Election Eve Stunner: Sarah Palin Endorses Tom Tancredo

Maybe Miss Sarah has a good reason for her endorsement; you surely don’t want to infer that she doesn’t have a right to endorse any person she chooses to support? You ever heard of Freedom of Choice?

Just over two and half years ago, nobody had even heard of Sarah Palin. And now Michael writes a breathless story about how stunning it is that she, as the self-appointed Tea Party Queen, has endorsed Tancredo, who is also well-liked by the Tea Party. Its almost as if nobody noticed that Palin has supported non-establishment types all through the cycle.

The only “stunning” thing here, and I mean it as a pejorative, is that this was newsworthy.

Can’t say I’m surprised yet another Republican backs another bigoted Republican.

Not sure who she moves that wouldn’t already be supporting Tancredo but any help at all in pushing the Colorado republican party out from Major Party status is appreciated. Less than 10% is doable.
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Thanks Sarah.

Ike,
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Are you reading a different blog?
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Nobody has questioned if she can endorse somebody but why she would endorse Tancredo.

Stupid judges. Let’s ignore them!
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“Minnesota Majority, one of the groups behind the anti-voter fraud initiative in the state called “Election Integrity Watch,” told supporters in an e-mail last night to go ahead and wear their “Please I.D. Me” buttons and Tea Party apparel to the polls today despite a federal judge’s ruling yesterday that such items would interfere with the elections process.
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The e-mail said that anti-voter fraud advocates will “have a decision to make” if an election judge questions the items they are wearing. “You can simply remove or cover the challenged item and you’ll be allowed to vote, or you can refuse and demand your right to vote and the election judge will allow you to vote, while also recording your name and you could be charged with a petty misdemeanor,” says the e-mail.”
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/mn_anti-voter_fraud_group_ignore_judges_ruling_against_id_me_buttons.php

“And now, Sarah Palin, who is as big a leader in Republican politics as there is”
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Michael: I thought Sarah was a big player in the Tea party. Which is it?

Sign of the times.
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http://www.wtop.com/?nid=213&sid=2101975
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“Biden headlined a Democratic rally in downtown Wilmington on Monday evening that drew about 200 people.”

“Polls can be wrong, but if they are right the Democrats will get their heads handed to them in Tuesday’s midterm election. If the party loses control of the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate too, President Barack Obama’s administration will be forced to change course or be stopped in its tracks. Two years after US liberals were celebrating the death of conservatism and the start of a new progressive era, a stunning reversal looks likely.”

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d67ed90a-e505-11df-8e0d-00144feabdc0.html
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Isn’t life great??

Don’t confuse Michael so early in the morning. That’s just not right.

Immigration in America:
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1840s, WASPs are shocked and stunned by hundreds of thousands of new Irish Catholics arriving in such large numbers that in some cities and towns that the often nearly starved immigrants denied education in their homeland outnumber the natives.
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Jolted and shocked conservatives form the Know Nothing Party and consider the Catholic religion non-Christian and cult-like. Catholics are not fully accepted into the mainstream for many decades as a picture of Catholic Democrat Al Smith standing next to newly opened Holland Tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey replacing the caption with “Smith builds tunnel to the Vatican so he can take orders from the Pope.” Catholics are not fully acknowledged until, by a thin margin JFK becomes president. The first Catholic vice President is Biden.
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1860s German immigrants arrive in large numbers. Cities like New York eventually respond by opening bi-lingual schools to help teach the non-English speakers. Conservatives are shocked by the fact that non-English speakers immigrate to the US. Stories go out that the Germans do not wish to ever learn English and that they are attempted colonizers. At the dawn of US involvement in World War One, bilingual German schools are closed down nationwide. Even some of the Irish join the outrage that people who were not born speaking English are in the US.
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1890s Italian Immigrants arrive. a shade darker than Germans and Irish, Catholic and non-English speaking. Even many Irish and Germans are appalled at the newcomers competing with Irish for construction jobs and, in the country buying up farmland from German-Americans (mostly Lutheran).
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Early 1900s Eastern Europeans start arriving. Many are Catholics and some are Jews. They are non-English speaking and German-Americans, Irish-Americans and even some Italian-Americans join the WASPs in their deep seated fear that these newcomers will never learn English and that neighborhoods of Chicago and Brooklyn, among other places, will forever be Polish speaking or forever speaking another foreign language.
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1940s, as the Italian and Eastern European and Jewish European immigration slows down, Puerto Rican non-English speaking, Catholics significantly darker than Italians arrive.
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Tancredo doesn’t know his history.
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Every generation there is OMG! OMG! OMG! They’re so different than us! Surely enough the children of immigrants go to school, want to fit in, learn to speak perfect English, learn to dress like other Americans, listen to the same music and, if they can, start dating Americans. Then, their children will turn around ignoring who their grandparents were and start all over with OMG! OMG! OMG!

