GOP Congressional candidate Allen West won his primary this week against … well, who cares what the guy’s name was, he wasn’t even human. “My primary opponent is nothing more than a minor speed bump, which we will defeat, en route towards our goal of firing Pelosi-puppet, Ron Klein, on November 2,” the retired army lieutenant colonel posted on his blog before the voting began. This sort of “dehumanize the enemy” thinking must have made it easier for West to threaten that Iraqi guy with Death that one time!
Being crazy isn’t hurting West much, says Slate wingnut-beat writer Dave Weigel — people are responding positively to his “cartoonishly violent language” and his campaigns against everything. And Sarah Palin endorses him, HUZZAH.
West finally got to “meet” Palin this week, when they appeared together with Arizona Congressional candidate Jesse Kelly on the Fox Business show American Nightly Scoreboard (an apparent favorite program among people in the processing technology industry). They had never even spoken before! At least Palin doesn’t make you jump through too many hoops to get her seal of approval.
Palin invoked God to bless West and Kelly and thank them for putting themselves “on the line again for the rest of us,” because life = WAR:
I feel like I’m not even worthy of tying their combat boots, but just being so respectful of them. That is what we need, men of honor who understand what it means to be an American and the exceptionalism that is our country, who want to protect that and want to allow our children and grandchildren the opportunity for the freedom that we had.
Hearing those random words must have made West feel warm inside. In general, he’s a very warm person, when he’s not comparing his opponent to roadway features or criticizing the “Gestapo-type intimidation tactics” of some Democrat videotaping him talking wingnutty. He even hired some little kids to say the Pledge of Allegiance for his new campaign ad, because he’s into Warm and Fuzzy:
Aw, he seems so nice! Just hanging on the beach, being one with the sand and ocean water, talking about the Constitution and us all being successful. “Us” includes everyone except people who own Coexist stickers and incumbent Democratic Representative Ron Klein.
Speaking of Klein, West has just about had it with that guy! All he wants to talk about this week is some imaginary IRS lien against some house that West owned in Indiana. West has the papers to prove Klein’s charge is an OUTRAGEOUS LIE — they’re right over … well, West is still gathering them up or something, reports the Broward Palm Beach New Times.
Meanwhile, the Miami Herald‘s “Naked Politics” blog says a spokesman for West “doesn’t dispute” that a lien was placed on another house West owns. Just minor speed bumps, people. [Allen West for Congress website/Slate/America's Nightly Scoreboard transcript/Talking Points Memo/Broward Palm Beach New Times/Miami Herald]
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Hey, Sarah Palin was approved as a veep candidate without anyone ever talking to her. What’s good for the goose is good for the guy who likes killing people!
There’s a former Republican Congresscritter, cum Federal prisoner, who used to talk that shit all the time, too. “Just another MiG,” he used to say on the campaign trail. Well, at least Mr. West doesn’t think he’s really John Wayne.
Oh, look, Sarah’s attempt to show the world she doesn’t hate black people. She endorsed one from the safety of Wasilla & only had to meet him on teevee. This makes up for the fact that she’s going to speak at Glen Beck’s “I Hate MLK” day rally…no racist, that gal
Maybe her mother tongue was Aleut. “The exceptionalism that is our country”: So beautiful! So empty! Like the speaker!
Allen West the Cameo of the wingnut party. Werd up .
Of all the teabagger memes — and this one came from the neocons — American exceptionalism is by far the most glaring oxymoron. I would love it if these idiots got it through their heads that the Constitution pretty clearly embodies the humanist idea that no nation is more exceptional than another and that no human is more exceptional than another. This notion of exceptionalism, which governs the vast majority of the Republican party, is about the most anti-American idea going right now.
I’m betting that those papers West is looking for are being held in a vault by Chief Korir.
but guys, seriously, what the fuck is that tie?
Oh the delicious irony that a house undoes the candidate who has only non-human opponents. OH WAIT! That’s not actual irony. That means this isn’t actual snark.
[re=647439]SayItWithWookies[/re]: All that changed when the Blessed St. Ronnie single-handily threw down the Evil Empire, the Soviet Union. All hail the American Empire! USA! USA! USA!
[re=647447]crunkjuice[/re]: Looks like those crafts you make at camp — pot holders.
[re=647439]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Next thing you’re going to tell me is that Muslims, Jews and Christians worship the same God…
Can’t some enterprising college students go through Palin’s garbage to find out how much the Right Reverend Beck is paying her to appear at his inauguration as Leader of Americans of All Colors As Anointed by the Founders? What? You say there aren’t any college students in Wasilla? Well, OK, Levi then. Or Mercede … c’mon, honey, it could be a scoop for your blog.
Also, Beck notes that he is going to stand at the Lincoln Memorial “two steps below” where the Dr. King stood because he is not worthy, blah, blah, blah. Inquiring mindsâ„¢ want to know where Sister Sarah’s going to stand.
The exceptional that is our country, ism. Asm, also.
[re=647467]Jukesgrrl[/re]: She’ll be jumping up and down in Abe’s lap, exceptionally.
Let us know when this West guy “meats” Sarah Palin if ya know what I mean har har har.
Uncle Ruckus!
I feel like I’m not even worthy of tying their combat boots, but just being so respectful of them.
Sentence fragment, lack of subject-verb agreement. Is she not worthy of being respectful of them?
That is what we need, men of honor who understand what it means to be an American and the exceptionalism that is our country, who want to protect that and want to allow our children and grandchildren the opportunity for the freedom that we had.
So we lost our freedumb but these combat-boot clad men of honor are bringing it back … we didn’t lose our freedumbs when Bush was in office. Nope, never mind Guantanamo and military tribunals and electronic surveillance. We lost them when that uppity law professor from Chicago got elected.
What is this, the FDR Coup?
Tina Fey should get a Nobel Prize for coining the phrase “word salad” (if she did). There’s our snowbilly grifter, doing it again.
[re=647520]Come here a minute[/re]: Word Salad has appeared in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (the book psychiatrists use to make diagnosises about crazy people) for many years. It is typically a symptom of some psychosis such as schizophrenia.
. . . and by night, Black Batman!
[re=647437]El Pinche[/re]: HA! Allen West is the codpiece of the Teabagger par-tay!
[re=647447]crunkjuice[/re]: [re=647461]Rosie Scenario[/re]: That’s a “Gee’s Bend Commemorative Quilt Tie”, you goddamn racists.
That Palin quote stood out as being exceptionally idiotic, even by Palin’s standards. A train wreck of words.
Alan Keyes had a love child. Who knew?
I don’t know which is funnier: dude’s high top fade and Chinese finger puzzle tie or Sarah Palin’s latest word salad.
Michael Steele, Allen West, with Sarah Palin as the creamy white filling. The Nabisco ticket.
Okay. Two remarks.
1. Retired Lieutenant Colonel. Unless he was retired because of disability, or had a substantial enlisted career before getting his commission, this is semantically equivalent to “Retired because you are a loser who will never make full bird”.
2. How does he get his hair to do that?
“I feel like I’m not even worthy of tying their combat boots.”
Aw, shucks, a simple blowjob will suffice.
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