Posted on 01/06/2012 11:49:44 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
Grandpa, the wise, old spider monkey who calls the Staten Island Zoo home, views life through Yoda-like eyes — and his fans say that eerily accurate is the future he sees.
His keepers have been testing his supposedly psychic powers by having him pick the winners of tennis matches and pigskin tilts. But the Daily News is giving Grandpa his toughest challenge yet — choosing which candidate in the crowded GOP field will claim victory in the New Hampshire primary.
On Monday, the day before the showdown in the Granite State, The News will have Grandpa pick a banana from a bunch. Each banana will have written on it the name of a GOP candidate — and pity all who are not the chosen banana.
In the past, Grandpa has shown himself to be an ace at beating odds in sporting matches that break down to a simple flip of a coin, like his triumph in picking the Green Bay Packers to win the Super Bowl last year.
But The News’ test will confront the zoo’s “elder statesman” with a race that has proven to be chaotic and a cast of characters whose fates have changed wildly. Even though former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is running well ahead of the pack in New Hampshire, where he owns a summer home, the zoo’s head curator says it is impossible for mere mortals to know how Grandpa will pick ’em.
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Clouds everything the dark side does.
I would rather be governed by the arbitrary pronouncements of a ‘psychic’ monkey from Staten Island, than by the entire faculty of Harvard University.
Or RP's foreign policy team.
Even for a monkey, that's too much flung poop.
The monkey picks Barack Obama to win the Democratic Party Primary in New Hampshire! That was easy.
I’m sure Mitt Romney has already gotten to him.
...one monkey to another.
Monkey pulls out a Sharpie and writes Sarah Palin on banana instead.
NH is an open primary state too so dems can cross over and vote for Romney who is the liberal’s first choice for obvious reasons. NH is irrelevant imo.
Even a monkey knew that Santorum was a joke candidate...until he wasn’t.
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Romney won NH, but neither would I be surprised if he lost. This primary is a trip to the Twilight Zone.
To see how absurd this article really is, just imagine the howls of the Liberals/Progressives if it was suggested that their candidates where chosen by a monkey or a bunch of monkeys. The would react with outrage.
The trouble here is that any outrage Republicans would have would be laughed at and ridiculed. The Mainstream Media disrespects Republicans even ridiculing Rick Stantorum for bringing his dead baby home and saying that he "played" with it.
When are we going to Wake Up America. Political Correctness is Strangling You! When you wake up to the fact that only the Liberals and Progressives respected by the Media and the rest of us Americans with Faith and Family Values can take a hike.
Repent America, to the Lord who made you a Person. And in America all Citizens deserve basic respect and not like what the Media is doing today.
So now we are going to give our vote by what a monkey says? Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
YES!!!
Probably a lot easier to do a "write-in" on a banana than in upstate New York, too!! But that's what I'm going to end up doing if Mitt gets the nod.
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