When a French TV station set out to understand the American phenomenon known as the tea party, it sent a reporter to Florida, down a dusty country road, past a bug-swarmed pond, and into a Pasco County pasture filled with people waving American flags.
I was going to school at the U of Miami at the time. The show was at a place called Pirate's World - famous for advertising internally known bands. So you'd pay to see some really famous group and go to the show and the announcer would say "Geez - we're sorry they couldn't make it so instead we have..."
Down in Miami at the time the saying about the young lady who filed the suit was "If Jim Morrison had shown her his dick in the privacy of a hotel room, she wouldn't have complained."
Marco keeps his youthful figure by doing vigorous backpedaling. Tomorrow he will indicate that he is not reall all <i>that</i> hispanic, and Thursday, that he is not so much in favor of Arizonian immigration control. Friday, who knows? Not so comfortable with the label &quot;hominid&quot;? And next week, &quot;I am not a crook.&quot;
Now, I&#039;m not saying that the Tea Party is exclusively populated with inbred, armed racists with dangerously high blood glucose levels and subnormal intellect, but....
I can&#039;t think of a way to end that sentence.
I was going to school at the U of Miami at the time. The show was at a place called Pirate&#039;s World - famous for advertising internally known bands. So you&#039;d pay to see some really famous group and go to the show and the announcer would say &quot;Geez - we&#039;re sorry they couldn&#039;t make it so instead we have...&quot;
Down in Miami at the time the saying about the young lady who filed the suit was &quot;If Jim Morrison had shown her his dick in the privacy of a hotel room, she wouldn&#039;t have complained.&quot;
Marco keeps his youthful figure by doing vigorous backpedaling. Tomorrow he will indicate that he is not reall all <i>that</i> hispanic, and Thursday, that he is not so much in favor of Arizonian immigration control. Friday, who knows? Not so comfortable with the label &quot;hominid&quot;? And next week, &quot;I am not a crook.&quot;
Now, I&#039;m not saying that the Tea Party is exclusively populated with inbred, armed racists with dangerously high blood glucose levels and subnormal intellect, but....
I can&#039;t think of a way to end that sentence.
He is slippery enough, self-righteous enough, and aggressive enough, though.
Also, as a white Cuban expatriate, he&#039;s not really so brown, either. Like Ricky Riccardo.
Florida and politics go together like peanut butter and cancer.
or just get suicidal.
frailty thy name is realpolitik