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kentuck

(111,095 posts)
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 06:08 PM Jan 2012

Caligula for President

How long before Newt wants an "open relationship" with his horse?

With the decline in the quality of candidates running for the Republican nomination for President, is it just a matter of time?

What did Republican voters do in a previous life to warrant such a dire curse upon their Party?

Is this really the best they can do?

Do they have any moral standards? Will they accept any immoral philanderer as their nominee, so long as they can debate Barack Obama?

Is their only concern the bloodline of the horse?

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Caligula for President (Original Post) kentuck Jan 2012 OP
works for me.... mike_c Jan 2012 #1
It is more... kentuck Jan 2012 #3
Ummm, remember when your horse whinnied while you ... you know? (She was complaining.) 11 Bravo Jan 2012 #4
goddammit, now you've gone too far! I won't stand for this! mike_c Jan 2012 #5
People will talk behind your back mike_c... kentuck Jan 2012 #6
I usually don't care at all about a candidate's personal life tblue Jan 2012 #2
Perfect. AtomicKitten Jan 2012 #7

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
1. works for me....
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 06:14 PM
Jan 2012

With all due respect, as long as the horse isn't complaining, I don't care who he sleeps with.

All this bruha about the morals of presidential candidates stinks to high heaven. I know, it's about the hypocrisy, but why then is all the discussion about the morals, rather than the hypocrisy? We sound like a bunch of outraged old women (cue the alert, for remarks insensitive to anger impaired age enhanced females).

We are exploiting half the world and oppressing the other half. Our citizens cannot obtain sufficient medical care. Our schools are in trouble. We are run by and for the benefit of corporations. Etc. Why the hell do we give a rat's buttocks who some politician sleeps with? Jesus, it frightens me sometimes, how shallow and unimaginative Americans can be!

kentuck

(111,095 posts)
3. It is more...
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 06:23 PM
Jan 2012

...of what we are willing to accept as we slide further and further into decline. Where does it end? Of course it matters. As a society, we cannot pretend, on the one hand, to care less about which moral direction we go and then, at the same time, expect the country to go in the moral direction of providing proper medical care and education to our citizens, on the other hand. We can't have our cake and eat it too.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
4. Ummm, remember when your horse whinnied while you ... you know? (She was complaining.)
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 06:27 PM
Jan 2012

Sorry she couldn't say it in English.

tblue

(16,350 posts)
2. I usually don't care at all about a candidate's personal life
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 06:19 PM
Jan 2012

but I do care about hypocrisy and race-baiting, and horrible, heartless policies and just flat-out lying to my face. Obama is the 'most dangerous' president? Really?

Newt really makes me nauseous. Can't stand him. So fine. Let him be the face of that sorry party. He really is emblematic of the whole ugly lot of 'em.

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