Inspired by the Village Voices Top 10 Rightblogger Stories of 2008, I humbly offer my assessment of the five worst posts in the world of Montana blogs this year. To all the winners, I offer a hearty congratulations. To those of you not selected, 2008 wasn’t exactly a banner year for conservatives anyway. Better luck next year!
5. Undue Optimism about Jim Hunt
Someone was pretty excited in April, when Jim Hunt outraised Dennis Rehberg in one quarter:
Despite the headline, this is a great sign in Jim Hunt’s effort to send Dennis Rehberg back to his subdivided ranch.
4. A Single-Payer Health Care System Will Lead to another Civil War
Professor Natelson is certainly consistent in his opposition to nationalized healthcare. In a few weeks, he claimed that Medicare and other federal programs ruined the finest, least expensive healthcare system in the world and took away $15 housecalls, that national healthcare violate would violate the underlying principles of the American government, and that national healthcare would criminalize treating a child outside of the federal system, but his winning argument was clearly that because of abortion, nationalized health care would lead to another Civil War:
Fantasy? Not at all. One of the things that drove the abolitionists to fury before the Civil War was the belief that, not only was slavery being tolerated, but that they were forced to pay for it with their tax dollars. This helped create tragedies like John Brown’s raids and “bleeding Kansas.” Much more recently – in the Vietnam Era – there was widespread civil unrest because of violent disagreement with how the government was spending defense money.
3. Defending Disenfranchising Voters
The Big Sky Cairn probably could have won all five places on this list in a week’s worth of posting, but my personal favorite for the year was this post that defended the Montana GOP’s embarrassing attempt to disenfranchise Montana voters:
So, on my behalf, the Montana GOP is asking 6,000 people to confirm their eligibility in Montana to cast a vote. Doing so helps ensure the sanctity of my vote – and yours. It’s prophylactic.
When even Brad Johnson knows that you are wrong, you’re really wrong.
2. Blogsuit!
The greatest fantasist and racist in Montana’s blogging community, Mike over at the Last Best Place, took time out of his busy schedule of searching for Google images of his international travels to threaten to sue another blogger, using EVERY PENNY OF HIS SUBSTANTIAL AND ENDLESS RESOURCES if necessary:
It’s not a pro se action in a small claims court in Gallatin County, as had been threatened against him previously, but is rather planned to be a full court press using every penny at my disposal (which some of you may know…and I don’t mind saying… is substantial and endless), and is meant to cause the maximum amount of damage whatever the cost to me personally. It’s really every lawyer’s dream case. A client with an endless supply of money and an axe to grind for as long as it takes to destroy his opponent. Cha ching!
1. Operation Chaos
When you are parroting Rush Limbaugh 73% of the time, you have a number of worthy options for consideration for worst blog post of the year, but when that parroting turns into delusions of grandeur, you’ve got a certain winner. Andy Hammond, when not obsessing over his three minutes of media attention, managed to convince at least one person to vote for Hillary Clinton, throwing the Democratic nomination into CHAOS!
While this will be fun, it’s also serious business. We can’t have either of these far left Liberals heading the country. It will be devastating on so many levels. While I hold my nose about McCain, he is far, far better then Hillary and Obama.
Tomorrow: The best things about Montana’s blogs (right and left) in 2008.
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Of course, I never said national health care would lead to another war. I said it would lead to greater social tensions.
Now, I suppose if you are ignorant of history, you might not believe nationalizing something as sensitive as health care could raise social tensions in a country as diverse as ours. And if you had not lived through the experience, you might not believe that federal involvement in the health care system destroyed the $15 house call. And if you never actually read a “global budgeting” style proposal, you might not believe that it could criminalize treatment outside the government system.
But all those things are true, nevertheless.
Please accept my wishes for a happy, and wiser, New Year. I only regret I was not #1 on your list, rather than merely #4.
Rob Natelson
I just get so confused, I guess. I thought the $15 house call vanished because of medical malpractice and the scourge of trial lawyers. It’s hard to keep up with the arguments.
Sorry you couldn’t take the number one spot. There was some tough competition. Best of luck next year, and Happy New Year.
I am no great law professor and such but can you explain the extraordinary jump between federal involvement in health care to the loss of the $15 house call?
Tip ‘o the hat. And thank you.
First of all, whew!
Secondly – you are too hard on yourself. Hunt was the man. What went wrong there, we’ll all be pondering every once in a while, for years.
Third? Good job!
Dear Nutty Perfesser Nasalsound, since you have exhibited a degree of courage that you couldn’t muster during the Vietnam War by showing up here and NOT in Vietnam, maybe you would be so kind to offer up some of your brilliance regarding abortion. Since you did INDEED, like any slimy little instigator, infer that a civil war is justified over abortion by making the comparison between slavery and abortion, could you please explain the Biblical justification for you views. Come ON, Bobby. Just WHERE in the Bible does it say that abortion is an offense punishable by death? Or war? You’re a big Bible guy. Share your expertise with us, Bobby. For you see, Bobby, by my reading of the Bible, there is NO MENTION OF ABORTION AT ALL! So, how do you get off calling for a war over it? You see, Bobby, you’re slime. You’re attempting to provoke some nutjob to violence while youself lack the courage to do so. I take that back. You’re not slime. You’re the WORST kind of slime. What have you got to say for youself?
Larry-
I’m just guessing here, but I think the -*”Thou shall not kill” *- commandment MIGHT come into play on this one!
Yeah, Rocky, that one REALLY works well, does’t it? No, Rocky. Nasalsound’s an idiot. And a coward. He will not come on this site and attempt a Biblical justification for abortion because there IS none. Hey, if it were such a big deal, the Bible would be all OVER it! Deal with it.
p.s. You see, Rocky, Nasalsound knows he can’t do it. Therefore, over at smith’s site, he simply whines about taxes. That’s all. He, like ALL rightwing wacko funamentalists, won’t touch the Biblical argument because they’ll lose their asses every time. Abortion for Pervessor Nasalsound is simply a wedge issue to motivate the not-real-bright Repubbie base to vote against their own self-interests. The perv knows what he’s doing. And now, he’s taken it to a new level (or low) by attempting to incite the inbreds to violence. Course, as I mentioned, Robby himself MISSED his big chance to be a warrior, although according to a letter his wife wrote to the newspapers, Robby DID risk his life during the Vietnam War by rescuing a flag some protesters were going to burn! And his legend continues, written mainly in little Robby’s own mind.