Republicans facing tough re-election plan to skip convention
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Aug 05, 2008 7:20pm
What else can be added about the sorry state of the Republican brand?
Separately, six Republican senators have decided to skip the GOP convention.
Sens. Ted Stevens of Alaska, Gordon Smith of Oregon, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine all face tough re-election campaigns. Two others, Wayne Allard of Colorado and Larry Craig of Idaho, are retiring.
Granted, Ted Stevens will most likely be in court fighting to keep his butt out of jail, but it's pretty obvious why Smith, Dole and Collins want to stay as far away as possible from George Bush and the rest of their party. Hell, Gordon Smith is even running ads in which he touts his relationship with Barack Obama. What does it say about the GOP when its most vulnerable members can't get far enough away from its leaders?
Indeed, after President Bush decided not to call Congress back into session after the GOP charade over gas prices on the House floor, John Boehner is now ripping him as "Beijing George" and accusing him of throwing House Republicans "under the bone-dry bus" on his way to the Olympics in China. How stupid do these people think we are? They spend eight years enabling Bush's worst transgressions, and then they coordinate a fake, stupid and cynical stunt and expect everyone to forget they are in lock-step with Bush? Seriously? Wow.
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All this balderdash about who's this and who's that, Repug/Demo, con/lib, it's all a puppet show, designed to amuse and pacify whilst your pockets are picked clean by one form of con man or another.
I believe I can cut through the knotted guts of the quandary, as to what the major problem is betwixt the two “warring” sides in this pointless battle for the gory heart and simple minds of the body politic, as delivered nightly by rich over-paid and pampered Hollywood stars and Narcissistic pundits and their no-neck pinhead children, the MSM.
The GOPpers. Problem: Your belief in free will of vocalizations, until someone half intelligent says something that upsets your reality pretext. You still assume Republicans support limited government. You seemingly give a darn about perimeter veracity, because whence you tried to find out the status of your boner pills prescription, the automated voice system at your chemist asked you to compress 9 for Spanish. You believe the government is actually trying to advance education. You hug every morsel of bullshit you can unearth to prop up your ridiculous belief system, and disallow all observed substantiation to the contrary. You believe the economy's doing fine. You accept as true that there’s an afterlife for the solitary rationale that you don't want to die. You distinguish the divergence between patriotism and nationalism -- it's nationalism when foreigners do it. You despise anyone who appears smarter than you. You believe $9 trillion in debt is manageable. You worry more about zygotes than real people. You love to fault people for their hardships, even if it means screwing yourself over. You assume two parties is sufficient. Your understanding of politics and government are rendered absurd by your apprehension for Britney Spears' children. You think purchasing Chinese merchandise fuels our economy. You feel you're going to get universal health care. You stomach the phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques." You can't spell. You assume lowering taxes will elevate revenue. You suppose watching CNN makes you bright. You're idiots.
Exhibit A: Anything, anytime that spews, dribbles, or otherwise churns out of their fetid mouths concerning “family values”, “the founding fathers”, “Contract for America”, Patriotism, the sanctity of anything, taxpayers, responsibility, (deleted due to space constraints…).
Of course “the loyal opposition” is anything but loyal and not so much opposition as nauseatingly self serving. Graduates of the Neville Chamberlain school of poultry and appeasement, the Democratic headship persists to disregard the Constitution, and the American people, by dodge and misdirection, thus keeping impeachment "off the table" and declining to defund the war. True panty-waists, they're too dim, spineless, pathetic and outmatched politically to achieve anything essential, their "tactic" fundamentally boiling down to droning like moon calves a lot while handing the infidel Boosh whatever the hell he desires. There is just no way that appearing this frail and inadequate could be any better for them politically than impeachment. Everything that the White House gets away with, it gets away with because congress allows it.
Exhibit A: Failure to persuade the two thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto is moot: They could defund the war with a 41-senator budgetary filibuster. But that would take moral fiber and confidence.
They are barbarians!
Well, I have been saying that all along so it is not exactly new.
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Love it!
I heard today that Dick Chaney may skip the convention too.
"How stupid do these people think we are? "
Unfortunately WE'RE not the ones they have to think about.
CMINCA @ 4:
He's having a hard time crawling out of his spider hole.
