The candidates get to question each other:
9iu11iani: Hey Mitt, people here in Florida can’t get property insurance. Senator McCain doesn’t support national catastrophic insurance, he thinks they ought to rely on FEMA. McCain thinks…
McCain: Who’s answering this question?
9iu11iani: I don’t really have a question, I just want talk about myself and suck up to Florida voters a bit longer.
McCain then gets 30 seconds to rebut 9iu11iani’s question to Mitt. Hard to tell whether they’re more collectively irrelevant or full of shit.
McCain refers to Lieberman as "one of my favorite Democrats." He’s getting a little old or the botox got injected a bit deep, ‘cos Short Ride’s no Democrat.
Update: Worst. Debate. Ever. They got nothin’.
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Tediummmmmmm.
zed.
C&L
Hey, LS!
Borrrring.
From chairman to VP in a single bound.
Rudy gets a laugh with the “I’ve lulled them into a false sense of security” line so he tells it twice.
The man has no sense of timing.
McCain’s off too…Brian Williams hands his a softball about his mom, and he starts talking about islamofacists. Huckabee would never do that.
McCain going all A*I*P*A*C. Wonder why?
Just when I thought it was safe to uncover the keyboard…
spew alert!
I like our fighting so much better!
They are just as much pygmies up here as they were down there.
Tim asks Mitt how to run against Billary.
Mitt can’t wait. Americans don’t want Bill back in the White House.
Mitt: slap his face and call him trouble! Can’t imagine househubby in WH.
Romneybot: I hate the Clintons more than these other bozos do!
Oh that limp applause for McCain was pathetic. Romney’s line about Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do was even sadder.
I want Mitt.
I had no idea that the Clenis had been running Washington for the past 7 years. Thanks for getting me clued in, Mittens.
Timmeh: how much money have you spent of your own, Mitt?
Tell us NOW!!!
Willard – “I hereby promise to resurrect Ronald Reagan from the grave. Umm, Huck, I might need your help on this one…”
Mitt: I’ve raised more money than anyone else in this race.
And I’ve spent some of my own, not as much as Forbes, Bloomberg.
Hi, Jane! The contrast between the wackaloon delusional freaks in this debate, and the Democratic candidates in the SC debate is pretty stark.
Good God Mitt makes no cents.
Hey RonD!!!
“Nobody can call me and say — he you owe me!”
Rom: “I have raised more money than any other Republican in this race!”
Rom: “I don’t owe anybody anything!”
disconnect
I also want Mitt…
Romney will not tell Russert what he has spent, other than to say he has raised more money than anyone else. Less than Steve Forbes.
He has been able to save enough money to run.
watch how you use that word, inherit, Mitt.
America is not a family business.
Mitt is concerned about the kids America will inherit.
Why do you guys want Mitt?
Ah, Mormonism
Mittens doesn’t know many Baptists, obviously…
MItt: my faith isn’t terribly well known around this country.
But Mitt, when it is, your support goes down.
no religious test? then why the muslim smear of Osama oh I mean Obama.
the mutt’s getting a lot of airtime from timmeh
he’s going on… and on…. and on….
“How to get America going again” — Mitt.
Romneybot: “I am just so much cooler than Hillary Clinton!”
Mitt is concerned about the kids America will inherit.
No, he’s concerned about the America *his* kids will inherit. And in Willard’s case, he means it literally.
They are so boring and lacking in original ideas….they get a big “F”.
Dorks.
“He’s a bit old or the botox got injected a bit deep…”
Ouch. That’s gonna leave a bruise. :o)
And, Neurophius@14; you heard it right. Willard’s cleverly cranking up the ONLY issue the GOP will need to talk about, if we nominate Hillary.
Iraq could be totally engulfed in mayhem; I mean EVERYONE involved, and all we’ll hear from the goopers is “Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!”, and it will play with enough people to save the bastards.
Tim asking Paul about SocSec “abolish it”
Not overnight.
