A first(?) thread on 2008: McCain,Giuliani & the Republicans

Blatham has an unmatched ability to see into the black hearts of Republicans and conservatives of all stripes and to grasp their evil thoughts and motives.

It is unfortunate that this ability of his fails utterly among others of a more friendly (to him) disposition.

georgeob1 wrote:

Blatham has an unmatched ability to see into the black hearts of Republicans and conservatives of all stripes and to grasp their evil thoughts and motives.

It is unfortunate that this ability of his fails utterly among others of a more friendly (to him) disposition.

Oh, bullcrap.
It IS very interesting that rightwing talking heads like Limbaugh are so tounge-tied with McCain as the looming nominee. That's all Blatham was pointing out - and it doesn't take any psychic ability to "look into the black hearts" of anyone to see it. It just takes uncommon denseness to miss it.

For the first time since Mitt decided to dress down and pretend to social conservative values, I almost liked him tonight. He doesn't have that pitbull thing in his personality, it seems.

So maybe one positive about him losing is that - given his elastic 'principles' along with his nice-guyness - he might well have been, as president, a fairly easy target for manipulation by the far more unsavory elements who populate the modern washington republican universe.

None of you Republicans has the ability to be honest about the nature of your political mouthpieces. I've never heard a good explanation as to why these people enjoy such a popular status amongst Republicans, and are given comfortable and cushy lives by Republicans - on the backs of vitriol, constant vitriol.

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

None of you Republicans has the ability to be honest about the nature of your political mouthpieces. I've never heard a good explanation as to why these people enjoy such a popular status amongst Republicans, and are given comfortable and cushy lives by Republicans - on the backs of vitriol, constant vitriol.

Cycloptichorn

Honest? Honesty in the sense of agreeing with the way you view things? You mean "honest" in the sense of saying Rush is a demon spawn? What "honesty" are you seeking?

Leftists are a pain in the ass to conservatives. Obviously a good number of them like listening to Rush spank leftists on a daily basis. What's so hard to figure out?

Ticomaya wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

None of you Republicans has the ability to be honest about the nature of your political mouthpieces. I've never heard a good explanation as to why these people enjoy such a popular status amongst Republicans, and are given comfortable and cushy lives by Republicans - on the backs of vitriol, constant vitriol.

Cycloptichorn

Honest? Honesty in the sense of agreeing with the way you view things? You mean "honest" in the sense of saying Rush is a demon spawn? What "honesty" are you seeking?

Leftists are a pain in the ass to conservatives. Obviously a good number of them like listening to Rush spank leftists on a daily basis. What's so hard to figure out?

Honest that they make their money off of the politics of attack, vitriol and hate.

You as much as admitted it in your last post - what you call 'spanking leftists.' It's exactly what I mean. As long as hateful speech and vitriol is directed against Leftists, you lap it right up.

But when they make outrageous, sexist, racist, or other perfidious comments, you - and I mean this in the general sense, naturally - deny that it has anything to do with the Republican party whatsoever. It's patently and transparently false.

There exists no corollary on the left. Oh, it isn't that there aren't hateful leftists - of course there are! But we do not reward them as you do. Failure to admit these facts - that these people are actively vile much of the time, that Republicans enjoy listening to them and reward them handsomely for it, and that there is no group of leftists who are similar - is the dishonesty displayed by Republicans.

Blatham has an unmatched ability to see into the black hearts of Republicans and conservatives of all stripes and to grasp their evil thoughts and motives.

It is unfortunate that this ability of his fails utterly among others of a more friendly (to him) disposition.

McCain: Greedy people should be punished
When the Wall Street Journal reports that Republicans are in danger of losing support in the Florida Panhandle, you know trouble is brewing for the GOP. How the World Works spent its high school years in northern Florida, and the Panhandle is as rock-ribbed a slice of conservative deep South as you will find in either adjoining Alabama or Mississippi.

"A toxic brew of economic anxiety, a deepening housing slump, skyrocketing home insurance, strained schools and the lingering effects of recent hurricanes have spawned a gloomy mood in Florida," writes the Journal's Corey Dade.

But do Republican opinion-makers understand this? Watching the bloggers at the National Review's "The Corner" during Wednesday's Republican debate, you couldn't ignore the feeling that the right-wing elite simply don't understand the mess they're in, or why Senator John McCain has been winning primaries.

Witness one representative comment:

Quote:

Yeah, Senator, That's the Problem [Andy McCarthy]

McCain: "There are some greedy people on Wall Street who need to be punished."

Is he our guy, or what?

Trust me, the sarcasm there is so thick you couldn't push through it in a turbo-powered Humvee.

For the despairing folks at the National Review, McCain's threat to punish the greedy is proof of his GOP-values-betraying pro-big government proclivities. But to anyone paying attention to what's going on in the United States at the moment, it might just seem like exactly the message voters want to hear.

And it's not even pandering! It's the truth. And if McCain keeps it up, he's going to be a formidable opponent for whoever the Democrats nominate.

None of you Republicans has the ability to be honest about the nature of your political mouthpieces. I've never heard a good explanation as to why these people enjoy such a popular status amongst Republicans, and are given comfortable and cushy lives by Republicans - on the backs of vitriol, constant vitriol.

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

None of you Republicans has the ability to be honest about the nature of your political mouthpieces. I've never heard a good explanation as to why these people enjoy such a popular status amongst Republicans, and are given comfortable and cushy lives by Republicans - on the backs of vitriol, constant vitriol.

Cycloptichorn

I'm a Republican and I've never contributed to the "cushy lives" of any of the "political mouthpieces" to whom you apparently refer. Moreover they don't speak for me.

I haven't accused you of supporting the cushy lives of the now defunct Al Franken or any of the other - equivalent - media voices of the left. Nor have I suggested they speak for you or other Democrats - or anyone but themselves..

I note the inconsistency implicit in your sweeping - and vitriolic -denunciations ... "None of you Republicans has the ability to be honest...", and wonder just what it is that motivates it.

I'm watching Schwartenegger's endorsement of McCain now -- one thing I do like about the guy is his emphasis on doing something about global warming. (The endorsement is happening in a factory that produces solar panels.)