* On Obama’s bus tour, he told a crowd that, “I make no apologies for being reasonable.” That’s like how I make no apologies for being Latino. For one thing, being Latino is nothing anyone should apologize for. But, more importantly, I’m not Latino so the apology would make absolutely no sense. So, in that sense, I fully support Obama not apologizing for being reasonable.
* Here’s another gem from Obama from his bus ride:
“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again, but over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.”
So Obama was totally fixing the economy and we were about to rocket to prosperity, but then Obama accidentally ran over a leprechaun — which we all know gives you bad luck. I mean, we were about to have a true recovery, but then Obama hooked a swing on a golf course, went to chase down the ball, and accidentally stumbled into a mummy’s tomb and got cursed.
So, you know, bad luck. Other than that, Obama has been doing awesome.
* So what do you think of Obama’s bus tour to get to know America better? I fully expect at the end for him to remark, “Wow, I wasn’t really liking the people I was meeting, but these last few stops have been much more supportive and really more my type of people.” And then he finds out he spent the last week of his trip driving through Canada.
* For some reason, people got all upset when Rick Perry said that if Ben Bernanke were to print more money, it would be “almost treasonous.” He said “almost.” He didn’t say that, after due process, Bernanke should by hung by the neck until dead. He said that should almost happen. Come on; stop being a bunch of sissies.
* And polls already have Perry has the front runner, so you should expect attacks in full force on him. One thing the left is concentrating on is dismissing the jobs created in Texas since about 40% to 48% of jobs created during the recession were made in that state. I mean the absolutely last thing they want is this to be a race against a guy who knows how to spur job creation versus a flailing dunce who only knows how to flush our nation’s money down the toilet — objective comparison’s like that just aren’t going to work for Obama.
And you know it’s inevitable they’ll start saying George W. Bush was smarter and more reasonable than Rick Perry. Sure, the left was screaming “Hitler!” at Bush not that long ago, but pretty much 95% of that hatred was just partisan nonsense and not based on any coherent ideological objections, so that hate fades almost instantly when Bush is no longer a political threat. And if you think about it, George W. was born in New England and went to an Ivy League college — he’s the liberal’s kind of Texan. But Perry is fifth generation Texan and went to Texas A&M — he’s just a dumb hick.
* BTW, I don’t really like Perry. I fully expect him to be a RINO in hiding, but I keep finding myself having to defend him because of absolutely moronic arguments against him. I mean I expect that from liberals (“HE SED ‘BLACK CLOUD’!!1!!! HE IS TEH RACIST!!1!!1!”), but it really infuriates me to see it from so-called conservatives (“HE SUPPORTED GORE IN ’88!!1! HE IS TEH LIBRUL!!11!!!”). Twenty-three years ago, Perry was a Democrat. Fourteen years before Reagan became president, Reagan was a Democrat. Lots of conservatives used to be Democrats or liberals. It’s sort of the logical progression; you start out with the simpler liberal values and then later add on to them the more complex conservative values later in life. It means nothing to point out that someone was once a Democrat or a liberal unless you can also point to something he’s doing today that makes you think he still is one. Otherwise, you’re just making a silly child argument where you’re flailing around looking for something negative to grasp to not caring about the logic of it. I expect that from the left, but not from someone who claims to be a conservative. So go ahead and point out bad stuff about Perry now — like I hear he’s not so great on immigration — but don’t make moron child arguments. Leave that for the other side.
* Also, I do think it’s neat that Rick Perry has actually exercised his gun rights. Slate has a nice little article on advice for conceal carry while jogging. I also liked how the last two paragraphs are about why it’s a smart idea to carry while jogging. Lots of people think those who carry guns are paranoid, but it seems more like the people who don’t even think about carrying are willfully naive. I dream of one day where not having a gun on you is looked upon the same way as not wearing a seat belt.
* Wow; how many Perry items was that in a row? Now I’m already sick of him. Still some talk about Paul Ryan and Chris Christie getting in the race, though. If you want to president, now’s kind of the time with how vulnerable Obama is looking. I like Paul Ryan and his big ideas, but I’m always wary of a legislator becoming president. There really isn’t much accountability as a Representative or a Senator — you just have to vote ways people like — to really prove someone is a good leader. As for Chris Christie, he’s very fat. He may do lots of budget cuts, but he’ll probably waste all the savings on bacon. If he does run and someone asks him what president he would model himself after, I dare him to say “Taft”.
