Discussion: Fringe Candidates Stole The Show At Idaho's Last Gubernatorial Debate

It’s funny because Fat Jack’s wife also kicked me out of their cellar when I started my Presidential run a few years back.

I swear if I lived in another country and was planning a visit to the US and saw this . . . I would cancel my plans.

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It’s completely sad that this is represents the best public service the GOP has to offer.

Fixed that for you, Marioth

I lay no claim to the Idaho Otters.

btw, does everyone else have to sign in again each and every time they come to TPM?

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked,

Don’t ask John McCain. He doesn’t care.

…and then I saw these guys!

Not according to Bill-O – and you can’t get more crotchety than him!

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Try reloading the page first.

And is actually the incumbent!

We need a poet like Ginsberg that can describe the current madness

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No, no - it’s one of the reasons I keep coming back! I know that the vast majority on here recognise the crazy, but I’d still wager that a foreigner’s view of it (e.g mine) goes even further than your own incredulity.

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Nope. Still have to enter my ID and password, despite ticking the “remember me” box. If no one else is having to do this, I’m wondering if my husband installed some fun new security application. sigh

You don’t see this as an expression of Norman Rockwellian populist democracy, I gather. Chacun a son gout!

Butch Otter: Better name for a football player or coach, baseball player or manager, or sports fisherman with a cable TV show?

He’s neither otter nor butch.

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You’re a corporate higher educational elitest, do you know that?

I wonder if he home-schooled and diplomaed himself? Not that there’s anything wrong with it.

And here we have an example of the “Idaho Quandry”: such a beautiful state to drive through, hoping to hell you come nowhere near it’s residents, god forbid you have to engage them in conversation (unless, of course, you’re insane or drunk) . My recommendation is to make sure you’re well stocked up on food and drink when entering the state - and also well armed should you get into a confrontation with any of the rabid, hairy critters that roam the state freely. Yeah, I’m talkin’ about the ones with two legs. The four legged kind are a pleasure to encounter in their majestic surroundings, and far less dangerous.

This foursome appears more economically diverse than most political debate candidates.

They are petitioning for redress of grievances and seeking to replace the present governor through voting, peaceable-like. Now, if they end up arrested at Bundyville or are spotted in Washington, DC demanding that federal leaders be arrested and handed over to a people’s tribunal for trial and sentencing, real “constitooshn’l like”, I reserve the right to re-edit my remarks.

The two “suits”, right? The other two candidates seem to be self-assured, reality-grounded and comfortable in their own skins (regardless of the skin’s origin).