The Week in Blogdom: God and Bazoombas, and the Amazingly Vanished Racial Slag

Harare Grocery's Bob McAlister got out the edit pen after Waldo called him on a post this past week:

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008

"...and did I mention he's black?"

Over at Harare Grocery, Bob McAlister just can't help himself, bless his heart:

So I have a simple question: Who are these people who can’t make up their minds about 2 men as different in every way as their skin colors.

Tonight, when you look up that post, it reads:

How can they be undecided after a two-year campaign that birthed 2 men who cannot be more different in every way? 

Bless your heart. Bob. And he's still black. And you left in the black voodoo princess joke.

Mike's America has a solution to the taxpayer investment in the financial markets.

It's drilling in ANWR. 

Drilling in ANWR solves everything. Some think ANWR is one of the names of God.

Aside from that, Mike continues to shill for Raging Bullshit, sounding more and more like one of those geeky high school debaters who scores a point and pumps the air with his arm because he's got a thousand times more index cards than anybody else.

The Blogland of Earl Capps has an interesting- really interesting- item on  employee health benefits in South Carolina. As befits a free market state, employees are paying more than national averages and getting less for it.

The big week-end Republican outrage story is best summed up at Columbia Conservative, Harare Grocery's Mini-Me:

According to a local York County Republican volunteer, who provided us with these pictures, the vandals painted "Republican means Slavery" on the front door, as well as what appear to be gang-related or tagger signs.

The racial angle is never one to let slide by, of course. Then The Grocer- who always seems to need to let you know the important people who know him, added:

I spoke this afternoon with former York County Republican Chairman (and current Republican National Committeeman) Glenn McCall, who reminds those involved that Republicans were the ones who abolished slavery.

McCall also spoke with the Rock Hill Herald:

“It just goes to show the election is much closer than folks would have you believe,” McCall said. “We have probably the most liberal ticket on the Democratic side that we’ve ever seen. When I look at the polls, it’s within the margin of error. There are people who are just getting nervous about that. As a result, they do desperate things.”

No word from local law enforcement yet as to suspects or arrests.

Stay classy, Democrats.

South Carolina is So Gay takes up the story as well, but has to Fogleize it with lurid, utterly unsupported details:

THUGS TAG DOOR, BANNER WITH POLITICAL SLURS, STEAL SIGNS

In an act of vandalism that was almost certainly politically-motivated, anonymous thugs struck the York County Republican Party’s Rock Hill headquarters overnight causing roughly $500 in damages.

“Republican means slavery” was written with on the office’s outside door, while a banner in front of the building was tagged with a few illegible scribbles and presidential nominee John McCain’s eyes were whited-out. Party officials also estimated that more than 40 yard signs had been stolen.

“This was just a move of intimidation,” said Joe St. John, Catawba Regional Director for Victory. “As we all know, the Republicans actually abolished slavery.”

South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson called the acts cowardly, saying, “The destructive actions of these vandals should be taken as a sign of desperation. They clearly lack the energy, ideas and candidates to compete in this election - and are running scared.”

The office is located across the street from Winthrop University and next to the offices of the county Democrat Party vice chair and a Democrat candidate for county solicitor. Oddly, the county Democratic chairman was reportedly one of the first to come to the office and apologize for the destruction.

But Republicans vowed to press forward. “We will not use cheap political tactics to win elections,” St. John said. “Instead, we put boots on the ground, people on the phones, and win elections based on facts.”

Here's the strangest thing we've seen this week: The Palmetto Family Council continues to be asleep at the switch, having posted nothing on its Family Life blog since December 15, 2007, and on its public policy blog since July 4 and little else but a press release explaining away Bristol Palin's little accident and how voting is Christian stewardship.

But Council honcho Oran P. Smith is also a Fitshead: a fan of the sex- and bazoomba-soaked, lesbian action and large-penis-obsessed "public policy" blog, Anaconda:

Name:

Oran P. Smith

Not the sort of thing you expect from the Christianists, eh? Are the kids fans, too?

The Other Brooks Bros. maunder on about how Howard Rich, the man who wants to buy the SC legislature, is sending letters to liberal political activists saying "I'm watching what you do and will make trouble if you displease me" isn't a cheesy attempt at prior restraint because George Soros, the old bugbear of the right, does the same sort of thing.

