A grave loss to comedy

[Sue U]

Ol' One-L Crazy-Eyes Batshit Bachmann is throwing in the towel. And, she assures us within the first 54 seconds, it has absolutely nothing to do with whether she would lose the next election. Or with the ongoing investigations into ethics/campaign finance violations in her presidential "run." But mostly I mourn the loss of the comedy gold mine that was Shelly Bachmann's political career, now cut down in the prime of its hilarity:





I weep. For comedy.

[Lord Jim]

I took one look at the subject line and the poster, and I knew what this thread was going to be about....

I saw James Carville interviewed this morning about this, and he shares your sentiments; he called it "a sad day"....

I, on the other hand, am more than happy to see Ms. Bachmann hanging up her red rubber nose, water squirting carnation, and big floppy shoes...

[Sue U]

I took one look at the subject line and the poster, and I knew what this thread was going to be about....

I really am that transparent, aren't I?

I, on the other hand, am more than happy to see Ms. Bachmann hanging up her red rubber nose, water squirting carnation, and big floppy shoes...

But what about poor Marcus? Now he'll never get to be First Lady! /sadface/

[Lord Jim]

Well, maybe she and Alan West will team up and tour the club circuit....

Maybe even an HBO special....

[Sue U]

Before <------------------------------------------------> After


So sad, this clown.

[dales]

I thought Jerry Lewis died.

[Gob]

Sarah Palin's still going strong, isn't she?

[Rick]

The Tea party will soon be a bag it and tag it, I really think even some of the hard cores are starting to question the retoric...

[Crackpot]

they're just clearing the stage for Rand Paul

[Crackpot]

^I wish that was a joke.

[Crackpot]

then again he is the tea parties last best hope for relevance.

[Lord Jim]

I don't think there's any question that Paul is running, but it's absolutely inconceivable to me that the Republican party would nominate a candidate for the Presidency who's views on security and defense are virtually identical to Dennis Kucinich's...

If by some bizarre turn of events he should actually win the nomination, there's absolutely no way on earth that I could vote for a candidate with his out-to-lunch positions on those critical issues. From a national defense standpoint if we're going to nominate Paul, we might as well nominate Bernie Sanders...

Hell, I'd even vote for Hillary Clinton over Rand Paul....

On national security, compared to Paul, Hillary looks like Curtis LeMay....

[dales]

I wonder who here knows who Curtis LeMay was?

[Gob]

Guitarist with "Queen", wasn't he?

[Econoline]

"Bomb 'em back to the stone age!"

[MajGenl.Meade]

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

[Rick]

Ya know I thought I was the only one that noticed the resemblance...

[Lord Jim]

Ya know I thought I was the only one that noticed the resemblance...

Well, that's not entirely true...

LeMay's ass wasn't nearly as big as hers...

But seriously folks...

It's unfortunate that LeMay chose to end his public career as George Wallace's running mate...(he didn't die till 1990 which surprised me; I would have thought that he had died much earlier than that) Curtis LeMay played a pivotal role in constructing effective strategic bombing in WW II, (which actually saved a lot of lives) and he created the strategic bomber nuclear deterrent concept in the early days of the Cold War...

He was also the architect of The Berlin Airlift, which helped to prevent a Third World War:

After World War II, LeMay was briefly transferred to The Pentagon as deputy chief of Air Staff for Research & Development. In 1947, he returned to Europe as commander of USAF Europe, heading operations for the Berlin Airlift in 1948 in the face of a blockade by the Soviet Union and its satellite states that threatened to starve the civilian population of the Western occupation zones of Berlin. Under LeMay's direction, Douglas C-54 Skymasters that could each carry 10 tons of cargo began supplying the city on July 1. By the fall, the airlift was bringing in an average of 5,000 tons of supplies a day. The airlift continued for 11 months—213,000 flights—that brought in 1.7 million tons of food and fuel to Berlin. Faced with the failure of its blockade, the Soviet Union relented and reopened land corridors to the West.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay

In many ways, LeMay is a tragic figure, much like J Edgar Hoover, or Douglas MacArthur...

A man who did a lot of good for his country, but who hung on beyond his sell by date....