Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[hedge]

Kinda like you. Catholic... child molester... we know how it goes...

[bluetick]

Rubio looked like he had done some blow...

Just like Herman Cain... black man... white women accusing him sexual improprieties... you know how it goes...

First allegation was 15 years ago, and that woman was paid to go away. Wonder how they knew back then that Herm was a threat to take the WH?

[Johnette's Daddy]

I hear some R's talk as if Marco Rubio is their savior. "He's smart! He's articulate! And he's HISPANIC!"

The last GOP convention paraded a lot of smart, articulate, accomplished women and minorities on the TV screen. It did not have any impact. Plus, if he is ever perceived as a threat to the Dems', Rubio will be targeted for destruction. The Dem's and the media will dig up something - anything - to unfairly slime him. They will create another "pubic hair in my coke" or "I was Rubio's adulteress for many years" moment like they do with any woman or minority that dares to wander off the liberal plantation. And the slimefest will work.

They already nailed him for lying about his family, saying they emigrated after Castro took over in '59, when in reality they came over in '56 while Castro was in exile in Mexico and not a threat.

What makes that a big deal is that Cubans who emigrated post-Castro have a major distrust of Cubans who emigrated pre-Castro and Rubio's intentional, unambiguous lie may be the difference between him having a political career or being just another lawyer.

[Jungle Rat]

I always thought he played basketball.

[Professor Tiger]

They already nailed him for lying about his family, saying they emigrated after Castro took over in '59, when in reality they came over in '56 while Castro was in exile in Mexico and not a threat.

What makes that a big deal is that Cubans who emigrated post-Castro have a major distrust of Cubans who emigrated pre-Castro and Rubio's intentional, unambiguous lie may be the difference between him having a political career or being just another lawyer.

See? It's already begun. His family had the audacity to immigrate before Castro. Therefore he is disqualified to be president. Sheesh.

[innocentbystander]

Rubio looked like he had done some blow...

welp, you would know

[10ac]

I hear some R's talk as if Marco Rubio is their savior. "He's smart! He's articulate! And he's HISPANIC!"

The last GOP convention paraded a lot of smart, articulate, accomplished women and minorities on the TV screen. It did not have any impact. Plus, if he is ever perceived as a threat to the Dems', Rubio will be targeted for destruction. The Dem's and the media will dig up something - anything - to unfairly slime him. They will create another "pubic hair in my coke" or "I was Rubio's adulteress for many years" moment like they do with any woman or minority that dares to wander off the liberal plantation. And the slimefest will work.

They already nailed him for lying about his family, saying they emigrated after Castro took over in '59, when in reality they came over in '56 while Castro was in exile in Mexico and not a threat.

What makes that a big deal is that Cubans who emigrated post-Castro have a major distrust of Cubans who emigrated pre-Castro and Rubio's intentional, unambiguous lie may be the difference between him having a political career or being just another lawyer.

My god, a lying politician! I,m voting for the PAH. You know she's never lied about nuttin. Lady of virtue.

[Professor Tiger]

Her story about all the money she made in cattle futures while the first lady of Arkansas made perfect sense.

[Johnette's Daddy]

It didn't work with Clarence "Uncle" Thomas...

That was 20 years ago. Times have changed. The worst accusation against Thomas was that he talked a little dirty to a staffer (who followed him to bigger jobs after the alleged event, BTW). For mentioning a pubic hair in his coke, he was almost rejected as a SCOTUS justice.

Not long after that, Bill Clinton was being serviced by an intern in the Oval Office, and it was considered no big deal. In fact, his poll numbers went up.

Like I said, times have changed.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-1 ... mistresses

The suicides included one of the president's mistresses, who killed herself after Harding refused to divorce his wife and marry her. Another mistress was forced to have an abortion and at least two others bore Harding's illegitimate children.

Harding had so many mistresses that some of his aides functioned as pimps. Harding was even caught by his wife having sex in an Oval Office anteroom, leading the president to say: "It's a good thing I am not a woman. I would always be pregnant. I can't say no."

But the bevy of mistresses was problematic in other ways. Attorney General Harry Daugherty, who was behind numerous influence-peddling schemes, was assigned the task of buying the mistresses' silence. When longtime lover Carrie Phillips threatened to go public with Harding's love letters during the 1920 campaign, Daugherty arranged to have her paid $25,000 and sent abroad until after the election.

Girls and booze were part of what amounted to a bootlegging operation by the Justice Department. Liquor confiscated during Prohibition flowed at White House parties and regular happy hours. At one drunken orgy, a prostitute who was dancing on a table slipped, hit her head, and died from the injury. Harding was quickly whisked out of the party and evidence of the incident was destroyed.

[Jungle Rat]

Horn Dog!

[Professor Tiger]

Harding sounds like any one of the Kennedy's.

The big difference between Harding and Kennedy and Johnson and Roosevelt and the many other hounds that have occupied the White House is the public did not know about it at the time. Clinton was the first(and won't be the last, at least Democrat) president or candidate where the public knew about their activities and voted for them anyway. We have gone from Puritanism to France.

[Professor Tiger]

As a two war veteran and retired reservist, I am about as pro-military as you can get. But I agree with just about everything in this article:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/op ... 1Jc68tKeVP

[sardis]

I've always said you can't balance the budget unless you freeze defense and medicare/medicaid the next 10 years.

[Professor Tiger]

Agreed. Like I said recently, the only problem with freezing defense is they'll mothball submarines and fighters in order to keep unnecessary bases open to give PX jobs to some congressman's district.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Drug War stupidity and a glimpse at the intelligence of Tennessee cops

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories ... state.html

http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/15/tenne ... -after-mis

[Professor Tiger]

hedge will have a field day with that one.

If I were that lady, I would have my lawyer look into whether simply having a marijuana sticker on your car is probable cause to pull you over and search your car. Maybe in Tennessee.

[hedge]

Lucky for you, you don't have to bother using your brain to decide how you feel about such things (or anything, really). Your priests tell you that drugs are bad, so you fall in line. Problem solved. What a lazy, pathetic way to live...

[T Dot O Dot]

the police did nothing wrong

everyone knows its standard operating procedure to apply a decal of the illegal drug your transporting when moving product across state lines

[10ac]

We don't allow no law breaking in this jurisdiction, boy.

[bluetick]

Stories like that traffic story are commonplace. We are Tennessee - the Great Tea Party Experiment. The only person keeping us from going full TP is our moderate GOP governor, and he's losing ground against his taliban legislature. Bills passed or being proposed will make us the gun-happiest state in the union. Guns in bars has sparked guns in businesses, parks, and schools. Conceal-carry rights superceding the right of propertyowners to prohibit guns. And we'll become a breakaway republic if the feds try to counter any of that. Then there's Don't Say Gay in schools and the rush to Creationalism and vouchers. Unemployment and welfare benfits tied to kid's grades. Abortion is barely legal and difficult to obtain. Drill this, frack that, and strip-mine as you please. Water quality to be measured by stench. Scrubbers - huh? - we have some of the worst air quality in the nation.

Yep, Tennessee. Where a sudafed purchase requires a background check, and it's illegal to buy wine where food is sold.