Just as Barack Obama's incoming Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, showed when he took Sean Hannity to the woodshed after the 2nd Debate, Lawrence O'Donnell has taken the lesson of the Obama campaign to heart: If you're going to take it to 'em, take it to 'em!
This video and transcript are enough to make a Democrat's heart soar. Progressives and Democrats need to fill the airwaves with pundits like Gibbs and O'Donnell forever! Enjoy.
...the polls show us that she was a disastrous Vice Presidential candidate. She hurt the ticket. Her negatives skyrocketed over time. There is some very, very important news here... The more important think is, the stories about things that Sarah Palin does and doesn't know are very important, they seem to be telling us that we live in a country where Our political system can deliver to the Vice Presidency of the United States someone who does not know the countries of North America; someone who does not know the countries of Africa, does not know that Africa itself is not a country. This is a profound, shocking, hugely disturbing level of ignorance to have in any political candidate in this country. But this person almost made it to the Vice President, and voters need to know that they are being lied to..."
[...]I just love that we can sit here and have Pat Buchanan sit here and celebrate the notion... Celebrate the Notion! ... that we could have had a Vice President of the United States who cannot name you the countries of North America, and that he thinks that's a great thing for this country
To Pat Buchanan:
Check the polls, Pat, she lost everything. She was a joke all the way through.
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You come from a party that celebrates ignorance, you're not allowed to even think about Evolution. When you can't even think about Evolution, that kind of ignorance is going to trickle down.
Too beautiful for words! The Republican party continues on it's death spiral in Virginia and across the country. I pray they continue foisting the likes of Sarah Palin and Jeff Frederick on voters so they can rush into the scrap heap of history along with their ignorant, hateful, nativist predecessors, the Know Nothings. Never heard of 'em? In a hundred years, will school kids have heard of the Republican party? Not if Buchanan, Frederick, and Palin have their way. Palin 2012!!!
We seriously need to raise the bar for our elected officials.
George W. Bush is a perfect example of that dictum.
George Felix Allen is a perfect example of that dictum.
Sarah Palin ... Virgle Goode, Eric Cantor .... shit the list goes on.
The thinking Republicans are leaving the party one way or another.
Or the party is leaving them in favor of doctrinaire dogma driven morons.
Incredible isn't it?
As loyal a Democrat as I am, I believe it's crucial to the health of our country to have a two party system where the opposition party can argue big ideas and put up knowledgeable, competent, and attractive candidates.
Competition is good not just for the country but for the Democratic Party. It keeps us honest. And it forces us to come up with even better ideas. Without effective Republicans, we too would grow lazy and corrupt. With tough competition, we will be at our best and every election we win, we will deserve to win.