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No, no, NO. This is not how you torpedo a nominee.

We are *so* out of practice.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 6th, 2008 at 11:14 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

When I read [Thursday] morning that President-elect Obama was contemplating picking Robert Kennedy Jr for EPA head, I was pleased. I was very pleased. After all, it’s so rare that you encounter such a case of sheer political idiocy so soon after an election. I mean, really: Kennedy the eco-freak? Kennedy the Air America guy? Kennedy the 2004-election-was-stolen conspiracy loon (and wouldn’t that have been fun to talk about at the confirmation hearings)?

You’ll notice, by the way, that none of this was mentioned in the Politico article. Just saying, that’s all.

So, anyway: I figured that I could bide my time, twiddle my thumbs, wait for the announcement to be made… and then start bringing this all up. It’d be fun.

But noooooo. People had to jump the gun.

Link via Glenn Reynolds: suffice it to say that Reason’s Hit & Run covers all the relevant good bits, not to mention the minor little detail that Kennedy’s a total Chavez groupie. You can listen to the interview where this comes up here, although it’ll probably crash. I was able to confirm that he said the bit about how supposed Jack and Bobby would have loved Hugo, but the video player crashed before it got to the point where he came out in favor of nationalizing oil companies, so I’m taking that one on faith. Anyway, good crazy stuff…

But too soon.

Look, this way it’s no fun. Somebody’s going to notice that we noticed this; and they’re going to go to the transition team and point out that we’re actually aware that Robert F Kennedy Jr. is barking mad insane, and that there’s no way that anybody who is that outside the mainstream is ever going to make it through the nomination process without said barking madness exposed for all the world to see. So instead of a withdrawal of the nomination, we merely get a rumor that didn’t pan out. That’s just not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Well, true, at least this way we get to establish that there’s a Bright Line between People Who Think Like Robert F Kennedy, Jr and Normal, Sane People – but it’s the principle of the thing that matters here.

Oh, well. Practice makes perfect – so let’s do better next time, all right?

Moe Lane

PS: By the way, Mr. Kennedy: I’m pretty sure that if your father and uncle had encountered Mr. Chavez back then, they’d have ended up trying to have him assassinated.

Incompetently.

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  • shawng

    That was good. Yes, this was just our first try though. Don’t worry, we’ll hold back all the GOOD stuff on Oberstar until they actually NAME the baffoon.

  • Scope

    Moe, you have made me laugh. Between you and Rush, you are helping to bring me out of the doomy and gloomy mood that I have been in since Tues. night.

    Thanks though for keeping a good eye out for what insanity that is taking place and reporting it back to us.

  • Just_A_Grunt

    It is too late. Nobody in the MSM is going to expose these tidbits and with the Dems in control, many of whom are cut cut from the same cloth and indeed are fellow travelers on the disoriented express, will approve them overwhelmingly.
    The only way some Americans are going to have a clue about these folks is if they are exposed beforehand.
    Besides if the liberals really want them approved what we say isn’t going to stop them.

  • ETCartman

    Moe:

    Truth in humor. The more true the tale, the funnier it can become and quite probably easier to write.

    A laugh in the morning with my coffee is always a great way to start the day.

    Thank you.

    PS….I appropriated three words from your missive, adding them to my signature. Credit to you is well-earned.

    Cheers and ruff ruff ruff !

    :-)

  • septembergurl

    Nice recovery!

    My favorite appointment so far from Obama is Gov Jennifer Granholm to his economic transition team.

    Yes, the Governor who raised taxes in a downturn, drove Michigan into a death spiral from which it has yet to recover.

    Bodes well for our national economy, doncha think?

  • billcabot

    Just like daddy RFK and his father and brothers who made names for themselves by working with the Boston Irish gansters and then Italian gansters, baby RFK is making a name for himself by working with gansters like Hugo Chavez. So good friend Chavez will have direct access to the President. This is great. But the Kennedys love playing with fire.

  • spainishirish

    Yes, it would have been incompetent but at least they would have tried. Lil’ Bob would send dynamite-laced, smoke-free clove cigars to car manufacturers but I can’t see him going after an actual enemy of the United States.

    You made me smile for the first time in almost three days, Moe.

  • LizVBronx

    It looks like we are seeing the Change the Dear Leader was promising. Change from incompetence to utter stupidity.

    God help us!

  • WinstonS

    Haven’t seen my comments post since signing up. third time charmed?

  • awtherfrd

    Get her out of our great state. Her bid for VP cost Kansas billions with her killing any project that went against the one’s policies. Including new coal power.

  • NJChris

    I think a dose of humor (the more sarcastic the better) is a very effective way to approach these wacky announcements. I guess Kennedy sailboats don’t take too kindly to wind farms off Hyannis?

