Wanker Of The Day - Utter Disgrace Edition

Former Republican turned Blue Dog "Democrat" turned Stormtrumper Jim "Cob" Webb on the Morning Squint and Meat Puppet Show on "liberal" MSNBC:

In an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Reagan administration veteran-turned-Democratic senator from Virginia turned short-term presidential candidate Jim Webb said twice that he could not support Hillary Clinton if she won the Democratic nomination for president.

"No, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton," said Webb.

Pressed on whether he would vote for Donald Trump, Webb said he was "not sure" but had not ruled it out.

You know you're a festering pile of delusional, opportunistic nuttery when even a far- right Republican like Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse and these other Republicans (plus several score in the Republican national security community) say they won't vote for Rump, but you might.  Move over, Chris "Krispykreme" Christie;  it appears you have another soulless rival to be Rump's vice presidential running mate!

Reaping What You Sow, An Update

Unfortunately, in the recent gubernatorial election in Kentucky, voters (at least a majority of the 30% who managed to get off the sofa and vote) opted for ultra- right Tea Party Republican Matt Bevin, including this guy, Dennis Blackburn:

The 56-year-old mechanic hasn’t worked in 18 months, since he lost his job at a tire company that supplies a diminishing number of local coal mines.  [snip]

He has a hereditary liver disorder, numbness in his hands and legs, back pain from folding his 6-foot-1-inch frame into 29-inch mine shafts as a young man, plus an abnormal heart rhythm — the likely vestige of having been struck by lightning 15 years ago in his tin-roofed farmhouse.

Blackburn was making small payments on an MRI he’d gotten at Pikeville Medical Center, the only hospital in a 150-mile radius, when he heard about Big Sandy’s Shelby Valley Clinic. There he met Fleming, who helped him sign up for one of the managed-care Medicaid plans available in Kentucky.

On Election Day, Blackburn voted for Bevin because he is tired of career politicians and thought a businessman would be more apt to create the jobs that Pike County so needs.  (our emphasis)

Of course, now Blackburn, and possibly many of the 55 percent of voters in impoverished Pike County who voted for Bevin, are worried he'll actually end the Medicaid expansion program -- what he promised to do throughout the election campaign!!  (It raises the issue of a simple test that could be administered before voting:  give the voter a piece of paper with two dots and if the person can't connect them, send them home.)

If this guy isn't the perfect future Trump voter ("he's a businessman" not a "career politician" after all!), we don't know who is.  As Charles Pierce said so well to those simple- minded voters who consistently vote against their self- interest (as well as those who can't be bothered to vote at all), "good luck and enjoy your freedom!"

Clueless Conservatives

Jason Linkins, in HuffPo, reports on an Ohio State study showing that conservatives actually think Stephen Colbert is one of them, blissfully unaware that his political satire is aimed directly at their marble heads. Is this so surprising, though, considering the Rethug base still thinks there was an al-Qaeda/ Saddam Hussein link, or that Dumbya was the bestest Preznit evah, or that Adam and Eve romped with the dinosaurs, or that... well you get the picture.

Arlen Specter leaving the Rethugs lowered their party's average national IQ by 25 points.