# The Tighty Righty Surge or A Plague of Trogs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 16, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872 "2008-09-16T19:02:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/21 "2008-09-16T21:28:22Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > This place was better when it was more like a country club-- we need to keep the rabble out. Not rabble. But it restricts membership to the people who care enough to spend the money. And that’s not a bad thing. I know some people bitched and moaned about paying subscriptions, but I was never one of them. I’d just as soon we still were. Just as we don’t encourage fly-by posts, I’d rather we didn’t encourage fly-by posters. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/22 "2008-09-16T21:30:58Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > ☹ Not you. You’re good rabble. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/23 "2008-09-16T21:43:59Z")
Where is **Barking Spider**? He should be here. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/24 "2008-09-16T21:54:26Z")
The sheer volume of anti-McCain/Palin threads this last two weeks has been surprising, to me. It was intimidating. For me (if I had felt like trying to defend the McCain side in one of those threads), I would have felt like I was painting a big fat target on my forhead, inviting a pile-on. Perhaps, if you perceive an “increase” in conservative defenders, it is because of the (rightfully perceived or not) volume & passion of the Obama supporters in attacking Palin, and they circle the wagons and/or lash out back (plus, those conservatives have bigger 'nads than I do). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/25 "2008-09-16T21:58:58Z")
Hysterical right wingers… Trog… did Palin have another kid? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/26 "2008-09-16T22:03:40Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > As of my writing, Page 1 of the Pit is now showing about 10 threads that are anti-McCain or anti-Palin, vs. only 1, I think, that is anti-Obama. GD is running along similar lines. If there’s a rightward lurch, it’s not showing up in the number of threads. This board tilts left worse than the Tower of Pisa. The fact that there is even one thread that speaks ill of Hopey-Hopey-Change-Change is what they are calling a surge. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/27 "2008-09-16T22:07:04Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Lemme see if I can…ahem, elucidate that for ya, **luci**. > > It’s a surge. Now that the board is beginning to draw from the public at large, a more representative percentage of conservatives is beginning to appear. > > We still have a way to go of course, but the tide is turning and I’m [del]afraid[/del] hope that the days of the SDMB as a clique for rabid lefties are numbered. I, for one, would welcome more conservatives on this board. I’m always afraid that someone like \*\*Bricker \*\*is going to wake up one morning and say, “Aw, fuck it; I’m gonna quit hanging with that bunch of fucking loons.” But the baby Jesus will cry if he is replaced by someone like [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10200886&postcount=12). I doubt if you want people like that around, either, **SA**. They don’t really hold up the side. [Here’s another of his gems](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10201346&postcount=24), in case you’re still undecided. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/28 "2008-09-16T22:17:40Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > What, you mean the flower “lupin”? > > What do you think this is, the Lupin Express?? No, DVDs of Lupin III Part II. They’ll have enough of a hard time figuring out what order to watch the series in as Pioneer put several episodes out of order, only released 79 of 155 episodes, and never put any volume numbers on the DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/29 "2008-09-16T22:25:10Z")
Uh, I guess since it went back to free posting the board is becoming more representative of the population at large. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/30 "2008-09-16T22:30:26Z")
> [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](#): > > I, for one, would welcome more conservatives on this board. I’m always afraid that someone like \*\*Bricker \*\*is going to wake up one morning and say, “Aw, fuck it; I’m gonna quit hanging with that bunch of fucking loons.” But the baby Jesus will cry if he is replaced by someone like [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10200886&postcount=12). I doubt if you want people like that around, either, **SA**. They don’t really hold up the side. [Here’s another of his gems](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10201346&postcount=24), in case you’re still undecided. I think “complete whackjob” is a more appropriate label than “conservative” there. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/31 "2008-09-16T23:57:21Z")
