Just like it’s impossible to boycott Iran, Burma, or Communist China, one ex-Fred Thompson staffer’s effort to boycott Chuck Norris seems doomed to failure:

I want you to join me in boycotting all of the products that Chuck Norris endorses and some of the national companies that run advertisements on the show in which he starred and currently rerunning on the USA cable network, Walker, Texas Ranger. I also ask that you tell these companies why you are boycotting them. (See list to the right with contact information and post below for a sample e-mail.)

Darrell Ng reasons that Norris is endorsing Mike Huckabee, who at one time favored rounding up people with AIDS, and doesn’t believe in evolution, and that deserves consumer oppobrium.

Ng targets Total Gym, Geico, and KFC. Oh, and Tylenol, which advertises during reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger on USA. Which is a shame because watching reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger to find out who actually advertises during the show would give me a headache.

He’d better hope Aleve and Advil don’t run commercials in that time slot, too.

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Or just unaware of what Teh Reagan did? You decide.

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Ha. Ha. Mitt Romney’s son Josh has a hilarious post over at the campaign blog today. Check it out.

Priceless

Rudy Giuliani’s former Chevrolet Corvair for sale on eBay: $3,700 $8,100

Four tanks of gas, 3 fast food meals and snacks for a road trip: $210

The look on Rudy’s face when we show up to a campaign event in Florida in his old car: Priceless.

Posted at 2008-01-24 10:31:34 by Josh Romney

I know that’s pretty darn funny that Rudy Giuliani’s fascistmobile is for sale and all, but I think advertising the fact that your family has enough disposable cash lying around that you can just drop $8,000 on a practical joke without even thinking about it (while many Americans could use an extra $8,000 for something like healthcare), is pretty heartless, and really reveals how out of touch with America the Romney family is.

But, everybody in the world apparently already hates Mitt Romney, and knows he’s trying to buy the election, and yet it actually seems to be helping him with voters, so maybe the Romney family is on to something.

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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You would think that because Fred Thompson left the race for president, the embarrassments that have hounded his hapless, walking corpse of a self for the past few months would cease, and he could go back to private life, safe in the knowledge that nothing could happen that we could make fun of him about.

But ha! You are mistaken. The Ol’ Freddie joke is coming out of retirement!

Check this:

A very special event happened for the Fred Thompson campaign on Tuesday — besides his official withdrawal from the race, of course. It turns out that after he withdrew via a press release that afternoon, he effectively won something that same night.

National Review reports that the winner of the Louisiana caucuses was an uncommitted slate running under the title of “Pro-Life, Pro-Family,” followed by John McCain, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. In fact, the organizers of that “Pro-Life, Pro-Family” slate were almost all Thompson supporters who decided to take that name a few weeks ago, when it became a distinct possibility that he would drop out before the caucuses — which he did that very afternoon.

If Thompson had still been in the race, a Louisiana political source explained to NR, his state delegate strength in Louisiana would have been enough to potentially get him all of the state’s 47 national delegates. The one big problem, though, is that he dropped out only hours before he finally won something.

So it took dropping out of the race to actually win something for Ol’ Freddie.

Seriously. Fred Thompson is the gift that keeps on giving. This guy is a non-stop comedy show. Somebody should make a slapstick movie about him. It would be hilarious.

Ah, but who would play Ol’ Freddie? Anybody know any third rate, walking corpse actors?

Ok. Ok. Besides Ol’ Freddie himself?

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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It’s a little useless to be pounding on Mike Huckabee, given that he’s flat broke and is pulling out of Florida. But he’s using a Southern strategy to pick up lots of Super Tuesday delegates (Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, West Virginia), and he’s still a potential Vice Presidential candidate should McCain or Romney want to pick up evangelical support. So it’s important to understand that yesterday he compared America to Nazi Germany.

