Stravo wrote:Because it just had to be said: The only good thing I can see from this is the possibility of Hillary-Coulter lesbian sex. There I got that off my chest.
Seek help.
In his defense, he might be saying that if one or both got a good strap-on banging, eating out, or otherwise, they might be considerably less stressed/repressed, and cause a whole lot less problems for the rest of us.
But even that's a stretch.
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Mr Bean wrote: To note, the other two people to trot out the "McCain is anti-torture despite his actions" argument was havokeff back in the Republican vote thread, and the Republican campaign thread in June where it was part of a posted piece.
Blood hell, fact checking fact checking, wrong again, it was Pablo Sanchez not Havokeff who posted this.
I picked John McCain out of the poll because he is the only actual Republican who was able to articulate his opposition to torture. That is how low the standards have fallen for these mooks.
The fourth thread I should be clearer on refers to an AP story which talked about JC's anti-torture stance as being different from all the others(Leaving out Ron Paul, back when they still pretended he did not exist, but mentioning Duncan hunter as being pro-torture.)
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Oh good. I thought I was loosing it. I just could not remember saying anything like that.
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The fact is that bloggers are a serious concern, they can exert influence closer to that of a large organisation rather than an individual and have the rather problematic tendancy to cross jurisdictions. This was actually an area I investigated heavily for a third year university project.
How would you even go about regulating bloggers?
Are bloggers really that influential? I've always suspected that in most cases, bloggers "preach to the choir"; people go to blogs which have a certain political orientation, in order to read things which will re-affirm their pre-existing beliefs.
As an ethics issue, bloggers are much less offensive than TV and radio political ads, because people choose to view a blogger's ramblings. It's not like TV or radio political ads, where somebody is trying to watch football or crime dramas or sitcoms or something like that, and then gets bombarded with misinformation and Pavlovian conditioning material made up by well-paid political hacks.
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Are bloggers really that influential? I've always suspected that in most cases, bloggers "preach to the choir"; people go to blogs which have a certain political orientation, in order to read things which will re-affirm their pre-existing beliefs.
The big blogs like Kos are good at raising money. More importantly, items that get passed around a lot on the blogosphere can get picked up by the major news networks, magnifying the influence of the blogs. The blogs are overwhelmingly partisan, but the fact that the big networks run with heavily-discussed items lends them weight.
I would argue that they also derive a degree of influence from their "preach-to-the-choir" nature. If you look at the real political changes effected by blogs, its almost always within the structure of the party to which the blog adheres. This is not so much true with Republican blogs, because the party leadership has openly said they don't care about the grassroots, but in the Democratic Party bloggers have been highly influential. Lamont's challenge to Lieberman, for instance, was heavily Internet-backed. He lost the general, but he probably owed his primary win in no small part to the Democratic blogosphere.
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This is hilarious. The Reagan Coalition is absolutely screwed. If Huckabee is nominated, the moneyed elites, anti-taxers, and associated mini-gov people will fall away. If Romney is elected, the really strict anti-Mormon Evangelicals, extreme mini-govs who don't trust him after his health care plan for MA, and strict socialcons who distrust his flip-flopping will fall away. If McCain, someone who pretty much falls in line with American-styled conservatism on most issues (look at his ACU rating) gets nominated, the Freerepublic/HotAir/RedState yahoos will fall away. Giuliani would have caused any evangelical not making more than six figures to fall away, Thompson was old and lazy, Hunter was a nonentity and is now a traitor because he ended up endorsing Huckabee after he dropped out.
