The great New-World-Order bicycle conspiracy
Clive Power from London | Wikimedia Commons
Thank you, Dan Maes, a Republican candidate for governor in Colorado.
Before Maes came along, you may have believed that bike riding was either kid stuff, or a popular activity for the granola-munching greenie crowd, or a sport filled with athletes on dope, or some basic transport for bums on booze.
But Maes has exposed the far more sinister “truth” about urban bicycle riding and advocacy:
It’s a United Nations-inspired plot to take over U.S. cities.
You can read about it in The Denver Post:
The Democratic candidate, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, is a bicycle-promoting politician who recently angered car dealers by wondering aloud how our nation can wean itself off cars.
Until now, I had believed that Minnesota GOP candidate Tom Emmer’s public fretting about all the waiters and waitresses making more than $100,000 a year was the stupidest thing a would-be governor had said all year. Although Basil Marceaux in Tennessee is high in the running, too.
But Maes, a Tea Party-backed candidate, has taken the cake, at least so far.
Can it get any more ridiculous?
(h/t to reader Mike Showalter and Talking Points Memo)
August 4, 2010 - 1:27 PM
What rocks do these people have covering them before election season?
Like I posted in the bike rack thread, Conservatisim is a drug with some nasty side effects, and its use appears to be spreading.
Conservativism: A mild-altering drug whose origins are unknown, but whose use became widespread in the early 1980′s. Regular users of this drug experience a host of negative side-effects including, but not limited to the following: irrational thoughts; hallucinations; unprovoked anger toward others; fear of change and/or the unknown; phobias toward people of other races, ethnicities, and/or sexual orientations; incoherent speech; and occasional bouts of incontinence. Extensive rehabilitation is required for users of this drug. With prolonged detoxification and exposure to reality, Conservativism junkies can regain normal mental and physical faculties and regain their free-thinking abilities over time. Elimination of irrational fear is also noted among recovering users of Conservativism. With a proper recovery support program, former users of Conservativism will become productive members of society.
The sort of absolutely laughable statements coming from the mouths of Tea Partiers, Republicans, Conservatives, and others on the right are absolutely amazing. People want to knock the loony left, but good freaking hell, it seems the loony right has taken over the whole damn side! It’s like a Twilight Zone episode mixed with taco pizza dreams and a Jose Cuervo hangover.
O-H M-Y G-O-S-H.
Do you hear this, Suze? Better quit riding that bike.
Yes Dan, it can and will get more ridiculous. It’s only August and the election is not until November. Just wait!!!
They are starting to make our AG look normal.
I was watching Morning Joe this morning and Joe Scarborough was wondering why the GOP in Nevada could not find a better candidate than Sharron Angle, after showing a clip of her interview on Fox News saying she wants the press to be her friend, and report what she wants them to report.
Clearly the same could be said in Minnesota and Colorado – weren’t there better candidates than these folks??
Paranoid Republican Teabagger…go figure.
OJ, I keep waiting for someone to jump out and say, “Just kidding. You’ve been punk’d!”
You just can’t make this stuff up.
All that exercise, it has to be Communistic and Socialistic, and probably Statist to boot. The people’s right to sit around and get fat is being infringed upon, and I think the Teagbaggers need to address this pronto.
Can we get Mr Maes to run for president? LOONEY TUNES!!!
#2 Conservative David Klinghoffer’s piece in today’s paper was perfect:
“With its descent to baiting blacks, Mexican and Muslims, its accommodation of conspiracy theories and an increasing nastiness and vulgarity, the conservative movement has undergone a shift toward demagoguery and hucksterism. Once the talk was of neocons versus paleocons. Now we observe the rule of the crazy-cons.”
#2 OJ that was great. You should submit it to the medical journals!
The Denver Post article says 50 people turned out for his rally. Not much of a crowd there.
“With its descent to baiting blacks, Mexican and Muslims, its accommodation of conspiracy theories and an increasing nastiness and vulgarity, the conservative movement has undergone a shift toward demagoguery and hucksterism. Once the talk was of neocons versus paleocons. Now we observe the rule of the crazy-cons.”
The only thing that will cure Gdad is a good b**** slappin!
Funny that most of the people I have ridden with over the years are conservatives. Guess they hadn’t gotten the memo from the tea baggers…
“Conservative David Klinghoffer”
What a joke. How about conservative Al Franken’s opinion?
Well, it was in Centennial, Colo., a northern suburb or Denver, pop 99,000 (otherwise known as Aurora, Englewood and Littleton (where you-know-what happened). 50 is not much for that population — heck, Gov. Bob McDonnell had a standing-room-only crowd in the RoCo Supes chamber tonight, and ANOTHER SRO crowd in a separate room, too.
Al Franken is not a Conservative Henry.
I think that was the point of his post Sandi. I’m taking it to mean that he doesn’t consider David Klinghoffer a conservative.
This is from McDonnell’s Town Hall meeting in Roanoke last night…
“Chip Tarbutton of the Roanoke tea party accused the governor of “buying into the Al Gore global-warming Ponzi scheme” because of his support of a project to make Richmond more ‘green’.”
“Part of being a conservative is conservation”, McDonnell said, defending those measures as reducing toxic runoffs and saving fish and oysters in the Chesapeake Bay.
McDonnell’s response is similar to this one of Ron’s. And actually to Ron’s comment here also. McDonnell’s was a little more “diplomatic” though, since he was answering back to a potential voter.
Again, there is more than one type of “conservative”. Just because you’re a religious conservative doesn’t mean you’re also a fiscal, environmental, social etc… conservative too (and vice versa). Bush was a very good example of this.
Also, this is another definition of conservative that I think many people have forgotten: “having the power or tendency to conserve; preservative.”
Neither is David Klinghoffer. His specialty is merely intelligent design.
“Al Franken is not a Conservative Henry.”
Wow, really Sandi?
Yes, and if I said that someone wasn’t a liberal, that their “specialty was merely same sex marriage”…certain people would scoff.
Well you seemed confused Henry, just trying to help you out. David Klinghoffer is not a Liberal either from what I can gather. We can recognize each other in case you did not know that.
@ 26 – We have hand signals, kind of like baseball.
Re: David Klinghoffer. I think Mr. Klinghoffer IS a conservative in the traditional sense of that word. You know, like William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater. The fact that he has little common ground with many who call themselves conservative today says a lot about how far conservatives have drifted from their philosphical roots.
David Klinghoffer, is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. The Institute is a conservative public policy think tank based upon the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis. He is also the author of “How Would God Vote? Why the Bible Commands You to Be a Conservative”. One of the reviews of his book said, “…his worldview is derived from Christian conservatives.” It sounds like he’s a gun rights advocate also.
I don’t really know much about him, but it looks like all the signs are pointing to him being a flaming liberal.
LOL Lori!
Sorry /Henry and Tony, the guy is definitely a conservative. A REAK conservative, unlike you guys and troll.
I wonder if Hickenlooper rides his bike to work. Is he even a cyclist? Liberals almost always have two reasons for everything they do; the one that sounds good and the REAL reason. My guess is this guy doesn’t give a rat’s a** about physical fitness. He’s an environmentalist loonie from way back. He no doubt hates capitalism and fossil fuels that drive it. And no doubt he’s a MMGW lunatic as well. That’s what’s behind this nonsense.
Suzie,
Why didn’t Maes just say that, then?
His UN-threat-to-take-over-cities spiel sure was an indirect way to get that point across.
Dan,
I think he pretty much did say Hickenlooper is a tree-hugger whack. That’s what the U.N. comment meant.