Tuesday, June 16, 2020

The Lincoln Project Has a Rick Wilson Problem


Because Rick Wilson forgot lesson #2:  Don't get high on your own supply.

Rick Wilson has a good thing going.  A very good thing going.  He is a veteran Republican ratfucker with a long history of rancid behavior who now not only gets to play Internet Tough Guy --



-- and the Savior of the Republic, but has many of my fellow Liberals shielding him and his friends against any criticism as zealously as any Praetorian guard.

In fact, Rick appears to have been having such a high old time playing Internet Tough Guy and the Savior of the Republic that he seems to have forgotten that his shtick depends entirely on the pretense that history began in 2016 and everything that he and his fellow Republican goons did before that is 100% off-limits.

And then [he said, speculatingly] one day Rick ordered a pizza from Domino's.  And it arrived late or cold or they don't do delivery to his swamp-cave or whatever.

This!  Will!  Not!  Stand!

And so, high on his own invincibility and secure in the knowledge that whatever he says or does will be defended by his new Liberal allies, Rick decided go Super Karen by digging around in the Forbidden Zone of the Past to find a sharp Twitter stick with which to stab the villainous pizza monsters who had not treated him with the god damn respect due an Internet Tough Guy and Savior of the Republic of his stature:

And once Rick had broken his own History Quarantine, this started happening...



Another loooong list of receipts here.

And just when you think it's over, OMG the porter starts unloading even more baggage:

And golly wouldn't you know it, Rick was all in on the Benghaaaaazi freakshow too.

And then, inevitably, there's this:
Until Very Recently, Lincoln Project Co-Founder Had a Very Different Opinion About the Confederate Flag
Since I have no love for anyone involved in this skirmish among various Republican goons over who gets to control what gets remembered, I will instead defer to the enduring wisdom of Benjamin Franklin.




No Half Measures


9 comments:

Unknown said...

"Maybe letting the husband of Kelly Ann Conway and ex GOP operative Rick Wilson take a leading role in the opposition to Trump will be viewed in hindsight as a mistake."

Like the plate-glass coffin, "remains to be seen".

I haz had a skeptical of the Lincoln Project since the start. When it comes to marketing, I refer back to the dearly missed Bill Hicks' advice. I sure as hell wish Rick Wilson would have taken his advice.

Jake formerly of the LP said...

I agree that Wilson is not to be trusted at all. But the man's soulless amorality is kind of endearing in a way, because he knows how to go for the gut, unlike far too many Dems of good heart and better ideas.

But he will turn on President Biden in a second, and Kellyanne's hubby is even less trustworthy. Never Trumpers are our allies for now, but they are not our friends. I just wish more Dems knew how to smash and take no prisoners like the Wilsons of the world do. And they'd actually be doing it for good reasons, unlike Rick!

driftglass said...

I assure you there are plenty of people on the Left who know how to go straight for the jugular, and have been for decades. As a result we are pariahs and were told long ago by the Liberal media to shaddap and sit down. As a result we have no network of influential media friends and fellow travelers at our fingertips who will relentlessly pimp our awesomeness and what funding we get comes from our tip jars and goes straight to groceries and gas.

Lawrence said...

I thought rule one was never get involved in a land war in Asia, and number two was never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

ChiefD said...

I'm convinced that Wilson and most of the Never-Trumpers are pissed at Trump because he cut them out of a big chunk of their sweet sweet political consulting dollars. Nothing more. And I'm also convinced that Kelly Ann and George are simply playing both sides of the fence, so that one of them will always be employable.

bowtiejack said...

"... our allies for now,"
Like the Ruskies in WWII.

Robt said...

What is the difference between Lindsey Graham and Rick Wilson in their conservative principles?

You notice Ricjk Wilson ignores the Jim Jordan, Matt Geatz, Devin Nunes Lindsey Graham, STeve Millers. That it is only Trump?
If not for Trump the GOP would be marshmallow skies and unicorns?

Show me where Rick Wilson addressed the recurring tongue virus inducing the words,
Trump is the smartest republican.
That only means all the other republicans (as Rick) are less than. So his opinion is worthless.

Lit3Bolt said...

I will be mixed on this. Like Churchill, if Satan issued a denunciation in the House of Commons I would at least move in motion. /s

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RealTrumanDem said...

People should be reminded- or just simply made aware- of Rick Wilson's work on GOP Saxby Chambliss' campaign in 2002. A campaign ad against incumbent Democratic GA Senator Max Cleland showed a montage of pictures, including Osama bin Laden, inferring Cleland was an al-Qaeda sympathizer. And, although Cleland was a known triple amputee, decorated Vietnam veteran, the GA voters elected Saxby Chambliss- thanks to Rick Wilson's Goebbels-like attacks.
The "scum" he talks about must include himself.