In heaven, Molly Ivins smiles: Gov. Goodhair will be taking his carefully coiffed clown act off the national stage and slinking back to the Lone Star State (sorry ’bout that, all y’all in Austin).
The contest for the Pachyderms’ pestilential nomination has been particularly feeble this time around, like watching a herd of blind pigs try to find an acorn buried deep in their sty, and it’s caused me to consider whether we need a knucklehead tax on would-be candidates.
Here’s how it would work. If you are so woefully ill-prepared to hold high public office that thoughtful people snicker at the very sound of your name, you still get to run — this is America, after all, despite the Kenyan Muslim socialist occupying the White House — but should you drop out because you can only muster the level of support one might expect from a Nazi at a bar mitzvah, the fund-raising ceases at once, the debt comes due with a vengeance, and you have to pay back every dime contributed to your campaign by people who, frankly, should have known better.
True, it’s something of a poll tax. But it’s levied against candidates, not voters. And it would be a net job creator, too, because all the late-night talk shows would have to rehire their writers instead of just running with Associated Press copy.
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Oh no…he’s probably on his way back now…even as we speak.
There goes the neighborhood. …
Sounds great and reasonable. Full- stop on fundraising and pay-up – perfect.
It’s an all-star cast, too. Who’da thunk that even after Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachman bailed that we’d still have so much comedic potential in this herd of elephants. Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and then Mittens.
Are we sure Comedy Central didn’t actually script this whole primary?
So now it’s just Mitt, Newt, Ron and Rick? Give ’em a George Barris designed “Idiot-mobile” and we got the makings of a bad TV show here. I know the guy who created Baywatch, maybe he’d take a crack at it? Wonder how much longer Newt, Rick and Ron will flail around before the corporate Repuglican money-masters decide Mitt’s the man? The Koch bros must be getting ready to write some BIG checks soon. Clever how Uncle Mitty won’t be releasing his tax returns until he’s safely got the Repuglican nomination in the bag – don’t want to outrage those so-called Christians when they see how much he’s put into that Mormon “cult” until it’s too late.
Did the Stooges ever make an episode with all four of Curly, Larry, Moe, and Shemp in it?
Aha…thank goodness for Al Gore!
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Meanwhile …
http://politics.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=23888&content=64608338&pageNum=-1
“If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I would vote for Newt and I would want this to continue — more debates, more vetting of candidates, because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate who was not vetted to the degree he should have been.”
— Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on “Hannity.”
As they say, you can’t make this shit up! John Stewart owes these folks big-time.
And that is the clearest mission statement of “Not Coordinating with Stephen COlbert Super PAC ” I’ve seen.
They are repeating on a grand scale the subversiveness of humor. Just following in the tracks of the Beats, the Merry Prankster, George Carlin and Patrick to name a few.
(Patrick can you dump the “Stop Censorship” ribbon? It make writing a comment on an iPhone even more difficult)
Just for you, Ben. The ribbon and its point seem to have been made.
Colbert is conducting a PoliSci 101/”Schoolhouse Rock” course for his audience and what a pleasure it is to watch. How he manages to stay in character — well, mostly — is a mystery to me.
Damn we sure need George Carlin, come back George we need you.
We have Patrick to replace the humor I miss so much in Carlin. There is still one scaring looking groups of idiots left to contend for the Republican nominations – be afraid be very afraid. Thanks for the laughs Patrick.
Mz. Beth, a thousand thank-yous, but I couldn’t carry George Carlin’s mic’. He and Richard Pryor were one-offs, never to be repeated (or matched).
Bill Hicks is up there, too. A wee bit darker, but still, damn.
Here in VA Goodhair & Newt the ‘Neck have been flinging lawsuits about, trying to get on the primary ballot. Seems they didn’t come up with enough legit signatures. Funny how that wasn’t a problem for that Kenyan Muslim Commie, not to mention Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich. So delicious to fling this in the faces of the reactionaries who are forever braying about the “superior” experience and organizational abilities of their dweebs.
Just waiting until one of them walks into an airplane prop or gets sucked into a jet engine while staggering around in the daze that seems to have a grip on them all. The closet doors are being flung wide open and the skeletons are marching out. Takes, open marriages, corporate marauding, all showing their very ugly faces. The’re doing all of the Dem’s dirty work while Barrack sits back and benefits. Good times…