Anonymous Republican Congressman goes on angry rant against Donald Trump.

This was apparently a conversation that Red State's Erick Erickson had with a GOP politician still serving in the Congress, but completely fed up with his party's president.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

“If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker,” the unnamed Republican Congressman we’ll call “Rep. X,” supposedly said to Erickson. 

Erickson says Rep. X continued his rant, saying, “dammit he’s taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November. Kevin [McCarthy] is already circling like a green fly circling sh*t trying to take Paul’s [Ryan] job because nobody thinks he’s sticking around for Nancy [Pelosi]. She’s going to f**k up the cafeteria again too. [Lord’s name in vain], at least I’ll probably lose too and won’t have to put up with that sh*t.”

“It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can’t help himself. He’s just a f**king idiot who thinks he’s winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump.” 

The House Judiciary Committee “just might pull the trigger if the President fires Mueller,” Rep. X supposedly said. “The sh*t will hit the fan if that happens and I’d vote to impeach him myself. Most of us would, I think. Hell, all the Democrats would and you only need a majority in the House. If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker. Take him out with us and let Mike [Pence] take over. At least then we could sleep well at night.” 

Rep. X calls Vice President Pence “competent.” 

“I say a lot of shit on TV defending him, even over this,” Rep. X tells Erickson. Erickson describes the Congressman as someone who defends Trump on Fox News and in public but obviously has a different personal opinion. The media and Democrats on Capitol Hill often say many Republican lawmakers oppose Trump in private, but won’t in public. (There are several words for that.) 

“But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him. All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn’t led. He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can’t say that in public or I’d get run out of town.”

I believe this could be almost ANY current GOP member of Congress.

In fact I think you would be hard pressed to find any Republican politician who would support Trump off the record.

I don't typically post an entire article from another website as it is bad form.

However I did not know which parts to leave out of this one, and the entire thing is just too awesome not to share.

I could not bring myself to link directly to RedState as I despise them, and think Erickson is a cockroach.

However I would really appreciate it if you would give Raw Story a visit, and perhaps even click on an ad or two.

They do good work over there and deserve the clicks.

A must read piece by the great Geoffrey Dunn on the whole Erick Erickson/Donald Trump/Sarah Palin/Bristol Palin/Nancy French kerfuffle.

Geoffrey Dunn and Gryphen.

This from a piece entitled "Cleavage to Nowhere: Trump, Breitbart, RedState, Fox News and Sarah Palin's Secret Emails" courtesy of HuffPo: 

Talk about a circular right-wing firing squad: Donald Trump; the marginalia at Breitbart Snooze; RedState's Erick Erikson & Co.; Sarah Palin; and her eldest daughter (aka Palin-Lite), are all going after each other in the ultra-rightwing blogosphere, and it's tempting to just sit back and watch the fur fly. Talk about some truly WWE material suitable for drive-in viewing. Where in the hell is Joe Bob Briggs when you need him? 

Let us see if it's possible to set the stage, which is a theatrical euphemism, because this conflagration is taking place in the middle of a cesspool of grand dimensions. If hypocrisy and deceit were bullshit, you could float the proverbial battleship in the muck. And the stench would spread all the way to Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley and back again. 

In the wake of what was clearly a sexist and misogynistic attack by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Fox News' Megyn Kelly -- is there really anyone who can argue otherwise? Really? -- Erikson courageously barred Trump from attending his annual RedState Gathering in Atlanta. Erickson was then unceremoniously attacked by that paragon of integrity and political insight, Palin-Liteweight, who charged Erickson with running a "demeaning fake photo" of her mother.

 Damn this picture is certainly getting a lot of attention lately.

I bet Palin wishes somebody would pay this much attention to her ACTUAL chesticles.

This entire article is awesome, start to finish, and Geoffrey has a great deal of fun pointing out how ridiculous this whole thing really is. And oh yes he also accurately identifies the fact that Bristol Palin's words, are not in fact Bristol Palin's words: 

The Real Palin, who, as I noted here in HuffPost with rather perfect prognostication, was avoiding the Kelly-Trump scuffle, sent out one her pups -- or more accurately one of her pups' ghost writers -- to enter the fray, so that there was no serious blowback on her. And as I accurately noted -- because the person I cited in Alaska had actually identified Palin-Lite as his source (I spared Lite that little embarassment the first time around), absolutely confirmed my speculation that there was no longer any love lost between Mama Grizzled and Faux News. How do we now know with certainty? Because Palin-Lite's ghost writer went after Fox's Chris Wallace and the Big Bad Wolf himself, Roger Ailes. 

