…spews his filth, is then asked if maybe he just, you know, “misspoke,” and he looks right into the camera and says, “No.”

can we ask whether he’ll respond to any accusation that that is one awful rug on his head?

The turds are dropping all over the place.

I find it ironic that Tancredo, who ran for a presidential nomination on a pure anti-immigrant platform, thinks he has any place accusing anybody of racism.

I’m afraid we’re going to need a bigger shovel.

isn’t tancredo one of them (as gordon liddy puts it) illegal alien names?

sounds furrin’ t’ me

Well, here’s an Elephant parading around California (which he lost by an historic margin six months ago) telling the GOP that eMeg is their future:

Sen. John McCain endorsed Meg Whitman at a joint town hall meeting in Tustin this morning, saying the gubernatorial candidate was needed both in Sacramento and in the struggling Republican Party.

“The woman standing beside me represents all of the qualities that will attract people to our party,” McCain told a crowd of about 500 supporters at the Marconi Auto Museum. “We will not only tolerate, but accept people whose views are different than our own.”

This endorsement has to be toxic in two ways. First, the California GOP has little use for McCain; they are the fire-breathers who want to end state governance entirely. When it comes to McCain’s credibility with the general electorate, though, no GOP-for-Prez has ever done so poorly as he did in recent history.

I like this Rick at CNN from what I’ve seen. Love Schuster.

Obama steps in here.

And Arnold, afraid to take on Rush Limbaugh over his political views, decides to make fun of his weight.

“What do you think the future of the Republican party is? Who exactly is in charge? Do you think Rush Limbaugh is in charge of the Republican party these days?” asked host Nicole Lapin.

“Well I think that they say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800 lb. gorilla in the Republican Party,” Schwarzenegger responded. “But I think that’s mean-spirited to say that — because I think he’s down to 650 lbs. I think one should be fair to him about this whole thing.”

“In all seriousness, I think that the Republican party — if they listen to the voters- – they’re gonna be fine. They’re gonna come back again,” he added. “There is no two ways about it. I think the key thing is to keep that large tent and to have, you know, the right-wing, which has, you know, a very, very strong place in the Republican party. But we also need to create a center of the Republican party, and I think that the bigger our tent is, the better it is.”

tancredo’s a stupid fuck. good evening firepups.

Typical cowardly move by the democrats. Hey let’s pre-surrender, that way the republicans and the general public will respect us!!!

You noticed.

I see you’re in a magnanimous mood tonight.

I always say good evening to the firepups!

I know stupid fucks, and Tancredo would have to get way less offensive to be allowed near any of them.

Thanks for the post GL. Now stop reading my mind.

WTF is this? It’s like I am a schomo living in the suburbs with the internet and MSNBC at my command and I KNOW… I KNOW I could have given a better answer to this question! Gibby, it’s called Bitch Slap politics (check it out at Talking Points Memo). It’s their game; they bring it and if you don’t slap back, you lose.

Rushbo is a girly man.

Yeah, weird, cuz we know Gibbs is capable of a bitch slap and can do it with a smile.

I know stupid fucks,…

funny… haven’t seen you around the neighborhood…..

It’s just unbelievable to me that someone like Tom Tancredo would even get media interviews. Something’s wrong.

Gibbs is absolute proof that Barry is at best center-right.

But dare is stdill der room in der tent fahr heem. – Der Schwarz

The Republican, no longer in elected office, member of the minority party, the holder of ideas less popular than elective amputation, spews his filth, is then asked if maybe he just, you know, “misspoke,” and he looks right into the camera and says, “No.”

I heard this with my own ears this afternoon. It was rather stunning in its purity of thought and delivery.

No.

And he kind of snorted when he said it. I thought, wow, this guy ran for President. Wow.

Nothing’s wrong. The “Mainstream” media consists entirely of corporate shills.

I have long been an advocate of the Hackett mantra, “I said it, I meant it, I stand behind it.”

Fablog has been on fire lately. Excellent reporting.

Wasn’t it Tancredo who suggested during the primaries that the U.S. should be throwing our nuclear armed weight around to get the rest of the world to do our bidding until the Bush State and/or Defense Departments told him to STFU?

Clearly a very sensible man.

(Edit) I just looked it up, here is what happened… I knew it was something fun like this.

-during a more recent townhall meeting in Iowa (July 31, 2007), Tancredo said that a threat to bomb Mecca and Medina was “the only thing I can think of” that could deter a nuclear terrorist attack. This statement drew substantial criticism from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as well as State Department spokesman Tom Casey, who stated that “To somehow suggest that an appropriate response to terrorism would be to attack sites that are holy and sacred to more than a billion people throughout the world is just absolutely crazy.”

I thought, wow, this guy ran for President. Wow.

Technically.

Tustin is pretty hardc*re republican, in the heart of the OC. Makes me shiver.

I moved to this part of the country before I saw the light and left the GOP. People there were so extreme and outspoken in their prejudices, it shocked me. Really selfish kind of thinking. I’m generally traditional and conservative in personality, but jeeeez, this was just pure selfishness, the stuff I heard. So no surprise to find McCain sucking up to them.

YUP

Wow. I didn’t realize that the Bush administration had that many scruples when it came to international extortion and intimidation.

Here’s Der Terminator vit und joint:

http://politicalhumor.about.co…..djoint.htm

The Bushies were oblivious to most established conventions but at least they were smart enough to adhere to the policy of not publicly discussing using nukes.

I don’t know if the fact that Tancredo thought making those suggestions would make him seem more presidential than the other candidates says more about him or the Republican base he was pandering to.

Well, on the bright side, Tancredo didn’t even come close to a nomination. Hopefully he blew too much money failing this time to ever try again.

