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Ron Paul comes in second... Since 1979, the winner or runner up has gone on to win the Iowa caucuses each time.

Be scared, be very scared... GWB won this thing when he was considered the long shot as well.

Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll as Perry looms

Pawlenty Drops Out of Republican Race

first casualty...

Pawlenty Drops Out of Republican Race

first casualty...


Yep, he's taking his ball and going home. 

Speaking moments later on the same program, Mrs. Bachmann praised Mr. Pawlenty, but she said that the message from her victory in the straw poll was that voters are looking for “someone authentic” like her.
That's "authentic" as in "utterly batsheesh crazy", right?

I think they were all impressed at how she "authentically" handled that corn dog :D

I think they were all impressed at how she "authentically" handled that corn dog :D


At first I thought I was looking at porn.

But seriously, I hope she wins.  What could be better?

At first I thought I was looking at porn.


If someone faps to it, it's pr0n.  By the set defined by the intersection of Rule 34 and Poe's Law, you were looking at pr0n.


But seriously, I hope she wins.  What could be better?


RON PA-never mind :)

To get serious for a few milliseconds... the difference between the Elephant Party and the Jackass Party is that the Jackass Party thinks that by electing enough Elephants, the world will become bad enough that everyone will realize the error of their ways and elect Jackasses 4 years later.  

It doesn't work that way.  No political partisan ever realizes the error of his or her ways - when confronted with reality, the partisan redoubts his or her efforts against reality.  The Elephant Party keeps winning elections because they know that the worse the world gets (and the more compromises the Jackasses make), the fewer Jackasses will vote Jackass, but the more fervently the remaining Elephants will vote Elephant.  In a 50/50 electorate, the more moderates who get wholly-disgusted with the charade and abandon politics altogether, the lower the turnout - and the lower the turnout, the easier it is to manipulate the ever-shrinking pool of remaining potential voters.

Next year, I'll probably be the guy in the Cthulhu mask with a sign reading Bachmann/Palin 2012: Immanentize the Eschaton.  I'll go out for the lulz, but end up facetentacling when some blue-haired religious fundamentalist thanks me for my efforts in reminding the masses about the need to have a Fundie in power during Judgement Day.  (Worse, it'll be a Catholic fundamentalist.  Protestant fundamentalists don't even know how to pronounce "eschaton", let alone know what it means.)

If someone faps to it, it's pr0n.  By the set defined by the intersection of Rule 34 and Poe's Law, you were looking at pr0n.

RON PA-never mind :)

To get serious for a few milliseconds... the difference between the Elephant Party and the Jackass Party is that the Jackass Party thinks that by electing enough Elephants, the world will become bad enough that everyone will realize the error of their ways and elect Jackasses 4 years later.

Communist: What's mine is ours and what's yours is ours.
Libertarian: What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours.
Democrat: What's mine is mine and what's yours is ours.
Republican: What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine.

Sums it up.

It doesn't work that way.  No political partisan ever realizes the error of his or her ways - when confronted with reality, the partisan redoubts his or her efforts against reality.  The Elephant Party keeps winning elections because they know that the worse the world gets (and the more compromises the Jackasses make), the fewer Jackasses will vote Jackass, but the more fervently the remaining Elephants will vote Elephant.  In a 50/50 electorate, the more moderates who get wholly-disgusted with the charade and abandon politics altogether, the lower the turnout - and the lower the turnout, the easier it is to manipulate the ever-shrinking pool of remaining potential voters.

Anarchist slogan: If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

Skate punk in my town had that scrawled on his board next to the Jodie Foster's Army logo.  That was 25 years ago and I thought he was a glue-sniffing nihilist.  Maybe so...but it's making more sense than anything Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow is saying.  I voted for Obama and I feel stabbed in the back.  The Dems are good at telling us what's wrong with the Repubs, but then they go ahead and do the Republican bidding.  You take the devil's nickel, you do the devil's job.  I'd vote for a Jello Biafra/Ward Churchill ticket before I'd vote for Obama/Biden again.  I don't think I'm radical here either.  It should be like boxing.  We don't mind if the kid loses so long as he fights the good fight.  If we find out the kid pocketed dirty money and took a fall, his career is over.  Not so with the Dems.  We say, "Oh well, at least he's not as bad as so-and-so Republican."  I dunno.  The GOP has indeed done irrecoverable damage to our country, but at least I know what they stand for.  The Dems commit philosophical treason which shovels a damn sight more filth into the heart.
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Next year, I'll probably be the guy in the Cthulhu mask with a sign reading Bachmann/Palin 2012: Immanentize the Eschaton.  I'll go out for the lulz, but end up facetentacling when some blue-haired religious fundamentalist thanks me for my efforts in reminding the masses about the need to have a Fundie in power during Judgement Day.  (Worse, it'll be a Catholic fundamentalist.  Protestant fundamentalists don't even know how to pronounce "eschaton", let alone know what it means.)

