The Cocktober Surprise!!!

[BOSSHOG]

"Republicans fighting like banty roosters" over their little foley issue.

Compliments of Ed Schultz. I'd love to, but can't, take credit for that title.

[acmavm]

1. Double entendre? Very clever.

[The Magistrate]

2. Staying The Course, Sir, Or A-Stray In Their Shorts?

[trof]

3. Are all the repugs finally on the same page?

*snicker snicker*
Oh this is REALLY getting degenerate.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Turn the Page Trof, turn the page

do not spoil your heart and mind with eeeeeevvvvviiiilllll!!!!

[eek]

4. OK. That' s today's slogan du jour of the day!

Nice one.
Mind if I use it, erm, liberally?

[BOSSHOG]

7. Carry forward teammate

to the mountaintops, to the seashore, to Dorothy's home on the plain.

[elehhhhna]

5. Wonkette called it that 2 days ago.

[iconocrastic]

8. Great pun but it points the finger back at us

Has too cynical a ring for my ears. Distracts from Foley's guilt.

[The Magistrate]

9. It Is Impossible, Sir, to Be Too Cynical

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

[iconocrastic]

10. It makes us look cynical.

I wan't people looking at Foley, not at Democratic operatives.

[MrCoffee]

12. How does it make US look cynical?

you lost me there, friend.

[iconocrastic]

15. Well, if you don't think it does, let's use it then

I'm happy the Democrats engineered a political coup, so let's call it what it is, even though it happened in September. By the way, it took us way off message.

[The Magistrate]

17. You Think Democrats Engineered This, Sir?

Of course, it would please me greatly if we had, but it would be helpful if you stepped me through how it might have been done, since the principle actors in the matter, from pages to the Speaker of the House, are Republicans....

[iconocrastic]

20. Somehow we are not communicating

I'll try just once more. The term "October Surprise" has the connotation of a false story planted just ahead of an election.

[The Magistrate]

21. Not Really, Sir: It Is An Unexpected Event, Effecting The Election

Possibly sprung by one side or the other. There is no connotation of false-hood or falseness to it at all.

This one is working decidedly in our favor, and ought to be ruthlessly exploited.

And you still have not disposed of whjat seemed to be a claim by tou that Democratic political operatives contrived this thing, somehow.

[iconocrastic]

22. Why do you address me as "Sir"?

Goodbye. <click>

[The Magistrate]

13. 'Cocktober Surprise' Is An Excellent Usage, Sir

It makes people grin; it sticks in the mind. Just this moment, it made my wife laugh out loud.

Among the leading means of mass political work is getting people to view your enemy as laughable, as figures of fun, the butt of jokes. What people have laughed at, they can seldom be brought to ever take wholly seriously again.

[flamin lib]

11. It's Masturgate!!!

Can't remember where I heard it--probably on DU from whence all good things flow . . .

[The Magistrate]

14. It Did Pop Up Here A Day Or Two Ago, Sir

It is an excellent usage: apt, and damned funny.

[flamin lib]

16. Pop Up did you say? nt

[The Magistrate]

19. You Have Not Mis-Quoted, Sir

It has the feel of something that can stick, too....

[ShortnFiery]

18. The Snow Job is claiming that it was an ...

EXCHANGE :wtf: of disgusting emails between a Grown man and a Young man.

No Tony, you don't get it! It wasn't just ONE underage male Page and most of them were the one's who considered FOLEYs SIDE (not an exchange) truly SICK.

Tony, your DISINFORMATION and LIES are disgusting. :puke: