Oh look, gossip website Politico is piddling itself with excitement over the tragic/predictable news that Rick Perry is “definitely totally” super almost officially about to run for this “President of the Damned” job that replaced the POTUS job title at some point during market trading today. This is basically the exact same headline we have been reading for weeks, but uh sure, let’s reflect on how terrible this would be. Is everyone excited to be ruled by another illiterate D-student Texas devil clown whose weepy prayers are automatically forwarded to God’s spam folder because God is already tired of the other idiot Texas frat prince who ruined His Earth with eternal wars and torture camps? Yes, apparently! Let’s have a sneak preview!
Here it is: Texas currently leads the nation in minimum-wage jobs, executions, percentage of children without health insurance and is third in teen pregnancy. Only third! So everyone look forward to watching their kids suffer from treatable illnesses for a few minutes a day before heading off to their double shift at a $4-an-hour union-free workplace before being executed at age 64 to keep Medicare rolls low.
From POLITICO:
Rick Perry intends to use a speech in South Carolina on Saturday to make clear that he’s running for president, POLITICO has learned.
According to two sources familiar with the plan, the Texas governor will remove any doubt about his White House intentions during his appearance at a RedState conference in Charleston.
It’s uncertain whether Saturday will mark a formal declaration, but Perry’s decision to disclose his intentions the same day as the Ames straw poll — and then hours later make his first trip to New Hampshire — will send shock waves through the race and upend whatever results come out of the straw poll.
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good for him. the innocent people in this country aren't just going to execute themselves.
That's what we have police for!
~
After what the markets did today, I'm not so sure that's true.
Don't be too sure of that
We just like people who like to kill. We got it from the greatest generation. It's great to win especially when it's life or death
Still all hair, no cattle!
Or looked at from another perspective, all boots and no manure.
Wait a minute . . .
Yeah, you definitely gotta rework that one.
At least this time nobody will be laughing about the sheer ridiculousness of a moronic patently unqualified Texas governor thinking he has a chance to get elected president.
Oh no, I'll be crying like that last two times it happened.
I thought it only happened once.
New evidence points to that it never happened even once:
http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2011/...
"Suspicious" small-plane crash.
Laughing, no. Drinking, on the other hand…
Texas is still #1 in Texans writing songs about Texas.
Nobody else would write them.
Needs more secessionists.
Ya really! Wasn't Gov. Varmint-Killer here all like HERP-DERP TEXUS SHOULD BE INDEPENDENT FROM THE TERRIBLE CRAPPY U.S. GUBBINT YEE-HAW now he wants to be in charge of the whole shebang?
Eh, inconsistency can always be explained away if you just say "God told me to do it.".
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A foolish inconsistency, on the other hand, is the platform of the Republican party.
A party of little minds and hobgoblins.
dear Texas,
secede or GTFO.
The way things are going, seceding from the Union could be a viable campaign strategy for a Republiklan candidate.
Yep. I mean, the world's going to heck in a handbasket either way. So we might as well have a President who doesn't make us all look like schmucks.
It's OK, you can say "hell" here.
i am suddenly so hungry for poison
Grinding up lightly salted poison rat dicks and huffing them isn't cutting it for me any more.
Be sure to get the good, name-brand organic poison. The other stuff is not made with real toxins, but toxins from concentrate mixed with corn syrup.
You don't want to be dead and obese. That would be SO embarrassing.
Stupid arugula-eating liberals. You people are why the DDT industry had to shut down.
Texas's prayers have been answered.
Too bad Bristol didn't move to Tejas; then they could have been #1 in teen pregnancy, too, also.
I'm sure Perry is thinking of naming Sarah Palin as his running mate just to up that average.
I pray he would actually do that. He won't though, IMO.
Probably because Perry read this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/bristol-palin-in...
But, Bristol has only had one baby, and she's what? 19? In Texas, that makes her practically a 50-year-old spinster.
How many guns do I own?
Not enough, Katie.
The new 2010's theme song…Brother, can you spare a gun?
"It's ammo that matters."
Rick Perry's presidential ambitions give me Fred Thompson flashbacks.
At least Fred has a body of work behind him (meaning movie features) so if Stephen K. Bannon hasn't put together a gripping hagiography for Perry, how do we know he's 'running?'
You mean the bloom will come off the rose right quick?
I would like to downgrade S&P to enemy combatant.
Isn't he an undercover gay? Maybe he'll name Tim Gunn as Secretary of the Interior.
KORS FOR SECDEF
Nina for Sec of State
Heidi for Treasury
And Marcus Bachmann for HHS.
You just can't have enough moronic douchebags running for President.
