So it's official: Sticking it to Obama trumps giving America the finger.

The GOP's sudden Putin man-crush continues.

House Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R - CA): ... [Putin] put me down in a millisecond. He is tough! He just - muscles were just unbelievable.

Rohrbacher continued, "And I got to hold his hand!"

To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, "The streets will be strewn with the bodies of Republican men swooning for Putin's sake."

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Obama has been presented more great white hope adversaries than legendary boxer Jack Johnson.

LOL!! Ain't it the truth!!! He'll still be remembered as a great President, the equal to any of our past greats.

You still believing the fantasy aren't you? Everyone knows Putin punked Barack on Syria - he has always punked Barack on everything, because Barack is his b@tch. You are shot down and you don't even know it - how sad for you, truly.

No kidding. It sounds like Rohrabacher still has the glimmer of an erection...

Yes indeed, the whole story can very easily be construed in an entirely different light. Touch football. All the guys gathering for drinks and the proceeding into some sort of physical contact that involves even more touching. Then swooning over Putin's muscles.

Insert "Top Gun" shirtless beach volleyball scene here. Putin and Tom Cruise are the same height...hangin' with da boys.

Rohrabacher's been shopping his Putin Bromance screenplay around to all the Majors in Hollywood. The working title is "Guns and Rockets: or How I Learned to Stop Hating the Ruskies and Fell in Love with Putin". Kubrick would direct but he's unavailable at the moment.

There's a huge demographic for Bromance films in all the Red States. It's something the "Most Interesting Man in the World" doesn't understand.

Thats not an erection. Thats his head.

Rohrabacher is just determined to make Putin's case for him. Americans are not exceptional.

Everyday I think to myself that these guys can't get any more Anti-American in their actions and then they surprise me.

Now the Right is in Love with Putin! Who would have thought?

The Clown Car that is the Right is just Comedy at this point!

Keep up the good work Clowns!

...This is disgusting. How much lower will the GOP stoop to spite Obama? Who's next? Assad? Ahmadinejad? KIm Jong Un? For a party that talks endlessly about "patriotism", their love affair and gushing about Putin is chilling... Can you imagine, if during the Cuban Missle Crisis the republicans were openly praising Krushev? Their hatred towards the President has driven the mad...

And he smelled like testosterone!

brodiplomatics

He worked for Reagan! That's only a single step from divinity! Say five Hail Ronnies and sin no more.

Your online experience must have been more favorable than mine if this is anywhere near the creepiest. Not that it isn't creepy in its own right, but the competition is very stiff.

This thread needs a slathering of Eustace Tilley's delicious word gravy in a big way.

Wow, even the comments got homoerotic really damned fast.

Agreed

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

White conservative America loves the white leader of our enemy more than the black leader of our nation. Also, closet case.

Well, rival, anyway. But rival ≠ enemy.

Chuck Norris wears Vladamir Putin pajamas to bed.

Now thats funny.

The last thing we need is some idiot feeding Putin's already massive ego.

The GOP has a mancrush. They seem to crave an authority figure.

You figured it out. Go ahead and take the rest of the day off.

Funny, but last I heard from the rightards:

cites international law = Surrendering national sovreignty to foreigners

helps stop a war = Hippie peaceniks

stresses importance of U.N. = Surrendering national sovreignty to foreigners

And your suddenly giving a shit about it seems to conveniently forget Dubya bowing to him.

Your point?

Yeah right. I've seen enough of your posts to know you're spouting utter bullshit.

Go play sprinkler, child.

Actually, I do know all about it. I also know the effect of voting for things like the Green Party and Ralph Nader.

Nader voters brought us GWB, including torture, Gitmo, Iraq war, and financial collapse. Really doing a good job making progressive vision a reality. If anything, almost seems like false flag operation in retrospect.

Lulz. A minute apart!

Give me a fucking break.

Dick Cheney is very grateful to green voters like you.

"Leftier than thou" -- ha! LOL

So far to the left you actually circle around to join the fringe right in the great Circle of Loons. See: Julian Assange praising Matt Drudge and Rand Paul; Glenn Greenwald citing the racist militia Oath Keepers)

Did you get that from Drudge? I hear he's quite the "dissident". :-P

Yeah. Just think of not for the Greens and the Naderites we might never have reached the point where anyone gave a shit about Cheney's opinion from 2000.

So, since you helped get Cheney elected I'm not sure why you suddenly have a problem with him.

On October 26, 2000, Eric Alterman wrote in The Nation, "Nader has been campaigning aggressively in Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. If Gore loses even a few of those states, then Hello, President Bush. And if Bush does win, then Goodbye to so much of what Nader and his followers profess to cherish."

Hey at least in 2004 Nader got on the news networks and told his supporters, if they haven't voted, to absolutely not vote for Bush.

Of course, that was...what, 7PM CST?

That is an incredibly pathetic point. Gore could have reached out to Nader, or even the progressive wing of the party. Indeed, Gore spurned attempts at Nader to reach out to him.

Gore had a strong economy and basically peace to run on. He can run rings around Bush on any policy matter. The race shouldn't have even be close, let alone coming down to a few Nader voters in one state (which Nader offered to have vote for Gore if he would do the same in places that were heavily skewed one way or the other. Gore refused)

Alterman's argument, much like what we still see today, is profoundly undemocratic (with a small d). Essentially it's "No, no, I couldn't care less about what you think or your positions. Now you better well vote for me..or else!!".

What Nader did, but Gore and his horrible advisors were unable to grasp, was to present the Democratic candidate with an opportunity to at least make a few winks to the left wing. Instead he tried to out macho a republican. As history has shown, huge mistake..and it wasn't Nader's.