Scandal-plagued Vitter to ‘rebrand’ conservatives.
By on Jul 26th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Scandal-plagued Vitter to ‘rebrand’ conservatives.
Speaking at a policy lunch on Tuesday, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who recently admitted to frequenting a prostitution service run by the “DC Madam,” told his colleagues that Senate conservatives should “rebrand” themselves “by reclaiming the fiscal conservative mantle.” According to The Hill, “This time, his colleagues held the applause.”
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BBWWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!
Awesome. The Borrow and Spend party, now want sot re-paint themselves as fiscally conservative. That’s rich.
They believe in big debt, and tax deferrals.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:07 pmPerhaps the republicans should check with a Madison Ave advertisement firm, get some bumping music, chicks in small tops etc, they can appeal to the 18-24 crowd.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:08 pmToo little too late, Vitter.
Have enough integrity, moral fiber, and intellectual honesty to take the advice you so blithely offered to Clinton, and resign. Maybe then we’ll respect you…maybe…
July 26th, 2007 at 12:09 pmShorter David Vitter: Maybe we should stop focusing so much time on family values.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:10 pmAnd as soon as they “rebrand” themselves as fiscal conservatives, all the people in the land will forget everything done before that magical day…..
Sheesh….what a twit.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:10 pm“Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:455, Papers 15:393
July 26th, 2007 at 12:10 pmMy God. What a pack of phonies. Sure, now that we have been exposed as sexual degenerates, let’s move onto to a new and improved label!
Funny stuff.
-GSD
July 26th, 2007 at 12:11 pmit is so basic – but the Demos seem to have a habit of loosing the advantage:
If the Repubs start talking about how they’re conservative, start talking about how much we’ve gone into debt under Shrub. How the deficit was paid down under Clinton. How we’ve lost jobs to overseas with Shrub. Likewise with the trade deficit. How Shrub even this week rejected an effort to keep rich companies from grabbing their profits and running overseas.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:11 pmHasn’t he already rebranded them as the lying, hypocritical, cheating, hooker-renting, diaper-wearing party?
Which, I guess, is a change from being the creepy pedophile party.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:11 pm“The conclusion then, is, that neither the representatives of a nation, nor the whole nation itself assembled, ought validly engage debts beyond what they may pay in their own time.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:12 pmHow can we keep the economy afloat if we don’t aggressively support the prostitution industry?
July 26th, 2007 at 12:12 pmGOP branding?
Here are the results of the “What Does ‘GOP’ Stand for Contest.”
July 26th, 2007 at 12:14 pmI think accessing the services of prostitutes seems pretty fiscally responsible. After all it saves all those funds wasted on the whole courtship deal.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:14 pmAs long as the rebranding of Rebukelickins involves a hot branding iron on the ass, I’m all for it.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:14 pm“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
–Thomas Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1820.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:15 pmOops…bad link above.
Here are the results of the “What Does ‘GOP’ Stand for Contest.”
July 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pmRebranding the Republican party as the party of fiscal conservatives means “you should always dicker with your hooker before you “dicker”.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:17 pmAs long as the rebranding of Rebukelickins involves a hot branding iron on the ass, I’m all for it.
Comment by RUCerious — July 26, 2007 @ 12:14 pm
So are the Republicans (as long as they get a good spanking, first).
July 26th, 2007 at 12:19 pmahh that Thomas Jefferson timeless….. nice quotes Crump.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:19 pmRebrand Republican as liars, adulterers and fornicators? At least it’s honest.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:20 pmHasn’t he already rebranded them as the lying, hypocritical, cheating, hooker-renting, diaper-wearing party?
Which, I guess, is a change from being the creepy pedophile party.
Comment by motherlowman
Hey, who says the Republican Party isn’t big enough to accomodate both factions?
July 26th, 2007 at 12:20 pmDoes this mean cheap crack-whores for everybody?
July 26th, 2007 at 12:21 pmMy suggestion for the GOP rebranding slogan:
“WHOREMONGERS NOT WARMONGERS”
What do you guys think?
July 26th, 2007 at 12:21 pmThese “conservatives” are playing to an ever-shrinking base. If they haven’t noticed, conservatives out in the sticks are rebranding themselves into libertarians, to distance them from this pack of weasels…
July 26th, 2007 at 12:23 pm“WHOREMONGERS NOT WARMONGERSâ€
What do you guys think?
