The only thing Nevada hates more than its loathed Senator Harry Reid is the possibility of a “Reid Political Dynasty,” wherein Reids of all variations of rounded, wire-frame glasses manage to become elected to public office throughout the state. So why then does Harry Reid’s son, alliterative nuisance Rory Reid, insist on running for governor when absolutely no one wants him to, including his own father? This used to not even be a big deal, back when Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley was expected to beat Rory Reid in the Democratic primary, but now Barbara Buckley dropped out of the race, leaving Nevada with no other choice but to embrace the Reids as its own species of charmless desert Kennedy.
It has gotten to the point at which Reids Harry and Rory both wish the other one didn’t even exist. What was that thing Tolstoy said, about families? “Every happy family is happy because it is not that of Harry Reid, whose son publicly hates him”?
“Expecting Sen. Reid to face a tight reelection race, his advisers see Rory Reid’s presence on the 2010 ballot, in the cold calculus of political campaigns, as one in a series of preelection risks. It’s a view that some are spreading throughout Nevada political circles.”
“Not surprisingly, the talk rankles Rory Reid’s camp, which sees the senator’s unpopularity as a potential drag on its candidate.”
The GOP’s candidate will of course replace Harry as Rory’s father in 2010 probably, but at this point it may be too late to bail out Nevada from suffering through another generation of the worst lineage of humans on Earth.
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Heh. Rory.
I’m fucking shocked, but I thought humans (I’m assuming that Hairless is a human) needed a spine and balls to reproduce.
This is why we need term limits and even more campaign finance reform. “Becuase I need a job” and “Because Daddy did it” is NOT proper motivation to get into politics. Case in point: Dubya. See also: more campaign finance reform, please. Cf. “Mr. Tusks puts Bill O. in a coma with a rainbow-colored-hammer-and-sickle-tattooed baseball bat and funds his recovery with Medicare just to piss him off.” I’m going to take a nap because Trig/Santorum is not an unrealistic wingnut ticket for 2012.
Actually, eff Democracy. People is dumb.
[re=410165]Mr. Tusks[/re]:
Can we extend this to the MSM? I don’t want to see Pumpkinhead Jr. and Meg McCain being suckups on my precious TV.
Embrace the suck, Nevada! Hug your goddamned patrician family like a cactus.
Will voters reelect this corporate shill? Or will they favor some other corporate shill? So many choices. No wonder they are confused.
When Reid gets beat by “generic Republican” next November the dynasty will be over. Thank you.
[re=410168]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Jenna/Meg in 2012 would be soooo Daily Beastie. Drinkin’ and humpin’ their way to the White House.
[re=410168]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I didn’t like the Today show before, and I sure as shit ain’t watchin Roker’s creepy ass now.
Rory Reid? How can any sane parent named Reid name their child Rory?
“…Charmless desert Kennedy[s]” is as neat a summation as you’re likely to find of these shell-less turtles [1].
I like to hope this family drama will play out Ryan and Redmond O’Neal style, with a flaying, only I can’t get it to play in my head at anything but 1/64 speed. Surely, I am a patient man, but waiting for a gentleman such as Harry Reid to drop the hammer on an enemy is the sort of thing that requires you to have moss growing on you, too.
Harry Reid is like what would happen if you put Joe Lieberman and John Kerry together in a particle collider going in opposite directions– as if a black hole could be both repellent and life-sucking at the same time.
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[1] I am waiting for them to come together as a family and all grow long mustaches, so that I can call them Human Carp.
Hey, maybe Rory Reid will turn out to be a big flaming liberal. Anybody who’s slightly mortified to be descended from Harry can’t be all bad.
I am reminded of the scene in Casino where De Niro has to explain firing Joe Bob Briggs to the county commissioner:
Rothstein: I went way out of my way to be very helpful to that kid. He’s weak. He’s incompetent. He jeopardizes the whole place. There’s not much more I can do for him.
Commissioner Webb: You have got me there. [Chuckles] Old Don is as useless as tits on a boar. [Coughs] But he is my brother-in-law.. and I would look on it a personal if you’d think some more
on hirin’ him back.
Rothstein: I can’t do that. I appreciate the fact that he’s your brother-in-law… and I do want to help you and I like to do favors. I know who you are, but I cannot do that.
Good ol’ Nevada politics.
[re=410162]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Judging from his picture, it’s a safe bet that Rory was the product of anal conception.
[re=410199]norbizness[/re]: You might know this but the Gaming Commissioner part in Casino is directly based on Reid when he held that position.
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If I was Rory, I would hate Harry for naming me Rory.
pointing out that Rory Reid is an alliterative nuisance is both awesome and racist or maybe sexist because you let Barbara Buckley slide. Illegal aliens will receive free buttock enhancement surgeries, also.
Rory Reid. Try saying that three times, very fast.
Roary Reid. Shoulda’ named him Roary. Then everyone would be afraid of him. Due to the lion reference.
[re=410217]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: Well, it’s a good thing Scorsese made the character semi-interesting. Reid probably would have droned Rothstein into a pastel coma.
[re=410215]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Holy crap — it’s the love child of Orville Redenbacher and Griff Jenkins.
[re=410222]ragepotato[/re]: Alien takes on different meaning here in Nevaduh.
Rawry Reid. Could work…
Just what does the governor of Nevada have to do besides taking those fat envelopes from Michael Corleone and lending a “helping hand” to cocktail waitresses?
Rory Reid was pre-erection risk before he was a pre-election risk. Just sayin’.
What’s the word for when a state should secede, but it doesn’t do it so all the other states just, like, stop taking its calls and don’t tell it where the big State parties are and stuff? Or maybe we could just give it a swirlie and shove it in its locker?
Rory is not nearly as hopeless and objectionable as his ridiculous father. I know, low bar. But still.
“Expecting Sen. Reid to face a tight reelection race, his advisers see Rory Reid’s presence on the 2010 ballot[...] as one in a series of preelection risks.”
He’s been as worthless as a rubber hammer during his entire tenure. The series of preelection risks consists of years of showing up at work, taking out his dick and playing with it until it was time to go home. The fact that his son is running for higher office is the LAST STRAW, though, right?
“Not surprisingly, the talk rankles Rory Reid’s camp, which sees the senator’s unpopularity as a potential drag on its candidate.”
Tertiary syphilis and a ten-year stretch in minimum security prison would be less of a drag on Rory Reid than the fact that his father is a no-balls Republican enabler.
I’d be sweating blood if I were Reid, too. How perfect is that — “Yeah, I got my living ass whipped, and I blame it all on my son’s political asperations.” Here’s to you drowning in a backed-up public toilet, you collaborationist traitor.
[re=410264]Min[/re]: Sounds like something Scooby Doo would say. “Raroo? Rory Reid???”
[re=410168]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I dunno- I’m hoping Rory makes a run for office just for the opportunity to hear Baba Wawa opine on the matter.
Oh, my. Rory looks like that little weiner, Richard Wolffe. Poor thing; bless his heart. Hopefully, he’s a liberal lion.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thechiefsource/395455752/
We in Nevada have to put up with both of their sorry ass’s! We are determined to get rid of Daddy Reid in November!! Send his door ass to Surchlite and maybe he can get his old job back!! He was a gravedigger!! Honestly he was, right along with his father. He just toots his wrestling history, can you imagine his wimpy ass wrestling?? Any state that wants the 2 idiots fill free to take them. Get rid of BO, & Nancy P, & the idiot Biden while you are at. Maybe Harry can dig a grave that they all can fit in.
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