So we've got the potential for a Nazi-apologist xenophobe, and a homophobic censorship-maven in the running.

Sleep well...

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"Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi

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Well I'm a Bada$$ cowboy living in a cowboy day wicky-wicky-wak yo yo bang bang
me and Artemus Clydefrog go save Selma Hayek from the big metal spider
Wicky-wicky-wak wicky-wicky-wicky-wak
Bada$$ cowboy from the West Si-yiide

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694 consecutive rejections by women since January 1993.

Stupid. Check.

Ignorant. Check.

Convinced he's morally superior to everyone else. Check.

Morally superior to evryone else. Blank

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"Truth about Santa Claus debunks Santa God. God evolves from Santa."
-Gene Ray, http://www.timecube.com

Example, please.

"Ignorant. Check."

Example, please.

"Convinced he's morally superior to everyone else. Check."

Example, please.

Surely you don't expect me to simply take your word for all that...

..."[Rudy Giuliani] has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be."
--The Edge With Paula Zahn

"The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not factual--are going to undermine his campaign." --New York Times

"I've got a record, a record that is conservative and a record that is compassionated."
--NYT Debate Transcript

George W. Bush "has ended idiocy as we know it. His is an altogether new idiocy. A militant, proud, smarmy, arrogant, grating, sunburnt, craggy-faced, twangy-voiced idiocy that yammers and babbles and juts out its jaw and aspires to the level of platitudes...."
--Jerry Long, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/11/00

Bush for President?!?! He and Dan Quayle apparently share the same brain. *LOL*

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Oh, goody, the Sea Monkeys I ordered have arrived. Heh heh heh, look at them cavort and caper.
~C. Montgomery Burns

Gore Camp's Smear of Bush's Intellect Backfires
Thursday January 27, 2000; 10:47 AM

Reports of GOP frontrunner George W. Bush's intellectual inferiority have been more than greatly exaggerated, we now learn. In fact, the Gore campaign's attempts to Quayle-ize the Republican presidential contender, with ample assistance from its media cohorts, have been outright distortions.
On Wednesday Slate Magazine went public with former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley's SAT score -- an underwhelming 485 points out of a possible 800 on the verbal section. His math score was unavailable.
But how can that be? The misled public has a right to wonder. So-called intellectual lightweight George W. managed to score 566 on the same test, nearly a hundred points higher than the onetime Rhodes Scholar whom Democrats considered one of the most thoughtful voices in the Senate.
No one doubts Bradley's brainpower. Yet despite Bush's Yale and Harvard credentials, the Gore campaign has had a field day portraying the Texas Governor as a dummy.
"I guess we know why he got those 'Gentleman's C's," sneered Gore campaign spokesman Chris Lehane last fall, after Gore-friendly Yalies leaked Bush's transcript and SAT scores to the press without bothering to get the candidate's permission.
Meanwhile, at Gore's grad school alma mater, Vanderbilt University, no one dares breathe a word about his grades -- or whether they had anything to do with Gore's decision to drop out of law school.
"I sat right next to Gore in class," says Vanderbilt law graduate Jack Thompson, who suspects Gore may have actually flunked out. University officials have stonewalled Thompson's repeated requests for the Gore grade info.
News that Bush's SAT performance was better than Bradley's now has mainstream reporters joining Thompson in the quest for Gore's academic secrets.
The New York Post is suddenly curious, reporting on Thursday, "Leading Democratic contender Al Gore, whose spokesman has taken jabs at Bush's grades, again refused to release even a transcript of his law school grades."

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While visiting Monticello (Charlottesville, Virginia, 01/17/93) with Bill Clinton, Al and the party entered a room with life-sized busts up on the shelf. Al Gore asked the curator, �And who are these people?�

The curator responds, �This is George Washington on the left.�

While visiting Chicago after a Chicago Bulls victory, Al tried to break the ice with the local audience by praising �Michael Jackson.� Wrong Michael, genius.

And then there are the lies: (edited highlights taken from a longer list)

Gore has said that "human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment." Apparently Al has never heard of The Sun, volcanoes, the Earth�s molten core, etc.

Gore�s "strategic goal" is to "eliminate the internal combustion engine" by the year 2020. Still no word if there�s a solar-powered armored limo in his future.

Gore favored a government crackdown on the tiny trickle of electricity used by devices like television sets, whether they are on or not, because it results in a steady emission of carbon dioxide.
All his talk of greenhouse gases and global warming ignores the fact that 95% percent of all carbon dioxide produced annually comes from the evaporation of water from the oceans, decaying organic matter, and the respiration of human beings and animals.

In October 1997, Gore told television weathermen gathered at the White House that global warming could be eliminated if the over-population of Third World nations could be controlled. Is this Al�s Final Solution?

Gore attended an April 29, 1996 campaign fundraising event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California and then called it "a community outreach" program.
Three months earlier, his own staff had told him it was a fundraiser.

During his Democratic nomination speech, Gore told of his grief over the death of his sister caused by her having smoked cigarettes. (The �until I draw my last breath I will protect our children from the danger of smoking� speech.)
He neglected to mention that his family's fortune had been based on raising tobacco in Tennessee and that the family farm continued to do so for years after her death or that he continued to accept tobacco industry political action committee money through his re-election as Senator in l990. Speaking to tobacco farmers, 2/23/88, Al identified himself as one of them---���years after his sister died. When asked in the 1990�s about this hypocrisy, Al claimed that he was still grieving for his sister and didn�t know he was still receiving money from the tobacco industry.

Gore once told reporters that Eric Segal's novel, "Love Story", was based on the romance between himself and his wife Tipper.
Segal said this was nonsense.

