Carlyfornication

On the one hand, this is beyond stupid in the sense that a teabagger has no chance of winning in the land of herbal tea. On the other, Fiorina is a shitty candidate anyway:

A California Republican aiming to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) next year has gotten a boost from conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).

DeMint announced last night his Senate Conservatives Fund was endorsing state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore over former Hewlett Packard chief Carly Fiorina. The group supports only “rock solid” conservatives, organizers told supporters on a conference call last night as election results came in.

DeVore “will work with me to shake things up,” DeMint said, and “vote the right way …stand up in our conference meetings and say, ‘Folks this is wrong let’s turn this thing around.’”

I hope DeVore busts out the industrial strength anti-immigrant hate. That always goes over well in California.

154 Responses to “Carlyfornication”

  1. 1

    BFR

    On the other, Fiorina is a shitty candidate anyway:

    I’m guessing this actually is good news for conservatives. DeVore has a microscopic chance of winning the seat, but Fiorina isn’t much higher.

    In other words, if you’re running the show for the GOP and you’ve got a bunch of wingnuts screaming for blood, then throwing them a bone in CA is good strategy. It’ll take some of the heat off of Crist and it doesn’t actually cost you anything.

  2. 2

    Pangloss

    Can we get Sarah, Rush, Sean, Glenn, and Michelle to weigh in on this race?

  3. 3

    Michael

    Even better news from California – Carrie Prejean dumped her suit ‘coz of a XXX whackoff tape.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....y-Sex-Tape

    Carrie Prejean demanded more than a million dollars during her settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant officials—that is, until the lawyer for the Pageant showed Carrie an XXX home video of her handiwork.
    ...
    The video the lawyer showed Carrie is extremely graphic and has never been released publicly. We know that, because TMZ obtained the video months ago but decided not to post it because it was so racy. Let’s just say, Carrie has a promising solo career.

  4. 4

    Michael

    As an afterthought, wonder if this sets up a nice Vivid Video production of a Sarah Palin MILF schooling a neophyte chick in the ways of womanliness?

  5. 5

    licensed to kill time

    @Michael: Carriefornication?

  6. 6

    Violet

    The group supports only “rock solid” conservatives

    If I lived in CA, I’m not sure I’d trust those groups that grade conservatives. Until he got caught on a live mic, CA Assemblyman Mike Duvall was given

    a 100 percent score from the Capitol Resource Institute, which describes its mission as to “educate, advocate, protect, and defend family-friendly policies in the California state legislature”.

    How long before DeVore gets caught with a wide stance or boffing a lobbyist?

  7. 7

    Demo Woman

    Why is a fired HP president held in such high esteem? What is the appeal with Fiorina?

  8. 8

    4tehlulz

    @Michael: I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  9. 9

    Ash Can

    That primary will be a riot, and the election would be even more fun than the primary if the massive ego of the GOP primary loser prompts him or her to run as a third-party candidate.

    Gads. I’m gaining weight just thinking about all the popcorn I’m liable to consume next year.

  10. 10

    Michael

    @licensed to kill time

    Carriefornication?

    Is it possible to wear out a DVD?

  11. 11

    beltane

    Well, it worked out for them so well in New York that they have every right to try it in California where it will work out even better. Will the Redstaters be buying and mailing computers to Fiorina to send a message?

  12. 12

    Ash Can

    @Michael: Yep. No one could have predicted, right? Hopefully now her way, way, way too long 15 minutes of fame are finally up.

  13. 13

    4tehlulz

    Now that I think about it, the real news is that TMZ found something that was too racy even for them.

  14. 14

    slippy

    @Demo Woman: Like George W. Bush, she’s got extensive firsthand experience in the art of running a huge company expensively into the ground.

    Seriously. I think a prerequisite of Republican candidacy these days is a demonstrated propensity for fucking up, and fucking up hugely. Running the US into the ground was immensely lucrative for a handful of con artists and theives while they were getting away with doing it, so the idea is to sell us on letting them do it over and over again and rake in all the cash that goes flying off the dumptruck when it ploughs into the retaining wall at 400 mph.

  15. 15

    licensed to kill time

    @Michael: I guess it depends on how many times you insert it into…...naw, not gonna go there. ooops, already did!

  16. 16

    me

    @4tehlulz: That was the second thing that came to mind, the first was “This thread is worthless without pics”.

  17. 17

    Morbo

    Worked for Pete Wilson.

