Houston Sets The Bar Loooooow.
Actual article in the Houston Chronicle.
Actual headline.
So if he speaks and doesn’t weewee in his pants or laugh hysterically at a ta-ta pun, he’s suddenly Cicero?
Dude, that right there is some of that “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
But, it certainly got Grover Norquist excited!
Grover Norquist, the influential conservative who serves as president of Americans for Tax Reform, thinks there are only six Republicans who can win the 2016 Republican nomination for president.
His list, which he told Business Insider in an approximately hour-long interview Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Lookie here: Bobby Jindal doesn’t walk on his tippy toes now, Chris Christie is still trying to bridge that ethics gap, people have forgotten all about that Bush family thing, nobody knows Scott Walker, and Rand Paul almost isn’t as crazy as his dad. What does that leave you: Rick Perry can read a speech! Go Rick!
Well what would you expect from a crazy secret Muslim like Grover?
1Alternative headline: “Rick Perry has prominent Islamist Grover Norquist’s support.”
Of course, I expect the whole Tea Party meme of “Grover has a beard, Mooslims have beards, therefore Grover’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood will quietly disappear as the big money boys move in to shut down the folks willing to actually tell people what the Republicans are planning until after the election.
Not to fear, though, once the election’s over, the big money boys will un-muzzle the culture war crazies. It’ll be quite a surprise for the low information voters.
2Looks like the Houston Chronicle doesn’t think too highly of Perry to demean him in a headline like that. Nice!!
3Thanks for the laughs, Grover! Bernie Sanders thanks you, too. Jon Stewart is already writing his one liners for the first Sanders Perry debate.
Holy Gohmerts. The GOP is without a candidate, after the Clown Car of Crazy took its latest turn.
4I’m not holding my breath.
However, wouldn’t it be great….. if ….. oh I don’t know…. some progressive…… conference…… maybe like Netroots Nation….. that Kos does every year…… got the publicity, and all the newspaper and blog coverage that the Conservatalibans get at this CPAC whatever?????
Like I said. I’m not holding my breath.
5The one nice thing was Ted Cruz near the bottom of the pile.
6Let’s see: Grover the Magnificent names virtually all the likely candidates with the highest name identification and says one will probably win nomination? My 5-year-old grandson could do that.
7New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – lair, bully, thug
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – liar, bully, Koch Pawn
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal – Oh God, I got nothin’
TX Gov.Rick Perry – War On Women, liar, thief, bully,Oops
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush – NEVER AGAIN
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul – lair, plagiarist, bad eye doc, bigot
WOW. That’s a deep bench.
8“Mondale had a keen command of facts and made his points cogently. Reagan did not drool on himself and appeared to know where he was. Pundits are calling the debate a tie.”
No, I lie. They called it a win for the one who couldn’t tell movies from real life.
No, I’m not making fun of someone with dementia. This was someone’s comment years before Reagan admitted to it. And if he or anyone had suspicions, he sure as (omit word) shouldn’t have been president.
@ Esther Womack: re Cruz being on the bottom of the pile– not really. CPAC reminds me of a septic tank. The big chunks float to the top.
9And every last one of them will lose to Hillary.
10Big time!
Is it REALLY a headline when Rick delivers a speech without an oops?
11Holy Gomerts! It’s a regular Boner-Gate for CPAC. Until Bridge Boner, Christie didn’t qualify for CPAC. Paul Ryan has a boner on poverty. Scott Walker carries the pump for the Koch brothers. Palin is going after Putin’s. Rand Paul carries his patch on his head. Even Mitch was waving one for the NRA. The GOP has a hard for everything, except the one that might make them less mean.
12The Chronicle got one thing wrong for certain. Nobody gonna pay any ‘tention to Grover.
They shouldda said “ex-influential” conservative.
Nobody on the right’s got any more truck with Grover since they found out that he’s got an Arab wife. Now that he’s officially been declared a member of the Muslim Brotherhood by virtue of association, don’tcha know Pamela Geller is gonna be takin’ out ads on buses telling us we gotta side with civilization – and against him!
13maryelle: Clinton/Sanders, Clinton/Warren (hear the exploding RWNJ heads with two ladies on the ballot), Sanders/Warren. 2016 has some interesting candidate choices within the Democratic Party. While the GOP Clown Car will experience some bad cases of blue gohmerts in any and all debates.
Larry McLaughlin, Dubya married a librarian for all the good it did him. So yeah Rick reading his speech without a pile of gohmerts is a milestone for Texas goober governors. Then again, give me his script and if our dog barks it out better, Rick loses the cookie the Houston Chronicle tossed him.
14Heads up: Rick Perry will appear on the Jimmy Kimmel SXSW live program on Tues. Mar. 11
http://sxsw.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-austin
THAT should be funny! Did you see Perry on the Jay Leno show in 2012? Leno razzing him about the “Oops” moment and Perry playing right along with him was a hoot! I’ll say one thing for Perry: He doesn’t take himself all that seriously!
15I guess they figured he’s got a bad back, so they set the bar low. But, hey! he’s Rick Perry. No matter how low you set it, he’ll still slither underneath.
16Does Norquist identify which of the six he thinks can win in November? Memories are short, and Bush appears to me to be the strongest candidate. Imagine the bumper sticker possibilities: VOTE FOR BUSH, BRIGHTER THAN HIS BROTHER!
17WHY are we talking about 2016? I’m far more interested in the 2014 (a/k/a midterm) election, at least for now. GOTV!!
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