Rep. Steve King is open to running for president but not yet making plans: ‘It is flattering.’
Rep. Steve King is open to running for president but not yet making plans: ‘It is flattering.’
A few weeks ago, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said that while she wasn’t considering a run for president, she was very interested in seeing the “stunning” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) as a candidate. “I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office,” she said. In a new interview with the Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV, King refused to say that he was interested in running, but also refused to rule it out:
KING: It is flattering, and I am stunned. … Here’s what I’d like to do, and that is be engaged in the national debate. I want to lay out the parameters on what we need to do to refurbish the pillars of American exceptionalism. We’ve got to have a vision, and it needs to be offered by more than one person. And I’d like to see a number of candidates who are able to articulate the vision, sort those visions, bring the best one forward. We’re going to need a lot of help in 2012, and being in Iowa, from Iowa, representing Congress in a strong district in Iowa, gives me a platform to be able to articulate those arguments, and I intend to do that.
And we’ll see what happens, but I’m making no plans to run for president. I didn’t make any plans to run for Congress either, and so – I’ve long surpassed my personal aspirations, and I just count it as a blessing to be able to engage in this debate.
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(HT: Iowa Independent)
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Go ahead King, run. Every contrversial thing you have said, every racist comment you made will all be open to the masses. So go for it! Make our day.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 pmHe’s got my vote… to run that is.
I couldn’t pick a better candidate to trounce.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:26 pmI don’t often link to my own comments, but… speak of the devil.
But on the prospect of Rep. King running for President… oh please oh please oh please…
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 pmSo, President King, I see you’re flatulent and at the top of your gas.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm“stunning” Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
He certainly is that ……….Everyone’s stunned that this moron holds an elected office……..
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:32 pmRep. Steve King is open to running for president but not yet making plans: ‘It is flattering.’
– - Considering the endorsee is a raving loon who considers the US presidency something akin to being the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, it’s actually hysterical.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:32 pmWe’re going to need a lot of help in 2012,
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:32 pm—-
No you won’t, you’re sweeping elections all over. Oh that’s right that was just the idea of some f ucked up lunatic wannabe… Nevermind…
My party is great at sanctimonious stuff and President + King wouldn’t get any better.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:32 pmKing
I’ve long surpassed my personal aspirations
lmao. Why yes, why yes you have. Although the plan to build an electric fence across our Mexican border hasn’t met up with much success… nor has the plan to eliminate Acorn by placing an amendment in every single bill that comes up saying ‘none of these funds will go to Acorn’… regardless if the bill was defense spending, or the health care bill, or anything else. Always with the stupid ‘Acorn amendment sponsored by Steve King’ with audible groans from the congress. There’s no way to respond to these people.. you’re just plain retarded.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pmKING: It is flattering, and I am stunned. … Here’s what I’d like to do, and that is be engaged in the national debate.
Ummm …..Don’t you actualy need to know things to be engaged in any debate , dummy ?
That rules you out……….
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:34 pmBatsh1t-crazy little Shelley is quite the pr1ck-tease, isn’t she?
I knew lots of girls like her in high school . . . they grew out of it. Little Shelley, on the other hand, has made it the centerpiece of her political philosophy and tactics. She’s a smarmy little tart!
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pmThey are quite the delusional party are they not? It will be so much fun to see them campaign and then not win. I hope they take their losses to heart.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 pmTom.. I doubt Bachmann is a tease.. She’s probably doin the whole neo-con caucus… – that is, provided ‘God calls her to’
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:41 pmBachmann: “…the “stunning” Rep. Steve King (R-IA)”
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:41 pmKING: “…and I am stunned.”
pillow talk?
I will support any gNOpigiie in its campaign to run for president in 2010.
I feel so encouraged since they will run unopposed by any Democratic candidates.
;>)
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 pmFirst Rush, then Sarah, the bin Gleck, then Crazy Shelly. Is there any sane person the Republicans look to for candidate selection?
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 pmKingisms: we need to refurbish the pillars of American exceptionalism…
…sorta like what Bush and Cheney did.
candidates who are able to articulate the vision….
…he IS talking about Republicans, right? Because they don’t have any ideas.
We’re going to need a lot of help in 2012
….gives me a platform to be able to articulate those arguments
…and what exactly are those? Obama is steal our freedoms? Give it up loser.
….from rigged Voting Machines? The only way you scum bags steal elections.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 pmNothing could be better for the Dems than for Republicans to shoot themselves in the feet. More neocons will be challenging Republicans and possibly win some seats in Congress. However, this will all come crashing down when people recoil and vote for moderates. Republicans will be a near extinct species if this hard right trend continues. These neocons forget the 1964 elections.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pmI have a platform premise for you, Rep. King. You said:
I have a ‘vision’ for you that I’m sure fits yours and the bulk of wingnuttery to a T; I’ll reprint it as if it’s a plank in the Repuglican platform (one word changed, in [] below):
Sound good? I thought it would, yes. The perfect “vision,” no?
Don’t thank me, though, thank Benito Mussolini for his entry defining Fascism in Encyclopedia Italiana roughly eighty years ago. I did change that one word, of course, though I’m fairly certain few would ever notice.
Run it past Bachmann — you think she loves you now, just you wait!
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pmso I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office,”
Surely she’s referring to top or bottom…?