And as Michael pointed out this is actually news because of Tom Tancredo’s rocky relationship within his own party.

“–was seen as radioactive among the Republican elite.”
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Elite is a bad word among Republicans. Isn’t it?

“Don’t put that video camera in my face!!”

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Um, I think Michael must have written this with tongue firmly embedded in cheek. There’s no surprise here.

What this all points out is the fallacy of the left and MSM media that Palin, Republicans and the Tea PArty are one entity. The reason the Tea Party movement has succeeded is that it has drawn conservatives, disgruntled Repubs, Independents and conservative Democrats together.

The stereotypes the left and the MSM has described about the Tea Party does not exist!

Controlling illegal immigration is bigoted. That is quite an intellect you have.
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Don’t worry after the play dough you can have nap time.

I wonder how many SEIU t-shirts we will see at the polls today?

The MSM and the left uses the Republican party and the Tea Party interchangeably depending on who they want to mock.. Yet they feign surprise that they just can’t figure out why the Tea Party is proving to be successful.
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After today they will have lots of time to ry and figure it out.

And that is family and staff.

Controlling illegal immigration is bigoted.
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Not necessarily.
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But when your justification is the dilution of American culture then it’s pretty obvious that it isn’t the illegal part thats bothering you…..

And now, Sarah Palin, who is as big a loudmouth in Reublican politics as there is….
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Fixed it for ya….

Speaking of not knowing history, how many of the 1840-1940 were illegals?
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Another example of you being an expert of copying history from your edition of FUnk & Wagnalls without any understanding of what any of it means.
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This is my last response to you today. I cannot make up for the dunce cap you wore throughout high school and the damage of being a dropout. It has gotten to the point where people reading your posts become dumber just by that experience.

We prefer Establishment Republicans or Country Club Republicans

Scorned, mocked, denigrated and still outsmarting liberals at every turn. No wonder you hate her.

First rule. “If you are going to make fun of someone, at least double check that you have spelled all of your words correctly”. Doing otherwise simply makes you the fool.
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“And now, Sarah Palin, who is as big a loudmouth in Republican politics as there is….”
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There, fixed it for ya!!

Dunno, has a judge ruled that you can’t wear one?

A nice simplistic and wrong observation. If the illegals were concerned about any consequences they would assimilate at a higher pace and the dilution of the country culture would not be diminished. What you provide is another knee-jerk apology using race as the bat to beat opponents into silence.

Typical weasel answer from the left. The ruling should apply to any support group. But then the DOJ would probably dismiss any charges against a liberal group even after winning the case

I do believe Sarah Palin has made it abundantly clear she is in favor of securing our borders. This also happens to be the feeling of the majority of Americans as well.
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Gallup recently did a poll to see what our government is NOT doing, and what most Americans feel is important.
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/143621/job-creation-securing-borders-top-list-gov.aspx
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Of course job creation or the lack thereof comes in first. But, securing our borders is strongly in 2nd place. No wonder we can easily say the main stream media that Michael Scherer represents is totally out of touch. But, not surprising when he gets his talking points from one of the most inept Administrations to ever grace the halls of the Oval Office.
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I guess Michael Scherer does not want to be labeled an enemy by Barack Obama.

Ahh the refreshing respect for the rule of law.
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I have come to expect nothing less.

Your just pretending not to hear the dog-whistle. Would you care to define what constitutes “American” culture. Country? Blues? Hip Hop? Salsa? Hot Dogs? Pizza? Taco Bell? Tabuli?
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Undocumented workers are a problem but the people who obsess about them aren’t just worried about their legality. After all, the immigration laws they’re violating were no less political when they were written than they are when people argue about their enforcment.

