A Presidential Campaign Speech at CPAC

Liz Cheney was the noon speaker and as she does weekly on the various TV roundup of media flak shows, she eviscerated the bumbling Odumba administration and its incompetents like Janet Napolitano. One cannot help but admire her. Petite, dressed in a woman’s striped business suit, her bangs a little too much in her eyes, she gave a great speech complete with anecdotes of her pre-teen daughters spontaneous reactions to moronic remarks and policies of Howard Dean and President Obama when they appear on their TV at home. She ended her speech by saying she usually ask her dad for advice before she gives a speech, but today, she just brought him along. She is so authoritative that I always find it almost masculine and have to remind myself that she is the non-lesbian daughter.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney then made an previously unscheduled entrance and delivered similar remarks on the flailing Obama regime. And said he would not be running in 2012. And said that Obama’s would be a one term presidency.

A young Ron Paul/Campaign for Liberty intern of my acquaintance whispered to me “He is just evil.” I don’t actually agree (that that has been proven), but it is the case that this CPAC conference is completely papering over — so far — the gaping chasm between non-interventionist foreign policy of the Paulites and the occupying, nation-building, military empire, more defense spending position of “strong on defense” Republicans. And the Obama regime makes that easy to do, since it both fails to reduce the size of the US military empire AND is incompetent to defend the US or make reasonable distinctions between the due process rights of terrorists caught on the battlefield and American citizens.

Next conservative lawyer/activist Jay Sekulow introduce Senator Scott Brown (another unscheduled surprise) who then introduced Mitt Romney. Romney gave a great campaign speech, peppered with jokes like: “Lindsey Vonn was stripped of her Gold Medal at the Winter Olympics yesterday. The judges decided President Obama was going downhill much faster.” Though he did not announce it is hard to imagine he is not running. (Like every CPAC there is a straw poll being conducted today and tomorrow on who the conferees favor for the 2012 Presidential candidate. The Paulistas are the most obvious in get-out-the-vote mode.)

The next speaker in the main ballroom (4 other smaller tracks are going on simultaneously in other halls), was Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, whose dry wit was more in evidence here than on his appearances on “Red Eye.” Introduced by conservative and Hollywood character actor Robert Davi, he began by saying he got up this morning and turned on FOX News, where he heard that “CPAC would feature Mitt Romney, John Boehner and others.” Pointing to himself on the word “others,” he said it was the nicest thing anyone had called him in Washington.

The gay group GOP Proud, a conservative breakaway from the more ecumenical Log Cabin Republicans, has decided it is for Cheney and distributed stickers with the somewhat ambiguous “Draft Cheney 2012″ during Liz Cheney’s talk. They are referring to her dad, whom they support because of his general conservatism and his opposition to the federal marriage amendment (and his support for his lesbian daughter).

http://teapartiers.blogspot.com

I wish he knew how to quit us.

Just because the “other” daughter is a lesbian, don’t automatically assume that she plays the male role in her relationship. (OK, I’ve seen her, go ahead.)

That’s silly. Mary Cheney, who stays out of the public eye, appears to be fairly femme.

I don’t assume all lesbians are masculine. Though lesbian “masculinity” is a topic lesbian feminists themselves discuss. See the book “The Femme Mystique.”

Liz’s authoritativeness is unusual for female public figures, which is why it seems almost masculine in a good way. She isn’t a jokey or naggy or illogical or hysterical like the ladies on “The View” so often are; she isn’t folksy or anecdotal like Palin sometimes is; self-contradictory and out of her depth like Napolitano; dissembling and strained like Pelosi; screechy and evasive like Wasserschmit; she isn’t confessional and therapeutic like Walters; or perky like Ripa.

She isn’t glad-handing like Romney or Brown; lecturey and hyper-sensitive like Obama; affable and gaffe-lous like Biden.

She is dead serious.

LOL

Petite, dressed in a woman’s striped business suit, her bangs a little too much in her eyes, she gave a great speech complete with anecdotes of her pre-teen daughters

What is this, US Weekly –Special Celebrity Rightist Edition?

She is so authoritative that I always find it almost masculine and have to remind myself that she is the non-lesbian daughter.

I too, always have to remind myself…
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…I can’t even finish the joke, I’m laughing too hard.
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This is priceless stuff.

Isn’t that what’s so terrifying about her? The fact that she’s dead serious about her insane theories about what national security really entails?
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Guess that terrifying authoritarianism is genetic. How it missed Mary, I don’t know, but I’m kinda thankful for that.

LOL

distributed stickers with the somewhat ambiguous “Draft Cheney 2012″

Oh Lord, the jokes just keep writing themselves…
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“Draft Cheney”?

Cheney’s Five Draft Deferments During the Vietnam Era Emerge as a Campaign Issue
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Published: May 1, 2004
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WASHINGTON, April 30 — It was 1959 when Dick Cheney, then a student at Yale University, turned 18 and became eligible for the draft.
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Eventually, like 16 million other young men of that era, Mr. Cheney sought deferments. By the time he turned 26 in January 1967 and was no longer eligible for the draft, he had asked for and received five deferments, four because he was a student and one for being a new father.

I’ll say there’s a “Draft Cheney” movement…LOL

Is there a Mrs Bruce Majors?

Is she jokey or naggy or illogical or hysterical or folksy or anecdotal or self-contradictory or out of her depth or dissembling or strained or screechy (my favorite) or evasive or confessional or therapeutic or perky?

Or is she dead serious?

I’m sorry, here’s the link to the story on that other “somewhat ambiguous Draft Cheney” movement: link to NY Times’ Cheney’s Five Draft Deferments During the Vietnam Era Emerge as a Campaign Issue

Amazing!
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All of the Dem females described in detrimental terms, while the Rep women are just soooo human in a positive way..
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One might think that it was, you know, intentional.

brucey, your slip is showing under your macho Repube jeans. Nonetheless, this is the most entertaining post I have seen in a while. I can’t stop chuckling. Thanks.

sacredh, where are you?? You’re needed!!
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Cleanup on aisle 1.
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This thread is RIGHT down your alley!

it is the case that this CPAC conference is completely papering over — so far — the gaping chasm between non-interventionist foreign policy of the Paulites and the occupying, nation-building, military empire, more defense spending position of “strong on defense” Republicans. And the Obama regime makes that easy to do…

I see.
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So the Paulites’ principled disdain for big government is now singing in sweet harmony with the standard GOP war profiteering and emperors’-new-clothes DOD pork, all whilst cheering on the Liz Cheney the rabid security statist –not because CPAC attendees are capable of holding multiple, completely inconsistent, completely contradictory ideas in their twisted, ideologically-compacted heads, but because Obama has failed to impress either party with a sufficiently ruthless, Kremlin-esque security apparatus and domestic propaganda campaign.
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Well, I’m sure there must have been something “the Obama regime” could have done to make it harder for frothing rightists to hate him…let’s see…
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Were the “principled,” “libertarian,” “free-to-lead-our-own-individual-lives” Paulites at CPAC down with Obama’s repeal-DADT noises, or did they follow the Cheneyites’ lead on that one, two?