They spent their ENTIRE time in congress covering for him. Don't tell me they didn't know exactly who George Bush was before he became radioactive. Cynical fuckers.
The GOP in this case is stuck between a rock and a hard place, and after 8 years of Bush, frankly I couldn't give a shit. They've done themselves in better than any Dem politician could ever imagine. Why should any patriotic American give a damn? Isn't the ideal of the US supposed to transcend all partisan divisons? Well put that in your tailpipe and smoke it, GOP bastards.
Surely he'll be remembered as Baghdad George, not Beijing George.
Widespread @ 9:
he'll never be as popular and/or as cool as Curious George
Carl Gordon @ 1 Damn! That pretty much wraps it up. Now what?
The republics should have their convention at Joliett.
What's really funny is that the RNC is going to be held less than 10 miles away from Senator Larry Craig's bathroom stall at the airport.
Too bad ACT-UP isn't around anymore, hopefully somebody else will be able to have fun with this, and show America what overfed, overdressed, and mortified Republicans look like, preferably on national television during Prime Time.
~Nyc
I hope it's like the downfall off the Roman empire. Bastids!
Enjoy it under that bus, you House Republican fucking bastards. You threw yourselves under it.
It wouldn't surpise me if they brought out Reagan like Weekend at Bernie's to liven things up.
There would have to be a lot of mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging fox-news-watchers to keep the GOP in power.
And that's the problem...
Mick Piobr @ 11:
It doesn't wrap it up at all, it's another version of the same sad ol' song of Neville Chamberlain's Munich deal being presented as the epitome of evil, and how the Dems are just the strawman version of Chamberlain.
Chamberlain prevented a bad situation from getting worse enough to ensure that Nazi Germany could not have won WWII, which once it beat France, it effectively lost due to lacking any of the capacity granted Britain by its borrowed time to re-arm. Had Churchill been PM in '38, the Germans might well have won due mainly to their being superior in prep time over everybody but the USSR, and since Stalin's purge of the Red Army's blood still wasn't dry, a Nazi-wank would have ensued.
*of
bayonet @ 14:
No, you really don't. Because the collapse of Rome affected the West so bad that it took until the 19th Century for parts of it to approach 1st Century population levels again. And if you think that a Roman-style collapse of the US won't affect you too...
Even if you're a foreigner, it'll have an impact.
General_Rennenkampf @ 19:
Hmm, you are probable right. It was more about the downfall than about the Roman empire. I'm not an historian. ;)
Ted Stevens: "Sorry, can't make it. I'm tied up."
Susan Collins is very popular in district 2 (we only have 2 districts). They tend to vote Rethug. I just wish to god we had a better candidate than Tom (spineless) Allen. But, it's all about the numbers and the Supremes, so give 'em heck, um, ah, Tom.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP CALLING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY A BRAND? It's disgusting that this title has become a norm in our discussions.
bayonet @ 20:
I'm talking about a downfall of the Repube party BTW. Not America.
I live in NC and Liddy Dole is going down faster than a crack whore at a prison rodeo!
i understand larry craig is planning to go but he won't get past the airport bathroom.
taller ghost walt @ 25:
Now that's colorful language!
bayonet @ 24:
You didn't quite specify.
bayonet @ 24:
Hmm, you are probable right. It was more about the downfall than about the Roman empire. I'm not an historian. ;)
I'm talking about a downfall of the Repube party BTW. Not America.
Umm, with a 9/!! WTC site still a hole in the ground after 7 years, a Dow Jones average in the stock market that is barely above where it was when Busch took office in 2001, a US Dollar that has lost almost half of its value against the Euro since Busch was first sworn in, and Americans paying double for everything how is it that the downfall of the Repukian party has not led to the overall decline of America?
~Nyc
General_Rennenkampf @ 28:
I know know, that's why i did later. Sorry!
"How stupid do these people think we are?"
Stupid enough to elect the idiot son of an a**hole...Twice.
That's how stupid.
Yeah. "Seriously".
Anton @ 23:
It's the only thing they are.
Nyc Labrets @ 29:
I'm talking about a downfall of the Repube party BTW. Not America.
Umm, with a 9/!! WTC site still a hole in the ground after 7 years, a Dow Jones average in the stock market that is barely above where it was when Busch took office in 2001, a US Dollar that has lost almost half of its value against the Euro since Busch was first sworn in, and Americans paying double for everything how is it that the downfall of the Repukian party has not led to the overall decline of America?
