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This week's hot blog topics: a Republican ad calls Black women 'Hos'; Santorum thinks he's Frodo; Reverend Don Wildmon fits the dictionary definition of 'queer'; and George W. AWOL blows the History Of The Air Force Quiz at the memorial dedication. All this and much, much more. Enjoy!

You're Getting To Be A Hobbit With Me

How humiliated are the Republicans in Pennsylvania, now that Rick Santorum is comparing the war in Iraq to The Lord Of The Rings in an effort to win back a few votes from the Mom's Basement demographic? Beetwasher points out (citing Salon and the Bucks County Courier Times) Santorum's obvious attempt to garner the Mom's Basement demographic:

Santorum said that the United States has avoided terrorist attacks at home over the past five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has been focused on Iraq instead.

"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."

The really sad part: anyone who's actually read the trilogy knows how truly lame Santorum's analogy is. Santorum is now the poster child for the "Hey, it could be worse than it already is, so don't change horses in mid-stream" set. Which leads us to...

The Porn Lover Or The Sodomite?

Guess which one wasn't allowed into the home of Dancing With The Stars' Sara Evans? If you answered "porn lover," you lose. According to Buzzflash:

(Craig) Schelske, 43, is a former Republican candidate for Congress and currently maintains a political action committee, CraigPac, dedicated to "promoting common-sense, conservative policies" and electing Republicans. He is the Executive Director for American Destiny, a right-wing organization committed to abolishing the separation between church and state "to see America shake off her lesser self and become the nation of God's intent and our Founders' hopes."

Hmm. After only 13 years, Sara has had enough. Buzzflash notes from the divorce report:

# Keeps over 100 obscene pictures of himself on his computers
# Keeps several photographs of himself having sex with other women
# Solicited various types of sexual activity over the internet through Craigslist
# Frequently threatened and verbally abused her
# Watched "pornographic material" in front of one of their young children
# Would not let a "Dancing with the Stars" costume designer into their home because he is a "sodomite"
# Said that one of their young children "broke out in hives because he saw the costume designer who is a 'sodomite'"
# "Refused to let (their) children go to a performance to hear their mother sing The Star Spangled Banner"

Ah, Republican family values. How do you campaign against the hypocrisy? Simple. Turn it into a campaign poster...

DUer Ian_rd's list of scratched GOP campaign slogans is a laugh riot. Here are a few of the gems, suitable for bumper sticker status:

On Iraq: Mommy says we have to clean up our room, but we like it the way it is!

On moral values: Not one of the scores of dead Iraqi children was aborted!

On family values: It's not like Foley married a dude or something!

On jobs: Ya, like you enjoyed your job anyway.

On national defense: The Army was overrated. What we need are more laser beams.

Read the rest and concoct some of your own. Hmm. I feel a midnight lamppost poster attack comin' on.

BREAKING! Polling news from MyDD, who hates it when other bloggers use all-caps BREAKING banner headlines:

The new Majority Watch from Constituent Dynamics will be released in a few minutes. Based on 63 polls of 48 districts of 1,000 likely voters each, they will show Democrats currently ahead in the House by 19 seats, 224-205, or the exact, 19-seat margin of the Republican Majority after the 2002 elections. It is also a significant increase from the 219-214 seat lead for Democrats found in the Majority Watch polling from late August and early September.

This 19-seat lead will not even include seven competitive, Republican-held districts that are currently being polled, and six districts that are currently tied. In fact, perhaps most stunningly, the districts with "safe" leads outside the margins of error break 217-198 in favor of Democrats. The previous set of polls actually showed Republicans ahead on safe seats, 205-199. Further, since TX-22 was not polled, that means Democrats already have the magic 218, outside the margin of error, with between 19 and 26 more races in the "toss-up" category. This is a looming landslide.

Let's hear it for Senator Harry Reid, who not only knows how to fight back and beat Republican smear meisters, but also knows how to nip their fiendish campaign plots in the bud. AmericaBlog has the story and Sen. Reid's statement on the Republican lies reported recently.

News Of The Weird

The Bushies Of Kennebunkport, DC, & Paraguay? Hmm. At first, I assumed that Paraguay must not have an extradition treaty with the USA. Wrong. They do. It turns out (if reports are true), however, that the Paraguan senate "granted the US Military immunity from national and international Criminal Courts jurisdiction." Political Cortex has the details.

In other news of the weird, Max Blumenthal] (at Huffington Post) has the transcript of that "Vote Republican and Don't Dis Your Ho" campaign ad:

BLACK MAN #1: "If you make a little mistake with one of your 'hos,' you'll want to dispose of that problem tout suite, no questions asked."

BLACK MAN #2: "That's too cold. I don't snuff my own seed."

BLACK MAN #1: "Maybe you do have a reason to vote Republican."

"A little mistake," "one of your hos," and "snuff my own seed?" It's definitely not your father's GOP anymore, is it?

So disgusting on so many levels.

Thank A DUer!

Thanks to Botany, whose reaction to guilty-pleading/forced-to-resign-by-his-own-GOP-leaders Bob Ney, made the Friday news dump funny as hell:

Will he set his head squirrel free?



Ney goes to Abramoff, Rove, Diebold, Ohio 04 election theft & cover up, HAVA, Ohio GOP, and Tom "Coingate" Noe.

And thanks to DawgHouse, for posting the link to this YouTube instant classic, "Stick Magnetic Ribbons On Your SUV."