* Would you like to live on an oil rig run by Ron Paul? Of course, we all do. Anyway, I guess some libertarians are trying to come up with ways to make their own countries, and I support that. We need more country competition. If you want to live in a socialist country or a silly dictatorship, you have lots of choices. You want a free country, you only have America really. With no competition, America gets lazy. So some libertarian countries to compete with would be nice. And since we can’t have them on the moon like Heinlein envisioned, I guess an oil rig will do. So what will they do for industry? Oh yeah; drill for oil.
AAAuuuggghhh First!!
I have problems with Rick Perry: His stance on illegals staying in the country and not being treated like the invaders they are, his stance on socialist security, and his stance on the actual role of the federal government, and his hair is not always combed like romney’s.
Christie is okay at budgets, but on all else, he may as well be a marxist. He supports the moosque at Ground 0, is anti-gun, is pro-illegal invaders, and likes big government when we can pay for it. Also he hoards all the bacon.
Nope, right now I support Bachmann. She is easy on the eyes, doesn’t shriek like sanetorum or ron pauil, doesn’t backtrack on oromney care, and she scares the marxists. Granted she is no Fred Thompson, but who is?
Someone said gnewt was still in the race, they had Pawlenty on before, so I was napping and didn’t hear.
In re: Floating Libertarian Paradises:
HAS NO ONE PLAYED ‘BIOSHOCK’? These things tend to end… not well.
Although I totally would move there if I could get telekinesis in the bargain. Giant screw-drill-toting monsters in dive suits are a total buzzkill, though.
I’ve got to agree with #2 on Perry. I’ll add that he doesn’t support E-Verify which raises the question of how many of those jobs he created went to illegal aliens. I’m very leery that there is RINO hiding under that hair. I think I’ll stick with Bachmann for now.
Libertarian Islands? Well, it’s not exactly an original idea. Leicester Hemingway, Ernest’s brother, founded New Atlantis in the early 60’s; it sunk! I can hardly imagine what could happen on an isolated oil platform in a totally drug saturated atmosphere, where nobody would be required to help fight off the pirates. On second thought; it might make a great movie script!
Actually we’ve had a run of bad luck for the last two years.
Lots of conservatives used to be Democrats or liberals. It’s sort of the logical progression; you start out with the simpler liberal values and then later add on to them the more complex conservative values later in life.
The great Winston Churchill put it more succintly: “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Good ol’ Winnie.
To paraphrase Churchill, life in Texas consists of
rum, sodomy, and the lashwhiskey, true grit, and the necktie party. Perry, like all Texas governors, is a darn fine executioner. But he doesn’t strike me as a Texan in regards to the first two. He’s not a drunk, he doesn’t seem truly gritty. Now Ron Paul, that man is all about whiskey, as we can tell from his public statements.Maybe Rick Perry is just against E-Verify because he thinks it’s a waste of money. Who needs E-Verify when we can go with that nifty alligator/moat idea that Obama had?
It is interesting that the liberals are attacking Gov. Rick Perry because of Texas’ rank of first in minimum wage earners. The majority of which are the illegal aliens he has welcomed due to his liberal stance on the issue. So if we agree with the left and suffer from the consequences, they will point it out as a weakness if we are conservative leaning…lol…typical …another example has to be Cuts to medicare, social security, and welfare is unthinkable. But cuts to soldiers pensions? Sure, we can do that (but let’s not speak of homeless vets, the VA, and equipment needed to keep them alive…)
Hmm, which is more conservative? The Texas governor or the NJ governor?
Great to see NJ in the mix for that conversation. Bummer for Texas.
And what’s all this about “wasting” money on bacon?
Do I have to drag out the Tug McGraw quote?
“I’m going to spend 90% of it on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other 10% I’m going to waste.”
So what exactly is the problem with spending all the savings on bacon? I could vote for that plan.
Magical Misery Tour (Obama/Biden)
Pay up, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up AND THAT’S AN INVITATION, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, pay up for the misery tour.
The magical misery tour is waiting to tax you away,
Waiting to tax you away.
