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Will No One Rid Us Of This Turbulent Godbag Christofascist Scott Walker?

Posted on | February 26, 2015 | 78 Comments

by Smitty

Via HotAir headlines, this blog must chip in and do its part to support raising awareness of the danger of Scott Walker. John Cassidy’s so-called attack on Walker in The New Yorker was so tepid as to invite the question of whether Cassidy is actually a stealth admirer. Let’s see if we can’t be a helpy helper-blog (original text in italics):

Let’s stipulate up front that Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is an odious politician whose ascension to the Presidency would be a disaster.

“Odious” and “disaster” hardly seem to capture the breadth of what’s going on here. Let’s see if we can crank the hyperbole up a bit, shall we?

OMFG, Scott Walker is the political equivalent of Godzilla, and his Presidency would be a four-year Stephen King stream of consciousness!

Our readers should be clutching their pearls in fear and inching toward the fainting couch straight away. Are we warming to the task? Yes! Yes, we are:

Set aside, for a moment, his repeated refusal, in the past few days, to say whether he believes that President Obama loves America, or whether he believes that the President is a Christian, and look instead at Walker’s record running what used to be one of America’s more progressive states. Having cut taxes for the wealthy and stripped many of Wisconsin’s public-sector unions of their collective-bargaining rights, he is now preparing to sign a legislative bill that would cripple unions in the private sector. Many wealthy conservatives, such as the Koch brothers, who have funnelled a lot of money to groups supporting Walker, regard him as someone who’s turning his state into a showcase for what they want the rest of America to look like.

See, now, this paragraph is hardly Koch-tacular enough. Steroids, please:

No detail is too small for his reign of anti-Progressive, Jurrasic hate. From rejecting Evolution to the President’s affection for the country to Obama’s painstakingly measured, abstract affection generally directed at the Diety, Walker is the Spleen Of Infinite Dumping! But, like some vast lizard of old, these teensy hersies are just tiny twists of the knife compared to what he’s done to Sacred Unions, public and private. Walker-zilla wants to sacrifice them, Tokyo-style, on his altar of contempt for the 40 hour work week, and all the other good things that organized labor has done for this country! And it’s all at the behest of those hellspawn Kochs, who are so diabolical that they make Beelze-Bush the Anti-Clinton look like the adorable Wendy Davis. Could she by, say, May, play Fay Wray, lay gay lei on Walker-Kong, and move a real scandal along?

Hopefully Cassidy will read that last sentence and kiss this blog’s assonance. More:

But just how threatening is he? If you’ve been following the political news during the past week, you may well have the impression that he’s stumbling in his campaign for the 2016 G.O.P. nomination. Among the political commentariat, the consensus of opinion is that Walker’s repeated refusal to distance himself from Rudy Giuliani’s incendiary comments about Obama, and his subsequent encounter with the Washington Post’s Dan Balz and Robert Costa, during which he appeared to question Obama’s religious faith and took some shots at the media for asking him silly questions, weren’t merely reprehensible: they were serious gaffes that raised questions about Walker’s political abilities.

Again, this prose is hardly turgid enough to hold this badger-wolf at bay. But this blog goes to 11!

Has he threatened you? Personally? With a sharpened piece of rebar? He could. He’s the quiet type that sure seems like he’d be a good neighbor, until the first responders start rolling in, sirens blaring. But do you want to know why he failed to rip Giuliani’s beating, raaaaacist, hate-filled heart from Rudy’s aged torso on command from the media? Because, behind that little PK façade, Scott Walker is actually a Priest of Cthulhu! Pinky swear. Giuliani, too. All these GOP elite are, according to The DailyHuffingtonDogVox.com. So there was no way Walker could do anything other than join in the chant and scheme the rejection of all that our President holds dear. Dangerous? Does Sarah Palin say “You betcha?”. Stop. These. Reprehensible. Madman. He is the greatest existential threat to the ascension of Her Majesty (Peace Be Upon Her) next year.


