A) I remember that party and that kegstand ended poorly. There was a hospital visit the following morning for the poor guy (who shall remain nameless unless you name him).
B) Bill Richardson spoke at my college graduation, but I was too hungover to even listen.
3) I still can’t believe Mexico voted in a GILF.

I shall not name him because (1) he’s a lawyer and would sue me and (2) I don’t have a nickname for him. Well, I do, but it’s secret.

I imagine most of those online candidate calculators are rigged.

I also like Richardson, he has a certain everyman, blue collar feel to him that makes me think he won’t totally screw us. I’m supporting Obama, though. The man was president of the Harvard Law Review! He’s the man for his time and place. An Obama/Richardson ticket would make my day.

A better title for this post would have been “Don’t cry for me, Argentina.” No?

I’m still undecided and want to be open but yeah, I like Richardson for some reason. Probably irrelevant, though, considering he’s angling big time for the VP slot.

I said “slot”.

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I once attended a house warming party of people I didn’t know all that well. I got into it with a woman that works at the Heritage Foundation. Female Republicans are always more offensive to me. My evening came to a screeching halt when I started raging about back ally abortions and asking other party-goers why “people like her” were invited to said party. Apparently, talk about rusty coat hangers does not go too well with artichoke dip.

That’s weird, those conversations have always been pick-me-ups at the parties I go to.

Everyone I know who has taken the Candidate Calculator test has gotten Kucinich. If he can rig the primaries as well as he rigged the Candidate Calculator, all hail President Kucinich!

That’s because all your friends are liberal pussies like me whose politics gravitate to Kucinich. Damn it.

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Nothing about Kucinich’s FLILF wife?

Someone’s traded up.

The strawpoll one has a rotating selection of questions, and comes up with a different combination of them every time you take it. It has variously told me to vote for Dodd, Biden, and Romney depending on what questions I got.

The Candidate Calculator told me to vote for Mike Gravel, who sounds made up if you ask me.

You know who you get if you skip each question? Dodd. That says a lot, actually.

You’re allowed to vote?

Blue, who I have known since 2nd grade, is referring to his running joke of me being a foreigner. Though I became an American citizen when I was 15, he continues to think this joke is funny, not because of its substance, but because I used to get upset when he made it.

My arguments with republicans always end badly (badly meaning I get torn to pieces) because somehow they eventually find out I can’t vote.

That shouldn’t make any of your arguments any less valid. How do they turn it around on you?

I actually really like Mike Gravel. Even though he comes across as a cantakerous old man, he says things that need to be said.

Gravel was my second top match, so I guess I should start looking into him. But like JB said, his name just sounds made up.

in the end, though, does it really matter if your state (or commonwealth) has a really late primary? I really liked in ‘04 that we could choose our Democratic candidate, but all of the DNC reps were already slated for Kerry. so what was the point?

I got Tancredo on that first quiz too. What a crock.

The second quiz was much better, even though it felt like I was filling out a profile on e-Harmony. I got Obama, which makes perfect sense to me. Gravel, Kucinich and Richardson were my other top matches.

Just goes to show it’s fixed.

My evening came to a screeching halt when I started raging about back ally abortions and asking other party-goers why “people like her” were invited to said party.

behold liberal tolerance.
heh.

I came up with Gravel also. I had never heard of him, but the dude sounds like a badass:

http://www.gravel2008.us/bio

He also, at some point, had an awesome mustache.

Mine were worse. Far, far worse.

John McCain and Mike Gravel. What the fuck, dude?

Also, because I’m bored at work –

Um, didn’t Mexico vote in Calderon….which is a man?

And I took the Candidate Calculator again and STILL got Gravel, with Kucinich, Obama, and Biden behind him.

Sisco, it’s a joke about the Mexican president…he understood.

This is why inside jokes don’t work on blogs.

I got tancredo as well on the straw poll. I’m more likely to vote for Stalin. At least his name didn’t end in no goddamned vowel…

GO PATS!

Roissy, I tolerate R’s as much as you tolerate fat chicks.

BB –

My B.

At least you can vote. I’ve been in this country 12 years and I still am not a citizen and therefore cannot help choose who will pass laws that will affect me. Grrr.

But I’ll bet you can argue pretty vehemently.

“This is idiotic, since selecting a candidate because you like his haircut or you think he looks like a nice person is an absurd exercise in mindlessness.”

Right, because clearly we as a nation vote on intellect and aptitude, judging by the past eight years.

Also, turns out the guy running that second calculator website has a girlfriend who stutters. It’s very confusing. Once she closed his hand in the car door, and for the next three days was lamenting that she “hurt her VaJoeJoe.”

I grew up in Tom Tancredo’s disctrict — KILL ME. That man is hateful. So yeah, I go from him being my Congressman to having no vote at all. What’s worse?

