Take Five (What a Fool Believes edition)

ONE: Bleatings from Asbury Park, N.J.

Which little city has the sixth-best beach in New Jersey, was famously name-checked in a Bruce Springsteen album title, and just got a self-appointed Republican nanny? If you guessed Asbury Park, then kudos to you, even if you only got it from the subtitle above.

Louise Murray used to serve on Asbury Park’s city council, and although the predominantly blue burg no longer has to put up with her in that role, it will have to endure her tenure as chair of the local Republican Party, a position she assumed this week. Murray’s avowed first order of business is to “concentrate on re-energizing the Republicans in the city,” and if you’d like an example of what it apparently takes to re-energize Republicans, here you go...

TWO: Joe Rockhead

Viewers of The 700 Club got a rare treat recently when Congressional aspirant Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher related to the program how he came to Christ. It all began when his youth pastor invited him out for a bite and told him to bring along a science book...

THREE: Birth of a Notion

A chastened Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett appeared in Take Five late in May, apologizing for having made his state a laughingstock by pestering Hawaii to provide proof that the President was born there...

FOUR: “And they’re both named Hussein!!!”

While Ken Bennett finally conceded that the President was born in Hawaii, a recent poll finds that nearly 64% of Bennett’s fellow Republicans disagree. Professor Benjamin Valentino of Dartmouth put a variety of questions, mostly centered on foreign policy, to self-identified Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Can you guess which group’s views were the most ridiculous?

FIVE: Fables of the Reconstruction

Southern Baptists recently held their annual get-together in the City That George W. Bush Forgot, and they did something unprecedented...

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