Onward and ever on destination eschaton
Nowhere to run nowhere to hide
Put alpha into omega!

As a roamin' Catholic, I do declare our fundamentalists would eat their fundamentalists for breakfast...
And no, I don't want them anywhere near public office!
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This cracked me up.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/michele-bachmanns-elvis-birthday_n_928454.html



Cat

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I died a little on the inside. 8-P

I died a little on the inside. 8-P


So did I.  So I had to share it with everyone. ;D

So did I.  So I had to share it with everyone. ;D


All of a sudden, my 1 man 1 jar reference on the dating spammer thread seems tame by comparison.

upon having seen that bachmann-perry double-D action, i hereby denounce all human life and embrace our new dolphin overlords. please be merciless with us. otherwise, an image like this may someday re-emerge.

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Karmalingus to you!

A Labor Day feel good rom-com!
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(I couldn't top that gag if I tried!)

is it 33 1/3 or 45? i can tell it's not 78.

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;D The 2012 Republican National Convention, AKA "Sausage fest 2012!"    :o

I imagine some of you have already heard about this, but I'll post it anyway.

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered a "happy birthday" message to the late singer Elvis Presley on Monday, even though August 16 is the anniversary of his death in 1977.

"Happy Birthday, Elvis!" Bachmann shouted from the stage at a campaign stop in the parking lot of The Beacon, a South Carolina drive-in restaurant famous for its fried food and sweet tea.
After her stump speech, the congresswoman from Minnesota told a group of reporters that she was happy to be in South Carolina "on the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death."

"He's still alive. He's alive in our hearts," Bachmann said.    Later, a campaign organizer who did not want to be identified said with a wink: "You celebrate Elvis because he never died."
Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

I imagine some of you have already heard about this, but I'll post it anyway.

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered a "happy birthday" message to the late singer Elvis Presley on Monday, even though August 16 is the anniversary of his death in 1977.

"Happy Birthday, Elvis!" Bachmann shouted from the stage at a campaign stop in the parking lot of The Beacon, a South Carolina drive-in restaurant famous for its fried food and sweet tea.
After her stump speech, the congresswoman from Minnesota told a group of reporters that she was happy to be in South Carolina "on the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death."

"He's still alive. He's alive in our hearts," Bachmann said.    Later, a campaign organizer who did not want to be identified said with a wink: "You celebrate Elvis because he never died."
Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi.





Um...




This cracked me up.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/michele-bachmanns-elvis-birthday_n_928454.html



Cat





Cat

Um...

Cat

Aha, a link was already posted. Guess it don't hurt to say Happy Birthday to Elvis, twice. ;)

"What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward," Bachmann said on Jay Sekulow's radio show.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/08/michele-bachmann-soviet-union-/1?csp=34news

Ummm...Palin is startin' to look like a Rhodes Scholar next to her ::)

"What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward," Bachmann said on Jay Sekulow's radio show.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/08/michele-bachmann-soviet-union-/1?csp=34news


Ohhh, Heavens to Betsy!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9bvreW08X0

"We are running out of rich people"  REALLY???  WTF?!?!?!

- Not all cultures are equal?
- USA is running out of rich people?
- The French culture is dimished? Taken over my a Muslim Catholics?

Did she reallly say Muslim Catholics at the end? I could not make out of she said ``Catholics`` after the word Muslim.

Any Muslims Catholics around? 

- Not all cultures are equal?
- USA is running out of rich people?
- The French culture is dimished? Taken over my a Muslim Catholics?

Did she reallly say Muslim Catholics at the end? I could not make out of she said ``Catholics`` after the word Muslim.

Any Muslims Catholics around? 


I'm an ordained minister who is an atheist.  Maybe there are Muslim Catholics. :D

That's because America is the Saudi Arabia of oil and we don't want any of that taxation with representation. 


And, no, not all cultures are created equal!

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bachmann's a funny clown but there's something deeply discouraging about living in a country where a twit like that could actually have some success in politics. the levels of stupidity in this country are causing me actual physical pain.

bachmann's a funny clown but there's something deeply discouraging about living in a country where a twit like that could actually have some success in politics. the levels of stupidity in this country are causing me actual physical pain.


You''re not alone in that brother

Sometimes I'm really starting to think the reason these tea party people don't believe in evolution is because they haven't been part of the process.

                                        -Lizz Winstead Comedian and co-creator of “The Daily Show”





Cat

bachmann's a funny clown but there's something deeply discouraging about living in a country where a twit like that could actually have some success in politics. the levels of stupidity in this country are causing me actual physical pain.