And it’s always so nice to have both your “boss,” in a way, and his flack do your demurrals for you.

At least Judge Sotomayor can reflect that there would be few opportunities for that kind of thing in the future, assuming she’s confirmed.

Ya also gotta admire the following from a discussion about illegal immigration. Tancredo really knows how to endear himself to the people.

In a November 19, 2006 interview with WorldNetDaily, Tancredo referred to the city of Miami, Florida as a “Third World country.

I still chuckle over McCain’s Spain blooper and thinking it was in Latin America or something. Si se pueda!

I forget who finished first for last in the GOP primary: Tancretin or Keyes?

Like I said earlier, it takes some cojones for this guy to call anybody else a racist….

Hey Margot!
Nice to see you in the same hour.

Keyes wasn’t even running, was he? Or was that your point….

I continue to marvel at Palin’s inability to name the members of NAFTA. In her defense I suspect she was confusing it with NASCAR.

Well, NASCAR does have more members to keep track of.

I’m sure he only hates minorities because of their terrible racism.

Same for Rush and Newt.

Hackett, oh man.
Every time the DCCC calls me, I rip them another one about Hackett.

Crooks and Liars has a nice poster up at the moment.

Oh Mister Steele, with your new GOP I can see the sexist douchebaggery from my house!

Certainly true of the minority party.

Rush was bound to feel threatened by any Latina not employed in the housekeeping industry.

I wonder who would win the Biggest Bigot Throwdown: Tancredo or Hucklebee?

After all, Hucklebee expressed his bigotry in a single word: ”Maria.”

Exactly. If there’s one thing Republicans hate, it’s racists.

And sexists. If there’s two things Republicans hate, it’s racists, sexists, and homophobes.

If there’s three-

I’ll come in again.

Huckabee. jeez. Maybe I did that on purpose.

The Huckster is better at feigning civility. Tancredo doesn’t even try.

If there’s two things Republicans hate, it’s racists, sexists, and homophobes.

Especially the ones who get caught.

Any Republican will tell ya, all the racists, sexists, and homophobes belong to the Democrat Party.

g’nite firepups.

G’nite Betsy. Time for me to head out too, splendid weekend to all.

…and fascists.

…and Communists.

“Oh, no! Commie Nazis!”
–Ranier Wolfcastle

Yeah, the huckster is the BEST at telling a really good lynching joke with a smile.

pain free sleep wishes tex
g’nite ratfood (and any other leaving sleepy pup i may have missed)

Hi Chris, same here!

nite tex
nite ratfood

Strange that Tancredo isn’t out there pumping for Cheney, though, isn’t it? Cheney needs some crazy on his side…besides his daughter.

whenever I see Liz on my teevee now, I just envision her father’s mugshot, or that snarl with a set of bars over it. I get a really easy peaceful feeling when I do that.

I’m heading off to bed too. Peace out, y’all!

g’nite edp

MadDog calls her Lizard Cheney!! I think it’s perfect, as is EW’s label BabyDick.

Nighters, sleepy folks.

My friend told me to just hold up a fork over their photo on tee vee, like prison bars!

oooooh i like that. not only for the bars but also the implied fork you to sends

Heh, heh,
Like to see my collection of antique forks?

Never apologize, never explain, always attack. Period.

Oh, OFG,
How are you?

Very tired.

how’s the shoulder ofg?

I miss your stories. I know, it has been some time ago.

The biggest problem with Hackett is quit…. He didn’t fight them…. had a long discussion with Markos about it and there were other candidates who were ignored or campaigned against and won. Markos thought was that Hackett fit a profile of one of the Military…..

I am sick and tired of all the repugs on the TV…. WHY are there NO Democrats?

After what these yahoo’s did to our country and economy to totally fuck it up…..what gives they any credibility?

Elmore is south of Elko NV….. he is taking our new travel trailer to his place….

I still have not have my shoulder worked on, and probably won’t. Thank you Christine for your encouragement. It is difficult for me, a moderately skilled writer, who sits in slack-jawed amazement at the ankles of giants like Driftglass, Digby, Glennzilla and our own bloodhound–Emptywheel, and perform the role of the great pretender. I know I have an offering to make in the sound and fury. I do need to blog more in the journey to find my own niche and voice.

Our media stars remind me of elementary schoolyard troublemakers. They run to someone and say “So and so said such and such. Are you going to stand there and take that shit?” Back and forth to entertain with sparks and smoke as opposed to inform with facts and truth. Rush and Faux have set the standards–the bar has been thrown on the ground and they continuously trip over it.

Yes, you do need to make an offering in the sound and fury…before I discovered FDL and your stories, alone, I was ignorant of mountain top removal, and everything else you reported here. We knew that you traveled a great time, and I watched for your reports. Please, more, sir.

ES has served up LLN…! ;-)

There is only one way to look at this. Obama (and Gibbs) want Republicans to go for another week with this line of attack.

Republicans are losing Latino voters and women voters every day that this continues. And they are making the GOP folks in Congress very nervous, especially folks from Texas, Arizona, and California.

Why would Obama want to shut this down? It puts pressure on the GOP in Congress to move quickly or to change the subject of media discussion.

A little bit of the campaign rope-a-dope appears again.

Pretty astute puppies throughout this thread. heh.

I like your take.

Seems as if the repubbles are so bizzy dumpster-diving, they haven’t noticed they’ve lost their balance totally and dropped right into the slop. Way to go, pubs.

I’d toss them some wet-naps, but why waste ‘em?!

Tancredo trying to channel limp-paw? Way beyond dumb. Ludicrous!

Teh stupid burns the eyes and ears, but I’ll never tell em. Let em go. then flush twice.