No one could have predicted this would happen:
Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff Frederick was ousted Saturday after a troubled 10-month tenure capped by devastating losses in last year’s elections.
The state party’s governing central committee voted 57-18 to remove Frederick after key Virginia Republican elected officials and top party leaders called for him to resign or be fired.
The effort to sack the conservative, often combative and sometimes embarrassing state legislator from Prince William came after 58 members of the central committee signed off on a list of 10 charges against him.
Frederick, if you recall, was a colorful character:
With so much at stake, and time running short, Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points — for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: “Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon,” he said. “That is scary.” It is also not exactly true — though that distorted reference to Obama’s controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. “And he won’t salute the flag,” one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, “We don’t even know where Senator Obama was really born.” Actually, we do; it’s Hawaii.
I have no idea who will replace him.
DougJ
Someone crazier.
I’ll bet you dollars to whatever the Icelandic currency is that some felt he was too moderate.
asiangrrlMN
Rush Limbaugh?
mellowjohn
when looking to lead republicans, you can’t be too crazy or start too soon.
KCinDC
Damn, I had high hopes that Frederick would be able to continue leading the Republican Party of Virginia into the wilderness. The entire Virginia Democratic blogosphere was rooting for him.
KCinDC
Hmm, it may not be over.
SGEW
So much for his day job. But I’m sure that there’s work available for him at Fox News, should he want it.
Just Some Fuckhead
Gilmore is our default put-him-in-charge Republican.
kommrade reproductive vigor
What’s Virgil Goode doing these days?
KCinDC
SGEW, he’d decided not to run for reelection to his seat in the Virginia House of Delegates so that he could concentrate on being party chair. His wife was running instead. Now if he’s not chair he may decide to try keeping his seat. I don’t know what his full-time job is.
2th&nayle
Where’s Alexander "I’m in control here" Haig, when you need him?
joe from Lowell
Lemme guess: they just need a better a messenger, because people LOVE their message.
HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker
Have they considered Alan Keyes? He is the craziest sumbitch I have heard speaking in public in …. ever.
If you all haven’t heard Keyes lately ….. check him out.
Brick Oven Bill
Re: “Actually, we do; it’s Hawaii.”
Time Magazine states that Obama was born in Hawaii. What enlightened people these people from Time Magazine are.
Unlike those people who scratch their heads when they know that a sitting Senator could put the controversy to rest in, like 120 seconds, by providing a birth certificate. Or know that a President could do this in probably 30-45 seconds, if the first thing put out for public consumption hadn’t been so Chicago ’05.
Those smart people from Time Magazine.
gbear
scroll…scroll…scroll…
HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker
@HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker:
Follow-up: Alan Keyes’ message is essentially the same one that BOB, the phuckhead spoof, tries to peddle here. Bob just uses a different delivery, but it’s the same message. So if you like Keyes, you should love BOB.
tammanycall
In all seriousness, what’s the point of this breed of trollery? Is it something more complicated than "look at me, look at me!!"?
KCinDC
The best photo of Jeff Frederick is the one Lowell Feld always uses when he blogs about him.
The Cat Who Would Be Tunch
@Brick Oven Bill:
So let me ask you this. If Obama were to put out his birth certificate for "public consumption" right this second, that would put your suspiscions to rest?
joe from Lowell
There is no controversy, BOB. There is a tiny number of people who are…you know…like you, and who keep yammering on about this long-discredited tin-foil crap, but neither the numbers nor the strength of the evidence is enough to qualify as a controversy.
You’re more like the people who don’t want fluoride in the water supply, or who deny evolution. "It’s controversial, there’s a controversy!" No, there’s not. There’s just a small number of very silly people, at whom the rest of us laugh.
KCinDC
Look, Cat, this is a man who can go back in time to insert a fake birth announcement in the paper to make it appear he was born in Hawaii (either that or his mother did it, knowing in 1961 that the son of a white teenage mother impregnated by an African would obviously become president one day). Forging a certificate is trivial for someone with his Antichrist powers.
Left Coast Tom
I think they should get John McCain’s brother to take the job. Calling 911, twice, to rant about a traffic jam has that special "man yells at cloud" quality that seems to be the GOP’s "message".
dmsilev
Isn’t Senator Macaca available?
-dms
Brick Oven Bill
The Cat Who Would Be Tunch:
Yes.
Paper copy made available to his primary critic, Philip Berg. One copy to be given to each state Capitol, for public viewing.
The questions raised by Obama’s failure to address his seemingly credible critics, and the potential for public blackmail at the Presidential level, merit the expenditure of less than $3000 to put this all behind us.
If this is some cutesy Chicago trap, it should also be put to an end.
dmsilev
Somehow I get the feeling that a secondary reason for Obama and his team not releasing DNA samples and fingerprints from every nurse present at the delivery is that it serves as a useful shiny object to distract the nutbars.
While they’re ranting about him actually being born in Kenya or Indonesia or Ceti Alpha Five, it keeps them distracted from ranting about stuff that people actually care about.
-dms
NonWonderDog
@Brick Oven Bill:
Shit. All this time, and I thought BOB really was that crazy. I can’t accept that this is anything other than a spoof, though.
joe from Lowell
None of his credible critics are willing to come within a hundred miles of this Birfer lunacy.
joe from Lowell
BOB, do you by any chance live in Virginia?
