Sockpuppet Friday: The Weaveriffic, Shrumtastic Edition!
[Posted by Karl]
As usual, you are positively encouraged to engage in sockpuppetry in this thread. The usual rules apply.
Please, be sure to switch back to your regular handle when commenting on other threads. I have made that mistake myself.
And remember: the worst sin you can commit on this thread is not being funny.
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And for this week’s Friday Frivolity, Ben Domenech explains why people like John Weaver and Bob Shrum continue to get jobs as political consultants:
Roughly half these guys on the national level are below average at their jobs and generally suck. The real talent – the once in a generation talent – is at the state level, where a lot of the best people do great work, but do it for governors or other statewides. Because unlike the national players, they can actually go home to their families at night and they don’t spend 24 hours a day chained to their blackberries.
So if you’re in that half that sucks, the best way to stay in business and pay the bills is to latch on to one of two categories: crazy people who think they need to be president to save the country, and rich people who think they might be presidential. ***
RTWT.
–Karl
Ding!
Karl (37b303) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:20 amWashington just isn’t fair.
Scooter Libby (ffd720) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:25 amI don’t know about that. Just talk to Eric Holder.
AZ Bob (ffd720) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:25 amHey! I resemble that remark!
Bob Shrum (3e4784) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:35 amI wanna know why that pencil-necked geek, Domenech, insulted me! Heck, I even beat out Donovan McNabb, so bad that I sent him packing to Minnesota, where he has the fans pining for the halcyon days of Tavaris Jackson.
Rex Grossman (3e4784) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:43 am“(T)he halcyon days of Tavaris Jackson?” Who could write that with a straight face?
Brett Favre (3e4784) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:46 amBrett, don’t be knocking T-Jack! Of us two, only one of us ever took the Vikings to the Super Bowl, and it wasn’t you!
Joe Kapp (3e4784) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:47 amYeah, good going, Joe! And how did that work out for you?
Len Dawson (3e4784) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:57 amLen Dawson was a hottie.
Former KC cheerleader (c65c00) — 10/7/2011 @ 8:08 amIf anybody should be running a presidential campaign, it should be me! Who else is the spinmeister of all time? Did I not get Truman elected? Now, that Obama owes his nomination and election to me, there is no gratitude! Well, just to show how it is done, I, the master of the Big Lie, will take on the campaign of Alfred E Newman for POTUS. Our victory will raise both the moral and intellectual level of the White House. Just for laughs, we will keep Slow Joe Biden on as VP. It can’t hurt.
Baron von Munchausen (5a3146) — 10/7/2011 @ 8:17 amI was thinking more of Sigourney she’s a neat lady I think and very weaveriffic
hey check out her feet
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 10/7/2011 @ 8:19 amThe death of Steve Jobs coiciding with Sarah Palin’s announcement allows me to demonstrate what a nasty and disgusting little man I am. Hey, everybody! I’m a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells and I like to kiss my own butt.
Martin Bashir (33da2f) — 10/7/2011 @ 8:56 amI have Rick Perry’s cell phone and we routinely discuss campaign strategy and game theory in between my trips to Dubai and Jakarta.
EPWJ (1e48bc) — 10/7/2011 @ 9:14 amOMG
Disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner is one of the hottest-selling costumes for Halloween.
A. Weiner (d1c681) — 10/7/2011 @ 9:20 amoops – about that parliamentary ruling I just made…
I changed my mind.
Senator Begich (b120ce) — 10/7/2011 @ 9:26 amCome on everybody, get in a big circle and beat your drum.
Is this what they mean by a circle jerk?
Occupy Patterico's Pontifications (7c3d5b) — 10/7/2011 @ 9:27 amIf you will excuse me, after my conference call with South Korea, I have to pack for Jakarta, and return calls from 4 different State GOP Chairment who are trying to get me to run for higher office in their respective States. It is difficult to be as awesome as I.
EPWJ (352bcf) — 10/7/2011 @ 9:53 amHey hippie’s. Here, occupy my freakin’ fist, you freakin’ bunch a losers.
Tony (255b30) — 10/7/2011 @ 10:13 amReligion has nothing to do with being POTUS; therefore, I will now proceed to trash Romney’s religion — just for laughs.
gary gulrud (9ad7a6) — 10/7/2011 @ 10:20 amOh, GAWD, it feels good to see someone writing what I say every maddog primary season, and the same names get bandied about as if they had proved their competence even once.
Most maddening of all is the way that GOP hack Steve Schmidt took advantage of the Palin-deranged MSM. In a 60 Minutes interview following the release of the John Heilemann/Mark Halperin 2008 campaign book Game Change, he admitted that John McCain intended not to select a Republican as his running mate, opting for the losing VP candidate last time around, his “good friend” Joe Lieberman. All systems were go, said Schmidt, until the tsunami of right-of-center invective generated by rumors that not only would McCain refuse to run with a nominal conservative (such as Huckabee), he would choose a new independent who had been a lifelong Democrat! At this point, the cueballish Schmidt told Anderson Cooper, he knew they had to scramble to find someone to satisfy the base that threatened to sit this November out, and that’s how Palin’s name came up.
