Ha Ha! Daniel Ruth's at it again. "Look! The Empress is wearing new clothes"

[madfloridian]

I don't alway read Daniel Ruth columns, his humor tends to be a little on the cruel side for me. But I don't mind at all when he goes after Sarah Palin. She is not qualifed to be running for VP of this country, and she is inciting to riot when she speaks.

In this column Daniel Ruth not only blasts Palin, but he takes some jabs at Hasselbeck and Britney Spears. It is good to see the right wing Tampa Tribune loosening up a little.

Look! The Empress Is Wearing New Clothes

Whew, if this sackcloth and ashes tour had gone on much longer, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would have shown up for her Tampa visit looking like Edith Bunker meets Ma Joad to try to convince everyone of her K-Mart blue light special tastes.

Well, with only seven days left in the campaign, it's entirely possible by the time we get to next Tuesday, Palin will be campaigning in a housecoat and slippers with curlers in her hair in a craven attempt to suck up to the mythical Joe Sixpack crowd.

It was probably just a teensy hint during her Sunday stop in Tampa that Palin, the GOP's answer to "What Not To Wear," was in something of a crisis management mode when she enlisted the help of Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who makes Britney Spears look like Sandra Day O'Conner, to introduce the Alaska governor. Hasselbeck is one of the chattering panelists on "The Spew," which offers all the intellectual stimulation of the Three Stooges eying a table filled with cream pies.

Donna Karan!

I like his ending paragraph.

No doubt if you are out of work, or living out of your car, or getting by on food stamps, Sarah Palin's only slightly used Fendi frocks will be an enormous comfort.

Ruth in an earlier column compared Palin to Florida's own daughter and crusader for the religious right movement. Her name is Ronda Storms. She once, perhaps unwittingly, tried to outlaw masturbation. Her bill did not pass.

Tampa Trib's Daniel Ruth compares Palin to FL Senator Ronda Storms

Role For Ronda?

In this community, it took a nanosecond after the announcement of Palin's veep pick for readers to start noting she was "...an Alaskan version of state Sen. Ronda Storms in every sense of the word," wrote hockeyray.

"Trying to pass Creationism in public schools, telling the local librarian either certain books need to be banned or the librarian gets fired, and there's also troopergate - very much like Ronda threatening the county staff to deny a permit to a bikini bar club she didn't like.

"Breaking the county charter meant nothing to Ronda as I'm sure the Constitution means about the same to Palin."

Who knows? If the McCain/Palin ticket gets elected, perhaps there would be a place in the new administration for Ronda Storms - Secretary of Pinched Harrumphing, perhaps?

You go, Daniel Ruth, these ladies deserve your calling them out. They are the type of the religious right that I fear will be causing a lot of problems in this country for decades or longer.

[flvegan]

1. Ruth is the ONLY reason to sully oneself with the Tampa Tribune.

[madfloridian]

3. Haven't read it in years.

I will run across good columns at other sites, but I seldom to the TBO site.

[WCGreen]

2. Some times I have trouble passing a lot of Pizza...

But to pass Creationism, well I'd need a lot of ExLax for that...

[madfloridian]

4. Funny.

:hi:

[madfloridian]

5. Today Daniel Ruth goes after John McCain. He is sparing no one.

Ruth excoriates McCain

It is probably a sign that things are hardly going gangbusters for your presidential campaign when your police escort is larger than the crowd of supporters who show up to cheer you on.

This had to be one of the dumber-than-a-box-of Brian-Blairs moments in this year's presidential campaign.

Republican John McCain is in the middle of a pitched battle with Democratic rival Barack Obama for Florida's 27 electoral votes. Every moment, every ballot is critical in the effort to win the state.

So what does McCain, who is quickly becoming the George Custer of modern American politics, do?

After attending a rally in Broward County, McCain, his entourage, his traveling press corps and his extensive security detail spent several hours traveling to the University of Tampa to appear at a contrived "For Your Eyes Only" national security briefing that was closed to the media, and attended by a small and somewhat bewildered invited guest list of hotsy-tot Republicans who had no earthly clue why they were there in the first place.

DOOMED!

[madfloridian]

6. Today he exposes his hate mail groupies. As only he can do.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/nov/02/na-there-was-that-time-in-athens/news-columns/

"And since Barack Obama has never called for the government takeover of the means of production and distribution of goods, the classic definition of socialism, I don't see how the term applies here. But perhaps pacfandave is a product of Florida public schools.

Oh, almost forgot, when this space took Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White to task for doing exactly the same thing the RNC did for Palin, using campaign funds to buy clothes, those columns were met with universal approval. Well, political double standards have always been fashionable."

More:

"This one had to do with a claim that Barack Obama would change the national anthem to "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing," as well as the suggestion the Democratic presidential nominee happily attended several flag-burning ceremonies. Sigh.

When it was pointed out to Neurohr that this piffle had been debunked repeatedly on numerous Web sites and that it might be a good idea for her to send out a subsequent e-mail correcting her willingness to be scammed, she declined.

"I don't believe I need to correct this," Neurohr wrote. "I've seen it several times."

You know, it's never too early to start drinking heavily."

[psychmommy]

8. i love hate email.

i read the comments afterward and they were great also. is florida gonna do it mad?

[madfloridian]

7. On a roll...today he calls out elections supervisor, Buddy Johnson.

Where was Buddy again?

"Ironic, isn't it, that the I-4 corridor, long regarded as vital to winning the state of Florida's 27 Electoral College votes, would also offer up the intriguing visual of spilled boxes containing the names of voters, registration numbers, precinct assignments, a survey indicating who the individual preferred in the presidential election and whether they might need a ride to cast their ballot today. Admit it, the minute you heard about this story, the first thought that crept into your head was - "Oh dear, what has poor Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson gone and done now?"

Paper Blizzard

After all, Johnson has been sort of the polling booth's answer to the bumbling Michael Scott of "The Office," haplessly lurching to one embarrassing boo-boo after another.

Somehow, it was irresistible not to imagine Johnson himself driving along I-4 in a Supervisor of Elections van and forgetting to close the back door, leading to a blizzard of paper covering the roadway behind him. And that explains why Johnson's office leaped into action, noting they had absolutely NOTHING to do with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents blowing in the wind on I-4 and knew absolutely NOTHING about who was responsible for the trash.

You do have to admit that if Johnson had indeed been at fault for the paper pile-up, the resulting tidal wave of files would have been at least several miles long. There are such things as standards, you know."

Hillsborough is one of four counties being monitored by the Department of Justice

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Thanks for posting this!