Michael does not mention the important part of the story here. In CO, as in many other states, party status is determined by where the party finishes in the previous gubernatorial contest. Having a line on the ballot, and position on the ballot, is determined by where the party finishes, here in New York. (By “having a line” I mean being able to run candidates without requiring a write-in vote.)
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In Colorado:
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To be considered a “major party,” a political party needs to win 10 percent in the last governor’s contest. A strong finish could enable the American Constitutional Party to be named a major party under the law. More importantly, if Maes takes under 10 percent, which the polling indicates is at least a possibility, it could cost the Republican Party in Colorado their major party status. This means no Republican running in 2012 would be able to appear at the top of the ballot. The top two spots on the ballot could end up reserved for only the Democratic and American Constitutional parties.

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Palin could do real damage to the GOP in Colorado with this endorsement. I’ve said before that she is not running for President. This is further evidence.

Rank and file republicans including in Congress are anti amnesty and anti sanctuary city by vote.

A 2010 ad Tancredo runs against the mayor Denver is about a murder by an illegal of a resident due to nonenforcement of immigration laws. That sanctuary city policy is probably a reason voters back Tancredo , a long time Republican.

What is unusual is that Palin would back a candidate not on GOP ticket if she would run 2012. But she backed third Hoffman NY 23 in Nov 2009 Special. And the Democray won that race.

Cel

Why are folks in Colorado (just spent two weeks there, BTR) so worked up about immigration? Not a border state….

BTR=BTW, sorry.

Palin was very high profile in AZ and stood on a stage with Jan Brewer in May 2010 as I recall. But Brewer is inside the GOP.

Tea party candidates are far rightwing of GOP and run as Republicans,. They aim to take over that party and move it in one big right step with no stray views.

Since representives reflect their constituents they represent we see tea party is intolerant of entire areas that are not in line with their views.Tea party may drive out of GOP many whose constituents are too out of step with tea party.

But,

Tancredo is a life long Republican and runs by convenience on Constitution line.

But will he remain outside GOP in the third party if elected is my question?

Cel

I still do not rule out Sarah running for the Presidency. She has said before (and recently) that she would consider running if the people want her to. It’s not as if she hasn’t thrown curve balls before. Sarah’s got the ability to draw huge crowds and raise truck loads of cash. If she runs, I believe she’ll do very well in the primaries. Her endorsement of Tancredo shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody. Tancredo is considered an outsider and isn’t that exactly what Palin has worked to define herself as?
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Whether Tancredo wins or not is almost besides the point. Sarah is running on populist anger and it seems to me that she is betting on the anger continuing for at least the next two years. I think it’s a shrewd move. If the next two years are like the last two, she will have established that she has 1st and foremost been willing to take on the establishment even within her own party.

“Would you care to define what constitutes “American” culture.”
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How can you celebrate multiculturalism if you can’t even define your own. Your what the meaning of “is” is borders on ignorant bliss.

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/02/election-eve-stunner-sarah-palin-endorses-tom-tancredo/?replytocom=213794#respond#ixzz148CDJnLm

Hmm either you have the ability of Carnac or just another liberal seeing racism at every turn. I vote for the latter over the former

“Undocumented workers are a problem but the people who obsess about them aren’t just worried about their legality.”

Yes and we all know liberals respect for the law. “Free speech for me and not thee”

I expect nothing else.
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Tancredo has an ad he describes on Fox news that is effective as it targets nonenforcement of state law in Denver.

I live in a nonborderstate in Great Lakes area and to my surprise the GOP governor candidate says he wants to enact a law similar to AZ. Illegals have not been an issue here.

Tancredo also has other issues like state ‘sovereignty’ he backs on TV. He wants to refuse federal dollars since he says CO can not afford the projects and does not want the strings.

He said he’d call governors Brewer and Christie and start a movement for states rights, something like that.

If one wants to see tea party candidates as they want to be seen although not in a critical interview–Beck in reruns on FNC has had Tancredo on states plus , Bachman and Demint last week planning tea party caucuses in Congress.

Cel

aside: Michael, if this was tongue in cheek, as mentioned below, I apologize, but it is so hard to tell when you go from yesterday’s post to todays. Sarcasm shouldn’t need an html tag around it… Also, I’m more awake now than I was with my initial knee jerk reaction. That said, the republican remarks stand.

