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Today is the day for the Monger’s recommendations for the Nevada Primary! I’ll only be making a few recommendations mostly for the Republican side because (a) I’m officially registered as a Republican and (b) as for the Democrats: who cares? They lack that tea-party nuttiness that real Americans crave!

If you insist on voting in the Democratic primary, check out the Nevada Progressive Voter Guide.

For the rest of us, the real question for the primary is: who in the race is most like Jim Gibbons, the standard by which craziness is measured in Nevada politics?

Let’s think of voting like giving away a prize. In this case, we’ll call the prize the Crazy Jim!

Senate: Sue Lowden is a Crazy Jim!

Man, the Senate race is a toughie. The list of Crazy Jims on the ballot is long, and so many deserve special mention. For example, hanging Chad Christensen‘s use of a truck to illegally dump garbage in front of the Reid compound was truly inspired, although it would have been all the more impressive if Chad were arrested for the offense. Also, the utter buffoonery of claiming to be the most electable candidate based on a dull career on the backbench of the state Assembly deserves kudos as well.

Sharron Angle was nearly the favorite for being some kind of Southern Baptist Scientologist, which has something to do with John Travolta being an alien who’s come to earth to take Billy Graham to Heaven where he gets 72 virgins. Billy, not John, who’s already had his. The fact that the only thing keeping Angle’s campaign going is an infusion of funds by corporate lobbyists fronted by a putative grassroots populist group earns her extra points. Plus the stuff about the Department of Education being unconstitutional, the withdrawal of the US from the United Nations, and the privatization of Social Security. (DailyCaller)

Oh, and insert something about Baby Tark, here, if you really want. Nobody really cares, though.

Nonetheless, Suicide Sue Lowden deserves the “Crazy Jim” for conducting a campaign just barely less moronic than the Gov hisself. Chickens for checkups. The Bus from Campaign Finance Hell. The Attack on Civil Rights. Why, the only thing missing is an assault on a waitress. Chicken Sue gets the “Crazy Jim”!

Guberator: Jim Gibbons is a Crazy Jim!

Now here’s the easiest. James Tiberius Gibbons is the clear choice for the brainless voter this primary season. Granted, watching Brian Sandoval try to out Gibbons the Gibster and declare an all out war on La Raza was truly entertaining and certainly gave Brian some extra points. Still, anyone who is the subject of an AP piece entitled “Women’s Troubles, Empty Pockets Can’t Stop Gov’s Bid” despite the fact that the empty pockets and women’s troubles most likely will stop it, deserves the full support of every Nevada Republican worthy of the name.

What makes Jimbo a true Crazy Jim, however, is how his single-minded adherence to no new taxes has made the recession even worse for Nevadans:

Last year after the Nevada Consumer Affairs Division was shut down to save money, the FBI and local officials reported a sharp rise in scams—telemarketing, car repair frauds, identity theft, mortgage games.

Around the same time, the state eliminated funding for cloud seeding. Nevada is a desert state, and its water is limited. In addition, how dry or wet a winter is can affect how serious a fire season, with all its attendant costs, will be the following summer. Clark County officials, believing that Nevadans need the cloud seeding, pitched in with $900,000 that the county could ill afford.

Last week the Washoe County health department reported that because of budget reductions annual aerial larvicide application is being cut by 40 percent. Health officials warned members of the public to take greater than normal care with their health this summer by using mosquito repellant more assiduously, quickly clearing out any standing pools of water around the house to reduce mosquito breeding grounds, making sure all window screens are intact and repaired if there are breaches, and so on.

On and on it has gone, as programs to protect the public have been reduced or done away with altogether. If there is a common thread among stories like this, it is shortsightedness. (RN&R)

Reno News and Review goes on to explain how all the fun is due to Jim Gibbons.

Hey, but here’s the funny part. Every other major Gubernatorial candidate, Republican or Democrat, has taken the same no new taxes stance. Gibbons, in a recent, plaintive e-mail whined that all his opponents stole his positions. Well, his only position of no new taxes, anyway.

So, I guess I should award the Crazy Jim to every Nevadan because, well, you can run, but you cannot hide from the Gibster! He may not survive the June 8th primary, but he will live on in the short-sighted positions of Nevada candidates and the broken lives of Nevada denizens.

Nobody deserves a “Crazy Jim” more than crazy Jim.

Lieutenant Guberator: Brian Krolicki is a Crazy Jim!

Hey, how could near-felon, Brian Krolicki not be a sure-in for the Crazy Jim? Mr. Krolicki deserves extra points for his plan to short sell the Tobacco Fund, which would have bilked Nevadans out of millions in a panic sale.

Attorney General: Jacob Hafter deserves a Crazy Jim!

Usually AG candidates are pretty dull. But you just have to give special mention to a fellow who might be sanctioned by the Nevada State Bar Association for ethics violations stemming from lack of communication between brain and mouth. (RJ,NNB,NA)

Congressional District 1: Michele Fiore is a Crazy Jim!

Nothing says you love your congressional district more than living outside of it. At least that seems to be the theory of Michele Fiore who’s running as one of the sacrificial lambs who feverishly think that the anti-incumbent thing might even touch the rock solid seat of Shelley Berkley. Fiore, however, actually dwells in Titus’ district three. The Constitution and the laws of the State of Nevada allow her to pursue this odd course, but surely even the dullards in the State GOP should realize that the natives might chafe at having an outsider foisted on them, especially after some kind of sleazy back room dealing.

It has also been amusing to witness the evolution of Fiore from the gun-toting, taser-hipped S&M model pictured to the right to a business-coat wearing frump in recent campaign mailers. Still, her message is pretty much the same as the rest of the GOP pack. They all insist that cutting taxes will create jobs despite all the evidence that lack of revenue only tends to throw city, county and state workers on the street, where they are unable to buy stuff at local businesses, causing more layoffs there, etc., while frightened megabanks horde money which could be loaned to those businesses. Of course one can’t regulate the megabanks that violates the free market principles, yada, yada, yada.

Okay, that’s enough. Hurry along June 9th! I’ll be switching back to the Democratic party as soon as I can. Farewell RIROs!

Of course, those of us who are also closet socialists–understood in the Tea Party sense as the opposite [...]]]> I suppose we are meant to take the following as a reason to vote for Gibbons as opposed to Brian Sandoval in the GOP primary. “We” meaning officially registered Nevada Republicans, of course. What other “we” is there?

Of course, those of us who are also closet socialists–understood in the Tea Party sense as the opposite of total anarchy–might be a tad uncomfortable with the message that what’s wrong with Sandoval is that he did his AG job without adhering to a mindless anti-government ideology and he won’t sign mindless pledges that adhere to the same.

But, the target audience is nuts, so, as in all show-bidness, you cater to the teanut gallery.

Latest on Busgate:

Hey, wannabe journalists! Need to take an offbeat stand that is so wild and improbable that everyone will notice? Just talk about Jim Gibbons as the comeback kid!

More Gibbons’ Country.

“It’s a Democrat trying to help another Democrat win office. ‘I’m not trying to hide it at all. Certainly I am a supporter of Rory’s or have been in the past. I’ve helped him out with campaigns. And I’m a [...]]]> This just showed up in my e-mail, for some unknown reason:

“It’s a Democrat trying to help another Democrat win office. ‘I’m not trying to hide it at all. Certainly I am a supporter of Rory’s or have been in the past. I’ve helped him out with campaigns. And I’m a lifetime Democrat. Guilty,’ says Dan Hart, creator of the site and advertisement.”

Nevada –

The slick, forget-the-facts attack ads funded by Washington Democrats and Labor Unions designed to elect Rory Reid started last week. That quote is from Dan Hart — Rory Reid’s former campaign manager and the guy behind the shadowy front-group attacking us in the Republican primary.