  18. 18

    donovong

    Please allow me to take this opportunity to once again apologize to the rest of the country for Jim Demint.

    Sigh.

  19. 19

    danimal

    @Michael: Well, now I have a new understanding of the term “rock solid conservative.”

  20. 20

    eemom

    So this woman’s qualifications to be a U.S. Senator consist of (1) getting fired from Hewlitt Packard for fucking up there and (2) getting fired from John McCain’s campaign for fucking up even THERE and (3) having shitloads of money.

    Have I missed something?

  21. 21

    Ash Can

    @donovong: No apologies necessary. I do believe that when all is said and done, he’ll have done far more to dynamite the Republican Party into oblivion than all the Dems put together ever could.

  22. 22

    geg6

    And Charlie Crist breathes a sigh of relief.

    Not that I think that’s gonna keep Beck and Limbaugh and Palin from kicking him in the balls.

  23. 23

    NickM

    The WaPo listed Sarah Palin as an “Election Day

    Winner“.

    Shoot me now.

  24. 24

    mcc

    Chuck DeVore is a huge deal with the tea partiers. They hit this Barbara Boxer event I went by and like half of them had Chuck DeVore signs.

  25. 25

    skippy

    i hope he’s as successful as the ultra-conservative hoffman was in ny-23.

    this is excellent news for john mccain!!

  26. 26

    soonergrunt

    @donovong: Why?
    He’s giving us this Republican Night of the Sharpened Sporks.
    I think that in this particular case, you should be taking credit for Creme. This is gonna be great!

  27. 27

    Trinity

    @eemom: The U.S. Senate – best politicians that money can buy!

  28. 28

    me

    @eemom: Indeed, her tenure at HP was terrible. Since she left, HP has passed Dell in PC sales.

  29. 29

    New Yorker

    Why is a fired HP president held in such high esteem? What is the appeal with Fiorina?

    Another clumsy attempt to woo women voters a la Palin?

  30. 30

    geg6

    @Demo Woman:

    She was a spokesperson for John McCain.

    SATSQ.

  31. 31

    Ash Can

    @NickM: Hey, if it encourages her to keep meddling in congressional races and blowing up Republican seats, I’m all for it.

  32. 32

    Seebach

    When does the Washington Post go under, again? Can it be soon?

  33. 33

    Brick Oven Bill

    Carly Fiorina is case of social promotion, and another example of the fatal flaw of universal suffrage. She ran HP from July, 1999 to January, 2005, dropping the stock price from ~$70/share to ~$20/share. At one point it fell to $12/share.

    Check out this stock chart.

    Hewlett Packard has yet to fully recover from her time at the helm. And for this, politicians like John McCain, and the California Republican Party, seek her out. This is because she is not physically deformed, says the right words, and has boobs.

    Our system currently is about counting heads, not sticking to Values and Principles, and has little concern for the long-term health of the State. We know that women vote for women from Sarah Palin’s example.

    These are silly games.

    Socrates teaches us that in the perfect state, the best philosophers and the bravest warriors should be king. This is in contrast with this failed female business executive who improves the self-esteem of Oprah’s audience.

    DeVore needs to stick by his Principles, and time will cure the rest.

  34. 34

    Bill H

    Yeah, but that just proves the point that I posted at a href=”http://billsandiego.blogspot.com/2009/11/voting-problem.html”>”On My Mind” earlier. I really want to “dump the incumbent” but how, omigod how, can I possibly vote for Fiorina? I just can’t do that.

  35. 35

    Bill H

    Okay, three tries at posting a link didn’t work, including the thing above the text box that has the “href” in it. You will never know what I was referencing, which is not really all that much of a loss.

  36. 36

    dday

    California Republicans are crazier than anywhere in the country. I predicted a DeVore victory in the primary months ago. DeMint’s support and Cornyn canceling all financial support in contested primaries seals it.

    Fiorina wasn’t going to win anyway. Dems in the state were licking their chops at the prospect of going against her.

    The Crist-Rubio race has much bigger implications.

  37. 37

    geg6

    @Seebach:

    Nagunnhappen. They are trolling for the wingnut welfare:

    http://instaputz.blogspot.com/.....-like.html

  38. 38

    beltane

    @NickM: Yeah, Granny Wingnut was a real winner. A seat that hasn’t been represented by a Democrat since 1850 is once again being represented by a Democrat partly due to her efforts. Feel the win.

