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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Dear Senator Brownback: Please refrain from using Peyton Manning as the quarterback in your football analogies. Love, Cheeseheads

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"Let's take Favre then," Brownback said. "The Packers are great. I'm sorry. How many passes does he complete without a line?" "All of them!" more than one person yelled from the back. Classic!

And he continued, "I'm not sure how I recover from this," Brownback said. "My point is we've got to rebuild the family. I'll get off this." My god, that's hilarious.

"All of them!" more than one person yelled from the back Do passes to opposing DB's count in your completion percentage?

Sheesh. Innocent blunder but boy is it a big one.

Brownback's a stooge, with a snowball's chance in hell of being President in the first place. If there ever was a chance that he'd carry Wisconsin, he just screwed the pooch.

Hey, he's still Presidential timber.The Manning gaffe is nothing compared to some of W's Classics.

Fifteen yards (or the equivalent number of votes) for poor selection of a metaphor, and terrible execution of it once selected. OK, mouth, this is a fine mess you've gotten us into now, says the senator.

Like so many things in life, it's not the mistake that screws you up, it's the recovery. I can't stand his politics, but my heart goes out to him here. I've put my foot in my mouth like this enough times. There's no graceful way out.

The worst part of it is that he was right. He may have been better off just sticking to what he said and not being ashamed of it. But that's politics.

You know that this wasn't off the top of his head. His handlers have to have heard some version if this analogy before he just popped it out there...and nobody realized that it would go over like a lead balloon in Packerland? Sheesh!

I just can't trust a man that can't get his sports analogies right... Wait a minute, he did... Peyton Manning is pretty darn good.

Dear Senator Brownback: : Please refrain from using Peyton Manning as the quarterback in your football analogies. Love, Cheeseheads Blockhead!

The worst part of it is that he was right. He may have been better off just sticking to what he said and not being ashamed of it. But that's politics. Peytons on the way up, but I'm not sure it's a suitable time to place him above Favre. The man won a Super Bowl, as did Peyton, and is about to break something like 4 records this season. He won 3 strait MVP's in the 90's. Peyton definitely has the ability, but I disagree putting him above Favre.

That little tidbit seemed like it would be better in The Onion. Wow.

And Brownback is SACKED for a fifteen yrd. loss back at the somebody should have been blocking for me and reminding me i was in Wisconsin,and not in Indiana yrd.line.

I'm not sure I want to get into a Manning vs. Favre debate here, but those stats may be a little closer than you're letting on, lopez. Manning won two straight MVPs, so he's just one MVP behind Favre. And I still can't understand how Favre won MVP the year Barry Sanders ran for 2,000 yards. (And to tie it back into the thread topic, he did it without much of a team around him, Sen. Brownback.) Manning has a much better TD to interception ratio and a significantly higher completion percentage. Favre has thrown for 4,000 yards four times in 16 NFL seasons. Manning has done it seven times in nine seasons, averaging almost 600 yards more per season than Favre. Brett's great. And I hope he enjoys those records for another four or five years. Because barring injury, that's all the longer they'll last.

Please excuse Sen. Brownback cause he says "Indiana,Wisconsin,it's hard to separate youse cause youse all smell like bibles..."

This guy is for a "stronger" FCC and wants to place more restrictions on speech in the media. I'm all for him bowing out early.

He was one of three candidates at one Republican debate to raise his hand when asked which don't believe in evolution.

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