In a speech to the Florida Renewal Project Monday night, which in an unprecedented move was live streamed on the American Family Association’s Web site, Mike Huckabee compared America to Nazi Germany. He first implored the audience to renew their “commitment to Christ” and “to our nation, to its heritage, as well as to its future,” adding “do we expect the seculars [sic] to do it? Do we expect the unbelievers to lead us, and if so, how will they lead us and where?” He then engaged in an extended description of his visit to the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem with his 11- year-old daughter, who asked, “why didn’t somebody do something?” Huckabee, who has called abortion a “holocaust,” then issued a dire warning:

… I pray that no father ever stands over the shoulder of his own daughter and after her witnessing the decline and the fall of a great nation, writes, and sees her write these words, “why didn’t somebody do something?” You see, I believe the reason we’re here is because we are the somebodies. And we’re to do the something and if we don’t, who will? And if we don’t act now, when will it happen, and will it be too late? You leave this conference with this haunting question, and pray that no one would ever ask of you or of me, why didn’t somebody do something.

It is beyond dangerous to give someone with this worldview even a slice of federal power.

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That is the important question that needs answers based on Paul Kiel’s report on a new anti-Hillary group, excerpted below:

A couple of days ago, a group called Citizens United Not Timid filed papers with the IRS as a “527″ organization….

[...]

It’s this simple: it’s all about the group’s acronym, which, used in conjunction with Hillary Clinton, is supposed to be irresistibly humorous. That is the beginning and the end of it. The group will not be running ads in any form and will not be making any robocalls. They’ll be making T-shirts. That’s it. You can buy them for $25 on their website

Oh my. Hillary’s got no hopes of overcoming this onslaught. But even if they choose other candidates, we can imagine the possibilities:

Citizens Lose if Obama Triumphs

Help Edwards Reap the Presidency, Eat S**t

So, I think the only solution is to come up with some acronyms to counter the GOP candidates:

Giuliani Reeks Of September Sorrow

Choose Huckabee And Fight Evolution

McCain Earns Republican Disdain Everytime

Romney Always Flip Flops, Is Still Here

It’s a start toward acronym-based victory.

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Via TPM, we get this jewel from The New York Daily News:

Giuliani’s Florida decline comes as he has flooded the state with money and resources — including having 50 paid staffers in four state offices and spending more than $1 million on advertising since Christmas.

At this point, sources said, he is spending about $350,000 a day on TV ads, a pace that would leave him essentially broke after Florida’s Jan. 29 primary.

Wow. Even Rudy’s top strategist, Brent Seaborn is basically like, “whatever” about Florida. When reporters asked Seaborn if Rudy would drop out after he looses Florida, Seaborn said, “I don’t know. I mean, that’s going to be Rudy’s decision.”

Let the campaign deathwatch begin.

[Update:] Now Rudy is saying he doesn’t even have to win Florida. Uh, dude, you’re running out of states in which you can downplay expectations.

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NBC News is reporting that Grandpa Fred is out of the race.

So ends the laziest candidacy in American history. They’re showing b-roll of Fred “campaigning” on MSNBC and they literally can’t find anything more interesting than him eating a bowl of soup.

Remember, this was the “conservative choice” beloved by the Internet right, the man who the Republicans saw as a savior when he first entered the campaign.

Hilarious.

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I think so:

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Rudy Giuliani sped across the finish line in Florida on Monday.

He didn’t get the checkered flag he really wanted – victory in the Jan. 29 Republican primary – but had a great time all the same.

Giuliani’s campaign bus took a detour from its two-day, eight-stop tour of Florida for a visit to the Daytona International Speedway. Aides assembled the press traveling with him in the grassy infield, setting up the camera shot they wanted – pictures of his giant “Florida is Rudy Country” bus tearing around the track and across the black-and-white finish line.

The big coach roared past the media pack, not at race speeds but fast enough to keep from tipping over on the banked track. Giuliani grinned in the front passenger seat.

No one was in the stands…

This does seem fitting, as a new ARG poll came out today showing Rudy Giuliani in fourth place in Florida with poll voters (though tied for first with absentees) and fourth place overall.

As Political Derby.com illustrates quite nicely, Ron Paul now has a better chance of becoming president than Rudy Giuliani.

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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Yesterday he was around black people so he discussed hip-hop and jewelry.

Today he was around Jews, so he discussed the economy.

As a Jewish person, I find this deeply offensive. As a liberal blogger who loves making fun of Mitt Romney, I find this deeply hilarious.

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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