# The numbnut who had the freakout at the Arlen Specter townhall meeting
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 12, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206 "2009-08-12T19:14:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/1 "2009-08-12T19:14:32Z")
Yesterday I was watching this dude shrilly scream at the Arlen Specter townhall meeting. Today they had him on Morning Meeting and interviewed him. It was one of the most painful interviews I’ve ever seen in my life.
The guy doesn’t even know why he’s pissed off. He has some notion about Obama breaking his oath of office based on appointing czars. He’s a frightened child driven to hysterics by the right’s bogey stories. This is the face of the 21st century Republican base.
So, I’d like to pit the vacant and worthless Craig Miller, willing victim of the Republican lie-mongering.
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32386333#32386333](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32386333#32386333) \<– The video.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/2 "2009-08-12T19:20:22Z")
The poor man is confused, stupid, and seems at least a little paranoid. It’s impossible for me to feel anything but sympathy for this poor schlub.
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/3 "2009-08-12T19:25:25Z")
> [@RickJay](#):
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> The poor man is confused, stupid, and seems at least a little paranoid. It’s impossible for me to feel anything but sympathy for this poor schlub.
I know, I feel it too. But enough of these frightened, small people make a movement that can hurt the country.
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/4 "2009-08-12T19:26:01Z")
I’ve just decided that Der Tihs is the face of the 21st Century Democrat base. So there.
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/5 "2009-08-12T19:31:15Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> I’ve just decided that Der Tihs is the face of the 21st Century Democrat base. So there.
I’ve decided that you’re the face of my toilet bowl. This has made the passing of wastes in the Lobohan house quite the happy time. Now please go tie some dental floss tightly around your scrotum so that you don’t inflict your degenerate genes on the world for another generation. Kay?
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/6 "2009-08-12T19:35:36Z")
I’m not into gay scat play, bro, so take your lame pick-up lines elsewhere.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Svinlesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Svinlesha)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/7 "2009-08-12T19:39:04Z")
**Lobo**!
Word brother, word! That was beautiful.
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/8 "2009-08-12T19:39:38Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> I’m not into gay scat play, bro, so take your lame pick-up lines elsewhere.
You’re not into gay scat play, yet.
They always come around, and until then, I’m eating nothing but peanuts and corn in anticipation.
Now that Retard Rover is done with, can we get back to the subject at hand. Which is to say, that the Republican Party is made up of cowardly little muppets like the dude in the linked video.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/9 "2009-08-12T19:42:02Z")
I’m listening to this in another window right now.
Wow. It’s really really painful.
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/10 "2009-08-12T19:44:35Z")
> [@Lobohan](#):
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> Now that Retard Rover is done with, can we get back to the subject at hand. Which is to day, that the Republican Party is made up of cowardly little muppets like the dude in the linked video.
I wouldn’t say that they make up the Republican Party… but I would be willing to say that cowardly little muppets have appointed themselves as the voice of the RNC, and the average Republican isn’t willing to disavow them.
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/11 "2009-08-12T19:45:02Z")
The actual subject at hand is why you think you can pick one idiot as the face of a political party. You can’t, and saying you can makes you look really stupid.
Also, the “retarded” offenderati should be by any moment now.
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/12 "2009-08-12T19:47:28Z")
> [@Lightnin](#):
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> I wouldn’t say that they make up the Republican Party… but I would be willing to say that cowardly little muppets have appointed themselves as the voice of the RNC, and the average Republican isn’t willing to disavow them.
I guess you are basing this on the latest Rasmussen poll saying that 56 percent of average Republicans are not willing to disavow cowardly muppets.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/13 "2009-08-12T19:47:38Z")
You serve as a needful reminder to me that intelligence is a characteristic, and not a virtue.
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/14 "2009-08-12T19:49:42Z")
Meh…I agree the guy likely has a tenuous grasp at best at why the things he thinks are wrong are actually wrong (in his own head, never mind reality).
That said I am willing to give the guy a bit of a break at being overwhelmed being interviewed on national TV. Call it stage fright if you will.
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### Author:  [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/15 "2009-08-12T19:50:21Z")
Wow. The phrase “babbling idiot” springs to mind. I feel bad for the poor fucker; aside from his physical disabilities, there is pretty obviously something _not quite right_ about that gentleman…
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/16 "2009-08-12T19:51:28Z")
> [@Lobohan](#):
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> …The guy doesn’t even know why he’s pissed off…
Isn’t it the craziest thing?
One would think that the right learned that selling fear stopped working a year or two ago.
I just saw a clip of various people, from people at town halls to Fox commentators, lamenting that America is suddenly different from the one they grew up in, and they blame it on Obama. 😕 I’m trying to figure out how. He hasn’t actually _done_ anything in 6 months.
I mean, America changes all the time, but Presidents aren’t the agents. The agents of change have been deployment of new transportation, new media types, and wars. If you want to blame something for changing America lately, blame the internet.
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/17 "2009-08-12T19:51:34Z")
**Lobohan** , you’re cracking me up.
From this moment forward, every time I read a **Rand Rover** post, I’m going to picture Craig Miller saying the words.
Craig Miller is the 21st century face of **Rand Rover.**
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/18 "2009-08-12T19:52:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> You serve as a needful reminder to me that intelligence is a characteristic, and not a virtue.
Unless we are discussing The Bell Curve, in which case you’d say that anyone that allows for the possibility of IQ differences along racial lines is a racist (thus treating intelligence as something more than just any old characteristic).
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/19 "2009-08-12T19:55:12Z")
> [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](#):
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> **Lobohan** , you’re cracking me up.
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> From this moment forward, every time I read a **Rand Rover** post, I’m going to picture Craig Miller saying the words.
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> Craig Miller is the 21st century face of **Rand Rover.**
You know who else used absurd caricature to denigrate people he didn’t like?
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/20 "2009-08-12T19:57:45Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> You know who else used absurd caricature to denigrate people he didn’t like?
I don’t know, Craig, but I’m guessing he was the czar of something, right?
Now run along.
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