# The numbnut who had the freakout at the Arlen Specter townhall meeting **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/81 "2009-08-12T23:25:41Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > It is really said that Barac HUSSEIN Obama has decided to use the tactic of finding the dumbest Republican and saying that that person speaks for all Republicans. I know that Barack HUSSEIN Obama endorses this tactic because you in this thread are Democrats and he is the leader of the Democrats. Wow. I have to take the bait, it’s just too tasty. So, someone with the middle name Joseph must be just like Stalin, all the Adolfs are really Hitler wannabes, and my middle name is Elizabeth. Shit, no one ever told me I was British Royalty and I was supposed to remain a VIRGIN! Dammit. I don’t care that my logic is flawed. It made me laugh, and it doesn’t make any more sense than thinking Hussein means anything more than the Hebrew/Arabic/African it came from, meaning “handsome”! People are so fixated on the guy’s name. An awful lot of people have some mighty stupid names. Who cares? It’s like standing up in a crowd of seated people and yelling, **“Hey, your name sounds like somebody else’s!!!”** Quizzical stares and everyone thinking “… and your point is … ?” I needed paramedic care and 911 was called when I was 7, because I was playing an aggressive game of Red Rover and got the wind knocked out of me and a mild concussion. **Rand Rover** must have it out for me because he has the word _Rover_ in his name! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/82 "2009-08-12T23:26:04Z")
Is it just me, or does he sound like Milton from “Office Space?” “Um, I was told I could talk to Arlen Specter if I spoke at a reasonable volume, and I wanted to tell him how Obama took my stapler and…” ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/83 "2009-08-12T23:26:12Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Wrong. He’s just the only one you are paying attention to because you are too stupid to deal with more intelligent critiques of Obamacare. Unfortunately, the people intelligently criticizing Obama’s proposed health care changes are getting drowned out by these sorts of numbskulls. And the leadership of the Republican party doesn’t seem to have the power to focus the debate … And it really is unfortunate. When the opposition party has been overwhelmed with this kind of insanity, it makes it much easier for the party in power to push virtually anything through, because it sounds relatively reasonable in that context. We need to have a serious discussion of these issues; but one side of the debate is wallowing in insanity, and the other side seems perfectly content to just point and laugh, and then say, “See? Vote for us!” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/84 "2009-08-12T23:31:25Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > One could ask the same of the anti-war protestors, feminists and gay rights activists of the last forty years or so. > > But then of course then one would get called a war-monger, a sexist, or a bigot. I haven’t completely abandoned hope that one day, with determination and a bit of luck, you will succeed in concocting a “defense” to bad behavior by your ideological brethren that amounts to something other than “well, some Democrat/liberal somewhere did something bad once too!” But when it happens, I pray that I am firmly seated and not in mid-sip. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/85 "2009-08-12T23:35:52Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I am confident enough in my ability to defeat liberal arguments on their merits . . . If you study hard and eat all your vegetables, maybe one of these days you will. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/86 "2009-08-12T23:43:46Z")
I note you have not recommended prayer. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/87 "2009-08-12T23:46:10Z")
> [@SCSimmons](#): > > Unfortunately, the people intelligently criticizing Obama’s proposed health care changes are getting drowned out by these sorts of numbskulls. And the leadership of the Republican party doesn’t seem to have the power to focus the debate … Are you sure they want to? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/88 "2009-08-12T23:48:00Z")
So in otherwords you hate someone for being scared and ignorant huh? Good job, strike a blow for tolerance. Keep on hating the Hobbitses. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/89 "2009-08-12T23:49:33Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > my middle name is Elizabeth. Shit, no one ever told me I was British Royalty and I was supposed to remain a VIRGIN! You think you’ve got problems? I gotta go chase snakes out of Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/90 "2009-08-12T23:52:58Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > So in otherwords you hate someone for being scared and ignorant huh? Good job, strike a blow for tolerance. Keep on hating the Hobbitses. 😉 I’m hating someone for being willfully scared and ignorant. That dude can read. He has chosen to believe outrageous lies instead of thinking for himself. Also he is way too tall to be a hobbit. Unless he drank so magic water or something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/91 "2009-08-12T23:58:46Z")
