Willard Goes Gratuitously Goth
Oooh! that Ron Paul guy and his crazy supporters are busy, butt, you know, still in the background. . .
Tag: Ron Paul
SERIAL LIARS: They’re Not Just For Breakfast Anymore
They say Marshmallow Mittens is full of vitamin BS— like it’s a good thing. (Original image) The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. —Stephen King The shadow of a hair’s turning, premeditated for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is principle— these constitute falseness. —The Urantia Book BATTLE CREEK — …
CPAC 2012 Clown Show
Occupy CPAC featured a Fat Cat Rethug Strangling Working Man balloon The bat (shit crazy) clown signal shone brightly over D.C. this weekend, drawing an A-List of wingnuts to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention like moths to a flame. Our past coverage of the Wingnut Woodstock can be found here , here, here, here, and here. Last year, Coultergeist …
Winning The Crowd
“Are you not entertained?” Like professional comedians who will say anything for a laugh, no matter how outrageous, politicians like Newt Gingrich will say anything to invoke a sense of outrage. This is both the Newtster’s greatest political strength and greatest weakness. While appealing to the baser emotions of anger, fear, and resentment plays well with the Teabagger activists who dominate …
Twilight Zone Candidates
Watching the likes of Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich these days, I feel like I’ve been ‘ported to The Twilight Zone. In the classic intro to the original Rod Serling series, the shattering window pane is the Overton Window of radical right wing craziness, pushed off the edge of the …
And The Winner Is…
Sure, it was just a few ignoramai who cheered for a man to die* because he didn’t have insurance coverage; but figure those few in every county of the U.S., and you start to see the problem of harboring large numbers of under-educated buffoons who have been granted the right of suffrage. …The Tea Baggers! I can’t blame anyone for …
Marcus Bachmann: Grey Eminence In Waiting?
Marcus Bachmann: Our future fabulous Grey Eminence? Fresh from her less than one percentage point win over Ron Paul in the Iowa straw poll, Michelle Bachmann was interviewed Sunday on Meet the Press. Host David Gregory repeated a question originally put to her by Byron York during Friday night’s debate concerning her fundamentalist religious beliefs, which she has made an …
