Shaddegg Sends Jethro Bodine To Spy On Dems
The once smooth, efficient and ruthless political machine that was the Republican Party has turned into a pathetic low brow sitcom. In yesterday’s episode, we saw John and Cindy Drysdale McCain move in with the Palins Clampetts. In today’s show, Arizona Representative John Shaddegg, part of the GOP House Leadership, sends Double Naught Super Secret Agent Jethro Bodine on a deep cover spy mission to an Arizona Democratic Party office.
Democrats are demanding that Rep. John Shadegg fire his deputy campaign manager after learning that he accessed a Democratic Party office using a fake name and fake address.
Party officials believe that Ryan Anderson, who has claimed that he was at the party office to purchase a bumper sticker, provided the fake name and address. Anderson was only discovered because he left the Shadegg campaign’s credit card in the Democratic party’s office.
Records show that a person with the name "Bryan Anderson" filled out a contribution form, which is a legal document that the Arizona Democratic Party uses to report contributions to elections officials. The purchase of a bumper sticker is a contribution.
"Bryan Anderson’s" address is a near-match to Ryan Anderson’s. Every number in the street line of the address is one digit off. Democrats will not release Anderson’s home address.
Anderson, a veteran Republican operative, previously worked at a major Republican lobbying firm in Phoenix. He also worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
This is so stupid it hurts. Unless Jethro Bodine Anderson was going to put a desktop computer down his pants before he fled without the Shaddegg Campaign VISA Card, it is pretty hard to imagine what they sought to gain from their double super secret covert mission.
EPIC FAIL
Anderson was probably just lonely. I hear there’s not much activity at Republican offices these days.
Leave a credit card? How does that even happen?
It’s a cry for help. Not.
in his “defense” this is how you leave your credit card…
You realize you are a relatively high profile member of the competition and you have interns for this foolishness just as someone you know walks into the office while you are paying for the sticker … right about when you realize THEY TAKE CASH! and THE CAMPAIGN’S NAME IS ON THE CARD DOOFUS! So you RUN FOR IT WITH THE COMPUTER DOWN YOUR PANTS!!!!!
Teh Stoopid, it BURRNNZZZZ YES!
Jethro the (Nixon) Plumber – the Republicans can’t even do ratfucking right anymore!
I would remind all that the reason the Original Plumbers were discovered in the first place is that they replaced the tape over the lock after a passing nightwatchman had removed their original taping..
Something about this kind of low tomfoolery works against the idea of professionalism.
This is what happens when you simultaneously get cocky and lower your standards. Throw in the disdain for education and it’s epic fail in wrong sauce for everybody! YAY!
Motive? He was casing the joint to determine whether he would need his 2XL or 3XL clown suit to hide the computer in.
I read this post a couple of hours ago and I’m still giggling.
I’ll be giggling the rest of the day.
This, plus Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe.
You just could not make this stuff up!
It’s a new version of “Confederacy of Dunces” in real life… I kind of want to ask, “So, were the ear flaps UP on his hat when he left the credit card? Did he turn the ear flaps DOWN again to block out the bad news…?” Jeebuz…
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The Democrats knew something was up because the whole time Anderson was humming the “Mission Impossible” theme: “Dum dum, dumdum dum dum, dumdum…”
I am guessing they needed to get a copy of the document in order to forge something similar that would either decieve contributers or embarrass them
off to work, see all later
Some signs from our loyal opposition:
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they can’t even get a swastika right… pathetic.
Digg this bodacious post
Example of stupid failure – worse are the ones we DO NOT know about, both “legal” and illegal.
I wish both sides would cut the crap – but may the Rs have it institutionalized, its like cheating and crime are good things to them.
Will we fix the broken law amoug all the other broken things starting ummm sometime – anytime?
What I wonder is, you can look at the last fifteen years of election results and clearly see that Republicans have been systematically stealing elections. Why does our nation tolerate this? Is it simply because of weak Democratic leadership and the political compromise of the Justice Department?
Can we expect President Obama to order investigations?
I’m really hoping that the Obama Administration will NOT take a “let’s put the past behind us” posture, but will aggressively investigate the wrongs of the Bush Administration…
When I hear the stories of votes flipping, and election officials “losing” stuff or what have you, my stomach acid really gets going.
