OMG LOL Rush Limbaugh in a leather jacket!

It looks like that picture has been airbrushed.  He can’t possibly be that thin.

Eduardo Verastegui is actually pretty hawt. Lila Rose ain’t bad either.

Carrie Prejean?  Really?  I mean… really?  They just scraped the bottom of the barrel didn’t they?

Eduardo Verastegui leveraged his fame for gay bashing.
http://pr-gb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60371&Itemid=34

As for Lila Rose:
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/26/nation/na-abortion26
She’s the happy little Fifth Columnist who goes undercover to sing sob stories to Planned Parenthood about how she’s been raped and abused and needs an abortion, then “busts” the institution when someone bends the rules for her. 

So, yeah.  Better stick with making doe eyes at Paris Hilton and Robert Pattinson, as they are at least in the same league of crazy bigoted assholes.

So judging by those graphics, 8% of the guests are POC, 14% are women. Who said the GOP was the party of cranky white men?

Didn’t I see a headline a few days ago that Stephen Baldwin recently file for bankruptcy?

I mean, even Dennis Miller more or less admitted that he’s a Republican Now because being their shill lines his pockets. How sad for Steve that he couldn’t even guarantee that he’d get paid for selling his soul.

Gary Sinise is a Rethug? I had no idea… :(

MY GOD, WHAT ABOUT JOE THE PLUMBER??? 

How can they make any decision about values and voting without their voice of the people?  This summit will turn out to be a canard without him, mark my words.

I third the “Gary Sinise WTF?” double-take.  How’d I miss that one?

wow, what a gallery of hack, crooks, reactionaries and the generally clueless….....

love the pic of Stephen Baldwin though.  he looks like a 3 year old who was just told “no cookie”

I’d love to eavesdrop on a conversation between Palin and Crazy-Eyes Bachmann.

When I saw the asterisks, at first I thought they meant something like “Has credibly been charged with acts involving violence against women.”

Gary Sinise has been invited, but apparently hasn’t accepted.  Given the number of invitees who haven’t yet accepted, this looks more like a wish list.

What—no George W. Bush?  No Dick Cheney? 

I suppose they’re officially liberals now . . .

Gary Sinise doesn’t shock me because I watch CSI: NY and figure that he’d have thrown up all over the place if he didn’t buy into at least a bit of the bullshit his character spouts.  As a valueless voter, I don’t particularly care if he does run with this crowd, as he’s likely to be the least offensive one there.

Did anyone else look at these mugshots and think Wingnut Bingo?

Just wait until someone in these pictures says or does something idiotic, then put a big X over his or her face. Five in a row wins. First prize is a copy of Sean Hannity’s latest book.

Second prize is all of Hannity’s books.

“MY GOD, WHAT ABOUT JOE THE PLUMBER???
How can they make any decision about values and voting without their voice of the people?”

That was the first thing I thought.  It must mean the alarm has gone off on his 15-minutes…

“I’d love to eavesdrop on a conversation between Palin and Crazy-Eyes Bachmann.”

I’d interested in seeing the dynamic there.  Palin wants to be the belle of the ball (she’s gives off a distinct Scarlett O’Hara vibe to me), and those pictures of Bachmann frenching Bush Jr. are disturbing.  Both are crazy, although I’ve got to give the edge to Bachmann (who gives off a strong Fatal Attraction vibe).

Either they’d be best buddies, or at each other’s throats.  I’m not sure which would be more entertaining…

“What—no George W. Bush?  No Dick Cheney?”

Who are they?  Should we know those names for some reason?...

I love the Brit Hume and Lou Dobbs attendances.  If two figures of similary familiarity went to a corresponding event on the left Fox would be SCREAMING about how this proves that the media are all liberals and propagandists.

Rush Limbaugh is resembling Tony Soprano more and more—- without Tony’s redeeming qualities.

I love the Brit Hume and Lou Dobbs attendances.  If two figures of similary familiarity went to a corresponding event on the left Fox would be SCREAMING about how this proves that the media are all liberals and propagandists.

They’re only invited, not confirmed. These wingnuts found their mailing address and coughed up 42 cents for a stamp. The desperate attempt to inflate the importance of the guest list is truly touching.

“I hope the convention center has brought in extra hookers and drug deals because they’re going to need it with this crowd.”

Ben Stein:  “To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown meth that is circulating around us isn’t too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it’s your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?”...

So ... lots of paid entertainment types and a few people who are actually tasked with actual government decisionmaking.

Call it “Lets Talk about our Grand Vision for Stuff That Doesn’t Work and/or The Constitution Forbids and/or Would Never Get Us the Power To Do It Anyway Fantasy Balthering Summit”.

Make a note of those asterisks - many of the more powerful and reality constrained invitees that lend an air of legitimacy?  They are invited, but are not confirmed.

Either they’d be best buddies, or at each other’s throats.  I’m not sure which would be more entertaining…

A bit of jello or mud and a ring to battle in ... and the resulting spectacle would about sum up the Republican Base’s opinion of the value of women in political office.

Gah, Shlafly and Bachmann?  This looks like an ad for a horror movie.  I’m also surprised by Gary Sinise.  I’ll never be able to enjoy CSI:New York in the same way.

I’m glad I never got into CSI:NY… kind of sucks because that means I don’t have any CSI worth watching anymore. I didn’t know about Gary Sinise either. BUMMER.

Looks like Fox hasn’t given its property permission to attend yet, Rush, Hannity, BillO, etc. are not confirmed.

Oh, those are stars next to their heads to indicate they’ve confirmed their attendance. I thought those were snowflakes to alert which invitees are extra White.

Looks like the conference organisers are pulling a little bait-and-switch with the speaker list—it’s not shocking that they’d do this, since that sort of sleazy move is the M.O. of “family values” wingnuts. What is surprising is that they didn’t add Jesus and Ronald Reagan to the list of invited speakers—not like they don’t have plenty of public-domain headshots available.

