The Republican Party must be so proud

The above panel of GOP candidates is all noise.

Gary Johnson is the real deal.

President Prick Perry.

It has a nice ring.

And the Fact Checker opined that the Perry statement about creationism is, well, False..

Perry — Liberals’ Worst Nightmare

But what sets Perry apart and earns him his niche in the far right corner of Mount Rushmore has nothing to do with the gyrations of the 2012 campaign. Indeed, Perry is not only a presidential candidate, but also a cowboy-booted sociological experiment. It is almost as if Perry’s political persona was constructed by bundling together all the fears and phantoms in the left-wing anxiety closet.

Since the hysteria of the 1950s Red Scare, no Republican figure has matched Perry in his God-given ability to give liberals the heebie-jeebies. Others can rival the governor’s disdain for academic achievement (Palin), his cross-on-the-sleeve religiosity (Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee), and his antipathy to Social Security and Medicare (Paul Ryan and Barry Goldwater). But never before has a top-tier presidential candidate embodied the whole lethal package—and more…

– Rick Perry: The God-Fearing, Know-Nothing, Pistol-Packing Embodiment of Liberals’ Worst Nightmares, by Walter Shapiro

h/t Taylor Marsh

Only because David Duke hasn’t announced.

If we sit this one out and don’t vote for Obama we get President Perry. Great!

Sounds like such a throw-back….really weird…..

Heh

Deluded and corrupt or disinterested and corrupt, what great choices!

Perry is nothing new in my opinion. He’s just like the last Texas Republican that the GOP threw out and had occupying the white house. I guess this will really prove whether or not Americans are slow learners if they elect another “compassionate conservative” from TX.

Herman Cain is at four?

That’s gotta be the number of people and not a percentage…

And Willard is now tied with “No Preference”. Ironic? No – Appropriate.

OK…with the died in the wool teabagging republicans but I wonder where any of them stand with the independents and moderates.

Perry does not even claim to be compassionate.

And if Osterity wins. Not great!

Are we relly caught on the horns of a dilemma, or do we simply find ourselves at a crossroads that, however “things”, given this current political fail, “play out” it does not actually matter? In the analysis that actually matters, what the majority come, painfully, to understand, regardless of what calamities or catastrophe occurr … change is really what must happen,

It is in the moments AFTER society collapses, as it appears it inevitably must, that we need to be prepared for.

There is NO solution available at this moment … only process.

That is what must be understood and contemplated among those gathered here.

If that seems depressing, carleton, then consider things as they are limping onward, far into the future, until human kind gives a last shudder, whimpers, and dies.

This insanity will not stop until it has spent itself, one way or another.

Either reason will prevail soon or it shall have to abide … until later.

DW

He has that same “aw shucks” type of demeanor. I watched him with that kid that got coached by his mom to ask Perry about evolution and felt like I was watching an incarnation of W.

Maybe the Heritage Foundation has some sort of cloning facilities.

“If we sit this one out and don’t vote for Obama we get President Perry. Great!”

And if we vote O, then we get O for prez again. Great!
Gee I hope he starts more wars.
And more torture.
Covers for Wall Street, the banksters, and the war criminals.
And maybe this time he can finish off SS/Medicare/Medicaid.
Although I must admit he is doing one heck of a job on poverty. Lot less poor taken care of/counted = “lot less” poor. The more that die quickly or commit suicide = even less poor. More austerity means more people off the edge, which = less poor.
Why, O is single handedly “eliminating” the poor.

Someone earlier was wondering if the President will just give it up…Is there any other one in the wings with smarts, pizzazz, candor, and ready to hit the road….

Perry signed the pledge to only appoint people that are anti-abortion.

I would like to remind everyone here that I made a bet that it would be Perry/Bachmann 2012.
Bachmann – bat-shite crazy.
Perry – the “sensible” one, compared to Bachmann.
Bachmann/Perry – the “dream” team.

FOR THE RECORD, I said it first. You all owe me 1 million dollars each. And a pony. EACH.
No welchers.

Well, which is it, tambershall?

P/B?

or

B/P?

Gambling for such “stakes” requires a bit of precision, not waffling.

