The RNC invites you to play along with debating Democrats.
By Jim Tankersley
You don't have to be a political junkie to endure another live televised primary debate tonight. You could be a college student, or a bored channel surfer, or anyone with a fridge full of beverages and a couch packed with friends ready to play a Swamp favorite: the debate drinking game.
When the Democratic contenders hit the New Hampshire stage at 9 p.m. tonight, break out your favorite malted barley or fermented-grape drink (for teetolers, the Swamp recommends whole milk; for vegan teetolers, spicy V-8 juice), and set up some simple rules for who drinks when.
You could drink every time, say, Barack Obama says "hope," Hillary Clinton says "experience," John Edwards says "worker" or Dennis Kucinich gets a chance to say anything. If you plan to drink once for every American soldier Bill Richardson accuses his rivals of wanting to leave in Iraq, we advise against driving home.
And if you're a more conservatively minded imbiber, the Republican National Committee is stepping up to make sure you don't feel left out. Just add your own drinking rules to the RNC's online Democrat-mocking game "Show of Hands," which it is advertising on New Hampshire web sites tonight.
The game, which you can play here, ridicules Democrats with questions including "Who has been rated as more liberal than Ted Kennedy?", "Who believes higher taxes are patriotic?" and "Who passed only one bill in the U.S. Senate, which dealt with the Congo?" Players rack up scores with each question, which come in handy when you're handing out V-8 shots every round.
Not surprisingly, the game comes complete with a button to click to donate to the national Republican Party. Presumably, they won't take kegs instead of cash, but you never know.
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Comments
I love it when Repubicans try to be "snarky", "cool" or "hip". Because it just ends up being a display of how far from it they are.
Posted by: kb | September 26, 2007 5:47 PM
Here is a drinking game... Lets do a shot everytime a republican says 9-11.
Oh wait... given the state of health care we better not.
Although it might explain how Bush got a second term.
Posted by: Carl L | September 26, 2007 5:50 PM
Carl L.,
My liver hurts just thinking about it.
Posted by: Doug Zook | September 26, 2007 6:24 PM
The all new, extra long, gut puking, bowel loosening, morale destroying, truth killing, character assassinating, money grubbing, erp inducing political season is beginning to produce in the body politic recurring waves of nausea and revulsion.
It's a bi-paritisan effort, of course.
I've said it before;
We may not yet know the names of the major candidates for either party.
Posted by: C.Morris | September 26, 2007 6:32 PM
That's funny since most of the Republic Party weenies (not Ron Paul) won't debate unless it's on their terms and in front of a pro-Republic Party crowd i.e. no blacks, no hispanics.
This is why Wingnut Nation is crumbling.
Posted by: John E | September 26, 2007 6:34 PM
I agree with KB. The republicans need to stick with the name-calling...humor isn't their best act.
Posted by: bill r. | September 26, 2007 6:49 PM
Glad the Republicans have found something usefull with they're time.
Posted by: Family Values | September 26, 2007 7:15 PM
The Shady Bunch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWq8J9Lrj98
Here's the story of a lovely lady named Rudy.
Who was bringing up three very lovely wives.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mothers,
The youngest one in curls.
Here's the story, of a man named Romney,
Who was busy with five boys of his own.
They were five men, living all together in a Winnebago,
Yet they still missed their mom.
Till the one day when this Rudy met this Romney,
And they knew that it was much more than a hunch.
That this group would somehow form a family.
That's the way we all became the Shady Bunch.
The Shady Bunch, The Shady Bunch.
That's the way we became the Shady Republican Bunch.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bayernyc/457518420/
Posted by: John E | September 26, 2007 7:18 PM
"MOVEON.GOP VS MOVEON.ORG"
HMMMMM WILL WE SEE 'SENSE OF THE SENATE' vote tomorrow on the Senate floor.
Its freedom of Speech no big deal, but the hypocracy from the GOP is astonishing at times.
We won't see a debate on the 48 fillibusters this year from the GOP. We won't hear about the THREE not ONE, NOT TWO, BUT THREE FILLIBUSTERS ON ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH OUR TROOPS IN IRAQ.
No the GOP debate will be who is coming out of the closet tomorrow? Which one will come out with the fact that they LIED AGAIN OR THAT THEY got caught in the park soliciting another grown man for his manhood.
But we will hear 'SPURIOUS ARGUMENTS" AS TO WHY CONDI RICE IS AVOIDING CONGRESS! WHY CONDI RICE HAS NOT SHOWN ANY DIPLOMACY IN IRAQ, IRAN, SYRIA, SAUDI ARABIA, ISRAEL, TURKEY OR ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET!
So I look forward to the next GOP we hate BLACK People and especially those damn Mexican Americans, Hispanics Americans. Oh yea, lets not forget, Jon Kyl and Joe Lieberman had a love fest in israel and now its time to bomb IRAN.
Satan is definitely working hard with all of his republican evil doers!
Joke Party!
Posted by: Roger Morris | September 26, 2007 7:34 PM
Amen, C. Morris.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 26, 2007 8:35 PM
You could play a Republican tea totaling drinking game:
Have a drink every time someone mentions Larry Craig. Of course, listening to republican candidates while sober is just too painful for most people.
Posted by: weinerdog43 | September 26, 2007 9:03 PM
There must be a full moon tonight. All the Lefty Loons are running rampant tonight.
Posted by: John D | September 26, 2007 9:15 PM
..."Here is a drinking game... Lets do a shot everytime a republican says 9-11."...
...OMG...no way...I haven't drunk that much since my Navy days (and nights)...
Posted by: The Original BZ | September 26, 2007 10:11 PM
There must be a full moon tonight. All the Lefty Loons are running rampant tonight.
Posted by: John D | September 26, 2007 9:15 PM
Look in the mirror freak!
Posted by: Anonymous | September 26, 2007 10:25 PM
Wow, what a reply there, anonymous at 10:25!!!! How much help did you get in thinking that one up??
Posted by: John D | September 26, 2007 10:52 PM
John D's hardly ever argues the point at hand, instead he demonises the writer with terms like LoonieLeft and if that does not work he uses a red herring to change the essence and direction of any discussion.
Ignoring his sputterings makes room for real dialoque.
Posted by: bd | September 27, 2007 2:47 AM
bd, sorry, but I debate the point at hand far more than the ignorants on the Left. Really, all those comments previously made by your ilk are "debating the point at hand"???
Posted by: John D | September 27, 2007 8:39 AM
I noticed the RNC game started off by spreading an outright LIE. Isn't that one of the Commandments? Can the Republican Party ever be honest? They even provide a link to supposedly prove that the candidates made the claims the RNC alleges. Clearly they are banking on their ignorant minions not reading or being unable to actually read the quotes that are twisted into LIES.
Posted by: jethro | September 27, 2007 10:11 AM
john d.
Your contributions in this thread prove my point. Again NOTHING of substance, just more LoonieLeft rants as usual.
If ignorance is bliss you win first price
Posted by: bd | September 27, 2007 10:53 AM
I'm w/Lil Johnny on this one. It was indeed a full moon, and we were running the table and all he did was point it out. Then Anon drops an ad hominem out of nowhere.
I don't agree w/him on very much, but fair is fair.
Posted by: weinerdog43 | September 27, 2007 11:12 AM
"There must be a full moon tonight. All the Lefty Loons are running rampant tonight.
Posted by: John D | September 26, 2007 9:15 PM"
At least they're not cuttin' and runnin' from backing up their own Swamp posts - unlike you, "the Joseph Stalin of Streamwood".
Posted by: BC | September 27, 2007 2:51 PM