Hey, I have found our muppet friend a much more comely townhaller to keep him company. This silly bitch is the one who went off about being 35 and never being interested in politics before, and how we need to return to the constitution… and so on. She’s being interviewed on Hardball. Sadly Chris Mathews isn’t there today, so we get Lawrence O’Donnell, a good interviewer, but a little too heavy handed for my tastes. She is as uninformed as the muppet, but isn’t so painfully pathetic. She just doesn’t know what she’s talking about. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/32393616#32393616](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/32393616#32393616) \<– video Once again, the body of the Republican party is full of angry people who don’t understand the issues. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/92 "2009-08-13T00:02:56Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I’ve just decided that Der Tihs is the face of the 21st Century Democrat base. So there. I keep trying to get a look at the true face of the Republican party, but unfortunately he keeps getting obscured by the massive hordes of crazy faced Republicans standing in front of him. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/93 "2009-08-13T00:18:35Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I’m hating someone for being willfully scared and ignorant. That dude can read. He has chosen to believe outrageous lies instead of thinking for himself. I find that to be the rule rather than the exception. > [@](#): > > Also he is way too tall to be a hobbit. Unless he drank so magic water or something. 😃 Metaphorically. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/94 "2009-08-13T00:19:35Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Hey, I have found our muppet friend a much more comely townhaller to keep him company. This silly bitch is the one who went off about being 35 and never being interested in politics before, and how we need to return to the constitution… and so on. She’s being interviewed on Hardball. Sadly Chris Mathews isn’t there today, so we get Lawrence O’Donnell, a good interviewer, but a little too heavy handed for my tastes. > > She is as uninformed as the muppet, but isn’t so painfully pathetic. She just doesn’t know what she’s talking about. > > [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/32393616#32393616](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/32393616#32393616) \<– video > > Once again, the body of the Republican party is full of angry people who don’t understand the issues. Man I need to go make an ass of myself at a Town Hall meeting so that I can get on tha TeeVee. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/95 "2009-08-13T00:26:20Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Now the trouble is that the Republican party has spun off the moderates and only the real troopers are left. [QUOTE=Rand Rover] What is your support for that proposition? [/QUOTE] Your post is our cite. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/96 "2009-08-13T00:38:10Z")
> [@](#): > > …so that I can get on tha TeeVee. Well, don’t underestimate that. I think a lot of people see themselves as cornering one of those wooly-headed Congressmen, hitting them with one of those common-sense, salt of the earth questions that blows him away, hey, the next Joe the Dumber. But much less than that is the sense of participation, a sense that is fostered by the Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity Axis of Anal. Thats a powerful thing, a sense of being part of something grand, something epochal. Its a delusion, they’re being used with cynical aplomb. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/97 "2009-08-13T00:40:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > But much less than that is the sense of participation…Thats a powerful thing, a sense of being part of something grand, something epochal. Its a delusion, they’re being used with cynical aplomb. Jee **'luci** , never knew you were so scornful of Obama supporters. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/98 "2009-08-13T01:01:08Z")
> [@athelas](#): > > [QUOTE=elucidator] > But much less than that is the sense of participation…Thats a powerful thing, a sense of being part of something grand, something epochal. Its a delusion, they’re being used with cynical aplomb. Jee **'luci** , never knew you were so scornful of Obama supporters. [/QUOTE] No, you are confusing the way actual Obama supporters look at him with the fantasy version that the right wing has been pushing. It’s the right not the left that talks about how the left looks at Obama as some sort of Messiah or whatever. Which is extra amusing since that exactly the way the Right looked towards Reagan and Bush II; as God-chosen messiahs, and people that God demands you vote for. They ( and apparently you ) are projecting their own behavior onto others, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/99 "2009-08-13T01:16:02Z")
I think its a bit too soon to start collecting signatures to rescind the 25th Amendment and replace it with a President for Life provision. Maybe next year. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206/100 "2009-08-13T01:18:41Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Once again, the body of the Republican party is full of angry people who don’t understand the issues. . . . as demonstrated by video links to TWO muppets. Much like at life, you have failed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-numbnut-who-had-the-freakout-at-the-arlen-specter-townhall-meeting/506206.md?page=6)