September 15, 2010
— Ace Really?
"I'm going to be very honest with you — Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He's my pet. He's my favorite candidate," Reid said.
Just a slip of the tongue, I guess. Surely he wouldn't beta male-ize a candidate for Senate. Must have meant something else. Right?
"Let me tell you about him: A graduate of Yale Divinity School. Yale Law School. A two-time national debate champion. He represents two-thirds of the state now, in an elected capacity. I don't know if you've ever seen him or heard him speak, but he is a dynamic speaker. I don't mean loud or long; he's a communicator. So that's how I feel about Delaware. I've always thought Chris Coons is going to win. I told him that and I tried to get him to run. I'm glad he's running. I just think the world of him. He's my pet."
Every once in a while Harry Reid tells the truth, and it's just magnificent.
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Posted by: rockmom at September 15, 2010 02:00 PM (w/gVZ)
Posted by: Mr. Bigglesworth at September 15, 2010 02:00 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: wiserbud at September 15, 2010 02:01 PM (EW49d)
Posted by: Paradigm Shift at September 15, 2010 02:01 PM (pPXqD)
Posted by: EC at September 15, 2010 02:02 PM (f4TZ2)
Karl...
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 15, 2010 02:02 PM (0q2P7)
What is it with Democrats and their weakness for people with pretty sounding voices?
Posted by: wiserbud at September 15, 2010 02:03 PM (EW49d)
Posted by: GOP Establishment at September 15, 2010 02:04 PM (FcR7P)
Goofy was a dog who owned a dog named Pluto. Now that just ain't right.
Posted by: eleven at September 15, 2010 02:04 PM (7DB+a)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo ( NJConservative) at September 15, 2010 02:04 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at September 15, 2010 02:04 PM (cNwh4)
Harry has a pet Coons......raaaaacist!
Although he can speak with a negro dialect when he chooses
Posted by: JC at September 15, 2010 02:05 PM (hOpHW)
Harry's poodle doesn't bite the hand that feeds him?
When you elect Chris, Harry holds the leash?
Posted by: JEM at September 15, 2010 02:05 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Pluto at September 15, 2010 02:06 PM (qaOKJ)
Go get em boy!
Good Coons.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 15, 2010 02:06 PM (0q2P7)
If O'Donnell's smart, she gets an ad up on this out right quick. Smear Reid's shit all over him.
Posted by: Filly at September 15, 2010 02:07 PM (MOnXm)
A graduate of Yale Divinity School. Yale Law School.
And, remarkably, he isn't a minister or a lawyer!
Posted by: Never Mind at September 15, 2010 02:07 PM (B8bAF)
Posted by: Harry at September 15, 2010 02:07 PM (qaOKJ)
Posted by: t-bird at September 15, 2010 02:08 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Benson at September 15, 2010 02:08 PM (qzcNU)
Posted by: willow at September 15, 2010 02:08 PM (/x2TR)
Posted by: Harry Reid (D - Dipshit) at September 15, 2010 02:08 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: sauropod at September 15, 2010 02:08 PM (GPm6P)
OK here is a quick commercial....
15 sec spot
COD is sitting in her backyard with a small dog on her lap.
Overplay Reid saying Coon's is his pet.
Cut back to COD.
COD say "Coons may be Harry Reid's pet, but I am no one's lapdog"
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 15, 2010 02:09 PM (uztAS)
Well, it's a good thing Chris Coons isn't black. Otherwise Reid would really be in trouble.
What's that? You say Reid would never say something so gaff-tastic?
Google "light skinned" and "negro dialect" and see what pops up.
Posted by: ed at September 15, 2010 02:09 PM (Zsqn4)
Posted by: not at the table Carlos at September 15, 2010 02:10 PM (xtAfO)
Posted by: Chris Coons at September 15, 2010 02:10 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at September 15, 2010 02:10 PM (ktYjH)
Posted by: stuiec at September 15, 2010 02:10 PM (fgCQL)
I'm so disturbed right now. I need to go look at pictures of cute puppies to heal my poor brain.
