The robes are cute,

but now get your ass back into that nice crotchless number I bought you.

And do that little dance you do. Uncle Jerry luuuuvs to see his ladies shake their sassy Corinthians one and two.

Really brings in the carraige trade.

C'mon, chop-chop. I runnin' a business here fer Christ's Sake!

This from the WaPo.

McCain Reconnects With Liberty University
Senator May Have an Eye Toward 2008 as He Reaches Out to Religious Conservatives
By Dan Balz

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LYNCHBURG, Va., May 13 -- Six years after labeling the Rev. Jerry Falwell one of the political "agents of intolerance," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered the commencement address Saturday at Falwell's Liberty University, and vigorously defended his support for the war in Iraq while saying that opponents have a moral duty to challenge the wisdom of a conflict that has exacted a huge toll on the nation.

McCain's presence on the campus here was as remarkable as what he had to tell the graduating class of 2006, given his clashes with religious conservatives during his 2000 campaign for president. His appearance continued a rapprochement that has been underway for months with a critical constituency in the Republican Party as McCain prepares for another possible campaign in 2008.
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Neither McCain nor Falwell made even an oblique reference to past differences. After his loss to George W. Bush in the South Carolina primary in 2000, an angry McCain went to Virginia Beach to challenge the power of Christian conservative leaders in the Republican Party and singled out Falwell and the Rev. Pat Robertson by name. Unexpectedly, he set fire to his own campaign.

His differences then with Falwell and Robertson came principally over campaign finance reform, but his words carried a far harsher message about the power of the religious right. A day later, McCain used the word "evil" to describe his opponents, but afterward, he and his advisers regretted it.

Falwell's visit last September began a process of reconciliation between the two men. "The senator did what I do quite often: spoke out of his emotions and later felt bad about it," Falwell said of that 2000 incident. But in their meeting, he
said, "no apologies were asked for or given."

Asked whether he believes their reconciliation helps McCain politically, Falwell, in a telephone interview on Friday, said, "I don't think there's any question about that. There are 80 million evangelicals in this country. My intent was to say that John McCain and I are friends, that I respect him and that there are no problems with yesterday."

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Others said McCain will have to demonstrate more consistent respect for religious and social conservatives. "John McCain has to get in line behind a number of other people that have already won our respect and admiration and, in some cases, already our support," said the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition.
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Wow. So in other words once you’ve decided to sell your soul and your last shred of dignity out to the Right, you now actually have to stand in line -- hat in hand, dutifully knobbing all the Christopath Frat Brothers -- to complete the transaction.

Well at least we finally, definitively know who wears the jodhpurs and carriers the crop in that loveless marriage.

And as the Christopaths move in for the final killshot on what little scrap of rag and bone was left the Conservative Movement, in came this spoonful of vomit (via Steve Gilliard) from the Fake Left...

Is she nuts?

Silly slackers, vote for me

'SLACKER' ATTACK ON HILL

EXPERT: SHE'S WRONG -
GEN. Y SAVVY & $TRONG

By IAN BISHOP and DEVIN SMITH

May 13, 2006 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton got it half right when she told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the instant-gratification generation thinks "work is a four-letter word," the chamber's expert on young employees told The Post.

The work guru, Rick Corcoran, said Clinton hit the nail on the head when she insisted Generation Y has an sense of entitlement - but missed the boat when she accused them of not pulling their weight in the American economy.
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"They're going to find, in their 20s, the work-life balance that their parents have sought their whole lives."

But it's the Gen Y'ers in their 20s and tail end of Generation X'ers who've been driving the economy by dominating the high-tech field - the scientific sector that Clinton and President Bush agree America needs to dominate in order to succeed in the future.
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Clinton touched off the generation war Thursday, saying Gen Y'ers "don't know what work is. They think work is a four-letter word."

She added: "America didn't happen by accident. A lot of people worked really hard. They've got to do their part, too."

Clinton grumbled that today's youths "think they're entitled to go right to the top with $50,000 or $75,000 jobs when they have not done anything to earn their way up."

She made no mention of her daughter, Chelsea, 26, who snagged a six-figure consulting spot in the New York office of London-based McKinsey & Company after receiving her master's degree from Oxford in 2003.

The comments by the Democrats' 2008 White House front-runner is surprising considering how she's rolled out a massive marketing blitz to court them into her camp - and so far it has worked. Polls show 18- to 35-year-olds are her biggest base of support.

Lazy? This from a woman who's Oxford educated daughter is a consultant at McKinsey, best known for Enron and making six figures a year?

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Come on, who can defend this stupidity? Fundraising with Murdoch, insulting her base voters, talking up how nice Bush is? What the hell does she believe in anyway?

McCain and Clinton were reportedly last seen in the Senatorial Showers, dosed to the retinas on crank and absinthe.

Scrubbing each other down with steel wool and stool softener.

Weeping.

And loudly ranting out a filthy sea chanty about pirates and whores and how astonished they were to find they were both appearing, along with Jerry Effing Falwell, in this, driftglass' 600th post.