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This is how far the Republican party has fallen: just a short time ago its leaders were a swaggering Texan who vowed to bomb the living shit out of any nation that dared to look at us sideways, and a vampirical warlock who practiced his dark arts from the basement of the Naval Observatory. Now the party has no leaders and they are scared witless by the innocuous and mild-mannered new DNC chairman.
Tim Kaine, really! This guy is about as frightening as a junior high school guidance counselor, or a reference librarian. And yet Republicans quake in their boots:
Since Kaine will be a constant and close adversary, a sparring partner on the Sunday political talk shows and a competitor for the attention of the public and the press, the notion that the next RNC chair must be an effective communicator is gaining traction among some party members.
Given Kaine’s profile as a sitting governor and a one-time contender for the vice presidency, Republicans say their new chairman will have to show some serious presence on the air – fast.
OOOOH YES, Tim Kaine is a scary, scary man! He has a working-class haircut and everything!
The real problem for the Republican party, as they search for their next chairman, is that they have no choices except a buffoon who comments on Fox, a buffoon who used to run Ohio, a buffoon who has already been running the party badly for a year, and a couple of nobodies who are also, presumably, buffoons.
Kaine pick sends ripples across RNC [Politico]
The RNC has a treasure trove of effective communicators. They seem to get their point across quite easily in men’s restrooms and with underage congressional pages.
This is all so rich, I am almost choking on my mirth.
Because of Tim Kaine they have to find an effective communicator? WTF? Isn’t that basic in this kind of job. Were they considering the appointment of deaf mute?
Sarah Palin for next RNC Chairman - it’s a whistl…um, whisper campaign….
The US Air pilot who just saved all those nice people from dying — by any chance a Republican? If he’s also a racist, Muslin-hating homosexualist, he could be a good draft.
The GOP also despises Franken, occasional diaper-wearing comedian:
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/91959/3/Why_the_right_hates_Al_Franken
If Barbara Jordan was still around they’d all have to hide in Alaska.
Maybe I should apply for the job. I’m kinda smart, presentable, from a staunch Republican background (heck, my mama swaddled me in Pat Nixon’s cloth coat, so to speak, on the way home from the hospital). I’m a fiscal conservative, so that’s good. A family man, two kids in private school, my wife is nice looking, and our obvious physical attraction for each other plus my manly hobbies of woodworking and mechanicking gives me heterosexual bonafides…
Shoot. I just disqualified myself, didn’t I?
This is terribly interesting,…but cant we get back to talking about that God Dam Plane? and our national hero Chelsie Jesus Scully McSully whatever the 4th?
I say they select one of the mensa members that currently speak for the RNC; Coulter, Rush, Hannity or O’Lilley…
…the notion that the next RNC chair must be an effective communicator is gaining traction among some party members.
The days of “communicating” via a shotgun blast to the face are over.
Hey now, reference librarians live for danger! We deal with hobos on a daily basis, do story hours for hordes of squalling preschoolers, and we teach nimrods like Karl Rove how to use Twitter. And that’s just before lunch!
Wait - they’re just realizing they need an effective communicator?
Or is that just Politico’s shitty, mind-numbingly obvious reporting?
Or both?
Hmm!?!
Lascauxcaveman: You sir, are no Republican.
To be fair, his teeth scare me.
Turns out there are witnesses to their crimes.
Amazing Gov. Kaine found a barber who could do the “jimmy hoffa.”
What have you lot got against buffoons? Are you racist or something?
Anyone named Joe will do. Scab-burrow, JtP, Lieberfish….
undermedicated: He lives in the Bay area–probably not a Republican, but you never know. He does have a lot of damn names & numbers behind it (Sullenberger III or some such.)
They spent too many years highlighting their understanding of rural voters and JUST NOW realized that grunts and blank stares are not forms of communication in the real world.
Why do I picture the next RNC meeting as a bunch of dirty hillbillies vainly trying to communicate via a tin can with a string on the end? Christ, these fuckers can’t figure out how to use the internets worth a damn and now they can’t manage to figure out they need a chairman who’s an effective communicator? Are they actually devolving before our very eyes?
Every time I see him, I think of Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss. Hard to take this guy seriously, much less fear him. Pussy Republicans.
They’re scared of his sekrit superpower. He is able to deflect the ricochet of the bullets Republicans use to shoot themselves in the foot.
queeraselvis v 2.0:
Ya beat me to it!
Librarians are the secret masters of the universe.
Awwwww come on SKS, why the hate? Tim Kaine is kind of likable in that nice middle aged way, with the eyebrow and the bad teeth and the smile-with-your-eyes wrinkles. Is it just me? I guess. Ugh.
Anyway, I heard Howard Dean is looking for a new job. Maybe the Republicans can lock him up and make him listen to tapes of Rahm and Barry laughing about that LOSER Howard, until he snaps and switches over to the dark side.
I almost (almost) feel sorry for the Republicans. They obviously had no plan for the future AT ALL. I mean when your core values are about keeping people poor, ignorant, and hateful, you’re eventually not going to have a decent person to run the party.
Thing is: there are plenty of credible conservatives who communicate well and can carry on an intelligent and well-reasoned debate. The problem is they won’t be allowed to chair the RNC because the Palin fanatics will have nothing to do with that fancy elitist ‘intelligence’ crap.