  39. 39

    Mayur

    BOB @34: Why is this guy not permabanned?

  40. 40

    Ann B. Nonymous

    Isn’t the strange and hapless co-founder of Red State Joshua Treviño on DeVore’s staff?

    Since Erickson did so well for that guy in upstate New York—I’m blanking on his name already—Treviño should be able to do the same or better for California.

  41. 41

    jenniebee

    This is because she is not physically deformed, says the right words, and has boobs.

    I suppose it worked for W…

  42. 42

    MikeJ

    Want to see a scary looking 2010 Senate race web site? From North Carolina:

    http://www.georgehutchins.com/

    No matter how much we complain about missing edit buttons, please John, for the love of dog, don NOT get his web designer.

  43. 43

    Brick Oven Bill

    Mayur.

    I challenge you to demonstrate to me a singular factual error with that statement, or anything hateful contained within it.

    Women are great.

    Buck up.

  44. 44

    kth

    @NickM: Actually Thillitha* has Palin both as a winner and a loser. Such flights of clever contrarianism are why blogs will never replace dead-tree punditry.

  45. 45

    Senyordave

    My brother was at HP when she was there, and he said he cannot remmeber a senior executive at any company he has been at being universally loathed like she was.

  46. 46

    Violet

    @MikeJ:
    Good lord. Is that website a spoof or is that guy for real? He looks like a creepy s3x offender who scares children. The colors..OMG my eyes hurt! And the posters of the John Wayne movies… ROFLMAO.

  47. 47

    kool-aide

    @MikeJ: OMG. My retinas have been burned out. That has to be a fake. Is that for reals? (the biography section is amazing).

  48. 48

    Bad Horse's Filly

    @Michael: But, but, but she’s the family values poster child! This is a liberal smear campaign! Another wingnut fail.

  49. 49

    Violet

    Also from that guys’ website:

    ALL DONATIONS TO THE GEORGE HUTCHINS FOR U.S. CONGRESS CAMPAIGN, WILL BE LEGAL CONFIDENTIAL UNLESS, DESIRED OTHERWISE, BY EACH DONATOR, WITH ONLY CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS GOING TO THE IRS.

    Isn’t there some law about that? Donations above a certain amount are required to be made public?

  50. 50

    licensed to kill time

    @MikeJ: Wow. Thanks? That site should be the poster child for “don’t do this at home, kids!” Come to think of it, it looks like it was designed by a 6yr old.

  51. 51

    nerble

    I want to see Carly Fiorina, Michelle Bachmann, and Sarah Palin in porno and that’s about it.

  52. 52

    eemom

    wasn’t there some talk recently about a certain serial purveyor of sexist commentary being banned from this honorable blog?

    on second thought, never mind. The responses he elicits crack me up…...as does his continued persistence in the face of same.

  53. 53

    Pangloss

    @MikeJ: My Goodness. Is the visual chaos a deliberate metaphor?

  54. 54

    Morph

    WOW that Hutchins website is…interesting. I love how he wants Off-shore oil rigs for North Carolina AND an expanded sea food industry. Mmm I love oily lobster!

  55. 55

    stinkwrinkle

    @licensed to kill time: Designed for a 6yr old.

  56. 56

    Michael

    Hutchins looks like a true Republican.

    From his site:

    “Social Engineering,” includes FORCED DIVERSITY, FORCED RACIAL INTEGRATION, Affirmative Action Quotas Based on Race, and all Privileges Based on Race, which are influenced by the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act to the U.S. Constitution.

    That website looks like they took an episode of “Hee Haw” and turned it over to a Klavern for a cross burning.

  57. 57

    Michael

    We must use all of our resources NOW, to prevent ALL future U.S. Generations from suffering under the same bondage which were forced upon all of us, due to the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act.

    Shorter Hutchins:

    “We gotta kick them goddamned niggers out of our businesses and voting booths, that fuckin’ Johnson done ruined our ability to do what we want”.

  58. 58

    Wile E. Quixote

    I’m loving it, I want Jimmy DeMented’s Senate Conservative’s Fund to piss away a lot of money on DeVore, I want Fiorina to piss away tons of the money she was paid for fucking up Hewlett Packard and I want Boxer to win after these idiots exhaust each other in the primaries.

  59. 59

    4tehlulz

    @MikeJ: Jesus, even Gene Ray thinks his web site is shit.

  60. 60

    licensed to kill time

    @stinkwrinkle: I stand corrected!

