Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

These people make me chuckle.
1 posted on 01/01/2015 12:31:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-37 next last
To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The GOP has not experienced a strong candidate since George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988. Will a ‘dark horse’ candidate emerge from the shadows? “

You can tell this guy is a RINO supreme or just a happy leftist.


2 posted on 01/01/2015 12:33:50 PM PST by headstamp 2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The TEA Party divided the GOP for six years. It was destructive and a failure to negotiate much needed legislation throughout the 112th and 113th Congress. TEA Party goals are destructive rather than constructive. Congress’ poor favorability rating can be attributed directly to the party within a party which is supported by the most wealthy Americans such as the Koch brothers. In 2008 the TEA Party was making plans for a presidential bid in 2016; they will fail”.

One need read no further. A dunce making use of what is under the dunce cap, and wouldn’t recongnize a tea party if it bit him where he needs bitten.


4 posted on 01/01/2015 12:36:33 PM PST by wita
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
The GOP has not experienced a strong candidate since George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.

Yep, so strong that he was a one-term president. The writer of this article is brainless.

5 posted on 01/01/2015 12:36:37 PM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

On one hand it’s humorous. On the other, the psy-ops against the citizenry continues to be more than effective enough.


6 posted on 01/01/2015 12:37:01 PM PST by Resettozero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

"These are our enemies, and they will be destroyed!"

8 posted on 01/01/2015 12:37:44 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOP has not experienced a strong candidate since George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.

Where DO they come from?
The author is going to be gobsmacked by reality,
which is what happens when you don’t relate to
the real.


9 posted on 01/01/2015 12:39:14 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Thank you for referencing that article 2ndDivisionVet. Please bear in mind that the following side note to this thread is directed at the article and not at you.

If misguided patriots were to wise up to the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers and exercise their voting muscle to peacefully force the corrupt feds to surrender wrongly usurped state powers back to the states, then citizens would probably have little concern for who is in the Oval Office.

10 posted on 01/01/2015 12:40:29 PM PST by Amendment10
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought they said the Tea Party was dead like 5 times already? So what are they griping about?


11 posted on 01/01/2015 12:40:37 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where is the BARF alert? haa.

Kiss my grits buddy. There IS NO official Tea Party and those who hate / fear “we the people” continue to make false accusations, tout false divisions, etc. The plain truth is We the People HAVE spoken and loudly in November 2014. Now let’s dump boo hoo drunk Boehner who loves Obama’s amnesty, et al and let’s dump spineless Mitch too right away.

There are commies riling up the folks about a fake race war with the police - where are our GOP leaders in pointing this out? Where have they been pointing out that disgusting Harry blocked everything in the senate. The EPA, IRS, HHS, Dept. of Education and the DOJ are totally out of control. DeBlasio in NYC is outright preaching war on the fabulous police department.

No, folks - the Tea Party isn’t really a party - it’s a feeling of pride for this great nation. We’ve only begun.


12 posted on 01/01/2015 12:40:53 PM PST by WaterWeWaitinFor (Would Winston Churchill stand still for all this nonsense? Cruz our new Churchill?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy’s a nut.


13 posted on 01/01/2015 12:41:04 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

However, they control political affairs. I’m sad to say Leftist propaganda works.


15 posted on 01/01/2015 12:42:44 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unfortunately, there are a lot of RINOs who would agree with him.
17 posted on 01/01/2015 12:45:48 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is this, a Rand Paul supporting web site? The guy thinks that George Bush, senior, was a Tea Party candidate.

Rand Paul has revealed himself to be as looney as his father.


18 posted on 01/01/2015 12:46:24 PM PST by Eva
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a clueless liberal chicken$#!t @$$#07e.
19 posted on 01/01/2015 12:46:32 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for posting that article. Always nice to start the year with a giggle. My favorite line was the one about GHW Bush. Good one.


20 posted on 01/01/2015 12:47:06 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
On March 4, the New Deal paradigm will turn 82. It’s all that four generations of Americans know. They have been conditioned to believe that it is the government’s job to look out for the people and protect them from the markets, the world and the harsh exigencies of life. Harry Truman summed it up when he said that Americans needed Big Government to protect them from Big Communism abroad and Big Capitalism at home.