Hell -- and Wasilla -- hath no fury like a Palin scorned.

Yes as I said you really need to read this whole thing, as it is chock full of delicious details that only  someone who spent as much time studying Palin-tology as Geoffrey Dunn has could possibly offer to the visitors to the Huffington Post.

You want to see groveling? Here watch the editor of RedState, Erick Erickson, grovel at Sarah Palin's feet.

So this post by Erick Erickson is really all about this photo on the right, and his reasons for not taking it down from his site sooner back in 2013.

Trust me you are going to want to have your barf bags ready.

Courtesy of RedState: 

But the picture was a scam and it was inappropriate and I should have acted immediately. So I’ve been kicking myself to figure out why I did not act sooner. (Really? Kicking yourself?)


Unfortunately, going back into my calendar, I know why I was slow to respond. I was in the hospital on July 1, 2013, with my wife. I had to rush her to the emergency room that day and was out of pocket that day and the next, though even while attending to my wife made sure to mount a defense of Governor Palin.1 I was the only paid employee at RedState at the time and one of the only Palin supporters on the front page of RedState by 2013. The contributors were telling me the picture was real, I was in the hospital, and I went with trusting the guys I’m surrounded with every day and who I’d empowered to decide these things while I was tied up. 

I am sorry the Palin family has held on to this for so long. (Oh they hang on to EVERYTHING, believe me.)


I certainly meant no offense and tried to respond as quickly as I could to it, but was limited at the time due to my own family circumstances. I certainly do not fault them. They have come under attacks from all sides and I can only imagine they must have, then and now, had concerns about who were fully with them and who are just using them and who hate them. (I think I'm in that last category.)


I mounted Operation Leper after the 2008 defeat to drive from politics those from the McCain campaign who engaged in character assassination on Sarah Palin. A few years ago, Nichole Wallace credited me with turning her into an author because of Operation Leper. 

I have not always agreed with Governor Palin, but have always tried to defend her and her family, including when the creepy author moved next door and the CNN anchor found an assault on Bristol Palin to be comedy and including the day after that questionable post went up when I was trying to get Christy back on her feet. (So a long time Palin ass kisser huh?)


I really am sorry that they did not know the reason it took so long to respond and I am really am sorry that hurt feelings have lingered on for more than two years. I understand, given what the Palin family has gone through, and am sorry there are those who want to continue to drag them through the mud. I have certainly never wanted that for them. They are good people. (Hah!) I wish I had known about this before now so I could have told them why it took so long. 

Hang on I have to sit with my head between my knees for a bit to fight the nausea.

Well it looks like even though Palin has virtually no supporters left, and has now become an international joke, she was still able to turn Erick Erickson into her little bitch.

I mean seriously how does this tragic little man even look at himself in the mirror without being disgusted with himself?

Well I imagine that over at the Palin compound Sarah is on the phone with Nancy French exchanging war whoops and celebrating the fact that they can still emasculate a sad little excuse for a man if they put their minds to it.

Personally I never had any respect for Erick Erickson in the first place. But now?

Now I'm ashamed that we even share the same gender.

The Palins and their ghostwriter gleefully double down on their attack on RedState.

I actually stumbled across the fact that this petty feud was not over because Palin had a link to it on her Facebook page, with this additional blurb:

A mama grizzly warns Erick at RedState: "Don't take on a Palin kid; when family's had enough don't expect the kids to retreat either." 

Look she's writing for herself again.

She then linked to Brancy's blog where Nancy French was going to town on Erick Erickson and RedState: 

Don’t act dumb and put your hands up in the air now, Mr. Erickson. I called you out for the hypocrisy you have shown Mr. Trump, by suddenly acting like you are the standard bearer of decency toward women. 

What, do you ask, is the “good deed” that Wolf is talking about? He helpfully linked to an article in which RedState denounced David Letterman making a joke about raping one of us underage Palin daughters. (Aha! So they admit that Letterman was talking about Bristol, and not Willow!)


Gee, that was a tough ethical call there, RedState. 

To paraphrase The Princess Bride, when it comes to good deed, “You keep using that phrase,” RedState, “But I do not think it means what you think it means.”

I hate to admit it but I kind of agree with Nancy French/Bristol Palin/Sarah Palin here.

I know, frightening isn't it?

She is dead right that Erickson's statements about Trump's misogyny were hypocritical. And that was pointed out by various news outlets.

However what is also true is that Palin herself is guilty of similar hypocrisy, in that she has complained about sexualized comments directed at her while calling Lena Dunham a pedophile, attacking Miley Cyrus for using profanity (Glass house Palin.), and insinuated that Joe McGinniss moved next door to peer into Piper's bedroom while she was changing knowing full well that was false. (He received death threats over that.)