Well you can, but that doesn't stop anyone from doing it anyway.
"You just can't have enough moronic douchebags running for President."
2011: The Year of the Republican Douche Flood
Time to re-order the Fluoxetine.
And alprazolam.
It's raining hair, hallelujah!
Perry/Blagojevich 2012?
In college, Perry got a D in Principles of Economics, a C in gym, and an A in world military systems. Sounds like Republican presidential material to me.
However, he did get A's in Home Economics and Cheerleading.
Perry got a A in "Make me your bitch" for grades.
How, exactly, do you get a C in gym? I mean, c'mon, even if he runs/throws like a girl that should only bring his grade down to a B.
You need at least a C, because everything is bigger in Texas.
Fuck!
Texas A & M is known the world over for being the Harvard on the Brazos!
//snort, snort
And Harvard is A&M on the Charles, one hears.
"And Harvard is A&M on the Charles, one hears."
Identical!
Only difference is that not as many Texans with shaved heads running around dressed up like soldiers with swords.
Plus, not as many cows around Cambridge as College Station, so not as many dating opportunities on the Charles river….
I can't read "Texas A&M" without reading "Texas A2M", which is something very different.
There's always T&A2M.
That's Alexis Texas, right?
Only in Texas could you put "because Jesus" as the answer to all questions and still get a passing grade in economics.
If (God forbid) Perry becomes president, who will the new Hair Apparent in Texas?
The Wacky Witch Will Wiggle in Waco @ The Itchy Kitty?
This guy. http://www.toddstaples.com/
Be very afraid.
Wow. Two words: Utter Weenus.
Reince Prius? (or whatever the wisconsin Repig douchebags name is?)
Damn, and here I was thinking it was Kinky Friedman's turn.
Not hardly. His bio says he's Palestinian.
Interesting trivia: The lead singer for Slayer also lives in Palestine, Texas. http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2010-09-24/1...
X-Men 2 wasn't really that bad. Now, X-Men 3, on the other hand…
Rick Perry = Texas-sized hairball.
Rick Perry = Texas-sized hairball.
The God who made us will inspire others to open their hearts and minds and then spend 15 minutes coughing up a huge, ugly hairball…
It is my personal goal for the rest of my life to do what ever possible to prevent the election of another President from Texas. The last two started intractable wars and the last one fucked the economy for a generation.
There's only been two native Texans elected Preznit though, and they both did some neat stuff, not counting some dumbfuckery in SE Asia.
True, Eisenhower was born there and moved to Kansas and Bush was born with a silver spoon up his ass in Connecticut and tried to be a movie Texan. That movie Texan idea scares me a lot with Rick Perry.
What?!?! The last dumbass from Texas wasn't enough! Jesus!
That's right. The last dumbass from Texas was not enough Jesus. Fortunately, Rick Perry is significantly more Jesus than the last guy.
Supply and demand.
Texas has a big supply of assholes.
And there is uh, well, some moderately small, probably delusional, demand…
No demand … it's pure thermodynamics. Assholes just diffuse away from areas of high concentration, in order to increase entropy.
Kinky Friedman for President doesn't sound so bad.
Sounds a lot better than Rick Perry, and us Jews would like one of our own to run things for a change.
Shoot, if Texas runs out of yahoos, there's always Oklahoma.
Really, what can go wrong when you elect a weak governor from Texas who enjoys putting people to death, sucking up to business, and mostly gets by with "aw shucks" charm and the support of far right Christians? At least he is not Black.
Yeah, all that stuff is good, but black is a deal breaker
Texas – the societal plague that just keeps on giving.
Why I have me a brand new troll follower whoppee. Too bad douche bag they took away the downfist button.
Me too. These trolls must be the same lazy unemployed people they keep complaining about…
Yes. Old pussy Spanky is back from fat camp or fetus camp, whatever. Why she wants to follow me again is a mystery. Maybe she wants some stock tips. Sell! Skanky,sell!
Plus we can look forward to Perry and Romney debating which hair products are the best. At least it will have some substance, unlike anything else either of them will say during the campaign.
Perry needs hair to match his Reagan-old face, I'll tell you what. His hairdo is older than the grandchildren he would have if he weren't a weiny washer.
True, but Romney will praise one hair product one day and damn the very same product to hell the next day, depending on the way the wind blows*
*to his and Perry's credit, figuring out which way the wind blows with helmet hair is commendable.
This is why Mitch Daniels decided not to run.
Tim Pawlenty's gov-mullet calls to ask where is the love
Who's Tim Pawlenty?
What is a Tim Pawlenty? It sounds like a drink you could get at a dive bar.
