Just for fun - craziest politician in recent history?

[Phillycat]

Really just the kind of batshit insanity that makes you think less of us as Americans and humans for electing these lunatics...I'm not including Chimpy, as it would make the rest of the poll moot. :D

[Virginia Dare]

1. What about Dimment in South Carolina?...n/t

[Phillycat]

5. Not sure who you mean?

I mainly stuck with Senators - more name recognition than Reps...

[Virginia Dare]

9. Flat tax Jim..

http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Biography.Home

[Phillycat]

17. Oh yeah!

I just refreshed my memory, he said single women who live with their boyfriends shouldn't be allowed to teach in public schools! AWESOME. :rofl:

[tularetom]

2. Hard to beat katherine harris former nutcase congresswoman from Fla

[Botany]

10. She was total Bat Shit Crazy

[momster]

24. Ah, Memories

or mammaries....

She was definitely living in a delusional landscape where the grass was orange and the trees grew lollipops and she was Senatorial material...and that's a business suit.

[Botany]

32. She was the driver on the bus to "Crazy Town"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

71. Actually all three in that photo are certifiable

I think the middle guy is Adam "Howdy-Doody" Putnam. The guy on the right just manages to hide it a lot better.

[calico1]

3. Ross Perot n/t

[Dr. Strange]

28. Can I just say something? Can I speak?

Yeah, he's a nutter!

[begin_within]

36. Now let me just say this about that. Let me just say this about that.

I'm tellin' you, that I do agree with you on that.

[americanstranger]

38. Game over! Problem solved!!

Heh.

And his running mate Stockdale was the prefect match. When he started his debate appearance with the question 'What am I doing here?,' I knew he was something special.

Perot was really taken seriously for a while there. But dropping out of the race because George Bush sent helicopters to disrupt your duaghter's wedding (!) then jumping back in a couple of weeks later doesn't do a whole lot for one's credibility.

- as

[begin_within]

42. One good thing about Perot...

I believe he cut into Bush's support enough to hand the election to Clinton

[momster]

4. Sen. James Inofe

Off his rocker...one of the proudest slavering loonies out there.

[Phillycat]

7. Wow, he called the RED CROSS "bleeding hearts"!!

Well done - that is some prime Grade A Republican crazy, there. :crazy:

[PghTiny]

25. I second that

At least Sanitarium is out of office, or he would have been my pick

[Richard Steele]

6. How could you even post this without including Zell "I wish I could challenge you to a duel" Miller?

Now that fella was some serious old-school crazy!

[Phillycat]

11. I had him on, but took him off for Tancredo!

There were so many good choices. :cry:

[Quantess]

57. I was also surprised to not see Zell Miller. (eom)

[kentuck]

8. "Beam me up Scotty"

guy. Traficante?

[Phillycat]

22. For the toupee alone!

[Occam Bandage]

12. No Katherine Harris or Michelle Bachmann?

[racaulk]

33. Katherine Harris was my first thought!

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

48. I go with Michele Bachmann.

"I'm hot for Jesus!"

*shudder*

[PassingFair]

60. Put me down for KATHERINE HARRIS

Canoodle!

[GoneOffShore]

13. I voted for the "Frothy Mix Kid" Little Ricky Santorum.

But Ron Paul should be in there as a bat shit crazy as well.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. ALAN KEYES!!!! Hand down the most insane. n/t

[Enrique]

44. Al was nutty for sure

he said Jesus wouldn't vote for Obama. :crazy:

[Sydnie]

66. I have to admit that was the first name that came to my mind too

GMTA! :)

[Le Taz Hot]

15. Other:

Bob Dornan. No one can beat him in the lunacy department.

[Phillycat]

20. He said people should vote for him because he had more children

than the other candidates! :rofl: Wow, this guy is nuts. Well spotted.

[Le Taz Hot]

29. To add a few Dornan quotes:

"Every lesbian spearchucker is hoping I get defeated."

"Men in the pro-choice movement are either men trapped in women's bodies...or younger guys who are like camp followers looking for easy sex."

"People elected a governor and I have a screaming transvestite in my ear." - Bob Dornan

And then there's this one:

Cashing Checks for the Virgin Mary

The House Banking scandal embarrassed a number of politicians, including Newt Gingrich (who bounced 22 checks), but Dornan deserves a prize for the best cheesy excuse in all of politics.

He said that he wrote the check he bounced to pay for a grotto of the Virgin Mary in his back yard. He won re-election to his heavily Catholic district.

[Phillycat]

30. Wow, lesbian spearchuckers!

That...goes beyond offensive and comes right around to ludicrously hilarious! :rofl:

[Le Taz Hot]

65. You can't make this stuff up.

His Special Orders sessions were particularly entertaining.

[LeftishBrit]

69. Did he REALLY say that he had a screaming transvestite in his ear?

And that it was caused by the governor? Now THAT'S loony!

