But the family who basically helped start the Bircher movement and kick started the tea party movement with Americans for Prosperity,has spent decades funding Republican groups, and throws token cash at glibertarians (but plenty enough to fund wayfayers and leather jackets), aren’t really libertarians. They self-identify as Republicans:
Despite a wave of scrutiny from the press and criticism from liberals up to and including President Barack Obama, Koch said Thursday he plans to continue his big-money political activism regardless of the results of the 2012 election.
“Yeah, we’re in this for the long haul, you know?” he told POLITICO when asked if he intended to continue being politically active if Romney loses the 2012 presidential race to Obama.
Koch also said he now considers himself a Republican first and foremost – rather than a Libertarian or a non-partisan supporter of free enterprise – despite a background in Libertarian politics and some views that are out of step with the GOP orthodoxy.
“The Libertarian Party is a great concept. I love the ideals, but it got too far off the deep end, and so I dropped out,” Koch said. “I think the Republican Party has a great chance of being successful and that’s why I support it,” he said, adding “but I believe in the libertarian principles.”
No one could have predicted that the libertarian giants in American politics were actually Republicans… Wait, what?
Bonus Reason Magazine hackery:
Paul Ryan must have hit a home run last night – otherwise liberals wouldn’t be going bonkers right now. No sooner did he move his tingle-inducing chassis off the stage than the liberal blogosphere erupted in outrage, accusing him of being a maligner and a liar.
Jonah Goldberg, you can now quit your day job.
Cain
Reason magazine is a shitstain on our society.. what a dumb box of dicks.
Jewish Steel
re-fucking-volting.
Both Sides Do It
“tingle-inducing chassis”
I have literally seen this exact phrase on the packaging of a vibrator. I am not joking.
TenguPhule
Because he is.
Not enough money in the world to buy them a clue.
Yutsano
Jesus Tapdancing Christ on a unicycle that is one deep ass closet.
Pinkamena Panic
Reason Magazine: Because “U Mad?” Isn’t Just For Trolls
Jon H
@Yutsano: “Jesus Tapdancing Christ on a unicycle that is one deep ass closet.”
I think the author of the piece is female.
daverave
Instead of suffering the RNC fail parade, I watched a movie from 1957 that I ordered from Netflix a couple of months ago (long wait) back when Andy Griffith died that I’d never seen before. I highly recommend “A Face in the Crowd” as a stunning predictor of the political landscape of 2012. There’s a demagogue of Limbaugh proportions played by Griffith and a Koch brother character and a Romney. A brilliant movie directed by Elia Kazan with a young Walter Matthau and Patricia O’Neal. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.
Nethead Jay
@Both Sides Do It:
I was wondering how someone came up with a phrase like that.
cbear
Why not? I wouldn’t think a Republican Koch tastes much different than a Libertarian Koch once you’ve decided to be a Kochsucker.
(w/ apologies to my gay friends)
The prophet Nostradumbass
Actually, I think that is wrong. In reality, the Republicans went further off the deep end, and that’s why he decided to go all-in with them.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
I came of age in the 90s, so I still reflexively think of “Libertarian” as “Right-wingers who smoke pot and mistrust religion”. May not agree, but (to paraphrase Heinlein) one can do business with such people.
Not sure how the GOD GOD GOD fest we witnessed this week aligns with libertarianism, though.
The meaning of the words must have changed while I wasn’t looking.
Yutsano
@cbear: I’ll be honest: when one goes in my mouth, politics is the last thing on my mind. I’ll try to be more discerning of this in the future. For posterity of course.
Yutsano
FYWP.
@Jon H: The readership of Reason is overwhelmingly male. I’m not certain the author’s gender negates my point.
Steeplejack
@Jon H:
Shikha Dalmia even looks like Ayn Rand, so there’s that.
Djur
Oh my FUCKING GOD.
Those commenters at Reason are so fucking smug while being so fucking dumb it almost makes my ears bleed. It’s like watching people brag about eating their own shit.
May we all be spared from the brilliant observation of wingnut ‘libertarians’.
+6
Djur
Also, I’m sorry, but no straight woman would refer to a sexxxy man’s body as a “chassis”. I think this lady is a robosexual, like her fellow psuedo-libertarian Glenn Reynolds.
Dennis SGMM
@daverave:
I didn’t see “A Face in the Crowd” until I was in my thirties.Before I saw the movie I always pictured Andy Griffith as the amiable sheriff of Mayberry. He should have been given an Oscar for his portrayal of the purely evil “Lonesome” Rhodes. And, yes, it was sadly prescient.
Rita R.