Quikrete vs. 10W-30? How will we choose?
Finally! A prezdint who's not AFRAID to start a war to get us out of this recession!
Are we sure that Perry is actually running and not putting his name forward as a place holder for God?
You can't secede from the U.S. if you're running for the top job, flip floppin' TRUCKNUTZ.
Dear Barack:
You're welcome.
Love,
God
And will Perry be running for President while also taking Texas out of the Union and making it its own country? Will he be our first two country President?
He will run for President and then announce that the rest of the country is seceding from Texas, because Texas is too awesome.
More likely he will announce that Texas has annexed all the other states. We will all be Texans then.
[Reaches for cyanide capsule.]
If he took Texas out of the Union, I might throw in for him.
What about Barack Obama, & every President before Andrew Jackson*?
*If memory serves, A-Jack was the first President born after the hostilities of the War for Independence.
But doesn't god's refusal to hear Perry's prayers and end the Texas drought show that god must not be on his side?
Most of America is praying FOR the drought.
They didn't pray hard enough and gay.
"course not. It's proof god needs more suffering from the poors.
It proves that God wants the praying done in the White House. Because that worked out so well last time.
This reminds me of how some of us were baying for blood when The Other Texan (finally!) left office.
So much for my unrequited blood-lust.
Gay.
He's just looking for a way to get the fuck out of Texas.
Remember when we had a budget surplus, unemployment was under 5% and we were enjoying the peace dividend? We squandered all that on a half-wit Texas gubner with christofascist cravings? Yeah, let's do it again.
Right. Isn't there a kind of amiable, doofusish-but-wicked-smart sex-obsessed former Democratic governor from Arkansas that we can elect?
I'd take him again, in an Arkansas minute! Or his wife.
Not his wife but him in an instant. What's to stop him? It wouldn't be all in a row.
Governor Perry, I've got God on line 2. He says it's urgent. He sounds kind of pissed. Send it to voicemail? Ok, Governor, will do.
And the VP will be played by Lon Cheney Jr.
Doing the werewolves of London.
A soundtrack from Warren Zevon seems required.
Nosferatu got nothing on Dick Cheney.
Needz moar Santorum.
What Republican doesn't?
Being the Republitard Presidential Nominee is just like being the king of the nerds, except nerds are likeable.
It is like being the most talented member of Hansen – you are still a complete douchebag, but at least you have the cover of a couple even bigger losers around you.
Except us nerds actually wrote the software that made this website possible. Because we actually do things other than inherit money.
Stupid is as stupid runs.
I read that a bit differently than intended but…still works.
Perhaps if Texas were to secede before the next election, we'll be spared the horror of another half-wit in a hat talkin' 'bout the folks like they're in another room. I don't mean Texas has to leave on their own. We could kinda sorta accidentally on purpose give 'em a little nudge. Or a shove. Or a big ass push.
Surely we've improved our nuclear weapons since WWII. Let's find out.
Build the danged fence!
"Oh, you wanted the fence over there? Sorry…
It's about time I ran for Pretzeldent.
I will run on the "Dumbass Limitation Act": Republicans from Texas are hereby ruled ineligible for Federal office.
~
Rick Perry is so deeply closeted, he makes Marcus Bachmann look like . . .
Paul Lynde?
Oh wait, I got that backwards…um, George Clooney?
Quasimodo?
Lindsey Graham?
…a speck on the horizon when he opens the Wardrobe? Rick Perry can reach out the back and touch the White Queen. Coincidently, that will be his call sign if he manages to get elected.
"Airforce One, we need you to deliver the White Queen to Camp David."
Revenge of the Texas D student redux.
It's not the presidential nomination i'm worried about but the monster that will come out from the VP candidate.
Trig won't be eligible until 2043.
Shudder.
Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZUVeMtYXc
Cheney again? if he isn't dead, I could almost see the sumbitch leading this one around by the nose like the last Tejas village idiot. Since this one is supposedly in the closet and ripe for blackmailing, big swinging Dick would play him like a Les Paul plugged into Satans' own Marshall Stacks.
You'll hear 'em, I guarantee.
Cheney's been dead for a few years, now. I take it you must mean when his battery finally runs out.
Well this is a fine kettle of fish because the current Lt. Governor has been whispering sweet nothings to the media that he may run for Kay Bailey Bellyflop Hutchinson's spot in the Senate. If Gubnor Good Hair looses his presidential nomination, he may very well seal his fate.
At least they'll have the Governor's Mansion redone so him and Anita can move out that $9,900 / month rental in Westlake.
And to repeat:
Read my lips – No New Texans.
