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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 07:30 PM
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Gary Bauer woulda been a much better President than Shrub
He is smarter, more honest, a proven leader, and loyal to the American People...

He got bumped off the stage during the campaign while flipping jacks in 2000,,,, was no small thing as he had to pull out shortly after...The death of a campaing by a fallen pancake

Gary was the man for the Pubs and they blew it by going with the Shrub....
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DemWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 07:56 PM
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1. yikes
Now just picture where we'd be now with Bauer in office... Gay's and Lesbians banished to some island, non-christians branded on the forehead, women locked in chains to avoid them getting abortions, our children being forced to praise a God they might not beleive in... oh yeah, whata frikkin picnic Murica would be...
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:23 PM
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10. The Pubs sure know how to pick their candidates
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 07:57 PM
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2. He's scarier than Bush!
Hardcore fundie.

McCain was the most tolerable of that sorry lot from 2000. Bauer and Keyes were the worst.
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redstateblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 08:30 PM
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4. Under Bauer Armageddon Would Already Be Here
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 01:52 PM
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32. McCain was the best out of the lot and that's not saying much.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 08:11 PM
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3. No 9/11 but the PNACers would have an easy time convincing Crusader Gary
Edited on Fri Aug-13-04 08:11 PM by oasis
that Israel needed protection from the evil muslims.
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arcos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 08:41 PM
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5. No need to convince him, Bauer IS PNAC!
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:21 PM
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8. Yep. With Gary Bauer in, the exact same "PERLE Harbor" scenario would have
...taken place.

Only possible difference is that Bauer might have invaded San Francisco before Iraq instead of Afghanistan. He wouldn't have had any problems with the Taliban, most likely.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:48 PM
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18. "Invaded San Francisco." that's a dandy.
:-)
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 12:07 AM
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21. Gary(Peter Lorry) Bauer is the epitome of the Pub Party.
Pro Short Term, Fuck Long Term........
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 08:59 PM
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6. Disagree in part and agree in part
I think Bauer is defintely smarter than Bush (who isn't?) and probably more honest (who isn't?). I know Bauer openly criticized Bush when he mocked Karla Faye Tucker. Bauer is an extremist and whackjob but at least he is consistent and true to his views and I don't think he's anywhere near the hypocrite that Bush is. I feel that George Bush only became a born again freak when he lost an early congressional election in his career in Texas in 1978 to an incumbent who used Evangelical culture against Bush. Bush realized he'd been out-folksyfied in that election and decided from then on to sound as backwoods dumb as possible and also to play up evangelical Christian values. Bush is all about trying to market himself as a compassionate conservative and likeable good old boy. Basically, I guess I'm saying that a right wing extremist Christian like Bauer who doesn't care who he offends would be better than a cynical and phoney fraud and liar like Bush ... but not much better.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:21 PM
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9. Shallow George iz def dumb and dumber than most folk.
and he has out folksy talked himself into the history books with more gaffes found on a giant tuna boat/

Gary was mentioned as evidence of how lame the Pub Party has become over the recent years....If it wasn't so serious with deadly consequences, these guys would be a huge JOKE
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:18 PM
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7. So, does this mean you'll be forming "Progressives for Bauer"?
kind of like the parody "Billionaires for Bush" group in NYC?

Theme music: what I always attached to him from the pancake-flipping campaign, "It's Hip to be Square" by Huey Lewis and the News.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:24 PM
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11. I wuz being semi facetious....Bauer the Flap Jack Master, Black Belt Level
LOL
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:37 PM
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15. And Bush* thinks *Kerry* does flip-flops?
Bauer is the Michelangelo of flip-flops.



What we really need is a Dem candidate from Hawai'i. That way, when the repuke cries "Flip-flop!", s/he can say "Out here we call 'em rubbah slippahs, lolo!" :-)
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:40 PM
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16. lol, we need a pigon speaking prez.....mo bettah, mo fun
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:25 PM
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12. NO! Bauer is much worse than shrub! Oooo, never thought I'd
say anybody was worse! Shrub is at least stupid and easily manuvered. Bauer woulldn't be pulled off track. Noooo, you really don't want him.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:25 PM
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13. A urinal cake would have made a better president than Bush*
eom
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Gryffindor_Bookworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:27 PM
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14. Best. Subject Line. EVER.
:yourock:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 09:43 PM
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17. CAN Bush makes Gary Bauer look REAL GOOD??? Yes he can!
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Logansquare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-04 10:07 PM
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19. Americans do not want a president who cannot flip a pancake
Lie, bomb another country, raid the treasury, drop your damn dog, but do not miss a pancake.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 12:03 AM
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20. LOL, I luv it....drop yo dog and get elected. Drop the jack? Hit the Road
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 12:13 AM
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22. Better president than Shrub?
That is not much of an accomplishment.
Koko the gorilla would be a better president that Shrub.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 12:39 AM
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24. Poor Bush, looks like shit, talks like shit, thinks like shit, and smells
like shit..and his base jus luv him......Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 12:17 AM
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23. Someone once described Bauer
Edited on Sat Aug-14-04 12:43 AM by kskiska
as resembling an "engorged sparrow."
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 12:40 AM
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25. Peter Lorry of the old flicks
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 02:02 PM
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26. Wasn't Gary the "Gland Draggin' " in the KKK?
Or was that Trent Twat?
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 06:54 PM
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28. Mr Twat a Grand Drag Dresser? That I dunno. Gary Bauer? Him
I suspect to be a Fundie Nut Case who cannot handle flippin jacks,,,but i have to think just might be able to run this country a mite better than Shrub.

After all, Shrub sat on the Hart Rudman thing for 8 months and did nothing to protect America. Gary woulda done better....I have ta think..
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 08:16 AM
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29. From the looks of the man Gawd had a hard on for Skeery Gary!
Gawd sure makes the GOPers stupid and UGLY!

I mean, Bin Laden or anybody else, wouldn't want to run into Gary in the dark! :scared:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 01:09 PM
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30. I have to admit the dude is bug eyed and skeery looking to the
point of using him as a Weapon of Mass Fear.

The Military oughta dress him up in some weird outfit and send him to the front lines to negotiate. The Iraqi Resistance would run for the hills.
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Moloch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-04 02:21 PM
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27. I disagree
Gary Bauer is part of the Jerry Falwell/Pat Robertson wing of the repug party. Women, Gays and anyone who is not fundamentalist Christians would fare very poorly under a Bauer regime.
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Dob Bole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 01:23 PM
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31. I met Gary Bauer!
When I was in high school, he paid our band to play at one of his events. (I think he considered running for governor at the time.) He came by and shook my hand, and he was oozing with fakeness.
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