I was going to nominate a few British MPs, but no one could hold a candle to these comments! And people voted for him????

[riverdeep]

51. Oh, B-1 Bob Dornan.

Yes, he is definitely up there. This is the guy who personally swam the channel at Chappaquiddick to prove that Kennedy was lying. Here's a few quotes to give some flavor:

I used to pine away that my birthday wasn't April 13th. That was Thomas Jefferson's birthday...Until I discovered that (my birthday) of April 3rd was the day Christ was crucified.

...Roosevelt's birthday is January 30th. Hitler was sworn in on Roosevelt's birthday...And then Roosevelt was sworn in on March 4th. Well, my mother was eight months pregnant (with me)...Now, I'm not being spooky about it, I'm just saying within a month (of Roosevelt's inauguration)-I'm born!...The world really took off while I'm in my mother's womb.

Homosexual-to shorten it to 'homo' may have cruel ring, like shortening 'Japanese' to 'Jap'. It worked during the second world war. It's not considered polite-but use the word.

(Referencing gays' attraction to thighs)- Oh, I've been hit on. And always the same ridiculous line, 'Boy, you have nice thighs.' So, Clinton is jogging in his split-up-to-the-sides silk girlie-girlie jogging pants, showing us those beautiful white doughboy thighs of his.

And, in '06, I believe, he was considering running for the Presidency, because the field was 'full of adulterers and homo-lovers'.


In my mind, Tom DeLay has been channeling his obstinate, 'crazy but what are you going to do about it' attitude.

[smokey nj]

16. I vote for the entire Republican party.

It looks like an institution for the criminally insane.

[blondeatlast]

18. Katharine Harris, Alan Keyes, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Ron Paul, I could go on, just here in AZ, even. nt

[begin_within]

37. Joe Arpaio is like something from the 17th century.

[Kucinich4America]

56. Careful what you say about Sherrif Joe!

You might find yourself sleeping in a beat up old Army tent in 120 degree desert heat, eating bologna sandwiches and wearing nothing but pink underwear. :evilgrin:

[begin_within]

58. While he watches from a 2-way mirror

[blondeatlast]

62. He's now got an enabling county attorney as well. I've taken to only reading the print version of

New Times--the county has been tracking online readers.

You're in the sane part of the state, right? Lucky bastid.

[maxanne]

19. I vote for

Ron Paul and/or Alan Keyes.

[robcon]

21. RON PAUL!

batshit crazy.

[madokie]

23. wheres ron paul

hes as guano crazy as any of them but since hes not listed I have to go with my own fucking pos senator, coburn

guano
broadly : excrement especially of seabirds or bats

[Tommy_Carcetti]

26. Tom Tancredo

I think the whole "Let's nuke Mecca" argument sealed the deal for him.

Although James Traficant and Bob Dornan give him a good run for the money.

[bdamomma]

27. Tom DeLay

[LibDemAlways]

31. No one has mentioned Zell Miller? He's got to be

near the top of the list.

[Richard Steele]

41. That's it! Them's DEULLIN' words!

I mentioned Zell up in post #6- when it comes to "crazy",
I think some of the other choices on the poll are really
just shameless power-cravers who pander to some fringe elements,
not actual lunatics. They ain't crazy, they're just willing
to say some crazy shit to get votes.


But Zell? Different. He's not pandering shamelessly anymore,
he's GENUINELY lost his damn mind. :silly:

[LibraLiz1973]

64. ah shit I didn't see this before I posted downthread

He's nuckin futs!

[TahitiNut]

34. Smirk and Sneer still take the cake for sheer mental pathology.

Smirk is an around-the-bend and over-the-horizon pathological narcissist. Irredeemable. Untreatable.
Sneer is a batshit insane sociopath. He LIKES death and suffering. He PROFITS from death and suffering.

They both belong in padded cells for the rest of their miserable lives.

[hiphopnation]

35. the one glaring omission from your list

ron freakin' paul

[JohnLocke]

39. Jim Bunning, of course!

[brazos121200]

40. Saxby Chambliss has to be the craziest repub

politician in recent history. The way he turned Sen. Cleland's war record against while posing as a patriotic American himself was simply insane. But it worked. So much for the intelligence of the Ga. voters.

[dysfunctional press]

43. it starts and ends with lyndon larouche.

nt

[DS1]

45. Jimmy

[H2O Man]

46. cheney

[begin_within]

47. Bob Dornan "B-1 Bob" going ballistic when losing to Loretta Sanchez was

one of the great moments in political craziness. I can't find a clip of it, but if you want a taste of Dornan, try these:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rnhCgDfiE3w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2h6GRnnppK4

[LeftishBrit]

70. What did he do, call her a lesbian spearchucker?

I was just looking at the quotes from him higher in the thread and I am in AWE at the craziness; they don't make them quite like that in England, though Keith Joseph sometimes came pretty close!