Paul: I will abolish ss after the voters die.
cuz he’s a robot and a dope and I think he would get completely swept, leaving the Dem with an actual mandate, not a Bushy kinda mandate…
Ron wants to save hundreds of billions of dollars saved overseas spent on oldsters.
paul wants to talk about iraq
he’s the only one
Mitt, America wont care what church you belong to as long it is not a mosque
Ron Paul: sure, I want to abolish Social Security…
That’s how I hear it too when it comes out around the silver spoon in his mouth.
and also, the press hates Mitt and if Hillary gets the nom, it levels the playing field.
I read on threads here Lieberman is one of Obama’s favorite Dems; funny I never here Obama mention his name. I hear the Clintons and McCain mention him with equal and startling frequency.
I’m wondering who can paint Blue States Red faster? McCain or Clinton? I suspect Clinton can convert Blue States to Red in record time and bring out a record number of Republicans to the polls. One compelling reason to get her out.
Still waiting for the Huck/constitution/bible question…
Ah. Rooting for the weakest opponent.
At least Bushco was….”interesting”….
These guys are yawnnnnnn ……tedious and boring.
I’m bored.
I’m only catching every 5th boring word…..yadda, yadda, yadda….
Huckster: I’m going to ignore your question and change the subject to tell the Mittster how much I admire his sons…
Good God, no wonder we said, “Tune out and Turn on”.
Romneybot blows a circuit in his face during Huckey’s question.
Huck is really good at distracting people by making jokes, then getting onto uneasy ground.
Raisethebar@44; you bet your ass he’s the only one. They’d rather have a root-canal with a pair of visegrips than talk about the clusterfuck. Which is precisely why we so badly need someone who is willing and able to hang it around their necks.
Huckster: The Fair Tax will solve everything…
yeah, keep your money Mitt so your sons will inherit it and let me run the country. we both win. Mitt looks like he smells McCain’s diaper.
Mitt’s sons are enlisting!!!!!!!!!!
Oh…wrong show….
Zzzzzz…
Romney looks like he’s having a serious gas pain.
Tim: would you do what Reagan did?
Mitt: I’m not gonna raise taxes
They are all really rather stupid.
Mittster: don’t raise taxes to save Social Security
(a good excuse to let Social Security crash and burn)
Rev. Chucklebee sez:
I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
-G
Mitt:
I don’t WANT to raise taxes.
Jeebus, when Mitt sez “sit down with the Democrats” he sounds like he’s saying “sit down with Al Qaida”
If Hillary were to get the nom, it would paint blue states red at warp speed, and bring out more Republican voters in exponential numbers, and very probably lose the White House if not a number of Congressional or Senate seats.
You’re at rock bottom now with the Senate and House; if you don’t think so stay tuned as S. 2248 twists and turns with immunity as the end product, and none of the other significant issues addressed.
I want to know what kind of skin care Mitt uses….
He’s incredibly wrinkleless….
I hear Miracle Whip makes a great mask….no, I’m not kidding!!!
Hey, RomBot…how about lifting the cap on income taxed for Social Security?
Mittens is just so….. soothing, I suppose… (you are getting sleepy! SLEEPY! very, very sleeeeeepy!)
Why doesn’t anyone ask about the huge two-plus-year delays in Social Security disability?
Asking Ghouli a question (from the audience?) Ghouli’s face twitches, then makes his eyes bug out again
Huck gave him a facial just now.
OT.
The Iranians told Condi to go F herself.
Chimpco has made the Iranians puffed up enough to tell the US: Nah, we don’t wanna talk to you.
Heckuva job.
-G
Mitt:
Oh, and by the way everyone wathing – don’t believe that we are REALLY going to take all of these things away we are only saying it and stuff. Believe the stuff about the “read my lips no new taxes”.
Rudi’s gonna end illegal immigration with technology, a tamperproof ID card, and education.
Republican heresy!
Hiya, RonD!
