so not gonna happen (Vilsak '08)

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/09/vilsack.president.ap/index.html

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

ts: Vilsak vs. Ballsak

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

you are the first person ever to make that joke, congrats.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Loebsack

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

ha, i don't hang out with people like gabbneb
xpost

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, people like gabbneb would never make that joke

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

jeez, i meant i don't hang with people who talk about b-list polticos who have 0% chance of winning prez nomination, therefore obv. jokes about same politicos don't occur to me until later (ffs dan perry started this thread, i was just posting in the manner he prefers)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha awesomeness

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

besides, would you laugh about his -sack if you knew he was an orphan adopted by an alcoholic, abusive mother?

this breakdown of the '08 field is a little old, but moderately amusing

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wineclub.com.hk/images/Dry%20Sack%20Medium%20Dry%20Sherry.jpg

anyway, when was the last time an earnest Midwesterner headed a national ticket? dole was lots of things, but earnest doesn't fit. Mcgovern was too lefty (or at least perceived to be) I'm guessing Humphrey, sort of, but maybe you have to go back all the way to Landon? i see all the winning candidates for the next 20 years coming from the south or west

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

Mondale?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, probably. How could i forget, my first prez selection :) I always think of upper midwest as being slightly different, more progressive than the Iowa/Nebraska/kansas axis.....

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

he grew up in pittsburgh and went to school in upstate new york until he was 25

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

pittsburgh & upstate ny = plausibly midwestern to me ;)

actually, HRC could totally fit my concept of "earnest" (altho she's so much more!)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 10 November 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

he and i are alums axully

― rems (x Jeremy), Friday, 10 November 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

(My only point was that the American public would never, ever, ever elect someone named "Vilsak" as President, partially because the name is "too ethnic" and partially because "*giggle* Vile Sack! *giggle*")

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

NOBODY WHO GIGGLES EVER USED THE WORD VILE IN A SENTENCE!

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'd vote for vilsack over joe biden or hillary. both of whom are also "so not gonna happen" either, whether they admit it to themselves or not.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

does he have that same highpitched Iowa twang as Tom Harkin?

There is such a thing as a doomed candidate "contributing to the dialogue," theoretically.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Vilsack is running to get name recognition and party love so he can get a well-placed position in the DNC. At least that's what the more politically minded people in my group of friends agree on... he's definitely a long shot. He was head of the democrat governors for a while.

I've voted for him as a governor, no clue what he brings to a presidential race besides being pretty solid. It's Vilsack, btw.. not Vilsak.

Iowa twang? wtf.

― mh. (mike h.), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I always think of upper midwest as being slightly different, more progressive than the Iowa/Nebraska/kansas axis.....

Uh, Iowa's pretty middle of the road, politically. Not as liberal as our Minnesotan neighbors to the north or Chicago to the east, but we're not really that comparable to Kansas.

― mh. (mike h.), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

i've never been to pleasantville!

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

tho i thought i was thinking of "pleasant hill" and i was like, christ, what a dump

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

no offense, but Harkin definitely had what I think of as a Minn/Wisc/Iowa sound -- Mondale, Humphrey, but David Lynch has it too, a bit (and he didn't grow up in Montana). maybe it's just the general Midwest flaaaat A thing.

After Gore & Kerry, a voice that isn't so unbearable on the ears that it blocks the message would be nice.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hah, yeah... I usually hear "twang" attributed to Texas or the like, we're definitely a more flattened-out, boring accent here. We're big on the enunciation.

geoff, are you trying to think of Vilsack's home, Mount Pleasant? That's in the eastern part of the state, Pleasant Hill is an east side Des Moines suburb (or almost-suburb, I forget what it officially is).

― mh. (mike h.), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

yeah mount pleasant. i only ever got as far down as ottumwa.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

TEH DREAM IS OVER

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

so didn't happen

― modestmickey, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

So, Christie Vilsack, wife of now-Secretary of Ag Vilsack who the thread is about, is running for a house seat that is currently occupied by Steve King, douchebag embarrassment of the midwest. Rumor is that if she doesn't win, she'll run for governor in Iowa.

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 28 September 2012 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

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