;~DW

I am the one who NEVER took that bet, I’d like to remind you. I’ve seen this guy at work here in the Lone Star State. He has some power over the misguided, misinformed, ignorant, redneck, religious right masses that is undisputable. And if “bat-shite” craza is what you want, throw MIchele on the ticket and you got a GOP duo that is the envy of every wingnut in the country and perhaps even on Jupiter.

Darn you, and your little dog too.

Fine, I say Perry/Bachmann 2012. Final answer.
Now where’s my pony?
(puts gun to own head), I’ll do it, I’ll take him out, … now where’s the pony, … the pony or else, …

“Indisputable” ????????

Two things:

I can’t believe the republicans will be crazy enough to nominate this bible-zombie cipher.

and:

I can’t believe that Obama will be lucky enough to have them do it. It’s the only chance he has for four more years of crapping on the democratic party and progressives. He doesn’t deserve Perry to run against.

I think that goes either way…. “in” or “un”.

“you got a GOP duo that is the envy of every wingnut in the country and perhaps even on Jupiter”

My point exactly. Their “dream” team.
Perry was D at one point. Worked for Al Gore at one point.
This guy was brought into politics by a D.
But like every smart, read sell-out, politician, he switched sides when the Rs were gaining prominence in Texas.
He’s never lost a race, or close to it.
He’s savvy, vicious, and has a ton of ability to raise money for the campaign. He can give O a run for the money, literally.

It’s Perry/Bachmann. I may kid about the pony stuff, but on this I am serious.

WOW!!!!! Perry/Bachmann or 4 more years of Obama……………..
..
“It’s a puzzlement!”

Barack Obama welcomes him to the race and–as a newbie–offers to overlook anything untoward that Perry may say for the next 16 months. Rumor has it that Obama is also pondering a plan to meet Perry halfway, sharing the White House with him until the elections in pursuit of what he plans to call (working title) “A New American Comity.” And he has asked Perry to deliver the invocation at next year’s White House Prayer Breakfast.

Well in the GOP version of American Idol it looks like we now have an explanation for why semi sane Huntsman would be willing to put Bachmann on the ticket with him. He’s down to 1.

Dear Carleton, you might as well stop shaking the wingnut feardoll at us. It won’t work. Too many of us are disgusted with Obama.

Oh; did I mention that Rick Perry has zero chance to become president, even if the repubs are suicidal enough to nominate him? Just like Palin, he’s going to have to start answering some real questions; not softballs like:

“When Moses parted the sea, did the increase in seafood consumption result in a lower rate of cardiovascular disease in God’s chosen people?”

I understand that being an Obama loyalist, you LOVE you some Rick Perry to scare amurkans into 4 more years of “centrist” bullshit from O., but it aint. gonna. happen.

Dude, I don’t dispute you ARE due the pony. Just not from me.

If you look at ALL the presidential races since 1976, the guy with the better hair won.

P.S. Everyone laughed at Bush and Reagan too. . . for a while.

Makes me all feel all tingly and patriotic. I just can’t wait to see the results of this match up. Instead of a win win proposition, the oligarchy has set up a lose lose proposition for 80% of us. Oh goody.

I’ll be writing someone in if we don’t get better ballot choices. I’ll be darned if I’ll be handing them the knife to finish us off.

Obama SHARE the presidency with Perry………………………………………………………………………………….
that’s NOT that HARD to believe.

But it would be unconstitutional

I’d bet against Bachmann, for Rubio, but that would be speculation. Tell us what makes you so certain Bachmann is veep choice.

Most of us aren’t laughing. We’ve seen this sick joke played out before. It isn’t funny.

I would point out that George Bush did not flaunt his peckerhead belief system when he ran. Perry is doing just that. Of course, the big money boys in the GOP are already telling him that he needs to soft-pedal the born-again gibberish; it scares too many people. He’s going to be just like Palin; trying to duck every real interview. It won’t work.

Think Couric pulling Palin’s platitudinous teeth like she was squeezing out zits. Not good, if you think that evolution and creationism are equally valid. There are limits to the bullshit that our media will help the loons run on the country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU
There is room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill 
 
A working class hero is something to be 

We need to register Rethuglican and vote for Crazy Ron Paul in the rethug primary. At least, then, some issues of import may be discussed in the main for the stupid people to hear.

