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[G-Flex]

How are Bachmann and Palin at all similar to Clinton?

[alway]

How are Bachmann and Palin at all similar to Clinton?

They have boobs. That's about as far as a comparison can go, as Hillary Clinton is, you know, not mentally incompetent.

[Frumple]

They have boobs.

Do you have proof of this? They could be very skilled crossdressers. Given the amount of money behind them, I wouldn't be surprised if they could access very convincing accessories.

[Canalan]

Maybe that's why Bill was an adulterer.  He knew.

[sluissa]

Hillary is about as extreme left (for the US spectrum, anyway. which just makes her moderate left in general) as Bachmann/Palin are right and at least Hillary/Palin are/were both sidekicks to a much more moderate winner. Obama/McCain.

This is why I completely left Herman Cain out of it. I knew if I mentioned him it'd just be "Cause they're both black!"

[nenjin]

It just occurred to me. Mitt Romney is the John Kerry of the Republican party. If you look closer, a lot of them have mirrors from the other side. Another somewhat obvious pair seems to be Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. Also Bachmann/Palin (they're basically the same person) and Hillary Clinton.

Hate to break it to you, but these comparisons are a few months old now. Most have been quoted from the media all the way on through to this thread

[sluissa]

It just occurred to me. Mitt Romney is the John Kerry of the Republican party. If you look closer, a lot of them have mirrors from the other side. Another somewhat obvious pair seems to be Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. Also Bachmann/Palin (they're basically the same person) and Hillary Clinton.

Hate to break it to you, but these comparisons are a few months old now. Most have been quoted from the media all the way on through to this thread

Yeah, so? Not a single original thought left in this world. Sorry.

Just so you know? Pointing it out? Also not original.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Hate to break it to you, but these comparisons are a few months old now. Most have been quoted from the media all the way on through to this thread

Yeah, so? Not a single original thought left in this world. Sorry.

Just so you know? Pointing it out? Also not original.

Yeah? Well MY dad can beat up your dad!



  Come on gentlemen.

I sure hope Obama issues a solid response to their 'Fuck you's (as the writer put so eloquently) in the following way: No, fuck you. Call the elitocracy out once for christ's sake. They seriously cannot expect to have their cakes and eat it too (control of movies, television, music, and NOW the internet) without a sane leader, like Obama, realizing that it's destructive and that a line needs to be drawn. Of course, it's most likely political posteuring.

[Montague]

We need another Clinton in office like we need another Bush or Kennedy in office. The US isn't a hereditary monarchy and I don't like the idea of giving further influence to these handful of wealthy families.

I'm all for electing people outside the established political circle we have already.

[Nadaka]

Remember folks, Hillary Clinton is well known to crusade for censorship and against video games. She isn't Ol' Bills distaff counterpart. And I seriously doubt that she would make anywhere near as good a president as he did.

[mainiac]

We need another Clinton in office like we need another Bush or Kennedy in office. The US isn't a hereditary monarchy and I don't like the idea of giving further influence to these handful of wealthy families.

I'm all for electing people outside the established political circle we have already.

FDR gave us the New Deal and he was not only related to a previous president but was the most blue blooded aristocrat that we ever made president.  FDR was so aristocratic that he spoke with an obscure accent found only in exclusive schools and gentlemen's clubs of the north-east.  FDR couldn't even walk on his own two legs because walking was too pedestrian for someone of his breeding.  Despite being such a toff, he was the most successful champion of the working class in this nations history.

[G-Flex]

FDR couldn't even walk on his own two legs because walking was too pedestrian for someone of his breeding.

A little unnecessary, don't you think?

[RedKing]

Not to reopen a mostly dead subthread here, but I think Hillary Clinton's counterpart woud be Gingrich: both are very polarizing figures, have some "baggage" and are mostly holdovers from the 1990's (Clinton's Senate and SoS tenures notwithstanding).


Anybody else getting a kick out of Newt trying to play the offended, self-righteous high road re: his ex-wife?
"The media should be ashamed of themselves for bringing up an internal family matter in a political campaign."

This is the same man who made his career on trying to impeach Clinton for having an affair while he was having his own affair. He takes hypocrisy to a rareified art form.

[mainiac]

I don't see the Gingrich-Clinton parallel myself.  Hillary entered office after Gingrich left it.  Gingrich made a name for himself by bucking against the party elites and championing culture war while Hillary has never been a party renegade.  They even come from sharply different political office backgrounds.  The Speaker of the House is naturally confrontational while Hillary's positions as first lady, Senator and Secretary of State were more stateswomanly.

So Gingrich is now leading in South Carolina.  Hooray for the GOP circular firing squad!

[RedKing]

I don't see the Gingrich-Clinton parallel myself.  Hillary entered office after Gingrich left it.

Arguable. Remember her attempts to shape healthcare policy as First Lady? Not an elected office, but she was certainly much more of a political animal than any First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt.

Gingrich made a name for himself by bucking against the party elites and championing culture war while Hillary has never been a party renegade.  They even come from sharply different political office backgrounds.  The Speaker of the House is naturally confrontational while Hillary's positions as first lady, Senator and Secretary of State were more stateswomanly.

True, but we're comparing where they are *now* in broad strokes. Paul and Kucinich have drastically different backstories, but they're both seen as sort of charismatic fringers.

So Gingrich is now leading in South Carolina.  Hooray for the GOP circular firing squad!

Further proving that "family values" voters are so full of shit, they're turning brown. And then they'll have to have each other deported because....y'know, can't trust those brown people.

The new narrative is "the liberal media elites are trying to destroy Gingrich to protect Obama in the general election", which frankly is brilliant. Claim that X group of people hate you and are unfairly trying to destroy you. Then when they bring up ANY LEGITIMATE CRITICISM, you can wave it off and say, "See? See!!??? I told you bro, I told you bout that liberal media...."

I'd be jealous of Newt's mad Machiavellian skillz, if I didn't daily hope that he gets torn to pieces by rabid weasels. Truly, even Santorum isn't as slimy as Gingrich (and given the dual-nature of his name, that's saying something). Santorum's just insane and bigoted. But at least he's consistent and honestly believes the crap he's advocating.