    Republicans/ Conservatives do not need to go “all in” on these announcements. Pointing out the zany/ wackiness of these individuals will buy us the time to attack the causes they champion.

    Conservatives need to keep their powder dry for fear of being marginalized. In this new hip age of Obama, we don’t want to be the squares of the party. Don’t take the bait currently being offered. We need to focus our time and effort on the issues and forcefully attack the issues we feel will be wrong. Don’t get personal. Personal issues were judged in the election. 64 million people don’t care about past judgements

    Also, we don’t need to aggressively attack every measure due to come out of the federal system. Debate the issues and offer our version of the alternatives and massively Monday morning quarterback when they end up being wrong. This is the playbook of the modern Dem party.

  • Vladimir

    Let’s enjoy the scrap.

    Remember that the Golden Years for the EIB microphone were 1992-94 when the Clintons perceived they had a mandate to undo 12 years of stifling Republican rule.

    All the eco-freaks, anarchists, militant feminists, and every other extremist in the Liberal Pantheon of special interests demanded their due.

    It was downright entertaining.

    Now I expect their first assault to be upon the First Amendment, by bringing back the “Fairness Doctrine”, a name coined in a flash of Orwellian brilliance.

    We’re gonna have to go to the mattresses. It’s gonna be fun. This country is worth fighting for.

  • johnt

    Expose and shoot down one raving wacko and dozens more escape through the asylum windows. The party line is pretty much the same on the far& drooling left and can there now be any doubt, if there ever was, where Barack is coming from?

    Sorry Moe, but we will run out of expose’s before they run out of fanatics and fanaticism.
    And for the media there is no far left.

  • janis

    loons become “inconvenient” for Obama’s administration. You can use crazy for all you’re worth while trying to win, but once you win, “crazy” is going to get in the way.

    Much like the far left became inconvenient for Pelosi and Co. once they won in ’06.
    When the day comes that they start getting marginalized by their Messiah, what will they do then?

  • Section9

    Ohhhhh… now say it ain’t so, Moe!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/section9/PalinWink.jpg
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Chavez hugger, as head of the EPA?
    This is a gift to us! Jennifer Granholm on the Economic Team? That’s like the people of Hiroshima giving the keys to the city to Paul Tibbets.

    Only the clueless don’t understand that Obama will govern from the Left.

    Next up: the Fairness Doctrine, followed by Strength Through Joy!

  • StudentOfLincoln

    This election taught Hillary Clinton and John McCain a harsh lesson: never assume that Barack Obama will make bad political decisions.

    Moe, with your most recent post, you are making the same disastrous mistake as Clinton and McCain. So stop it!

    Obviously, what you personally (and RedState as a forum) ought to be asking is this: “What should be the Republican Pary’s response if Barack Obama continues to make good political decisions?”

    My bet is that Obama will make the good decision of co-opting moderate Republicans into his administration. He will start with (e.g.) Colin Powell in advisory roles, and (e.g.) Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Gates in Cabinet-level roles.

    In other words, Obama will rob the Republican party of its best moderate voices.

    This will leave the Republican party wholly in the hands of those whom Moe justly characterizes as “barking mad insane.”

    Which of course, will complete the third and final round of destruction for the Republican Party, in the elections of 2012.

    Moe, what can RedState do to avert this coming calamity for Republicans?

  • AncientTom

    n/t.

  • AncientTom

    I meant shoot at ours if necessary, but never give the other side any feedback until they have committed the mistake.

  • Moe_Lane

    Don’t threadjack.

  • Magic2171

    Moe

    You underestimate the “One” you think that the media would ever allow the stupidity of Mr. Kennedy nomination to make it to the sheeple? The internet conservatives would know but the media and DU/Huffing Post would keep the sheeple in the dark. The “One” would through Kennedy under the bus only if he were caught being really stupid in public.

  • StudentOfLincoln

    Fine Moe … but … ignoring this topic satisfies no one except a “barking mad” Republican base that is too small to win Congress or the White House.

    The harsh lesson of this election is that the Republican Party must reach out to a broader moderate base, or die.

    Denial is futile … incuriosity is futile … suppression is futile … and all three are harmful to any viable future for conservatism.

  • Moe_Lane

    I’m really sorry that your candidate was thinking of nominating a 2004 election conspiracy theorist, but we’re in the middle of a rebuilding year, so bye.

    Blam.

  • Moe_Lane

    It encourages bad habits and sloppy thinking. Please don’t use it again.

  • wt259

    don’t torpedo Granholm, if her name comes up for a cabinet post. She’s a wonderful economic mind, look at all the good things she’s done for Michigan. OK, snark off. Putting her on the economic team advising the head Obamunist is like putting Willie Sutton on the board of the Fed. OK, now the snark is really off.

  • Moe_Lane

    He understood the fundamentals, and wasn’t a bad person, exactly: by which I say that there was no meanness or spite to him.

