He finally managed to say something so stupid that people on both sides of the aisles realized he's an idiot.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/huckabee-says-north-korea-has-more-freedom-than-u-s-twitter-explodes/

Also, if he turns out to be in need of a new job, I believe Dennis Rodman's old ambassador position just opened up.

Would he like a new citizenship? Would you like to send him to it via Boot Express?

• RE: Mike Huckanee achieves bipartisanship.,dabo, 01:00 PM, 04-13-14
  • RE: Mike Huckanee achieves bipartisanship.,Estee, 02:37 PM, 04-13-14
• on a related note,dabo, 11:39 PM, 04-13-14
  • RE: on a related note,Estee, 07:53 AM, 04-14-14
    • RE: on a related note,AyaK, 10:36 AM, 04-15-14
• about a man named Jeb...,dabo, 07:04 PM, 04-14-14
  • RE: about a man named Jeb...,AyaK, 10:43 AM, 04-15-14
    • RE: about a man named Jeb...,dabo, 01:44 PM, 04-15-14
      • RE: about a man named Jeb...,kingfish, 03:23 PM, 04-15-14
        • RE: about a man named Jeb...,dabo, 04:10 PM, 04-15-14
      • RE: about a man named Jeb...,AyaK, 03:27 PM, 04-15-14
        • RE: about a man named Jeb...,kingfish, 12:03 PM, 04-16-14
• GOP Thanks US Airways,snidget, 08:40 PM, 04-14-14
  • RE: GOP Thanks US Airways,dabo, 09:11 PM, 04-14-14
    • Although I do wish I could have been a fly on the wall,snidget, 09:18 PM, 04-14-14
• So I'm curious.,Estee, 06:52 AM, 04-15-14
• the 1950s called,dabo, 07:06 PM, 04-16-14

Freedom of what is the question. They do execute porno-fornicators there, after all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/12/cruz-and-paul-greeted-by-cheers-at-tea-partys-2016-warm-up/

There's an argument to be made that if you're in North Korea and you're attracted to Caucasian females, you're a sexual deviant.

Start the trial.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/carville-if-republicans-lose-2016-election-gop-will-be-extinct/

“Trust me,” Carville warned. “The party knows, and I use this word advisedly, that if it loses the 2016 presidential election, the Republican Party as we know it today will be extinct.”

lest anyone take this as alarmist, i would note that the Republican Party as we knew it in 1860 is extinct, the Republican Party as we knew it in 1904 is extinct, the Republican Party as we knw it in 1948 is extinct, the Republican Party as we knew it in 1976 is extinct.

I'll settle for the Tea Party as we know it today going extinct.

Honestly, right now, my forecast for 2016 is Democrat President (mostly due to poor extremist choice for the opposing candidate), GOP House & Senate, and the chance of Open Civil War II hitting thirty percent.

I've tried to keep out of political discussions, frankly because we don't have many of them and because they've always ended so badly here.

But Open Civil War requires something that people feel deeply about. Obama's blatant incompetence makes me feel more like we're in Robocop than in a politically-driven era. I mean, the fiasco in Ukraine (my goodness, I hate to discuss that when someone stuck a political slogan about that to this page) makes Jimmy Carter look competent by comparison . . . and yet 40% of Americans still support him, and Granny Warren, who is so radical that Lenin would be to her right, has about 50% support. It's not that America has radicalized; it's that lots of people just don't care, and they're willing to let radicals take over as long as they can watch the Kardashians in peace.

http://immigration.about.com/b/2014/04/14/jeb-bush-defends-his-comments-about-unauthorized-immigrants.htm

It seems there was one adult in the room and he said,

"The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally ... and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work, to be able to provide for their family, yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony. It's an act of love, it's an act of commitment to your family."

An actual statement of reality. From a Bush no less.

Of course, then all the snarling dogs leapt on him and dug in trying to rip him to pieces.

He's trying to talk sense to a group of people who treat Mike Huckabee (a person who believes "evolution" is a conspiracy by Satan to trick humans, on top of his North Korea quote) as if he's sensible.

Jeb said something that needed to be said, but few were listening. I didn't see this as the start of a "Jeb in 2016" movement, by the way; I rather saw this as tied into Mario Rubio's probable campaign. If Jeb has any sense (and he's always seemed to), he knows he can't be elected.

