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Idaho is nuts! “[Idaho Gov. caniddate Rex] Rammell was speaking to a local Republican group about the state’s wolf hunt, for which hunters must pay for ‘wolf tags.’ An audience member shouted out a question about ‘Obama tags.’ ‘Obama tags? We’d buy some of those,’ Rammell responded.” Haw haw haw. Even more haw-haws on the Twitter, just this afternoon! The longer he drags this out without apologizing, the more likely he is to win a Republican primary in Idaho. [TPM]
He follows 20 people.
One of those people is Ryan Seacrest.
Draw your own conclusions.
SHOOTING PRESIDENTS IS SOOOOOO FUNNY AND NOT SEDITIOUS AT ALL LOL!!! Meanwhile, my name is very evocative of anal sex.
There is no greater a feeling than hunting man, getting man’s phone number and then calling man back two days after the first date.
Welcome to the Land of Continuous Apologies in 140 Characters or Less, governor.
“Everybody knows I come from a long line of Negro Hunters,” Rammell joked.
Is that his porn name?
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Exactly. That’s a name made for gay porn.
Jim: how in hell can you and Ken be so calm? I’m a nervous wreck and I don’t even know SKS.
Or is this whole pregnancy thing just a hoax to score more site visits.
Gah! Everyone knows Idaho hunted their Obamas to extinction years ago anyway! Geez!
Ha! Ha! I think it would be very funny to show up at a Rammell event with a gun, wave it around a lot, and say, “LOL Just kidding!” That would be a real knee-slapper.
Then again, this *is* Idaho, where another of our perennial losing candidates is a guy who legally changed his name to “Pro Life.”
Heh, Rex. You know what’s funny? The Secret Service and the IRS don’t need to buy a permit to hunt you or your constituents for threatening the President…..those bitches have no bag limit.
He has grown tired of hunting Ice-T and only wants to move on to bigger game. Why does our Wonkett hate the Second Amendment and Trig?
Rex Rammell? Come on, Newell, now you’re just making shit up.
If this Rex Rammell is for real, can someone get his home address, info about his family, his daily patterns of moving about etc. and post them on the tubes?
Not that I’m calling for anyone to hurt him. But I’d like to see him whine about his privacy.
lol murder
Gopherit: Digging Deep Vol 7, featuring Rex Rammell
Wow — stay KKKlassy, asshole.
Oh, and if you want to tell him what you think of his sense of humor, his website is http://rexrammell.com/default.aspx — although the “Contact Us” page is mysteriously not accepting input right now.
When I was a little girl (many decades ago), my family drove through Idaho. We were outside of Twin Falls and there were “U.S out of U.N” signs stapled on all the trees in the forest for about 5 miles. I asked my dad what they meant. He started to explain, but my Boston mother turned around, snapped and said to me “Pay no attention to those signs. Silly, ignorant people people live here and with any luck, you will never have to see them again.” And that was the end of THAT conversation.
Haw Haw. When there is nothing left to say, say it with air strikes. Wait, that is just a joke!!
The longer he drags this out without apologizing, the more likely he is to win a Republican primary in Idaho.
And that’s one fundraising appearance Palin won’t back out of.
SayItWithWookies: but his “personal page” is accepting input 24/7!!!!!!! Also, Bob Allen.
Is it just me or are they getting less and less creative?
“Rex Rammer?”
“Yes.”
“You’ll need to come with us.”
“Oh?”
“Yes. Possession of child pornography in the privacy of your home is not a protected activity under Idaho law.”
Also, this Rammell character first came to public attention when he objected to the killing of most of his ranch-raised elk after they escaped into the wild; he’s one of those Idaho wackos who sees all government as Out To Get Him.
I predict considerable hilarity to ensue as he self-destructs.
Rex Rammell used to have a porn ’stache. For realz: http://rexrammell.com/images/kstate.jpg
I just e-mailed RexxY to tell him that I will not be visiting Idaho anytime soon (and I used to live there!)
Eat Maine Potatoes!
That was really appalling. Everyone knows that Obama wouldn’t be good eating: Too much muscle mass and brain.
In contrast, a nice, fat Idaho resident is the definition of what Our Muslum Prezident’s ancestors on the Sandwich Islands called “Long Pig.” A couple of hours over a slow fire, and your typical Coeur d’Alene Republican can be fine meal.