God, guns and asssholes vs. God Guns and assholes lite should be stopped.

I’m not tingley. My stomach is rumbling, I’m anxious, and WORRIED and I’ve got a big fart I need to let out.

He won’t. Supreme narcissists do not work that way (viz. Clinton).

She’d be a concession towards the Tea Party would be my guess. I don’t think Rubio brings that to the table. Although I do not underestimate the GOP’s desire to pretend they really like Latinos while simultaneously doing everything they can on a local level to make their lives miserable, a la Clean Skies initiative.

Meet The Radical Evangelical Army Behind Rick Perry

Rick Perry’s Army of God: A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man.

If Perry wins the GOP nomination the fix will be in. It will mean that our corporate 4th Reich is so happy with Barack Obama that they annointed someone who can’t beat him…so that they’ll have a nominal democrat doing the GOP’s work for them, and taking responsibility for the ensuing failures.

A corporate wet dream.

Don’t underestimate this nimrod. Never, never, discount how many votes really good hair can garnish in a national election.

Sure he did. You must have missed the compassionate conservative and how we have a responsibility to care for the vulnerable and the weak(anti choice) speeches. Oh and you missed how he and God were regular chatters. Perry is far from original if you were paying attention in 2000.

I noticed the 13th floor in a hotel is number 3. Look away! Look away!!!

Worrying isn’t going to change anything. It’s pretty much wasted energy.

Heh

Ron Paul is as nutball-y as Perry on social issues. He’s anti choice because “he” knows that it’s murder.

Then there is the whole gays were better off when they were forced into the closet.

Oh and civil rights were a bad idea.

Thanks but no thanks on Paul.

And he clearly said that Jesus is his favorite philosopher; I am not sure what “school” or religion that would represent.

It would be unlikely to change a 2012 outcome, however. . .

Just consider the “yuck!” factor for a moment. I wonder what would it be like being a blue voter in a blue state which musters a 2012 blue plurality, and then having your state’s blue legislators assign your electors to Perry because he eked out a microscopic national plurality? Forget for a moment that prospect seems doubtful. I am just thinking about acute indigestion due to the very notion.

This is what has made the Nat’l Popular Vote (NPV) project so repugnant to me even considering NPV is very unlikely cause an electoral result to actually flip. Yes, I live in a blue NPV state, and am almost ghoulishly curious about how our legislators might bob and weave with this in any event.

If I inadvertently predicted a Perry plurality nationally, my apologies, I don’t think that would happen. Still. . .

There are valid arguments for NPV from skilled boosters, who should have our ear. But I won’t sleep until NPV either fails (runs out of time?) or reaches a critical mass where the electors are effectively gelded nationwide. It’s the interim I can’t stand.

Perry is funded by the Wall Streeters that run Pennsylvania Avenue. He pretends to hate them just like Obama pretended to hate them before he got elected. If Perry fools enough people, like Obama did, and actually gets elected, he will not bite the hands that feed him. It will just be the continued employment of the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Perry call girl ring for the neoliberal financiers that run the international banking cartel.

Perry is a shinier version of GWB. I don’t like Obama but at least he doesn’t think he gets direct calls from Jesus every morning.

Perry is more likely to pick Marco Rubio than Bachmann. He is a very clever politician.

So, you were not happy with the unicorn which Osterity gave you?

How about an ‘orse of a different color?

And not totolly OT, ponies do bite and ya have ta feed ‘em and muck out the stalls.

How about a slightly wilted jack-ass …er, lovely little donkey?

Great religious figures rode around on donkeys, now I know, there is some talk about dinosaurs, but they REALLY bite, and parking places of the size you would need are about the size of that jet the Donald flits aboot in.

Ferrets are in, and right in my own backyard we have perfume bugs that are about as cute as any politician you’ll ever see, give both Perry-less and Bachmann-up a real challenge, they would, looks and policy-wise.

And I’ll be real honest with ya, if I gave you a pony, my youngest daughter, and her sisters, as well, would nevah forgive me.

