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bedsitter23) wrote2016-01-17 12:52 pm
bedsitter23) wrote2016-01-17 12:52 pm
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2016 Campaign Starts Now: Bullwinkle for Veep
A hazard of living in Iowa is that you might get hit by a campaign bus.
Which is not to imply I was ever in any danger (I wasn't) but my interest was piqued when I saw the Rocky2016 bus.
As professional looking as (and even cleaner than) Ben Carson's. It worked. I went right home and googled Rocky 2016.
Ok, let's not get ahead of ourselves. I am a bit of a fanatic about such things, but I did google him, and ran across what looks like a rather reasonable campaign website.
Rocky is San Diego businessman Roque de la Fuente, and I suppose he has a point that the guests at the famous Brown and Black Dinner, which ostensibly is to talk about minority issues, was headlined by three white candidates.
Rocky is a self-described Conservative Democrat with these zingers:
"As far as I’m concerned, Hillary was the housewife of the Governor of Arkansas, then she basically was the first lady and then a poor guardian to the White House. Then, she basically cut a deal with Obama to become Secretary of State,"
I’m way better looking than Trump," De La Fuente said. “He is just functioning on shock value.” On Carson: "Most doctors know how to save your life. Which is needed, but they do not know how to solve 1000 different problems," said De La Fuente
Most of the obscure candidates are kooks. Rocky seems like he has got it together, though he did mix a few metaphors
"I’m Rocky inside the Trojan horse and I’m going to be fighting Goliath,” said De La Fuente. “I plan to beat Goliath which basically means an independent thinker in the White House that’s going to get things done. Not blame one party or the other. I’m not worried about any of them… I think I’d have them for lunch.”
Of course, usually it's worth going to the people who know the candidate best, and in this case San Diego Reader has some problems with someone they report the FDIC has called "dishonest" and "should be banned from banking".
So, there you go.
Which is not to imply I was ever in any danger (I wasn't) but my interest was piqued when I saw the Rocky2016 bus.
As professional looking as (and even cleaner than) Ben Carson's. It worked. I went right home and googled Rocky 2016.
Ok, let's not get ahead of ourselves. I am a bit of a fanatic about such things, but I did google him, and ran across what looks like a rather reasonable campaign website.
Rocky is San Diego businessman Roque de la Fuente, and I suppose he has a point that the guests at the famous Brown and Black Dinner, which ostensibly is to talk about minority issues, was headlined by three white candidates.
Rocky is a self-described Conservative Democrat with these zingers:
"As far as I’m concerned, Hillary was the housewife of the Governor of Arkansas, then she basically was the first lady and then a poor guardian to the White House. Then, she basically cut a deal with Obama to become Secretary of State,"
I’m way better looking than Trump," De La Fuente said. “He is just functioning on shock value.” On Carson: "Most doctors know how to save your life. Which is needed, but they do not know how to solve 1000 different problems," said De La Fuente
Most of the obscure candidates are kooks. Rocky seems like he has got it together, though he did mix a few metaphors
"I’m Rocky inside the Trojan horse and I’m going to be fighting Goliath,” said De La Fuente. “I plan to beat Goliath which basically means an independent thinker in the White House that’s going to get things done. Not blame one party or the other. I’m not worried about any of them… I think I’d have them for lunch.”
Of course, usually it's worth going to the people who know the candidate best, and in this case San Diego Reader has some problems with someone they report the FDIC has called "dishonest" and "should be banned from banking".
So, there you go.