Mytzlplk
Governor
is something to behold, no? They are their own worst enemies and the best and most cooperative witnesses for their own prosection.
Of course their current fact/integrity/etc challenged condition didn't arise overnight, but rather occurred over decades with quite a few baby steps.
Now of course the usual rightwing suspects will chime in with the usual garbage about how Bush was so abused with all the charges about him lying us into war, about his illegally torturing and wiretapping, and lying about having done so, like this is somehow comparable to all the "BHO's an infanticidal marxist muslim born in Kenya who's the terrorists best friend -- a short list for sure -- because their first line of defense when they can't attack the factual undepinnings of a charge is to use the "you're worse than we are" defense.
I see that alot as I'm sure you all do, like with the diffs between the OWS and the Pee Partiers for example. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/0...ccupy-wall-street-and-the-tea-party-protests/ http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...oIXRAw&usg=AFQjCNGrMyHJqztBVVoQtKxxGtdsFzaFhQ
I think that someone should help the increasingly fragmented repubs out and compose a "Battle Hymn of the Republicans" around which they can coalesce. It should be pretty easy, because after all, it almost writes itself. For example, "So what we if lie, and don't care if freeloading blacks die", etc, no?
They could model it on this as well.
Why Should God Bless America? (when half of it, us, have completely abandoned his 9th commandment) http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/09/why_should_god_bless_america.html
Perhaps we might have the composer of it right here on PJ, eh? They could find their place in infamy, which seems to be the goal of their leadership, since they seem to want to be the masters in the hell they'll gladly create, as opposed to the servants in the heaven they only pay lip service to.
"c" y'all
Of course their current fact/integrity/etc challenged condition didn't arise overnight, but rather occurred over decades with quite a few baby steps.
To explain why this has happened, consider William F. Buckley:
I knew William Buckley. I admired William Buckley. Conservatives today are not William Buckley. Without Buckley in the 1960s there might not have been President Reagan in the 1980s.
I met Buckley when I was too young to vote, drink or shave and worked for the great liberal congressman Allard Lowenstein, a close friend of Buckley. Buckley was often at Lowenstein's home when I was present. He believed Lowenstein was a great man and despite their different views, supported Al for Congress.
Buckley believed in creative conservative ideas. He fought hard to banish hatred and extremism from the conservative movement. It was this vision, which promoted the rise of Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan, that is absent today.
Conservatives leaders today have supported or tolerated invective, ugliness and at times,pure hatred of the president that Buckley, Kemp and Reagan would have ferociously condemned. This attitude of poison and venom that dominates much of our politics led the most qualified conservatives (especially Mitch Daniels) to refuse to even run for the nomination and prevents the most electable conservative (Jon Huntsman) from being nominated.
more here: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Conservatives-in-crisis-by-Brent-Budowsky-120112-908.html
I knew William Buckley. I admired William Buckley. Conservatives today are not William Buckley. Without Buckley in the 1960s there might not have been President Reagan in the 1980s.
I met Buckley when I was too young to vote, drink or shave and worked for the great liberal congressman Allard Lowenstein, a close friend of Buckley. Buckley was often at Lowenstein's home when I was present. He believed Lowenstein was a great man and despite their different views, supported Al for Congress.
Buckley believed in creative conservative ideas. He fought hard to banish hatred and extremism from the conservative movement. It was this vision, which promoted the rise of Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan, that is absent today.
Conservatives leaders today have supported or tolerated invective, ugliness and at times,pure hatred of the president that Buckley, Kemp and Reagan would have ferociously condemned. This attitude of poison and venom that dominates much of our politics led the most qualified conservatives (especially Mitch Daniels) to refuse to even run for the nomination and prevents the most electable conservative (Jon Huntsman) from being nominated.
more here: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Conservatives-in-crisis-by-Brent-Budowsky-120112-908.html
Now of course the usual rightwing suspects will chime in with the usual garbage about how Bush was so abused with all the charges about him lying us into war, about his illegally torturing and wiretapping, and lying about having done so, like this is somehow comparable to all the "BHO's an infanticidal marxist muslim born in Kenya who's the terrorists best friend -- a short list for sure -- because their first line of defense when they can't attack the factual undepinnings of a charge is to use the "you're worse than we are" defense.
I see that alot as I'm sure you all do, like with the diffs between the OWS and the Pee Partiers for example. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/0...ccupy-wall-street-and-the-tea-party-protests/ http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...oIXRAw&usg=AFQjCNGrMyHJqztBVVoQtKxxGtdsFzaFhQ
I think that someone should help the increasingly fragmented repubs out and compose a "Battle Hymn of the Republicans" around which they can coalesce. It should be pretty easy, because after all, it almost writes itself. For example, "So what we if lie, and don't care if freeloading blacks die", etc, no?
They could model it on this as well.
Why Should God Bless America? (when half of it, us, have completely abandoned his 9th commandment) http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/09/why_should_god_bless_america.html
Perhaps we might have the composer of it right here on PJ, eh? They could find their place in infamy, which seems to be the goal of their leadership, since they seem to want to be the masters in the hell they'll gladly create, as opposed to the servants in the heaven they only pay lip service to.
"c" y'all