The few elderly Americans who remember the world before the New Deal won’t tell you about not being divided into Common Men and Economic Royalists. They won’t tell you how good it felt to start from nothing and become successful by dint of one’s own hard work. They will tell you about bread lines, soup lines, Hoovervilles, and being sent out on the road by parents who could no longer afford to feed them. They’ll tell you about “railroad bulls” who beat them senseless and police who prevented them from crossing a state line because the people on the other side of that line couldn’t take care of their own. They’ll tell you about the disappearance of money. In 1988, an elderly black lady who remembered it all, defined the situation very simply: “Back then, you could buy a whole barrel of flour for twenty-five cents. But where were you going to find that quarter?!” There are few good memories from the survivors of the days before the New Deal.

Rush Limbaugh derides them as “low information voters”, but these people are merely average Americans. They dislike politics and avoid it because they consider it a dirty business, which it is. They pay their taxes, go to work, go to church, raise their children and expect something in return from the government for those taxes they pay. They elect Democrats to preserve and expand their entitlements, and when the Democrats bite off more than they can chew, they elect Republicans to fix the mess.

When they send people to Congress, they don’t care about ideology. They want the people they elect to be problem solvers, and if that means reaching across the aisle and compromising their principles, so be it. They don’t necessarily want smaller government, they want more effective government. Most importantly, they don’t want anything to get in the way of their entitlements, particularly when the economy is in a state of depression.

In late 1995, Bill Clinton positioned Newt Gingrich to stand between the American people and their government checks in a highly publicized government shutdown. The result was the end of Gingrich’s revolution after barely one year, followed by Clinton’s cracking the whip over the “militia” Republicans elected in 1994, turning them into good, reliable purveyors of pork.

The average American voter elected Tea Party candidates to Congress to fix the problem, not shut down the government or default on the nation’s debt, which was the alternative when Obama positioned the Tea Party to stand between the people and their entitlements. The potential default incident in the summer of 2011 and the government shutdown of late 2013 turned the people against the Tea Party. The charge against the Tea Party is that they want to “burn down the house”, when the people merely want the house patched.

The key to this is the New Deal paradigm. As long as it survives, the current state of affairs will not change. An intransigent ideologue of a president will stand firm and double down when challenged, forcing Congress to bend to his will to keep the game going.

The key to the New Deal paradigm is the fact that US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, and the dollar is the only pool of capital deep enough to handle the trillions of dollars of international transactions that trade daily. Until that ends, this nation can abuse that currency at will and force its malfeasance on the rest of the world. As Nixon’s Treasury Secretary, John Connally, said in 1971 when Nixon closed the gold window to foreign payments, “They’re our deficits, but they’re your problem.” This is what permits Americans to live beyond their means and enjoy that exhilarating sense of instant gratification, a vice whose tentacles extend far beyond the world of money into the world of simple everyday morality.

As long as the New Deal paradigm reigns, the Democrats and Republicans will fight over who controls the federal faucet and how that faucet distributes largesse to their favored constituents. It is not in the interest of either party to shut down the federal faucet. Because of this, it is only when the faucet dries up – because there is a sovereign debt default – that there will be nothing more to fight over. When that day comes and the rest of the world converts to some kind of international currency standard, it’s game over and lights out for the American fiat dollar and the New Deal.

On that fateful day, there will only be two paradigms left for America’s future: the Tea Party movement, based on the American Revolution; or the Occupy Wall Street movement, based on the French Revolution. The Democratic and Republican parties, the great enablers and profiteers of the New Deal, will be consigned to the ash heap of history.

21 posted on 01/01/2015 12:47:35 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet; Pride in the USA

23 posted on 01/01/2015 12:51:22 PM PST by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where was the barf alert? The notion that the popular attempt to recall the GOP to its proper calling as the party of small government is divisive is absurd.


24 posted on 01/01/2015 12:54:59 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where you dropped on your head as a small child? I hope getting old doesn’t mean you get fuzzy on what a Patriot is. You know like there is no right or left or freedom just lets all be brothers and good friends. You kind of slip into a RED haze and slowly turn into a Communist. Both the American party’s are only different in name not mission.


26 posted on 01/01/2015 12:59:00 PM PST by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reads like something from an eighth-grader.


27 posted on 01/01/2015 1:00:19 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-37 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson