If you read between the lines at the ‘Kaplan Daily’, apparently the Republicans are giving up on rational thought altogether and going full-bore “alternative reality”. From an article headlined “Two Republican stars — Palin and Bachmann — align for first time“:
[…] Several thousand people came to a convention center here to see Bachmann and Palin, both of whom have been embraced by “tea party” conservatives for their fiery populism and ability to rile Democrats. Palin also headlined a fundraiser for Bachmann later in the day…
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They stepped onto the stage together, and when it was Palin’s turn to take the lectern, she called Bachmann “inspiring.”
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Palin has been traveling the country lately in support of GOP candidates, and she delivered a familiar indictment of Obama and Democratic leaders. She also praised Bachmann and other Republican women in Congress, whom she likened to the pink elephant in one 2008 GOP campaign button.
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“Someone had better tell Washington that that pink elephant is on the move, and Michele is leading the stampede,” Palin said.
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One of Bachmann’s Democratic opponents, State Sen. Tarryl Clark, has raised more than $1 million, a significant total for a challenger this early in the election cycle.
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But Bachmann sounds determined. She reminded another audience recently of her 2008 comment that Obama might have “anti-American views,” declaring, “I said I had very serious concerns that Barack Obama had anti-American views, and now I look like Nostradamus.”
I guess spouting nonsense quatrains that can be interpreted to mean whatever one’s deluded followers want to believe this week is a good enough strategy for the New Grifter wing of the Republican party…
Mark S.
One person knows the answer to your question, Anne
Who is trying to take Betty’s right to have babies away? Because I might want to donate to that campaign.
Mark S.
Save us, Jeebus:
I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and hope she misspoke and meant cyborg attack.
Arclite
Whoa, dude. I heard Bachmann & Palin were playing at the convention center, so I went there. We had some brews in the parking lot, and smoked a big spliff before we went in, and that’s where things went down hill. Instead of the band, we had to listen to these two white chicks spout fascist commentary for two hours. They thought they were all that, but they SUCKED. The band never showed. Dude, it was bad, dude. It was worse than the time my dog had diarrhea and shat all over the white carpet in the living room.
valdivia
@Mark S.:
wow, so cyber attacks now warrant full on nuclear war? who knew!
fucen tarmal
bachman palin roverjive….
i guess you can put lipstick on a pink elephant.
Martin
@valdivia: If Obama doesn’t nuke Vegas during the Black Hat convention, he’s supporting our enemies.
fucen tarmal
@valdivia:
take that you 4chan pranksters!
SRW1
I don’t think Michelle is scared much about her career prospects. She had a little chat with Sarah before they went on stage and Sarah agreed that Michelle would make an awesome addition to her roadshow. Also, Sarah said she thinks she could persuade Roger A. to give Michelle a slate on Fox, cause their resident blondes there are a bit out of sync with the somewhat aging audience of Fox. Michelle would be a better fit in that regard and she’s not a blonde, also.
valdivia
@Martin:
@fucen tarmal:
if this is the standard I guess there will be a bunch of hackers quaking in their boots right about now. I really had no idea nuke-trigger happiness had reached these levels.
Tomlinson
She missed an attempt to assassinate a candidate for President of the United States, otherwise she’s pretty much nailed the first four seasons of 24…in order.
balconesfault
I’m sorry, but this batshit menage just ain’t a trois without Rick Perry in between them.
Mike Kay
what the fuck is a “pink elephant”?
Isn’t that a gay bar?
Did palin accidentally admit to attending lesbian bondage clubs? So that’s why she was wearing that tity leather jacket with the zippers.
valdivia
I find it pretty fucking funny that not 15 comments into this thread and somehow we are already talking menages and bondage. Hmmm.
drunken hausfrau
Too bad we can’t embed the Pink Elephants on Parade musical number from Disney’s Dumbo… the nightmarish, drunken sequence is actually very apt for today’s RNC…
Joey Maloney
I can only hope they quickly graduate to autoerotic asphixiation.
Mike Kay
@Joey Maloney: That’s what she said.
Mike Kay
Ironically, Nostradamus was french and like all wingers, Bachmann hates the french.
stuckinred
Everybody jumping up and down about the south yesterday, where are these two bimbo’s from?
LuciaMia
And she’s become as tedious as all those endless ‘documentaries’ about ol’ Nostradamus on the History channel.
That first sentence in that article…’ability to rile Democrats.’
Sorry, it should be changed to ‘ability to baffle most Americans.’
JGabriel
Michelle Bachmann:
Don’t be modest, Michelle. You’ve always looked like a nonsense-predicting crazy-eyed charlatan.
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mai naem
I used the google because I thought pink elephant was a drug related term. Well, it’s not drug related but is alcohol related so Princess Sarah is actually acknowledging that Batshit Crazy Queen Michelle is infect an alcoholic. The question is should we do an intervention here? Is Princess Sarah trying to do an intervention for her new reality show?
