Amusing term for McGigogo's picking Palin.. Palinnacht..

I know it will go over the head of most non politically engaged types but I thought it was kind of clever when I read it a couple of hours ago.

palin = Stalin! Good thinking, Taverner!

We need ALL these ideas! There's NO SUCH THING as too many good talking points and clever, memorable buzz phrases. NO SUCH THING. The more varied these are, and the more of them we think up, means there'll be such a great collection that there's bound to be something in there that anyone can resonate with, remember, and use in their own way, whenever they might have to make a counter-argument with a family member, coworker, neighbor, friend, fellow shopper, OR fellow "hockey mom."

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We ALL need to be thinking along these lines, exploring additional things to say and ways to say them. Inevitably, with many choices and approaches, there's BOUND to be one that works on whomever you need it to work upon.

either don't, won't, or can't do.

Where are OUR pitbulls? Where are OUR memorable slogans and OUR army fanning out to repeat them ad nauseam over the entire American landscape?

palinnacht. I like it, Fumesucker. And yeah, it'll go over most people's heads - those who don't bother with history or appreciate (or even acknowledge) its lessons. Might also work with some older Jewish voters in a subtle way. There are SOME out there, and not all of the Jewish persuasion, who remember World War II and what led up to it, and what it was like when the Nazis took over, little by little, and recognize the same kind of slow deterioration happening here in America now. I heard one of them speak at a public hearing the DNC held three years ago when they were trying to settle on a new chairperson (and finally agreed on Howard Dean after a LANDSLIDE of public opinion in his favor). This little old gent got up and spoke, and said he was old enough to remember what occured back then, and how he saw the SAME things now happening here that happened in Germany in the 30's. And you coulda heard a mouse fart in that standing-room-only auditorium when he said that.

Mine was palin-o-lithic - to emphasize how FRICKIN' BACKWARDS she is.

If so, I call Godwin's law. Also there is not good alliteration between kristalnacht and Palinnacht.

Palin-o-lithic, OTOH, works because of its similarity to paleolithic.

Also Palinnacht seems like another variation of the old Deutsch==Nazi meme that I take umbrage to.

We should be considering them ALL.

Of course, you use the Nazi meme with care. It should definitely not be overused because then its power is diluted. But when you hear World War II-era citizens speak of the similarities they witnessed back then, and what they see now (as I personally have), you DO have to take it seriously (as I personally do). Because obviously THEY think it's a legitimate comparison. And I figure THEY would know.

Her name for the Nazi era was "flag madness", I saw more than a hint of that at both conventions this year.

Admittedly the Rep convention was far more monochrome than the Dem one, I kept looking around for Jesse Owens ;)