Well this sounds about right: “Mitt Romney skipped the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, but he won a straw poll of likely 2012 presidential candidates there Saturday. The former Massachusetts governor came in first with 439 votes, one more than Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, followed by Sarah Palin with 330 and Newt Gingrich with 321.” An unelectable Taxachusetts liberal gazillionaire, an unelectable libertarian extremist, an unelectable idiot teevee host and an unelectable chocolate-sucking amoral has-been … it’s the cream of the crop, Republican-style! [AP/Sun-Times]
PARTY OF NO HOPE
April 11, 2010
Romney Beats Ron Paul By Exactly One Vote In GOP Confederate Straw Poll
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Nice of the Rethugricans to come on down to the Big Easy to shit all over the city one more time. Perhaps Sen. Vitter can show them were all the good hookers are in the Quarter, though, so stay tuned for the post-party photos on facebook pages near you.
[re=553329]DangerousLiberal[/re]: I’m sure Vitter took them on a nice tour of every Costco and Sam’s Club, because diapers are cheaper there. I HAVE A KID, that’s how I know, but that’s not why he knows.
While you’re lovingly masturbating to the idea of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman trapped in a sweat lodge, don’t forget to order your Franklin Mint “Heroes Of Simple Minded Caucasians” plate set.
Month One: John Anderson
Month Two: Ross Perot
Month Three: Jesse “The Body” Ventura
Month Four: Ralph Nader
But I thought the GOP was going to create a super Republican for 2012, composed of Nixon’s nose, Taft’s body, Reagan’s hair, Palin’s lips, Goldwater’s beady eyes, and Dick Cheney’s cold black heart?
“Unelectable chocolate-sucking amoral has-been” is the “short-fingered vulgarian” of the 21st Century. All hail Wonkette!
[re=553333]Jim Demintia[/re]: Also, George W. Bush’s inverted scrotum.
My God. This is the best they’ve got? Obama will win so easily it’ll be like he’s playing football against Notre Dame.
Hey, with this stellar lineup of political firepower, the RNC’s next logical step is to elect a black guy as their chairman. IT COULD HAPPEN, PEOPLE.
Nate Silver wonders why Huckabee tanked with the drawlers. Ain’t the Huckster more fat back & jowls that Newtie?
[re=553331]Troubledog[/re]: Plus with your order, you get a free “St. Ronald Reagan at the Transfiguration” commemorative place setting.
The flip-flopper, the guy who really believes 16,000 armed IRS agents are about to storm his Idaho compound, the lady who knows foreign policy like I know quantum electrodynamics, and a fat adulterous slimeball whose only claim to fame was shutting down the Federal government and losing the House for the GOP.
I regret only that Bachmann, the woman who is informed about important national issues by the voices in her head, did not make the list.
You have to really stack the deck with crazies before Mitt looks like the sane choice.
How long will it will be before the Romney-Bot declares that he wants to abolish the Fed and go back to the gold standard?
[re=553341]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: I imagine on the Reagan plate, of course, his kindly paternal countenance would be in the center, with the eyes that follow you everywhere.
Above his head, guarding the heavens, is a missile shield. On the plate, this looks like a buckyball hemisphere made of Lucite, with Sickle-and-Hammer emblazoned missiles ricocheting off its perfect gleaming facets.
Below, there is a collage of underground tunnels with railroad tracks, train cars with missiles, a map of the US with a thousand question marks on it, and some really confused looking Russians scratching their heads, one is holding his hands up in defeat.
I feel like we didn’t get to mock Mittens nearly enough in 2008, so I for one welcome his upcoming Fudgepacking Tour of Real America…similar to 2008 but with 118% more shameless hypocrisy!!
sounds like mittens might have given his supporters in louisiana free tickets and a copy of his most recent book in order to flood the conference with his people. oh mittens it’s just like that time you sent busloads of paid supporters to a fucking state fair to deliver the iowa straw poll in 2007 what a lamer you are.
The Romney win was predestined when the Cylon delegation was allowed to vote.
The US is just like Tijuana: it’s always election time. This creates la ilusión democrática.
When Republicans get together for one of their bi monthly circle jerks, it makes me think of a bunch of confused and agitated dogs in a kennel fire, running all over the place, snarling, biting and humping each other. And the worst thing is, this kind of hysterical, dog like behavior in extremis appeals to so many Americans. I’ll never understand why our President doesn’t just deputize the Crips and the Bloods and round them all up for road building with their fingers, then when they’re used up sell them to China for their meat.
Gingrich’s downfall came when, in an appeal to subtly, Newt called Barry an “athlete” rather than that fucking Kenyan mulatto.
Know your audience, Newt. Next time, just come out and say it.
Your sister is a muff-diver, by the way.
I’m personally for Haley Barbour in 2012. It’s about time the fat douchebag baby demographic gets someone in the oval office who has their interests at heart.
[re=553333]Jim Demintia[/re]:
You forgot Bachman’s vajayjay and Newt’s boobs.
[re=553350]Aurelio[/re]: I’ve spent about a decade living in TJ. When the PRI got thrown out back in my early days living there, they turned off the entire city’s electricity before they went home. But what the GOP is doing today is even worse. I’d love to see Tijuana’s city fathers take over Congress. It would be a vast improvement.
