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Here’s one of the gagglefuck of wackaloons who participated in the New York governor’s debate last night. Others in the cast of characters included former “Manhattan Madame” Kristin Davis, as well as Carl Paladino, who had to leave in the closing statements to go to the potty:

“When you gotta go, you gotta go,” his campaign manager, Michael Caputo, explained.

What’s really crazy is that Paladino apparently wanted an all-candidate debate instead of a one-on-one with Andrew Cuomo. The predictable outcome was that Paladino had no chance to change anyone’s (negative) impression, or to damage Cuomo, because everyone was too busy gawking at the spectacle.

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  2. 2.

    iriedc

    Hate to admit how much I enjoyed watching this spectacle. Missing my homestate. Makes my adopted home’s — DC — local political loons seem sane.

  3. 3.

    WyldPirate

    Speaking of wackaloons…the wackaloons on Morning Joe were in rare form this morning.

    There’s noting quite like watching a bunch of millionaires sitting around a table pretending to be “common” men.

  4. 4.

    El Cid

    @WyldPirate:

    There’s noting quite like watching a bunch of millionaires sitting around a table pretending to be “common” men.

    Awesome! Did they talk about how the concerns about the Chamber of Commerce’s election spending are unfair and misplaced and scare talk and have no proof?

    Did they talk about how ‘the deficit’ means ‘we’ need to grow up and cut Medicare and Medicaid and ‘reform’ Social Security, and how ‘we’ need bold Democrats willing to go against ‘the party line’ to do it?

  5. 5.

    JPL

    The NYTimes blogged during the debate. It was an interesting read. I wonder if Paladino was medicated because he was quite subdued. In all fairness to Paladino he did not have to write a note to ask permission, or did he.
    This statement is interesting by Paladino
    “I’ve never been caught with a prostitute, my dad was never governor, and I have never been convicted of a crime.”
    hmmm

  7. 7.

    brantl

    Paladino wasn’t trying to damage Cuomo, he was trying to look like one of the two sane people in the room. Doesn’t look as though he made it, does it?

  10. 10.

    Nick

    Personal Note: The woman moderator is Joye Brown, a reporter for Newsday. I used to work with her.

  11. 11.

    Bruuuuce

    Truthfully, the rent here in NYC is too damned high. But single-issue parties won’t fly in this day and age. At least the nutball was entertaining.

    @JPL: Paladino’s statement reminds me of this, from Guys and Dolls:

    Big Jule: Well, I used to be bad when I was a kid, but ever since then I’ve gone straight, as has been proved by my record: Thirty-three arrests and no convictions!

  12. 12.

    Cat Lady

    Does he ever explain his gloves?

    Al Sharpton will be on Fox and Friends to explain this all to us.

  17. 17.

    bkny

    @WyldPirate: i try to watch that show, but end up bailing after a few minutes. the smugness of those assholes is too much to take this early in the a.m.

  18. 18.

    stuckinred

    Here’s his book on Amazon.

    I am not insane, but the treatment these so called doctors give to the VETS should make one insane and delusional.

    Read what happens to your soldiers when they return from defending America, the beautiful…

  19. 19.

    stuckinred

    Don’t forget Ms Davis, the madame

    And Ms. Davis suggested that her experience running an escort service made her the candidate best prepared to reform the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

    “The key difference between the M.T.A. and my former escort agency is I operated one set of books and I offered on-time and reliable service,” Ms. Davis said to laughter and applause.

  20. 20.

    Ash Can

    Paladino apparently wanted an all-candidate debate instead of a one-on-one with Andrew Cuomo.

    The guy’s a fucking genius.

    @JPL:

    I wonder if Paladino was medicated because he was quite subdued.

    I can just imagine a couple of his campaign organizers huddled over whatever Paladino was drinking a half hour before the debate:

    “There’s enough ketamine in this packet to knock out the entire field at Belmont. How much of it do you think we should use?”

    “All of it, you idiot! For God’s sake, it’s our only hope.”

