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Unemployed? Run for Office

Posted 20 months ago|18 comments|568 views
Just smile and say something stupid
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Are you currently unemployed, have an IQ level, want to revoke all women's rights and transport the gender equality issue back to 1682? Then you have a great chance of becoming the next "Dancing with the Stars" candidate and possibly even garner your own reality television show.

Here is an easy two-step program on how you do it:

1. get your mug in front of any camera, any time, any place.

2. when your mug is positioned full frontal, then just speak. Say anything, for example:
''American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.''

It doesn't really matter, what it is, as long as you endorse creationism, Jesus and bash modern science enthusiastically.

You can get away with saying the most retarded things - just do it with conviction. There's always somebody out there, who will believe you, especially if you grin a lot.

Pesky questions about any past indiscretions, gaffes or various other dopey statements? Ignore the question. Pretend you didn't hear it and use the opportunity to further advocate all your more (if any) positive aspects. You won the cheerleaders debate in high school? Tout that. Don't have anything good to fall back on? Cancel the appearance.

It's a Win-Win Situation

No clue about politics? It doesn't matter! You can still get out there and win! Even if you don't actually win the election, you'll have enough campaign donations to pay the rent, buy food and treat your mom to an all-expense weekend at the local spa.

It's a win-win situation: win the election, you'll get a $174,000 salary and re-locate to Washington, DC. The RNC has proven to be quite generous funding wardrobe make-overs and any extraneous legal fees that may arise due to alleged unethical behavior. Keep smiling and pander to the old and older white folks: you shall be a huge success.

If, due to the awful media and possible tax evasion issues, you do lose: make sure you get all your ducks lined up during the campaign (time is money), and network with Oprah, agents, and other power people, to secure a deal in any media format possible. And remember: continue to blame the media for the election loss. That's crucial.

A life of luxury and leisure awaits you, regardless. If you are marginally attractive and can spell the word: which, chances are excellent. Heck, you don't even have to spell. Just talk - your success is guaranteed.
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20 months ago: Worked for Bush and Obama, almost for Palin, and that's just recently.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
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20 months ago: Don't forget to write a book or two, or have someone write it for you, and just sign your name to it. Then you can get Oprah to sell it for you, and you can enter office in style, and hobnob with the fancy folks like you've been doing it all your life.
20 months ago: Boy howdie.

This November could be some fun.

Liberals think anything we ignert creastures say is stupid.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

I can't wait.
20 months ago: Let's just ask location. Is the writer in the confines of the U.S. Borders and laws? Is the writer an actual U.S. citizen? Is the writer living abroad and planning to use the overseas ballots to vote? Does the writer feel that overseas military should have their votes counted also? Does the writer agree that all oversea military ballots should have a longer transit time than the writers FedEx form?

Dang...Is this writer even American? Prove it.

I could post all day long claiming to be Cuban.

West Hollywood, CA from overseas?

Yeah, right, enjoy November.
20 months ago: The people who claim to be American, but think this candidate demonstrates a level of vacuity not desireable in government, are foreigners?
20 months ago: Stan... Don't believe the West Hollywood address...besides...yes the left coast is foreign to the U.S.

Ask the writer straight out...

Where do you reside and how long have you been out of the U.S.?
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
20 months ago: Excuse me Deputy but what does the writer's location have to do with the article - what if she was a liberal from Austin, Texas? Would the article carry more weight?

...Dang...Is this writer even American? Prove it...

So now we to go birther on the members of this site? You start first - post a copy of your birth certificate (long form with the raised seal) to prove that you're a citizen along with a copy of your Social Security card - we need to verify when and where it was issued. Until that happens, everything you say about the USA will be dismissed as the ramblings of a non-citizen - at least, that's the 'logic' you're posing here.
20 months ago: to appease anyone who's curious: I am a US citizen.
20 months ago: A better title for this ''Rave'' would have been...

"I'm unemployed and living in Europe, going to school in Europe and sending my kid to european schools before I transplant him/her back into the U.S. while collecting your government tax dollars...

Why should I run for anything?"

Yeah, I know it wouldn't fit in the title section.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
20 months ago: @Stan5

I don't think there was a particular in the writer's mind. Just because she chose a particular picture, as Sixholdens pointed out, you could pretty much just fill in the blanks from either side of the aisle. The tactics laid out in the OP worked for Obama, so why knock anyone else for trying it?
20 months ago: "LOL" is an overused term, but you did give me a real laugh, OutoftheBox. True enough. The tactics did work for Obama, but I do think Obama might have a few more thoughts, good or bad, in his head that Ms O'Donnell. I admit that is just a hunch on my part.
20 months ago: I guess it is pretty much compulsory to use these tactics, these days, whether the candidate has any substance or not. Is "dog and pony show" the right term?
20 months ago: Dang. A real good reply. Except for Health care, Taxes, buying the insurance market, buying the auto market, buying wall street, buying the banks, unemployment, deficit spending, boarder control, bowing down, declaring 70 percent of the U.S. are racists, supporting Iran nukes, not supporting Israel, claiming to have pulled troops out of Iraq, claiming that your taxes won't go up while limiting it to "Federal Taxes" after cutting off the states and doing a book signing tour with Hugo Chavez along with those nasty kisses.
20 months ago: Ouch.
BruceDPrice
BruceDPrice
Virginia Beach, VA
20 months ago: No, it's a three-step program, and Veronika left out the big one. There must be a friendly (okay, smitten) press that will never ask awkward questions. Obama is slick, but I always think the media gave him to us.
20 months ago: I always enjoy a warm welcome by my stalker friends.

How y'all doin?
markbyrn
markbyrn
 Moderator
20 months ago: The problem with the article is it highlights criticisms that could just as well be leveled at Democrats including the President - unemployed (or under employed), smile, say something stupid, run for office, and get a large government check with lots of perks.

The real question is whether or not these Republican "Tea Party" candidates (AKA Rebiblicans or Religious Right Evangelicals) are going to win the general election in sufficient number to carry the Republican Party to a victory as was done in "Republican Revolution" of 1994.

As I see, the "Tea Party" has shown it's true colors as nothing more than a vehicle for the religious right of the Republican Party, and thus we have religious right candidates like Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle getting the nod. The litmus test for the Tea Party is not one of economics as was originally conceived but is opposing abortion and the carrying the social-conservative religious agenda. Are all the Tea Party nominees Christian Evangelicals with no economic solutions?:

http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/09/20/tea...

That said, looking at the polling data at realclearpolitics.com, the Dems are clearly in position to fumble the ball away and give possession of Congress back to the GOP even if the religious right candidates like O'Donnell and Angle lose. Both the Dems and GOP have strong negative polling but but such a condition tends to mean a loss for the incumbents, and I'm not seeing any coherent Dem strategy to overcome that.

AP-GfK Poll: Dems disliked, but so is GOP:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...
20 months ago: hey Mark, this is less an article, more intended as a satirical piece. If this applies to democrats as well, so be it. Anyone who stoops to these levels, should be called out. Having said that, the media is equally if not more to blame for giving so much face time to unqualified candidates without asking the tough questions and calling their bluff. I'm amazed how easy the press is on these TPP. Course, if they only appear on Fox news, as advised by Ms. Palin, that can prove somewhat of a hurdle but not impossible.

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