Name a Democrat who embarrasses us like Bachmann, Palin, Gingrich, Santorum....

[Logical]

Christine O'Donnell, Cain, West, Etc. Even my republican friends can't name anyone except some unknown state senators, etc.
No one ran for president in 2008 as a democrat who embarrassed me with there stupidity. The GOP cannot say the same thing!

[DCKit]

1. Where Stupidity? nt

[HubertHeaver]

3. Over there.

Great big pile of stupidity.

See post #2. It contains two great big piles of stupidity.

[Tx4obama]

2. My LIST of nutty Republicans

Nutty Republican Women:

Sarah Palin (AK)
Michele Bachmann (MN)
Orly Taitz (CA)
Sue Lowden (NV)
Virginia Foxx (NC)
Jan Brewer (AZ)
Sharron Angle (NV)
Debbie Riddle (TX)
Nikki Haley (SC)
Christine O'donnell (DE)
Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Victoria Jackson
Ann Coulter
Michelle Malkin


Nutty Republican Men:

Glenn Beck
Rush Limbaugh
Mark 'Appalachia' Sanford (SC)
Rand Paul (KY)
Louie Gohmert (TX)
Carl Paladino (NY)
Jim DeMint (SC)
Rick ‘Syrup-Cuddlin’ Perry (TX)
Herman ‘999' Cain (GA)
Scott Walker (WI)
Steve King (IA)
Todd ‘legitimate rape’ Akin (MO)
Jimmy ‘The Rent is Too Damn High Party’ McMillan
Dana (dinosaur flatulence causes global warming) Rohrabacher
Donald Trump
Hank Williams, Jr.
Ted Nuggent
Stephen Baldwin
Jon Voight

[Logical]

8. I agree I left many off! n-t

[John2]

19. Well, you are just

making my point why I think this party is more dangerous to America than anythingelse. The Left is not crazy or radical. They are sane. The people that elected these people to office or holding any kinda power in Government have nothing to blame but themselves for the state of American Politics. They have elected a bunch of extremists to Congress.

[mrdmk]

58. The real problem is these folks keep on showing up on TV

Somebody with half of a brain shows up on TV maybe a quarter of the time.

Redefines the phrase, 'Idiot Box.'

[librechik]

4. Wiener n/t

[Logical]

9. Well, morally, not intelligence! n-t

[Motown_Johnny]

17. I strongly disagree

I think he got a bum deal. OK, so he sent some photos that maybe he shouldn't have. So What?!? Why is that anyone's business other than his, his wife's and the persons receiving the photos?


I honestly believe that this was only a big deal because it was new. Once this happens a few more times (and it will) it won't be such a big deal.


I am not embarrassed by him in the least.

[Go Vols]

24. His biggest problem

wasn't that he sent the pics,it was him lying about it.

I liked the man myself.

[krispos42]

36. We have to hold him to our values, not theirs

Because the only people they hold to their values are ours.


Unless he was shagging an intern or a foreign agent or something, let him work it out with his family. The next election is time to deal with his worthiness for office.


Mark Stanford secretly abandoned the state and didn't tell the line of succession of the South Carolina government where he was, what he was doing, or when he would be back. THAT is an offense worthy of resignation or impeachment or recall, not his infidelity.

[Thinkingabout]

54. But then you could add Spitzer John Edwards along Vitter and John Ensign.

Mostly some are just dumb when they open their mouths in the previous post. I am amazed at some of their statements. Don't forget the trees are just the right size some places.

[femmocrat]

5. Chris Matthews.

At least he used to be a democrat. He worked for Tip O'Neill, ya' know!

[BainsBane]

6. the closest would be

Edwards and Weiner, but that's not because of intellectual stupidity but rather poor character and idiotic tweeting.

[Logical]

10. I agree. n-t

[name not needed]

7. Mark Pryor, Max Baucus

[Electric Monk]

11. I wasn't very impressed with how John Edwards dealt with his wife (cancer) and mistress

and out of wedlock baby and all that drama. Not cool at all.