LAST EDITED ON 04-15-14 AT 01:55 PM (EST)

Well, if the talking heads have it right that Sec. Clinton is the annointed one for the Democratic Party, and she runs virtually unapposed in the primaries, that would leave room for centrists and some leftists to take the Republican ballots and support the adult in the room, whoever that happens to be. That still might not be enough to get himorher the nomination, but if heorshe can run strong and stay in it long enough to get some of hisorher thoughts across, that is a valid reason to go for it.

Historical note: In 1948 incumbent Truman was way down in popularity, it was virtually guaranteed he would lose the election to Dewey. What happened? Truman didn't run a campaign against Dewey, he ran a campaign against the whole Republican Party, specifically the do-nothing Congress in control of the Republicans at the time. Biggest upset in political history. It took Ike coming along four years later to breathe new life into the GOP.

It didn't hurt that the country was recovering from WWII, a costly victory led by FDR, a Democrat. I’m not sure what the national reaction was to Truman dropping the bomb, but I would assume that he received a lot of credit from a war weary nation for doing that. I'm surprised that the Republicans could have even been close in the 1948 election.

And, as I remember it, the fact that a Bush said that really shouldn't be surprising. GW advocated liberal immigration reform during his presidency, a move that was defeated by Democrats.

And the elder Bush actually has three Mexican American Grandkids, Jeb’s kids. Jeb’s wife is from Mexico.

The Bush’s immigration policies are probably at odds with a large part of the Republican party.

I would like to see him run. I wish his last name wasn’t Bush.

And what's this I hear about political discussions turning out badly here? I can imagine what you could be thinking of.

LAST EDITED ON 04-16-14 AT 00:26 AM (EST)

Actually, in postwar America FDR got all the credit, Truman got all the blame. Wartime severity measures expired and inflation spiked, the USSR took hold of every landgrab it could and Truman could only watch it happen, and things fell apart in Asia as the old colonial powers of Britain and France looked to the US to restore the old world order. Truman was so unpopular at the start of 1948 that a faction of Democrats approached Eisenhower (then whose political affiliations were undeclared) in the hope that he would campaign against Truman and win the nomination. Ike at the time was extremely popular, also got a lot of credit and none of the blame, could easily have defeated Truman and become President four years earlier, but for whatever reason decided to sit it out in 1948.

Truman had his work cut out for him to stay in the White House, and he set out on the famous whistle-stop campaign, giving brief speeches in every town at which the train stopped. "Whistle stop" was originally hurled at Truman as a criticism by the Republicans, that he would go to every unimportant place in the country to try to impress the yokels. Truman seized on that insult to tell the yokels: "Gosh, this is what they think of y'all." It was the "Give 'Em Hell" campaign, win or lose he was going to cause as many casualties as he could.

Brilliant!

And four years later Ike showed up as a Republican, the party so defeated that he might actually be able to change it for the better.

Salute!

http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/give-em-hell-harry-and-the-greatest-campaign.html

I'd be surprised if Hillary Clinton was the Democratic nominee, simply because of her age in 2016.

And I thought Obama's strategy in 2012 was running against the whole Republican Party. In fact, I think that was his strategy in 2008, as well. Just think of how many times he talked about W. during the campaign.

I think there will be some reluctance on her part, and I hope she doesn't run. But I can't see any other Dem. who has the support she does. There are a lot of people (most notably women) who have been waiting a long time for her to run.

Best realistic scenario: Biden getting the Dem nom

For posting a tweet with a picture that is not safe for anyone anywhere at any time for any reason thus giving the twitterverse a distraction that will make them forget all about anything anyone else ever tweeted.

Trust me, you do NOT want to google.

I saw the headline

US Airways Tweets Pornographic Plane-in-Vagina Pic at Angry Customer

and said, "Thanks, that's all I need to know." Like the other day I saw a headline

You Won't Believe This Conspiracy Theory About ...

and thought, "Good, I won't believe it, whatever it may have been."

When the @Midnight writers sat down to pitch "this happened on the internet today" for the opening bit of the show.

If anyone ever happens to throw a shoe at Rush Limbaugh and you're there to witness it, would you tell me if you think his reaction looks staged?

If it's a Democrat Conspiracy, he should be proud. Not only does it prove everything he's ever said and justify the execution of anyone who's ever voted to the left in their lives, but it means this administration is creating jobs!

...okay, so there's a chance the thrower did it for free...

to say women really want men to earm more than women