Communicating is elitist.
Great, this means I’m going to have to listen to Peggy Nooners tell that goddamn joke about his haircut again.
IOW, they want someone who can speak contemporaneously without referring to a large picture of a dead fetus, and who won’t say “homersekshuls” every ninth word.
And where was my Wonkette Peggy Nooners post. Was her shit not batty enough for you today?
heroinmule: She may have swooned over meeting Obama and is still on her fainting couch.
What about that Blackman dude? I thought they would use the Snowbilly “strategy”:
Da Dems wants a womin, lets find em a womin; Da Dems wants a negroz, lets find dem a negroz. they iz all da same, we can fool them libs good, real good
Why don’t they pick Tom Kaine? They would increase positive press coverage 30% purely via the typo.
WTF is a ripple across the GOP anyway? Is that some kind of euphemism for buttsecks with male children? Sickos.
freakishlystrong: Anybody else share the creepy feeling aroused by Coulter’s voice, which is that of the rich spoiled sorority girl who’s just found out she’ll have to wait 20 minutes to get her prescription filled?
j6n: That is actually a brilliant idea. They’ll never go for it.
How about a Puma? Anyone want a Puma? They have great leadership and organizational and legal abilities?
“Dawson suggested … Gov. Sarah Palin as [an] example of the [spokesperso] the party could use to counteract the ascendant Democratic message machine.”
The machine responds, “Oh noes! Pulleeez not her. Me be good now.”
“The notion that the next RNC chair must be an effective communicator is gaining traction among some party members.”
Slowly, horrifyingly, it dawns on the GOP masses that a basic competence for doing the job for which you are hired may indeed need to be part of the job criteria … Total panic ensues; rioting, shredding of expensive clothing, minor fires and mass release of typing monkeys follows.
Hey, my Jr. High guidance counselor was very fuckin scary!
Not just buffoons, but likely child-fuckers as well.
Which of those buffoons is Michael Steele? Because a black guy named after a Shaquille O’Neil superhero would blow everybody’s mind.
Suds McKenzie: Yes, as ‘mericuns we must indulge and maintain our inner911. Da plane! Da plane!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFK1rvL2NoQ
Why don’t they pick Tom Kaine? They would increase positive press coverage 30% purely via the typo.
Do you mean former governor of New Jersey Tom Kean? Because that would be awesome just for the confusion factor, but I think that Kean has washed his hands of the snowbilly Know-Nothing party and become an independent like all the other old-school rich Republicans.
That said, it’s a genius idea. Also, they should run Plaxico Burress against Roland Burris. I think this is an electoral strategy that may work wonders for the Repubs.
Ah yes, my soon to be former governor. Yall don’t understand; Tim Kaine is a big cuddle teddy bear. Hell, when I get lonely at nights I kinda wish I had a Tim Kaine of my very own to curl up with.
It’s his fucking eyebrow that’s scary. That thing looks like it’s gonna jump off his forehead and shiv you with a ground down toothbrush.
the republican party may split into elitist bigoted idiots on one side and idiot bigoted idiots on the other side.
who will get custody of sahara palin?
I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO: The republicans are screwed. Libs dominate the eyebrow wars: Barney Frank, Andy Rooney, Sam Donaldson, etc. Maybe they can recruit Marty Scorsese.
V572625694:
Yes. It’s like you’re reading my mind. Sorry.
please don’t malign buffoons like that. http://www.cubuffoons.net
at least call the repugs FUCKINGBUFFOONS or something to separate the two.
“I’ll press your flesh you dimwitted sumbitch! You don’t tell your Pappy how to court the electorate, we ain’t one-at-a-timin’ here, we’re mass communicatin’!”
Incoming RNC Chairman Menelaus “Pappy” O’Daniel eschewing an opportunity to meet and greet The Soggy Bottom Boys outside station WEZY in Tishomingo, Mississippi
a Pappy aide was over-heard to say, “oh my yes, it’s a powerful new force…
How much in the way of communication skills does one need to simply say, over and over, that the Democrats are un-American? I mean, that’s pretty much the only argument they have left, right?
“…the notion that the next RNC chair must be an effective communicator is gaining traction among some party members.” Obviously, the repugs have only one choice - Caribou Barbie. You betcha! Also!
Is there any way we can get the RNC chair selecting into an online vote? Oh the fun we could have!
WIDTAP: Someone is here besides me. I think that’s a great idea. The wonkeratti would dominate, of course. Wonder who would be our choice. Wonder if the noms would be by online vote. Think of the right wingnuts we could suggest.
WIDTAP: It could be called “Weblogs 2012″. Domain names are not that expensive….
WIDTAP: It could be called “Weblog Awards 2012″. Domain names are not that expensive….
DustBowlBlues: Why, it would be Michelle Malkin! She’s perfect - female, minority, well known to the “readers” of Human Events and World Net Daily (AKA the Repug base), the list goes on and on… Perfect!
From this side of the pond (that’s the big one off the west coast) the train wreck is really worth watching.
Ice Cream Empress: Excellent idea!! Burress against Burris. Genius!!!!