Humorless Politics Thread

[dave from knoxville]

All this support of a man who named his child after Ayn Rand.

Um - is this true? Jesus.

Yep. Rand's philosophies were very dominant among certain political types during Ron Paul's formative years. There's very little that he proposes that can't be linked to ideas from The Fountainhead and/or Atlas Shrugged. He's not quite the true believer he was in the fifties and sixties, but he's way out there in support of her "ideas". Think of naming his son "Rand" as a form of intellectual sacrifice to her movement.

I thought this too, but according to Wikipedia, it's actually just short for "Randal." He was called "Randy" growing up and didn't go by "Rand" until much later on in life.

They say that now.

Ron Paul discusses Ayn Rand

[buffcoat]

Gary Johnson is a much, much better candidate than Ron Paul to do most of the stuff that Ron Paul would want to do (the significantly less insane things), but no one on earth is listening to him or cares at all.

[Kormod]

Thanks for the heads up, Newt: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/newt-gingrich-occupy-wall-street_n_1032731.html

Meanwhile: http://tiny.cc/5w5n6

[cutout]

[cavorting with nudists]

Those two really have no idea how creepy and weird they are, do they?

[Kormod]

Sweet Land of Liberty Trailer Starring Callista Gingrich & Ellis the Elephant

I'd like to echo one of the questions asked in the comments section for this video -- is that Newt in the elephant costume?

[buffcoat]

That is quietly the most insane haircut I've ever seen.  The punks with their mohawks had no idea what rank amateurs they were.


I consider myself a relatively normal person in terms of the way I look and talk.  Would being in the spotlight, particularly being in one ideological part of the spotlight, make me do that type of thing to myself?  Or was Callista Gingrich that way before and now that she's (relatively) famous she just gets a larger audience for it?

There is something to the argument that wanting to be president (or first spouse) should disqualify you from ever being president or first spouse.

Man, that haircut though. The people in her life must really hate her to let that shit keep going on.

[Kormod]

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/newt-gingrich-0910?page=all

Then another neat young man comes and leads you down a series of halls, telling you that Gingrich is the kind of guy who loves McDonald's and never stands on ceremony, has five ideas before breakfast, and tweets "because he understands it's the future."

And there's Newt Gingrich with his big square head. His features are surprisingly small and precise, and his deep-set eyes have a cool distance that feels vaguely scientific.

"There's a large part of me that's four years old," he tells you. "I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there's a cookie. I don't know where it is but I know it's mine and I have to go find it. That's how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun."

By the time he was fifteen, Gingrich dedicated his life, he says, "to understanding what it takes for a free people to survive." By the time he was eighteen, he was dating his high school geometry teacher.

[cavorting with nudists]

Well, here's what she looked like around the time they got married, in 2000 (Notice the prominently displayed wedding ring--finally):



and, as a bonus, here's what she would look like now as drawn by Ernie Bushmiller:

[daveB from Oakland]

That looks more like Newt, actually.

[buffcoat]

The 2000 hair is not carefree, but the 2011 hair is somehow... savage.  Hateful.  It casts asperngeons aspungeons aspersions on life itself and the free exercise thereof.

I usually don't spend this much time discussing people's haircuts but this one has wounded me somehow... for humanity.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Sweet Land of Liberty Trailer Starring Callista Gingrich & Ellis the Elephant

I'd like to echo one of the questions asked in the comments section for this video -- is that Newt in the elephant costume?

The elephant looks even more surprised than she does.

[Kormod]

[cavorting with nudists]

This "Humorless Politics Thread" is in danger of becoming pretty humorous. Grim up, people!

[Sarah]

There is something to the argument that wanting to be president (or first spouse) should disqualify you from ever being president or first spouse.

No one who wants power should be allowed to have it. (Humorless enough?)