• February 15, 2012

A couple of weeks ago the McCain campaign launched “Citizens for McCain,” an initiative headed by anarchist Sen. Joe Lieberman and designed to woo disenchanted Democrats towards WALNUTS! Let’s put that in better perspective: a Democratic-caucusing Senator and former Democratic vice presidential candidate is literally leading the effort to bleed the Democratic party to death. But Grampa Joe is not alone! Over the weekend, the McCain campaign released a list of 30 “prominent Democratic and unaffiliated leaders and activists who have joined ‘Citizens for McCain.’” One of the Important Leaders on the list is “Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Frye (West Virginia).” It turns out that this “Philip” — pictured here — prefers “Icky” over his Christian name, and ran for governor of West Virginia as a Democrat, as a stunt, to piss off Governor Bob Wise, who was sleeping with his wife. Joe Lieberman should just quit now, because he won’t find any Democratic leaders more Prominent than this guy.

Frye’s so prominent, in fact, that the Daily Show traveled to West Virginia to mock him in 2003:

As you can see, Frye doesn’t go bragging about his high ranking within the Democratic party. He’s charmingly modest, such as when he tells the Daily Show, “I’m not qualified to run our great state, or have any hopes whatsoever of winning an election.” What a peach!

The nosy Charleston Gazette asked the McCain campaign to comment about Frye’s inclusion on this list, as if Frye’s one-time campaign “to be a sheer nuisance to Bob Wise” for fucking his wife wasn’t good enough for Prominent status:

Jeff Sadoski, a spokesman for the national McCain campaign, said Monday, “This is a list of people who are known in different states, as Democrats or independents. They include elected officers and leaders in the Democratic Party. They were prominent Democrats.”

Sadowski said Frye was “someone who has run statewide as a Democrat.”

Asked how the McCain campaign chose people to put on the list of “prominent” supporters, Sadowski said, “We did research. We reviewed them.”

According to hearsay, Lieberman is now hard at work recruiting Ed Hale for an official position, as some sort of blockbuster follow-up to Frye.

Know Hope.

Meet “Prominent” McCain Supporter Philip “Icky” Frye [Raging Red]
‘Prominent Democrat’ Frye on McCain list of backers [Charleston Gazette]

{ 72 comments }

ronaldpagan June 17, 2008 at 5:17 pm

Fancy seeing West Virginia here!

El Bombastico June 17, 2008 at 5:17 pm

Who’s Bender supporting?

Count Snarkula June 17, 2008 at 5:17 pm

My eyes! My eyes!

XOMuffintop June 17, 2008 at 5:17 pm

This is so good it has to be fattening….

guerilla-nation June 17, 2008 at 5:18 pm

given their recent track record of vetting endorsements and fundraisers, i can only imagine who they choose for vpotus! vermin supreme? ted haggard?

AnnieGetYourFun June 17, 2008 at 5:18 pm

I’m afeerd that I prefer “Icky” over my Christian name, too. And my elite liberal Muslim one.

SayItWithWookies June 17, 2008 at 5:19 pm

Hell yeah he’s a prominent Democrat — wasn’t he the old guy in Quest for Fire?

liquiddaddy June 17, 2008 at 5:19 pm

Don’t offend him by offering food. Merely, place the sandwich on top of the refuse can nearby, so he knows its there, and then leave without saying good bye.

shortsshortsshorts June 17, 2008 at 5:19 pm

I’m sure getting Libtards to support WALNUTS will be very easy when his own party struggles to back his ass. This should provide for pure, unadulterated entertainment.

ManchuCandidate June 17, 2008 at 5:21 pm

Frye looks too much like the Tow truck driver from Harold and Kumar Goes to White Castle.

If his wife looks anything like Malin Ackerman then I can understand why the gov would want to bang her, but if she looks like her hubby then it must be super slim pickings in West Virginnie.

shortsshortsshorts June 17, 2008 at 5:24 pm

[re=18309]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: (internet trolls are of course excluded from this estimate, but they are illegitimate-swine anyway).

AnnieGetYourFun June 17, 2008 at 5:24 pm

[re=18311]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I WAS JUST going to say that.

