I’m trying to imagine what life’d be like if Saint Paul had “won” the Democrat rather than GOP National Convention.
One thing I don’t see ever happening: Republicans making up snotty, stupid lawn signs to parade their elitism, bigotry, and exaggerated sense of moral and intellectual entitlement.
Of course, they’ll be contributing to the city’s light (and moral, aesthetic and intellectual pollution) with “True Blue Minnesota”‘s jumbotron on Cathedral Hill; we an exclusive preview of True Blue Minnesota’s video event right here:
And here, True Blue in their uniforms:
But thanks to more lefties with deep pockets, it’ll extend to the neighborhoods as well!
The top vote-getter, receiving 130 votes, was Teri Kwant’s sign, “I’m for preemptive peace. Others making the cut: “Give a shit” by “Liza Minelli” (or, perchance, Liza Minelli?); David Brynestad’s “My redneck, sexist, gun-toting, racist brother-in-law is voting” (“Are you?”); and Joseph Hughes’ simple sign that shows a checkbox with the first of two options marked: hope and fear.
Oh, and as if property values in the Twin Cities’ blighted neighborhoods weren’t crappy enough already:
The 50 designs will be distributed in yards in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff, St. Paul’s West Side and Minneapolis’ Seward neighborhoods. But if you don’t live in those communities, you can still plant one in your yard: $20 gets one delivered to your door.
Twin Cities liberals; happy to pay to make themselves look like smug, blinkered, self-satisfied prigs!
I like the “hope vs fear” slogan the best.
This is coming from people who are terrified that Bush is listening in on their phone conversations, that fret about ‘climate change’ destroying the planet, and are kept awake nights by the thought that one more conservative on the SC could mean that their daughter would be unable to abort their grandchild.
So Terry, are you saying that there is projection involved?
I’m partial to “I’m for preemptive peace”. It has a mixture of assinine, unrealistic and dishonest elements that blend together so nicely. I bet the flip side says, “No guns in the house, take what you’d like!”
I always say, the Democrats are the party of hate. This kind of proves it.
Right Mitch, the Republicans aren’t the all time kings of hate, sure they aren’t.
Terry Schaivo – Dr. Bill Frist diagnoses her via television, but he’s not smug
Mark Foley – complains about morals, and then prays on teenagers
Newt Gingrich – impeaches Bill Clinton for lying about an affair, while HE’s having an affair.
1976 Republican national convention – sitting President Gerald Ford is repeatedly interrupted by neo-con a-holes who, after having Ronald Reagan defeated in his attempt to get the Presidential nomination- blow horns and whistles incessantly, in an open sign of disrepsect for Ford, and for the office of the Presidency.
BTW Mitch, what change in policy does McCain stand for? I mean, he says he’s “Change we can believe in”, what change from Bush’s policies?
GOPers nationwide (especially in the Midway); happy to pay to make themselves look like smug, blinkered, self-satisfied prigs! (You’ve NEVER appeared smug or self-satisfied – nosireebob).
Oh, and Mitch, if I recall, there was not only a lawnsign, but a billboard (or two) around the twin cities saying “Liberalism 101 – tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend) – sure Mitch – you’d NEVER find the GOP paying to look like smug, blinkered, self-satisfied prigs! – nope, not ever.
I wonder how many of those signs will grace the windows of coffee shops, restaurants and bars (open til 4 a.m.!) around the Ex and throughout downtown St. Paul. You know, right next to the MasterCard and Visa decals.
Mark Foley – complains about morals, and then prays on teenagers
Did he have Rosary beads, at least?
Seriously Peev, for someone who prides himself on at least pretending to be intelligent, your grammar and spelling errors make you a mockery of yourself.
How about Happy To Pray For A Better
innesota?
Right Mitch, the Republicans aren’t the all time kings of hate, sure they aren’t.
Um…whatever you say?
Terry Schaivo – Dr. Bill Frist diagnoses her via television, but he’s not smug
I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
Mark Foley – complains about morals, and then prays on teenagers
Not only are you off-topic, but you’ve gone off on a tangent from your own tangent.
