Which country would welcome disenfranchised Republicans to ESCAPE OBAMA OMG? (Ireland?? Really?)

I keep hearing "outer Ireland" being a buzz term for "escape from Obama". I only see occasional comments on internet forums mentioning it, but it's definitely a word on the street (definitely in Los Angeles, based on reports from friends' parents, less so but present in Seattle too)

dubai? colombia? alaska?

haha, if we LOST Alaska as a state during the Obama presidency, would that not rank as awesome? (Mind you, I want to visit Alaska again.)

What Would Alaska The Country Do?

(maybe best for another thread.)

oh wait, there are weapons there. never mind. :/

Alaska the country would probably end up like some bizarre theocratic rightist state with all the oil it has.

Georgia, so they can fight the Rooshians

Britain.

Corsica - they're well racist!

these ppl are not leaving NASCAR.

Guyana strikes me as a nice destination for disenchanted Republicans. They could squat in Jim Jones's compound at Jonestown.

"outer Ireland"? What's that, the Skelligs or something? They can go there for all I care.

I want to keep Alaska, though.

North Korea. You want a maybe-dead lunatic with Daddy issues running your shit, you got it.

"outer Ireland"?

Craggy Island?

Rhodesia

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1394/1293906862_ba3a8f9a35.jpg?v=0

Bermuda.

haha was going to post caymans but same difference, really

i want to keep alaska AND ireland

I wonder if most of the people who would flee an Obama administration even have passports? And if they're running away because one guy isn't like them, what will they do when they arrive somewhere else, and nobody is like them?

they can go and live in some survivalist compound in the woods. with their guns and fruitbat beliefs and whatnot.

yes, that's true, fleeing the US after an election may be a distinctly left-wing strategy.

I think there may be a certain set of heartland types who regard Ireland positively as a place that's ethnic enough to give them some of the special character they want but not so ethnic as to be weird, and a place that speaks English but isn't all high-class/gay like England.

or maybe there's just a lot of Irish-derived people (like Palin) in the West

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Irish1346.gif

but ireland is part of the evil socialist european union!

they'd get on great in most places in Ireland.

That Obama is a terrible man for the change.

SRSLY GUYS SOMEONE TELL THOSE COCKFARMERS NOT TO MOVE HERE.

I think you have a mission.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/mozzer232/FATHER_TED_Down_with_this_sort_of_t.jpg

Steyn and Hanson holding things down.

perhaps these fellows need to broaden their mandate:

South Africa? Money goes far and servants of colour available to the middle middle classes, plus gun ownership and lots of crime. YAY.

Most of the Irish outside of the Northeast coast (US and Canada) are the dreaded Scots-Irish, aka, Cletus from the Simpsons. So they're not even of Irish-Irish decent.

http://tbwto.ytmnd.com/

I think there may be a certain set of heartland types who regard Ireland positively as a place that's ethnic enough to give them some of the special character they want but not so ethnic as to be weird, and a place that speaks English but isn't all high-class/gay like England

There be Catholics

Most of the Irish outside of the Northeast coast (US and Canada) are the dreaded Scots-Irish, aka, Cletus from the Simpsons. So they're not even of Irish-Irish decent.

aka one third of American presidents

Yes, "high-class" England. NOT IN BROWN'S BROKEN BRITAIN IT'S NOT!

haha was going to post caymans but same difference, really

Was thinking Costa Rica for similar reasons.

Most of the Irish outside of the Northeast coast (US and Canada) are the dreaded Scots-Irish, aka, Cletus from the Simpsons. So they're not even of Irish-Irish decent.

most of those of Irish descent in the Western US are not Scots-Irish

i'm curious who mackro mackro's word on the street LA people are. are they well-off orange county-types, or a completely different set?

most of those of Irish descent in the Western US are not Scots-Irish

Most of them in the South are.

the dreaded Scots-Irish

I resemble that remark.

Scotch-Irish in the US.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Scotch_irish1346.gif

Laurel, you have dreads now???

Uh. Surprise!

compare to the Irish-Irish map above - there are more Irish-Irish in the West

the Appalachian Scotch-Irish are not well-represented on that map because they largely identify as "American" in ancestry, as mapped here:

http://www.congeneal.org/radical_genealogist_files/american2.gif

I'm Glad [Ramesh Ponnuru]

I never hear conservatives talking about moving somewhere else if Democrats win elections.

Well, in my case the Scots-Irish is on one side of the family and the Tennessee dirt farmers of English ancestry are on the other side. But taken together we're practically a hillbilly clan.

i'm curious who mackro mackro's word on the street LA people are. are they well-off orange county-types, or a completely different set?

Pretty much. My direct family is in West L.A., but the rest are in Orange County.

I should add that -- while one may have lucked into remaining in prime property thanks to Prop 13 -- the rest are very much middle class. I don't hear a peep from any GOP upper class about moving elsewhere after this election just BECAUSE of the election.

amurrica, love it or leave it. only those pussy liberals talk about running away. i'l l stay and fight the good fight against BIG GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT GET OUT OF THEW AY.

hey wait a damned minute is this what's planned for us if we vote no to the lisbon treaty?

We are happily constructing the airtight boxes to ship them over to you in.

i recommend whichever carrier lost tom hanks for four years that one time