“I drive a truck. Vote for me.”

Now are you people ready to give up on democracy?

Oh God, this asshat’s gonna be Preznit someday.

Also. Sorry, I’m sticking with Wolverines!

Not quite done with Democracy yet, but the idiot Democrats may be another matter.

Well, I guess we can safely say that, with just one shot of this empty suit getting out of a limo–just one–Captain Treasure Trail’s chances of re-election will fall to nil. Assuming that the Mass Dems can find someone who bothers to campaign and knows who the fuck Curt Schilling is, anyway.

Call that a “truck”? In my world, he drives a pickup which is not a real truck. Real men drive real trucks. If it doesn’t have at least 9 gears, it’s a toy masquerading as a truck.

Yeah, but the part where he tried to give his daughters away was really classy. Seriously, what the fuck were the voters thinking? He’s a pig, all the way around, and it’s not like his campaign managed to keep that fact under wraps until the acceptance speech.

The Scott Brown Victory Song (Apologies to Monty Python):

SCOTT BROWN:
I’m a teabagger, and I’m okay.
I sleep all night and I work all day.

RIGHT WING CHORUS:
He’s a teabagger, and he’s okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

SCOTT BROWN:
I drive a truck. I eat my lunch.
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin’
And have buttered scones for tea.

CHORUS:
He drives a truck. He eats his lunch.
He goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays he goes shoppin’
And has buttered scones for tea.
He’s a teabagger, and he’s okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

SCOTT BROWN:
I drive a truck. I skip and jump.
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women’s clothing
And hang around in bars.

CHORUS:
He drives a truck. He skips and jumps.
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women’s clothing
And hangs around in bars?!
He’s a teabagger, and he’s okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

SCOTT BROWN:
I drive a truck. I wear high heels,
Suspenders, and a bra.
I wish I’d been a girlie, Just like my dear papa.

CHORUS:
He drives a truck. He wears high heels,
Suspenders, and a bra?!
He’s a teabagger, and he’s okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
He’s a teabagger, and he’s okaaaaay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

Calling his daughters “available”?!? As in Bri$tol Palin? That broke the needle on Ick Factor for me…

No kidding. I yelped “Holy shit” at the TV, causing my partner to come in and ask what happened. (“I thought something was on fire.” “Fuck you. What am I, a ninny? If something was on fire I’d have yelled at you to bring the fucking fire extinguisher.” We’ve been together more than twenty years, and all that time I’ve talked to myself, the cats, the TV, anything I may be hallucinating, hell, I even talk in my sleep, and it’s somehow suddenly my fault my partner can’t tell who I’m talking to last night and had to get up and come ask?)

Senator Centerfold’s a family values kinda guy, though. Not *my* family, which is clearly some kind of trojan horse to destroy civilization, but the sort of family where you call your daughters sluts in public and offer them up to strangers.

Guy’s heavy duty. His posse is packing four more than the Thompson Twins. On to Sturgis. Cannot fucking wait for Rose Douthat to weigh in.

Signed,

Chunky Reese Witherspoon

Cry cry cry…

Face the facts and move on. Hear the people and work for the people. That is what gets you elected not cramming something down their throats.

Very simple…

Absotively, posolutely!

I can’t wait for Brown to insist on a public option and removal of individual mandates as conditions the people want in the health care bill.

Very simple….

Brown seems to forget that when the Kennedys were first elected to office in Mass., people were just waiting for them to f*ck up. I sincerely doubt that public sentiment in the Commonwealth has changed that much in the past 50+ years.

hmm…the Convoy reference has awakened repressed memories of Junior High and my brief infatuation with the closeted gay son of a gun-toting Repub freak. Visions of playing with their CB radio and listening to Dancing Queen. Later on we’d work as porters at the big Gun Show at the Dome Arena. Sure glad I got over THAT phase (tho I still harbor a guilty-pleasure love of Dancing Queen).