~Nyc
I hope that this election is going to be the downfall for the party. I agree that the repubes fecked up America big time.
Rep. Boner and his republic associates all belong under the bus. That's where they put the American people for the last 7+ years. Sorry John, no alcohol for you when you travel - under the bus.
Poor Ted Stevens. He can't go because it's hard to shake hands with hand cuffs on. 84 years old and still stealing from the American public. You got to just love these "christian" republic party members stealing everything they can get their hands on.
I have lived in NC for a long time, and I have yet to see Bob Dole. WTF, These rubber-stampers don't even take the time to visit the state they pretend to represent.
well, if there are going to be dead elephants on the convention floor, won't some compassionate conservative do the christian thing and saw off a tusk, so as to fashion old maverick some nice, pearly whites..?
someone's gotta encourage mr. black or the bald rove protege to muster up the courage to tell mccain to get serious about those teeth...
Hats off to the most creative people on earth....those assigned to make the nostalgic film of the Bush years. I'm going watch that and all the stuff from the floor from the GOPpers who are trying to make jolly. I'm not eating those nights in fear of losing my supper.
I wish I had the liquor concession those nights so I could become as rich as those birds. Hidden cameras in the bathrooms?
bullfrog @ 36:
They would make que balls out of them and play billiards with them, Freaking elitist pricks.
What's wrong with pool?
Nyc Labrets @ 13:
I think one of the convention meeting planners has arranged a field trip to that very stall one afternoon (certainly not during prime time) for all Repugs who think viagra prescp. should be covered by ins. but not birth control pills.
They'll be traveling to the toilet on the Straight Talk Express!
Carl Gordon @1 sees reality as it is and speaks a lot of truth,
I only wish there were more like him.
as far as any modern America/ancient Rome comparison:
I'd say Dick Cheney is Caligula and Dubya is Nero.
America is toast, get used to this 'cuz we'll all be living it soon.
Nikita Krushchev, speaking about nuclear war, said it best:
"the living will envy the dead"
hey how about this buyers remorse these fools GOPers are exhibiting? i love it. if they werent smart enough to know what a dolt they were electing with W then they are the fools and deserve all the failure and losses that go with picking him. McCain, the version in 2000, was the right choice for them, not now, but then. they rejected him in spectacularly slanderous style and went with a petulant brat idiot that is Bush. now McCain is a sellout and unprincipled at that, kinda like the lot of them, and they arrogantly feel they can win with him. they dont deserve to keep the WH, and i hope they wont. Obama has work to do, but hopefully these failures that are in the GOP will be sent packing in november.
Larry will be greeting the males in his own special way at the airport.
Liddy will handing out Viagra for those in need.
LARRY CRAIG WILL SKIP THE CONVENTION but all GOP attendees are urged to check him out at the MN airport, men's room number 6, stall number 5, for the wide stance MEAT-AND-GREET and the associated BULL MILKING CONTEST
O/T: Any idea why Bushy hasn't ordered Congress back into session?
There's always a catch with his asshole.
Anybody know what's really up?
stupid is as stupid does.
"How stupid do these people think we are?"
Uh, stupid enough to elect Bush - twice? Stupid enough that he still has a 31% approval rating? Stupid enough that it's actually a contest between McSame and Obama? Etc.
How stupid do these people think we are?
Their constituients sent them to Washington... they know exactly how stupid 'we' are.
Bill @ 5:
Its not us! It's all them stupid bastards down South and in the Midwest, where the sea of red state America is still going strong.
WTF does it take for those morons to figure out how badly the WHOLE country has been screwed by these GOP fascist criminals?
Jebus H. Christ, it couldn't be more obvious if there were 500 foot-tall flashing neon signs across America announcing it.
How stupid can a redstate redneck be???????
GW Bush IS the republican party!!!
They all think like him and act like him. They have nothing but contempt for the American people, and America herself. They long for a mid-evil European style fuedal system, where the minions at the court have ALL the money, and pay NO taxes!
If "Chimpy the Stupid" were running for re-election, everyone of these GOP SOB's would be kissing his ring.
