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MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:30 PM Nov 2015

I give up. All of the Democratic Primary Candidates

are the wrong candidates. We need a brand new, ideal, unifying candidate who will bring us all together in a peaceful coalition founded on friendship and humor. Let's draft Al Franken. He'd be perfect. Let's insist that he join the campaign and all of America will fall in line behind his candidacy and create a 50-state landslide victory for one and all.

Let's just toss the current list and run a successful satirist and Senator for President. IT'S NOT TOO LATE!!11! If we all come together, we can do this. Let's create a new website for this movement: StartOver2016.com

I'm all in!

Sincerely,

Mineralista Manbro

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Should I adopt this pseudonym as an alternate voice on DU?


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Mineralista Manbro - SI!
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Mineralista Manbro - NO!
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Wait...whut?
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I don't get it.
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Ban Coors Lite Beer!
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I give up. All of the Democratic Primary Candidates (Original Post) MineralMan Nov 2015 OP
i would throw my support behind colbert, restorefreedom Nov 2015 #1
Love it. I'm going to out myself as an ultra conservative around these parts. NCTraveler Nov 2015 #2
Not a swiftboating. A swiftbuttkicking. MineralMan Nov 2015 #3
Didn't Bernie support COORS in college? underpants Nov 2015 #4
Your chops are a lot different than Manny's Fumesucker Nov 2015 #5
See, that's why I dropped the MineralManny moniker. MineralMan Nov 2015 #8
Break a leg Fumesucker Nov 2015 #13
The show must go on, it seems. MineralMan Nov 2015 #15
No no puede! lovemydog Nov 2015 #6
before you get a pseudonym ibegurpard Nov 2015 #7
I don't see how that's necessary, really. MineralMan Nov 2015 #10
Some people are just bitter; hopefully they get better Hekate Nov 2015 #19
Satire is Safe and Effective if Taken in Small Doses MineralMan Nov 2015 #21
You know why Coors Lite is like making love in a canoe? Buzz Clik Nov 2015 #9
LOL! MineralMan Nov 2015 #11
I'd like to know how O'Malley is "wrong"? riderinthestorm Nov 2015 #12
Psst...don't tell anyone, but this post is satire. MineralMan Nov 2015 #14
Ah, I'm posting while distracted. Never a good idea riderinthestorm Nov 2015 #26
LOL Ban Coors Lite beer....now THAT is a winning strategy! pinebox Nov 2015 #16
Al Franken! Draft Al Franken! Hekate Nov 2015 #17
And so the movement begins! MineralMan Nov 2015 #18
Post removed Post removed Nov 2015 #20
Non Sequitur of The Day Award MineralMan Nov 2015 #22
Darwin award for you Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 #25
LSD? 1969. I was more a psilocybin guy. MineralMan Nov 2015 #28
I never served in a war war. Not in any combat role. MineralMan Nov 2015 #24
Here: MineralMan Nov 2015 #30
He's DDDDLLLLLCCCCC! wyldwolf Nov 2015 #23
Alfred E. Neuman or Pat Paulson. Unfortunately, I may be showing my age still_one Nov 2015 #27
Pat Paulson! Yes! MineralMan Nov 2015 #29
even better.... but I think you are correct. You need to be alive to run still_one Nov 2015 #31
 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
2. Love it. I'm going to out myself as an ultra conservative around these parts.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:37 PM
Nov 2015

Love Clinton and Coors Light. Would love to have a Coors Light with Clinton. Would love to have one with O'Malley and Sanders as well. I'm just a lost third wayer or something. Maybe I just want to get drunk and need a buddy. Shit, I don't drink anymore. Hope this doesn't leave me vulnerable for a swiftboating. lol.

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
3. Not a swiftboating. A swiftbuttkicking.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:40 PM
Nov 2015

Someone will be along soon to administer that, I'm sure.

Best wishes,

Mineralista Manbro

underpants

(182,806 posts)
4. Didn't Bernie support COORS in college?
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:41 PM
Nov 2015

Or did I read that wrong.?

BTW Franken wrote a book (not his best) in which he runs primarily on a platform of getting rid of ATM fees. Wins. Makes a bad racial joke and slips into a fog of depression.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
5. Your chops are a lot different than Manny's
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:42 PM
Nov 2015

Not worse or better but different.

I mean Led Zeppelin covered Hello Mary Lou but it still sounded like Led Zeppelin.

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
8. See, that's why I dropped the MineralManny moniker.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:46 PM
Nov 2015

I've been casting about for a new one, and finally caught a whopper.

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
10. I don't see how that's necessary, really.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:47 PM
Nov 2015

As long as I'm entertaining myself, I'm good. It's all about me, you see.

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
19. Some people are just bitter; hopefully they get better
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:13 PM
Nov 2015

Did you see Fumesucker's Old DU Satire thread? About half the respondents had no idea it was satire.

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
12. I'd like to know how O'Malley is "wrong"?
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:51 PM
Nov 2015


I'm really liking him the more I learn but would love to hear what his problem is as a candidate

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
14. Psst...don't tell anyone, but this post is satire.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:55 PM
Nov 2015

Mum's the word. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. I'll say no more.

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
17. Al Franken! Draft Al Franken!
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:08 PM
Nov 2015

Best idea all day, Mineralista Manbro. (Your new nom de internet is giving my iPad auto-correct fits.)

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
18. And so the movement begins!
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:10 PM
Nov 2015

Get your bumper sticker now!

FRANKEN 2016
We can't lose unless we don't succeed!

Response to MineralMan (Original post)

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
25. Darwin award for you
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:35 PM
Nov 2015

then.........

When was the last time you ever took a tab of LSD?...............LOL

Be honest............ I and many others can tell.......... Oh, then that's why you are so predicable.

I can't see any consciousness in you, but intelligence, but the same old rhetoric, with no links
but opinions...

Your thoughts on children and your vision of the future,,,,,,,, must haunt your posterity given to you by someone's else time and life?

What did you ever do to sacrifice your great power of wisdom for the betterment of society?........... Did you teach?, organize labor,

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
28. LSD? 1969. I was more a psilocybin guy.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:45 PM
Nov 2015

I stopped doing all of that in 1974, when I started writing full-time for a living as a freelancer.

As for the rest, none of that is any of your business in any way.

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
24. I never served in a war war. Not in any combat role.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:20 PM
Nov 2015

I did serve from 1965-69 in the USAF, though. They found things for me to do.

MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
29. Pat Paulson! Yes!
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 04:47 PM
Nov 2015

Sadly, he's been dead these past 8 years. I'm pretty sure being alive is a requirement to run.

I remember him well, though. He ran in 1968, but never really got the traction he deserved.

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