We keep saying Rupugs can't feel shame, but I want to test this hypothesis more thoroughly !

Loony Gohmert on 24 hour news cycle would equal incalculable dollars of free advertising for the Democratic Party.

....no longer has his show. That would be hysterical.

If he's a chain smoker, heavy drinker, gets fake tans AND spends all his time at those private military golf courses...he might be successful.

Opps...forgot that he needs to be able to work up a batch of tears in a heartbeat.

I say do it, Loony, uh, Louie...ALL of America needs to see you and the Party of Pukes and Baggers.

I am leaving...

that it is hard to stop laughing.We need the comedy.

DUZY!!!

Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.........the sheer enjoyment of watching a tea party crackpot make a complete fool of himself and all he stands for.

yep, loony number one has a shot.

If the latter, I hope democrats vote for the loon.

I hope they don't, but I suspect they'll work this out before a final vote on the floor.

I want the loon damnit!!!

usually each party puts up their nominee.

From the Clerk of the House's website at http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/leadership.aspx:

...run Louie run! Nothings going to be accomplished in Congress the next 2 years anyway and the 2016 campaign ads will write themselves.

it'd almost be worth it. I knew he was the poster-child for STOOOPID, but didn't realize he's THAT ridiculously empty-headed. Amazing how high his self-esteem is!

They deserve it, frankly. The GOP deserves to have THIS pathetic know-nothing as the face of their party in the House of Reps. The Party of STOOOOPID.

if anything happened to Obama. The VP is first but the Speaker is second, even if a member of another party. As entertaining as it would be, I would not want to take that chance.

the thought of him being so close to the presidency will keep me awake at night. Boehner is a bad enough thought..

...chance that this buffoon could be in line to sit in the oval office. The very idea makes my blood run cold.

Gump was much more mature, intelligent, decent, etc.

They can vote for non-House members even. (Colin Powell and a couple others got votes in 2012). That said I doubt any Democrat will vote for anyone except Pelosi.

More please!

I will call my Republican Congressman tomorrow and urge him to vote for Louie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Truly, we democrats need to reach around across the aisle and give a hearty hand job shake to whatever esteemed colleague asshole will make the repubs our allies look the stupidest.

Wait no, that's correct.

to make himself appear intelligent.

The new Republican Congress is off to a great start.

Hey, Dave and Charlie -- you guys paid for this. Is this really your money's worth?

... when the stupidest person in Congress - and he's got some serious competition for that dubious distinction - challenges the most venal person in Congress - and again, he's got some serious competition for that dubious distinction.

i love to see them shooting each other in the foot.

I think there's enough big money changing hands in congress that most are bought and paid for.
I'm not sure there's much difference in Boner vs Gohmert politically. Both vote for the hands that feed them:

with respect to his chances of unseating Boehner than it is to anything else.

Delusional man.

Which he grasps perfectly, as opposed to his grasp of ordinary reality

Why would anyone here give any credence to anything Louie thinks.

to understand just how "smart" Sarah Palin really is. I'd really like to believe the adage about giving someone enough rope, but (after decades of waiting) I don't get a hanging. I just get another crazier loon asking for even more rope.

what world is he from anyway?

Looney Louie voted for Allen West instead of Boner last time.

is next in line for the presidency after Joe Biden. We have a doomsday scenario setting up here.

of victory (almost as if they're being PAID to lose).

Hahahaha I'm afraid with Gohmert at the gavel, YouTube would overload it's servers.

These type of extremist-republicans have NO PUBLIC TRUST, our country, our world, will be in a horrible place when they get done tearing everything to pieces.

Perry had to gerrymander the heck out of district maps to even get him elected.

I doubt that Louie is going to make any kind of real effort to the point of actually trying to line up enough votes to prevail. He is just laying a marker down on behalf of the teabagger crowd.

It has no chance to succeed in the full repub caucus vote. And having this buffoon run ensures any real contest to his speakership would then be a 3 way race, which Boehner would win.

And Boehner just presided over the election of the largest Repub majority in the house in over 75 years. No way the larger repub caucus messes with that success.

I leaned a long time ago, "don't wish for what you can't have."

You insane teabagger ahole!!!

On most votes Boehner imposed the old Hastert Rule that says you don't bring a bill to the floor without a majority of the majority. This means Boehner will need more votes in the new House than in the outgoing House because of the expanded Republican membership. A majority of the new members are of the hardline faction that believes compromise is a dirty word. That makes Boehner's job much more difficult. And McConnell's job in the Senate will be no bowl of cherries either as the shoe will be on the other foot as he has to come up with the 60 votes to get passage of legislation -- plus dealing with the prima-donna's grandstanding while running for President.

something like "Let him rave on, that others may know him to be mad"
Crazy Louis is like the poster child for that saying