Masturgate couldn't have happened at a better time

[MrScorpio]

We should research every stinking Repug who stood by his side and go after them on this.

Pictures and videos, people! Pictures and VIDEO!

I smell blood in the water.

I'd rather be a shark instead of a mackerel right now.




TAKE CONGRESS BACK!!!

[Syrinx]

1. "masturgate"

:rofl:

Good one. :thumbsup:

[DRoseDARs]

9. Not sure who first came up with it but it started in a thread Sat. night

eom

[Syrinx]

10. guess I missed it then

But I cracked when I read MrScorpio's post.

[DRoseDARs]

13. Either way, let's just hope it sticks. n/t

[rock]

14. I second that

"Masturgate"

[LeftCoast]

2. I totally agree, MrScorpio!

This scandal seems to have fingers throughout the republican leadership structure.

[SeattleGirl]

3. I. SMELL. BLOOD.

[Chipper Chat]

7. Foley = JAWS

J ust
A nother
W hitehouse
S candal

[SeattleGirl]

8. I've lost track of the number of scandals this WH has

perpetrated. Should have kept score....

[enigmatic]

4. It's going to be historic

This going end up being the sex scandal to end all sex scandals if it's reaches into the bowels of the Republicans, and I think it will.

We're around the same age; I remember 1974 when I was not quite an adolescent and my brother telling me to pay attention to the news about Watergate and Nixon because history was happening before my eyes. He was right, and I think we're going to see that this week, too.

[MrScorpio]

5. I focused on Watergate when I was a kid

Now that I'm older, I appreciate Repug fuck-ups even more

[enigmatic]

6. Will W go like Tony Montana?

[SeattleGirl]

12. "Say hello to my li'l friend."

:evilgrin:

[lies and propaganda]

11. my friend...

that is comedy gold.

[TheMadMonk]

15. Such a one sided approach might be self defeating.

(I posted this with a different first parra. in a nearby thread, but it looks like it actually fits better here.)



We have to be ready to air our own own dirty laundry.


Two lists, displayed side by side. One a list of all Republicans busted for or at least publicly embarrased by their involvement in acts like this and other "values" scandals. (Their values.)

The second a like list of all Democrats. An obsesively honest list.

Odds are at least one idiot will attempt to divert attention onto the Democrats by holding up a few shining (not) examples of our own. Anticipate and be ready to defang.

Now hang them up side by side. Maybe use icons to indicate the nature of the scandal and it's severity for those challenged in the attention span department.

All else being equal, the lists should be roughly equal. I'll lay London to a brick that they won't be. My guess is that the repuke list will be at least 4 or 5 times as long as the Dem. And that on average the individual excesses on the Dem side of the ledger will be of a lower grade than the Repuke.

Painting with a very broad brush, Republican/conservative thought patterns tend towards control. And you can't control unless you are in a position to do so.

Democtrat/liberal thoughts tend towards understanding. And the fisrt thing any such person who also has leanings towards the reprehensible will understand is that if one has something to hide, then diving into a pool of muckraking sharks is not a smart thing to do.

A like minded conservative with political ambitions on the other hand is far more likely to be of the belief that they will be (better?) able to control access to their person/personal life from a position of power. To engineer an unassailable public persona from that possition by placing themselves squarely (hiding) in the ranks of the most vocal critics of their hidden desires. Strange how ir seems to turn out, that the worse the offence, the louder the screeching against that self-same offense prior to the outing.



That's where the "be ready to defang" comes in. Rather than attempting to preempt any such smear campaing against Dems, take a page from their playbook and wait for them to put the noose around their necks before pulling the lever.

To put it crudely, see their felatrix and busted flush and take the pot with a pair of daughter diddlers and a trio of boy buggerers. (O.K. I don't think even this lot is stupid enough to try to drag the Clenis into this particular scandal, but it works in my poker analogy.)

[IChing]

16. Masturgate!!!

Funny...






Pederasty
Sparta
Leo Strauss
neocon

look up these words and see how they are tied