Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

amacachi

robindch wrote: »

That's what happened when the Ross Perot -- anybody remember him? -- ran in 1992 and took enough votes from Bush the Elder to allow Clinton to win the election.

PR ftw!

Don't forget Nader.

Has to be said though, Obama's done a great job for the Republicans the last 3/4 years. Not done enough "wrong" to lose the next election (and the Republicans don't seem to want to win) but after all the idealists who believed anything ever changes in politics have now learned their lesson it'll be a while before many of them are too bothered with politics again.

muppeteer

Grinch wouldn't trust an atheist to be president. Even terrifies him.

Seems to be another 'where do you get your morals' type excuse.

irishh_bob

muppeteer wrote: »

Grinch wouldn't trust an atheist to be president. Even terrifies him.

Seems to be another 'where do you get your morals' type excuse.

had to hold my nose while watching that charlatan

the most nauseating thing about that horse**** gingrich was spouting is that you know deep down that he doesnt see himself as being in the slightest bit weak or in need of help , the faux sincerity on display is stomach churning , i doubt the guy is even a believer , i know the likes of perry and santorum are but gingrich is a whore of the highest order

Sarky

I quite like this one:

The Mad Hatter

In other news, don't be a democrat in Arkensas.

Democratic Campaign Manager’s Cat Murdered, ‘LIBERAL’ Written On Dead Body

Blue Arkansas reports that Jake Burris, campaign manager of Arkansas Democratic congressional candidate Ken Aden, arrived home last night to find his child’s pet cat murdered:

"Last night, Jake and his four kids had come back to their Russellville home. As they were getting out of the car, one of his children discovered their family cat dead on the front porch. One side of the animal’s head had been bashed in and an eyeball was hanging out of its socket. But there was something even more horrifying to be found on the corpse. Written across the animal’s fur in black marker was the word “LIBERAL“."

Source.

Sindri

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

In other news, don't be a democrat in Arkensas.

Source.

Jesus Christ! Why would you torture and kill a cat because someone has different political views than you? And what does torturing a cat accomplish?

muppeteer

^The Internet will not be pleased.

GLaDOS

That's disgusting

Fortyniner

****ty Republican cats!!

Sarky

muppeteer wrote: »

^The Internet will not be pleased.

Jesus, yes. Uncovering racists and paedophiles is all well and good, but if 4chan ever finds you abusing a cat, you'll *wish* you'd been a racist or paedophile when they're done.

robindch

Ye gods.

Sindri

Any one see this story today.




It was on Fox news and Gretchen Carlson from Fox & Friends tried to put as much loathing and jeering into her voice while she was running the story.

She was jeering the democratic feminists who got to destroy it with pink shovels.

Most media in the U.S. is little more than soft propaganda.

HavingCrack

muppeteer wrote: »

Seems to be another 'where do you get your morals' type excuse.

The really funny thing is that quite a few people suspect that "deep down" Gringich is probably a non believer himself, he's chopped and changed religions several times and it is only since 2008 or so that he's started mentioning religion in public.

goose2005

HavingCrack wrote: »

The really funny thing is that quite a few people suspect that "deep down" Gringich is probably a non believer himself, he's chopped and changed religions several times and it is only since 2008 or so that he's started mentioning religion in public.

Not to mention Lk 16:18 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." Although I'm sure Jesus was speaking metaphorically mumble mumble superseding Jewish law mumble mumble - unlike with the homos.

Thomas Eshuis

goose2005 wrote: »

Although I'm sure Jesus was speaking metaphorically mumble mumble superseding Jewish law mumble mumble - unlike with the homos.

I get so tired of this argument.
There's two things they either fail to recognise or wilfully ignore:
1. Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place." (Matthew 5:17 NAB

It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid." (Luke 16:17 NAB)

The scripture cannot be broken.” --Jesus Christ, John 10:35

2. Or if they try to mumble this away with metaphors or the baseless assertion these verses only refer to the NT, there's still this fact:
In all the centuries of the Old Testament, with all it's prophets and chosen individuals god never told them that stoning children, raping and all the other OT laws were wrong and should be abandoned. In other words, until he sent himself as his son to earth, he was perfectly fine with those laws and moral rules.

Logical Fallacy

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

In other news, don't be a democrat in Arkensas.



Source.

Liberal cats are the worst cats of all.

Newaglish

I'm just going to put this here and then walk away slowly...

Rick Santorum thinks pregnancy through rape is God's gift
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jan/25/rick-santorum-rape-pregnancy?CMP=twt_gu

Sindri

Newaglish wrote: »

I'm just going to put this here and then walk away slowly...

Santorum is the frothy mixture of lube and faecal matter that occurs during anal sex

irishh_bob

Newaglish wrote: »

I'm just going to put this here and then walk away slowly...

the religous believe everything including tsunamis , earthquakes and any kind of natural disasters are god,s gift

for some reason or other , they believe arguements like this make god more appealing

i have an aunt who is a member of that group trying to reinstate an irish embasy in the vatican , remember her as a kid preaching about how it was a great honour to suffer

robindch

Hadley Freeman on the elastic New Gingrich:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/24/newt-gingrich-absorbs-palins-shtick?fb_action_ids=10150556552855900%2C10150556537395900%2C1796021875625&fb_action_types=news.reads&fb_source=other_multiline

robindch

Nothing to do with presidential fruitcakes, but some talking head on Fox News recently worked his bloodpressure up over the latest muppet film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rsBSLRD0bM

So Kermit + Miss Piggy reply:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YhED4IgQA

MagicMarker

Sindri wrote: »

Santorum is the frothy mixture of lube and faecal matter that occurs during anal sex

So glad I read this while eating lunch.