They are the scum of the earth!!! Their job is to make life miserable for 95% of the American people! Fucking pigs!!
hey, the c&l story says john boehner called bush "beijing george" but the link says it was "House Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.)", no mention of john boehner at all. i love me some c&l but get the freakin' facts straight!
Don't send Suzie back to Caribou,and don't ever send her back to Washington!!!!!!!!!
wiz @ 49:
Yeah, Wiz iz right. It's not John Bonehead (aka "Weepy"). It's Chairman Thaddeus Augustus Aurelius Maximus "Welcome Back" McCotter III. (Middle names have been added for emphasis)
When George W. Bush's face is tattooed to your ass and forehead.... you're fucked.
The GOP made their own bed by sucking their emperor's fingers and toes for the last 7+ years, now it's time to go night-night.
Looks like Boner has covered himself in Santorum once again. Heh, heh, hehhh...
Well how about this; I'm not going to the Republican convention either. fuck em.
Even SEAN HANNITY's not going to the GOP convention !
He's going to Colorado to cover the Democratic convention instead.
Is,... gasp, MCSAME next ?!?!?
That would be Thaddeus McCotter, not "the Boner" who called him Beiijing George. Just a little correction. The "Boner" is in Ohio playing golf while the other bunch is staging their talk-in. (it was in the WaPo this morning).
On the plus side, I was happy to read on Yahoo last night that some 57 percent of counties will be using paper ballots this election. I wish that was closer to 100%, but I'll take what I can get.
So there is less likely a chance for that RNC hacker to flip the votes in favor of the republicans. The chance is still there, however. This is why we have to call BS on any media pundit or reporter that pushes the electorate towards the "they share fundamentally the same policies" meme.
How does the saying go? If it's not close they can't cheat?
This annoys me:
"They spend eight years enabling Bush’s worst transgressions, and then they coordinate a fake, stupid and cynical stunt and expect everyone to forget they are in lock-step with Bush? Seriously? Wow."
You seem to be under the impression that we, on the average, are NOT that stupid. This is fairly ironic.
You better believe we're that stupid. If you don't, enjoy losing additional elections. Most people don't pay much attention to current affairs, or even if they do, only see/hear them through the prism of their preferred media outlet, which is only reinforcing their pre-existing beliefs.
So,
A) they don't see the historical "facts" as you do
B) they are incapable of thinking outside the scope of the single issue that they are being fed at the time, thereby preventing them from recognizing inconsistency or hypocrisy
which means
C) those who are motivated enough can recreate "reality" whenever they damn well please
Perhaps it won't work this time, and I truly hope that is the case, but to keep denying the ignorance of the "average person" is kind of like that definition of insanity. You have to ignore a whole lot of evidence to continue to believe what you appear to believe.
Of course it's the job of politicos to pander and pretend like Americans are "too smart for that" or "will see through that" (so perhaps that's all you're doing), but if you actually believe it then you'll consistently find ways to lose elections that you had no business losing.
But what about Vitter? Will he be at the convention?
And can he get Pampers from room service?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Yup...LOVE the dead elephant graphic. How apropos. Yes the Republicans are dying an agonizingly slow and painful death. Do you have one of a laughing donkey getting butt-f****d by Dick Cheney? Yes I think the Dem's are going to clean up this election. I wouldn't get my hopes up though. Many things can happen in five months. I can't help thinking that no matter who gets the prize, it's We The People who are the one going to get butt-f****d....again. A new President will change things very little. No matter which party he is from. That's the problem...we need to get away from the two-party system...we need another Constitutional Convention. The Constitution has been tortured and beaten beyond all recognition. The lessons that have been learned over the eight year nightmare of the Bush Administration must be used to reinforce and fortify Our Constitution so it can never happen again. As I've said before, neither candidate has really spoken to this fact. If Cheney and Bush are allowed to get away with so much, the next President will most likely be worse.
"The Constitution has been tortured and beaten beyond all recognition. The lessons that have been learned over the eight year nightmare of the Bush Administration must be used to reinforce and fortify Our Constitution so it can never happen again."
Of course this would be exactly what Ron Paul has been saying. Thank you, Dr. Paul, for having the courage to say it, even when there are so many nitwits out there ready to attack you.
All of thes idiots are leading in the polls! WTH is wrong with people?
WTF Oregon?
WTF Maine?
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