Anyone who actually listens to what these people say and then votes for them….God Bless their patience….idjiots…..
? from audience to rudy:
why are you pandering to the hispanics?
Rudy:
we need a tamper-proof id card
Because it’s one of those child proofed safety caps…
See Giuliani’s eyes light up when he says “a tamper-proof ID card!”
707
Why are republican immigrants allowed to stay? Isn’t this a rhetorical question?
Giuluiani reminded me of Robin Williams doing an impersonation of William F. Buckley.
-G
Timmeh to Rudee: why do you pander to Cubans?
Rudee: ’cause I LURVVVVES me come Cubans!!!
Heckuva job Mitt, we won’t listen to what you say then.
RUDY! Getting down a little Law and Order Cuba.
Ghouli – looks beaten, sounds beaten, and weak.
Hey, jayt!
These candidates are crazy.
wackaloon I haven’t heard or seen in print for ages. I should make that a staple of my vocabulary.
Missed the debate. lemme guess. Rudy’s gonna give us the largest tax cut in American history, continue to pay for a war and create a catastrophe fund for people who buy beachfront property in FL and know exactly what risks they’re taking, Sounds like the party of fiscal responsibility and personal responsibility to me, no?
McCain has those waxy halloween teeth and lips tonight.
chuck norris question to hucksterbee
do you agree with chuckie’s comment about mccain being older than the hills?
Is this sunday school?
Norris -v- Sly
Huckabee says he would get kicked upside the head.
Is McCain too old?
Huckabee: Bless his heart.
Huck: Of all the things we can criticize John McCain for, his ago isn’t one of them
Huckster: vote for me cause Chuck Norris likes me. I’m not going to say McCain is too old to be preznit, I’ll let Chuck do that for me.
Wow…Huckabee quoting Billy Jack wrt Chuck Norris, though Chuck wasn’t in it. That was Tom Laughlin.
zackly
McCain saved his Gen. Swartcough endorsement for his joke about Sly -v- Chuck Norris.
Man, the Mod just slammed RUDY!
I tried, I really did, but these people make me gag.
The Democrat Congress is going to raise taxes. I’m just going to sign off on it.
Oh that’s humiliating — NYT says 9iu11iani is a “narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man, his arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking.”
Okay, Rudy made it work for him. Called them a bunch of liberals and it was a badge of honor.
Rudy Loves People.
….!
I worked for Ronald Regean….and then how did they write a book about your boss who actually worked for RayGun.
whoa – Brian Williams smokes Ghouli on the NYT endorsing McCain.
Ghouli “And once again, may I remind you, that there isn’t a single issue that you can possibly raise that I didn’t solve when I was mayor of New York.”
Did he say Billy Jack?
Mod: Rudee, how can you be such an unlikable slimeball like your hometown newspaper says?
Rudee: *puts fingers in ears* na na na na na I can’t hear you!!!
The Grey Lady must be priming their pumps now…!
Oh that’s humiliating — NYT says 9iu11iani is a “narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man, his arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking.”
Okay, Rudy made it work for him. Called them a bunch of liberals and it was a badge of honor.
—
Yeah, quite a slam by the Mod using NYT slam. But did offer a traditional follow-up.
Mitt: I’m willing to change things…like Mccain’s dydee.
who told mitt it would be a good idea for him to run for president?
OldCoastie@10: at least, our fighting is honest. Team-troll is made up of a bunch of opportunistic jerks trying to defend george bush’s monumental fuckups as the acts of a statesman. How could it not be the world mendacity convention?
But trust me; that is going to change in a few short months. By midsummer the bushCo boys choir is going to morph into a bunch of cloned Brutus’s, all clawing and jockeying for the chance to get in a VERY PUBLIC stab at C+ Caesar on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. :o)
Oh man. These guys are going to get stomped.
Huckabee: If I was President, I’d still be scared of Chuck Norris.
