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Posted by: thekohser

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?283328-Jimmy-Wales-in-January-quot-Should-I-run-for-Senate-to-sort-these-idiots-out-quot.

Jimmy http://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/statuses/29834979840098304, "Should I run for the Senate to sort http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20029302-501465.html out?"

Posted by: It's the blimp, Frank

I think it would be nice if someone else would run to sort those particular idiots out.

Posted by: Somey

Those anarcho-capitalists are awfully cute sometimes, aren't they?



Besides, he's living in the UK now. First you'd have to get him back to the USA, find a state that has a vulnerable Democratic senator up for election next year, have him establish residency there (time varies from state to state), and then brainwash that state's population... these are not easy tasks. And they can't (or won't) run him in Alabama, because both of Alabama's senators are already Republicans.

So I'm not so worried.

Posted by: EricBarbour

Nah, forget it. Jimbo has made so many enemies by now, he couldn't run for dogcatcher in Florida.

All any opponent in an election has to do to counter "wiki-luv" is to drag Essjay, Rachel Marsden,
and Carolyn Doran out and wave them around in front of voters, who are usually over 40 and
rarely give a crap about Internetty-things.

Making him look like a fool would not be difficult. The mystery is, why so many net-nerds have such
blind love for him and/or his "greatest achievement". I guess the average Schumin never votes in
actual elections. Too busy playing D&D and eating Cheetos.

Posted by: RMHED

There's no way he'd want to be an elected official, because by being so he'd be accountable. That just wouldn't sit right with him.

Posted by: Milton Roe

True. The natural thing would be for somebody to appoint Jimbo to some judge-for-life office.

Wait-- I have it! Since it's now been 10 years of Wikipedia, what Jimbo has now at WMF, is most like K-12 public school teacher TENURE. Except it's not as contractual as public school teachers get.

Finally, I've put it in a way even Jon can understand. Maybe.

Posted by: Gruntled

I think it would be great if Jimbo became a senator. Then we could do a study of his WP bio, pointing how much vandalism it suffered and how long some of the vandalism went uncorrected. Just think how senators would react to a study of an article about one of their own number! They'd repeal WP's immunity and make the WMF liable for WP content in no time!

Posted by: thekohser

Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t/the-wikicandidate-is-this_49818683266179072.html, but note how readers are not entitled to comment on the notion.

Posted by: thekohser

.duplicate.

Posted by: carbuncle

I'm entirely sure that was a rhetorical "should I?" since Jimbo lives half-time in England now...

Posted by: thekohser

The mainstream media is now reporting that http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wikipedia-co-founder-trailing-polls in the 2012 U.S. Senate race (Florida).

Posted by: thekohser

Interesting to note: of all the US-based visits to that article today, 26% have originated in the District of Columbia.

Posted by: thekohser

By the way, you can't mention Jimbo's possible Senate race in the BLP about Jimmy, because that would http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Jimmy_Wales&diff=420687672&oldid=420686941.

Posted by: bi-winning

If by "rhetorical," you mean "bullshit posted on twitter so that Jimbo can get ego-stroking replies from fans lined up to suck his dick," then yes.

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

Oh well, at least he's finally come out of the closet as a full blown Ripofflican, the party that any sleazebag can run in.

Do I detect the scent of Kochaine on those C-notes ???

Jon