  24. 24.

    WyldPirate

    @El Cid:

    Awesome! Did they talk about how the concerns about the Chamber of Commerce’s election spending are unfair and misplaced and scare talk and have no proof?

    They were all over this. “No proof!” was screamed a half dozen times by that ass-clown, campaign office-assistant screwing, Scabborough.

    Another kick they’re on is defending Rand Paul about stuff that happened “30 years ago” when he was in college.

    Funny we didn’t hear that about Kerry, or Clinton “I didn’t inhale” and Obama “and his community organizer” worker.

    How quickly I forget IOKIYAR….

    We’re fucking doomed as a country…..

  25. 25.

    stuckinred

    @Ash Can: He was goofy too. Lawrence made reference to the fact that he had some checkered event in his past and he said “yes, I am a libertine and a libertarian”.

  26. 26.

    El Cid

    The GOP of the great state of Georgia contributes to our high level of political discourse once again.

    Georgia’s Republican State Rep. John Yates has a position on immigration that almost nobody would agree with: he wants US border agents empowered to “shoot to kill.”…
    __
    …”[The National Guard] ought to be armed and, if warned by leaflets dropped all over Mexico that says that we will shoot to kill if anybody crosses, and be serious about this — and if they do that then there won’t be anybody killed,” Yates said….
    __
    …Asked to explain his “shoot to kill” remark, Yates told MyFox Atlanta that any invading force should be treated with the utmost hostility.
    __
    “Stopping Hitler was worth the price,” he said. “It’s our border, they’re invading us.”
    __
    Bill Nigut, Southeast Regional Director of Anti-Defamation League, called Yates’s statements “shocking and deeply disturbing” in a media advisory.
    __
    “The hate speech about undocumented workers has moved from the extreme edges of the debate into the mainstream,” he wrote. “The fact that an elected official of the Georgia General Assembly would feel comfortable about making such outrageous remarks proves that point.”

    You know who else complained about people making analogies in controlling immigration to fighting Hitler? Hitler.

  27. 27.

    El Cid

    @WyldPirate:

    Another kick they’re on is defending Rand Paul about stuff that happened “30 years ago” when he was in college.

    Fuck, Obama had to defend himself against things Bill Ayers did 30 40 years ago, and that was just for being nominated to the same board as him by Chicago’s mayor.

    Also, I like this new Republican stance against bringing up shit from long ago to smear a candidate. Thank goodness they aren’t the kinds of people who would do that.

  30. 30.

    El Cid

    @stuckinred: Pat Peale et al.

    Also, no Republicans would ever question a decorated war hero’s service.

    That’s super-asshole behavior, but for sheer weirdness I’m pretty amazed recently that when Alaskan scholar and statesman Sarah Palin spoke at some arena thing outside Atlanta alongside whatever Christian group, there were numbers of women so happy to attend to meet their role model they dressed up to look like Sarah Palin.

  31. 31.

    Svensker

    @El Cid:

    That kinda fits in with Joe Miller’s admiration for East Germany and their border control.

    Hey, maybe we can have a Checkpoint Chalmecatl amidst the barbed wire and machine gun turrets! It will be so romantic and movies will be made. Not sure who the bad guys will be tho.

  33. 33.

    Ash Can

    @El Cid: Yates is just expressing solidarity with his Republican colleague Stasi Joe Miller. After all, what’s the fun use of having a secure border if you can’t shoot to kill anyone brown trying to cross it?

  37. 37.

    West of the Cascades

    Looks like the US version of the Monster Raving Loony Party. We need more of that in our politics.

  40. 40.

    Hal

    Howard fineman has a piece on huffdrudge saying dems are dissapointed in the rand Paul ad and that its backfiring. Then he quotes unnamed sources, a house candidate in Louisville, and mckaskill, who is from Missouri.

  41. 41.

    Paris

    My mother in law commented that at least a couple of the third parties were making sense – referring to Howie Hawkins of the Green Party and the guy from the Freedom Party. Paladino came across as kooky as the The Rent is Too Damn High Party.