Rick Perry/Paul Lynde 2012!
or:
Rick Perry/Steve Perry 2012: Don't stop believin'!
Or this Rick? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Big middle finger to you for the Journey earworm.
He's actually going to SC to make sweet man-love to Lindsey Graham. Lindsey's the top, by the way.
"Perry says God called him to be President…"
Obviously, Texas asshole, it was a prank call under there.
Huh huh huh huh.
I made him say "underwear"…
Perry is expected to head to Iowa in the days following his New Hampshire trek, too
God may not answer Rick Perry's prayers. Those of the residents of Austin, and decent Texans throughout the state, are another matter…
i guess marcus bachmann won't be the self-hating biggest closet case at the redstate conference. lindsey graham is just trying to hold onto the bronze.
by the way, rick will have to break his DiMaggio-like streak of refusing to participate in a debate with his opponents. (i mean, why debate when God just told you that you're right, amirite!?!)
and while i'm mixing my sports metaphors, he and bush are going to go down in history as the Mays and Mantle of awful texas governors (the best in a golden era for greatness/suck-itude). if he wins the presidency (at any point in his lifetime) then he and bush will become the greatest bar argument ever on the level of Russell or Chamberlain, Ginger or Mary Anne, Manning or Brady, Beavis or Butthead, etc. Except there's no right answer and everyone's a loser.
I give him a(nother) solid "D" on his work thus far…
I can't think of anything witty about this particular post, so I'll just go with the default Rick Perry comment:
Fuck Rick Perry and the horse he rode in on.
What was that line about fascism in America arriving draped in flags…?
I was almost certain that that person was going to be Sarah Palin. Then I realized that no matter how much they wanna bang her or Michelle Bachmann, Republicans would never trust a woman to wake up from her "beauty sleep" to answer the that 3AM phone call.
Every time I mention Rick Perry I'm going to call him "Infamous secessionist traitor Rick Perry" – because it can't be said often enough.
I would like the media to officially refer to him as "Texas Yell Leader Rick Perry," cause it seems that that is all Texas "governors" do, anyway. You know, yell at and about shit, bless their stupid little hearts. It's all that they know, poor things.
I wish that opium, rather than religion was the opiate of the masses, cause I could sure use some right about now.
I'm assuming this means the
hitmencampaign consultants hired by Perrywhacked the last mouthy rentboyfinished nailing down those loose ends that might otherwise have jeopardized the campaign!But unlike Bush Perry actually seems to mean all that "Jesus is America's King" crap.
Hooverville here we come.
Today we are all Arnold Ziffel.
Except we'll call them Perryvilles.
Here we come? We're already there. The only new thing is that the next president will formalize them.
If Rick Perry wins the election, will the USA have been Rickrolled?
Of course he's not going to officially declare! Having to publish campaign finance information makes the baby Jesus cry!
Go to CBN.com and watch the horrific interview he gave those fools, wherein he states that fixing the economy is easy, and says he'd be for constitutional amendments a) outlawing gay marriage b) outlawing abortion, and c) something else equally pointless and mouth-breather-appropriate that I can't quite remember just now. If there's anything more dangerous as a national leader than a sanctimonious idiot with 100% confidence in his rightness, I do not know what it is — and Rick Perry is the real fuckin' deal.
Plus those mom jeans.
OK, my turn:
Who else was a sanctimonious idiot with 100% confidence in his rightness?
I'm not scared of people who can't become president, and whose states I don't live in. I know folks always crow "well, I didn't expect Bush to be president, either", but Bush's daddy was president, so if you envision that possibility, well…
Bush didn't win because of his shining personality; he won because, first, well, he was picked by the Supreme Court, and he was even able to get so close because some average folks recognized the family name and couldn't imagine him being any worse than Gore.
Rick doesn't have shit to fall back on once the "Texas Miracle" is revealed for the sham that it is, or at least revealed to be the work of forces beyond Rick's control.
Sometimes staying in the good job that you are woefully unqualified for is better than trying for a job that you are unimaginably unqualified for.
Well, this is good news for the NAR nuts from last Saturday. Demon sex and Oprah is the Antichrist.
Perry will not be the candidate. He will amass a pile of money though. Grifters every damn one of them.
I won't believe it until Perry has a show on Fox News.
Well, if he wins, we'll know Pat Robertson was right – God IS pissed off at us.
Totally OT, but one of my biggest heroes just died…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/08/nancy...
Well done, Nancy Wake.
OMG, is she beautiful.
Just born a few years earlier, just a few fekkin years earlier it would have been you, Lizzy. It would have been you, the Deadly Orchid.
