DISQUS

Danton · 4 months ago

I can't wait to buy an iPray.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

'preparing to download Jesus, please wait...'

Danton · 4 months ago

buffering... buffering...

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

Jesus unavailible, check internet connection and credit report.

Zorba · 4 months ago

S_j_m, you're on a roll today, sweetie. :-)

mtiffany · 4 months ago

Personally I'll be in line for the iSin. I hear the iSodomy version is so good you won't even need to leave the house anymore.

SusieQ · 4 months ago

Yes, but will he be coming back GAYER than ever?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

he hasn't nailed it down yet... his tour is looking at Cher, Madonna or Elton John as co-headliners.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

chances are he'll probably wind up with Gary Glitter though.

jixter · 4 months ago

Whenever I see Ralph Reed, the very first thought that comes to mind is Jim Nabors, as Gomer Pyle, calling out:

"Hey, Sisterboy!"

I've never been able to shake that mental film-clip.

IAmATVJunkie · 4 months ago

Ralph Reed was born 55 years old. How can he think he's gonna lead the young and hip anything.

The only hip involved is his eventual hip replacement.

Dateline_Molly · 4 months ago

I have to wonder what it is going to take for the GOP to retool itself. The Washington crowd of goopers can't stand populism, which is why they all jumped ship when Palin got on board. I think they've realized that with the economy in the toilet, their "social issues" bullshit also won't work.

The only thing they will have to run on is that Barry's dog-and-pony show pretending that he is helping working people is going to backfire on him, and the GOP will run with it.

I can't think of anything else the GOP has - still racist, still homophobic, still sexist, and still with economic policies that bankrupt the treasury.

It'll be just another round of running against somebody as opposed to having any ideas of their own.

If the Democrats passed single payer health care, single payer college, and actively put people back to work across the country in decent paying jobs, they could keep a majority for DECADES.

Instead, they'll just keep taking money from Goldman Sachs and Blue Cross and let the GOP take over in 2012.

Pete Wa · 4 months ago

Ralph "Jack Abramoff" Reed?
That Ralph Reed?

Here he is posing with some convicts:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/A...
Bob Ney, Republican convict
David Safavian, Republican convict
Jack Abramoff, Repuplican operative / convict
and Ralphy!

Indigo · 4 months ago

It's nothing like Steve Jobs returning to Apple except that Steve Jobs isn't hip or cool either.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

no... but Jobs really really really loves himself... just like reed.

Indigo · 4 months ago

Self-respect is very important.  ☺

mtiffany · 4 months ago

Why would they even need a Steve Jobs? The GOP already has a reality distortion field...

tlsintx · 4 months ago

oh come back Ralphie...
there's plenty of room for you in that clown car...

why did Ted Haggard just pop into my mind? weird.

doctressjulia · 4 months ago

I was forced to read one of this guy's crappy books in college by this horrid, conservative prof I had... this guy's a moron. And, a royal douche bag, to boot. Ugh. Fuck off, RALPH. XP

GoBlue · 4 months ago

What, did you go to Liberty U?

doctressjulia · 4 months ago

Nope- UW-Milwaukee, oddly enough.

HereinDC · 4 months ago

Like I said in an earlier thread...

The GOP is stuck in the 1990's with talk radio...

They are no way near being internet/Steve Jobs savvy.

What a joke!

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

imagining reed doing a speech on technology, and using an original Nintendo Gameboy as his prop.

GusII · 4 months ago

Reed must need the money.

Dateline_Molly · 4 months ago

Christ on crutches, is there something in the air? These clueless halfwits on the GOP side have been coming out of the woodwork lately like cockroaches.

Yet another loony tune the D.C. GOP will have to distance themselves from.

HelenRainier · 4 months ago

Christ on crutches -- ? OMG! LOL!

annieWash · 4 months ago

PALIN - REED
2012

The following endorsement is brought to you by the Democratic Party !!

WE WISH !!

Milli · 4 months ago

I'm still holding out for Palin-Joe the Plumber!!! (fingers- crossed)

K · 4 months ago

Remember, he ran for president also. He was the guy who fell off the podium during the flapjack contest, right?

shell · 4 months ago

All the old, worn-out GOPers are doing this. Why? They can see their "new, hip bigshots" are lame (Palin, Jindal, etc.)

So -- we get Noot, Haley Barbour, Ralphie, etc. trying to make a comeback. I guess they believe that no one remembers 2006, 2000, 1998, etc.

They have done so much work, getting Americans to NOT pay attention ("Don't worry -- go shopping!"), they believe it worked with all Americans.

And is it any accident that they are all SOUTHERNERS?

Dateline_Molly · 4 months ago

Speaking of Barry's lameness, and O.T., but it looks like The Anointed One has broken a presidential record by giving more ambassadorships to political appointees (read: campaign contributors) than to foreign service professionals. His numbers are 70% political appointments/30% foreign service workers. Bush's numbers were the opposite of that.

Barry just gave the ambassadorship of Germany to a former Goldman Sachs executive.

Guess all that bundling for a presidential campaign really does pay off!

http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2009/07/11/pre...

AnnieR · 4 months ago

The first time I saw Reed on a local news program here in Atlanta, my skin instantly started crawling. His office used to be a few miles from where I live; don't know if he's still there; don't care. Let's hope to God he's not back to stay. He's rotten from the inside out.