WIDTAP June 17, 2008 at 5:24 pm

[re=18296]El Bombastico[/re]: Damn you Bombasto – you got there before me.

Can I at least have credit for calling him a Frye-hole?

TGY June 17, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Only the creme rises to the top. That and other things that float.

AnnieGetYourFun June 17, 2008 at 5:26 pm

OMG, I had actually forgotten that Lil Joe was on the ticket way back when. Jesus Christ on a motherfucking pogostick.

thefrontpage June 17, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Why is Steven Wright supporting McCain and using an alias?

shortsshortsshorts June 17, 2008 at 5:26 pm

[re=18311]ManchuCandidate[/re]: She’s quite a looker…

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafauqu2/Marshall/FryeMA.jpg

The Station Manager June 17, 2008 at 5:27 pm

I liked Philip J Fry better in Futurama.

AngryBlakGuy June 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm

…WoW Gallagher has really lost it!

http://www.juneauempire.com/images/051806/13659_500.jpg

AngryBlakGuy June 17, 2008 at 5:31 pm

[re=18328]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: …and its nice to see Boss Hog has finally found work after the “Dukes of Hazard”!

http://wonkette.com/400539/meet-john-mccains-most-prominent-democratic-supporter

WadISay June 17, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Is this guy going to give the keynote address in Saint Paul?

RaptorAvatar June 17, 2008 at 5:32 pm

[re=18311]ManchuCandidate[/re]: The pickings actually tend to be obese. I had to move away for college before I started seeing girls I had any desire to lose my virginity to.

InsidiousTuna June 17, 2008 at 5:33 pm

[re=18311]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Dammit. Beat me to it.

graceless June 17, 2008 at 5:33 pm

Why do people make fun of West Virginians?

StrangelyBrown June 17, 2008 at 5:37 pm

[re=18336]graceless[/re]: That’s the first line of a joke, right?

NotUrEvryDayWEzl June 17, 2008 at 5:38 pm

[re=18296]El Bombastico[/re]: [re=18316]WIDTAP[/re]: Does this mean McCain is the Professor? The problem, however, arises when we remember that Richard M. Nixon’s head is still President of Earth.

graceless June 17, 2008 at 5:39 pm

[re=18338]StrangelyBrown[/re]: See video.

StrangelyBrown June 17, 2008 at 5:41 pm

There are certainly a lot of “formers” on Lieberman’s list. Funny, I thought the unemployed tended to stay true Democrats.

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/241fb6c6-83a5-4f29-80bc-26ee9e277a94.htm

SuperRounder June 17, 2008 at 5:42 pm

When is WALNUTS! getting Mary Carey’s endorsement?

Godless Liberal * June 17, 2008 at 5:42 pm

By that logic, Stephen Colbert is both a prominent Democrat and prominent Republican.

edgydrifter June 17, 2008 at 5:44 pm

[re=18311]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Sadly, she does not. Being of solid Roman stock, she has a very prominent rudder. Some guys get all hot over that. She does have a full set of choppers, though, which must make her quite the novelty in Wes Virjinny.

http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/images/Angela_Mascia-Frye/Angela_Mascia-Frye_0001.jpg

Paste it into your browser. I friggin’ through with all the href crap.

Quacker June 17, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Ted Nugent has really let himself go…..

Truculent June 17, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Two things: 1). I want to see Mrs. Icky. ‘Cause unless Icky’s let himself go the last few years, Mrs. Icky must be quite a sight. 2). We we to descend into his basement, we would finid more firearms than a national guard armory, thousands of rounds of ammo, food and water for a year, and at least five kilos of hydroponic dope. In short, he’s every Republican’s dream

edgydrifter June 17, 2008 at 5:48 pm

[re=18346]edgydrifter[/re]: Oooo! hyperlinks work otto-mattikly! Tarnation, don’t that beat all.

PioBaroja June 17, 2008 at 5:51 pm

We always wondered about Icky’s collection of children’s shoes…Also, this is from a state that Dick Cheney makes fun of, for chrissakes. Note that we have not yet seen the Zell Miller endorsement.