No, but the line about “putting his foot right there, and you can’t do anything about it” is straight out of Biilly Jack.
Rudy an Clusterfuck—Night of the living dead…
Someone above said that ”At least (Bush) was interesting”
The only thing I found interesting about his campaign was the drama of knowing that he might experience a total meltdown at any moment and you’d hate ta miss it—wouldn’t you?
Here’s the Times editorial on McCain. My, they have some ugly things to say about the Republicans!
Bottom line: is there any question in any viewer’s mind that Tim and Brian are looking at the guy they are gonna vote for, and their questions show that quite clearly?
Huckabee is the king of snark.
Mitt the Shite his 5 kids going to live like kings with the gold spun by Huckabee.
- McCain wanted to let a little yell out, but wants to bust out the “Bilbo face”.
Is your temper a problem Senator McCain? #### no!
Again, I missed it. Pandering to the Cubans is to be expected. But we central Floridians want to be pandered to as well. Did any of them say he was going to spend zillions to go to Mars?? (More fiscal responsibility). Or do they just say that when they’re around here?
With Chuck Norris already surgically implanted on McCain’s ass, is there for Stallone?
McCain takes pity on Rudy. Oh that’s humiliating.
John McCain: I can be bipartisan…kumbayah [and Joey Short Ride is my BFF!!!]
Aha.
So Rudy 9iu11ani ran the country after 9/11 according to McCain…
McCain turn around – take a question on a hot temper and end with the higher-road praising St. 9-11.
This would be an excellent question in the general election.
Do you support Cuban immigrants staying here in America?
Do you support Mexican immigrants staying here in America?
mccain gettin’ serious now
mccain sez he knows rudy
and rudy is a patriotic amurican!
LOVEFEST TIME!!!!!!!
He’s damn good, especially for a wingnut, where humor is traditionally almost nonexistant.
Huck preaching religious tolerance while praying to rewrite teh constitution….heh.
Leave my belief in God out of it Huckabee.
Do you think there will be a group hug when the debate is over?
Goopers are bout down ta Mister Mitt an the walkin corpse McCain….Should be an exciting contest!!! Bring on the hot coffee!!!
OK: I’m getting broadband if I have to chew through the wires.
A moment like that is too good to miss.
Hillary vs. McCain – don’t count on a stomping or a thumping. No heart over head for me for elections. Just football games.
Huckster, but I’m willing to shape the Constitution…
Damn Ron Paul is up for the second time – it must be Pumpkin time for this debate in in a little bit.
Ron Paul is crying.
BTW, Marcy will ’splain it all for you re FISA for Late Nite.
Kobe’s so excited, Marcy’s coming to visit.
If McCain is praisin Rudy Toot Toot- then he KNOWS Rudy is toast.
rudy and huck staring at paul like he’s from another planet
Woops! I was thinking that McCain had cornered the ageing-action-hero endorsement market. I was wrong. Now I remember, he’s splitting that with Huck. :o)
Truly awful debate. Truly.
Paul lecturing them on the Constitution.
EW!
It must be tough for him to the truth so much with the lies bouncing off the rafters.
Ron Paul gets the last word, and it was an eloquent paean to Republicanism.
yay! I stayed awake thru the whole thing.
I think.
Tweety up with Joe Scar
Ahh, now for the punsterfest!
Billy Jack: You know what I think I’m gonna do then? Just for the hell of it?
Mr. Posner: Tell me.
Billy Jack: I’m gonna take this right foot, and I’m gonna whop you on that side of your face…
[points to Posner’s right cheek]
Billy Jack: …and you wanna know something? There’s not a damn thing you’re gonna be able to do about it.
Crazy people on stage: I don’t know who the patient is here.
The new Republican campaign line is going to be “War on the Economy”.
This group has already exceeded orbital velocity.
Oooh! That’s a treat. I’ll have to stay up now.
