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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsName a Democrat who embarrasses us like Bachmann, Palin, Gingrich, Santorum....
Christine O'Donnell, Cain, West, Etc. Even my republican friends can't name anyone except some unknown state senators, etc.
No one ran for president in 2008 as a democrat who embarrassed me with there stupidity. The GOP cannot say the same thing!
DCKit
(18,541 posts)HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)Great big pile of stupidity.
See post #2. It contains two great big piles of stupidity.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Sarah Palin (AK)
Michele Bachmann (MN)
Orly Taitz (CA)
Sue Lowden (NV)
Virginia Foxx (NC)
Jan Brewer (AZ)
Sharron Angle (NV)
Debbie Riddle (TX)
Nikki Haley (SC)
Christine O'donnell (DE)
Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Victoria Jackson
Ann Coulter
Michelle Malkin
Nutty Republican Men:
Glenn Beck
Rush Limbaugh
Mark 'Appalachia' Sanford (SC)
Rand Paul (KY)
Louie Gohmert (TX)
Carl Paladino (NY)
Jim DeMint (SC)
Rick Syrup-Cuddlin Perry (TX)
Herman 999' Cain (GA)
Scott Walker (WI)
Steve King (IA)
Todd legitimate rape Akin (MO)
Jimmy The Rent is Too Damn High Party McMillan
Dana (dinosaur flatulence causes global warming) Rohrabacher
Donald Trump
Hank Williams, Jr.
Ted Nuggent
Stephen Baldwin
Jon Voight
Logical
(22,457 posts)John2
(2,730 posts)making my point why I think this party is more dangerous to America than anythingelse. The Left is not crazy or radical. They are sane. The people that elected these people to office or holding any kinda power in Government have nothing to blame but themselves for the state of American Politics. They have elected a bunch of extremists to Congress.
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Somebody with half of a brain shows up on TV maybe a quarter of the time.
Redefines the phrase, 'Idiot Box.'
librechik
(30,674 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)I think he got a bum deal. OK, so he sent some photos that maybe he shouldn't have. So What?!? Why is that anyone's business other than his, his wife's and the persons receiving the photos?
I honestly believe that this was only a big deal because it was new. Once this happens a few more times (and it will) it won't be such a big deal.
I am not embarrassed by him in the least.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)wasn't that he sent the pics,it was him lying about it.
I liked the man myself.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Because the only people they hold to their values are ours.
Unless he was shagging an intern or a foreign agent or something, let him work it out with his family. The next election is time to deal with his worthiness for office.
Mark Stanford secretly abandoned the state and didn't tell the line of succession of the South Carolina government where he was, what he was doing, or when he would be back. THAT is an offense worthy of resignation or impeachment or recall, not his infidelity.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Mostly some are just dumb when they open their mouths in the previous post. I am amazed at some of their statements. Don't forget the trees are just the right size some places.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)At least he used to be a democrat. He worked for Tip O'Neill, ya' know!
BainsBane
(53,031 posts)Edwards and Weiner, but that's not because of intellectual stupidity but rather poor character and idiotic tweeting.
Logical
(22,457 posts)name not needed
(11,660 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)and out of wedlock baby and all that drama. Not cool at all.
former9thward
(31,987 posts)She thinks Neil Armstrong went to Mars and that North Vietnam and South Vietnam are two separate countries that cooperate with each other.
derby378
(30,252 posts)She doesn't play well with her staff, either, but damned if she doesn't get sent back to Congress anyway.
cloudbase
(5,513 posts)She also voted for permanent normal trade relations with China because it would increase the opportunities for evangelizing there.
KarenS
(4,074 posts)but I guess he's an Independent these days
on edit: Add Zell Miller to my list too
CTyankee
(63,909 posts)that bastid...he deserved everything he got. I was SO happy to vote for Ned Lamont over him...we tried to deny him that Senate seat. We CT Dems had HAD it with Joe...
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)doesn't seem to be anywhere near an attention whore as those mentioned by you.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)LeftInTX
(25,278 posts)Embarassing...........
spanone
(135,828 posts)Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)spanone
(135,828 posts)he could be king
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)lumpy
(13,704 posts)N
Drale
(7,932 posts)even his stupidity pales in comparison with even the least nutty right winger.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)he was instrumental in the passing of the following liberal/progressive legislation:
◦Clean Air Act
◦Clean Water Act
◦Consumer credit disclosure law
◦Consumer Product Safety Act
◦Co-Op Bank Bill
◦Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
◦Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
◦Freedom of Information Act
◦Funeral home cost disclosure law
◦Law establishing Environmental Protection Agency
◦Medical Devices safety
◦Mine Health and Safety Act
◦Mobile home safety
◦National Automobile and Highway Traffic Safety Act
◦National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
◦Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
◦Nuclear power safety
◦Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
◦Pension protection law
◦Safe Water Drinking Act
◦Tire safety & grading disclosure law
◦Whistleblower Protection Act
◦Wholesome Meat Act
◦Wholesome Poultry Product Act
Those who hate Nader can show their sincerity by driving without their seat belts.