Truculent June 17, 2008 at 5:52 pm

When we, sted “we we” as sent

guerilla-nation June 17, 2008 at 5:57 pm

what’s that third eye on david crosby’s forehead?

GlennBecksTaint June 17, 2008 at 5:57 pm

God does not make mistakes

mookworthjwilson June 17, 2008 at 5:57 pm

[re=18346]edgydrifter[/re]: A) That’s quite a catch for Icky
B) When did Icky move out of Val Kilmer’s buddy’s closet??

mookworthjwilson June 17, 2008 at 6:04 pm

“Ms. Mascia-Frye worked as the director of European operations for the West Virginia Development Office.” What the hell is WV sending to Europe? Bizarro incest porn???

FunkyPalmettoBug June 17, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Meh…I’d trust him more than Liebermann.

Servo June 17, 2008 at 6:04 pm

THIS is what happens when you grow vegetables in human fecal matter. Heed the warning, communes!

problemwithcaring June 17, 2008 at 6:05 pm

I use to intern for Bob Wise and beside that whole tendency to fuck other people’s spouse while he himself was married, and, of course, not managing to secure enough political clout to govern effectively, well, lemme tell ya, he is a pretty great guy!

He had the best West Virginia jokes too, and a penchant for the repeating the phrase “don’t want to shoot our load” at every opportunity without the slightest hint that he knew what it meant. I found it endearing, but that’s the type of person I am.

FunkyPalmettoBug June 17, 2008 at 6:05 pm

[re=18365]mookworthjwilson[/re]: I know someone who’s worked in that office for years. Basically, they try to talk Euro companies into balance of tax breaks vs dealing with the inhabitants.

Canuckledragger June 17, 2008 at 6:05 pm

So, am I correct to infer that West Virginia Governor Bob Wise has been banging Nadine?

legglaw June 17, 2008 at 6:06 pm

OMG, the Dems are so screwed: According to the list Mendenhall City Clerk Judi May (Mississippi) is one of the prominent Democrats supporting McCain. How can Obama hope to overcome such heavyweight support for Ms. Iseman’s boy-toy?

snig June 17, 2008 at 6:11 pm

Definition of “prominent”
Adjective
1. standing out from the surroundings; noticeable

He is certainly prominent. I can’t imagine the crowd where he blends. I really don’t want to imagine the crowd where he blends.

The supporters are all formers because they used to be somebodies, now they’re just bitters.

sarcasticusername June 17, 2008 at 6:21 pm

umm i think i love this guy! how long till he’s out stumping for mccain?

Cape Clod June 17, 2008 at 6:23 pm

[re=18305]SayItWithWookies[/re]: No, you have to go back farther. I think he was one of the younger family members in the original ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’.

shortsshortsshorts June 17, 2008 at 6:27 pm

George Bluth Sr. is apparently still a fugitive.

greenbird June 17, 2008 at 6:35 pm

sweethearts, it’s just politics. it’s rough, be tough.
better now?

slavojzizek June 17, 2008 at 6:43 pm

Between this guy, Joe Lieberman, and Hillary supporters for McCain, I am getting confused. Are these strategems of the McCain camp to get Democrats to vote for him, or plants by Obama people to make McCain’s campaign look stupid? The latter makes slightly more sense.

Canuckledragger June 17, 2008 at 7:05 pm

[re=18412]slavojzizek[/re]: See, because you’re a typical male, you’re not just “thinking” about this, but “over-thinking.” In trawling around the inert-tubes, I’ve discovered the secret of what’s happening. It was spelled out for me by a blogger who goes by the handle “Violet Socks,” and here’s how she managed to change my entire world-view:

“What I love so much about this comment is that it was clearly designed by men to appeal to what they think women want. It’s like those web themes “designed for women” that look like boxes of douche — all pink and lavender with pictures of flowers on them. See, women don’t think; we feel. We emote. We listen to Hillary’s voice and pay attention to what we feel she’s feeling. And then we go right out and buy that douche so we, too, can feel feminine and fresh.”

And that’s why so many of them will vote for McCain. “See, women don’t think…. we go right out and buy that douche.”

