Idaho Republican inspired by Obama?: The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted May 25, 2010 12:49 PM
The Swamp

by Kathleen Hennessey

In another year, we could all be forgiven for not following the GOP primary in Idaho's 1st congressional district. But true junkies have been watching -- and cringing.

For the rest of you, an update: The gaffe-prone campaign of Republican candidate Vaughn Ward stumbled into another one yesterday, the day before the primary.

Ward, a GOP operative who ran the McCain-Palin campaign in Nevada, sounded a lot like Barack Obama in his announcement speech. Too much like Obama, says a conservative blogger who accused Ward of plagiarism. Was the speech a gesture of bipartisanship? No, Ward's campaign tells POLITICO it's a sign he's winning and under attack.

This comes after Ward described Puerto Rico, the birthplace of his opponent, as a "country." When corrected, Ward said, "I really don't care what it is. It doesn't matter."

The former Marine also took heat for cribbing portions of his website from other political candidates, and admitted to posing with someone else's pickup truck in a campaign ad.

Still, Sarah Palin has endorsed Ward and campaigned for him in the district. But the Tea Party vote appears to be split. Tea Party Express, a national group run by Sacramento consultants, is supporting the Democrat in the race. The Boise Tea Party has endorsed Republican Raul Labrador.

Idaho Republican will decide today.

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So this Repug cheater thinks Puerto Rico isn't part of America?


I'll bet he takes his geography and history lessons from Sarah the Quitter. He copys Obama's words - did he get hit in the head by one of Bachman/Palin/Becks death panels?????



What I want to know is how is his stall stance,
Toilet Romeo
St. Paul Minn,


Are we supposed to be surprised by anything these ignorant, illiterate morons like Sarah Palin and this clown Teabagger Republican from Idaho say or do?


We already knew that these Teabagger goons were ignorant bumbling fools. The hilarious part about this is that the Republican Party continues to push them out into the fore front.



Here's a little news story that the mainstream media chose not to report. Members of SEIU demonstrated outside of the home of the Bank of America CEO. Nobody in the mainstream media points out that this union has to repay a $90 million loan from Bank of America that was used in large part to finance Obama's presidential campaign. Nor was it reported that DC police escorted the buses carrying the union members to Maryland. Here is something else. Private pay since Obama talk office has fallen but, government pay and handouts have soared. It would seem Obama's socialist program is working and the redistribution has begun.


Let's see they have their own national flag and national anthem. They are not a state and have no vote in Congress. They are a commonwealth but not in the same fashion that Kentucky is. The majority of Puerto Ricans do not want to be part of America but still want all the benefits of America. So depending on who you talk to in Puerto Rico they are part of America and they are not. Each time they are asked to vote on becoming a true state they have voted no. I say cut them loose and see what happens. There will be a few billion dollars a year in savings of taxpayer dollars.


Well, it doesn't really matter to me if Ward plagiarized his speech. I'd forgive him for that -- live and let live, I always say. I also don't care that he called Puerto Rico a "country" rather than a territory because that probably was truly a misspeak (misspeak? misspeech?) done in the excitement of the moment. And I'm sure he didn't intend any of the dismissive callousness, arrogance and possible bigotry (referring to the status of Puerto Rico) so strongly indicated in "I really don't care what it is. It doesn't matter." Anybody can get flustered and say things that people will misconstrue.

Unfortunately, Republican standards, based on what they said about Democrats who apparently did these things previously, dictate that anyone who plagiarizes or isn't able to speak of U.S. geography (not to mention deciding it "doesn't matter") is automatically too dishonest, stupid and contemptible to be considered for office. I'm not sure, but I THINK it also means he should be flayed alive and thrown to wild animals to devour (I could be wrong on that -- I'm only gleaning from what the Republicans SEEM TO HAVE WANTED to have happen in the past). The judgment is simply out of my hands and I acquiesce to the Republicans themselves as higher authority on all things moral and good on this matter, as they'd be sure to claim anyway.

Perhaps when he produces the ORIGINAL (no copies allowed!) documents proving he's 25 years old and that he's been a citizen for 7 years, somebody will find he's unqualified on that count and we'll all be saved further argument.


Two interesting things out of this article. First it appears that Vaughn Ward seems to have cribbed and plagiarized from speeches of President Obama. Maybe he is a Democratic operative because he plagiarized in the fashion of the Late Senator Ted Kennedy and Vice President Joe Biden. The second interesting thing in this story is that maybe the Tea Party movement is split. One faction of the Tea Party is backing a candidate in the Democratic Primary. Very Interesting!


Has he been able to travel to all 57 states?


He's what's known as "genuine" in right-wing world.


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Maybe he is a Democratic operative because he plagiarized in the fashion of the Late Senator Ted Kennedy and Vice President Joe Biden.
Posted by: depot jim | May 25, 2010 3:40 PM
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Jimmy,
Your false equivalency games are a joke. The Republican party of today (2010) is made up of middle aged, white, paranoid self-pitying people loaded with rage and whack-a-doodle grievances. And mean pinch-faced church-going bigots who issue euphemized putdowns of minorities and gays under the guise of "taking their country back".


If you want to keep fooling yourself into thinking that both parties are equal in this day of the far right Teabagger simpletons, then you are as dumb as the Teabaggers who make up the base of your beloved Republican party.



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Nobody in the mainstream media points out that this union has to repay a $90 million loan from Bank of America
Posted by: CrooksInDC | May 25, 2010 2:33 PM
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Clown in DC,


So they took out a loan......and then proceeded to pay it back in full.


Big. Freaking. Deal.