Not another planet
Another dimension
Luapnor
Luapnor
Luapnor
I can tolerate a Repugs debate, but I simply WILL NOT sit still for Tweety and that other creature.
Make that the punditfest.
I don’t think punaise is in the house.
Marcy’s gonna be on about FISA later? Great! I was thinking… since I was into FISA last, we’ve had holidays and caucuses and primamries and I forgot alot of stuff. I need a basic (i.e. stuipid) question answered.
aw come on – next thing you’re gonna be telling me (and Huck) that Chuck Norris didn’t play Billy Jack *g*
I thought Fred had his best performance yet.
Mittster is the consensus…!
Mrs. Greenspan loves John McCain
Mitt wins by default I guess.
Rudy only had a few tactical stabs at a few percent.
Of course Mrs. Greenspan is still friend of McCain and talking about being “independant at times”.
Chuck Todd sez Mitt did great
Now we are going to learn what Andrea Greenspan thinks.
Surprise! McCain did well, and sounded Reaganesque! Andrea is such a surprise, every time.
LOL
His imaginary best friend.
dakine01! You are the Man!
Mrs. Huck looks out of her element.
Andrea Mitchell just said, John “McCame”….I swear…that is how boring they are…John Whateverhisnameis….
heh
agreed
Wasn’t he just Great!!!!
Tweety immediately jumps to a chance to trash the Clintons. Repeating Mittster’s Clintonbashing.
Andrea and that other woman… what’s her name?…. Cokie Robets. Oughta just give it up. I’v seen and heard just too much of them. But that’s probably true of most of the people I see and hear from.
Paul will win the polls.
Bush mentions at an all-time low (even to attack McCain for voting against the Bush Tax cuts the first time).
They likely are also thinking that to much above the board negative campaigning is bad since right now they can be opposite of the D’s fights.
Romney looked great :) He’s got this primary sewn up. Plus he’s the weakest frontrunner they have head-to-head. Couldn’t have worked out better.
Clinton mentions: 59
Bush mentions (not the Mods): ~ 0
Surprised? ;-)
You knew Tweety was going to go there…now he’s dragging Huckabee into it. “Bill in the white house with nothing to do.”
OK, I won’t tell you it was Tom Laughlin who played Billy Jack
Mitt: “The last thing America needs is sending the Clintons back to Washington.”
Tweety jumps all over that. Asks Huck about running against Hillary AND Bill.
Obama does the Top 10 list tonight on Letterman.
Clinton/Obama/Clinton/Obama/Al Qaeda/Clintons/Obama…
Heh….Edwards…..bring it on.
Good effing God, they’re replaying the Mitt Clinton bashfest like they’re in teh WH.
WTF? Huck has run against the Clintons in Arkansas?
hucksterbee sez the clintons like to win (but he doesn’t)
Huckabee has claims now that he has beat the Clinton AK machine 3 or 4 times.
Chris Matthews has Clenis envy.
Of course not!
Watch out for Huckster…..!!
I thought the Walmarts Family ran AK, are they all in the family?
who told mitt it would be a good idea for him to run for president?
R2-D2
That kinda says it all for me. Although there were a few mentions that we should thank Bush!!! For keeping us safe!
Huck – “We can’t pull out of Iraq and betray the trust that (both of) the Iraqi people have put in us.”
Hey Mr. Walmart, wicked awesome store!
Are they going to play the clip with Willard Mitt’s well run companies have fake off-shore havens in the Caymen Islands (or was that a false negative attack)?
Tweety said Huck made a “cloying” point about WMDs.
I don’t “cloying” means what he think it means.
So, after FL, Rudy’s out. That means in future debates Dr. Paultard will get more time?
Hucksterbee, being interviewed now, doesn’t know whether there were WMD or not but seems to suggest there were and we just didn’t find them.
We’re on the same page LS! He’s an oasis of yucks in a humorless desert.
LOL.
This line deserved a second posting.
is timmeh drunk?