Although, they can be a bitch to clean. Most of the body consists of a massive shitsack, and the anus is where the mouth should be.
Also, you have to set up your blind in an airport men’s room.
Did it ever occur to these stupid motherfuckers that if, God forbid, anything happened to Obama, they’re on the record as hoping this happens?
Wait, they’re stupid motherfuckers. Forget I asked.
Lookie! Even more amusement on the topic of shooting liberals! It is all just in good fun, of course.
Rex is trying to defeat Butch in the primary. Personally I’m rooting for Fido, but if Mr. Whiskers joins the race…. all bets are off.
The Idaho Democratic Party, of course, is up in arms,
Now, TPM is this helpful? Don’t give the righties any ammo. Ooops.
I wonder if Rex has any super good potato recipes?
SayItWithWookies: right, contact page is down, but you can still flood his contributions page with phony $50,000 billz. so let’s do that shall we?
http://rexrammell.com/contribute.aspx
Rex Rammell lists known Frenchman “Alexis de Tocqueville” the author of his favourite quote.
Why does Rex Rammell hate America, and why aren’t American quotes good enough for his homepage?
Can I get a “great white hope” hunting tag??
What a surprise! An LDS guy makes a joke about killing black people. Descendent of Ham, who maybe cornholed his dad, Noah, back there just around the time of the big flood.
How they ( the racists ) can call themselves followers of Christ and then say things like this truly baffles me. I know all about cognitive dissonance and shit, but damn.
#9 on his list of campaign promises, after “deport illegal immigrants” and “lower taxes”:
Remove All Wolves.
Neilist:
I hear you can draw them to you by scattering boy’s underoos and pictures of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone around the site.
Neilist: Now, see, it’s posts like this that make me like you, darn it.
From his bio:
Rex and Lynda have four children. Mandy their oldest represented Idaho in 2003 and 2007 as Miss Idaho Teen USA and Miss Idaho USA. Their son, Jake, is attending the University of Utah. Alexis is 19 and trying to figure out her life and Jessica is a junior in Rexburg. Lynda has been a 5th grade teacher and in 2004 was honored as ‘Teacher of The Year.’
Why is Rex Rammell’s Twitter name “rammellrex”? Was “rexrammell” already taken? Because, seriously, I doubt that.
Is the photoshop jobs he forced some campaign intern to give his website’s campaign photo also a “joke”?
Honey, not even Streisand takes it to those retouching levels.
Clamps: To wit, Alexis (the smart one) is trying to figure out how, if God is a merciful God, she got that racist wingnut tool for a father.
More fun:
“During the summers through high school Rex and his brother Gary had their own business cutting post and poles in the mountains. They worked all week and rode bulls on the weekends.”
They worked hard.
They played hard.
Neilist: Wow. Bravo.
>Alexis is 19 and trying to figure out her life
Is that the secret Idaho code for “fucking random strangers”?
Clamps: So Alexis is Rex Rommell’s Bristol? (Jesus, such WHITE names!).
Rex is fast becoming one of my favorite politicians ever. From his website:
It’s Time To:
Lower Idaho taxes
Eliminate burdensome regulations and programs
Reform Idaho’s welfare system
Move health insurance to Health Savings Accounts
Eliminate ‘No Child Left Behind’
Deport all illegal immigrants
Make English Idaho’s official language
Build nuclear power plants
Remove all wolves
Assert Idaho’s state rights
Fucking wolves.
This from the guy who’s state gave Snowbilly her degree in sports broadcasting after she’d been to 15 beauty schools, technical & community colleges in 5 states. Right…..
Did you guys see the 2008 senate campaign ads on his website?
There’s one called “Monkey Butt” that consists of nothing more than a baboon sticking its fingers up its ass and then smelling them, followed by Rexxx “The Rammer” Rammell doing essentially the same thing.
I’m not even kidding.
I wrote to tell him that was a really good one, and that as an overworked, underpaid TSA employee, I and my co-workers rarely get to hear good jokes. So next time he’s passing through a TSA checkpoint, he should definitely tell that one to everyone who’s working there. You know, out of patriotism. To add a visual in order to make the joke even funnier, he can even show off his gun.
