The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

16 November 2006

B-1 out of mothballs

Ten years ago in Vent #9, I listed Republican alternatives to Bob Dole in order of increasing implausibility level:

Pat Buchanan or Benito Mussolini or a three-toed sloth or Bob Dornan.

Mussolini is out, being dead and all, the sloth presumably can't be bothered, but apparently Bob Dornan is back, reports the Union-Leader's Drew Cline:

I just got off the phone with former congressman and talk show host Bob Dornan, who is considering ... a run for President.

"I can't stand the thought of my party having as its three front-runners three open adulterers, Newt Gingrich, Giuliani, and McCain," Dornan said.

Cline doesn't think this will quite come off:

Somehow, I just don't foresee B-1 Bob leading the Republican Party back to its glory days on an anti-homosexual, anti-adultery platform. But he sure would make the 2008 [New Hampshire] primary a lot more fun, especially if his nemesis Newt decides to run. It'd be like Steel vs. Iron Man.

So ... anyone heard from Pat Buchanan lately?

(Via Wonkette.)

Posted at 2:36 PM to Political Science Fiction


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Charles,
I have nothing to say about this post: when people start talking politics, my brain turns to yogurt.

However, I was just doing a search for "blanket you wear" to look up that thing that was on Oprah's favorite things several years ago.. . (not that I expect you to have that in the front of your mind, or actually anywhere in there.) On Google, searching "blanket you wear," dustbury.com is about number 4. It made me giggle.

That is all.

Posted by: Angi at 6:43 PM on 16 November 2006

No, I just checked it out again and here's what really happened (re: blanket you wear): the fourth link is kymberlyswygert.com and you commented on her post.

The end.

Posted by: Angi at 7:08 PM on 16 November 2006

"Bob Dornan for President? No, Jimmy Stewart for President. Bob Dornan for Secretary of Defense."

Posted by: McGehee at 7:19 AM on 17 November 2006

Actually, that worries me. These days, Bob Dornan reminds me mostly of Howard Dean in his Shrieking Eagle stage, the Dean that Cam Edwards described as "a guy who's going to invade Mexico because Taco Bell got his order wrong."

Posted by: CGHill at 7:32 AM on 17 November 2006