I will give Brancy credit for one observation in this post however, and that is this one:

The picture of my mom sitting on Santa’s lap, with her apparently perky boobs hanging out, is CLEARLY photo shopped. Anyone can point that out from a mile away. 

Yes, because Bristol knows what her mother's breasts REALLY look like.

And of course so do we.

Yep, no perk there!

Redstate takes offense at Bristol Palin's attack on them, since they have often been ardent Palin defenders. I guess they assumed that a Palin would be grateful?

So the other day, as we know, Nancy French donned her Bristol Palin wig and snap on chin to go after Erick Erickson, owner of Redstate, for disinviting "The Donald" to his conservative gathering over the remarks he made about Fox's Megyn Kelly.

This upset the folks over at Redstate, who believe that they have been more than fair with the Palins over the years:  

Over the years at RedState, the rotating cast of 15 or 20 front pagers who have come and gone have written and said dozens (or maybe hundreds) of articles about Palin. Back in the aftermath of McCain’s defeat we, as a unified front, promised to deep six the candidacy of any Republican candidate who hired the McCain operatives who were engaging in a smear campaign against Palin. 

Over the years, as Palin’s fortunes have waxed and waned, various RedState authors have taken various stances about various things that Palin has done – some positive and some negative. However, RedState has taken a unified stand against the personal smearing of Palin and her family, and has stood strongly against the tabloidization of their private lives and the attacks against the Palin children (including Bristol, in particular). 

That having been said, bylines are fairly simple things to understand, and Erick’s position with respect to the Palins has been one of almost unrelenting positiveness. And over the years Erick has taken no small amount of grief from his cohorts in the media and the blogosphere for sticking up for the Palins even when many other people (including myself) had given up on them politically.

The article then goes on to point out that Bristol/Nancy/Sarah also accused Erick Erickson of purposefully posting that photoshopped picture of Palin up at the top: 

Erickson’s RedState once used a demeaning fake photo (wearing a revealing shirt with Santa Claus) of my Mom for an attack article on her. Erickson refused to take it down even after he was made aware that it was photoshopped.

The Redstate article points out that they did initially post the photo thinking it was real, and then took it down after being alerted to the fact that it was fake.  (Just to brag a little, we here at IM knew it was fake all along.)

You know I find it really humorous that the folks at Redstate would get all upset with Bristol over this attack from Bristol's blog. After all it was written by Nancy French, paid for with SarahPAC dollars, and Bristol probably does not even know it exists.

If Redstate wants to get their panties in a twist over being mistreated by a Palin, then it is Sarah Palin who deserves their anger.

However it should also be noted that Palin did not just go after Redstate in this chicken shit, hide behind her daughter's ghostwriter manner, she also went after Fox News.

You know the people who paid her over a million dollars and allowed her spout her incoherent gibberish on their airwaves as if it had some value to the political discourse.

The lesson that Redstate, Fox News, and everybody else really, need to learn is that Sarah Palin does not like or trust anybody. And if she is reaching out to give you a hug now, that is only so she can feel around your back for the best place to stick a knife later.

Nancy French, paid by Sarah Palin to pretend to be Bristol Palin, is coming out in defense of Donald Trump. Soooo predictable.

Get a load of this: 

It’s official. I used to use this blog to point out how liberals use the “outrage industry” to manipulate people and keep their power. Now Republicans are just as bad. 

By now you’ve undoubtedly heard that there’s a guy named Erick Erickson, of RedState, who disinvited Donald Trump from a gathering of conservatives because, as he put it, “there are even lines blunt talkers and unprofessional politicians should not cross. Decency is one of those lines.”

Nancy French,  undoubtedly wearing her Bristol Palin Halloween costume, lists off Erick Erickson's outrageous remarks, which suspiciously echo similar remarks on Nancy's own blog.

Well what a quinky dink!

Then Nancy adjusts the Palin wig that her employer let her borrow for inspiration, slams back a Red Bull for inspiration, and starts typing to earn those SarahPAC dollars:

I don’t endorse everything Donald Trump says or does… Mainly because I actually have to work for a living and I don’t pay as much attention to politics as professional pundits. But I know that I hate the “politics of outrage” that people engage in. (Yeah it's not nearly as honest as attacking Miley Cyrus, or bitching that Caitlyn Jenner received an award.)

Give me a break. 

We only have so many opportunities to hear from the fifty million candidates who are apparently running for President. And we get the Fox moderators asking questions that the New York Times applauds? Please. Let’s don’t use the Democratic “war on women” talking points when we have ISIS to worry about. 

