Rohrabacher: The aging face of a shameless career politician

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was right to ban Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher from his country last month.

Why?

Well, even if the always apologetic/lost Orange County Register doesn't yet know, there are plenty of reasons.

Let us start with this one:

(No, I'm not going to begin with the fact that this career politician is now a gung-ho war hawk even though he cowardly hid from combat duty when eligible to fight during the Vietnam War.)
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Rohrabacher: I was adamantly for the war before I was adamantly against it and now I want to rewrite history, okay?

Leave it to Dana Rohrabacher--Orange County's senior career politician--to wreck an enjoyable Mother's Day with smelly political garbage.

Late on Sunday night, Rohrabacher used his notorious, often inadvertently hilarious Twitter account to once again spew a self-serving lie about himself.

This time, the Costa Mesa congressman declared that he was "a loud critic of many U.S. policies, especially the decision to go into Iraq to displace Saddam [Hussein]."

Dana, you might be the most brazen, habitual liar in California politics today.

But you can't rewrite history, big boy.
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It's clearer now why Ron Paul went heavy on the Libertarian cheerleading and lighter on the presidential campaigning when he rocked a youth rally earlier this month at Cal State Fullerton.

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Jim Gray

Following the selection this morning of ex-New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson as their presidential nominee, Libertarian Party members gathered in Las Vegas named Orange County's Jim Gray as the party's vice presidential choice.

Gray--a well-respected, retired OC Superior Court judge--won 357 votes and, thanks largely to the Texas delegation, Lee Wrights came in second with 229.

Johnson had asked the convention to select Gray but heaped praise on the popular Wrights.

"You will never regret this," Gray told the crowd after his win. "I've never been so excited."
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President Gary Johnson?

Saying that he'd rather die than vote for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama in November, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson today won the Libertarian Party nomination to be the next president of the United States.

An energetic Libertarian crowd huddled in Las Vegas at the Red Rock Resort and chose the articulate, knowledgeable Johnson over Ron Paul, Lee Wrights, Jim Libertarian Burns and Carl Person.

Though there was happy talk about the Civil War Confederacy, Libertarians hope that Johnson can impress American voters enough to get at least one third of the vote in November, an accomplishment that would be a substantial political earthquake for the disgusting cesspools of corruption and incompetence that are the Republican and Democratic parties.
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President Karger

A reporter calls a Republican presidential campaign this afternoon hoping to speak to the candidate, but is given an excuse:

The candidate is working out at the gym.

Yeah, right.

Think: Newt Gingrich or Herman Cain.

But, bless their sweet souls, the Fred Karger for President campaign, specifically the ever trusty, lean and tender Kevin Miniter, is telling the truth.

Karger--the Laguna Beach-resident, longtime Ronald Reagan campaign adviser, anti-discrimination activist, Mitt Romney antagonist, actor, model and first openly gay presidential candidate in the two major political parties in U.S. history--actually works out.
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Ron Paul: Fuck the Fed

Ron Paul spit Libertarian fire at a youth rally Wednesday night in front of the packed westside stands at Cal State Fullerton's Titan Stadium. More >>

Handel on the race

You've got to give Todd Spitzer points for determination.

The notoriously chatty Orange County supervisor candidate has done the impossible.

He's found someone who may love to talk and talk and talk and talk more than he does: KFI's Bill Handel.

And the unstoppable Spitzer bandwagon is bringing Handel to OC as the guest of honor at a May 4 fundraiser in the race against underdog Republican Deborah Pauly, a Villa Park city council member and local GOP official.
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Taitz

The Orange County dentist leading the fight to expose President Barack Obama as an African who is secretly funding Arab terrorists and ordered someone to scratch her vehicle can add a new group of people conspiring against her.

This week, a three-justice panel at the California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana considered and--how can I put this politely?--trashed Orly Taitz's complaint that her Republican campaign for California secretary of state in 2010 was thwarted by a secret Democratic plot.
 
Superior Court Judge Geoffrey T. Glass had previously determined that Taitz's complaints against Damon Dunn, her GOP primary opponent, were invalid.

But, as is her MO when she files crazy, incoherent lawsuits and loses, Taitz refused to quit.
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Just like their candidate, Ron Paul supporters don't seem to know the meaning of the words "sit down."

It took an auditorium full of annoyed bookish types to start yelling this command during the Q&A session of the Narrating Disaster panel at this past weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books for not one, but two avid Ron Paul supporters who began shouting accusatory remarks at no one in particular.

It all started because Robert Scheer was on the panel, nestled between Amy Wilentz, the author of several books, and Joel Achenbach, who recently wrote the book A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea about the BP Oil Spill. For more detail about just how out of place Scheer was at this table, you might want to ask Wilentz, who didn't care to hide her sentiments on that subject. Suffice it to say that the only disaster Scheer seemed to have narrated was the absurdly tenacious political campaign of Ron Paul.
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