The Next Horse
By Mitch Berg
Hugh cites Randy Elrod’s prediction when Fred Thompson will drop his announcement…:
Fred Thompson will announce his bid for the Presidency on Labor Day at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
And then, things will get fun!
August 13th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Angryclown’s prediction of what Thompson will say: “In the Republican Party, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the Christian wackos who want to outlaw two-piece bathing suits and the corporate fatcats who think welfare is only for Fortune 500 companies. These are their stories.”
August 13th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
That’s right, clownie. If you have morals and create jobs, the GOP is for you. Looking at pictures from recent DFL conventions, the StarWars cantina scene is tame compared to the nut-jobs that are on the convention floor.
August 13th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Yeah, it must be disturbing for you to see non-whites, Dave.
August 13th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
The DNC allows non-whites to attend their conventions? Too bad they won’t let ’em run for Prez. Unless you count that Senator fella, but hey, he’s not all that black, is he?
August 13th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Well hell Clown. Let’s see you stand behind those words. I am offering a wager of say…..$5K that he doesn’t even come close to saying that. You in?
August 13th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I’m a Christian and have no problem with two-piece bathing suits. I’m sure AC looks charming in his.
August 13th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Holy crap. Talk about hijacked!
Back to the topic at hand, I think it may be too late for Thompson. I love the guy and his movies and pretty much everything he stands for.
But, c’mon! Get in there!!! Hopefully there is some wisdom to waiting.
August 13th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I’m a Christian Republican who prefers women to wear one piece bathing suits. Preferrably the bottom half.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I like Mitt, but then he’s a religious nut like me.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I am amazed at AC’s grasp of the Republican base. I’m a rank amateur at this sort of thing, but I’ll try to peg the opposing side, and hopefully I’ll come as close to reality.
“In the Democratic Party, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: Gays who drive mobile abortion clinics, and power-hungry control freaks who seek to subjugate people through wealth redistribution and buy minority voting blocs by promising them taxpayer largess.”
Oooh, politics is fun!
August 14th, 2007 at 2:20 am
I watched the 2004 D convention. Most of delegates were 2nd generation government employees. Teachers were over-represented. They wanted more government ‘action’ on whatever moral crisis caught their attention that day, can’t remeber whether it was the health care crisis or gay marriage. Global warming wasn’t mentioned, I guess because it hadn’t become popular yet.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:49 am
The Terry/Wingnut Street Journal poll reported: “I watched the 2004 D convention. Most of delegates were 2nd generation government employees. Teachers were over-represented.”
Zat so, Terry (dude or chick?)? I’d be interested in your poll’s methodology. Like most wingnut observations, I bet the results were carefully pulled out of your ass.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Rudy’s right, the Democrat candidates haven’t once uttered the phrase necrotizing islamo-fasciitis.
How can lefties be expected to beat the flesh-eating jihadists if they can’t acknowledge their existence?
Dirty Diseasocrats.
/jc
August 14th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Zat so, Terry (dude or chick?)? I’d be interested in your poll’s methodology. Like most wingnut observations, I bet the results were carefully pulled out of your ass.
Actually, that was noted on at least one network newscast.
Which may mean it was pulled out of someone‘s ass, but not Terry’s.
I don’t remember the exact number, but teachers were somewhere north of a third of the delegates at the ’04 DNC.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Couple of problems with Senator F.Dalton – he may have waited too long. Savage Republican and I met for coffee and talked about the current crop of candidates.
SR’s read is that F. Dalton didn’t declare before the Iowa straw poll as he couldn’t win in Iowa, and why enter a race you’ll lose. My reply was that he needs to get in to get political lifeblood, namely $$’s. F. Dalton has raised only about $6MM, and half of that has come from Tennessee. F. Dalton may have held his cards too close to his chest for too long.
Another pundit said that Newt may be playing the poker game better than F. Dalton. And that the real story would be (and now is) the emergence of the second tier candidates ( Huckabee).
I also hear from some conservatives that they like what Duncan Hunter has to say. I know I do.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:57 am
“I’d be interested in your poll’s methodology. Like most wingnut observations, I bet the results were carefully pulled out of your ass.”
AC, which orifice did you pull these results from?
“I don’t think this applies to all conservatives, but a great many are selfish, pissed-off assholes.”
August 14th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
A lifetime of observation processed by a towering intellect, Master of Bation. Thanks for asking!
August 14th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I also hear from some conservatives that they like what Duncan Hunter has to say. I know I do.
Hunter, Huckabee, Brownback and Pawlenty should all keep grooming themselves; they are all on my personal short list, should we lose in ’08.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
How pissed will you guys be if you’re reduced to fighting Hillary’s reelection in ’12? Lordy, that will be comical!
August 14th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
“A lifetime of observation processed by a towering intellect,”
so it was your ass then. I should have guessed it.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
“I don’t remember the exact number, but teachers were somewhere north of a third of the delegates at the ‘04 DNC.”
Yet acording to the DNC, the 2004 convention was the most diverse in history:
4,341 delegates and 610 alternates
According to the DNCC the 2004 Convention was the most diverse in Democratic Party history: 39.1% of the 4,341 delegates to the Convention were minorities and 2,163 or 49.8% were women.
Specifically…
Out of 4,298 delegates and 594 alternates who self-identified with demographic information:
875 African American Delegates (20.3%) and 103 African American Alternates (17.3%)
503 Hispanic Delegates (11.6%) and 64 Hispanic Alternates (10.8%)
170 Asian/Pacific Delegates (3.9) and 18 Asian/Pacific Alternates (3.03%)
76 Native American Delegates (1.7%) and 17 Native American Alternates (2.9%)
169 GLBT Delegates (3.9%) and 37 GLBT Alternates* (6.2%)
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/convs/demdelegates.html
August 14th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
so it was your ass then. I should have guessed it.
Of course it was his ass. AC is the Ascended Dark Lord Master in talking and pulling from his ass.
That’s why he’s a great chain yanker.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Here’s how I envision AC conducting his research
AC: HEY, YOU IN THE SUIT…..GIVE THE CLOWN A DOLLA!
Suit: No, please go away.
AC: (mumbles) Damn selfish, mean, Republican asshole. That makes five..no…six this morning.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:17 am
Given angryclown’s “towering intellect”, I must question his powers of observation. I hope all that time “observing” wasn’t wasted. 😉
I seriously doubt angryclown has bothered to observe many “conseratives” / “righties” / “wingnuts”, especially when it is so much easier for him to assume his previous assumptions are correct. :-/
August 16th, 2007 at 10:48 am
What do you think I’m doing here, Trojan Man? Watching wingnuts in their natural habitat!