Discussion for article #236798
If one more candidate enters the race, the Duggar children can have a candidate each
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I think Huckabee has corned the incest vote, so the Duggers are not going anywhere else.
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If we want to get really horse-racey about this, then maybe we should look at the model used for the Kentucky Derby.
Until recently, they limited entrants to horses with at least a minimum amount of purse winnings. Now, they limit entrants using a point system. Either way, the field tops out at about 20.
I realize comparing three-year-old horses to adult politicians might seem ridiculous, but we are talking about the Klown Kar here.
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Conservative hypocrisy knows no bounds. There is a gem I still can’t fathom didn’t garner universal condemnation. Huckabee flat out advocated the U.S. military be starved of manpower, recommending that a nearly two year period occur where no one enlisted. Because to serve Obama was a disservice to the recruit. America didn’t merit an adequately manned military, I guess as punishment for electing Obama. What would be the effect on no one enlisiting for nearly two years? Good question, but not one I heard posed by a single conservative or Republican. Huckabee and others say such things to do exactly what this article details, garner attention and poll points from their base. But how does a major Republican politician advocate crippling the U.S. military and draw a collective shrug from the GOP nationwide? Imagine Obama had said the same thing in the year+ of campaigning leading to the 2008 election. The U.S. didn’t deserve a fully manned military because Bush was so unqualified to be President. The scorn from all sides would have been deafening.
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Don’t correct that. It is so much better than what I think you intended.
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I don’t it’s ridiculous at all; Clever Hans could give most of these guys a run for their money in terms of intellect.
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#GOP_MORONATHON
Which dummy will emerge on top ?
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Three reasons.
- The GOP is collectively bug-fuck crazy.
- The mainstream media in the U.S. is irredeemably corrupt, degenerate, and rotten, largely consisting of poorly-informed stenographers who subscribe to the “both sides do it” mentality of High Broderism.
- The Democratic Party as an organization is clueless, feckless, and incompetent at taking advantage of the targets that the GOP puts up on an almost daily basis, and I include Obama and his administration. That incredible comment by Huckabee—which verges on traitorous—should have immediately resulted in a coordinated, vociferous, and sustained series of public appearances by groups of leading Democrats and retired military specifically attacking not only Huckabee but the GOP for enabling his comments. They should have gathered en masse on the Capitol steps to demand Huckabee apologize, they should have appeared on every talk show they could get access to repeat the same points, Pelosi and Schumer and Reid should have spent time on the House and Senate floor denouncing Huckabee and the Republican Party, and so on. That’s exactly the kind of thing that the GOP would do, and it would garner huge amounts of publicity. But the Dems always let this stuff slide with nary a peep, and the ONLY people who make any kind of effort to call attention to it are the pitifully small legion of progressive bloggers and real journalists. The Democratic Party as an institution appears to be blitheringly unaware of even the need for grabbing the public’s attention.
We’re in an ideological war with a Republican Party that is determined to wipe out any vestige not only of the programs put into place by the New Deal, but also of all of the reforms of the Progressive Era. Much of this war is taking place at the state level, and what we see in Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona, to pick just a few, are textbook cases of what Americans will experience if today’s radical reactionary GOP gets control of things. Then go to the DNC website, and you’ll exactly zero mention of any of this in any meaningful way. Unless and until the Democratic Party as an organization pulls its head out of its ass and directly confronts what’s going on all around us, we’ll continue to lose.
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A series of duels would quickly winnow it down to 9 and the remainders would fit on the stage.
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If Palin threw her hat in the ring she’d instantly rise to the top of the polls. And that, right there, tells you all you need to know about today’s GOP
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Hell, Louie Gohmert could announce and rise to top ten status. And that man has no business even operating an electric can opener, let alone a nation.
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Welcome to another begging the question election.
An IQ test might be a good idea ?
…not counting those beyond the pale of party … respectability…
I believe this statement assumes a fact not in evidence.
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You forgot Peter King! It’s still 19 and counting.
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My better half said something similar about the Kentucky Derby and its 20 entrants. But there he was talking about noble beasts.
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Off in the distance, Mitt Romney is sitting on his white horse, waiting for the rabble to beg him to save them.
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Well, we’ll continue to lose midterms and state races, meaning that winning in presidential years will be of extremely limited value which, in turn, will utterly demoralize the Green Lantern theory of politics people who only vote in presidential years because they think the president can do anything if he has the will to do it. Which, in turn, will cause us to lose in presidential years.
The DNC’s default mode appears to be one of absolute thrall to a handful of Broderite Beltway pundits–the same ones who are so adamantly averting their eyes from the radicalization of the GOP–who they continue to believe are capable of changing people’s minds. They live in terror of a column from Friedman or one of the usual WaPo douchnozzles bemoaning anything smacking of “populism,” which, of course, they equate with demogogury and rabble rousing and fiscal irresponsibility.
A presidential candidate can shake them out of it for a bit, but it’s the vomit to which the DNC apparatchik dogs always returneth.
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If they go to a dance off, I hope to hell I have enough advance warning of the broadcast to know to avoid it.