BTW Mitch, what change in policy does McCain stand for? I mean, he says he’s “Change we can believe in”, what change from Bush’s policies?
If he holds to his own line on spending and nothing else, it’ll be a huge change.
Oh, and Mitch, if I recall, there was not only a lawnsign, but a billboard (or two) around the twin cities saying “Liberalism 101 – tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend) – sure Mitch – you’d NEVER find the GOP paying to look like smug, blinkered, self-satisfied prigs! – nope, not ever.
So you think…that was…smug?
(shakes head, flips to another post, looking for some mental Listerine to gargle with).
I think that (those billboards) were EXACTLY the same kind of thing you’re complaining about – you just don’t choose to see it because it doesn’t suit your purpose, and as for smug, I think I know exactly what it means – when you gargle, you’ll be cleaning your own mental mouth out, which is exactly what needs done.
BTW Mitch, as far as deep pockets go – who funds the Heritage Insitute, the American Enterprise Intsitute, and a host of other righty ‘think’ tanks?
Answer – a series of the exact same righty foundations, nearly in ALL cases.
Pot = kettle.
And Mitch, I think the conduct of neo-cons toward Ford was precisely smug and self-satisfied priggish conduct. Those examples were off the top of my head – I’m sure there’s a host of other examples, and not just from Minnesota.
BTW – what WOULD you call Frist’s conduct, calling the doctors treating and diagnosing Schaivo wrong, if not smug and self-satisfied? He satisfied his political constituancy, his own ego, and smugly dismissed the work of his betters.. game, set, match.
I wonder who paid for those billboards?
And ‘if he holds to his own spending line’ – so you mean, NO change, no corrections in course toward banking oversight, toward energy needs, toward fiscal responsibility (because holding the line will simply mean the largest deficits in US history),
In short, no change at all, really, just cut government by ommission, rather than commission, because, after all, that’s worked so swimmingly for the past 8 years.
No change, none, zero, zip, nada. Change we can believe in like the tooth fairy, nonexistent change.
You assail Obama for wrong change, aspouse change ‘you can believe in’, but have no proposals at all other than euphemistic waive of hand grandiosity of ‘simply don’t spend so much’, yeah, that’s a platform – somewhere.
(shakes head, flips to a less ridiculous blog, and looks for mental fumagator to spray on the computer lest Short of the Light infest it’s betters).
For a guy so experienced in smug attitudes and comments, Peev (or whatever the Hell he’s calling himself this hour) doesn’t know how to describe it.
Aspouse?
Uh oh. I feel a limerick coming on. . .
The smugness of commenter “Penigma,”
Marks him with a fairly strong stigma
He can’t spell for shit
But he simply won’t quit
Penning his intellectual smegma.
Do you ever get embarassed watching someone way over their head just keep right on going? – oblivious ……. “game, set, match” – wow
Aspouse?
Proofreading seems to be a lost art, Yoss.
One of Peev’s assertions is especially interesting.
In short, no change at all, really, just cut government by ommission, rather than commission, because, after all, that’s worked so swimmingly for the past 8 years.
My goodness, Peev. In the last 8 years we’ve seen enormous growth in the comission of government – Homeland Security, Medicare, McCain-Feingold, now the mortgage bailout. You can fault the Bush administration for a lot of things (and certainly you have in your own inimitable spittle-flecked style), but saying that his administration has been cutting government is risible.
On top of what EW, Yoss and Badda said…:
And ‘if he holds to his own spending line’ – so you mean, NO change, no corrections in course toward banking oversight, toward energy needs, toward fiscal responsibility (because holding the line will simply mean the largest deficits in US history),
Hm. I wasn’t aware that I meant any of that. Odd.
In short, no change at all, really, just cut government by ommission, rather than commission, because, after all, that’s worked so swimmingly for the past 8 years.
Er, no, that’s not really what I was talking about.