Beruthiel

MagicMarker wrote: »

So glad I read this while eating lunch.

As did I.
My smoked salmon suddenly lost it's tastiness.

sponsoredwalk

Santorum frothing up again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIh1F-V6eXM

robindch

robindch

Republican voting descends into shoutfest for religious reasons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/us/politics/religious-caucus-causes-protest-in-las-vegas.html

NY Times wrote:

LAS VEGAS - A special Saturday night Republican caucus here intended to accommodate Orthodox Jews who could not vote before sundown became the scene of controversy and confrontation after caucusgoers were told that to be admitted they had to sign a legal declaration under penalty of perjury that they could not attend their daytime caucus because of "my religious beliefs."

Many supporters of Representative Ron Paul of Texas protested when given the declaration to sign. They had arrived at the polling place - a school here named after its benefactors, the casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam - after they received an automated phone call from the Paul campaign saying voters unable to attend their regular caucuses could go to the night meeting. And Paul campaign aides later said that anyone who had missed their earlier caucuses during the day for any reason should have been allowed to vote, and suggested that what they described as the "religious test" at the caucus would lead to lawsuits.

Mike Dicicco, a Paul supporter who drove 30 minutes from Henderson, Nev., said he was asked whether he was Jewish by a poll worker. Mr. Dicicco said he had received the automated campaign call and could not vote earlier because he had to work, not because of religious reasons. "Why wouldn't I be able to vote just because I'm not Jewish?" he said.

Sharon Saska, who said she arrived too late at her regular caucus to vote, was refused entry to the night caucus because she would not sign the declaration. If she had, she would have been committing perjury, she said, because religious beliefs had not kept her from voting earlier. She said she had planned to support Newt Gingrich. A number of other caucusgoers suggested that they had signed the declaration even though they did not have a religious reason for not voting earlier.

The most heated argument of the night came when Evan Donoghue, who said he was a volunteer for Mr. Paul, clashed with officials at the polling place, who would not let him in after he declined to sign the declaration, which he said was unconstitutional. "You are guilty of a felony, sir!" he shouted at one official. He then abruptly walked into the auditorium where the caucus was to be held. Officials at the polling place called the police, but Mr. Donoghue was allowed to sit through the caucus and wound up a few seats away from Mr. Adelson. No arrests were made, according to police officers who stayed in the school foyer during the caucus meeting.

Holding the special caucus seems to have been a reasonable and appropriate attempt to accommodate people who could not vote earlier for religious reasons, said Richard L. Hasen, a professor specializing in election law at the law school at the University of California, Irvine. But, he said, the controversy points out the shortcomings of caucuses compared with primaries.

"It started off as an admirable thing, but because of concerns of the integrity of the process, it devolved into something uglier," Mr. Hasen said. "More generally, it shows a lack of professionalism in the way many of these caucuses are handled." Those who could not vote for religious reasons during the day, he said, had a reasonable argument that some accommodation had to be made, which could have included changing the date. But using the legal declaration raises the question of whether other nonreligious groups are also entitled to the accommodation, and, he said, "I'm not sure how the courts would answer that question."

"When a party runs a caucus, we treat the party like a government entity, so they cannot discriminate," Mr. Hasen added. "You could not have a whites-only caucus, for example." Top officials from the campaigns of Mr. Paul and Mitt Romney were on hand to observe the gathering, including Mr. Romney's campaign counsel, Benjamin L. Ginsberg; Mr. Paul's Nevada chairman, Carl Bunce; and Mr. Paul's deputy national campaign manager, Dimitri Kesari.

Officials from the Clark County Republican Party defended the declarations and the special caucus, saying that the declaration did not single out any one faith - Jewish or otherwise - and that anyone who had a religious objection to voting earlier in the day could vote at the special caucus. They said their election lawyers had signed off on the use of the declaration, and they also noted that many Seventh-day Adventists also could not vote during the day because of religious reasons. "This was designed for those who could not participate today due to religious observances," Dave Gibbs, the chairman of the Clark County Republican Party, said Saturday. "That's all this is."

But some Paul officials suggested that the declaration was an unlawful injection of religion into the electoral process. Mr. Bunce, the Paul campaign's Nevada chairman, said dozens of people had declined to sign the declaration and had been refused admittance to the caucus. An official from the local Republican Party said no more than three people were turned away after they refused to sign.

"No one should have to face a religious test to vote," Mr. Bunce said, adding that election officials who blocked people from voting because they did not sign the declaration could be "getting a lawsuit." Nevertheless, Paul supporters packed the caucus and won handily. According to local party officials, Mr. Paul received 183 votes; Mitt Romney, 61 votes; Newt Gingrich, 57 votes; and Rick Santorum, 16 votes.

Penn

Bill Maher unbaptises Mitt Romney's father-in-law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A41WZBcmnfc

robindch

Oops.

He's not presidential material yet, but Republican John Fleming from Louisiana committed the fatal mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real. In this case, a story about An $8 Billion Abortionplex.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/congressman-falls-months-old-onion-story-about-planned-parenthood-abortionplex/48344/

eire4

robindch wrote: »

Oops.

He's not presidential material yet, but Republican John Fleming from Louisiana committed the fatal mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real. In this case, a story about An $8 Billion Abortionplex.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/congressman-falls-months-old-onion-story-about-planned-parenthood-abortionplex/48344/

Wow that is amazing. I mean really how stupid can you get. Hilarious if it wasn't so scary that this idiot is a congressman.

ShooterSF

robindch wrote: »

Nothing to do with presidential fruitcakes, but some talking head on Fox News recently worked his bloodpressure up over the latest muppet film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rsBSLRD0bM

OT but who the hell scripted the subtitles for this piece? Deaf people just witnessed a VERY different conversation!