Posted On: Oct 23 2008 8:02PM
Credit Regular Guy Rant
For those of you who loved the first three Sand v. Pomeroy debates, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that a fourth lost debate exists. It’s an instant classic. I’m going to share the transcript with you right here.
This lost debate was held in Williston, so the Grand Forks Herald and Fargo Forum didn’t report on it. Pomeroy, who tries to avoid the western part of the state only agreed to the debate if it would be moderated by someone who would be nice to him like his friends at NBC were. I was hoping for Ed Shultz, but Earl doesn’t like him. Ed is to much of a straight shooter for Mr. Pomeroy. The moderator was finally picked to be an unbiased reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. Nancy Pelosi was nice enough to make sure the Chronicle could be involved. She wants her good friend, Earl Pomeroy to be protected after all.
Well enough of my rambling, its debate time. Transcript follows:
Moderator (wearing Pomeroy buttons) walks on stage.
Drone #1: Welcome to the fourth Earl Pomeroy and Duane Sand debate. Unlike Ed Shultz, we will be going to commercial every single time Earl gets in trouble, we will be following NBC’s lead in letting Mr. Pomeroy take his time with his notes before he answers, and we will let Earl stammer and interrupt as much as he likes. Mr. Sand, we ask that you don’t give any concrete answers and you avoid talking about your service to the country, your family, your pro life record, and the fact that you actually grew up on North Dakota farms. That wouldn’t be fair to our beloved Congressman Earl Pomeroy. Gentlemen, do you agree?
Sand: I…
(Moderator cuts him off)
Pomeroy: Yer’ dogone right pardner! Hee Haw! I love those sugar beets! Oh and I agree because all of the millions of North Dakota citizens who have voted for me in the past want me to agree. Yeppers, I agree a mite fold.
Sand: Earl, North Dakota’s population is not in the millions.
Moderator: Mr. Sand, please! I thought we agreed to the terms. I’m sure Mr. Pomeroy meant the all time population of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Manitoba, Hawaii, and Belarus. Isn’t that right Congressman?
Pomeroy: Of course, of course. Typical of Mr. Sand and his highly paid and large campaign staff to try and distort my record.
Sand: I have about four paid staffers.
Pomeroy: There you go, the mudslinging again. Distorting my record. I mean just because I voted to surrender in Iraq, doesn’t mean I meant to do it. I’m a blue dog who has the support of Native Americans, Lutherans, farmers, the elderly, and a young couple from Jamestown who recently wed on a sugar beet farm and knew my dear mother. Did I tell you that she receives Social Security?
Sand: Earl, can we get to the questions?
Pomeroy: Yer’ dog gone right we can! To my friends in Grand Forks, I sure love that nickname and logo and to my friends in the Standing Rock Tribe, I can’t stand that stupid name and logo. We need to look at space travel in a smart and comprehensive way…(three hours later)...and so that is why myself, Nancy, and Barney have decided that your Social Security would be better off in our pockets than yours.
Moderator: Gentlemen, first question goes to…Mr. Po...errr...(Looks at Pomeroy who shakes head), Mr. Sand. Mr. Sand, even though you are 99.9% behind Mr. Pomeroy in Mr. Pomeroy’s latest poll which was conducted by the Acorn group and involved 20 people from the UND liberal arts department, what would you do to say…ahh...cure all disease in the western world?
Sand: Well that is a pretty big question, I think we need to isolate….
Moderator: Well, if you can’t answer with concrete facts, I’m going to Mr. Pomeroy.
Pomeroy: I’m here ol’ pardner. What’s the question?
Moderator: Well for you, let’s see…oh, if Harrison Ford is willing, do you think they should make another Indiana Jones movie?
Pomeroy: Well, that’s hard. My opponent doesn’t think so, but I do. Yep and I suggest we change the name to Dakota Jones. Yep, that’s it. My opponent, who is 107% points behind thinks we should sell burnt popcorn at all the movies, but not me. No sirreee, I’m not going to apologize for advocating for buttered and salted popcorn at the movies.
Moderator: Mr. Sand, how would you go about creating a new fuel that would allow the driver to travel the length of the United States on one tank?
Sand: I think the first thing to do is to start…
Moderator: Mr. Pomeroy?
Pomeroy: What’s the question again lil’ feller?
Moderator: Lil’ feller?
Pomeroy: Isn’t that how all the simpletons talk in Williston? I don’t know, I never come here. I didn’t even know we were in North Dakota until my aide sent me a message so I wouldn’t have another gaffe.
Moderator: I…uh…I think you meant that you would go to the floor of Congress and ask for 500 million dollars to build a monument and dedicate it to Williston, right?
Pomeroy: Uh…heh heh…yep. That’s it. Can we have a commercial now?
(During the commercial break, Earl yelled at someone standing behind camera #1 and then at a NBC staffer for giving him only one ice cube with his water)
Moderator: Welcome back to the Sand/Pomeroy debate. Mr. Pomeroy is a blue dog democrat and despite his flip flopping on the war, lack of accountability, and his big bailout vote, he is in the lead by 234% over Duane Sand and his highly paid 2000 man staff.
Pomeroy: Oh and don’t forget Mr. Sand being a friend of every radical group in history.
Moderator: Wow, you’re right. Mr. Sand, how do you explain knowing members of the Boy Scouts?
Sand: This is getting crazy. Can we talk about energy?
Pomeroy: Yer darn tootin’ we can! I’m for energy. Why, I turned on my bathroom light today and I have to say it was shiny! Earl Pomeroy might not help you get cheap gas and I might have wrecked your vacation plans last summer, but you can take it to the bank that this ol’ blue dog went on a nice vacation and tucked away a lot of my Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG money. Yep, it takes energy to do that.
Moderator: Rebuttal to Mr. Sand.
Sand: You’re kidding. Earl, you have voted against energy six times in the last two years. What do you have against clean coal, oil shale, and nuclear power?
Pomeroy: There’s the bullying and mud slinging again. Sand once dropped a football in a game. Did you know that Sand once ordered a cheeseburger but received a chicken sandwich? Yep, that’s a mud slinger. Duane Sand is a regular Rowno Rugean.
Moderator: You mean Ronald Reagan right?
Pomeroy: I just m
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