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You are here: Home / Politics / Republican Stupidity / Stay Classy, Mitt Romney

Stay Classy, Mitt Romney

by John Cole|  October 16, 20071:55 pm| 53 Comments

This post is in: Republican Stupidity, War on Terror aka GSAVE®, Assholes

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And the race to the bottom continues for the Republican candidates, as each tries to out-Bauer the other:

Retired General James “Spider” Marks, who has just been named a new national security adviser to Mitt Romney’s campaign, asserted in a 2005 interview that he would readily torture prisoners to save a soldier’s life or stop a terror bomb, saying: “I’d stick a knife in somebody’s thigh in a heartbeat.”

Unimpressed, Rudy Giuliani immediately released a press statement stating he would “skull fuck a kitten to death in order to save a soldier.”


Adorable jihadi kitten before advanced interrogation techniques.


Jihadi kitten after weeks with “Spider” Marks.

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  1. 1.

    Wilfred

    October 16, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Unimpressed, Rudy Giuliani immediately released a press statement stating he would “skull fuck a kitten to death in order to save a soldier.

    Someone pass me the mental WhiteOut, please.

  2. 2.

    RSA

    October 16, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    “I’d stick a knife in somebody’s thigh in a heartbeat.”

    This is just a watering down of standard Republicanism, in which you stick a knife in someone’s back without a second thought.

  3. 3.

    chopper

    October 16, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    maybe the back of the thigh? get a two-fer?

  4. 4.

    David Hunt

    October 16, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    Good Lord! What have they done to that Chihuahua?!

  5. 5.

    Cyrus

    October 16, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    Unimpressed, Rudy Giuliani immediately released a press statement stating he would “skull fuck a kitten to death in order to save a soldier.”

    Oh, please. Do you think he would bother waiting for an excuse?

  6. 6.

    jenniebee

    October 16, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    It’s twoo, it’s twoo! Bill Frist gave him the kittens! I saw it!

  7. 7.

    Zifnab

    October 16, 2007 at 2:31 pm

    Skull fuck a kitten to fight terrorism?

    Why yes, I’d do it then, too.

  8. 8.

    norbizness

    October 16, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    Milhouse: Come on, Bart. You’re gonna make me a print (of the Homer/Princess Kashmir photo), aren’t you?

    Bart: Will you swear not to let another living soul get a copy of this photo?

    Milhouse: O.K.

    Bart: Cross your heart and hope to die?

    Milhouse: Yup.

    Bart: Stick a needle in your eye?

    Milhouse: Yup.

    Bart: Jam a dagger in your thigh?

    Milhouse: Yup.

    Bart: Eat a horse-manure pie?

    Milhouse: [gulps, pauses] Yup.

    (emphasis added) All I’m saying is, get a piemaker over to a stable and get them to work. Our soldiers, imperiled by TERROR BOMBS, deserve all the protection they can get.

  9. 9.

    Tsulagi

    October 16, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    These guys are beyond Planet Farce. Mitt The Hairsprayed Lifelong Varmit Hunter dressed in magical underwear who aims for a hole in a sheet at night to hit paydirt, dreams of being a penile implant for Gitmo. “Golly, gee fellow mollies I’d DOUBLE THE SIZE of Gitmo.” The Malkinettes go wild.

  10. 10.

    Dreggas

    October 16, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    I don’t know if the Original Post is the POTD or if this is:

    David Hunt Says:

    Good Lord! What have they done to that Chihuahua?!

  11. 11.

    CT Voter

    October 16, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    Is a “terror bomb” somehow more dangerous than a garden-variety bomb? Perhaps there are nooooances we are missing here. Maybe the extra special really scary “terror bomb” demands a special response.

  12. 12.

    Evinfuilt

    October 16, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    OMG, that second cat looks like Blofeld. “No Mr. Puppy, I expect you to die.”

  13. 13.

    qwerty42

    October 16, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    Someone (I don’t know who, maybe Sullivan, maybe here, hell,maybe Wonkette) has mentioned that some headlines are sounding as if they had been written at The Onion. It is true they are absurd, but seeing some of the real headlines is actually … disturbing. It is as though children (or very childish people) were actually running the government … oh wait …
    And then there’s Jonah Goldberg positing the benefits of an attack on the Soviet Union after WW2.

  14. 14.

    Rick Taylor

    October 16, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    But,but, but, Hillary refused to deny Sandy Berger was an unofficial advisor to her campaign!

    *sighs*
    And Romney was the Republican I said I was going to vote for if someone put a gun to my head and said “choose one.” Of course he also said we should double Guantanomo.