1KansasDem
(251 posts)has a couple you can watch on Youtube.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)He's like the troll of congress. He uses absurdity and deadpan comedy to make points. He's actually rather clever.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)so called comedy, he appears to be more like a serious ignoramous.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)I find him to be hilarious.
But it's all subjective.
7962
(11,841 posts)....And believe me, he is NOT kidding. He really is that dense. The only reason he's in office is because the district would have voted for anyone to beat Cynthia McKinney.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)That's what I hear from some members here.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)I think he has gone to the whackier side of Ron Paul these days!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I had forgotten about that nutcase. Has he re-surfaced? I thought he was in jail.
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)The Democratic Party withdraws from them. Although his transgressions were ego-based and not so much stupidity-based.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)Complicated guy.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)n
dawg
(10,624 posts)"In the late 1970s, Wallace announced that he was a born-again Christian and apologized to black civil rights leaders for his past actions as a segregationist. He said that while he had once sought power and glory, he realized he needed to seek love and forgiveness.[note 3] In 1979, Wallace said of his stand in the schoolhouse door: "I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over."[4]
In the 1982 Alabama gubernatorial Democratic primary, Wallace's main opponents were Lieutenant Governor George McMillan and Alabama House Speaker Joe McCorquodale. In the primary, McCorquodale was eliminated, and the vote went to a runoff, with Wallace holding a slight edge over McMillan. Wallace won the Democratic nomination by a margin of 51 to 49 percent. In the general election, his opponent was Montgomery Republican Mayor Emory Folmar. Polling experts at first thought the 1982 election was the best chance since Reconstruction for a Republican to be elected as governor of Alabama.[citation needed] However, it was Wallace, not Folmar, who made the victory speech on election night.
Wallace's final term as governor (19831987) saw a record number of black appointments to state positions.[51] In his fourth term, Wallace became the first governor to appoint two black members in the same cabinet, a number that has been equaled but never surpassed."
Walk away
(9,494 posts)It must have choked him.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)wiki
In Wallace's 1998 obituary, The Huntsville Times political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign: "His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other GOP strategists. First Nixon, then Ronald Reagan, and finally George Herbert Walker Bush successfully adopted toned-down versions of Wallace's anti-busing, anti-federal government platform to pry low- and middle-income whites from the Democratic New Deal coalition."[13] Dan Carter, a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta added: "George Wallace laid the foundation for the dominance of the Republican Party in American society through the manipulation of racial and social issues in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the master teacher, and Richard Nixon and the Republican leadership that followed were his students."[14]
Wallace considered Happy Chandler, the former baseball commissioner and two-term former governor of Kentucky, as his running mate in his 1968 campaign as a third party candidate; as one of Wallace's aides put it, "We have all the nuts in the country; we could get some decent people-you working one side of the street and he working the other side." Wallace invited Chandler, but when the press published the prospect, Wallace's supporters objected: Chandler had supported the hiring of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Wallace retracted the invitation, and (after considering Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders)[33] chose Air Force General Curtis LeMay of California. LeMay was considered instrumental in the establishment in 1947 of the United States Air Force and an expert in military affairs. His four-star military rank, experience at Strategic Air Command and presence advising President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis were considered foreign-policy assets to the Wallace campaign. By 1968, LeMay had retired and was serving as chairman of the board of an electronics company, but the company threatened to dismiss him if he took a leave of absence to run for vice president. To keep LeMay on the ticket, Wallace backer and Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt set up a million-dollar fund to reimburse LeMay for any income lost in the campaign.[34] At this time, LeMay was best known to the American public as an enthusiastic proponent of the use of nuclear weapons in war. Campaign aides tried to persuade him to avoid questions relating to the topic, but when asked about it at his first interview, he attempted to dispel American "phobias about nuclear weapons" and discussed radioactive land crabs at Bikini atoll. The issue became a drag on Wallace's candidacy for the remainder of the campaign.[35]
Further information: Southern strategy
dawg
(10,624 posts)Lots of people in Alabama were obviously willing to believe him. Your mileage may vary, but I think it is safe to say that people can learn from their mistakes and grow into something better than they once were.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)What if...
and I think it is a valid comparison as both did something specific against a people solely because of who they were-anyhow-
what if say Hitler lived on and in the last 10 years as he was getting old, he said he was sorry and all attempting to atone to God?
Ah, I think NO he would not be forgiven either.(to put it mildly).
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, David Duke carry on George Wallace's John Birch society legacy and it still resonates within the republican party and all the tea party.