What happened to the GOP’s message of “change”? Here Mitt Romney is celebrating the presidency of George W. Bush and praising Dick Cheney…

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Are you aware that many serious people might not look at Liz Cheney while she’s launching these claims out of her mouth, and think to themselves, “You know, she’s masculine, but in a good way –almost as if she’s the lesbian daughter, not the other one! I’d better remember that, so I can write it down later…“?
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You don’t think that’s a little…bizarre, in an extremely humorous way?

I’m a little baffled by the coverage here. Mitt Romney designed and implemented the health care system in Mass. Opposition to making something like that system national was credited by the media with elected Scott Brown as some sort of grass roots Republican effort to halt Obamacare.

Now Mitt Romney is presented as some sort of legitimate presidential contender by Time magazine based on a speech he gave at a right wing event?

And there’s no irony in the reporting at all? The media narrative says that Romney’s liberal health care bill cost Obama his liberal health care bill. And he’s the champion of conservatism in this story?

Oh and you let him call Obama’s first year “lost” without pointing out that during Bush’s decade, which Romney praised, incomes and the stock market were entirely stagnant?

Well, I guess this is about what one would expect from “Time” or “Newsweek” readers.

You apparently missed my remarks that there is a gaping chasm between the foreign policy (and other views) of the different groups here, and that ONLY the complete dishonesty and incompetence of the Obama regime would allow it to be temporarily papered over.

If you had an reading comprehension ability you would have read about the Ron Paul intern whispering to me that Cheney was evil.

You little pinheads, with your silly assumptions betraying your limited intellects are much like the Obama flaks Liz Cheney demolishes every week on the Sunday roundups of media whores. Their complete stupidity makes her look very smart, thereby delaying and avoiding an ACTUAL debate on the cost and purpose of American foreign policy.

Among other things you stupidly assume that CPAC is over and that Ron Paul has somehow given up his critique of Bush and Clinton foreign policy. Today was day one and at 7:30 pm I am sitting outside a hall where Ron Paul and Andrew Napolitano are about to speak. And your assumptions about gender and sexual politics are too juvenile to even go into.

Please boys and girls, try to say something intelligent for a change.

“Perky” is not detrimental; all of those women are not Demwits. And I also characterized men. Methinks you are not very bright.

It is however true that currently we have a crop of Republicans (“we” meaning America — I am not a Republican as some of you dullards assume), who are all, as “progressives” said of the Clintons and Hillary especially when they replaced the Bushes especially Barabara, very f*ckable. As they said in the early 90s: “finally we have a First Lady you would want to f*ck.” Bill apparently didn’t, but this was before Ms. Lewinsky and her cigars had, as it were, come to light.

The Palins, the Browns, the Romneys, Rand Paul, Jeff Flake, John Thune, Marsha Blackburn, Michelle Blackman, Paul Ryan: attractive, lean, relatively sexy.

And then you have pie cows like McCaskill, Barney Frank and Alan Grayson; fugly freaks like Schumer, Wasserman, Waxman; bobble head fembot Pelosi; walking cadaver Reid; rabbit toothed harridan Michelle Obama. It’s an Ayn Rand graphic novel.

You baitches be ugly.

Alright!
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Now… THIS is good and proper right wing troll material! Took a while…
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This remind everyone of somebody we all love on this blog? Is there a script for them to follow?

Ladies & gents, it’s Friday in J-town, so what day does that make it in the USA?

That’s right, F@CKING THURSDAY PEOPLE–as our dearly departed wayfaring Wench used to say, no feeding the scurvy trolls, arggghh!

“I am not a Republican as some of you dullards assume”
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Nonsense! On here, and in this country, you HAVE TO BE either a Democrat or a Republican! No independent thinking allowed!

You know, I have no doubt that the snarky comments of Cheney’s pre-teen daughters were the most insightful and wise things said at CPAC.

Tell you what, Brucie. Use your influence and convince Liz to go on Rachel Maddow’s show for an interview.
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Then we’ll see how intelligent Liz looks “by comparison”. I guarantee you the questions won’t be the standard Fox Noise and Dave Gregory “softballs” she’s used to getting.
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I’ll bring the popcorn and bandages for Liz…

WHERE IS th’ scurvy wench, jcapan? I’d forgotten.
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I miss her…

Poor sad little oblivion. Your flop-eared lying socially promoted B- student of a President is below 50% in the polls, you just lost 3 elections in a row, and you try to smear the 10,000 people who traveled across the country to this conference as irrelevant right wingers before whom no potential President might be speaking.

This kind of cluelessness is right where they want you.

And then you return to your player piano roll (“Bush”) pretending that Obamanomics is anything other than Bush’s fiat inflationism and deficit spending on totalitarian steroids, the final end stage of disaster statism. (as described in Ludwig von Mises “Interventionism” before Leftover pamphleteer Naomi Klein plagiarized the notion).

The future will be the time of the younger generation. The younger generation will wonder who were the people who attacked the first minority president, called him a muslim terrorist, hitler, and questioned his citizenship. Obama will be held in much higher regards in the future because the youth like him and can relate. They do not relate to heee-hawww nation.
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One thing about Meghan McCain, she was right about revolutions. They don’t begin with old 65 year olds preaching hatred towards minorities.

Rachel Madcow’s recent interview of Ron Paul was extremely revealing of her low and dishonest character.

Previously she began the smearing of tea partiers as “tea baggers,” a sexual innuendo, in an episode of her show where she and the late Air America’s Anna Marie Cox tittered for 15 minutes and almost made out on the desk for the camera. Previously Ms. Madcow had parroted the official NBC line, formulated by brilliant political philosopher and high school dropout Janeane Garafalo, that tea partiers were are all racists, motivated only by animus to a black man in the White House — with the proof being that no one had ever heard of them before the Obama Inaugural.

And then in interviewing Ron Paul earlier this February Ms. Madcow admitted that the tea parties were an outgrowth of Ron Paul rallies from 2008 and 2009, long before Obama was even nominated. And she discussed the Tea Parties with Ron Paul without calling them tea baggers, instead emphasizing their limited government libertarian opposition to the Patriot Act et al.

Ms. Madcow’s education no doubt impresses Keith Olberman and her fans, who are all rather obvious ignoramuses, like everyone at NBC. What are we to think of a network that missed Scott Brown’s rise and the Tea party movement until it had already eliminated three of their candidates. What are we to think of a network that missed the mortgage crisis (until it happened) even while one of its top journalists, Andrea Mitchell, was sleeping with the chairmen of the Federal Reserve System, and another of its mainstays, David Gregory, had a wife who was a Fannie Mae lawyer.

The media that program you oblivions is collapsing and will be gone in no time without government subsidy, as they are so clearly both dishonest and incompetent.

ButButBut, Brucie,
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You’re supposed to be welcoming George and Dick back with open arms at your convention. Mittens has declared thusly…
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Why would you “break message discipline” and insult them like that?
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Incidentially, you said a Paul follower called Cheney “evil”. You never said what your opinion of the Dickster was.
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Hedging your bets a little, just in case, hmmmm???

bruce, please don’t dismiss the Time Swamp. Newsweek I don’t know about. But please stay here and keep us updated. I very much enjoy your commentary. You are the most entertaining right winger I have seen here. Please don’t stop.

bruce, do you think that the Austin bomber today was the first act of tea bag terrorism?

bruce majors is the sort of manly name that could just turn me a swinging, especially with all the tough guy talk about a draft dodger and his daughter who didn’t go fight a war when she had the opportunity either.

