Candidate of the Day: Jimmy McMillan

Jesse Walker | 10.19.2010 10:12 AM

Jimmy McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party steals the show at the New York gubernatorial debate:

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Barely Suppressed Rage 14 years ago

I think he is related to the UFO lights that recently have appeared over Manhattan and El Paso.
1. Scooby 14 years ago
  
  Watch these lights in the sky turn out to be viral marketing for an upcoming movie.
Polly Tickle 14 years ago

I'll lower prices and raise wages.
Abdul 14 years ago

I can't decide if he makes Paladino look good or bad by comparison.
Greg 14 years ago

His ISP suspended his website, probably due to all the traffic. He could register hostingistoodamnexpensive.com
? 14 years ago

Love the black gloves.
Kant feel Pietzsche 14 years ago

The rent is too GODDAMN high...say, give me a bite of that tunafish sandwich.
ChrisH 14 years ago

I like the cut of his jib, and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
1. Jibcutters Union Rep 14 years ago
  
  Not until you go through US first, pal.
ev 14 years ago

I am sexually aroused.
Ragin Cajun 14 years ago

It's Chester A. Arthur!
1. JW 14 years ago
  
  "Chester A. Arthur fall down!"
Spoonman. 14 years ago

EXCELLENT BEARD
1. Jeff P. 14 years ago
  
  'Bout time someone ran for office with some decent facial hair.
  1. Tulpa 14 years ago
    
    I assume you're not acknowledging Barbara Boxer.
    1. Liberal Douchebag 14 years ago
      
      Misogynist!
2. JD 14 years ago
  
  We should require all candidates to grow beards as awesome as this one. That includes the women.
Pro Libertate 14 years ago

If this man doesn't get his own political talk show on CNN (replacing the Spitz's abomination), there's something wrong with America.
1. Drax the Destroyer 14 years ago
  
  You mean something other than the "rent is too damn high" ?
  1. Pro Libertate 14 years ago
    
    No. That's the name of the show.
    1. SugarFree 14 years ago
      
      No, the show should just be called "Too Damn" which opens the format up to a wide range of complaint.
      1. sage 14 years ago
        
        Michelle Obama is too damn ugly.
      2. Episiarch 14 years ago
        
        "My beard is too damn difficult to maintain"
      3. capitol l 14 years ago
        
        Kids wear their pants Too Damn low!
        
        Teevee commercials are Too Damn loud!
        
        Kids nowadays have it Too Damn easy!
        
        Computers are Too Damn complicated!
        
        When I was a boy I had to walk up Too Damn hills to get to school!
        
        Get off of my Too Damn lawn!
        
        James J.B. 14 years ago
        
        Chocoloate Chip cookies is too damn delicious!
        
        It could also have a segement entitled oh no you didn't - where he skewers some jackass politician for their dumb act of the day. If he's smart - he'd nail both team red and blue - I'd watch nightly. beats the other crap that the sheep are supposed to watch.
        
        Upgrayyed 14 years ago
        
        And one called Karate Expert where he breaks too damn many bricks over the head of his opponents.
        
        Pip 14 years ago
        
        Sheep?
        
        Spiny Norman 14 years ago
        
        Sheep don't watch TV. They can't work the remote.
        
        James J.B. n.k.a McMillion 14 years ago
        
        Sheep - you know, the people that follow blindly and believe that there really is a difference between Bush and Obama. (On either side); that if only their guy was in charge, things would be different; that the mid term elections matter. that the other guys are corrupt; etc.
        
        Sheep - Followers, sheeple,etc.
        
        They are fond of sitcoms, Glee, and always need a laugh track to really enjoy a show.
      4. Drax the Destroyer 14 years ago
        
        A personal favorite:
        
        I have to drive through TOO DAMN many traffic lights to get to work!
      5. JW 14 years ago
        
        "There are too damn many notes!"
      6. Pro Libertate 14 years ago
        
        As a karate expert, I have to say that you're wrong to dilute the message. The rent is too damned high--what else do we need to talk about?
        
        Fiscal Meth 14 years ago
        
        I'll tell ya what else! The dojo rent is too damn high too!
      7. Tulpa 14 years ago
        
        Great, another Network parallel, so we can listen to a hundred more solemn pronouncements by talking heads that that piece of crap movie was so prophetic.
        
        Pro Libertate 14 years ago
        
        Only if he gets gunned down by Middle Eastern terrorists at the next debate.
      8. TrickyVic 14 years ago
        
        ""No, the show should just be called "Too Damn" which opens the format up to a wide range of complaint.""
        
        He could call it "Too Damn High" and discuss things that the government wants to do, and were obviously too damn high on somthing when they came up with the idea.
        
        Peter Griffin 14 years ago
        
        You know what really grinds my gears...
2. MP 14 years ago
  
  There could also be a sitcom.
  