Tambershall, I don’t think a pony is really gonna help, and whoever wins, the pony-up tax is gonna go up and up, and remember, I told ya, first.

You are just gonna haf ta accept that your sacrifice is NOT gettin’ that darn, stinkin’ pony. Yankee Doodle had one and ya know what happened to him, don’t ya? Wrecked his constitution and got overwhelmed by a bunch of noodles moonlighting as macaroni, then, a ton of feathers, fell on him.

Ponies are bad news, and I’m not even gonna get one for my kids, I’ve just decided, and I’m gonn a tell them that it’s becuz we had this little chat.

How ’bout that?

You just ruined a whole buncha daze.

;~DW

In other words, he’s a shyster and all the while he’s professing his love for God and the evangelicals we’re fairly likely to find he’ll be sending and receiving memos within his administration proclaiming the evangelicals are a bunch of useful nitwits-just like Obama used progressives and just like W used the evangelicals prior to Obama.

I kinda don’t like the neo liberal or the neo-conservative labels because I really think they are both sides to the same corrupt coin. The wording really needs to unite the 80% of us that don’t necessarily agree on the details but do agree that our government is bought.

Well, you may not LIKE “neoliberal,” but as the adopted philosophy of the ruling class from the 1970s on, we need to understand its implications–progressives EVERYWHERE else on the planet have come to understand and reject it, to organize against it–South America’s rejection of the philosophy is the reason that continent is advancing politically and economically now, in the midst of a global depression. It is the embrace, even by “liberals,” of the notion of completely unfettered markets; Obama buys in, as did Clinton and Blair, one reason that they are not only helpless before such arguments when conservatives make them, but basically agree with them.

This philosophy, which rejects 50+ years of Keynesian economics and entente between business and labor, has come to be the governing philosophy of the IMF and World Bank, which organize the world’s markets and the important stuff while we sit and talk Perry’s hair. Understanding what the h it is and fighting it is essential to beating it, whether we find the term appealing or not. We are, um, miles behind on this project.

Just what is it about the GOP that they are so fucking enamored with the stupid? I think they actually revel in the fact that they aren’t “elitists”, i.e. educated, knowledgeable, thinking, sentient, and rational beings.

Osterity? WTF is that?

Obama-induced austerity. Hence O-sterity

Interesting comments on the FOP (guess what the F is for) on Daily Irrelevant. Usually the cream floats to the top, but in the FOP it’s the shit. At least, Perry’s prayers are being answered.

It’s a toupee

Precursor to osteoporosis. Not to be ignored.

Perry wants to privatize what remains of our tattered social sphere – hey, that sounds familiar.
Nice set of options we have, eh?

Sorry, November 2012, Perry will be elected President. I’m in Texas, not like what I do is going to matter, but Obama is done. His idiotic jobs plan is going to be too little too late, filled with tax breaks for the rich, trade deals that will siphon more jobs overseas and leave us in worse shape than we are today. Obama will not be able to run as the defender of anything. He’s a loser, plain and simple. What a waste of a presidency. He could have done so much, but instead chose to be a Wall St. stooge.

Your timing is off. The things you’re talking about were mostly from Bush’s associates, and a lot of them came after the election.

He, himself, didn’t even talk that much about finding God and having it lead him away from his drinking and hell-raising. His friends and family covered that for him. If Perry had done that, there would have been 2407 press releases about it.

One other thing. The country today is much further to the right that it was when Bush ran. That’s why Perry can get away, to some extent, with his statements about the equivalency of evolution and creation. If Bush had done that in the 2000 election, he would probably have lost outright, instead of just losing the popular vote by half a million votes.

Perry’s climbing into bed with the asshats and making some campaign hay from it is possible because Obama laid down like a cur dog and has let them define the political culture.

Anything else?

I have to point out that Palin has “better hair” than Perry, and HER flatearth views helped Obama double John McCain’s electoral vote. (Which advantage, of course, he has utterly squandered…)

Perry can’t get away with NOT answering real questions about his claims about the booming Texas economy, etc., nor, about his extreme religious views, any more than Palin could. Less chance for it, in fact, since he’s running for president, instead of veep.