Posted by: EmilyM. at September 15, 2010 02:10 PM (zDZdp)
Posted by: Chris Coons at September 15, 2010 02:12 PM (Hq48F)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 15, 2010 02:13 PM (eOXTH)
You do however have all the qualities of a dog. All except loyalty.
Feed him to the pigs, Nancy.
Posted by: Bricktop Reid at September 15, 2010 02:13 PM (nKomG)
Posted by: forrest sifty at September 15, 2010 02:16 PM (nKomG)
It's because he speaks w/no discernable dialect, right?
Or perhaps he uses a potent deodorant that combats any odor that would stink up the Hill like those damn familes visiting the Capitol during the summer?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 15, 2010 02:16 PM (pLTLS)
Reid is right. If Reid keeps his power at Senate Majority Leader, and Coons wins, Coons will be Reid'd pet. And that "pet" will vote lock-step for liberty-kill (D).
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 15, 2010 02:17 PM (0fzsA)
Posted by: ace at September 15, 2010 02:17 PM (KUUXH)
I wish we didn't have a shady grifter as a candidate.
Posted by: Jeff B. at September 15, 2010 02:17 PM (NjYDy)
Posted by: Danny Noonan at September 15, 2010 02:17 PM (3qC6a)
Posted by: Chris Coons at September 15, 2010 02:18 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Jeff B. at September 15, 2010 02:18 PM (NjYDy)
That has to feel pretty scary for a bunch of commies.
Posted by: sifty at September 15, 2010 02:19 PM (nKomG)
Posted by: Early concerned Christian at September 15, 2010 02:22 PM (nKomG)
He's also old. "Pet" used to mean more things than it does now, including something like "bro." But it was always a really creepy-sounding version of "bro."
Posted by: oblig. at September 15, 2010 02:24 PM (x7Ao8)
Posted by: logprof at September 15, 2010 02:27 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: rdbrewer at September 15, 2010 02:28 PM (tkcGj)
Posted by: Thomas at September 15, 2010 02:28 PM (l7W2k)
Posted by: Drunk Karl at September 15, 2010 02:29 PM (12dr4)
You're my baby; you're my pet. We fell in love on the night we met.
Yup, it's cruel.
Posted by: ya2daup at September 15, 2010 02:32 PM (yRrAd)
He's also old. "Pet" used to mean more things than it does now, including something like "bro." But it was always a really creepy-sounding version of "bro."~oblig.
What's the matter with protégé or disciple? I thought these Dems were highly educated nuanced wordsmiths.
Posted by: Speller at September 15, 2010 02:33 PM (qaOKJ)
Posted by: ya2daup at September 15, 2010 02:33 PM (yRrAd)
Posted by: sauropod at September 15, 2010 06:08 PM (GPm6P)
The Waldorf Salad Effect.
Remember the last episode of Fawlty Towers? A hard-ass American and his English wife arrive at the hotel late, and Basil is too cheap to bribe his chef to stay and cook their dinner. It's not a hard order: screwdrivers to drink, steaks, and a Waldorf salad. Needless to say, Basil screws everything up and makes it worse by trying to make it look like someone else's fault, and the American tells his wife to get her bags -- they're leaving.
As the American gives Basil what for in the lobby, all the resident guests of the hotel line up to watch. The American tells Basil that his is the worst excuse for a hotel that he's ever had the misfortune to set foot in, and Basil asks his resident guests if they're satisfied. None say a word, and Basil starts to offer the American a refund with a supercilious sneer -- and then a voice pipes up, "I'm not satisfied."
And one by one each of the guests pours out a litany of complaints about the hotel's lousy service and shabby accommodations. The American's assessment of Fawlty Towers and its proprietor are fully vindicated.
This is what we are seeing in the American political landscape today. It's the end of what rdbrewer called the Abilene Paradox: because a few individuals were pushed past their limit and spoke up about how crappy the ruling regime is, the people at large have now discovered that everyone else around them is as unhappy and fed up as they are.
