Another scary candidate

[leftysergeant]

I am begining to wonder whether the GOP might be turning over random rocks to find candidates to run against Democratic incumbents.

The latest entry into the -out-crazy-Sarah-Palin-Rodeo is Art Robinson, an entrepreneur who has made his fortune selling a home-schooling curriculum that some commentators find a bit raicst. His recommeended reading list for boys seems to feature the works of British author George Alfred Henty, because Robinson feels that those works have a lot to teach us about moral values in today's society.

Oy!

http://www.talk2action.org/story/20...uggesting_Africans_Are_Like_Retarded_Children.

 

[Bikewer]

A couple of elections ago, NPR sent a few reporters to the GOP convention. Instead of ferreting out interviews with the front-runners, they decided to interview a half-dozen or so of the "fringe" guys who always show up.
There are some loons out there....

To be fair, I imagine there are an equal number of loons on the Democratic side, as well as more than a few....Independents.

 

[leftysergeant]

I have yet to see a Democrat who has any chance of ever being elected to something go as far over the edge as Robinson, Angle, Brewer or Paul or Caribou Barbie.

 

[Ziggurat]

I have yet to see a Democrat who has any chance of ever being elected to something go as far over the edge as Robinson, Angle, Brewer or Paul or Caribou Barbie.

Really?

Oh, you might not find that as offensive, but do you really think that's less crazy?

Oh, and there are other examples.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I have yet to see a Democrat who has any chance of ever being elected to something go as far over the edge as Robinson, Angle, Brewer or Paul or Caribou Barbie.

You're assuming they have a chance of being elected.

 

[leftysergeant]

Really?

Oh, you might not find that as offensive, but do you really think that's less crazy?

Meh. What it amounts to is prohibiting any attempt to develop a chemtrail weapon. It is not a statement that they exist.

There is a lot else there that does not exist and the intent is clearly to ensure that they never do.

It is still a long way from the Artic MILF's death panels.

 

[drkitten]

You're assuming they have a chance of being elected.

Well, Caribou Barbie is currently the front-runner to win the Republican Nomination. At at least two separate sites.

 

[Ziggurat]

Meh. What it amounts to is prohibiting any attempt to develop a chemtrail weapon. It is not a statement that they exist.

It's a statement that they could exist, and that anyone would ever want to develop them. Which is bloody friggin stupid.

But I knew I could count on you to try to rationalize the delusions of a democrat, no matter what they were.

It is still a long way from the Artic MILF's death panels.

Yes, but not in the way you think. You see, whatever you think of the validity of that accusation, the fact of the matter is that, politically speaking, it worked. It furthered her agenda. Kucinich's chemtrails? Not only would it never have made any difference (because chemtrails are about the dumbest possible idea for a weapon), he removed it, because it was counterproductive to his agenda (it exposed him for an idiot). So you can't even excuse Kicinich on the grounds that he was just being cynically manipulative of an audience.

And like I said, it's not the only crazy thing done by a Democrat. Hank Johnson is still my favorite example.

 

[Jekyll's Guest]

I have yet to see a Democrat who has any chance of ever being elected to something go as far over the edge as Robinson, Angle, Brewer or Paul or Caribou Barbie.

In defense of right wing nuts, could it be that your politics are just a smidge to the left, and thus you might not be 100% impartial?

I find left and right wing extremists to be equally terrifying. It's just that the right wing folks are more in to wars and overt censorship, while the lefty nuts eat at the tree from within.

 

[Jekyll's Guest]

Oh, but to be even more honest, the GOP embraces these crazies with gusto, whereas the Dems are simply too spineless to clean house.

 

[Ziggurat]

Oh, but to be even more honest, the GOP embraces these crazies with gusto, whereas the Dems are simply too spineless to clean house.

That's a rather subjective characterization, isn't it? I mean, how do we go about determining which reaction each party is taking, other than by anecdote? And how can we do that without risking cherry picking?

 

[drkitten]

That's a rather subjective characterization, isn't it? I mean, how do we go about determining which reaction each party is taking, other than by anecdote?

Might I suggest that the oddsmakers are a good measure of reaction? Crowdsourcing generally works well as a method of political prediction and measurment....

Show me a contested(*) nomination where the favorite to win the nomination is a leftist as extremist as Palin.

Edited for clarification -- i.e., there must be at least two contestants, and it must be one without a significant incumbant advantage.