Comment by Midwest Product
Sweet. :D
July 26th, 2007 at 12:29 pm“WHOREMONGERS NOT WARMONGERSâ€
What do you guys think?
Comment by Midwest Product
People already know they are Whoremongering Warmongers though.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:30 pmor was that Warmongering Whoremongers?
i get that confused….
Midwest ~ best in brand!
July 26th, 2007 at 12:30 pmIf they haven’t noticed, conservatives out in the sticks are rebranding themselves into libertarians, to distance them from this pack of weasels…
Comment by barfly
Kind of funny, isn’t it, Barfly? Cons/Repubes have spent the last 2 decades trying to make “liberal” a perjorative term, and succeeded to a certain degree, and now they’ve nuked their own party so badly they’re fleeing in the night as fast as they can.
“Liberal” a dirty word? HAH! Try “Republican”!!!
July 26th, 2007 at 12:30 pmrebranding themselves into libertarians
Not to mention the ubiquitous “Independent”, as if they weren’t still BushLickers…
July 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pmWhat an interesting term to use – “rebrand”.
When Bush was in college, he was the President of his fraternity and what he did to newbies was to take a clothes hanger, heat it to red hot and ‘brand” them by plcaing it just inside the butt cheeks so that it would leave a scare or brand.
Do you suppose Vitter is thinking something like that? Did the President come up with the idea? ;-)
July 26th, 2007 at 12:32 pmThey certainly need to reinvent the party, and many of the party faithful would love to go back to being Barry Goldwater libertarian conservatives.
Of course, this will take time. Party leaders need to take a firm stand against the lying, weaseling, and abuse of power going on now, and refuse to stand by and let it happen. They need to return to fiscal conservatism and this means not squandering billions of dollars on stupid wars. And they need to quit pandering to the religious right.
The first step would be to get somebody other than Vitter to be their standard-bearer.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:36 pm“rebrandâ€
Same shit, new box!
July 26th, 2007 at 12:42 pmThis is to be expected. They’ve spent all that was in our Treasury and more. They don’t want to be fairly taxed so now they’ll be “conservative”.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pmFinally!
July 26th, 2007 at 12:51 pmSomeone in Washington is going to start advocating fiscal responsibility in the hiring of their prostitutes.
Larry Flynt hasn’t even found all the hookers yet! Give the man a few more minutes.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pmScandal-plagued Vitter to ‘rebrand’ conservatives.
Oh? No need of. Hypocrite Pervert ™ has been a (c) brand of Republicans since ages ago.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pmMaybe I haven’t been paying attention, but prior to the hooker scandal, I’d never even heard of Vitter. Is he trying to rebrand himself as a “leader” so the voters of Looziana don’t just kick him to the curb?
July 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm“You’re either with us, or your against us!” (didn’t Bush say that??) then Now he will say: “Show us your brand!”
July 26th, 2007 at 12:56 pmWell, I guess he’s got more chance of that than he does of reclaiming the SOCIAL conservative mantle.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:57 pmspelling off again.. sorry YOU’RE not YOUR..
July 26th, 2007 at 12:57 pmVitter wants to rebrand the Repubs by taking the “family values” part out.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:00 pmHey Senators git horny too just like Presidents.
President Clinton world’s horniest President!!! heh :}
Comment by Flaco
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! Do not play w/ this troll.
He’ll post utter nonsense as long as he can. Nothing works on this one but IGNORING HIM!
This as been a Public Service Announcement on behalf of TP and Sanity, and remember, folks, there is NO Sanity Clause!!!
July 26th, 2007 at 1:01 pm#41 Hey Senators git horny too just like Presidents.
President Clinton world’s horniest President!!! heh :}
Comment by Flaco — July 26, 2007 @ 12:57 pm
Yes, and Lewinski is prettier than Merkel… but GW knows how massage chicks, I concede that.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pm#43 Oopsie! My bad. I’ll not play more with dry sh!ts…
July 26th, 2007 at 1:04 pm#43 Oopsie! My bad. I’ll not play more with dry sh!ts…
Comment by Evil Spaniard
‘Sokay, Evil Spaniard. We’re all tried w/ Flaco, and nothing works but ignoring him. This was learned the hard way, trust me.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:22 pmVitter’s already branded as a whoremaster – what’s left to rebrand? Just like many of his Repub counterparts, they’re already branded as liars, sycophants, whoremasters, cheats and clearly place party over the constitution. ‘nuf said about how these creeps are already branded. Last time I checked, a “branding” is permanent. Nice try tough, Whoremeister Vitter – nice try!