JGabriel
Arclite:
Bachmann Palin Overdrive: B-b-baby, You Ain’t Seen Pink Elephants Yet. (Power chord!)
Sigh. If only someone really was doing acid at the Bachmann/Palin show and wrote about it.
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Redhand
I’m afraid you’re dating yourself a bit. You have to be an old guy like me to appreciate how grotesquely hilarious Palin’s “pink elephant” reference is. “Seeing pink elephants” is a euphemism for drunken hallucination, caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens.
To get the full flavor read the description at the link to Wikipedia. The utter beauty of this is Palin’s almost certain ignorance of the double entendre. [Sigh!] Just more proof that as a public figure she’s a true, fucking ignoramus.
A Mom Anon
Nostradumbass. Honest to god I don’t know which of the Toxic Twins is more cringeworthy.
ericvsthem
Fixt.
Mustang Bobby
@Redhand: I got the reference all too well, too. “Seeing pink elephants” was what my mom said when I put my partner into rehab for alcoholism in 1992.
It sounds like Bachmann & Palin need to get to a meeting and go through those 12 steps again.
Comrade Javamanphil
@Mark S.: I think we need to seriously consider the possibility here that Bachmann Crazy Overdrive believes that during a cyber attack, your computer and the internetz could actually kill you.
El Cid
@Mark S.:
You see, under Obamacare, babies only happen when Kenyo-Nesian shamans let you, and only after you sign a pledge in blood to worship Al Gore.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
We must be special here because we were sent a second set of census forms. That’s one of the many perks you get when you are an Obama supporter; counted twice in the census! These must be the super-secret ACORN forms I have heard rumors about.
Oregon just doubled it’s Democratic vote and stole a few congressional seats from the south. Now that’s change I can believe in!
El Cid
And on the topic of alcoholic hallucinations, I’m pretty sure that last night when I briefly flipped through right wing AM scream radio, The Savage Wiener was reciting right wing beat poetry.
It was all about how in only 2 generations liberals (you know, because Democrats have been in power for the last 40 years, or something, because I guess even when Republicans are in power they’re not really) everything has gone from great to shit.
So one of the cool Daddio couplets was how we went from ‘Albert Einstein to Al Gore’.
Even given that I think the whole Savage Wiener act is just a ruse, the notion that right wing listeners would grok this association — hey, one of our top scientists in the world was Albert Einstein, but now because a former Vice President speaks out about some particular environmental issues, this shows we’ve all just gone to shit — gives me a headache.
fucen tarmal
@Mike Kay:
not only french, but an apothecary! someone who no doubt would have been a supporter of state forced medicine, or at least a drug dealer…
i am shocked and appalled that the right wing could make reference so casually to drug usage, heavy drinking, identity politics and french anti-christian mysticism and socialized medicine! all in their pinkie-pachy thing….
i mean, really the only people who could see the future were written about in the bible.
cleek
did he happen to mention that Einstein was a pacifist, a member of the NAACP, and a soshulist ?
Davis X. Machina
Betty never Googled on ‘Bismark’ and ‘Health Insurance’, I bet…..
Paul in KY
@JGabriel: Excellent beginning of a new wingnut anthem. You should try to set the whole original song to the new lyrics (you know Weird Al is thinking the same thing, beat him to it).
Linda Featheringill
@Mark S.:
So Michelle Bachman’s family left Germany because Hitler socialized medicine. Wow.
I did my Masters in History research on Germany in the 1930s and I don’t remember reading about any free-medical-care-for-everybody schemes. A whole bunch of other stuff, yes. Socialized medicine, no.
And while I am in the position of defending the Nazis [FSM help me here!], let me say that when they practiced euthanasia in situations that were totally devoid of “ethnic cleansing” as we say now, they didn’t go around killing old folks. They got rid of special needs children and some other folks with debilitating disabilities. But not granny.
Mumphrey
Last night, I heard a little bit of what Palin and Bachmann said yesterday, and I was struck that they’re fascists now. They aren’t proto- or crypto-fascists anymore, they’ve taken that last step into full fascism. There’s the mindless, heedless nativism and jingoism; there’s the appeal to violence (as in the targets on Palin’s website); there’s the idea that only they, and people who think as they do, are the real Americans and that others are some kind of pestilence that need to be done away with…
This is really scary stuff. I’m going to do something I never thought I would: I’m going to quote Glenn Beck. “I just love my country. And I fear for it.”
ET
That level of stupid and crazy should have created some sort of rift in time and space right?
Bob L
“Pink Elephants”? That is almost as a good as “Teabagger”. Amazing the the snark they hand to do us.
Dumb imagery to; pink after all is washed out red so what the heck is that supposed to mean.
gbear
This was my favorite passage from the Mpls StarTribune’s coverage yesterday:
Yes Sarah, the teaparty is a growing steaming movement.