[former9thward]

12. Shelia Jackson Lee

She thinks Neil Armstrong went to Mars and that North Vietnam and South Vietnam are two separate countries that cooperate with each other.

[derby378]

21. +1

She doesn't play well with her staff, either, but damned if she doesn't get sent back to Congress anyway.

[cloudbase]

60. Yep.

She also voted for permanent normal trade relations with China because it would increase the opportunities for evangelizing there.

[KarenS]

13. Joe Lieberman comes to mind for me,,,,

but I guess he's an Independent these days




on edit: Add Zell Miller to my list too

[CTyankee]

18. only because DEMOCRATS in CT threw him OUT...

that bastid...he deserved everything he got. I was SO happy to vote for Ned Lamont over him...we tried to deny him that Senate seat. We CT Dems had HAD it with Joe...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. Someone named Mark Pryor but I don't think he rises (or sinks) to that level of stupidity. He also

doesn't seem to be anywhere near an attention whore as those mentioned by you.

[Tx4obama]

15. Two Democratics: Eric ‘The Tickler’ Massa (D-NY) and Rod 'The Hair' Blagojevich (D-IL)

[LeftInTX]

61. Rod 'The Hair' Blagojevich (D-IL)

Embarassing...........

[spanone]

16. don't forget louie gohmert, he ALWAYS deserves honorable mention....

[Demoiselle]

23. Gomert is a Republican, last time I looked...But, yes, incredibly embarrassing.

[spanone]

55. of course he is....i want him mentioned in any lineup of the loonies...

he could be king

[Demoiselle]

68. Yes. That's a good idea. He does have lot of loony pals among the Republicans, of course. nt

[lumpy]

39. Gohmert is a REPUBLICAN of the stupidest kind.

N

[Drale]

20. At this point I look at Nader as an embarrasssment but

even his stupidity pales in comparison with even the least nutty right winger.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

62. After he wrote Unsafe at Any Speed and changed the automobile industry,

he was instrumental in the passing of the following liberal/progressive legislation:
◦Clean Air Act
◦Clean Water Act
◦Consumer credit disclosure law
◦Consumer Product Safety Act
◦Co-Op Bank Bill
◦Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
◦Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
◦Freedom of Information Act
◦Funeral home cost disclosure law
◦Law establishing Environmental Protection Agency
◦Medical Devices safety
◦Mine Health and Safety Act
◦Mobile home safety
◦National Automobile and Highway Traffic Safety Act
◦National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
◦Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
◦Nuclear power safety
◦Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
◦Pension protection law
◦Safe Water Drinking Act
◦Tire safety & grading disclosure law
◦Whistleblower Protection Act
◦Wholesome Meat Act
◦Wholesome Poultry Product Act

Those who hate Nader can show their sincerity by driving without their seat belts.

[1KansasDem]

22. Hank Johnson

has a couple you can watch on Youtube.

[MrSlayer]

37. Only if you don't get what he's doing.

He's like the troll of congress. He uses absurdity and deadpan comedy to make points. He's actually rather clever.

[lumpy]

41. I am not convinced that Johnson is a clever comedian on seeing his ridiculous

so called comedy, he appears to be more like a serious ignoramous.

[MrSlayer]

43. You either get it or you don't I suppose.

I find him to be hilarious.

But it's all subjective.

[7962]

53. I live in Georgia.....

....And believe me, he is NOT kidding. He really is that dense. The only reason he's in office is because the district would have voted for anyone to beat Cynthia McKinney.

[Capt. Obvious]

25. Dennis Kucinich

That's what I hear from some members here.

[madinmaryland]

26. Jim Trafficant...

I think he has gone to the whackier side of Ron Paul these days!

[femmocrat]

63. Good one!

I had forgotten about that nutcase. Has he re-surfaced? I thought he was in jail.