At this point, after admitting that he put the GOP nominee for POTUS in a position where he had little time to prepare a running mate for the white-hot spotlight, he started blaming her for everything that went wrong. No MSM figure questioned Schmidt’s competence as long as he could give people fresh dirt on Palin. Obviously, he was able to sell one person on his abilities: Meg Whitman, who hired him to run her $40 million campaign for Governor of California. We all know how THAT worked out.
As long as we’re employing sports parallels to the hacks, here’s another to add to Tarvaris Jackson: Gene Mauch. The guy won “Manager of the Year” honors several times, but will always be remembered for two spectacular instances in which he snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory for the Philadelphia Phillies and California Angels.
L.N. Smithee (abcb20) — 10/7/2011 @ 11:14 amThat’s an excellent summary, LN. We have too many of these pricks running our political party, interested in their rep and career far, far more than improving this country.
Dustin (b2fb78) — 10/7/2011 @ 11:39 amAccording to the article Mauch also managed the 1982 Angels team that blew a 2-0 lead in a best-of-five playoff series.
aunursa (862ba9) — 10/7/2011 @ 12:03 pmChocolate Rain
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
Chocolate Rain
A baby born will die before the sin
Chocolate Rain
The school books say it can’t be here again
Chocolate Rain
The prisons make you wonder where it went
Chocolate Rain
All the sweet indulgence of HERSHEY’S Milk Chocolate can now be sipped through a straw.
Chocolate Rain
WTH is DohBiden (b2fb78) — 10/7/2011 @ 12:24 pmNutrition information for this flavor is not available online at this time.
Moderation? Really?!
WTF! (9ad7a6) — 10/7/2011 @ 12:28 pmHelp Wanted: Campaign Manager. Must believe in the repeal of paper money, 21st century and other inconvenient facts of life.
Ron Paul (7051ab) — 10/7/2011 @ 12:44 pmHow dare Steve Jobs die before we could have him beheaded!
Roseanne Barr (d354f8) — 10/7/2011 @ 1:02 pmIn 1814 we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans and we caught a dose o’crabs in the town of New Orleans.
garygulrudd (a4b693) — 10/7/2011 @ 1:58 pmRoughly half these guys on the national level are below average at their jobs
Wow… roughly HALF are below average? That’s a disgrace!
math is hard (4f3ec1) — 10/7/2011 @ 2:09 pm#25 continued:
The songman (21ef74) — 10/7/2011 @ 4:42 pmAnd… we… fired our guns and the British kept a comin’, there wasn’t as many as there was awhile ago. We fired once more and then be gin a runnin’, down the Misssippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
Ok, Barack boy, here is the deal. Your wife is getting a movie deal which I’ll see you gets lot’s of cash depsoited in a foreign bank account so the IRS can’t trace it.
Soros (21ef74) — 10/7/2011 @ 4:48 pmYou will do the LBJ bit and not run, supporting Hillary.
I can’t believe that after all the money I gave you guys, you would screw it up in less than two years. If you run, teh Republicans will end up with a 61 seat majority in the Senate. Then it is over and I’ll lose billions.
Muslims-I didn’t know they’d use our mosque to conduct terrorist attacks………….oh wait i did taqqiya.
DohBiden (d54602) — 10/7/2011 @ 5:33 pmAnd they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
Johnny Horton (f68855) — 10/7/2011 @ 5:55 pmAnd they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ’em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico!
So what is up with this OWS movement. They can’t even change their diapers. Let’s call them the PEE Party. Or PEE Baggers if you prefer.
Gary (8458bd) — 10/7/2011 @ 6:23 pmRumors of my death have not been greatly exaggerated.
Steve Jobs (1b99ee) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:01 pmThe economy is so bad, they lose Jobs at Apple.
SPQR (26be8b) — 10/7/2011 @ 7:05 pmIf we are going to do Johnny Horton, I always liked “We got to Sink the Bismark” myself. A Country tune about a British operation.
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nk (b2fb78) — 10/7/2011 @ 10:48 pm.
Senatus Populusque Romanus wrote:
Ask and ye shall receive!
Johnny Horton (3e4784) — 10/8/2011 @ 4:22 amPatterico® Gold™ subscriptions? How can I use this kind of thing?
Jeff Goldstein (3e4784) — 10/8/2011 @ 4:24 amGeorge Soros proposed to President Obama:
Uhhh, who’s going to buy tickets to watch that movie?
The American Society of Sighted Persons (3e4784) — 10/8/2011 @ 4:27 amEva Peron did more for argentina…………….transforming it into a 3rd world hellhole is a good thing?
DohBiden (d54602) — 10/8/2011 @ 8:01 amhonestly you useful idiots would bow down at the altar of peron as he lead you to your death.
DohBiden (d54602) — 10/8/2011 @ 8:02 amWhat is wrong with oppposing illegal immigration?
DohBiden (d54602) — 10/8/2011 @ 8:28 amObama for president 2008. Nothing u white racists can do about that.
Love2008 (03864d) — 10/8/2011 @ 12:37 pmWhy were the leftys allowed into the NRA back in the 50S?
DohBiden (d54602) — 10/8/2011 @ 4:00 pmSPQR: If I’m not mistaken, he also did PT 109, and if I am not mistaken, was funded by or got lot of dollars from Daddy Joe Kennedy.
Songman (21ef74) — 10/9/2011 @ 3:09 pmLOL LOL LOL LOL
Dustin (b2fb78) — 10/10/2011 @ 2:24 pm