What are we to think of an administration that missed the mortgage crisis (until it happened)
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There, Brucie. Fixed it for you.
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And, incidentially, that description fit Fox Financial Network, too. In fact, to them, there was NO crisis. Everything was going swimmingly, until it all went south.
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And I think you will find they’re trying to cheer-lead the RE market back into the same volatile situation.

@brucemajors: you sound like another Peter Schiffty with all your discredited van mises crud.

So the silver spoon son of a governor who made his money as a corporate raider laying people off and offshoring their jobs understands America but the middle class guy who lived in Hawaii and Kansas with his single mom and his grandparents has no clue about it? Right…

What I want to know is if Romney called for the mythical “triple-Gitmo”?

Bruce,
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Seriously, though, some of the things you talk about are EXACTLY why we Swamp-critters DESPISE the MSM as it is presently constituted.
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We think they are “figuratively” in bed with Big Business for the most part. In some cases, like you stated, it’s LITERALLY true.

Poor afguy you remain unable to read with any comprehension. My original post was about the lack of “message discipline” or ideological cohesion, and how only the failures of the Obama regime could create an illusion of it, by delaying a real debate. I assume you went to a government skrewl?

And as for you formerlyjames, I can only note that although the Boston Herald reported that Amy Bishop’s students and neighbors said she was such an obsessive Obama promoter that even people who agreed with her found it off-putting, NBC, CBS, ABC et al have yet to ask if the poor woman went on her homicidal rampage because her fuhrer and her utopia were crashing on the shores of reality. And if Homeland Security should now do a study of whether more Leftovers and pro-regressives will be going postal as their hero continues to fail and be exposed for the liar that he is.

pafro,
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I’m waiting for someone to ask him how many jobs he thinks he CREATED by Ginsu-slicing up all of those companies over his career.
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Could be a real political “Kodak moment”.

Actually Peter Schiff and many economists influenced by Ludwig Mises predicted the mortgage crisis. There are you tubes of them doing so on FOX and CNBC and being ridiculed by the people you little monkeys parrot.

No, Bruce, 20 years AF, last 6 as a technical instructor. Taught troubleshooting on A-10s and F-16s.
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In during Vietnam era and in time to see and participate in Apollo 11.
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61 years old. Got degree in CS after I retired in 80s.
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Now, what’s your history and experience with life??

Also, my daughter (and her husband) in FL is DEEP into the Tea Party movement. Disagree with her but we do manage to have constructive conversations and maintain good relationship.

The commenters here are parroting the talking heads on Fox News and CNBC?
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Is this your first time here?

Kevin,
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Methinks Bruce is into Rusty territory right now… outrageous comments for their own sake to get a rise.

You baitches be ugly.
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I know, it’s almost like Democrats choose their representatives based on their intelligence and ability, and Republicans pick theirs on the basis of who’s hot.
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Pfft. Stupid Democrats.

We forget that there was heavy opposition toward Martin Luther King. There was also heavy opposition towards civil rights and ending slavery. Jackie Robinson was insulted to no end. Now MLK, civil rights and minorities in baseball are accepted.
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The future generations will look back at our first minority president the same way. They will wonder who were the nut jobs who questioned his citizenship, who were the people who called him a muslim terrorist and a nazi. The old guard does not understand that they are a dying breed. The youth helped Obama reach his place in history. They may in hibernation for now, but they will be back to support him again when it is time. Don’t forget about them, it seems the tea party, I mean republican party already has.

Dear lord, both tea bags and Obamaites going homicidal. Was Obama around when Amy killed her brother?

This guy’s no troll, Oregon JC, he’s the real thing.
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Read him.

What are we to think of a network that missed the mortgage crisis (until it happened) even while one of its top journalists, Andrea Mitchell, was sleeping with the chairmen of the Federal Reserve System, and another of its mainstays, David Gregory, had a wife who was a Fannie Mae lawyer.

Ummm..Yeah, that’s right, actually. If there was any accountability for elites in this racket, these questions would be screamed from the rooftops every day, given the extent of the damage to peoples’ lives the masters of the universe caused. That’s a pretty decent question, “What are we to think?” of the multiple, significant failures of the press corps, and their incestuous relationships to financial, industry and state elites…

Among other things you stupidly assume that CPAC is over and that Ron Paul has somehow given up his critique of Bush and Clinton foreign policy

“Bush and Clinton foreign policy“?
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Uh, OK, that’s not the most far off…

Previously Ms. Madcow had parroted the official NBC line, formulated by brilliant political philosopher and high school dropout Janeane Garafalo, that tea partiers were are all racists, motivated only by animus to a black man in the White House

Well, that is actually what happened. I watched Janeane when she was first on,and she was coming out with this line. It did seem to take over the commentary of the nightly host crew for a while (then they were titillated by the guys with the firearms that showed up at rallies). Yes, we’re treated like morons by the General Electric network, mm-hmmm.

The media that program you oblivions is collapsing and will be gone in no time without government subsidy, as they are so clearly both dishonest and incompetent.

Why…yes, that’s about right, too.
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OK, this isn’t trollery, and it isn’t normal GOP faux-rightism, either, probably. Let’s wait and find out.
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The language is hilarious, of course, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
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We might be in for some interesting debate here, Oregon JC.

Bruce, Any idea why ex-half-governor Palin wasn’t invited to this party? Cant afford her speaking fees?

afguy, that is too strange. I grew up in the af. Born in army hospital before there was a separate af. Army air corps (right wingers feel free to make an Obama joke here about pronunciation of corps). afguy, the strange part is that the roles you describe are reversed in my family. The age identification does have some meaning.

Yeah, that sounds about right. He’s certainly wound tight enough.

What I want to know is if Romney called for the mythical “triple-Gitmo”?
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The Triple Gitmo? Is that the tortured contortion that Romney twisted himself into by trying to run to Ted Kennedy’s left in the 1990s, and then running to John McCain’s right in 2008, topped off with his current claims that national Romneycare is a horrible idea?

formerly,
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Yes, it does. When I was growing up, it was quite normal for people to have different political beliefs and still maintain friendships. Even when I was at a CC, a good friend was president of the Campus Republicans. He knew my leanings and still we could rely on each other.
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What I see now is getting personal and visceral. Every once in a while here, I see a genuine conservative (apollyon07, Im talking about YOU) who can still maintain a civil conversation and disagree without getting personal.
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With some others, the venom is fast and strong. If they are like that in person, I question how ANYONE would want to be around then for very long.
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We have survived as a country because, in the final analysis, we were together on most issues. Right now, there is VERY LITTLE common ground to be found. It’s literally a “either you’re FULLY with me or FULLY against me” situation.
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Many of the most vocal have never (and will never) put their own hides on the line for their position.
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At some point, we may reach a point at which the most “hawkish” among us will find that there are not enough “others” willing to die for their particular vision of the world.

Are we sure that Liz doesn’t go both ways? Did anyone ask? Did she tell?

brucemajors

You little pinheads, with your silly assumptions betraying your limited intellects…

Can you stop trying so hard to endear yourself to all of us pinheads for a moment, to comment on this analysis of your CPAC reporting?

