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GOP drops effort to rename Democrats 'Socialist'
Associated Press ^
| May 20, 2009
Posted on 05/20/2009 3:38:12 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:39:23 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: Free ThinkerNY
“Rats” works just fine and is easier to spell.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:40:35 PM PDT
by
Mark was here
(The earth is bipolar.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
In other news, linguists have dropped their effort to name “Red” a color and biologists have dropped their effort to classify “Oaks” as trees.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:41:14 PM PDT
by
OldGuard1
To: Free ThinkerNY
Commie pigs works for me.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:42:10 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
That's OK. THEY don't have to call them Democrat Socialists, but WE can - among other things... Marxists, Fascists, Communists, Totalitarians...
WE know what's going on.
To: Free ThinkerNY
This is like voting not to call a German Shepard a dog...
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:46:37 PM PDT
by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
God forbid that anyone should speak the truth. Everything they have done since 1) taking over Congress and 2) the White House has been another step toward socializing our country. The Republicans should be screaming it from the rooftops, not bickering about it.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:48:21 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: Free ThinkerNY
That idea was a non-starter from the beginning.
Now, maybe the Republican party will spend time on real issues.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:49:05 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Free ThinkerNY
I just call ‘em fascists. It absolutely fits.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:49:10 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(We are a ruled people, serfs to the Federal Oligarchy -- and the Tree of Liberty thirsts)
To: Free ThinkerNY
It was a stupid effort anyway.
Every thinker in America already knew it.
Every drone in America already denies it.
Stupid and useless. God! Is there a Republican leader who DOESN’T have his head up his 4$$?
To: Free ThinkerNY
It's not as much fun as we ideologues would have it be, but I think they're right to let the whole “Socialists!” thing go. It makes it too easy for opposition to Obama’s bad ideas (which are, of course, reminiscent of European Socialism) be ridiculed, just as right-thinkers’ opposition to worldwide Communism was neutered by lines like, “Yeah, right, there's a Commie under every bed!”
Better to say things like, “Obama Democrats want to have the government make government cars and government schools and government arts programs and government communications outlets, all tightly controlled." We're for freedom; they're for coercion.
To: Free ThinkerNY
It's not as much fun as we ideologues would have it be, but I think they're right to let the whole “Socialists!” thing go. It makes it too easy for opposition to Obama’s bad ideas (which are, of course, reminiscent of European Socialism) be ridiculed, just as right-thinkers’ opposition to worldwide Communism was neutered by lines like, “Yeah, right, there's a Commie under every bed!”
Better to say things like, “Obama Democrats want to have the government make government cars and government schools and government arts programs and government communications outlets, all tightly controlled." We're for freedom; they're for coercion.
To: Free ThinkerNY
I sort of agree.
It might be more accurate if they were named the Democrat Fascist Party, or the Democrat Nazi Party. The Democrat Bolshevik Party would also fit nicely.
"Socialist' implies they are more like a Swedish political party than who they are really like.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:55:51 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(Hitler designed cars, why should our Fuehrer be denied the pleasure? - Bob Lonsberry)
To: Free ThinkerNY
ahhh... there it is. the phrase being used to deflect any attempts to secure eligibility proof.
if you [insert anything negative you have about 0bama], you will look petty and small.
the RINOs are in control of the party
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:56:32 PM PDT
by
sten
To: Free ThinkerNY
They aren’t socialists, they’re flat-out Communists.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:57:09 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: Free ThinkerNY
In an age where the pols get to re-define words daily, it was a good idea to define the terms. They are socialists.
Can anyone deny this?
Once again the “defenders of the Constitution” (conservatives) tuck-tail and run.
They, in a great chorus, refer to you as “teabaggers” and you don’t have the eggs, the guts to use a non-slang, non-vulgar term that perfectly defines them.
But, you wouldn’t want to be extreme, now, would you?
We wouldn’t want to appear like we’d roll up our sleeves and duke it out with those that seek to own us. Of course not.
You bunch of yellow slaves.
You make me ill.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:58:20 PM PDT
by
Boucheau
To: TomGuy
Contract for America, the sequel.
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posted on
05/20/2009 3:58:28 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
abandoned an effort to label their opponents the "Democrat Socialist Party,the statist party
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posted on
05/20/2009 4:01:21 PM PDT
by
mjp
(pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
To: xcamel
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posted on
05/20/2009 4:07:31 PM PDT
by
Ben Mugged
(The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.)
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