GOP Race Down To Two Mentally Ill People, Person Who Lost Nomination Last Time

[PBass]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/whitehot-gop-race-down-to-two-mentally-ill-people,21196/

I love the Onion, it has better news coverage than the real news sometimes.

[elocs]

1. UnRec: true mental illness is not a joke and not a subject for comedy.

There are DUers as well as their family, friends, or loved ones who truly suffer from mental illness and it is not a term to be used in a clever attempt at scoring political points.

[COLGATE4]

4. Rec to cancel your unrec

[elocs]

7. Wow, good for you! Good news for me is that I will no longer see your posts. n/t

[RBInMaine]

5. Please drop the hyper-sensitivity thing. We are talking about WILLFUL nuttiness. They're NUTS !

[elocs]

8. Obviously if you knew ANYTHING about the truly mentally ill

you would never refer to an objection to making a joke of being mentally ill as being hyper-sensitive.

None of those people have been diagnosed by anyone as being mentally ill and there is nobody who can remotely make that diagnosis.

[ElboRuum]

10. All the world and its tribulation are stones upon which the comedian sharpens his tongue.

Reccing in concert with this sentiment.

[friedgreentomatoes]

12. oh c'mon!

dont you ever call or refer to somebody as "crazy" or "mad"? truthfully?

[KeyserSoze87]

The Idiot Trio

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Sounds like straight-up news to me N/T

[elocs]

6. Really? I missed the official diagnosis. Have a link? n/t

[tblue]

3. Lol! Getting nervous that they'll come up with somebody else.

I hope the Obama camp is ready to rumble.

[bornskeptic]

9. It is standard for Republicans to nominate the previous loser.

Reagan lost in 1976 and was nominated in 1980.
GHW Bush lost in 1980 and was nominated in 1988.
Dole lost in 1988 and was nominated in 1996.
GW Bush was the exception because there was no obvious successor from 1996.
McCain lost in 2000 and was nominated in 2008.
It's obviously Romney's turn.

[K8-EEE]

11. It seems if you look like geriatric Barbie and or Ken

Then you're a contender as far as the creepy old teabaggers are concerned. They're goin' for the You Gotta Purdy Mouf vote.

[Odin2005]

13. Unrec for insensitivity to real mentally ill people.

[golfguru]

14. Unreced for making fun of mental illness

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/04/us-europe-mental-illness-idUSTRE7832JJ20110904