Stephen Colbert Suits Nutroots

I don’t even know what this means. Seriously. Nutroot? Where did this word come from?

Joementum: Liebs narrows Lamont’s lead on eve of primary
posted at 5:13 pm on August 7, 2006 by Allahpundit – Hotair.com

It was 54-41 until the internal pressure caused by keeping all that crazy bottled up forced sweet Jane to vent a little.
Now it’s 51-45.
Ever the optimist, Dean Barnett thinks tomorrow night could be a replay of Howard Dean’s flameout in Iowa three years ago, where the party faithful who’d made him the unlikely McGovernite frontrunner got cold feet at the altar.

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Update: Nice piece by Slate on how Ned “I don’t know anything about the blogs” Lamont scored points off of Internet video. There’s our friend Stephen Colbert, right in the middle of it. He’s the one guy on television who actually is liberal enough to suit the nutroots, which is probably because he parrots every last position they take.

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