So an idiot freeper says to me last night ...

[LittleClarkie]

"You'll have to take your Kerry sticker off you car, and replace it with a Feingold one"

"Why" I ask.

"I think he's running for president."

No shit, Sherlock.

"I knew that already. He's been showing all the signs for a while now," I said to him.

Ignoring me, he continues "But he just got divorced, so he's not going to have a chance."

"Reagan was divorced" I replied.

"Yeah, but not when he was trying to become president."

"So?" I ask, getting exasperated.

"So, nobody wants a president without a wife."

"We've had bachelor presidents before. Why not?"

"No we didn't"

Okay, so not only did he think that "Russ is running" was some big revelation, he doesn't know history either.

"Buchannan was a bachelor. So why not?"

He just sorta let the conversation die out after that, after talking about how far left Russ is and stuff.

Funny thing, another freeper I work with thinks that Russ is running far left on purpose to help Hillary, so that she will look moderate and reasonable in comparison. Oh SURE, he doesn't want to be president. It's all a vast left wing conspiracy.

Lord, save me from these people.

[Hand]

1. "Idiot freeper"--isn't that a redundancy? nt

:rofl:

[LittleClarkie]

19. Too true. Too true

Especially this guy. He liked to bounce around me chanting "Flip flop flip flop" during the campaign. It was not a pretty picture to watch a tubby little man bounce around like a kid at a grade schoolyard. If fact, it was quite grotesque.

[Greyhound]

22. Beat me to it. Oxymoron was the word I'd use. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

2. LOL!

It's too bad you can have a remote handy and put these people on ignore. :)

[KyuzoGator]

3. They hate facts.

Retorting to a Freeper with facts is akin to punching the schoolyard bully in the nose. They shrink and become your bitch after that.

[LittleClarkie]

5. Or they would if they had any sense

This guy's too stupid to know he's been beat. He'll approach me again with some word of wisdom he just heard on Hannity, I'm sure. He loves to regurgitate.

[KyuzoGator]

11. A helpful device I've found is saying, "These are facts."

When I make a good counter-argument and support it, I follow that up with, "These are facts." Sometimes I'll even say, "You can look it up yourself." and offer some links.

[Ezlivin]

6. No, even worse....

A Freeper won't just ignore the facts. If they have the power they will force the books to be rewritten so that the facts you cite are no longer valid.

The Bush administration would gladly kill all scientists who support the theory of global climate change, evolution and who develop any sort of contraceptive. Facts are not their friend.

[beachmom]

4. The real question is why the freeper is all concerned about the Democratic

side of the presidential race. Why is that? Does it have anything to do with the fact that the Republicans have pathetic pickings for '08? And don't think McCain is as popular as thought -- I know TONS of Republicans who can't stand him.

[LittleClarkie]

7. None of the Conservatives I know like him. One of the intelligent ones...

I talk to thinks of him the way several of us think of Hillary. In fact, we've talked about staying him if our choices in 2008 are Hillary or McCain. I don't think I would really. But I do think of them in similar ways, fair or not.

[Minnesota Libra]

8. Their arguments are made up as they go by Limpbag to fit............

....the particular situation. If we contradicted ourselves as much as they do, neocons would be all over us day and night - as if they aren't already.

[Dr Fate]

9. Here is my approach to all conservatives, no matter what the subject is:

"YOU do not lecture ME about politics as if you know something- YOU and your fellow travellers have been WRONG about EVERYTHING-and I mean EV-ER-Y-THING... be it WMDs, Saddam caused 9/11, Iraq would be a cake-walk, Terry Schivo is alive, Swiftboats- you name it, YOU guys have been wrong about it....DEAD wrong.

...so please, dont lecture me about politics as if you know what you are talking about- you do not. If you want to know what I think, ask me and I'll tell you-but dont smugly lecture me as if you have been right about something or another all along. Say- did you see Amercian Idol last night?...."

[ComerPerro]

10. I'd rather have an alcoholic with a history of driving drunk

who is married to a woman who committed vehicular manslaughter

[sinkingfeeling]

12. John McCain divorced his wife of 14 years, who had been severely

injured in a car wreck to marry a woman half his age.

[longship]

13. Grover Cleveland was unmarried, too.

When he was elected 22nd president, he was unmarried. In fact, Cleveland is the only president who was married while in office.

[NoPasaran]

21. Woodrow Wilson married his second wife while in office n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. Grover Cleveland was also a bachelor when he was elected

he married his ward while he was in the WH.

Edited to add to longship=great minds think alike.

[emulatorloo]

15. So a divorced man can't be president? Better alert McCain and Rudy, then

EOM

[LSK]

16. i guess Newt and his 3 wives are ok???

:shrug:

[Crankie Avalon]

17. "Nobody wants a president without a wife..."

...I guess considerations of whether someone is actually, you know, competent to be president don't enter into it?

People like this really ought to do the honorable thing and voluntarily abstain from voting. Seriously, someone voted for Bush twice? Then they ought to realize they don't have the necessary aptitude, sit out elections, and let the grown-ups handle it.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. You should have asked him how that's gonna work if Hillary's elected.

"...nobody wants a president without a wife."

[obreaslan]

20. "Ha HA! I got you! Pat Buchanan was never President!"

"Never try to fool a Freeper!!!!!" :dunce:


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