And in what universe does this really matter? In two weeks no one will even remember. Who won the CPAC poll again?
Yes, Diaper Dave (vitter) actually addressed the crowd. Had to end his speach early because baby made a boom-boom.
[re=553351]Dolmance[/re]: I love too how the confabs are always held in cities in blue states or at least cities not particularly known for red-state behavior (New Orleans). If they really are the party of Real America, shouldn’t they be holding these things in Omaha Nebraska or Mobile Alabama or is this yet another example of Republican leadership realizing that Real ‘Muricans live in crappy-ass states full of crappy-ass people and why would anybody go there?
I am so very happy that self-serving state-wrecking punk Tim Pawlenty only rated 3% in that straw poll. After all the ass-kissing he’s done! I wonder when he’ll finally realize that nobody anywhere gives a flying fuck about anything he says or does. I so want to see him visibly butt-hurt.
[re=553355]Dolmance[/re]: My dentist in Tecate once told me that only one thing was certain: “We are going to be more oppressed next year than we are this year, and by the same guys.” Inasmuch as Obama is just Romney in blackface, I’d say we have the same deal.
[re=553360]gbear[/re]: But how does gbear really feel about Tim Pawlenty?
[re=553352]S.Luggo[/re]: True that, but Al Giordano sez “Supervillain Newt Reveals His Plan for World Domination!”
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3897/supervillain-newt-reveals-his-plan-world-domination
[re=553362]Aurelio[/re]: I have a non-favorable view of total fucking asshole Tim Pawlenty.
Romney, Paul, Palin & Gingrich
The Mt. Rushmore of Evil
History’s greatest monsters
Hmm… I’m sure the Republicans have _someone_ else. Let’s see…
Charlie Crist … mmmm…no … unelectable closet case …
Gov of Virginia … mmm … nope … unelectable nimrod that thinks the Civil War wasn’t about slavery …
Gov of Texas … nope … unelectable basket case that wants to form his own banana republic ….
Bobby Jindal … nah … he’s just creepy….
[re=553365]user-of-owls[/re]: Not even close; not even in repuke history, try Harding, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Shrub. These assholes are just wannabees, Palin and Gingrich are particularly blessed with shit-for-brains and Romney is unelectable by the repuke base. Paul may have a shot at this, but I doubt the money people will buy his approach, too much of a loose cannon on deck. As for Pawlenty; look for most of the country to go Who Dat? only unlike the Saints he isn’t going to win anything.
Hilarious! Mittens will be teased by this almost support just enough to spend tens of millions of his own dollars AGAIN on a pathetic failure of a Presidential run. Say goodbye to your trust funds, Romney juniors!
This is great news for John McCain. Also.
[re=553367]Rotundo[/re]: Agree with your sentiment completely. But…it was a metaphor. Or analogy? Or phoneme?
No, wait. It was a palin-drome!
[re=553367]Rotundo[/re]: The two things Wingnuts understand about Ron Paul
1) he removes babies from the womb alive. And that
2) he hates the Fed.
I’d lump in the constitutionalist whackjobs, Birchers, milita freaks, gold-buyers and NRA types in with the Paultards. Paultards also have a significant following among some young male virgins that use the internet.
Put the truthers, birthers, racists, rednecks, white trash, ‘Vangies, and fetus-lovers in with the Wingnuts.
So the Venn diagram looks like a MasterCard logo with those two groups. Maybe a 20% overlap. They don’t have much in common and you can’t lead them without a common enemy. They can’t even agree who to hate. Obama? Pelosi? Reed? Stupak?
Without a well-heeled Perot-style benefactor this drivel will fade after the midterms.
I think it’s a mistake to consider clever predators and opportunists like Palin and Hannity and Beck to be a part of this. They aren’t of this movement, they’re simply profiteers who prey on the herd. In terms of relative merits, at least Beck is a skilled troubadour of fiction. Regarding my favorite MILF, Sarah Palin, if she looked like Susan Boyle she’d be making lattes in a strip mall in Wasilla.
I don’t think any significant alliance can occur between Paultards and Wingnuts. The fact that Rove’s stopped playing the pipe has left his mice to wander.
Three unelectable candidates! Bravo, GOP!
[re=553366]coolcatdaddy[/re]: Bobo’s in love with John Thune from South Dakota because he comes off as a “Real ‘Merican” as he likes to play Cowboy, is smart but not too smart for Republicans, and hasn’t done something dumb enough to allow moderate Republicans like Bobo or Douthat not feel queezy in supporting him. I’m sure that last part will quickly change the moment he decides to run.
[re=553347]Whiskeybaby[/re]: AMEN! The world needs endless reminders of Mittens’ shitting dog strapped to the top of the station wagon.
I think we’re long past due for a Draft Joe the Plumber movement. Trucknutz also.
Unelectable??? Yes, even the upper management of the GOP see there’s a clear and present danger of them devolving into the GO(Tea)P.
Well, desperate times call for desperate measures. Time for the GOP hopefuls to engage in some Ronald Reagan convention necrophilia.
