Once-Prominent Public Figures Who Have Totally DISAPPEARED

[SoDesuKa]

Most of the Bushies have had the good sense to go someplace away from prying eyes, and I'm glad of that. We hear occasionally from Dick and Condoleezza, but Donald Rumsfeld has gone into hiding and stayed there. Wasn't there a German guy who ran for Governor of California and won? Used to be a body builder, IIRC. And no, I don't miss him either.

Gone, too, are any number of press secretaries who used to annoy us with their evasive answers. I've got them on my list, they never would be missed, they never would be missed.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Yes, Ahnold has largely disappeared from public view...

But I think that's more because of his marital troubles than anything. He is planning to resume his acting career. So we'll be seeing him again...

But only if we want to!

[freshwest]

2. Disappeared with their golden parachutes.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Hello, ever hear of Dana Perino? She's a mainstay commentator on cable news

Others have popped up from time to time to burnish the GWB legacy.

But you're right, we don't see them much--until they get the call shine up their boss.

As for Arnie...I'm afraid that he'll be baaaack before long.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Not politicians but Bryant Gumble, Jane Pauly. Folks in your face eveyr morning for years - then

drop off the radar

[SoDesuKa]

5. Judith Miller

Judith Miller won notoriety for her reports from Iraq that turned out to be false. The New York Times let her go, and she surfaced someplace else for a time. I think she has dropped completely out of sight.

[permatex]

12. She's on Faux snooze every now and then.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. I just saw Bryant Gumble on Kelly Ripa's show a couple weeks ago

when Michelle Obama came on...

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[zazen]

6. Ross Perot?

Seemed like he was on CNN every other night in the 90s being asked his opinion on anything related to business, jobs, the economy, etc. I would have thought he was the go-to-Know-Nothing they would have pulled out of mothballs in 2008, but I haven't heard a peep from him.

[XemaSab]

9. He's probably not only too smart for Sarah Palin

but smart enough to know that showing that he's too smart for Sarah Palin just isn't smart.

[Nevernose]

24. He's 82

A little long in the tooth to be a soulless talking head.

[HiPointDem]

25. that was my thought too. i wonder if those stories about his family being threatened were true.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Alberto Gonzales

Who was that again? "I don't recall"

[SoDesuKa]

8. Justifiably Obscure

It took Gonzales forever to find a job after the Bush years. He finally washed ashore in some Bush-related capacity, as a faculty member at some second-tier law school.

Some others:

• Alan Simpson - cranky ex-senator who tried to scuttle Social Security
• Christine O'Donnell - ran for Senate with the slogan, "I am not a witch."
• Herman Cain - ran for president vowing to run the White House like a pizza business
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[Ilsa]

11. Even GOPers can figure out that he

was a lapdog without substance, so why hire him for "expertise" he doesn't have?

And most colleges and universities are mostly too liberal to hire someone with Gonzales' ideology. I wouldn't be surprised if a donor promised that law school more money than they would have to pay for his salary.

[Atman]

10. Gonzales was just on Morning Joe Friday

He was asked for his brilliant opinion on the Eric Holder contempt charge. He said he would comment, "But..." then of course, he commented.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. I would add Dan Rather to the list

I have heard he has his own cable news outlet but I have never seen it or heard of anyone carrying it.

His fall was faster and deeper than many

[EFerrari]

15. "Dan Rather Reports" is on a couple of channels. Plus, I think he has a book out

because he was just on BookTv.

[LiberalEsto]

14. Probably drinking champagne with Ken Lay

on some secluded island.

[EFerrari]

16. Geoff Morrell is now working for BP America.

He was a Pentagon spokesliar.

[EFerrari]

17. Rumsfeld does a lot of public speaking. He tweets fairly often

about his appearances.

[TNLib]

18. No but we now have an new crop of assholes

Sarah Palin
Bachman
Cantor
Boehner
Tea Party

And some oldies still linger
Rush
Savage
Fox News


But it does seem like there not quite as in your face and as effectual as the crooks from the GW years.

[JHB]

19. Geez, you're right! I don't remember any German guy!...

...but I think that Austrian fellow has gone back to movies. At least cameos.

[KharmaTrain]

21. Rummy Just Wrote A Book...

...and has been pimping it on right wing shows and conventions. Many of the boooosh era aparachniks vanished into "think tanks" and other corporate jobs hoping to get a call if Rmoney wins...or to stay in the rushpublican welfare system until they do return to power.

As far as Press Secretaries...Tony Snow passed away and we Dana Perino now graces faux noise. Truth is after handling a nutcracker job like that I wouldn't be surprised if any former press secretary stays far away from the fetid beltway stenographer pool.

The problem is when these people go silent and below the radar...it means they're conspiring on some future fleecing of the economy and using the military as a combination piggy bank and merchant of death. Let's hope Mittens gets his ass kicked in November so we get another 4 years where our lives aren't directly affected by these vermin.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

22. Ralph Nader

[SoDesuKa]

23. Nader Comments on CounterPunch

Ralph Nader is alive and well and dissing President Obama on CounterPunch:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/29/touching-letters-from-barack-obama/

[UnrepentantLiberal]

32. If this had been any other website I would have been

jumped on for criticizing King Ralph.

That self-centered con man has nothing to say to me after claiming there was no difference between Bush and Gore. But that won't stop him. He has no shame.

As always: http://www.realchange.org/nader.htm

[MADem]

26. Ken Mehlman popped up to say "Yep, I'm gay!" after spending all that time enabling that crew of

stinking 'phobes. He did say he was sorry, but he never really explained why his craving to be with people who hated him and wished him ill was so doggone strong. I think he liked the paycheck and the access to power, myself.

He's trying to redeem himself now, but I still think he's more about Ken than anyone else.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/ken-mehlman-i-am-sorry-fo_n_1316199.html

[Carolina]

27. But they've

wreaked their havoc, done their lasting damage and added mightily to their fortunes, so their disappearance is of little consequence and small consolation

[SoCalDem]

28. They just do a strategic retreat for a while

while they are in retreat, they stock up on money and evil ideas, and then come roaring back when the next batch of republicans take over.

[dipsydoodle]

29. Some are no longer with us

[RebelOne]

30. That guy who ran for and won the governor of California seat

was actually from Austria not Germany.

[PufPuf23]

31. Where is Jeff Gannon now? nt

[Woody Woodpecker]

33. Guckert, his last name is Guckert!!

OK!?