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(Guardian)   "The Republican candidates being touted are a collection of has-beens, nobodies and deadbeats, several of them barely household names in their own households. And those are the most electable ones"   (guardian.co.uk) divider line 199
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2011-04-05 01:21:03 PM
 
2011-04-05 01:21:29 PM
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Prediderp/Generic Republican 2012!
Whar Certicate Obamaom, Whar!?!
 
2011-04-05 01:21:38 PM
Do you realize we might actually see Michele Bachmann get the Republican nomination? It's either her or Romney at this point, right?

And I'm actually a little scared by the unprecedented nature of such a nomination. It's so bad that it will drag down the discourse of the opposing campaign. I'm actually going to be embarrassed when, at a campaign stop, Obama has to say about his opponent, "I mean... just look at her. Are you serious? Would you actually vote for this person?"
 
2011-04-05 01:22:23 PM
Freep Impact: This is from The Economist? That Communist rag?

LOLLERSKATES.

Freeplandia is definitely another universe entirely.
 
2011-04-05 01:22:26 PM
HerpaDerpaDoo: This is nothign more than the inane, rambling opinion of some Liberal with no actual productive value to society.

tl;dr
 
2011-04-05 01:22:42 PM
crab66: Obama was not well known on a national level.

Really? Even when he opened up Monday Night Football by joking about an "important announcement" On December 6th 2006 (new window)
 
2011-04-05 01:23:32 PM
Bill_Wick's_Friend: People knew who he was.

Liberals are kidding themselves if they think that is true. No one outside of Illinois who wasn't a hardcore Democrat who paid attention to politics had ever heard of the guy. (i.e. average people)

I guess revisionist history is not exclusive to the Right.



Minus1Kelvin: This was from 2006.

2 years before the election. I'm not sure what your point is. It's 2011 buddy.
 
2011-04-05 01:24:05 PM
meat0918: I've yet to hear anyone, Republican or Democrat, that is comfortable with a Mormon as president.

I'm comfortable with it. Just not Romney. I'd be cool with President Harry Reid, not that he'd have a chance in hell of winning.
 
2011-04-05 01:24:20 PM
I don't think it's necessary to flaunt Democratic insecurity to the point of demonizing 2012 GOP opponents who have yet to show up.

Obama should be OK without that, wouldn't you think?
 
2011-04-05 01:24:39 PM
Old enough to know better: Herpa, you seriously expect us to read all that shiat?

It's worth it, grade A stuff
 
2011-04-05 01:24:58 PM
I'm pulling for Palin/Bachmann.

If you're going to drive over a cliff, you don't do so in first gear while feathering the throttle.
 
2011-04-05 01:25:09 PM
theorellior: Freep Impact: This is from The Economist? That Communist rag?

LOLLERSKATES.

Freeplandia is definitely another universe entirely.


They should be celebrating the fact some dirty foreigners are actually speaking English like god intended instead of some bunga-bunga gobbledygook.
 
2011-04-05 01:25:34 PM
crab66: Liberals are kidding themselves if they think that is true. No one outside of Illinois who wasn't a hardcore Democrat who paid attention to politics had ever heard of the guy. (i.e. average people)

Do you like being wrong? Because we've provided you with some pretty solid proof that people knew who Barack Obama was 4 years ago.
 
2011-04-05 01:25:51 PM
I see the derp is running both ways today.

Liberals in denial that many people knew who the fark Obama was before 2006.

You'll get over it.
 
2011-04-05 01:26:08 PM
crab66: To be fair.


No one knew who the fark Obama was either.


Obama was a known presidential candidate from the moment he gave his speech at the 2004 convention. His entire Senate career was spent running for President, it just took him until 2007 to actually declare.

To say that he was an unknown quantity by this time in the 2008 election cycle could not be more wrong.
 
2011-04-05 01:26:59 PM
what_now: Do you like being wrong? Because we've provided you with some pretty solid proof that people knew who Barack Obama was 4 years ago.

You like moving goalposts don't you? Before 2006 Obama was an unknown. He started to blow up right around this time before the election.
 
2011-04-05 01:27:19 PM
crab66: 2 years before the election. I'm not sure what your point is. It's 2011 buddy.

I'll see you at the voting booth in 2013.
 