And Ron & Rand's very similiar Austrian friend Jorg Haider, well, more need not be said.
...and well, remember racism stopped Jesse Jackson in his two runs (both of which I voted for) and later denied Jerry Brown from the nomination in 1992 with the smears that went against the person who Jerry had in advance said would be his vp, and that was Jesse Jackson. Therefore, the legacy of George Wallace was/is alive and well in the democratic party as recent as the 1990s, and is alive and well in the tea party/libertarian party/republican party today as we speak.
Oh but to wonder, what would have happened had Dr. King lived, and he himself in 1972 and 1976 ran for President or for Vice President. (perhaps with Ted Kennedy)
George Wallace most certainly would not have been for that.
George Wallace almost assuredly would be at home as an elder statesman in today's tea party.
LeftInTX
(25,278 posts)Cuz then we gotta count Rick Perry
He was a Dem and he switched to R in 1989
Ian David
(69,059 posts)But our list is a lot shorter, less crazy, and a lot less mean.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Jim Mathison from Ut Second. Now this is a real turd. And to think Obama appointed his brother to the Federal Courts.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)but I don't think any of them embarrass their own party.
And there's the problem in a nutshell.
Ohio Joe
(21,755 posts)They are reflections of the crazy we face.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)almost none of them are in office any more. I can think of a few embarrassments - John Edwards turned out to be a complete slimeball; Sheila Jackson Lee was pretty goofy; occasionally even Kucinich jumped the rails; and we've had some crooks, like Cong. William Jefferson, the guy who was hiding money in his freezer and Jim Traficant (who also had really weird hair). But I'm not aware of any high-profile Dem politician who reached the depths of weirdness and/or ickiness as dozens of GOPers who are still holding office. We have no equivalent of Michele Bachmann or Steve King or Alan West or Christine O'Donnell or any of the other current passengers of the GOP Clown Car. We don't have media people like Limbaugh or Beck - Matthews at his worst and most spittle-flecked doesn't even come close. There's just something about the GOP ideology that brings out the mean, dumb and crazy...
tritsofme
(17,376 posts)But she is no longer in Congress, and no longer a Democrat. We are much richer for it.
Edit to say duh, how could I forget John Edwards?
David__77
(23,372 posts)He was much more dangerous to the U.S. when he was in the senate.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)like Edwards or Wiener - it was their personal behavior, not that they said something absurdly outrageous politically, like Todd "legitimate rape" Akin. Or were stupid like Palin. In fact, most extreme sounding left wing positions are made up straw men, made up by Republicans.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)He did NOT call any 'person' that word.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)From your wiki link above, a link in the footnotes: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/02/rahm-apologizes-for-privately-calling-liberal-activists-retarded/
Feb 2, 2010
-snip-
Last August, Emanuel "showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides," the Journal's Peter Wallsten reported lastTuesday."Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul. 'Fing retarded,' Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items."
-snip-
January 26, 2010
The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul.
"Fing retarded," Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items.
-snip-
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808904575025030384695158.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines#printMode
He did not call 'them' that, it was the plan he was bashing.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)When the story broke it the media was said it was THE PLAN he was talking about.
Then the spinsters and Palin changed the talking points to say that he called 'people' that word.
I remember it all very well from when it happened. I was paying attention.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Those dictionaries define the word "retarded" as an adjective related to persons.
None of them define the word "retarded," or the phrase "fucking retarded," as referring to a plan.
Rahm used the phrase as an insult in exactly the way that he used it.
Your excuse for him doesn't work.
tritsofme
(17,376 posts)of those groups.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)He's nuttier than an almond joy.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)posters. LaRouche stole the Democratic name. He is a DINO.
0rganism
(23,944 posts)I liked him a lot, and his staff actually helped out my wife, who was born in Nigeria, get a copy of her birth certificate.
He will forever be remembered for his tiger costume
and his Klingon speech (which I tend to agree with, in spirit)
and sexually assaulting minor relatives of campaign contributors
and some really shitty driving.
So yeah, he was an embarrassment. Difference is, of course, he quit.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)When the sexual harassment of a minor shit happened, it was like, okay yes~ please, face the music... and obviously he had some mental, er, problems before that.
But I thought the thing about the Tiger Costume, in particular, was unfair. People dress up for Halloween, big deal. But they used it as "look at the crazy congressman in the tiger suit". Like he was wearing it to work.
It reminded me of how the SF Chronicle railroaded Kevin Shelley out of the CA SOS office; which, to my mind, smelled at the time like retribution for his going after Diebold.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)YeahSureRight
(205 posts)The DINOs are a total embarrassment to the Democratic Party.
No different then the Dixiecrats if you ask me they belong in the GOP not in the Democratic Party.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Being an embarrassment isn't a problem if you are a Republican.