Help us fight back today!

Everyone knows these attack ads won’t cut government spending, balance our state budget or get the 13.4% of unemployed Nevadans working again. But that’s not the goal of this shadowy front-group as reported in last Thursday’s newspaper:

“The Democratic Governors Association is heavily funding a group attacking GOP gubernatorial front-runner Brian Sandoval — meddling in the opposition’s primary at an unprecedented level, Nevada political observers say.

“The association, according to an IRS filing, made a $500,000 donation Feb. 26 to the Committee to Protect Nevada Jobs — a group with clear ties to Democratic Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid.” (Las Vegas Sun, 4/17/2010)

Simply put, a group funded by the Democrat Washington Democrats and Big Labor; run by Rory Reid’s former campaign manager and county lobbyist has launched a million dollar attack campaign against me in the primary election.

Will you help us respond to these false attacks?

To make matters worse, the ad is a lie. Commentators across Nevada have labeled it ‘False,’ ‘Untrue,’ and ‘Misleading.’ As Attorney General, I never fought for the 2003 tax increase. But that won’t stop Rory Reid and the national democrats from continuing to peddle this lie to Nevada voters.

Rory Reid and his liberal allies will stop at nothing, including trying to change the outcome of a Republican Primary, to win this election. That’s why I need your help today to fight back.

Please contribute $10, $25, $50, $100, or even $1,000 today to help us respond to the Reid attack machine.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Brian

P.S. Timing is critical. We purchase additional TV time immediately to match their attack ads dollar for dollar. We can’t allow Rory Reid and the national democrats to buy this election

Hmm. Not so sure about the “slick” part. And apparently the silent judge would prefer that he, Monte Miller, and national Republicans buy the election, but hey, this is America. We can all disagree about who should be buying the elections.

Forget Dan Hart. Become a Nevada RIRO instead…

[UPDATE: Sebelius points out that if Sandoval had not been pushed into no-tax demogogary by Gibbons and the Republican core, he wouldn't be such an easy target:

But in politics, if you're explaining, you're losing. In the meantime, plenty of reporters and bloggers are typing the words "Sandoval" and "taxes" in the same sentence.

Committee for Nevada Jobs -- mission accomplished.

But what if Sandoval hadn't been so forceful on the tax issue? What if he'd taken a more thoughtful approach, and said something along these lines: "Look, I'm not in favor of taxes. I think they hurt the economy, and raising or imposing taxes is about the last thing I'd ever do. But I don't know what the future is going to bring, I don't know what our deficit is going to look like, and if I'm elected, I will have an obligation to do the right thing by our children and our seniors. And that might involve taxes. Again, it won't be my first choice, but I'm not going to take it off the table because that would be irresponsible."

Reasonable. Conservative. Realistic.

If he'd said that, the events of 2003 wouldn't be a story. (CityLife)

Hurray for Nevada politics, where extremists have made policy impolitic!]

Those of us in Nor’Town, who are enjoying the ex-mayor’s concept of job growth as the city quickly decomposes into a ghost town, would probably enjoy the gube contest much more if one of his opponents would bring up his disastrous [...]]]> …than watching the following video, designed by the Mike Montandon For Inevitable Political Obscurity campaign…

Those of us in Nor’Town, who are enjoying the ex-mayor’s concept of job growth as the city quickly decomposes into a ghost town, would probably enjoy the gube contest much more if one of his opponents would bring up his disastrous tenure as mayor and its lackadaisical approach to budgeting as a campaign talking point. Alas, the ex-mayor’s incompetence at making even a dent in the juggernaut of money the anointed, silent judge has accrued, or in the just as daunting juggernaut of goofiness the braying Gube has conjured up, makes such a airing of the mayor’s dirty, anti-gay, anti-choice undies less than unlikely.

Too bad. All that’s left is to make fun of his lame web-ads. Until he runs for congress in district one in 2012 that is.