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 pmPresident of what – C-Street? K-Street? Sesame Street?
the only reason anyone would ever vote republican again is if there was absolutely no other choice.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:55 pmTo be flattered he must have some tiny bit himself who is desirous of running. To be desirous of running He must some slight thought that he could actually win. Where do you suppose he gets that idea? I suspect from the right wing calvinists who voted him into office. The tea baggers undoubtedly love this guy. He could win too, if the entire country decides to change to suit the tiny minority of americans who could otherwise be known as the village idiots.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:55 pmThe far-right nutjobs are really getting a dose of big pants-itis, aren’t they? They think that they can capture the entire republic party just by trotting out Bachmann, Palin, Newtie, Polenta, and their ilk every time someone who’s not “conservative enough” runs for office, don’t they?
I’d love to see King run in a primary against Palin, Polenta, Mittens and Ms. Rudi G. for the republic nomination for prez in 2012; that way, we can see which out-of-touch-with-reality wingnut will get the honor of losing by historic proportions to a re-elected President Obama…
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 pmFlattered why?
Doesn’t he know that he is just the next lower piece of republican sludge; there is no one better than him; but there is no one any good either.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:00 pmThis is known as scrapping the bottom of the dung barrel to get at the last bit.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:00 pmIs this the best that republicans/conservatives can do?
Methinks so. They’re all out of ideas.
If this keeps up there will be 47 Republicans vying for the nomination in 2012. And 49 of them will be disappointed when Cuthbert Pryzybilski from Embarrass, Wi slides in as the dark horse because none of the flakes or pundits have ever heard of him.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 pmI think that Crazy Shelly is so enamored of Bible Spice that she wants to run for VP, embarrassing herself and her party on the world stage, then broker it into a multi-million dollar retirement account. But then again, who would pay Crazy Shelly for her crayon drawings?
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pmPete@#27: shhhh…they’ll know we’re onto them if you keep spillin’ the beans like that…
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:15 pmDogfather,
I’m afraid that I’m driven by a deep desire to see Crazy Shelly sent packing in 2010. I’m damned sick and tired of her embarrassing my State, the U.S. House, this country, the human race, mammals, and all other organisms smarter than a garden hose.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:19 pmIf he runs, Satan will be happy.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:39 pmPresident of where? His home planet?
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 pmOn the other hand, there might be a little cause for concern. The freaks who worship King, Bachmann, and their kind are kinda like the creepy kids in Children of the Corn. If King does run I wouldn’t put human sacrifice beyond him. His firast name is Steve. Coincidence?
And Crazy Shelly owns a farm!
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 pmJanuary 21, 2013 – Associated Poop (AP)
In his first act in office, President King issued an Executive Order reorganizing the Department of Energy under ExxonMobil. The current Chairman & CEO will take on additional duties as Secretary of Energy.
“How do you like me now, America?”, said the president.
King projects gasoline costs will increase by 600% within the next month “because that’s what Americans want.”
“They are gluttons for Republican punishment. And besides, they love freedom.”
The spankin’ new administration is expected to relax rules governing the Border Patrol’s conduct. Savage beatings, rapes, and detentions of illegal aliens are expected to rise under the expected changes.
“You can bet on it. My chief of staff, David Duke, is also speaking with SecDef Liz Cheney about launching strikes on ACORN branches and setting booby traps in William Ayers’ home. We’re going to have a lot of Executive fun.”
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:22 pmOh Please! Not smart enough, not intellectual enough, not in the Democratic party! Oh, and in this Obama error, not photogenic enough. Remember how small McCain looked in the debates standing next to the elegant and distinquished Mr. Obama. He can still be the president of Ms Crazy eyes fan club!
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 pmIt’s as if every member of the Republican party was kicked in the head by a mule or something. Have you ever heard of so many stupid people sharing the same brain? I’m hoping that my state doesn’t vote for that fat Republican pig Chris Christie. I suspect that because he’s a Republican and we here in New Jersey don’t much care for them, he’ll be defeated. If not, we can kiss off healthcare for our state. I’m also hoping that the Democrat wins the race Upstate, NY. As for Deeds, after he waffled on the public option, I hope he gets his ass kicked!
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:49 pmPresident King?
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 pmor just King King?
Since Bush, Republicans seem to be attracted to royalty, with Bush’s unitary executive gambit.
He sure ain’t a King Kong. More of a King Wrong!
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:22 pm/rimshot
After the Repubs get rid of all of the Rhino’s in the party, it will be REALLy easy to continue to run good Democrats against the extremists…
After all, the whole country embraced John McCain last election because he was so conservative, right? And now he is our President… oh wait.
So I say: Run, King, Run … and Palin and Pawlenty and Jindl, too… Go for it.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:27 pmIncredibly difficult for a Representative to run for President because the election cycle is so long… just ask Dennis Kucinnich. Dennis had to drop out in order to defend his seat last time around.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:29 pmWhat a retard…
He should pick that Bachmann clown as his running mate.
That should be rich.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 pmAaaauuuugggghhh! Teh Stoopid!!!! It burns so bad!
You know the Repub. Party is in trouble when the old right-wing icon, Gingrich, is saying they’re marginalizing themselves by purging the impure.
Keep going, wingers… our President (and yes, loons, he’s your President, also, dumbasses) is pretty much guaranteed a second term with your behavior.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:11 am