Clamps: A likely story. No one goes from riding bulls on the weekend, to following a cat on twitter. NO ONE. You just know his closest is jammed packed with skeletons. Can’t wait for the leaks.
Gopherit: Check out his “Ten Principles to Govern America”.
#7. He who governs least, governs best.
Clamps: and Jessica is a junior in Rexburg.
I spent the night in Rexburg on a western trip last year. After seeing that the Idaho campus of BYU was there, along with a big Mormon temple (non-Mormons not allowed inside BTW), I looked in the Rexburg phone and found about 20 listings for Mormon churches and maybe 2 or 3 for non-Mormom churches. Also enjoyed the Colonial Terrace Apartments sign, “Approved Housing for Young Ladies.”
It was just a joke, every one knows…
a) the State of Iowa has no jurisdiction as to which coons get a tire necklace…
b) the State of Iowa has no jurisdiction over the coming of the Rapture…
c) the State of Iowa has no jurisdiction over teh funeez…
d) black folks are difficult quarry, especially at night…unless you get them laughing…
e) the State of Iowa has no jurisdictionover me being a vile closeted racist fuckface murdertard…
Why do Republicans insist on attempting to convince others that humor is a part of their lives?
4tehlulz: it’s code for “cavorting with heathens.”
One Yield Regular: Hey, I hear the Dept of Homeland Security is going to (maybe) allow TSA workers to be able to deny passengers from getting on their planes this fall if it looks like they have swine flu. Use your power wisely, kemosabe. But, oh, that would be delicious to deny asswipes from getting onto their planes.
Clamps: Gimme 15 and I’m sure I can find a Tocqueville quote that will irritate him.
Clamps: During the summers through high school Rex and his brother Gary had their own business cutting post and poles in the mountains. They worked all week and rode bulls on the weekends.”
had their own business cutting post and working poles in the mountains. /fixed.
All that work in the mountains must have broken their backs.
AND still more fun: “As a young boy and then to manhood Rex either had a fishing pole or a rifle in his hands.”
Republicans, nominate Rex Rammel NOW for 2012. He has all your qualifications and then some.
Given his business history, I’d have predicted Rammell would be more in favor of hunting farm-raised negroes.
One of the Talking Points Memo article comments posted an email and phone number.
Mr Blifil: Oops, I think you meant Idaho, you awful, awful human.
You know the Obama admin Secret Service agents just drink and cry themselves to sleep every night.
As a Washington state resident we think of Idaho as that creepy drunk mentally deranged cousin who is really best ignored. When Texas finally secedes Idaho can go with them: adios Texaho!
One Yield Regular: Elect Rammell. He Can’t Stop Killing Things.
DoktorZoom: haw haw haw.
neilist isn’t the only libtard who knows how to shoot.
i say bring on the revolution, repuke bitches…
Mr Blifil:
Idaho = Potatoes
Iowa = Corn
4tehlulz: That’s just uncalled for! Her father is in politics, ferchrissakes. The strangers are carefully selected by his campaign staff. What kind of mickey mouse operation do you take this for?
Clamps: “Here and there in the midst of American society you meet with men full of a fanatical and almost wild spiritualism, which hardly exists in Europe. From time to time strange sects arise which endeavor to strike out extraordinary paths to eternal happiness. Religious insanity is very common in the United States.”
He’s just a laugh a minute.
If Obama were Sarah Palin, her lawyers would already be suing.
DoktorZoom: New century, new standards. Free-range is more humane.
Clamps: I’m a lumberjack and I’m O.K.
I hope a wolf rips this fuckers throat. Seriously, have these conservatives no shame? Wolves are apex predators who fulfill a valuable role in the ecosystem. They make great high school mascots and inspirations for Michael J. Fox/Jason Bateman vehicles. And they are fucking majestic, wild, and beautiful. Stop trying to eradicate them and shoot them from planes just because they want to eat Your Pet Goat. Goats are for eating, fucktards. It’s the circle of motherfucking life, and we don’t wanna occupy that top rung all by our lonesome.
well, in fairness, potatoes are really tasty.
You need a hunting tag to catch a slimy fish?
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Did you steal that from Disney’s Lion King? Because when I read your entry, I mentally set it to Phil Collins and Elton John.