One could go on, but duty calls. Pray for all of our officials. The ones in office, the ones that may yet be elected. The ones you favor, but especially the ones you don’t (1Tim2).
Also, shout out to MKH for “Godbag Christofascist“.
If you want, you can wade through the rest of Cassidy’s rant.

Comments

78 Responses to “Will No One Rid Us Of This Turbulent Godbag Christofascist Scott Walker?”

  1. Adobe_Walls
    February 26th, 2015 @ 6:31 am

    So these writers are all feminists?

  2. smitty
    February 26th, 2015 @ 6:38 am

    Let’s just say they lack some equipment.

  3. Adobe_Walls
    February 26th, 2015 @ 6:47 am

    I read MKH’s 07 article. What struck me was that if some Dem candidate hired Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan as they were then or now, or a similar pair, no one would even consider firing them.

  4. smitty
    February 26th, 2015 @ 6:50 am

    Marcotte and McEwan have held roughly constant personality over time. Growth rate of a pet rock.

  5. alohasteve
    February 26th, 2015 @ 7:02 am

    The Presidential Contenders: Carly Fiorina on Fox News

    http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-presidential-contenders-carly.html

  6. Guest
    February 26th, 2015 @ 7:25 am

    There’s not much that’s more distasteful and disturbing than this sort of Tumblr-like hysteria in a middle-aged man.

  7. CrustyB
    February 26th, 2015 @ 8:08 am

    I think liberals are asleep in pods, their spines hooked up to a giant computer, being fed an alternate reality.

    Whose got the keys to the Nebuchadnezzar?

  8. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    February 26th, 2015 @ 8:20 am

    Don’t they realize that if they strike him down he will return more powerful than they possibly can imagine?

  9. Jeanette Victoria
    February 26th, 2015 @ 8:28 am

    LOL he sounds like a hysterical feminist doesn’t he?

  10. Adobe_Walls
    February 26th, 2015 @ 8:29 am

    I knew it!

  11. McGehee
    February 26th, 2015 @ 8:32 am

    Let’s stipulate up front that Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is an odious politician whose ascension to the Presidency would be a disaster.

    Let’s stipulate up front that John Cassidy is an odious hyper-partisan buffoon whose spontaneous evaporation would be a net benefit to the universe.

  12. Dana
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:07 am

    ‘Twould seem, from the excerpted quotes from Mr Cassidy’s article, that his article really doesn’t matter, other than the shame of The New Yorker in actually paying for it. It is not a persuasive piece, because anyone whose mind was actually open to considering Governor Walker as their preferred candidate would be laughing hysterically at the overblown. When he begins with calling Mr Walker an odious politician, he’s already turned off a bunch of people, people who won’t make it to paragraph number two.

    Mr Cassidy is preaching to the liberal choir, and, quite frankly, they’d believe what he said about Governor Walker about any Republican candidate.

  13. Adobe_Walls
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:14 am
  14. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:19 am
  15. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:44 am

    Scott Walker and Marshawn Lynch: Separated at Birth?

  16. BadBruceLorraine
    February 26th, 2015 @ 10:56 am

    OMFG Scott Walker believes in God and he’s not sure if Obama loves America, OMFG the sky is falling, the sky is falling aieeeeee. Put a cork in it so you can pull your head out of youour ass you moron.

  17. daialanye
    February 26th, 2015 @ 11:35 am

    It’s remarkably difficult to believe anyone takes Carly Fiorina, Mz Failure, as a presidential candidate… other than Carly herself, of course.

  18. daialanye
    February 26th, 2015 @ 11:39 am

    After having read the entire Cassidy rant I can’t help but wonder if it’s satire. Who but an idiot would take it seriously?

  19. Quartermaster
    February 26th, 2015 @ 11:51 am

    Leftist = idiot.

  20. DeadMessenger
    February 26th, 2015 @ 12:07 pm

    Just Cassidy, wallowing in his crapulence. Nothing to see here.

