THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Election 2012 is over a year away, but it seems like it will take forever to get the children out of the room so the adults can have a conversation.

In 2008 there were four serious GOP candidates in Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson, and Mitt Romney. The three serious Democrats were Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards.

Yet the adults could not have conversations while the field was bogged down with everybody from Tom Tancredo to Mike Gravel. Mike Huckabee won Iowa, which further delayed the process for the GOP.

The Republicans will eventually have serious discussions, but the first GOP debate in South Carolina was nonsense.

Before getting to the candidates, can Republicans stop swooning over the non-candidates? They all said they could have won. If that was true, they would have run. Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, and Mitch Daniels all had die hard support that could have evaporated once the bloom was off the rose. Haley Barbour most likely got crowded out by Newt Gingrich. Mentioning the non-contenders even once more in the context of the 2012 election is not necessary. They are all very good at what they do, and did not advance further even to the first caucus and primary states.

As for the Democrats, Mr. Obama will not have a primary challenge from anybody sane. Russ Feingold and Dennis Kucinich even understood that it is not worth being called a racist. Hillary gets it.

Back to the GOP. Anybody that the GOP is currently swooning over must stay out of the race. Colonel Allen West, Senator Marco Rubio, Congressman Paul Ryan, and Governor Chris Christie must not run. They should refuse the vice presidential slot as well. They are all fabulous. They are all off to excellent starts. They will all be savaged as career ambitionists if they abandon their responsibilities just to climb the ladder. They have all said they are not running, and they must keep their word. Otherwise, they will lose their authenticity. Give them four or eight years, and they can, will, and should deserve the acclaim if their deeds match their current strong words.

With that, let’s separate the candidates from reality to fantasy.

The top GOP tier is based on having a base of support. It is not based on any general election predictions. This is about the primaries.

Mitt Romney is the favorite and next in line. The GOP is a hierarchy, so any other nominee would be a stunner.

Tim Pawlenty is the safe choice everybody can live with if Romney stumbles.

Sarah Palin is the rock star, although she may not get in.

Newt Gingrich is the policy heavyweight.

Michele Bachmann is the Tea Party darling.

There is no foreign policy candidate in the race right now. If John Bolton runs, he occupies that role. If Rudy Giuliani (who I endorsed in 2008 and would again) runs, he gets that slot. There is not enough room for both of them. If Giuliani gets in, Pawlenty slips to second tier. Pawlenty is the compromise candidate, but too many big names would keep him from getting the second look. Also, if Palin gets in, Bachmann drops to second tier.

The second tier consists of Senator Rick Santorum, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, and businessman Herman Cain. What keeps them from slipping lower is different for each one. Mr. Santorum will run as the socially conservative candidate. Mr. Cain would be lower but he will have plenty of money, keeping him in the game. Mr Huntsman will have one billion dollars at his disposal. Mr. Santorum may be crowded out because most of the candidates are socially conservatives, even if they downplay this. Mr. Huntsman and Mr. Cain do not provide much difference from Mr. Romney in terms of rationale. Mr. Cain is black, but the GOP does not reward people based on identity politics like the Democrats do.

The third tier is Ron Paul. What keeps him from the second tier is that too many will not consider him under any circumstances. His support has a ceiling. His supporters are rabid, but rabid support from screaming teenagers did not elect Howard Dean either. Dr. Paul is trying to remake the entire Republican Party in his image. The GOP is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Dr. Paul would be better off running as an independent because his supporters are not Republicans. While the Paulbots want to remake the entire party, they fail to grasp that the party does not want this. What keeps Dr. Paul from the fourth tier is that people have heard of him.

The fourth tier is where lunacy exists. Why are these people running? Nobody knows. They poll lower than Ron Paul, which should be an immediate signal to get out of the race. They will stay in out of narcissism. For people with no chance of winning and nothing to lose, running for President can be fun. So after a brief mention of the fourth tier, they will not be mentioned by me again. They should be banned from the debates to avoid turning those serious events into a circus.

The fourth tier is former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. He is running on a platform of being pro-marijuana. The slackers and stoners can go back to the Democratic Party where they belong. Former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer has some recognition in his home state. Fred Karger is a gay, Jewish Republican running on a gay marriage platform.

Every minute that the also-rans suck up debate oxygen is a minute we cannot listen to a serious debate between the top tier candidates.

Some will complain that if the lower tiers got more media attention they would be more viable. It does not work that way. Become viable first. Then get attention. Otherwise, everybody could run for President. We would have 300 million candidates and no voters.