I wish a Secret Service agent would show up at his house and slap him silly, even though that action would be pretty redundant.
Gopherit: Damn you! There was no suppressing that snort and now my co-workers suspect that perhaps I’m not actually working.
9.Remove all Canadian wolves from Idaho. The wolves continue to slaughter Idaho’s big game herds, kill and maim livestock and pets, and are dangerous to Idahoans. If Idaho’s mountains are to be safe for people and if our big game herds are to be the envy of the world, the wolves can not stay.
Check that wolf’s passport! Remember don’t kill the American wolves!
There are a lot of places I’ve never visited in the US and I want to keep it that way.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: It’s all an elaborate snowjob, as Rex has difficulty keeping his lupine nature in check.
http://rexrammell.com/images/familybw.jpg
I think we should give the dude a break– he’s just trying to suck up to his constituents and Neo-Nazis love these kind of jokes.
populucious: I think Obama’s secret service agents have probably videotaped farewell messages to their loved ones and filled out living wills by now as they know it’s just a matter of time before one of them has to take a bullet.
Grandpa Cornpants: You know, Idaho is suspiciously close to Canada…
I demand Rex’s long-form birth certificate!
If there were no wolves, where would all the pictures for wolf t-shirts come from?
Larry Craig? Butch Otter? Rex RAMmell? When the hell did Idaho become so damn gay?
“Alexis is 19 and trying to figure out her life…”
$50 says that = Mexican or black boyfriend.
Guppy06: A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville
For just a few.
And Alexis apparently knew Rex Rammell and said, “He was as great as a man can be without morality.”
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Wolves also make great designs on black sweatshirts, and look magnificent when airbrushed onto vans.
How great would a rally of “Lone Wolf” 1984 GMC vans look at a Rexxx “Poles in the Mountains” Rammell rally?
MattP: Wolf boyfriend.
Thank God for Idaho — we already have way too many wingnuts in Southern California. Idaho is nice and far away from almost everything, including the President. If we cherish our freedom, we have to make room for people who have opted out of the 21st century; let’s call the room “Idaho.” Do not begrudge the noble potato, one of nature’s most complete foods even after the ungodly amount of chemicals the big farms spray them with, because it is grown by folks who care not for our century. Trust me as someone who is there: you do not want Idaho emptying out into your neighborhood; encourage all wolf-hating, gun-toting singlebrow wingnuts yearning for the 1840’s to remain in Idaho. It’s a great place for them.
hockeymom: Rex Rammell looks at Elton John’s plump sausage fingers and salivates, wondering if he’ll ever have the courage to ask Mr. John to “play him like a Peeanny.”
snideinplainsight: Yeah, I thought white trash loved them some wolves. Or do they only love wolves if it’s on a t-shirt, sweatshirt, or on a van? What’s next– are they going to demand that we eliminate teary eyed bald eagles?
Mr Blifil: Teen Wolf III: Potato Moon
most Idahoans think this guy is a nutjob. trust.
lawrenceofthedesert: ouch dude. it’s not that bad. i’m from there and I read wonkette. visit Boise. there are plenty of granola liberals there.
I see ol candidate Rammell’s web site has shut down the contact link cause it’s over loaded. I guess there were too many Rextards mailing in what a hiiilarious bigot he is.
Oh Rex, and your comical butt fuckery.
lawrenceofthedesert: Hey! My unibrow and I resent that….
Hooray For Anything: Yep, them ‘memrtive plates goes up in value if’n the critter is extinct.
Tommmcatt: I usually tether a Cub Scout to a tent peg. Something about that uniform on a small boy’s bum draws a Promise Keeper every time. You just need to wait, and have the right rifle.
Gopherit: “Like [me].” Crikey, you need to get out more.
Oh, one more thing: Guys who get “wolf tags” are homos. Utter, flaming, HOMOS.
And “men” who shoot wolves from aircraft [other than as part of a scientifically verified population control project] are Complete Butt Pirates. Absolute Rump Rangers.
[Yeah, yeah, I know that's a mixed message. So shoot me. Or rather, try to shoot me.]
Check out his Web site. He wants to leave all children behind, plus God this, God that, God the other thing. Oh, and the monkeys. Oh please, the MONKEYS! What is it with the closet Nazi gehz and their monkeys?
