Comments on: Florida’s Bob “BJ” Allen getting GOP cold shoulder http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:18:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: kate http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455575 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:33:01 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455575 <em>“I’m waiting for the politics to say it’s OK to hug Bob Allen again — and they will.”</em> Guess he's thinking he'll up the kitty to forty bucks and a BJ. “I’m waiting for the politics to say it’s OK to hug Bob Allen again — and they will.”

Guess he’s thinking he’ll up the kitty to forty bucks and a BJ.

]]> by: Tommykey http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455574 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:28:17 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455574 Is he going to start offering his fellow Republicans $20 bucks each to get them to sit next to him? Is he going to start offering his fellow Republicans $20 bucks each to get them to sit next to him?

]]> by: Michael Hussey http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455537 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:12:37 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455537 “I’m waiting for the politics to say it’s OK to hug Bob Allen again — and they will.” Bob has a long wait. House Speaker Marco Rubio wants Allen to disappear. The two major Florida conservative blogs (Peer Review and State of Sunshine) have been silent on the Allen issue. Unrelated topic: thanks for the Fasano post, Pam. “I’m waiting for the politics to say it’s OK to hug Bob Allen again — and they will.”

Bob has a long wait. House Speaker Marco Rubio wants Allen to disappear.

The two major Florida conservative blogs (Peer Review and State of Sunshine) have been silent on the Allen issue.

Unrelated topic: thanks for the Fasano post, Pam.

]]> by: Jonah http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455511 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:01:24 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455511 Oh good, another excuse to point out John Scalzi's <a href="http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/2007/08/07/when_stupid_people_do_stupid_t.html" rel="nofollow">hilarious post</a> on the whole "stocky black guy" angle. Sample quote: What I find rather interesting is that Allen must believe, in some dim fashion, that people will actually buy this, and more than buy this, agree with it, which is to say that Allen believes that the average Floridan would think to himself or herself, "why, yes, when confronted with a park full of black men, a white man turning himself into some sort of ATM/suction device combo is an entirely rational response." Oh good, another excuse to point out John Scalzi’s hilarious post on the whole “stocky black guy” angle. Sample quote:
What I find rather interesting is that Allen must believe, in some dim fashion, that people will actually buy this, and more than buy this, agree with it, which is to say that Allen believes that the average Floridan would think to himself or herself, “why, yes, when confronted with a park full of black men, a white man turning himself into some sort of ATM/suction device combo is an entirely rational response.”

]]> by: Ellie http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455469 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:10:08 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455469 Is the comments queue broken? My browzer (Mozilla) said the comments wouldn't load, and my earlier comment, between 3 &amp; 4, didn't get off the queue. (NBD if it got sucked into the ether; I'm on public WIFI and am continually tweaking my security settings for an easy 2=way exchange to the inner netz so it may have been chewed in transmission.) Sorry for the tech-belch. Is the comments queue broken? My browzer (Mozilla) said the comments wouldn’t load, and my earlier comment, between 3 & 4, didn’t get off the queue. (NBD if it got sucked into the ether; I’m on public WIFI and am continually tweaking my security settings for an easy 2=way exchange to the inner netz so it may have been chewed in transmission.) Sorry for the tech-belch.

]]> by: Orange http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455464 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:56:54 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455464 Correction, bicmon: You should offer to blow him <i>and</i> give him $20. I think the cash transfer somehow wards off lightning strikes. Correction, bicmon: You should offer to blow him and give him $20. I think the cash transfer somehow wards off lightning strikes.

]]> by: Ellie http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455446 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:09:38 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455446 <i>Preposterous excuses: he went to the bathroom to avoid a lightning storm ... he was intimidated by the “stocky black guy”</i> Outside it's all arrogance, but (owwww) you can smell the deep-dish fear under the arrogance that their time of unquestioned, heirarchical authority has passed and it's not coming back. They can't just go roust a stocky black guy (for sham) and not have community blowback. IMO, the ones that are fighting most viciously are the flying monkeys who have been behind the PTBs like camp followers, waiting for an in or for the one-armed slot machine they've been feeding quarters to pay off. After his Senatorial ID didn't deter the arrest and it became public, Craig <i>had</i> to spin it as error and try to extort support from his cronies (which he may still get, though unlikely.) Preposterous excuses: he went to the bathroom to avoid a lightning storm … he was intimidated by the “stocky black guy”

Outside it’s all arrogance, but (owwww) you can smell the deep-dish fear under the arrogance that their time of unquestioned, heirarchical authority has passed and it’s not coming back. They can’t just go roust a stocky black guy (for sham) and not have community blowback.

IMO, the ones that are fighting most viciously are the flying monkeys who have been behind the PTBs like camp followers, waiting for an in or for the one-armed slot machine they’ve been feeding quarters to pay off.

After his Senatorial ID didn’t deter the arrest and it became public, Craig had to spin it as error and try to extort support from his cronies (which he may still get, though unlikely.)

]]> by: Satan luvvs Repugs http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455444 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:07:36 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455444 Don't forget David "Diaper Boy" Vetter. Many GOPers carry water for their party, but Vetter is carrying a load. Don’t forget David “Diaper Boy” Vetter.

Many GOPers carry water for their party, but Vetter is carrying a load.

]]> by: bicmon http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455436 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:54:51 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455436 I think I get it. If I, being a small white guy, am ever in a public toilet and feel intimidated by the presence of a "stocky" black guy--I should offer to blow him. Hmm. I think I get it. If I, being a small white guy, am ever in a public toilet and feel intimidated by the presence of a “stocky” black guy–I should offer to blow him. Hmm.

]]> by: bicmon http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455435 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:51:53 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/03/floridas-bob-bj-allen-getting-gop-cold-shoulder/#comment-455435 I guess the lesson here is if you're a white guy in a public toilet and the only other occupant is a stocky black guy who for whatever reason makes you feel intimidated, you should offer to blow him. Hmm. I guess the lesson here is if you’re a white guy in a public toilet and the only other occupant is a stocky black guy who for whatever reason makes you feel intimidated, you should offer to blow him. Hmm.

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