Those candidate quizzes are always lame, but you know who else is lame? Bill Richardson. I really wanted to like him, but he has run a horrible campaign, imho.

It’s probably a good thing I can’t vote because I don’t know who I’d pick today. I am a pragmatist though (albeit one who worked for Howard Dean) so I would choose Hillary or Obama.

Yeah, that’s the problem, though, you have to put aside your belief system (ideally) and vote for the one who has the better shot. All this talk, from one perspective, of who to vote for will soon become irrelevant when it becomes clear that either Hillary or Obama will be the one with the better shot at the White House.

I stumbled on your article and when I saw the word “argentine” in the title I decided to read it. I am Argentine and I came to the US as a legal resident holding a Green Card. This happened 4 years ago. I can’t stand Republicans and I have always (even when living in Argentina) considered myself a Democrat. Still, I don’t think illegal immigrants should be granted citizenship. The whole structure of a nation (in terms of education, health, jobs, etc) are meant for those who are born there and for those that the nation chooses to invite to come over (like me). Illegal immigrants harm that structure. I don’t want to get into the moral aspect of this topic, meaning: how much illegal immigrants suffer while in their own countries and how much the developed nations (and this one in particular!) have helped in making that situation 1,000 times worse. That’s a different topic. From the legal standpoint, illegal immigrants should be deported. I would have never come to the US had I not have a Green Card in my hand. On a different note, even if you were on time, don’t vote for Cristina! She is “peronista”, just as harmful to Argentina as Republicans are to the US. Thinking it better, you are Jewish – I kinda doubt you’d vote for a “peronista”.

Peronista or not, I’d bury my face between her presidential funbags any ol’ day of the week!

Richardson ended up being my choice in the straw poll, which is funny since I wrote you today that I like him because of his international experience as ambassador to the UN and domestic experience as the Governor of New Mexico, but that I honestly know nothing about his politics and ideas.

Joe Biden was my result for the calculator test.

It’s nice to know that my views match-up with probable VP contenders.

Haba! Haba! Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is kind of hot.

I think come next November I will be voting for Michael Dukakis

I took that second quiz and I got Gravel, WTF!

Chris Dodd all the way, baby.

I was at first confused by your sentence “I don’t remember what I argued that now infamous night, but I’m pretty sure I threw out terms like “GOP scum”, “Fascist pig”, and “Look at that guy do a keg stand!”” until I realized how sad it is that in our current administration I wouldn’t be at all shocked if our pres *does* do keg stands.

Uh, is the person talking about illegal immigration kidding? Please? I just want to know his/her plan to a)deport 20,000,000 people b)fill the jobs and the gaps in the economy that would be left and c) repair the broken families that would be also be left.

You’re so sexy when you’re indignant.

Funbags!

lemmonex:
Roissy, I tolerate R’s as much as you tolerate fat chicks.

the difference is i don’t cloak myself in the righteous sanctimony of tolerance that is the hallmark of modern liberalism.
i’m proud that i don’t tolerate fat chicks. (though to be accurate i’m perfectly fine with fat chicks as friends).

princess:
I just want to know his/her plan to a)deport 20,000,000 people

ah, the old “it’s too broken to fix” argument.
deny employment. they’ll find their way back.

b)fill the jobs and the gaps in the economy that would be left and

those jobs would quicly be filled by native workers once the wages rose in response to the tightening of the low wage illegal labor market.

c) repair the broken families that would be also be left.

if you cross the border illegally, you are responsible for any family strife that may occur as a result of your lawbreaking ways.
or: bleeding heart arguments make for poor policy.

hey, someone’s got to bring the hate. i really miss those old blog wars between roosh and cpmc and that gay dude who runs some gossip site.

Actually, the term “modern liberalism” is a synonym of “social liberalism” that refers much more to Libertarian ideals than leftist or social democratic views.

Also, your argument in (b) assumes way too much about some conservative, idealized version of economic policy. It’s like assuming you can squeeze lemonade out of a grapefruit if the trees were free to grow them.

Never thought my blog would ever get this political. Let’s bring it back to hearting Alyssa Milano and saving ungrateful baby birds.

Tom Tancredo… This doesn’t surprise me. I’m sure he would enjoy hanging out in the “Europe” of South America with that rest of you xenophobic bastards.

At least that elf Kucinich has a hot wife…

Yeah… how did Kucinich land her anyway?

In the how-to book about becoming first lady, did she only read “Shack up with a candidate” and neglect to read the 2nd part - “…who actually has a chance at winning”?

I was also at said party. I enjoyed the crying republican very much. Oh, those were the days.

Hell, I’ll vote for Kucinich just because he’s a short guy with a taller, hotter, younger redheaded wife.