Despite its complete dependence on Big Government welfare water schemes and its many scenic environmentalist locations and plentiful Mexicans, Arizona has been America’s Wingnut Paradise for half a century. But by the 1980s, even Barry Goldwater was too subtle for the modern wingnut’s taste, so used-car salesman Evan Mecham served as governor for just 15 months. That was long enough for Ev to kill Arizona’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and make enough racist statements to cost the state $25 million in canceled conventions after a nationwide boycott was called by Stevie Wonder. Then a lot of other ridiculous stuff happened: Walnuts McCain releasing Sarah Palin upon the nation, the sheriff of Phoenix running pogroms against Latinos, the state officially endorsing racial profiling to finally clear its territory of Mexicans. What could come next? Oh yeah, birthers.
Arizona’s house of representatives on Wednesday passed a bill requiring candidates for the U.S. presidency to provide their birth certificate to the Arizona secretary of state. Ha ha, that’s surely not aimed at any particular president currently in the White House who will be running again in two years.
The Arizona Capitol Times reports:
“Arizona is seen as a laughingstock around the nation,” said Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, a Phoenix Democrat who voted against the bill. “I am ashamed that this is even a topic of discussion.”
Now it goes to the state senate, which will hopefully pass this thing so that Governor Jan Brewer can sign it and seal Arizona’s fate as America’s stupidest & most bigoted state. Or maybe she’ll win that award by signing the Gestapo anti-Mexican law already sitting on her desk. [CBS News]
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Have no idea why the comments weren’t working here …. I mean, “Don’t want to offend Arizona!”
Is making fun of Arizona now the equivalent of making fun of Trig?
I had no idea that Arizona was in the SouthEastern U.S. I’m cutting up my U.S. map to get Arizona closer to Alabama.
Hooray! A victory for the First Amendment!
There’s a reason it didn’t become a state until 1912. In hindsight, we all make mistakes.
I’m starting to wonder whether Arizona is conspiring with Chuck D to revive Public Enemy.
I live in a state that borders AZ and when they shit, we wipe. It’s embarrassing.
As Colbert brilliantly put it last night, we are trying to keep Mexicans out by lining our border with our stupidest states.
Unbelievable. Well, maybe that wingnut running against McCain is going to win. For the love of God…
In other news, that picture is going to give me nightmares.
This is good news for John McCain.
Yeah, but it’s a dry idiocy.
[re=561968]Red Zeppelin[/re]: That’s amazing.
That picture is going to give me nightmares.
This Texan, for one, appreciates Arizona taking the title of Stupidest State away from us. However, my state I am sure will come roaring back with something even more nutz.
You know the Canadians are buying up all the cheap land in Arizona because their housing crisis has those wasteland dwellings worth about 1cent/lb. Perhaps that famous Canadian mellow attitude will pacify the ornery Arizonians.
[re=561954]Ken Layne[/re]: Did you see that Drudge pulled the Juli $100 Euro linkie? He’s really on his
lipstoes that guy.[re=561976]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: No, because it’s just the Olds. The last thing Arizona needs is more Olds. How many early-bird buffets can one place have?
[re=561973]Carmela08[/re]: Arizona will still lead in the per captia standings since there are so many Texans it takes a lot of stupid to cover them all.
[re=561976]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Maybe true. I’ve known many Canadian snowbirds though, and they mostly go back home when they reach a certain age due to health insurance concerns. If they’ve kept their Canadian citizenship, that is, and really who wouldn’t?
Barrel cacti are hot.
Who could have suspected that the state that gave us Barry Goldwater would be full of racists?
You mean to say that hiring Mexicans to throw up more and more stick-built condos into the desert is not the path to wealth? And then those Mexicans think they can stay? Oh, shit! Blame the Mexicans! They took our jobz!
[re=561971]ArkansasFred[/re]: Ha, ha-ha!
[re=561973]Carmela08[/re]: your state or south carolina…speaking of…where has mark sanford been???!!!
Wouldn’t they be better of passing a law that compels presidential candidates to provide Arizona’s secretary of state with something useful, like a big bag full of unmarked dollar bills, or maybe their own weight in cheese? Nice, European cheese, obviously, none of this Kraft “Cheese in can” bullshit.
Being out in the sun results in more than just the skin cancers. Just ask anyone in Arizona, Texas or much of the South.
My Vermont boyfriend was here and freaked out when he saw a Palin/2012 bumper sticker.
There is also a huge number of One Big Ass Mistake America bumper stickers.
So, no, they are never going to get over McCain (the great American) losing to the black guy.
never ever.
The guy in the photo looks “prickly”….
Obama gave a big FU to Arizona by picking Napolitano. She was the dam holding back the crazed Mexican hatin, gun loving nuts who run the state senate.
Why does Kyrsten Sinema hate Arizona?
[re=562022]OhBoy[/re]: Beat me to it. I was gonna say, “What a bunch of pricks.”
[re=562023]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: yea, Janet kept her veto pen smokin’ hot when she was gov.
and of course, the U. of Az. thinks Obama needs to accomplish much more before they give him an honorary crappy degree from their number 1 party school.
