scbutler ([info]scbutler) wrote,
@ 2009-06-24 14:56:00
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When Did All the Republicans Go Nuts?

I remember a time when they weren't all whacko hypocrites.  Seems like forever, though. 

The latest on Governor Sanford:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/south.carolina.governor/index.html

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[info]suricattus
2009-06-24 07:01 pm UTC (link)
I keep thinking there was more to this -- that he's using the affair cover because he knows we're all just so tired of the 'wow! politicians are personality types who cheat!' revelations.

But I'm plotty that way.

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[info]scbutler
2009-06-24 08:20 pm UTC (link)
But what would it be cover for? Smuggling arms into Iran?

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[info]suricattus
2009-06-24 08:44 pm UTC (link)
reporting to his Alpha Centauri overlords.

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[info]scbutler
2009-06-24 11:55 pm UTC (link)
Damn. And I thought they were recruiting me.

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[info]xraytheenforcer
2009-06-24 07:24 pm UTC (link)
Oh my gods.

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[info]scbutler
2009-06-24 08:21 pm UTC (link)
Aren't they the ones who are supposed to have gods?

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[info]steve_buchheit
2009-06-24 07:44 pm UTC (link)
If memory serves, sometime around 1988 the freeze-dried whackaloon contingent tipped the scales over into majority status. Since then they have multiplied, verily.

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[info]scbutler
2009-06-24 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Verily and forsooth. Like lemmings. And they're all headed for the cliff.

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[info]steve_buchheit
2009-06-26 12:59 pm UTC (link)
And they're trying to take the rest of us with them.

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[info]scbutler
2009-06-26 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Luckily fewer and fewer of us are paying attention.

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[info]jjschwabach
2009-06-24 10:04 pm UTC (link)
In answer to your question: December 17th, 1987 -- I remember it well ;-).

More realistically, it happened bit-by-bit. First, we had Reagan describing the death of a heroic airman, only to have it come out that not only did he have the particulars wrong, but it happened in a movie. Well enough, most of us suspected Reagan had Alzheimer's well before the official announcement. Things got slowly weirder over the next 20 years, until we learned, to our great sorrow, that the director of FEMA was a show-horse judge. And that we all agreed that "Brownie" was "doing a heck of a job," but meant something rather different than he who said it. (Er, and that *a* Brownie could have done a better job.)

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[info]scbutler
2009-06-25 02:10 am UTC (link)
Mission accomplished!

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[info]jjschwabach
2009-06-27 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Indeed.

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[info]stillnotbored
2009-06-24 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Okay, that one is really special. Take off for four days to another country and NO ONE knows where you went? Not your wife or your staff?

Right. Way to work on those marriage problems....

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[info]scbutler
2009-06-25 02:13 am UTC (link)
I like the fact he voted to impeach Clinton on three of four counts.

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