Again, why do Republicans hate democracy???
Becauase they know they can’t win in a democracy.
Just another example of Republican competence
Colonel Mustard in the Library with a credit card
have I got this right ? lil puke came back to the Dem office to retrieve the card he lost while going through their files ?!?!? jeebus, was the door latch found taped over on Monday morning ????
Gerry Rafferty is suing the McCain campaign for using his song:
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
Here I am stuck in the middle with you”
For some reason this line is ringing through my head after reading this…
“Because I’m Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute”
a guy blending right in. blend, blend.
It looks to me like they were looking for evidence to back up the new Republican crazy pressure: Barack Obama’s contribution list lacks transparency. We don’t know who they are. Look how easy it is to game the system. That’s what they would have said.
McCain has really gone waaaay to far with the name calling and attacks. Today, he called Obama an “academic.” This must stop!!!
OMG. Obama will drop like a ton of bricks in the polls after that insult.
I know. It’s dirty but it’s effective. I think it’s best for Obama to just admit it and try to put it behind him.
Funny, but too subtle by 16/32ths.
Heck of a job Anderson.
He was looking for a job in the new Democraically run United States.
Little does he know that competence might be a hiring factor.
Why would he? He’s never had to get a real job.
Standing in line outside the McCain rally in NH, while holding Obama signs and some sad looking old gent started yelling that “We don’t get it!”….
It is pretty sad the emotions stoked by the McCain camp and the poor folks who are responding to their base appeals.
-G
Sooo, he has to cling to his guns and religion…..
“gasp” – not an academic – anything but that, Please.
He also slipped when he was trying to say “cut” and said the dreaded “c” word.
Jane has a brand spanking new post up at FDL: “ABC News: VP Candidate = Sitcom Character”
and hey .. these are the folks who have been running the “spy agencies” .. is it any wonder … lol
I liked the photo for its germaneness. Perhaps the desperate highlevel official was indeed casing the premises, hopefully, for vehicle keys, as the tractor he is driving in the snapshot would be easy to identify and capture if there were a breakin the following night. He might try a ‘conservative’ version of a rewrite of an originally poorly written screenplay shown a few decades ago in a flick called Steelyard Blues. It would be interesting, though, if the office operated a cctv camera and has the image of the person who left the creditcard.
I think you have missed the ultimate goal here. They were trying to create an un-documentable (i.e. ILLEGAL)campaign contribution. Next, they would “question” some Obama contributions and, presto, they would use this contribution as an example.
You gotta think like a crook if you are gonna catch a crook.
What evidence is there of that? Quite frankly, the amount is way below thresholds for significant reporting requirements. They get documentation on this stuff mostly to build up contact lists.
Somehow this line from my favorite Disney movie came to me…Oh, he’s doing his own theme music? Big, dumb and tone deaf.
They sent that famous jet-set international playboy to do some espionage? Heh!
“Bryan Anderson” is an anagram of “Ayn Rand’s borne”.
A “borne identity”?
Classic post. This stuff just writes itself…
yeah, sure, it’s all fun an games to you guys …
you’ve never been on a “B & E” with a clown like this
(wink)
shouldn’t this guy be nominated for the “G Gordon Liddy incompetence in political espionoge” award ???
always been my life’s goal to be a better crook than g gordon liddy
This is but a colorful analogy to Milburn, Jethro, et al.
By contrast at least on Beverly Hillbilly character in actual fact walks the earth.
W is Sonny Drysdale incarnate.
In desperation you leave it with the hopes someone there tries to use it and thereby creates a huge scandal.
You hate McCain so much you leave his campaign and take the cc over to Dems so they can bash McCain with his own money.
BTW, why a credit card and not a bank card? Do they really use credit that way in a campaign?
Maybe it wasn’t Ryan Anderson, but someone who knew about him and hid their own identity while sort of pinning it on him. Maybe Anderson pissed off somebody from the McCain campaign!
here’s my theory…
The campaign he works for is tanking. He thinks if he can drop the card in the opponents office and they notice it’s from the Shaddegg campaign they’ll run up the bill and he can call them on it… make a big stink. It was a set-up. A trap. Not a brightly executed one, and its premise is flawed, but it was an attempt at dirty pool nonetheless.
Who woulda thought honest people work in a Democratic campaign office?