Pay up, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up WE’VE GOT PROGRAM YOU NEED, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up WELFARE IS GUARANTEED, pay up for the misery tour.
The magical misery tour is hoping to tax you away,
Hoping to tax you away.
Pay up, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up AND THAT’S AN INVITATION, pay up for the misery tour.
Pay up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, pay up for the misery tour.
The magical misery tour is coming to tax you away,
Coming to tax you away.
The magical misery tour is dying to tax you away,
Dying to tax you away, tax you away.
Reagan was a Democrat, true! But that was before the Democratic party went totally ape Sh!t and started running complete morons like Al Gore! Reagan was a Democrat when guys like JFK were Democrats. JFK actually cut taxes…GASP! JFK who stared down the Soviet Union over the Cuban crisis. I don’t see Obama doing that. He’d fly to Cuba now and bow to Castro!!!
Yea, Reagan was a Democrat, but being a Democrat back then was way different than being a Democrat now! You can’t say that you supported Al Gore and are now a serious Conservative… My opinion…
The above is posted as my tribute to the presidents bus tour…it needs a good theme song.
I don’t know why anyone has willingly elected to face the might jugernaut that is McCotter, but what can you do?
Actually, I’m hoping that we get Hoekstra for senate this year and Thad later (2 years from now?)
And then he finds out he spent the last week of his trip driving through Canada.
Actually, I don’t think that Obama would say that after a trip through Canada. I do think that he would say that after a trip through North Korea.
A person must be 35 or older to be President, so it seems all voters for that office should be 35+ also.
A person must be 35 or older to be President, so it seems all voters for that office should be 35+ also.
A nurse, a teacher and a lawyer walk into white house.
The nurse says, “I would love to have this home to promote healing the country”,
The teacher said, “I wanted this to be a place of learning and understanding”, and
The lawyer said, “I wanted this to be where I could go bat-shit crazy and allow me to love my country for the first time”
Anita Perry is a nurse.
“Reagan was a Democrat, true! But that was before the Democratic party went totally ape Sh!t and started running complete morons like Al Gore! ”
To be fair to Perry, Al Gore in 1988 was distinctly different the Al Gore of 2000 on. Like the Tennessean (sp?) newspaper said when it endorsed Bush for the 2000 election “This is not the Al Gore that we elected to the Senate” Al Gore did the reverse Churchill going from a near blue dog democrat when young to a flaming liberal arsehole in later life.
Would I prefer a more conservative candidate than Perry? Yes. Do I trust Perry not to be another establishment progressive in a conservative suit? Heck no.
However, Perry is better in my mind than Romney (kind of like the stomach flu is better than cholera). I like Bachmann’s positions, but I am not convinced that she has the political skills to impliment her ideas. Ron Paul has some good domestic ideas, but like all big L libertarians in my experience he has some strongly held positions that are frankly completely full of teh crazy. (Hopefully Rand Paul has escaped the heriditary insanity but only time will tell)
Bottom line is the worst case scenario is an Obama win (another 4 years of Obama vs Pres. Perry is like small pox vs chicken pox for the country). I don’t think Ron Paul or Bachmann will beat Obama due to feeding the MSM enough ammo to bury them among the people who only pay attention to what they are spoon fed by them. Perry or Romney are better at playing the game and should spank Obama handily.
If the nominee is Bachmann I will support her whole heartedly.
If it is Perry I will hold my nose and vote for him.
If Romney, screw it, I will write in the Chthulu/Dagon ticket cause I am tired of voting for the lesser evil.
BriantheAdequate – You have pretty much stated my position. I am a Bachmann supporter. If Palin run, that would be awesome. If I have a choice to make between Perry and Romney, no question it’s Perry all the way. Romney is just so…Republican Establishment…that he has to be a RINO!!! If Carl Rove is in your corner (John McCain) watch out!!!
I would vote for my 8-pound Oreck to be president over four more years of the current one. Enough with the Days of Whine and Neurosis.
I found it incredibly ironic (and par for the course) that Obama is touring the country, touting American jobs, in a bus made in Canada.
Here is the story: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20093562-503544.html
I’m not really a fan of Bachman, but I’m curious about something. If we elect her do we get to say all people who oppose her are sexist?