So the Paulites’ principled disdain for big government is now singing in sweet harmony with the standard GOP war profiteering and emperors’-new-clothes DOD pork, all whilst cheering on Liz Cheney the rabid security statist –not because CPAC attendees are capable of holding multiple, completely inconsistent, completely contradictory ideas in their twisted, ideologically-compacted heads, but because Obama has failed to impress either party with a sufficiently ruthless, Kremlin-esque security apparatus and domestic propaganda campaign.

So is that basically the case, i.e. that the Paul contingent have given up all pretense at integrity (and dignity) in order to sniff at the heels of their establishment Republican masters, the big government conservatives who passed the entitlement program Medicare Part D, and engaged in multiple foreign adventures in the last decade?
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Do I have that right, brucemajors?
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You’ve joined forced with the neo-conservatives, with the most Soviet of Bill of Rights-hating statists in recent history? You’re now hanging out with Kim Jong-Il’s American cousins? Ron Paul’s people are doing this?
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Does he know that?

Good evening, Ladies and Bruces!

Looks like Elvis Bruce may have left the building…
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Was it something we said…?

afguy, well said. I tip my hat to you and as you say to appoly, too. And now I have become a fan of bruce as well. lol

What I see now is getting personal and visceral.
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Their talk-show hosts started calling us traitors, and our liberal arts professors started calling them racists, and the world is now just small enough for us to hear each others’ shouting, but not much else.

From the text of his speech:
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“America will not endure government-run health care, a new and expansive entitlement, an inexplicable and surely vanishing cut in Medicare and an even greater burden of taxes. Americans said no because Obamacare is bad care for America!”
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So … America can’t endure any kind of government-run health care, but won’t stand for any cuts in its government-run health care for seniors. And Massachusetts voters, who have a government-run health care program just like the one the president is proposing for the nation, “said no” because what they currently like in their state is something they don’t like for other states.
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Wow. That is an incredibly impressive amount of contradictory bullsh!t for a single sentence. Even for a professional contortionist like Mittens.

Don’t forget –he was for a woman’s right to choose when he was running for governor before he was against it when he was running for president.

Oh, I know. Mittens has more flip-flops than a surf shop.

stuart,
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What we are doing now is what I would call “screaming PAST each other”.
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Not even trying to listen, just screaming because we think that’s what’s we’re expected to do. Because we don’t think the other side is listening either.
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When I try to talk to Rusty here, I don’t think he’s even trying to understand. At least QH isn’t here any more to provide noise pollution – THAT was a special case, almost like an automated process.
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When enough of BOTH sides decide “hey, this ship IS sinking with ALL of us on it… this fighting is just BS!” then we’ll start to improve.
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Progress will start to be made when, regardless of the amount of money spent, a candidate loses BECAUSE OF the nasty campaigning and poor positions. When it stops working.
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But, first, we’ve got to grow up a little more than we are ready to do right now.
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The right wing chooses and vacillates? I am shocked.

LOL

I’m genuinely interested. What really matters most, the ongoing domestic partisan spats that are reflexively contrived and serve only to further the world’s perception of American politics as a game, or substantial geopolitical foreign policy issues that have the potential to vastly alter America’s marred image abroad, were we to actually expend as much energy pushing for sane foreign policy as we do beating each other over the heads with ideological demagoguery and obtuse generalizations? I suppose, my point is this, why is there such a vibrant discussion, albeit it seeped in the usual mediocrity of American discourse, on this inane topic of Romney speaking nearly three years prior to the presidential election, while nearly no one has commented on the foreign policy related posts today? This truly baffles me.

Stuart, speaking as a member of the female gender, I don’t find Bruce amusing or interesting. I find him offensive. And no, I am not an overly sensitive feminist. I have lived too long listening to ignorant men classify women to meet their standards of acceptability.
Excuse me Stuart, I know you like us to stay polite but Bruce is a f**king, sexist, homophobic, bigotted jerk.
When he was describing Liz Cheney (which I think even she might find condescending and offensive), I expected him to tell us he tore his shirt off, rushed the stage, and ripped her bodice as her breasts swelled in anticipation of his manliness.
The man is living in a fantasy world. Nothing he has to say has any credibility.

neorationalist86:
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It’s becoming apparent to everyone that many deeply problematic situations are precipitously close to irreparable here within our borders. America’s marred image abroad perhaps seems (to many people) of rather secondary importance compared to our obvious degeneracy and decay at home.

apr2563:
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I think you rushed to defend yourself from an “overly sensitive feminist” charge that wouldn’t necessarily have crossed my mind if you left that part out.
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I think this guy’s expression is probably classically sexist, in as much as he defines masculinity as “authoritative” and femininity as…well, not.
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That said, I try not to rush to judgment on these things –matters of severe prejudice– unless I have the opportunity to understand someone’s thoughts over time, and can account for variations in protocols and language standards that might give rise to a misunderstanding in my apprehension of a person.
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I understand what you’re saying, and I certainly understand the stupid, counterproductive and unjust wrongness of positing authority as a male characteristic (with the converse trait being female submission to authority). That’s a problem, if that’s what somebody’s thoughts really are. That would be a prejudice that warps rational judgment, and can’t let reality to be seen for what it is. Someone who believed in such a notion would be likely to behave as if males were entitled to authority, and females not (and expected to submit). I get it; of course that’s bad (and offensive).
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But people are what they are, and culture is nowhere near rid of arbitrary gender hierarchy, is it? One can describe how things are generally in that culture without advocating a stupid, mindless acceptance of gender roles that demean women. Many people just don’t have the language to avoid sounding sexist. Because so much emphasis (that can seem itself arbitrary, subjective and onerous) has been placed on sensitivity and language, many resist acquiring and using language that is clearer about the reality of gender equality –both men and women do this, and it’s understandable. The fallible people who make up movement feminism have succeeded in some things better than others over the decades.
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When somebody says “she sounded masculine” in a particularly silly way, as this poor fellow did, I immediately see that sexist terms are being employed, but the first thing that comes to mind is that this person is unfortunately (and hilariously) socially retarded. The nonsense about how Liz Cheney was dressed, her hair-style, etc. could have been lifted right out of a Maureen Dowd column –actually, the whole thing sounds like that psychotic Dowd.
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So that’s my opinion, I think that this person is using their idea of reporter-speak in a particularly silly and stereotypical way out of a lack of familiarity with more reality-based language, and nerdy, un-self aware social retardation, which strode unintentionally into the perversely funny.
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Come to think of it, this individual really does sound like Maureen Dowd in any given column, doesn’ he, apr2563? He basically said that Liz Cheney sounds like a lesbian, just the way that Dowd said that over and over again about Hillary Clinton in a major, national newspaper (while her editors –noone, really– had anything to say about these pathological outbursts at all).
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Well, I hope that you enjoyed reading this, even if you disagree with me strongly, apr2563.