[re=553343]artpepper[/re]: Quantum Electrodynamics vs. Palin Foreign Policy: E=MC^(you betcha).
ALL HAIL PRESIDENT ROMNEY!!!
But once he takes office, how long will it take him to finish conducting baptisms for the dead presidents?
This scares the fuck right out of me, because I also believed bush II to be unelectable. As it turns out I was correct, but that didn’t preclude him from being appointed.
[re=553378]Bearbloke[/re]: Although the GOP 2012 primary calendar ain’t set, seems they are trying to minimize a southern strategy that might bite them in the ass in November.
Our favorite snowbillier grifter should be pleased with Huckabee sucking bad gas and pulling only 4% in the straw. I’m guessing he won’t run, and hiz evangelicals will move strong to Caribou Barbie. In the earlies that will help her with SC, who ain’t gonna be votin’ for someone with Zionized undies. In Iowa, she’ll has the problem of too many folks with college deegreeees, but if she wins SC and is close in IA, she can hope to grab some serious mo in da plains, boss, da plains.
Mittens has got to hope the final schedule helps a lot, or he may have trouble. He can organize, likely why he did as well as he did in the SRLC straw and that will help in IA. But it don’t seem that Palin is fading any time soon. Logically, it makes no fucking sense, but the Repubicians keep given her the love. Go figure?
[re=553379]Jim89048[/re]: A lot of people also thought Reagan was unelectable. The Carterites were thrilled to be running against him.
That being said, Congress ought to pass a rule deeming next month to constitute November 2012, so we can get Obama’s reelection over with right away.
…baptisms for the dead presidents?
They don’t do that anymore.
I think they didn’t want Bill Clinton in their Celestial Kingdom.
[re=553331]Troubledog[/re]: I’d like to order two sets of your Caucasian Plates, please. Do you take Ameros?
[re=553333]Jim Demintia[/re]: But will the Super-Republican (composed of Nixon’s nose, Taft’s body, Reagan’s hair, Palin’s lips, Goldwater’s beady eyes, and Dick Cheney’s cold black heart) have Nancy Reagan’s brain? That’s the only way it will work. Oh, I forgot, even Nancy Reagan doesn’t have Nancy Reagan’s brain anymore.
[re=553359]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Good idea, but not enough prostitutes in Mobile and Omaha are willing to deal with diapering Vitter or listening to Gingrich pontificate for three hours before he gets himself off. They have to go more urban for those specialists.
[re=553351]Dolmance[/re]: Never pet a burning dog.
BTW, I called the race for Obama after he won Super Tuesday, so here’s my next one: Mittens IS your 2012 R candidate. John Kerry’s charisma + John McCain’s willingness to say/do ANYTHING + the Angel Moroni = the Thomas Dewey for our time.
[re=553384]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Or what about George Jr.’s high-level of physical fitness? The man managed to exercise two hours a day even while simultaneously planning for two wars. And maybe you could go with Gingrich’s brain instead of Nancy’s as people keep on saying he’s some sort of intellectual. You could also throw in Condi’s shoes, McCain’s soul, and Joe McCarthy’s X-Ray anti-American vision.
[re=553381]weejee[/re]: There’s a big difference between opinion polls and goofball straw polls, and actually getting votes in the booth. That takes work and organization, and Our Sarah ain’t about either. Plus, none of the big Republican fatcats would give her a quarter to make a phone call; they know a grifter when they see one. She could get funds by creating a netroots Obama/Ron Paul-style fundraising machine, but again — work, organization. Not gonna happen; she’s just in this for the speaking fees and teevee gigs.
Remember, running for governor of Alaska is about like running for mayor of a mid-sized city, and she won only because she was the “none of the above” candidate. Running for mayor of Wasilla is like running for student council president at a small high school. Everything she has achieved so far at the national level has been the result of the McCain campaign. Let that soak in.
[re=553379]Jim89048[/re]: [re=553331]Troubledog[/re]: I cast my very first presidential vote for John Fucking Anderson.
It’s like losing your virginity to Icarus.
I take some comfort, though, from the discovery that Gore Vidal and Jackie O also voted for the Candidate of the Doomed.
My dear old Pop told me that he voted for Ross Perot. We are a scary, scary nation.
[re=553386]Lazy Media[/re]: So, in the 60′s it was “Get Clean For Gene!” http://teenormous.com/images/t-shirts/www.retrocampaigns.com/images-graphics-cu-clean4gene.jpg
In 2012, will we see “Take a Shit for Mitt!” t-shirts?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “A Mormon, a Paultard, and a Catholic priest walked into a bar….”
[re=553366]coolcatdaddy[/re]: The least long-shot name I’ve heard bandied about lately is Haley Barbour, of Mississippi. Think about that. The best (not most popular, best) shot Republicans have is a man whose executive experience is running Mississippi. Taken a look at Mississippi lately?
Please run Sarah, please run Sarah!
Needz moar pics of Mitt the Shitt putting on his fudgepacking gloves.
