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Matt Damon for president? In US politics, they have seen crazier scripts
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Posted by tipper 2011-08-14 07:29|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 Matt Damon in Team America.
Posted by Elmomorong Snore5808 2011-08-14 10:41||   2011-08-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 He'd get my vote - if the incumbent was his opponent.
Posted by Glenmore 2011-08-14 11:51||   2011-08-14 11:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Outside of Al Franken, leftist celebrities don't actually run for office. They talk about it a lot so that folks will stroke their ego on how smart they are, thats all.

Matt Damon challenging Obama from the left would cause Obama to lose the election and end Matt Damon's career. I'm not sure he's all that bright but he certainly is bright enough to realize that.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-08-14 11:52||   2011-08-14 11:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Richard Simmons would get my vote - if the incumbent were his opponent.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-14 11:53||   2011-08-14 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 A small pile of stones would get my vote - if the incumbent were his opponent.
Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-08-14 12:12||   2011-08-14 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 "Outside of Al Franken, leftist celebrities don't actually run for office."

Inside Al Franken, there's not enough room to run for office.

Apologies to Mark Twain. ;-p
Posted by Barbara 2011-08-14 12:29||   2011-08-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#7 "He'd get my vote - if the incumbent was his opponent."

I doubt it would work that way, Glenmore. Matt Hollyweird Damon wouldn't run as a Republican in a million years.

(Though maybe we could get him to run as an independant and split the communist Democrat vote.)
Posted by Barbara 2011-08-14 12:31||   2011-08-14 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Outside of Al Franken, leftist celebrities don't actually run for office.

So far, they have mainly threatened to move to Canada and then not gone.
Posted by SteveS 2011-08-14 13:29||   2011-08-14 13:29|| Front Page Top

#9 heh @Elmomorong Snore
Posted by newc 2011-08-14 13:51||   2011-08-14 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Heh. This guy's actually serious.
Why not Martin Sheen? I mean, he actually played a president on TV...
Posted by tu3031 2011-08-14 14:08||   2011-08-14 14:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Matt Damon!
Posted by newc 2011-08-14 15:35||   2011-08-14 15:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Matt Damon?
Posted by newc 2011-08-14 15:37||   2011-08-14 15:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Yes! Matt Damon!

Sorry. I just cannot help myself. Need some levity in this *(&^$%%&^$%
Posted by newc 2011-08-14 15:41||   2011-08-14 15:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Or maybe not Matt Damon :(
Posted by newc 2011-08-14 15:42||   2011-08-14 15:42|| Front Page Top

#15 aww geez
Posted by newc 2011-08-14 15:45||   2011-08-14 15:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Martin Sheen are guards... yeah guards.
Posted by newc 2011-08-14 15:49||   2011-08-14 15:49|| Front Page Top

#17 Matt Damon (!) will never get elected dogcatcher. Even the young people I know scream Matt Damon! every time they see him on screen or print. The South Park creators put him in the woodchipper for good (unless he runs in California).
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2011-08-14 17:48||   2011-08-14 17:48|| Front Page Top

#18 Funny thing Mizzou Mafia, is the south park guys are his friends and only did the "Matt Damon" joke on a lark. The Matt Damon puppet was so bad they figured nobody would recognize him and scapped all his lines.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-08-14 19:30||   2011-08-14 19:30|| Front Page Top

#19 Crazier script? That 3rd rate actor you elected in 1980 was about as crazy as an electorate can get. Hell, even a chimp got bigger billing...
Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-14 20:18||   2011-08-14 20:18|| Front Page Top

#20 Yeah, the four years prior to him were just paradise on earth. How could we be so stupid?
Can I get fries with that, Stevie?
Posted by tu3031 2011-08-14 20:21||   2011-08-14 20:21|| Front Page Top

#21 Again - I don't give a f*ck what a Canuck wants or says about our politics - Frank G on the road
Posted by Pappy 2011-08-14 20:37||   2011-08-14 20:37|| Front Page Top

#22 Since you come from the land that elected Trudeau and other losers, SS, I can't say I give a rat's ass about your so-called opinion of our politicians.

Sounds like sour grapes. You're probably still pissed at Reagan for facilitating the fall of the Wall and the exposure of what a failure communism truly is.
Posted by Barbara 2011-08-14 20:42||   2011-08-14 20:42|| Front Page Top

#23 "You're probably still pissed at Reagan for facilitating the fall of the Wall and the exposure of what a failure communism truly is."

You must still believe in the tooth fairy if you believe that bull...
Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-14 22:19||   2011-08-14 22:19|| Front Page Top

#24 You know Shakey Steve, it's becoming clear to all the 'burgers that not only do you fail to grasp that you are little more than a whiny troll, but that we all realize that you have no grasp of history, economics or even reality itself. In the hopes that you are a human being, not simply vermin, allow me to kindly suggest that you seek professional medical attention for your delusions. Then maybe one day, after years of drugs and therapy you might realize that repeated the worn out, debunked lies of the left earn you no points here.
Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-08-14 22:53||   2011-08-14 22:53|| Front Page Top

#25 Queerly enough, President Obama has recently been claiming to be this generation's Ronald Reagan. Also Martin Luther King, Jr.

It must be getting awfully crowded in his head...
Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-14 23:55||   2011-08-14 23:55|| Front Page Top

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