If the illegals were concerned about any consequences they would assimilate at a higher pace and the dilution of the country culture would not be diminished.

It is hard to know where to begin with this one. On the one hand you don’t like illegal immigrants because they are illegal, but on the other you mention that assimilation would mitigate the issues of them being here. Which, essentially, says to me that your primary concern is the background of these individuals and not their legal status in this country.
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This is bigoted* by definition. You are intolerant of who they are and what their ideas are. What, specifically, you are intolerant of alludes me. Could you be specific? Is it language, food choice, religion or something else? What exactly about their culture is so horrible they shouldn’t be here unless they change?
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I have nothing against enforcing the laws of our state, including citizenship; however, I think our laws which determine who can become a citizen and which determine when they can become a citizen are not up to the job our government currently faces. I do not think a majority of the people who are here illegally actually do harm to our country. And in the case that they do, I fully agree they should be deported or interned. Otherwise, I believe strongly in a viable path to citizenship. Ultimately, this country was built out of immigrants.
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Finally, as has been pointed out and as I agree, there is no one all inclusive American culture; and it is not clear, for this reason, how any individual could actually dilute American culture. Additionally, adding more culture into the mix seems like an enrichment to me rather than a dilution, so I’d disagree strongly with the terms used so far to describe the situation by Tancredo and yourself, freeinpa.
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Footnotes:
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I’ve lived in a major city, I’ve lived in a small town and I currently live in an American outpost in the Carribean. I’m not simply making stuff up. I’ve experienced xenophobia up close and personal.

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Colorado has a lot of Mexican immigrants; I was there earlier this year. Not to mention that Colorado is a very red state. It has gotten better; Obama won the state in 2008.

Republicans especially presidents do not enforce border security anymore than do Democrats in DC.

Why?
Agribusines want cheap labor? Votes from Hispanics?

US is a republic and all republics require UNIVERSAL enforcement of the law. US has a de facto system of two tiers of immigration with MX getting the biggest cut. The US does not have control of its future stock every time it grants an amnesty to an illegal here.

Still, Mexicans and Indians are original Americans and were here long before white settlers. Mexican war 1848 grabbed much western land and incorporated native peoples into future states like AZ.

To ‘require’ that law officials check immigration status(1070) amounts to an ethnic cleansing of the original inhabitants of SW.Fear has led to a demonizing that is unAmerican.

My fast remedy, a quick one is US control the borders. States, enforce state laws that do not allow sanctuary cities.

Cel

How can you celebrate multiculturalism if you can’t even define your own?

That feels strongly like a non-answer freeinpa. You are the one claiming there is an American culture, or at least agreeing with Tancredo. Please explain what it is to me.
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You’re backing the position, it is your responsibility to be able to tell us what your position is exactly.
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However, you will undoubtedly ask me what I think the American culture is. I have already expressed that I don’t believe there is just one “American” culture, but I’d say a culture derived from the values America stands for would be a healthy mix of the following:
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• A strong belief in freedom of thought and expression, including, but not limited to: religion, all forms of speech, philosophy.
• An understanding of what it means to be tolerant, and a willingness to practice tolerance in order to get things done and deal with the quintessential problems our society is faced with.
• The belief and practice that upward movement should be possible and that all work receives just compensation and acknowledgement.
• A love of trying out new foods; because as Americans, we are obsessed with calorie intake and novelty.
• A healthy skepticism of complete government control and similarly a healthy skepticism of the idea that we don’t need government.
• Pride in our constitution and country
• Vocal in political thought, if you care about those things
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But, culture is so much more than that. It is family practices and values, which changes from family to family, religion to religion, region to region, etc. Going to movies. Going to a baseball game, a football game. Carving a turkey on thanksgiving. Opening Christmas presents or going to a Chinese restaurant on Christmas because they are the only ones open. And because of these strong, differentiated, and completely acceptable cultures that exist in this country it is hard to say any one of them has claim over the true “American Culture”

Aside, Paul, have you ever read Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. I only bring it up because Xenophobia connected me to the idea. I find it interesting, and I’m not insinuating anything about you when I bring this up, that people who write books about accepting and loving others completely different from yourself can still be xenophobes themselves.
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Orson Scott Card is very religious, and I assume because of his religious beliefs is strong on the whole “sanctity of marriage” charade. And while he is completely capable of understanding the basic premise of xenophobia, he still sits on a board designed to keep basic privileges out of the hands of a minority.
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My main reason for bringing this up is that it is a prime example of how someone, like freeinpa, could understand what racism or bigotry is and yet still practice it, blind to his own prejudices.

