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Post by jessebaker on Oct 14, 2008 19:48:16 GMT -8
Which brings us another point against Palin ever running again for VP/President; she was chosen for her sex, as a cynical move to try and split the Democrats via running a woman in order to get Hillary supporters who might be pissed that Hillary didn't get VP.
Trust me, had Obama picked Hillary as Vice-President, we would have gotten Romney or Huckabee and Palin would be just another no-name Republican no one knew anything about.
As it stands, it would not suprise me if Huckabee AND Romney BOTH joined forces come 2012 with one as President and the other as VP. Both were the conservative darlings of the Republican primaries and both probably would be more appealing/sellable to the public than a combination of Palin, Newt, Rudy, or Jeb Bush.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 13, 2008 22:26:53 GMT -8
In that case, wouldn't they want a man? Especially a man that the Karl Roves of the GOP can vet like there's no tomorrow in order to ensure that by the time 2012 rolls around, that he won't have any pregnant teenage daughters or other skeletons in the closet that might be used against him?
You know that SOME in the GOP will opine that McCain lost because Palin was white trash comedic fodder that everyone laughed at and not the sort of slick, suave, upper-class right-wing religion-nut like Mitt Romney. These are people who HATE the common man and probably will deign Palin damaged goods for any future Presidential run because of the fact that, in the end her white-trash nature made her a punch-line more than the ultimate lowest common denominator siren lure for McCain's run for the White House.
I bet you that Palin instead will be offered a chance to run for a GOP Congressional seat and a chance to be their new poster girl for the post-Bush Congress. They'll need a new face to sell their obstructionist minority in the HOR/Senate and I can see Palin being used in that role.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 13, 2008 16:09:53 GMT -8
Eh... I still think that the GOP won't do that. It's the House or Senate for Palin, where the GOP can exploit her in a safer and more long-term manner via grooming her to be the far-right's replacement for Tom DeLay. Most of the big name GOP Congressmen of the last 20+ years are either are retiring, dead, or disgraced to the point of being useless to the cause. They need fresh blood and Palin would give it to them.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 11, 2008 21:31:17 GMT -8
Speaking of assasinations, one thing of note to consider is whether or not some evil racist white guy might try and kill Obama before the election or after it if he wins it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Other stuff:
Palin won't run in 2012 for President, she'll settle for Senate/HOR since the Republicans will think she'd be more effect in Congress, where she can replace Tom DeLay as part of a new guard of right-wing Congressmen/women to replace the wave of Senators/HOR members retiring this year.
Lieberman survives like a cockroach, presumably bullshitting Senate Dems to keep him around in order to prevent any sort of fillibuster threats from the Republicans.
The Republicans will play the obstructionist card in 2009 if they lose everything. They will make Obama and the Congressional Dems lives a living hell to try and derail Obama's Presidency.
I also predict, in 2012 or 2016, Jeb Bush running for Presidency. If he doesn't run in 2012, expect the Republicans to run Newt (a last resort type) or a Palin-esque neocon no one has ever heard of before.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 9, 2008 21:49:04 GMT -8
Moral Orel, the Adult Swim show that shows you how fucked up the ultra-right wing Fundementalists live and would like to make the rest of the world be like, debuted it's third and final season this evening with an episode that sidesteps the massive "holy shit" nature of the second season finale with an even biggest holy shit plotline.
Essentially, Orel's mom creates a massive drill like dildo to try and gain an orgasm after her attempts to gain a lover fail miserably. It fucks up her genitals badly, though her doctor seems more concerned with doping Bloberta up more than anything.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 7, 2008 21:00:34 GMT -8
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 7, 2008 18:24:12 GMT -8
The big thing about the new SW cartoon, for me at least, is the insanity that is Lucas deciding to set in during the Prequel years.
I know Lucas is filthy rich and shit, but if he wanted to branch the Star Wars cash cow out into animation why the hell not set it during the original trilogy?
Enough leyway exists between Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back for Lucas to do an OG trilogy themed cartoon and hell, Lucas could have even based the pilot movie on "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" to set up the series.
I'm sure they could have gotten James Earl Jones and Mark Hamil to come back to voice Vader and Luke Skywalker, as well as found suitable replacements for Carrie Fischer and Harrison Ford.
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Post by jessebaker on Oct 5, 2008 10:34:56 GMT -8
... Anyone else got any suggestions? Obama framed Leslie Bacon! Obama called the heroin hot line on Abbie Hoffman! Obama bought the gun that Bremer used to shoot Wallace! Obama had an affair with Juan Corona! Obama blew Richard Speck!
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 30, 2008 20:23:27 GMT -8
I've been collecting the series since they started, when I saw a cool Hawkeye/Captain America set.
