Oh June, I Love Yew.
Y’all, it looks like summer is gonna be hotter than we expected.
Grab yourself some butter and sour cream because we are kicking off June with news so hot that it’ll cause potatoes to bake in the ground.
You’ve already heard that Rick Perry is announcing for President on June 4th. Oh thank you, Sweet Baby Jesus.
But now there’s news so good that I don’t even know how to tell you.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he will announce his run for the presidency on June 1 from his hometown in Central, S.C. Graham, a Republican, confirmed his plans on CBS This Morning.
“I’m running because I think the world is falling apart. I’ve been more right than wrong on foreign policy,” Graham said.
I warned you. I myownself am a’quiver with delight.
June is appropriate for both these announcements because … least we forget – June is Brides Month.
Lindsey Graham, more right than wrong. Gotta love that on a bumper sticker.
The reason they’re waiting until June to announce is because of the FEC filing requirements. They’ll get a freebie until they have to report in Sept.
1(The family mathematicians are not here to grade my cyphering but here goes…)
2“more right than wrong” means right 50.00001% of the time, rounded to 5 decimals, and wrong 49.9999% of the time. Logically correct, Senator, but not a passing grade, no cigar.
I know he’s one of your favorite chew toys, but Graham is right about one thing: he accepts that climate change is a real problem and we need to work on stopping it. That alone puts him much closer to the Reality end of the spectrum than any other GOP candidate so far.
3I love me some baked taters with butter,sour cream or chunky,mild picante sauce. Miss Lindsey-not so much.
4Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
5Run, Miss Lindsey, run!!!!
6There’s really nothing wrong with Graham that can’t be cured with duct tape. Lots and lots of duct tape.
7Bumper sticker-Silence is Golden,Duct Tape is Silver.
8What Sen. Graham says about climate or anything depends on who he is talking to at the time.
9One thing he did say, and I was in front of him then, was that if he is elected president, the first thing he would do is eliminate social security. I guess he didn’t know that all of those grey headed folks in front of him were on S.S. He got ‘0’ applause. He’s not real bright!
I like the implicit confession in his gesture he’s makin’ in that photo.
10@Annabelle Lee—Methinks he’s exaggerating a bit.
11Is the clown car big enough to accommodate Miss Lindsey’s fainting couch?
12Oh, can’t you just hear Jon Stewart swooning and ah-swanning all over this one? Pass the popcorn, honey, ’cause Jon is gonna have a field day with dear Lindsey and I can’t wait to hear what he has to say!
All the Buffoons are bellying up to the bar … who else is left?
13OOOHHHHH!!!! Lookie here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/18/bobby-jindal-exploratory-committee_n_7306912.html
14That clown car can no longer accommodate all the buffoons in the Repug Primary, so they had to lease a stretch limo. Christie gets a whole seat for himself, Graham can recline as need be and Ted Cruz can claim it was all his idea, while wearing his smoking jacket. The rest of them will have to fight over the remaining seats, but Jeb Bush has called “navigator”.
15Well am wondering which one of the clowns is going to bring up his (shhh) sexuality. You know is he or isn’t he? You know dang well the op research will get him done out of the race. Cause you know that no republican will have it I tell you. It’s ok if you sleep around on your wife and your mistress has abortion but by golly no he-shes. Family values first.
16How dang many more presidential exploratory commissions do wingnuts need to investigate Obie? He is the most explored President since both Clintons were in the W.H.
17The GOP is in trouble in 2016 in any number of ways, but here’s another fun one.
One of the “reasons” they think Snow White Mitt lost is because he had to spend so much time on-stage with the 14 dwarves during the GOP’s Endless Summer of Debate in 2011. And while it’s true that the automatic legitimacy any nutjob received drew Mitt much further rightward, leading to the unfortunate “Etch-a-Sketch” remark, there really were enough high-profile clowns in the car such that, no matter how you sliced and diced your debate rules, Mitt was going to get dragged rightward, anyway.
Undaunted, the GOP SWEARS the debates are only going to include legitimate contenders this time. And many fewer debates. And no difficult moderators.
Which leads them to this problem: whatever Mendoza Line that Rancid Pebis and his merry men concoct to be invited to the debates, it is unlikely in the extreme that Carly Fiorina, or Ben Carson, or Bobby Jindal, or Rick Perry or Lindsey Graham are ever going to get north of it.
So all that will be left is a bunch of old white guys, two white-looking, white-acting, white-sounding Cubans, and no onstage representation at all by women, blacks, asians or gay-seeming fellows. It sounds more like an optics problem, but really, it’s the WHOLE problem for the GOP.
Waitress! Another Schadenfreude on the rocks, please.
With a twist.
18If Lindsey gets the nomination and wins, we will have our first closet queen President.
19Frankly, we Dems should hold all criticism of the GOP as it deals with its candidate-free-fer-all, even encourage more wannabes to crowd onto the clown car train. Encourage intra-GOP debate, lots of debates. The peoples have a right to hear from all the GOP candidates for POTUS, all 4,092 of ’em.
Encourage. Encourage. Encourage.
Remember Dem efforts are FTW of the WH 2016.
20Little Miss Lindsey want to be POTUS? as well as Donald Trump.Wow The Clowns need a bus now.
https://soundcloud.com/rockymountainmike/drama-queen
21Charlie – the signs indicate he would be at LEAST the second.
Andrew Jackson referred to future President James Buchanan and his 10-year roommate, William Rufus King (who only lived 6 weeks as Vice President under Pierce), as “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy,” respectively.
Pennsylvanian Buchanan’s inability or unwillingness to bring the South to heel stemmed in part, some historians believe, from his love of the South informed by his love of a certain Senator from Alabama.
22Charlie, Mr. William Rufus King would beg to disagree. Andrew Jackson called James Buchanan and King “Miss Nancy” and “Aunt Fancy.”
23Damn you, Chipster, you beat me to it. King called their relationship a “communion.”
24The clown car has now turned into a busload of train wrecks.
25Lindsey Graham package deal — POTUS and First Lady — now that’s what I call one stop shopping.
26“And when I’m wrong, at least I go BIG!”
27There is a sick, sick, sick part of me that would just love to see a Lindsey Graham Presidency. Of course it would be incompetent at governing and evil in intent, but My God it would be funny.
28And by “right” Lindsey Graham means rightwing. Extreme rightwing.
29I seem to remember the money powers-that-be on the repub side swore they wanted to cull the field as quickly as possible to let their chosen candidate get an early start. Didn’t seem to work out for them.
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