Posted on 06/28/2005 12:36:28 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
OMG. I love that pic and caption. LOL.
That's just wrong.
Yeah, I'm used to it (libertarian and all). Seriously though, the debate will do you good. :-)
To paraphrase, "I didn't leave the Republican party, it left me."
The GOP's main thrust seems to be maintaining power no matter what kind of assbat (Olympia Snowe and John Mc-Insane come to mind) they have to push on a less than willing voter. This is weakening the conservative stance of the whole party. They are, in truth, becoming what some have claimed all along...
"All the Socialism of the Democrats, at half the price."
We will let you know!~ LOL
Actually I was thinking the same thing. I have been here since 1998, and I consider a newbie someone who just joined today.
But WELCOME TO FREEREPUBLIC, FRIEND!
I think it has something to do with having a brain.
You might make a new thread over it *laughs maniacally*.
Wait, yeah... you definitely have to have a brain. Nevermind. You'll always be a n00b.
My favorite for Greatest American, George Washington, didn't think much of giving a lot of power to political parties and party leaders. He thought they'd be easy targets for powerful special interests, foreign and domestic, to either buy or coerce. I don't think GW would call what party leaders have produced a democracy.
I'd much rather see conservatives and libertarians support free and fair non-partisan elections at all levels of government instead of doggedly defending Republican party leaders. I think the product of free and fair non-partisan elections at all levels of government would do a better job protecting national sovereignty, individual liberty, and the relatively unfettered right of average Americans to own their homes and businesses than the product of partisan elections.
You've BOTH got it exactly right in posts 2 and 3.
But as a former Lefty (from the late 60s) its the yet-more-absurd rhetoric of the Dems that is ever-so-much-more-laughable to me, having trafficked in it myself at the age of 19-21 (but even then I was more tempered and subtle than ANY of them). What you have to keep in mind is that the political class is largely composed of ACTORS , who are playing parts in our ongoing national entertainment called POLITICS. Unfortunately, this has come to be the most expensive entertainment going, and it long ago ceased being funny. It moved from comedy to tragedy on 9-11, when none of them were really called to task for this fundamental failure,and pounced on our sense of numb, confused anger and grief, and in effect, forced us to give them a pass. Everyone was given a pass except the new President and his Administration(predictably). Another question is : for whose sake is this Commedia dell'Arte show being
produced? 90 % of the country is essentially apolitical, believe it or not. The only way members of the political class gets us to look at them and listen to them is by trading in this absurd rhetoric, and now as always the political class has an undying ally in the chattering class , which populates the MSM and ALL media.Together these two Elites create a universe of discourse which is neatly tied tight at both ends and is always overheated and swollen at the middle, where all of us live.
You've BOTH got it exactly right in posts 2 and 3.
But as a former Lefty (from the late 60s) its the yet-more-absurd rhetoric of the Dems that is ever-so-much-more-laughable to me, having trafficked in it myself at the age of 19-21 (but even then I was more tempered and subtle than ANY of them). What you have to keep in mind is that the political class is largely composed of ACTORS , who are playing parts in our ongoing national entertainment called POLITICS. Unfortunately, this has come to be the most expensive entertainment going, and it long ago ceased being funny. It moved from comedy to tragedy on 9-11, when none of them were really called to task for this fundamental failure,and pounced on our sense of numb, confused anger and grief, and in effect, forced us to give them a pass. Everyone was given a pass except the new President and his Administration(predictably). Another question is : for whose sake is this Commedia dell'Arte show being
produced? 90 % of the country is essentially apolitical, believe it or not. The only way members of the political class gets us to look at them and listen to them is by trading in this absurd rhetoric, and now as always the political class has an undying ally in the chattering class , which populates the MSM and ALL media.Together these two Elites create a universe of discourse which is neatly tied tight at both ends and is always overheated and swollen at the middle, where all of us live.
Contorversial statement, but probably not a troll. Stand down reccommended.
. . . and the analogies used by Santorum and Novak were clear hyperbole not intended to be taken literally.To suggest, as Jacoby does here, equivalence between patent hyperbole on the one hand, and Durbin's blood libel of the Americans guarding and commanding Gitmo on the other, is to trivialize all argument.
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