Thank heavens for the gheyz, the Messicans, the Muslins and the Lamestream Media. The right will never run out of scapegoats or somebody else to blame.

Did not Tea party Buck attend an Ivy League school and was he not AG of CO?

Why is he not an ‘elite’?

What was it Buck said about ‘birthers’ in the primary? it was not very nice, as I recall.

Cel

If a voter cares enough to travel to the polls that voter will vote for candidates of choice whereever they appear on the ballot.

Cel

Yes, I was there as well. Back in the distant past of 2009 when the Republicans were reeling, and the party was finished, Colorado was regarded as an incipient purple state, with incoming Californians plus the growing hispanic population creating a Democratic demographic.
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What I found interesting was that there were a LOT of lawn signs. Not one of them ever mentioned a party.
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Another thing that was interesting is that I did not realize that CO has political continental divides all through it. The north is like the mountain west, the east like the plains, the west like CA and the south a mix of cowboy and Taos SW. Fascinating.

that people who write books about accepting and loving others completely different from yourself can still be xenophobes themselves.

I can certanly understand the problem. I’ve always enjoyed the phrase; “I hate hate and I won’t tolerate intolerance.”
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Categorizing people and then judging the categories is an unavoidable feature of being human, but we should always be aware of when we’re doing it and make sure it doesn’t lead us into severe error.

Do point out where your right to free speech has been violated.

“The reason the Tea Party movement has succeeded is that it has drawn conservatives, disgruntled Repubs, Independents and conservative Democrats together.”
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IINOS, if you like that term for Independents in name only it has drawn. My father was, technically, an independent until his mid 50s since there was a local issue and our town was overwhelmingly Republican, to prevent the extreme right from getting elected, he registered as a Republican, but, as an independent in name only, he voted for Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater, Nixon two more times, Ford, Reagan, Bush Sr twice, Dole and even, to my disappointment since he didn’t used to find the far right tolerable, even Dubbya twice before he voted for McCain.
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Calling the Tea Party different than the Republican Party is like saying Bernie Sanders is nothing like a Democrat since he won on the Social Democratic ticket, not the Democratic ticket.
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All of the things proposed by the Tea Party match up exactly word for word with Republican slogans of the past 30 years, but, rather than just teasers to get out votes since many of these right wing fantasies are either unconstitutional or economically very destructive, this far right group of Republicans intends to follow through.
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If the Tea Party were an independent movement inside both parties and among independents, then you would see people running independently as Tea Party candidates and, if any significant number of Democrats belonged to the Tea Party, there would have been a Tea Party insurgence inside the Democratic Party. Instead, it has been electorally, a subgroup of Republicans, not independent nor of Democrats.
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Do you think that the Green Party is radically different than Democrats or just a subset of Democrats even though there are more than one Republicans who like the Green Party?
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As usual, you are towing the Koch brothers line that this is something grassroots and special and not another subset of Republicans, Freakinpa.
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If the Koch brothers asked you to jump off of the the Brooklyn bridge, you’d do that, too, I am sure.

Free speech to Freakinpa means to speak and not be contradicted or disagreed with, which, obviously is impossible to share unless Freak is just talking to himself. I am sure, for example, that if he had “free speech” meaning that nobody disagrees or contradicts him, he’ll find other far right wingers who will disagree with his taste in music, movies, food… etc.
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Real free speech is that the government prevents people from preventing one another from speaking on public property and that the government itself does not prevent speech between individuals as designated as acceptable by the property owner on private land.
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Free speech does not mean that Lutherans can start preaching in a synagogue, that Democrats can run into a Republican convention to speak against the Republican platform.
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Free speech is when people can not be coerced not to speak off the job on public property by either the government or private individuals and that the government can not determine who is or is not allowed to speak on private property.
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Freakinpa has no idea what freedom is.

