Josh Duggar moving to D.C. for political job with Family Research Council

[hamsterjill]

Oh, gag me with a spoon!!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/06/18/josh-duggar-moving-to-d-c-for-political-job-with-family-research-council/


From the article:

After three decades of fighting the culture wars from within the Washington establishment, the conservative Family Research Council decided that it needed a fresh, new face to reach outside and cultivate the grassroots.

Its pick for the job is a 25-year-old newcomer to Beltway politics, but he’s already a potent brand name in some circles: Josh Duggar.

Yes, one of those Duggars! The group’s president, Tony Perkins, announced late Monday that he has hired the eldest sibling of the “19 Kids and Counting” reality-TV dynasty as executive director of the lobbying arm FRC Action. Duggar is already moving wife Anna and their three kids — the youngest of whom is 2 weeks old — to the area.

“It will be a culture shock coming from northwest Arkansas, but he’s a sharp kid,” Perkins told us Tuesday. “He’s going to fit in well, I think.”

Perkins goes way back with the Duggar family: A former Louisiana state legislator, he ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2002, the same year that patriarch Jim Bob Duggar made a failed bid for Senate from Arkansas, and they’ve kept in touch ever since.

The job came out of a conversation Perkins had with the younger at the March for Life in January. In hiring him, the group — known for its vigilantly anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage stances — hopes to appeal to more young people and to tap into the huge popularity of his evangelical clan within flyover America.

[Turbineguy]

1. His Mother

is a clown factory.

[hamsterjill]

3. And he is following suit, I think.

He and his wife have three kids already and he's only 25.

[jmowreader]

8. Three kids at 25 is a slow start to a quiver

It's one kid every two years, which his mom didn't do. Apparently his wife has enough sense to not kill herself in pregnancy.

[Solly Mack]

2. Guess he didn't get his own TV show. (yet)

[hamsterjill]

4. Yes...will be interesting to see if he does at some point.

Carry on the family business, in other words.

[tabbycat31]

5. I'm waiting for a Duggar to join the other side

My gut feeling says it will be one of the girls.

[hamsterjill]

7. Me, too! Waiting for the tell all book!

And I agree with you that it will, most likely, be one of the girls. When she's had enough of it all perhaps.

[Doremus]

13. Me three!

I think it's going to be one of the younger kids, the ones who think the older girls are their mother.

Can't wait for the day that their gay child(ren) come out too. Now *that* will be must-see TV.

[tabbycat31]

14. I'd pay good $$ to watch a Duggar come out

And I'd read the tell-all cover to cover.

[kestrel91316]

17. At least one of those kids is likely to be gay. We may find out eventually.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. But, who will run the used car lot in Springdale? Thanks be that NW

Arkansas will have 5 less Duggars!!

[snooper2]

9. Great, this idiots fucking face will be on TV for the next 20 years

How long until he falls out of grace with "god" and has a DUI, affair, bribery...


Welcome to DC beeyatch

[monmouth3]

10. They will eat his lunch in a matter of days, make him cry, and he'll run home...LOL..

[Populist_Prole]

15. Happens every time a sheltered fundie goes into the real world

[Initech]

11. The Duggars are disgusting enough but one of them working for professional bigot Tony Perkins?

[hamsterjill]

12. Agreed.

And IMHO, they are taking him on because of name recognition, etc. I don't see how JD has any real qualifications other than having been raised in that type of family. And to me, that's a very limited view of the world (which is what Tony Perkins wants, of course).

[Gormy Cuss]

16. Smart move by Perkins.

By hiring one of the Duggar grifters he's immediately appealing to the gullible portion of the audience on TLC. I'm betting TLC is already inking a deal to shoot some episodes of Duggars in DC.