Nope, won’t go there… ;-)
That was funny…Hucky lecturing Tweety on the difference between stategy and tactics.
hahahahahaha
McCain is only 4 years OLDER than Chuck Norris
The Huckster is suffering- thinkin- “If the lord would just send me a cool hundred million I’d murder these fucks”
OMG…Tweety just tricked Huckster into a question about Abdullah (Saudi Arabia)…would he have allowed WMD’s into his country?..Huckster said, he would never have allowed that into Jordan!!! OMFG. I want the Youtube…..
I heard somebody say that here te other day. Dope.
I think my favorite moment is when Huck asked Mitt about gun control laws. Two dog lovers discussing their hunting rifles and making sure their babies are safe (that’s my bow to the guntoting crazee on the dem youtube debate).
Well, I guess that makes Chuck too old to …. do whatever it is that he does.
They must be picking who St. Ronnie is going to be after Stimulus/FISA/Davos but before the full recession and any new wars – hope we get to summer at it remains a bad season to introduce a new product.
Pumpkin head included Edwards in the list.
Timmeh: “blood and treasure blah blah blah”…
Who came up with that phrase? I’m tired of it.
How about “senseless deaths and wasted money”?
Yeah, I don’t know if you heard it, but Huck alluded to not finding the easter eggs doesn’t mean they’re not there. I think he’s taking the faith thing a little too far.
So, after FL, Rudy’s out. That means in future debates Dr. Paultard will get more time?
—
He has money and “wins” the debate polls. That is a cash cow.
Hey. Why you guys watch Tweety when he pisses you off so much?
Didn’t they invite Keith to the post-debate party?
RUDY!
The NYT is in favor of losing Iraq.
Pumpkin did raise a good point… If ya vote Repug it’s more War…
Tweety is giving Rudee a massage
Hopefully KO is going to cover the FISA thingy instead??? (d/k)
Rudi is by nature conservative, he sez.
Except of course when it comes to the Unitary Uxorious Theory.
that is WHY I watch tweety
and why I watch the pub debates
know thy (or thine?) enemy
Well, since his aqua velva man dropped out… ;-)
gop wanted a shot of the candidates goin on a hunt an sittin down together cleanin their fancy eye talion shotguns…
But none of em were willin to get within killin range of the others—-Mister Mittens said he only hunts varmints.
The Huckster is suffering- thinkin- “If the lord would just send me a cool hundred million I’d murder these fucks”
—
Could well be true, good mind read.
Tweety is arming NYC.
I hope you mean no offense to the cannibals out there.
I wrote msnbc and told ‘em their debate was really boring and that I thought Rachel Maddow would certainly spice things up..
hopefully they will listen…
It’s never too late to sell franchises.
I think that’s the title of Huck’s next book.
Didn’t they invite Keith to the post-debate party?
—
KO has a Countdown following the next Dem debate if I heard correctly.
Not a SINGLE question about race.
Hey, Keith, if you are reading this: wtf?
Tweety is trying to help RUDY by laughing at him and falling off his stool drunk.
Man Rudy and CM Tweety are dumb as rocks.
Me too. And I’ve heard a couple people say how the “best and brightest” are serving in this war. Look, everybody respects these people. But wasn’t there a story the other day that the % of recruits with h.s. diplomas is down. Sorry, these people have guts and they’re dedicated. But best and brightest they’re not.
But yeah. Please stop the “blood & treasure.”
I think they count immigration as their race issue.
Ghouliani: The economics of the Republican party grow our economy….
Bwahahahahaha!!!
without keith – the postgame show is more boring than the debate
I agree. Same reason why I watch FOX and check out Malkin sometimes, I guess.
I’m not watchin—-have any of em mentioned President First Class Clusterfuck?
Well, I did so enjoy Timmeh quoting the NYT to Rudy’s face. And the question about Rudy’s spanish ads.
you have a stronger stomach than me!
Mrs. Greenspan: “Like I said earlier, I love John McCain.”
