Wonkette
Just a couple of years ago when the Democratic party was in tatters, some bright bulb had the idea to run a bunch of centrist Dems in a variety of Senatorial races and the next thing you know, boom, MAJORITY. The Republicans may have caught onto this trick, because now they are talking about running a bunch of non-wingnut folks such as Tom Ridge and our own hero Charlie Crist. This might be good news for America, but it is certainly terrible news for comedy. [The Hill]
But have they gotten Rush Limbaugh’s approval yet for this move? Because until Rush says “yes” all this idle speculation is just pissing in the wind.
Uh..What color is the sun where Charlie Crist and Tom Ridge are centerists? Really?
Just remember: Freepers, those keepers of the Republican flame, don’t believe this will work. I mean, hey, Rick Santorum won, right, and was HE a moderate!
Centrist fever sounds only slightly less ominous than Swine Flu.
Well, since there are only about a handful of centrist Republicans who have not sold their souls to the American Taliban, I don’t see this as much of a threat. If a good 25-30 percent of the base is outright nutty on social issues, it will be hard to win over enough true centrist to make up for the liberal nutty base.
Rush on the Titanic: “That iceberg is the best thing that ever happened to this ship.”
Well, the anti-gay gatekeepers in the GOP definitely didn’t do their background research/vetting of Charlie Crist. They didn’t even need this picture, just that he was a Pike.
Tom Ridge will never survive the PA GOP primary, so the comedy there is alive and well. Jesus Crist, though, well, it’s Florida, so anything’s possible.
Serolf Divad: Exactly. They shall move to the center over Rush’s dead body. And that’s a hell of a climb. Probably requites pitons and stuff.
Phi Kappa GAY.
Also this picture of manly Charlie tanman makes clown Bachman sad.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3520/3301848241_844d91f098.jpg
so sad.
But the Republicans hatred of moderates - and running them out of their party - the reason Toomey was going to beat Specter and forced the switch. I somehow doubt Ridge will be able to win in that primary once Toomey reminds the base that he’s not a fellow embryo-fetishist.
What happened to good old fashioned GOP “ideas” like Teabagging and Advocating Torture? Surely the party of ideas has some. Right? Right? Right?
So much for eating breakfast.
Chameleons have the ability to change color. Also.
norbizness: They didn’t even need this picture, just that he was
a Pikein a fraternity./corrected
If failed NY Gov. George Pataki and reactionary Rep. Pete King are the other arrows in the GOP quiver, the Democratic target is safe.
Charlie Crist is a Pi Kappa Alpha? I’m a Pike, too. All I can say sbout that is that we know how to party, big time. Our chapter was like the Toga Party in Animal House — all the time.
So maybe Charlie can turn the Republicans around - they definitely need to loosen up…
Toga! Toga! Toga!
bitchincamaro: Carly Fiorina. Also.
If by center you mean between Rush’s legs, then yeah. But I’m not sure a Dominican ladyboy is eligible to run for public office in PA.
hobospacejunkie: You, sir or madame, are on fire today…
Show me a Democratic senator who is not a centrist. Show me a Republican who is not a crazy Neanderthal or fundamentally corrupt.
Instead of internal polling, Tom Ridge will employ a cunningly devised system of color coding to help his primary chances. The fucking douche.
“Hey dudes, how bout we spend less time sucking off preachers and more time sucking off the chamber of commerce!”
Given that the “moderates” have come to be loathed by the base, I don’t see this as much of a threat to the Democrats. Well, Crist might be and there are some others, but with even what passes for the “leadership” seeming to take its orders from kooks ….
Nonsense. Centrist Republicans are still Republicans. The comedy will continue.
queeraselvis v 2.0: “If you like what she did to Hewlett-Packard, you’ll LOVE what she’ll do to the country!”
Good luck with the centrist tolerance!
Why won’t the Republicans just clamp down on their damn cyanide capsules already?
A centrist Republican is one who believes that gay marriage is torture.
4tehlulz: Even if he does, he will be totally punked when we really learn about the fuckup some like to call the DHS.
allainjules: Why do you keep linking that article in multiple threads?
When I was at FSU 20 years ago, that fraternity was shuttered after some unseemly oh …. RAPE.
Nice.
The ‘centrist’ Repubs nearly always vote the party line. The discipline in that party is so intense, it’s no wonder that they patronize dominatrixes. They NEED the discipline.
But yeah, the nutters are determined to purify their party, so I don’t see many psuedo-centrists getting past the gatekeepers. Didn’t they just neuter Michael Steele?
glamourdammerung: He wrote the article (as a ‘citizen journalist’) and is trying to plug it to increase site traffic, I guess? Why here, I have no idea.
Anyway, re: the GOP truly centering itself, hell will freeze over first.
Centrist Fever sounds as exciting as Hot ‘n Spicy French Toast.
Jesus Crist! Did Christ ever take off that Pike shirt when he was in college? I bet that thing reeked to high heaven of man sweat and Ralph Lauren Polo.
I got a centrist fever, and the only prescription is more COWBELL!
I hate to bring this up, but can you see ballsack in that picture or is it my fevered imagination?
“Centrist Fever: Catch It!” Most of us down here in the Land o’ Flowers have figured Charlie’s been a catcher all along…
SayItWithWookies: But, but… Repubs love torture. So a centrist Republican is one that loves gay marriage?
Ridge WAS a centrist. He was actually a nice blue-collar Catholic guy from Erie who was a sarge in Vietnam and lost most of his hearing from being too close to bombing Charlie. He represented a nice blue-collar Catholic district in Congress for years before he was elected as a nice blue-collar Pennsylvania Governor.
Then he became the Homeland Insecurity guy and lost any credibility he had by shilling color-coded threat levels (Mauve, Raspberry, Taupe) and questionably-timed terror alerts. (Christmas! Thanksgiving! Teh 2004 Dem Convention!!!1)
If he gets the GOP nomination for Senate, which is not exactly guaranteed, all his Dem opponent has to do is run about 10,000 ads showing him nobbing with Bush Junior.
Maybe Our Dear Kitty will step in to Crush Crist.
Remember, you can’t spell “pogrom” without G-O-P.
How about running Lincoln Chafee? I’d vote for him if I could!
funkyj: That guy’s adorable. He reminds me of a koala.
I just hope my liberal bastion of Cali - where ignorant bitterz here still inexplicably hate taxes, gays and Mexicans - doesn’t buy into this shit again. The hatred of Gray Davis wrought Ahnuld, and the hatred of Viliaragrossugh could beget 4 years of pretending that Meg Whitman is a politician.
They are going to have to raise some new ones from seed. Is there any left-over Rockefeller frozen sperm?
freakishlystrong: A late reply, but thank you, you are very kind.