
As we noted before, Lady Baroness Lynn Forester Grey Poupon Humptydance de Rothschild and her rich buddies are deeply dissatisfied with the current buffet of candidates set out before them for their approval. You may recall, back in 2008, Lady Lynne didn’t get the President Hillary Dream White House that she specifically requested and so she decided that she would settle for Cranky GI Joe and BibleSpouting Barbie rather than the Mace Windu action figure because he was too ….um…. nubian.
This time around Lady Lynn threw her early, considerable yet obviously ineffective, support behind John Huntsman and, well, the polls seem to indicate that that that dog ain’t gonna hunt, man. So back to Plan B which is to convince the rubes to select America’s Next Pop Star President as long as he or she is acceptable to the good Lady and her Merry Band of Banksters of The Round Table . But while Americans are squabbling amongst themselves over the perfect candidate (Zombie Reagan! Rachael Ray! Taylor Hicks!) Lady Lynn has been cruising the docks (“Hey sailor! Looking for a good presidential time?“) looking for a lover who won’t blow her cover. So far, no sale:
A new group that hopes to tap into a rising appetite for a third-party presidential challenger has discovered that $30 million in secret cash can buy ballot access and attention, but not necessarily a dream candidate.
The group, Americans Elect, failed to generate interest in possible campaigns from Sens. Joe Lieberman and Lamar Alexander, and its intensive outreach to a host of other prospective candidates, including former Nebraska Sens. Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerrey, hasn’t yielded much public enthusiasm for its efforts.
Also Joe Lieberman! Now there’s a uniter…. of people who fucking hate Joe Lieberman.
But a source familiar with Americans Elect’s candidate recruitment efforts said the group has met with skepticism in Washington.
“If you want Obama out of the White House, a high-profile, third-party run from the right guarantees him a second term,” said the source. “And if you want to keep the Republican nominee out of the White House, a high-profile, third-party run from the left will get the Republican elected. Whatever the goal, third-party candidacies in the U.S. are a waste of money and time, at best, and totally counterproductive, at worst.”
As even Lady Lynn Forester Belgian Waffle Queef de Rothschild might say: “le duh“




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Mmmmmmm, Joe Lieberman as a third party candidate. What could possibly go wrong? Aside from the mass nausea, of course….
A little Friday afternoon whinging seems in order right about now…
WE NEED SHAKIRA.
That is all.
What about this development of Stephen Colbert running (as a Republican?) It could be comedic.
Wow, Bob Kerrey sure got old!
“…that dog ain’t gonna hunt, man.”
The bill for the new monitor is in the mail.
See, I knew it. That’s what all you liberals want. Oh, you say you don’t, but deep inside you’re just aching for it, you can’t wait until you have it, and you want the rest of us to have to have it too…
Oh. Sorry. My conservative dyslexia acting up again, I thought you said Sharia.
U 2 funnee.
Shakira Law: Special Victims Unit
By the way if you haven’t been to a Humptydance de Rothschild you don’t know what you’re missing. I went every weekend in September and October and had a great fall.
Lieberman, Alexander, Hagel, and Kerrey? Hey AE guys-if you want to get people jazzed up about your third-party dreamboat, it would help to find someone with some charisma.
We are all special victims of Shakira’s special ass.
And let me second danielx’s request: WE NEED SHAKIRA!
Some come here for the Thursday bassets. Others, however…
Sens. Joe Lieberman and Lamar Alexander…former Nebraska Sens. Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerrey
My, my, that’s a tasty batch of failed politicians right there. Wonder why no one got excited by the prospect of one of those worthies running for President?
(edit)Spaghetti Lee beats me to it, or course.
It would help to find a candidate people are willing to be in the same room with.
One of my sons has a middle name of Tecumseh, or as he told my friend when he was 4, Humpty Dumpty.
I have always wondered since what a kid thinks about parents who would give their son that name.
They might want to see if John Anderson’s interested?
For Evan Bayh, this has got to sting.
Also, too – what about Harold Ford, since the whole “running for president while black” thing is so in vogue right now? Get Blanche Lincoln on board for the woman angle. Sure, their boring-as-oatmeal right-of-center moderate bench is shallow…but it’s pretty damn wide.
Please, PLEASE follow everything Lady Lynn DeLightful DeLovely DeSoto does. She’s my favorite. Any person who can switch from Hillary Clinton to John McCain, and then support a shift from Obama to (of all people) Joe Lieberman, is operating on a place of such obliviousness, arrogance, and sheer aristocratic contempt for the hoi-polloi, it beggars the imagination.
I thought the obvious flaw with Amerians Elect was its intention to solicit nominations from the “public,” which would put Hugh Jass in contention with such worthies as I.P. Daly, Seymour Butz, and Mike Hunt. But Lieberman! You go, Lady!
I really am surprised, though, that $30M hasn’t bought more interest from more of the current crop of kleptocrats in DC. Her Ladyship and her merry band of bullshit artists must really, really suck at the sales pitch…
I had to read “Lady Baroness Lynn Forester Grey Poupon Humptydance de Rothschild” five times before I could get past it without laughing my ass off.
Some deep, dark part of me wishes you would get in a tiff with James Wolcott, solely for the lulz. Tho I’m not sure the internet would survive.
AmericanSelect really thought $30 million would get them anything this this year? It’s chumptychange.
I’m thinking Alexander Lieberman: both in red plaid shirts, carrying shotguns, and wearing Carhart boots.
But could they put you together again? I replied to you on the previous thread but let’s not go back there, it’s too crowded.
I think we should call this political diva “La Incredible“:
And the lulz they bring every so often.
…not to mention the very Republican.
She’s really from New Jersey, you know. Don’t know which exit, though.
I foresee the Americans Elect “primary election” online poll fast becoming a freep war between Colbert Nation and the Paulistas.
I’m sorry, Tbogg but you used the wrong graphic for Lady Baroness Lynn Forester Marie Callender de Rothschild! We have video of what she will look like 5 billion years in the future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXiY1_H7NkQ