And piss it all away on war, space program, catastrophe funds…….
Cast Yer Vote. (hope this works)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22830366/
It was a Blame the Clintons Rally all night. And we get to thank Bush for keeping us safe! Booyah!
Keith and Dick Gregory Get the Dems
A new one, or a rerun from earlier tonight?
I was disappointed that Pumpkin left out Haitians in his “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” question… Obvious pandering to the Cubans, I might add…
They were so boring tonight that the pundits are scrambling to discuss what the hell they said, because they didn’t say anything worth friggin’ reporting.
“So which of you is gonna give us MORE of the Bush style of government?
Come on, speak up!”
The Boston Globe had a little snippet earlier this evening that Huckabee is going to run the Boston Marathon for charity. If he’s still in the Presidential race on the third Monday in April, I’m thinking that surely someone can get a “Jimmy Carter running in agony” type picture to help Huck on his way to oblivion.
Tweety, The Scar and Mrs. Greenspan doing the post-debate… watching that’s a little much to ask, for me, anyway.
(did I mention that I’m pretty sure I stayed awake for the whole “debate”)?
I think after tonite it’s a two-man race, Mitt vs. McCain. I think Hucky kinda overplayed the humor thing by being a little too good at it-he’s now the official comic relief. Giuliani sounds despreate but resigned. Ron Paul, of course, is the banshee screaming.
Now, after watching this wretched debate, are there still folks here that are prepared to vote Republican or sit this coming election out, if their Democratic candidate does not get the nomination?
No way!!! Only in a car.
Oh yeah. On the thing that was giving Jane trouble in her post, I vote full of shit. They’re irrelevant too. Bit full of shit more so. See, it’s cause an effect, maybe. Being so full of shit makes them irrelevant.
Hope they get into Rudy’s $400 hair cut.
Switching over a Daily Show
Wow. The Paulheads really freeped that poll!!!
Uh, I think you mean David Gregory, MC Rove’s dancing partner, instead of Dick Gregory.
Freudian sip.
No wonder Tweety looks so yellow.
Who’s the Scar. C’mon. You guys gotta stop wityh the nicknames. I can’t keep track.
Rudy has to drop his drawers at the barber shop in order to get his money’s worth.
Stopped by for a moment saw just a small bit of the who won the debate crap after this yawn GOP exchange and still keep hearing whose is the most Reagonistic whatever….
Sorry to say but Reagon was a Union Bustin’ jerk—what is it about this idolizing Reagon—
Geesh….
Ron Paul kickin’ ass again on the MSNBC poll…
Yeah. Me too. ;)
new thread
New post? On FISA? Anybody wants to see me ask a stupid question,c’mon and join me over there.
My guess is Joe “Dead Intern” Scarborough.
Joe Scarborough.
Joe Scarborough – host of Morning Joe
the pundits won’t do it, so I’ll help tweety and co. out:
summing up tonight’s “debate”….
vote for a dem – get out of iraq and get fiscal responsibility
vote for a pub – get more of what we’ve had for the past 7 years – a total disaster
The Scar = Joe Scarborough, former gooper congress critter, now host of “Mornin’ Joe” on MSNBC (the old Imus slot).
About the only thing I can say positive about him is he actually kept his word and left Congress after 3 terms.
Well, I don’t know if you can call me a paulhead, but…
Didn’t know who to vote for so gave it to paulie.
heh heh heh…that was a good one!
I’m not, either, but I did, too.
Didn’t mean to make so sweeping a statement.
OT
local NBC affiliate here in Nashville, TN polled across the state for presidential contenders: http://www.wsmv.com/download/2…..131098.pdf
~itunkala
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Don’t look at me…. :)
He had to rehearse that line incestantly…to avoid saying “a pamper poof tidy card”.
He hates workers…wants them to have to continue working until they are in the grave.
McCain will have a bunch of old guys who advised Bush help him out with ‘rithmetic…Huck will appoint Chuck Norris as his National Security Advisor.