I know, I would totally have done it , I was very fearless in my youth, plus she killed Nazis with her bare hands!
What an amazing story.
I know you all hate me (not without reason).
But my mother was Australian. She passed away in April, after a stroke in January. I'm sorry I didn't get to send her that obit.
Thanks for posting.
P.S. That said, the All Blacks still are a bunch of prancing nancy boys.
I, for one, don't hate you Neilist, and in fact, miss your jovial and informative munitions trivia. Where would a hopeless libtard like myself learn anything about all those shootie things?
But you should hate me.
I'm remarkably hateable.
In contrast, my mother was a nice person. And in her day, a Complete Babe.
I don't hate you, in fact I have missed the madness and witticisms that ensued when you posted, so welcome back and I'm sorry about your Mum.
Yep, she sounds amazing.
On a similar note, Oregon lost one of the last decent Republicans, Mark Hatfield. Secretary of State, governor in the 60s, 5 term senator, actually told the GOP to fuck off over both Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, among other issues. Plus, when he grifted it was for the good of the people through funneling funds, not for the good of himself or the Koch Bros.
According to the rule of 3s that means someone else decent must die (hat tip Tracy Morgan). Everyone make sure Obama's ass is covered for the next 72 hours, okay?
He's got that whole "Dumb-ass Texan" vibe going. Amurcans seem to love that. At least, history shows, a scarily high percentage do.
When Adlai Stevenson was running, and obviously losing, for the second time in 1956 a friendly reporter sought to comfort him saying, "Well, Governor, at least you're the 'thinking man's' candidate."
"That's not enough," replied Stevenson. "I have to have a majority."
Dumb-de-dumb-dumb … Bonanza! Stock market falls a gamillion points on news that Rick Perry is going to announce for President of the nation from which he wants to secede.
Oddly enough, Josh Brolin looks more like Rick Perry than George W. Bush.
Yeah, the both of them could play Geico cavemen with those chins.
His campaign slogan should be "Miss me yet?"
Miss you? Nyet.
In case y'all don't remember, the last time a dumbass from Texas had even a remote chance at being elected president (Bush beat McCain in primaries), the tech-heavy NASDAQ began crashing.
Whenever an asshole from Texas gets his hands on power, Wall Street knows the country is turning to shit…
I do remember we started the long slide down the day after Shrub won the primary. They all had met him and they all knew how stupid he was/is.
Another Mission Accomplished!
Between him, Cain, Newt, Santorum & Shelly Bachmann, the crazy train for the GOP nomination is just about full.
And you know both Romney and Huntsman are staring at it, trying to figure a way to wedge themselves on without touching the others.
Oh, and don't forget Thad (admittedly, everyone else does) and Donald "I may still run" Trump.
It's a clown car … and it's far from full.
Speaking of Crazy Train, if foriegners could run for president, and Ozzie Osbourne was a republican (I'm pretty sure he's not), he'd still have a better chance, than the rest of the republican "field" of un-electable horse'es asses.
Trust me, they'll stuff it like an Indian commuter train. You know, the ones that crash killing (insert number in the hundreds/thousands).
Triumph of Will's already been used… right?
Got the crazy bitch Michelle…check
Got the preacher wanna be fucktard…check
Go the wishy washy Rom noodles..check
Republicans have all of America covered.
I'm confused–is that a photo of London burning, or God's response to the state of Texas?
Slighly OT, I wondered the same thing.
I'm watching my old hometown go to complete shit and getting a very large sad.
Might be the Texas gov's mansion burning. If it ain't, it should be.
does this guy worry anybody else? I mean I know he's an asshat, but so is a significant portion of the country.
tho perry and bachmann debating might be worth the price of admission.
After that stupid off, watching whatever mental midget "wins" the nomination try to hang with President Obama is gonna be hilarious (I'm thinking NIxonian flop sweat, 3 word answers, lots of PAlin-esque ignoring the questions), although the post debate attempts to spin for the GOP will be downright painful.
I'd also like to see a battle royale between Perry, Huntsman and Romney over a single bottle of hair care product. Maybe with Marcus Bachmann as guest commentator/special guest.
Only if I was really, really stoned, it might seem funny on some hazy meta level, rather than painfully and depressingly stupid. And I haven't done that that in decades.
Worries me, in a truly weakened economy he could seem like an answer to a maiden's prayer for the Teabaggers et al.
Also the "Ames Straw Poll" is a rent-a-vote nothingburger of a pseudo-event, but you keep banging that cowbell Politico.