    @eemom: The only redeeming virtue of He Who Shall Not Be Fed, Only Mocked, is the creative, snort-inducing wit of the BJ commentariat.

  61. 61

    Violet

    @Michael:
    It’s kind of funny that his degree is from UTEP. That’s the University of Texas at El Paso. El Paso. That’s Spanish. I thought we were supposed to be speaking English here in Murka.

  62. 62

    Pangloss

    “While residing in Europe, and the Middle East, throughout the 21st Century, and plus, during the final part, of the 20th Century, I have remained a Solid Legal NORTH CAROLINA Resident.”

    When he was in the army, he must have been a COMMAndo.

  63. 63

    MikeJ

    The guy who registered that web site, a Paul Beach, also has this beauty:
    http://www.nimcrown.us/

    His city and state on that reg are listed as Toronto, Ont. Elaborate spoof or deranged canuck?

  64. 64

    Left Coast Tom

    @Morbo:

    Worked for Pete Wilson.

    For one election cycle only (1994). From 1996 on the GOP hasn’t liked the idea so much.

  65. 65

    Calouste

    @eemom:

    Yep, you missed something:
    0) Escaping from Lucent to HP before they found out she had fucked up Lucent.

  66. 66

    Sentient Puddle

    Fiorina got a golden parachute on her way out of HP. She’s running in a time when voters, both left and right, want to tar and feather executives who get golden parachutes. She’s a DOA candidate.

    Strange as it may be, the Republicans would actually be better off running the teabagger in California.

  67. 67

    kool-aide

    The color coding in that Hutchins site is amazing and amazingly consistent throughout. I’m fascinated and am having trouble looking away.

  68. 68

    General Winfield Stuck

    A California Republican aiming to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) next year has gotten a boost from conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).

    Bleg

    It isn’t Jim Demented’s world, It’s Malkin Country, he just works there.

    The Queen of the Damned sends out her warning to all parts asunder in Greater Wingnuttia and beyond;

    This is a victory of principle. Better a donkey in office that acts like a donkey than a donkey in elephant’s clothing making a complete ass of the GOP.

    Sewer Trout swim deep.

  69. 69

    geg6

    Meanwhile, Kirk is praying no Teabaggers are looking his way, unless it’s to endorse, that is:

    Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk penned a memo to Republican poobah Fred Malek hoping to secure an endorsement from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his Senate candidacy, according to a copy of the memo obtained by the Fix.

    ...

    After noting that Palin will be in Chicago later this month to appear on “Oprah”, Kirk writes that “the Chicago media will focus on one key issue: Does Gov[ernor] Palin oppose Congressman Mark Kirk’s bid to take the Obama Senate seat for the Republicans?”

    ...

    Kirk goes on to write that he is hoping for something “quick and decisive” from Palin about the race, perhaps to the effect of: “Voters in Illinois have a key opportunity to take Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Congressman Kirk is the lead candidate to do that.”

    This might be fun after all.

  70. 70

    trollhattan

    Holy cow, that Huchins Web site is epic. This is an interwebs tradishun of which I was NOT aware.

    I lernt ‘bout the “1991 Iraq-Kuwait War” and that if you shave your mustache, you can switch from the Army to the Marines. I lernt diversity gots ta be voluntary or it ain’t no dang good. I lernt ‘bout FIGHTIN’ dem legal methods to STOP Obama – Nation (wherever that iz). I lernt the 1964 Voting Rights was where teh nashun started goin’ to aitch ee double toothpicks in a hand thingie.

    There more lernin’! I have to revisit after I get back from my eye doctor.

  71. 71

    Douche Baggins

    Oh, GEORGE:

    “America is a Great Nation, due to our Diversity; but ONLY WHEN, This Diversity is VOLUNTARY

    WTF is “voluntary diversity”? What are we, fucking chameleons?

  72. 72

    geg6

    Arrrrrrrrrrrgh! Block quote fail!

  73. 73

    geg6

    And stupid me, I got the quote in #67 at GOS.

  74. 74

    Violet

    @geg6: Blockquote is just destined to fail.

    Does anyone know anything about the site update? Is this as good as it’s going to get?

  75. 75

    General Winfield Stuck

    Is this as good as it’s going to get?

    Two Weeks.

  76. 76

    trollhattan

    Hooboy, you kin axe him kweschuns here!

    http://georgehutchins.activebo.....D=32024130

    I now believe mister colorful designed that Web site his own dang self.

