(I found the cartoon above at Legal Insurrection.)
Dear Conservatives:
I am a liberal who is still a registered Democrat. I realize that you guys are stinging from this Todd Akin flap and the Democratic party’s “war on women” meme. I don’t believe that your party hates women.
In your desire to push back against the Democrats I see some of you bringing up Bill Clinton. I urge you for your own good – don’t go there.
I realize he’s not one of your favorite people but the last time you went after him it cost you two House Speakers and he ended up more popular than when you started. Bill and Hillary Clinton are currently the two most popular politicians in the country.
More importantly, the Clintons have a very loyal fan base that despises Barack Obama and the current Democratic leadership. (Most of us believe that Bill Clinton shares our feelings.) Many Clinton fans (like myself) voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin four years ago. Some of us will be supporting Mitt Romney this year.
If you start attacking the Big Dawg you run the risk of alienating these Clinton Democrats. There are plenty of sleazy Democrats you can go after instead, like Ted Kennedy, John Edwards and Anthony Weiner.
Keep your eyes on the prize and the best of luck this November.
The Klown
Captain Spaulding
It’s funny how that works.
Ruh Roh! Major dogwhistle alert:
There is actually a worse one than “bless his heart.”
It’s “I love him to death.”
They can’t help themselves. If they don’t fuck this up, they may win. But just like Obots, they do live in a bubble. Even so, I fully expect them to self destruct within two years after, if not before. Both parties are the same for that. It all goes to their head, and they think they do anything.
Was just seeing the new meme “rapeublicans” popping up on FB. This could stick.
Legitimate Rapeublicans? 🙂
Seriously, what idiots. Though I think that like other derogatory versions of the R party name and the D party name tend to stick only within the tribe. People outside of those tribes look at that as childish, which it is.
It will only stick with the morons who were going to vote or who were looking for an excuse to vote for Obama anyway.
Because, ya know some obviously delusional moron in MO who probably will not even get his grandmother’s vote now totally eclipses all the sexist & misogynistic crap Obama pulled against Hillary & Palin.
Ain’t that the truth.
I would only say that I don’t think the far Right considers women equal. They may respect women, as you said – but not in the way two equals respect each other. Evangelicals, especially, believe men are to be the head of everything – while the woman plays a supporting role. They’ll respect her big time, until she steps out of that stereotypical role.
Great advice regarding Big Dawg. Plus, the Republicans can’t cast too many stones – there has been some inappropriate sexual conduct by members of their own party.
Neither party considers woman equals. The right puts them in madonna mode, the left treats the as hos.
Good advice. Even Hannity gets it. Sometimes he just can’t help himself & goes for the usual clichéd swipe, but lately he’s been using BC very effectively to go after the One.
Bless his heart! 🙂
Jealousy rears its ugly head yet again. I used to say to Republicans ragging on Bill “Why are you so jealous of a poor boy from Arkansas? Could it be that he is smarter, more charming, works harder and women love him? Stop demeaning yourself. It is unbecoming.” It shuts them up every time.
Amen to that, Lulu.
I wonder why?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/john-edwards-stiffed-not-invited-dem-convention_650499.html
cuz he’s a horndog.
Edwards would have been a better President from delegating from prison, just my honest opinion. 😉
What The Klown said!!!!
We are still bitter, stilling clinging and definitely watching.
I saw that cartoon earlier on L.I. and cringed before I thought about it as a good editorial cartoon makes you think. The DNC has been tooting it’s big Pro-Woman theme for their convention because they want us to know Republicans hate women and want to control their vaginas, right? Bill as keynote speaker is already upstaging Obama just by being the better, more charismatic person and former President. So doesn’t “keynote” set the theme? That’s when I chuckled, not that ya can’t keep that Big Dawg on the porch, but the hypocrisy that is Obama and the New Dems. Besides, the Obama 2008 team was a lot harder on the Clintons than the conservative side has been since.
I wanted Cory Booker to speak, he’s Dem Party’s future and he was shut out. I joined a Draft Russ Feingold group to primary Obama in ’10 after the Republican massacre in the House. Then I wanted Booker as his VP. Both have been clinging to the rear axel under Obama’s bus ever since they became more likable than President Crankypants.
I look forward to Bill’s speech, with hopes he’ll surprise us all …. and endorse Romney-Ryan 😀
Wouldn’t that be a hoot. 😆
What they need to understand is… the folks who would like this cartoon are already going to vote GOP.
Those who are turned off by it are still on the fence. (Except, of course, the ones who hate Bill and love Obie.)
Ooops… the words in parentheses should be after the first sentence. Doh.
Fair. Though even picking on Bill wouldn’t sway me at this point. Thanks for the linky love! And glad I don’t have to brainstorm a post now.
Been going since 6:00 this morning, and will go until 11:00 tonight. I’m tired. But I do have some very happy students. 🙂
What’s with AmyS/TNA…..she’s promoting Obama(facebook) because R/R sucks for women?
I have her set to only show important announcements. If she’s promoting Obama because R didn’t pick a woman, then that’s not really critically thinking about it. O&B are still two males, FFS.
Maybe Biden will undergo a sex-change operation.
TNA for Obama?
Why am I NOT SURPRISED?
