[Ninong]

Originally Posted by schrocat

umm...sorry about the blame it on the staffers comments up there guys.
I was just... wait a sec, what's this?

"The House Judiciary Committee has released Alberto Gonzales' written statement in preparation for tomorrow's hearing. The story won't surprise anyone, but it's clear at least that Gonzales has honed it down to a streamlined tale of his chief of staff Kyle Sampson's failure to fulfill Gonzales' expectations."

Umm...nevermind.

Dude, this is the GOP candidates thread. We have Gonzo the Magnificent over here in the thread Gene started.

[schrocat]

No prob.
I can fix that...

No more McCrazy Walnuts for me!!!

Put me down for Gonzo in '08 baby!

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Ninong

BTW, I wonder who outed Rudy Giuliani's multiple contributions to Planned Parenthood? Did you see that news item today? "Another campaign" emailed copies of Giuliani's tax returns for the 1990's (which are in the public domain) to a political website pointing out that Giuliani made a total of $900 in contributions during four different years in the 1990's to Planned Parenthood at the national, state and city levels. I have a hunch it was McCain's campaign that did that because I know where he got some of his staffers. And was it a coincidence that McCain made a statement on abortion while this was coming out about Giuliani? McCain thinks it would be very difficult for a pro-abortion Republican to win the GOP nomination. This is the same John McCain who once said he believed that Roe should NOT be overturned.

Et tu, Mitt?

Boy! The opposition research team at at least one GOP candidate's campaign has been really busy checking out Planned Parenthood's donor lists. First it was Giuliani who was outed as having contributed $900 in four different years in the 1990's (last in 1999) to Planned Parenthood and now we learn that Ann Romney (aka Mrs. Mitt Romney) gave $150 to Planned Parenthood in 1994. Let's not forget that Mitt was in favor of a woman's right to choose before he was against it, so he will just come right out and say that he no longer supports abortion. He still publicly supported a woman's right to an abortion as recently as late 2004. He changed his mind after he began thinking about seeking the GOP nomination for president.

Mitt changed a lot of his positions after he decided to run for national office. All those other positions are "no longer operative." They were specifically designed for campaigning for office in Massachusetts. The new & improved Mitt (with more whitening power) doesn't believe any of that crap anymore. He's now a conservative. He no longer claims to be to the left of Teddy Kennedy. This is just more proof that Mitt is flexible enough to meet any challenge.

Vote for Mitt, the conservative Republican who is no longer better than Teddy Kennedy at securing equal rights for gays, who no longer supports federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, who no longer favors gun control (heck, he's even a lifetime member of the NRA now, since October 2006), who is no longer just as pro-choice as his mother, and who now believes in a new variation on the Theory of Evolution that incorporates Creationism.

Vote for Mitt: He'll be whatever you want him to be!

[Ninong]

Let's call it Giuliromney!

Rudy went into the lions' den in Houston to explain his views on the abortion issue. He spoke before a Baptist University audience to explain that he personally is against abortion but he supports a woman's right to choose. In other words, Giuliani is pro-choice, deal with it. He told his audience he has been this way for a very long time and it's highly unlikely that he will change his position.

Mitt is upset that people are questioning whether he is really and truly anti-abortion now. He repeated his claim that he converted to pro-life "a few years ago." Actually he was still pro-abortion as recently as late 2004. This topic came up again because it was recently revealed that Mitt's wife gave $150 to Planned Parenthood in 1994.

OK, here's the deal. Mitt used to be pro-abortion, then he became pro-choice and now he's pro-life. How hard is that to understand? He's multiple choice.

Mitt used the opportunity to hit the other candidates where it hurts. He immediately switched the topic to polygamy and admitted that his great-great grandfather had several wives (12 to be exact) but that he personally thinks that polygamy is just about the worst thing you could imagine. Wait a minute! Nobody accused Mitt of favoring polygamy. Why is he bringing up that issue?