  77. 77

    kay

    @Sentient Puddle:

    I agree. She’s Liz Cheney-unelectable country. She never prepared for her McCain appearances. They went poorly, and there she was, back again, unprepared.
    She seems to have a poor work ethic. They may be paying these golden parachutes because it’s cheaper than keeping certain executives on.
    Less like a buy-out, and more like ransom. “Pay me to go, or I’ll take the whole thing down with me”.

  78. 78

    Paris

    George Hutchinson – Stop Marijuana Use

    That’ll get all the kids on board.

  79. 79

    HyperIon

    @Demo Woman:

    What is the appeal with Fiorina?

    Well, she looked really hot in a Annie Liebovitz photo I saw once…tricked out in a power suit sitting in a corporate jet. I can’t find the image online.

  80. 80

    dfd

    The worst part of that LSD trip that Hutchins calls a website.

    BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is JIMMY CARTER, in AL JOLSON Make-Up

  81. 81

    schrodinger's cat

    @Violet:
    That depends on what Tunch wishes.

  82. 82

    de stijl

    Sigh. It’s not Carrie Prejean.

    Her rightful name is Princess Jesus Boobies.

  83. 83

    Omnes Omnibus

    @MikeJ: I call shenanigans. That has to be a spoof.

  84. 84

    General Winfield Stuck

    @dfd:

    On YOUR question of FEMALE LESBIANS, GAY FEMALE HOMOSEXUAULS, or BI-SEXUAL FEMALES, {Women who Love BOTH Men and other Females}, Please understand, we are speaking about the foundations of the United States of America, which were based upon the CHRISTIAN BIBLE, and the JEWISH TORAH.

    sometimes the homoerotic fantasies just write themselves.

    Any NON_FEMALE Lesbians out there?

  85. 85

    Susan Kitchens

    South Carolina republican pols would be a great influence on California politics. Those politicians have so much to teach the California Republican hopefuls.

    Bring it on, De Mint! We need us some of that South Carolina-style hiking the Appalaichans Sierras, sex with hookers in cemeteries. That’s real political wisdom and know-how at work.

  86. 86

    Paris

    His message board does appear to be a gold mine. However, I can’t help but being reminded of Borat.

  87. 87

    de stijl

    DeMint doesn’t like DeVore because of his politics, it’s because his named like him. He likes people whose names begin “de”.

    People like me.

  88. 88

    Omnes Omnibus

    @de stijl: De Klerk. Also.

  89. 89

    El Cid

    The American rejection of Nancy Pelosi’s radical Obamunist agenda continues.

  90. 90

    Omnes Omnibus

    @El Cid:

    The count was 97 to one, with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) the only lawmaker to oppose the measure.

    What is wrong with that man?

  91. 91

    de stijl

    His favorite actress?

    Portia de Rossi

  92. 92

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    What is wrong with that man?

    On a mission from Gawd, or Rush Limbaugh.

  93. 93

    Xenos

    @Paris: Even better, “Support Fox News”. Like a real journalisticish outfit needs the support of politicians…

  94. 94

    Mike G

    Failorina would have had no chance unless she could throw out all the votes from Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Roseville, Santa Rosa and anywhere else in CA with big HP facilities, where her opponent would pull 90+% of the vote.

    She is exhibit A of how the upper levels of corporate America are populated mostly by ass-covering, self-promoting arrogant mediocrities with good hair—the George W. Bushes of the world.

  95. 95

    El Cid

    @Omnes Omnibus: Nothing! Everything’s right with Jim DeMint!

  96. 96

    WereBear

    Well, ya know, it’s the GAY homosexuals you have to worry about. The straight ones are different.

    The fact that it is just as easily NOT a spoof… that’s the mind boggling part.

  97. 97

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    It seems like it has to be a spoof. Who’s the actor who plays George Hutchins? And who the heck goes sightseeing in a coat and tie?

  98. 98

    Sloegin

    I’m still mad about the virtual destruction of HP’s calculator and printing divisions during her tenure.

  99. 99

    Mayur

    BOB @43: I believe it was “the fatal flaw of universal suffrage.” Honestly, though, you’ve said much worse.

  100. 100

    Mike in NC

    Holy cow, that Huchins Web site is epic.

    The buffoon posted a photo-op of himself with then-Senator Elizabeth Dole—you remember her—the worthless crone we kicked out of office last year. Don’t stand too close, George.

