DC-1, Oregon-0. It's no surprise that Smith won't run for governor, after voters sent that bumbling jackass of a bafoon, Jeff Merkley, to the senate to embarrass the hell out of our state for the next 6 years...Smith probably lost all interest in representing the bleeding heart band of retards that make up a voting majority of our state at the moment...who could blame him. Everyone who voted for Merkley owes both Smith and the rest of our state a sincere apology for saddling us with this unmitigated disaster of an ass clown in our delegation...perhaps once that occurs and Oregonians start acting like grown ups again, we will earn back the privilege of having adults like Smith back on our ballots. I may be personally pro-life, but Merkley is clearly one bastard slob of a mistake that we need to collectively abort...immediately...

JJ, Smith was no prize either. I suppose it's boring to run a pea packing plant and I don't blame him for using his wealth to create jobs for Oregonians. I wish Smith well, I guess, in some career outside of government.

Btw, just noticed that We're Number Three! No, obviously not Oregon football, but rather unemployment. Oregon is only led by Nevada and Michigan (and tied with California). Great job, Democrats!

should read, "blame Smith for NOT creating..." Need to proof before I send (sigh).

This means the GOP has only some second stringers with no realistic shot.

JJ Thanks for the lesson in acting like adults.

I know you blue leaning folks love dancing on Smith's grave, but you need to remember.... it was the right that gave Smith the boot, not the left.

Gordon so po'd the hard right base over his "criminal war" speech on the floor that the Constitution party guy picked up enough to send Gordon packing. That was how Merkely got elected. If the right had not turned on Smith, there was no way Merkely would have been elected.

I am glad to hear. This was keeping me up at night...

I am glad to hear. This was keeping me up at night...

I am glad to hear. This was keeping me up at night...

Yes, Ducker, the Dems have a great [HUGE] job ahead of them, don't they? COrrecting the disasters visited upon the people by eight years of terrible misrule. Federal realities o so often affect state and local situations so intensely they are more derivations of the federal mismanagement than not.

JJ, I confess to be lacking here: what is an ass clown??

RW,

From urban dictionary: an ass clown is "one, who, through the fault of his parents conception, is a skid mark in society's collective underwear." or "One whose stupidity and/or ineptitude exceeds the descriptive potential of both the terms ass and clown in isolation, and in so doing demands to be referred to as the conjugate of the two". Both of which fairly accurately describe Merkley...although both probably fail to fully encapsulate just what a truly miserable and incompetent piece of sh#t he really is...hope that was helpful.

It's no secret that Gordo took the loss to Merkeley very personally. And the NAB as a few Mormon ties that probably looked pretty good to him.

Meanwhile, the NAB got a very good lobbyist, I'm sure.

And who says the Dems have a starter in the race yet?

Guys coming off their retirement party to run for Gov make a lot of voters nervous.

That was a great, pithy bit of analysis by JJ, to go along with his description of "the bleeding heart band of retards that make up a voting majority of our state at the moment". Clearly JJ's insight, presumably transmitted to us on behalf of teabaggers, birthers, and deathers everywhere, should give us cuase for reflection.

JJ: thank you for the erudite reading.

Now, I have another question, scratching my head here.

What is "projection"? C'n you help me out?

Time to place your order for your official Oregon governor's inaugural ball cowboy boots. The fancy alligator ones can take up to a year to hand craft, so don't delay.

This means the only hope for Oregon's Elephants is Walden. As the Hibbits poll shows Atkinson and Alley have nothing. My money says Walden goes for it.

Ah, Carla, eating bonbons and pinching the trolls are you again? I could offer you a better vacation my friend. Cabana boys squeal with positively BLUE delight, instead of furious RED-faced consternation....

eating bonbons and pinching cabana boys, becca

You need thumb through your urban dictionary again. Next to 'assclown' is your picture.

I haven't heard that witty retort since, well.......the third grade. ROTFLMAO

Geesh... folks here bitched about Smith pretty much the whole time he was in Washington - and now you're whining because he's not coming back to Oregon to run for the privilege of 'serving' you again (and hear more years of bitching here at Blue Oregon about he's not serving YOU adequately)...

Hell, I wouldn't come back either... Life is short.

There is no pleasing some people. If Gordon had stayed in state, there would be no end to the finger-pointing and sniggering that the Left would doubtlessly indulge in, wherever he landed. At least this way he is making money without the rabble of socialist retards like Carla to whine about his golf clubs. I wish him luck and see no reason he should want to come back. It's a pretty dismal future that the Left has committed us to.

As Maggie Thatcher said, "Socialism is fun until you run out of other people's money."

