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Sprightly Forest Creature QUITS Latest Race Against Bachmann

Ancient mysterious woodland elf Elwyn Tinklenberg, Jesus-envoy to Minnesota’s freshwater meth hellscape, has dropped his latest (third?) bid to kill Michele Bachmann, politically, in 2010. He enjoyed a few days as America’s #1 guy in 2008 when it looked like he could’ve picked off Bachmann in the eleventh hour after she went nuts, as usual, but in an instance when people were actually paying attention. But fear not, liberal sallies! The chivalrous Elwyn quitteth only to avoid an ugly primary fight with a certain Tarryl Clark, who is… let’s see here… oooooh, a lady-person. Hello miss lady who could easily be Michele Bachmann’s younger sister! [TPM]


2:57 PM on Tue August 4 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. teebob2000 says at 2:59 pm, August 4th, 2009

    I’d hit it!

    Her box, I mean.

    IN the voting booth!!! Jeez.

  2. Atheist Nun says at 3:00 pm, August 4th, 2009

    “OK You Fuckers, I’m Going To Tinkle Now…” -George Carlin

  3. Bearbloke says at 3:02 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Lame, doncha know…

  4. ManchuCandidate says at 3:04 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Far well thee well, Tinklenberg. Elvish for Don Quixote.

  5. Jerk Cade says at 3:04 pm, August 4th, 2009

    What’s with the names on these people?

  6. S.Luggo says at 3:05 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Clark was born on Oahu. She’s fucked.

  7. nappyduggs says at 3:06 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Her name is Tarryl and her office is on Rev. MLK bullie?

    Oooo, chile. How ignominious would Bachmann’s defeat be at the hands of Wiggerwoman?

  8. Come here a minute says at 3:07 pm, August 4th, 2009

    This is my sister Tarryl, and my other sister Tarryl. (It’s a reference, people!)

  9. SayItWithWookies says at 3:08 pm, August 4th, 2009

    This is why our shy woodland brethren will never rule the earth. That and we can’t say their names without laughing.

  10. x111e7thst says at 3:08 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Tarryl Tinklenberg. It doth fall tripplingly from the toung.

  11. vitira says at 3:09 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Good. Tinklenberg sucks. I knew people who worked for his campaign and said it was incompetent, from the top down.

    Also @Sluggo: Bachmann was born on Mars, at least, so what’s your point? WHERE IS HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE?!

  12. donner_froh says at 3:09 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Tarryl Clark is cute in a wholesome midwestern way but lacks the insane edge that makes Michelle so attractive if you are also sick/crazy.

  13. ManchuCandidate says at 3:09 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Come here a minute:
    Larry approves!

  14. orange says at 3:10 pm, August 4th, 2009

    The crazy is too strong with Bachmann. I fear she will never be defeated.

  15. HomoPolitico says at 3:11 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Lets take a look at ‘lil miss Dumbocrat islamofacsict:
    YWCA of Maricopa County, Program Coordinator = lesbian
    Minnesota Community Action Association, Executive Director = community organizer
    Land of Lakes Girl Scout Council, Affirmative Action Office/Human Relations Director = superduper double lesbian

    Srsly though, I’m torn. Boring, if vaugely MILFy nice democrat lady with solid experience in the institutions and work force involved in issues of childcare and education? Or the one warning us about the ACORN Census death camps?

  16. Scandalabra says at 3:12 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Tinkerbelle, we hardly knew ye.

  17. hockeymom says at 3:13 pm, August 4th, 2009

    I’d have to know whether or not she read Nancy Drew as a child before casting my vote.

  18. dedalus says at 3:18 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Lake Woebegon supports the Gentleman’s Reasoned Tinkling and Prudent Foreskin

  19. bitchincamaro says at 3:19 pm, August 4th, 2009

    I want my fifty smackers back. Still.

  20. Mahousu says at 3:20 pm, August 4th, 2009

    HomoPolitico: Land of Lakes Girl Scout Council
    So she’s just a pawn in the (greasy) clutches of Big Butter. Mmm, butter.

  21. thursdaynext27 says at 3:20 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Damn. I was looking forward to sending him another contribution. After that crazy-ass rant of hers last fall about investigating un-American activities in Congress, I donated to the Tinklenberg campaign even though my only connection to the district is that my sister graduated from St. Cloud State.

  22. Anita Cocktail says at 3:23 pm, August 4th, 2009

    She’s so wholesome looking! And nice touch, what with the Christian cross around her neck in the publicity photo — she’s no Muslin, nor is she some Druidic, sylvan woodland Wiccan-Jew either…too bad she forgot the flag pin.

  23. Scarab says at 3:25 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Goodbye Michelle, you can join Rick Santorum at history’s crackpot table.
    One day you’ll simply be the answer to a trivia question.

  24. GreatOldOnesParty says at 3:26 pm, August 4th, 2009

    To minimize the damage to the rest of our great country, we should just nominate Bachmann as the batshit insane God-Empress of the People’s Theocratic Republic of Holy Minnesota.

  25. coastingdownhill says at 3:28 pm, August 4th, 2009

    You have to give the guy some credit to have gotten through life this far with a name like Ellie Tinkleberg.

    I probably would be still been living in my Mom’s basement watching Beavis and Butthead reruns.