Glad you asked. Mitt segued from polygamy to bragging that he was a virgin until marriage. He never engaged in pre-marital or extra-marital sex. Ever! And he has been married to the same wife for the past 38 years!!! Take that Walnuts! and Rudy!!

P.S. -- Wondering what to give Deputy Leader Dick for Christmas? How about an iPod?

[zhenya]

OK, here's the deal. Mitt used to be pro-abortion, then he became pro-choice and now he's pro-life. How hard is that to understand? He's multiple choice.

I though what we have now is possibly the worst this Country ever had.. but wait, there is still opportunity to do even worse...

[Ninong]

Rachel Maddow explains Mitt's French connection. Video clip, approx. 3 min.

P.S. -- Rachel does go a bit overboard when she says that Mitt "killed" someone in a car accident in France. Twenty-one-year-old Mitt was the driver of the car and one of the car's passengers did die in the accident but Mitt was not held responsible, unlike Laura Bush who actually was responsible for running a stop sign at 50 mph and killing the driver of the vehicle she broadsided.

Rachel does have an excellent point about Mitt's sudden anti-France campaign. What's up with that? France used to be his favorite foreign country. He studied French in high school in preparation for his 30-month Mormon mission to France. After his freshman year at Stanford, Mitt went to France to try to convert the French to Mormonism. He spent a total of 30 months in France knocking on doors, asking the inhabitants if he would tell them all about Jesus Christ's first second coming in North America. Usually the answer was "non, merci."

Maybe Mitt's just upset that he didn't convert any of the French? At least he converted his wife. She switched from Episcopalian to LDS while dating Mitt. They started dating when Mitt was 18 and she was only 15.

After Mitt returned from his 30-month mission in France, he switched from Standord to Brigham Young. After graduating from BYU three years later, he switched to Harvard, where he received degrees in law and business administration.

In case you're wondering, yes, you do get a draft deferment as a Mormon missionary. After Mitt's college and missionary deferments ran out, he drew the number 300 in the draft lottery. That was a safe number.

Mitt's fluent in French. Just as fluent as John Kerry if not moreso. Kerry used to spend summers at his mother's family's chateau in Normandy.

[Ninong]

Sort of. In fact, he almost had to run out of the building recently after dissing Bret Favre in WISCONSIN!

If you're addressing the Wisconsin Republican Party convention and you want to use a football analogy to talk about the need to focus on families, wouldn't you use Bret Favre as your ideal quarterback? Wouldn't it be rather stupid to refer to Peyton Manning as the greatest quarterback in NFL history when speaking to an audience of Packer fans?



P.S. -- Note to Sen. Brownback: It's OK to use Peyton Manning as your favorite quarterback anywhere in the state of Indiana, when speaking in front of a University of Tennessee audience or anywhere in or around the city of New Orleans. It's not OK if you're speaking to a bunch of cheeseheads.

[Ninong]

Definitely early-onset Alzheimer's!

On Meet the Press this morning, Tim Russert asked McCain about his trip to that Baghdad outdoor market surrounded by more than 100 heavily armed troops, dozens of snipers on rooftops, Blackhawks and Apaches overhead, etc. Tim was wondering if McCain still insists that it's safe for you or I to walk around in Baghdad without military protection.

Here is what Walnuts! had to say today:

"I'll be glad to go back to that market -- with or without military protection and Humvees, etc."

McCain is either an idiot or he thinks that everyone else is. Take your pick! From straight talk to straight jacket! I think it's time they retired him to the funny farm.

Just to make their point, the day after McCain's stroll through that Baghdad market, the Sunni insurgents ambushed, bound and shot dead 21 Shia market workers from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by Sen. McCain.

We already have one lying, delusional president, why would we want another one?



Walnuts! will do or say absolutely anything to become President of the United States. Anything at all.

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Ninong

...there is something going on with Chuck Hagel and Michael Bloomberg. Hagel is the Nebraska Republican conservative Vietnam war veteran who is openly opposed to Bush's Iraq war policies. Bloomberg is the multi-billionaire Mayor of New York City who is presently a Republican. He used to be a Democrat.

