Posted: December 21, 2011 at 7:26 pm
“Knee-Walking Drunk” Endorses Open Container Guy
Bitterroot state senator Jim Shockley’s citation earlier this year for drinking canned red beer while driving inspired the Republican to step down from his position. (He chaired the legislative committee drafting tougher DUI laws.) But, it didn’t stop him from accepting the endorsement of former Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), whose infamous “I’m ready to go get knee-walking drunk!” foot-in-mouth syndrome led to his Senate demise.
Shockley announced the endorsement on his campaign website.
Perhaps this will become a kind of theme, a stream of endorsements by drinking advocates. Maybe those involved in the infamous and tragic Shane Hedges DUI accident and death of the House Majority Leader (in which Judy Martz barely escaped a prosecution for evidence tampering) will chime in. Rs have kept a steady pace since then so there are lots of endorsement opportunities for the campaign.
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Of course, there is Alan Hale, Shockley’s colleague in the state house who is campaigning in favor of drinking and driving.
Brad Johnson, the former Secretary of State, got pulled over for a DUI and went subsequently to treatment, though it didn’t seem to faze him: from a rehab center, he actively continued campaigning in his PSC race and is now running again for Secretary of State, a position voters ousted him from in 2008.
Greg Barkus got a few DUIs on the road over the last decade; Scott Boggio, a GOP legislator from Red Lodge, ran up on a curb while driving around with another repub, Elsie Arntzen, and got pulled over, and turned out to be massively drunk, though of course Arntzen, a DUI Task Force member, expressed the usual right-wing-passenger-shock, and said she “had no idea” driver Boggio was impaired.
And of course then Barkus went for the hat-trick, a third DUI, this time in style by running a boat up into the rocky shore of Flathead Lake, causing injuries all around, with passenger Rehberg, drunk himself, taking a page out of Arntzen’s script and saying he was shocked to hear that the driver was impaired.
Then there was recently Brad Molnar, who mowed his car into that of some hapless girl just last year, and fled the scene and was placed under a restraining order from any contact with the victim.
Drinking, Driving, Boating, Hit and Runs. What is most important is that Republicans will often fight publicly for stiffer sentencing for criminals, and against the evil smoking of marijuana, and in favor of “values”.
As I come to this site again and again I see you attacking various politicians on a personal level, the assumption of course being that people who don’t behave as model citizens on a personal level (and we all know that you don’t either, you anonymous fools) cannot make rational public policy.
A far better approach is to deal with these people on a policy level, contrast what they want with your proscriptions, and offer the difference to a informed electorate.
Just joking!
What I know to be true is this: If you don’t have real differences to offer the electorate, then you’d better find some fake ones to fill the vacuum And that is the reason for your ongoing personal attacks.
I think most people get the hypocrisy of these “don’t do as I do, do as I say” people. They are on both sides of the isle. They lie out one side and screw you from the other. We know these people. Mark, you can vote for the drunks, I’d much rather put my future with the potheads.
Agreed. Potheads can sit for hours staring at the TV and not hurt a soul.
Mark doesn’t grasp the concept that voters won’t want to put someone in the AG’s office who rails against crimes in others that he committed himself. But that’s only part of it. The blatant hypocrisy of pretending to be “tough on crime” and then wanting to be elected to office after committing crimes themselves is laughable.
The ability to see hypocrisy in the other party but not your own is a key characteristic of the American two party mirror system.
I’ll give you credit. You take the “both sides do it” trope to a whole new level.
You’d lend yourself just a bit of credibility, Mark, if you could present Linda McCulloch’s foibles concerning alcohol. Since you can’t, it’s probably safest for thinking people to just treat you like the bloviating gasbag you are.
Let’s see, do I engage the douche … do I engage … no. Do not truck with douchebags.
Anyway, I used “bloviate” first in reference to your general overbearing nature and stupidity. Please get your own volcabulary.
Paul Sliter was the House Majority Leader not the SoH
The scum-star of the whole repube party is Mr Leo Giacometto. His coverup of Hedges DUI that night was pathetic and could not have come at a worse time for him during the peak of his ‘illegal slush fund commitee’ denial. When the water got too hot, Giacometto slips out of the state and heads to Washington to start his industrious Lobbying firm , who now employs the infamous Conrad Burns and Denny R’s son. Repube Losers!
It’s sad that there are so many GOP scum that they have a star among them.
Perhaps it is true: scum do rise to the top.
there’s only one douche on this website, mark
we are in agreement. thanks for your support.