Republican House Candidate Art Robinson goes all-in with the new GOP "Embracing Your Inner Maniac" strategy.
So who is Art Robinson?
You know your crazy uncle? Not the amusingly eccentric one, but the magnetism-is-a-Commie-lie, I-can-smell-the-moon-people-with-my-mind, full-throttle-with-afterburner-crazy one who is perpetually boiling-piss infuriated about something?
Well apparently that uncle has joined something called the "Tea Party" and, in their wisdom, the good Republicans citizens of Oregon's 4th congressional district have chosen him to fight for their values and beliefs against Democrat Peter DeFazio in the upcoming national election.
The good Republicans citizens of Oregon's 4th congressional district did this in very much the same way -- and obviously using very much the same carefully calibrated set of competence-calipers -- that various other groups of Republican citizens (who these days [for very complicated reasons having to do with assuming that everyone else is as stupid and gullible as they are] often like to play dress-up in pantaloons and funny hats while pretending not to be Republicans) have used to select people like Sharron "Both Right and Obtuse" Angle, Christine "Meatballs But No Happy Ending" O'Donnell, Rand "We The Lying" Paul, Jan "Been Through The Desert With a Corpse With No Name" Brewer, Joe "A Noun, A Verb, and 'Unconstitutional'" Miller and Carl "Paulie Walnuts" Paladino to run for very powerful elected offices in their names.
Which is why, when Crazy Uncle Art went on the teevee last night and spent the better part of 18 minutes alternately yelling at Rachel Maddow, smirking at Rachel Maddow, interrupting Rachel Maddow, insulting Rachel Maddow, patronizing Rachel Maddow and calling Rachel Maddow a liar...as she patiently tried to read Mr. Robinson's own crazy words from his own crazy newsletter back to him and get him to explain his very bizarre ideas and/or confirm or deny that he continued to believe them...I literally could not look away.
It was a singular event, and seen from a safe distance, strangely beautiful, in the same way I would imagine the 1908 Tunguska event might have seemed beautiful if one had seen it from orbit.
As our democracy continues its long, painful, nervous breakdown and slide into McFeudalism, it is, I suppose, sometimes a blessing to have someone as purely rage-blown berserk as Art Robinson pop briefly out of the maelstrom, if only to remind us just how hilariously grotesque the Conservative Soul really looks without its makeup and pearls.
The Democratic Underground has your Art Robinson starter-kit here.
As I have said before , and will no doubt be moved to say again: Modern Conservatism is a disease. If you don't understand that, you're already infected.
Update: Blue Gal kills it here.
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Another "thank you" DG --
It seems that the true danger inherent in the Tunguska Event (or its repeat or the repeat of something like the Tunguska Event), is not necessarily the enormity of the explosive destruction in its immediate wake. In 1908, Tunguska was significant as much for how it represented how little we knew about what the event was.
The real danger is not from the immediate spark, the peril stems from not understanding the phenomena, what caused it and, in particular, what we need to do about it OR whether we need to do anything about it OR what the "it" is from which we actually need to "protect" ourselves.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Doesn't matter whether the big boom is real or in their heads. Whether it's 9-11, 8 years of Bush policies against the Rule-of-Law, a generation of class warfare or the Tunguska BoogieMans lodged in the heads of 'merican conservatives, they just don't.know.what.the.fuck.their.scared.of. or WHY they are so frightened.
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He is an earnest imbecile. Nothing more.
In the tradition of Daddy Beckt up, I suppose.
What a promoter, huh?
Thanks for the info about what's happening among the rest of the nutzoid right, Dg.
It's getting hard to know the players without a program and it's not even election time yet.
Or is it?
S
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
That exchange was mesmerizing, all right. My favorite part was Rachel attempting to explain the time lag when using a satellite feed, and he went on about the speed if light.
What a spectacle last night. As I sat watching slackjawed, I couldn't believe what I was watching. Then, I couldn't believe I couldn't believe what I was watching. It really has come down to this. Obama's election has broken people's brains. They will support/elect ANYONE as long as they are opposed to the Scary Kenyan. It does not matter how crazy they are, just as long as they are NOT Black.
Oh, and Art, I think you mean the speed of sound...
I nearly stroked out there watching the interview. I thought I was dreaming when it got to the point that Rachel just hit her head on her desk while being told she was a sarcastic bitch.
I would not have had her patience dealing with that crazy old bastard.
Riveting, it was.
Even Maddow lost her cool a couple of times, then you could see her gather here composure and start laughing. While Crazy Uncle Art went on blathering about sarcasm and 3500 donors...
I think he does know who blew the $150K on ads.
The exchange about satellite feeds was priceless.
Of course, Crazy Uncle Art's star will only rise among the 22 percenters, for the way he showed that 'lesbian bitch'.
I never thought someone could make John McCain look both young and sane by comparison.
come on, bluegal, you KNOW the barrel has no bottom....
What have we learned here boys and girls? Well, we have learned that this college professor guy, Art Robinson, is a very smart and respected Physical Scientist who has no idea what smart, respected or Physical Science even means. Narcissism, yes, sarcasm, no. However, to a well trained eye, one can deduce that Mr. Robinson chews backy and, therefore, the inside of his 4WD truck probably smells like a spittoon. And everything like that there.
Wow! That dude is fucken UNREAL!
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