  • wt259

    just trying to make the point.. And would those fundamentals be take from the banks and give to…himself? He’d fit right in now, wouldn’t he?

  • bs
  • kllyhlls

    He pushed my buttons. I had my troll food in hand and was ready to force feed him.

    K

  • MichaelBDR

    The same lateness in disseminating information about Barack Obama allowed him to gain a headwind that was hard to stop when the truth about him started to surface. People already had invested in him and would not see anything but what they interpreted his rhetoric to mean to them personally. Rhetoric that was as slimy as what soothsayers use, that allows the listener to make it mean what they want it to mean.

  • johnt

    the far left becomes inconvenient. You see the far left IS todays Democrat Party, and no less is Obama a part of it.
    You say “once they win crazy gets in the way”. But Obama has won and look who he is coming out of the starting gate with? You ought to not draw too much either from the Pelosi/Reid situation after ’06. They now have both a stronger hand in Congress and the Democrat in the WH that they wanted as well as the so called bail out/crisis issue to play with.
    A much different ball game

    My bet is that the hustler from Chicago will ride this horse as far as he can and do oodles of damage in the process. However, and this does tie in with your point, like all statist thugs he will have no scruples against screwing and selling out his own if and when it suits him. That is, after he hurts himself by going too far.

    But, and again, there may be an if but no telling when.

  • CSUFBomb

    …watching Francois put his Davos mojo to work on an international stage would be akin to watching Chris Angel try to levitate without his Tinkerbell wire.

  • Badill_T

  • bs

    I was just jabbing Moe.

  • Moe_Lane

    It increases the chance that I will see some day a video of Teresa Heinz Kerry throwing the contents of a champagne flute into the face of some grubby little dictator from a grubby little country that had presumed to annoy her at a state function.

    Heck, if I were Bush I’d have given her that job: Special Envoy for Public Humiliations. She’d be great at it, and God knows that I have a list…

  • CSUFBomb

    …but I don’t think she’d respond too favorably to the “Sweetie” treatment from The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers.

  • richdecamp

    …and the guy who dedicated a book to Sirhan Sirhan. Coming to an administration near you in 2009.

    It’s a wonderful country.

  • SeattleSlim

    Stop trying to sabotage every little thing Barack Obama does. We all lose if he fails.

  • SteveLA

    I heart Obama, I want you to know that because when “they” start rounding up people, I want a job as a camp internee guard.

    I figure you could put in a good word for me with the authorities once “they” start rounding people up. Why now I even think it’s my patriotic duty to pay more in taxes. Is there more I can do?

  • janis

    Given what he has planned for this country, I personally will pray that God guides Obama’s hand when it comes to national security and the economy, but that He turns a blind eye and a deaf ear when Obama attempts to restrict free speech, take away our guns, set up his own little domestic brownshirt army, etc.

    Sometimes success if overrated.

  • mbecker908

    we didn’t even get to play with him. Please be more considerate and let us tenderize the trolls before you roast them. Thank you.

  • Moe_Lane

    Well… no, it isn’t: it’s not even close. But it’s still a very mean thing to say to you as I ban you.

    Blam.

  • Addison

    I’ll just note that even the crrrrrrrrrrazy Dkos folks aren’t big fans of this RFK, Jr idea:

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/7/8140/84940/439/656545

    In fact everyone seemed pretty much against it. Seeing as how RFK, Jr apparently hates science and the world that birthed it.

    He’s an “ok” pundit but not cut out for administration; his, uh, “certainty” on certain issues suits a certain role.

    I think it was a joke balloon. Hope?

  • Moe_Lane

    We loathe him because he’s a conspiracy nut who would promote a disastrous environmental policy.

    Nothing personal, but I like my reasons better.

  • MarvinH

    I bet that Obama promised Teddy Kennedy that he would give jobs to the Kennedy Kids.
    So, RFK, Jr gets the EPA
    and Caroline Kennedy to the UN
    And possibly Teddy’d Brother-in-law gets a job as well – Arnold.

  • Thomas

    Kennedy isn’t just a thimerosal-causes-autism nut, he gives cover to the vaccinations-cause-autism nuts. (Thimerosal is now only used in some flu vaccines, and it’s been that way for seven years, yet somehow, autism keeps popping up. This puts to the side the way mercury is processed through an infant’s body and a bunch of other science that would bore everyone here.)

    I find the idea of getting the herd animals with whom we all live and breathe to stop being vaccinated precisely as dangerous as his other insanity.

    In other words, let’s pray they nominate and confirm the fruitcake.

  • DRP

    Speaking as someone who has a brother with autism, it ties into the greater theme of “believes crap when there is little to no proof in favor of it”. And, of course, the sense that there’s this medical conspiracy covering up the truth is sadly similar to some of his whackier political theories.

    It’s all part of a great system of strange lunacy.