Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Inside the Troll Party: Meet the Team! - Konservo Revealed!

The Ralph/Blat 2008 campaign has received numerous requests for more information on Ralph’s enigmatic new adherent, Konservo, and his seemingly-overnight transformation from anonymous supporter to Ralph’s closest confidante. Campaign staffers are only too happy to oblige in this first installment of a new feature on the blog: Inside the Troll Party: Meet the Team!

Discovered as an infant abandoned on the threshold of the San Francisco County Democratic Party offices late one September night, Konservo was swiftly adopted by a pair of local volunteers charmed by the chubby-cheeked lad; and, observers report, he led a happy childhood, attending SF public schools and known among the diverse student body for his broad-mindedness, fairness, and tolerance, if not for his mental agility or popularity.

However, Konservo found that as his classmates’ voices began to deepen and their physiques mature, he failed to exhibit many of the signs of normal puberty. The result was gender confusion and a teenaged tendency to cross-dress, which even in the liberal atmosphere of San Francisco aroused alarm in his parents, who transferred him to the Mayo Clinic at the age of fifteen for observation and treatment.

During one psychiatric evaluation – in which Konservo, clad in a puffed-sleeve top and broomstick skirt, was struggling with his desperate urges to embroider cross-stitched “Precious Moments” vignettes, bake, and swoon over Leonardo DiCaprio – came the fatal break. Insistent that none of the physicians or handlers in attendance “understood her,” Konservo leapt through the second-floor office window and fled the clinic grounds.

Accounts of Konservo’s whereabouts are mixed following this dramatic flight. Konservo himself has scant memories of the months intervening until he finally resurfaced working as a bartender at a leather bar in St. Petersburg, Florida, where his rendition of “Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road” swiftly became the stuff of karaoke night legend.

His awakening to politics came during the 2000 Florida Presidential vote recount, during which Representative Mark Foley was a frequent patron of the bar which employed Konservo. The two struck up an unusually close friendship, and Konservo says that Foley was the first to say to him: “You know what, sweetcheeks? You definitely have political greatness in your future. Now, let’s get this done again!”

Inspired by this encouragement and the numerous e-mailed suggestions from Foley, Konservo sprang into action. Gone, during the daylight hours at least, were the lurid make-up, bizarre fashion choices and seductive pole-dancing performances. Instead it was all pinstriped suits, weekend trips to Washington, DC for a little personal tutelage under the Florida respresentative’s “wing,” and long hours spent in the radical right blogosphere, developing repetitive troll messages and sockpuppet identities for future use. His true colors well concealed, Konservo awaited his moment.

When it all blew up in Konservo’s face was during the scandal that enveloped Foley during September 2006, leading to Foley’s resignation from Congress and potentially exposing Konservo to widespread ridicule and the death of his well-nurtured political ambitions.

He went deep underground, passed from hand to hand by GOP operatives under the code name “Mr. Pee.” In Spring of 2007, he found himself in a safe house in the Heartland, plotting strategy in secret and spamming liberal blogs under multiple identities. All he needed was a rallying cry – a hero whose rise he could help fuel and, perhaps, even manage and, himself, ride to victory like his hero, Karl Rove…

With the founding of the Ralph/Blat 2008 campaign, Konservo knew he had found his true calling, attaching himself speedily to Ralph’s rising star. “I quiver at the feet of the awesomeness of Ralph!” Konservo was heard to declare at his first campaign rally. “His upper-case proclamations sing to my soul and his anger feeds my darkest impulses. Truly, I will walk through fire and blood to serve my worshipful master of HATE! Heed me, mortals all! Abase yourselves before the mighty Ralphiness! Or you will feel the wrath of Mr. NeoCon! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”

Konservo could, finally, reveal his true nature to the world and to the political blogosphere. And so he did.

In just one example of the bizarre behavior that has become Konservo’s trademark, after uttering these pronouncements, he favored the audience with a short ballet performance, delivered Hamlet’s soliloquy entirely in Esperanto, simulated sexual acts with a nearby food processor (to alarmed gasps from the crowd), and concluded by singing his personal hymn to Ralph:

DEMLIB-HATE,
GAYFAG-HATE,
TERRORIST-HATE,
PIAPS-HATE,
LIBTARD-HATE!
HATE!!!!! HATE!!!! HATE!!!!
ALL YOU NEED IS HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He then used his own teeth to clean Ralph’s fingernails and toenails, slurping down the results with evident glee. A position which Candidate Ralph endorsed enthusiastically, immediately promoting Konservo to the position of Chief Lackey, Floor-Licker, and Obsequious Bottom, which several positions Konservo continues to occupy today.