[DesMoinesDem]

27. Rep Hank Johnson wondered if Guam could tip over from overpopulation.

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. John Edwards, but the party handles it differently.

The Democratic Party withdraws from them. Although his transgressions were ego-based and not so much stupidity-based.

[DJ13]

29. Rham Emmanuel

[graham4anything]

30. George Wallace, David Duke, and Ralph Nader(oh, wait...Ralph was a republican, I forgot).

[dawg]

40. Ol' George redeemed himself a little at the end there.

Complicated guy.

[lumpy]

42. There is nothing complicated about rampant racism.

n

[dawg]

44. Racism is simple and stupid. People, like George Wallace, can be complicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace#Final_years

"In the late 1970s, Wallace announced that he was a born-again Christian and apologized to black civil rights leaders for his past actions as a segregationist. He said that while he had once sought power and glory, he realized he needed to seek love and forgiveness.[note 3] In 1979, Wallace said of his stand in the schoolhouse door: "I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over."[4]
In the 1982 Alabama gubernatorial Democratic primary, Wallace's main opponents were Lieutenant Governor George McMillan and Alabama House Speaker Joe McCorquodale. In the primary, McCorquodale was eliminated, and the vote went to a runoff, with Wallace holding a slight edge over McMillan. Wallace won the Democratic nomination by a margin of 51 to 49 percent. In the general election, his opponent was Montgomery Republican Mayor Emory Folmar. Polling experts at first thought the 1982 election was the best chance since Reconstruction for a Republican to be elected as governor of Alabama.[citation needed] However, it was Wallace, not Folmar, who made the victory speech on election night.
Wallace's final term as governor (1983–1987) saw a record number of black appointments to state positions.[51] In his fourth term, Wallace became the first governor to appoint two black members in the same cabinet, a number that has been equaled but never surpassed."

[Walk away]

80. Anything to get re-elected!

It must have choked him.

[graham4anything]

46. NO. He did NOT redeem himself. There is nothing complicated at what he did.

wiki
In Wallace's 1998 obituary, The Huntsville Times political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign: "His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other GOP strategists. First Nixon, then Ronald Reagan, and finally George Herbert Walker Bush successfully adopted toned-down versions of Wallace's anti-busing, anti-federal government platform to pry low- and middle-income whites from the Democratic New Deal coalition."[13] Dan Carter, a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta added: "George Wallace laid the foundation for the dominance of the Republican Party in American society through the manipulation of racial and social issues in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the master teacher, and Richard Nixon and the Republican leadership that followed were his students."[14]

Wallace considered Happy Chandler, the former baseball commissioner and two-term former governor of Kentucky, as his running mate in his 1968 campaign as a third party candidate; as one of Wallace's aides put it, "We have all the nuts in the country; we could get some decent people–-you working one side of the street and he working the other side." Wallace invited Chandler, but when the press published the prospect, Wallace's supporters objected: Chandler had supported the hiring of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Wallace retracted the invitation, and (after considering Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders)[33] chose Air Force General Curtis LeMay of California. LeMay was considered instrumental in the establishment in 1947 of the United States Air Force and an expert in military affairs. His four-star military rank, experience at Strategic Air Command and presence advising President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis were considered foreign-policy assets to the Wallace campaign. By 1968, LeMay had retired and was serving as chairman of the board of an electronics company, but the company threatened to dismiss him if he took a leave of absence to run for vice president. To keep LeMay on the ticket, Wallace backer and Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt set up a million-dollar fund to reimburse LeMay for any income lost in the campaign.[34] At this time, LeMay was best known to the American public as an enthusiastic proponent of the use of nuclear weapons in war. Campaign aides tried to persuade him to avoid questions relating to the topic, but when asked about it at his first interview, he attempted to dispel American "phobias about nuclear weapons" and discussed radioactive land crabs at Bikini atoll. The issue became a drag on Wallace's candidacy for the remainder of the campaign.[35]

Further information: Southern strategy

[dawg]

71. Well, the guy did claim to have a change of heart.

Lots of people in Alabama were obviously willing to believe him. Your mileage may vary, but I think it is safe to say that people can learn from their mistakes and grow into something better than they once were.