  21. DeadMessenger
    February 26th, 2015 @ 12:09 pm

    So stipulated.

  22. Daniel Freeman
    February 26th, 2015 @ 12:29 pm

    OMFG Scott Walker believes in God and he’s not sure if Obama loves America he takes a “you’re the one that wonders” approach to questions about other people’s beliefs, OMFG the sky is falling, the sky is falling aieeeeee.

    FIFY

  23. BadBruceLorraine
    February 26th, 2015 @ 1:04 pm

    Just to funny 😉 her morals fell down decades ago and they haven’t gotten up either.

  24. BadBruceLorraine
    February 26th, 2015 @ 1:06 pm

    I’ll take a failed business person every single time over someone who has lived their entire life without holding a real job.

  25. BadBruceLorraine
    February 26th, 2015 @ 1:10 pm

    It’s not others people’s beliefs but the accompanied hysteria that went along with It. You’d know that if you were paying attention.

  26. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    February 26th, 2015 @ 1:20 pm
  27. daialanye
    February 26th, 2015 @ 1:37 pm

    There is something exceedingly ironic about Carly slapping at Hillary for lack of accomplishments.

    “Failed business person” doesn’t go far enough when describing her. She almost ruined a going operation at HP, and upon being fired worked the system for a huge separation bonus. As if $46 mill wasn’t sufficient she also demanded they pay her medical insurance, then went on to flop as a Senate candidate against Barbara Boxer.

    And all because of an ego that rivals those of Hillary and BO. If you like failed business types have a look at Trump. Plenty of bankruptcies but at least a few accomplishments along the way. Not that I want him, of course, but Carly would be an even greater catastrophe. No one but her paid political advisors believes Carly could successfully govern a nation, and they believe it only while the paychecks are being cashed.

  28. daialanye
    February 26th, 2015 @ 1:44 pm

    There is something exceedingly ironic about Carly slapping Hillary for lack of accomplishments.

    “Failed business person” doesn’t go far enough when describing her. She almost ruined a going operation, and upon being fired worked the system for a huge separation bonus. As if $46 mill wasn’t sufficient she also demanded they pay her medical insurance. Then she went on to flop as a Senate candidate against Barbara Boxer.

    And all because of an ego that rivals those of Hillary and BO. If you like failed business types have a look at Trump. Plenty of bankruptcies but at least a few accomplishments along the way. Not that I favor him, of course, but he’d be less of a catastrophe than Carly.

  29. Daniel Freeman
    February 26th, 2015 @ 2:01 pm

    I’ll take a failed industrial capitalist every single time over a successful financial capitalist, let alone a failed one. They’re like the postmodern deconstructionists of the working world.

  30. Daniel Freeman
    February 26th, 2015 @ 2:07 pm

    Please. That’s like trying to decide which turd to eat.

  31. Daniel Freeman
    February 26th, 2015 @ 2:08 pm

    You mad, bro?

  32. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    February 26th, 2015 @ 5:50 pm

    I thought this meme would take off with Hillary on a stair climber and Warren 2016.

  33. PCachu
    February 26th, 2015 @ 5:58 pm

    Just so. The Democrat-Media Complex currently Has A Sad because:
    (a) they’ve long convinced themselves that they are oh so very clever (primarily by outwitting the short-bus brigade that is the GOP Establishment), but then
    (b) they’ve suddenly found themselves deftly outmaneuvered by some college dropout from a Midwestern state who has internalized the Wisdom of WOPR.

    The Wisconsin Donks have already thrown every kitchen sink they could get their hands on at Walker — to no effect, it should be pointed out, apart from boosting their own collective blood pressure — and their comrades at the national level have yet to demonstrate the ability to learn any new tricks. In many ways, Scott Walker is a monster of their own making.

  34. dave
    February 26th, 2015 @ 8:49 pm

    Quartermaster = ignoramus

  35. Quartermaster
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:13 pm

    Over at The Atlantic you’ve already proven you’re a gamma male. So is it your intention to come over here and reveal what you are here as well? No skin off my nose if you want to keep plagiarizing me and make lame attempts to turn it around.