When they heck did we start caring about this shit? I don't remember anyone talking about all the bs straw polls this time last cycle (except CPAC, which everyone promptly disregarded as BS). Plus, if any of this early crap mattered, GHW Bush would have been a 2 term President, Clinton and W never would have been elected, and Hilary would have lost to either Giuliani or Fred Thompson.
also, i'm not linkiing to amything with 'politico' and 'piddling' in the same sentence.
Rick Perry is a maggot infested cow-pie. Also, proving there is no god (again) by not dropping a bus sized asteroid on his tax payer funded Republofascist "Fundie
Prayer-a Thong" thingy on Reliant Stadiun ( i.e. ENRON STADIUM) whilst the poors are sweltering in 145 degree ovens. The first time god proved he didn't exist was when he let his "chosen people" be gassed like termites and roasted in 1500 degree ovens, and all his son could do is weep…….what a pussy.
Technically, it was Enron Field (where the Astros play). It has always been Reliant Stadium, although the 300 million in public funding still sucks.
Got your own homegrown Steinbrenner leeches, eh?
Six of one, half a dozen of the other, he's still a asshat. Thanks Berkley for enlightening me anyway, so its taxfunder stadium A, not taxpayer funded stadium B, but it still taxpayer funded power company C, intended to help those keep cool, who couldn't afford it, just how Jesus would have wanted it.
Everyone relax.
Take a deep breath.
Me and God were hangi'n at the strip joint last night and he let me in on a little secret.
Basically he said "Peryvy, Bauchmane, Paolinnn ecetera," that's how you pronounce them when you have had way to much Scotch n Soda, Hey! He created it so I'm not arguing the little points, "are nimrods."
He said he just wants to fuck with em for awhile.
God would have told me more but his artificially inseminated son showed up and dragged his ass out of there.
That's my story and I'm sticking by it.
At least that's what I told the Wife.
So was it God or Jesus who got glitter all over your face?
Think it was God. Maybe Jesus???
Hard to remember.
Could have been the guy with the glitter bottle sitting beside me.
Was that God?
Hell, I don't know, they all look the same after 5 Bourbon, 5 Scotch and 5 beer.
Father, Son, or Glittery Ghost … it ain't hard to figure out.
I support Perry's run for President if only to see how many power tops come out of the proverbial woodwork.
Would this mean the holy nutbag moron vote would be split, this paving the way for Mitt the Shitt? This freak show is making Willard look good.
Mitt's best hope to get the nomination is to act like the guy in "Being There" for the next 8 months, saying little and doing less. It still means he'll get waxed by Obama (particularly if he doesn't keep the Teahadists excited), but that is his path to being in the final picture
The owners of the GOP have already chosen Mitt. Pay no attention to the silly distractions.
I hope they've chosen him just like they chose McCain. That's what I see Mitt being if he makes it: the 2012 McCain. You know, the guy whose "turn it is" at the front of the party, only to lose once again and be swept aside.
Yes, but then I see his VP being Bachmann, once again for batshit-insane base-energizing. And, as with McCain if he'd won, Willard will want to be verrrrrrry careful around flights of stairs, flying vehicles, automobiles whose brake cables can be cut, etc., etc., etc.
Texas town turns off water: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/127123623.html The home state of Perry and bastion of Teatard philosophy can't even provide basic municipal services. (Note: the mayor blames it on a broken water main that can't be fixed "because no money.")
Not to worry … they've already scheduled a tax break and some praying.
Actually, one of the comments was "Why don't you pray?"
/snort
Perry's hair is looking dyed to me. Almost Reaganesque.
Reaganesque would be if the coloring agent were shoe polish or possibly motor oil.
And so….. that's about right then.
How can Governor Perry not realize that Newt has the nomination totally sewn up? The moment that the Nation heard soundbites from Callista, the whole, so-called, pre-nomination process imploded. It was over in a thundershot. The Tiffany revolving credit account only cemented the deal. All of America loves people who love to shop at quality stores. Over. Done. Don't want to hear about Iowa. It's in the bag! (Tiffany blue bag.)
The red states' choice for First Trophy.
Dear [Over]Lord, can we stand another political season for POTUS? Can't we just fast-forward to November 5, 2012 and laugh with lunatic relief at the implosion the GOP suffered in a McCain/Palin redux?
Oh, I;m with you on that North! Better, can't we just get to January 20-whatever, 2013 and cheer at the inaugural?
This is Good News for Jon Huntsman.
Seriously: the only way Romney loses is if he and Gov. Good Hair destroy each other, and the only reliable candidate to fill the void is the Other Mormon.
Nah, it helps Romney by splitting the Xian vote between Bachmann & Perry. Romney's got easy sailing now. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the Romney $1 million mystery donors have been talking Perry into running. Of course, Romney is spineless and brainless enough to blow it, but I suspect the dollar people have got their handlers in place by now.