And as for campaign donations, Big Oil spits out millions to whoever the Repug candidate is every four years (last time Grampy McCain). I'm guessing that you're ok with that though, right?


The fake outrage from the Right Wing Noise Machine and their wingnut minions (you) is hilarious.



So canidate Vaughn Ward went to the Joe Biden school of political speech, what's the problem? Let's ask Neil Kinnock


Minnick = DINO


So the Republicans are FINALLY admitting they’re OUT OF IDEAS and asking the public for input. Here’s my advice… if you want the Republican Party to make a comeback then QUIT being HO’s for those vain, self-serving, power mad, greed stricken silver spoon con artists that are running the multi-national corporations. Make Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Phil Gramm and those Conservative think tanks ADMIT they sold out the American middle class with the hidden legislation of the 90’s.

SOMEONE take responsibility for the Bush/Cheney DISASTER. Fess up to all the waste, fraud, abuse, scandal, sexual deviancy, corruption, lies, deregulation, incompetence, job outsourcing, off-shore tax evasion, reckless economics, corporate welfare, war profiteering, Constitutional violations AND a Corporate Crime Wave of epic proportions. The WORST looting of a nation’s wealth and resources in the history of MANKIND!

And even after the American PEOPLE were just starting to recover then the ghost of Bush/Cheney oil drilling deregulation comes back to haunt the Gulf coast Red States. Y’know, those right-wing nutcases were chanting “drill baby drill” and get the government outta of their lives like they belonged to a fanatical cult. NOW these hypocrites are blaming Obama/Biden for not saving them from BP’s oily disaster.

Bad timing huh? I’m still going to support Obama and the Democrats ONLY because the Republicans/Conservatives are #*~/’n INSANE! That oily disaster in the Gulf was NOT AN ACT OF GOD! It was the result of incompetent, scandalous government bureaucrats allowing the Oil Drilling Industrial Complex to cut corners… Collusion/Collaboration BETWEEN the Oil Industry and Federal Regulators? WHAT THE #*/!

The Republican/Conservative culture didn’t take the time to consider our coastal borders could be breached, people misplaced and natural environment destroyed for decades. All those tax dollars put into Homeland Security and we let BP, Halliburton and TransOcean do the equivalent of nuking the whole Gulf region of our nation. Oil radiating around Florida to reek havoc on the entire East Coast. AND FORGET ABOUT EATING THE SEAFOOD! AaaaaGgggggghhhhhhgggeerrr! #^*~’s

Remember when the Soviets used to say “America would be destroyed from within”? Who knew it would be the Republican Party to make the Commie’s dream come true.

Is there REALLY Americans out there who were ignorant enough to vote for these Republican LOSERS?

I’m going to make sure the history textbooks show what a bunch of silly stupid, self-absorbed, victimized, apathetic COWARDS you Conservatives wackos turned out to be (1980-2010)

NOTE: I see 7 environmental activists were arrested in Port Fourchon, LA. So let me get this straight, those flunkies in law enforcement arrest American citizens who WERE RIGHT about off-shore drilling. But BP’s bonny Prince Tony Hayward, who oversaw the destruction of the entire Gulf Region of the USA, is still free and allowed to BS those HO’s in the mainstream media, OK? AND all those slimy inspectors taking industry kickbacks/perks are still walking free? Something STINKS! ? CAN YOU SAY CORPORATE OWNED POLICE STATE?

If one really thinks about it… had right-wing morons/dittoheads listened to Greenpeace instead of that loudmouth Rush Limbaugh YOU WOULDN’T BE IN THIS MESS! Right

consciousmc.blogspot.com


Jimmy,
Your false equivalency games are a joke. The Republican party of today (2010) is made up of middle aged, white, paranoid self-pitying people loaded with rage and whack-a-doodle grievances. And mean pinch-faced church-going bigots who issue euphemized putdowns of minorities and gays under the guise of "taking their country back".


If you want to keep fooling yourself into thinking that both parties are equal in this day of the far right Teabagger simpletons, then you are as dumb as the Teabaggers who make up the base of your beloved Republican party.

Posted by: HHH | May 25, 2010
5:05 PM

HHH, The hate, name calling and bigotry that you always throw at anyone that does not hold you political beliefs seems to be coming from people like you on the Far Left Wing of the Democratic Party. I know a lot of real Democrats and real Liberals and I know they do not hold your bigoted beliefs. Many of my Liberal friends are very intelligent people and they do not resort to bigoted name calling in discussions.

I am curious if The Swamp will print my post because it seems they are only printing Posts from the Far Left, especially two people.


And our moron President thinks we have 57 states and has been to 56 Bwaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! So this Repug cheater thinks Puerto Rico isn't part of America?


Posted by: Repugtard | May 25, 2010 1:59 PM


And 31K brain-dead Idahoans still voted for this fool.


We know how much the L-MSM likes to misquote Republicans, but say it ain't so, Joe.


One Mustapha is already too much. I absolutely could not take a Republican Mustapha, IF one DID exist. This would be RINO-ism squared and perverted, and then turned loose on the innocent. We have been abused enough already. NO. Tell me No, no.


ID, IF this were true, and when the L-MSM is involved the question does need to be asked, then be like TX and know what you have to do on coming-out day. The Left is the sole proprietor of radicalism mixed in with a dose of stupid. Leave their domain intact for their perverted affairs.


you are as dumb as the Teabaggers who make up the base of your beloved Republican party.


If you want to keep fooling yourself into thinking that both parties are equal in this day of the far right Teabagger simpletons, then you are as dumb as the Teabaggers


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