Stuart: I do disagree. I do not find brucemajors to be some socially challenged naif. He is very calculated in his wording and uses language precisely. Again, I do not find him “hillariously” socially retarded. Am I supposed to be more accepting because he sounds like the dispeptic Maureen Dowd. She and others in the traditional media treated Hillary Clinton abominably. Intolerance is intolerance and can be displayed by men and women.
I have lived a long time and have never contenanced bigots or found conversation with them fruitful. There is nothing you can do to change their mind. “You have to be taught to hate”. Teaching someone not to hate is much harder.
I have broke bread with John Birchers, segregationists, abusers of women, McCarthyites, and rabid homophobes. I have tried to understand how they came to be that way. Tried reasoning with them. Finally, I came to the conclusion, if they insist on sharing their bigotry, I will speak up. However, I will not go out of my way to interact with them. This has nothing to do with being pc. It has everything to do with certain standards I set for myself.
As a woman, my perspective is surely different than yours Stuart, and, I am afraid, you cannot understand how different.

“”Will the economy and unemployment recover? Of course,” he said, quickly pivoting to the notion that “this president will not deserve the credit he will undoubtedly claim.”"
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Did he offer any insight into why they are blaming Obama for the state of the economy now, if the plan is to give him no credit later?

Come to think of it, this individual really does sound like Maureen Dowd in any given column
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Thank you. I’ve been trying to put my finger on where I’ve heard this particular style of stupidity for a while now, but that’s it precisely.

America’s marred image abroad perhaps seems (to many people) of rather secondary importance compared to our obvious degeneracy and decay at home.
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I think that’s part of it, but there’s also a sense that America’s image has already been repaired. According to Gallup, approval/disapproval of American leadership has gone from 32% approval and 40% disapproval in 2007 to 51% approval and 21% disapproval in 2009.
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/125720/Global-Perceptions-Leadership-Improve-2009.aspx

Haven’t you ever watched Fox News?
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Any dip in the stock market is directly attributable to Obama’s policies, no matter what.
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The overall rise in the Dow Jones average from 6626 in early March 2009 to 10,392 just a year later, well, that’s a sign of the ingenuity of business leaders to triumph in spite of all the bad things Obama is doing to the economy. If it we’re for Obama, we’d probably be at 30,000 already.

If it *weren’t for Obama…
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I need coffee.

Mr. Majors is applying his experience at Harlequin to a political blog.

This is an amazing thread.

kevin: Exactly!
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IIRC, during the Nov2008-March2009 timeframe, every 10 point drop in the Dow was punctuated with the RW remark that “it was Obama’s fault”.
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During Obama’s first trip to Europe (Apr09?) the Dow jumped up 100 pts and Rush commented that Obama should just stay out of the US and things would be better.
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The Pelosi chart will go a long way, hopefully, to shed light on the reality of the recovery and give credit where credit is due.

…but there’s also a sense that America’s image has already been repaired.
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Kevin,
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Before I’m ready to buy into that, I’d love to see a poll that asks about the world’s perception of the U.S., comparing our foreign policy to our EXPRESSED national principles – in other words, our national mission statement.
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Otherwise, we may be just cementing our position as the world’s premiere hypocrites. When the two start to match better, we’ll truly be on our way.
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We talk about freedom and democracy – are we for democracy when they select someone who really doesn’t want to be like us? Are we REALLY for freedom for those who are getting pushed around by OUR friends? History has shown that would be a “no”.
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What we really seem to want is a bunch of other capitalistic societies aligned with US. “Freedom and democracy” on OUR terms.

I don’t think they burden themselves with trying to exceed the basic requirements of logical consistency. They contradict themselves, more than anyone else. So they don’t seem overly stressed trying to maintain internal coherence, either.

Well, there is an internal consistency, in that they have a constant mantra of “Obama is bad.”
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It’s just that they tie themselves in knots trying to stick to that. Whatever ideas of theirs that he then embraces — tax cuts, nuclear power, deficit commission, whatever — they quickly have to run away.
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Republicans have such a reflexive revulsion to whatever he advocates that you get the sense that if Obama were to announce his resignation tomorrow, they’d refuse to accept it and demand he be made president for life.

The more Romney criticizes Obama, the more churlish he looks. Surely, he can have Presidential ambitions without resorting to this nonsense.

Romney lost the primaries last time and it looks like he is rushing fast into another loss, to a more focused and less petty candidate.

LM

http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/stalking-criminality-the-law-and-women/

Get over the “minority president” thing. I couldn’t care less what hyphenated group Obama belongs to. I oppose him for purely philosophical reasons, as do most of those I know who agree with me. It seems the people who bring up his “race” most often are his defenders. I is entirely possible to disagree with his presidency without being a racist.

Didn’t Shawn White do a “Triple Gitmo” in his gold-medal-winning half-pipe routine at the Olympics the other night?

He SHOULD have presidential ambitions! He’d make an excellent president. But is he too much of an outsider for WashDC, which is your typical bought-and-paid for politician’s Valhalla? Maybe. But the real change we are looking for is not the ideological junk being touted now and failing gloriously! What we really need is someone like Romney who is NOT beholden to insider elites who rob us blind day-in, day-out (e.g., those who own the banks that charge credit card users 30%). Romney is a great choice for honest leadership and he should have been the candidate in 2008. If he would have been that candidate by now maybe we would have actually seen positive change instead of all this empty “pretend” stuff!

Romney is a great choice for honest leadership and he should have been the candidate in 2008.
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Tell me, dwimby, what in the Mittster’s background would have made him especially qualfied to help turn the economy around and create all of the jobs we are needing?
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His background is in corporate raiding/tearing companies apart to help the bottom line, NOT building sh!t up. He would have been right at home with the securities traders on Wall Street, Bernanke and Paulson.
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Care to estimate for me how many jobs he’s created for others in his career? Now, tell me how many jobs he destroyed.

I am holding out hope that someday, some enterprising journalist is going to write a story about what Romney’s blood oaths as a Melchizedek Priest would mean as far as his commitment to the United States.

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A valid point. The domestic fracturing and hostility, the populist resentment (on both ends of the political spectrum) with our current and recent leadership, and the mounting absurdities of our socio-economic polices have precipitated levels of dissent and upheaval not witnessed in this country since the 60s, 70s. So, in that regard, the limited attention in respect to foreign affairs is somewhat understandable. However, when you factor in the general quality of life in the USA to global levels, you realize that where we see calamity, respectively our position is considerably more favorable than the majority of societies. There are exceptions, of course, such as in health-care expenditures versus the industrialized western world at large. But, the larger theme of American economic primacy remains intact, or at least stable. I think American social upheaval is by and large fabricated, unrealistic, and born out of decades of spoiled entitlement. We should not lose sight of the greater world, and the influence we have squandered away consistently since the end of WWII. We should constantly strive to improve our image and recapture our respected position as a superpower with principles, as we were perceived in the 1940s and ’50s.
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Perhaps, it is true that our image has improved since Obama’s inauguration. However, at the very least there are still large pockets of anti-American resentment. The Arab and Muslim world, for example, will never respect or admire the United States so long as we continue to pursue ill-conceived policies in support of Israel that are antithetical to our national interests.
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I think you’ve nailed it down perfectly. It’s not always necessarily a matter of what we do, but rather what we fail to do in accordance with our own expressed principles, or what we do that defies all logic. I do honestly believe that all states should act in their own self-interest. Most, if not all, governments would understand and somewhat respect this position. However, when we act in contrast to what we exhort, or when we act in a manner that jeopardizes our own national security and yet we espouse strategic rationales for these actions, we demonstrate duplicity and hypocrisy in respect to the former and weak-minded frivolity in the latter. For example,the United States’ backing of the Shah of Iran in the ’50s or Hussein in Iraq in the ’80s made geopolitical, strategic sense. Yet, by supporting unelected authoritarian leaders while simultaneously preaching to the world about democracy and liberty, we exhibited a profound hypocrisy to the world. Similarly, our repudiation and dismissal of the democratic elections in Gaza proved to the world that we only support democracy if it results in a favorable outcome. In respect to our unwavering commitment to Israel, which includes unprecedented economic and military aid and diplomatic cover, our rudimentary arguments of strategic interests do not even begin to reflect reality nor do they warrant such privileges for Israel were there to be any sanity to the purported strategic benefits. The fact that Israel is a liability in nearly all facets of our special relationship only makes us appear to be completely lacking in reason, either through profound naivety of historic proportions or a level of feckless meandering that has been abused and exploited for Israeli gain. In all these scenarios, we could do well to simply purge our foreign policy of idealistic exhortation and meaningless rhetoric, and simply pursue our national interests in all matters. Therein lies consistency and reason, and with such comes respect from the world.

