Brenda, can I meet you for lunch on... uh, Thursday is my next free day?

Lots of people are pegging Lehman Bros collapse as the point where the McCain campaign started losing, but I heard someone point out that his numbers started dropping 4 days earlier after Palin's Katie Couric interview.

Glam, did you make it to the demonstration at the Mormon temple?

I did. While it was moving to see so many people demonstrating, it felt like the message got a bit diluted. It seemed more about bashing the Mormons than about equal rights. I mean, I'm pissed with the Mormons as well and thought rallying in front of their temple was a great move. I just think we could have left the Mormon connection at that.

In my mind - rainbows are all converging on brenda's building and a slight glow of optimism is shining from the windows.

Is it wrong of me to be wallowing in the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the neocons

Why do you think the word Schadenfreude was invented?

While I would say some of my liberal friends are not falling into the gracious winners camp (rubbing faces rather than basking in the joy), I have only one firsthand personal gracious loser account (wishing well rather than spitting vile). I am pretty sure that in known mixed political company I was mostly quiet the last two election cycles.

Why do you think the word Schadenfreude was invented?

True dat. And so many of them embody backpfeifengesicht as well.

More on the "wailing and gnashing of teeth of the neocons"...

If they were smart, they would regroup, and decide what they stand for and present it to the American people. Instead, I suspect we will get several more months of infighting over tactics and appearances, and more purges of those who wish to engage in a debate over the party’s direction. It isn’t just that many of the folks leading the purge disagree with George Will and Peggy Noonan and Daniel Larison and Sullivan and Ron Paul about the direction of the future GOP- they want them destroyed for suggesting there needs to be a debate. That is how dead the party is, and Henke is right. They need some time in the wilderness, to figure out who they are and what they believe in and why and how it will be better for the country.

Instead, I suspect we will see Palin pom poms and purity purges, which is all the more humorous given the defections from prominent conservatives to Obama, they are already whittled down to the true belivers. It would be funny if our nation’s currrent two-party system did not require a competent opposition party.

I just love the phrase "Palin pom poms and purity purges"...

I get the feeling that, while McCain really *did* want to be POTUS, he didn't want to *run a campaign.* He just wanted it to happen magically. Because -- at least this is my impression from the Newsweek special -- his attitude towards his campaign was capricious and just plain weird, and he let his campaign staff, especially that crapweasel Steve Schmidt, take the campaign and run with it (and run it into the ground).

Yes, but I think that's also true of Hillary, and has been true of most candidates for quite a long time. It seems like one of the many unusual things about Obama was that he actually was controlling his campaign, instead of being controlled by it.

Well, plus he's good at it. I'm sure Nader's in control of his campaign too, but that's a slightly different thing.

Is it wrong of me to be wallowing in the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the neocons? I almost feel guilty. Almost.

No, not at all wrong. Of course, it would be wrong for you to post a link to any particularly juicy and deluded Oh Woes Pity Me whine. Very, very wrong to post any such links.

So thoroughly wrong to share the Schadenfreude.

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it would be wrong for you to post a link to any particularly juicy and deluded Oh Woes Pity Me whine.

Most of what I'm finding is still of the circular firing squad/CYA variety. Does the pity party come after the circular firing squad?