Gordon Smith was not an effective senator. His major accomplishment in the senate for 12 years was... (Help! someone fill me in). His constituent services and local communication programs were not noted for effectiveness. However, he was a "moderate", or at least he played one on TV, and he had appeal to the center. He's just the kind of politician that could get the GOP back in the game, so it is heartening to hear the loons take credit for his defeat.

Jeff Merkley is IMHO the best of the class of 2008, but Franken may be a strong contender. We'll be able to judge their impact after a few years. That the genetically defective right sees him as a threat is a very good sign.

Gordon Smith's time in Washington is notable only because of his record of service to the interests of the national republican party, not to the people of Oregon.

He never really seemed like he even tried to connect with people in the western part of the state and unlike the rebub CW, I think progressives would of given him a fair listen. We are not anti-Eastern Oregonian, in spite of what they may believe.

We'll Gordon's in a place now where he'll have some friends that can appreciate those million dollar golf clubs he owns.

I agree with Karla that GS never cared for remote, agricultural Oregon. Let's face it, to an aristocrat it can be a hardscrabble place. The O story by Jeff Mapes (9/19) gives a lot of facts that resonate. As one example, GS "joined the Washington-based Covington and Burling law firm" = he evaded the required 2-year wait before an ex-senator can lobby his former colleagues, which luckily also enabled him to move permanently into his Maryland estate. (Maryland, with its horses and yachts, is a millionaire's paradise.) I see GS as a sleek, smiling assassin, at the highest levels, of the aspirations of working people. His record as a lobbyist for the National Assn. of Broadcasters--to the extent that it ever becomes known to the public--will demonstrate it. Thank goodness for Jeff Merkley.

I wonder if Smith really even gives a shit that his record is maintained live, here, and under discussion? Does he care?

The obnoxious "ass clown" comments by JJ and Carla's retort remind me of something I heard 30-odd years ago as a college freshman:

Q: Got a match? A: Yeah, my ass and your face.

I offer this as being certainly on the intellectual level of teabaggers like JJ.

Jack Roberts: so, we are discussing Gordon Smith and the new trajectory of his continued-disgraceful (in terms of true public service) path through the politicosphere.

You chime in with an ad nauseum ad homey on Kari? We are not discussing Kitzhaber. We are discussing Smith.

Perhaps you would like to post a Kitzhaber thread, or a Kari/client/Kitzh. thread?

It gets tiresome, the way you create useless pseudolinkages to attack the aligned.

Anytime I think we have it tough here in WA with our slate of elected 'ass clowns' at all levels of government, I take solace in the fact that at least it is worse in Oregon.

Good job folks!

There is some ugly background static in this string--would it be better for Blue Oregon to require participants to post their real names?

I am not one who is prone to conspiracy theories, but I find the coincidence of Greg Walden's long history of leadership in the NAB and their choice of Gordon Smith as their new President-elect at least interesting.

I don't know what to make of it, but I can't help feeling there is more to this story... not necessarily of major importance, but curious.

Jack: Didn't Kari say Kitzhaber was not his client?

Don't all Mandate Media websites say they are Mandate Media websites?

I have not found that on the Kitzhaber website.

OK, Kari---is Jack right that you are part of the Kitzhaber campaign?

Or didn't you say that not every candidate in Oregon hires you?

OK. It felt like it came totally out of some postured ultra-Left field. The thread is about Smith, the dreadful and egregious Smith. Time enough and space enough to foster one on the other POLITICIAN - Kitzhaber.

I really did mean you... you sniped at Kari and Kitz at the same time, but really had nothing substantive to say about the skeweree of the hour.

:).... perhaps I was simply being my irritable little old self. Eh?

@LT

From an earlier thread:

Posted by: Kari Chisholm | Sep 16, 2009 4:36:29 PM

[Full disclosure: My firm will be assisting Governor Kitzhaber's campaign. I speak only for myself.]

And another thing on never looking back. It's not like Smith is such an old geezer that this has to be his last stop. Geez, the guy could easily end up coming here again down the road. Maybe sooner than some libs would hope for.

SW and others: soft reminders about the word "retard". Are you aware of the jabs of pain experienced by those of us who are family members to RETARDS?

Perhaps you can find a different way to cast aspersions on the thinking abilities of your foes.

That word is probably never going to exit the language. Even "moron" is not so great - but at least it is not as freighted with the vernacular disdain heaped on helpless children in mainstreamed schoolyards.

Jack: good point about reactionary drivel governed by compressed perceptual timelines.

Now that Gordon has been appointed as the head of the National Assoiciation of Broadcasters the possibility remains that a national office is in the future for Smith.

Romney-Smith 2012 has a nice ring to it. Fellow Mormon Glen Beck will certainly help this ticket. Should be easy too. Look how easily the Fox team duped Congress into slashing funding for that dangerous pro democracy group Acorn. Progressives? They do not exist.

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