Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2011 / And the Results Are In

And the Results Are In

by | 14 Comments

This post is in: 

For the WV primaries:

With 1,607 of 1,883 statewide precincts reporting, Maloney had 45 percent and Ireland had 31 percent. They were far outdistancing the next-closest candidate, state Sen. Clark Barnes, who had 9 percent.

Other GOP candidates included former delegate Larry Faircloth and Putnam County prosecutor Mark Sorsaia, each with 4 percent of the vote, and Delegate Mitch Carmichael, with 3 percent.

On the Democratic side, Tomblin had 40 percent of the vote, compared to 23 percent for his closest challenger, House Speaker Rick Thompson. Tomblin has been acting as governor since Joe Manchin vacated the office to go to the U.S. Senate late last year.

Other Democratic challengers included Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, who was getting 17 percent of the vote; State Treasurer John Perdue, with 13 percent; and acting Senate President Jeff Kessler, with 6 percent.

Tomblin and Maloney will face each other and Mountain Party candidate Bob Henry Baber in the Oct. 4 general election. The winner will serve the slightly more than a year left in Manchin’s term.

Earl Ray will walk away with it, so I am probably going to vote for the Mountain Party candidate.

Reader Interactions

14Comments

  1. 1.

    SST

    If we primary Obama with Adrian Gonzalez, I’m going for Gonzo. The man is producing.

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: Please tell me Pay Fraud is crying. My night will be made if Pay Fraud is weeping.

    PS Anyone else get the feeling he might just be a wingnut?

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    My introduction to Larry Faircloth was the story the other day about calling Nancy Pelosi a bimbo and Obama Sambo. Class act. Nice to know you can be too ignorant and knuckle-dragging for a Southern state Republican primary.

    Is he any relation to Lauch Faircloth?

  6. 6.

    AAA Bonds

    And Huckabee is officially out of the race in 2012, which means I must acknowledge that he is both a dipshit and a dumbfuck, as per my previous statements.

    This doesn’t feel too bad, now that I think about it.

    He must have found some other way to make the same amount of money as a Republican presidential candidate. Maybe he’s already working on a pilot for Bravo?

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    @MikeJ: Oddly enough, urban dictionary doesn’t have an entry for FTFY that acknowledges “Fuck The Fucking Yankees”. The first hit on google is 20 entries down pointing to some obscure cat blog called balloon-juice.

  8. 8.

    Yutsano

    @AAA Bonds: He’s already on wingnut welfare thanks to Uncle Rupert. Why give up a cushy gig where you don’t have to answer uncomfortable questions?

  9. 9.

    buskertype

    The only candidate in the field who I’d consider voting for was Barnes, but yeah, now that that’s over, I’m definitely voting mountain party. fuck Earl Ray.

  10. 10.

    AAA Bonds

    @Yutsano:

    Well, the answer I gave in the Huck thread is the same thing I’ve always said:

    Huckabee doesn’t have a chance of winning the Presidency, so the best thing for his future career as a talking head is to hurry up and get noticed now before he’s forgotten by Murdoch and the rest of them, in an election year when the slate looks like dogmeat and he’s actually, somehow, attractive.

    Failed presidential election = big-name speaking gigs for life. Huckabee just has to lose in THE MOST PANDERING WAY POSSIBLE.

    I think most of these folks, declared and undeclared, would rather have a media personality empire than the Presidency. Losing to Obama in 2012 might just be their way in.

    Honestly, at this point, I think the strategic position on the Republican ticket is in the Vice Presidential slot, priming the media’s sloppy erection for 2016. Maybe that’s what Huckabee’s thinking.

  13. 13.

    Gian

    reason no credibile GOP candidate yet? none of them want to lose. Last time we we here was ’96 and Dole was ready to retire anyway.

    What scares me about 2012 is this, the GOPers are hell bent on wrecking the country to try and stick the stink of failure on Obama. And if they manage to do that, I’ll be weeping and remembering Chicago.

    I don’t know if I’m repeating myself, but earlier I’d read a bunch of stuff about how Obama was like Ali doing the rope a dope.

    To me he’s always been Jackie Robinson. having to put up a brave and tolerant face to a storm of racist bullshit. that stress probably killed Jackie young.

    But I digress, 2012 ain’t even 1996, or 1988, he’s incumbent, in time of war, and has done well in the job unless you’re a 27% follower.

    the smart GOPers and those who don’t want to be pres are out, the rest that are in?
    they’re either taking one for the team or delusional.

    and really, the GOP future lies in undermining democracy, with bullshit voter fraud claims. Not in doing the will of the people

  14. 14.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    If only Rich Rodriguez hadn’t left WVU and won some championships, and not pissed it all away at Michigan, he could be Governor and not some has been D-3 NAIA coach at Moonshine university in Harlan.

Comments are closed.