The performances at cpac have been pretty pathetic. Juvenile. Romney must be caught in some kind of time warp – he acted like 2000-2008 never happened – and actually defended bush. that’s the very definition of delusional. I wouldn’t be proud of this event if I was a republican – I guess if you’re 12 years old it’s a real hit.

Neo/Exiled,
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Thanks. I’ve been amazed the last couple of days how much the combination of a severe arthritic backache and taking Advil so I can at least get out of bed and move has improved my expressive processes and topped off my sarcasm reservoir.

Wow! That is probably the most offensive comment I have seen from a lefty in at least the past few minutes! Reminds me of the (patently-false and wrong-headed) “concerns” of right-wing kooks who questioned Jack Kennedy’s loyalties because he was Catholic. You must be proud.

Yes, it does. When I was growing up, it was quite normal for people to have different political beliefs and still maintain friendships. Even when I was at a CC, a good friend was president of the Campus Republicans. He knew my leanings and still we could rely on each other.

afguy,

I am a bit younger than you and my resume is no where nearly as impressive, but as a guy in his early 40′s I can say the same of my generation.

I am an African American who is very liberal. My best friend is White and very conservative. We have been buddies since we were 5 years old and keep in touch even though I moved away from our home state over 10 years ago. He keeps calling me a “Communist” and I keep referring to him as a “Nazi”.

We have been talking politics since we were kids. I remember going up to his cabin with his parents when we were either 13 or 14 and we talked (really argued) about politics on the way up, during the whole weekend and most of the trip back. Finally, his mother, frustrated, asked if there was anything we could talk about that we could agree upon. Well, given our age, we started talking about girls! I think after that discussion, his mother probably wished we had stuck to politics! LOL

More to the point, is Mrs. Bruce Majors a man? Does he have one of those hangey down thingies?

“More to the point, is Mrs. Bruce Majors a man? Does he have one of those hangey down thingies?”

Oh, do you mean a Democrat?

My electric went out again before noon yesterday and was out until I had been at work for half the night. I’m really sorry I missed Bruce. That guy was hilarious. When I got up this afternnon and logged on I was so sorry that I missed the fun. I hope he comes back. Either he’s a very clever troll or else he’s a repressed evangelical just one step from trading in the glory of God for a glory hole.

If you’re interested in a “swingin’ democrat” give me a call. I might make an exception.

Poor stuartzechman. You are even more stupid than apr2345. She at least realizes that I am often using language very precisely.

But she like you is an ignoramus and not very well read (you are after all reading “Time” — I am only deigning to be here because someone emailed me this swampland article about a conference while I was there). My comments about gender and sexual politics, including lesbian masculinity, can be found in radical feminist and lesbian feminist writing, with which I would suspect I am much more familiar than either of you.

Scream sexism apr2345. Fall back on your body parts. You obviously have little brain so it’s all you’ve got.

Bruce,

In all honesty, I can’t take conservative Republicans seriously. They were in charge of the White House and both houses of congress and completely ran this country into the ground. They want to talk about excessive spending? Let’s see. . . . . . they turned Clinton surpluses into (then) record deficits. This happened because Bush took us into two wars and told us we didn’t have to pay for it. Never before in history has this country went to war AND cut taxes. Where was the sacrifice? John McCain, in his more honest moments, pointed it out, but he got booed by the Right into submission.

Dick Chaney on Obama’s case regarding national security? Well, at least we did not have a major terrorist attack during Obama’s first year in the White House, can the same be said about W’s first year? Obama is taking the fight against the people who attacked us, in Afghanistan, while Bush wasted thousands of lives and billions of dollars chasing weapons of mass destruction that did not exist in Iraq. Bush couldn’t talk about Iraq without mentioning 9-11 and Dick Chaney, himself, tried to link Shaddam Hussain with Osama Bin Laden. Any person with a half a brain would have known that Shaddam and Bin Laden did not like each other (Bin Laden offered to fight Shaddam in the first Gulf War and call Shaddam an “infidel” more than he called W). Instead Chaney pushed for policies which helped create the Christman bomber. Dick Chaney is a dream for Osama Bin Laden.

As far as Conservatives, was Paul Ryan of Wisconsin there? Because he is the only elected Conservative who has even offered something constructive to the conversation. I don’t agree with his solutions, but at least they are proposals that warrant serious consideration. The rest of the speakers are possers, many who have never held elective office and certainly some who did not govern as Conservatives.

Mitt Romney? Geez, give me a break! This is a guy who ran to the LEFT of Ted Kennedy in the 90s, who gave his state MANDATED universal health care, who now tells us he is a conservative. He sells himself as if he were a product (“New and improved!”) and tells evangelicals, “me, too”. Hell, they don’t even think Mormons are Christians! And you can be sure Tim Pawlenty from Minnesota will run Romneycare through the wringer before the 2012 elections.

As far as their cheers for Obama to be a one term president, the better they do in 2010, the more likely Obama will be re-elected in 2012. If the Republicans take over one house of Congress, Obama’s re-election is quaranteed.

What are they going to campaign on? We screwed the country before, you can trust us to do it again!

Actually, Pafro would have likely been (and may have) one of those “concerned” citizens, questioning whether Kennedy would have been loyal to America or Rome. Pafro loathes Catholics and Catholicism. So, this is not out of the ordinary for his/her/its specious bigotry.

brucemajors:
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You are one funny, funny dude.
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You really need to come by more often; I’m completely serious.
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I guarantee I’ll read every word, OK?

Sorry Kevin, you lose. Demwits are fat, stupid, gluttonous, lying, and evil, members of the tax predator ruling class to a man and woman since Proxmire passed. Republicans are more representative of the population in their spectrum of body types and degree of intellectual depth and personal morality. Libertarians and independents are no doubt superior to both.

It remains the case that currently all the Demwits save Tammy Baldwin are fat ugly beasts or skinny freaky monsters, from Carville to the Podestas to Grayson and Frank. Even golden boy Van Holland has gotten jowly while living off the tax serfs.