At some point things have to get serious. So let’s get the 2012 irrelevancies over with by the time the Summer silly season ends. After Labor Day, the adults only need apply.

eric

During Watergate it was “What did the president know and when did he know it?”

Now we have Wienergate and  “What did Weiner know and when did the wanker show it?”

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2011/jun/5/all-congressmans-parts-what-did-weiner-know-when-d/

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/this_guy_is_just_bad_liar_and_that_5uCiDdOgZX2yFXKnRySwiN

http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/06/06/deja-vu-another-congressman-bares-naked-torso-and-more-for-online-pal/#idc-container

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/06/06/the-ick-arus-of-capitol-hill-gets-ickier/

Anybody (especially Republicans) offering politically correct nonsense about how we should let it go should sit down and be quiet. If ever a man deserved zero pity or mercy, it is the Wicked Wanker from Weinerville. Yes, this story should evoke glee in every conservative blogger in the country.

If that makes me one vindictive SOB, I am just learning the skills needed to be a New York liberal congresswanker.

Congressman Anthony Weiner has just announced that he is trying out to be quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.

The Anthony Weiner New York Bond Fund Package has just reached junk status.

CNN must get to the truth about the Anthony Weiner scandal. Have Eliot Spitzer interview him. “Congressman, you’ll never get to be Governor without a larger effort.”

Congressman Weiner, you misunderstood me. I said liberals like you need to GROW a pair, not SHOW a pair.

The real scandal is if the Congressman had the cojones to send his own stones or if he used Photoshop to make himself bigger in the eyes of the viewers. Do I have to stop now? Awww, nuts.

Ok, enough fun with the Oscar Mayer Congressman. His relevancy to this column is as relevant as his service to America, which was small to begin with and is shrinking by the minute.

Oh, and here is a picture of my junk. Enjoy it ladies and Congressman Weiner!

http://trashmenagerie.com/images/TheCrookedClef/garbage%20can.jpg

Mr. Weiner says that we should move on, that this does not rise to the level of something worth serious investigation.

He does not get to decide this, and no amount of bullying the normally sycophantic CNN anchors will change this.

Besides, too many liberals from John Edwards to Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ed Schultz to Dominique Strauss-Khan want the world to focus on Weinerwatch.

What we do know for certain is that somebody sent a lewd picture of a male appendage from Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account to a 21 year old female college student on the West Coast.

What is not in dispute is that the picture definitely came from his account. Everything else is, metaphorically speaking, fuzzy.

Congressman Weiner publicly stated that his account was hacked. I suspected the National Organization for Women framed him because they have been hacking wieners for decades.

The problem with this claim is that he seemed reluctant to have the FBI investigate the matter.

Somebody hacked into my email account a couple of weeks ago and began sending spam emails to visit pornographic websites. I was enraged and immediately reported it.

When Sarah Palin had her email account hacked, she went to the authorities. The left-wing teenage scumbag was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to some jail time. It was a victory for humanity over leftist thuggery.

Once Mr. Weiner claimed he was hacked, he lost the option to let this go uninvestigated. A cyber crime was committed against him. There could be national security implications.

If Mr. Weiner lied to the FBI about being hacked, he has committed a crime. However, it is possible that the FBI is investigating this quietly. That means Mr. Weiner lied to the American public but not the Feds. This is legal. Gary Condit lied to the public but confessed his transgressions to the police. He lost in the court of public opinion but stayed out of jail. Mr. Weiner can make amends with the voters, but there is no latitude deserved if he lied to the FBI.

Mr. Weiner finally decided to stop attacking the reporters and do damage control interviews. He could not contain his prickly nature, but he did reveal important information in the interviews.

He explicitly stated that he did not send the image. Given how emphatic he was, I can take him at his word on this one.

Yet when asked if the image was of him, he said he was “not sure.”

Not sure?

This is bad for so many reasons.

When a liberal screws up and lectures everybody else about mistakes, that is called a “teachable moment.” So let’s offer a teachable moment for everybody out there.

(Grabbing a bullhorn): DO NOT TAKE NAKED PICTURES OF YOURSELF EVER.

I have done some dumb things in my life, but thankfully I was smart enough to know that the world did not want to see my flabby body au naturelle. Several women have asked me to take risque pictures of them (I happily obliged), but I would never have one taken of me. If I am thirsty at 4am, I put on a robe before leaving my bedroom to go to the refrigerator even if I am the only person in the apartment.

As for the women, they are just lucky that I am not one of those guys who sells such pictures to tabloids.

