Posted on 05/03/2005 2:10:11 PM PDT by EveningStar
I would reinterate that I really don't see what the big deal is. I thought it was fine, but some did not. To argue as some have that the GOP is going to disintegrate or that the sky will fall as a result of this is silly.
"As a former Atilla the Hun moved to the middle by the unintended consequence of deciding that I absolutely don't want to be aligned with people who have no humor and have such rigid "rules" about what constitutes a good anything."
Nicely said. As my best friend says "Moderation in all things" It's starting to make sense!
Just keep talking before putting brain in gear.
You haven't been on the threads that called her that and worse.
Well said.
I've moved middleward with you friend.
The Taliban believes in rigid control of women. So do the radical extremists on the right. They were offended that Laura even got UP to talk. At all. Little Woman should have just stayed in her seat and smiled.
Let's see, moderates --- Voinovich, Hagel, McCain, Snowe, Jeffords, Chafee, Specter. You're in good company. Not!
you missed the point........on purpose?
So a few people act like the rest of the rabid people in this thread and you all go on an anti-Christian, anti-Bible Thumper rant and label all Christians on this board? Who's the Holier than thou extremists.
I for one love risque things. Sexy things.
Having said that, I was disappointed by the First Lady's jokes regarding visiting strippers because hubby is too tired, and his playing with horse genitalia because he is supposedly stupid.
Don't think it's funny.
Coming from the first lady bothers me.
I despise the taliban rightists... but characterizing those of us who expected better from mr and mrs "I will restore honor to the white house" as being taliban... I too find very troublesome.
Leno doing it is one thing. The First Lady doing it? Seems beneath the dignity of the first family.
boy was I wrong... after all, I am a taliban for NOT liking her off color jokes.
Can you show me ONE post where someone said that what the First Lady did was going to RUIN the Republican party? Please.
All I can see is people who dissagreed with what the First Lady did (self included) and then get flamed from a thousand different directions for having this opinion.
Why?
What did I miss? You praised moderation. I took that to mean you're a moderate. I then gave the names of some other moderates. Did that hit too close to home?
Nice hyperbole...for a mental deficient.
Do you ever tired of spewing your disemboweled horsesh*t all over Free Republic?
Of course, they did find some guests to complain!
I was dying laughing at her remarks about going to Chippendales.....and then saying that she would not have told but Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Ginsberg saw them there.
Then I know I'm in good company :-)
We're a neighborhood of mostly young retirees. Because we have so much time on our hands and are conservative, we talk politics a LOT.
I won't even go into the issues which have moved quite a few of us to the middle, but you probably know what they are. It's an unfortunate consequence of that classic overreaching I keep talking about as it is being expressed by a certain faction of the party. Instead of drawing people in, it's moving people out.
Church...you don't even qualify for moderate. You're a Bush basher from waaaay back.
Did you notice how the liberal media gave HUGE play to her racy jokes? They loved those jokes - - because the jokes put her on Hollywood's side versus the Republican base's side in the culture wars. The libs will still go on hating and undermining the Bushes, but they're celebrating Laura, on this one occasion, for subtly dissing her husband's base.
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