Somewhat more seriously, as the current inhabitant of a similarly Dem-dominated state (MD) filled with “hard-workin’” white guys, I totally get why this dick was elected. All those super-victimized middle class white guys are so easily duped into falling for a “man of the people”. We made fucking Bob Ehrlich our governor, after all, and that guy is both evil and monumentally stupid.

Ayup to most of what you said. although the Bob Ehrlich thing is a bit more complicated. In that election, the Democratic candidate (Kathleen Kennedy Townsend) and her white bread, well compensated (regardless of success) consultants settled on an honorable but politically inexperienced white guy from a gated Annapolis community for the Lt. Gov. slot. This totally frosted the large Af-Am communities in MD, along with a number of liberals of lighter complexion. All to try to win over the crackers in Eastern Shore (and maybe a few folks in the western Appalachian panhandle). I doubt the last part worked (can’t remember), but it certainly succeeded in keeping huge sectors of the Democratic base home on Election Day. From one veteran observer of state politics:

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was the weakest Democratic candidate for Governor since George P. Mahoney, a segregationist who lost to Spiro Agnew in 1966. She was born in Connecticut and grew up in Virginia. She moved to Annapolis in 1984 and lost a Congressional race to Helen Delich Bentley two years later by a whopping 18 points. Glendening picked her as his running mate in 1994 to help him raise money against Lieutenant Governor, and former Senate President, Melvin Steinberg in the primary.

Townsend had no base in the state and no successful solo campaign experience when she ran for Governor in 2002. Townsend’s worst mistake was picking Charles Larson, a retired white Admiral who had very recently been a Republican, as her running mate. That decision alienated African Americans and liberals and converted no Republicans or conservative Democrats. A Gonzales poll in October 2002 found that Ehrlich was supported by 25% of Democrats(!), a key factor in Townsend’s four-point defeat caused by her weakness and ineptitude. Glendening piled on after the election, calling Townsend’s effort “one of the worst-run campaigns in the country.”

Another thing about MD – not quite as relavent a point perhaps – is that it is a leftie state up to a point, but because it is so dependent on the Federal government for employment and all the good that brings, even the most (reputedly) liberal politicians can be bought or scared away from their base principles. Take Sen Mikulski and matters of the Patriot Act and the Fourth Amendment. Despite taking an oath of office calling for defending the Constitution, she ran for the hills on that one. My guess is it would have to do the the NSA being headquartered in Ft. Meade – lots of jobs and taxpaying employees, natch. After all, does she really want to risk losing such a facility to neighboring Virginia, a more conservative place that would be more than happy to host such an agency? Bidness is bidness.

Yay progressives! We put Palin’s male twin in Ted Kennedy’s seat, woohoo eat it Obama! Yeehaa, this is gonna be fun. I say we spend the next year screaming about that sellout in the White House we will surely run Washington for the next 40 years. I mean, you can either have something crammed down your throat like closet boy up there, or, you can continually bitch about ineffective leadership, Harry Reid and the great half-white hope, who, all of a sudden, isn’t all that hopey anymore!

When does Jane Hamsher join Brown’s staff?

I’d just like to remind you all that the results of the Massachusetts special election proved that I’m right about the Democratic party, Obama, and the Congress, and that everyone who disagrees with me is wrong. Anyone who postulates that this special election is less indicative of voters attitudes than say, NY-23, is also wrong. I can only hope that by placing the entire blame on either progressives or moderates (And by not agreeing with me!) we can avoid finding out what really went wrong and how to avoid it in the upcoming 50 state elections.

It was a little blurry, but I think the bumper sticker on his truck read :

“The Tree of Liberty must be watered with saliva and scrotum sweat”

I’m presuming you mean, at least nine forward gears. Maybe you mean eight, and one reverse, which leaves me to quarrel with your inadequate provision of reverse gearing. Wimp.

Someone (Churchill, I believe; no time to Google cuz I’m at work) once said that “Democracy is the sneaking suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time.”

Apparently, in light of recent events such as the election of Sen. Trucknuts, this is your basic dictionary-worthy “faulty assumption”.

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
– Lily Tomlin

Too many of us have a pre-10/4 mindset.