Konservo tells this interviewer that in his spare time, he enjoys macrame, disembowelling parakeets, spamming, and sabotaging Blat’s (apparently waning) influence with his avowed Lord.

He can be contacted via e-mail at ThinkProgressMocksMe@IwasBannedWAAAAH.com.

Stay tuned for the next installment of Inside the Troll Party: Meet the Team!, when we’ll profile yet another wingnut supporter of the Ralph/Blat 2008 ticket!

14 comments:

Sergei Andropov said...

"Esti aŭ malesti,
Tio estas la demando."

:)

Anonymous said...

I gotta know, Sergei - what does it mean? If it's a charm to keep Konservo away, then it worked. Surprised not to have heard from him yet.

Anonymous said...

I've been wondering forever (or at least a week) what the origins of Konservant were.

Now that good solid investigative journalism have prevailed, I must say that Konservo is kind of yucky.

:>
peace

Anonymous said...

Cleaning Ralph's toenails with your teeth would be REALLY yucky. I can't imagine what Ralph's nails would look like - probably grungier than the inside of his head.

Anonymous said...

WOOT for Hamlet in Esperanto, Sergei! Thanks!

RalphyFan said...

Konservo, darling, you've had such an illustrious past, I'm surprised you're not here yet to acknowledge it!

Is your whole purpose to echo dear Ralph in his caps-lock rants, with no agenda or personality of your own?

Speak up or shut up, saith the Ralph/Blat 2008 Campaign.

Anonymous said...

Speak up or shut up, saith the Ralph/Blat 2008 Campaign.

Well, it seems that I can't go wrong with an ultimatum like that.

For if I don't speak up, then I will have shut up. But, if I don't shut up, I will have to have spoken up...

hmmm... what to do...

- Mr. NeoCON

Sergei Andropov said...

Wee,
"To be or not to be, that is the question."

I was going to translate a little more, but after that the sentence structure becomes real complicated real fast, and, in any case, it's been several years since I last studied Esperanto.

RalphyFan said...

Ah, Konpervo, there you are. I figured it was time to give you a choice that you couldn't lose for a change. Or is that "couldn't win"?

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Anyway, just remember, whenever you tire of the ridicule thrown at you on ThinkProgress, you're always welcome here for more...

RalphyFan said...

The hell you have, Konpervo. That's like pouring a couple of tons of manure on the floor and saying "Hey, look, I turned the house into a garden!"

All you provide there or here is fodder for us smart kids to laugh at.

Also, Marvel Comics called. They want their exclamation points back. You're over quota.

Anonymous said...

MwAhAHAHhaHAhahHAhahaHA!!!!!!!!!!

HAVE YOU BEEN TO TP LATELY!!!!!!!

IT IS GOING DOWN!!!!!

THEN I WILL FOCUS ON NH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHHAHAHAHahHAhHAhahAhHHAhAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!

- Mr. President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Your inability to post on the Newshounds Off-Topic Forum must really chap your ass, eh, Ralph-servo-P?

You're like a battery-operated poodle that keeps walking into the sides of a display box at the KB Toys outlet store, imagining it's getting somewhere. All the rest of us see you for the brainless automaton you are.

M.R.F said...

I could handle the Mark Foley/Koservo tryst, but the image of Koservo cleaning Ralph's finger and toenails with haunt me for weeks and make me burp/puke. Thanks a lot!

RalphyFan said...

Konpervo! Amazingly, ThinkProgress soldiers onward despite your trollery. You "own" absolutely nothing, it seems.

Make good and turn your ire on NewsHounds, as threatened. The main Blog and the Off-Topic both eagerly await your assault. Post there or be branded the coward that you are.

Meanwhile...what IS it between you and Ralph, hmm?

Nice, cozy little tryst, perhaps? Or is one of you blackmailing the other over some kind of nasty neocon scandal?

Or it may be some kind of bizarre internal personality disorder that makes you talk to yourself.

Yeah. That must be it.