[graham4anything]

75. No. Sorry.and I truly hate to start a beautiful Saturday morning off like this, however...

What if...
and I think it is a valid comparison as both did something specific against a people solely because of who they were-anyhow-
what if say Hitler lived on and in the last 10 years as he was getting old, he said he was sorry and all attempting to atone to God?
Ah, I think NO he would not be forgiven either.(to put it mildly).

Ron Paul, Rand Paul, David Duke carry on George Wallace's John Birch society legacy and it still resonates within the republican party and all the tea party.
And Ron & Rand's very similiar Austrian friend Jorg Haider, well, more need not be said.

...and well, remember racism stopped Jesse Jackson in his two runs (both of which I voted for) and later denied Jerry Brown from the nomination in 1992 with the smears that went against the person who Jerry had in advance said would be his vp, and that was Jesse Jackson. Therefore, the legacy of George Wallace was/is alive and well in the democratic party as recent as the 1990s, and is alive and well in the tea party/libertarian party/republican party today as we speak.

Oh but to wonder, what would have happened had Dr. King lived, and he himself in 1972 and 1976 ran for President or for Vice President. (perhaps with Ted Kennedy)
George Wallace most certainly would not have been for that.
George Wallace almost assuredly would be at home as an elder statesman in today's tea party.

[LeftInTX]

56. Dixiecrats don't count

Cuz then we gotta count Rick Perry

He was a Dem and he switched to R in 1989

[Ian David]

31. Marion Berry, Mark Weiner, and sometimes Dennis Kucinich, but bless his heart, he means well.

But our list is a lot shorter, less crazy, and a lot less mean.

[Wellstone ruled]

32. Here you go,

Jim Mathison from Ut Second. Now this is a real turd. And to think Obama appointed his brother to the Federal Courts.

[truebluegreen]

33. Darn near all of the Republicans embarrass me...

but I don't think any of them embarrass their own party.

And there's the problem in a nutshell.

[Ohio Joe]

34. Those people do not embarrass repugs... They simply pander to the repug base...

They are reflections of the crazy we face.

[rbrnmw]

35. Zell Miller, John Edwards, Joe Lieberman nt

[graham4anything]

48. yes, Edwards indeed was one of the biggest embarrasments of alltime.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. We've had a few sleazy characters and some goofballs, but

almost none of them are in office any more. I can think of a few embarrassments - John Edwards turned out to be a complete slimeball; Sheila Jackson Lee was pretty goofy; occasionally even Kucinich jumped the rails; and we've had some crooks, like Cong. William Jefferson, the guy who was hiding money in his freezer and Jim Traficant (who also had really weird hair). But I'm not aware of any high-profile Dem politician who reached the depths of weirdness and/or ickiness as dozens of GOPers who are still holding office. We have no equivalent of Michele Bachmann or Steve King or Alan West or Christine O'Donnell or any of the other current passengers of the GOP Clown Car. We don't have media people like Limbaugh or Beck - Matthews at his worst and most spittle-flecked doesn't even come close. There's just something about the GOP ideology that brings out the mean, dumb and crazy...

[tritsofme]

45. Cynthia McKinney is the only one that comes to mind.

But she is no longer in Congress, and no longer a Democrat. We are much richer for it.

Edit to say duh, how could I forget John Edwards?

[David__77]

47. Joe Lieberman.

He was much more dangerous to the U.S. when he was in the senate.

[rbrnmw]

50. I agree nt

[treestar]

49. None. Even the ones we have that do something wrong,

like Edwards or Wiener - it was their personal behavior, not that they said something absurdly outrageous politically, like Todd "legitimate rape" Akin. Or were stupid like Palin. In fact, most extreme sounding left wing positions are made up straw men, made up by Republicans.