Okay, then.
I think the rest of the country should inform Arizona that we consider the first 100 years of statehood a “trial run” – and they just aren’t cutting it. Then we can hand them over to Mexico, because that would be poetic. And hilarious.
Since Arizonans are too lazy and too addicted to federal welfare, they’ll never leave on their own. Our devious plot to give the state back to Mexico through population assimilation was working perfectly until they decided to require papers. They’ll NOT foil our plot. No they won’t.
If they change the state name to Huffhines, maybe we’ll lose sight of ‘em on a map and forget about the whole thing.
What I don’t get is this. If you’re a Teabagger, your biggest fear is that an imminent, engineered economic collapse will soon usher in a communist police state, right? OK fine, but then, why are you so eager to put more soldiers with guns along a fortified border wall? And give cops the power to “ask to see if your papers are in order”? Hello, East Germany.
That state is full of poison oozing from its crusty, old reptiles and insects.
Then there’s the creatures to watch out for.
[re=562051]friendlyskies[/re]:
And give cops the power to “ask to see if your papers are in order”? Hello, East Germany.
Ana-stasi?
[re=562048]magic titty[/re]: [re=562038]Extemporanus[/re]: State, you’ve got a panty on your head.
[re=562051]friendlyskies[/re]: If the Teabaggers think about the issue, which is highly questionable, they will assume that gray-haired white guys will be exempt from search or questioning. They may get upset if the Mexican guy who cuts their lawn is arrested or deported.
Jokes on you, AZ! Lake Mead’s going dry and Cali gets first dibs!
It really aggrieves me to see a state with such splendid and attractive natural wonders be the home of so many asshatted dimwits. Why can’t the all live in Oklahoma with their dipshitted brethern?
My lawyer sense is tingling! I’m pretty sure a state can’t tell the President of the Union what to do. Hopefully Congress passes the “Suck it, Arizona” law and slaps them with the Supremacy Clause.
If Arizona really wants to stop illegal immigration, simply enact the death penalty for anyone who hires an illegal. Problem Solved.
Watching the guy in the picture going anal on Sarah Palin with that thing would be the biggest pay-per-view internet porn offering ever. I predict.
[re=561973]Carmela08[/re]: Not so fast to claim your prize, I’m quite sure we up north in Oklahoma have easily outdone ourselves with insanity over the past month to claim the prize. But I will say that this probably does put Arizona ahead. Shit that leaves us as the silver medalists in the Sarah Palin Olympics.
With neighbors like Texas, sitting on the porch, drinking Lone Star and lighting their oily, secessionist farts on fire, and Arizona, doing EVERYTHING else stupid – you have to wonder how New Mexico has even maintained its property values at the 2nd lowest in the nation!
Dammit! Every time I think Oklahoma has absolutely cornered the market on wingnuttery, (state legislators supporting formation of a new militia, anyone?) along comes some upstart to try and wrest the crazy-crown from off our pointy heads.
I’ve said it before, but really. Who can outstupid the Bluegrass State? Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning, with Rand Paul in a massive lead to take Bunning’s seat. Voting rights for certain states are WAY overrated.
[re=562096]GoinGreen[/re]: “you have to wonder how New Mexico has even maintained its property values at the 2nd lowest in the nation!”
it’s full of mexicans (hispanics) and indians (native-americans). this automatically disqualifies it as a retirement or investment venue for the average white (racist).
I know all the buzz right now is about AZ, MS, FL and OK, but I’m just waiting for SC to make a move. Those guys are clutch.
[re=562087]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: I’d pay for that!
Since there ain’t no grass lawns in NM, what do they use the mexcuns for – chasin the injuns off their desert-scapes?
[re=562124]GoinGreen[/re]: the mexcuns bring the drugs up from mexco. the injuns keep the likker stores in bidness.
[re=562128]slappypaddy[/re]: Touché! +1
[re=562096]GoinGreen[/re]: It also makes us housing-bubble-proof. Yeah! for stable home prices! I can see Arizona’s economy collapsing from my porch, also.
[re=562115]slappypaddy[/re]: that just leaves all the native-NM “anglo” racists who hate all the aforementioned reasons for outside racists not moving here to retire. I’m sure it won’t last.
[re=562118]Accordion-o-rama[/re]: Don’t forget TX. I know it’s been under the radar for a while, but its roster is packed with talent. Perry is just entering his prime and Cornyn is a wily veteran who can hit for power. And TX has some up and coming rookies who could shake things up.
So, when Barry shows them his BC, are they just going to say it is invalid? I can see this turning into a replay of 2000 with the Supreme Court deciding the issue. We should just let these idiots leave the union like they want to and then they wouldn’t have to worry about being governed by “one of them”.
[re=561971]ArkansasFred[/re]: WIN!
[re=562051]friendlyskies[/re]: You were expecting them to make sense. That was your first mistake.
Arizona: the Florida of the West.
[re=562108]ArugulaTeleprompterz[/re]: Word. Mitchy-poo is a member at my parents’ church, which just makes me shudder to think about. And can’t figure out, since they’re incredibly liberal for a Baptist church in Kentucky. Which isn’t saying much, I guess. Also and too.
