Posted on 03/01/2019 3:03:39 AM PST by Olog-hai
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s tendency to talk about his good relationships with Republicans landed him in trouble Thursday when he called his successor, Mike Pence, a “decent guy.”
The comment was quickly criticized by fellow Democrats, including actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, who tweeted that Biden had complimented “America’s most anti-LGBT elected leader,” forcing Biden to walk back his comment.
“You’re right, Cynthia. I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a Vice President wouldn’t be given a silent reaction on the world stage,” Biden tweeted. “But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the Vice President.”
The episode shows one of the challenges the 76-year-old Biden will face as he considers a run for the presidency. In promoting his relationships with Republicans in a way that might appeal to general election voters, Biden also risks alienating the Democrats he would need to win a primary. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Slow-motion train crash. Creepy uncle Joe doesn’t have much of a shot, including because of his age. Could he do four campaign rallies daily for the few weeks leading up to the election? The guy is long past his best-by date.
He should crawl into a corner and enjoy however many years he was given to pollute the earth with his family.
This is the world we live in. A democrat says something nice about a person and has to apologize.
I just noticed that Meadows was full of contrition for saying that Obama should go back home to Kenya.
A democrat can say the vilest things ever heard about Trump and he is quoted and highlighted in the news as a truth teller.
A Republican like Meadows can dare to raise his eyes and quote Michelle Obama about Obama’s “home country” and immediately disowns his statement.
Republicans are so pathetic. That is because Republicans are gutless.
Even Jim Jordan will delineate corruption and sedition in the DOJ and conclude it is “troubling” or “wrong” or some other mild-mannered word, but never thunder what it really is.
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”So if Republicans in the Eisenhower administration were thinking exactly like communistic FDR Democrats (Acheson was investigated for his ties to the USSR), how much more so today?
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— TCOAC, Chapter 2, page 15
“Creepy” Joe has a long history of being anything but a “decent guy”.
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!
Republicans are just as lawless. See post 4.
That's a major reason why he lost, and since then people haven't come around to thinking as he did.
That doesn't mean government should be unlimited.
But it does mean that people didn't think government was to be as limited as severely Goldwater assumed it should be.
It would have been a cheap shot if Goldwater accused his fellow Republicans (and by implication the public who voted for them) of having a totalitarian philosophy and it's a cheap shot to do so now.
But Goldwater himself didn't necessarily agree with what was written in his book, and given his later record he might not agree with your interpretation of what he wrote.
And while everybody in the State Department was suspect after the Hiss case, there were no serious charges of Soviet ties against Acheson.
Chomo Joe is a heck of a follower, and so far from a leader.
“Chomo Joe is a heck of a follower, and so far from a leader.”
Indeed. How gutless. He couldn’t even stand by his comment that Pence was a decent man.
Creepy Uncle might be a shyster politician but as is evidenced by this article he is a spineless shyster politician.
No blowback when Democrats praise and shed tears for Communist despots.
It’s really rather startling.
I think a significant percentage of the voting population isn’t looking to elect a leader at all, but rather the best follower.
Who is the most obedient dog to serve the whims of the Leftist Hoard? Who has been trained to bark the correct responses to the preferred questions? This is what they are looking for.
“America’s most anti-LGBT elected leader,”
Badge of honor, that.
Well, that’s one of the most left-wing posts you’ve ever made on FR. Care to try for an opus?
Of course the commies would cover for each other; they had taken over both parties by that point.
Yeah, but that's what the dems want, a puppet to obey whoever is pulling his strings.
Biden realizes he will need Republicans to vote for him rather than Trump to win if he runs doesn’t he?
Joe was always just a desperate little man in search of a live camera or mic.
Pathetic.
cue meme of Homer disappearing into the bushes
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