Posted on 09/22/2009 2:18:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The cha-cha-cha is just three small steps in a Latin dance but last night it was one giant step for Tom DeLay.
The former House Majority Leader stole the show on “Dancing With the Stars,” the popular cringe-fest D-list celebrity reclamation project on ABC.
Touted as the program’s “highest-ranking star,” DeLay partnered with ballroom pro (and two-time winner) Cheryl Burke for a booty-shaking, lip-syncing, winking number set to the tune of “Wild Thing.”
And if you wanna know for sure: The whitest man in America can dance.
In a mud-brown vest trimmed with sequins and matching sansabelt trousers straight out of, well, his former Texas Congressional district, The Hammer began by shaking his tush (such as it was) at the camera.
Burke, in leopard print, met him as he slid across the floor on his knees and — God help us —lipsynched. Seeing Tom DeLay lipsynch “Wild Thing” is like seeing Osama bin Laden lipsynch “Proud to be an American.” Not something you expect, but who can take their eyes off it?
When it was all over, judge Carrie Ann Inaba put it best: “That wassurreal.”
Fellow judge Bruno Tonioli was apoplectic. “You are crazier than Sarah Palin!” hesputtered (it must have been the winking).
But, he also noted, “The little cha-cha you did was not so bad.”
And it was true. As Inaba told the Republican heavy: “You’re surprisingly light on your feet!”
Before the show began, DeLay was the odds-on longshot — sportsbook.com had him dead last to win at 30-1.
So you could say that by the end of the night he was already a winner, beating out ex-NFL star Michael Irvin and Ashley (son of George) Hamilton, and close on the heels of Ultimate Fighting champion Chuck Liddell.
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You gotta love DeLay. The man gets railroaded out of office and he resumes his life as if nothing happens. Most politicians remain in Washington and become pundits or lobbyists, but not De Lay.
For those that didn't watch it, his teacher told him to move to the left on one of his moves...
Youtube doesn’t seem to have it. They say it has been taken down due to a violation of Youtube policy. Yet others from the same night are up.
How far to the left did he move to support his Chi-Com buddy's sweatshop in the Marianas?
As a "conservative" Republican he must have had to move pretty far left to support a business which required its workers to slave during the day and whore at night.
It’s there if you look for it. Search under “Tom DeLay Dancing.”
“You gotta love DeLay. The man gets railroaded out of office and he resumes his life as if nothing happens.”
Remember when he really pissed off the libs when he had his mug shot taken in 2005? They were wetting their pants they were so excited to see the photo. He got the last laugh when the photo looked like it had been taken for an executive portrait — big smile, etc.
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