Finally, major kudos to Xipe Totec, for pointing out George W. AWOL's fact-deprived speech at this week's Air Force Memorial dedication:

This mistake was brought to my attention by a friend who happens to be an ex-Freeper. Not a Dem, yet, but pissed off enough to blow out the candles on his Ronald Regan memorial altar. Anyway, he listened to this speech live on Saturday and it nearly drove him nuts with rage. How can a war pResident be so clueless about history?

President Bush Attends United States Air Force Memorial Dedication
October 14, 2006

Quote:

"We saw the importance of air power six days ago -- six decades ago, after our nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor. Soon after the attack, General Hap Arnold called Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle into his office and gave him an unprecedented mission -- retaliate against Tokyo. Just over four months later, Doolittle's raiders had shocked the world by striking the enemy capital some 4,000 miles away from Pearl Harbor. To do it, they had to load B-52 bombers on the deck of an aircraft carrier, sail within a few hundred miles of enemy territory, take off and drop their payloads, knowing they had little chance to make it safely to China."

--snip--

Problems:

B-52 bombers did not exist then; they flew for the first time on April 15, 1952.

Doolittle flew B-25 bombers.

It wasn't six decades ago (1946), it was 64 years ago (1942).

By the way, on my own blog (Delilah Boyd), I posted one of the official media pics of Bush and Rumsfeld behavior during the dedication of the memorial to the Air Force's 54,000+ war dead:


Truly heavy sigh.

What's Queer & Who's Not

The blogosphere is heating up this week with the pros and cons of outing gay Republicans. Lighting the outing fuse is Michael Rogers of BlogActive, whose recent national media appearances have ignited internal party debates on both sides of the aisle. In his defense, Rogers' motive appears to be based on "outing" the hypocrisy of those who humiliate, oppress, and viciously attack gays in the name of family values. Check out his blog and decide for yourself. By the way, people aren't queer. But their hateful actions can be. Case in point...

Remember the Rev. Don Wildmon from last week's column? This week, Queerty posts this pic of the not-so-righteous reverend, who looks like the prototype for that annoying toy, Billy Bass:


Now, that's queer, Don. Queer, as in its dictionary definition, that is. Also from the Dictionary Definition Of Queer file is the current crop of those so-called "independent Republicans." Glenn Greenwald explains their motive:

...these pseudo-independent GOP Senators know the Iraq War is failing, so they want it to appear as part of some sort of Platonic "historical record" that they were one of the bold, independent GOP Senators to stand up and say so -- three-and-a-half years later in the case of Iraq, and only in the most deliberately inconsequential way in the case of torture and habeas corpus. But their objections, as always, are meaningless because their paramount consideration -- partisan allegiance -- prevents them from saying or doing anything meaningful.

As always, all of this play-acting is designed to fulfill the only real objective these "moderate, independent-minded" GOP Senators have -- to self-servingly cast the appearance of independence and to distance themselves from the administration's grossest failures and excesses while, simultaneously, remaining blindly loyal and doing everything possible to enable those same failures and abuses.

This should be an episode of GOP TV: "Freud's Picnic" featuring the wacky antics of the GOP's love-hate relationship with accomplished gays. Welcome To Potterville notes:

Take the bizarre case of Karl Rove. Every one of his Bush campaigns has been marked by a dirty dealing of the gay card, dating back to the lesbian whispers that pursued Ann Richards when Mr. Bush ousted her as Texas governor in 1994. Yet we now learn from "The Architect," the recent book by the Texas journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater, that Mr. Rove's own (and beloved) adoptive father, Louis Rove, was openly gay in the years before his death in 2004. This will be a future case study for psychiatric clinicians as well as historians.

It boggles the mind to imagine so many smart and politically savvy gays signing on with those who think they're only useful as amusing hairdressers, interior designers, and beauty pageant directors. Heavy sigh. Meanwhile, over at...

GOP TV

Nancy Greggs does it again!

So as we end tonight's episode, the Fundie base is losing faith, GOP candidates can't get arrested (unless you count REALLY being arrested, handcuffs and all), the "It's All Clinton's Fault" theme song has lost its luster, six hundred thousand deaths in Iraq can't be explained away as fuzzy math, North Korea has gone nukular, el presidente's poll numbers have dropped lower than his IQ (an almost impossible achievement), and in a matter of just a few weeks, voters will go to the polls to decide if the corruption-ridden, lying elected officials who have outsourced their jobs, destroyed the economy, plunged them into debt, short-changed their children's education, polluted the environment, supported the quagmire in Iraq, and handed their tax dollars over to wealthy individuals, corporations and war profiteers deserve another kick at the can.

Tune in for the season ender on November 7th. It's not going to be much of a nail-biter, but the happy ending will more than make up for the lack of surprise.

With public support of the Republican-controlled congress at 16%, and with so many elected degenerate Republicans facing the eternal flames of woe due to their rewriting of Bible-based morality, there's no telling how far they'll go to retain power by November 7th. Nancy Greggs says it best: stay tuned! And keep sending those great blog links.

-- Delilah Boyd

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[spag68]

2. moderate, independent minded republicans ?????

That sounds like a triple oxymoron.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. it feels like christmas...

Is it December already? who won the elections? :evilgrin:

[PurpleChez]

4. I'd love to see Failure W. Flightsuit try to fly a B-52

from the deck of a carrier.

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5. The Ad calling black women ho's

Has anyone heard whether this appalling GOP ad is still running?