Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004

[Forkboy]

Hunter Thompson nails it again


Armageddon came early for George Bush this year, and he was not ready for it. His long-awaited showdowns with my man John Kerry turned into a series of horrible embarrassments that cracked his nerve and demoralized his closest campaign advisers. They knew he would never recover, no matter how many votes they could steal for him in Florida, where the presidential debates were closely watched and widely celebrated by millions of Kerry supporters who suddenly had reason to feel like winners.
Kerry came into October as a five-point underdog with almost no chance of winning three out of three rigged confrontations with a treacherous little freak like George Bush. But the debates are over now, and the victor was clearly John Kerry every time. He steamrollered Bush and left him for roadkill.

Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all. The tide turned early, in Coral Gables, when Bush went belly up less than halfway through his first bout with Kerry, who hammered poor George into jelly. It was pitiful. . . . I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him "Mister President," and then I felt ashamed.

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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1098381631874&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.780

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Bless his Black Heart.

The Good Doctor is as mad as a march hare, but that has never precluded the fact that he is usually correct in most things. He just takes a very circuitous route getting there.

[Forkboy]

2. Whatever route he takes

I'm glad he writes about it :)

[diamond14]

3. LOL....bush* "THE SYPHILLIS PRESIDENT".....ROFL.....LOL....

more -snips-

BULLETIN
KERRY WINS GONZO ENDORSMENT; DR. THOMPSON JOINS DEMOCRAT IN CALLING BUSH "THE SYPHILLIS PRESIDENT"

"Four more years of George Bush will be like four more years of syphilis," the famed author said yesterday at a hastily called press conference near his home in Woody Creek, Colorado. "Only a fool or a sucker would vote for a dangerous loser like Bush," Dr. Thompson warned. "He hates everything we stand for, and he knows we will vote against him in November."

Thompson, long known for the eerie accuracy of his political instincts, went on to denounce Ralph Nader as "a worthless Judas Goat with no moral compass." "I endorsed John Kerry a long time ago," he said, "and I will do everything in my power, short of roaming the streets with a meat hammer, to help him be the next President of the United States."

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Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.

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Back in June, when John Kerry was beginning to feel like a winner, I had a quick little rendezvous with him on a rain-soaked runway in Aspen, Colorado, where he was scheduled to meet with a harem of wealthy campaign contributors. As we rode to the event, I told him that Bush's vicious goons in the White House are perfectly capable of assassinating Nader and blaming it on him. His staff laughed, but the Secret Service men didn't. Kerry quickly suggested that I might make a good running mate, and we reminisced about trying to end the Vietnam War in 1972. That was the year I first met him, at a riot on that elegant little street in front of the White House. He was yelling into a bullhorn and I was trying to throw a dead, bleeding rat over a black-spike fence and onto the president's lawn.

We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon -- which wise people said was impossible, but so what? It was fun. We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river. That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

[arewenotdemo]

6. "He hates music, football and sex..."

Now why do I believe that?

Thompson goes where angels fear to tread...his genius is intuitive.

And Nader: "a worthless Judas goat with no moral compass". :bounce:

[The Magistrate]

4. Thank You, My Friend

A most bracing read. It is a pleasure to see the good Doctor predicts a five point spread for Sen. Kerry; since late August it has been my conviction the final tally will be 52% for President Kerry, 47% for the Crawford coward, and 1% sundry others....

"We will march on a road of bones."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[Forkboy]

5. You are very welcome

He always inspires me in one way or another,and this was a great read.

[Walt Starr]

7. Gonzo Journalism at its finest!

"Your neighbor's grandchildren will be fighting this stupid, greed-crazed Bush-family "war" against the whole Islamic world for the rest of their lives, if John Kerry is not elected to be the new President of the United States in November."

[Walt Starr]

8. Oh but he wraps it up perfectly!

Thompson is the Universal Grand Master of the written word:

"Back in June, when John Kerry was beginning to feel like a winner, I had a quick little rendezvous with him on a rain-soaked runway in Aspen, Colorado, where he was scheduled to meet with a harem of wealthy campaign contributors. As we rode to the event, I told him that Bush's vicious goons in the White House are perfectly capable of assassinating Nader and blaming it on him. His staff laughed, but the Secret Service men didn't. Kerry quickly suggested that I might make a good running mate, and we reminisced about trying to end the Vietnam War in 1972.

That was the year I first met him, at a riot on that elegant little street in front of the White House. He was yelling into a bullhorn and I was trying to throw a dead, bleeding rat over a black-spike fence and onto the president's lawn.

We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon -- which wise people said was impossible, but so what? It was fun. We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river.

That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House."

[jonnyblitz]

9. oh cool!! he wrote another book I wasn't aware of, too!!

(mentioned at the end of the article)thanks for posting this! I will have to inform my sister(she loves him)....

[Walt Starr]

10. Thomspon is the best

He hooked me severely with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Nobody else has anywhere near the grasp of the English language this man has!

[jonnyblitz]

11. yup

i have more than a few worn out copies of his books from way back kickin around...He really had "issues"(:P) with Nixon.
I liked how johnny depp played him in the movie, too.they are pals.

[Pepperbelly]

12. the DOCTOR is in... a dangerous loser ... Gonzo at its best. nt

[Bossy Monkey]

13. Thanks. I've been waiting for this.

Looked everywhere for anything from Hunter after each debate. Just what I would have expected from HST (ie brilliancy)

[callous taoboy]

14. Thank a you, Forkboy

I got to hang out with the good doctor one evening in Oregon. He kept tossing off these one-liners that would break us all up. This was right at the beginning of the Gulf War.

[Forkboy]

17. That must have been great

He's one of the few people I'd love to meet!

[callous taoboy]

18. It was killer-

It's along story, but I ended up riding in Ken Kesey's magic bus, "Further", with Kesey, Babbs, Thompson, two other Merry Pranksters and a slew of deadheads out to Kesey's farm in Pleasent Hill, Oregon where we sat around Kesey's kitchen table discussing the war. Thompson handed me a shot of Wild Turkey and said, "Drink up. It tastes like turpentine."

Phil- If you are reading this where the hell are you man?

[Zero Gravitas]

15. "treacherous little freak"

Hunter S Thompson rules.

[mzmolly]

16. Great stuff!

Back in June, when John Kerry was beginning to feel like a winner, I had a quick little rendezvous with him on a rain-soaked runway in Aspen, Colorado, where he was scheduled to meet with a harem of wealthy campaign contributors. As we rode to the event, I told him that Bush's vicious goons in the White House are perfectly capable of assassinating Nader and blaming it on him. His staff laughed, but the Secret Service men didn't. Kerry quickly suggested that I might make a good running mate, and we reminisced about trying to end the Vietnam War in 1972.

That was the year I first met him, at a riot on that elegant little street in front of the White House. He was yelling into a bullhorn and I was trying to throw a dead, bleeding rat over a black-spike fence and onto the president's lawn.


We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon -- which wise people said was impossible, but so what? It was fun. We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river. ...