*** Unofficial Appreciation Thread ***

[NanceGreggs]

Allow me to be – well, perhaps not politically incorrect, so much as politically inappropriate.

And I promise this will be the last time – well, kinda sorta maybe.

But I just wanted to express my gratitude to some of the most truly undeserving of kudos among us for their contribution – albeit inadvertent – to an Obama victory.

Thanks to George W. Bush for being so incompetent, ineffective and hated a Republican leader that he tarnished the GOP Brand™ for decades to come – if not forever. Honestly, George, we’ll never know how many citizens were prompted to vote Democratic as a result of your tenure in office – but I have a gut feeling it was a substantial amount of voters.

Thanks to John McCain for being such a total prick, even his former admirers were more than willing to bail – and for being so inept, even the most loyal of the GOP were willing to publicly say WTF!?! - followed by an indignant "I am SO outta here!!!"

Thanks to the powers-that-be behind the McCain campaign, whose decisions at every level – from “suspending” the campaign to “fix” the economic crisis that didn’t exist a few scant days before it did exist, to trotting out the Ayers story when it was more than obvious no one was interested – seem to have been deliberately crafted to ensure an Obama landslide.

Thanks to the screaming, knuckle-dragging bigots who made spectacles of themselves at McCain/Palin rallies, thereby ensuring that decent people in your own party would want to distance themselves from your ranks by voting for That One instead of one your own.

Thanks to Sarah Palin, who, despite her refusal to be available to answer questions from the media, exploited every opportunity to demonstrate her total cluelessness in public settings, thereby hammering nails into the GOP coffin with an aptitude and enthusiasm that will be remembered for decades as being unparalleled in political history.

Thanks to the bought-and-paid-for Republican pundit-idiocy for being willing, day after miserable day, to smile into the camera and – with a completely straight face – extol the fitness-for-office and obvious leadership qualities of candidates whose only claims to fame were quickly whittled down to having been a POW and/or the ability to see Russia from their front yard.

Thanks to all of the outrageous misinformation meted out by the RW radio and TV show hosts whose screeds were SO ridiculous, even a lot of their own dumber-than-dumb, overly-inbred audience members were actually prompted to think for a change – and chose to vote for “Change” as a result.

Thanks to all of the media whores whose constant pronouncements that there was still a closer-than-close horserace in play LONG after it was obvious that the, ahem, “Dark Horse” was about to canter across the finish-line while his toothless, glue-factory-bound opponent was gasping for breath. I appreciate your willingness to destroy whatever slim credibility you had left going into this race by insisting that the dead horse still had a chance – as long as you were beating it, twenty-four-seven, into a semblance of life. You are now officially the gift that will keep on giving for decades, as fewer viewers take you seriously in election cycles to come.

Yes, thanks to ALL of you: the wing-nuts, the mouth-breathers, the stark-raving-mad lunatics that NO ONE wants to be associated with, regardless of party affiliation - the but-he's-a-radical-Muslim who-palled-around-with-terrorists crowd who contributed to pushing so many citizens into voting for sanity over the delusional ravings of people like yourselves.

I won’t say we couldn’t have done it without you – because we could have, and most assuredly would have. But your efforts have been duly noted, and I’m hoping we can count on you in ’12 – and beyond.



(EDITED TO ADD: My sig line should now be in BOLD, and underlined:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA - (Coming Soon to a White House near you!!!)

[nam78_two]

1. Thanks to Joe the Plumber for inducing a super-irrelevant last minute gasp

of that campaign.

Recd

[NYC_SKP]

2. Recommended.

And the first in, at that!

I was thinking along the same lines, thank you Sarah Palin, thank you hateful rallies, and most oddly and with a bit of terror, a tongue in cheek thank you to the miserable administration of George Bush, without which our success in this election might have been even more difficult.

That's a hell of a way to have to win, and it takes nothing away from the awesomeness of our new president, but let's face it, this is America and Barack is black and he had plenty beyond his skin color to overcome throughout the primaries and general election.

I've never ever been happier with our election results.

[gratefultobelib]

3. One of my favorite moments came from Rick Davis--"This campaign

is not about issues. It's about the candidates' personalities."

Thank you, Nance, for a great post!

[bleever]

4. Thanks to Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt

for running a 20th century campaign in the 21st century, and thinking that hope and belief were for suckers.

Good job, guys!

[NanceGreggs]

5. Ah, yes ...

... this year's undisputedly deserving recipients of the coveted Heck of a Job award!

[bleever]

6. And if I may, thanks to Karl Rove

for teaching hate and division so very well that the rats followed his piper's tune and marched their party into the abyss, and whose crimes inspired great minds and hearts to stand up and declare their determination that his crimes would be exposed, and his political necromancy banished back into the pit from which it emerged.

[madamesilverspurs]

7. And a special thanks to those "pundints"

who kept getting it wrong for McCain. Especially since even McCain figgered out that they 'dint' rate any credibility. Yigg.

[JeffR]

8. And thanks Dick Cheney for coming out your spiderhole with that

11th-hour endorsement.

[NanceGreggs]

9. Yeah, that was real gentlemanly, dontcha think?

Willing to come out publicly and endorse a campaign that was, if you will, in its last throes.

[JeffR]

10. !

:rofl:

[mlevans]

21. Well, unlike the Iraqi insurgency, at least he got that one right. n/t

[bertman]

11. Love your post, Nance. BUT, I have to disagree with your thought of Dubya tarnishing the GOP brand

for decades to come. In your delirious excitement and exhultation at Obama's victory you have apparently temporarily forgotten the American public's mythic 15-second attention span.

[NanceGreggs]

12. I guess I am of greater faith than most ...

... but I think the disastrous events of the past eight years will stick in the memory much longer than fifteen seconds.

Ah, just chalk it up to HOPE - a feeling which seems to be catching, as well as catching-on these days.

[bertman]

13. I love your positive vibe. And I'm hoping it will rub off on me one day. LOL

[NanceGreggs]

14. I hope it will, too ...

Today is a day of optimism - and I will not let go of it anytime soon.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear Nance!

Nope, we sure would have had a harder time of it without these idiots!

And now, we can look back and laugh!

Thank you for your eloquence...

K&R

:hug:

[JDwho]

16. My family often jokes that the GOP was working harder than we were to get Obama elected!

[The Wizard]

17. Ah those hillbillies

Without them we'd be winners anyway, but unable to say we're lucky not being them.
Hillbilly governance rebuked. The Enlightenment begins to glow again. Bush and his followers will remain in the Dark Ages.
These fuckers shouldn't be allowed to run a vacuum cleaner let alone a government.
By the way, will we remember how to celebrate by Inauguration Day? I'm waiting for the weekend to drink champagne, but that's because I'm old and need more recovery time.

[whoopingcrone]

18. I'd also like to thank...

all the mud-mouthed uninformed trolls posting here and everywhere
who got me peeved enough to bother to go and vote.

[indepat]

19. And despite all those many resounding reasons for thanks, tens of millions still ate up the

extreme RW agenda and politics enough to vote for McShame/Paillin: I am ashamed to be a native of this very red state. :D

[Window]

20. Big kick.

:kick:

[offog]

22. Great post!

Hearty congratulations to Obama and all the people out there who supported him!

BTW, I know this is off-topic, but I noticed all the ads for Boogieman: The Lee Atwater Story. I've already seen it! CBC Newsworld ran it a couple of nights ago. Awesome! Everybody out there, make sure you don't miss it when it runs on PBS. I didn't know too much about Atwater's history until then. Now I understand a lot more about how and why the Repugs operate the way they do.