[underpants]

49. Turns out Perot was right

okay now back to the nuts

Sentorum was nuts for the stupid *$&$ that he spewed not just because it was so baseless but because of the state that he represented and that he basically talked himself out of EVER being on a national ticket

Let us have a moment to revere the Allen "macaca" moment.... :wow:

Trafficant was nuts

Brownback actually talked about, in the US SENATE, what a fetus thought

Bush- without the corporate media he would still be circling on an Enron plane mostly just so he didn't embarass the family.

[Phillycat]

50. I know, I can't believe Brownback's gotten no love in this poll!

Can it be that people have forgotten how fucking nuts he really is??

[goodgd_yall]

52. This is the hardest poll ever

So many to choose from!

[kskiska]

53. Jim Traficante

The guy with the possum on his head who's doing time.

[krispos42]

55. That's photoshopped, right?

Please tell me it's photoshopped...



Please?

[Kucinich4America]

59. No, that's a real picture

It's not his real hair, obviously. But he DID actually wear that horrendous rug on the floor of the House.

[krispos42]

67. Some clear fishing line...

and a small hook are all that's needed for some serious fun.



One of his friendly collegues ties the hook to the line, then tosses it into his dead muskrat. Give him about 30 feet, then tie the other end to a chair or something.

As he walked onto the camera to give a speech... whoops! The muskrat runs for cover!!!!

:rofl:

[Touchdown]

54. Ralph Nader

:evilgrin:

C'mon, admit it. You really wanted a 200 post thread, didn't you? :rofl:

[Swamp Rat]

61. "The Internet is a series of tubes!"

:D

[LibraLiz1973]

63. Zell Miller: "I wish we lived in a day when you could challenge a person to a duel"

Zell Miller

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AuBnlNjZq24


http://youtube.com/watch?v=36HjSAZ3k_w
"US Forces armed with what, spitballs?"
I swear, I could have spitballs on a loop. It was that funny.


He's one crazy SOB

His behavior at the Rethug convention last time was nuts. It was funnier than it was upsetting because he made no sense.

[theHandpuppet]

68. Jim Bunning of Kentucky

Apparently took too many pitches to the brainpan.

[deacon]

72. Zell "I want a duel" Miller :)

[MiniMe]

73. Jim Bunning. Lest we forget the 2004 election

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Bunning

Erratic behavior during 2004 election
During Bunning's reelection bid in 2004, controversy erupted when Bunning described Mongiardo as looking "like one of Saddam Hussein's sons." Public distaste compelled him to apologize. Other behavior, including accusing Mongiardo of physically assaulting Bunning's wife—claiming that his wife was left "black and blue"—and the use of a teleprompter during a televised debate, caused several media analysts to question Bunning's mental state.

Bunning set unprecedented conditions on the debate in question: he could not appear in person due to an important vote held just few hours before the debate and instead was televised from the Republican national headquarters; he refused to allow an independent observer in the room with him; he insisted that no portion of any recording of his performance could be rebroadcast; he insisted that the debate be broadcast live in the afternoon instead of the customary prime time hours; and other conditions.<1> After the debate, the state's two largest newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Lexington Herald-Leader, both called for Bunning to step down, however both papers had previously been critical of Bunning.

In yet another instance of questionable behavior, Bunning told reporters, in October of 2004, that he had not heard about protests by American soldiers in Iraq who refused to ride in insufficiently armored vehicles. His explanation: "Let me explain something: I don't watch the national news, and I don't read the paper. I haven't done that for the last six weeks. I watch Fox News to get my information."


edited to add:
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=668

"Little green doctors pounding on my back"

There is a video of him a little way down in the article.

This guy is batshit crazy

[BlueIris]

74. Zell Miller.

[izzybeans]

75. It's tough, since the Reagan Revolution ushered in an era of total batshit insanity

I find it hard to decipher which one is the king shit of fuck mountain.

[Marie26]

76. Hello, James Traficant? nt

[last_texas_dem]

77. Jim Bunning or Zell Miller

Guys like Santorum and Tancredo and the like are just right-wing extremists; while many of their views are disgusting, I think their brains are functioning capably- at least as capably as the brains of right-wing extremists can function. But Zell Miller and Jim Bunning have both obviously had something snap or go wrong in their minds in recent years (and I make this medical diagnosis with at least as much credibility as Bill Frist had in "diagnosing" Schiavo!), and the way the Repugs have used them (Zell as a prop to show how "conservative Democrats" loved Shrubbie, and Bunning to keep a Senate majority for them when he should be out of public life altogether) is deplorable.

FWIW, I don't see Robert Byrd as crazy. He has a number of things I disagree with him about and, sure, he's very old-school in his style, but I think his mind is still functioning better than the majority of the members of the Senate who are supposed to be in their prime.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

78. Lyndon LaRouche!

C'mon, he believed the British Government sent the Beatles to the USA as part of their Psychological Warfare division to bring immorality to American teenagers. That's just one of many nutty theories he has.