The thing about Bloomberg is that he has so much money that a couple hundred million spent on his own campaign wouldn't even make a dent in his checkbook. Ross Perot was the last billionaire candidate but he didn't succeed.

Any new GOP candidates who wait until July or August to declare can come out as proponents of a new direction in Iraq, or whatever they choose to call it. Walnuts!, on the other hand, will be stuck with his support for the war and his support for sending in more and more troops.

Since I posted that a week ago, Chuck Hagel has dropped more hints that he is seriously considering a run for the presidency -- probably as a third-party candidate. He has been saying for some time now that he is unhappy with the current Republican Party and he and Michael Bloomberg are definitely talking to each other. Does that mean they would join forces? If so, who would be at the top of the ticket? It would be Bloomberg's money, so I guess he would???

[Ninong]

WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday there is a very good chance he'll get into the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, but he won't decide until after September.

"I think right now that it is a great possibility," Gingrich said. "I don't want to get into all this stuff. I want to focus on what we have to do to make America successful."



P.S. -- I wonder what Daddy Dobson thinks of that idea?

[Ninong]

Jerry Falwell is no longer an agent of intolerance. Hallelujah!

[schrocat]

:slap:

[Ninong]

Does that mean you're not coming to the parade?



The guy was a hateful racist bigot. He held onto segregation longer than anyone other than David Duke. He said the Supreme Court in Brown ignored the Will of God!

"If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God’s word and had desired to do the Lord’s will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made…. The facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line." -- Jerry Falwell in 1958.

His favorite guests on his radio show were Lestor Maddox and George Wallace. He was still preaching the gospel of racist hate two and three decades after the Supreme Court put an end to segregation in this country.

He supported Apartheid in South Africa. He even went over there to offer public support to Botha and to condemn Nobel Peace Prize winner, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu as "a phony." That was in the 1980's!!!

He praised the oppressive Apartheid regime in South Africa as God's chosen ones and urged all American Christians to buy Kruggerands to show their support for white supremacy!!! That was in the 1980's!!!

Too bad he didn't hang around a little longer to see the Apocalypse! Jerry firmly believed that it was just around the corner and that the Antichrist would be "a Jewish male." In fact, in 1999 Falwell said that the Antichrist would reveal himself sometime in the next 10 years. Too bad he didn't hang around for another three years so that we could have called him on that one, too.

Mama always said we should speak good of the dead. Jerry Falwell is dead. Good.

[schrocat]

Originally Posted by Ninong

Does that mean you're not coming to the parade?

My bad.

In a moment of extreme confusion I thought the "slap" smilie was the "be healed" smilie. :slap:

[Ninong]

Jerry Falwell with Sun Myung Moon, Emperor of the Universe, Messiah and Head Moonie

[Ninong]

Does this mean the GOP presidential candidates in their "debate" tonight will have a new saint to praise besides the Gipper?

Take a sip every time one of them mentions Falwell's name and you'll be drunk before the half-time.

[Ninong]

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[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Ninong

Does this mean the GOP presidential candidates in their "debate" tonight will have a new saint to praise besides the Gipper?

Take a sip every time one of them mentions Falwell's name and you'll be drunk before the half-time.

Aw, shucks! They just announced that all of the candidates are very sorry Jerry Falwell is dead but in the interest of speeding things up, no one will say anything about that tonight.

[Ninong]

Duncan Hunter just said, "one of us is going to be commander in chief in a few months."

What!?!

January 2009 is 20 months from now. That's more than "a few months," and none of those clowns is going to be the next commander in chief anyway.

[Ninong]

Walnuts! just told the drunken sailor joke! Again! He really is senile! He told that same joke about the former drunken sailor sending him an email to complain that he didn't appreciate being compared to Congress during the last debate. He must have forgotten. Either that or he thinks the rest of the country has already forgotten.

Huckabee just said, "we've had a Congress that has spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop."

The crowd went wild with applause.

Haha! Huckabee made a funny. Not that it will make any difference in his hopeless quest.