2011-04-05 01:27:24 PM
Cletus C.: who have yet to show up.

Just turn on Fox, they've been campaigning since 2008.
 
2011-04-05 01:29:06 PM
meat0918: Freep Impact:
I consider Mormans "false Christians". I think they are sincere, good people but they have been duped. I don't want a president who has been duped by something that is so obviously false. Mormanism!

I think this is my favorite.

I've yet to hear anyone, Republican or Democrat, that is comfortable with a Mormon as president.

It'll happen one day, I'm sure, but the whole being beholden to the current Prophet and President of the Mormon church thing is a bit to much, even though he probably has about as much pull on Romney or Huntsman as the Pope did on JFK.


Ok, this is what I don't get.

It's preferred if you are a grown adult who believes there is an invisible telelpathic sky wizard, who is happy when you symbolically eat the flesh of his son. You talk to him telepathically, and if you're good then when he sends his son to lay waste to the earth on horseback, carrying a sword in his mouth, you will be transported to an unspecified etheral location and party forever.

HOWEVER...
It's totally crazy and unacceptable by the same crowd if this person believes that the invisible telepathic sky wizard actually lives on a planet out in space, and produces our souls by having celestial sex with his wife, which fly through space ands land in us at birth. And when we die we rule our own planet with our group of wives and make space babies too.
 
2011-04-05 01:29:23 PM
crab66: 2 years before the election. I'm not sure what your point is. It's 2011 buddy.

You should maybe just stop digging.

(hint - next presidential election isn't in 2013)
 
2011-04-05 01:29:32 PM
meat0918: I also forgot about the rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shiat-kickers and Methodists.

//What other movie list of ne'er do wells am I missing?


www.roadsquadron.com

"You will never find the more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

/Probably too obscure.
// ;-)
 
2011-04-05 01:29:58 PM
FTFA: Despite winning two presidential elections, Bush failed to nurture political talent to provide for a presidential succession. His vice president Dick Cheney was too old to run in 2008 while his senior cabinet posts included older men such as Donald Rumsfeld and secretaries chosen for loyalty rather than political ability.

I hate to say this, but I don't think that's fair. You should be able to make your own waves and built your own political talent. Its not up to the President to do that. President Obama built himself in opposition to the Clintonistas. Not just apart from them.
 
2011-04-05 01:30:03 PM
ultraholland: They're a party that hates gays, women, foreigners, the poor, the middle-class, teachers, personal liberty and common sense; as far as I'm concerned they'll never have a viable candidate.

You're talking about the Democrats, right?

The Republicans are nominating and electing women left and right. People like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and Christine O'Donnell have smashed through the glass ceiling of politics and accomplished more for their gender not only on the political field but in every other aspect of society than any other woman in the last hundred years.

In 2008, the Republicans nominated Sarah Palin to the Vice Presidency, while the Democrats refused to elect anyone without a Y-chromosome.

Liberals only support women, gays, and minorities when it suits their cause, not because they really believe in these demographics. When was the last time a Democrat promoted one of their women starring in her own hit television show that promoted their political ideals? I cannot think of a single Liberal Democrat female in the last twenty years that been supported by her constituents. Hillary Clinton was nothing more than a token female who was nominated solely because she was a woman.

Then you might bring up Geraldine Ferraro. The only reason Geraldine Ferraro was promoted as a Vice President for the Democratic Party was the fact that she was a woman, not because of her credentials or intelligent, eloquent speaking and debating skills. Not only that, but she clearly cost her party the Presidential election. This is in stark contrast to Sarah Palin.

The Democrats wanted to appear inclusive and tolerant by nominating a woman not to the Presidency but to Vice Presidency. In this manner, they tried to mask their hypocrisy.

Only the Liberals would nominate someone for the second-most important political office in America solely because she was female and would likely gain more votes as a result. To them, the ends justify the means and using women for sexist reasons is acceptable if it gains them more control over the lives of citizens. In this way, Ferraro was the "token" woman while Sarah Palin was clearly nominated for Vice President for far better reasons.

Not only that, but Ferraro has already gone on record saying that if Obama was not black he would not be President. So she has also exposed her hypocrisy for what it is. I am certain you cannot find any evidence of this kind of accusation from Sarah Palin or any other conservative woman for that matter.