This is why we get such perverse pleasure out of watching the floundering and flopping of Gibbs and Pelosi and Reid and Obama: they're playing the comic role of Basil Fawlty, insisting against all objective evidence that everything is fine and that any problems that might exist are definitely someone else's fault. What made Basil such an enduring character was his obvious knowledge that everything was on the verge of total collapse and only his desperate machinations could keep his entire life from falling down around his ears -- and that's what makes today's Democrat leaders and Obama Administration officials just as funny as he was.
Posted by: stuiec at September 15, 2010 02:39 PM (fgCQL)
Reid isn't an implosion, he's a veritable black hole.
Posted by: pep at September 15, 2010 02:42 PM (0K3p3)
6 Sorry Coons, but that job is gonna suck.
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His pet....gonna suck.....slip of the toungue. Oy, keep your sexual pervisions to yourself Harry. TMI for the entire country to know about you dog toy, though not a surprise. Is he a "furry" too harry or do you not prefer the constume?
Posted by: Indi at September 15, 2010 02:45 PM (3lgKr)
He's also old. "Pet" used to mean more things than it does now, including something like "bro." But it was always a really creepy-sounding version of "bro."
Posted by: oblig. at September 15, 2010 06:24 PM (x7Ao
Yes, if you go back to the 1890s, you find the usage you're looking for -- as in "teacher's pet." Only, since the 1950s when Rock Hudson and Doris Day made a movie of that name, "teacher's pet" has been sexualized in common usage (like in The Police's "Don't Stand So Close to Me," Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher," or Venom's "Teacher's Pet").
Posted by: stuiec at September 15, 2010 02:45 PM (fgCQL)
From the makers of " Oliver Twist"
and the Producers of " Charlie and the chocolate factory"
and the director of 'Harry Potter"
comes a movie so horrifying that not even satan could watch
"HARRY AND HIS CHOCOLATE PET FACTORY"
Posted by: SukitTREBEK at September 15, 2010 02:45 PM (jBC6p)
All I meant was Chris Coons comes over my house once a week and screams at my ass on all fours.
Posted by: Harry Reid at September 15, 2010 02:48 PM (h60Tu)
Chris Coons, he's a good pet. His Marxist beard hair sometimes sheds a little too much during the summer, but he doesn't smell as bad as some of those animals I encounter roaming around the halls here in D.C.
Posted by: Harry Reid at September 15, 2010 02:51 PM (H1bxs)
Harry Reid was likely trying to say that Coons' campaign was a "pet project" of his. Of course, this doesn't make it look any better for Coons, since it implies that it isn't an important race for Democrats.
Posted by: Alex at September 15, 2010 02:51 PM (K9+WM)
I bet Coons is as nervous as a hamster in a San Fran Sisco pet store.
Posted by: SukitTREBEK at September 15, 2010 02:52 PM (jBC6p)
LOL! I loved that show. So, is Coons the hapless Manuel to Reid's Basil?
Posted by: kathysaysso at September 15, 2010 02:52 PM (ZtwUX)
This is funny. When you go to Coons' campaign website, the splash page has a huge picture of O'Donnell.
An attractive picture of O'Donnell.
What kind of idiot posts a good photo of his opponent as the first photo on his website???
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 15, 2010 02:52 PM (P9+0W)
Just a slip of the tongue, I guess
More like a slip of the tongue punch. So is Coons a dog, or some other kinda pet like a wolverine or a goat?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 15, 2010 02:56 PM (3k6GF)
Posted by: rdbrewer at September 15, 2010 02:57 PM (tkcGj)
Posted by: Harry "Mr. Inappropriate" Reid at September 15, 2010 03:01 PM (tkcGj)
Had longtime Congressman Mike Castle won last night, he would have had a 45-35 lead over Coons. Coons performs 26 points better against O'Donnell than Castle. Castle has been elected statewide 12 times, but OÂ’Donnell has lost bids for each of DelawareÂ’s Senate seats by margins of 30 and 41 points, in stronger Democratic years 2006 and 2008.
