Typical attitude of those on the left. You apology is not accepted and you should be ashamed of yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregor-y
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Typical attitude of those on the left. You apology is not accepted and you should be ashamed of yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregor-y
The Republican right also includes the Tea Party which is bordering on lunacy and the Christian Right who for the most part are economically illiterate, don't really read scripture but can be whipped into a mawkish frenzy by mentioning "abortion" or "gay marriage".Quote:
Originally Posted by Starter
Actually I find it somewhat strange that there's a push to remove the mention of God from every single government institution but immediately before any election the political parties do their little dance to make the Christian Right vote for them. There's almost a cognitive dissonance about it.
Romney has to perform an interesting dance with the right. Economically he pretty well much lives there, but to be electable he's had to make himself appear as though he understands normal people.
"Our desk was a door propped up on saw horses, our dining room table was a fold-down ironing board in the kitchen. But those were the best days." - Ann Romney at the RNC
I'm not sure if I exactly believe that story but it sounds emotive enough and considering that almost no serious journalistic fact-checking is going on, no-one will find out either.
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Originally Posted by Gregor-y
I was going to point that out to you. There was one point before I became disgusted with the selective and petty so called moderating there that the decrepit bag of bones, that turncoat who swore allegiance to his Queen who then on a whim, just chucked that over the shoulder, and abandoned the land ofg his birth to come and plague us here, he had filled the first one and a half full pages at 'threads" of "Off Topics" with FreeRebublic.org type headlines, Headlines like "Worse than Nazis..BLM closing an off road vehicle area!!!!!" and other insane drivel and then links and no comments to various extremist hate sites and of course no responses to any of his threads..
So while its the same style and tone and "depth" of analysis, and I could see how you could transpose them, it wasn't Vop..
Do you think you should ban yourself for making a typical left wing mistake, sure sounded like he was getting angry.
And apropos this thread, yep heard that... Some say its a shame, but I would bet they were screaming "flip-flop" when anybody else might have reverse course. These days it doesn't seem to matter, and the lib'ral press just sits passively by nodding Uh hum...
So should we start a list to remind everybody of the major WIllard flip flops?
It would be a mistake to characterize all people who have positions in the above two groups as either stupid or crazy. While it's true that some of the more rabid and extreme have taken front page (blame the media for overly sensationalizing), many are just nice people who have certain core beliefs, particularly on religious matters. I don't agree with them on many things, but I respect their positions. The Tea Party especially has been high jacked by the (relatively few) wackos when it was founded by more moderate people who were just disgusted with both major political parties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
You haven't been paying close attention. You have it backwards. An interesting dance, true, but the other way. Romney actually has a record and as Governor of Massachusetts was in the center. He needs the support of the right to get elected. I think you also confuse being successful in business as automatically meaning he can't or won't be mindful of people who work for a living. A false premise - see Warren Buffett or Bill Gates (as well as many others) for examples. Try and cut through the garbage. The Democrats and left throw out just as much crap as the republicans and the right.Quote:
Romney has to perform an interesting dance with the right. Economically he pretty well much lives there, but to be electable he's had to make himself appear as though he understands normal people.
Some people with memory will recall that the RNC who organsied in those days and may still a Monday morning conference call with all the favorite darling child talking heads of the AM radio would feed Rush and Hennity and that slimy Carlson twerp (my last wife was a classmate and said he was a little weasly brown-nosing punk then) and Beck, all the prime sources of all knowledge for some, their weekly "key words" for them to repeat constantly---and about 18 months before the last election when it looked pretty clear that the Bush/Cheny crime family had poisoned things for Republicans, they all simultaneously began repeating "They're all corrupt, ALL of them".....
So some may say "many are just nice people who have certain core beliefs, particularly on religious matters." and some could counter that if they are misled and delusional and paranoid in one area, it should not be surprising that they are delusional and paranoid and easily misled in any other. Earth is 6439 years, check. man lived with dinosaurs, check, Son of Gawd talks in their ear, check, Obama is a Nazi dictator using armies of illegal Mexicans, to build FEMA camps with Death Panels where all Patriots will be herded as soon as they're disarmed because he is a Muslim Kenyan Communist, check.
In short maybe they are disgusted with both because the Koch Brothers and such like have decided that is one way to engender hate and contempt for the political process---since democracy stands in their way, and so the bought and paid for talking AM radio head obediently do their part.
You may say "it was founded by "more moderate" people, but even if that was true, and they weren't in the main religiously intolerant homophobic xenophobes then, it was hijacked, it IS high jacked and IS now a Koch Bros funded astro-turf movement.
As for a record in Taxachusetts, Willard never makes reference to it or his only worthwhile accomplishment while there: Romneycare..A whole convention and not one syllable on his Governorship from him or anybody.. Of course not a word on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, ....
As for "being successful in business as automatically meaning he can't or won't be mindful of people who work for a living."
din't he already say "I like firing people"
Man of the people!! :s tareup: :love: :rotflmao:
Pizza shop owner greets Obama with bear hug - YouTube
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Originally Posted by anthonyvop
I'll quote these in case you change your posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
Don't worry. I won't. You have brought shame to yourself by you cowardly, lies and disingenuous apology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregor-y
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Originally Posted by Rollo
You are right. Free Markets, Fiscal Responsibility and Constitutionally Limited Government is the stuff of madness.
Please note the sarcasm.