You meant to say the other moron, right?
I'd vote for Perry for president of the new independent Republic of Texas.
What? No post today on the London riots? I realize this blog is mostly about Washington, but I really do think those riots have some implications for what could possibly happen, here.
Yeah, I wondered that, then wondered if I was biased because it was my home for so many years.
A couple of choice twatter-machine quotes – "I hope Oakland isn't taking notes" and "Worst Olympic opening ceremony ever"
This is pure lawlessness. Any kind of reason for this nonsense ended a long time ago. It's truly awful seeing areas where I spent so much time get looted and destroyed, yet even in this I see gems such as the large Turkish and Kurd community in Stoke Newington policing that area themselves – http://twitpic.com/635ffl (both Dalston and Stokey have large Turk/Kurd communities). Hooray for Muslim immigrants!
Aieee! Creeping Sharia!
Those lads in Stokey are top. Who only knows how many kebabs I bought off 'em, and they're lovely to talk to once they realise you're not just some chav.
Honestly, I'm shocked. This is supposedly a world-class city. Imagine riots like this breaking out all over NYC in 2011. London is sounding all Third World, lately. There are literally mobs roaming the streets and the cops can't seem to stop them. This isn't "oh, some kids tipped over a car, one night". This is three nights of sustained violence breaking out ALL over the city, and now in other cities.
I hear the violence has now spread to Liverpool and Birmingham. Scary shit.
Riots like that did break out all over NY. In the 70s, when people were broke, pissed off and hot. And in the 60s. Not so much in the 90s, but it did happen all over LA several times.
Trust me, if it gets much worse, you'll see it several times in all sorts of fun places.
Thing is, it *is* a world-class city. It's just laid out a bit weird because of the way it's grown organically.
The initial protest was justified and violence resulted because it was in a poor area and people suddenly realised that they could loot and get away with it a bit. That's the bit which has snowballed – looting with impunity. London is normally a relatively safe city if you're careful, and the police force isn't huge for the size (both physical and population -wise) of the place.
This is groups of kids suddenly working out that with enough people on the streets then the police can't cope. Fuck, they're looting fucking JD Sports first, which is the UK equivalent of Foot Locker – it's all about the Adidas, then it's the big TVs and mobile phones. Real low-aspiration stuff.
Where it gets weird is the odd continuity of London. It's not like Manhattan vs the Bronx: places like Belsize Park (rich) are maybe a few hundred yards from Camden (a bit scummy), so it's dead easy to get trouble in areas which are regarded as being "above that kind of thing"
It really is all horrible.
I know it is. I've been there and love the place. It is a world capital, which makes the inability to get a handle on these things all the more surprising. It doesn't seem like something like this could happen on Manhattan or in Tokyo, these days, certainly not three days in a row. My point was that this stuff is reflecting very poorly London's security mechanisms, a city increasingly defined by its security mechanisms.
But, you're right, how the city is spread and decentralized does make it harder to secure. There really isn't a "bad side of town", but literally bad places that can be next door to super wealthy areas.
It will be Leeds and Bradford next followed by Burnley, it breaks my heart.
I'm really surprised this stuff hasn't reached (or even that it didn't start end) Tower Hamlets and the rest of the east of London.
Much like the flash mob violence in Philly over the springs and summer, I hear a lot of this violence is being organized view social networking. The first thing that should have been done was a curfew put into place, and then a call on the community for the parents to pull in their kids. Hell, you take the blackberries away from the kids for a day, and this shameless shit would have been ended yesterday.
Why? Did your cable go out?
Are you just being some smart-ass? Awares me, pleaze.
I just figure we the people aren't going to take to the streets as long as all the channels are coming in nice and clear. As soon as the cable goes out I'm heading for shelter.
Oh, I see what you're saying. lol My bad. Anyway, us kids do the twitter and texting, these days, so the cable concerns us a bit less than maybe years past.
They're gonna roll out movies glorifying all his struggles against evil in a series of stand along films. In fact, the first one dealing with Perry's 'get tough' stance on immigration is already out in theaters. You may have heard about it: Cowboys vs. Aliens.
Due to obvious liberal hollywood plots to sabotage his campaign, Rick's flick fared poorly against the epic blockbuster about small mythical blue creatures. Here's hoping that the next one, focused on his deep religiosity, will do better: Jesus Christ Superhair.
It's all about finding the right leading man…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axC86B-20Q
I couldn't possibly live through a Perry presidency. It would be like W without all the slapstick.