  45. 45.

    Mowgli

    How can a guy who claims the rent is too damn high charge “$18 Dolllars” (sic) for a lousy t-shirt?!?

  49. 49.

    stuckinred

    @Cat Lady: Regarding his use of black gloves during the debate, McMillan said: “I’m a war vet,” McMillan said. “Don’t forget I was in Vietnam for two and half years and I have three Bronze Stars, but the chemicals of Agent Orange — dioxin and a lot of other chemicals mixed up — I would get sick. When I get home tonight, I know I’m not going to be able to breathe if I take them off. It could be psychological, I don’t know, but I just put em on and wear them anyway.”[

  50. 50.

    FeFiFo

    God, I love NY. I’m looking forward to tossing my vote away on Charles Barron, just so he has 1 vote from upstate.

  51. 51.

    BGinCHI

    This guy could easily win in IL.

    Also a lock for the mayoral, though he may want to pivot to “The parking is too damn high.”

  52. 52.

    russell

    How can a guy who claims the rent is too damn high charge “$18 Dolllars” (sic) for a lousy t-shirt?!?

    A brother’s gotta eat.

    McMillan FTW, sez I.

  54. 54.

    catclub

    @Bruuuuce:
    “But single-issue parties won’t fly in this day and age.”

    Oppose the democrats seems to be working pretty well
    for one party. Of course, we shall see if it can actually get the votes.

  56. 56.

    gene108

    I really like McMillan. I saw some of his other stuff on Youtube. He’s pushing back against the rent being too damn high and the problems this is causing working families.

    I love the way he uses rhetorical flash to stand out from the crowd.

    He’s definitely not a loon. He’s getting some attention for an issue that effects a lot of folks in big cities, when they go through urban renewal, then gentrification and the rents go up.

  57. 57.

    Remember November

    McMillan should be running for Mayor. How does this affect people who own homes in the rest of the State?

    He’s a gimmick, nothing more than Grandpa Al campaigning on the Weed party ticket.

    Epic beard tho!

  60. 60.

    JBerardi

    1. The rent IS too damn high. Win.
    2. The RTDH website is full-on 1997 style. There’s auto-playing music and animated .gifs as far as the eye can see. Win.
    3. I’m pretty sure McMillan is a blackula hunter. Win.

  61. 61.

    Scott P.

    I thought this was a SNL spoof at first.

    But then I realized it was too funny to be a SNL spoof.

  65. 65.

    blahblahblah

    I like that guy and I like his ‘Rent is too damn high’ party. Wish I had the opportunity to vote for him.

  67. 67.

    John Bird

    I ain’t watching that video, but the rent is too damn high. If that’s the point he’s actually making, well, good. It’s not a bad point to make, looking at landlords, looking at Wall Street’s public price tag, the mortgage companies, the health insurers, the entire private sector as relates to me as a citizen. I look around at the shit we’re in, and the roaches and rats crawling everywhere, and the collapsing buildings, and then inside my wallet, and I think:

    “The Rent Is Too Damn High.”

  68. 68.

    mclaren

    As opposed to the serious credible Republican candidates who don’t believe in global warming or evolution.

    Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

  69. 69.

    Pearl

    What I find interesting is the obvious oblivion that so many people are in regarding understanding the economic system in the United States. I strongly believe that Mr. McMillian is behaving as an activist and keeping one of the more pertinent social problems in American society, the problem of paying rent on the table. Pivoting off of this idea and concentration is the reality that in a so-called civilized society, the need for everyone to have a home is not being met. As I have been saying for some time, “We do not live at a time when human beings have the opportunity to cut down trees to build a home”. So the question that everyone has to ask themselves, is be all that it may, is housing a right or a privilege? This is why Mr. McMillian disregarding his so-called status as a candidate for governor of NYS is getting so much attention. The need for affordable rent is relevant to most Americans!

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