No joke(r)

~ Patrick O'Grady
Tom Tancredo announces that he will enter the Colorado gubernatorial race because the present crop of candidates fails to represent the insane.
Tom Tancredo announces that he will enter the Colorado gubernatorial race because the present crop of candidates fails to represent the insane.

Tom Tancredo, hands down the craziest Coloradan outside the walls of the state rubber room in Pueblo, will announce today that he will run for governor as the candidate of the American Constitution Party, according to The Denver Post.

Tancredo and GOP poobah Dick Wadhams apparently traded pleasantries on the topic during Peter Boyles’ talk show this morning, with Wadhams asking: “What’s your agenda? What are you going to talk about? Impeach Obama and bomb Mecca?”

To be sure, Dick old scout. And that’s just the beginning. If crazy were asphalt we could squeeze Tancredo like a toothpaste tube and patch every pothole in this cash-strapped state, with enough left over to make I-25 eight lanes in both directions from New Mexico to Wyoming.

Bibleburg being Bibleburg, I fully expect to see Tancredo signs replacing McIsn’t placards citywide within nanoseconds of the official announcement. Half the dingbats in this benighted mini-metropolis go to bed at night jerking off to pictures of Doug Bruce.

• Late update: The Bibleburg Gaslight views with alarm, and even quotes Ozzy Osbourne. The End Times are truly upon us.

8 thoughts on “No joke(r)”

  1. I miss Barry Goldwater. In light of our current crop of nutters, he seemed perfectly reasonable.

  3. I’m coming back to this insanity? At least (as David R) sez, the Italian political system keeps much from happening, good or bad and a lot of the laws are simply ignored anyway. We keep trying to convince our own Iowa nutjob, Steve King to run for governor, senator ANYTHING to get him to give up his congressional seat — so far he’s not taken the bait. I’m sure when he’s termed or turned out though he’ll be running for guv in Iowa..where he’ll have about as much chance as Tancredo who’s name’s Italian–I’m sure his family, if there is one over here is in the Northern League with those right-wing, anti-immigrant screwballs who conspire to keep ol’ Sil in the big chair down in Rome. Some crap goes around the world, it ain’t just the US of A that’s screwed up, it’s just that the US of A has too much power and influence so our screwups quickly become the world’s problems, as in the economic meltdown, etc. Khal, we’ve had offers of partnership and lots of other schemes where we do all the work and someone else gets the profits (when there are profits, those folks don’t want to hear about it if/when there aren’t any profits as in 2009 for example) but we’re truly a Mom and Pop program here, all-in-the-family like most small businesses in Italy. But heck, everyone and his fratello thinks they can do European bike tours, especially once BigTex got going in the late ’90’s…we call ’em “bike tour company of the month” since they come and go so frequently while we’ve been around since 1998. But if you can come up with a scheme to get a visa to stay over here and somehow manage to support yourself, I would say PERCHE NO? (why not?) as I try to say when a client wants another bottle of wine at dinner or an extra helping of the risotto with truffles!

  4. Man, Patrick, Bibleburg almost makes Dysfunction Junction look sane. Not quite, but almost.

    There’s a breakfast joint not too far from here that has some pro-Tea Party message on the marquee. Something about “Freedom Isn’t Free – Vote Tea Party”. It’s just another thing about that restaurant that makes me nauseous, but at least I get sick before actually eating anything they serve.

  5. OK, let’s all move to Italy. There they have fascists, great food and wine and a grand tour which does not suck. It’s a combo we can live with. Plus we have Larry to show us around. What’s the Italian for, “Don’t tase me, bro?”

  7. OK, sounds great to us — great cycling, great food, great wine and crazy talk about things like democracy and freedom (not the Tea Party version)so how soon can you get over here? I’m supposed to go home tomorrow but I can change my plans! We’ll stay well away from Silvio’s goon squad so we won’t have to know “per favore, no TASE mi, mio fratello!” The rightest of right-wingers here still takes a midday break and enjoys a more civilized existence than we do in the US of A.

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