Visit: http://www.reclusiveleftist.com./ just for shits and giggles. Perhaps it’ll change your world-view too.

shortsshortsshorts June 17, 2008 at 7:08 pm

[re=18412]slavojzizek[/re]: Nothing makes sense. Nothing at all. That’s why ‘merica’s here.

[re=18425]Canuckledragger[/re]: The Canadian cannot understand this!!! Damn you Canadian and your articulate use of misleading double-negatives!!!!
Next you’ll be speaking in iambic pentameter.

PeteJayhawk v2.0 June 17, 2008 at 7:55 pm

But is the icky…sticky?

kudzu June 17, 2008 at 8:16 pm

What the hell is the matter with Connecticut? Why is Lieberman still around? Answer me, people; you insurance-selling folk. Why did you vote for Joe Lieberman instead of Ned Lamont? What are you, actuarially insane? Don’t you see that such a policy is laden with risk and impossible to underwrite?

crookedE June 17, 2008 at 8:23 pm

[re=18296]El Bombastico[/re]: Nixon’s head in a jar, obvs.
[re=18374]snig[/re]: Well, he does have a prominent forehead.

DoctorCulturae June 17, 2008 at 10:01 pm

[re=18425]Canuckledragger[/re]: I guess the worldview-shattering process described is aided by this device:

http://fascistpsychlaws.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/hillary_tinfoil_hat.jpg

DangerousLiberal June 17, 2008 at 10:06 pm

Dear McCain campaign:

You know, “opposition research” means that we are supposed to do the digging up of your wackiness so we can use it for our campaign.

But thanks for doing it for us. It frees us up to research how you flip-flop on every major issue like a freshly piked halibut.

Carry on.

Your friend,

Barack “Barry” Obama

p.s. Lovely sale on green backdrops at the second hand campaign store these days….

shortsshortsshorts June 17, 2008 at 10:16 pm

[re=18548]DangerousLiberal[/re]: WALNUTS is easier to slime than a ghoul out of “The Ghostbusters.”

KTHXBAI June 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm

My favorite West Virginia story ever…

I was working Customer Service and a customer was mad I couldn’t reconnect her account without a credit or debit card on file. When I told her I couldn’t override it, she said she didn’t have a bank account, and was going to have all her friends cancel as well, because none of them have bank accounts either.

WEST VIRGINIA: We have money orders!

Uncle Al June 17, 2008 at 10:45 pm

Did I miss it or has nobody made any Bozo the Clown cracks?

WonkaBee June 17, 2008 at 11:28 pm

[re=18346]edgydrifter[/re]: Aw, it’s a cute big-ol’ nose!

gurukalehuru June 18, 2008 at 1:00 am

Hell,there’s only 30 on the list, we should have make-funnery on each and every one. This could be a series.

Inadequate Blackmail June 18, 2008 at 1:59 am

I didn’t read the article. I just like seeing my name here. Makes me feel famous.

vicuna June 18, 2008 at 8:01 am

Ha ha… West Virginians can’t even spell “Houston”.

Mista Eko June 18, 2008 at 11:12 am

Better put that guy back in Cryosleep

stinkhairstu June 18, 2008 at 2:11 pm

He’s always looking for that I.C. Wiener.

Slutty_Chola_Cobbler June 18, 2008 at 8:26 pm

If that is what Phil Frye looks like, I can only imagine how cute his wife is..

Matthew Crunt June 19, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Knock it off! What do you think you’d look like if you were strained through a sheet?

Matthew Crunt June 19, 2008 at 2:34 pm

[re=20245]Matthew Crunt[/re]: Actually, he was carried around in some crack whores mouth for three hours!

nbawriter June 26, 2008 at 9:35 pm

For those curious, here are the results from that Dem primary in West Virginia:

Joe Manchin 149,362 52.7
Lloyd Jackson 77,052 27.2
Jim Lees 40,161 14.2
Lacy Wright, Jr 4,963 1.8
Jerry Baker 3,009 1.1
James Baughman 2,999 1.1
Phillip “Icky” Frye 2,892 1.0
Louis Davis (the dude featured in the Daily Show report) 2,824 1.0

Way to stick it to him, Icky!

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