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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-02-14 04:42 pm

Because only awesomeness can come from googling sarah palin egypt

From the lips of America's next President:

"And nobody yet has, nobody yet has explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and no, not, not real enthused about what it is that that's being done on a national level and from DC in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt. And, in these areas that are so volatile right now, because obviously it's not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings, we know that now more than ever, we need strength and sound mind there in the White House. We need to know what it is that America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with. And, we do not have all that information yet."


On a completely unrelated note


I'm linking to this Card essay on talk radio because I have an honest question: has Card always been this cool on Huckabee?

[identity profile] carloshasanax.livejournal.com 2011-02-14 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
These days? certainly. This is the party which has a wing that accuses conservative activist Grover Norquist of being a secret Muslim. If circumcision weren't the norm among American men, I'd bet they demand he drop trou. Not only does the base employ religious tests, it employs insane religious tests.

It would be interesting to see how a modern Mo Udall would perform generally. Mormons aren't a monolith, and most of them have traditional mainline Protestant values. They do feel culturally embattled, though, and the Republican Party caters to that.

[identity profile] traviswells.livejournal.com 2011-02-14 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"If circumcision weren't the norm among American men, I'd bet they demand he drop trou."

Maybe we could use this to finally kill off male circumcision as standard practice in the US? Just convince the party leaders that it's an effective way to detect SECRET MUSLIMS (and for no extra charge we'll throw in jews, too!)

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2011-02-14 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Too much collateral damage, I think.

[identity profile] mindstalk.livejournal.com 2011-02-14 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
which has a wing that accuses conservative activist Grover Norquist of being a secret Muslim

what

[identity profile] carloshasanax.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome to the Terrordome. It starts there, goes through Michelle Malkin and assorted other professional bigots, and now the freak show has jackasses claiming Norquist is practicing taqiyya after marrying one of those people -- a Kuwaiti-American assistant director of USAID during the W administration -- and you know how the spouse always converts to the Religion of Peace.

It's like something from the 1930s.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2011-02-14 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Heck, Mitt Romney himself isn't a monolith. Right now he seems to be trying to simultaneously position himself as a Tea Partier and as the counterprogramming to the Tea Partiers.