Shorter George F. Will:

“Shocked, shocked I am that my efforts to make selfishness a virtue by labeling it ‘conservatism’ have resulted in self-interested, ignorant Republican candidates who can no longer convince a majority of voters to pull the lever against their own interests.”

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard, and expertly deployed at Sadly, No!

Item: Charlie Crist extends early voting hours, so that polls will be open 12 hours per day for the duration, as opposed to 8.  (Weekend counts as one day apparently, so 12 hours total over two days.)

The wingers are having a field day with this, of course (e.g. Crist = ACORN = Commie). My personal favorite is short and to the point:

Early voting is bad and by Crist doing this he just gave the election to Obama. I am shocked and disgusted.

(Possibility of this actually coming from a Democrat… acknowledged. Sockpuppetry is all the rage you know. But it probably did come from a Republican, an unidentified source tells me. Thus: true. Wingnuts are so adorable when they’re crazy.)

Note: we do not discount the whole black box thing where the black box thing was born. Yet, props where props be due, until proven otherwise.

Straight-up.  No sugar coating.  Only a bare link to the video in order to prove the thesis. (It’s seven minutes long. Watch it before eating.)

If you manage to get through it, post it to your locker-room wall. You want motivation? You got it.

Reactionary, McCarthyesque, no-good, rotten to the core bitch.

Blogger John Cole was a believer in Peak Wingnut, but I never have been.  One reason is that I know the scope and depth of the Wingnut supply. Also, as we have learned in recent weeks, there is a huge untapped source of Wingnut in Alaska. It’s also the case that, for every major wingnut, there are at least ten thousand minor-league wingers out there spouting nonsense.

Another factor is the ability of right-wingers to snap back into form after saying something that almost makes sense.  Consider David Frum, who I wrote about only yesterday.  Last night on MSNBC:

From his first answer, however, it was clear Frum had a very different agenda: to attack Rachel Maddow. Discussing the “ugliness of tone” in American politics, he said that Maddow’s show, “unfortunately, is itself an example of that problem.” He then compared her tone to the hateful outbursts of some McCain-Palin supporters:

Exchange after the jump.

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Bush-enabler and PNACer David Frum comes to the realization that he and his fellow orks are going down:

Perhaps it is our job at NRO is tell our readers only what they want to hear, without much regard to whether it is true. Perhaps it is our duty just to keep smiling and to insist that everything is dandy – that John McCain’s economic policies make sense, that his selection of Sarah Palin was an act of statesmanship, that she herself is the second coming of Anna Schwartz, and that nobody but an over-educated snob would ever suggest otherwise.

Who knows? Perhaps if I do that enthusiastically enough, somebody somewhere might even pour me a free drink or invite me onto the airwaves for a 3 minute Monday morning sunrise interview. And after all: What else could I possibly want?

Frum is an atavistic, vicious little fuck who deserves to be dragged from his home and beaten to a pulp with the bones of his victims.  He, along with Perle, Bolton, Wolfowitz, and others, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the destruction of our economy.  Sadly, he will never pay the price for his crimes.

hat tip: Instaputz

Take a good long look at this picture:

I took it in 2003. 

Now that you’ve had a look, go read Krugman.  If you already read it in the comments, read it again.