Category: 2008 Election

I’m sorely disappointed that CNN didn’t pick a single one of Steven Green’s questions to the Democratic contenders. Go check them out.

UPDATE: Also check out his drunk blogging. My favorite bits:

5:52pm We’re in a dead spot, so I’m going to throw one more question out there that I’d like to ask. “It’s 9/11/2001. Airplanes have just flown into buildings, killing thousands. What do you do? Do you take command? Or do you sing ‘God Bless America’ on the Capitol steps, then spend the next six years bitching about the guy who’s trying to do something about it?”
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6:06pm Earlier, a fistfight broke out between Kucinich and Ron Paul, over who got the bottle of medication. It now seems obvious that, whoever the winner was, Gravel stole the bottle from him.
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6:50pm I don’t want to be mean, or at least not unnecessarily mean. But if a guy shaped liked Richardson wants to bitch about diabetes, then I get to preach about the wonders of sobriety.

I don’t know if IMAO coined this new term for Ron Paul supporters, but I really like it.

I’ve come across a piece of startling news.  All along most of us have thought that Ron Paul was the one libertarian in Congress.  Well, through an informant, I’ve come to learn the truth.  Ron Paul is actually an alien from the planet Simtar Alpha 5, and is part of an alien conspiracy to take over the Earth and enslave mankind.  The Simtarians have actually been infiltrating our society for quite some time.  Who crashed the planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon?   It wasn’t George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, it was Ron Paul!The Simtarians needed to strike at the highest levels of our economy and military.  The reason no one saw any explosive wiring in the World Trade Center, or never saw the demolition team, is because they were Simtarians!   They are masters of disguise.  If you’re thinking this is far fetched, look carefully at the smoke debris from the tower collapse, you will see an image of Ron Paul.

The Iraq War wasn’t started on behalf of the zionist conspiracy. Everyone has it all wrong, the real conspiracy is the Ron Paul/Simtarian conspiracy. Saddam Hussein was also a Simtarian, but they quickly realized that their plans for world conquest were never going to be realized through him, so they sent Ron Paul. It was actually Ron Paul who convinced Bush and Cheney to attack Iraq so he could get Saddam out of the way and begin the plan anew.  The plan was brilliant!  He would get Saddam out of the way, secretly working with Rumsfeld and Wolfwitz (Simtarians both), while appearing the entire time to actually be against the war, maintaining his reputation as a stalwart anti-interventionist, and maintaining the minions of naive college students who keep his Simtarian ambitions for world conquest alive.

You can call me a loony conspiracy theorist, but you’ll all realize I was right when your kids are learning Simtarian in school and the body mask comes off Ron Paul and you all realize we’re ruled by a lizard.

Apparently John McCain has found the reason his candidacy is sinking.   No, it’s not his blatant disregard for the First Amendment.   It’s the “gay sweaters”.

According to one insider, the knit-picking was the crescendo of a tirade by the Arizona senator, in which he blistered aides about the minutiae of the campaign. While many septuagenarians live in a perpetual state of sweater weather, McCain reportedly declared his frustration with being told to don the perceived homosexual outerwear in order to look younger and more approachable.

Riiight… it doesn’t have anything to do with pissing off Republican voters at all.  They were willing to overlook his assault on the first amendment through campaign finance reform, and see past his support for the immigration bill, but the gay sweaters were just too much!

On the bright side, this at least opens the door for Ron Paul to blame his footwear when his campaign starts circling the bowl.

John Edwards hair preening I think has to hurt him with male voters.  Especially if he ended up running against Fred Thompson.   Do you think Fred Thompson preens his hair?  I think the statement would go something like this:

“As you can see, I don’t really have that much hair left to preen.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go have sex with my hot wife.”

If people voted based purely on logic, that wouldn’t matter, but they don’t, and so it does.

According to this article, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has only started hunting recently, with an over under 12 gauge, but he owns other firearms:

Richardson also owns a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, which is not for hunting, but he has a state permit to carry it concealed.

Cool! Personally, I don’t care whether Richardson is a hunter or not, as long as he supports it. The fact that he’s a CCL holder is enough for me.

Note to Democratic leadership: more Democrats like this, please.

His taste in women. His wife is smoking hot for a woman in her 40s. From this WaPo article:

Actor and former senator Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.) escorts his wife, Jeri, at a GOP fundraiser in Richmond. Several hundred attended the event, scheduled before Thompson’s moves toward a presidential candidacy. (Photos By Steve Helber — Associated Press)