Obama’s every word is a lie and only the most delusional credit him with any virtue at this point.

He is most likely a pawn of Soros, even if he thinks himself some kind of Marxian change agent. His role is to further destroy the US economy so banks and foreclosed on commercial real estate can be scooped up by Soros and others at fire sale prices.

Sorry afguy, you lose too. It’s your heroes who spent the year lying, and claiming, for example, that tea partiers were an extremely small minority of racists funded by multinational corporations. So you began with the name calling. Most hilariously your Tokyo Roses and Leni Reifenstals at MSNBC (lady journalists from Contessa Brewer to Laurence O’Donnell) showed tapes of tea partiers (like the infamous gun toting one out west) where they cut off images of their hands or faces if they were African American in order to fabricate the image of all white rallies.

So I am afraid to say the incivility and name calling started with you and yours from Nancy Pelosi on down.

It kind of left you unprepared too. While the Botox bitch was telling her troops that the opposition was a teeny band of neo-nazis or astroturf, the voters guillotined 3 of her candidates. And in November, they are taking out the rest of you.

“the better they do in 2010, the more likely Obama will be re-elected in 2012″
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I agree with you on that 100%. It’s possible they’ll take control of the house and even possibly the senate in 2010. I have my doubts about the senate, but are they thinking they’ll do wonders with a slight majority? There’s still the little matter of a presidential veto and the chances that any compromise with the White House or democrats will infuriate the teabagger base. Success in 2010 might be more than they bargained for in 2012. If they get some control and can’t accomplish anything what are they going to say? They did to us what we did to them? It should be interesting.

You know probably the most amusing posts here are by the cretins who are trying to assess whether I am single, married, a closet case, etc.

So far each guess has been more imbecilic than its predecessor.

Sorry afguy, you lose too. It’s your heroes who spent the year lying, and claiming, for example, that tea partiers were an extremely small minority of racists funded by multinational corporations. So you began with the name calling. Most hilariously your Tokyo Roses and Leni Reifenstals at MSNBC (lady journalists from Contessa Brewer to Laurence O’Donnell) showed tapes of tea partiers (like the infamous gun toting one out west) where they cut off images of their hands or faces if they were African American in order to fabricate the image of all white rallies.
So I am afraid to say the incivility and name calling started with you and yours from Nancy Pelosi on down.
It kind of left you unprepared too. While the Botox fembot was telling her troops that the opposition was a teeny band of neo-nazis or astroturf, the voters guillotined 3 of her candidates. And in November, they are taking out the rest of you.

Kevin you and your fuhrers looted American tax serfs for decades and promised them social security and medicare and medicaid for the 7% of their income you stole every week. Even though you were essentially snorting it up your noses, wasting it on various government boondoggles.

So people who oppose this looting and these programs could still expect that you give them the crumbs you promised them.

Ideally they should be paid by seizing your house, Rahm Emanuel’s house, Tom Daschle’s $3 million Foxhall Road manse, etc. But eliminating you and the rest of the tax predator ruling class will have to be done as best it can.

Are you people actually unaware that the stock market usually goes up when Congress is out of session and drops when it is in session? A pattern that has been true for years.

Cheney doesn’t have an “a” in it.

The underwear bomber almost killed hundreds of people, and civilians, not the Obama regime, stopped him.

Are you people really as dull as you appear?

I thought your initial post was great. You’ll fit right in here with us imbecils and cretins. You’re off to a very promising start.

No, we’re as dull as you appear.

Demwits are fat…Republicans are more representative of the population in their spectrum of body types…
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Wow, just wow. That has got to be the most unbelievable statement I have read here on the Swamp, and that says quite a lot given our endless parade of insane and/or offensive personalities, Textee, Cincinnatus, et al. You, sir, are a bloody picture perfect caricature of wacko.

Exiled: Please don’t chase this guy away. He’s more fun than a hole in a pants pocket.

You’d have to be perceptive to be able to say anything valuable about appearances and reality; most of you will have to keep practicing, though it sound like most of you don’t have much time left.

Here Stuart Zechman is an answer for your rhetorical questions about whether Paul supporters are supporting DADT and are all tainted by going to this conference or are sell outs. It is always so amusing to watch you Leftovers and pro-regressives preen your tattered dirty feathers, continuing in your middlebrow delusions that you somehow represent intelligence or urbanity because the ‘hos you parrot, from Madcow to Odorman, tell you so.

The news you won’t get from the state controlled media — anti-gay speakers shouted down at CPAC as Ron Paulistas and small “l” libertarians and tea partiers take over the audiences if not the speaker’s platforms – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFNezndrSII

And don’t forget about his plan to steal our precious bodily fluids and sell them to the North Koreans as bottled water.
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Don’t even get me started about his conspiracy with the Trilateral Commission and the mole people.

Sweet Jesus, you are certifiable.
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The Dow has had a steady climb from March 2009 to the present day. And guess what? Congress has been in session for most of that time.

Kevin I realize that you are another Leftover retard, but if you even read a newspaper you would know that IndyBanc and other banks the government forced onto the auction block by central planning of the money supply and interest rates and stress tests were purchased by consortiums that include Soros, who also funds Tedium Tatters and all the little Leni Reifenstahlish disinfo groups that program you parrots.

If you look at any business or real estate section of a newspaper today you will see articles on the eminent mass foreclosure epidemic in the commercial real estate sector and a second wave of foreclosures in residential real estate. Who besides China and Soros do you think will be buying this stuff?

So far you pro-regressive tards have shown an inability here to do much of anything but spell badly and call names.

Kevin if Jesus is your man then I would pray to him if I were you for enlightenment, a path out if the cave of ignorance you and your fellow pro-regressives inhabit.

Here is a link for you on one study showing that the economy and stock market perform better when Congress is not in session: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=687211

The quip at CPAC is just that America should pay each Congresscritter $1 billion annually to stay at home and do nothing. At $535 billion it would be cheaper than current federal expenditures and better for the country as well.

Bruce,

Your comment about the Obama regime makes it seem like you believe America either controls the entire world’s airline transportation system or Obama has godlike powers.

Firstly, the underwear bomber boarded a plane in Amsterdam.

http://www.mahalo.com/underwear-bomber

This means that the security team in Amsterdam & security measures in the Amsterdam airport failed. This was despite key signals of a terrorist boarding the plane (No passport, cash for his ticket, carry on bag)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_253

These ideas for improved security measures were implemented during the Bush and unless I missed something, they have not been changed since Obama took office.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_security_repercussions_due_to_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#Changes_in_airport_security

Also, this one of many terrorist attacks which has been carried out over the years since 9/11, unfortunately it was just one that was not caught.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/bg2085.cfm

I have high doubts that any of the key operators and operating systems have changed at all since these people were caught. It’s not as if Obama fired every FBI agent & travel agent during their first year and replaced them with his new staff. The head of offices may have changed but… They were not the one who let that individual on the plane. That was due to a failure of staff further down the chain of command.

So I’m not sure what you are implying. If nothing has changed except some staff at the higher level of a business (who have not made major changes on a basic procedural level for lower level security related checks), how is this the Obama regime’s fault?

