OMFG. Some people are just shithouse-rat nuts: From CNN.com

[karlrschneider]

Still, some Southern women remain stalwart supporters of the president and the Republican Party. At a watermelon festival in Chickamauga, in the mountains of northwest Georgia, substitute teacher Clydeen Tomanio said she remains committed to the party she's called home for 43 years.

"There are some people, and I'm one of them, that believe George Bush was placed where he is by the Lord," Tomanio said. "I don't care how he governs, I will support him. I'm a Republican through and through."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/07/southern.women.ap/index.html

[babylonsister]

1. Check your brains at the door, Clydeen, cause you obviously

don't need 'em.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. "I'm a Republican through and through".

:rofl:

[Lautremont]

3. I always wondered what the female derivation of the name 'Clyde' was.

Now I know.

[bowens43]

4. she's a nutter...

[KurtNYC]

5. So God is punishing us?

frogs - locusts - b*shes -

[glitch]

23. Perhaps God wants us to go extinct, and sent Georgie boy to hurry us along

Perhaps Clydeen is right but not for the reason she thinks.

[NanceGreggs]

6. "I don't care how he governs"

Obviously ...

[acmejack]

26. It's a good thing, otherwise she would be mighty upset.

A rational person would be having a shit fit about now. Cydeen explains a hell of a lot...

[Deja Q]

7. "He can kill me by shoving a sharp stick up my butt. For

I'm a Republican, through and through!"

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

8. "I don't care how he governs"...

perhaps the most frightening statement that a voting citizen of a democracy can make.

Although overwhelmed by the part of me that adheres strongly to democratic and civil-rights values, there's a little part of me that wishes we could just suspend the vote for anyone who thinks like this -- or, more accurately, doesn't think at all.

[Totally Committed]

9. What's so different about saying this:

"There are some people, and I'm one of them, that believe George Bush was placed where he is by the Lord," Tomanio said. "I don't care how he governs, I will support him. I'm a Republican through and through."

And saying you'll vote for anyone with a "D" behind their name, even if they are a DINO who votes with the Repubs anyway? Think about it.

TC

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[Totally Committed]

15. Joe Lieberman....

The DLC. The difference is in degrees.

TC

[SteppingRazor]

13. The main difference?

I've yet to meet a Democratic fascist. The difference between George Bush and Dick Cheney and, say, Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman is freaking light years. And besides, there's definitely a difference between "I vote for Democrats, period." and "I vote for Democrats no matter how they govern (i.e. even if they torture prisoners and lead us into unncessary wars)"

[Selatius]

19. Partisanship is partisanship

You should vote for the candidate best qualified. If you are disgusted with your options, then don't vote.

[maxsolomon]

21. that's crap

in this race, a dem with zero experience in political office is vastly preferable to a seasoned, "qualified" republican congressman. the house MUST be taken back.

not voting is not an option. there is rarely a choice other than that between a shit sandwich & a giant douche, to paraphrase South Park.

2 words make the ends justify the means: Subpoena Power.

[LostInAnomie]

24. In the 90's, how many Dems claimed Clinton was placed in office by God?

There is a huge difference between holding your nose and voting for someone because they are the lesser of two evils and blindly believing that someone can do no wrong because they are a messenger from God.

[MH1]

34. Seriously?

Okay, serious answer:

Since you talk about "voting with" you must mean Congress (i.e. not the Presidency). Considering anyone with a D behind their name WILL vote for a "D" as majority leader, if for no other reason, you vote for the "DINO" because D control of whichever House is better than R control of that House. If the individual is truly out of step with the party, their influence on the agenda and policy will be relatively minor, but that one vote could be the one that wins the majority control and thus the ability of the party to control the agenda.

In contrast, this woman is talking about the PRESIDENCY - an office that wields enormous power, where the extremism or general lunacy of the individual will be able to play itself out with relatively little to keep it in check.

Does that clarify it?

[azurnoir]

10. Well Clydeen

I'm glad your so secure in your beliefs, almost as glad as I am that you will never ever "teach" any of my kids.

[meegbear]

11. God is a republican ...

and his son is a Liberal Jew.

[underpants]

12. Let's see 43 years ago... deep south... that would have been 1963....

gee I wonder what was going on in 1963 that might have been big to someone in Georgia.... hmmmmmm

[Mad_Dem_X]

28. Good point....

Wonder what Clydeen was doing back then?

[Kurovski]

14. Oh, for Christ's sake...The Lord is not a thief.

"There are some people, and I'm one of them, that believe George Bush was placed where he is by the Lord"

[opihimoimoi]

16. Evidence of a brain compromised by delusional rationalization

Acts normal, walks normal, talks stupid thinking its normal.

Brain damaged without a doubt...its the only explanation left.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Memo to Clydeen Tomanio: Know your Anti-Christ. n/t

[acmavm]

18. Who's Lord is she talking about? The Lord of Darkness?

Lord Vadar?

Not my Lord I can tell you that. He's gonna give bush** a one-way ticket to a warm place with no air conditioning.

[maxsolomon]

20. Clydeen is one awesome southern name

i think i just found a name for my next female cat.

[bdamomma]

22. religious wing nuts are just following bush off the cliff aren't they?

this substitute teacher is not a well person she need repub. rehab. She will follow bush right off the cliff, because she is a true republican. :puke:

[wordpix]

36. "when a bushie tells me to eat his shit, I smile and say, yes, massiah"

[Renew Deal]

25. Clinton was placed there by the Lord too.

If you believe in God, then every President is placed there by the Lord.

[karynnj]

27. Does she ask why G_d is punishing us by placing him there?

[BootinUp]

29. like I said in another thread...blinded by faith.

I live not too far from that nutter too.

[lpbk2713]

30. Well, hell. If Dumbya is the Messiah .....

why doesn't he just part the waters of the Red Sea and march all the bad guys right in there? Hell, he could clean this mess up right quick.


Well, OK. There wouldn't be any profit for Halliburton in that kind of a move.

[adamuu]

31. This is why rock-bottom in the polls is roughly 30%

30% are just too stupid.

Look on the bright side.... Bush may never loose that bottom 30%, but that doesn't make the 31st percentile any more likely to change thier minds again. Once you lose a 31st percentile person, he's never coming back.

[City Lights]

32. How's that Kool-Aid taste, Clydeen?

:eyes:

[distantearlywarning]

33. "I don't care how he governs, I will support him"

Ok, so if Bush starts sacrificing fetuses on an altar to Satan on the White House lawn, she'll still support him?

That's a ridiculous statement. There is no hope for people like this.

Edited for appalling grammar.

[NotGivingUp]

35. a total thorough brainwashing. works better on some than others.