Castle would have pulled 30% of Democrats, almost twice as many as CoonsÂ’ 16% of Republicans, and held a 45-27 lead with independents. Against OÂ’Donnell, Coons almost reverses those trends, getting 25% of Republicans to OÂ’DonnellÂ’s 13% of Democrats, and flipping independents by 24 points to a 42-36 lead.
O’Donnell is much better known but much less liked than Coons, with a 29-5 favorability rating to Coons’ 31-33. Almost as many, 40%, think O’Donnell is too conservative, as the 45% who think Castle “about right.” By a 49-31 margin, Delawareans think O’Donnell not fit to hold public office, but they see Castle as fit by a 59-26 margin—a difference of 51 points. The 2010 electorate reports voting for Obama over John McCain in 2008 by only 14 points, much less than the president’s actual 25-point victory. But without Obama’s running mate Joe Biden on the ballot, Democratic turnout was bound to drop, as Republican excitement has waned slightly in Alaska without Sarah Palin up for a vote.
Obama and Biden outperformed 2004 nominee John Kerry by 16 points, so the enthusiasm on DelawareÂ’s left is still outpacing that in other states.
“A small group of Delaware Republicans most likely cost their party this seat and any chance at gaining control of the Senate last night,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “What has looked like an easy Republican win the entire cycle now looks like an easy one for Democrats.”
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at September 15, 2010 03:02 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at September 15, 2010 03:03 PM (mHQ7T)
This is funny. When you go to Coons' campaign website, the splash page has a huge picture of O'Donnell.
An attractive picture of O'Donnell.
What kind of idiot posts a good photo of his opponent as the first photo on his website???
To the deranged left, a picture of an attractive, hetero, woman-type politician is like noon sunshine to a vampire, penicillin to the clap, Amdro to fireants......
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 15, 2010 03:03 PM (2g2ex)
has a huge picture of O'Donnell.
That screen also has as a core Coons position the following genius-nugget:
A leader focused on creating jobs, not opening our coastlines to more dangerous off-shore drilling.
Holy fucking cognitive dissonance from a supposed silver-tongued "national debate champion". I guess jobs in the oil and gas industry aren't real jobs or something.
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 15, 2010 03:10 PM (wAncH)
aaaahahahahahahahahahahah
Tattoo De Plane
thinks there is a difference between Coons and Castle
AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA
what a dumb ass
Posted by: SukitTREBEK at September 15, 2010 03:12 PM (jBC6p)
If there's audio of this, there is a God.
If there's video of this, there is a God and he hates Chris Coons.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 15, 2010 03:28 PM (nNWUP)
Posted by: Guvnah at September 15, 2010 03:36 PM (SSTRU)
Posted by: bkw at September 15, 2010 03:37 PM (34O+x)
Posted by: Slack-Jawed Yokel at September 15, 2010 03:42 PM (5qJM5)
Every once in a while Harry Reid tells the truth, and it's just magnificent.
By gawd that right there was effin' funny. Italic and all.
Posted by: davis,br at September 15, 2010 03:50 PM (uCShA)
Posted by: Chris Coons at September 15, 2010 06:46 PM (h60Tu)
Goddamn it Coons...it's ME they're talking to like a dog!
Posted by: B+rry Obow+mao at September 15, 2010 03:55 PM (8Z/FE)
thinks there is a difference between Coons and Castle
One would have voted with the GOP three out of four times at least.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at September 15, 2010 03:57 PM (mHQ7T)
Harry Ried: "He's just so lovely."
"Why, I can't even go to the ATM machine with Coons around! Too distracting!"
"I used to shoot hoops with Coons."
"Why, me, Obama, Chris, and the rest of the Coons' used to pile into the Escalade and bird dog bitches in Georgetown all night."
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--Bad link
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No, THIS is the thread winner...
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Say, did I ever tell you about my rides on the choo-choo?
Posted by: ya2daup at September 15, 2010 08:34 PM (yRrAd)
--
Well fuck me. Two-time debate champ? Holy Shit! Speaks gud? Goddam! Honey; crack me open a Coors, we gotta vote for this motherfucker!
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