OMFG: Andrew Sullivan Goes BabyGate on Palin!

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 8:32 PM PDT

2008/08/31 · 20:32

It's true, folks.

Confused conservative Andrew Sullivan has just taken Sarah Palin's "BabyGate" mainstream:

Things That Make You Go Hmmm

Questions for the McCain-Palin campaign:

Where has Bristol Palin (far right, holding Trig, with a ring on her wedding finger) been for the past year? Has she been attending high school? Or was she absent because of infectious mononucleosis for between five and eight months, as is now being reported on the Internet?

Why would a 43 year old woman, on her fifth pregnancy, with a Down Syndrome child, after her amniotic fluid has started to leak, not go to the nearest hospital immediately, even if she was in Texas for a speech?

Why would she not only not go to the hospital in Texas, but take an eight-hour plane flight to Seattle and then Anchorage?

Why would she choose to deliver the baby not in the nearest major facility in Anchorage but at a much smaller hospital near her home-town?

Why did the flight attendants on the trip home say she bore no signs of being pregnant?...

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BabyGate: Gonna sink her?

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BabyGate: Gonna sink her?

Yes. Oh, God, yes.

429 votes

Maybe. She's gonna have to talk about it, anyway.

607 votes

No, this is loopy.

246 votes

Hell no, and up your mother's nose for posting this.

213 votes

I Want To Relieve [Updated][Again]

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Saturday February 10, 2007 · 2:33 PM PST

2007/02/10 · 14:33

"I Want to Relieve" - that was what the circus poster hanging in my best friend's bedroom in high school blared out, showing an elephant pissing on a very big tent. An updated, political version of this poster would have the same words over a photograph of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) -- and he'd be the big tent.

The elephant would be Dave Sirota.

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 10:14 AM PST

2006/12/01 · 10:14

Sometimes, you really just have to sit back and laugh at the ridiculousness of the purity-obsessed political culture we now live in. Take this poorly written screed in which Dave Sirota belittles Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's (D) anticipated run for president. He goes through what makes Obama unfit to represent "the movement," and this is the one that just makes you chuckle:

For progressives, this situation is perilous indeed. Obama is a candidate who has kept his record deliberately thin, who has risked almost nothing for the bigger movement, and in fact who has sometimes gone out of his way to reinforce dishonest stereotypes about the left.

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Wednesday June 07, 2006 · 11:37 AM PDT

2006/06/07 · 11:37

So Marcy managed 38% to Jane Harman's 62%.

That's a pretty good showing against an incumbent -- but it's a spanking, nonetheless, and whatever lessons are to be learned from it may prove elusive.

So what's the post-mortem? What do Winograd supporters think of the effort in light of the result? Was it worth such an exercise in futility -- when nearby Francine Busby lost her special election by less than 5000 votes? Was it worth the opportunity cost? Was it worth the money, the work, the... (dare I say it?)... carpetbagging?

Was it worth arming the circular firing squad?

Let's get things started with a little debate cue...

Resolved: The Democratic Grassroots should focus on the real foes -- Republicans!

What do you say?

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