[re=553393]Zadig[/re]: Here in Arkansas, we take a look at Mississippi all the time, primarily when any social development ranking comes out. Illiteracy, obesity, life expectancy, education, etc.
Thus our state motto: “Thank God for Mississippi.”
SWEEPING GOP ELECTORAL GAINS are not necessarily a given…
And the Paultards go crazy…er.
[re=553396]user-of-owls[/re]: I thought we in Alabama had “Thank God for Mississippi” copyrighted. Also, “I got mine.”
[re=553389]Lazy Media[/re]:
I hope Triggy doesn’t read that. OUCH.
[re=553370]Troubledog[/re]: Do not lump us truthers in with the birthers, racists, rednecks, white trash, ‘Vangies, fetus-lovers and assorted wingnuts.
It’s a whole different thing. We get along with the Area 51 people, serial weird dieters, astrologists and druids.
And no mention of the fruit of Cheney’s loins?- Brings some awful images to mind don’t it? Whatabout her? the non-carpet muncher one.
[re=553333]Jim Demintia[/re]: Myles Monroe is at work contriving that great leader as we speak.
http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/images09/sleeper.jpg
[re=553366]coolcatdaddy[/re]: Creepy?!!?! Is too arcane to sugest that Piyush is a dead ringer for a Zanti Misfit?
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/ciu/dc/e9/9a05f96642a07bf4af8b2110.L.jpg
[re=553396]user-of-owls[/re]: Excuse me forgetting, these things I do, but wasn’t Clinton from Arkansas? And he obviously was electable, as he was elected – twice. No SCOTUS reach-around for him.
What’s really scary is that Haley Barbour is entirely appealing to the GOP base:
Racist? Check
Demagogue? Check
Plays Southern Stupid? Check
Isn’t really stupid, know how to politick with the worst of ‘em? Check
Good old boy? Check
Ugly inside and out? Check
Would destroy this country like the teatards think Obama is doing? Check, check and check
Can someone who plays a moron from Mississippi be elected in 2012? Dunno, but if Shrub can get kind of elected, and Clinton, and Carter can get really elected, I wouldn’t count out any good old boys, even if Carter wasn’t really a good old boy. Maybe any Dem would have gotten elected in 1976, probably so.
But Haley Barbour scares me more than Snowbilly, because he’s not actually a moron, and he’s meaner than Palin on a good day, hell he’s meaner’n most of the GOP leadership.
[re=553356]betterDeadThanRed[/re]: You’re right, but the ability of the Repubs to convene the same bunch of dopes for another headline-grabbing renaissance fair of stupidity every week–whether it’s CPAC, or the Palin-Bachman ralley, that thing in Nevada, or this–is absolutely amazing. I swear the Chinese Communist Party, during the Cultural Revolution, never did better.
[re=553330]Katydid[/re]: Having raised a boy myself-he’s 17 now-I am well aware of the high cost of diapers and frequently found myself reworking my meager finances to meet Jr’s Heroin-like daily Pampers fix. That said, couldn’t “shitter” have come up with a cheaper and cleaner perversion GAWD, a discipline fixation only requires a few relatively cheap bandages and dressings.
Paul Ryan is the retardlicans messiah.
He ain’t ready for prime time, yet.
Palin/Ryan 2012.
[re=553358]stew[/re]: C’mon I had food near the back of my throat when I read that. It was a bit touch and go there for a moment.
[re=553408]rocktonsammy[/re]: That’s nothing a little “macaca” can’t fix. Or would blatant racism now be a selling point to the tea party crew?
Mitt Romney: Hairy Hands
Never, never ever underestimate the stupidity of Americans.
USA!USA!USA!
[re=553407]thesheriffisnear[/re]: …Jr’s Heroin-like daily Pampers fix.
That’s funny. You gotta feed them less, that way they don’t use so many diapers. Course, Social Services frowns on that, but it’s more economical, and times are hard.
I just don’t get Vitter’s diaper fetish. I know you can get all “what you don’t like in sex is my fetish” and such, but, really, diapers? I don’t know how Vitter shows his face in public now. And how come Spitzer had to resign because he wore socks, but Vitter doesn’t and he wore freaking diapers? Yeah, I know, Spitzer was law and order guy, but wasn’t Vitter family values guy? I can’t believe the fucker didn’t have to resign. If I did something so weird, and I got caught and exposed, I’d have left the country.
So, Socialism is preferred by todays GOP over Libertarianism?
Has Glen Beck suffered for nothing?
And what is with all these Muslim Terrorist Fist Bumps I keep seeing at the Masters? If Professional Golf is not safe from the ravages of Progressivism, are any of us?
[re=553414]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]:
CBS sure did have that camera on Mickelson and his family after the WIN.
Not a dig at Tiger I’m sure.
[re=553379]Jim89048[/re]:
This scares the shit right out of me too. If the economy doesn’t improve by the fall of 2012 the GOP will hail Romney as the CEO in chief and the dumb fuck suburbanites, who were stupid enough to vote for Bush II, will vote for this asshole. What puts me at ease, somewhat, is the fact that Barry would’ve been in office for four years and will seem way more presidential than Mittens.
