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Wonkette : UPDATE: Mitt Romney Only Doubling Size of Mansion, Not Quadrupling

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:48:24 +0000

I can hold my breath a long, looooooonnggg time!

Wonkette : VIDEO: Idiot Michele Bachmann Asks White People, 'Who Likes White Wet People?'

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:42:34 +0000

I find that white people have a piquant, tangy flavor absent in other humans, particularly when roasted. What?

Wonkette : Meet Anthony Weiner's Gay Puerto Rican Republican Doppelganger

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:20:31 +0000

I saw him at the Limelight in New York City, one time back in the 90's. He was making out with a boy that looked exactly like him. I still haven't quite recovered from all the hawt.

Wonkette : Eric Cantor Will Just Say It Already: No Hurricane Relief Without Cuts

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:41:03 +0000

Fuck it, let's just have a bake sale. Grandma can embroider tea towels and sell those. Get creative, people! The government is for bailing out banks ONLY!

Wonkette : Dim Beefcake Joe the Plumber Might Run for Congress

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:25:01 +0000

Maybe even elevens and elevens!

Wonkette : Dim Beefcake Joe the Plumber Might Run for Congress

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:19:24 +0000

I would have replied earlier but I just now finished laughing at the idea. In a word, no.

Wonkette : Dim Beefcake Joe the Plumber Might Run for Congress

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:57:26 +0000

Soon they will cut to the chase and just plain nominate a brain-damaged parakeet.

Wonkette : Sarah Palin Makes Forbes' Powerful Women List in 'Lifestyle' Category

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:13:50 +0000

Hey, didn't mean to defend racism...but let's face it, race was a lever a lot of politicians pulled on back then. Unforgivable, destructive to generations, and an indelible mark on this man's career, yes, but unfortunately common, particularly as a strategy on the Right in the sixties and seventies. I think my point was that the midpoint has now skewed so far to the Right that the current Barry, vanguard of liberalism in the United States, holds several positions just to the right of the father of movement conservatism from the same country.

Wonkette : Barack Obama Would Also Like to Talk About Hobbits Now

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:06:13 +0000

"Dawn take you all, and be stone to you!" And it was Gandalf that dealt with them, DUH.

Wonkette : Another Lesson on Gays and Booze, Courtesy of Rick Perry

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:24:40 +0000

I choose both booze and cawk! Everybody wins!!!!!

Wonkette : Sarah Palin Makes Forbes' Powerful Women List in 'Lifestyle' Category

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:57:00 +0000

Tell that to Michelle Bachmann...

Wonkette : Sarah Palin Makes Forbes' Powerful Women List in 'Lifestyle' Category

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:13:06 +0000

Sorry for the long cut-and-paste, but since you asked... As a passionate defender of personal liberty, he saw the religious right's views as an encroachment on personal privacy and individual liberties.[46] In his 1980 Senate reelection campaign, Goldwater won support from religious conservatives but in his final term voted consistently to uphold legalized abortion and, in 1981, gave a speech on how he was angry about the bullying of American politicians by religious organizations, and would "fight them every step of the way".[47] Goldwater also disagreed with the Reagan administration on certain aspects of foreign policy (for example, he opposed the decision to mine Nicaraguan harbors). Notwithstanding his prior differences with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Goldwater in a 1986 interview rated him the best of the seven Presidents with whom he had worked. On May 12, 1986, Goldwater was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. After his retirement in 1987, Goldwater described the Arizona Governor Evan Mecham as "hardheaded" and called on him to resign, and two years later stated that the Republican party had been taken over by a "bunch of kooks".[48] In a 1994 interview with the Washington Post the retired senator said, When you say "radical right" today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.[49] Goldwater visited the small town of Bowen, Illinois in 1989 to see first hand where his mother was raised. In response to Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell's opposition to the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court, of which Falwell had said, "Every good Christian should be concerned", Goldwater retorted: "Every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."[50] (According to John Dean, Goldwater actually suggested that good Christians ought to kick Falwell in the "nuts", but the news media "changed the anatomical reference." [51]) Goldwater also had harsh words for his one-time political protege, President Reagan, particularly after the Iran-Contra Affair became public in 1986. Journalist Robert MacNeil, a friend of Goldwater's from the 1964 Presidential campaign, recalled interviewing him in his office shortly afterward. "He was sitting in his office with his hands on his cane ... and he said to me, 'Well, aren't you going to ask me about the Iran arms sales?' It had just been announced that the Reagan administration had sold arms to Iran. And I said, 'Well, if I asked you, what would you say?' He said, 'I'd say it's the god-damned stupidest foreign policy blunder this country's ever made!'",[52] though aside from the Iran-Contra scandal, Goldwater thought nonetheless that Reagan was a good president.[53] In 1988 during that year's presidential campaign, he pointedly told vice-presidential nominee Dan Quayle at a campaign event in Arizona "I want you to go back and tell George Bush to start talking about the issues."[54] Some of Goldwater's statements in the 1990s aggravated many social conservatives. He endorsed Democrat Karan English in an Arizona congressional race, urged Republicans to lay off Bill Clinton over the Whitewater scandal, and criticized the military's ban on homosexuals:[49] "Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar."[55] He also said, "You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."[56] A few years before his death he went so far as to address the unprincipled establishment "republicans", "Do not associate my name with anything you do. You are extremists, and you've hurt the Republican party much more than the Democrats have."[57] In 1996, he told Bob Dole, whose own presidential campaign received lukewarm support from conservative Republicans: "We're the new liberals of the Republican party. Can you imagine that?"[58] In that same year, with Senator Dennis DeConcini, Goldwater endorsed an Arizona initiative to legalize medical marijuana against the countervailing opinion of social conservatives.[59]

Wonkette : Sarah Palin Makes Forbes' Powerful Women List in 'Lifestyle' Category

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:08:02 +0000

Lesbian Power!!!!!

Wonkette : Sarah Palin Makes Forbes' Powerful Women List in 'Lifestyle' Category

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:53:27 +0000

Be nice to Barry Goldwater. He was more of a progressive than the current Barry will ever be...

Wonkette : Congress Giving Millions of Foreclosed Homes To Wall Street Slumlords

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:51:11 +0000

So what else is new? Wake me when they come for my TV.

Wonkette : Jon Huntsman Surprised By GOP Candidates All Being Insane Idiots

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:10:03 +0000

It is a sad day when a reactionary like John Huntsman, however soft-spoken, looks around him and finds himself squarely in the middle of the spectrum.

Wonkette : Texas GOP Candidate Talks Sense to Actual Crowd of Donkeys (GET IT?)

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:03:29 +0000

If this guy were a real Republican this would be a porn clip with a wetsuit and a 14-year-old boy along with the Donkey. TRUTH IN ADVERTISING, dammit!

Wonkette : Farm Animals Are Latest Things Stealing Jobs from Americans

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:33:26 +0000

I'm against this. If this gets to be a trend, think of all the prostitutes in Georgia and Alabama out of work, poor things! Best to keep the sheep down on the farm and out of fishnets, say I.

Wonkette : Smiling Jerk Rahm Emanuel Is So Happy To Be Out of The White House

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:31:12 +0000

Fuck Rahm Emmanuel. You hear me? FUCK HIM RIGHT IN THE EAR! Thank you for your time and kind attention.

Wonkette : Space Lizard Gods Didn't Get Eric Cantor or His Nuke Reactor This Time...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:35:05 +0000

If an earthquake does hit Cantor's plant there is only one real solution: let the invisible hand of the market fix it, with super-cooler-paint invented by none other than John Galt. Fair is fair.