“Speaking of not knowing history, how many of the 1840-1940 were illegals?”
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Exactly the same number of people who in the 1840s engaged in internet fraud and carjacking: O.
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But, that’s because the immigration laws of that time required one thing: you do not have a contagious lethal disease.
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So, with today’s immigration laws, how many would have been illegal in the 1840s?
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Almost all.

“…still outsmarting liberals at every turn…”
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We have the White House (except for when the president panders to the Republicans who slap his hand away when he reaches across the isle) and are keeping the Senate.
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Sarah Palin has… A facebook page!
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Wowweee! She outsmarted Democrats! She’s got everything she could ever want! Who needs to be president or have a job at all when you can have facebook and twitter!
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Not knowing the meaning of the word outsmarted is a clear sign of Freakinpa’s inability to comprehend the English language while he, simultaneously bashes people who are fluent in another language and are, often totally bilingual.

I don’t think Palin can be easily defined as a partisan Republican, and I acknowledge I called her a Republican above, but rogue conservative is probably a better descriptor for her. She’s very self centered, and she sees a lot of opponents in the upper echelons of the Republic party. If Palin thinks she has enemies on the left and in the media, it would not surprise me for her to also believe she has enemies in her own party, and that she believes her agenda supersedes that of her party.
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I think this is a calculated move, not entirely thought out by herself (but with plenty of help from others), which is aimed at getting the kind of candidates (anti-intellectual, Real&#0153, faith adhering, conservative Americans), to the forefront however that is possible. Palin is not trying to push a party, but an agenda, and the moment the press finally realizes that, the more what she does makes sense.
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She has a skewed world view, and she doesn’t believe in party loyalty, just in herself and her special connection with all things she views right.

Government in deadlock is great?
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With the Senate and the White House being Democratic and the House being Republican and vowed not to cooperate, we can expect many things:
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Immigration reform will not happen at all
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Additional financial Reform will not happen at all.
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Health Care will be exactly as scheduled with no changes.
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Taxes will stay exactly the same.
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Cap and Trade will not happen.
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Almost everything passed by the house will be rejected in the Senate.
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Almost everything passed in the Senate will be rejected by the house.
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Of the few things passed by the House and Senate will almost always be vetoed by the president.
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No vetoes will be overridden.
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The budget will be so late that the government will shut down by Christmastime of 2011 and 2012.
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Democrats and Republicans will have more anger and we will have unprecedented turnout in 2012 where Obama will be re-elected due to the miserable immaturity of the far right.
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If you think this is good, you must love traffic jams.
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Drive into Midtown Manhattan at 5:00 on a Thursday to see what gridlock is like. We, arguably have the second worst traffic jams after LA. You’ll gridlock in government and not only things you do not want government to do freeze, you will see things you do want government to do frozen solid, too.
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You have some strange ideas Newfreakenblog.

“This is bigoted* by definition.”
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Everything is bigoted by definition as claimed by the left. They have built racism into a full time industry where they have built careers and passed out rewards to its victims.

Tancredo is a racist for what he said but Obama us a hero for “punishing our enemies” or Sanchez’s “Asians are trying to take our seat”
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Again Grow Up!

Could you at least try, freeinpa, to not fall back on rhetoric and try to explain yourself once in a while without painting your opponents with such a wide brush?
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If you had read what I wrote, you would have realized I’m not calling you or anyone a racist. This is why I so frequently give up on discussing anything with you. You rarely back up your arguments with anything resembling a justification, and you almost always resort to mass generalizations.
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It makes it hard to take you seriously.

“Real free speech is that the government prevents people from preventing one another from speaking on public property”

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Apparently your definition is not applied by those bastions of free speech PUBLIC universities. Just like you Rev Jim hypocritical and idiotic.
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Th e”implied” part is especially precious so liberals can silence opposition at every turn.

Yet when it comes to Orwellian regulation of thoughtcrime, Tech remains a rank amateur next to George Mason University. GMU maintains a speech code that prohibits “any form of bigotry . . . . whether verbal, written, psychological, direct, or implied.”

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/nov/02/ed-hinkle02-ar-622287/

Yes and then like a civilized society we created laws to maintain order.

law and order 2 things that are detestable to liberals
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PS I do kie how you ignored all of your other “history” except 1840. Guess it just didn’t fit the “liberal facts” again

Rev Jim I see you forgot to tell Mom to water you last night. One of your three brain cells just died.