No change, none, zero, zip, nada. Change we can believe in like the tooth fairy, nonexistent change.
That’d be Obama, thanks.
And there’d be a huge change, if Mac is up to his word. The massive spending orgy of the past eight years would be attenuated. That’s huge.
You assail Obama for wrong change, aspouse change ‘you can believe in’, but have no proposals at all other than euphemistic waive of hand grandiosity of ’simply don’t spend so much’, yeah, that’s a platform – somewhere.
Peev, you are so far from “correct” that light leaving “correct” right now will not reach you until your grandchildren are collecting social security.
This blog is all about proposals about how to change things. Now, because of your commenting and my server logs, I know you read every single post. It’d save us all some effort if you comprehended or retained any of it?
(shakes head, flips to a less ridiculous blog, and looks for mental fumagator to spray on the computer lest Short of the Light infest it’s betters).
What? Again? How many times have you run away?
At least mean it one of these times…
Hey, how’s your blog going? I haven’t been there yet, but given lefties’ hive mentality, I’m sure you have an audience of dozens. Measured in numbers and (given the intelligence level of most lefty commenters and readers, albeit not most of the ones who come to this blog) collective IQ.
Peev’s constant comments on my blog
leave a dank, logorrheac fog
for publication not fit.
If I want mindless s**t,
I’ll give an account to my dog.
I’ve read Peev’s blog. He spends a lot of time ripping Mitch, but he did have a good post about the Twins about a week back – it’s a subject he knows well and he has good insights to share on the topic.
He spends a lot of time ripping Mitch
Hah!
I should check it out…
…bwahahahaha!
I slay me.
Mitch
you should check it out his blog – if nothing else you’ll discover that Nixon was President in 1975
the big question is what color is the sky in his world
1976 Republican national convention – sitting President Gerald Ford is repeatedly interrupted by neo-con a-holes who, after having Ronald Reagan defeated in his attempt to get the Presidential nomination- blow horns and whistles incessantly, in an open sign of disrepsect for Ford, and for the office of the Presidency.
At least they didn’t boo the boy scouts like the delegates at the 2000 Democratic convention. Fords a grown man. I can imagine he can take a little rudenss at a political convention. But booing boy scouts? They’re just kids. Imagine the hate you have to feel to do that.
Newt Gingrich – impeaches Bill Clinton for lying about an affair, while HE’s having an affair.
Clinton was impeached for perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice. You can read the articles here: http://www.davidstuff.com/usa/impeacharticles.htm
.
As to the question of change McCain would bring, well let’s look at his record a moment. McCain has NEVER added an earmark to an appropriations bill (Peev might want to look up the word “appropriations”).
Maybe PB/Peevish Boy/Peevish/Peev/Left Out/Penigma/Penigma2/The Big Effing Stunod/Gimme-a-C-a-Bouncy-C/Whatevah-da-Hell-else-you-wanna-put-in-there merely is telling Mitch and everyone else he’s simply leaving for the day, or the weekend, or the hour.
Even then, we know he’s still there reading… and fumming. Even SEETHING.
lol
In fact, he’s reading this right now.
Here’s where you’re missing the point, Peev: saying someone else is wrong isn’t “smug”. Saying someone else is spending too much money, likewise, is not “smug”.
Saying that other person is not as smart as you because they believe what they do, and imparting some sort of depravity to their motives (“my redneck sexist racist brother in law is voting”) is smug.
I almost hate to ask, but do you see the difference yet?
In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Hi Mitch, I should note that My Yard Our Message, along with all of the other projects that are part of The UnConvention are strictly non-partisan affairs. We actually rejected a number of signs (both liberal and conservative) that endorsed a candidate. The UnConvention is not associated with the jumbo-tron project, however.
We’ve been taking heat from both the left and the right, so we must be doing something right!
Justin,
Thanks for the clarification.
And I didn’t mean to imply your efforts were linked with TrueBlue; I was merely noting a similarity.
If getting heat is a sign of success, I’ll happily contribute more in the coming weeks. You’re welcome!