BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Apr 09 - 01:21 AM

Nope. 101

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Apr 09 - 10:26 AM

102 Good!..You must have had an epiphany!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 10:42 AM

It looks like Palin is reving up to help Lisa Merkowski(sp?), so the will put the Republican women against the male Democrat in the Senate.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 10:54 AM

I don't understand, Rig. In what way is Palin "helping" Murkowski? At this point, Palin is in such deep doo doo in her own state she is in no shape to help anyone else.

And the male Republican representative in the House has come out to help the "male Democrat in the Senate".

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 01:26 PM

There was a headline on Yahoo yesterday that Palin was preparing to raise money for Murkowski, so it looks like the battle of the sexes--or genders if you'd rather. Traditional party lines have been blured.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Eb
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 11:16 AM

They are both Republicans, of course; evidently Palin wants to reassure Murkowski that she's not going to go after Murkowski's Senate seat. (Not that that would worry Murkowski much.)

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 03:00 PM

Yes, but Ebbie seemed to indicate that the Republican Congressman was supporting the Democratic Senator. I think that was the issue.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 10:37 PM

That Guest was me. My cookie crumbled.

Don Young, the Republican Representative, supports the Democratic view that Senator Mark Begich should not resign his new seat because of 'Uncle Ted's' misfortune. I don't know how Young feels about Begich further than that.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 11:06 PM

This is an uncharacteristically difficult thread to follow.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 11:27 PM

That may be my fault, heric. I tend to veer and lurch in conversation.

Although it's not my doing that 'buffoon' was used in connection with Alaska politics. (I do like 'bouffant buffoon' though!) Buffoon has a connotation to me that is applicable only in fairly specific cases and I don't think that it qualifies in Alaska.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 07:27 AM

I suppose the point is, the word "buffoon" relates well to the concept of the modern day American politician. Following that rationale, of course, if Alaska ended up without any buffoons at all, there wouldn't be anyone out there--or up there--to run for public office.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 02:20 AM

Rig, I tend to agree with you, that politicians are pretty much all buffoons! I think the better attempt to hide that fact, while running, the more 'electable' they are....oh, with one exception...Nancy Pelosi...she's an out front, flaming buffoon, and the morons up near San Francisco, keep electing her...It defies gravity!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 05:37 PM

If you got a Bagich, scratch it!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 09:44 PM

Good description of the senator - Bag Itch, I like it!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 10:27 AM

Rig, I will never understand you. Why are you slinging mud at Senator Begich? You know nothing about him. I have never met him but he has a good reputation in Alaska, and reputations count in a place as small as Alaska, population-wise.

So just knock it off. It ain't cute.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 12:04 PM

Okay, okay, I was just following up on the previous poster. Sheees!

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 12:22 PM

Art's take on things is a pithy pun. There is a difference, you konw.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 01:14 PM

Yes, but... In any event, he seems to have been placed there by the dark forces of evil, though he himself might not have been aware of it.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST, Eb
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 06:15 PM

sheesh

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 07:25 PM

Why else would Bush attorneys botch the prosecution so badly that Stevens was convicted when they certainly would have known their misdeeds would come to light in short order.

               Why did the Bush handlers want to get rid of Stevens?

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 12:37 PM

I don't know. Share your theories.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 12:57 PM

Actually, all I have are questions. If we were looking for conspiracies, one could be that somebody like George Soros, who participated so completely in getting Obama elected, wanted to be sure he had a friendly Congress, so he bought the prosecution in the Stevens case to ensure the outcome of the election. Of course, Soros wasn't the only well heeled Democratic Obama backer, so...

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 06:24 PM

Good god, Rig. You've got theories to fit either - and both -
side(s) of the aisle. Bit cynical, wouldn't you say?

'Twould be seemly if you came up with a reasonable rationale.

Subject: RE: BS: What if Alaska ends up with a buffoon
From: Riginslinger
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 07:05 PM

Well, the other rationale--the prosecution blew the case intentionally so there would be good grounds for appeal--is somebody else's theory. I didn't like it, but didn't want it go get left out.

                      It's hard to imagine that the prosecution did what they did for no reason. That would be the hardest theory to believe of all.