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NY Times: The Decline and Fall of the Progressive Empire
verum serum ^ | 8/26/10 | John

Posted on 08/26/2010 6:15:59 PM PDT by Nachum

Notice the picture the NY Times is painting of this week’s primary results?

Republican insurgents from the far right did well in Tuesday’s primaries. What their campaigns lack in logic, compassion and sensible policy seems to be counterbalanced by a fiercely committed voter base…

This is an attack on voters thinly disguised as a critique of candidates:

Much of the G.O.P’s fervid populist energy has been churned up by playing on some people’s fears of Hispanics and Muslims, by painting the president as a dangerous radical, by distorting the truth about the causes of the recession. Far too many Republican leaders have eagerly fed that destructive anger.

They make a feint toward the idea that it’s not the voters fault, i.e. it’s the “leaders” who bamboozled them. Of course that only works if the voters are easily bamboozled. The Times’ arrogance really shines through in a phrase like this one:

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KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; bho44; buyersremorse; decline; gopcomeback; ny; progressive; times
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Progressives = Army of Darkness
1 posted on 08/26/2010 6:16:04 PM PDT by Nachum
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Progressive = mob of Retards.


2 posted on 08/26/2010 6:19:09 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Nachum

booga booga booga booga


3 posted on 08/26/2010 6:22:18 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: Nachum
FUNYT.

You want extreme? Look at the b*stards you support who currently run this country.

FUNYT.

4 posted on 08/26/2010 6:22:39 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Nachum

Progressives = Bolsheviks


5 posted on 08/26/2010 6:22:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: Nachum

Progressive = hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good.


6 posted on 08/26/2010 6:23:25 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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Republicans need to run on a platform of job creation, lower taxes, taking the country back from the socialists/Marxist dems, cutting government growth and spending and reinvigorating entrepreneurial spirit and small businesses, fiscal responsibility and restraint, securing our borders and maintaining a high degree of national security.


7 posted on 08/26/2010 6:24:12 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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NY Times: The Decline and Fall of the Progressive Empire

What?

Do the RATs see the right-handing on the wall?

8 posted on 08/26/2010 6:25:43 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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9 posted on 08/26/2010 6:26:19 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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They make a feint toward the idea that it’s not the voters fault, i.e. it’s the “leaders” who bamboozled them.

The Times is in bunker-mode

10 posted on 08/26/2010 6:26:23 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Ev Reeman
They need to DEFINE the other side, otherwise the Left will just come back again next election.

Has the GOP forgotten how politically charged the term 'liberal' was 20 years ago? Democrats couldn't run away from the label fast enough.

Has the GOP forgotten the most fundamental rule of politics?

11 posted on 08/26/2010 6:30:25 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Nachum

As they lose control of information dissemination, they will die off.

They will have to exert control over the Internet.

Or perish.


12 posted on 08/26/2010 6:32:39 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Communities regularly fight the construction projects, Walmarts Starbucks and even tree removal.)
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“Progressives”= Trust Funded Red Diaper Babies.


13 posted on 08/26/2010 6:33:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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progressives = parasites, altruists, collectivists, statists, socialists, emotionalists


14 posted on 08/26/2010 6:46:33 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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The NY Times is part of the “Progressive Empire”.


15 posted on 08/26/2010 6:50:44 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Nachum

Progressive = Atheism


16 posted on 08/26/2010 6:59:49 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: mjp

“progressive” = Communist


17 posted on 08/26/2010 7:02:18 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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To: Nachum

I remember in the 70’s there was a type of rock labled as Progressive Rock. I still to this day have no idea how a type of music can be progressive. I also have no idea how a political movement can be progressive without the second part of the equation inherent in the word....progressing towards what?

In the latter case I think it it is safe to say the answer is Marxism. In the former case, i.e. Progressive Rock, I still have no idea.


18 posted on 08/26/2010 7:17:57 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (In the White House the mighty White House the Liar sleeps tonight.............)
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What empire? These guys couldn't couldn't run a lemonade stand, much less a government. The "barbarians" who are putting a stop to the nonsense are Mom and Dad come home to let the kiddies know that charging freight cars full of candy to the parental credit cards and giving it all away to their little friends is a great way to buy friendship but a little awkward when the bill comes due. At that point it becomes not only someone else's responsibility, but someone else's fault. Just ask any of the other kiddies.

The real reason the Times is running scared is that it is accustomed to dealing with establishment Republicans who it can control with a curl of the editorial lip. The ones who are coming aren't afraid of that, and the bullies are looking at one another a little uneasily.

19 posted on 08/26/2010 7:20:10 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: HerrBlucher

Ten minute songs about clouds.


20 posted on 08/26/2010 7:24:15 PM PDT by AceMineral (Clam down!)
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