"Fair and Balanced" Dave
@Mustang Bobby:
They’d spend the rest of their miserable lives just getting past Step 8:
Make a list of all persons I have harmed, and be willing to make amends to them all.
Svensker
@Linda Featheringill:
So, what yer saying is, Obama: WORSE than Hitler!
Joey Maloney
@gbear: Yes Sarah, the teaparty is a growing steaming movement.
That’s a big pile of win.
mds
@valdivia: wow, so cyber attacks now warrant full on nuclear war?
The HuffPo twits decided that it was Pat Buchanan who sounded clueless in this exchange, just because he initially thought “cyberwarfare” referred to an EMP attack:
Between this and his criticisms of Netanyahu getting away with publicly bitchslapping the Vice President of the United States, Pat’s been sounding like the sane one again. And that’s always a scary time for our country.
Anton Sirius
@SRW1:
Hmm. Fox’s version of the View (let’s call it the Skew), with Palin, Bachmann… who would fill the last two chairs? I guess Meghan McCain could be the Bizarro Hasselbeck, and I’m sure there’s some female Bill Engvall equivalent out there they can tap for the Whoopie spot.
Damn. That was easy. Look at me, I’m a network executive!
Anton Sirius
@mai naem:
No, no. She’s not saying Bachmann’s a drunk; she’s saying Bachmann is an alcohol-induced hallucination. If the GOP sobers up, Bachmann will magically disappear.
scav
Pink Elephants are clearly what you get if you apply too much lipstick to pigs while having the DTs.
jrosen
Seeing pink elephants used to mean that you were brain-damaged from too much ethanol for too long. Evidently these folks can reach that state without chemical assistance. If I believed in God, I would start praying real hard now.
Mike in NC
Tweety covered this absurd spectacle on his show last night and appeared to be getting such a thrill up his leg that he needed to be strapped down to the desk.
tc125231
@Mark S.: When you read Bachmann, or Palin for that matter, you have to understand you have entered a meaning free zone. They talk to their followers the way a handler talks to killer hounds.
Malron aka eclecticbrotha
@fucen tarmal: I prefer Bachmann Palin overbite.
asiangrrlMN
Anne Laurie, this is what you give me? Sigh. Still, Bachmann Palin Insane Overdrive aside, I would like to add that Ratface Pawlenty introduced the two (in Keith Ellison’s district, I might add (per Benen) at the convention center, which I am sure is partly paid for by Minneapolis taxes–oh, and Michele Bachmann is NOT a rep in Minneapolis proper), and he’s the really dangerous one. Benen called him the once-moderate–no. He was never a moderate. He was just careful not to let it show in big ways until now when he has to appeal to the batshitcrazies.
IndieTarheel
@tc125231: And to their followers, it might as well sound like every adult ever voiced in a Charlie Brown cartoon.
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Come to think of it, Palin and Bachmann make even lesssense.
Rebecca
@Mike Kay:
A pink elephant is what you see when you’re drunk.
licensed to kill time
Great gibbering loonytunes! These people are unspoofable, they do it all themselves. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Josh
“They got rid of special needs children and some other folks with debilitating disabilities.” Linda, 300,000 people with disabilities, “debilitating” and otherwise, were killed in T4. Watch David Mitchell’s documentary, World Without Bodies.
Apologies for being OT, but I have an irrationally strong negative response to genocide deniers.
TooManyJens
I guess Betty never heard about the woman whose insurance company told her that because she’d previously had a C-section, they wouldn’t cover her unless she got sterilized.
What was that about freedom to have babies?
Origuy
@Josh:
Linda’s comment didn’t sound to me anything like Holocaust denial. Her point only was that the Nazis didn’t target old people because they were old. I think you should focus your anger on those who compare the Holocaust to health care reform.
Tax Analyst
@JGabriel:
Sorry, Hunter Thompson is dead. He’s probably the only one who could have dropped acid and still managed to write something that would give it the proper ambient feel (Think “Fear & Loathing in Amurrika”).
YellowJournalism
@TooManyJens: I don’t understand how one or two C-sections would not be covered financially by a paying client in her first three years of coverage. It’s not like she’d be having ten of them. I also want to know who was going to pay for the sterilization so she could get the coverage.
Reading that and listening to her story shocked me, but what really got to me was hearing that her son was denied for being in the 5th percentile. My youngest son, due to a combination of genetics and a pretty common medical condition that had some uncommon side effects, is under the 3rd. If we were in the US right now, he would be denied coverage, not to mention the fact that we probably wouldn’t have been able to afford all the specialist visits, prescriptions, and general practitioner visits we’ve had over the last seven months. (I’m not even including all the ultrasounds and the fetal heart ultrasound we had before he was born. He had a thick nuchal fold that is unrelated as far as I know to his current medical conditions.)
And the pink elephants clip still to this day scares the bejeezus out of me. I always looked away or covered my eyes when that part of Dumbo came on. I have the same reaction to Michelle Bachmann when she’s yapping it up on Fox News.