Sadly, around the time that the FF wave came out, the stores in my area stopped carrying them save for the four packs releases and the Hulk waves. I've had to resort to Ebay to to get the ones I've missed and even then, I'm still missing a bunch of them since a lot of them (most notably the Ant Man/Dr. Strange, Storm/Black Panther, Deadpool/Punisher, Rogue/Gambit sets) go for three/four times their retail price.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 30, 2008 17:52:35 GMT -8
SOA is still a hit and miss show for me: I think that it would have been better if they had downplayed the action sequence-filled gun-running plotlines in order to concentrate more on the biker subculture/motorcycle club interacting with the normal folks of the town. Both "The Shield" and "The Sopranos" took their time setting up their little universes and characters in equal balance with the action sequences, whereas SOA is rushing these action scenes-driven plotlines out and taking away time from setting up the characters and who they are/why they are as far as their backgronds are concerned (which given that the show is Hamlet on motorcycles, is kind of dumb).
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 27, 2008 10:50:44 GMT -8
If Lex was Leo, Morrison would have overtly said it. ESPECIALLY with the cliffhanger ending being less "Lex and Leo are the same person" and more "Leo's going to clone Superman!!!".
I think, given the constant lampshading in the last couple of issues about how Lex's "I could cure cancer, AIDS, and all sorts of goody-goody science stuff if Superman wasn't around!" tirades were him being full of shit as far as trying to justify himself and his vendetta, that Leo exists within the framework of the story to serve as Lex's counterpart as far as showing a scientist who didn't go insane with jealousy over Superman and who actually worked WITH Superman instead of trying to kill him all of the time.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 24, 2008 21:03:33 GMT -8
Hey, gang: Now that the old boards appear to be gone for good, can someone refresh my memory as to what the running guesses as to the identity of Red Hulk were? Doc Samson Thunderbolt Ross Betty Ross-Banner
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 24, 2008 20:56:16 GMT -8
I still don't think Mutant Zero is Jean Grey; for starters, you think the X-Men editors would let someone like Slott do a big money storyline like the return of Jean Grey in freaking Avengers Initiative?
Secondly, would Quesada even want Jean back? Given that he's being shitted on by the Spider-Man shippers for breaking up Peter and MJ, you want to think that Quesada would want the can of worms that is Jean/Scott/Emma/Wolverine? Especially in light of the fact that fans have started turning against Emma due to the "My shit don't stink"-ness of how she's been written since Morrison left the X-Books? Given that he's exhausted pretty much all of his political capital with breaking up MJ and Peter, you honestly think he can keep with a straight face the notion of Jean/Cyclops being over forever-ever once Jean Grey comes back?
(And yeah, I know they might use the whole thing to FINALLY do Jean Grey/Wolverine but to do so, you would pretty much have to ban all X-Men writers from using Wolverine and Jean and shuttle them off to New Avengers to make it work realistically, since Cyclops/White Queen would be over the second Scott learns Jean was alive, let alone the sort of hellish clique warfare that would result as far as every man in the X-Men roster going after Jean romantically the second she shows back up, especially with regards to Angel).
That said, Typhoid Mary is the only real sane choice, especially when you factor in that we haven't seen her since M-Day. Plus there is the potential to be had reforming the character, given that Mary's long been a sympathetic villaind due to her multiple personality disorder.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 24, 2008 12:34:25 GMT -8
On MSNBC now; McCain is now apparently trying to get the first Presidential debate postponed/cancelled because of the current "crisis" with regards to Dems AND Repubs wanting to put safegards/oversight onto Bush's last grand "fuck you" to the working man via a massive bailing out of Wall Street banks that caused the current economic crisis. ------------------------- Vagina on a stick! Between the refusal to let the media near Palin and this, McCain must be pissing his pants at the thought of having Obama buttfuck him on live tv in a debate.
Things must be really bad for McCain not to want to debate Obama and I hope Obama doesn't let McCain cancel this first debate now that Obama's got McCain by the balls over the economy......
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 23, 2008 20:57:11 GMT -8
Which is going to make the "October Suprise" thing even more important. ESPECIALLY if my great conspiracy fear that there will be an attempt on McCain/Palin in order to create assassination fanboy fever with one of the two riding the other one's dead, bloodslick corpse into the White House.
ESPECIALLY given that with Palin, the neocon Republicans would probably be more incline to find ANYTHING, if McCain is elected, to get rid of him ASAP in order to slide Palin into the big chair without having to bother with democracy as far as having Palin rejected in an actual fair campaign.
Speaking of which, both McCain and Obama are now ironically silent about the backlash against the "black check" bailout of the banks, who even now are being investigated for mass fraud by the feds. Neither side wants to make the first move towards the issue of the backlash, since they know that this could and would hurt them in November.
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