[limpyhobbler]

51. Has anybody said Rahm Emanual, via "F-cking r-tards"? nt

[Tx4obama]

59. That is not what he said. He said THE PLAN was F'ing R*t***ed

He did NOT call any 'person' that word.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

64. Actully, he called liberal activists "fucking retarded."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

[Tx4obama]

67. He was referring to their PLAN

From your wiki link above, a link in the footnotes: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/02/rahm-apologizes-for-privately-calling-liberal-activists-retarded/

Feb 2, 2010

-snip-

Last August, Emanuel "showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides," the Journal's Peter Wallsten reported lastTuesday."Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul. 'F—ing retarded,' Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items."
-snip-

-snip-
January 26, 2010

The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul.

"F—ing retarded," Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items.

-snip-

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808904575025030384695158.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines#printMode

He did not call 'them' that, it was the plan he was bashing.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

69. No. From your own material: "'F—ing retarded,' Mr. Emanuel scolded the group ..."

[Tx4obama]

70. He did not say 'YOU'RE ' or 'you all' or 'youse guys are'. And the R word ended in 'ed' not a 's'.

When the story broke it the media was said it was THE PLAN he was talking about.

Then the spinsters and Palin changed the talking points to say that he called 'people' that word.

I remember it all very well from when it happened. I was paying attention.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

73. There are many dictionaries on the web and elsewhere.

Those dictionaries define the word "retarded" as an adjective related to persons.

None of them define the word "retarded," or the phrase "fucking retarded," as referring to a plan.

Rahm used the phrase as an insult in exactly the way that he used it.

Your excuse for him doesn't work.

[tritsofme]

78. And he was absolutely correct, it was an accurate description

of those groups.

[Whisp]

52. Slobberman Lieberman, when he was a dem. n/t

[patrice]

57. Kucinich. I'd say Greenwald, but he's not a Democrat. nt

[AnotherMcIntosh]

65. Include this guy:

[Warren DeMontague]

66. Isn't Lyndon LaRouche technically a Democrat?

He's nuttier than an almond joy.

[chelsea0011]

77. I was just going to list him. His people are still around with the Obama as Hitler

posters. LaRouche stole the Democratic name. He is a DINO.

[0rganism]

72. sadly, my former rep David Wu became a laughing stock before he quit

I liked him a lot, and his staff actually helped out my wife, who was born in Nigeria, get a copy of her birth certificate.

He will forever be remembered for his tiger costume

and his Klingon speech (which I tend to agree with, in spirit)

and sexually assaulting minor relatives of campaign contributors
and some really shitty driving.

So yeah, he was an embarrassment. Difference is, of course, he quit.

[Warren DeMontague]

74. Wu needed to go, for sure. But I still felt like the Oregonian had it out for him.

When the sexual harassment of a minor shit happened, it was like, okay yes~ please, face the music... and obviously he had some mental, er, problems before that.

But I thought the thing about the Tiger Costume, in particular, was unfair. People dress up for Halloween, big deal. But they used it as "look at the crazy congressman in the tiger suit". Like he was wearing it to work.

It reminded me of how the SF Chronicle railroaded Kevin Shelley out of the CA SOS office; which, to my mind, smelled at the time like retribution for his going after Diebold.

[Recursion]

76. Fred Phelps, sadly (nt)

[YeahSureRight]

79. All the DLC, 3rd Way, Corporate Dems

The DINOs are a total embarrassment to the Democratic Party.

No different then the Dixiecrats if you ask me they belong in the GOP not in the Democratic Party.

[Honeycombe8]

81. Weiner. nt

[DefenseLawyer]

82. Sociopaths are incapable of embarrassment

Being an embarrassment isn't a problem if you are a Republican.