Because I’ve got an idea….
robertdsc
Lo and behold, a Sarah Palin ad show up. Teh Google iz awesome!
Incertus
Maybe this fuckhead will do it. I figure any prosecutor bone-stupid to prosecute an assistant principal who was investigating a sexting incident as part of his job for possession of child pronography might just be stupid enough to run the Virginia Republican party.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Incertus: Don’t be a playa hata, dawg.
eemom
@dmsilev:
nope, he’s too busy being the face of republican outreach to minority voters here in ole Virginny. (I kid you not — that’s what they had HIM, of all people, doing in last fall’s election.)
I live in this here Commonwealth……and I am proud as hell of every phase of its transformation, from Jim Webb’s election in ’06 to our now TWO Democratic Senators to my own new Democratic Congressman who replaced that so-called GOP "moderate," Tom Davis, to last but not least, victory for the first Democratic president to carry the state since Lyndon Johnson.
And on the topic of Frederick, let me just say that whatever equal or worse nutjob they find to replace him, I greet his ouster with a resounding yeeeeeehaaaaaw.
RareSanity
@NonWonderDog:
No, unfortunately he’s serious.
Bootlegger
Now BOB, because I like you I’m going to let you in on a little secret…{Obama already released his birth certificate}…now don’t tell anyone, we like the controversy.
Zzyzx
Hey, stop mocking BOB. Every president in US history had to provide their birth certificate for viewing at every state capitol. Why should Obama be any different?
Bootlegger
@Zzyzx: I’ll let you in on a secret too….{he’s black}…don’t tell anyone.
Cap'n Phealy
‘Twas Twitter killed the beast!
iluvsummr
@Incertus: That was a chilling read! I just chipped in something for Oei’s legal costs and I hope there’s a way to get idiots like Plowman disbarred for misconduct.
Anoniminous
Re: Various Right Wing Hysterias Floating Around & the Various Right Wing Hysterics Pushing Them
I want to know why members of a species that grandly labeled itself homo sapian sapian¹ are so fucking stupid.
(Singing, "To all Right Wingers where ever you are …")
Fact: President Obama was born in Hawaii
Fact: Nobody gives a damn about your guns
Fact: There are no hordes of All Conquering™ Brown People² swimming the Atlantic, crossing the Rio Grande, hiding under your bed, lurking in your closet, or emerging in your bathtub in a submarine
Fact: In order to be successful in elections, ESPECIALLY presidential elections, you have ensure GOP candidates firmly adhere to Eternal Conservative Principles³
¹ Translation: people wise wise
² Of various and mutually antagonistic ethnic backgrounds and religions
³ Whatever they are, this week
Anoniminous
OK, I lied about that last one
TenguPhule
As Philip Berg has no legitimite need or right to see it, that would be a no.
Stick to convection ovens.
TenguPhule
Hush Comrade, the revolution will not be televised.
JoJo
Holy time travel, Batman! Obama must be a Time Lord. Considering his charisma and the way he came out of nowhere to win the Presidency, he’s gotta be The Master. Here come the drums!
Yes, I’m a nerd. Why do you ask?
Johnny Pez
@HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker: Keyes lives in Maryland, but that didn’t stop him in 2004, so I think he should go for it.
Corner Stone
"Let’s go look at cartoon tits"
I just can’t get past teh awesomeness of this freakin ad.
The Cat Who Would Be Tunch
@KCinDC:
I know and that was kinda my point. Regardless of whether Obama actually released his certificate for "public consumption" or not, there would still remain a group of people (hopefully small) that will not accept the legitimacy of Obama’s win. Most likely, they’ll just find some other excuse of why he’s constitutionally barred from holding office.
@Brick Oven Bill:
Alright, I’ll bite just because I’m bored.
Why must Obama provide certificates to his strongest critics? What’s wrong with non-partisan third parties verifying the validity of his certificate?
Corner Stone
Also, ShamWow!
LD50
Let me guess: because they came up with a decision that was favorable to Obama, that proves they’re really partisan. Besides, Hawaii’s a blue state, so Republicans can reject anything any official there says.
Incidentally, BOB, what’s your explanation of that birth announcement in that Honolulu paper 3 days after Obama’s birth? Were ACORN and Ayers already setting up the conspiracy to take away your guns?
OriGuy
Linda Lingle, the current Governor of Hawaii, is a Republican. However, she’s also Jewish, which probably discredits her to some of the Birthers.
dslak
@OriGuy: This isn’t possible, because Glenn Beck is pro-Israel.
Person of Choler
Let’s turn the Great Obama Birth Certificate Mystery over to Andrew Sullivan, the Internet’s best known forensic obstetrician.
jcricket
@DougJ: That would be awesome.
That’s what happened in WA state. After disastrous results the GOP went with someone more conservative. The wingnuts really exert some strong gravitational pull, even in fairly "moderate" states (by that I mean states that have a large percentage of self-described moderates and independents). This has the result of marginalizing the GOP and making it really hard for them to win general elections. Fine by me.
Although since gravity is just a theory we should also teach the alternate reason why stuff tends to fall down, the magnetism of jesus theory.
Mike G
Although since gravity is just a theory we should also teach the alternate reason why stuff tends to fall down, the magnetism of jesus theory.
That’s ‘Intelligent Falling’.