[re=553393]Zadig[/re]: [re=553405]Katydid[/re]: [re=553396]user-of-owls[/re]: [re=553399]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: What all y’all said. We recently moved to what my Midtown Memphis friends refer to as “The Tip of the ‘Sip” (DeSoto County) and every day I feel my soul dying a little more. Every. Single. Day.
[re=553389]Lazy Media[/re]: Likes ah said, But it don’t seem that Palin is fading any time soon. Logically, it makes no fucking sense, but the Repubicians keep given her the love.
Agreed that she wouldn’t be anywhere t’all save Walnutz having a severe senile moment and tapping her un-vetted for second banana. I also agree that straw polls are statistically meaningless, but they do provide fodder for the political herd. I pointed earlier at Silver’s bit on 538 & when he used a Borda Count (2 pts for 1st choice 1 pt for second) Mittens pulled out ahead a bit, but the Northern Dunce was tied for second with Newt while the Paultard fell back quite some way.
Mittens has organization skills and money – no doubt. Charisma, I’ll agree with you that he’s on a par with John Kerry, but that isn’t an OT asset. I wuzn’t sayin’ the Wasilla Silly will be there headin’ into the hall, but I’m also thinkin’ you may be rushin’ Romney’s coronation.
If she finds a good manager (a big fucking if) and if she lands some wealthy wingnut like BlueKennel’s Howard Ahmanson (a second big fucking if), she may be around a hell of a lot longer than many think (hope, pray, sacrifice fetuses). Just sayin’.
[re=553418]weejee[/re]: oops missed a /i. & /b. olde fingers too slow…
[re=553413]Katydid[/re]: You are clearly unqualified to be a rising star of the right. Or the pastor of a megachurch. But do not despair, a rich fullfilling life ruining the economy from the corporate offices of a too big to fail bank or running a massive Ponzi scheme remains possible.
[re=553365]user-of-owls[/re]: I’d toss Romney and Paul, I don’t like ‘em either, but when it comes to modern Repug evil, for my money it’s Rove and Cheney. They are the faces of filthy politics and the deprivation of humanity. How much of Fox n Fiends, and Teabags, and McAin/Palin, Xian crap, and fear mongering are they responsible for, even if indirectly?
[re=553392]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: I gather they still sing the blues in Mississippi!
[re=553417]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: DeSoto County, Mississippi? Then please tell me this: Barbour said the
Segregation Remembrance DayConfederate Memorial Day was enacted under a Democratic-controlled legislature. But I just looked and it was enacted in 2003, and the Repubs regained a majority in the Senate in 2003; don’t know who controlled the state House. Was the Confederate Day really enacted under Dems or under Repubs? I don’t know what time of year the Repubs regained the majority, because an elected Dem switched parties. Do you know? Could Barbour be….lying?So it seems on this morning’s Candy Crowley’s CNN show, Barbour said of the criticism of McDonnell’s proclamation, “It’s sort of feeling that it’s a nit, that it is not significant, it’s trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn’t amount to diddly.” Because everyone already knows slavery is bad, he said, so why bring it up?
Also, too, speaking of Republican governors, which Wonketteer wrote a not-too-well-disguised e-mail wishing for Fat-Fuck Christie’s death, and which one of you created a Facebook page ranting the “Never trust a fat fuck?”
Whoever it was, good job!
[re=553413]Katydid[/re]: If I got caught doing something weird like that, I’d leave the country only if I knew for sure I’d get more weird shit done in Canada or Costa Rica or whatever than in the US&A. My guess: Vitter has plenty of MILFs willing to play diaper caddy lined up now that the baby wipes are out of the bag. People are freaky people.
Now if I could just find someone to take my temperature (you know, the “baby” way)…
“…unelectable chocolate-sucking amoral has-been…”
Roscoe P Coltraine is three out of the four. Oh shit.
[re=553427]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: Why doncha get in touch with Vitter’s staff and ask them for a recommendation? I’ll bet they’ve got a list.
Speaking of fat fuck Republican governors, which Wonketteer wrote an e-mail sort of wishing for Fat-Fuck Christie’s death, and which one of you created an anti-fat fuck Facebook page and ranted “Never trust a fat fuck?”
Whoever it was, good job!
[re=553405]Katydid[/re]: Haley Barbour looks like a fat penis.
Wait, where were all the craigslist ads looking for hot man-on-man love?
[re=553405]Katydid[/re]: Yeah, the clowns listed in the straw poll are doomed in any election, but Haley Barbour’s got a very real shot. He’d resonate with the base like nobody else, and the only reason they’re not talking about him now is that he’s not going out of his way to make an ass of himself on TV just yet.
[re=553390]user-of-owls[/re]: My third grade class had a mock election and that’s who I voted for. Strangely enough, it ended in a three-way-tie.
Has James “Daddy-Needs-Moar-Shower-Time-With-Junior” Dobson issued a proclamation about who he’d never support under any circumstances? Put your money on that one getting it. (It’s Mittens for sure.)
[re=553383]Aurelio[/re]: Really? Have they stopped doing baptisms for the dead since they did it for Barry’s mum in June 2008?