4tehlulz: They’d be proud of their foresight (kinda like Glenn Beck re the timing of Ted Kennedy’s death).
yeah, yeah… But that doesn’t really help me out. What I really want to know is….
can I bow hunt mexicans in Idaho ??
Der Sleeper: Messicans wearing bows are obviously of teh ghey persuasion and therefore don’t contribute to the gene pool–why ya wanna shoot them?
Der Sleeper: In Idaho, Mexicans are strictly “tag and release”.
Them spuds ain’t gonna pull themselves, ya know?
Yay! Dumb Governors!
While we’re at it, how much crap are we supposed to take from Utah?
Help make #BOYCOTTSUNDANCE trend. Because this:
http://marmel.com/2009/08/utah-says-its-okay-to-discriminate-against-gays-its-time-to-boycott-sundance/
Is FREAKING ridiculous.
Guppy06: Easier to just ask him how accurate Joseph Smith’s Egyptian translations turned out to be.
Butch Otter.
Rex Rammell.
Who would think that Larry Craig would have the least gay-porn-friendly name among elected/candidate GOP? LC sounds like he should be on BurningAngel doing alt-chicks.
& don’t get me started on Helen Chenoweth… But I will say: DC’s largest outdoor gang-bang, all 434 voting House reps, Republican & Democrat, male & female (strapped), going at Helen at the Anacostia shipyard.
Doris Ziffel: Rex Rammel-lama-dong-dong is real. I’m so very proud to come from this part of the world. Rex Rammell of Rexburg. Really.
MattP: These are Mormons, all it takes to get the subtle shaming of a “trying to figure out her life” in a family bio is having once mentioned out loud that you might like to, maybe, listen to a My Chemical Romance album.
lawrenceofthedesert: Please, it’s going to happen anyway. Don’t encourage them. Try working in the university system in this state. It’s god-awful and thankless. We were relieved when BYU-Idaho expanded because the beaming know-nothings finally had a place to go.
On the plus side? 95K will buy you decent house a half a mile from work. And there is Canadian weed. So basically, the university of idaho is the place to be. Sarah’s biggest mistake was graduating at all.
Gopherit: “Heh, Rex. You know what’s funny? The Secret Service and the IRS don’t need to buy a permit to hunt you or your constituents for threatening the President…..those bitches have no bag limit.”
Win. Fucking. Win.
That’s a TV drama-level soliloquy, right there, worthy to be spoken by a David Caruso, Ice T, or Christopher Meloni.
Anyone issuing tags/bounties for Idaho Rep. politicians? Find’em in the public toilets!
freakishlystrong: It exists?
4tehlulz: Yes! Also smoking pot and questioning the Mormon religion I sense a Jack Mormon in the making.
4tehlulz: They’re on the record saying it was a joke, too. Not so stupid after all!
I’m getting to this article real late, so probably no one will read this hilariously clever comment (oh well), but I’m thinking his whole website must be an elaborate joke by some wonketteer. Besides the obvious giveaway of the name (Rex Rammell?), just read the first few paragraphs from the “About Rex” portion of the site. Tetonia? manhood defined as having your fishing pole and/or rifle in your hands? Riding “bulls” on the weekend? Freudian slips a’plenty…
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Rex was born January 2, 1961 in Tetonia, Idaho, a small rural town near Yellowstone National Park and the Teton Peaks Mountain Range. Home to the Rammell family since 1898, Teton County, was the ideal place for a boy to grow up and develop a love for the outdoors. Rex’s father and grandfather taught him the skill of hunting and fishing, a tradition the Rammells valued above all others. As a young boy and then to manhood Rex either had a fishing pole or a rifle in his hands.
Rodeo has also been a love of Rex’s since he was a boy. When they were old enough, Rex and his younger brother Gary, learned how to ride roping calves. During the summers through high school Rex and his brother had their own business cutting post and poles in the mountains. They worked all week and rode bulls on the weekends.
ramellrex? Who wrote that, Scooby Doo?
mercure: Rodeo has also been a love of Rex’s since he was a boy.
It’s because he was gang-raped by rodeo clowns when he was a kid; it got into his blood, as it were.