old joke, new subject

[spatch]

Q. If the crazy Ron Paul supporters on the street got into a brickbat fight with the crazy Lyndon LaRouche supporters, who would win?
A. The American public.


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Comments

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

My name is Every Other Candidate, and I approved this message.

[cursethedark.livejournal.com]

LaRouche actually finished ahead of Kucinich in the SD primary back in '04. It was sad.

[mom-o-cass.livejournal.com]

*applause* :)

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Dunno..we'd *still* hear about them on the news.

Not that you couldn't sell tickets to the rumble, of course.

[spatch]

Hell, I'd be there selling popcorn and programs.

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

For a brief moment in time, I worked on a campaign in New Hampshire in '92. The really, really fun scary ones were the Tom Laughlin supporters. Yes, that Tom Laughlin.

[ron_newman]

What? Billy Jack? Was this like Robert Redford in The Candidate, a fake campaign used to make a movie?

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

Indeed, the man, the legend . . . Billy Jack. And he was genuine. Or at least genuine in his desire to want to win the primary. He was very right-wing, but get this . . . he ran as a Democrat!

[spatch]

PLEASE tell me his campaign song was One Tin Soldier.

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

All I remember was the frothing-at-the-mouth nature of the supporters which contrasted nicely with the LaRouchians (LaRouchites? LaRouchies?) who were truly eerie.

[ron_newman]

I recall the original Billy Jack movie as being rather left-wing, but it's been decades since I saw it.

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

Recall it as being one of those Westerns where a Man With No Name knockoff comes and saves the poor townfolk from the Evil Rancher Who Owns Everything. Then again, that could describe 98% of Westerns ever made. And I (happily) know nothing of the sequels, which if I recall, included one where he went to Washington.

[spatch]

Billy Jack was also an ex-green-beret-turned-pacifist-turned-back-to-ass-kickin'-machine, wasn't he?

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

And that's really just scratching the surface. He was a very complex character. Many sides. Multi-faceted even.

[dskasak.livejournal.com]

In the spirit of the Ultimate Showdown, the winner will be...Fred Tuttle.