Author Topic: The Republican Party has collapsed.... (Read 4217 times)

grampster · « **on:** August 20, 2012, 08:27:49 AM »

Ohhh, the pain, the indignity, the horror. It is being reported this AM that a Republican Congress critter went skinny dipping in the Red Sea or some body of water in the middle east. Reporterette from NBC seems to think that this is the last straw in the Romney campaign and the Republican Party is done for.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 20, 2012, 10:31:09 AM »

Considering the recent history of Congressmen propositioning men in restrooms and tweeting naked pictures, this is boring and not really worth mentioning.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2012, 11:16:01 AM »

So what did the stupid party do wrong this time

...oh wait.

Nevermind.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2012, 11:29:27 AM »

Why exactly was the FBI investigating this? To gather intel (at taxpayer expense) for the Democrats to influence a few congressional races in the upcoming election? There's your scandal.

TechMan · « **Reply #4 on:** August 20, 2012, 11:31:26 AM »

Linky: http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/20/13376053-republican-lawmaker-skinny-dipped-on-israel-trip?lite

HankB · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2012, 12:01:23 PM »

Skinny dipping in Israel . . . this is worthy of FBI investigation?

Where was the FBI when Barney Frank's boyfriend was running a call boy operation of of Barney's apartment?

And if this happened last year . . . funny how it leaks now.

(Hmmm . . . skinny dipping in Israel . . . there's a circumcision joke in there somewhere, but I think I'll let someone else find it.)

MillCreek · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2012, 12:18:09 PM »

It was the Sea of Galilee. Perhaps the Congressman was trying to determine if he could walk across it.

Devonai · « **Reply #7 on:** August 20, 2012, 12:52:41 PM »

Hank: Reduced drag?

Jamie B · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2012, 02:00:00 PM »

No, new book: Trails in the Sand by Peter Dragon......

Jamie B · « **Reply #9 on:** August 20, 2012, 02:03:19 PM »

It is bad enough when any politician acts like a dick in the US.

When they act like dicks elsewhere, it just makes us look stupid.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #10 on:** August 20, 2012, 02:09:47 PM »

Quote

When they act like dicks elsewhere, it just makes us look stupid.

Yeah, and Hillary Clinton does that about 180 days a year.

grampster · « **Reply #11 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:21:49 PM »

Quote from: HankB on August 20, 2012, 12:01:23 PM

Skinny dipping in Israel . . . this is worthy of FBI investigation?

Where was the FBI when Barney Frank's boyfriend was running a call boy operation of of Barney's apartment?

And if this happened last year . . . funny how it leaks now.

(Hmmm . . . skinny dipping in Israel . . . there's a circumcision joke in there somewhere, but I think I'll let someone else find it.)

Ummm, that's the joke in and of itself...(fore)skinny dipping......

grampster · « **Reply #12 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:24:14 PM »

Quote from: Jamie B on August 20, 2012, 02:03:19 PM

It is bad enough when any politician acts like a dick in the US.

When they act like dicks elsewhere, it just makes us look stupid.

Why do you folks continue to disrespect me and monkeyleg by using our first names as a description for a politician?

MechAg94 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:00:24 PM »

Quote from: TommyGunn on August 20, 2012, 11:16:01 AM

So what did the stupid party do wrong this time ...oh wait. Nevermind.

You know, I might use the term "stupid party" also if I didn't already know Democrats have done the same stuff or worse. Stupid Congressman certainly.

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #14 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:03:31 PM »

The stupidity is what?

Nobody in Israel certainly cares about this, nor cared about this at the time.

If this is important it's only because certain parties insist on making it important.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #15 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:52:48 PM »

I also fail to see an issue with this.
Another non-issue blown out of proportion by the lame stream media.
Is nude swimming something that would be taboo in the location where it happened? It's not like he dropped trou and jumped into the kiddie pool at Disney world.

bedlamite · « **Reply #16 on:** August 20, 2012, 07:05:58 PM »

Apparently, the skinny dipping is not what the FBI is investigating. They are looking into a paperwork snafu.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/fbi_probing_rep_michael_grimm_not_skinny-dipping.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TPMmuckraker+%28TPMmuckraker%29

slingshot · « **Reply #17 on:** August 24, 2012, 09:35:06 PM »

Considering all the stuff that goes on, this sounds like a political witch hunt. Anything to distract interest from the campaign issues... the real issues.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #18 on:** August 24, 2012, 09:53:31 PM »

Quote from: bedlamite on August 20, 2012, 07:05:58 PM

Apparently, the skinny dipping is not what the FBI is investigating. They are looking into a paperwork snafu.

And yet what exactly was leaked to the press?

grampster · « **Reply #19 on:** August 25, 2012, 09:35:59 AM »

Bwaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaa. Romney jokingly says nobody questions his birth certificate during a speech in Detroit, and Lame Stream Media and the DNC gets a hernia. I'm really starting to wonder if I somehow didn't fall down the rabbit hole and I'm living in Alice's Wonderland, where there isn't a Tweedledee only a TweedleDUMB. It is amazing to watch the body language and demeanor of the talking heads over crap like this. If I was Romney, I think I'd pick something like that to say every day and then follow it up with " ...How long it will take before the media hernia occurs.. 10-9-8-7-6..." haahahahahahahahahahaha.

longeyes · « **Reply #20 on:** August 25, 2012, 11:31:15 AM »

Let's hope the evening of November 6 looks like the danse macabre...liberals hand in hand...

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #21 on:** August 25, 2012, 03:05:22 PM »

Quote from: grampster on August 25, 2012, 09:35:59 AM

Bwaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaa. Romney jokingly says nobody questions his birth certificate during a speech in Detroit, and Lame Stream Media and the DNC gets a hernia. I'm really starting to wonder if I somehow didn't fall down the rabbit hole and I'm living in Alice's Wonderland, where there isn't a Tweedledee only a TweedleDUMB. It is amazing to watch the body language and demeanor of the talking heads over crap like this. If I was Romney, I think I'd pick something like that to say every day and then follow it up with " ...How long it will take before the media hernia occurs.. 10-9-8-7-6..." haahahahahahahahahahaha.

It was a smart move on Romney's part. For nearly two weeks the drumbeat from the media has been about Romney's tax returns. Now it will be his joke about his birth certificate. Everybody knows he was joking, but the press will focus on the comment, and Romney can get back on message. If he's lucky, the media will also include his excellent "another four years" attack on Obama from the same speech.

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