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denem

(11,045 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:51 PM Feb 2012

Interwebs call for Laptop Dad to enter GOP race,

(lots of them). Folks we may have a new front runner.

... Tommy Jordan for president.

That’s the response Jordan is getting from tens of thousands of people on the Internet after a YouTube video featuring the North Carolina dad shooting up his 15-year-old daughter’s laptop with a .45 went viral this week
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-dad-puts-bullet-in-teens-laptop-20120210,0,7989379.story.

Or may be not. Yes Jordan is a Republican, but he supports Ron Paul.

Figures.
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southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
2. This is what makes a man qualified for the republican presential election because in shoots
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:56 PM
Feb 2012

his kid's laptop. Dang low does the bar have to be with republicans? This should be a walk over for president Obama. What is wrong with the republican party? Reality check please.

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
3. I'll say it again: I am not at ALL surprised he's a Republican and a Paul supporter.
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:58 PM
Feb 2012

It fits perfectly with the arrogant, self-indulgent narcissism he displayed in his YouTube video.

rocktivity

(44,580 posts)
4. It also fits with the arrogant, self-indulgent narcissism
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 08:09 PM
Feb 2012

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that his daughter inherited.


rocktivity

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
7. Assuming, as you are, that he told anything vaguely resembling the truth about her actions.
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 11:58 PM
Feb 2012

And that he wasn't simply filtering the entire incident through his offical "I'm the only person who matters and I'm always right" Paulite goggles.

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