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He is a perennial loser in Montana politics, a kind of Harold Stassen of the interior West, a fringe candidate who sometimes has to sue to get invited to television debates. He is also a man who accidentally turned his skin blue by drinking a homemade antibiotic laced with silver.This was the guy that Michael Medved was railing against in his rant I linked on the schadenfreude thread. For causing that alone, Stan Jones, I salute you -- blue skin and all.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 November 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
gah, registration required, can you copy paste?
― Ed (dali), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
it's really long. the intro...
He was hurtling down an asphalt road in upstate New York on the 47th trip of his ferocious campaign to win back the House. A lecture, even from political consultant James Carville, was the last thing he needed.
In just 12 days, his campaign would end in a historic victory--a triumph that almost no one believed possible when he took the job nearly two years ago--or in colossal failure.
And here were Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg telling him he had to make each of his handpicked candidates shift from attack mode and strike a conciliatory note in their final campaign ads.
"James. No James, YOU LISTEN," Emanuel barked into a cell phone, about to release a string of profane invectives more intense than usual. "Can you listen for one [expletive] minute?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Rahm Emanuel is awesome. a friend & I ran into him (almost literally. open bar, what can you do) as the d-trip results party was clearing out and I def got the "slightly insane" vibe
― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah. absurd, but great. good lord! someone at my work used to be a political fundraiser & this person is like, hyper intense, I have no idea how they do it, I'd need a ****load of drugs and I'd be able to keep up for maybe a week, tops.
"Since my kids are gone, I can say it: They can go ---- themselves!"
― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
one year passes...