Republicans love morons!

Posted: 9/15/10 at 3:57pm

Christine O'Donnell, the new Republican nominee for the senate from Delaware is so bad (How bad is she?) that Karl Rove took to the airwaves to attack her this morning, but rank & file Republicans love the brain-dead right winger, flooding her website with donations. She started the day hoping to raise $50,000 today and at this moment is closing in on ten times that.

thou shalt not wank Updated On: 9/15/10 at 03:57 PM

Posted: 9/15/10 at 4:05pm

Wow- her primary opponent (who she relentlessly gay-baited) has declined to endorse her.
NPR

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 4:08pm

Her old appearances on Politically Incorrect are on YouTube. Even Jerry Falwell seemed to regard her as a moron. She comes off as a brunette Victoria Jackson.

Posted: 9/15/10 at 4:08pm

Even the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee- the group organized to elect Republicans to the senate is reluctant to support her.

(They have since said they will not exclude her from funding)
Uh, we'll pass

[AC126748]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 4:26pm

Christine O'Donnell (then "Christie") was a close friend of my cousin when they were in high school together. Apparently, she was quite liberal back then. I wonder what happened.

Posted: 9/15/10 at 4:27pm

The New York Republican candidate for Governor sounds like a winner, too!

I was going to link to a story about the racist, pornographic E-mails he's forwarded but I think linking to any of them would get me banned. Suffice to say, it's raunchier stuff than any of my dumb friends would circulate.

Google Carl Paladino E-Mails, but not at work.
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[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 4:33pm

Wow, that really is nuts. Good grief, even small children masturbate. It's a perfectly natural thing to do.

As for that scripture about lust, I don't believe it's equating natural physical arousal with adultery. That would be condemning people for something that's involuntary. I think it's saying that a married person shouldn't have deliberate thoughts about cheating on their spouse.

That video reminded me of SAVED!

Posted: 9/15/10 at 4:39pm

"That would be condemning people for something that's involuntary." They do that all the time, actually.

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 5:04pm

AC, she probably had a run-in with some campus religious organization at some point, and as we've seen time and time again (again, see Jackson, Victoria, or the God warrior or people who think cavemen mounted saddles on dinosaurs 4,900 years ago) when not-very-bright people get infected with a bit of the Jeebus, it turns into all-out idiocy.

Sarah Palin, with all her faults, is not an idiot. She's a media-savvy, lazy, proudly ignorant, power-hungry person who champions idiocy. This woman is her duller carbon copy: just an idiot.
Updated On: 9/15/10 at 05:04 PM

[Kalimba]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 5:26pm

Sounds like poor Christine's vibrator must have short-circuited.
Updated On: 9/15/10 at 05:26 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 5:32pm

well, i have always loved you, joe.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 5:54pm

You have to admit that the debates between him & Cuomo should be entertaining

Watching Lazio was like watching paint dry in ultra slow motion. Mr Excitement he is not. Cuomo might have not even wasted his time debating Lazio but Paladino ??? You bet your life.

We all knew Cuomo would win no matter who he ran against. All this does is make the race enjoyable like going to the circus .

[Phoebenc8]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 6:07pm

I love circuses!!

Posted: 9/15/10 at 6:32pm

Papa I was hoping you'd weigh in! I really would love to hear your thoughts on the RNC vs The Tea Party.

[Q]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 6:43pm

"I really would love to hear your thoughts on the RNC vs The Tea Party."

I'll second that - especially because, as I seem to recall, you weren't always anti-Palin (even though I know that changed over time.)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 7:02pm

Papa--I feel for you. At the precise moment when Obama's unpopularity was about to damage every Democratic candidate nationwide, what do the Republicans do?

They use the primary elections to put on the tickets a bunch of yahoos, dingbats, wackos and nuts.

You were about to party like it was 1994, weren't you? Now who knows what will happen? The GOP could very well split apart.

We all need to buy Papa some Scotch. Some GOOD Scotch.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 7:14pm

I interned at the Capital over the summer and Paladino became a fixture in water cooler talk and in emails. That stuff about camps (which he recommended would be on prison sites) for welfare recipients to learn how to 'bathe properly' basically had us saying a lot of four-letter words.

The great irony is the man makes his money being the landlord of public office buildings in the state.

If there was any indicator of how poorly Lazio ran his campaign none of this crap on Paladino hit the fan until all of the stuff on the emails and 'Camp Dignity' resurfaced through the media again, which I assume was pushed Lazio campaign after they read the then recent polling.

I am just shocked that the next Politically Incorrect panelist to run for Senate after Al Franken would be Christine O'Donnell. Lazio was a bad candidate (I don't think he really talked about anything except Park51) but Michael Castle was always pretty popular (and would have taken votes of Democrats in the general).

Posted: 9/15/10 at 8:13pm

I think the energy of the Tea Party has left Republicans afraid to say anything negative about a 'bagger. I PRAY Democrats will NOT make the same mistake. If I were Cuomo I'd be giving interviews saying "If I got an e-mail from a friend depicting someone having sex with a Rhino, I'd reconsider my friendship. I'd hope New Yorkers who see these images would reconsider their vote."

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 9:15pm

oh, it's like 1964 except without the ideas or any semblance of heart.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/15/10 at 9:37pm

I'm not a Republican, but I love this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhV5RgcNJjE

[Kad]

Posted: 9/16/10 at 1:12am

COULD the GOP split into two, with Tea Partiers forming their own unique party? What's even scarier- could that be a viable third party?

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/16/10 at 2:18am

There's not enough bat sh*t insane people to keep the Tea Party a third party that will accomplish anything.

Posted: 9/16/10 at 2:22am

There has been a Green party for quite some time- And there are certainly more 'Baggers than greens.

I think it bears watching- if the Tea Party doesn't think the Republicans are welcoming enough, or "right" enough, or supportive enough, or committed enough- and if you watch the exchanges today with Karl Rove, you can see they don't, I can easily see a "Patriot" party forming in time for the 2012 elections.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 9/16/10 at 7:21am

My partner's a fairly conservative Republican and can't stand Paladino. The e-mails put him over the edge, but the interviews I've heard with Paladino on the radio just make him sound like a bullying loon. Lazio's been a non-entity his whole compaign, just as he was against Hillary.

I seriously hope people do not fall for his crap and that Cuomo's expected easy victory becomes a fact.

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/16/10 at 8:00am

If O'Donnell loses in Delaware and/or Angle loses in Nevada, the Tea Party insurgency should be categorized as an immediate failure. There are other races in Florida and Colorado in which they could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by nominating extremist candidates. However, I don't think the 2010 midterms will give us enough info to truly assess their success. The fact that incumbents almost always lose significantly in midterms, coupled with the current economy, will skew any true analysis. It won't be until 2012 or later that we'll see their true impact. Will they nominate an extremist for the presidency? Will they force all candidates to run to the right (nb: Romney has already expressed support for O'Donnell)? You'd think that the words and deeds of folks like Gingrich, Barbour, and Palin would disqualify them from any serious consideration for the top of the national ticket. Even people like Pawlenty are abandoning any sense of moderation, and embracing any neocon issue.