  101. 101

    Violet

    @WereBear:
    He seems to be okay-ish with teh ghey, so long as it’s kept in the closet:

    “Numerous successful Persons have kept their GAY feelings, and GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL Practices, to themselves, without going public, preventing a vain attempt, to falsely influence public opinion, concerning their private GAY practices.”

    “If GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL conduct, is to exist in society, it should be kept in the closet, and NOT sold to the public falsely as normal behavior, which it is NOT.”

  102. 102

    jibeaux

    @MikeJ:

    That is going on my facebook, my friend. Fortunately David Price, a level-headed guy, isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

  103. 103

    The Moar You Know

    Gosh, 90+ posts and no one has bought up my favorite Fiorina quote:

    “”There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.”

    That should go over well in these recessionary times.

  104. 104

    soonergrunt

    @WereBear:
    Behold, Poe’s Law, which postulates the following:

    Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.

  105. 105

    JackieBinAZ

    => ONLY GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL MISCONDUCT is Mentioned in the CHRISTIAN BIBLE, and the JEWISH TORAH, as a crime to be punished by DEATH.

    Even the Bible supports the view that two guys going at it is kind of icky but when it’s two women, that’s HAWT!!

  106. 106

    Nethead Jay

    @Mike G: Yup, I’ve heard quite a lot from friends around the tech sector about her reign at HP, none of it good.

  107. 107

    Peter J

    Even better news from California – Carrie Prejean dumped her suit ‘coz of a XXX whackoff tape.

    I have no interest in seeing it. But there’s one question I’d really would want to have answered.

    Did she at any time take God’s name in vain?

  108. 108

    MikeJ

    @jibeaux: Isn’t the 4th CD is where all the colleges are? I’m not very up on NC politics, but it would seem liek an uphill battle for a teabagger.

    (Sorry to all for calling it a Senate race. FYWP, etc, etc.)

  109. 109

    dfd

    I tried posting on his message board but it’s moderated. Bummer.

  110. 110

    Allan

    As a California Democrat, I can find no down-side to this situation.

  111. 111

    WereBear

    @soonergrunt: Sad but sadly true.

    Fiorina doesn’t seem to be good at anything. I know it’s a plus in wingnut world, but how do they weed through the millions of applicants?

    “Sorry, we noticed you seem to be toilet-trained.”

    “No no no. Rush Limbaugh can afford his drug addiction.”

    “We are looking for someone who would need only one axe handle.”

    Geez, I’ve been looking at the site too long… it does ruthlessly mimic the youthful joy of someone who found the Small Caps function in the pull-down menus.

  112. 112

    LarryB

    @BFR: In other words, if you’re running the show for the GOP and you’ve got a bunch of wingnuts screaming for blood, then throwing them a bone in CA is good strategy. It’ll take some of the heat off of Crist and it doesn’t actually cost you anything.

    Have to disagree. Pete Wilson’s anti-immigrant campaigning pretty much killed any chance that a real Republican (I discount DeGaullists like Ah-nold) could hold statewide office. That was over a decade ago, and it’s still true. A real tea-baggin’ Republican primary in 2010 will pretty much do them in for the rest of my lifetime.

  113. 113

    canuckistani

    I’m still mad about the virtual destruction of HP’s calculator and printing divisions during her tenure.

    I still use my 25 year old HP-11C calculator. Still in outstanding condition. It was built to last. She should be buried under 100 tons of cheap plastic calculators.

  114. 114

    licensed to kill time

    I like the “Join the LEGAL War Against Obama-Nation NOW!” bit. Is there an illegal war? Should Congress be notified? (Oh, wait…)

  115. 115

    Bubblegum Tate

    I can’t wait for all the one-handed defenses of Princess Jesus Boobies over at Big Ho(llywood).

  116. 116

    MikeJ

    I like the “Join the LEGAL War Against Obama-Nation NOW!” bit. Is there an illegal war?

    This graphic from another site registered by the same guy who registered this one might tell you which illegal war.

  117. 117

    General Winfield Stuck

    Think I just discovered, that maybe, just maybe I might be a tad addicted to politics and or commenting on blogs about them. Well, at least one blog. Scratches head.

  118. 118

    tammanycall

    Hmm…I weirdly enjoyed my state being called “the land of the herbal tea”. Well done, Doug J.