Butch1 · 4 months ago

You look into those eyes and there is no soul looking back at you.

AnnieR · 4 months ago

Perfect description of Ralph Reed - perfect.

Butch1 · 4 months ago

In spite of his choir boy persona, he's pure evil, in my opinion.

Butch1 · 4 months ago

"“It has to be younger, hipper, less strident, more inclusive and it has to harness the 21st century that will enable us to win in the future.”"
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If that is what he is trying to portray, perhaps, a real younger, hipper, less strident, more inclusive" person should apply for the job and not middle-aged Reed trying to act like a cool kid. The baby-faced bigot has grown up and I don't think he can play off of that as a strength anymore. He's still using "smoke and mirrors" and "bait and switch" to try and fool people.

When you need to pretend to be something to fool the people all they get is an act. He's still the wolf in sheep's clothing and not fooling anyone. Ralph needs to crawl back under that rock he's been hiding under these past few years. People haven't forgotten who he is.

offspring · 4 months ago

when i first saw reed, I thought what a odd looking little gay boy, then he spoke, then I thought oh what a scary odd looking closet boy. I get very nervous whenever I hear, the christian coalitions name, but worse is when I hear it and the word, "inclusive", for some unknown reason that makes me scared.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

inclusive means they'll keep their closet cases in the closet.

has it occurred to anyone that the repugnican party should adopt 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' as its official credo?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

interesting... I wonder if he'll put dobson forward as a candidate in some race.

that guy makes falwell look rational.

Milli · 4 months ago

Now, wait a minute. I though Newt and Michael Steele were vying for most hip?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

rush has them all beat on the hipness factor... I mean, look at the size of his ass!

mf_roe · 4 months ago

Hypocrites have a distinct advantage when it comes to re-inventing or re-packaging themselves. True Christians suffer the pain of self-discipline and conforming to a set of values often at odds with our natural self-centered instincts. True Christians don't celebrate their success and achievement of perfection, they pray for someone else to correct their flaws and give them a pass even in failure.

boloboffin · 4 months ago

The wimp running the Fellowship of the Sun on True Blood is obviously modeled on Ralph Reed.

And wasn't Reed in on the ground floor of "your daddy's Christian Coalition"? Does Jesus give eyelifts, too?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

and boob jobs... praise jeebus!

georgiaguy8 · 4 months ago

After gay favorite in Democratic primary trashed same sex marriage in 2006 race, most gay voters in Georgia (sizeable gay community in Atlanta) voted in Republican primary against little Ralphie Reed. He lost lt. governor's primary by a large margin. It's an open primary here, you can vote in either party's primary. Sec. of State Cathy Cox lost her Democratic primary gubernatorial bid after losing gay support and inopportune comments.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 4 months ago

Ralph Reed hipper and cooler? Is that a misprint? Ralph Reed MIGHT be somewhat hipper and cooler if she'd finally just come out of her closet, suck some dick, and present her partner to the media. And perhaps shave her head and grow a goatee and maybe buff up a bit at the gym for a year or so. The GOP is becoming more and more SNL as the weeks pass.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 4 months ago

I hear he's getting tips on hipness from Pat Boone... next up, they'll cut a metal album.

sullivan · 4 months ago

Jeffrey Daumier?

ndtovent · 4 months ago

wow...I'd almost forgotten about reed, and now...here he is again. I still don't think he'll revive the gop for anyone halfway decent by 2012 (and hopefully for much longer than that).

GoBlue · 4 months ago

He's having a midlife crisis, is he? Can we expect to read in the near future about his Argentinian mistress?

catdance · 4 months ago

Or his Argentine Master.
whichever.

Dave of the Jungle · 4 months ago

Saviors of the World have more fun.

woodroad34 · 4 months ago

Oh! So that's how Sara Palin will remain in politics....she's re-branding herself...still hip and mavericky...but with new packaging.

buckguy · 4 months ago

The political bar is pretty low in Georgia--for both parties, but esp. for the GOP. No surprises here. The AJC article points out his legal problems but fails to mention that it was a GOP Senate that failed to question him. The AJC periodically tries to be a serious paper, but mostly does a lot of boosterish and rah-rah stuff. This is the AJC at its most typically lazy.

dula · 4 months ago

Steve Jobs?...Ralph's version needs a new brain instead of a liver.

markf217 · 4 months ago

Ralph Reed was Jack Abramoff's bitch too long for Brother Ralph to have any political credibility, even with freepers. But Ralph is still sort of cute and I think he would be a great success in gay porn as a Republican Power Bottom, a special genre of gay films. After the screwing Ralph the Racist has given the USA, it would be nice to see him mounted and pounded by a well-endowed African-American Marine.

biggusdiggus · 4 months ago

Yeah, Ralph Reed knows a thing or two about Jobs. Blowjobs.

caphillprof · 4 months ago

Karl Marx said something about Ralph Reed? First time as tragedy, second time as farce?

coreyschmitz · 4 months ago

He's just like Steve Jobs but instead of computers and iphones he just hates everyone! same exact thing.

underbear1 · 4 months ago

Ralphie screwed the pooch with his slimey dealings with Abramoff screwing two Native American tribes in Louisiana.