    I still think Romney is an insincere fake who talks tough to get elected, while Guiliani is the genuine article. Give me the slippery fake any day. ^^

  15. 15.

    Helena Montana

    October 16, 2007 at 4:06 pm

    We had the slippery fake in Massachusetts. You can have him.

  16. 16.

    jcricket

    October 16, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    “I’d stick a knife in somebody’s thigh in a heartbeat.”

    “I’d personally rub salt in Graeme Frosts wounds if it would help avoid Hillary pushing her SOCIALIZED MEDICINE on us”, Michelle Malkin, yesterday.

  17. 17.

    jcricket

    October 16, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    And then there’s Jonah Goldberg positing the benefits of an attack on the Soviet Union after WW2.

    What was that line about generals always fighting the last war? That apparently goes triple for the 101st Fighting Keyboard Kommandoes.

    These jackoffs couldn’t even win at Risk.

  18. 18.

    RSA

    October 16, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    Skull fuck a kitten to fight terrorism?

    Why yes, I’d already do it then, too.

    Fixed.

  19. 19.

    Cain

    October 16, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    OMG, that second cat looks like Blofeld. “No Mr. Puppy, I expect you to die.”

    Actually, that was Goldfinger who said that not Blofeld. :D

    cain

  20. 20.

    whippoorwill

    October 16, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    Bring it on.

    Mitt -Thunderdome. How do I get in there?
    Aunty Entity: That’s easy. Pick a fight!

    Thunderdome, Thunderdome, Thunderdome, Thunderdome Thunderdome

  21. 21.

    Dulcie

    October 16, 2007 at 4:43 pm

    These jackoffs couldn’t even win at Risk.

    Heh!

  22. 22.

    David Hunt

    October 16, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    Dreggas,

    I can’t really take credit for the Chihuahua joke. David Letterman adlibbed that line on his show twenty+ years ago. He had a bat scientist (I don’t know the proper title for that field) on and the fellow had several bats with him that he brought out the intersperse with some interesting bat stories. The last one was, IIRC, a fox-bat that was the size of a small dog. Letter took one look at the thing that was hanging on the scientist’s arm looking at him and said:

    “Good Lord! What have you done to that Chihuahua?!”

    At which point the bat instantly became a weird mutant Mexican Hairless in my mind’s eye. I imagine that the world became a brighter place fromthe million+ people simultaneoulsy laughing at the same thing. It as that funny. It’s stuck with me ever since. I’ve told this story to friends many times, but I never dreamed I’d get the a proper setup to re-use it properly.

    John Cole will surely get one thousand years off any time in purgatory for setting up a situation where I could use that line in “conversation.”

  23. 23.

    Keith

    October 16, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    Unimpressed, Rudy Giuliani immediately released a press statement stating he would “skull fuck a kitten to death in order to save a soldier.”

    That reminds me of the most hilarious line I’ve ever read from the Onion (along the lines of “so offensive, it’s hilarious”:
    “They say we get the government we deserve, but I don’t recall ever knife-raping any retarded nuns.”

    2nd place is “Special Olympics T-Ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game” but it lacks the grotesque hilarity of the former.

  24. 24.

    Ugh

    October 16, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    Oh hai. You can has my wallet.

  25. 25.

    Rick Taylor

    October 16, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    I keep remembering Tim’s line:

    Every day I remind myself that somebody has to win the GOP nomination.

  26. 26.

    Zifnab

    October 16, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    So… for a good time, Google the phrase “Skull fuck a kitten”.

  27. 27.

    jcricket

    October 16, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    Oh hai. You can has my wallet.

  28. 28.

    jcricket

    October 16, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    Oops, forgot this link

  29. 29.

    Rick Taylor

    October 16, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    Oops, forgot this link

    Lol! Thanks, I needed that.

  30. 30.

    Dreggas

    October 16, 2007 at 6:18 pm

    BTW if this is all it takes to get the gooper nomination I hereby declare that not only am i unopposed to knifing people in the thigh but I will also participate in a raucous round of seal clubbing after which I will skull fuck 5 kittens in a row to celebrate while biting the heads off of smalle furry forest creatures and bathing in their blood.

    I however promise I will not be caught harrassing young men on the internet, tapping my foot in a restroom or getting my meth on while getting a “massage”.

  31. 31.

    jcricket

    October 16, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Lol! Thanks, I needed that.

    This one is even funnier

  32. 32.

    Sirkowski

    October 16, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    Here’s a question I would ask the Republicans.

    Would you have sex with a man if that would stop a terrorist attack?

