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Your lawn? This is my lawn,

Elusive Trope — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:53:28 +0000

Your lawn? This is my lawn, dangdamit. Woman! Get me my shotgun!....wait, who are you again?...who put these intertubes on my tv? I wanna watch Matlock. Or at least Texas Walker. Now there's an American. I remember when I was...wait, who are again?

Nice catch. It just means we

Elusive Trope — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:46:03 +0000

In reply to Wait, Parry (with an "a")

Nice catch. It just means we need to be sending every dollar we have to spare to Americans for Better Tomorrow Tomorrow.

Huh, and all this time I

Verified Atheist — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:42:17 +0000

In reply to I so want to gloat about her

Huh, and all this time I thought you were approximately a cohort…

Get off my lawn!

Wait, Parry (with an "a")

Verified Atheist — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:41:16 +0000

In reply to Here are the results: U.S.

Wait, Parry (with an "a") didn't get any votes‽‽

Here are the results: U.S.

Elusive Trope — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:34:37 +0000

In reply to PSYCHOTIC BACHMANN WINS STRAW POLL IN IOWA

Here are the results:

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.): 4,823 votes
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): 4,671 votes
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty: 2,293 votes
Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.): 1,657 votes
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain: 1,456 votes
Texas Governor Rick Perry: 718 votes
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney: 567 votes
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: 385 votes
Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman: 69 votes
U.S. Rep Thad McCotter (R-Mich.): 35 votes

The big take aways:

There were 35 people who knew who Thad McCotter was, or at least thought they were voting for an inspiring teacher of the sweathogs.

Perry beat Mitt

T-Paw beat I need to be in sanatorium Santorum.

T-Paw couldn't overcome Bachmann and thus he is dust in the wind.

Cain beat Perry, the latter who now hates Colbert with a passion.

Ron Paul can now choose to fight Palin to become kingmaker.

Neither Palin nor Trump appear on the list, thank god.

Bachmann is now the golden child of the moment, god help us all.

Also before your time, but

Elusive Trope — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:24:45 +0000

In reply to I so want to gloat about her

Also before your time, but maybe in your chip: Nineteen-Jimmy Who?-Seventy Six.

I so want to gloat about her

jollyroger — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:20:01 +0000

In reply to Oh wait, come Monday morning

I so want to gloat about her coming electoral immolation and then I remember 1980...(nb-implanted memory, I wasn't actually born yet in 1980...)

Oh wait, come Monday morning

Elusive Trope — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:48:14 +0000

In reply to WHAT?? Michelle Bachmann won

Oh wait, come Monday morning when middle America, mainstream America, or whatever one wants to call 'em is getting ready for work, who is going to get the ultimately non-critical spotlight on Good Morning America, the Early Show, and the Today show?

Iowaians (is that what you call them?) represent the heartland, which for a lot of Americans (mainly white) represents true America. To hear that Bachmann won, without the nuance that it was a just straw poll, not to mention mainly just the people who were bussed in by the candidates, goes along way toward giving legitimacy to her views.

Moreover, because of the nature of the straw poll in Iowa, it represents candidates political structure in the state (eg able to bus people in). So it would indicate we will be hearing from Bachmann for awhile. In fact, because the media has already decided it is a battle between Bachmann and Perry (or is that Parry?) for the right to take on Mitt, she and Perry with an A will get all the more media attention, giving even more legitimacy to her and her views. Even if she doesn't win the nomination, as Palin shows, the long term legacy on the national discourse can be disasterous.

Well after this Ramona, she

Richard Day — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:35:38 +0000

In reply to WHAT?? Michelle Bachmann won

Well after this Ramona, she aint goin to rehab. hahaahah

Her daddy thinks she's fine! ha

WHAT?? Michelle Bachmann won

Ramona — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:28:42 +0000

In reply to PSYCHOTIC BACHMANN WINS STRAW POLL IN IOWA

WHAT?? Michelle Bachmann won the Iowa Straw Poll? OMG!!! OMG!

Oh, wait. It's the Iowa Straw Poll.

Never mind.