It’s the combined fault of several operators failing to do their jobs. But we knew this could happen. We know that all systems devised by man can fail because there are limitations to the system or they are not implemented correctly 100% of the time.

43,510 people died in 2005 because of car accidents in America. Did the road rules change? Did everyone stop and think they should come up with a new licensing system for drivers?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080627011724AAxuFu5

No. But one plane, out of the thousands that fly every year, gets boarded by a crazy man with a bomb that does not work and suddenly the system is broken beyond repair.

Worse, the Obama Administration is to blame. Because…. I’m not sure why. It’s like you think the Obama Administration (a few hundred chosen individuals Obama places in office once every four years) is able to force the hundreds of thousands employees the American government has; to follow the policies already created to the letter, 100% of the time. (Still it is good there is still someone who thinks Obama has God like powers, but that’s not quite reality. His birth certificate does indicate he is just a man. )

If you’re looking for a world which can be made safe all the time (from people you think are dangerous) then I would suggest seeking an alternative world. Perhaps one which is made from chocolate and rewards people with candy when they work hard.

Of course, if you’d like to add links to verify how you arrive at those kind of sweeping conclusions, I’m listening.

Carry on, Sacred.

Apparently this idiot, BruceMajors gets around the liberal blogosphere quite a bit. Here’s just one example:
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“Bruce Majors says:
You poor Soros whores and your lies.

Your Nazis are scum.”
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/10/gladney-uninsured/
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I know many of you enjoy his idiotic ramblings so here is a link to more of his incoherent rants (link)
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What a loon.

tkoa did you really just say Obama has done nothing for over a year but follow Bush policies and leave Bush agencies in place and that leads you to conclude that nothing that happens could be Obama’s fault?

Of course Obama has done more than just doing nothing. He appointed a moronic laughingstock (Napolitano) and a career liberator of terrorists (Holder), while becoming the first POTUS to call the homicidally anti-gay (and anti-most everyone) Iranian dictatorship a “Republic,” reneged on a missile shield pledge to Poland ON THE DATE of the Soviet invasion of Poland, slandered and threatened intelligence agents, etc etc.

Bush’s and Clinton’s defense policies were clearly inadequate: 9/11 happened, the Sudanese had offered Clinton Osama bin Laden in the 90s, etc etc. Even if Obama were just sitting around doing nothing that alone would be grounds for demanding his resignation.

But diecash you and yours are Soros whores.

And you have targeted African American tea partiers for beatings.

Just as you have left black youth in state warehouse “schools” for decades from which they dropout or graduate illiterate and unemployable, all while you claim that you are going to “fix” them and while you pocket the votes and campaign donations from educrat unions.

You are evil and racist and you must be tried and punished for your crimes.

You’ve done nothing but name-call and spout all kinds of ridiculous crap since you stumbled upon this blog while attempting to slander anyone with the temerity to question your wing-nuttery.
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As for all the aspersions and lies you just threw at me: You don’t know the first thing about me or what I believe. You are so feeble-minded that, among the first things out of your mouth, you would call me “evil and racist.”
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Wipe the spittle and froth from the keyboard now moron.

At CPAC 2008 a young Ron Paul supporter asked Ann Coulter what she thought of Ron Paul and if “true conservatives” shouldn’t be supporting his principled limited government campaign in the GOP primaries. Coulter answered that she tried not to listen to Congressman Paul because he was very smart and she was afraid he just might convince her.

Her packed noon address to the main hall at CPAC2010 was mainly stand up comedy and very good stand up comedy. (“Everyone is deserting Obama; Michelle has even asked to see his birth certificate.” “Bill Clinton was rushed to the hospital where he told the doctors it felt like he had two interns sitting on his chest.”) But the Q&A was more serious, including questions about the near take over of CPAC by Ron Paul libertarians, who seem to be 60% or more of the under 30 crowd. Dr. Paul and his associates (Judge Andrew Napolitano, “Metdown” author Tom Woods, lawyer Bruce Fein, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, “Obamanomics” author Tim Carney) have been one of the four satellite track lectures almost every session when not in the main hall itself.

Earnest young non-libertarian questioners, wondering what had happened, asked Coulter how the “C” in CPAC could stand for libertarian. At first she tried to placate one questioner by pointing out that Dr. Paul was pro-life. Then she had a soft attack on libertarians in answer to another beleaguered conservative, opining that she was “more libertarian than most libertarians,” but that she didn’t need to spend all her time calling for legalizing pot until we have eliminated the EPA, the Department of Education, and a list of other agencies, and until she would not be called upon to pay unemployment benefits to pot heads who lose their jobs. While she listed the agencies that would need to be abolished first, Paulistas started chanting their trademark “End the Fed,” until Ms. Coulter finally did a power sign and responded “End the Fed.” Finally yet another exhausted young traditional conservative asked her a third time about how to get rid of these growing legions of libertarians and Coulter closed with “Whenever Ron Paul says anything that isn’t about foreign policy, I totally support him.”

From the serious to the sarcastic, from Liz Cheney to Ann Coulter, the conservative intelligentsia is facing overlapping tsunamis of both tea party populism and a Ron Paul non-interventionism. The wider tea party movement may well wash away the Obama regime and the Demwit incumbatocracy. But the second tsunami is also aimed for the future control of the GOP.

http://teapartiers.blogspot.com

**Breaking news: Ron Paul wins CPAC2010 straw poll on who should be 2012 GOP nominee for prez**

Breaking news — You’re still an idiot.

I’ve never seen a dead thread get so much attention.
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Bruce, you be a star.

Just like Marky-Mark at the end of Boogie Nights!

LOL. Yeah, it was a fake too.

Actually diecash you haven’t asked any questions

All you did was call names and say that I had blogged elsewhere before as if that were a crime

You are trash and an idiot, like most Leftovers

Not worth the time it takes to clean off my shoes

Is that another example of your superior intellectual contributions and how you are above calling names.

Does anyone in your life take you cretins seriously?

You demonstrate your utter stupidity with every post and apparently, it IS worth your time as you keep posting nonsense……

Bruce, stick to making bizarre comments about being attracted to lesbians. Criticizing people for calling names and then calling names yourself makes you look ridiculous, not interesting.

We’re all mortal. We’ll all die at some point. Age sometimes brings wisdom earned from experience. Others will remain ignorant for their entire lives. Age will only mean you’re older. When you’re 18 years old you think you know everything. When you’re 30 you realize that you didn’t know sh!t at 18. Only age and experience makes a wise person know that there is always more to learn. Many of us in our 50′s, 60′s and 70′s can only laugh when the younger people mock us. To us, you’re children and should be treated as such. Now eat your vegetables and get the f**k outside and play.

Sacred I didn’t say anything about people being attracted to lesbians.

I made some remarks about gender that were over your heads because you are a group of not very well read, not very perceptive people.

I suppose I could recalibrate my remarks to your level but that would be boring.

OK, non-lesbians that appear masculine. Bring your “A” game next time. It might come as a shock to you Bruce, but the reason we liked your post was because it was so clueless. We weren’t dazzled by your intellect, we were dazzled by it’s lack.
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Post more. Shooting fish in a barrel isn’t sporting, but it’s fun.