11-08-2012, 09:09 AM | #16 |
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ad hominem attacks are how true conservatives on the radio deflect inconvenient truths.
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11-08-2012, 10:28 AM | #17 |
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Rush Limbaugh was his usual self after this election,
but he did raise the question about the future of the Republican Party. His off-the-wall remark that followed was: What are we supposed to do about immigration ... repeal all the immigration laws ? My belief is that if the Republican Party wants to make any inroads into the Hispanic community, they must abandon their talking points that anything leading to citizenship is "amnesty". An easy compromise for the Republicans could be to grant full US citizenship for any person who was brought into the USA by their parent(s) before they were 22 years of age. ...(21 used to be the legal age of majority) All this (crap) about having to first serve in the military or do public service is just a artificial road block to those who are now labeled as "illegal aliens" only because, as minors, they did what their parents required them to do. You might think Republicans could view that was a good "family value" If Republicans can't make such a small compromise on immigration, they will remain what they have been for a long time, a minority party that has to resort to race-baiting among the whites of this country. |
11-08-2012, 10:44 AM | #18 |
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You've got nothing, eh?
Cap and trade was invented by a Reagan lawyer, and implemented by GHW Bush. And much of Obamacare is Romneycare.
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11-08-2012, 12:02 PM | #19 | |
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On spread sheets, immigrants are an expense. In reality, immigrants are some of the best and loyal Americans - loyal as in moderates. Import more immigrants and export more rich wacko extremists (ie Limbaugh). That improves America. Four years ago, Republicans had meetings to decide their future. They decided to make America fail; to make Obama a one term president. We all witnessed their subversive actitivites in Congress led by extremists such as Majority Whip Eric Cantor. Well, the Republicans are now having that meeting again. Which group will they hate? Since extremists need a bogeyman to justify their existance. Or will Republican cast out the Tea Party and Fox News wackos to become more patriotic - more moderate? Adak demonstrates how wacko extremists think. And honest Adak would have posted logical (adult) replies. A wacko extremist must post insults. Because he is extremist, then he can only post emotionally. Extremists are the target audience of Limbaugh and Fox News. An honest Adak would have answered why Romney, who once called himself more liberal than Kennedy, is now a conservative. He cannot. That answer would expose why extremism exists. So he replied with insults. And then refused to answer the question. As an extremist, he insulted Happy Monkey rather than answer honestly - like an adult. Extremists find supporters among adults who still think like children. Who think emotionally rather than logically. It goes back to what Republicans must ask themselves in ongoing meetings. Does the party stop crucifying its patriotic moderates (ie Senators Lugar, Snow, Castle) to recruit only wacko extremists? Why did the party (in Delaware) replace Sen Castle with a witch? For the same reason, Romney, who once said he was more liberal than Kennedy, then *proved* he was an extremist conservative. The party encourages liars. Serious questions should be asked in those meetings. Last edited by tw; 11-08-2012 at 12:16 PM. |
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11-08-2012, 07:18 PM | #20 |
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Immigration is easy, make Puerto Rico a state. Then pretend all Hispanics are Puerto Ricans.
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11-08-2012, 09:08 PM | #21 | |
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Conservative cognitive dissonance:
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11-08-2012, 09:46 PM | #22 |
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But what about Bigfoot? Obama has NOT yet addressed the Bigfoot Conspiracy and it's long past time he dropped the cover-up and reveal the secret race of apemen who have been bolstering his poll numbers across America, especially in the northwest wilds. I'll bet they aren't even documented.
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11-08-2012, 10:17 PM | #23 |
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11-08-2012, 10:25 PM | #24 | |
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They have to stop their war on women.
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11-09-2012, 07:16 AM | #25 |
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maybe...just maybe...we're going back to a matriarchy!!!!!
this distresses my older son very, very much (he's a white Christian male in business school and he fully expects to become one of the 1% and I hope to Christ he DOES become one of them as I'm going to need that money in the future to buy tchochkes and hats and such) we had lunch yesterday (as a typical Republican, he made me pick up the tab and he was telling me that the US was a male-centric country, with masculine virtues rating high on the list of desirable attributes. He then insulted Norway and Finland by calling them, in essence, "girly nations" who cared about compassion over defense. then he ate another muffin. Then I told him America isn't all THAT macho - look at any country in South America or the Middle East for REAL value of masculinity. Then I told him Germany was run by a woman. He didn't believe me and said he was going to ask his German prof. Shit, I didn't even KNOW he was taking German! It was an okay lunch, food-wise. The cinnamon roll could've had more frosting but then I say that about almost all cinnamon rolls.
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11-09-2012, 07:24 AM | #26 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Ha!
Funny, these things come around. It is a common theme in the formation and maintenance of national identity, to paint the home nation 'male' in contrast to a feminized other.
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11-09-2012, 07:27 AM | #27 |
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My son...he's so patriotic he bleeds red, white and blue.
My other, younger son is Norway. it's really weird having these two - like the sun and the moon. My older boy also believes that if you say something, or truly, truly believe it, it is true. Kinda like The Secret or magic or something.
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11-09-2012, 12:51 PM | #28 |
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My dad called to tell me happy birthday yesterday, which meant I had to listen to him be all depressed about the election, which I knew would happen. I have a hands-free headset for the house phone that I use only for calls with him. I let him talk ignorant politics at me while I cook or fold my laundry, because he is old and lonely and no one else will listen to him, and I love him regardless.
BUT. One of his new talking points struck me as so funny that I just couldn't keep from giggling at him yesterday. Did you know... that the numerical margin between Obama's votes and Romney's votes was exactly the same as the number of new people enrolled in the food stamp program since he took office? The Democrats bought the election with tasty, tasty free food! I swear to God. And he's not the type to make up his own talking points, so someone--Glenn Beck, or Rush, or maybe even someone on Fox News--actually said this. |
11-11-2012, 09:18 AM | #29 | |
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11-11-2012, 09:43 AM | #30 |
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gee, richlevy, you sound kind of...well, to be blunt, insincere; but, you know, it DID pump a lot of money into the economy...so...there's that.
Now allow me to brush a single tear from my eye for them.
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