  $#*! My Politician Says
  1. TrickyVic 14 years ago
    
    The 24 hour cable news networks run that show most the day.
ChrisH 14 years ago

I may not agree with his politics, but the name of the party seems to sell itself. Perhaps it's time for the Libertarian Party to re-christen itself as the Freedom, Bitches Party.
1. waffles 14 years ago
  
  is that calling the vote a bitch? or is it promising freedom and bitches? won't this further damage the appeal of libertarianism to women, let alone womyn?
  
  needs some work.
  1. Heloise 14 years ago
    
    Helpful Hint--
    
    If she refers to females as 'womyn', and she's not being sarcastic, satirical, or witty, she's not a libertarian.
    
    -Heloise
2. The Other Kevin 14 years ago
  
  How about the Government is Too Damn Big party?
  1. Almanian 14 years ago
    
    That's too damn long
  2. Pip 14 years ago
    
    Just the WTF Party works for me.
    1. waffles 14 years ago
      
      ^this, 1000X this.
      
      I'd vote for the WTF party every chance I could. It needs to be vague what exactly wtf stands for.
      what-the-fuck
      where's-the-freedom
      withered-taints-forever
      genius.
      1. The Gobbler 14 years ago
        
        I'm with you waffles. I am now officially a member of the WTF Party. Now we just need a mascot. Perhaps that screwball creature?
        
        14 years ago
        
        No, Lobster Girl!
Optimist Prime 14 years ago

At first I thought it was just Samuel L. Jackson in an SNL skit, but then I realized that this gentleman's comic timing is far too good for a late-night sketch show.
1. kinnath 14 years ago
  
  ditto
2. kinnath 14 years ago
  
  I want to hear Jimmy say "MutherFucker".
  1. Drax the Destroyer 14 years ago
    
    Maybe we can start an internet campaign to get them to re-film the debate and add Jimmy saying "There too damn many mutherfuckers on this mutherfucking stage."
    
    Also...where the hell is the youtube remix of this debate. I'm sure that would be one catchy tune.
3. Tulpa 14 years ago
  
  It was seriously sad on Sunday Night Football last week when Al and Cris were pretending to laugh at the SNL spoof of SNF they had done the night before. Basically some blond woman who otherwise looks nothing like Faith Hill singing a spoof of "Waiting all day" that my 7-year-old niece could have done a funnier job of, followed by two guys who look nothing like Michaels and Collinsworth making stupid jokes.
  1. generic Brand 14 years ago
    
    Really? I thought it was hilarious, because that song really does seem to go on forever. Given, I watched the whole thing online before the game started.
    
    Also, the Cris Collinsworth impression was pretty dead on. They definitely coulda done better on Michaels though; nowhere near enough Brett Favre references by that idiot.
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1. ClubMedSux 14 years ago
  
  Clothing prices are TOO DAMN HIGH.
  1. Pip 14 years ago
    
    SPAM is too fucking frequent.
toxic@gmail.com 14 years ago

See, this is the kind of guy they need to attract me to CNN.
JW 14 years ago

Can we get the "Pants on the Ground" guy for Lt. Guv?
1. Upgrayyed 14 years ago
  
  I think he died.
  1. Almanian 14 years ago
    
    That'd be too damn bad
  2. JD 14 years ago
    
    That's not an impediment to being elected.
    1. JD 14 years ago
      
      Corrected link
      
      HTML is too damn hard.
    2. Upgrayyed 14 years ago
      
      Ha! It's a feature not a bug...
  3. Butts Wagner 14 years ago
    
    No no, he's alive and well. That was a just an internet rumor.
    
    "I ain't dead worth a bit,"
My Daily Roast 14 years ago

Someone needs to educate this guy about rent control... he could be a stellar spokesman for property rights in NYC.
Reformed Republican 14 years ago

This would be a good opportunity to run a Libertarian candidate, because he would probably look sane next to this guy.
1. capitol l 14 years ago
  
  Have you seen libertarian candidates?
  1. Bingo 14 years ago
    
    I'm not sure someone with blue skin promising to reveal the "real" story behind Roswell is more or less sane than a guy that believes rent controls actually work.
    
    It's like two different flavors of crazy.
    1. Heroic Mulatto 14 years ago
      
      I could be wrong, but don't Geo-libertarians (i.e. those that follow the philosophy of Henry George) believe in rent control?
      1. Ted S. 14 years ago
        
        You're not talking about the Land Value Tax whackjobs, are you?
      2. CrackertyAssCracker 14 years ago
        
        I don't really dig on the Georgism. But I don't see how it implies rent control, and haven't heard them linked.
    2. Aresen 14 years ago
      
      I thought it was because the Space Alien Landlords were trying to get enough money to buy the Unobtainium they needed for the trip home.
      
      (They knew they should have stopped for a fill up at Pandora.)
2. Brian 14 years ago
  
  There was a Libertarian candidate--he looked boring and confused next to the clowns from the Republican, Green, Freedom, Anti-Prohibitionist, and Rent is 2 Damn High parties.
  
  Yes, I included Republican--the candidate is Carl "my opponent is an awful parent for taking his kids to the gay pride parade" Paladino.
  