[re=562081]Mr. Tusks[/re]: I would think that the inability of States to add qualifications for federal office would take care of it. Of course, if Barry were actually to win on a federalism argument, well, that would be the end of the birthers right there because there heads asplode.
Wonder how this will effect John McCain, since he wasn’t born in the US either.
[re=562254]kat500[/re]: Christ, someone finally said it. And wasn’t he born in an occupied sector of some banana republic or fourth-rate banking tax haven? Time for a careful examination of his “birth” certificate, and for a forensic analysis of the stupid stick with which he was beaten, also.
Arizona is the 48th state, admitted to the union on Feb 14th (aww, how special) 1912.
1912. Less than a hundred years as a state. Compared to the rest of us (minus Hawaii and ahem, Alaska), Arizona is a baby state. It’s a toddler that eats its boogers. It still pees itself when it laughs too hard. It has tantrums when it doesn’t get its way.
Arizona needs a time out.
I think Arizona is barely leading Florida in the stupid things from the Legislature category this year. Granted, Florida called Arizona with passing an official call for a Constitutional Convention last night; but Arizona may have already done that.
[re=562173]FMA[/re]: Texas is at a disadvantage since their Legislature only meets every other year. I bet they would be the leader in the clubhouse if they were on a yearly basis.
This is actually not good news for the next Panama John, or Papa Mittens Romney, the last two illegal aliens to get close to the presidency. So, whatevers.
On behalf of the good, left-leaning people in Arizona, please don’t hate us. I’m sorry for all the racist, birther, gun-nut, Teabagger crazies. We’re not all like that, I swear.
As my good friend said after I said that we all look like jokes, “THEY, not WE. I ain’t party to that, brother.”
[re=562031]sati demise[/re]: PLEASE note that it was not the University of Arizona in Tucson that dissed our president. It was Arizona STATE University in Tempe (that dropped to #6 on Playboy’s party school list, much to the chagrin of its hard-partying student body). Compared to ASU, the U of A is Harvard. Tucson is in Pima County where both of our U.S. Representatives are Democrats, Gabrielle Gifford (an actual female-person) and Raúl Grijalva (yes, one of those people Sheriff Arpaio is always trying to put in handcuffs). I’m not saying we’re in the 21st century here in Pima County (we ARE indeed the world’s capital of the 4 p.m. buffet), but most of us know that pagers don’t give off busy signals and this mortifying law will cause more problems for Panamanian Juan McCain than it will for Barack Obama.
[re=561972]gossipgirl[/re]: I’d hit it – after he got rid of the bloody cactus…
[re=562385]DP[/re]: So after 100 years of UNCONSTITOOSHINAUL FASHIT SOSHALIST MUSLIN TIRREENY, the GOOD WHITE CHRISTIAN REPUBLICAN WHITE PEOPLE of Arizona can finally free themselves from THIS ANTICHRISTOBAMER-NATION!!!! FREEEEEEEEEEEEDUMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!111!!!
OMG it’s SO embarrassing! I live in AZ and just want to shrink into the ground. I moved here from PA where people have sense, and feel like I landed on some alien planet. I’m surrounded by people terrified of imaginary death panels, and who want a former secessionist moron to be on the next Presidential ticket just because she seems personable.
[re=562396]Rasvar[/re]: yeah, we work pretty hard to do moronic things here in arizona. i’m willing to venture a guess that soon we will make it illegal to urinate while sitting down or wear blue on saturday. GET ME OUT OF THIS STATE!!!
missizona? aribamma? bammizona? alazona? bammasippizona? its like a pizza rolled up like a burrito, then deep fired in stupid, right? or a state.
[re=562118]Accordion-o-rama[/re]: As a Californian, I’m just happy for a breather.
Unfortunately, I live in AZ. We fail at educating our students, sell state lands to the highest bidder and pass ridiculous laws(thanks to ugly partisan politics). On top of this, the Arizonians who scream the loudest about illegal immigrants are often the first to hire them for their cheap labor,including ranchers who live on the border.
It’ll be a relief for Nevada if Arizona becomes America’s dumbest state.
Those in the know call it “KENTUCKAZONA”. I spent my spare time rounding up the crowds standing in the parking lot staring at the sun. Send em indoors to get themselves some a jug of Brawndo. (cause it has ‘lectolytes. Dumb as fuck around here.
Just FYI…….I live here and it’s not so bad if you go north or south of Phoenix….I.e. Tucson or Flagstaff………we aren’t all hicks and white trash
Looks like a lot of uneducated libertards on this site. Thanks to Arizona, this situation is getting national attention and Arizona will reap the consequences (good or bad) based on this legislation. Illegal immigrants are reported leaving the state, and going to New Mexico (where I live), California, Colorado, and many other states. Time will tell whether they made the right decision, but if the Feds were doing their jobs in the first place, Arizona wouldn’t have to pass the legislation in the first place. This is a failure of the Federal Government and the Obama Administration and all previous ones that didn’t deal with this.
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