Sort of like “Billy Jack” was a REAL entity? “My friend Mr. Ed, the talking jackass, told me….” Huckabee lives in some bizarre fantasy world.
Didn’t he also say that WMD’s were sort of like not findin’ all the Easter Eggs? Ahem! We didn’t find a single one of those “Easter Eggs”…Bush even looked in his office for them. But they exist, to this moment in Huckabees MIND!
Yes, Thompson definitely won that debate!
I think that if they pull that line in the General Election, and if Hillary is the nominee, she’ll hit back with the fact that Bill has done more good OUT of office than any of them IN office…
Tsunami Relief, Clinton Foundation, etc.
Or she could say, “Maybe I’ll make Bill UN Ambassador…worked pretty well with FDR and Eleanor” ;-)
Yeah, if you count paroling the guy who raped his Bill’s niece as TWO times, and signing legislation authorizing the teaching of Creationism as another.
I can’t even begin to infer what he means by this. Unless he means a non sequitor?
And I suspect that he doesn’t like Hillary because she sits down to pee.
TeddySanFran@8:
“McCain going all AIPAC. Wonder why?”
Good question; did they give him as much money as they gave Hillary?
Which Repub candidate do you think will give us the most laughs in the general election? Remember, Fred’08 is out.
I heard/read the last Dem debate in SC was the most watched primary debate of all time. At least they were entertaining and showed some intelligence. The Repubs are just plain embarassing. Heh.
Haircut? I thought with him it was the $400 dress.
They got nuthin, but, its no sure thing in the general election.
This is going to be a lot tougher than everyone seems to think.
No. I think it’s the handbag.
FDR didn’t appoint Eleanor Roosevelt. He passed away before the first UN session.
Harry Truman appointed her a UN delegate to our first mission to the UIN in 1945. She remained a delegate to the UN until 1952.
Jane, good thread. And you’re spot-on. It’s appalling that these fucking ciphers are running, and that most of them are still defending bush’s wretched war.
But, my 2c, I give no one any slack on Hillary. Just because the republican candidates are willing to try to be bush and the GOP’s Alpine Redoubt, as their shithead-construct collapses around their heads, is not a reason to slide ANY of the democrats for THEIR funking the job of going after these people.
And, I insist, Hillary Clinton has funked the job the worst, by a mile. Digby, as you know, has shut down her comments, because the debate about our nominee was getting heated. That was disappointing. Some of us were putting up factual links about Clinton’s track record, which has been done on here, also, and the fur has flown some here, too, and I think that’s perfectly appropriate.
We NEED to talk about thing like Clinton’s speech a few weeks ago, where she accused Obama of being “too far to the left”, because years ago, he’d been against the death penalty, and because (she said) he was for “socialized medicine”.
These are two bedrock republican talking points and for her to parrot them, as she’s still haring after conservative votes that have never been there for her, and never will be, is only the most recent indication of her lack of political integrity, and of her abundance of political stupidity.
Evidently neither she, nor anyone on her staff, are “savvy” enough to know that progressives can find out about this, nor that we will file it, along with her support for AIPAC, and for Kyle-Lieberman, and for Lieberman, himself, and for bush’s war (until the mid-term polls enlightened her), and talk about it in the debate about which candidate will give us the best chance to take advantage of the republican’s miserable turn at the wheel.
So. By all means, let’s laugh at the obscene rolling clown act that is the republican nomination contest, but while we’re doing it, we need to remember that ours is still up for grabs, and one of the grabbers thinks that lending herself and the dignity of her office, to FoxNews’ 10th anniversary birthday bash, and taking money from Rupert Murdoch, and supporting legislation to make flagburning a federal crime, is just the thing to do.
Because the repubs are awful, does not mean that we should avoid hard and fast discussion of our candidates, nor that we should give them a pass on the things they’ve done in the past that may have contributed to the miserable situation that we’re now in.