Booman Tribune

The Crazy Comes Out at CPAC

by BooMan
Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 08:42:20 PM EST

I promised you this morning that CPAC 2009 would deliver the crazy and they have not disappointed. Former interim UN Ambassador John Bolton delivered a speech about the threat of a nuclear Iran.

"The fact is on foreign policy I don't think President Obama thinks it's a priority," said Bolton. "He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a tiny threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. Its, uh, its tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city" – here Bolton shrugged his shoulders impishly – "pick one at random – Chicago – is that a tiny threat?"

Bolton wasn't the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause.

What good are our nuclear weapons if they cannot even deter Iran from setting off a rudimentary nuclear device in one of our cities? Bolton doesn't say. Instead, he and the CPAC lunatics revel in the fantasy of seeing all the liberals of Chicago get taught a lesson in the wisdom of more preemptive war. Bolton also argued that Obama would abandon Israel if they were attacked.

Then there was Cliff Kincaid (ironically, the head of Accuracy in Media) who, while introducing Rep. Mike Pence, once again raised questions about whether Barack Obama is really a natural born U.S. citizen and called him a communist. Rep. Pence did not correct him.

Sam Joe the Plumber was in attendence and said he misses plumbing even though he isn't and never was a plumber.

And then anti-immigrant zealot Tom Tancredo unsurprisingly panned anchor baby Bobby Jindal's rebuttal speech and said it was 'the nail in the coffin' of any presidential aspirations Jindal might have had. I'm sure Tancredo's opinion is objective and not tainted in any way by his deep-seated racism.

And all this is but a sample of the crazy that was on display today.



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Bolton was undoubtedly constructing a homage to O'Reilly and his comments about the destruction of San Francisco.

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-
by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 09:03:33 PM EST
They were never very smart.  We know that from their works.  They got a bull-horn moment a couple of days after 911, had the MSM, and they were off to the races.  That race is run and lost, and people are seeing them again for what they are: miserable losers.

Knut
by Knut Wicksell (b_didnn@hotmail.ca) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:18:13 PM EST
The same folks who six months ago said news outlets and American citizens who made disparaging remarks about President Bush should face "charges of treason during a time of war" are now the same people who now publicly discuss scenarios where "patriots" like themselves must take up arms to resist the "illegitimate Obama administration".

As I have said before:

Lots will listen to this vitriol.
Many of them will agree with it.
Several will be motivated to do something about it.
Some will entertain plans because of it.
A few will take those plans too far.
A couple will want to actually execute those plans.
A small number might be in position to do so.
Only one has to get lucky.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

by Zandar1 on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:19:06 PM EST
oh man, i would SO love to be there right now.

holy, shit a total laugh riot!

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:19:32 PM EST
And Iran has an ICBM capable of reaching Chicago and a guidance system that can send it to Chicago instead of say Mexico City? So Bolton thinks Iran has technical capabilities rivaling those of the Soviet Union? In that case, why didn't he press Bush to put a missile defense system in Peoria instead of Poland? Could it be that he suspected that an Iranian ICBM launched against Chicago might veer toward Warsaw? What a certifiable lunatic! What an embarrassment to have had him representing the United States at the United Nations!
by The Voice In The Wilderness on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:23:34 PM EST
Remember what they used to call "the lunatic fringe"? The Republicans have just reached the promised land. They are now safely inside the shining gates of the Luntic Fringe. I don't mesn his one or that one, I mean the whole party. Congratulations GOP!
by priscianus jr on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:30:58 PM EST
The Republican Clown Brigade is marching to the front and leaving the rest of the world astonished that these idiots are not institutionalized for their own good and the rest of us as well.

It is really the height of absurdity and evidence of how far America has declined that John Bolton is allowed a forum anywhere in the galaxy let alone here.
Face it, the man is a national embarrassment.  Come to think of it, so is the Republican Party.  Missiles from Iran destroying an American city?  Fear propaganda at its worst, with no possible connection to the truth.  The GOP has lost their hold on reality, goodbye for now to the two party system.

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir

by Dongi 2 on Fri Feb 27th, 2009 at 09:11:08 AM EST
I'm actually starting to wonder if conservatisim contains a degess of mental illness.

On political conservatives: "I was so shocked I nearly dropped the Bible I was using to help me masturbate into my gun." Bill Maher
by lyvwyr101 (greatbear215@aol.com) on Fri Feb 27th, 2009 at 12:15:14 PM EST
I can tell my local and highly Republican paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, is embarrassed. I just did a search on CPAC there and they have exactly one mention, by the liberal blogger Dick Polman. Otherwise, it's "CPAC? Never heard of 'em." So sad to see them in denial.
by rich2506 on Sat Feb 28th, 2009 at 12:30:35 AM EST


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