Dumb, fat and a failure isn’t much of a way to go through life. No wonder you are so bitter

Public Universities are not defined as public property in the normal sense, the same way that the J. Edgar Hoover building is not public property, but, a government property used for administration.
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Furthermore, since education is a privilege, not a right, academic punishment for hate speech is not the same thing as being arrested for making a speech in a public park when the park is open.
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Students may, if they want to shout out “Ngr ngr ngr” at the top of their lungs can go to a public street, a sidewalk, a park or off campus to a private apartment to shout out “ngr, ngr, ngr”.

Freakinpa,
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Nothing but lame insults, left, huh?
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It looks like you have been making idiotic arguments you can not defend and in your rage attack people.
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You still can’t tell me how Sarah Palin “outsmarted” Democrats.
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If it was Obama’s dream to write books, he sold millions of copies of his book.
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Even somebody as dumb as you can face book at twitter. So, outside of the book, which Obama and many other Democrats have, also, succeeded in doing, what has she done that your average 13 year old couldn’t do- besides drive a car, that is.

I didn’t ignore any part of history.
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With no immigration laws to break until the 1920s, there were no illegal immigrants.
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With very liberal immigration laws until the 1950s, becoming a legal immigrant was so easy that exclusively convicted convicts could not get green cards.
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I do find it funny that you find somebody joining the NYPD Auxiliary against law and order.
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Just as you do not give the death penalty for parking violations, you do not need draconian punishments for overstaying visas or working on a tourist or student’s visa.
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I am against driving through red lights, I am against illegal parking, I am against littering as much as I am against illegal immigration. Like all of the other examples (all of which do far more harm than working without permission to work) I believe in an appropriate punishment that the law provides – big fines for businesses who choose to flaunt the law and deportation for the immigrant.
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I do not, however, fear people who do not have permission to work washing dishes. I do not believe they took away “my job”. I was never planning on washing dishes, fixing roofs or cleaning out septic tanks for a living.

But that would require actual effort.
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Much simpler to just act on the premise as if the opposition are non-people, unworthy of actual engagement. Then, you can just copy part of their statement(Careful not to read all of it!) and edit it into an insult with no original thought.
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And then claim that “‘they’ did it first”, which are the magic words that justify your actions and make you the better person.

Times lawbreakers have harmed me:
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Three times in my life I have had people illegally enter my car. Once somebody stole a cell phone from my car, another time my ignition was damaged and a third time nobody took anything and I threw the homeless guy sitting there right out. (This is over a 20 year period in both Boston and New York).
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I have had my car blocked in from somebody illegally parking on several occasions.
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I had a car accident because somebody drove through a red light (I T boned him, he was injured and my car just needed minor repairs).
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A friend in college along with a friend of hers I did not know were run over and killed by a drunk driver.
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Yes, indeed, sir, I do believe in law and order.
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Not only haven’t I been harmed by a person working without permission, I have yet to see how I could be harmed by a person working without permission.
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I do understand that there is a reason to keep the number of immigrants finite, but, the way the right wing talks about things, you would think that they are as dangerous as people who double park.
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They are nowhere near as much of a harm to society as people who double park!
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You just fear people who don’t look like you, freakinpa. It’s called Xenophobia.

Freakinpa and Newfreakenblog,
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Please bring up difference between the Tea Party and the Republican Party particularly at least one point they disagree on.
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If you can’t find even one, then, if you two were sane you would admit that the Tea Party is just a subsection of the Republican Party who believe in Orthodoxy and strict ideological adherence and not and outside movement.

I live in a very multi-cultural neighborhood in Atlanta Ga. Nationalities living just on my street include Bangladeshi, Korean, Philippino, Mexican, Italian, Peruvian, Columbian, and good ol’ fashion Southern.
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It’s amazing how well everyone gets along, I love my part of town. Best food in Atlanta. We have a neigborhood block party every year to sponsor “Take Back the Night”. Everyone brings food and it’s an amazing spread.
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My experience living there the past two years could be a strong reason why I voted a straight D ticket today for the first time in my life. The extremism from the right is unsettling.

The immigration laws were lax because corporate America wanted cheap labor. First openning up to the Irish and then middle and southern Europeans was a big step for a society that had hoped to remain Anglo-Saxen. Those Slavic, Irish, Italian hordes were ghettoized and kept at a distance.