  36. dave
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:18 pm

    “No skin off my nose if you want to keep plagiarizing me and make lame attempts to turn it around.” – Too funny!

    I proved you the moronic fool that you are, although you actually did that yourself.

    Keep writing, I do so enjoy your idiotic comments.

  37. Quartermaster
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:22 pm

    My activity can be followed, so anyone can check out what I’ve said anywhere I’ve said it. Plagiarizing simply shows you have limited ability to respond. If you think that proves I’m a moronic foll, then I’d have to say you are of more limited intellectual ability than I judged at first.

    I fully intend to keep writing. If for no other reason than it annoys leftist idiots so.

  38. dave
    February 26th, 2015 @ 9:57 pm

    “Plagiarizing simply shows you have limited ability to respond.” – Whatever.

    “If you think that proves I’m a moronic foll” – Yes, I think you are a moronic foll.

    “I’d have to say you are of more limited intellectual ability than I judged at first.” – Tell me about my limited intellectual ability. Please explain what it would mean for me in the long run if I were less intelligent than you.

    Write away, ignoramus. Show the world how much of a fool you actually are.

  39. Quartermaster
    February 26th, 2015 @ 10:01 pm

    hahahahahahahahaha!

    “Show the world how much of a fool you actually are” sez the plagiarist and stalker.

    Yes Leftist=idiot is axiomatic. Here’s one for Wombaticus Maximus’ hammer.

  40. dave
    February 26th, 2015 @ 10:02 pm

    Yup, you continue to entertain. What do you do for a living?

  41. Quartermaster
    February 26th, 2015 @ 10:03 pm

    Something you are utterly incapable of doing, deal in facts and reality. I’m an applied Physicist.

  42. dave
    February 26th, 2015 @ 10:34 pm

    No way you are an applied Physicist. You demonstrate neither the intelligence or maturity.

    And, BTW, I’d have no problem becoming one if I so chose.

  43. Daniel Freeman
    February 27th, 2015 @ 12:28 am

    So you’re an apathetic windbag that mistakes assertions for arguments, whereas Quartermaster is a respected commenter here.

    I see a statistician in this thread, the mod is an accountant, and I’m a polymath myself — every letter in STEM, plus the equivalent of a minor or better in most of the liberal arts. You’re not only outnumbered, but also outclassed in every sense of the term. You should save yourself the time and just give up.

  44. Quartermaster
    February 27th, 2015 @ 7:03 am

    Given the manner you handle facts and “argue” you’d have a very hard time being anything but the leftist you are.

  45. Quartermaster
    February 27th, 2015 @ 9:16 am

    I like his last line. Such a laugher.

  46. dave
    February 27th, 2015 @ 10:00 am

    “So you’re an apathetic windbag that can’t be bothered to support assertions with arguments, whereas Quartermaster is a respected commenter here.” – You know nothing at all about me and call me an “apathetic windbag”. This tells me that you are just as immature as quartermaster.

    I personally have three degrees and speak two languages fluently. I have years of experience in a number of fields. What is your point?

    I am neither outnumbered nor outclassed on this thread.

    I do not believe that quartermaster IS and applied physicist. I would LOVE to chat with an applied physicist. Talking with quartermaster is like talking to a petulant teenager.

  47. dave
    February 27th, 2015 @ 10:01 am

    Prove me wrong, ignoramus.

  48. dave
    February 27th, 2015 @ 10:01 am

    Which facts, you petulant teenager?

  49. Quartermaster
    February 27th, 2015 @ 11:58 am

    Sez the omega male. All one has to do is point to your posting history. Your lack of attachment to reality is enough to show anyone the assertion is axiomatic in your case.

  50. Quartermaster
    February 27th, 2015 @ 12:00 pm

    What projection. Petulant doesn’t mean what you think it means.