Gore has claimed during a 1999 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer (CNN�s �Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer,� 03/09/99) that "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
The preliminary discussions for the creation of the Internet took place in 1967 and, in 1969, the Defense Department commissioned the creation of the "Arpanet." Gore was 2l years old at the time and it would be eight more years before he was elected to the US House of Representatives.

Gore is on record declaring William Jefferson Clinton as one of the greatest Presidents of modern times.

Gore did serve briefly in Vietnam (5 months: most guys served a �tour of duty� lasting 12), but his assertion that he came under enemy fire is false. He served as a journalist behind the front lines and never saw combat.

While a journalist in Tennessee, Gore said that his reporting "put people in prison."
An examination of the record shows this did not occur and he admitted that he lied about this.

FEDS DUNK VEEP'S 'ICED TEA' DEFENSE IN FUNNY-$ SCANDAL
By VINCENT MORRIS and BRIAN BLOMQUIST
June 8, 2000

A new Justice Department document from the funny-money campaign-funding investigation says Al Gore's famous "iced-tea defense" is all wet.
Gore told the FBI he missed parts of a key fund-raising meeting because he drank lots of iced tea and had to take frequent potty breaks - but a federal prober said Gore's defense can't be true.
The Justice Department prosecutor wrote that former White House aide Harold Ickes, who ran the fund-raising meetings, always stopped them when President Clinton or Gore had to leave the room.
"Not only is there no evidence that this occurred, but the agents' notes reflect that Ickes told them that when he conducted meetings, he would halt the proceedings if the president or vice president stepped out of the room; the meeting would resume when they returned," the prosecutor wrote in a memo. �
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No, George W. Bush isn�t a mental giant. Sadly, Steven Hawking isn�t running for elected office.

But I gotta ask, how fucking STUPID do you have to be to keep telling these easily disproved fibs?

Lamentably, we have to go with what we've got. Bush Sr. went from an astronomical approval rating after the Gulf War to down in the basement, largely because of an economy perceived to be failing (Al Gore's statement in the early 90's that this is the worst economy since World War Two.) We now know that the economy was picking up during the end of Bush's term, not enough to save him---but the current administration gladly took the credit.

We've had seven-plus years of Clinton-Gore leadership. Do we want another four? Al Gore's proposed programs read like a socialist wish list. This is the guy who wanted to "re-invent" government? This is the guy who wanted to make government smaller---and now is chomping at the bit to federalize the health care system? The Kyoto Accords will trash the economy his buddy has taken credit for reviving.

Bush is the best of a bad lot. What's the alternative? Buchanan? Nader? The Constitution requires candidates to be American citizens, and that implies that they should be from this planet.

Well, everything Jay posted would fall under a slip of the tongue, which has no relevance to his intelligence. Nor did Quayle's.

"Don't you think it's time to have a real president, a real leader?"

What makes you think that Bush doesn't fit that description. Even Lincoln said the wrong word at the wrong time on occasion. He was human, after all. And I can guarentee you that Bush is better educated than Lincoln was, so that can't be a factor.

"Is there anyone on the horizon worth waiting for?"

Do I count?

Here's my proposal for the first things I'll do when I'm president. 1: issue an executive order repealing all (with a few possible exceptions) previous executive orders by previous presidents. 2: end the state of national emergency that we'll have been under for 90 years by that time. 3: Create a large group of constitutional scholars and lawyers and have them go through the ENTIRE federal code, locating laws that are unconstitutional, whose authorization has expired and yet are still funded (Endangered Species Act, et al.), and ones that are just plain stupid. 4: take the digest created to the supreme court, having them declare all unconstitutional laws located as such. 5: go through congress to repeal all laws that are just plain stupid, but can't be thrown out by the supreme court.

I intend to get the list of federal laws down to around the size of a phonebook, instead of the twenty I'm sure it takes up now.

Commercial 2
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Ben: (Subcaption: Getting Ready for the Big Debate) When I become President, All people will work for me!
Chris: (translation)We're backing funding to employ the jobless.
Ben: If anyone opposes me, I'll teach them a lesson!
Chris: We're also behind a good education system.
Ben: So vote for me and noone will be hurt!
Chris: Health Care, great health care!
Screen lettering: (background Music: poor 5th grade rendition of Hail to The Chief) Ben + Chris in 2012: This time, why not the Worst?

Commercial 3
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Ben: Hey Chris, have you ever seen Leonard, Part VI?
Chris: That was an awful movie.
Ben: How can you say anything by Bill Cosby is awful?
Chris: So was the Cosby Mysteries.
Ben: Bill Cosby is a genius!
Chris: Only when he's talking about his children's brain damage.
Ben: What the F*** are you talking about you dumbass, Cosby Rules!
Chris: Calm down, Ben
Ben: GODDAMMIT I'LL KILL YOU, I'LL KILL YOU, I'LL KILL YOU
Announcer: Hey guys, we're filming, can we get on with the commercial?
Ben: oh
Screen lettering: (background Music: poor 5th grade rendition of Hail to The Chief) Ben + Chris in 2012: This time, why not the Worst?

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Look at the past few years:
Jimmy Carter: Who we kidding, Valium Posterchild. We go to:
Ronald Reagan, Howdy Doody Sr. If it keeps getting benign, we might end up with:
Mr. Rogers, "Can you say Armageddon? Oops, too late." Or we can get macho and have:
Jack Nicholson vs. Clint Eastwood, Shortest debate in history, all Jack will have to say is "How can you debate me, you haven't opened your goddammed eyes in twenty years."

*edit by CC: Close your tags! *

CRIMINY!!

HTML edit, please!!!

Besides, this thread is supposed to be about Buchanan/Schlessinger and co.

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"Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi

Colin Powell.

He's rumored to be Bush's Secretary of State, though...