[re=553436]Bearbloke[/re]: It’s still done, but at least they no longer baptize bones. That’s just plain creepy.
[re=553429]Katydid[/re]: Tried. Can’t understand a word they’re saying. I had underestimated the language barrier.
[re=553425]Katydid[/re]: [re=553425]Katydid[/re]: I did a little background research and, guess what? Haley is right. The Democrats controlled the Senate 27-25, and the Confederate Memorial Day proclamation was signed by the Sec State on March 31 (declaring that all state offices, etc., be closed on April 28).
I should point out that, prior to moving down here, I never paid much attention to the political goings-on in Mississippi… more because Tennessee politics was entertaining and infuriating enough without having to bother with what was going on across the state line.
Don’t they have ANYONE YOUNGER THAN 60?
[re=553439]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: I particularly like the combo MLK/Robert E. Lee Day y’all have too, also declared by the Dems. Separate but equal celebrations?
I hear ya, though, we’ve got Lieberdouche and many corrupt mayors and the former guv. The mayor of Waterbury liked to bugger kids, so I’d have to say he was the worst.
[re=553439]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: About the Mississippi residence, my sympathies. My family was from the deep Delta. We went back a couple of years ago — and the region is dead. All the little towns and cross-roads communities have gone away. Having lived in Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas, I will note that none of them win awards for political wisdom and vision. But I haven’t seen too many locations that do. There are as big a list of political cretins in California, for example, as one will find anywhere.
Even Italy–Berlusconi? We all have morans.
i am laughing so hard at these comments something just came out of my nose..I gotta go..
I’m betting on Mittens/Pawlenty 2012.
And I’m thinking they’ll do better than expected. They’ll run on being nice, white, non-socialists who aren’t scary at all. And unless Obama does something about jobs…and soon…they could win.
The base WILL vote for Mittens because he isn’t Obama…Beck will get his crazies to sign on to Mittens because his network is actively working against the administration.
The dems will take everything for granted and blow it….the people who were excited about Obama the first time won’t be so excited if they are still unemployed, we’re still getting blown up all over the middle east and he picks a conservative for the Supreme Court.
That’s my glass-half-empty view.
Hoping I’m so, so wrong.
First, the Mittens thing reminds me of my absolute most cherished moment from the entire Obama campaign–Barry said (paraphrasing, ’cause there’s no web record of this ever happening) “if these republicans are so concerned about illegal immigration, perhaps they should look in Mitt Romney’s lawn.” I laughed continuously for about 5 weeks.
Second, on the subject of Senator Shitter: I wrote to him on the occasion of the Republicans for Rape incident. I asked him how he reconciled his vote in favor of raping and kidnapping loyal American citizens with his predilection for shitty diapers and whores, most likely subsidized by taxpayer funds. I quote his response in its entirety because, well…just because. If someone would care to quantify the lies, diversions, and lack-of-irony moments contained therein, I would be most grateful.
Dear ________,
Thank you for contacting me about my vote on the Franken amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill. I appreciate the chance to clear up a lot of confusion and misinformation about it.
The Franken amendment would prohibit the Defense Department from contracting with any company that requires its employees to use arbitration to settle a broad array of civil (non-criminal) claims against the company as employer. Arbitration is a process in which parties agree to let an impartial third party decide a civil dispute rather than going to court.
I voted against the Franken amendment because it was extremely broad, covering all sorts of disputes. For that reason, it would prohibit our military from contracting with and getting help from many people and companies that the military relies on. That’s why many other senators, the Obama Administration, and our military leadership all opposed the amendment.
When Senator Franken offered his amendment, he said it was about the horrific case of Jamie Leigh Jones, a woman who was raped by coworkers in Iraq. If the amendment was limited to cases like this of sexual assault and rape, I would have voted for it in an instant. But it was much broader than that.
Horrific cases like Jamie Leigh Jones’ can and should be prosecuted aggressively as extremely serious crimes. No arbitration clause can or does prevent that. And in fact, I’ve helped pass legislation to make that aggressive prosecution easier, including when it happens in overseas war zones like Iraq.
It’s also worth nothing that Jamie Leigh Jones herself has won in court over the issue of her right to file a civil lawsuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that her arbitration clause doesn’t block her from filing a civil lawsuit over her horrible attack.
As the father of three daughters, these issues are extremely important to me. That’s why I’ve always fought for tougher enforcement and penalties against sexual predators:
o As a state legislator, I passed a law to allow for child rapists to receive the death penalty.
o In Congress, I secured more than a $1 million in federal funding for DNA crime labs throughout Louisiana to help process backlog and prosecute criminals.
o And, I secured $17 million in federal funding for the Adam Walsh program to combat sexual predators.
o I have voted consistently to fund the Violence Against Women Act, an important law that provides grants for battered women’s shelters, rape prevention, education, efforts to reduce sexual abuse of runaway and homeless street youth, and community programs to curb domestic violence.
o I support federal funding for the Victims of Crime Act, which provides a dedicated source funding to states’ for victim compensation and assistance programs.
o I helped pass legislation to reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act and voted to pass the Justice for All Act of 2004. These bills support efforts to better use DNA evidence to track down, prosecute, and jail sexual predators.
o I helped pass the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill, which strengthened the law allowing employees of government contractors to be prosecuted for sexual assaults and other crimes committed overseas.
Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about other issues important to you.
Sincerely,
Senator David Vitter
United States Senator
I’m sure that his three daughters are thrilled to hear that their shitty-diaper-john father is doing his best to react, ex post facto, to the climate of rape and hostility that he helped to create.
[re=553447]hockeymom[/re]: good god
[re=553448]southern mark smith[/re]: This Nation’s Raving Disgrace. Dag, that load of crap wouldn’t even fit into an adult diaper.
[re=553428]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Glad to see you’re still electable, Roscoe.
[re=553448]southern mark smith[/re]: I think I’d rather see the letter you sent him.
As a state legislator, I passed a law to allow for child rapists to receive the death penalty.
And I don’t care what a child has done, no child should get the death penalty. That’s just wrong.
[re=553439]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: To be entirely fair to the Democratic Party (and I mean the Party as a whole, not the legislators in question), I’m sure you’ve noticed, as I have, that down in these parts having no substantive policy deviations from Republicans is no barrier to running as a Democrat.
My condolences on your move to Desoto County. Our fair (only by comparison) city misses you.
[re=553436]Bearbloke[/re]: From same the article you cited: “To be sensitive to the issue of proxy baptizing for non-Mormons that are not related to Church members, the Church in recent years has published a general policy of performing temple ordinances only for direct ancestors of Church members.” LINK
This looks like a case of what Aristotle called A and not-A. Or maybe the Church published a policy that they don’t follow. Or maybe the LDS President got a new revelation from the Angel Macaroni. All I know is what I read in the Wikipedia. And when the Wikipedia contradicts itself, then I don’t know anything.
“so governor romney, what’s it like to be king of the dipshits?”
[re=553447]hockeymom[/re]: Eh, it’s still 2 years distant. Barry has plenty of time to get the economy cranked back up, and if he does, well, that’s game over. Pretty much any name the Republicans care to field will have no chance in hell running against an incumbent President Obama presiding over a visibly recovering economy, with (mediocre-to-good, depending) health care reform and a nuclear draw-down under his belt.
And hopefully in 2 years time we’ll have MOST of our uniformed persons not getting shot in Buttfuckistan anymore.
I refuse to think seriously about 2012 yet. I’m still not fully recovered from 2008, even with the victory of Good over Hennnnnnnnngh! My blood pressure may never be the same.
And Ron Paul stayed flat!
[re=553453]Barrelhse[/re]: ZING!
Of Ken’s 4, only Ron Paul is actually unelectable. Any of the others, as loathesome as it might seem, have a chance given the current economic conditions and media insanity, Mittens having the least baggage, and Gingrich’s glory days are behind him, while Palin almost certainly won’t run. Remember, the country had a good look at W. and re-elected him, ANYTHING is possible. Mittens, however, is capable of fucking up the primary or the general, and it’s early days still, I would be very surprised if someone else did not surge a bit, Thune or Pence or Barbour or god help us, Cheney (Liz!). Pawlenty and Huckabee are done. Santorum will definitely run — and then announce he is dropping out, approximately 2 weeks later. Fred Thompson will form an exploratory committee for ’08.
I’m Norbert, and I approve these bleary ramblings.
Bah, this poll may as well have been taken at a Star Trek convention for all its worth. All it really means is — in the words of Chairman Mao — there is chaos under heaven, and the situation is excellent. A really clever upstart has the opportunity to come out of nowhere and win the Republican nomination in 2012, because look at the crap they’re fielding now. It looks like the French General Staff circa 1913 — they’re victors of old or minor battles clinging to some romantic notion that their purity will cause The LORD to smite their enemy.
All the Democrats have to do (and I get dizzy just typing those words) is to press forward with a consistent liberal approach to creating jobs, healthcare and foreign affairs and then hammer away at the idea that the Republicans have caused every problem that Obama has been fixing, have opposed every fix in favor of the exact same policies that got us into these messes in the first place, and have, at every turn, chosen to paralyze the nation over doing something constructive in the hopes that they’ll win a political victory — they’ve literally chosen politics over the national interest.
After the 2008 elections there was absolutely no reason anyone should vote for a Republican in good conscience ever again. The only reason their behavior since then can’t be called worse is that the last two elections have limited their ability to inflict horrible plagues on this country. Every Democrat ought to throw this in the face of every Republican from now until the GOP is broke and forgotten.
[re=553340]weejee[/re]: Love Nate Silver. He shows Schumer having a 100% chance of beating Lawrence Kudlow and only 99% against “Generic Republican”.
[re=553431]Diana Davies[/re]: Barbour/Paul 2012
[re=553466]SayItWithWookies[/re]: All that, and the fact that Mittens wears magic underpants.
I hope the Dems take your good advice instead of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, their true form so far…..
[re=553372]Hooray For Anything[/re]: You know, the only Repug I can think of that I would unironically describe as impressive is Jon Huntsman. Of course, he’s completely unelectable now after taking Barry’s filthy lucre, and even if he hadn’t, he went to school, has a passport, has travelled further than TJ, speaks foreign languages… He probably never had a chance anyway.