Great symbolism, there, Ricky. You know, to make your announcement in the first state to leave the Union, setting off the Civil War. How very fitting.
Hey, Reagan's first post-convention speech in 1980 had to do with states' rights, and he gave it in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where those three civil rights workers were murdered in the sixties. So there's a tradition of Republican candidates kicking off campaigns in front of crowds of Southern rednecks with, let's say, less-than-enlightened attitudes about our country's race-related history.
Cause the last half-wit Texas Governor worked out so well, we ought to give it another shot.
Yay!!!1! The Dick Fairy has come!!
I can revive my old 2000 campaign bumper sticker, "NO NEW TEXANS".
What would Molly Ivins say?
Probably something about a tick on a dog, and said dog refusing hunt, and other such folksy, homespun wisdom and clever witticisms.
Yep. A Perry-Bachmann ticket would sew up the batshit crazy vote. Of course, about a third of the country is certifiably insane at this point…
Neocons think they can stop the Doctor in Iowa.
Does he have an Oedipus complex? Does he like baseball? If so he's a shoe-in.
Not only is Texas third in teen pregnancies, it is first in a teen getting pregnant for a second time.
I'll say it again: I've been predicting he will run. Also figured he and Palin would be teaming up (in and out of the sack) ever since I scoped the two of them out at one of Walnut's fund raisers (see previous posts and tweets). She will be VP Running Mate. They will energize the wing-nut Right off the charts. It won't be boring, pilgrims. If Barry can maintain 98.6 body temperature, he will be victorious; a feat not to be taken for granted in that political environment.
This cannot end well.
pray tell, will he be running for the Secessionist Party? Oh right, same thing…
Ziffel/Kimball 2012!
It's my feeling that it's surprised everyone. Do you police for four-sigma events or for a major metropolis?
The decentralization doesn't help at all. Poor police get called to a riot in Tottenham, then Barking, then Tooting, then Ealing – they're not next to each other, and the city (as you know) is a rabbit warren rather than organised into easy blocks for traversal.
Police are now considering using rubber bullets and water cannons. One thing is for damn sure – this can't go on for another night because the world is watching.
I think Perry has the batshit-insane base-energizing mojo all by himself. He's gonna need a VP who can pass for the smarter twin. Do any of the candidates NOT have a "C" average in college?
What scares the crap out of me is a Romney/Perry ticket, and frankly I think that's what Perry is shooting for.
This is Thatcher's fault for stripping social services, privatising fucking everything and breaking the unions, making it harder for the working class to ever move up the food chain, Christ I fucking hate that woman. You should google Broadwater Farm Riots, it's the same housing estate where Mark Duggan was shot by police, which sparked these latest riots, terrible riots there in the 80s.
It really is awful and depressing. The people these kids are (supposedly) angriest at won't get the brunt of the destruction: it's their mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles in their communities. I fear that the whole thing just gives cover and credence to the International Breivik Brigades who believe browns are the problem all over Europe (and America).
I have always said that the rightwing racism in Europe is/will be worse because Europeans can cry "homeland," while none of us Europeans and Africans actually belong in this hemisphere. (Of course, European haters ignore the fact that when you conquer and loot someone else's country, you own the immigrants coming to your country as reparations.)
Whenever these things happen, nobody in the news mentions the ethnic composition of the rioters, while making sure to show as many browns as possible. Have you seen any reports that put into context who is rioting, and what communities it's affecting?
It's Thatcher, but it's also Cameron trying to relive her years with this "new" austerity (which is really the same as the old austerity). Like many politicians that win close elections, he's made the mistake of believing that the last election was support for Conservatives, when the damned thing almost ended up hanged.
It doesn't appear to be , necessarily, a racial situation, it's more a “The fucking Tories , with their bleeding austerity measures, have taken all our bennies” situation. As a proud member of the British working class, I am somewhat relieved to see multi-ethnic rioters and multi-ethnic crowds resisting them! I was born in Brixton, South London, which is a very poor area and has high immigration and the riots have moved there, here are some photos from the Guardian which shows more of the racial make-up of the rioters , onlookers and victims.http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/aug/08/violence-looting-london-in-pictures?intcmp#9#/?picture77694984&index
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/aug/09/london-riots-croydon-hackney#/?picture77701235&index!http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/aug/09/… />A sad picture that truly shows that it really is just normal working-class people of all ethnicities are equally affected here.
This is the best assessment I have read.http://www.salon.com/news/global_post/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/08/09/london_riots_explained&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110
You are right. Thanks for the links, Baby!
Absolutely, it's not even especially racial, it's more youth related, no jobs, no chance to go to University , social programmes cut, it's just awful.
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