The photo may not have been sent by Congressman Weiner, but it is a photo of his lower body. Why would he allow himself to be photographed this way?

For those who point out that this is not any more illegal than fellating an intern in the Oval Office, the issue is one of vulnerability. Public officials cannot put themselves in the position of being blackmailed.

Another issue that is totally fair game is why Congressman Weiner is following on Twitter a college student.

The excuse that millions of people follow other people is more flaccid than Congressman Weiner’s wanker.

He is a celebrity. Celebrities have many followers, but follow far fewer people. I am the lowest possible level of celebrity. I have 150 followers on Twitter. I am following 5 people. Congressman Weiner has thousands of followers but is only following 200 people. People have every right at this point to ask why he is following some young girl, especially since he is married. The fact that the woman is backing him up means nothing. Monica backed up Bill.

This woman says she has never met him, and they live on opposite coasts. Something is rotten here.

As for who sent the pic, I am going to offer speculation. I have zero evidence, but my theory is reasonable.

I bet it was one of his young staffers. Many public officials are trusting with their passwords to their staffers. Many of these staffers are young people with raging hormones. Perhaps Congressman Weiner is covering for one of his staffers, most likely a male one. This still does not explain why his staffer has a pic of his staff. To be more specific, it does not explain why the pic was taken to begin with.

Yet lost in all of this is the reason why conservatives should be howling with glee over this scandal.

It is not because Congressman Weiner is a liberal.

It is because he is a bully.

Anthony Weiner is a nasty individual. Liberals do not worship him because of policy. There are plenty of liberals in congress. They worship him because he is a vicious ideological bigot who demonizes conservatives every chance he gets. He seeks out confrontation and conflict. He is the politics of personal destruction.

This man was a heat seeking missile long before he was in heat and took pictures of his missile.

The verbally violent way he goes after conservatives is destructive and corrosive to our society.

Liberals have zero problems with his conduct because they support his spreading hatred in the same way they worship Ed Schultz. The more poisonous the approach, the happier the left is.

So let’s celebrate that a man who has spent his political life beating up opponents for sport has just punched himself in the gut.

This guy will never resign or surrender, because liberals don’t do that. He will never apologize for anything because he sees himself as noble and virtuous while his political opponents are evil enemies.

So yes, let this guy burn. Let him burn slowly and painfully, but let him burn. Not since Eliot Spitzer has a man been so deserving of utter contempt.

Another New York Emperor has no clothes. So let’s expose him to the world. After all, he has done this himself already on Twitter.

It’s payback time.

Anthony Weiner took out his junk and literally aired his dirty laundry.

Junk is trash, so it is time for Americans to do likewise and take out the trash themselves.

We can start with Anthony Weiner.

His mistake was being unable to keep his pants zipped.

His vile nature comes from being unable to keep his mouth zipped.

The flap over his appendage is less serious than the years of him flapping his gums.

The Weiner Wanker Show is just getting warmed up.

The champagne is on ice, but the cork will not be popped until he is gone from politics forever.

eric

Congressional liberal bully Anthony Weiner of New York may have sent a lewd picture of his lower appendage to a 21 year old woman. He claims his account was hacked.

Congressman Anthony Weiner has just announced that he is trying out to be quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.

The Anthony Weiner New York Bond Fund Package has just reached junk status.

CNN must get to the truth about the Anthony Weiner scandal. Have Eliot Spitzer interview him. “Congressman, you’ll never get to be Governor without a larger effort.”

Congressman Weiner, you misunderstood me. I said liberals like you need to GROW a pair, not SHOW a pair.

The real scandal is if the Congressman had the cojones to send his own stones or if he used Photoshop to make himself bigger in the eyes of the viewers. Do I have to stop now? Awww, nuts.

In all fairness, it is quite possible that he was set up by the National Organization for Women. After all, they have been hacking his namesake for decades.

Ok, enough fun with the Oscar Mayer Congressman. His relevancy to this column is as relevant as his service to America, which was small to begin with and is shrinking by the minute.

Today’s column dealing with his fellow leftist thugs Ed Schultz and Dominique Strauss-Khan can be found at the Washington Times Communities.

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2011/jun/1/anthony-weiner-ed-schultz-mahmoud-abdel-salam-omar/

Oh, and here is a picture of my junk. Enjoy it ladies and Congressman Weiner!

http://trashmenagerie.com/images/TheCrookedClef/garbage%20can.jpg

Nothing to see here. No consequences to face. They are liberals. They will skate.

eric