Just watch; his handlers are going to try to keep him in “safe” press situations and out of dangerous territory where the questions will be real and specifically relative to our problems. That will piss off the press, and they will go after him more than they went after Palin. His bottom-feeding base will whine and rant about his being persecuted, and all that hair and Grecian formula won’t help him a bit. Fact is, Perry is going to do more damage to the republican cause in 2012 than Obama. I welcome his run for the nomination, and that’s as far as he’ll go. He’ll say something really frightening about some issue, as Palin said when she said that she’d support an amendment to the Alaska constitution that would force women pregnant from rape or incest to carry to term, when she ran for governor, and independents will fly from him.

Which is why the democratic party still has a slight chance to hold onto enough congressional clout to monkeywrench the worst of a republican president’s agenda. All we have to do is dump Obama. Shouldn’t be too hard, since there isn’t much of anything he can do to turn this shit around, even if he wanted to, and there’s been no evidence he wants to.

My timing ISN’T off. Who you surround yourself with says alot about who you are. If you don’t believe that then take a look at who Obama surrounds himself with.

Perry is a Bush clone. Mark my words. I wasn’t wrong about Obama and I doubt I am about Perry. Charecter assessment is a survival skill where I came from.

Oh, that one flew right over my head. I get it now.

Should we call it Perry-stalsis?

I always say I lived in six states before I was 18, and grew up in six weeks on the Lower East Side of NYC, when I was 18.
Back then, all you owned was your word. you only blew it once.
Obama has not fulfilled his promises. He is a politician. After 50 years, I’m not surprised. LBJ did not abolish poverty. Carter did not make us energy independent.
THEY DID THEIR DAMNEDEST, THOUGH!
Kevin White, the long time mayor of Boston, used to tell people, “Do not compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative.”

I reject that philosophy. Choosing the one who squeezes out one less shit log than the other is no choice at all.

There needs to be a taboo on alleging that the electorate is really given a choice;

the money men control the two major parties.

“Democracy” is a sham.

For my Smedley Butler buddy Don Bacon: a little verse in honor of the late, great Molly Ivins who warned us repeatedly of what rough beasts can come slouching out of Texas running for national political office. But did the country listen? Now it looks like:

“Another Stud Hamster from Texas”

Another stud hamster from Texas
Like one that we had for eight years
Who listens to DOG and then does stuff –
A vacuum between his two ears.

His lips when they move utter nonsense.
He breathes only so he can lie.
He has no real purpose for living,
Unless it’s to help people die.

He does have white skin, though. No kidding!
He doesn’t have black skin, for sure!
And he can say “y’all” like a cracker
Who’s stepped in a pile of manure.

An oxygen thief in the daytime,
A waste of good skin in the night,
Rick Perry, like Dubya, embodies
The uttermost meaning of blight.

But hamsters in Texas do swagger
In boots like the cowboys once wore
Which those with some knowledge of varmints
Can see as pure trouble in store

Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright 2011

“…whether or not Americans are slow learners…”??
Excuse me. It’s not so much the fact that GWB was elected president, it’s the fact that after 4 years of live demonstration of GWB, he was RE-elected.
How much slower do you have to get to get slower than immediately slow to be a slow learner?

Cognizance is a survival skill…for all of us, no matter where we come from.

My point was, Perry is flaunting his bible-zombie qualities like some guy exposing himself to random strangers in a bus station bathroom. Bush did no such thing. if he had done that, we’d have been talking about President Gore, and no SCOTUS “vote” involved.
Because Obama has refused to nail the assholes, but instead, has done rehab on them, they can pimp outrageous lies, and in so doing, drag the country even further to the right…which is what allows bottomfeeders like Perry, Bachmann, Palin, etc., and their supporters, to pretend that they’re not really the loons they are.

They’ve gotten a lot of traction out of Obama’s “centrism”. Just not enough for one of them to capture the White House while touting the notion that the fossil record is a communist plot.

One. More. Time:

Rick Perry and friends are far less dangerous to a progressive agenda than has been Barack Obama and the people who STILL support him.

“Compare me to the alternative…”

That worked SO well in the mid-terms. I can hardly wait for another big democratic win in 2012, based on the campaign slogan of:

“You have to support US. We’re not as bad as the republicans.”