You will never find a more eclectic group of individuals than the 2012 Republican Presidential nominees, and we are so very excited for this upcoming election in which we will take back our nation from the hands of those who would undo our individual liberties in the name of spreading the wealth.
 
2011-04-05 01:30:54 PM
HerpaDerpaDoo: suspected Muslims

Now that's quality trolling.
 
2011-04-05 01:31:19 PM
crab66: what_now: Do you like being wrong? Because we've provided you with some pretty solid proof that people knew who Barack Obama was 4 years ago.

You like moving goalposts don't you? Before 2006 Obama was an unknown. He started to blow up right around this time before the election.


He came to my house in 2001 to teach me the benefits of Afro-Islamic Marxism and inject me with SIDS. He said I'd get the antidote when I committed enough voter fraud to make him president in 2008 and sacrificed my family to the Death Panels.
 
2011-04-05 01:31:39 PM
crab66: Liberals in denial that many people knew who the fark Obama was before 2006.

ohh....so now it's "No one knew who Obama was before 2006", not "No one knew who Obama was before this point in the election last time".

Nice dodge. Well done.
 
2011-04-05 01:32:28 PM
HerpaDerpaDoo: Liberals only support women, gays, and minorities when it suits their cause, not because they really believe in these demographics

Yes, most liberals regard gays as a superstition like God or Santa Claus.
 
2011-04-05 01:33:23 PM
NallTWD: From the Comments:
Gorgeous, gracious, gifted Gov. Sarah Palin will easily defeat B. H. Obama in 2012, and her election will restore America's confidence, optimism, and global prestige.


I think Tim Pawlenty has a prettier mouth than Sarah Palin.
 
2011-04-05 01:33:51 PM
I didn't realize you could troll with crabs so well.
 
2011-04-05 01:34:15 PM
crab66: Minus1Kelvin: This was from 2006.

2 years before the election. I'm not sure what your point is. It's 2011 buddy.


2008-2006=2.

2012-2011=1.

Are you high?
 
2011-04-05 01:34:16 PM
HerpaDerpaDoo: Geraldine Ferraro

I'd hit that.
 
2011-04-05 01:34:20 PM
gameshowhost:
You jackass! That was my last one. =(


My work here is done. Still, i saw that and immediately lost my s**t. Too good not to re-post.
 
2011-04-05 01:34:46 PM
I guess I touched upon an area of butthurt here.

I'll say it one last time.


To be fair. No one knew who the fark Obama was either.

That's reality. Not partisan fairytale land. Deal with it.
 
2011-04-05 01:35:26 PM
ciderczar: HerpaDerpaDoo: Geraldine Ferraro

I'd hit that.


gothamist.com

Dammit, joke doesn't work without this.
 
2011-04-05 01:35:30 PM
crab66: To be fair.


No one knew who the fark Obama was either.


What? No way, I don't know much about him before the election, but his name certainly came up more than a few time as Democrat's rising star.
 
2011-04-05 01:36:29 PM
crab66: I'll say it one last time.

You can keep saying it.

The cover of Time magazine from 2006 says you're a farkin' moron or a liar or both.

(or is "Time" an esoteric publication only read by extreme political junkies?)
 
2011-04-05 01:36:39 PM
crab66: I guess I touched upon an area of butthurt here.

Don't do that. That's how you get piles.
 
2011-04-05 01:36:44 PM
crab66: Minus1Kelvin: This was from 2006.

2 years before the election. I'm not sure what your point is. It's 2011 buddy.


Bill_Wick's_Friend: You should maybe just stop digging.
(hint - next presidential election isn't in 2013)


I see there's really no need to point this out any further.

/and I'm not your buddy, friend.
//not obscure.
 
2011-04-05 01:37:10 PM
crab66: I guess I touched upon an area of butthurt here.

I'll say it one last time.


To be fair. No one knew who the fark Obama was either.

That's reality. Not partisan fairytale land. Deal with it.


George Soros did
 
2011-04-05 01:37:43 PM
crab66: To be fair. No one knew who the fark Obama was either.

WHEN??

When did no one know who the fark Barack Obama was?

Because I had never heard of him until 2004.

My father- the guy who asked me last week who Kim Kardashian was- had never heard of him until 2006.