Mark Levin said the debates were an “embarrassment as far as I’m concerned… while the New York Times and CNN praised the event, I considered it an exploitation of the process, which is supposed to inform the American people. Not gotcha questions, not gossip… I think the American people are owed an apology. 

Oh and before we get off the topic of Fox News and the fact that they are “oh-so-shocked” at the supposed sexism of Donald Trump… here’s a little perspective. (Perspective? Oh this ought to be good.)

Back in 2010, Chris Wallace joked about having my Mom sit on his lap during an interview. In 2011, Roger Ailes said, “I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.”  (Actually a little surprising she is bringing this up. I thought Palin was still in denial about this being the reason she was hired at Fox.)

Fox and Erickson need to get off their high horse on how outraged they are NOW about sexism and decency. 

Let’s focus on winning the election, not winning accolades from the New York Times.

Okay if you believe a word, and I mean one word, of that came from the pea sized brain of Bristol Palin I have a first edition of the holy Bible signed by the author himself to sell you.

Somebody recently wondered why we would even care what Bristol Palin wrote.

I don't really.

But I do care what the woman Sarah Palin hired to write things under her daughter's byline is saying in defense of a man who as revealed below is paying news outlets, and possibly others, to write nice things about him and come to his defense.

THAT is potentially newsworthy and I think it deserves a little attention.

As does the fact that even though she is losing SarahPAC donations by the truckload, Palin still feels compelled to keep paying this woman to impersonate her daughter on a blog that gets limited media attention.

There is some reason for that.

Update: Well perhaps the reason for that is so that you can link to it to make the point you paid your ghostwriter to make, while also reinforcing the myth that your daughter can write her way out of a wet paper bag:

Rocks and glass houses don’t go together when you’re playing PC gotcha games, so please spare us the holier than thou routine. Read Bristol’s post on how hypocritical this “trumped up” outrage is.

Oooh, tricky!

"Look you can ridicule Sarah Palin all you want, but don't you dare photoshop her!" Signed, The Palin-bots.

Loves freedom, riding scooters, and Sarah Palin.

So, like many others, Redstate decided to point out how ridiculous it is for Sarah Palin to call for the formation of a third party.  

In 2008, to me, Sarah Palin was the “hope” and “change” the GOP could have used. Palin seemed to be more the ‘maverick’ than McCain ever was or could hope to be. 

However, shortly after her convention speech, the McCain campaign took over, the Left attacked, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Now, after four years of being the quasi-professional bomb-throwing GOP outsider, Palin is tossing the idea out there that she’s open to supporting a third party. 

While the idea is somewhat appealing to those who would rather flee than fight to save America, it is, ultimately, a fool-hearty idea. 

In fact, starting a third party, would result in about as much success as Ralph Nader’s (or Ross Perot’s, for that matter) bid for the White House.

Now not only does the author essentially call Palin a "bomb thrower" and coward a who was prepared to flee rather than fight, but he also went on to categorize Palin's suggestions with those espoused by Unions and Socialists.

I know right?

So as you can imagine this made the Palin-bots take up their pitchforks and torches and prepare to drive the "Redstaters" away from their princess. But not so much for the reasons mentioned above.

You see they did a far worse thing than drag Klondike Kardashian's name through the mud, they dared to photoshop her picture.

The horror!

Now all of us here already know that picture is fake because it shows cleavage, and Palin only has fake breatesesses attached to a Victoria's Secret bra, and cannot show actual cleavage.

See?

But the "vibrantly living" folks over at the Sea O'Pee were indignant!

Considering the attire and position of the person who owns the body that they Photoshopped Governor Palin’s head on to, it’s obvious that this was posted to demean her.

The bastards!

They were SO insulted and riled up that they demanded that Redstate editor Erik Erickson admit what he had done. And take it down.

He seemed unimpressed.

Oh now he done did it!

In response to Erickson's refusal to admit that it was photoshopped, and his dismissal of their anger, they started digging up pictures to prove their point and even brought in their blogger attack dogs to say mean things about his sexuality.

Hmm, now who does that sound like?

All in all it made for one of the fumiest incidents of tantrum throwing and hair pulling that I have ever seen.

Ahh, good times.

Personally I think that Redstate was just too lazy to look for a good picture of Palin with Santa for their article.

Here's one.

Hell there's even one of her with Rudolph. Can't say THAT'S photoshopped.

And as for cleavage pictures, well where do we start?

I'm sure that the folks over at the Sea O'Pee will start protesting THESE photoshop images of Palin too. You know just as soon as they have both hands free to type.

If you get my drift.