  26. Don Juanquete says at 3:31 pm, August 4th, 2009

    nappyduggs: sports a nice cross around the neck. Too.

  27. GreatOldOnesParty says at 3:31 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Elwyn Tinklenberg…
    lamest D&D character name EVAR!

  28. jodyleek says at 3:35 pm, August 4th, 2009

    orange: No kidding. The 6th district is populated by right wing crazies, Nazi sympathizers, abortion opponents, and backward white trash. They see in Bachmann a kindred spirit. Truly frightening. But, I am looking forward to the forthcoming cat fights.

  29. hobospacejunkie says at 3:35 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Tinklenberg — no longer the word.

  30. kdaddy says at 3:36 pm, August 4th, 2009

    When push comes to shove, the tinkling Berg, having made his mark(and a fistfull of cash),
    curtsies to the crowd and piddles into the shadows.

  31. S.Luggo says at 3:40 pm, August 4th, 2009

    In first paragraph, see first four words after “Clark”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarryl_Clark
    She’s double-fucked.

    Also, TC was an Episcopal youth minister, a.k.a. agent for the Great Whore of Babylon.

  32. Tarryl’s senate office is on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. I find that highly interesting. I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with that, only that it is interesting.

  33. Cape Clod says at 3:44 pm, August 4th, 2009

    C’mon, nobody realy wants Bachmann to be voted out of office. Who could we count on to reliably bring the crazy?

  34. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:45 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Not again! He always loses. Let’s get someone to run against the crazy lady with a cool name like Stig or Thumper.
    Tinklenburg, meh.

  35. Todd Mecklem says at 3:53 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Let’s run Tuli Kupferberg against Bachmann next. That’ll *really* fug her up.

  36. finallyhappy says at 3:53 pm, August 4th, 2009

    thursdaynext27: My only connection to him before contributing was that I was once in Minnesota.

  37. tiny mexican says at 3:58 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Tarryl Clark is a feisty lady. She won’t be as amusingly enchanting in a woodland way, bu she once called Bachmann a devil in a blue dress - she will provide some entertainment.

  38. CorkPopper says at 4:03 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Anita Cocktail: Yeah, that cross necklace was the very first thing this godless east coast elitist noticed. It would be totally out of bounds here but I’m sure it will go over great in Bachmann’s district. Go Tarryl!

  39. GreatOldOnesParty says at 4:07 pm, August 4th, 2009
  40. schvitzatura says at 4:10 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Elwyn will diminish, and go into the West Iron Range, and remain Tinklenburg.

  41. schvitzatura says at 4:14 pm, August 4th, 2009

    errr, -berg, A Methodist Sindar elf, with a Jew surname…

  42. AnnieGetYourFun says at 4:16 pm, August 4th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: The ears, though. I love me some pointy ears. Not enough to attend Comicon or anything.

  43. assistant/atlas says at 4:20 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Cape Clod: Uh…the rest of the Republicans?

    But seriously, if we must lose someone as reliably entertaining as Bachmann, at least she’ll be replaced by a reasonably hot, potentially-feisty-in-a-Minnesota-sort-of-way woman who seems like she might know what she’s doing.

  44. EdFlinstone says at 4:22 pm, August 4th, 2009

    The key question for Tarryl, from religious fundies in upper Minnesota, would have to be, would she let her children watch sorcery promoting disney film Aladdin?

  45. schvitzatura says at 4:23 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Any Lutherans willing to slay Grendel Bachmannster? You’d be third in line, after a quitter Methodist dryad and Episcopalian Tracy Flick.

    Davy (and Goliath) for Minn. 6th in 2010 (cue Ein’ feste Burg)!

  46. EdFlinstone says at 4:29 pm, August 4th, 2009

    assistant/atlas: Virginia Foxx is a rising star in the batshit crazy world. If she can take her “the guvmit gonna kill granny” to the next level, I think she can make the all-pro wingnut team, possibly MVP. Jean Schmidt is over due for a break out season. Take her in all keeper leagues.

  47. artbot2000 says at 4:30 pm, August 4th, 2009

    assistant/atlas: Why all the fear about losing Michelle Bachman? Do you seriously think she’d leave town? No indeedy — you’d be losing a nutty congressthing and gaining a (superfluous, but entertaining) blogger and lunch regular at the gubmint-in-exile table at Enterprise.

  48. Good luck, Tinkles!

  49. martinette says at 4:50 pm, August 4th, 2009

    momus: Michelle Bachmann’s office was on the same street when she was in the MN legislature, too. What’s SHE hiding????: http://web.archive.org/web/20050405192115/www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/members/bios/sendis52.htm

  50. zhubajie says at 7:20 pm, August 4th, 2009

    Jerk Cade: Minnesota is full of Germans and Scandihoovians. Don’t you listen to Prairie Home Companion?

  51. zhubajie says at 7:23 pm, August 4th, 2009

    GreatOldOnesParty: Probably she’s been elected to get her out of the state, like the congressman from Dogpatch, AR.

    Zhu Bajie

  52. dogscantlookup says at 2:21 am, August 5th, 2009

    Minnesota’s freshwater meth hellscape, or as we say in Minnesota, put the chickin in de pot bork bork bork!

  53. dogscantlookup says at 2:41 am, August 5th, 2009

    stop brutalizing us square heads Jim!

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