By 2007- this time in the last election cycle- everyone in the country who wasn't currently in a vegetative state had heard of him.
 
2011-04-05 01:38:20 PM
crab66: To be fair.


No one knew who the fark Obama was either.


You... wha... I... Is this what Republicans really believe? (new window)
 
2011-04-05 01:38:32 PM
Epoch_Zero: It's preferred if you are a grown adult who believes there is an invisible telelpathic sky wizard, who is happy when you symbolically eat the flesh of his son. You talk to him telepathically, and if you're good then when he sends his son to lay waste to the earth on horseback, carrying a sword in his mouth, you will be transported to an unspecified etheral location and party forever. HOWEVER...It's totally crazy and unacceptable by the same crowd if this person believes that the invisible telepathic sky wizard actually lives on a planet out in space, and produces our souls by having celestial sex with his wife, which fly through space ands land in us at birth. And when we die we rule our own planet with our group of wives and make space babies too.

I see your point, even though I don't really think that's a fair characterization of Christianity as a whole or its denominations. :-) You do have a point. This is why I think the Constitution's political point about "no religious test" for public office should be viewed as a moral aspiration for the American public. Or we should just elect Tom Cruise and Greta Van Susteran as Scientologists and get it all over with.
 
2011-04-05 01:39:41 PM
what_now: I had never heard of him until 2004.

The Hawaiian Birth Registry was the same way.
 
2011-04-05 01:41:06 PM
ciderczar: what_now: I had never heard of him until 2004.

The Hawaiian Birth Registry was the same way.


You've got him on the ropes!

He just played his Trump card!

/nerdish snickering
 
2011-04-05 01:41:21 PM
what_now: My father- the guy who asked me last week who Kim Kardashian was- had never heard of him until 2006.

I'm picturing your father as wearing a beret and smoking a pipe, asking, "Who is Kim Kardashian, really? Who is she...on the inside?"

I'm sure that's wildly inaccurate.
 
2011-04-05 01:41:29 PM
ciderczar: crab66: what_now: Do you like being wrong? Because we've provided you with some pretty solid proof that people knew who Barack Obama was 4 years ago.

You like moving goalposts don't you? Before 2006 Obama was an unknown. He started to blow up right around this time before the election.

He came to my house in 2001 to teach me the benefits of Afro-Islamic Marxism and inject me with SIDS. He said I'd get the antidote when I committed enough voter fraud to make him president in 2008 and sacrificed my family to the Death Panels.


In 2000 he spoke at my local fire company's Jihad Bingo and assured me that I would be named Ruler of Islamaustralia if I used a few simple keystrokes to upload a computer virus to the Electoral College servers that would make optical scanners only record ACORN-approved votes and catalog the DNA of everyone whoever handled a dime.
 
2011-04-05 01:41:38 PM
what_now: Nice dodge. Well done.

Nice projection. It's funny to watch liberals go all derp when it comes to certain things.


Both sides are same.


BMulligan: 2008-2006=2.

2012-2011=1.

Are you high?



Are you daft? Does 6 or so months make a huge difference?


HMMMMM....

What month is on that magazine cover......

What month is it now.....



That's right. Let's attack me over details instead of the obvious point of my post.
 
2011-04-05 01:42:34 PM
crab66: I guess I touched upon an area of butthurt here.

I'll say it one last time.


To be fair. No one knew who the fark Obama was either.

That's reality. Not partisan fairytale land. Deal with it.


Read your previous posts dumbass. The only person here moving goal posts is you.

\don't strain yourself
 
2011-04-05 01:42:49 PM
crab66: Epoch_Zero: Knowing who is in your government is just part of being a responsible citizen.

Good for you. But you are not most people.

Obama was not well known on a national level.


I thought most people had heard of Obama during the debacle that the Illinois GOP went through finding an opponent for him in the '04 Senate race. First there was the scandal that forced Jack Ryan out of the race . . .

chockblock.files.wordpress.com

Then they tried to recruit Ditka, then they settled for Alan Keyes . . . it was a big story back then.
 
2011-04-05 01:43:06 PM
crab66: That's right. Let's attack me over details instead of the obvious point of my post.

Facts are obviously inconvenient to your thesis. You're wise to disregard them.
 
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