  I'm actually going to vote for Kristin Davis, pimp to Eliot Spitzer.
  1. Drax the Destroyer 14 years ago
    
    Hey she's just an entrepreneur just trying to ply her trade despite draconian government interference. I think we could get behind that.
  2. creech 14 years ago
    
    What are the odds that Rent guy gets more votes than Libertarian guy?
3. cynical 14 years ago
  
  Dude, have you seen Libertarian candidates? If they aren't assholes like the Red Horseman or washed-up Republicans, they're tinfoil wearing nutjobs. These asshole parties with their Johnny-come-lately whackaloons are completely ripping the LP off.
4. CrackertyAssCracker 14 years ago
  
  There was one. I think he did end up looking sane in comparison. At least thats the way NPR was spinning it this morning (all though he still called "extreme right wing" or "very very conservative" or something like that.
mike 14 years ago

I will confess to having voted for Jimmy Mac the last go around - considering the choices: Spitzer vs ..er.. um Faso? Of note, RITDH party was only 1200 votes behind the Libertarian candidate. The L party in NY is not something to be involved in (IMHO) way too many whack jobs.

But this time I'm voting for the Madame. I get to vote for someone with a clue as well as be sexist!
1. Isaac Bartram 14 years ago
  
  "way too many whack jobs" can be said about any state LP.
  
  And for the most part I don't have a problem with them. It's not like the major parties are full of perfectly sane people either.
  
  I've found that the type of person who gravitates to political activism of any stripe is quite likely to be just a little unbalanced. For some it's the original motivation.
  1. Aresen 14 years ago
    
    True, Isaac, but in the "major" parties, the whackjobs get crowded out by the outright power seekers, who are too canny to take any 'controverial' positions.
Warty 14 years ago

This guy is clearly some sort of supervillain. Who else would wear gloves onstage?

Of course, if he's a karate expert, it's possible that he's Bruce Wayne. We'd better keep an eye on him.
1. sage 14 years ago
  
  It would have cool if someone tried to run up and peel that beard off of him.
2. James J.B. n.k.a McMillion 14 years ago
  
  Villian - hell no. This man is a hero.
3. SugarFree 14 years ago
  
  Who else would wear gloves onstage?
  
  His hands were vitrified in the heart of an atomic blast four thousand years ago.
Mo 14 years ago

I pity the fool that raises Jimmy McMillan's rent.
ola 14 years ago

what did he say at the end?
1. Almanian 14 years ago
  
  If I heard it right, "you wanna marry a shoe? I'll marry you..."
  
  That was too damn hard to understand...
Barry Loberfeld 14 years ago

To all posters above: +1!
J.E.C. 14 years ago

What a goddamn hero.
James J.B. n.k.a McMillion 14 years ago

In all seriousness, (Not that I post often), I will now be known as James J. "McMillion" as an homage to this man.

I may disagree with him on a lot of topics, but he deserves to be cheered because he stands up to rock the boat - so that we don't just have Team Red and Team Blue(Red 1.5) to choose from.
Fluffy 14 years ago

Coming this week on SNL...

A lame attempt to cash in on this that fails to match the comic power of the real life original.
1. Almanian 14 years ago
  
  You see the future with uncanny clarity, Fluffy
2. waffles 14 years ago
  
  played by a stiff and awkward keenan
3. Abdul 14 years ago
  
  Are you making this prediction based upon your status as a karate expert?
4. kf 14 years ago
  
  SNL already did this, with the Kenan ("Fix It!") character. Good thing Obama fixed it, and he's not needed anymore.
capitol l 14 years ago

Listen! stomach chim churn abou to stomach!

Preach it brotha!
Tim 14 years ago

If Barrack Obama had one tenth of this guy's passion and sincerity...
Phil 14 years ago

Straight out of Monty Python!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnysuUGxfLI
Tulpa 14 years ago

This guy, Alan Keyes, and Bill Cosby seriously need to have a debate. I would watch BET for that.
1. Mr. FIFY 14 years ago
  
  Throw in Walter E. Williams and Herman Cain, and NOW you're talkin' debate, Tulpa.
  
  OTOH, that might be too many off-the-Dem-plantayion Uncle Toms in one room for network TV.
Max 14 years ago

Jesse is posting shit like this to avoid having to parrot libertarian orthodoxy. Come out of the closet and piss on the rat fuckers, Jess.
1. Max 14 years ago
  
  ARFARFARFARFARFARFARFARFARFARFARF!!!!!!!!!!
? 14 years ago

He attributes the use of the gloves from being a Vietnam Vet and being exposed to Agent Orange. Not sure how that's actually related.
Fat Crack Ho 14 years ago

He's like Bizarro World's version of Wally George.
Alice Bowie 14 years ago

I just purchased a T-shirt.
Fiscal Meth 14 years ago

I wanna marry a shoe
Dan 14 years ago

rally around this man for he is #1 NY vote for the people by the people

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