Political Survey
Posted by TFG on November 26th, 2007
Is there anybody out there that thinks there’s a single one of these Presidential candidates worth a plugged nickel?
All the Democrats are more-of-the-same Mommy-Staters. I feel like I’ll have to eat brusell sprouts at every meal, including breakfast, and pay $5 per sprout for the privilege.
Ron Paul is pitching the gold standard.
Romney says most of the right things, but he reminds me too much of a realtor.
Guliani is a gun-grabber.
I had my hopes up for Fred Thompson, but he’s simply disappeared.
I’m really starting to feel like one of those bearded lunatics that moves to the mountains and shits in a coffee can after dark because it’s too cold to go to the outhouse. Politically, that is.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
You’ve come along on the a’ginner road. Welcome.
I think you feel that way about Fred! simply because he has enough character to not want the job, especially if it entails what it looks like it does to get it. We get the government we deserve, and America doesn’t seem to deserve Fred!.
November 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Huckabee my man. Any former preacher who plays in a rock in roll band aon’t all bad
November 26th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
I, too, like Fred. And I have a beard. I am a lunatic, also, but do not crap in a coffee-can too awful much anymore. Which reminds me, why does Wolf-brand no-bean chili make one’s dookies smell like smoke?
I wonder if Huckabee has a fair amount of nanny-state mentality in his noggin. I mean, nowhere near as bad as any of the Democrats or the “Republicans” from the Northeast or John McCain, even, but something about him doesn’t totally set well with me-that massive weight-loss may have something to do with it. Isn’t there a quote from Shakespeare about wanting to surround one’s self with homies who are fat and sleek and sleep o’ nights, or something?
The R Man
November 26th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I understand that Gov. Huckabee taxed cigs and booze. I can’t accept that. I also hear that he was browbeating everybody about global warming and losing weight. He might be the best rock-n-rolling preacher around, but I’ll pass on the hucksterism.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
As for the chili question, R — I have no earthly idea. You’ve got ties to academia…can we get some grant money to study it?
November 27th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Tee hee, I bet we can get some grant money. Y’know, my own mother had a similar response. Maybe I could contact ConAgra and they could send me a case of the stuff which I think I could eat every day for months or until they give me my own private office because of the ill effects of same. I am afraid that like Shiner Bock, we probably pay like double what you pay in Texas for the stuff as it costs so much to ship it up here to the frozen north, where we jive around doing our chicken dances and polkas and talking like the folks in “Fargo” (you betcha!) and drinking our Heileman’s Old Style and eating cheese derivatives but occasionally the CVS gets in a shipment of Wolf and Shiner and a bit of warmth makes its way into the cold, cold, cockles of our rust-belt hearts. Sorry, it got kinda chilly here and affected my brain.
I am thinking “the masses” won’t put up with another Arkansas governor as president, regardless. I’m also thinking that folks are rightly distrusting of “Republicans” from up in the Northeast. I really do think that Fred Thompson might be the most electable of the Republicans who could actually get the nomination, though I do like Duncan Hunter and awful lot and he makes more sense than pretty much any of them. I mean, Ron Paul makes a lot of sense, but I think he has the libertarian problem of thinking trade will solve *all* of our problems. That’s not a bad way to go, but sometimes you need to stomp the crap out of folks in the third world, sez I, even if that’s not at all politically correct.
Thompson could climb the crazy ladder and get a few more votes, maybe, by promising to nuke the counties that he didn’t carry in the general election, which would create some serious buzz, but already I see drawbacks. I mean, we’d lose LA and NYC, but based on past red/blue divisions, Chautauqua County, New York would be saved (so the Clintons could go to their little lefty “church camp” still, and the 10,000 Maniacs’ hometown would be spared), but Clay County, Arkansas, would be a big smoking crater next to Ripley County, Missouri, and that’d kinda suck as I really like the Pizza Hut/Wal-Mart shopping center there in Corning which is really convenient when I visit the folks.
The R Man
November 29th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Good Gawd, no preacher president, thanks. Look what Carter did. Yowzer.