[re=553447]hockeymom[/re]: I’ve been worrying about the same thing, except that I really don’t believe that the Mitt ticket can win. I just think the Dems will make the election far more interesting than it should be. One can always trust it to the Dems to wrest defeat out of the jaws of victory, but there’s no way in hell that Barry loses to Plastic-Man or T-Paw.
Tools. You really think its about left versus right don’t you?
Red versus Blue? Its about up versus down. Always has been.
Everything else is for show. And if you can’t see that,
…well your just part of the show then aren’t you?
-Abobo
[re=553469]sati demise[/re]: I’m hoping healthcare reform gives them something to fight to save. If they do that vigorously, they can hold the same number of seats in both houses. To be fair, I’m often accused of harboring unreasonable expectations.
[re=553472]Abobo[/re]: Hmm…Paultard, Naderite, Scientologist or (longshot) 40-ish skateboarding ex-Biodome star evangelist? I’m going with Paultard. Just playing the odds.
Mittens can’t pick a female runningmate without diminishing the beliefs of his fellow Mormons. Unless he chooses another old, white dude, think he’ll loose the Mormon vote. Guessing Lez Cheney/Alaska Barbie/Lake Tragic are not on his short list.
[re=553474]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Agree on healthcare reform – needs a real fight in campaigns. Best quote I’ve heard recently: “Democrats need to learn that in order to win a fight–or to even throw a punch–you have to engage your opponent, and get close enough for them to hit you.” Sadly it wasn’t former boxer Harry Reid that said it, it was comedian Chris Rock – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/10/chris-rock-talks-health-c_n_532748.html
[re=553405]Katydid[/re]: As usual, I agree with you. I fear Barbour the most. Most people know nothing about him — and that’s the kind of person they most like to vote for. The longer he stays below the radar, the scarier he is.
[re=553477]Jukesgrrl[/re]: barbour used to have himself paged on the public address system at ole miss football games so tens of thousands of people would hear his name. palin WISHES she was that smart.
[re=553372]Hooray For Anything[/re]: John Thune is like 6’3″ and with a jawline that could cut diamond. He’s like a Ken doll on steroids; his physical perfection disgusts me. lol
[re=553478]obfuscator[/re]: Oh, boy. I knew Barbour was a dick; I didn’t know he was THAT big of one. Barbour is a walking, breathing stereotype. You couldn’t even parody the fat-fuck on SNL because he’s better than any parody could ever hope to be.
I’d say a celebrity or some beloved douchebag’s kid are likely for the R’s. Palin sort of fits the 1st and Romney sort of fits the 2nd, but I’d say Liz Cheney may have a go and why not Jeb Bush? Are there any charming but stupid movie stars that could run? Ron Silver really could have had a shot if he’d lived. Same for Stephen Baldwin if he weren’t so obviously mentally unwell.
She tried that once, but the audience figured it out when the announcer said “Sarah Palin, please call Sarah Palin.”
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the size of the paws on that puppy.
Sir Mittney of Nooningtonshire in 5, 4, 3 … wait that already happened?
[re=553481]NYNYNY[/re]: How ’bout Victoria Jackson? Perfect.
[re=553448]southern mark smith[/re]: tldr
“and an unelectable chocolate-sucking amoral has-been.”
Wait just one minute. Since when have Tiger’s mistresses had anything to do with this? BTW, speaking of that man’s mistresses, I laughed out loud every time they described the one as the “pancake waitress”. That was so full of intentional lulz.
[re=553405]Katydid[/re]: Can’t wait for the Barbour / Obama debates. He’ll look like a cigar-chomping Big Daddy demon pig, and Obama will look like a law professor again.
[re=553448]southern mark smith[/re]: You are thinking of something Huckabee said:
“I guess Mitt Romney would rather keep people out of college so they can keep working on his lawn, since he had illegals there.”
http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-11-16/news/17269197_1_huckabee-campaign-governor-romney-mike-huckabee/2
Where did we decide we were all going to flee to again?
This electorate, according to the “media” and the polls, (who the hell do they poll in those things anyway?), is angry at the Govt because there’s Democrats running it, they’re pining for Rethugs to be in power again. In my opinion, the electorate is just stoopid.
[re=553447]hockeymom[/re]: I’m betting the magick underpants will get Romney driven from the halls by the base.
[re=553456]Aurelio[/re]: There’s probably some splinter group that still does it the old style. Probably the polygamists still do.
Now there will be a goddamn recount in Florida, and the Supreme Court must get involved.
[re=553341]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Is that the set that includes Nancy Reagan at the Annunciation? I’ve seen that one; Nancy is holding the turkey baster.
[re=553334]drrty martini[/re]: I cry every day for Spy.
its the Obamacare they liked.
[re=553363]Lucidamente[/re]: Tanx. The Great Bloviator’s words remind me of the last command given on the bridge of the Titanic: “Ramming speed!”
[re=553751]S.Luggo[/re]: Wasn’t that also what D-Day said in “Animal House” right before crashing the souped-up car into the parade float?
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