 

[Ziggurat]

Might I suggest that the oddsmakers are a good measure of reaction? Crowdsourcing generally works well as a method of political prediction and measurment....

Show me a contested nomination where the favorite to win the nomination is a leftist as extremist as Palin.

Why only consider contested nominations in the current election? I already showed examples of elected officials who were far crazier.

Edit: by limiting yourself to contested nominations in the current election, you're also oversampling democratic incumbents. And I would expect that incumbents (of either party) will tend to include fewer far fringe elements.

And what's so extremist about Palin? Her policy positions are pretty mainstream conservative. The primary complaint against her (other than that she's a conservative) is that she's not qualified, but that's a rather different issue.

 

[leftysergeant]

That's a rather subjective characterization, isn't it? I mean, how do we go about determining which reaction each party is taking, other than by anecdote? And how can we do that without risking cherry picking?

I have yet to hear McConell or Bohner telling the teabaggers to sit down and act like adults.

And did you notice who Hank Johnson replaced? As for Johnson's remarks about Guam tipping over, I just had the impression that he was using a colorful turn of phrase to express a concern that the paln was to put way too many people on an island that could not support their numbers without doing environmental harm.

(You did hear him talking about the coral reefs, didn't you?)

 

[Galileo]

I am begining to wonder whether the GOP might be turning over random rocks to find candidates to run against Democratic incumbents.

The latest entry into the -out-crazy-Sarah-Palin-Rodeo is Art Robinson, an entrepreneur who has made his fortune selling a home-schooling curriculum that some commentators find a bit raicst. His recommeended reading list for boys seems to feature the works of British author George Alfred Henty, because Robinson feels that those works have a lot to teach us about moral values in today's society.

Oy!

http://www.talk2action.org/story/20...uggesting_Africans_Are_Like_Retarded_Children.

Yikes! A candidate who thinks outside the box? That's scary to you, eh? Please keep your phobias in a bottle.

 

[leftysergeant]

Yikes! A candidate who thinks outside the box? That's scary to you, eh? Please keep your phobias in a bottle.

He isn't just thinking outside the box, he is thinking outside this time/space continuum. Definitely outside the constitution. The nutbar wants this to become a Christian country, and is providing the means to brainwash a whole generation of rightwhacker kids. He is full speed ahead to the 19th Century.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

I am begining to wonder whether the GOP might be turning over random rocks to find candidates to run against Democratic incumbents.

The latest entry into the -out-crazy-Sarah-Palin-Rodeo is Art Robinson, an entrepreneur who has made his fortune selling a home-schooling curriculum that some commentators find a bit raicst. His recommeended reading list for boys seems to feature the works of British author George Alfred Henty, because Robinson feels that those works have a lot to teach us about moral values in today's society.

Oy!

http://www.talk2action.org/story/20...uggesting_Africans_Are_Like_Retarded_Children.

This is nothing. I know a liberal democrat who carries guns to political rallies, sees vast conspiracies behind the most meaningless everyday occurrences and has violent fantasies about a second american revolution/civil war wherein he kills various political opponents.

Shall I start painting all democrats and liberals by their association, however small, with this person?

 

[Ziggurat]

As for Johnson's remarks about Guam tipping over, I just had the impression that he was using a colorful turn of phrase to express a concern that the paln was to put way too many people on an island that could not support their numbers without doing environmental harm.

(You did hear him talking about the coral reefs, didn't you?)

I don't think so, lefty. His lead in to the question about the island tipping over was about how small the island itself was. His words ("tip over and capsize") and his hand gestures indicate that he was talking quite literally. The guy is losing it.

 

[drkitten]

Yikes! A candidate who thinks outside the box? That's scary to you, eh? Please keep your phobias in a bottle.

Rightness and wrongness can usually be measured on a continuum. John McCain is wronger than Barack Obama. George W. Bush is wronger than McCain. Sarah Palin is wronger than Bush. Art Robinson is wronger than Palin.

Galileo, however, appears to have achieved the mathematically impossible. He is wronger than himself.

 

[drkitten]

This is nothing. I know a liberal democrat who carries guns to political rallies, sees vast conspiracies behind the most meaningless everyday occurrences and has violent fantasies about a second american revolution/civil war wherein he kills various political opponents.

Shall I start painting all democrats and liberals by their association, however small, with this person?

Is he running for office? Is he expected to have a non-negligible chance of winning?