Posted on 02/28/2010 8:45:37 PM PST by grey_whiskers
I recently attended not a Tea Party, but a local GOP meeting in the Minneapolis Metro Area, where local delegates were voted for to go to the state GOP convention, and a few candidates for governor (Seifert, Emmer, and Herwig) appeared.
In addition to a couple of candidates for State Representative and State Senate -- we have some good up-and-comers. Go Norann Dillon and Sarah Anderson!
Anyway, making a cameo appearance was Erik Paulsen, who led off with the following quip:
He just heard from the Olympics, and they have announced that they are going to strip the Gold Medal from Lindsey Vonn (shocked gasps, she is a local Minnesotan) -- and give it to Barack Obama.
(Pause while the audience makes the connection to the undeserved Nobel Prize.)
...and the punchline:
"...because his polls are falling so quick he's going downhill faster than she EVER did."
Way to go Erik, even if you're not Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin.
Cheers to you, grey_whiskers! Thanks ever so much for the chuckle!
According to a friend of mine from Paulsen’s district....
RINO..in an effort to suck up to actual conservatives just to get re-elected.....
That was the joke that Romney told at CPAC a week ago.
I made a certain suggestion to him as to how to embarrass the Dems, and he blew me off with a smug "oh you cute little...VOTER, you" type of look.
The staffer at Bachmann's office, however, laughed loud and long, then explained to me *why* it wouldn't work, but said they'd pass it along for the laughs...
Cheers!
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