@blatham,
Quote:Similar rationale. Her candidacy will once again make evident to more Americans how startlingly insane modern movement conservatives tend to be. I want her to be on TV a lot. I want her to open her mouth a lot. I want Trump to campaign for her.
That required
smarts to figure out?!
Yes, I suppose I can see why... it's soooo diabolically deceptive! So subtle in its malevolence
It's also precisely what so many Democrats and liberals were absolutely certain Trump taking center stage would accomplish, and all he managed to do was win the White House. Some of the most satisfying web content in a long while consists of the compilations of series of numerous video clips in which snarky media talking heads such as the Don Lemon and the CNN Crew and Hollywood A-Listers like George Clooney and Tom Hanks, mock the very notion that Trump could
ever possibly become our president. I imagine the clips got a lot of play time in Trump Tower during the leadup to the inauguration and who could blame Trump and his family if such was the case? There are few things more satisfying whether experienced directly or vicariously than making your critics eat their mockery and look like fools.
Although I voted for him in 1976, I was never a huge fan of Jimmy Carter and I remain convinced that he stands tall among the worst presidents our nation ever suffered through, but there was one moment during his bid for the Democratic nomination when I like him very much and I made up my mind to vote for him. I really can't recall the exact circumstances and searches for some recognition of it on the internet have proved fruitless but what I do recollect is Carter being told by some smug SOB that he couldn't possibly believe that he could win the nomination, let alone the presidency; that there was no way on earth that a horse-faced, born-again peanut farmer from the Old South was going to win. While the memory is generally vague, I do vividly recall Carter leaning towards his dismissive, critic and with his toothy smile saying very quietly, but firmly
"Oh but I shall."
There was nothing of the pious Evangelical in it. It wasn't a statement of confidence based on any assurance he may have received from God or angels or anything to do with his religious faith. It did, however, have everything to do with his faith in Jimmy Carter (If Jimmy waged battles with his vices it wasn't the lust in heart that gave him the most trouble, it had to be his pride, his enormous ego) and observing that grin on his face I knew that
"Oh, but I shall," was probably the closest he would ever come to saying aloud what he really meant
"Just watch me asshole!" It cinched the deal for me and I always imagined that Carter savored his memory of that moment when Ford conceded and he knew he had won.
It is that making your critics eat their mockery which I addressed in my comment to you and which led to your pompous nonsense about the
smarter folks being able to perceive the wit & wisdom of blatham.
I've been giving you way too much credit Bernie. I was actually anticipating in this response a clever twist on the obvious, but instead, you delivered precisely what it was clear you meant in the first instance. Oh, you maintained your effort to dress it up as some insightful observation, spending more than half your space on belaboring your Romney comment when you knew it was the crack about Bachman that drew my comment. At least you should have known and would easily have done so if you weren't wrapped up in your new role in this forum; rewarding the acolytes with a rhetorical pat on the head and a clucking
"Such a smart boy!"
Your obsessive, quixotic crusade against Trump and
modern movement conservatives seems to have taken the edge off a once very sharp wit. It's a shame.
