The most ridiculous tweet of the year goes to...

[Drunken Irishman]

And just in the nick of time! Congrats, Sen. Bob Rucho of North Carolina! You win a big bag of cow dung.

https://twitter.com/SenatorBobRucho/statuses/412200682477744128

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. agreed

[shenmue]

2. He has a couple weeks to come up with something even dumber

If anyone can do it, I bet he can.

[QuestForSense]

15. If you'd said "something even smarter" I'd have worried.

[blue14u]

33. Looks like he and

Santorum are in a dead heat for "STUPID" comments

of the year..

Congrats guys, no one does it better than you two!

[Bjorn Against]

3. After all the stupid Tweets I have read in the last year I thought for sure you were using hyperbole

But when I clicked on your link and I must admit that I was wrong, this one really does take the cake for stupid.

[90-percent]

4. Swords?

I don't recall much sword usage by the Nazi's.

I also don't recall going to war with the USSR, either? And the Russians helped us defeat the Nazi's and they lost 18 to 24 million of their own people helping us do it.

This poor deluded man needs to break out of his nasty Fox News bubble.

He also needs to open at least one history book about WW2.

He has removed any doubt from the entire planet he is a frothing idiot. Moran, even!

-90% Jimmy

[n2doc]

5. I caught that too

I suppose some officers had swords.


All these idiots, and not a one can explain exactly WHAT damage the ACA has done to America. If it is so horrendous it must be easy to come up with deaths, etc. Getting your coverage dropped or having to pay more than you used to (2 common complaints spread by the cons) seem kinda wimpy compared to D-day.

[tclambert]

9. Can't regulate guns, but maybe we can do something about terrorists with swords.

Just think of all those airliners, schools, and shopping malls taken over by terrorists with swords. Hmmm, yeah, I can't think of any, either.

[tblue37]

20. And while he is at it, he might take a peek at a grammar book, too. nt

[arcane1]

29. +100

[pangaia]

24. Maybe he is thinking of the night of the long knives...

[The_Commonist]

6. And his little friend Stryder makes it even more amusing.

Everyone else there is calling the senator a moron, and Stryder just keeps on, well, I'm not really sure what it's doing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. I noticed him too.

#idiotic hyperbole #who needs facts.... applies to stryder too.

What a maroon. Unbelievable

[arcane1]

30. I think Stryder is just a computer programmmed to type random RW buzz-words.

[Tab]

7. The commebts make up for it...

no one is biting

[mnhtnbb]

8. Oh, jeeze. NC gets to look moronic on the national scene once again.

I can't wait until we can get rid of these idiots.

[catbyte]

10. The snarky replies are funny, but STRYDER and his unAmerican Democrat bullshit

are the funniest replies of all. It's probably a low level staffer.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Stryder has one follower.

[bluemarkers]

19. the name calling

Maybe it's a 3rd grader?

[mikeysnot]

11. Stryder who post often

needs to get a life and stop trying to defend this dumb ass.

[spanone]

13. yea, i bet those victims families of 911 would like to hear rucho say that to their faces

they hate the half black President so much they would take a dump on the 911 families...shame on their black hearts

[grantcart]

14. Only in America. Really, only here.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

16. "...THEN the swords of..."

What a fucking moron. On so many levels...

[tblue37]

22. Don't overlook his subject-verb agreement error. nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

47. Oh, I know, but then/than...

is one that really bugs me. Huh, Rucho made it through Northeastern and UNC-Charlotte. And he's a dentist, no less:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Rucho

Yeah, I'd let *that* near my mouth!

[davekriss]

17. Rucho's tweet is a terrible insult...

...to the half a million American soldiers that died defending this country in WW2. Rucho should apologize to the nation and congress should censure him. NC should hold a recall election if there laws permit. It should be the end of this gas bag's political career.




(But it will never happen, sadly.)

[bluemarkers]

18. NC the gift that keeps on giving

you're welcome

Merry Christmas y'all!!




