Jeff Frederick's Twitter Use Foils GOP Virginia Senate Coup

So, how long before someone wises up and tells the GOP to slowly and carefully put down the social media platforms and back away? Last week, I documented two instances of different Republicans taking their Twitter account and using it to do either themselves or their country some amount of harm. Today, in the Virginia State Senate, we have yet another example of an idiot who needs to be told in no uncertain terms to stop using Twitter, forever and ever.

Basically the story, as reported by the blog Not Larry Sabato, goes like this. Democrats currently control the Virginia State Senate, 21-19. But Virginia's Lieutenant Governor is Bill Bolling, a Republican, and he would be a tie-breaking vote in the event of a 20-20 split. Today, one of the Democratic State Senators, Ralph Northam, agreed to switch sides, a move that would give the Republicans in the Senate a much greater share of power.

And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for this moron, Jeff Frederick, who is the Republican Party Chairman of Virginia and the owner of a shiny Twitter account! Frederick, upon hearing the news, tweeted the following:

What King of the Dimwits Jeff Frederick failed to take into consideration is that, by tweeting this information, he was tipping off the Senate Democrats about this bit of parliamentary prestidigitation. And once they found out, Majority Leader Dick Saslaw adjourned the session so that it couldn't happen. And then, the Senate Democrats gathered together and promptly browbeat the ever-loving daylights out of Northam.

So there you have it! Nice work, Jeff Frederick!

[UPDATE: My editor points out that this is the same Jeff Frederick best known for this:

He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points -- for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary."

So, this guy has a history of being an intellectual titan.

Comments

[Dwjackson]

08:09 AM on 02/17/2009

Just look at that mugg on Frederick.....it just demands to be slapped...and slapped again, and again, and again, and again.....

[ewoman]

09:38 PM on 02/13/2009

Based upon this guy's work, I say that ALL Republicans should twitter. Please! And do it profusely, and passionately, just like Frederick!

[maxfax]

09:18 PM on 02/13/2009

He's the gift that keeps on giving.

[RTIII]

09:18 PM on 02/11/2009

It's FINE to report the twittering, however, you're not exactly showing yourself to be a brain trust by giving them advice that, if they took it, would HURT THE REST OF US badly!

S.T.F.U. Already!
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[Americanium]

05:10 PM on 02/11/2009

Democrats ought to send him some wine next Christmas.. and offer to pay his crackberry bills.

[maxfax]

09:19 PM on 02/13/2009

LOL

[lisakaz2]

03:20 PM on 02/11/2009

Is this guy a double agent or doubly infused from the same gene pool?

[GrainOSand]

03:13 PM on 02/11/2009

He's a man amongst men.

[lunchlady]

01:36 PM on 02/11/2009

I remember this guy! What a dork. Keep it up Jeff. You're helping make the GOP look more and more ridiculous.
Young churchgoing men didn't use to be so clueless and irrelevant- I even dated one once. He was very polite and kind to his mother. But he wasn't very smart and the average IQ for these guys seems to drop every year.

[SimJack]

12:11 PM on 02/11/2009

If they have no rope, they will braid their own. Give them a gun and they will hold themselves hostage like the sheriff in 'Blazing Saddles'. Blackberry Fields Forever..

[FEARTHETRUTH]

12:02 PM on 02/11/2009

Let's all contribute to give every repub politician a twtter account with a blackberry. That will be the rope that does the work we need.

[denholt]

11:50 AM on 02/11/2009

No surprise - they are the party of P alin and L imbaugh, after all.

[Opt1musPr1me]

11:46 AM on 02/11/2009

He is a Republican what do you expect.

[kathy001]

10:43 AM on 02/11/2009

Voters are going to have to wake up to the fact that, when you vote an idiot into office you wind up with an idiot in office.

[taddles]

10:26 AM on 02/11/2009

Glad he's on their side.

[Rottie56]

10:23 AM on 02/11/2009

shhh don't tell the Republithugs!

"Never interrupt your enemy in the middle of making a mistake"

Napoleon Bonaparte