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    NickM

    @Morph:

    WOW that Hutchins website is…interesting. I love how he wants Off-shore oil rigs for North Carolina AND an expanded sea food industry.

    What, no pony?

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    licensed to kill time

    @MikeJ: OMFG. So, it’s a given with them that murder is an option? Maybe just a fallback position in case the LEGAL War doesn’t pan out? Jesu Cristo on a stinkin’ muleta.

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    Alex

    I don’t care much for Boxer, but the California GOP has consistently managed to find the worst possible assholes to run against her, starting with Bruce Hershonsen and moving up the descending colon from there.

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    gocart mozart

    @MikeJ:
    Does that guy have any chance. That has to be the worst designed website I have ever seen. The color scheme was making me ill. He is against the 1964 civil rights act by the way.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Violet:

    Who’s the actor who plays George Hutchins?

    I don’t know, but I think I saw him as Rhett Butler in in a dinner theater performance of “Gone with the Wind” at the Ho-Chunk Casino in Wisconsin Dells.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Omnes Omnibus: Stupid me, mentioning C@sinos in a comment. Please unmoderate me.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Omnes Omnibus: how the hell did I create a link? FYWP.

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    freelancer

    @MikeJ:

    Jesus that site is Glenn Moon crazy.

    I’m almost tempted to call Poe on it, just for the one graphic on the front page. Subtle exchange of verbs with an odd implication.
    WIN THE CULTURE WAR!
    End gay marriage – Stop Terrorists – Fake Republicans

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    Valdivia--phone

    I can’t believe no one here mentioned that this idiot called his donors ‘donators’. That is not a word right? Are our expectations from the moran candidates so low now that flagrant errors of this kind are expected? Forget our children iz not learning now the motto of the Republican party is our politicians iz not spelling!

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    dfd

    @freelancer: Glenn Moon for Preznit!

    “Heavenly Father, Almighty God, In name [of] God’s Son Jesus Christ, Lord, Savior, Messiah…”

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    Sad_Dem

    eemom: So this woman’s qualifications to be a U.S. Senator consist of (1) getting fired from Hewlitt Packard for fucking up there and (2) getting fired from John McCain’s campaign for fucking up even THERE and (3) having shitloads of money.

    Have I missed something?

    Nope. Those three things are the highlights of her resume. Just like W, once you’ve been born or admitted into Versailles, you cannot fail; others fail you.

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    Elie

    Alex @ 121

    “starting with Bruce Hershonsen and moving up the descending colon from there.”

    Very funny! Good grin for me there…

    Thanks

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    Sad_Dem

    And as for Carrie Prejean, I’m starting to like her now, much like I sorta admire Billy James Hargis.

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    Xenos

    @freelancer:

    WIN THE CULTURE WAR!
    End gay marriage – Stop Terrorists – Fake Republicans

    Think about that for a moment. A Senator from North Carolina is going to ‘end gay marriage’ (in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, presumably)—how?

    Him and what fucking army is going to accomplish that?

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    de stijl

    I don’t know, but I think I saw him as Rhett Butler in in a dinner theater performance of “Gone with the Wind” at the Ho-Chunk Casino in Wisconsin Dells.

    Hopefully you caught Tommy Bartlett’s Thrill Show or least worked in a Duck Boat ride, afterwards.

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    jl

    To some commenter above (I don’t have time to find the specific one now): I will try out that non-female lesbian angle and see how it goes. Look for a report soon.

    Not sure I understand how it works, but will be interesting to find out.

    Wish me luck, since I have a feeling I will need lots of it.

    Except, wait a minute, am I going after other non-female lesbians? I am interested in femal lesbians who are looking for non-female lesbians… This may not work out like I had hoped it would.

    I think I have been corrupted by georgehutchins.com. And having a hard time seeing now, too.

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    burnspbesq

    @nerble:

    I want to see Carly Fiorina, Michelle Bachmann, and Sarah Palin in porno and that’s about it.

    That’s a new sub-genre: MWMMPI (Moms Who Make Me Physically Ill)

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    burnspbesq

    @Mike in NC:

    Any truth to the rumor that Hutchins will be attending campaign functions in a Tarheel Blue suit borrowed from Sylvia Hatchell? This guy HAS to have some deep dark secret, and cross-dressing is as good as any.

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    Chad N Freude

    @Brick Oven Bill: You used to be silly and boring. Your new persona is actually funny. As Joan of Arc said when she first heard the Voice of God, “Ok now, who is this really?”

