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Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

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  • #62
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Yiz are all commie bastards, sure


  • #63
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    AhSureTisGrand wrote: »
    Yiz are all commie bastards
    Ah, but that's what they want you to think.


  • #64
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Genesis3:19b " for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

    That sounds pretty close to me.


  • #65
    TheReverend
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭TheReverend


    Bachmann winning the nomination is the best thing that could happen for the democrats


  • #66
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    I still don't see any of the current candidates beating Obama. Somehow.


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  • #67
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    From @Georgelazenby on twitter:
    In eight years the Republican front-runner will be a vivid red powder we pour out on the kitchen counter and then snort to feel hate again.


  • #68
    amacachi
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    What'll be the Democrat candidate? A vending machine?


  • #69
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    From @Georgelazenby on twitter:
    The George Lazenby? From the best Bond movie ever?


  • #70
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Dades wrote: »
    The George Lazenby? From the best Bond movie ever?

    No-one seems to know for sure...


  • #71
    Panrich
    Registered Users Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭Panrich


    krudler wrote: »
    I bet every comedian in America secretly hopes she's elected just for the sheer amount of material she'd provide over 4 years, Bush was a comedy goldmine during his tenure.

    Nobody is laughing now though. He left a seriously f*cked up situation in his wake.


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  • #72
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    amacachi wrote: »
    What'll be the Democrat candidate? A vending machine?

    Don't get it.


  • #73
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    fontanalis wrote: »
    Don't get it.

    Yeah it wasn't a great one, but I've come up with a better quip: What's the next Democrat candidate gonna be? A fleshlight?


    Though I think it may have been too slow to count as a quip.


  • #74
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    amacachi wrote: »
    Yeah it wasn't a great one, but I've come up with a better quip: What's the next Democrat candidate gonna be? A fleshlight?


    Though I think it may have been too slow to count as a quip.

    More like a slowp, amiright :pac:?
    :D?
    :)?
    :o?
    :( I'll get my coat.


  • #75
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Palin visits Iowa and is so blown away, she releases a passion video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqaE4sXZWRQ


  • #76
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    robindch wrote: »
    Palin visits Iowa and is so blown away, she releases a passion video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqaE4sXZWRQ

    At least she's speaking a bit more coherently in that video. Gotta be honest that video show's very succinctly everything that is wrong with modern day politics.


  • #77
    sponsoredwalk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    They keep using bears in political propaganda videos :pac:

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


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsesl6pCaw


  • #78
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    I love it how for Republicans spending $1,000,000 on anything is seen as too much. Yet the idea of adding extra taxes to the top earners worth 700,000 times that is seen as too little to making a dent in the public finances.


  • #79
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Who's this guy? And where do the Republicans find them?

    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/08/23/video-presidential-hopeful-accepts-decision-to-be-gay-but-disagrees-vehemently-on-equality/


  • #80
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    CiaranMT wrote: »
    Who's this guy? And where do the Republicans find them?

    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/08/23/video-presidential-hopeful-accepts-decision-to-be-gay-but-disagrees-vehemently-on-equality/

    That's nothing.
    [Santorum] :Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality —

    AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.

    SANTORUM: And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society.


  • #81
    sponsoredwalk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_Amendment


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  • #82
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Off-topic, but some of the richest French citizens have offered to pay more tax too:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14646975


  • #83
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Phoenix magazine on the race:

    171943.jpg


  • #84
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Bachmann reckons the earthquke and the hurricane were messages from God to Washington about Government spending:
    http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/29/306436/bachamnn-hurricane-message-god/
    Why he can't just come out and say it like a real normal person...


  • #85
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman weighs in.
    So it’s now highly likely that the presidential candidate of one of our two major political parties will either be a man who believes what he wants to believe, even in the teeth of scientific evidence, or a man who pretends to believe whatever he thinks the party’s base wants him to believe.


  • #86
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Which two are those?


  • #87
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    The Texan and the Mormon?


  • #88
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    amacachi wrote: »
    Which two are those?

    Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.

    (Should have read the quote more carefully:o)


  • #89
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Molly Ivins comes back from beyond the grave to diss Governor Goodhair:

    http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/13/3834794/molly-cant-say-that-about-rick.html


  • #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    I really hope Bachmann wins the primary, it would be hilarious to see her being destroyed by Obama in debates.


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  • #91
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Edz87 wrote: »
    I really hope Bachmann wins the primary, it would be hilarious to see her being destroyed by Obama in debates.

    Hilarious... or terrifying when huge numbers of Republicans still gormlessly vote for her anyway?

    FWIW, I don't think she'd stand a hope of winning as she's far too wacky for moderate Republicans, but the idea that someone like her would be one option of two for the role of the most powerful person on the planet.... Scary stuff.


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