Hippie: Yeah, but as Geraldine Ferrero found out racism > sexism. Nowaways homophobia > sexism, but of course AntiReligionOPeace > homophobia. Need Venn diagrams and an org chart to keep up with the left.
Whoa, Frank, dude!! You made the big time. Taranto quoted you in the Best of the Web column! Which means he either likes you or made fun of you.
ussjimmycarter,
“If I can change, and you can change, then we all can change!” – Rocky Balboa after being punched incessantly for an hour.
Obama is starting to sound like Jake Blues in the tunnel towards the end of The Blues Brothers… “…There was an earthquake, a fire, a flood, out wasn’t my fault…” Then he shows the girl his eyes and charms her.
Hopefully America will prove smarter.
So does this make Perry the conservatives Barak H. Obama? The way some people are talking about him I’m expecting him to sprout wings and a halo and ascend into heaven on the back of a unicorn via twin rainbows.
Golly I hope we’re smarter than that but I’m not holding my breath.
Rush nailed obies bus tour today; it’s the “White Like Me” tour.
He knows he already has the black vote in his pocket, but he’s loosing support among white Americans.
Perry should stop carrying concealed weapons and start carrying openly.
There was a time when a gentleman never left home without a sword, dagger or other suitable weapon on his person – some were for use, other more as a fashion accessory – a custom I’d like to see reintroduced.
Pistols and knives for daily wear, shotguns or rifles in shoulder slings for formal occasions.
Paint-ball guns and tasers for presidential debates, stun grenades and claymore mines for press conferences.
And of course dinosaurs with rocket launchers for inaugural parades.
Marko – To vote for Romney it would take more than an hour’s punchin’! I’d have to be punched, kicked, stabbed, shot, electrocuted, hit by a tornado, drowned and buggered and I would still be holding out!!!
Open carry should be the law of the land and required of all men. If you aren’t packing heat, you are either just shot or you are thrown in jail for like 60 days or something. Or you have to clean out the spint buckets in the bars (which we will bring back also)! We should also repeal the vote for women folk so people like Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters never see public office! Men would vote for Michelle Bachmann because she is like a babe and all… Then we should tear up all the concrete roads on main street and go back to riding “old paint” into down town just because it looks extremely cool, plus we won’t have to put dinosaur shoes on our dinosaurs which would be like totally ghey!
That’s right, what ever we do, don’t vote for anyone with any real business experience. We wouldn’t want to get the country back on track money wise after all. It’s all about what someone looks like, or what church they go to, or whether or not they have migraines (only about 100 percent of people have those occasionally), what color their skin is, where they went to school (after this president anyone from Harvard should be avoided like the plague), or what part of the country they come from.
Heaven forbid we should expect the people we hire for the job have some kind of experience. You know balanced books, made payroll, balanced a checkbook. It’s easier to give up and take the path of least resistance. Hence our current debacle.
So Obama was totally fixing the economy and we were about to rocket to prosperity, but then Obama accidentally ran over a leprechaun — which we all know gives you bad luck.
While this was funny as hell, I must disagree that Obama made no progress. With the economy held hostage and badly beaten before its release, it is a amazing there were any survivors.
I did not finish this article, because I have to go and actually reading the article would not have affording me time to respond, kind of like FOX and their handling of the S & P rationale publication in the first place.
Obama has done well considering the he has no experience in hostage situations and yet, thus far, everyone survived and the Ryan budget did not.
Obama 2012!
Obama begins new career in 2013 – “Hi! Welcome to Wal-Mart! Do you need a cart?”
I actually bet a conservative real cash money that Obama would beat McCain. Obama did, of course, and he has yet to offer payment.
I have not attempted to collect, because he was so beaten up by the event anyway.
Wanting someone out of office, does not oust them.
Romney could probably beat Obama, but the problem is, he could not beat Perry. If Romney has 20% of the conservative vote, then the radical right as the other 80%. As radical candidates fall out of the race, Romney will stay at 20% or close to it, but other candidates will gain ground. Polls currently show that those other candidates are not wanted and that their radicalism is considered repugnant. That could chance, but it hasn’t yet.
A troll, a troll, a troll (not judging just so very excited!!!!!!!!!!) We haven’t had a troll for a good long while.