  33. 33.

    jake

    October 16, 2007 at 6:58 pm

    There’s worse things than terror bombs.

  34. 34.

    jcricket

    October 16, 2007 at 7:01 pm

    Would you have sex with a man if that would stop a terrorist attack?

    Two comments:

    1) Why do you assume they’re not doing that already.

    2) Is this the new excuse Republican party activists will start using when caught with TEH GAY? I was trying to stop a terror attack?

  35. 35.

    David's Hasselhoff

    October 16, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    Would you rape a hooker to save a bus load of nuns?

    I can’t remember where I heard that one but it sums up the absurdity of the ticking time bomb scenario nicely.

  36. 36.

    Krista

    October 16, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    Would you have sex with a man if that would stop a terrorist attack?

    I would give my front teeth, my back teeth, and John’s teeth for someone to actually ask that of a Republican candidate.

  37. 37.

    whippoorwill

    October 16, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    I can’t help it. The kitty picture gets cuter every time I look at it. One of the best images I’ve seen on the web or anywhere else.

  38. 38.

    r€nato

    October 16, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    Would you have sex with a man if that would stop a terrorist attack?

    I would give my front teeth, my back teeth, and John’s teeth for someone to actually ask that of a Republican candidate.

    I’ve got just the man for the job: Larry Craig.

  39. 39.

    jake

    October 16, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    I would give my front teeth, my back teeth, and John’s teeth for someone to actually ask that of a Republican candidate.

    You can add mine to the pot.

    Maybe this explains the fear of ass rape by IslamoHorde that seems to be prevalent among the fRighties. Unless it isn’t really a fear of rape. Maybe its the realization that the NSA will never show up at the door and ask them to save the country: “We have a terrorist in custody. He knows where fifteen dirty bombs are hidden but he says he’ll only tell us if he gets to make sweet love to a right-wing blogger.”

    So much for that Metal of Freedom.

  40. 40.

    Dreggas

    October 16, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    If a gay gay jumped on your back would you let him stay or beat him off?

  41. 41.

    Dreggas

    October 16, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    that should have been “gay guy” this is what I get for posting and playing a game at the same time.

  42. 42.

    jake

    October 16, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    If a gay gay jumped on your back would you let him stay or beat him off?

    No, the choices are Stab him in the thigh, skull fuck his kitten or beat him off.

    that should have been “gay guy” this is what I get for posting and playing a game at the same time.

    Right. Is this “game” called Befoul the Towel? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  43. 43.

    The Other Steve

    October 16, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    Wow. Jonah Goldberg is really stupid.

  44. 44.

    DonkeyKong

    October 16, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    “I’d stick a knife in somebody’s thigh in a heartbeat.”

    That’s sad, even Dick Cheney would have the courtesy to say “Please pass the kneecap drill.”

    Civility, where oh where is the civility?

  45. 45.

    Jess

    October 17, 2007 at 12:00 am

    There’s worse things than terror bombs.

    EEEEK!

  46. 46.

    Jess

    October 17, 2007 at 12:01 am

    Why do you assume they’re not doing that already.

    The trick here is getting them to publicly embrace it, so to speak.

  47. 47.

    jcricket

    October 17, 2007 at 10:51 am

    The trick here is getting them to publicly embrace it, so to speak.

    I believe Larry Craig already tried the public embrace and it didn’t work out so well for him :-)

  48. 48.

    Tax Analyst

    October 17, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    whippoorwill Says:

    I can’t help it. The kitty picture gets cuter every time I look at it. One of the best images I’ve seen on the web or anywhere else.

    Yeah, same here. That’s got to be one of the most adorable-looking kittens I’ve ever seen. And so innocent and vulnerable-looking, too.

    The caption really captures the absurdly pointless and foolish heartlessness of Mitt Romney and all the other Republican candidates. “Double-Gitmo”…what a bunch of fucking horseshit.

  49. 49.

    LanceThruster

    October 19, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    Don’t let that “I surrender!” pose fool you. That Ninja kitten possesses cat-like reflexes and could easily bat that handgun out of the hands of the aggressor as well as catch the bullet with its teeth. It should be trussed up like Hannibal Lectur. Never let your guard down around these vicious beasts for a moment. Consider yourselves warned.

  50. 50.

    Cinderella Ferret

    October 20, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    Whoa! Maybe they were right when they told me all that acid would cause flashbacks some day. But, Jesus H. Christ–35 years later just seems pretty damn unlikely. Apparently, the brown acid really was bad. Well looks like the margarita pitcher’s full again, and I sweating like W at a MENSA meeting. Selah.

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