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    Emma Anne

    @Morbo: Worked for Pete Wilson.

    Talk about your pyrrhic victories though.

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    Chad N Freude

    I live in CA, and I would love to see a hair-pulling match between Fiorina and Meg Whitman, refereed by Sarah Palin. There isn’t enough pop corn in the world.

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    Porlock Junior

    @eemom:
    One important qualification you’ve missed, and so has everyone else I’ve seen in reading most of this long thread:

    She was SO busy working for the benefit of the HP stockholders that she didn’t get around to voting most of the time.

    This is also one of the important qualifications of Meg Whitman, who’s running for governor; she especially needs extras like this to overcome her handicap of having actually been successful in business.

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    jonas

    I’m in CA too and the Senate race is shaping up to be just full of rich, creamy political win for Boxer. If Devore begins raising serious money—enough to challenge Fiorina’s millions—this will be fantastic. What we could use now is a serious—and I mean serious—immigrant-bashin’, tea-baggin’ wingnut to mess with Meg Whitman’s effort to succeed the Governator. And no, Tom Campbell, the Republicans’ answer to Adlai Stevenson, will not cut it.

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    Steeplejack

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Any non-female lesbians out there?

    I myself am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.

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    Svensker

    @MikeJ:

    Want to see a scary looking 2010 Senate race web site? From North Carolina:
    http://www.georgehutchins.com/

    Good God, my retinas are still flashing. His qualifications for public office seem to be that he is anti-pot and pro-Israel. And those things help his constituents how?

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    Svensker

    OK, is this Hutchins guy actually B.O.B.?

    While on extended private overseas residents travels, throughout key parts of the world, since the year 1989, I have noticed clearly, how SOCIALISM, Legalized Marijuana use, and open public tolerance, for GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL misconduct, has harmed all nations, influenced by the English speaking world, to include GERMANY.”

    Let’s hope that this guy doesn’t manage to make it on any ballot.

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    Svensker

    Oh crap, sockalism moderation hell.

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    Anne Laurie

    @beltane:

    Will the Redstaters be buying and mailing computers to Fiorina to send a message?

    Maybe they can send their non-functional HP printers, and keep them out of the other states’ refuse streams.

    @Mayur:

    Why is this guy not permabanned?

    I am not privy to John Cole’s methods, so I choose to believe the half-dozen spoofers responsible keep changing their IP addresses. Because some commentors may disagree, but I find the persona boring and tedious, in both this and the Makepisher mode.

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    Brachiator

    @jenniebee:

    RE: This is because she is not physically deformed, says the right words, and has boobs.

    I suppose it worked for W…

    No, no. W is a boob.

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    de stijl

    Any non-female lesbians out there?

    Would a male-to-female transgender person who is oriented towards female partners count?

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    IndyLib

    @MikeJ:
    My daughter was designing her own myspace and facebook pages with more class when she was 14.

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    IndyLib

    @geg6:
    I understand what Kirk trying to do, get her endorsement early, so that he can say he has it and then he won’t have to deal with her afterwords and FSM forbid, invite her to Illinois. But he can’t trust her. If he says one thing in the campaign next year that’s not wingnutty enough, she’ll take her endorsement back on her facebook page and leave him with his britches flapping in the wind.

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    Comrade Kevin

    @MikeJ:

    Want to see a scary looking 2010 Senate race web site? From North Carolina:
    http://www.georgehutchins.com/
    No matter how much we complain about missing edit buttons, please John, for the love of dog, don NOT get his web designer.

    Look where that domain is registered.

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    Gian

    just as anote from cali. this may well seem a blue state to the media. but for those of us who live here, we know better. Reagan and Nixon came from here. along the coast you have some large clusters of moderate to liberal people. Inland? Central Valley (one of the world’s premire agriculural locations) home to free republic?

    this state is nowhere near as blue as people in the beltway media think. we recalled a pragmatic dem and replaced him with a movie star who likes to grope women and liked to in his younger days have sex in front of other people.

    cali is not progressive nirvana

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    Schad

    George Hutchins looks to be a real, live candidate. A short blurb on finance from a couple weeks back mentions that he loaned him campaign $5000, hopefully to hire a web designer:

    http://projects.newsobserver.c.....as_218_000

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    Chuck Butcher

    I lived in the N Bay area in the late 70s and it was an odd place politically then. OR is an uncomfortable mix of red and blue but not quite up to CA standards.