Of course the conservative hasn’t paid you yet, he’s probably (like me) one of the millions of people your guy has put out of work. But hey it’s ok, the Obamas have gotten to take lots of vacations and his golf game has really improved not to mention all the Hollyweird elite that have spent good money to stay in the Lincoln bedroom. The girls attend a swanky private school while the rest of us send our children to failing public schools, his wife gets to tell everyone what to eat while she snacks on ribs and potato salad and we the people go to McFatty’s (not because we like it but because IF we’re still working we don’t have time to go home to cook). Let’s not even get started with the idea you can spend your way out of financial mismanagement and irresponsibility. He’s supposedly the leader, instead of putting his finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing he’s supposed to do the correct thing not the expedient thing, not the most profitable to my friend (little Georgie Soros) thing.
If wanting someone out of office ousted them this president would have been gone by May 2009. Never before has this country suffered such intense buyers remorse. As far as Romney vs Perry goes, you’ve stumbled on a conservative site not necessarily a Republican one. There are quite a few libertarian leaning folks here that think both of those people are Conservative in name only. Still which ever one is the party candidate I’m reasonably sure will get the conservative votes. Your guy has fulfilled one of his propagandists claims. He’s a uniter. Conservatives, Independents, and conservative democrats are all pretty sure Eddie the dog from Fraiser would make a better president. He at least wouldn’t spend thousands of dollars in greens fees.
That said, glad to see you. Come back anytime. Just remember this is a humorous political site. We’re in it for teh funny. (which I will admit is getting harder and harder to find.)
We have a troll?! I will go after him. Where is he?! There are a lot of comments here. I cannot read through them all again. Just point the troll out and I will sick ’em!
But hey it’s ok, the Obamas have gotten to take lots of vacations and his golf game has really improved not to mention all the Hollyweird elite that have spent good money to stay in the Lincoln bedroom. Unless I am mistaken, he has taken less vacation on Average than Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan took. Oh, he is Obama. Different rules. Got it.
The girls attend a swanky private school while the rest of us send our children to failing public schools You would think with those Bush tax cuts, it should not be. You must have wasted yours.
his wife gets to tell everyone what to eat while she snacks I am pissed. His wife as not changed my diet at all. I guess I am too poor for her to concern herself with my health. That bitch!
Let’s not even get started with the idea you can spend your way out of financial mismanagement and irresponsibility The Republican Party introduced that idea. Obama denied it. He said we needed stimulus because the Republican in office before him taught him that, but he also thought the Rich should contribute more, which the Rich seem to obstinately resist.
He’s supposedly the leader Crap! Who is the leader? I need to realign my allegiance.
instead of putting his finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing You would think he could afford a windsock with the bush tax cuts.
he’s supposed to do the correct thing not the expedient thing Does the Tea Party know about this rule?
not the most profitable to my friend (little Georgie Soros) thing I doubt you even know Georie.
If wanting someone out of office ousted them this president would have been gone by May 2009 That may have been a long presidency, as Bush would have been out years before that.
Never before has this country suffered such intense buyers remorse. What about the Bush tax cuts?
As far as Romney vs Perry goes, you’ve stumbled on a conservative site not necessarily a Republican one. That tells me a lot about Romney and Perry. Thank you, sir.
Your guy has fulfilled one of his propagandists claims. He’s a uniter. Whom did he unite? The Tea Party is hated by Republicans, yet loved by others. The Democratic Party hates itself because it likes Obama and it hates Obama.
Conservatives, Independents, and conservative democrats are all pretty sure Eddie the dog from Fraiser would make a better president. By pure coincidence, Frasier is my favorite TV Show. I know Eddie well and I don’t think he has the correct values.
He at least wouldn’t spend thousands of dollars in greens fees. True, thousands of dollars are the problem and Eddie knows it.
That said, glad to see you. Come back anytime. Just remember this is a humorous political site. We’re in it for teh funny. (which I will admit is getting harder and harder to find.) You did not have to explain that, sir. A. Your statements were obviously intended to be humorous. B. I have followed the site for many months. I just rarely comment.
I actually live in Paul Ryan’s district, and I don’t want him running for President because I’m afraid he’ll get replaced by some retarded Democrat.
Wisconsin can be stupid like that, sometimes.