(lord have mercy on us)

[alfredo]

23. Teabaggers are the gift that keeps on giving.

[Brigid]

25. Until people stop.voting for idiots like this . . .

We are going to get gems like this.

[Warpy]

27. The replies are wonderful

The one about making the Texas Reps look just a little less crazy is going to leave a mark.

[malthaussen]

28. True. Nazis, Soviets and terrorists didn't use swords. n/t

[Mira]

31. It is so horribly embarassing

since I live in NC.
Yet, he is only one little part of our problems.

[George II]

32. Not only that, he's illiterate too! "THEN"??

[mountain grammy]

34. ugh...

[octoberlib]

35. Somehow I knew before I clicked on this,

that the tweeter would be a NC Republican. Sigh. US Senator Kay Hagan is up for re-election in 2014 and they keep throwing this in her face to try to damage her. The repugs have a commercial running constantly on TV telling North Carolinians to call Kay Hagan to complain about Obamacare. The funny thing is every one of my friends who've signed up for the ACA got significantly cheaper rates despite NC refusing the expansion of Medicaid.

[idwiyo]

36. k&r the comments are hillarious!

[AlbertCat]

37. Swords????

Technically, this is true.



But does anyone actually believe this idiot is who the majority of NCians wanted and elected? His campaign must have saturated the airwaves with lies and distortions about him and his opponent(s) paid for by Art Pope.

[47of74]

38. I just responded via twitter

Told him he must be a special kind of idiot.

[niyad]

39. there are still several weeks to go--he could yet be outdone (and, in all likelihood, will).

just looking at his bio--this is his SEVENTH term in the senate??? AND, he is a dentist? how in the world could someone as demonstrably ignorant as he is, have EVER completed dental school? goddess help his patients.

[Terra Alta]

45. I want this guy nowhere near my teeth.

Not just because of his ignorant political views, but how someone with such atrocious grammar ever made it through dental school is beyond me. He and Orly Taitz really give dentists a bad name!

[Jackpine Radical]

40. Waitaminnit, waitaminnit--he's almost right, ya know.

The Nazis, Soviets, and terrorists never did us a bit of harm with swords.

[marble falls]

41. Nothing like trivializing Nazis, commies and terrorists. Asshat of the year.

[NBachers]

42. Some North Carolinans are cringing; some are puffing out their chests and walking tall

because Mucho Rucho's "takin' it to the man!"

[Pretzel_Warrior]

43. I tend to agree.

I think Justice Roberts has done more damage than any swords used by the Nazis, Soviets, and terrorists.

On the other hand, Nazis, Soviets, and terrorists have done far more damage with artillery, guns, bombs, planes and the like.

[mwooldri]

44. His tweet just suffered the fate that the Black Knight was dealt....

........



That's what I'm sure he thinks anyways.... we know what happened in the end....

[anneboleyn]

46. "then the swords of the Nazis, Soviets, and terrorists combined" into one super sword!!!

The misuse of "then" makes this sound like some overexcited ten-year-old's "alternative ending" fantasy scenario to WWII: "Then the Nazis, Soviets, and terrorists combined all of their swords into one super-powerful magic sword that glowed bright red and could turn everyone invisible!!!"

[Scurrilous]

48. K & R

[Cha]

49. Yeah, they got a 'toon for that..

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/16/rise-and-shine-700/

[KamaAina]

50. "Justice Robert's"? "then the swords"?

Oh dear FSM, please don't let him be on the education committee!

[gordianot]

51. I tend to agree, but watch out the year is not over and there are plenty Republicans out there.

[90-percent]

52. It's blowing up in his face!

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/12/16/4549250/nc-gop-asks-sen-bob-rucho-to-apologize.html#.Uq9U5tJy3Wc

[MadrasT]

53. Wow... that really takes the cake.

The replies are hilarious. What a jackass.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

54. Stryder : "badge of honer"