If they are all going to be in one place, perhaps we could spray.

Wow. It’s like the Gallery of Evil. Bet there’ll be some quality crazy being aired at this event…

Sinise is adopting that slightly peeved look that Republicans affect when they want to appear blue collar and non-bullshit-taking. Everyone else thinks they look like the Onion’s “my brother died that way” guy.

KMac, I read “furrin” and thought “furry.” Which, frankly, is all this conference appears to be missing.

Did anyone else look at these mugshots and think Wingnut Bingo?
ROFL!!!

Great idea, but Rush is a given for everyone :p

Gary Sinise isn’t really all that surprising. He does voice the Amy (Marine Corps? I can’t remember) recruitment ads that play incessantly during every CSI:NY commercial break on Spike.

Sinise was surprising to me.  I hope he has a “prior engagement.”  Might be a good time to rearrange that sock drawer, Gary…

So is this a competing event for the CPAC convention?  Because I’d have to think there’s a lot of overlap between the two events’ attendees.

I knew Gary Sinise was more conservative, but didn’t realize he was right enough to be considered a prime invite to this nutfest.  So disappointed. :-(

speedbudget - Drug addiction really takes off the pounds.

* * *
You know how these people complain about what homosexuals did to the word gay—took it over and changed its previous common meaning?

To be honest, that irked me too; I can no longer hear the words “Don we now our gay apparel” without envisioning a bunch of TGs and Tom of Finland types throwing on something black and slinky.

But I digress. This crowd is doing their best to eff up the word values  beyond all recognition. The implication they’re going for is that values means, not, say,  responsibility or honesty or charity,  but sexophobia.

Along these lines, it’s worth noting that, among the religious Right, they’ve totally succeeded in degrading the word morality; when fundies use it, they’re invariably talking about sexual behavior. If you told them that, for example, Dick Cheney acted immorally, their first thought would be amazement that a man of his age and state of health could get it up;  the Abu Ghraib photos wouldn’t have registered at all with them if the prisoners weren’t nekkid.

The word family is getting the same attempted massage. You wouldn’t think it possible to reconcile being pro-family with being anti-sex, but they manage—mainly because families are where you’d expect to find children, and Mrs. Lovejoy’s lament is their rationale for imposing (using YOUR tax dollars) their beliefs on the general public. It’s thus the source of their power, and the reason they work this meme—exposing children to any positive view of sex is the equivalent of pedophilia—so hard.

If it’s any consolation, they surely all have the sex lives they deserve.

I love that this kind of thing is Kirk Cameron’s career these days. He sure has grown up.

I wonder if having all of those individuals in one place will cause some sort of Wingnut Singularity where they all collapse into one huge bloviating black hole out of which no reality can enter or escape.  Hopefully the event horizon would stop at the convention center’s front doors.

This crowd is doing their best to eff up the word values beyond all recognition.

They’ve totally succeeded in degrading the word morality

The word family is getting the same attempted massage.

It’s funny how they change the meanings of so many words, then yell as loud as they can at changing the meaning of “marriage” (which has changed many times throughout history already).  We should start a bill called the DOVMFA (defense of values, morality, and family act) and try to stop them from re-defining these important words.

wikipedia says that sinise donated $2300 to McCain.

His costar noted that Sinise is more conservative than his own.

Seems thats about the extent of his political activity for the right wing.

OTOH, it seems like the right wing is falling all over itself trying to recruit him into the fold.

Per wikipedia:
“Nicolle Wallace, a former adviser to George W. Bush and the presidential campaign of John McCain, stated in May 2009 that she believed Sinise could help bring about a resurgence of the Republican party. Wallace stated, “The natural strengths that an actor brings to politics would come in handy to anyone going up against Obama in 2012. We will need an effective communicator who can stand toe to toe with Obama’s eloquence.” “

The article concludes noting sinise said no thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Sinise

Verastegui and Dobbs?  Could be trouble.  Dobbs doesn’t like mexicans.

Gov. Romney?

He hasn’t been Gov. Romney for years.

Olivia, I thought the same when I saw Gary Senise’s name up there. I know he’s a big pro-troops guy, but never knew he was a rightie.

The other names of the docket, however, are a Who’s Who of conservative nutbags (e.g. Bachman, Baehr, Horowitz, Schlafly, Slanthead, etc).

But I wonder where Coulter, Malkin and Alan Keyes are? And what about Michael Steele?

Nevertheless, the whole thing’s going to be one big right-wing circle jerk wherein the name of Ronald Reagan is envoked 10,000 times. I wonder if the scheduled events will include an all-star seance where they try to call him from the great beyond.

Is there anyone going to that summit who actually has a sense of basic human decency?

I thought the snowflakes were for those who gorge themselves on precious, precious embryos to keep their consciences in check. Silly me.

Mittens Romney looks like he wants to sell me either a lemon Saturn or douching products.

Why is “thrice divorced sex tourist to the Dominican Republic” Rush Limbaugh invited to a values summit?

MAJeff, you already know the answer to that question.

“Why is “thrice divorced sex tourist to the Dominican Republic” Rush Limbaugh invited to a values summit?”
What kinda “values” you think they’re talkin about.

Is it really so wrong of me to be thinking that your country would be much better off if the hotel collapsed during the opening ceremony?...

Bad PiaTor!  No doughnut!

PiaToR:  that would be God’s Will.

OMFG it’s like one of my worst nightmares come to life. Except that the even worse version means they’re all naked. UUUGH.

These jokers have values?  Beats me what they could possibly be, other than hatred and ignorance.  What a creepy group; druggies, adulterers, closeted hypocrites and the just plain insane.