July 26th, 2007 at 1:24 pmThey can just ask the “brander in chief” who used hot coat hangers in his frat days to brand the new pledges, sociopath/sadist-in-chief, Dubya.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:25 pmThis info was taken directly from Justin A Frank, M.D.’s biography of George W. Bush.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:25 pmToo good not to:
http://agitprop.typepad.com/agitprop/2007/07/not-so-fast.html
July 26th, 2007 at 1:28 pmRebrand suggestion: Update from: “The Party of Family Values” to: “The Party of Familiar Values”….maybe no one will notice.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:29 pmYeah, $300 an hour for a crack whore is a lot…even by Republican lack of standards.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:37 pmHow is that a “re-branding”? They claimed that title and lost it under Reagan!
July 26th, 2007 at 1:39 pmVitter wants to keep his wallet in his pants but he can’t keep his dick there.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:40 pm#32
“rebrandâ€
Same shit, new box!
Comment by dbadass — July 26, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
Yup. With these [insert epithet here] all that matters is appearance, not substance.
All hat, no cattle.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:42 pmYou know we have all had to cut back on our hookers since this new administration has taken over.
Most people don’t have the governments money to purchase them with.
Hopefully he will help bring the price down a bit.
jack jett
July 26th, 2007 at 2:04 pmhttp://www.jackejett.com
Vitter really needs Harry Potter and his wand now. Did Vitter give out phone numbers of prostitutes available to his friends. Mrs. Vitter is now dressing like the lady of the night to keep him home. The bible always said Satan would have a seat in the Church. Vitter got caught with his pants down alot of times now it’s time to move on to something new. He should call for all the Senators who use female services to band together and lie to the American people. Look all a sinner has to say is God forgave me and that’s it. The Hammer is talking to God everyday on his cell phone how many of us can do that. I think Newt give him God’s number. The Hammer is now waiting for the Second coming of Christ to trick the people. Karl Rove is giving his Disney land out look for the 2008 election as he says Iraq isn’t important to the American people. Gates is cleaning up after his assistant’s mistakes. Gonzales is laughing at Congress while he lies under oath.
July 26th, 2007 at 2:29 pmLiberals and Democrats should let the whole Vitter thing slide. Yes, he’s a hippocrite but jumping down his throat for that goes only so far. The correct reaction should be to “let it go”.
Vitter cheated. Clinton cheated. Men cheat on their wives. So what? Vitter is a member of congress, not an elected official of the Vatican! The same was true about Clinton. What matters is not their libido, but the work they do and achievements in running the government.
When you think about it, that’s an American reaction, not a Democrat or liberal one. It’s called facing reality and the “what is” in life, not living life in some deep-south, baptist, moral-majority, Christian-rigged vaccum and then telling everyone this is the way you should think too.
July 26th, 2007 at 4:04 pmHere, let me “rebrand” them for you David: “Authentic Hypocrite”
July 26th, 2007 at 4:41 pmREBRAND THE GOP AS THE PARTY OF GREED OVER PRINCIPLES?
July 26th, 2007 at 6:19 pmOoops, been done already.
GOP as the PARTY OF BRIBERY AND WHOREDOM?
Been done already (Duke Cunningham!)
GOP as the PARTY OF WARMONGERING?
done too…
Gosh! Too bad there still isn’t slavery, then the GOP could get back to the only issue for which they’ve ever been able to claim moral superiority free of any hypocrisy. But of course that was 144 years ago!
#58 response to Markus.
July 26th, 2007 at 6:22 pmClinton didn’t run on a platform of bogus “family values” as all these SUPER HYPOCRITE GOP Congressmen have been doing. Vitter should be too ashamed to show his face for the SUPER DOUBLE STANDARD he’s maintained in public life versus his private life. Resignation is the least he could do. There should be a law allowing jailing for someone who pulls off a stunt like his.
Diaperman, Diaperman,
Does whatever a perverted hypocrite can,
Fecal Matters, Family Values,
ReThug games, wiping-with-whores
Vitter the Shitter, Solicitor,
Hey there, there goes the Diaperman.
Is he charged,
July 26th, 2007 at 9:05 pmFor his crimes?
No, dumb Sheeple,
(Rethugli-slime!)
Hey there, there goes the Diaperman.
Off topic. This is a story that every American must see.
July 27th, 2007 at 12:59 amhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072602025.html