So disappointing. Turns out that Violet Socks and Amy are alike after all.
😯
Should we start calling him Bendover Biden then?
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but Biden was my first pick for 2008. I think it was the Cspan event covering his speech with a LGBT group, only 4 showed up, so he left his podium position to just sit with them and chatted for over an hour. Go Cspan 🙂 Goodness knows why this moth moved to the Edwards light. Man, that guy could talk an owl down from a tree (h/t Bill Clinton)
LOL!
Republicans, listen up, don’t make the Big Dawg look bad. We are vigilant and we will fight back. So will Bill and he’s got the prime TV spot coming up. Do. Not. Go. There.
Bill CLinton is one of the smartest presidents we have ever had. The democratic party shafted him and Hillary. His thinking with the wrong head did a lot of damage to him and Hillary.
I would still rather have him at the head of the democratic party then what is there now.
He knew enough to work with others to get problems brought to the table and worked on.
Believe it or not , I think the republicans have more respect for Bill Clinton than the democrats do.
The democrats are still mad at the wasted oportunities of the smartest man in the room doing dumb things
Do you want to ask a question of Rep Jeff Denham? I’m on a townhall meeting/phone call and might be able to get the question to him. They were asking for questions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Denham
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s2737182.shtml
democratic child molester who at first said he would stay in race now says he will not continue to run for office
This post is very very smart.
I love Bill despite his flaws, not because of them. For me, it was always a matter of his personal life (not my business) v. his professional life (very much my business). I have no problem separating the two.
IMO, the problem with this cartoon is that it is using Bill’s personal life to try to point out the Dems’ hypocrisy of having him to deliver their “GOP War on Women” theme of the DNC convention when that isn’t the real hypocrisy. The real hypocrisy by the Dems is that in 2008 they all lined up, to a one, to trash Hillary because of Bill’s personal life so that they could pretend Obama was the “better choice.” Remember Chris Matthews “The only reason Hillary won her senate seat is because her husband cheated on her” line? Because I do and there are numerous other examples of the Obamacons dragging Bill’s personal life to the forefront in 2008 and now they are turning around and using him to give them cover in their b.s. “Republicans Hate Women” meme. They have no more respect for Bill Clinton and they have no more respect for women than anyone on the right does. And that’s why the Dems’ having Bill give the keynote address at this year’s convention is hypocritical of them. The cartoon completely misses that.
PS — BTW, the opposition party ragging on the other party’s candidate is to be expected, IMO, so the GOP ragging on Bill isn’t that bothersome to me in the first place. It is the Dems’ ragging on Bill that *really* pisses me off. YMMV.
A double honk! One for the thread leader and then another for:
((( It is the Dems’ ragging on Bill that *really* pisses me off. )))
and I might add …ragging on Hillary in 08.
I will never forgive them for it and cherish when the DEM callers ring me up for a donation/chat.
Oh I give them a chat!
from the smartest man in the room to this
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80027.html
akin in Tampa meeting with the Counsel for National Policy. A group of conservatives and evangelicals
Dandy Tiger better have an alibi
First comment on that one is PRICELESS!
Whew, just got back from a great party. What?
BTW, Myiq, I’m having great fun tonight watching the progoshere react to the Like a Boss article. Wonkette says the author called Obama “gay” with the fallopian tubes comment and used the term “‘tarded” to describe the whole piece, while taking offense at the offensive put downs in it. Hilarious!
Is “Chuck Thompson” a sockpuppet of Riverdaughter? Because I think she wrote a book:
From AoS:
Ah yes, geographic tribalism. Just like party tribalism, if you stay in your safe little bubble and only tune in the echo chamber of hating the other, and making the other out to be the boogieman, then this is the crap you get. So pathetic.
Hey, Oswald — remember that “FBI investigates Rep. congressmen skinny dipping” story that we were wondering what illegal activity, exactly, they were investigating? Turns out they weren’t per the WSJ:
Link to full story: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/08/20/fbi-wasnt-investigating-skinny-dipping-in-israel/
I wondered why the FBI would want to probe naked swimmers.
No wonder Ecuador welcomes Assange. They don’t really care much about rape there. Kind of like Assange defenders and supporters here:
They compare Latin America to pro-lifers like Akin who don’t consider rape real. I wonder if they couldn’t tie what the Ecuador leader said to a recent Republican problem like this, would they have run the story at all.
To me the pro-Assange stance always came across as inseparably connected to an anti-USA sentiment. Ecuadorian government not excluded.
From the very start it seemed that people didn’t/ couldn’t differentiate between WikiLeaks-the-hacker/leaker-organisation and Assange-the-man so seeing WikiLeaks as a ‘good’ thing – mainly because it exposed the US – they also saw Assange as a ‘good’ person. Neither could possibly be wrong. Ever. Period.
And subsequently, just like Obama played succesfully into the ‘white liberal guilt’ using the race card, Assange has successfully played into the US-hate by using the victim card.
And by the by wasn’t his recent balcony scene speech all about the US?
Wow:
I miss Bill to death but this made me LMAO
this disappoints me a lot
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/23/video-clinton-cuts-ad-touting-obama-plan-that-obama-never-talks-about/
““This election, to me, is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment.”
He should stop there and let pp; draw there own conclusions. 😀
honk 🙂
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