Amen!

Reagan

Dubya

Palin

Bachmann

The twit-o-meter drops precipitously.  I wonder, oh how I wonder, who might out-Bachmann Bachmann in the next 12 months?
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"...As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron"

-- H.L. Mencken

Sometimes I'm really starting to think the reason these tea party people don't believe in evolution is because they haven't been part of the process.

                                         -Lizz Winstead Comedian and co-creator of “The Daily Show”




She also said something about candidates never taking photo ops without something in their mouths!

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:D

bachmann's a funny clown but there's something deeply discouraging about living in a country where a twit like that could actually have some success in politics. the levels of stupidity in this country are causing me actual physical pain.

We don't exactly have that problem in Canada, generally the politicians fall into 2 categories: Either they are total a*holes or they make Al Gore seem terribly energetic and charismatic.

She also said something about candidates never taking photo ops without something in their mouths!

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2011/08/15/15_romneyfood.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

:D



Yup-and another great line she said was that they are all praying for the rapture before the 2012 election.  ;D ;D ;D ;D




We don't exactly have that problem in Canada, generally the politicians fall into 2 categories: Either they are total a*holes or they make Al Gore seem terribly energetic and charasmatic.




;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Karma.



Cat

Reagan

Dubya

Palin

Bachmann

The twit-o-meter drops precipitously.  I wonder, oh how I wonder, who might out-Bachmann Bachmann in the next 12 months?
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I know!  I know!

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/08/19/t1larg.odonnello.gi.jpg

Guess which troublemaker is back in the news this week?

Apparently, it's "borderline sexual harassment" when you (ghost-)write a book that claims to have an answer to your position on gay marriage, but an interviewer asks you for that opinion -- on an interview that you yourself arranged as part of the PR campaign for your newly-(ghost-)written book!


"...As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron"

-- H.L. Mencken


But this is a thread about politicians photographed in ways that, when taken out of context, imply oral sex, so wouldn't...

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"
-- H.L. Mencken

...be the more appropriate quote?

christine o'donnell is a trip, man. i hope she runs for something, i miss her.

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Hey, honey, is that a real pearl necklace or a Sears pearl necklace?
:P

http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_small_article/odonnell_mouth_0.jpg

Hey, honey, is that a real pearl necklace or a Sears pearl necklace?
:P
Max, you're being rude, you're being inappropriate 8)

Max, you're being rude, you're being inappropriate 8)


Exactly.  If it were the real thing, someone would have had to have been masturbating.  Christine wouldn't stand for that.  

/or kneel for that
//or lay back and think of Washington DC for that
///and a corn dog would be just wrong.

This reminds me...

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What's for dinner?

Exactly.  If it were the real thing, someone would have had to have been masturbating.  Christine wouldn't stand for that.  

/or kneel for that
//or lay back and think of Washington DC for that
///and a corn dog would be just wrong.

This reminds me...

http://losangeles.grubstreet.com/20100402_bestfish_190x190.jpg

What's for dinner?


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Speaking of being inappropriate and masturbating ;)

Speaking of being inappropriate and masturbating ;)



;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


Sorry, you can't repeat a karma action without waiting 24 hours.



Cat

Speaking of being inappropriate and masturbating ;)


Wait, I'm only supposed to do one of those things every 24 hours?

PROTIP: Republicans oughta try making it part of the party platform.  Masturbation's fine.  Inappropriate behavior's fine.  Both within the same 24 hour period is probably not a good idea given the second ("totally not gay!") Republican scandal (here's the first in case you missed it) from this week alone.

I think I see why the 'pub politicians are so vehemently against gay marriage.  They've spent their entire lives "fighting" against a "temptation" that they've "fought".  NTTAWWT.  But there is something wrong with that.  It's not having the ghey that's wrong, it's the hiding-in-the-closet-like-Tom-Cruise and lying to themselves and their wives in order to obtain political office that's wrong.  But because they see it as a temptation, they try to make it illegal, even though the rest of us are like "Gay marriage as a temptation?  I'm not even tempted by heterosexual marriage!"

"Gay marriage as a temptation?  I'm not even tempted by heterosexual marriage!"
that's a bumper sticker, right there.

Something interesting I found while perusing some of MB's "quality" quotes:

''That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.''

Yet, she's against abortion???

Something interesting I found while perusing some of MB's "quality" quotes:

''That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.''

Yet, she's against abortion???


Not just "against abortion", hell I'm against abortion, she wants to outlaw it while I support a woman's right to choose

Something interesting I found while perusing some of MB's "quality" quotes:

''That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.''

Yet, she's against abortion???


She's a member of Congress, she has a government healthcare plan!
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