The 2010 midterms should go down as the election that brought the fringe to the fore and gave an angry nation an Aqua Buddha and the “Rent Is Too Damn High” political party.
With just over a week to go, the real race is on for the season’s strangest election vignette.
Contenders include Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell’s musings on witchcraft and masturbation, New York Republican Carl Paladino brawling with a journalist, and a late entrant to the field, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defending his “manhood” on cable.
“People in Nevada know me. From the street to the ring to the Senate chambers, I’ve never had to prove my manhood to anyone,” Reid told MSNBC.
Last week, a Republican House candidate from Dallas suggested on television that an armed overthrow of the government shouldn’t be ruled out. He was not the first to do so.
“Our nation was founded on violence,” Stephen Broden, a Dallas minister, told WFAA-TV. “The option is on the table.”
Sharron Angle, Reid’s Tea Party-backed opponent in Nevada, earlier called for “Second Amendment remedies” to deal with Congress, adding “the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.” She didn’t mean on a date.
“Americans are deeply unhappy about this economy and when people are unhappy, they are willing to roll the dice and sometimes vote for people who are just loopy, because the feeling is let’s stick it to the system,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
In Ohio, Republican House candidate Rich Iott had to answer for dressing like a Nazi. Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes suggested a municipal bicycle-sharing program was part of a larger United Nations plot against America.
“It’s definitely more nuts this year,” said Cindy Rugeley, a political scientist at Texas Tech University. “People are so mad, they are just picking the candidate that is not the common denominator and putting them on the ballot.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner
With just over a week to go, the real race is on for the season’s strangest election vignette.
Contenders include Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell’s musings on witchcraft and masturbation, New York Republican Carl Paladino brawling with a journalist, and a late entrant to the field, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defending his “manhood” on cable.
“People in Nevada know me. From the street to the ring to the Senate chambers, I’ve never had to prove my manhood to anyone,” Reid told MSNBC.
Last week, a Republican House candidate from Dallas suggested on television that an armed overthrow of the government shouldn’t be ruled out. He was not the first to do so.
“Our nation was founded on violence,” Stephen Broden, a Dallas minister, told WFAA-TV. “The option is on the table.”
Sharron Angle, Reid’s Tea Party-backed opponent in Nevada, earlier called for “Second Amendment remedies” to deal with Congress, adding “the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.” She didn’t mean on a date.
“Americans are deeply unhappy about this economy and when people are unhappy, they are willing to roll the dice and sometimes vote for people who are just loopy, because the feeling is let’s stick it to the system,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
In Ohio, Republican House candidate Rich Iott had to answer for dressing like a Nazi. Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes suggested a municipal bicycle-sharing program was part of a larger United Nations plot against America.
“It’s definitely more nuts this year,” said Cindy Rugeley, a political scientist at Texas Tech University. “People are so mad, they are just picking the candidate that is not the common denominator and putting them on the ballot.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner
10 comments:
I think it is even the situation is being made worse by the press and the folks runninig suggesting we the voters are so stupid we fall for the BS. We just want action and remedies not more broken or empty promises. It is true our leaders have awoken the sleeping giant as the Japanese did during the war. It has been a long nap and we are ready for a fight to take our country back. God Bless America!
"we the voters are so stupid"
why else would people become so fascinated with "witchcraft" and "bearded marxists" (sounds like good halloween costumes for couples this year). Why else would so many people still say Obama is a foreign Muslim? Why did they fall for the Swift Boat attack ads as well as the "Bush was not in service" crap? It's because people are STUPID when it comes to politics. Too many of you believe that your side of the aisle is the home of angels and there are nothing but heathens and demons on the other side. Continue getting played like a fiddle.
"Played like a fiddle", huh? Remember this, my friends (especially the ones who discount the possibility), dissatisfaction with, and rumblings about, a revolution against the British crown went on for 20-30 YEARS before it actually happened. It wasn't until some (relatively) rich and famous people joined the clamor that it went onto full-fledged revolt. A Republican candidate suggests armed revolt on TV?? Other well-known people have suggested the same thing, saying it may be the ONLY remedy left for our republic. With more and more people becoming totally disgusted with the system we have and disgusted with the candidates that CLAIM (like so many before them did) they will stop the corruption (then become part of it...lol) and special interest deals, etc, its only a matter of time before voting just doesn't satisfy the people anymore...
1;10 armed revolution? Imclain, I think you missed the point. It is the VOTERS who have gotten us in this mess by repeatedly supporting these clowns who spend more time slinging mud, fearmongering, and completely stretching the truth than they do with real policy analysis.
Im Clan,
I agree with most of the things you write. However, here you (and I) have been duped.
The Revolution against the British was an inside revolution. It was a case of Freemasonry taking over Great Britian. Not the U.S. staking its sovereignty.
The United States has never been sovereign from British rule. We have been controlled since the so-called Revolution by the Freemasons who rigged the war. The Freemasons revolted against Great Britian and used American debt with France to finance it. It is one of the best kept secrets.
The United States of America is a corporation titled in London. American Birth Certificates are certificates of stock on the London exchange for debt owed by this country to international banks. Each American citizen represents collateral on the National Debt.
We are goods delivered in the birth waters of our mothers and certified by the "Doc" with a number. We are owned under Admiralty Law of Great Britian.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
My mind is literally blown by the possibility that 4:08 is serious. He can't be serious can he.
4:08....WOW....thats all I got.... 2:44..I got the point, but if you have read some of my prior posts, then you would know that I think (as, apparently millions of others do, too) that voters are often offered candidates that say whatever they think we want to hear just to get on the gravy train that is a job in the House or Senate. Then begin their own trail of theft, bribery, corruption and a constant effort to be re-elected. They (generally) have no interest in "the common good" or in doing whats right, but merely beginning a CAREER in a position that was never intented to be a lifetime appointment. People are fed up and there is a rising (and unstoppable) resentment and disgust among "we, the people". I am FAR from the only one who recognizes it and THAT was my point. A list of the bozos and nutcases who are running makes my point, too...htese people would have NEVER considered running for office 30 years ago. Politicians of ALL stripes are KILLING us with their greed, self-centered selfishness, underhanded backroom special interest slicing and dicing of the middle class and our country is NOT even close to the ideals that our grandfathers shed their blood for...and armed revolution?? It ain't no fairy tale, rather an historical inevitablity...
well, 4:40, Shelton Lankford thinks he is serious.
Now imclaim I can agree wit most of that. But you fools shouting revolution sound silly. How about you actually hold politicians accountable, even when they have an (R) in front of their name. Matter of fact, since so many of you vote straight party ticket anyway, how about you start a common sense movement within your party where you force your side of the aisle to elect people who actually know what the hell they are talking about.
The people that are so angry and fed up and speak of revolution and all the craziness.... are the stupidest people in our population.
I talked to a woman the other day who was preaching all this nonsense, "obama wants to be a muslim dictator" "our government is infiltrated by marxist infiltrators planted here by terrorist groups", that sorta nonsense. This same woman thought the 3 branches of government were 1)congress, 2)the FBI and 3)the army. I guess 1 out of 3 isn't bad. Like O'Donnel for instance. I thought the tea party was about being a constitutionalist and lower taxes. Yet she had to be reminded of the 16th amendment (you know, the one that legalizes federal income tax).
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