Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the envelope on just how insane InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.
…Loser in Oklahoma GOP primary: My opponent is actually dead and replaced by a body double.
Winner in the unhinged category, although, jeez, lots of stiff competition this week: The loser in a recent Republican primary who, quite creatively, refused to go quietly.
For out and out bonkers, no one beats Timothy Ray Murray, who lost to Oklahoma Representative Frank Lucas in the GOP primary, and responded to this loss by saying his opponent was actually dead and has been replaced by a robot. Naturally, this would disqualify him for office. It’s in the Constitution. No dead people, or robots may serve in the government.
Timothy Ray Murray posted [Bagger delinked] a press release — addressed to “News Person” — in which he demanded the Oklahoma Board of Elections shift votes from Rep. Lucas to him on account of the fact that “it is widely known Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displayed [sic] by a look alike.”
Murray further explained that Lucas had been “executed by The World Court on or about Jan. 11, 2011 in Southern Ukraine. On television they were depicted as being executed by the hanging about the neck until death on a white stage and in front of witnesses.”
Wow, that was more than three years ago. You would think people would have noticed that the guy is dead by now.
No, Murray explains, because he has been replaced by a body double. "It is possible to use look alike artificial or man-made replacements,” such “replacements” are not human, and therefore ineligible to serve in office. Murray went on to assure the board that he “will NEVER use Artificial Intelligence look alike to voice what The Representative’s Office is doing nor own a robot look alike.”
Well, that is very reassuring indeed…
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This is just one of six totally bonkers Republican statements from last week alone. Click through for the other five.
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No susrprises here, T.C. Republicans haven't uttered an intelligible, coherent sentence in more than 30 years.
There should only be three esses in surprises; damnit, I hate it when I do that.
They have all distanced themselves so far from reality that I doubt there is any hope for any of them. Maybe "pray the crazy away"?
OK – if he really WAS dead and replaced by a body double, we're all going to look pretty foolish …
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Yeah! . . . especially the medical community that certified his death and then continued to treat him.
I did see an article on Murray. And "bonkers" is throwing roses at it. But what do you expect from people who believe the earth is flat, no one ever went to the moon, and a "trickle-down" economy works?
Ann Coulter, when she said she had held off writing about soccer "so as not to offend anyone," must have meant "so as not to offend anyone until I had my stuff together enough to offend everyone."
Dr. Ablow must not be a Freudian psychoanalyst, as they are not allowed to practice until they have been psychoanalysed. And he would have failed.
Aside from the normal fit issue of adult underwaer being too big for children, William Gheen's would presumably have been so stretched out by excretions that it would be too big for adults also.
I'm not sure Gohmert actually outdid himself this week. He has set himself an extremely high bar.
Despite Rush Limbaugh, and despite the fact that he is a Republican, Thad Cochran does have an impressive record of getting things dome that help Mississippians, including black people (which his team refers to as "bringing home the bacon," dog whistle for "pork.") Black voters probably were well aware of that and didn't need to be told. They were also probably well aware that a Democratic candidate is not going to win in Mississippi so that it was in their interest to help a candidate who had helped them in the past and might in the future. As far as open primaries are concerned, I've expressed myself on that subject enough for one week already.
And these people breed!!
Welcome SM! 🙂
There ought to be a law!
I think Timothy Ray Murray has been tripping the light fantastic with Alf on the planet Melmac! His assertion, of all of these lunatics, gave me the biggest laugh. Don't get me wrong, they are all equally qualified for the booby prize. Goh-merde is his usual self . . . stupid beyond belief and down right offensive. Just the look of him . . . vacant eyes etc . . . is offensive. Hell Gomer Pyle is smarter than him! From Coulter I expect inanities and she didn't let me down. What is really scary about her is that she seems to have influence. Ablow, Gheen and Limbaugh are also rans. Remind me not to send my laundry to Gheen. I may not get my underwear back!
OMG..why can't we force EVERY candidate to any public office to take an insanity test? Or at least be questioned by a certified psychiatrist? There seems to be a mass psychosis regarding the RepubliCON Party…and it claiming Tea Baggers are different than "CONservatives" is pure bull$hit.
RepubliCONs should be ashamed of their complete lack of Mental Health. But they have NO shame..or the right meds..:(
I clicked through, some were so ridiculous that I laughed, some others made me want to cry. The worst part of this is that so many of our citizens are listening and believing this tripe.
Granted that this is off the wall, lip diddling, gibberingly insane – but what about the people that believe this guy? Do the TP hold a competition each week to see who can say the most insane things and get their voters to believe them? (Wonder what the prize is).
If you had said to any intelligent person 30 years ago that politics would descend to this utterly abysmal level, they would have called you insane – and I dread to think what lunacy lies ahead of us!
Thanks all. I've been writing all day, so I'm rushing.