So let's recap: if a thing is bad, it stops being bad if you can find an ideological opposite who does it more.

Alrighty then.

The Sunlit Uplands is so far out there it maintains Lindsey Graham is Massachusetts' third senator, and leads today with the Barack Obama isn't a native American thing. Oh, and comparing Obama campaign posters to Hitler's, which means the Illinois senator is a "Commufascist." SC Hotline continues as the Flat Earth Society news aggregator- it'll never trouble you with a thought that conflicts their world view.

Vierdsen is flummoxed at what a stupid campaign the Republicans are running for president. Sacraments Wholesale says world government has arrived, but it's by and for banks.

The 7-10 has an interesting analysis of why the Republicans are running such a stupid campaign for president. The Ninth Frame's calling out Raging Bullshit for, well, frankly, raging bullshit:

Another double standard

Let me see if I got this straight.

John McCain and Sarah Palin sit idly by while people at their rallies call Obama a "terrorist" and a "liar." Some even say "kill him." And then McCain finally gets the courage to call Obama "decent" after someone calls him an Arab.

Then Democratic Congressman John Lewis calls McCain out on his rhetoric and compares it to that of segregationist George Wallace. McCain then calls on Obama to repudiate the remarks because they are "shocking" and "beyond the pale."

Say what?

Never mind that McCain once called Lewis "one of the three wisest men" in his life. And never mind the fact that Lewis was speaking the truth and that McCain's outrage is laughable and phony.

What a joke. It's like it's okay for McCain and Palin to break all the rules until their opponents' surrogates do the same. But Lewis didn't even break any rules to begin with. I guess the truth hurts.

McCain 2000 could have won this election. McCain 2008 deserves to lose humiliatingly.

Voting Under the Influence is peddling the ACORN story. That and another Ware Shoals football game.

Indigo Bunting continues its nascent campaign to turn SC blue. Tim Kelly is counting candidate badges at the state fair. Conservative blogs continue to ignore them. As Kingsley Amis said, if you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

FITSNews is peddling photos of Our Lady of Wasilla's gams, Stephen Garcia, the USC QB who gets Adam Fogle all moist even though he's got a foreign name like 'Obama' (would you give a mortgage to that kid?), and a story about how, with a $400m budget shortfall looming, sixty state employees have gotten thousand-dollar bonuses. "Ironically, some of the folks receiving bonus payments are employed by the State Housing Authority, which is obviously the last place we should be rewarding people given the government-inspired collapse of our nation’s housing market over the last few months," Anaconda hisses.  'Cept, of course, that's not what the Housing Authority does. 

Wesley Donehue sheds some light on Anaconda: "Everyone is asking me - what is Twitter? This week Will Folks started using Twitter, but still doesn’t know what it is. " Not Very Bright drank the Twitterade some time back, but first warned that s/he'd never twitter anything interesting, then abandoned his/her blog for Indigo Bunting. South Carolina is So Gay thinks one-sentence Twittercomments are kewl, presumably because one-sentence posts require even less sourcing than his usual stories.

Lib'rul Vet's not shopping at McCain & Palin:

We must not allow the redneckish intolerance that has sprung up around McCain/Palin rule the vote, and we must send a message to the Republican party that they do not have a stranglehold on patriotism by a long shot.

John McCain can shove that "country first" slogan up Sarah Palin's ass. As Barack said, we all put country first.

Walk-On Legislator runs a 9/11 slideshow next to his anti-Obama talking points. Subtle.

Kevin Bryant quotes Senator Jim DeMint on how it's more important for Bryant to toe the party line than to think: “In politics, it’s hard to stand up for principle. But Kevin never fails to stand firm for the conservative cause.”

Tony Trout, arrested and indicted for bugging the Greenville County administrator's computer, is uncharacteristically silent on his blog. Ironically, his last post was on jail conditions.

Dogwood Dell's profiling the changing voters of Virginia and asks what's your fave gum flava.

Shrimp & Grits argues, " If you elect people who sincerely believe that government can’t work, you will most certainly get a government that doesn’t work."

Leonardo is all over congressman Henry Brown's oyster fetish.

Snead's been offering up debate drinking games, but the way to get mad smashed and not give a rip about what they say is this: a shot for every "my friends."

Trust me. It works, my friensd. Uh, frriends. Frinz. Aww, fuck it.