QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Ted Cruz is a true conservative you can trust to stand on principle and change the way Washington does business… Today, through May 25, please vote early for Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate.”
Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods — aka Sarah Palin — this week in Topeka, Kansas urging all the good conservative Kansans out there to vote for Ted Cruz for the U.S. Senate from Kansas.
Ummmmmmm, there’s just one problem — Ted Cruz is running for the senate seat in fucking Texas!
May 21st, 2012 at 11:39 am
Man oh man, is she the gift that just KEEPS giving or what?
May 21st, 2012 at 11:51 am
It’s Paul Revere warning the British that the Americans were coming for them all over again!
May 21st, 2012 at 12:46 pm
You should be here in Texas watching the clown car beat each other up trying to prove who believes in God the most, who is against immigration the most, who is against gays the most and who is the mostest of the most.
I’m soooo very afraid for the future of our nation. The toilet has already been flushed and we’re circling the drain.
May 21st, 2012 at 1:01 pm
It was a “Robo-call” (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/21/palin/) she recorded which was then mistakenly sent to Kansas. She is certainly too stupid to work the buttons on that dang Robo-call machine, so the mistake was probably made by her staff or Ted Cruz’s.
Apparently she’s smart enough to be blamed for a mistake she is too stupid to make.
May 21st, 2012 at 1:38 pm
I was going to leave a witty comment, then realized… Oh fuck it. How’s the real estate market in Vancouver?
May 21st, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Dumb box.
May 21st, 2012 at 1:45 pm
I grew up in Texas, and it didn’t used to be this insane. It had its crazy on, sure, but it seems like in the last twenty years or so, the state has gone completely off the rails. It started with Bush beating Ann Richards through snide innuendo and flat out lies, and now it’s become a third-world country. Why on earth anyone from Mexico would want to go anywhere near Texas…or Arizona, for that matter…is beyond me, considering how downright evil the WASP masters of those states have become. They make the devil seem like Mr. Rogers.
May 21st, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Kevin, you’ve articulated something I’ve always wondered. How did someone like Ann Richards ever get elected there? And how could a state that elected her, then go on to elect W and the current batshit insane governor? What the fuck is wrong with them?
May 22nd, 2012 at 6:56 am
Memo to Palin: Texas sold its stake in land that is now within the borders of Kansas in 1850 along with parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. Please look at a more recent map.
As to how Ann Richards ever got elected, I’d like to think it was because she was an effective leader when she was state treasurer and that she had one of those rare personalities that just draws people to her, but that alone can’t account for her winning the Governor’s chair. In 1990 she ran against the modern day equivalent of a Tea Party nominee who had all the stupidity of a Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Sharon Angle, and John Buck and like those idiots, thankfully, couldn’t keep his dumbmutherfucker mouth closed. Texas was changing mightily in the early 90′s and much of the influx at that time was white flight from northern states and California making their escape from those “liberal” havens. For example, they turned the farmland north of Plano (including the land my grandfather sharecropped) into an endless maze of affluent, stark lily white, conservative suburbia hell. Combined with the Republicans’ Southern Strategy, a healthy dose of lesbian innuendo and abandonment by Clinton Democrats, Ann lost reelection to that ignorant, Connecticut born, Phillips Andover, Yale and Harvard “educated” Yankee that couldn’t find oil in West Texas at a time when ranchers drilling for water were getting mad they kept hitting oil. Not only could George W. Bush not find oil in West Texas, he could not hire people who could find oil in West Texas. And then he proved incompetent at running a baseball team.
Texas is slowly turning purple by the sheer power of demography, but I have to tell Sarah Palin, the chances of a Republican with a Hispanic surname prevailing in the low information Texas Republican Primary are not good. The last time a Hispanic was on the ballot for a major office in Texas, Texas Republicans voted out an incumbent (by appointment) on the Railroad Commission (a board that regulates oil and gas, commission name notwithstanding) who had multiple degrees in geology, law and business with a mountain of experience in the Texas General Land Office and Railroad Commission for a Anglo political novice CPA whose stated qualifications for the Railroad Commission on his website boiled down to he could see oil derricks from his house.
May 22nd, 2012 at 2:46 pm
My brother and his wife had the unfortunate circumstance to live in Lubbock, Texas for about five years while he taught at Texas Tech. My partner and I visited them a few years ago. It was a surreal experience. My sister-in-law, as well as my brother, are complete commie-pinko-liberals, just like my partner and me. I live in the SF Bay Area and often think that I live in a bubble. Well, let me just say that the bubble I live in was nothing like the Lubbock bubble and, purely as an extension of the theorem, the Texas bubble. Now, I know that there are decent, intelligent people living there, but my guess is that, at their first opportunity, they get the fuck out.
Sadly, we also have states like South Carolina and West Virginia and Kentucky (sorry, Scott!) and Missippi that continue to influence the national debate. In reality, if we had a true democracy, states like New York and California and Oregon and Washington, not to mention most of the entirety of the upper plains and New England would have a much larger say in national policy. Goddamn, it. This is depressing.