The Last Time The GOP Cared About You

Another graphic telling it like it T-I-S is about the modern day Republican Party, the conservative movement and their anti-choice, anti-woman political agenda .

Saturday Sellout-Rep. Allen West

It's time to do another Saturday Sellout post, and this one features freshman Rep. Allen West (R-FL)

He was one of the two Negroes elected to Congress since JC Watts retired in 2003 and under the GOP label from Florida for the first time since Josiah T Wells left office in 1876. 

West is also the first Republican to join the Congressional Black Caucus since Gary Franks did so after being elected as a Republican in Connecticut in 1994 and left after being defeated in 1996...

Not that this cookie chomping knee-grow is wanted in it. 

Allen West served 20 years in the US Army, served in Iraq and a civilian advisor in Afghanistan and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the wake of an investigation into an interrogation incident in which his weapon was discharged involving an Iraqi in Taji, Iraq.

West has proudly called himself a Tea Bagger, denied they are racist and joined the Tea Klux Klan Caucus in the House.  He is a raving Islamophobe, hates on the Congressional Black Caucus, and makes regular appearances on Fox Noise. 

Another cookie chomper you peeps need to keep your eye on.

America, You Don't Need Another GOP Texas Governor As POTUS

Hey people, we Texans are trying to warn y'all once again just like we did in 2000 not to vote for a GOP governor from Texas.  Y'all failed to listen then and Dubya spent his mispresidency getting us into this mess that President Obama is valiantly trying to clean up.

This time we have somebody from Paint Creek, TX who is worse than Junior and has a 41% approval rating in the state he governs.

The Interesting Reason Michele Bachmann Can Win The GOP Nomination

Michele Bachmann won the Ames, IA Straw Poll last Saturday, which makes her the frontrunner in the chain of fools running for the GOP presidential nomination.  

There's still a long way to go before the calendar flips to 2012 and the February 6 Iowa Caucuses.   It's the first step on the long winding primary road that will eventually reveal the winner of the GOP nomination and the person standing in the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, FL in late August making their acceptance speech.

But if I had to place a bet right now on who would be the last person standing on that night, Michele Bachmann would be high on my list and here's why.


Governor Goodhair has a shot as well, but that's another post. 

One of the things Republicans have been short on in the last 30 years because of their increasingly racist and anti civil rights stances is making American political history with their candidacies.  

First woman nominated to become a vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket wasn't Sarah Palin, but Democrat Geraldine Ferraro back in 1984.   The first African-American to run a major political party?  Ronald H. Brown in 1988,  long before Michael Steele reached that milestone with the GOP.  First African American female senator? Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun in 1992.


And yeah, the big one, the first African American president and First Lady both have a Democratic label to them.  It's one of the reasons many GOP peeps are pissed at Colin Powell is because he didn't run in 2000 and give them the opportunity to claim that major first for themselves.

Well, they could nominate Mitt Romney, but let's be real, the GOP is not going to do that.  The evangelical wing can't stand him because he's a Mormon, believes he didn't do enough when he was governor of Massachusetts in their minds to stop gay marriage from happening, passed the universal health care law that was the model for the Health Care Act, and they like Gov. Goodhair.

So they'll take their next best historical option by by trying to grab the history that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton narrowly missed making in 2008 by nominating Michele Bachmann for the presidency.

If she does get it, don't be surprised if you see Bachmann nominate Herman Cain or Marco Rubio as her running mate and give the Repugs a two-fer in the history department since there has never been in American political history a POC nominated as a major party vice presidential running mate and they're cynical like that.

They don't have a facts based message.  The only thing they can sell is hatred of President Obama and the history to the voters who don't watch Fox Noise and are smart enough to know they GOP is all hat and no cattle.

Why No Michele Bachmann In My Shut Up Fool Weekly Nominees?

Got an e-mail from one of my readers asking why I haven't included Michele Bachmann's name lately in some of my weekly nominations for TransGriot Shut Up Fool Awards consideration. 

What I began doing during Oscar Week in 2010 was retiring certain people because they say stuff so ignorant and stupid on a consistent basis, I give them a Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Award and retired them from further consideration for the weekly awards unless they say or do something so breathtakingly stupid I just have to call them out on it.

Rush Limbaugh  won the inaugural Shut Up Fool Lifetime Achievement Award award in 2010 and during the 2011 Oscars I added five more people to that status.   One of them was FOX Noise commentator Gretchen Carlson's former babysitter, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) .   

So unless she says or does something on the GOP campaign trail I just have to call her out on, I'll just let the other fools get their well deserved time in the Shut Up Fool Awards spotlight.