shows (contrary to Pacifa Riadio and Liberal talk radio(, they look down upon the “people,”

    Try getting into a Democratic Party fundraiser in Malibu if you don’t have the $2,000 to get in the door.

  39. JSF
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:35 am

    RS,

    Something else to consider, why did the Democrats hold Congress for 40 years before 95 and now, under the modern leadership, they will be losing it all?

    Two reasons:

    1) Unlike the D’s of yore, they looked upon Conservatives and Republicans as opposnents not enemies.

    Case in point: Liberals cheered Ahmadnijad and Chavez because they opposed Bush too, and the left also cheered Joe McGuinness for invading palin’s privacy (let’s not even talk about te slide AS gets by the liberals for his theories)

    2) Know-it-allism: The Democrats of the 40 year majority were not humorless scolds (there is an upside to drinking and smoking) like today’s libs.

    Using the intellectual arguement against Palin and Conservatives shows (contrary to Pacifa Riadio and Liberal talk radio(, they look down upon the “people,”

    Try getting into a Democratic Party fundraiser in Malibu if you don’t have the $2,000 to get in the door.

  40. Thomas L. Knapp
    September 5th, 2010 @ 7:39 am

    “Earlier this year, I described the Left’s tactics in dealing with an LGF attack on Dennis Prager”

    And a good summation it is.

    Of course, that summation is at least as applicable to the Right’s tactics vis a vis the Muslim cultural center a few blocks from “Ground Zero.”

  41. Thomas L. Knapp
    September 5th, 2010 @ 3:39 am

    “Earlier this year, I described the Left’s tactics in dealing with an LGF attack on Dennis Prager”

    And a good summation it is.

    Of course, that summation is at least as applicable to the Right’s tactics vis a vis the Muslim cultural center a few blocks from “Ground Zero.”

  42. smitty
    September 5th, 2010 @ 8:12 am

    @Kn@ppster,
    To the extent that all tactics are tactics, the equivalence is trivially true.
    Below a 30,000 foot level, the amount of baggage coming along with any comparison would seem to render it untenable.

  43. smitty
    September 5th, 2010 @ 4:12 am

    @Kn@ppster,
    To the extent that all tactics are tactics, the equivalence is trivially true.
    Below a 30,000 foot level, the amount of baggage coming along with any comparison would seem to render it untenable.

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  45. Chuck
    September 5th, 2010 @ 11:04 am

    Onward RS McCain………

    Anyone who would post a picture of oneself in a Speedo is allowed to use the Rhett Butler quote w/o attribution. ByGod, that took courage.

    You are fast becoming a hero to many on the right.

  46. Chuck
    September 5th, 2010 @ 7:04 am

    Onward RS McCain………

    Anyone who would post a picture of oneself in a Speedo is allowed to use the Rhett Butler quote w/o attribution. ByGod, that took courage.

    You are fast becoming a hero to many on the right.

  47. Sissy Willis
    September 5th, 2010 @ 12:04 pm

    My trackback never works, darn it. Here’s my blogging effort in support of your totally excellent and important work:

    “The Palin-haters are trying to do a guilt-by-association smear” http://tiny.cc/1w8wn

  48. Sissy Willis
    September 5th, 2010 @ 8:04 am

    My trackback never works, darn it. Here’s my blogging effort in support of your totally excellent and important work:

    “The Palin-haters are trying to do a guilt-by-association smear” http://tiny.cc/1w8wn

  49. SDN
    September 5th, 2010 @ 1:09 pm

    Well, knapp, that would be true if we didn’t have the founder on tape and recently saying what a wonderful thing getting rid of infidels is. Not to mention the whole Islam = good, infidels = slaves we get every Friday from mosques everywhere.

    Were you born a moron or did you go to special schools?

  50. SDN
    September 5th, 2010 @ 9:09 am

    Well, knapp, that would be true if we didn’t have the founder on tape and recently saying what a wonderful thing getting rid of infidels is. Not to mention the whole Islam = good, infidels = slaves we get every Friday from mosques everywhere.

    Were you born a moron or did you go to special schools?