The Most Awesome GOP Governors Debate
[guest post by Dana]
I had no idea the Republicans in Idaho could be so entertaining! And they say Republicans are boring stuffed shirts. Not so!
In one of the funniest political debates I’ve ever seen (more like the only funny one I’ve seen), four Republicans running for governor, squared off. The debate included references to a “turd in a punch bowl,” “bondage-type people” who are “picking up strangers at night,” John Wayne, the “evil spirits that are behind the feds,” and dire predictions of coming earthquakes.
One of the characters, er, candidates, a biker named Harley Brown, summed it up,
“You have your choice folks, a cowboy, a curmudgeon, a biker, or a normal guy,” Brown said. “Take your pick.”
Highlights below.
–Dana
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happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/16/2014 @ 10:50 pmi’d love to know Idaho more better but Boise is a very very special place I know for sure
the younger people I talked to there wanted nothing to do with it though
but I wanna go back
it has interesting preparations of trout
it has mixology
it has basque foozles
and it has geographical features what you can gaze at while looking like you are very thoughtfully and pensively gazing into the distance
happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/16/2014 @ 10:55 pmit’s not at all like wyoming
which, that surprised me
happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/16/2014 @ 10:56 pmMaybe Larry Craig just had a wide stance.
Kevin M (b357ee) — 5/17/2014 @ 12:03 amI reckon Holders black pussies, won’t be at any ballot boxes.
mg (31009b) — 5/17/2014 @ 2:17 amCoeur D’Alene is spectacular.
JD (590a3f) — 5/17/2014 @ 5:45 amI heard this on the radio but these guys are way funnier in video.
nk (dbc370) — 5/17/2014 @ 6:59 amIdaho also has nine times more millionaires per capita than New York, happyfeet.
One of them was a man I admired, Jack “Mr. Spud” Simplot, the Potato King. He got his start as a hardscrabble hog farmer during the Great Depression. Where’s elissa? He fed his hogs wild horses. He’d shoot them, skin them out by dragging their hides off with his horse just like the old-time buffalo hunters skinned buffalo, chop them up and boil them into a nourishing swill.
nk (dbc370) — 5/17/2014 @ 7:11 amThose highlights were sweet.
carlitos (e7c734) — 5/17/2014 @ 8:39 am
carlitos (e7c734) — 5/17/2014 @ 8:50 amGoverner’sGovernors. No e, no apostrophe.
OK. So agreed. The “college” kids who are our future are ignorant and scary (see other thread for examples) and old coots on both “sides of the aisle” (see this video, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Perry/gramps as examples) are ignorant and scary. Where exactly does this leave us do you think?
elissa (fcdf94) — 5/17/2014 @ 8:57 amThanks happyfeet and carlitos. Correction made. I posted late, I was tired, the dog ate my homework…
Dana (9a8f57) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:03 amNo!!! Geverner’s was the “correct” spelling for these two guys.
nk (dbc370) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:08 am*Governers* is good too. 😉
nk (dbc370) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:09 amSort of like having Ron Paul in any debate.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:11 amI should have just kept it simple: GOP Debate. …the shortest distance between two points and all that.
Dana (9a8f57) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:19 amHey, what about that 17-year old girl in some place South who beat the GOP incumbent in the primary for the state legislature? Now, that’s a girl to watch. I don’t see her sniveling forty years from now that her half-million dollar salary was less than a man would be paid. At the very least.
nk (dbc370) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:24 amDid anyone bring up Building 7?
AZ Bob (533fbc) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:36 amOr Area 51?
Kevin M (b357ee) — 5/17/2014 @ 10:48 amOr Comiskey Park?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/17/2014 @ 11:07 am(Aliens)
Book (ab4041) — 5/17/2014 @ 1:23 pmWouldn’t that be Cominsky Park? (To keep with the flow.)
John Hitchcock (d5b207) — 5/17/2014 @ 2:21 pmThe Power of Christ compels you! or something.
Bugg (f0dbc7) — 5/17/2014 @ 4:38 pm“I’m honored to know that our kids to day could see that fine example, of authentic frontier gibberish.”
That was the first thought I had seeing the candidate in beige with the full beard show up.
Bill H (f9e4cd) — 5/17/2014 @ 5:37 pmThe lifelong Sox fan called it Conminskey Field.
JD (590a3f) — 5/17/2014 @ 5:50 pm“You have your choice folks, a cowboy, a curmudgeon, a biker, or a normal guy,” Brown said. “Take your pick.”
If that was all I knew, I’d go for the curmudgeon. Way more than the “normal guy.”
If the curmudgeon was somewhat reasonable and showed some ability to discern results and anticipate. Even without that he still might be better than the normal guy, who will assume everythinbg is working fine.
Normal guys let the Phoenix VA work the way it did.
Sammy Finkelman (18bea8) — 5/17/2014 @ 8:56 pmThe curmudgeon he meant was the little guy with the beard, Sammy.
nk (dbc370) — 5/17/2014 @ 9:03 pmClayton Cramer, an Idaho resident, shares his take on the Idaho governor debate:
http://claytonecramer.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-debate-must-have-been-pretty.html
Anon Y. Mous (8ec442) — 5/18/2014 @ 12:54 am🙂
The only thing worse than that was hearing Jeff Gordon, when he sang “take me out to the ball game,” say how happy he was to be at Wrigley Stadium.
carlitos (e7c734) — 5/18/2014 @ 5:47 amComment by carlitos (e7c734) — 5/18/2014 @ 5:47 am
The only thing worse than that was hearing Jeff Gordon, when he sang “take me out to the ball game,” say how happy he was to be at Wrigley Stadium.
It’s Wrigley Field!
Did he say that? And when and where was this?
Sammy Finkelman (18bea8) — 5/18/2014 @ 6:56 amI don’t live there, and I rarely vote Republican, but damn, way to keep politics entertaining.
Snip (031824) — 5/18/2014 @ 3:32 pm