I once lived in a small community on the Washington state coast. It had origninally been settled by native Americans and then immigrants from Finland. Like my husband and myself, they were involved in commercial fishing and raising cranberries.
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Many of the elderly Finns did not speak English. You know, I never felt they were less than me. They worked hard and were contributing members of the community. I have no idea whether or not they were legal immigrants.
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Not being an elitist, I find it foolish to support purity tests.
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By the way, all my grandparents came to this country as part of the wave brought here for cheap labor. There was no tests except for excluding people for health reasons. I don’t think they were less valuable as citizens. They all taught themselves English, educated their children, did productive work, and saw their grandchildren go to college.

“Public Universities are not defined as public property in the normal sense”
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Well that explains it- it’s abnormal – just like you.
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Now tell me again that teachers have unions and tenure so they can speak freely without worry about being pressured or fired. It helps promote exchange of ideas. That’s the liberal line of crap isn’t it?

I guess its only if you have the correct ideas as defined by the left.

Let’s see how many more angels you can dance on the head of that pin.

The Tea Party tried to rid the Republican party of pols who acted like Dumocrats
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“If it was Obama’s dream to write books, he sold millions of copies of his book”
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You may want to check who really wrote his. It seemed he praised Rev Wright for all the inspiration from his sermons then denied hearing any of them after sitting in the pew for 20 years.
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Good bet he will have plenty of time to write more in say 2 years!

“NYPD Auxiliary”
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Is that like the Candy Strippers?

Against law & order?
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You will be their Ron Dellums

“You still can’t tell me how Sarah Palin “outsmarted” Democrats.”
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Count the Ds and Rs tomorrow

“They all taught themselves English, educated their children, did productive work, and saw their grandchildren go to college.”
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Now they maintain their native language, demand every government service have all forms in their native tongue, demand all rights and privileges of citizens, and send money earned here back to their native country.
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What a difference a generation makes.

The elderly Finn’s did retain their native language. And, as did my grandparents, when they could afford to they sent money to their relatives in Europe.
But freeper you have to resort to the generalizations and bigotted stereotypes that fuel your ignorance.

“Now tell me again that teachers have unions and tenure so they can speak freely without worry about being pressured or fired.”
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Teachers have unions for exactly the same reason police and firefighters have unions: job security.
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How many times do I have to tell you that I see some significant flaws with the teacher’s unions, but, believe that unions are good for workers and recipients of goods and services public and private because experience increases quality as a general rule.
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On the other hand, the teacher’s unions are frightened to death of any standard to measure their performance under any circumstances and that I do not agree with.

“You may want to check who really wrote his. It seemed he praised Rev Wright for all the inspiration from his sermons then denied hearing any of them after sitting in the pew for 20 years.”
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Rewriting history again, Freakinpa?
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When confronted with a particular sermon, the president said that he did not hear that sermon. It was documented that the then presidential candidate was not in the area that Sunday. He then said that this particular sermon he disagreed with.
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This is mild stuff, freak. The only way you can make it a story is if completely warp it. But warping everything everybody says is what you are best at.

“You will be their Ron Dellums”
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“Ronald Vernie “Ron” Dellums (born November 24, 1935 in Oakland, California) serves as Oakland’s forty-fifth (and third African-American) mayor. From 1971-1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California’s 9th Congressional District, which has a Cook PVI of D +37.[1]

Dellums was born into a family of labor organizers, and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps before serving on the Berkeley, California, City Council. Dellums was the first African American elected to Congress from Northern California and the first openly Socialist Congressman since World War II.[2] His politics earned him a place on President Nixon’s enemies list.

During his career in Congress, he fought the MX Missile project and opposed expansion of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber program. When President Ronald Reagan vetoed Dellums’ Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate overrode Reagan’s veto, the first override of a presidential foreign policy veto in the 20th century.[3]”
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I’ll be a 75 year old African American father of eight with a long and successful career in politics if I join the Auxiliary.
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WHAT?
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“Is that like the Candy Strippers?”
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Two NYPD Auxillary will killed while volunteering on March 15th 2007. How many candy strippers do you know who get killed?
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It’s like being a volunteer firefighter but with a different type of emergency they respond to.