and i thought nothing they could do would surprisemake me physically ill anymore

From Digby we hear the latest from Nixon dirty tricks expert Roger Stone - who led the Brooks Brothers riot in 2000 to shut down the Dade County recount - and who the Weekly Standard is profiling for his hi-larious new t-shirt campaign against Hillary Clinton:


The Standard sez Stone is "trying to tap into deep-seated sentiments about Clinton that pundits and rival candidates can't articulate."

Oh really? These folks don't seem to have any trouble articulating their fear of Hillary's vagina dentata:


While I agree with Digby that conservatism is part of this country's fabric, the ugliness on the right is so much more primal and vicious than anything I've ever seen on the left; it is much more menacing than normal political discourse. It is the seething anger and pitilessness of the mob. If we liberals hate, we hate the pain and murder and war that are avoidable - all externals to ourselves as individuals. When they hate, it comes from inside, someplace deep and dark and willfully rotten.

I don't know if this dumbass t-shirt will change one single vote - or if it does, whether it will be self-negating by angering others enough that they vote for Clinton.

But what sickens me is that these shirts will sell like hotcakes. Because if there is anything Roger Stone knows, it is how to tap into the brain stem stupidity of this country's bountiful supply of unenlightened white males - even those who are considering voting democratic this year. Because while they may think Bush has fucked up unforgivably, they know a good joke when they see it.

Urgh.

I apologize for putting up all of these pictures, including Stone's odious t-shirt, but it's impossible to write this post without illustrating the pathology involved. I was surprised that Digby gave out the website where the shirts are being sold; that, I will not do.