A couple of months ago, a good friend e-mailed, saying that the thing that worried him the most about the GOP “in general these days,” isn’t that “they’re on the wrong, most hateful side of nearly every issue — although that’s bad enough — it’s that there’s so much plain stupidity and ignorance at work there. And it starts with the party’s so-called leaders.” As if to prove my friend correct, just in the past couple of days, three potential GOP presidential candidates collectively nailed the week’s Idiocy Trifecta.
First, Donald Trump and the symbiotic, head-sharing creature he calls his “hair” showed up to announce that maybe he’s not so sure President Obama was born in the U.S., thus showing that Trump can appeal to the Republican party’s I.Q. basement dwellers with the best of them. He then released a copy of his own birth certificate, which turned out not to be his real birth certificate, so he released another one, or something-like-that-who-really-cares. We like columnist Leonard Pitts’ take on Trump’s latest nonsense (thanks to special correspondent Mike for the tip): “Donald Trump doesn’t like ‘birthers.’ He calls the word ‘unfair’ to people who don’t believe President Obama was born in the USA. Very well, then. If not birthers, how about if we call them ‘morons’?’’
Next up, everyone’s friend and neighbor, Sarah Palin, former half-term governor of America’s Freezer. She’s nearly always good for some kind of malapropism or another, and she didn’t let us down while giving her expert foreign policy assessment of Obama’s Libya speech. La Palin wondered aloud whether the Libya attacks amounted to a war, an intervention, or “a squirmish.” Her latest invention of a new word was goofy enough, but then at the end of the interview, Palin went off on a tangent about how the North Star is a guide for Alaskans, or something. Can you really imagine this person in the White House? God help us. Watch her here.
And finally, one of our favorite right-wing loons, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum — so far, the only presidential candidate to have a byproduct of a sexual practice named after him — was campaigning in New Hampshire yesterday. He told a radio audience that the reason Social Security has monetary problems is because America’s “culture of abortion” has resulted in there not being enough kids around to support the program in the long run. “A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion,” Santorum “explained.” Read about this wizard of political analysis here.
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I just can’t see how a benevolent God would allow these sorts of braindead mouthbreathers to inhabit the same planet as rational, well-educated, human beings.
“Sarah Palin: Is Libya a war or ‘a squirmish’?”
What war? Were not in a war, were in a “Kinetic Military Action” thing. A “KMA” (Kick My A$$).
Were “WTF” with “KMA”.
Don’t for get Daffy has to go, unless he doesn’t want to, cuz were not into regime change even though that’s exactly what were doing “Tomahawks” in the house!
Were going to turn this over to NATO, cept we are NATO!
No military action without Congress approval, except for this one because Obama’s “dithering” allowed the Rebels to be slaughtered.
BTW do you even know what squirmish means?
squirmish
1. A verbal stoush between two or more parties that is so petty, pointless, misinformed or ill-conceived that it makes witnesses wince with embarrassment, or so uncomfortable that they don’t know where to look.
2. showing signs of restlessness resulting from feelings of discomfort or distress.
So What’s the problem with using squirmish?
“misinformed or ill-conceived that it makes witnesses wince with embarrassment, or so uncomfortable that they don’t know where to look”
“feelings of discomfort or distress.”
Pretty sum’s up our kinetic military action thing were doing in Libya.
The real frightening part is that they do this because it works.
Read the comments under any news article about any topic and you will find angry people repeating all that drivel.
The Donald doesn’t believe that the President was not born in America. What he believes is that if he SAYS he doesn’t believe it, it will get him 100,000 more votes. And he is probably right.
“or “a squirmish.” Her latest invention of a new word was goofy enough,”
A new word?
And your calling Palin stupid?
— A better way to die? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Yes target muslims as they target us and do not be squirmish about it.
— Muslim soldiers facing backlash?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. I really — I’m squirmish (ph).
— CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008
I didn’t feel squirmish about takin ‘it, for all o’ them are robbers.
— The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
I felt a little squirmish myself, though I had not noticed it before.
— Tales of Glauber-Spa
SOME, not all, clicking away have never knocked on a door to be sure, so if you want to rag on Obama because of a set back, a squirmish in a Great War, you might as well capitulate to the enemy now.
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There are several hundred examples going back yearssssssssssssssssss for this word your claiming Palin just made up?
ROFLMAO, what kind of moron would claim she made up the word without checking? Beside you of course.
Is Palin now using some sort of time machine to make you look pathetic or are you doing this all on your own?
“Palin went off on a tangent about how the North Star is a guide for Alaskans, or something.”
And?
The “North Star” and other stars have been used for navigation for several thousand years !
It’s called Celestial navigation!
The military STILL uses Celestial navigation as well as GPS.
Advantage of Celestial navigation
It works, always.
Does not require electricity.
It is Global
It’s completely passive, it does not give off any signals that could be detected by an enemy.
Seriously, are you an idiot?
Doug, you’re quoting from the Urban Dictionary which, by design, is filled with “new” words that are not proper English. Or didn’t you know that? The other examples you quote are adjectives, not nouns, as Palin used it. Squirmish as an adjective is really a twisting of the word squeamish, but it’s pretty much accepted as OK nowadays. “I’m feeling squirmish about writing to some dork online” is using the word as an adjective, but asking “Is it a war or a squirmish” is simply screwing up the noun “skirmish” — otherwise, your conservative buddies at newsmax.com wouldn’t have reported the story by quoting Palin as having said “skirmish” to begin with. As far as the North Star thing goes, I think he’s just saying that it had nothing to do with the subject they were talking about — the kind of situation I see you’re pretty familiar with. Sorry, but you conservitards just can’t help stumbling all over yourselves when you try to get “technical” about your arguments.
I don’t understand how Trump and Palin, two nobodies in the world of politics, can cause such a squirmish among liberals and Dems. Trump is a narcissistic d-bag and Palin is capitalizing on all the media attention given her which fuels the cycle of stupidity that comes out of her mouth. Shame on the media for giving them what they want: attention (and I include you in this Grooms). Neither of these jacknuts has a true chance of being the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
Of course they “want attention” — they think they have a chance of being President. SP, I understand that you and millions of others, myself included, are sick of these idiots. The fact is, though, they’re entertaining and even at times hilarious on a “can you believe this crap?” level. Plus, it’s interesting in a news sense that the moronic stuff they come up with is what they assume the GOP faithful wants to hear. Considering some of the lunatic ideas from the tea partiers (check this out: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gohmert-libya-attacks-are-false-flag-for-obama-to-call-up-private-army-created-by-health-care-law.php?ref=fpblg), I’d say the candidates are probably correct about — which is a whole other scary issue.
John:
Did you ever see the movie “Being there”, with Peter Sellers?
Chance the gardner is a perfect metaphor for Sarah Palin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/
That Sarah Palin! She’s nowhere near as well-travelled as Obama. He’s been to all 57 states!
The word is skirmish