Known colloquially as a “\*\*Carol Stream \*\*conservative.” ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/32 "2008-09-17T00:09:04Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > This board tilts left worse than the Tower of Pisa. The fact that there is even one thread that speaks ill of Hopey-Hopey-Change-Change is what they are calling a surge. I think that’s ridiculous. There are several conservatives I can think of who’ve been here for years and, AFAIK, are generally well thought of. At least I do, though I don’t agree with them usually. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/33 "2008-09-17T00:12:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > A good question, do they do the pay-toilet limbo? Now, there’s no reason to drag Larry Craig into every discussion. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/34 "2008-09-17T00:17:15Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > Uh, I guess since it went back to free posting the board is becoming more representative of the population at large. Why do people keep saying this? Even when it was pay-to-pay, it cost the same $14.95 (or half) for everybody – tighty-righties and lefty-liberals. Either you’re suggesting conservatives have been poorer than liberals (nice choice in voting for your interests if the fiscal policies of the last few years that you _thought_would make you wealthier didn’t), or we’re seeing a bunch of new posters who now see a chance to give pixel-wedgies at no charge to them to those on a left-leaning board who wouldn’t have done so when that privilege cost them something. Even if you’re suggesting that there are conservatives showing up now who didn’t want to pay for the privilege of being shouted down or drowned out, that wouldn’t happen anyway, pay or not, if they had someting reasonable, thoughtful and not-off-the-talking-points-bulletin-board to say, and could hold their own with regard. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/35 "2008-09-17T00:21:24Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > The sheer volume of anti-McCain/Palin threads this last two weeks has been surprising, to me. It was intimidating. For me, what really changed this from “just another election that I want my side to win” to “a pitched battle for the heart of this country that my side must win” was the choice of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate. If McCain had chosen anyone else, you would not see nearly this much emotion. I am totally fed up with these interlocking notions that a life in politics is the Eighth Deadly Sin, and that a “reg’lar guy” or “reg’lar gal” from Pioneer Country is an equally viable choice for the grave responsibilities of national office as someone with degrees from high-falutin’ liberal universities. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/36 "2008-09-17T00:22:56Z")
I’ve noticed them showing up lately too and only one or two of them have even attempted to add anything coherent to the discussion. And it’s not about the number/type of threads, it’s what’s being said individual posts and how it’s being said. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/37 "2008-09-17T00:47:23Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > \ > > I am totally fed up with these interlocking notions that a life in politics is the Eighth Deadly Sin, and that a “reg’lar guy” or “reg’lar gal” from Pioneer Country is an equally viable choice for the grave responsibilities of national office as someone with degrees from high-falutin’ liberal universities. So, do I take it that you are happy with the Harvard guy that’s been in office for the past eight years? Is that why the demmies have nominated another Harvard guy, because the last one did so well? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/38 "2008-09-17T00:49:39Z")
> [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](#): > > So, do I take it that you are happy with the Harvard guy that’s been in office for the past eight years? Is that why the demmies have nominated another Harvard guy, because the last one did so well? Point of information: G. W. Bush is a Yale grad, not Hahvahd. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/39 "2008-09-17T00:54:39Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Point of information: G. W. Bush is a Yale grad, not Hahvahd. And I doubt that Obama was a legacy. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872/40 "2008-09-17T01:11:26Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Lemme see if I can…ahem, elucidate that for ya, **luci**. > > It’s a surge. Now that the board is beginning to draw from the public at large, a more representative percentage of conservatives is beginning to appear. Nothing the rest of the world didn’t already know: [**How Can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?**](http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/images/daily_mirror_bush.jpg) Just hope the other half has grown just a tad since…if not, stick your head between your legs and kiss your dumb ass goodbye. Trust me, it won’t be easy, but the world will go on without all you ignorant, parochial, “all-American” fucks. Chuck Taylors are but a relic. > [@](#): > > We still have a way to go of course, but the tide is turning and I’m [del]afraid[/del] hope that the days of the SDMB as a clique for rabid lefties are numbered. Won’t happen. We fight ignorance here…even if some are simply recalcitrant in the face of facts and reason. Like you for instance. I supect that if your fossils finaggle some sort of suspect “victory” this Board will be, more than ever akin to “Red Dawn.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tighty-righty-surge-or-a-plague-of-trogs/463872.md?page=3)