Oh lord, please make it stop already. Dear Village: Paul Ryan is not sexy. He is antithetical to sexiness. The smarmy, hangdog look with the Eddie Munster widow’s peak and the upside-down smile causes the tubes to go spastic and the nether regions to shrivel. And that’s before looking into the black abyss where his soul should be or seeing the heart tattoo with the name “Ayn” inside slapped on his over-toned ass.
Dennis SGMM
As long as it’s a good, manly, slap delivered by another wealthy white guy, Ryan strikes me as the type who wouldn’t object to being slapped on the ass. Repeatedly.
WereBear
@Dennis SGMM: Sorry to hear the cause of your relocation plans.
Have you considered the Adirondacks of NY? Yes, there’s weather many months of the year, but aren’t you retired? You do’t have to go out in it every day; just the “bluebird” days when the clouds part, sunshine lights up the sky, the wind quiets, and you go out in sunglasses and with your coat open lest you overheat.
Low cost of living and one of the most beautiful areas in the world.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Both Sides Do It:
@Jon H:
Say no more. OK, one thing: plagiarism.
aqualad08
I am 98% sure he stole that haircut from an episode of “Mannix”…
dr. bloor
@aqualad08:
I was thinking Charles Bronson, myself. Someone also needs to tell him the black leather doesn’t work so well anymore, either.
Suffern Ace
@dr. bloor: It’s time for him to control the greying process rather than fighting it. Stuff that made you cool in your 20s doesn’t any more at a certain point. The leather jacket now says desperate midlife crises.
TheMightyTrowel
@Yutsano: Ah, my friend, the trick is to get the filter up before the kochs come out to play. Perhaps as I am a lady with lady parts (including a well cared for and respected lady pocket), a career and no desire to have children i am forced to think very carefully before getting up and personal with any given koch as many won’t respect you in the morning and some of them would force you to have their rape babies all day long while you cooked barefoot and naked in a kitchen whose wiring doesn’t come up to code because government regulations are for demonrats.
jibeaux
the fuck is wrong with these people?
Trakker
Wow, who knew the Republicans live in such a bubble that they thought those outside their bubble wouldn’t realize we were being lied to for three straight days!
I’m actually seeing the L word in print and online in mainstream publications already. What a lovely gift to give our President. I hope he unwraps this present publicly before the American people at the Democratic convention.
Trakker
Wow, who knew the Republicans live in such a bubble that they thought those outside their bubble wouldn’t realize we were being lied to for three straight days!
I’m actually seeing the L word in print and online in mainstream publications already. What a lovely gift to give our President. I hope he unwraps this present publicly before the American people at the Democratic convention.
Ash Can
First of all, is that an actual photo of Nick Gillespie? Do you mean to tell me that a grown man goes out in public looking like that in places other than comic fan conventions and karaoke bars full of divorcees?
Second, if Reason Magazine is defending Paul Ryan, with or without the slobbering starbursts, then no one, and I mean no one, has any excuse for calling this rag Libertarian. If Reason Magazine were actually Libertarian, it would be hyping Gary Johnson at every opportunity, and would have gleefully piled onto the savaging of Ryan — and could very well have led it, in fact, with the overall theme of “See what a schmuck this guy is? For any of you Libertarians thinking of voting for these guys because they’re more politically viable than Johnson, this is what you’re getting.”
But then, if they were true Libertarians, they would have turned on the Republicans when they started treating women like livestock — oh wait, that’s right. According to Ayn Rand, all women are livestock, except for her.
SRW1
@Both Sides Do It:
But doesn’t that make it a terrific description of Ryan’s ‘appeal’? Whether it really is intended that way by the author is an entirely different matter.
And why not? I mean, come on, why should males have all the fun with whom Republicans select for their VP spots!?
Violet
New in the Starbursts Collection!
And if “tingle-inducing chassis” doesn’t make it to the rotating tags or the Lexicon, something is wrong, wrong, wrong.
blondie
@Jewish Steel: Ewww, in a shake-off-the-creeps way.
LanceThruster
I’m trying to remember a derogative I saw re: the Koch Brothers.
Something like…
Kochistanians
Kochensteins
Any particular bon mots stick out? (plus, I tried looking it up, but I only see defs for “derogative” as an adj. Isn’t it also proper to use as a noun?).
It’s as if I lost a few IQ points overnight.
LanceThruster
@LanceThruster:
“Pejoratives” is what I think I was looking for.
So anyway…
Kochinistas?
Kocholoco?
Like those…only funny.
Gus
Why is Casey Kasem dressing up as Fonzie?
Bubblegum Tate
@Ash Can:
He looks like he’s Eric Bischoff’s douchebag older brother.
ellenbrenna
Paul Ryan looks like Gollum if he got a haircut and went to Syms for a new suit.
http://admin.fridayfunfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gollum.jpg